You don’t require a genius to tell you that the serious intrusion in Keran Sector that has been ongoing since 23rd September, even before the terrorist attacks on Hira Nagar Police Station and an Army unit in Samba on 26th September, was deliberately down played to facilitate the Prime Minister meeting his Paki counterpart in US. It is only a day back when ‘Headline Today’ alleged one of our villages in Keran Sector having been heavily infested (the news included conversation with locals) by Pakistani infiltrators that the news about major infiltration by Pakistani military special troops and heavy ongoing fighting has emerged.
Can the government explain to the public why this subterfuge? What has the Prime Minister achieved by meeting Nawaz Sharif beyond confirming he is made of putty? Did the coterie of the Foreign Minister and the NSA convince him that he would be given preference over President Putin being nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize? Does the government realize the consequences of these actions; encouraging Pakistani military, J&K separatists and terrorists operating within J&K with or without political support? Does it require another terrorist attack on Parliament or political assassination to understand that what is happening in Keren Sector today is but the trailer of what is going to happen next year when Americans quit Afghanistan?
What has the Prime Minister achieved by meeting Nawaz Sharif beyond confirming he is made of putty?
Nawaz Sharif is no dehati (village) woman who is bending backwards to the Pakistani military. He has done so since years including during his previous tenures consistently and has displayed his crookedness to both Prime Minister’s Gujral and Vajpayee. Yet, despite upping the ante through terror attacks, cross border raids, beheadings and ceasefire violations, those insisting on hugging them only prove they are sold out. He has the foxiness of extracting more Sharm-el-Shiekhs before our NSA can say Jack Robinson. Why do you think he is permitting funding millions to terrorist organizations from his constituency and not making the slightest move against anti-India terrorists and their infrastructure aside from boasting of a new counter terrorism policy that is full of holes. Leave aside recent actions, following record of Pakistan can only be ignored by fools:
- Breeding terrorism in India – Need more proof than David Headley and now Tunda?
- Infiltrating terrorists in Jammu & Kashmir.
- Creating an armed terrorist architecture pan-India since early 1990’s.
- Engineering endless terrorist attacks / acts in Delhi, Pune, Mumbai, Gujarat, other parts of India including IC-814 hijack, attack on Parliament, 26/11 Mumbai terrorist attack etc.
- Refusing to act against Pakistani perpetrators of 26/11.
- Nurturing, patronizing and masterminding LeT acts against India.
- Using the Haqqani network to target Indians and Indian interests in Afghanistan.
- Pumping drugs and fake currency (minted in Pakistani government facilities) into India.
- Open rallies in Pakistan professing balkanization of India, collection of funds and recruitment for jihad against India under the very nose of the administration and with open support of military veterans in connivance the ISI and military.
- Refusal to acknowledge continuation of the ‘Karachi Project’ and other Pakistani complicity as disclosed by Abu Jundal.
- Virus arracks on Indian networks.
- Uploaded morphed images of death and destruction through cyclones and earthquakes as alleged atrocities committed on Muslims through MMS and video clips to our North-East population, inciting communal tensions and generating large exodus from Bangalore and other cities.
Can we not comprehend that both Nawaz Sharif and his military want an Afghanistan like situation in J&K or are we going to shut our eyes because of communal politicking and criminalization of politics?
The worst part is that above is the response after numerous concessions given to Pakistan by India, some of which are:
- India declared a unilateral ceasefire in J&K in 1948 when Pakistani forces were on the run and Pakistan still illegally held one third of Kashmir. As per UN resolution of 1948, Pakistani security forces were to clear out from POK. Not only did Pakistan counter the UN mandate by reinforcing her security forces in POK, she has deliberately altered the demography of POK.
- India did not pursue delineation of Cease Fire Line (CFL) between India-Pakistan under the Karachi Agreement of 1949 beyond NJ 9842 – “northwards” to the Wakhan Corridor bordering China and Afghanistan.
