Very precise and wellsaid.
The other day in a panel discussion Arnab Goswami tried to needle Sajjad lone in making a clear statement on nonstate actorswhom the moderate leaders met during their visit to Pakistan but failed,obviously fearing their safety.
Indian political leadership has a habit of not bending backward but falling flat either way.
The Prime Ministeror the defence minister both are in the same boat.
From: navkris@hotmail.com
To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 21:40:38 +0530
Subject: RE: [IAC#RG] The habit of bending over backwards
I have tried to delink me from this group since you did not publish my rejoinder to the anti-national and anti-army comments by one Rehman.Since I am continuing to recieve the mails,I am prompted to reply to M.J.Akbar's article forwarded by you.
There are many 'stateless actors' in Pakistan,their Army,ISI and terror outfits headed by terrorists like Hafiz Sayed being some of them who care a damn for their Government and the Government will not admit it.We have seen the futile drama of our Government hobnobbing with this Government for many years now giving Pakistan every conceivable concessions and building up the so called CBMs.To please them,our unelected PM went on equating Pak terror with a so called involvement of India in Baluchistan.Kashmir has been suffering from the activities of these actors for more than two decades now.Moderates like late Mirwaiz and late Lone and those who have faith in democracy like Sarpanches are ruthlessly mowed down by their henchmen.The terror atmosphere has prevented the present Mirwaiz and the Lone sons from openly coming out against the killers of their fathers.The Government headed by Omar Abdullah under the protection of the Indian army goes on ridiculing the Army to get sympathy from these actors for his own safety.No wonder the so called Hurriyat leaders went to Pakistan obstensively to plead for their safety with ISI and terrorists.What else they can do.There are only two options for us,one to give full proterction to all citizens which in the present circumstances difficult or give it back to them in their own coin. It is time our Government understands that there is no use in building up a CBM with a lame duck Government in Pakistan.It only makes the nonstate cators think India is a soft target and a bunch of cowardly Hindus.They know only the language of terror.Any war with Pakistan will only help them.Why should we kewep a RAW and IB at enormous cost to the nation.We should use them for covert action against terrorists in Pakistan.For one Kashmiri killed,we should ensure that five terrorists in Pakistan are killed by such acion.
navnith
Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2013 11:29:20 +0530
From: sroy.mb@gmail.com
To: indiaresists@lists.riseup.net
Subject: [IAC#RG] The habit of bending over backwards
The habit of bending over backwards
13 January 2013
Times of India
As a conundrum, this one is hard to beat, possibly because it is uniquely Indian. Why has appeasement of hardliners in Pakistan, an avowedly communal state carved out of the two-nation theory, become a touchstone for secularism in India? If this were limited to an irony it would doubtless find its level in the varied folds of public discourse. As an artful strategy to legitimize the present UPA government's weak knees, it has more disturbing implications.
The subtext is subtle. There are only two sides to this coin of Manmohan Singh's realm: accommodation or war, a nonsense familiar to historians of Europe between the first two world wars. An ultimatum is the last resort, not the first one; and there are many stages in-between, as President Obama's policy towards Iran, for instance, indicates. But in the dictum laid down by Delhi, you either accept Pakistan's token verbiage, or risk derision as a hawk.
Pakistan's hard line towards India is held by the Army, which takes the final call on India, whether in strategic planning or real-time response. Its thinking is rooted in Partition. India won freedom from the British. Pakistan won independence from India. Pakistan's fundamentalist patriots therefore locate the existentialist threat from India. Expand or manouvre the matrix and a man wanted across the world for terrorism, Hafiz Saeed, gets transformed into a commander of the faithful doing his duty in a holy war on Mumbai. Does this make dialogue impossible? No. But it makes it more complex.
Singh, backed firmly by Sonia Gandhi, has no use for complications. He bends in the hope that one more storm will pass over. But between Pakistan's intransigence over terrorism, his own capitulation at Sharm el Sheikh within nine months of Mumbai, a succession of Pakistan officials who taunt India on Indian soil, and the mutilation of two Indian soldiers this week along the Rampur-Haji Ali sector, Dr Singh seems to have bent so far that he looks prostrate.
The ceasefire line across Jammu and Kashmir is a misnomer. It is always on fire. Lives are lost periodically in the tension of conflicting responsibilities, as India guards itself from the enemy without and insurgents within. But some instances are intended to send a larger signal. The gruesome killing of Lance Naiks Hemraj Singh and Sudhakar Singh was one such message.
Singh's answer was to pull out the most tired clichés from the store. The Pakistan high commissioner Salman Bashir was "summoned" and told that barbarism was "unacceptable" over a nice cup of tea. Bashir dismissed India's accusations with contempt. His boss, foreign minister Hina Rabbani, used two words where her Indian counterpart used one, calling India's allegations "absolutely unacceptable".
Examine Pakistan's version of events. Islamabad claims India started the firefight on January 6 in which one of its soldiers was killed and another seriously wounded. Pakistan did not summon India's high commissioner for coffee and photographs. It sent the 29 Baloch Regiment to extract two eyes for one. When India asked for an enquiry, Pakistan told India to jump - into the arms of the United Nations. Pakistan marshaled its array of diplomats to supplement action in the field. Dr Singh ordered Indian diplomats and armed forces to freeze and "de-escalate".
Islamabad took the measure of Delhi in 2009 at Sharm el Sheikh, when, despite the international outrage over Mumbai and evidence of Pakistan's involvement, it was Singh who made extraordinary concessions to put together a joint statement. The text was not shown to India's National Security Adviser, M K Narayanan, who went ashen when he read the contents a little before it was released to media. Narayanan's silence was purchased with a ghostly residence in Calcutta, also known as the Raj Bhavan.
Pakistan's Army concluded that if it could get away with Mumbai, it could get away with anything. It has.
Pakistan's generals have measured the Singh government's girth, and discovered a circumference bloated by hot air. They know that the only reaction from hot air can be flatulence. They've the evidence they need. There were 57 cross-border violations by Pakistan in 2010, 60 in 2011 and 117 in 2012. Delhi's response has been a private, and sometimes public, campaign to reduce our forces on the border. If it takes two sides to go to war, it also takes a partnership for peace. Manmohan Singh has the look of a lonely man abandoned by the partner of his dreams.
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