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Why Manmohan’s strategy on Pak terror will never work | Firstpost


India will never win the battle against terror because it is based on three flawed assumptions: one is that improved relations with Pakistan will reduce cross-border terrorism (this is Manmohan Singh’s solo song); two, the local legs of terror modules can be knocked off by wooing the Indian Muslim with jobs and education and appeasement (this is the Congress’ political line); and three, that it can be tackled without strong political will (this has been the UPA reality since 2004).

There is some truth to the first two assumptions, but that is not the same thing as saying that they will be enough.

Unfortunately, this is exactly what the Manmohan Singh government is banking on: a single-minded Pakistan peace policy that flies in the face of reality. Though the Delhi blast cannot yet be connected to Pakistan’s ISI, the chances are that it will ultimately be traced back there or to its client organisations like HuJI or Indian Mujahideen.

To tackle Pakistan-based terror, we need a hardball strategy to supplement our soft approach of diplomatic talks, enhancing people-to-people contacts, and more trade with unilateral concessions.

The soft approach is needed to build a long-term constituency for peace in Pakistan and convince the world that we are not the bully of the neighbourhood. But soft talk without hard power behind it is of no use because we are up against the Pakistani army’s intransigence – which views Kashmir as an unfinished business. Moreover, enmity with India is the only way it can retain its power vis-à-vis civil society.

The more we keep rolling with the punches and picking ourselves up to get back to normal, the more we are encouraging them to hit us harder the next time. This time it is the Delhi High Court; next time it may be the Supreme Court. Parliament has already had its attack as far back as 2001.

Quite simply, Pakistan is not going to give up terrorism against India even if it destroys itself in the process. Talks won’t achieve anything — but are useful for the optics involved.

As C Raja Mohan points out in The Indian Express: “If the US could not buy the Pakistan army’s support against terrorism after nearly $20 billion of aid since 9/11, or coerce it through relentless drone attacks in recent years, there is little hope that India can negotiate away the threat of terrorism from Pakistan.”

The truth is quite simple: at least as far as the Pakistani army and hardline Islamist parties in that country are concerned, they are prepared for a 1,000-year-war of “bleeding India by a thousand cuts.” They have the motivation and the power to continue terrorism in India indefinitely – and will do so.

From this it is obvious that we have to prepare for an equally long fightback. And this does not mean stoically taking punch after punch on the chin and keep going. We have to build two other long-range capabilities: the ability to strike back at terror camps in Pakistan and other countries through covert action that can’t be traced back to us; and developing long-term intelligence assets on the ground in India and abroad.

A covert strike capability is needed even if it is never going to be used. As long as Pakistan can be 100 percent sure that there will be no cost to sending terror groups to cause havoc in India, it will have no reason to rethink its gameplan. But if it can expect reprisals in a covert way, it will think twice.

There is a related worry when building this covert strike capability. As evident from its Kargil foray, Pakistan will use any opportunity to escalate tensions to the nuclear level so that the world then starts pressuring us on Kashmir. It is building a tactical nuclear weapons capability – and we need to prepare ourselves for that, too.

Manmohan Singh’s peacenik orientation is dangerously compromising our preparedness by putting all our strategic eggs vis-à-vis Pakistan in the talks basket. It needs repeating: only those who prepare for war can ensure peace.

The second assumption – that terrorists of the Islamist kind will not find domestic traction if our own Muslim population is appeased – is again a gross misunderstanding of ground realities. While there is absolutely no doubt that we must expand employment and education opportunities for our minorities – and especially recruit more of them in our police and investigative wings – the political establishment is actually making things worse by pandering to the wrong Muslim fears.

Getting Digvijaya Singh to talk about Hindu terror or demoralising the police force for the Batla House encounter – where militants killed a decorated police officer – is not the right way to generate Muslim support for the anti-terrorist cause. It will, in fact, stoke precisely the kind of terrorism that we are trying to fight.


The pursuit of short-term vote banks among Muslims (or Hindus, in the case of the BJP) will destroy any possibility of developing a coherent counter-terrorism plan.

The third mistake is to assume that we can tackle terror by doing a few things here and there sporadically – an extra NSG hub, more ammunition for the police force, a special agency to investigate terror cases. These are mere actions without conviction. To really tackle terrorism, we need very strong political will to put all the elements of a strategy in place.

What are these elements?

One is obviously better intelligence. Developing intelligence assets in Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and other places where terror modules are holed up will take us nothing less than five to 10 years to set up. This cannot be achieved without a long-term political commitment to build these assets and giving them bipartisan backing.

