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| Give Army a freehand to tackle militancy in J&K | | Politics of appeasement | |
Rustam
JAMMU, Sept 27: Pakistan Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif is not a friend of India; he is a bitter foe of our country whose single-point agenda, like all of his predecessors, was, and is, to dismember India by using all means, including terror. Terror is part of the state policy in Pakistan. There should be no doubt about it. He took oath of office for the third time in June this year and ever since then, there has been spurt in the terror-related incidents not only in Kashmir, safe heaven for anti-national forces and hub of anti-India activities, but also in Jammu province.
In this month alone, the Pakistani Army and Pakistan-based terror outfits have violated ceasefire more than 20 times and attacked our forward posts taking away the precious lives of some of our dedicated soldiers and BSF personnel, besides killing a few civilians and causing damage to the properties of the civilians. Infiltration from across the international border and the Line of Control has increased manifold, with the Pakistani rogue Army providing the terrorists all logistic and other support. The objective is to motivate the people of Kashmir and a certain section of society in Jammu province to foment anti-India troubles and cleanse the state of a particular community, which constitutes a minority in the state.
What the Pakistan did in Hiranagar and Samba in Jammu province on September 26 was nothing but a manifestation of its resolve to keep India bleeding and what it did yesterday was not the first such incident. Pakistan and the Pakistani Army, in collaboration with dreaded terrorists, have enacted thousands of such gory and despicable acts, all aimed at destabilizing the Indian polity and provoking communal riots in the country.
Pakistan has been successful in blooding and convulsing the political scene of the state, nay the entire nation, because New Delhi has no Kashmir policy and no policy that could empower the Army and paramilitary forces to discharge their duties in the real sense of the term. The Congress-led UPA government has not just undermined the institution of the Army in its desperate attempt to appease Pakistan and Kashmiri separatists and terrorists but also not done anything to strengthen our security grid with sophisticated weaponry. In fact, the Defence Ministry under the UPA regime has become a den of corruption.
It would be only appropriate to say that our Army and paramilitary forces have been discharging their duties in a hostile environment with certain elements in the political establishment leaving no stone unturned to demoralize them and appease the separatist and communal constituency in the Valley and elsewhere in the country. So much so, the UPA Government has lowered the dignity of the office of Army chief. He has been rendered ineffective by the "secular" UPA Government.
Enough is enough. Pakistan has caused enough of damage to India. The nation is no more prepared to wear more loss. Hence, the need of the time is to abandon the appeasement policy and vote-bank politics and give the Army and paramilitary forces a freehand. Not to do so or to continue to pursue the same old line would be only to help Pakistan implement its sinister agendas, annex Jammu and Kashmir and disintegrate India. The Congress and Prime Minister Manmohan Singh did disappoint the nation on Thursday when they said that they will not allow the twelve brutal murders in Hiranagar and Samba to derail the so-called peace process with Pakistan. Manmohan Singh even refused to name Pakistan while giving his weak, meek and ridiculous response to the twin terrorist attacks in Hiranagar and Samba. He simply said enemies of peace committed these acts to derail the peace talks between India and Pakistan. Such an approach cannot assuage the hurt feelings of the nation; it wants New Delhi to act through its Army and paramilitary forces who can eliminate the scourge of terrorism and defeat Pakistan in no time as they did in the past at least four times. |
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