Pakistan assumes India to be an enemy.

Pakistan assumes India to be an enemy.

The attempt of Pakistan during the past, to bring under umbrella of the two-nation theory all are most of the Muslim Countries to confront India with a united challenge to force it to its knee has proved to be flap. Pakistan assumes India to be an enemy. Indias enemy to be its friends, and Indias friends to be its enemies. This lends to the Pakistan foreign policy the character of a futile and negative expediency even in relations to Muslim Countries. The lack of genuine sympathy for Muslim countries was noted by an influential News paper of Cairo “Al Akbar,” when it is observed in 1962.


Following the downfall of the former Pakistan Government [1960] and formation of the new Government, we tried to forget the attitude of former Government and worked to improve our relations with the new Government. President Nasser then [1960] visited Pakistan and President Ayub Khan returned the visit [1961]. It was the during the visit of President Ayub Khan in Cairo that the Pakistan side refused to include in the joint statement any reference to the Pakistan support for the Palestinian case or the case of Algeria. The joint statement was then broadcast, without making any reference to those two important Arab causes.


The spirit of the foreign policy of Pakistan was not even ideological. It was purely anti-Indian. The reason why Ayub Khan had refused to support the Palestinian issue or the case of Algeria was Nasser’s refusal to agree to any mention of Kashmir in the joint communiqué. In no other case the exposure of Pakistan policy been so complete. Once the ideological skin was peeled off, as in the case, no ground was left for that policy to claim special consideration at the hands of other Muslim countries. Pakistan repudiated its own slogan of Islamic unity which its leaders had been shouting for over a decade in pursuit of anti-Indian objectives. This inner contradiction in their policy was to torrent them time and again in the years to come.


But actually India wants friendly co-operation with Pakistan and the present Prime Minister of India told http://www.indiaenews.com/politics/20080305/102183.htm “We want to live in peace, stability and prosperity with our neighbouring countries... We want mutually beneficial relations.
India and Pakistan should think about 'collective destiny, collective security and prosperity', Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Wednesday and termed as 'most courageous' the steps his predecessor Atal Bihari Vajpayee took to improve ties with Pakistan.”

Now it is up to Pakistan to join hands with India.