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| Instead of taking action against Pak, Congress Government decides to yield | | Going against national mood | | Neha
JAMMU, Jan 13: The outraged, shocked and deeply moved Indian nation is up in arms against Pakistan, which on January 8 brutally killed our two soldiers in the Mendhar sector, mutilated their bodies and chopped off the head of one of them. The entire nation wants the Congress government to take action against Pakistan so that the morale of our armed forces is boosted and real tributes paid to the martyred soldiers. The Army is also in a state of shock not because it is incompetent to avenge the killings of its troops but because it is not being allowed to act against the perpetrators of Mendhar, who were congratulated by the Pakistani authorities and promised a reward for the inhuman act against humanity they committed after intruding deep inside the Indian territory. The Indian Army wants to take action, but the Congress government has tied its hands very tightly. Not just the nation and the Army want stringent action against Pakistan. Almost all the political parties in India, including incidentally the certain senior Congress leaders like Ambika Soni and Jagdambika Pal, also want the Congress government to act and act fast and restore the country's self-respect by teaching Pakistan a lesson. Even Gandhians like Anna Hazare demanded strong action against Pakistan. "Ho jane do aar paar ki larai akhiri bare. Mein bhi hissa loonga iss desh ki larai mein," The angry Anna said.
As far as former Army chiefs and other ex-soldiers are concerned, they too want the Central government to act, saying it would be a deliberate affront to the country's self-respect if the Pakistani
heinous crime is condoned. Yesterday, former Army chief General V K Singh said: "The Government should harden its stand on the hostility shown by Pakistani forces which claimed lives of two jawans. The killing was against humanity and indeed a violation of our Geneva Convention (which lays down how captured soldiers should be treated)…Public anger and protests all over the country against the killing of our jawans is justified". Even IAF chief Air Chief Marshal
NAK Browne yesterday warned that India may have to look at "some other options for compliance" if such incidents continue. "We have a Line of Control, we have a ceasefire agreement, we have certain structures and mechanisms which are sacrosanct and any violation of these with
impunity especially what has been happening in the last few months is
totally unacceptable. We are monitoring the situation carefully
because if these things continue to be the way they are and these
violations continue to take place, then perhaps we may have to look at some other options for compliance," he told reporters in Delhi here on the sidelines of an NCC function.
And as for the families of the brutally killed soldiers, they have been urging the authorities in New Delhi not to condone the crime Pakistani soldiers committed. They have been saying that that strong
action against Pakistan is not only necessary to avenge the killing of
their sons, but also to boost the morale of soldiers discharging their
obligations towards the nation making supreme sacrifices and fighting against the enemy splendidly. The fact is that all the Indians, barring some vested interests and Pakistani agents operating in New Delhi, are one as far as their demand for a very stern action against Pakistan is concerned.
It is regrettable that the Congress government has, instead of appreciating the national mood, decided to yield. It has not only
decided to yield, but it has actually yielded. That it has gone against the wind and exhibited its insensitivity could be seen from what Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde said in New Delhi and what the Indian High Commissioner in Islamabad under the directions of its masters in the Indian Foreign Office (IFO) did on January 10.
While Shinde declared that the Government of India was not considering the option of putting on hold the new relaxed visa regime taking into consideration the barbarous act committed by the Pakistani Army, the
Indian High Commission in Islamabad granted visa to nine Pakistani hockey players so that they could take part in the Hero Hockey India League matches to be played in India in the next few days. By taking the stands the Congress government took on January 10, it left none in any doubt that it is not for any tough action against Pakistan. It's no wonder then that the concerned Indians are questioning the very credentials of the Congress government which is being headed Manmohan Singh. Remember, neither the Prime Minister nor the AICC president and UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi has uttered a word
against the Pakistani action leading to the gruesome killing of our soldiers. Their stoic silence should explain everything. There is no doubt that the people of India will give a befitting reply to the Congress at an appropriate time. This is what their statements
suggest.
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