Conquering India
Ordinarily I would not have bothered to write about this subject but certain statements emanating from various quarters pertaining to it made it impossible to sit back and do nothing. The issue is the shortly to be expected marriage between former Pakistan cricket captain Shoaib Malik and fading Indian tennis star Sania Mirza.
Many people believe, or should I say hope that this union will have some kind of an impact on Pak-India relations and help the two countries move closer together on the path towards peace. I will soon get to how this marriage will help in finally resolving the Kashmir issue and how the marriage will eventually result in a solution to the Mumbai attack controversy. That is not all. This marriage will also help Pakistan win the war against terror in North Waziristan. I am no political pundit, but I think it does not take a rocket scientist to know that this marriage also holds the key to global warming. Well warming of some sort regardless, and most of it in Dubai.
Now, before I come to how all that will happen, I would like to ask some questions. The most obvious question is why people even think that the marriage between a Pakistani cricketer and an Indian tennis player will have any impact whatsoever on the political and strategic tension between the two countries. I am just unable to comprehend why someone even thought that this was a possibility. What possibly could have been the basis for such conjecture? They are two individuals making a personal decision that does not have the endorsement of either government, which is not needed anyway. And a key point here is that they will not be settling in Pakistan, but in Dubai. And when people asked another rather silly question about her career, and whether she would represent India or change her allegiance to Pakistan, she made it very clear that she would continue to play for India and Shoaib Malik for Pakistan. Well, after his ban that is and if he gets selected. I mean as the PCB has said about many other cricketers that domestic cricket is not enough to warrant selection in the national side, I wonder what they will come with once Shoaib Malik is eligible for selection again. Anyway, I digress from the main issue here, which is how the marriage between Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza will bring about peace in Afghanistan.
The point I was at when I got distracted was Sania Mirza and Pakistan. Not trying to cast any aspersions here but it is obvious that by not deciding to move to Pakistan or to play for Pakistan (which is silly as I already said but felt the need to say again) Sania Mirza is only interested in Shoaib Malik and has no intention whatsoever of establishing any link with Pakistan. Any frankly, why should she? She is an Indian.
So the fact that people believe this marriage will have any impact must be based on the tremendous harmony and love generated between Indian and Pakistan when Mohsin Khan married Rina Roy. Oh wait, that marriage actually failed to accomplish anything, hmm must have been some mistake there. I mean these marriages are supposed to work, dammit!
Just as the marriage between Zaheer Abbas and Kanpuri maiden Rita, now known as Sameena also played its part in bringing about peace between the two countries. Right? It did, didn't it? It didn't? Another failure? How can this be? Every one is so confident that these things actually work.
Oh well, I guess then this marriage is also destined to have no impact on the animosity between the two nuclear neighbours. And you know what, I was actually hoping that it could maybe help solve Pakistan's power crisis as well.
Oh before I forget, on a side note. Some equally misguided souls out there are rejoicing that while India rejected Pakistani players in the IPL Shoaib Malik has scored a coup, because Sania Mirza has rejected all Indian men. Hmm, methinks there is another side to this coin. Shoaib Malik has rejected all Pakistani women.
God, I hate cynical bastards like myself.
Many people believe, or should I say hope that this union will have some kind of an impact on Pak-India relations and help the two countries move closer together on the path towards peace. I will soon get to how this marriage will help in finally resolving the Kashmir issue and how the marriage will eventually result in a solution to the Mumbai attack controversy. That is not all. This marriage will also help Pakistan win the war against terror in North Waziristan. I am no political pundit, but I think it does not take a rocket scientist to know that this marriage also holds the key to global warming. Well warming of some sort regardless, and most of it in Dubai.
Now, before I come to how all that will happen, I would like to ask some questions. The most obvious question is why people even think that the marriage between a Pakistani cricketer and an Indian tennis player will have any impact whatsoever on the political and strategic tension between the two countries. I am just unable to comprehend why someone even thought that this was a possibility. What possibly could have been the basis for such conjecture? They are two individuals making a personal decision that does not have the endorsement of either government, which is not needed anyway. And a key point here is that they will not be settling in Pakistan, but in Dubai. And when people asked another rather silly question about her career, and whether she would represent India or change her allegiance to Pakistan, she made it very clear that she would continue to play for India and Shoaib Malik for Pakistan. Well, after his ban that is and if he gets selected. I mean as the PCB has said about many other cricketers that domestic cricket is not enough to warrant selection in the national side, I wonder what they will come with once Shoaib Malik is eligible for selection again. Anyway, I digress from the main issue here, which is how the marriage between Shoaib Malik and Sania Mirza will bring about peace in Afghanistan.
The point I was at when I got distracted was Sania Mirza and Pakistan. Not trying to cast any aspersions here but it is obvious that by not deciding to move to Pakistan or to play for Pakistan (which is silly as I already said but felt the need to say again) Sania Mirza is only interested in Shoaib Malik and has no intention whatsoever of establishing any link with Pakistan. Any frankly, why should she? She is an Indian.
So the fact that people believe this marriage will have any impact must be based on the tremendous harmony and love generated between Indian and Pakistan when Mohsin Khan married Rina Roy. Oh wait, that marriage actually failed to accomplish anything, hmm must have been some mistake there. I mean these marriages are supposed to work, dammit!
Just as the marriage between Zaheer Abbas and Kanpuri maiden Rita, now known as Sameena also played its part in bringing about peace between the two countries. Right? It did, didn't it? It didn't? Another failure? How can this be? Every one is so confident that these things actually work.
Oh well, I guess then this marriage is also destined to have no impact on the animosity between the two nuclear neighbours. And you know what, I was actually hoping that it could maybe help solve Pakistan's power crisis as well.
Oh before I forget, on a side note. Some equally misguided souls out there are rejoicing that while India rejected Pakistani players in the IPL Shoaib Malik has scored a coup, because Sania Mirza has rejected all Indian men. Hmm, methinks there is another side to this coin. Shoaib Malik has rejected all Pakistani women.
God, I hate cynical bastards like myself.
posted by lone-ranger at 12:32 AM
