Prevailing tension between India and Pakistan, a temporary phenomenon: Indian journalists
November 29, 2008
ISLAMABAD, Nov 29 (APP): Eminent Indian journalists, analysts talking to a private Pakistani television channel in a telephonic interview from New Delhi Saturday said that ongoing atmosphere of tension between India and Pakistan is a temporary phenomenon in the aftermath of Mumbai attack and the situation would come to normalcy once the dust gets settled down.
They said that presently there is a wave of anger among Indians because the Mumbai attacks have put them in a state of shock.
Senior Journalist, political analyst Vinod Sharma said that, people in India are very angry but their anger is with their rulers and not with Pakistan.
The Indian people feel that their rulers move amid fool-proof security arrangements while the common citizens are left at the mercy of terrorists.
He said the people are also angry with the intelligence and security agencies.
He dispelled the impression of an anti-Pakistan sentiment among the people of India following Mumbai attacks. People do talk about the possibility of involvement of some rogue elements from Pakistan but they do not talk about Pakistan’s involvement in the incidents, he said.
He said that no one in India is ready to believe that state of Pakistan was involved in these incidents.
Analyst of Pak-India relations, senior Indian journalist Ojay Bhaskar was of the opinion that, amid rising tension following the Mumbai attacks, the people-to-people contact between Indians and Pakistanis are very robust and there exists lot of empathy among them for each other.
He said that when the Mumbai operation was underway, the Prime Ministers of India and Pakistan were in telephonic contact which establishes the fact that there is a mutual quest for interaction and cooperation on all issues.
Presently the atmosphere in India is very tense but hopefully the situation would get normal very soon , he said.
He said that it is a test period for the fate of peace process between India and Pakistan because the organizers of terrorist attacks wanted to derail it.
