By Justice Markandey Katju
News has come that Pakistanis and Afghans are fighting each other
These fools should be helping each other, instead of fighting each other, since both are poor. Hence their real enemy is poverty, unemployment, malnutrition, price rise, lack of healthcare and good education, etc. So if they had any sense they should join hands, pool their resources, and launch a mighty historical united struggle, along with Indians, to eliminate these real common enemies. But instead they are at each other’s throats.
I have explained in my article and video below that it is the developed countries who make us fight each other, so that our region does not emerge as a modern industrial giant, like another China ( of which it has all the potential ) and thus a big rival to Western and Chinese industries. In other words, these developed countries pursue the divide and rule policy vis-a-vis the underdeveloped countries, and make us fight each other, and commit atrocities on minorities in our own countries.
But like a puppeteer in a puppet show, these developed countries are not visible to the audience, who think the puppets are moving about on their own volition, when in fact they are being manipulated by the hidden puppeteer.
War is a very expensive thing, and underdeveloped countries have to buy weapons at huge cost from foreign arms manufacturers. This money should instead be spent on the welfare of our people.
It is high time that people of the Indian subcontinent and other neighbouring countries like Afghanistan realize who is their real enemy, stop fighting with each other, unite, and launch a mighty historical people’s struggle for their real emancipation from poverty, unemployment and other socio-economic evils
(Justice Katju is a former Judge, of the Supreme Court of India, and former Chairman, the Press Council of India. The views expressed are his own)
