War Serves Foreign Arms Dealers, Not the People of India and Pakistan
Justice Markandey Katju argues that India and Pakistan are too poor to afford war, warning that foreign powers benefit from arms sales. At the same time, citizens suffer due to a lack of food, jobs, housing, and healthcare.
By Justice Markandey Katju
Both India and Pakistan are poor countries which cannot afford a war, as wars are very expensive affairs. We have to buy all our heavy weapons from foreign countries at a huge cost, and these countries benefit if we fight as their sales of weapons increases, while we suffer because we have to waste our precious resources in buying these foreign weapons, instead of on the welfare of our people.
Our people do not have enough food, electricity, water, jobs, housing, education, roads, healthcare and much more. Yet the rulers on both sides want us to fight. Are our rulers not agents of some foreign power who, like a 'madaari' makes his monkeys fight, for his own benefit?
(Justice Markandey Katju is a former Judge of the Supreme Court of India, and former Chairman of the Press Council of India. The views expressed are his own.)
