The value of unity
On April 24, the Daily Herald reported that a prominent Pakistani charity has offered medical help to India to fight the COVID-19 crisis. Pakistan's Edhi Foundation has offered to send 50 ambulances to help India. Last month, a British newspaper reported that Pakistan will receive 45 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine manufactured by India through the United Nations-backed Covax initiative. As history has shown many times, a fight against a common enemy unites people.
"We must fight this scourge of humanity together," said Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, while expressing solidarity with India. With best wishes and help pouring in from India's age-old archrival Pakistan, the crisis has brought these two nuclear nemeses together to fight this menace.
May people on both sides continue to cooperate to resolve the hostilities that have kept them from moving forward to improve the quality of life for their millions of citizens. With peace and cooperation between these two nations, the world would be a safer and a better place.
Instead of the arms race, they ought to join the humanitarian race. After all, they are part of the same family that was together 73 years ago when both got independence from colonial Britain.
Subhash Nigam
Palatine