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Pak pushing terror

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Given its bashing at the international level for pushing terror, it seems as if Pakistan does not have any development agenda except for ensuring only one thing that its militant training camps remain intact. No one in Pakistan is serious to drive the country forward on the path of development and all are following only their personal agendas to remain in power. It seems as if the Pak prime minister and his entire establishment, including army and the notorious ISI, are faced with the constipation of ideas. Except for time and again raising the Kashmir issue, they don't have anything to offer to the people of Pakistan in the name of development. Their fiery speeches and the acts of glorifying terrorists do leave a negative impact on the vulnerable minds in Pakistan. This is highly condemnable as the youth, who should have pens in their hands, are motivated to pick up guns and then kill innocent people for the purpose spreading terror among them. If Pak politicians don't change their ways and replace the 'venomous' content of their speeches with the agenda of development and education for all their poor and neglected subjects, they perhaps won't ever be able to steer their country on the path of prosperity. Though Islamabad is faced with the real issues of growing poverty, unemployment, terrorism and exploitation of the poor and uneducated lot in the name of 'jehad', it has miserably failed to tackle them. On all important occasions and festivals, Pak politicians and heads of terror outfits raise the so-called Kashmir issue and dedicate them to the 'sacrifices' of Kashmiris, saying their voices cannot be suppressed through 'force'. This is ridiculous and meaningless. At home, the Pak politicians are faced with the worst kind of unrest in Balochistan and Sindh, but instead of mitigating the sufferings of the people of these regions and stopping human rights violations in PoJK, they unnecessarily prefer to rake up the Kashmir issue. The Pak President too follows the divisive agenda while expressing solidarity with the people of Kashmir. Given their past record, Pak politicians would continue to rake up the Kashmir issue, notwithstanding the New Delhi's efforts to mend ties with Islamabad. Whenever India has extended the hand of friendship towards Pakistan, it has reciprocated by 'gifting' to it terror attacks.

It would continue to needle India in future too. Pakistan has its agents in Kashmir in the shape of separatists and some other sympathisers. While the erstwhile Congress-led UPA governments had mainly remained soft towards the valley separatists, the NDA has got tough with them and other Pak agents in the state and elsewhere in the country.

The time is now ripe to bring the misguided Kashmiri youth back to the national mainstream and teach the enemy agents a lesson. New Delhi should also make concerted efforts to expose Pakistan as a terror country at the international level.The US has already stopped its aid to Pakistan, saying they have received only 'lies and deceit' from it in return for the aid they have provided it so far.