Sir — This refers to your editorial, “Imran’s Pakistan” (July 27). India and Pakistan should wage an all-out war against poverty, hunger, malnutrition, unemployment, child labour, illiteracy, tuberculosis, malaria, dengue and other diseases in their own countries and not against each other. For best results, both India and Pakistan need to start a healthy competition in human development.
India and Pakistan are the backbenchers in the class of human development. The former is at 131st position and the latter at 147th in the Human Development Index rank.
Indeed, a new welfare diplomacy is the need of the hour. The bottom line of the diplomacy will be to say the truth loud and clear that in the case of conflict, it is the weapon sellers who always win at the cost of the people of both the countries.
And of course, any war in general and Indo-Pakistan war in particular are nothing but staging of Aesop’s story of a monkey winning the bread while two cats fight for the same.