After covering the War of Israel in Ethiopia, Syria, Sudan, Russia-Ukraine and Lebanon and Gaza, after seeing the missile-doors and turning the areas into debris, it is surprising to see that South Asia is probably the only region, where common people become a war expert and that too in their drawing room.
The opinion of these experts is not limited to the goal and ways of the fight. It seems as if the strength of India and Pakistan is not formed by their nuclear weapons or the world’s largest democracy claims or the export of mangoes worldwide, but in every case, the legs are made with the ability to immediately stubbornly lose and deception.
Suddenly breaking news comes, “Missiles across the border were fired.” After a few minutes your hairdresser is explaining the move of ballistic missiles. He immediately says that multiple independent targeteable re-entry vehicles (MIRVs) are better than traditional bombs and confirms a cousin in the Air Force citing him (who, later detected, works in accounts.)
A friend says, “Hey man, you are not understanding. India should have first attacked the stool of ammunition, not the barracks.” His military ability is just that the border and Uri have seen the film ten times.
The official news of firing missiles at nine places in Pakistan, India, had alleged terrorist structures from Bahawalpur to Muridke near Lahore, while the WhatsApp group of a residential society in South Delhi erupted. An aunt living in our neighborhood was not happy with the accuracy of this attack. He told that the building is left. He also suspected that no one sang was worn by anyone sung. She was also disappointed to know that the missile fell into a semi -circular chap rather than directing directly. He wrote in WhatsApp group, “The missile should have been dropped directly on the building.”
Whenever there are reports of tension or shelling between India and Pakistan, people of both countries reach a strange mental state.
Shopkeeper strategists, rocket scientists, housewives become geo-political analysts. Even before the first press conference of the defense spokesperson, everyone knows what the Prime Minister and the Chief of Army should have done. You can be shocked and shocked when Panwala also said in a complaint tone, “Brother, the target was not right. His oil depot near Multan should have attacked.”
A man really appealed to the Indian Air Force to attack Thokar Niaz Baig in Multan on social media, where according to him, there is a terrorist shelter. When someone interrupted that Thokar Niaz Baig is in Lahore, not in Multan, he immediately removed the post.
Sharma ji of Lajpat Nagar becomes an LIC agent during the day and an expert strategist as soon as the evening surrounds. He had a concrete strategy for the deployment of the Indian Army near Jaisalmer. He said with full vigor, “If I were a general, I would not have gathered the BrahMos missiles in the Northeast, not from the West.” With this they do not get any sense. “They did not stop here,” We should use hypersonics, exactly like Russia. First, we have to hack their drones. My son knows hacking. ”
In Pakistan, a Sialkot tailor posted on X, “Why the Indian radar is weak in winter” and “the benefits of fog”.
Military officers and strategists then calculate risks and consider complex geo-political consequences. But the drawing room general-on-SIM card has a carefree solution, “Drop Atom bomb on Karachi and the story is over?”
“Bro, if we drop the atom bomb on Delhi, its missiles will be jammed because we have hacked them. We should do a surgical strike from the Nepal border, the last war.”
In India, a man’s advice on X, India fired “reverse missiles”, which would jump back on the blockage.
Chaudhary Saheb, who sold tractor spare parts in Faisalabad on a Pakistani TV channel, was giving the army to fracting the Shaheen-3 missile with full enthusiasm, he was confident that Bangalore would be shaken by him. He said, “Why are we wasting time?” Make a attack and end. “A viral Facebook post in Pakistan claimed that India’s missile attack failed because” our soldiers recited Surah Yasin together. “This post got more likes than Pakistan’s entire tank inventory.
All this is not limited to only WhatsApp aunts and unales with fake information. An editor for his strategic and defense coverage arrived in Srinagar after India’s surgical strike in 2016, broadcast an hour -long live program with an army retirement colonel on Dal Lake. Colonel Saheb told the plan of “to reach Muzaffarabad in 17 hours” with full trust and enthusiasm.
This time, a senior Indian journalist, who was talked about covering the Kargil war, posted on X about the “destroyed” of the Karachi port, so I contacted a former colleague who now lives in Karachi. He was waiting outside a restaurant for bringing Nihari for dinner.
Many more people were waiting for their order there. In that, someone said easily, “Modi will do another attack before the election.” The second said, “Imran Khan had already told this. India’s courage has increased after Imran went to jail.” A woman rang and said, “The war is in the benefit of everyone. This is what the weapon industry wants.” Meanwhile, my friend’s Nihari came and he left.
On the other hand, tiredness, anonymous army personnel are posted at the border and posted there. Firing in the border villages. But the diplomats who advise to exercise restraint described the diplomats as cowards. Journalists asking questions are called traitors. Anyone dare to say that war is not a video game, not knowing how many accusations are made to him and it is said, “So, be sitting hand in hand.”
What do the rage whatsApp warriors and strategists know what the war means. If you want to see the view of the war, then see the condition of Aleppo to Holmes in Syria. Settlements, mohalla was destroyed, people became homeless, thousands of children became orphaned. The soldiers were buried with respect and forgotten within a week.
Very few people will remember that the murder of a man Archduk Franz Ferdinand pushed the world into the First World War. It killed 50 lakh to 2.2 crore people and injured 2.3 crore. Then, World War II began in 1939 after a Nazi attack at a German radio station at Gleevitz near Poland border, as a result 5 to 5.5 crore people and 2.1 to 2.5 crore soldiers died.
Today, the situation in India and Pakistan is so serious that very few leaders have an idea of the price of war. Previously, at the time of the attack on Parliament, the kidnapping of the IC-814 aircraft or the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, there were leaders who were able to stop the situation from going towards full war.
It is said that when an official told Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee that the hijacked aircraft could be flown in Lahore or Dubai for diplomatic gains, Vajpayee scolded him and said that 300 people could not be killed for an increase in the international world.
(Iftikhar Gilani is currently a journalist located in Ankara in Turkia. The views are private)
