India's Home Minister told his country's parliament that "Pakistan appears to have altered its strategy in influencing events in Jammu and Kashmir... it is possible that they [Pakistanis] believe that relying upon civilian unrest will pay them better dividends" because of better Indian security along the Line of Control.
Now that is something really flattering. In spite of its blunders in every field of statecraft and diplomacy, Chidambaram wants you to believe that Pakistan has a great talent; at its choice, it can incite any kind of unrest in India - terrorist-driven or popular. India's own blunders have nothing to do with domestic unrest.
He then went on to add "But I am confident if we are able to win the hearts and minds of the people ... those [Pakistani] designs can be foiled" - an effort wherein India failed consistently for the past 63 years and each time made Pakistan the scapegoat.
In fact, according to Indian politicians (and now British Premier David Cameron as well), Pakistan is India's real problem, not India's own style of governance. Soon the Indian politicians will 'discover' links between Pakistan's ISI and the Naxelite warriors roaming around in practically the whole of eastern India.
But while politicians (virtually everywhere) can concoct stories to cover up their incompetence in governance, people everywhere know the truth, be it Britain, Greece, Iceland, India, Israel, Pakistan, Spain or the US. For these fellows who, in most cases, do the bidding of their backers in the corporate sector, time is running out.
The current recession proves for the umpteenth time that these fellows have no idea of what the expression "responsible statecraft" means, and have pushed democracy into a deep pit. As always, we in Pakistan are ahead of the rest; we don't find it necessary for these fellows to have any educational qualifications either.
It is not difficult to guess where we are headed - anarchy - that we see in action in many countries the two greats among them being Pakistan and India. India is now intoxicated by illusions of becoming a 'World Power'. Tragically, even the Indian intellectuals don't realise what a horrible title it has been historically.