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Nothing like peace

for India and Pakistan

As the first phase of the Parliamentary elections are over in the country, the sensitivity of
India-Pakistan needs to be understood by the political actors as their miscalculations may
harm both civil and military sphere, write atul k thakur & rajiv jayaram

ow much required, an ‘In- on. There is not a crime, there is not a own war of survival. Any balancing act
corrigible Rebel’ can echo dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a coming for an informed public opinion
Pulitzer’s sharp words swindle, there is not a vice which does is rarity, something to be lamented for
about the democracy (US) not live by secrecy. Get these things out greater common goods.
N and journalism in Indian in the open, describe them, attack them, Still fresh in memory, how the Mili-
context: “We are a democracy and there ridicule them in the press, and sooner tary tension escalated across the Line
is only one way to get a democracy on or later public opinion will sweep them of Control (LoC) following Pulwama
its feet in the matter of its individual, away.” attack on CRPF convoy that killed 40
its social, its municipal, its state (and) its But to be acknowledged, the jour- personnel and India’s ‘non-military
national conduct, and that is by keeping nalism breathing bad air and under pre-emptive’ air strikes on purported
the public informed about what is going commercial compulsion, waging its terrorist camps inside Pakistani terri-

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