This moving Facebook post by a Pakistani girl on India-Pakistan relationship is a must read
There are a few who call for peace and love instead of war.
On Thursday, the Indian army announced that it carried “surgical strikes” across the Line of Control which resulted in “significant casualties”. In retaliation, the Pakistani army claimed that only two of its soldiers died in “border skirmishes”.
However, it became clear that one of our soldiers was captured by the Pakistani army and the government is doing everything possible to release him from captivity. The situation is tense on both sides of the border at the moment. In this charged atmosphere, social media users from both sides of the border are virtually at war.
But there are a few who call for peace and love instead of war. Islamabad-based girl Alizay Jaffer penned down a moving post on India-Pakistan relations that has garnered massive support on social media.
“To the world, most of the time, we are siblings; constantly at loggerheads, trying to get into daddy’s good books so that he may buy us a toy, or take us for a drive, or better yet, increase our allowance.
Other times, we are like a divorced couple, sharing space, constantly bickering over who lost out in the settlement, unable to finally come to terms with the fact that we are no longer together. It seems the scars of our separation are still so ripe, so painful, that they can’t accept that we left, and we can’t accept that they let us leave.
In an event like this, we only find solace in making sure the other is just as hurt as we are, so we put in our all our resources, our best efforts, to do exactly that,” she wrote.
