Pakistan and India should come together to defend the sub-continent.

Pakistan and India should come together to defend the sub-continent.

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The Pakistan Prime Minister’s statement in 1954 about the military alliance with the U.S. not being directed against country was palpably false. So far as the United States and Pakistan were concerned, it was directed against the Soviet Union and China, and in so far as Pakistan alone was concerned, against India.

Ostensibly intended “to strengthen peace and security within the frame work of the Charter of the United Nations,” the pacts and the accompanying arms created highly surcharged nuclei of tension in West Asia and South and South East-Asia. Pakistan subscribed not to a doctrine of peace but to one of hatred, hatred of India, which was root in the two nation’s theory. In this respect Pakistan was completely opposed to modern Islam with its emphasis on peace among man kind and a socialist way of life for its followers. As Ayub khan said, Pakistan had not joined CENTO and SEATO because it was forced to; neither did it join them with its eyes shut.


Pakistan joined them in order to be able to enhance its security. To enhance the security the pacts has shown, not by loyality to its allies, but playing one military camp against another, claiming to belong to one or both or neither as the situation demands, the only common factor of antagonism in its calculation being India.


Chinese seizure of Tibet in 1959 and the flight of Dalai lama to India created a situation which Pakis was quick to exploit. Here was a possibility of threat to the sub-continent which, if it materialized, might bring India and Pakistan face to face with a new formidable giant across the Himalayas.


The Pakistan President had already given expression to his view that sub-continent had been repeatedly invaded in its history and the internal dissensions had led its Governments to be defeated in detail. In case of external aggression, he said on 24th April 1959, both Pakistan and India should come together to defend the sub-continent, adding that, following the Chinese take over of Tibet, India should change its attitude towards Pakistan.