Monday, March 30, 2009

Al Qaeda in Lahore

The dastardly attack by terrorists on the Police Training School in Lahore deserves to be condemned by all rational people under the Sun as it is a most vicious act against humanity. It reveals the scale and magnitude of the cancerous cult of terrorism. It need not be reiterated as to who has been the founder and promoter of this cult in the region at this hour of agony and grief for the families of innocent victims. We in India have been victims of such heinous acts for many years. Only last week we lost five of our brave soldiers when there was infiltration bid aided and abetted by Pakistan's para forces a fact acknowledged even by U>S>A.

2. Now that such incidents have become a daily affair both in India and Pakistan a prudent approach would have been for both countries to evolve a joint strategy to meet this menace. Unfortunately, however, instead of a balanced approach and co-operation a blame game has started fueling the fire of hatred and intolerance. The statement of Pak Interior Minister MrRehman Malik comparing it with 1965 War(with India) and hand of foreign power is most offensive and derogatory. He further wanted to know how and from this group got the sophisticated weapons, a question India has repeatedly been posing to Pakistan when similar attacks take place in India. We in India are really concerned whether Pakistan will be able to retain the democratic Government it has recently acquired or the Army will again seize power as they are not used to salute their civilian bosses.

Friday, March 27, 2009

Obama the Philanthropist

At a time when the American economy is reeling under the worst crisis of the century its newly elected President Obama has made a rare act of Philanthrophy by declaring a largesse of $1.5 billion per year for a period of 5 years to Pakistan to disrupt, dismantle and defeat terrorist Groups in Pakistan. Although some cosmetic conditions have been attached to this benevolent grant, past history is a witness to Pakistan's record of observing the guidelines attached to grants. In fact U.S.A. has been pouring money and military materials in Pakistan with the same purpose and it is no secret that Pakistan has been diverting the same to the terror groups with the twin object of seizing control of Afghanistan and confronting India. This fact is not unknown to the American people and Government. One wonders,therfore, about the real intentions of the U.S. Government.

2. The real source of supplies both financial and arms to Al qaeda and Taiban has never been revealed. These groups have no air capability like LTTE and hence either they are being provided by Pakistan directly or a passage is being provided by it for third country imports. In any given situation the involvement of Pakistan is established beyond doubt. The U.S. tried the carrot and stick policy with General Parvez Musharif and failed and should not dream of succeeding with the present unstable regime. If it is really serious to combat the scourge of terror it should strike at the appropriate places which are not unknown to its intelligence agencies and use this $1.5 billion to stimulate its economy.

Saturday, March 21, 2009

Democratic Norms & Elections

We very proudly proclaim ourselves to be the second largest democracy in the world. True as far as the game of numbers to elect public representatives to form the Government is concerned. However, every political system has inherent norms attached to it and without observing them one cannot claim to belong to that category. In the current run upto elections for 15 th Lok Sabha we are witnessing strange permutations and combinations of diverse ideologies not based on identical manifestos but motivated solely to grab power at any cost which is not the spirit of democracy.

Further, in the campaigns for elections all ethical norms are being thrown to winds. The offensive and abusive language against adversaries is being used freely without any fear of consequences. There is a made race to out do as witnessed recently from the utterences of Varun Gandhi, Manish Tiwari, Uddhav Thackeray and score others in the queue. Are we evolving a new set of norms and project to the world for democratic governance. If this the prepoll sceniario we can imagine the post poll scene.

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Declare Pakistan a Terror State

The dastardly attack on Srilankan Cricket Team in Pakistan is in continuation to the Pakistan sponsored terrorists to spread anarchy and destruction in the world over. After Mumbai carnage they tried their dirty hands in Bangladesh to unsettle the democratically elected Government through a mutiny by the fundamentalist elements in the para military forces and now comes the attack on sportmen of a peaceful and non-alligned country. Their handing over of Swat valley to the fundamentalists for rule under Shariat Law cannot befool any one including U.S.A. as to their designs. They have hatched the nurseries of terrorism and are nurturing and promoting them unabashedly. This is the second case in the history of sports after Munich Olympic when innocent sportsmen have been targeted. It is time, therefore, that United Nations Organisations takes immediate steps to declare Pakistan a Terrorist State and annihilate its terror promotion set up to bring peace to the world.