Originally Published in Madras Courier
Editorial Note
It is high time the world comes together to collectively condemn and take concerted action to dismantle Pakistan’s proxy wars against India.
Voltaire, the renowned French polymath and champion of the Enlightenment, made a flippant yet incisive remark on the Royal Prussian Army: “Where some states have an army, the Prussian army has a state.” If any nation-state in modern history exemplifies the French thinker’s quote as a self-fulfilling prophecy, it is Pakistan. It holds a rare distinction as the first nation-state to be carved out on religious lines in the name of Islam.