closely to the on-going trial of Ajmal Aamir Kasab,the lone terrorist
to be captured alive out of the ten who had precipitated the abhorrant
26/11 bloodbash in the city last year.
It's been quite a tedious process-the filing of a chargessheet against
Kasab to bring him to court for trial.At first,there was this
tug-of-war between India and Pakistan who vehemently denied any
involvement in the terror attack,despite India forwarding hard-core
proof from Kasab's in-custody confessions and the massive body of
corroborative evidence India gathered,taking the FBI's help where
concerned.
The entire world watched a three month old facade when Pakistan
officially continued to DENY all the evidence,despite voices of
eminent social and political activists,and journalists within
Pakistan,publicly agreeing that its soil had been used to breed
terrorism.There were innumerable ludicrous faux passes when Pakistani
govt.officials coming out with ill-coordinated statements on the issue
only to retract them days later.
All this is old news now.Now Pakistan officially having admitted that
the plot was hatched in Pakistan,and the executioners were trained on
its soil by organisations(blatantly terrorist,but they continue to
exist as socio-religious voluntary welfare organisations).Yet Pakistan
hasn't taken one concrete step to bring the co-conspirators to
justice.It continues to 'fight' terrorism on the Pak-Afghan border and
its own tribal dominated north-western areas,trying to show(and
failing to do so)that the state of Pakistan is not involved in any
terrorist activity.
The iron continues to get colder,as the strike continues to get
delayed consistently because of diplomatic restrictions,divided
opinions of countries on the table of the United Nations,and the
Confusion that continues to persist within India herself.
At one point of time,a decision to carry out surgical strikes in
Pakistan to smoke out the terror king-pins,was almost formalised in
response to which Pakistan created a pitch in the international forum
that India was going to war.It was baffling,comical but was successful
in warding off the possibility.Surgical strikes can never be likened
to War.Principles of Military Science convey that the motives of war
and surgical strikes are absolutely different,in
cause,strategum,principle and execution.
Let's imagine the following situation: There are two neighbouring
houses with families-'I' and 'P'. An enfante terrible of family P
continues to enter the house of I,wreaking havoc and comes back to its
own house.Family I protests against this and tells P to control and
discipline its enfante terrible. Family P says that it is incapable of
doing so. What should I do now,to prevent future intrusions by the
brats of family P?There are two options(both of which have been tried
out by states,kingdoms and republics all along history).
Option #1:To take revenge,its members can enter the house of P and
wreak havoc,more in the line of a tit for tat.This would be going into
war with P(Pakistan).For most Indians,this option is a bad one(it
is).India has never believed in this option,as it sees no sense in
destroying Pakistan's innocent citizens in its bid to destroy its
terrorist infrastructure.Whenever it has,it has been forced to do
so,being pushed into it as the backgrounds of the 1965 and 1971 wars
show.
Option 2# :It goes to P's house,tells it that " if you are not able to
control your brats,well we will ". It enters the house of P,catches
the brats,gives them a good hiding and a good smack in the rear,and
comes back.It has not destroyed the whole of Pakistan,it has only
acted against the terrorists Pakistan has harboured.This is a Surgical
Strike.If the cause of such a manuoever is well justified in front of
the international community,its execution is justified too.
This had almost happened.But Pakistan hysterically cried foul of war
pushing the Indian government,military and bureaucracy into the
backfoot.A similar thing had happened during the Kargil impasse when
Pakistan had exploited India's confused indecisiveness,and its failure
to get all the political voices rooting for a same agenda.
The in-house bickering of Indian politics continues shamelessly to the
day.And the result is we have not been able to push Pakistan back a
single inch.The iron has cooled down,and the capacity to strike has
disappeared for good.Indian political parties fight tooth and nail
with each other,seeing a potential threat eradication in the opponent
party's eyes.But we cannot simply rise above it and see a true threat
to our sovereignty as a whole,in the shameful Pakistani antics.
The trial of Kasab is turning out to be a facade too.Already with the
Western media branding Kasab as the 'gunman' and not the
'terrorist',and referring to him as 'Mr.Kasab',the Indian media has
started to present Kasab in a sympathetic overtone.The front-pages
describe Kasab's every glance,smile and expression with a hero's
attention,the resultant portrayal being of a man primarily misguided
and now in utmost repentance.The monster is slowly turning into a
helpless man needing the world's sympathy.
Do we really have to do this?Does Kasab deserve this?The entire world
had seen and had become enraged by the cruel psychosis with which
Kasab the Monster had randomly fired from his AK-47 spraying bullets
and hurling grenades at innocent Indian lives,killing scores of
them.Mumbai seems to have forgotten all these.So does India.
It raises an embarrassing question:shameful but true.Were we,outside
the near and dear ones of the 179 people killed in the 26/11 carnage
really affected?Or was it just another 'show' for us?
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