20-year-old Gurmehar Kaur lost her father in the Kargil War of 1999. Any normal child growing up with the knowledge would have a disturbed childhood. And Gurmehar agrees to it. She states that as a 6-year-old, she had once tried to stab a woman in a burqa. Her mother had stopped her and told her that Pakistan did not kill her father, the war did. And while that may sound about right to the mind of a common man living his normal life without the thought of going to war with Pakistan, some found her pacifism as a sign of disrespect for her father, a martyr. Now, just to be clear, this a 20-year-old daughter of a martyr advocating peace between two warring countries. That, in itself, is commendable. It is more than just mature of her to have come a long way from stabbing a woman in a burqa to advocating peace with Pakistan.
Watch her video here:
So at what point does her statement actually become politically motivated, seeds of a polluted mind, disrespectful and anti-national? Let’s talk about the 1999 Kargil war. Pakistan started it, aye they did. A large number of soldiers were killed, on both sides. But since we are Indians, let’s just ignore the casualties on the other side. Now, just for the trolls who are new to the art of knowledge and history and blindness caused by soaring sense of Nationalism, Nawaz Sharif was the Prime Minister of Pakistan in 1999. Now, I can’t go on to claim that Kargil war was his brain child but common knowledge, right!
Prime Minister Narendra Modi, had invited Nawaz Sharif to Delhi in May 2014, for his swearing-in-ceremony. The move had been lauded as it had set India on a path of diplomacy and peace with its neighbour, Pakistan. PM Modi had later visited Nawaz Sharif on his birthday in Pakistan and both the leaders had a series of exchange of gifts and radiated an era of benevolence and bonhomie. So was Prime Minister Narendra Modi working against India’s interests? I guess not. It was done in the name of foreign relations and diplomacy. So why the double standards, Mr Rijiju and everybody else, who trolled the girl for holding up a peace sign?