Having spent a long time in the Indian Air Force and with two of the country's most well known think tanks I found myself interacting with a number of Pakistani officials, civilian and military scholars and on two very vital issues this is what they always said.
When told that Pakistani adventurism affects the well being of Indian Muslims they said they did not think the fate of Indian Muslims was their concern. In fact they have little love for them. Some of them blamed the Indian Muslims for not going over to Pakistan.
When told that India's patience was running out expecially after they stabbed us in the back at Kargil after the now famous and land mark visit of the then Indian PM AB Vajpayee who also made it a point to visit the Minar-e-Pakistan implicitly offering India's good wishes to that country, the response was that Pakistan may go down but it will drag India down with it. Such is the pathalogical hatred for India among the elite intellectuals of Pakistan. So can we expect them to hand over Masood Azar or Dawood Ibrahim or any other terrorist easily?
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How do you explain the extraordinary warmth and friendship shown by the common people of Lahore and other cities for Indian tourists - and cricketers?
I do not know any Pakistanis personally but the few that one has come across seemed friendly and curious about India.
Milind Shankar
Is the dislike for India (that you describe) restricted to fringe elements (LeT and the likes), the defence forces who cannot live down the humiliating defeat of 1971 and other small segments of Pak society?
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