Yesterday, there was an attack near the LOC when the Pak based Border Attack Team (BAT) sneaked into the Indian territory crossing the LOC and beheaded one JCO and one constable of BSF. This is just not barbaric it is happening for the second time vis-a-vis Pakistan and Indian security forces. It was reported earlier that the Indian army retaliated for a similar barbaric attack by sneaking into the Pakistan Occupied Kashmir and killing their army personnel. However, there was no confirmation either from the political establishment of those days or the army. When there was a surgical strike with lot of publicity post action, the then MOS (Internal security) and later FM, Mr. Chidambaram affirmed that such strikes had happened even in the past.
Now in the context of present barbaric act by the Pakistan security forces, there are varying voices coming from the political establishment. There seems to be no concern for the army or the country among the politicians of opposition ranks in the country. When the US had its nightmare on 9/11, entire country rose as one to fight against the unseen enemy and supported the action of the government in going on war against the Al Queda. Here in our country, despite cross border terrorism, barbaric action on the security forces by the enemy security forces, the political establishment seems to enjoy finding fault with the administration than condemning the enemy.
One of the leaders seem to enjoy the activity in his state when the security forces are hit by stone pelters and he goes on record to almost castigate the army and another politician from his party says that the army has overstepped its authority when he found that a stone pelter was strapped to a jeep. The entire opposition and the media appeared to be ranged against the army on this issue. What prompted the commander to use such tactics had never been discussed. Only in the social media the facts emerged as to the reason by the actions of the commander.
The glorified mayor CM of the Capital city, is now left licking his wounds and better sense prevailed to keep his mouth shut failing which we would be having a few more sound bytes against the army and the government.
The Diggybaba of the GOP had time and again put both his feet in the mouth and was seen lauding the naxals in the recent killing of CRPF in Sukma. The Yechury, Karat, T Pandian, D Raja, Nallakannu, SoGa, RaGa etc., did not seem it fit to denounce the actions of the Naxals. Nor they found time to denounce the actions of Pakistan army.
The media is a circus. They will immediately have a debate running for days and get one or two 'experts' from across the border. This was started by Arnab Goswamy when he was in Times Now and copied and continued by all channels now. Did you any time see the televison of France or Belgium or Germany or US calling the IS sympathisers or the IS activists or the Al Queda on phone lines to discuss the security problem in their respective countries caused chiefly by the IS or AQ? To my knowledge none of the TV stations across the globe called the enemy speakers to voice their opinion on the bombing or truck ploughing through tourists or revelers or plane hitting the tall building thereby killing a few hundred to few thousands in the process. The Indian TV channels are a tamasha and a circus in a separate league of its own.
India is a country that came into being as we know today mostly after the British but the country was in existence much before and will continue to remain even after all these politicians are dead and gone and replaced by new set of people who care for the country.
For a country on the throes of evolving as one of the economic giants pushing some of the known economies back, it is high time that it secures it borders from such actions and also set right the internal security and problems. It is is high time that the present administration thinks about having a permanent senior minister in charge of Defense of the country and also in charge of internal security. The present set up having a senior minister in-charge of two heavy ministries of Finance and Defense and also the Home Minister taking care of the internal security does not serve the purpose. The act as stated in the opening paragraph require immediate and composite retaliatory measures/ actions without any loss of time though it calls for lots of planning for ingress and egress across the LOC/ IB. The army facing such challenges for almost three decades now in J&K should be having a blue print with frequent update for putting in place an action team and energising it. The political clearance requires some fast thinking and free of other wrap arounds. With a single person in charge of two ministries and another not able to devote full time to internal security, the political decision making lags. Suspect the present government is not able to take a firm decision for a clear and perfect tactful response to the atrocities committed by both internal and external enemies. The forthcoming presidential election should not be a hamper when dealing with such sensitive security issues.
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