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EDITORIAL Pakistan,
shuffling In the bin Laden tape seized in a Kabul raid, the dreaded terrorist boasts that he knew exactly what would happen after the planes struck the WTC towers and that he expected that the gas would melt away the iron structures and bring down the upper floors. That was the mid of last month when the sympathizers of the fundamentalist-terrorist were asking the Americans to provide proof of his complicity in the attack. Our own Shahi Imam had ranted from the steps of Jamia Masjid, a fortnight or so before,.....more All the nuances in the bin Laden tape, referred to above, are indicative of how the terrorists' minds work and what they think of as permitted and meet to do. Before Kabul finally fell even without a token was, a difference had emerged in the Musharraf-Bush equation over the issue of continuing the retaliatory attacks during the month of Ramadan. The holy month, argued Musharraf to earn the Taliban a reprieve, is a period of austerities when all pious .......more |
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crisis in By M N Kak By Atul Cowshish By Binay Srivastava By I. S. Chaddha IFS (Retd.) |
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EDITORIAL Pakistan, shuffling like Taliban In the bin Laden tape seized in a Kabul raid, the dreaded terrorist boasts that he knew exactly what would happen after the planes struck the WTC towers and that he expected that the gas would melt away the iron structures and bring down the upper floors. That was the mid of last month when the sympathizers of the fundamentalist-terrorist were asking the Americans to provide proof of his complicity in the attack. Our own Shahi Imam had ranted from the steps of Jamia Masjid, a fortnight or so before, asking for 'proof' of Osama's guilt. Of course, Taliban too had condemned the attack on the towers and called it an inhuman act. When the pressure had begun to build they had agreed to have Laden tried as per the Islamic law and then in a third country. Pakistan has been going through a similar drill after the attack on the Parliament house. Even as the local controllers were reporting the death toll, the identity and names of the terrorists killed in the attack of the Pak masters, Pakistan condemned the attack as inhuman and violative of human values. Pakistan, true to the form, was among the first countries to 'condemn' the attack. Completing the first session in the Taliban book, they then asked for evidence of the complicity of the Pak-based terrorist organizations in the attack. Next, like the Taliban sympathizers did in the aftermath of the WTC attack linking the whole thing to a wide dislike of American activities and policies, they roped in Kashmir and the bought up Kashmiris involved in the attack. Then came a curious theory, aired by no less an official than the press spokesman of the general-president himself, that the attack may have been 'plotted' by the Indians themselves. Now comes the strange offer of a 'joint probe' to establish the complicity of the terrorist outfits that have been found to be involved in the attack. All the while, they keep sitting on the high proof of the complicity of the terrorists in the act. In fact, the activities building up to the attack are said to have been closely monitored by the Pakistani intelligence network as are all the terrorist attacks on the Indian soil masterminded, mounted and monitored by the ISI and other military agencies. Those agencies have been firing long the line of control ever since the attack to keep up the morale of the terrorists and also to be in readiness for any response the India may deem proper. Like the Taliban did in the month prior to the beginning of the American retaliatory attack, Pakistan has continued to reiterate that it is ready to face India. Why should Pakistan be readying to face India when all that India is asking for is to nab the terrorists involved in the attack and operating from their soil, and hand them over for a trail under the law? Those outfits have been declared unlawful by the wide world including Pakistan. Like Taliban Pakistan must be in possession of enough proof of their being guilty of the terrorist activities here. It must have first hand proof of the involvement their involvement in the attack on the Parliament, as Taliban had of Osama's guilt. Not counting that, India has supplied evidence too. And instead the Pakistani authorities are preparing for war. Why? If there were no proof of the Pak complicity in the terrorist attacks, this readiness to go to war instead of taking action against the terrorists in one incontrovertible evidence of the Pakistani state being hand in glove with the terrorists. That makes it a high terrorist country. Yes, it is one huge terrorist machine there, which has neither learnt anything from the Taliban fate, nor reformed its ways. All the nuances in the bin Laden tape, referred to above, are indicative of how the terrorists' minds work and what they think of as permitted and meet to do. Before Kabul finally fell even without a token was, a difference had emerged in the Musharraf-Bush equation over the issue of continuing the retaliatory attacks during the month of Ramadan. The holy month, argued Musharraf to earn the Taliban a reprieve, is a period of austerities when all pious Muslims pray to God and observe fasts and any killing then would just not be 'right'. The conversation in the tape records that the terrorists preferred to fight during the month of Ramadan, and believed that God would give them ''blessing and more victory during this holy month of Ramadan". In fact, the terrorists have been striking even more heavily during the month, which normally should have been a period of prayers and pious deeds. It was during this holy month in 1990, then falling in the month of April, that terrorists mounted the greatest initial attack on the minority Hindus in Kashmir and forced their total exodus. Since then, they have always been unmindful of any holy days or months in their reprehensible acts of killings and cruelties, and have been becoming extra-active during these. The latest big-time killing after the dastardly assassination of the session judge in Rajouri has come on the acme of Ramadan, the Eid-ul-Fitr day when they gunned down the tehsildar of Ganderbal who, unprotected, unarmed and alone, was going on an equally pious duty of performing the fateh of dead father at his tomb. What 'blessing and victories' did the terrorists Expect God would grant them, by killing an innocent Muslim, as pious as any around, on one of the holiest days of the Muslims? Nobody would dare call that a holy act; it certainly is one that no God would, that no God should, ever countenance. Of course, the terrorists have all along been perpetrating reprehensible acts of this nature without a thought. And we have the "Shayakh" in the tape telling the greatest terrorist the world has recently seen that such unholy acts in the holy month would bring "blessings and more victory". How unholy all that! |
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