A few months ago on Arnab's panel on Times Now Channel, a Paki guy was boasting "Our ISI is far superior to your RAW, you can't do anything more than shouting". He had a point. Pakistan perceives India as a soft and not so swift a state. It can't retaliate beyond token official condemnations and cancellation of cricket matches, its economy and nuclear capability not withstanding. This is a sad but factual ordeal, yet vindicated by another Paki origin act on our soil, this time at Pathankot Airbase in Punjab. I have a feeling, this is certainly not the last such act by our beloved neighbor.
Normally, India, a giant nation of multi trillion dollar economy, is expected to make its runt neighbor Pakistan pee in its pants. Yet Pakistan perceives India to have the weaker bladder, with a proven ability of not doing enough, beyond few token condemnations. The proverb "One should command respect, can't demand it", always comes to mind. In 1999, we released Azhar Masood, supposedly the brain behind the recent attack, by a BJP led government, which trumpets being strong on national security. Such so called non-state actors from our esteemed neighbor, roam with impunity. Forget about taking them out, we can't even bend their hair a bit.
Dawood Ibrahim, arguably India's most wanted fugitive not only lives happily in Pakistan, many of our cricketers and movie stars have a history of entertaining him. (Hard to imagine Michael Jordan or Angelina Jolie entertaining Bin Laden). It's said, half of Bombay is in his pocket (Chhota Rajan, Dawood's bette noire is now kept in Delhi, as Bombay is rumored to be filled with Dawood moles). ISI spreads fake currency liberally inside our nation, using D-Company's vast network, spreading its tentacles further. We have hardly done anything noteworthy to hit them back.
Our reputation of a soft state is not just limited to our dealing with Pakistan. The leader of LTTE, said to be our own creation, killed our own Prime minister, on our own soil. A petty forest brigand and elephant poacher sporting an explosive moustache named Veerappan, planted explosives on regular basis to kill our policemen with impunity, for close to two decades, eluding our law enforcement. In early 1990s, a special forest police squad led by a Karnataka SP Harikrishna and his deputy Shakeel Ahmed, posed as sandalwood smugglers to catch him. But the forest guards were caught off guard, as by some of miracle psychic power Veerappan knew about their arrival before hand and shot both police officers dead.
If Veerappan inside our heartland had powers to get prior information to nab him, a much more resourceful Dawood has 10 times more psychic power to get prior information. It will take a miracle for India to get him during our lifeime, dead or alive, though I wish it to happen.
Moreover, with every terrorist attack, as we have done earlier, it does not bode well for us to time and again run to America and behave like a school kid complaining to the principal about his candy getting snatched by a bully. When Israel, Russia and China face terror attacks their leadership don't cry and run to Uncle Sam. They react swiftly, not softly.
On the aftermath of the Munich massacre of the Israeli Olympics athletes, their PM Golda Meir instructed Mossad to trace the perpetrators and spectacularly kill them. Spectacularly ? Yes - to send them a message, that the state of Israel can retaliate with a vengeance. We should take a cue from them and act accordingly with some sticks, both on short and long term after having exhausted all the carrot options. Otherwise, this farce would repeat again
Normally, India, a giant nation of multi trillion dollar economy, is expected to make its runt neighbor Pakistan pee in its pants. Yet Pakistan perceives India to have the weaker bladder, with a proven ability of not doing enough, beyond few token condemnations. The proverb "One should command respect, can't demand it", always comes to mind. In 1999, we released Azhar Masood, supposedly the brain behind the recent attack, by a BJP led government, which trumpets being strong on national security. Such so called non-state actors from our esteemed neighbor, roam with impunity. Forget about taking them out, we can't even bend their hair a bit.
Dawood Ibrahim, arguably India's most wanted fugitive not only lives happily in Pakistan, many of our cricketers and movie stars have a history of entertaining him. (Hard to imagine Michael Jordan or Angelina Jolie entertaining Bin Laden). It's said, half of Bombay is in his pocket (Chhota Rajan, Dawood's bette noire is now kept in Delhi, as Bombay is rumored to be filled with Dawood moles). ISI spreads fake currency liberally inside our nation, using D-Company's vast network, spreading its tentacles further. We have hardly done anything noteworthy to hit them back.
Our reputation of a soft state is not just limited to our dealing with Pakistan. The leader of LTTE, said to be our own creation, killed our own Prime minister, on our own soil. A petty forest brigand and elephant poacher sporting an explosive moustache named Veerappan, planted explosives on regular basis to kill our policemen with impunity, for close to two decades, eluding our law enforcement. In early 1990s, a special forest police squad led by a Karnataka SP Harikrishna and his deputy Shakeel Ahmed, posed as sandalwood smugglers to catch him. But the forest guards were caught off guard, as by some of miracle psychic power Veerappan knew about their arrival before hand and shot both police officers dead.
If Veerappan inside our heartland had powers to get prior information to nab him, a much more resourceful Dawood has 10 times more psychic power to get prior information. It will take a miracle for India to get him during our lifeime, dead or alive, though I wish it to happen.
Moreover, with every terrorist attack, as we have done earlier, it does not bode well for us to time and again run to America and behave like a school kid complaining to the principal about his candy getting snatched by a bully. When Israel, Russia and China face terror attacks their leadership don't cry and run to Uncle Sam. They react swiftly, not softly.
On the aftermath of the Munich massacre of the Israeli Olympics athletes, their PM Golda Meir instructed Mossad to trace the perpetrators and spectacularly kill them. Spectacularly ? Yes - to send them a message, that the state of Israel can retaliate with a vengeance. We should take a cue from them and act accordingly with some sticks, both on short and long term after having exhausted all the carrot options. Otherwise, this farce would repeat again
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