Dost Khan
JAMMU: While belated surgical operations in Pakistan occupied Kashmir have made 125 crore Indians proud of its armed forces and the newly acquired political will in the country, the meek response to continuous ceasefire violations, infiltration bids and attacks on army bases from across the border has caused enormous sense of despondency among compatriots.
Why is it always that the gigantic nation like India blames tiny Pakistan for all the ills on security front? Militarily far superior and politically vibrant India ought to have caused chill in the spine of cowardice Pakistan, which after failing in three full scale and one limited wars against India since its inception has resorted to low cost proxy war, which has bled India profusely during the past twenty seven years.
Retaining the culture of crying wolf, a trait of Congress, India has been acting hopelessly, despite successful surgical operations, in responding to the ceasefire violations and unprovoked shelling on Line of Control and parts of International Border, especially in Gurdaspur. The intermittent firing from across the border has forced the dwellers in forward areas to abandon their homes and hearths, especially in this crucial season of harvesting. Instead of challenging the enemy, whose bluff of nuke blackmail stands exploded, India is looking towards rest of the world with evidence. And, the nation’s pathetic position is evident from the fact that the comity of nations is dismissing Indian concerns as idiomatic ‘wolf, wolf’.
New Delhi has reduced its brave and bold initiative of crossing the LoC as mockery by not showcasing how the valiant commandos, supported by infantry, crossed over the other side and caused havoc to the enemy. Pakistan has been denying, and even mocking, the surgical operation, saying nothing of the sort even happened. They play smart by taking foreign media corps to unknown areas to substantiate their point of Indian claim of operations. United Nations Observers Group (UNOG) readily comes to their rescue in saying that nothing of the sort was observed on LoC which India is ‘bragging upon’. Even some Indian politicians like Arvind Kejriwal of AAP and Sanjay Nirupam of Congress tend to disbelieve their own armed forces. To the extent of criticizing political adversary BJP, it would have been alright but bringing the army into their murky politics is something the nation should worry about.
Why doesn’t the Narendra Modi Government make public some of the visuals of the heroic army operations to shut up the waging tongues of many, shame and embarrass Pakistan, UNOG and some self-centred Indian politicians? The argument that such a disclosure would be detrimental to the national security ought to have been taken into consideration while going public about the successful surgical operations. Once the armed forces did that there should be no second thoughts over releasing the edited video of what happened on 29th September 2011.
On the Indian complaints about ceasefire violations, New Delhi must not wait for exercising its options, especially as the people have volunteered to face the consequences. There has never been such an overwhelming public support to Government of India, even in 1965 or 1971, as is being demonstrated now to take Pakistan head on. The people are impatient to see the rogue in the backyards crumble. The armed forces have already called Pakistan’s nuclear bluff and now remain the accomplishment of unfinished agenda of making Pakistan psychologically wreck. It is time for the emerging superpower of the world to show its prowess and make the dubious and cowardice enemy bend on knees. If the iron lady Indira Gandhi could do it despite her many negatives in 1971 prompting Atal Behari Vajpayee to equate her with Goddess Durga, why can’t Narendra Modi do it now when he leads committed and valiant armed forces with latest weaponry. If frail Lal Bahadur Shastri could dispense most bitter pill to the lunatic Pakistan in 1965 by invoking the spirit of Jawan and Kissan, what stops Narendra Modi to bulldoze Pakistan which has been a rehabilitation centre for the global terrorists.
If the US can inflict thousand cuts to Pakistan by undertaking drone attacks into its territory, day in and day out, what stops Indian armed forces to walk over to the other side and make the enemy lick its wounds for next several decades. A beginning has been made on 29/9. Now is the time to take this action to its logical conclusion as Pakistan has committed seven ceasefire violations in the past 46 hours and two terror attacks in 24 hours.