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| Rattled Pakistan threatens India | | | Prof Hari Om | 6/21/2015 11:52:25 PM |
| The reaction across the nation to the June 8-9 carefully
and diligently planned and meticulously executed un
named surgical operation launched from inside Myanmar to avenge the cold-blooded murder of 18 soldiers of Indian Army's 6 Dogra Regiment in Manipur on June 4 has been one of overwhelming satisfaction. Six of the 18 martyrs belonged to Jammu. There has been jubilation all across the nation. It has been pulsating with a renewed vigour and why not? After all, the operation left 60 to 100 activists/terrorists of anti-India Nationalist Socialist Council of Nagalad (Khaplang) outfit dead and more than a dozen others wounded. The historic operation also completely decimated two terror training camps of North-East insurgents. The success of the operation could be gauged from the fact that all the 40-odd soldiers of the Army's 21 Para Special Forces were back in India within hours safely and victorious.
Indeed, the operation has bolstered the morale of the chivalrous, committed and disciplined Indian Army; greatly inspired the nation, which during the past 66 years suffered huge losses both in terms of men and money due to the weak-kneed policies of the otherwise all powerful South and North Blocks; and enhanced their confidence in the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. India before Modi became Prime Minister was considered a soft state.
The significance of the operation lies not only in the fact that National Security Advisor Ajit Doval and Army Chief General Suhag personally monitored the operation but also in the fact that the green signal for the much-needed operation was given by Prime Minister Modi. The operation, which could also be legitimately termed as the first-ever spectacular diplomatic victory of the Indian Foreign Office in 67 years, has produced the desired moral effect, notwithstanding the fact that much more still needed to be done to restore complete peace and normality in the strategic North-East where China and Pakistan play nefarious games to weaken the Indian control over the region. It sent a strong signal to the hostile nations, particularly Pakistan, that Prime Minister Modi, External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj and Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar mean real business and New Delhi under the leadership of their’s will protect and advance further the country's paramount national interest and maintain the territorial integrity of India at any cost.
That the operation sent a very strong signal to Pakistan became manifestly clear on June 10, when the rattled Pakistani political and military establishments asked India not to equate Myanmar with Pakistan. Sartaj Aziz, the Pakistan Prime Minister's Advisor on foreign affairs and national security, Interior Minister Nisar Ali Khan, military spokesman Major General Asim Saleem Bajwa and who not in Islamabad in the ruling coalition and Opposition said that "Pakistan is not like Myanmar". "We are a nuclear state. We are capable of even taking on the United States. It is not Pakistan of 1971. New Delhi would repent in case it tried to replicate Myanmar in Pakistan and the areas under Islamabad," the alarmed, rattled and visibly shaken Aziz, Ali Khan and many others in Islamabad said. And what they said was nothing but a manifestation of their nervousness, fear and frustration.
It is an altogether a different story that the response of our strategic affairs experts, former diplomats and some serving Commanders in Kashmir was very mature, measured and responsible. It was not altogether unexpected as they, unlike their counterparts in Pakistan, have never been uncouth while commenting on foreign-related issues. After all, India, like Pakistan is not a rogue and failed state
If the reaction across the nation to the military feat in the North-East has been one of overwhelming satisfaction, the reaction in its militant and separatist-infested Jammu & Kashmir has been all the more noteworthy. It is quite understandable. The victims of the Pakistan-sponsored terrorism and politics of naked sectarianism in Jammu & Kashmir have all described the cross-border surgical raids as the beginning of a new era in the state full of hope and promise for the future. They have expressed the hope that the Myanmar operation would dampen the spirit of Pakistani agents like Syed Ali Shah Geelani and those in the Kashmiri parties who masquerade as mainstream leaders, but give their overt and covert support to anti-nationals and seditionists to keep the pot boiling in the Valley and mint easy money. They contemptuously dismiss the "mainstream" Kashmiri leaders as "separatists" and lament day-in-and day-out that "they have been causing more harm to the nation in Kashmir than the likes of Geelani". They do make a point when they question their credentials and hold them squarely responsible for the spurt in subversive activities and heightening of anti-India movement in the Valley.
The point is that the victims of terrorism and fanaticism in Jammu & Kashmir all want New Delhi to take a serious cognisance of the developing situation in the Valley and take some corrective measures to stem the rot. It is pertinent to mention here that terrorists of all hues have intensified their activities in Kashmir manifold. They are attacking security forces and their camps at regular intervals all across the Valley. Encounters between the terrorists and security forces have become a regular feature. Besides, external jihadis have been making concerted bids for infiltration into Kashmir and other sensitive parts of Jammu & Kashmir to cause mayhem and further the Pakistani sinister cause in the Valley. They are, according to intelligence reports, equipped with highly sophisticated weaponry and transmission systems. The situation has deteriorated to the extent that the dreaded Tehrik-e-Taliban, Pakistan wing of Taliban, has established its foothold near the summer capital, Srinagar. Its posters have started appearing in different parts of the Valley. The worst part of the whole situation in Kashmir is that terrorists are roaming about freely in different parts of the Valley and openly brandishing their sophisticated weapons. It is hardly necessary to catalogue here what they and their operatives like Syed Ali Shah Geelani did during the past more than two months to subvert the Indian state. Suffice to say that they have created a situation in the Valley which is worse than what it was in 1990, when the miniscule minority of Kashmiri Hindus quit their homes and hearths to become refugees in their own motherland.
The short point is that the people of Jammu & Kashmir are for a tough action against anti-nationals and communalists in the Valley and they believe, and rightly so, that Prime Minister Modi and his establishment would take some concrete measures to salvage the situation in the Valley.
This is also what the nation wants, as it is fed up with what has been going on in Kashmir since decades now. |
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