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RIVALRY BETWEEN INDIA AND PAKISTAN AT DANGEROUS POINT

By Dr M D P DISSANAYAKE

There is more to life than cricket. Cricket madness has gone beyond leaps and bounds, one country enjoying and celebrating (India) whilst another neighbor (Pakistan) is trying hard to attract the game into their country. Needless to say, professional jealousy is at the highest point now, innocent Sri Lankan cricketers became a ham in the sandwich. For saving the lives of our loving cricketers, we are indebted to the Driver of the bus which carried them.

Just imagine what would have been the consequences, if Indian cricket team was attacked in Lahore? Within less than 12 hours, Indian Army would have crossed the Pakistani border to capture the terrorists. By now entire region would be in turmoil. But, full credit to Sri Lanka Government, they are not blaming Pakistan mainly due to basic understanding between the two friendly nations. Both Mahinda Samarasinghe and Rohitha Bogollegama selected their words with great care not to blame Pakistani Government. This understanding is lacking between India and Pakistan. If there is one more incident of terrorists attacks in either country, we can expect the worst. What actions are being taken by the Prime Minister of India and President of Pakistan to heal the rivalry? At the moment none.

Pakistan foreign ministry says “there are no borders for terrorism” indirectly pointing finger at some nearby country. Regardless of their internal politics, it was very sad that a humble and disciplined team such as Sri Lanka had to face the consequences of internal rivalry between two nuclear powers in the region. International community at large is concerned that this could continue as a tit-for-tat, one incident after another.

There is no genuine dialogue between Indian and Pakistani top leaders to sit down and sort out things. Whilst India is preaching Sri Lanka how to deal with the LTTE, India itself is not doing enough to talk to Pakistan at the highest level . Sri Lanka with its limited resources has been able to deal with the terrorism thus far very successfully, without much help from India. India was responsible for providing breeding ground for terrorism, training camps and protection for terrorists. India, if genuine in its desire to maintain peace and harmony in the region, must take the leadership role and commence dialogue with Pakistan immediately, in joint co-operation. We cannot expect Americans come and help 100% to solve the decades old rivalries between these two great nations.

With the IPL season about to begin, there are very real threats that this rivalry would continue. To deal with it, the two leaders of India and Pakistan must put behind their petty differences and work out a sensible strategy to deal with the terrorism.

Lets see the day that both India and Pakistan become true partners, true to their words to protect the region and millions of its people.

Until that happens, super events such as IPL, ICL should be cancelled to provide a cooling off-period. It is imperative to provide a political climate conducive, before having Bollywood Parties!

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