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| Kandhar will always haunt BJP | | | The release of four hard core
terrorists, including the Jaishe
Mohammad Chief, Moulvi Azhar Masood, in 1999 by the NDA government, in exchange for the release of about 150 Indians aboard Indian Airlines flight hijacked to Kandhar, with the then Indian External Affairs Minister, Jaswant Singh accompanying the terrorists to Kandar for their release, will always go in the history as an act of national shame. This cowardice act will always go on haunting the country and more so the BJP, who has lost all the moral authority to talk of adopting hard options against those who have waged an armed war against the country, making no compromise, where country's sovereignty is sought to be tampered, which has been the main characteristic of the Saffron party. Similarly, the V.P.Singh government and particularly to the then Home Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed will always be haunted with the shadow of release of a large number of Kashmiri militants in Srinagar in exchange for the release of Mufti Sayeed's daughter, Rubiya Sayeed, who was kidnapped by the militants, in the early phase of Kashmiri secessionist militancy in Kashmir, in1989. No explanation on the part of those at the helm of affairs at the times in question, of compulsions of the situation and pressure brought to bear on them by the relatives of the hijacked passengers, will justify those actions. The events after these acts committed by those in power then bear ample testimony to prove that their judgment of the fallout of the same was quite wrong. With whatever good intentions, as per their judgment, these steps might have been taken, the subsequent events put those who acted in a way they did then, in wrong. The militancy in Kashmir, which had just erupted in 1989 and was at such a low key that it could be controlled with timely effective and appropriate actions. The release of some hard core militants, in exchange for the release of Rubiya Sayeed gave a big boost to the militancy, with realization to a handful of terrorists then that they can make the mighty Indian power to surrender before their militant acts. More pronounced is the case of four terrorists release in exchange for the release of the captive passengers of hijacked plane to Kandhar. Azhar Masood, who after his release floated a deadly terrorist outfit Jaishe Mohammad has indulged in a large number of massacres and mayhems, leading to the killings of a much larger number of people as compared to those whose life was saved by releasing him at Kandhar. Masood is now under scanner by USA and UK for his outfit's close links with Al-Qaeda and its role in the aborted mid air terrorist strikes in the 12 planes bound from London to USA. In the light of these facts the former J&K Chief Minister Dr. Farooq Abdhullah's statement to a news magazine even today has the potential to create ruckus in the Parliament and put those responsible for these surrenders to defensive. It is another thing that it hardly lies in the mouth of Dr Abdullah to make political capital out of these, when he himself is in the dock for releasing a good number of militants in J&K after coming back to power in 1996. These released militants by Farooq government did indulge in deadly terrorist acts later on. |
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