The Defence Day of Pakistan; Ideology and Strategy

Being the only nation-state in the world made on the basis of ‘ideology’ is a unique phenomenon that needs to be understood.

After the two World Wars, when the cabal of the imperialist was on its breaking, was the time when most sections of humanity that had been living under suppression and hegemonic control for centuries, stepped forward to re-define their identities, upon which they aspired to be made into independent states in the near coming future. Before this era, humanity had been largely living under empires and kingdoms, as provinces or vassals; men did not have the privilege to ask for freedom just upon their creed or because their ancestors had been living in a land. But as this new wave of independence swept around the world, extending upon the Westphalian idea of sovereignty, nations sorted out their identity based on the oneness or closeness of their ethnicities, languages, cultures etc.

And as humanity was taking a turn into this new era of awareness the Muslims of the Indian Subcontinent united upon the idea that they want a sovereign state not for a creed, ethnicity, language or culture but for only one thing – ‘Islam’. This is precisely the notion for which they struggled and sacrificed, even when half of them knew that maybe they would never be a part of that wonderful land they are striving for with their resources and lives.

What was gained in love, aspiration and belief upon a wider worldview, was defended by the same zeal of resilience. As the Hindu-majority India suddenly turn from an occupied nation struggling for freedom into an imperialist wanting full control of all land that surrounds it, war upon war was imposed on the land of Pakistan, a land that was the promise of freedom, uprightness and peace for the people of this ideological nation.

War is not always inflicted upon a nation by direct attacks; when India forcibly occupied a province that the people of Pakistan rightfully thought of as their own, then directly or indirectly India planted the tree of permanent discord between its people and ours, as in our sight India would always stands our criminal. And when India has made a theft of a whole province of our country, any act in the struggle to regain that land cannot be amounted to crime; thus the Operation Gibraltar.

Wars should not be ranked by the measure of their success or lose, they must be ranked for the justness of their cause and the courage of a people in standing for the right. In this prospect Pakistan had won this operation, right when it had drew its intention for it, regardless of the consequences. Therefore the righteousness in attempting a daring attempt of somehow trying to rescue and secure Kashmir from the clutches of enslavement and tyranny was a win-win for Pakistan in terms of human virtue.

This very standing of a people, for a righteous cause, is truly the miracle of conscious life, for when men stand for battle, it is their physical endurance, their integrity as individuals, their nerves and their belief that is on the test, and the Pakistani Army has proven itself of being belief-strong. It is this belief that wins battles over stronger looking, more lavishly decorated armies, and the Pakistan Army has proven this belief with their readiness to obey command, their volunteering to step on the path of martyrdom and their willful giving of their blood and soul for every inch of land that has been labeled with the title of ‘la illaha illal lah’.