Pakistan: her relation with India 1947-1966

By:

Saxena, K. C

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Delhi; VIR Publishing; 1966Description: 232 pSubject(s):

Pakistan

DDC classification:

327.5491054 SAX

Summary: PARTAR soday is the problem-child of the Indian sub-continent. It has been a problem to itself and to India since 1947. Partition of the sub-continent solved none of the difficulties and brought in its wake a whole set of new ones. Understanding Pakistan is, therefore, one of the first problems today. The chal lenge it poses is as peculiar as the manner of its birth and the course of its policy in the nineteen years of its being. It is an urgent need to know the mind of Pakistan, which was until recently, a part of India and is now involved in a bitter campaign of hate against her. We must understand Pakistan, it is important and paramount for India. It is important for Pakistan too. Only then, she may understand India, shed her fears and hatred, and look at the world straight in its face. It is equally important for the world, more so, for the Asian-African world. Why is this seemingly unending feud between the two sisterly countries? An answer to this question is vital for the progress and amity of the newly free nations, who had to struggle hard to emancipate them selves from the yoke of thraldom, for the consolidation of their unity and for the cause of world peace and cooperation. Did India in the recent military conflict with Pakistan abandon in a day, the policy of peace to which she had consisten tly adhered during the nineteen years since her independence? Where did her idealism go when in 1948, she stopped her army almost at the point of her final victory, when she accepted the call of the United Nations for a cease-fire in Kashmir? Had she lost her conviction that victory was not won on the battle field? Had her fund of patience exhausted itself? What had become of her plea of, going back to the days of the Korean War, against extension of conflict and for containment of war? That these questions are even allowed to be asked in this country is not a small matter. That they are asked abroad iss measure of the world's inherent faith in India's role of peace and non-alignment.

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PARTAR soday is the problem-child of the Indian sub-continent. It has been a problem to itself and to India since 1947. Partition of the sub-continent solved none of the difficulties and brought in its wake a whole set of new ones. Understanding Pakistan is, therefore, one of the first problems today. The chal lenge it poses is as peculiar as the manner of its birth and the course of its policy in the nineteen years of its being. It is an urgent need to know the mind of Pakistan, which was until recently, a part of India and is now involved in a bitter campaign of hate against her.

We must understand Pakistan, it is important and paramount for India. It is important for Pakistan too. Only then, she may understand India, shed her fears and hatred, and look at the world straight in its face. It is equally important for the world, more so, for the Asian-African world. Why is this seemingly unending feud between the two sisterly countries? An answer to this question is vital for the progress and amity of the newly free nations, who had to struggle hard to emancipate them selves from the yoke of thraldom, for the consolidation of their unity and for the cause of world peace and cooperation.

Did India in the recent military conflict with Pakistan abandon in a day, the policy of peace to which she had consisten tly adhered during the nineteen years since her independence? Where did her idealism go when in 1948, she stopped her army almost at the point of her final victory, when she accepted the call of the United Nations for a cease-fire in Kashmir? Had she lost her conviction that victory was not won on the battle field? Had her fund of patience exhausted itself? What had become of her plea of, going back to the days of the Korean

War, against extension of conflict and for containment of war? That these questions are even allowed to be asked in this country is not a small matter. That they are asked abroad iss measure of the world's inherent faith in India's role of peace and non-alignment.

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