Good Relationship of Indo-Pak
During
the later 1950, India and Pakistan seemed to be crawling towards some form of
accommodation, eventually leading to the Indus Water Treaty in 1960 but all
this came to a screeching halt after the 1965 war between India and Pakistan.
since then things just kept getting worse. Indian help in breaking up Pakistan,
Azad Kashmir which was only stopped because US president the USSR president and
told him to tell Indira Gandhi that would not be acceptable, did not help.
During
the last decade, things took a turn for the worse every time an attempt was
made by the two sides to arrive at some sorts of rapprochement. The long and
the short of it is that it was also great fun to watch new medical residents
just off the boat from India assimilate into the US melting pot. The most
interesting cultural confrontation was always with the food available in the
hospital cafeterias and in local restaurants. This is about a time almost 40 years
ago, when Indian or Pakistan restaurants and grocery stores were hard to come,
by from personal experience.
Perhaps
there existed an ephemeral connection between those of us that had our roots in
the same part of India. One of the most interesting conversations have ever had
was about a decade ago with a young Sikh surgical resident.
The
relationship between Pakistan and India as it has evolved over the last six
decades is that of a school yard bully and the pesky runt that refuses to
accept the bully as his superior even after being beaten up with considerable
regularity, and now that the runt has achieved nuclear parity, the runt expects
some respect which the bully finds hard to dish out. Considering the bomb,
situation the bully cannot just beat up the runt at will and is now reduced to
temper tantrums.
The
best we can hope for is to get over the bully and the runt relationship. Grow up
as countries and pursue relationships based sane, visa regime between the two
countries would be an important beginning.
