Nawanshahr, May 10- The heightened tension between Pakistan and India after the killing of 26 Indian citizens by Pakistani extremists in Pahalgam has led to rhetoric, cartoons, increased firing at the border, various statements by political leaders, sloganeering, demonstrations, suggestions of direct military attack and many other types of tensions. At the same time, writers are making their due contribution by expressing their understanding through their pens.
While the print media and electronic media are active in their own ways in this regard, various incitements are being given on social media by both the countries to launch a direct military attack on each other, teach a good lesson, break the backbone, wipe them off the world map, dismember and destroy them.
Expressing deep concern on this matter, famous social worker Mr. Barjinder Singh Hussainpur, Ramandeep Singh Thiara, Congress leader Kewal Singh Khatkar and Kulwinder Pal Singla said that war is not the solution to this issue, both the countries need to come together and resolve this issue through table talk.
Whereas, on the contrary, some people are fulfilling their responsibility by spreading the horrors of war and its far-reaching consequences to the people through the media with the light of diyas burning on their foreheads.
While satire, jokes, short stories, poems and other forms of literature are being used to protest against the war, a famous anti-war poem of progressive Urdu poet Sahir Ludhianvi went viral on social media. He wrote this poem on the Indo-Pak war of 1965.
Some of his lines:
Bombs fell on houses or on the border, souls got wounded. Foreigners burnt the fields, enemies tore apart lives. Tanks advanced or retreated, the womb of the earth became barren. Victory was celebrated or defeat was mourned, life cried at the funerals, war is an issue in itself, will it solve the problems, today blood and fire will rain, tomorrow there will be hunger and need, so O noble man, it is better if the war is postponed, it is better if the candle keeps burning in the courtyard of you and all of us.