December 6th, 2019

If history is a benchmark, then these months are ideal for war between Pakistan & India. Post monsoon season when weather is dry & rivers are not flooding

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If history is a benchmark, then these months are ideal for war between Pakistan & India. Post monsoon season when weather is dry & rivers are not flooding.
1965 war was fought in September.
1971 started in November & ended on December 16th.

War clouds are gathering again....December is a painful month for Pakistanis.
We suffered two deep wounds in this month...on the same date ... December 16th.

In 1971, we lost half of the country in a high intensity war where everything went wrong.

In 2014, the #APS_Massacre. Hundreds of kids /killed/wounded.

We Pakistanis are strange people....very strange indeed. We are resilient, brave, hospitable yet extremely naive, silly & dangerously reckless. We never learn from history...never!

We never learnt any lessons from fall of Dhaka or slaughter of APS children. Imagine .....!!Fall of Dhaka teaches us one critical lesson...Never blindly trust the leadership!

The collective wisdom of Military & pol leadership, of the entire state & its organs can also be so horribly wrong that it can destroy the country. 1971 was a catastrophic leadership failure...

There is a dangerous & silly trend in Pak to see all failures in the light of Civil-Military relations, both camps blaming each other for collective failures.

Fact is that 1971 was as much a military failure as it was political. If Yahya failed, then Bhutto & Mujeeb betrayed tooArrogance, ignorance & incompetence make a lethal destructive suicidal combination for any leadership. Add treason & betrayal to the mix & you have a recipe for national disaster, as we had in 1971.

On these counts, we still stand frozen in time....same lethal combination.

East Pakistan debacle gives us another critical lesson...
Once the political & military leadership collapsed or betrayed & sold the country, then in the end, the entire weight of saving the country fell on the Pakistan army. They fought desperately & bravely but it was too late..

Today, when India has annexed Kashmir & planning another invasion of Pak & stirring internal unrest to create urban chaos, I shiver when I see the insane quality of the pol leadership we have, the level of the national narrative being discussed & carnival mood in the nation.

If Pakistan has to go to war with this quality of leadership, then surely we will take huge losses before the Pak army begins to regain ground. This army will fight like tigers, I have NO doubt....but the national leadership is dangerously un-seriousness, naive & ignorant.

I am a soldier. A veteran. Have seen wars & seen how bad leadership destroys entire armies & the nation.
I will be the last person to take the present threats from the enemy lightly.
I am seeing this suicidal tendency in the Govt & the nation to ignore the threat. Dangerous!

At my age, I have passed that stage when I trust the leadership blindly. Have seen too many disasters & defeats at the hands of nincompoops jackasses that now I would only trust my own judgement & the collective wisdom of the like minded patriots when it comes to Pakistan. Yes!!

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