- India did not go to UN when Pakistan transferred the Shaksgam Valley of J&K to China.
- India is giving 80 percent of water to Pakistan under the Indus Water Treaty – far in excess to global norms related with size of the river basin.
- Captured strategic Haji Pir Pass was returned to Pakistan in 1965.
- India treated 93,000 Pakistani prisoners of the 1971 prisoners with respect and returned them relying on verbal promise of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto during the Shimla Accord to resolve the Kashmir issue; a promise Bhutto reneged later.
- With a heart filled with friendship, Prime Minister Vajpayee took the bus to Lahore while Musharraf prepared to stab us in Kargil.
- Indian Army gave formal religious burials to Pakistani soldiers unclaimed and abandoned by Pakistan during the Kargil Conflict while Pakistani Army brutally tortured, maimed and killed Captain Saurabh Kalia, five other Indian soldiers and Squadron Leader Ajay Ahuja.
- Granted MFN status to Pakistan years ago.
- Given investment opportunities in India.
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Indian population is under no illusion to the depths of corruption and fraud the government has lowered itself. The act of forwarding to the President the Ordinance to protect convicted politicians was proof enough, further confirmed by the drama of withdrawing it and continuing obduracy of portraying the moral decay into some sort of victory. Wonder what more humiliation the country will have to suffer. Can we not comprehend that both Nawaz Sharif and his military want an Afghanistan like situation in J&K or are we going to shut our eyes because of communal politicking and criminalization of politics?
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Most importantly, the joint India-China army exercise scheduled this month apart, can we visualize what actions on ground will precede and succeed our Prime Minister’s visit to Beijing? What more warnings, advice, infiltrations, incursions, intrusions and ceding territory, what else? Will China and Pakistan resort to this simultaneously in face of our papier-mâché hierarchy? The bold announcements by some of our politicians that they are ready to sweep the floors of so and so are well publicized but you don’t have to go cleaning toilets abroad when you have not been able to provide adequate sanitation and toilets to your own public. Can you start talking from a position of strength for a change? It is well understood it is difficult to understand what a ‘position of strength’ implies. If you did, we would not be in such mess. You may begin seriously looking at your set of advisors but time is actually very short for us to get our act together. We would go horribly wrong focusing at the period when the US quits Afghanistan. Much can happen during the run up to it.
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6 AK 47 have been recovered from terrorists even in the 90s…its nothing new. No future full out Indo Pak war would go over 2 weeks, yet the Pak has successfully channelized the indian army into battle for over months during kargil and now for 15 days here without Pak army or name being a part of a war officially though being totally in it unofficially.
Pakistan has again crossed the LoC , but India fears to even acknowledge it but also to do so? Has Pak been successful in creating a psychological fear within Indian Powers to not do so when the LoC has already been compromised and also have planted some in MoD and political parties to not let India do so.
Wondering if the highest echelon of the Indian Army is meting out information on lines of political powers and MoD to suit their own agendas.
The IAS,IFS, Political powers, the MoD have failed in their endeavor and lectures to India!! herself of importance of Peace talks and differentiating between Pakistan and terrorists where there is none. Not upgrading , infact stalling up gradation of armed forces equipment under one guise or the other and denying them even their dues affecting the armed forces moral is taking its effect and from the PM, President, RM,FM, MoD are trying to save their ass@@s….
Intelligence failures will be pointed out but then isnt the intelligence agencies used by the highest offices in India for their own goals, and away for the reason they were built, then again several PM of India have directed RAW to stop or go slow on their operations in Pak…??? why
Not only Pakistan but the world is laughing at India ..not because it is winning or losing a war, but it itself has leashed a war against itself by encouraging and even giving excuse for her adversaries to compromise the LoC , and battling hardest to have yes men to MoD as Chiefs so that they can continue their ill doings and save their skins.
Are some of the top echelons succumbing to pressures of the MoD?
Sir,
There is complete blackout of Keran news in our paid media. They started breaking it on 2nd Oct – 3rd Oct. Please give us some truth from your extensive contacts in military otherwise us people will never come to know the truth.
