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	'There seems to be lot of commotion on the LOC regarding the residents of LoC marching towards India-Pakistan border. I guess, it is in continuation of Mr. Imran Khan''s signal couple of weeks ago in Mujaffrabad wherein he said do not cross LoC until I tell you. Let me go to the UNGA first to raise this Kashmir issue, and then you do it. However, in that function, it was insinuated by a few observers in Pakistan that lot of people from Panjab Province were shipped on trucks and buses to beef up an audience so that it looks impressive when Mr. Khan is going to lecture them in Mujaffrabad. So, I do not think this latest visual commotion is put together by the local PoK people, rather this crowd is group of hired people from other provinces- mainly from Panjab. Police of Pakistan made a right decision not to let them move forward toward Indo-Pak border, because they will become easy prey for the Indian defense forces. Right now, political/religious and military tension is very high, it is prudent for Pakistan not to play any rash game and be responsible for any untoward incident at the border. Ball is in Pakistan''s court.'
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'Pakistan is a country breathing with the help of a ventilator. It is a country whose limbs have been crippled and sitting on a wheel chair pretending that it can move from one place to another. It is crippled economically-lack of funds to survive; crippled militarily - military cann''t fight with India which has been admitted by Imran Khan; crippled diplimatically because no country is willing to listen to its grievances except some providing a lip service; and crippled administratively - lack of cohesion among various political parties. Also, needless to say crippled academically - they cann''t figure it out how to make their country prosperous, and seeking economic advice from the military personnel whose job is to protect the country not to run the economy of a country. What a sad state of affair? I do not think Pakistan has any magic wand to find a solution to all these problems. The only way which is now a long way to find a solution is to separate military from the civilian government. Let it be known to the international community that Pakistan as a country has a military and not the other way around. Most of the Pakistani budget is allocated to the well-being of a military establishment at the cost of poor education, poor health, poor nutrition of rest of the population. Is Pakistan ready to admit it?'

It is always good to create jobs to take care of an unemployment situation. However, keeping in view a long range objective and prosperity, it is equally important to create incentives for the private sector also to hire more people. Invest in R & D projects managed by private companies. Making bigger government establishments is not going to bring long term prosperity in the state. In my opinion, government involvement means inefficiency, corruption. nepotism and misuse of funds. By no means, I am saying that there should not be any body working for the government enterprises, but government should be slim and trim, just working as an hawk. Government should not be a major hiring house, this task should be given to the private entities, and they can do it when attractive incentives like tax breaks, easy terms and conditions for investment in their business etc. are provided to them. This is a beauty of capitalism - create competition among the private industry. Let them fight it ought to make their own hold in the market. The more competition government helps create, the better off consumer will be

Mr. Imran Khan, in this article, talks about so many items; for example, conventional war vs. nuclear war, India violating UN's provision about Kashmir as a disputed territory, Pakistan will not start war vs. warning the international community about the consequences of war. I think he is baffled, confused, irritated and feeling helpless not knowing how to handle this situation. By abrogating Article 370, India has pulled rug from under their feet, and Pakistani government is running around like chickens with heads cut off. Mr. Khan should learn some lessons from the previous 4 wars they have fought with India and everyone knows how the results turned out. UN has very directly told the Pakistani Government many a times that Kashmir is a bilateral issue and ought to be resolved through dialogues between India and Pakistan. As far as starting a war is concerned, India does not have to start any war. Pakistan's economy is in doldrums anyway, and India has been successful in isolating Pakistan in the eyes of civilized world community. In short, India has already won a war. Pakistan is just breathing with a life support equipment, and time is not too far when a plug of this life support will be pulled. Whether this plug is pulled by internal forces or a nation will die on its own - does not matter - it is counting its last days.

Since the abrogation of Article 370, PM of Pakistan along with his officials have raised their voices against India's decision to declare this Article null and void in almost all the forums, but without any concrete results. PM of Pakistan is going again to the USA to meet Mr. Trump to seek latter's intervention in this matter. I am not sure what does Mr. Khan think going to happen in this impending meeting. Does he think Mr. Trump will interfere into India's domestic issue and upset Indo-US relations just to appease Mr. Khan? I doubt. Mr. Khan is also going to Saudi Arabia and OIC on this issue to seek some assistance or at least an open condemnation of an action which India took on August 5th. Saudi Arabia along with OIC have already stated that it is India's internal matter and ought to be solved bilaterally. In view of all this, one wonders why is he going to visit USA , OIC and Saudi Arabia again? I think he is going to Saudi Arabia with a begging bowl to have some donation so that his nation can survive for a little bit longer time - abrogation of an Article 370 is just an excuse. Also, not to mention his irresponsible statements to wage a nuclear war against India if the world does not take any action to reverse India's action of revocation of an Article 370. He is basically inciting all Muslims to become Jihadis.

Kidnapping, converting and forcibly marrying minority non-Muslim girls to the Muslim spouses is not new in Pakistan. It has been going on since Pakistan was born. In fact it is the philosophy of Pakistani people to marry non-Muslim girls, either by hook or crook, so the population of Muslims goes up and the non-Muslims stay in the minority category. So, what happened to Jagjit Kaur is not a new news. However, my question about this matter comes out of lack of sensitivity on the part of Sikh community both in India and Pakistan. Yes, CM of Panjab (India) has requested PM of Pakistan to look into it which, in my opinion , is a hog wash. It is just a formality to assuage the Sikh community in India. I think these type of cases need more visible public outcry in both India and Pakistan. It is such an ironical situation when I read news that Sikhs want to fight for Khalistan, their own nation, with the help of Pakistan, does not their conscious jolts them? Don't they think even for a minute that they are working with a country to achieve this objective which is ABDUCTING, RAPING, CONVERTING THEIR DAUGHTERS TO iSLAM AND FORCIBLY MARRYING them to the Muslim community. Have they forgotten their own Sikh history which reveals how Muslim rulers butchered Sikh Gurus and their families? Are worldwide Sikhs ignoring all those atrocities? It is a shame. Time to show and get things done with diplomacy is in the past. Today;s voice is be proactive and challenge these cruel and uncivilized actions with visible force.

When the ex Chief Minister Obdullah asks for a provision to have a separate Prime Inister for the state of J & K , to me it smells like an activity of treason. Hown can there be two Prime Minister in one country? He is speaking the same language which his father and forefatheres were stating - a sense of separation from India. I do not know the Indian Constitution, but it certainly does not show any allegiance to India. It certainly is a serious issue and ought to be tackled seriously in view of all the legalities.