This refers to the article, “The powerful and perennial problem” (September 21) by Joginder Singh. Pakistan has threatened to strike India with nuclear weapons umpteen times. If Pakistan is a nuclear power, so is India. If it strikes India with nuclear weapons, does it think that India will not retaliateIJ While the public and the civilian Governemnt of Pakistan want to live in peace, it is the sinister Inter-Services Intelligence and the military, that does not let them live with peace.
Alfred Nobel, the founder of the Nobel prize, had said in his will that the Nobel peace prize distribution should be held in that country which had not participated in any kind of war. And so, Norway was found to be the sole country for this purpose. India and Pakistan must take a leaf from Norway’s book and live in harmony. War only brings destruction but peace gives everything, if it is served with an open heart. But when all the doors for peaceful co-existence are closed, as is the present case with Pakistan, war is the only recourse