14 August.
Pakistan’s Day.
India’s Mirror.
Pakistan celebrates independence today.
India watches.
Same year. Same partition. Same blood.
Different choices.
What did Pakistan decide the moment it was born?
India and Hindus would be the permanent enemy. Declared. Undeclared. Eternal.
August 1947.
The British left. Lines were drawn on maps.
Punjab and Bengal tore open. Crores of people ran.
Hindus and Sikhs one way. Muslims the other.
How many paid with their lives?
Nearly two million. Trains arrived full of corpses.
Bodies floated in canals.
Women were taken. Children were cut down.
One story. One of thousands. A Sikh family in western Punjab. Grandfather. Grandmother. Parents. Three children.
They thought the madness would pass.
One night the mob came. Swords. Spears. Fire. Grandfather slaughtered in front of them.
Grandmother pushed into the flames.
Parents killed.
The three-year-old sister not spared. A seven-year-old boy hid.
He ran for days. Hungry. Thirsty.
Stepping over bodies. Watching limbs float in the water.
He reached India with only the clothes on his back.
No family left. That was Partition.
Not politics. Pure horror.
Pakistan was born in that fire.
And it never cooled. 1947-48. Kashmir invaded.
1965. Full war.
1971. Another war.
Bangladesh was born from their defeat.
1999. Kargil.
Siachen. Continuous shelling. Infiltration.
After losing the big wars, what new plan did they invent?
Bleed India with a thousand cuts.
Terrorism as strategy.
Proxy war as policy.
Ghazwa-e-Hind as fantasy. India kept trying.
Shimla Agreement.
Lahore bus. Atal Bihari Vajpayee himself went.
Samjhauta Express.
Cricket. Talks. Smiles at the border.
What was the reply every time?
More blood.
Parliament attack.
26/11 Mumbai.
Pulwama.
Countless smaller cuts. We offered friendship.
They offered knives.Seventy-nine years later, look at the result. India stands. Large economy.
Strong military. Stable democracy. Growing in science, space, industry.
Pakistan?
Economic collapse. Repeated IMF begging. Internal chaos. The same terror they exported now eating their own house.
Did the thousand cuts break India?
No. India became stronger.
The cuts only drained the one who kept cutting.
Partition created two countries.
One chose to move forward while carrying the scars.
The other chose to live inside the scar and call it identity.India remembers the trains of corpses.
India remembers the children who never came home.
India remembers every hand it extended that was met with a blade.Pakistan still celebrates the day it was born from that blood.
And still plans as if the blood is unfinished business.
Finally A Question To Pakistan on Their Birth-Day
What is the next plan?
When is the next attack?
Which city will you try to bleed next?
Do you still believe the thousand cuts will finally make India fall? Or has the truth finally hit that this path only destroys the one walking it? We offered the hand many times.
You rejected it every time. The decision is still yours. But India is no longer waiting with open arms.
India is watching.
India is ready. And India remembers everything.
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