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Volume 2, No. 1 - June 2002 |
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Letters to Editor Dear Editors, I am writing to convey utter disgust and disappointment with the meek and submissive reaction of the Government of India to the massacre at Kaluchak, which is the latest in a sustained pattern of Pakistani terrorism on Indian soil. Just exactly what is the threshold of our tolerance to barbarism and horrible atrocities orchestrated from across the border? As a citizen of India, I have a right to ask the Prime Minister why and how “aasmaan saaf hain.” Is the Vajpayee government so thick-skinned as to think the skies are clear when Islamic terrorists are playing havoc in Kashmir? After September 11, the whole world has woken up to the universal menace of Jihad, but our mandarins in Delhi still don’t seem to have a clue about teaching the enemy a deterrent lesson. My advice to Vajpayee is that he should stop heeding external voices and order an instantaneous retaliation that would surprise the enemy and make the price of its cross-border infiltration costly. Too much valuable time is being lost in deliberations and all-party meetings after every fresh crisis. What we need is an end to this ‘soft state’ mentality and an ability to conduct sudden surprise attacks on POK terrorist camps to catch Pakistan unawares. Mobilising 500,000 troops is not achieving anything and is making this game highly predictable for Musharraf. Will Vajpayee wake from his poetics and reconsider whether the skies are not red in human blood? Yours Sincerely Dear Editor Alarmed at the possibility of a Indo-Pak war that could go nuclear, Jack Straw, Britain's Foreign Minister, recently dashed to Islamabad and urged President Mussharaf to stop the infiltration of Islamic terrorists in the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. Later, after a meeting the President, Mr. Straw said: "Mr. Mussharaf is under no doubt" that the international community expects "a clear action to clamp down effectively on the cross-border terrorism" (The New York Times, May 29). Indeed, the United States, France and Russia have also intensely campaigned to persuade the general "to end Pakistan's financial and logistical support for an insurgency he called a liberation struggle against Indian oppression in Kashmir". I f the Western powers are serious about stability and peace in the South Asia, it is clearly not enough that they merely persuade "the general" to end the Pakistan's mischievous and dangerous game in Jammu and Kashmir,from where some 700,000 Hindu Kashmiris have been in recent years ethnically cleansed by the Islamic terrorists. Indeed, Britain, as the former colonial power in India, should come forward and tell not only to the general but also to the rest of the world that the status of J & K was fully settled when its ruler made the accession of his state to India in accordance with the terms of the Partition in 1947. Not only this, Britain must also persuade Pakistan to vacate its occupation in Kashmir.Obviously, it is no one but Britain who can better help to solve the cancerous Kashmir problem decisively and usher a permanent peace in the South Asia. Will Mr. Tony Blair please speak up? Prem Mital
Dear Editor,
I am shocked and pained to hear about
the terrorism being carried out by Pakistan against India. I don't
understand why India has to restrain itself after so many years of
this violence. If Pakistan can not control terrorists it has been
supporting, it should get out of the way and allow India and USA to
raid the terrorist bases and destroy them, just as they were destroyed
in Afghanistan last year.
Concerned in Colorado, USA. |
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