[steve19]

Maybe it's a joke I do not understand, but your country has been a battleground for years, kingdoms attacking other kingdoms for 1000s of year and more recently every so often Indian troops fire accross the line of control killing Pakistan soldiers (sure, Pakistan does it at least as much if not more).

[steve19]

I love the downvotes for correcting some ridiculous nationalistic propaganda (that India has never attacked anyone in 3000 years). I guess that's what they are teaching in Indian schools today.

(Pre-colonial Indian history is currently a passion of mine.)

EDIT: and here come more downvotes.

[codegeek]

You might have a point to make but it is your tone that is getting you the downvotes. If Pre-colonial Indian history is your passion, the least you can do is to think and analyze before making generic comments like "battleground" without adding any relevant context. Besides, you talked about the India/Pak border "firing" issues which is so complicated even for the citizens of those countries to understand that relating it to "attacking" in general is not fair.

[wrongc0ntinent]

If it's the tone, fine (kinda doubt it). But his reaction to propagandistic bullshit like that is understandable and justified.

[jace]

You have my upvotes, Steve.

[swatkat]

>>>> Maybe it's a joke I do not understand, but your country has been a battleground for years, kingdoms attacking other kingdoms for 1000s of year

If you're referring to historical ages, then this pretty much applies to all other continents including Asia, Europe, America etc. Wasn't it pretty common for kingdoms to wage wars against each other?

>>>> and more recently every so often Indian troops fire accross the line of control killing Pakistan soldiers (sure, Pakistan does it at least as much if not more)

It doesn't take much to Google to get your facts right. It's actually Pakistan that often violates cease-fire.

[jff]

If you're referring to historical ages, then this pretty much applies to all other continents including Asia, Europe, America etc. Wasn't it pretty common for kingdoms to wage wars against each other?

The original poster said "3000 years", so I don't know why you'd get upset that someone started talking about history.

It doesn't take much to Google to get your facts right. It's actually Pakistan that often violates cease-fire.

We've always been at war with Eastasia

[wrongc0ntinent]

This is valid. Except for the joke part.

[praveer13]

> kingdoms attacking other kingdoms for 1000s of year

During that period in the history, the whole world was going through the same.

>more recently every so often Indian troops fire accross the line of control killing Pakistan soldiers

Pakistani army does it more often.

[wrongc0ntinent]

He didn't exclude the rest of the world. Also, he acknowledged the Pakistani side.

[praveer13]

ohh, sorry, I missed the original comment which claimed the 3000 years thing. In that yes, yes, it's a ridiculous claim as India didn't exist before 1947.

>Also, he acknowledged the Pakistani side.

He said that India does it as much as Pakistan, which is false, and can be found by a simple google research. Pakistan is more guilty of violating ceasefires and attacking.

relevant links: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_India%E2%80%93Pakistan_bor...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/01/india-and-paki...