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India losing stature Ridicule goes on unabated

India losing stature Ridicule goes on unabated

Author: Dina Nath Mishra
Publication: The Pioneer
Date: December 7, 2008
URL: http://dailypioneer.com/141434/India-losing-stature-Ridicule-goes-on-unabated.html

The Mumbai terror attack has shown us that our political system is still in deep slumber, refusing to accept reality. The Government does not realise that India's stature in the comity of nations has fallen vertically as it has failed to harness terror-mongers

Public memory is proverbially short. This is especially true for Indians. We don't bother about learning the lessons of history. On the contrary, Israel, a tiny nation, suffered for about two millennia and almost vanished. In an opportune moment, Israelis resurrected their nation. Within six decades, it actualised its fighting and its defence productive capacities. It has now made a place for itself in the comity of nations.

On the contrary, India, a great ancient nation with unparallel human resources, is unable to retain its territory intact even after independence. For, we don't learn from the lessons of history.

For over a thousand years, Muslim invaders and rulers and, later, Pakistan, including its "by-product" Bangladesh, gave India ample opportunities to understand and draw appropriate conclusions and lessons. Though, geographically, Pakistan was once a part of India, its traditions and sociological structure separated the countries into two distinct cultural streams. As a nation, Pakistan has inherited the national objective to make India Dar-ul-Islam. From day one, Pakistan engaged in implementing its Islamic mission. On every opportune moment, it remembers and recommits itself to this objective. By every such act, Pakistan widens and underlines its cultural difference. There is not an iota of doubt that in every aggression of Pakistan, in every episode of low cost war in J&K, and in every terror attack, it dreams about the Final Mission.

Whether it is Al-Qaida, Taliban, Lashker-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, Huji, Simi or Indian Mujahideen, they are all working on the jihad system. I have not come across any Pakistani ruler, Jinnah onwards, who did not subscribe to the Islamic Mission of Pakistan. For a brief period, it looked that Bhutto and Benazir were different.

Later, Bhutto said Pakistan will fight with India for a thousand years. Unfortunately our rulers hoped against hope that such-and-such new Pakistani ruler is worthy of talking about peace and we entered into dialogue, which failed everytime. Even now, we have leaders ruling the country who despite the recent Mumbai attack think of continuing the peace dialogue and Confidence Building Measures.

After Mumbai attack, anger raged amongst Indians. Such anger with retaliatory mood was not seen on earlier occasions.

A visiting American representative talked of India's right to dismantle terrorist training centres by crossing borders and invading the locations. This was a result of reactions of masses and not of rulers. Rulers are still not ready to call a spade a spade. The Ministry of External Affairs still does not call Pakistan a terrorist State.

The attack on Mumbai is a case apart. The terrorists' selection of targets, comprehensive planning, collection of arms and ammunition and training and planning of every essential part was impeccable. And now, before our experts relapse in slumber, there is a warning that an air attack is a possibility.

The situation is such that even the US is being blackmailed by Pakistan. Pakistan's stand is that India may attack and, in that case, it would have to withdraw its forces from the Afghanistan border. The US would, thus, lose an ally to fight against terror.

Normally, the impact of a terror attack lasts between a week to ten days. But the Mumbai attack was much bigger, shocking and devastating. Its impact will continue for months in every small or big forum and even among the Indian diaspora. Government and various authorities are almost celebrating the successful operation against terrorists where India used army, navy and air force to neutralise nine terrorists. It is a humiliating story. From a distance, this may seem a small attack, but every self-respecting Indian lost a part of his proud personality.

Pokharan-II was a historic moment that heightened the stature of every Indian and its diaspora. Through the Indo-US N-deal, we lost that stature. The recent attack, and the way it concluded, decreased India's stature considerably in the eyes of the world's diplomatic community. Resultantly India's economic stature has become the butt of a joke. Our Ministers, particularly Home Minister Shivraj Patil, were the subjects of ridicule.

Politicians belonging to the UPA are insensitive and callous towards the casualties we suffered. An example will be illustrative. RR Patil, Deputy Chief Minister and Home Minister of Maharashtra said that we should be grateful to him as his Government saved the lives of 4,860 people because the terrorists had planned to kill 5,000. Further, he said that we need not make much noise about the Mumbai attack because such small (chhoti-moti) incidents keep happening in a big city like Mumbai.

In contrast, in countries like USA, Israel and many others, every death in such a situation is a matter of probe. The three dead bodies of Israelis were taken back to their country with the greatest honour and a massive crowd paid tribute to the departed souls. How safe is India and its citizens?


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