Dear Mr. Narendra Modi Sahab,
Greetings
We in Pakistan really appreciate the highly positive gesture of your telephonic call to our Prime Minister to congratulate him on his elections victory and the even bigger gesture of writing a very friendly letter, expressing very positive and warm sentiments in a true statesman like manner.
In this regard, I would like to suggest to the current leadership of both the countries to take advantage of the conducive atmosphere prevailing in the region; and let India and Pakistan try a new approach towards peace: by first deciding upon a list of such core thorny issues which are complicated and can only be resolved after full confidence between the two nations is restored; and freeze all such issues or problems, for a short period of just one decade.
In the meantime, India and Pakistan should restore full friendly relations, by genuinely restoring confidence, by further pulling back troops from the LOC and start immediate cooperation in all fields of economic activities, visa-free, to and fro, travel (for all the cities) for citizens of both the countries, special facilities for the businessmen of the two nations for opening trade offices, banks, business shops and show rooms in each other’s country, removal of all restrictions on cultural and sports teams visits and full permission of the TV channels to be viewed in each other’s country.
It will be a sort of a no war pact. it should also be decided that in order to avoid any misunderstandings on account of any illegal crossings from the LOC, joint LOC patrolling of Indo-Pak troops along with the UN observers should also be considered as part of the overall peace agreement, which is surely expected to work wonders in the economic emancipation of the teeming millions of both the countries.
Sir, hope you know very well that the ordinary people of both the countries are fed up with the acrimony between the two closest neighbours; and earnestly desire peace, for which the only impediment is the lack of statesmen and visionary people in the policy making arena of both countries.
Now, your and our leadership has got the chance of a life time to jointly work for peace for about 1.5 billion humanity.
Please extend your hands to meet the gestures of peace already made by Prime Minister Imran Ahmad Khan Niazi Sahab in his speech of 26 July 2018 by offering to move two steps for peace towards India if India takes one step towards Pakistan to make peace aspirations of the hundreds of millions of residents of the sub continent come true.
This golden chance for peace between the two nations, if missed now, may not come again for decades. Policy planners have no business to stay in the past frame of mind; and they must develop a new and fresh vision, ruling out mutually assured destruction (MAD) .Policy makers of nuclear powers must not have a mindset of a non nuclear state.
And the foremost responsibility of these policy makers must be to ensure, at all costs, that under all circumstances, nuclear flare up or provocations under offensive or defensive doctrine must be ruled out: irrespective of the defined policy of no first use of nuclear weapons or retaliatory use of WMDs.
Sir, if Malala Yousafzai of Pakistan and Kailash Satyarthi of India can be jointly awarded Nobel Peace Prize for their noble campaign for peace through education and child rights, just imagine how kindly the world will remember the immortal bold acts of Mr. Narendra Modi and Mr. Imran Ahmad Khan Khan Niazi, in ameliorating the hardships due to hunger, disease and illiteracy of more than 1.5 billion humanity of the region.
Please remember that war results only in devastation, deaths and destruction; whereas the dividends of peace are positivity, prosperity, hope and happiness.
Last but not the least, it must be a very clear objective of the leadership of both the countries to ensure that India and Pakistan must not live like the divided Korea; rather we should live like the united Europe.
With best wishes and kind regards,
Syed Nayyar Uddin Ahmad
Lahore
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