Pak's Terror campaign Against Vedic Culture

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The General's freedom fighters are really Terrorists

 

Post-Agra, the militants have stepped up their campaign in Kashmir.

Innocent civilians and the devout pilgrims to the holy Amarnath cave

have been killed in cold blood by mercenaries Pakistan and its

cerebral ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, callfreedom fighters. Being

a soldier all his life, the General may be forgiven for bestowing on

the gun-toting thugs, who kill and maim innocent men, women and

children in their sleep, one of the most laudable salutations mankind

has known. History is not a strong suit of most soldiers. However, if

the mercenary maniacs wielding AK-57s and the other arsenal of murder

and mayhem in Kashmir at will are freedom fighters for the General-

President, Mahatma Gandhi, it follows, could well be the devil

incarnate for him. Such madness at the highest level of government in

Pakistan leaves no scope for a reasoned approach to the Kashmir

issue.

For, freedom fighters are the purest of the pure who struggle in the

defence of their motherland for ridding it of colonial\foreign power,

forsaking their all for the sake of their fellow citizens. But in the

peculiar lexicon of the three-in-one Pakistani General craven

criminals without a trace of human values are freedom fighters. For

sure, the General and his freedom fighters are in cahoots with each

other, one complementing the other.

 

Admittedly, a sharp spurt in violence after the stalemate at Agra

could be anticipated. But there was little preparedness on the part

of the security forces to prevent it. At least the pilgrims to the

Amarnath shrine could have been provided foolproof security. The

failure of local intelligence and the brittle security cover led to

the terrorist strike at the pilgrims in their sleep. The failure to

secure the route to the Amarnath cave was a stinging slap on the face

of the Indian security forces. Whether or not the rest of the Valley

can be secured against suicidal attacks by the Pak-exported

mercenaries, the truth is that the route of the Amarnath pilgrims was

demarcated in advance by the security forces. It was their job to

protect the pilgrims. The pilgrims were assured foolproof protection

against the militant attacks.

 

 

Yet, the might of the Indian State could not foil the attempt by a

couple of desperadoes who rained bullets on unarmed and innocent

pilgrims in their sleep. There was clearly something rotten in the

way New Delhi had chosen to defend Kashmir against the Paki

militants. Forty-four civilians had been shot dead in various parts

of Kashmir since the failure of the Agra summit on Sunday. Maybe the

militants felt further emboldened by General Musharraff's public

tribute to their heroism and targeted innocent men, women and

children to re-burnish their credentials further as freedom fighters.

That the General returning empty-handed from Agra would try and prove

a point could have been expected. After all, his refusal to accept

the Indian plea for a check on cross-border terrorism was rooted in a

deep sense of candour. He wasn't about to rein in his `freedom

fighters' unless India offered him Kashmir on a platter. That the so-

called Kashmiri freedom fighters were in real life Pakistanis or even

Afghanistanis was not lost on anyone. (However none among the

country's top-shot editors, mostly self-styled, whom the General

serenaded at Agra, questioned him about these Afghanis and Pakis

fraudulently doubling as Kashmiri freedom fighters.) The Indian

officialdom too failed to blunt the General's propagandist offensive

at Agra.

 

But before the General gets away with his description of the

mercenary-criminals exported by Pakistan as Kashmiri freedom

fighters, isn't it high time Prime Minister Vajpayee woke up from his

deep slumber and ordered a restructuring of the security set-up in

Kashmir. The Agra summit would have borne fruit if it was held after

New Delhi had gained an upper hand in its fight against Pakistan-

inspired terror in Kashmir. The truth is that religion and terror

have teamed up in Kashmir to humiliate India. A campaign of ethnic

cleansing has been on in Kashmir for a long time under the very eyes

of the BJP-led Government. Yet, a strange paralysis of will afflicts

the Vajpayee Government. It is proving to be equally inapt in

blunting the challenge from the `jehadis.' The need for an all-party

consensus to remove constitutional impediments in the way of a

lasting solution to the Kashmir problem cannot be exaggerated.

Meanwhile, the security forces need to be given a free hand to put

down General' Musharraf's freedom fighters.

 

 

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