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I agree partly.Oh, India is under tremendous moral obligation to help Pakistan.
We are the regional hegemon and also one of the most powerful countries economically and militarily. We wish to be a permanent member of security council and also a developed superpower for we believe we are harbingers of peace and stability to the world. As a regional power soon to be a global power it is our responsibility to help the world and especially our next door neighbour and people (who 6 decades back were part of our own lands).
Our foreign policy has traditionally been based on morality over strategic interests. India was instrumental in starting NAM and SAARC to bring peace to the world and neighbourhood.
We also were one of the first and largest relief providers during the tsunami disaster, also carried out our largest overseas air relief operation during Chengdu earthquake in China. We have been instrumental in helping countries in our neighbourhood in times of crisis.
Disasters are again opportunities for decidedly hostile nations to shed historical baggage and come to aid of each other. (Turkey-Greece; US-Russia) IMO Govt of India is not helping out Pakistan because the govt expects to be rebuffed, but what about the people and NGOs ? This is an unhealthy trend for India and Indians, our culture, history tells us to be better than that and the people affected our neighbours, and co-inhabitants of our subcontinent.
However, India's ambitions as regional power or superpower (lol) are just hollow at this point considering the internal domestic problems & urgency. Although it is also true that this fact has not stopped India in helping overseas & doing important relief operations for last 60 years.
But the case of Pakistan is different at this point of time. India has helped Pakistan in many forms before. Now Pak recognizes it or not is not important IMO. Honest help is never made in exchange of recognition. But what Pakistan has been doing is planting instability inside India directly/indirectly, exploding bombs, spreading terror, killing innocents who died of no reason at all. At some point this becomes intolerable. And today we are at that very point.
I won't compare China with Pakistan in terms of making judgments of hostility. China has stable government for decades with clear policy. US-Russia has been respectable rivals. Pak stands in no league with them. Pak is land of chaos. No stability, no control over armed forces, today they have prime minister next day army general taking over the same office.
Also India is not any surplus country. We are not a developed world. There are hundreds of other domestic priorities to be taken care of which needs our valuable resources. We don't have spare resources to help the back-stabbing, ill-willed, world-declared enemy i.e Pakistan. Lets help our unfortunate people first then we can think of playing a greater role with spare resources to help others.
I hold the sympathy for the innocent people affected by flood who can not get help from their Government. Likewise I also keep the wish to see my nation helping my needy fellow-countrymen first with the money & resources which belong to them. Let India's Global Humanitarian societies help them & assign other urgent tasks to GOI.
Anyways, the bold part above is the very fact & this issue does not need any more attention IMO.
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