The second thing is systemic reforms, where police forces are given the autonomy to do their jobs. Even after 26/11, the Maharashtra government – and most other state governments – are reluctant to form police service commissions and give their men in uniform the freedom to function without political constraints. When your top cop is more worried about his next transfer, he will be busy sucking up to his political bosses, not building intelligence networks or good investigative capabilities. Why would he risk his neck for the country when his boss is planning to slide a knife into his back?

Equally, it is important to build local level intelligence among communities both by direct contact and through informers and recruits from those communities. This again calls for a long-range plan. Contacts and trust cannot be built in a day or even a year.

Lastly, we must have a fast-track justice system. Once the detective work is done and the evidence accumulated, trials should be run continuously from trial court to Supreme Court in in six months. If punishment is not given within the recent memory of victims and victimisers, there can be no closure. Only cynicism remains. Soon people will be demanding undemocratic remedies — encounters deaths, extra-legal killings. This discovery of mass graves in Kashmir should awaken us to this hazard.

There are many more things that experts will advice – CCTVs in crowded localities, local community policing and citizen support modules, disaster management plans when bomb attacks do happen – and so on.

But nothing can be achieved without political will. This is what is missing in Delhi and state capitals. The Delhi blast is one more wake up call for Manmohan Singh.
 
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Security held hostage by secular politics | Delhi blast | security | The New Indian Express



NEW DELHI: The fight against terror is being lost in the politicking fields of New Delhi. Human rights and politicians are fearsome enemies for Anti-Terror Squads (ATS) across the country. The effectiveness of ATSs is being eroded, with police officers seeking legal or statutory protection from the government first.
Hence, national security is being held hostage by secular politics, which incidentally is also responsible for protecting terrorists from the law. When Delhi police officer Inspector Mohan Chand Sharma died in an encounter with the Indian Mujahideen at Batla House in 2008, Congress leader Digvijay Singh suggested that his death was suspicious. This was during a visit to Azamgarh after meeting the families of terrorists killed in the encounter. Incidentally, it was Sharma who had led the operation to bust IM’s network. More than 40 of IM operatives were arrested and jailed, all over the country. Sharma belonged the Special Cell of the Delhi Police that has nabbed many terrorists like Afzal Guru and the Red Fort attackers. In their glory days, the cell had the reputation of solving most cases within 24 hours of a terror incident and presenting watertight cases that were the prosecution’s delight. But after the political furore that followed the Batla House encounter, it has now been reduced to catching petty criminals, and its decorated officers have been shunted out. The IM is back with a vengeance. After the Uttar Pradesh ATS arrested Shahzad Alam, a key accused in the September 2008 Delhi serial blasts and the Batla House encounter, the cops came under fire from Singh. Politicians give terrorists not just ideological shelter: Alam confessed to the police that a former Delhi MLA gave him funds to escape after he fled the scene. He also claimed that a Bihar-based former junior minister and a prominent Mumbai politician helped him evade arrest. Till today, no terrorist has been punished. Ajmal Kasab is safely in jail. Afzal Guru is yet to be hanged, and the outfit that was responsible for the Delhi High Court blasts declared “this one is for Afzal.”


The police has been unable to hunt down the attackers. In fact, the Home Ministry has acquired the latest in surveillance equipment and various other modern tools to fight terror, which are lying idle. The ministry has gathered mountains of information on numerous sleeping cells of the IM, SIMI and LeT including names and even photographs of their leaders. Though this extensive intel has been shared with all law enforcement agencies, no action is being taken by the police for fear of being jailed like DIG Vanzara in Gujarat, or like ADGP (Vigilance) Punjab Sumedh Singh Saini, who is harassed by Human Rights organizations. 30 Gujarat cops, including 5 IPS officers have been jailed in the past 3 years for encounter deaths. In the Prajapati encounter case, 4 Rajasthan cops are behind bars. 6728 cops have been killed in the fight against terror out of 18151 citizens in the last 10 years. In Punjab, Saini, who with former Punjab Police DGP KPS Gill is credited with eliminating terrorism in Punjab, currently is facing several criminal charges of kidnapping, torture and murder. In the state, 3 DGPs, 1 ADGP, 3 IGPs, 19 SPs , 28 DSPs (8 of them serving) are accused of murder, abduction and kidnapping during the terror years. 9 police officers are in jail for fighting terrorism, 107 face investigation. 249 cops are out on bail. 51 cases are under trial. There are 724 writ petitions against the Punjab police pending in HC and 51 in SC. In 2001, around 50 police officers decided to return their medals in protest against hounding the Punjab Police on charges of human rights violations purportedly committed during the terror years. “We fought for our country,” said an emotional Deputy Superintendent of Police Jaspal Singh, “but the country doesn’t seem to care. Since it doesn’t, we don’t want its medals.” Inspector Gurbachan Singh, for example, spent two years in jail after the CBI charged him with the murder of a terrorist in 1992. He could get bail only when it turned out that the key witness, Parvesh Inder Kaur, had applied for state compensation.


