Now let’s look at it like this. Her exact words were ‘Pakistan did not kill my dad, war killed him.’ Does it anywhere mention that ‘I am in support of Pakistan’?
It’s all about the way you look at things. I choose to believe that she was not supporting Pakistan. Instead she was opposing the idea of war. Now, some of us may also have a tendency to equate ‘WAR’ with ‘PAKISTAN.’
Imagine your father works in an organization which comprises of majority of immoral people. Your father, of course, isn’t one of them. You overhear people severely criticizing the organization and blatantly accusing every single person working there to be immoral. Wouldn’t you the daughter/son of your innocent father retaliate and say that one cannot generalize? How then can we generalize and say that it is Pakistan who is a terrorist? It is also made up of people. People who love peace, people who cannot stand the idea of war.
Oh, and did you know that the war of 1999 was fought between India and Pakistan? Did you catch that? Oh, silly me! I bet you already know that. Clapping requires the efforts of both the hands. The war was fought between India as well as Pakistan. So, it really wasn’t only Pakistan who killed Gurmehar’s father.
Whatever it may be, one thing is for sure. Yes, Gurmehar was against it. She was against the idea of proving one’s superiority by causing death and destruction. It seems as if sometimes people are so used to thinking the ‘Wrong’ that they lose their sense of distinguishing the ‘Right.’ Criticism is always rewarded to the people who show the courage to challenge the ideas of a majority irrespective of whether they are right or wrong.