The Peace is Illusive

Ok. So another long, unwieldy, would be non-productive peace process between India and Pakistan has started, courtesy – Mr. President of Pakistan. Future only will tell if the new Joint Counter Terror Mechanism is going to work or not. But I have a few questions and doubts –

• Why Mr. President of Pakistan is still referred to as General? Is he still the commanding officer of the forces?
• If yes, then isn’t Pakistan still a military dictatorship?
• If no, then shouldn’t Prime Minister of Pakistan be representing his country at the NAM Summit?
• The timing of some revelations made by Mr. Musharraf is mind boggling. He is practically accepting that Pakistan’s Army was actively involved in the Kargil misadventure, and that the then Prime Minister of Pakistan Mr. Nawaz Sharif knew about it long back, even before the historic Lahore trip by the then Prime Minister of India Mr. Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
• Isn’t Mr. Musharraf the mastermind behind the whole Kargil saga? What point does Mr. Musharraf want to prove here?
• How is it possible that Pakistan did not have nuclear strike capability in 1999, as per Mr. Musharraf, when we have solid proofs of Father of Pakistani Atomic Bomb proliferating the technology to other countries like Iran and North Korea during the same period? Was Mr. A.Q.Khan helping these countries make Nuclear Bombs that would carry water baloons?
• How often have we seen a military dictatorship engage in war rather than peace process?
• I have never seen such a bizarre peace process where the side making the offensive is asking the side on the defensive to cut down its troops in the disputed area.
• Why, I say, should India agree to such outrageous demands. Haven’t we seen enough of it in Kargil?
• And for Gods sakes, stop calling Pakistan Occupied Kashmir as Azad Kashmir. It is anything but Azad… just like Free Iraq.
• Why is Pakistan not agreeing to deport the top 20 terrorists most wanted in India?
• Why Pakistan Foreign Affairs Ministry denies the claims that there are terror camps running active in POK? Does it need photographic proofs from amateur observer like me using Google Earth to drive home India’s point?
• If Dawood Imbrahim’s son’s marriage takes place in Pakistan, if RAW has details of his residence in Pakistan, what makes one think that Dawood maybe in UAE and not in Pakistan? If you want to get the peace process on track, for once, talk on a positive note. Even if you are not willing to hand him over, atleast say that you would give it a try.
• What makes Jamaat-Ud-Dawa a sociable charity organization, when US itself has black-listed it?
• And last but not the least – Why is Pakistan a Victim of Terror? Explain atleast in 10 words, if you can.
• And the greatest irony - The fight over Kashmir has got so old, that, I'm afraid, the two warring sides don’t even know the exact reason of the conflict.