When Chidambaram was made the country’s Home Minister on 30 November 2008 after 26/11 Mumbai attacks, he reportedly told Prime Minister Manmohan Singh that his heart was not in it—he was after all an economist and a lawyer. Now, especially after the Delhi blasts, the knives are out for him in government. The truth is that a once successful Home Minister is a victim of appeasement politics. He is facing the flak from political adventurers and secular apologists for Human Rights. The need of the hour is to strengthen his resources and instruments to fight terror, not make him a scapegoat.
 
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nowadays people blame MMS for everything be it corruption to being unprepared for terrorist attacks its not his fault entirely when we have idiots like Chidabramin working for the home ministry and a police force of illiterate brutes who have to fight with a stick its our entire homeland security situation that is messed up and needs major reform a completely flawless homeland security organization like Israels or USA's is needed modernizing the police improving training upgrading technologies etc are needed before the Mumbai Attacks RAW informed the police a while before the attacks when the attackers landed on shore Marathi fishermen phoned the police and nothing happened in any modern society things like this are easily squashed and avoided

we need reform in this sector hell we need reform in overall in everything including a new constitution
 
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nowadays people blame MMS for everything be it corruption to being unprepared for terrorist attacks its not his fault entirely when we have idiots like Chidabramin working for the home ministry and a police force of illiterate brutes who have to fight with a stick its our entire homeland security situation that is messed up and needs major reform a completely flawless homeland security organization like Israels or USA's is needed modernizing the police improving training upgrading technologies etc are needed before the Mumbai Attacks RAW informed the police a while before the attacks when the attackers landed on shore Marathi fishermen phoned the police and nothing happened in any modern society things like this are easily squashed and avoided

we need reform in this sector hell we need reform in overall in everything including a new constitution

If something goes wrong in the family, the head of the family cannot escape his responsibility by saying 'main majboor hoon'.

When in the ruling party itself there are voices that a person X be made the PM, you know how 'capable' the current PM is.
 
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If something goes wrong in the family, the head of the family cannot escape his responsibility by saying 'main majboor hoon'.

When in the ruling party itself there are voices that a person X be made the PM, you know how 'capable' the current PM is.

MMS is a honest man but a puppet of Sonia, a guy like KPS Gill if we put in charge of anti terrorist activities and modernization of the entire security system we would see some progress in stopping terror attacks we need people in our gov't who do not take crap from anyone time for someone with balls to lead like Modi
 
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MMS is a honest man but...

What use is an honesty shadowed by if's and but's?

You know, the most important things in an English sentence comes after 'but'. Think about it.

What use is being honest when you choose to look the other way when people under you are busy pillaging the country?

What use is being honest when you cannot prevent scam after scam after scam?

What use is being honest when the PM himself admits 'main majboor hoon'?

What use is being honest when your ministers have turned their ministries into their home turfs for waging their political battels?

Such 'honesty' is better trashed to the bin. It's of no use.
 
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What use is an honesty shadowed by if's and but's?

What use is being honest when you choose to look the other way when people under you are busy pillaging the country?

What use is being honest when you cannot prevent scam after scam after scam?

What use is being honest when the PM himself admits 'main majboor hoon'?

What use is being honest when your ministers have turned their ministries into their home turfs for waging their political battels?

Such 'honesty' is better trashed to the bin. It's of no use.

i am not saying he is good but just saying making a scapegoat out of a guy whose party is full of idiots is wrong which is why i am pro BJP

the gov't and the entire system is inefficient and must be reformed we need a party and someone to lead us into the modern world rather than being stuck with the same old crap
 
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i am not saying he is good but just saying making a scapegoat out of a guy whose party is full of idiots is wrong which is why i am pro BJP

the gov't and the entire system is inefficient and must be reformed we need a party and someone to lead us into the modern world rather than being stuck with the same old crap

Tell me something.

If I make you a scapegoat, will you sit silent and let me do it and not resist?

If you cannot even stand for your personal values, honesty being a very prized possession among them, you are not even fit to be called a man let alone an honest man.

A man should know when to make a stand for his values and not simply mould himself into any shape when prodded.

That is the quality of clay, not a 'man'.
 
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Tell me something.

If I make you a scapegoat, will you sit silent and let me do it and not resist?

If you cannot even stand for your personal values, honesty being a very prized possession among them, you are not even fit to be called a man let alone an honest man.



A man should know when to make a stand for his values and not simply mould himself into any shape when prodded.

That is the quality of clay, not a 'man'.

blaming a puppet won't do any good however exposing the string puller would be even better
 
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So all the article walla wants to say in a nutshell is..
Attack Pakistan.
 
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