INDIA SUMMARIZED

Salman Ali [I recently went through with some textbooks and it was really depressing to find that Pakistani textbooks cannot mention Hindus without calling them cunning, scheming, deceptive or something equally insulting] A few days back I had the opportunity to meet up with some school, college and university students. I asked them about Pakistan-India relations and, sadly, all of these students believed that people living in other countries, especially India, were the enemies of Pakistan. A grade seven student belonging to a private school in Lahore said that she loved her country and hated all enemy countries, especially India. I asked her why she held such a firm opinion that other countries, particularly India, were enemy countries and she replied confidently that it was all written in her textbooks and that her teachers also say so. When she was asked to point out specifically where it was written, she failed to do so. However, her assertions could not be re...