This intrusion is definitely serious since today all 3 Chief of Staff met PM. It is important for us Indians to know the truth. Was govt sleeping? Why did it censor the news for 2 weeks? Was media sleeping or was it complicit?
Our Bharat mata needs us Sir.
Please let us know:
1. How many Indian troops battling Pak Intruders
2. How many estimated Pak intruders
3. How many Sq KM area occupied, how many villages occupied
4. Why Air Force was called in to help ?
Bharat Mata Ki Jai.
Vande Mataram.
Regards,
Swapnil Belapurkar
I am afraid I do not have answers to your specific queries as I hung up my uniform four years back but definitely the spineless Centre is holding the military back though they may say free hand and all that. The J&K CM has been trying to remove AFSPA incrementally with highly adverse effects. Where was the problem of smashing the intrusion through concentrated artillery shelling. What is the unofficial political talk of “we don’t want to escalate”? What more can be a greater escalation than this Pakistani intrusion? The Prime Minister’s eagerness to hug his counterpart in the backdrop of smiling Uncle Sam has dangerous portents. An underhand deal could well be on the cards to India’s loss even if it small parts of the Valley given away. It is obvious that the West could not care less if India loses bulk J&K to Pak-China. The softness of our political authority is dangerous. If news of this intrusion is being blacked out, so was Kishtwar’s ethnic cleansing drive. The fact is that we have the worst combination of the PM and the NSA – former a figure of Plasticine and latter soft by sinister design !
The next election is India’s MOST IMPORTANT. The next election results — and who comes to power– will determine the rise or fall of India.
If ballot fails to oust the corrupt in India, go for bullet. But then is the Indian Army itself above corruption ? What of repeated intelligence failures ?
Lt Katoch’s offers an excellent overview of lost opportunities and lost innocence. The people of India trusted their leaders to do the right things and today they find that the last sixty years were filled with failed government perceptions, poor analysis, weak responses and an overall lack of leadership in terms of economics and national defense. What needs to be done now before another Kargil or another 26/11 occurs is a house cleaning that every Indian must participate in. Throw the incompetent spineless politicians in Delhi out of job. Let them hit the streets and earn a living like the rest of the working class in India. Elect new leadership that understand the world economics and bold enough to compare India’s progress or lack of it with the giant neighbor in the North that sixty years ago started at the same place as India was. Provide leadership that India deserves and India will surprise the world.
we are having spineless government . so we can’t do anything because our government is busy in making money & spreading corruption . they got some tools like vote bank politics & all . we can’t expect anything from this leadership , after 66 years of independence they still believe that we can have peace with pakistan . we really need a strong leadership otherwise we will lose this country .
Speaking objectively, conditions are perfect for Pakistan to launch an attack (incursion or otherwise) on India for the following reasons (I) no governance since the last two years (ii) weak and inept PM (iii) messy economy (and this under a “Economist PM”) (iv) rampant corruption at every level (v) denigration of the defense forces (vi) zero strategic understanding and/or competence in the political class (vi) inadequate war fighting material for the armed forces (vii) babu control over matters vital to India’s security defense (viii) the ‘peace at all costs’ al la Chamberlain refrain of the Government (ix) the absolutely mindless obsession to make the civilian leadership in Pakistan ‘strong’ when all Pakistani’s want the dismemberment of India etc. etc. Pakistan will be foolish not to take advantage of this.
Any “democratically” elected leader of Pakistan is, of necessity, a bond maiden to the military which is in bed with the Saudi-Wahabis. The leaderships of naive or corrupt (or both) democracies such as India, UK, USA can be as blind as they choose to the machinations of the Saudi-Wahabi Caliphate and the role that Pakistan plays in this but that still will not change the object of their blindness to something else:
Kargil Next: Should we call this Manmohan’s? Sonia’s? Or, Rahul’s? Finally, there are as many India’s as Pakistans!