“We are heading towards Pakistan!”

It was Tuesday, 6th January, 2009. I was on my way to my cousin’s house in patiala in a Punjab Roadways bus aka ‘Punjab di gaddi’ :P. It was a smooth ride, until 2 cops came into view with some barriers blocking the road, when our driver asked him the reason, 1 of them told that truckers had blocked down the road ahead and they had orders to divert the traffic to the link road to the left.

Only 1 question was roaming in everyone’s mind now, “will I be able to reach my destination in time?” In name of the god, driver moved the bus to the left, without even knowing the way ahead! Conductor made some passengers move out of the bus, as he wasn’t sure whether the bus will be able to reach their stop. Few minutes later, as the bus was getting through narrow roads, a man with very broad shoulders (believe me; his shoulders were about twice as that of Matthew Hayden!) sitting at the last empty seats stood up and shouted, “Where is the bus heading to?” I don’t know about the others, but I was feeling like he’s about to hijack this bus!

Within 1 or 2 seconds of his questioning, driver replied back, “we are heading towards Pakistan sir, would you like to join in?” Everyone laughed out loud! That person replied to driver’s comment smiling, “Ofcourse! But make sure you buy us some weapons on the way!” Everyone laughed again!

I decided to put this incident on my blog because 46 days after what happened in Mumbai, people are back on track, and guess what? They have started making jokes out of it. I wonder, if the Mumbai incident didn’t took place, the driver and the man with broad shoulders would have cracked out that joke? Our relations with Pakistan have never been good, and I guess they never will be in future as well.

India and Pakistan are fighting on Kashmir issue from last 60 years, and there seems no end to this problem, I am not saying that Pakistan is responsible for attacks, as they themselves don’t know who is running their country (government or army). And I am also not saying that Kashmir is the reason behind the Mumbai attacks. Question is what will be the end of this problem? Who will finish it out? And when will people realize the depth of this mayhem?