Headline, May 14 2025/ BLESSED : ''' ARE THE PEACE MAKERS '''

BLESSED : 

''' ARE THE PEACE MAKERS '''

THE WORLD STUDENTS SOCIETY RISES IN DEEP RESPECT to pay our humble but profound gratitude to H.E. President Donald J Trump, H.E. Vice President JD Vance, and H.E. Secretary Marco Rubio for hope for peace.

AND nothing can be more appropriate and honoured than the : ! ARABIC TRANSLATION : BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS ! who strive to bring harmony to our very troubled world !.

'' INDIA'S OBSESSION WITH PAKISTAN FLOURISHES '' : India's annoyance at being clubbed with Pakistan in global discourse is purely out of resentment.

Through the 1990s and up until fairly recently, India insisted on something called '' de-hyphenation ''. The hyphen referred to was the one in the term '' Indo-Pak '', which is how the world saw South Asia. Neither country was seen from the outside without the shadow of the other.

American diplomats visiting India, like Robin Raphel, an official in the Bill Clinton administration would make it a point to visit Pakistan when visiting India to '' balance '' the relationship.

President Bill Clinton himself when he visited India in March 2000, also stopped over in Pakistan for a few hours on his way back to assure Islamabad that it was not forgotten.

INDIA chafed over this ''hyphenation '' because it saw itself, legitimately, as the bigger power, the world's largest democracy and, in many ways, similar to the West. Others did not always see it quite that way.

The world was fixated on the hyphenation of '' Indo-Pak '', especially in 1998, when India, under Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpaee, detonated nuclear devices in mid-May, and then Pakistan, under PM Nawaz Sharif, also did the same on May 28.

The world was concerned about instability and recklessness, and this was heightened with the 1999 Kargil war, which was not officially a war - because war had not been declared by either nation - though over 1,000 soldiers were killed.

Pakistan and India fought in conventional fashion with artillery and air force on the unsaid assumption that escalation to nuclear exchange would not materialise, the first time that such a conflict between nuclear states had been seen in the world.

The media and the public on both sides were mobilised with the sort of frenzy that we are familiar with. The world was alarmed and President Clinton stepped in and forced Pakistan to pull back its forces from Kargil.

TWO THINGS came after this, which removed the hyphen. The first was the attack of September 11, 2001, which took down New York's World Trade Centre towers, leading America to declare war on terrorism.

Karachi was required for the US invasion of Taliban-controlled Afghanistan and almost all of the fuel, ammunition and spares the US/Nato military needed were shipped through Pakistan, for a fee.

Like Gen Ziaul Haq in 1979 after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Gen Parvez Musharraf suddenly found himself acceptable and his coup against Nawaz Sharif was overlooked.

INDIA'S government was initially anxious, irritated and perhaps even jealous of all the attention Gen Musharraf got on the global stage but PM Vajpayee wisely stayed away from the adventure.

The Americans coined the term '' Af-Pak''. The Indo-Pak hyphen became blurred.

The second reason is best exemplified by the term '' India Shining '', the advertising campaign launched on the assumption that India was the next China in terms of economic growth.

In 2024, United Progressive Alliance [ UPA ] minister Jairam Ramesh came up with the term '' Chindia '' in the hope that '' India and China could cooperate and work together to face challenges ahead.''

India wanted to be seen relative to its larger neighbour on the northeast and to de-hyphenate itself from the one on the northwest.

The term '' Chindia '' did not stick, unfortunately. China's spectacular rise meant that economically there was no contest.

India showed some promise, but offered mostly bluster instead of some real performance. 

This Master Publishing continues. The World Students Society thanks Aaker Patel, Chair, Amnesty International India.

With most respectful dedication to the Great Super Power Nation of America, and then Students, Professors and Teachers of the world.

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