The debate on a video of a
college going girl, a martyr’s daughter in New Delhi that has gone viral on
social media is making people more and more perplexed with each passing day.
Some people are accusing her of supporting anti national forces while others
claim that she is a courageous girl who is only talking of peace between India
and Pakistan. In her video, she is seen displaying few placards which read;
“PAKISTAN DID NOT KILL MY DAD, WAR KILLED HIM, and I FIGHT FOR PEACE BETWEEN
INDIA AND PAKISTAN” and few more. The girl’s father, as a captain in Indian
army was martyred in Indo-Pak Kargil war in 1999 when she was two years old. The
girl has been trolled on social media by many famous personalities with twits
like; “I didn’t score two triple century, my bat did-Verendra Sehwag, If
Pakistan did not kill our soldiers then who did? - Olympic bronze medalist
Yogeshwar Dutt, If a hardly literate player or a
wrestler troll a pacifist daughter of a martyr its understandable but whats
wrong with some educated folks- Javed Akhtar, PLEASE DON'T CALL OUR PLAYERS
ILLITERATE. You're a champion in your field & they are champions in their
own field. India is proud of them!- India’s Sports Minister, Mr Vijay Goel, यहाँ उम्र बीत गयी देश को मेडल दिलाने में, और वो एक पल नहीं लगाते अनपढ़ बताने में। (we spend the entire life in winning
medals and you declare us illiterate in
one moment) – Mahavir Phogat, father of wrestler sisters Geeta and Babita etc. Many
other twits like “ Godse did not kill Gandhi, his gun did it” are also
surfacing.
If Gurmehar’s video is taken at
its face value, she is absolutely right as the war is never a solution to any conflict;
rather it is an epidemic which spreads its wings in very disastrous forms for a
long time. The world history has proved this time and again. And, any modern
war today can lead to catastrophic destruction of millions and millions of
human lives, properties and environment and further lead to human hunger,
suffering, spread of disease and mass displacement of people. The war continues
to have lethal effects for future generations too. Under this perspective her
statement is full of wisdom and needs appreciation by all. However, as Eleanor
Roosevelt, the famous American politician, diplomat, activist and first lady of
USA (wife of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933-45) said; “It isn't enough
to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in
it. One must work at it”. What Eleanor Roosevelt is saying that one has to BELIEVE
in peace and also WORK for peace, nothing else; meaning that one should have
true intention of peace. If you lack a true intention, how sweet your talks may
be, you are not a peace lover and may act contrary to what you preach.
Now let us analyze the statement
of the girl; “PAKISTAN DID NOT KILL MY DAD, WAR KILLED HIM,” and also analyze
how Pakistan demonstrated its intention right from its inception when it was
carved out as a separate country from India in Aug. 1947. The dark days of
bloodshed of approximately two million people, a consequence of partition were
still fresh when Pakistan invaded India in Oct. 1947 by sending tribal forces
supported by Pakistan army into northern Kashmir. This conflict between Indian and
Pakistan ended with a cease fire at the intervention of UN and as a result,
Pakistan gained control of about one third of the area of Kashimr which they
never vacated as called for. Two third of Kashmir remained with India and the
conditions of UN resolutions were never fulfilled by Pakistan to vacate the
area under Pakisan’s occupation. Since then Pakistan has engaged India in three
major wars (1965, 1971 and 1999) and continues relentlessly its covert and overt
policy of sponsoring cross boarder terror attacks. As per a report, there have
been 47,234 terror attacks on India between 1998 and 2017 and no less than
14,743 Indian civilians have been killed and 6,276 security personnel were
martyred. India is constantly facing terrorists’ infiltration and frequent skirmish
at the border from Pakistan side killing many Indian civilian populations. The
heinous incidence like Mumbai attack in Nov. 2008 killed around 172 people. The
attacks at Pathankot airbase in Jan. 2016 and Uri Military base in Sept. 2016
have martyred many Indian soldiers. The masterminds of the Mumbai attack and
many other terror attacks are sitting comfortably under state protection in
Pakistan and are constantly spilling venom against India. The terror training
camps to target India are flourishing across the Indian borders and Pakistan continues
its policies to support terror element threatening India’s sovereignty and
integrity. India’s repeated peace affords by Prime Minister A B Vajpayee and Prime
Minister Modi to reach Pakistan PMs were exchanged by renewed and escalated attacks
on India. Under this scenario, it is
clear that the intention of Pakistan does not favor a dialogue and peace
between the two neighbors. Knowing this fact very well, the college girl’s
statement that “PAKISTAN DID NOT KILL MY DAD, WAR KILLED HIM” is not true
reflection of the scenario. It is Pakistan’s intention of dispatching infiltrators
across the border to destabilize India is not allowing the return of peace and therefore;
it is Pakistan which is responsible for killing of her father.
It has also come to light that
the girl was used by some politicians to create disturbance and chaos in certain
college campus in Delhi University to defame and destabilize the Modi government
especially at a time when some important state elections are ongoing in India. And
hence again, her true intention appears to be guided by politics and she has only
acted as a tool in the hands of some political parties. It is becoming more and more evident that she
lacks intention for peace but was only a part of a political gameplan. As she seems
to lacks a true intention, her sweet talks for peace are not really trustworthy
and as seen, since the resultant furor thereafter refuse to die, she is not a true
peace lover and is only acting contrary
to what she preaches.
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