India licking its wounds of 27 February

Members of the India’s parliamentary standing committee on home affairs met on Thursday and expressed concern on security of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel. The standing committee was chaired by Congress leader and MP Anand Sharma, and the meeting which lasted for four and half hours had a presentation by Director General of CRPF, Central Industrial Security Force (CISF) and National Security Guard (NSG) on their functioning with reference to Pulwama attack. According to India Today TV, the panel members questioned DG CRPF RR Bhatnagar on the safety precautions being taken for the protection of the CRPF personnel in the terror-prone area of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K). A total of 40 CRPF personnel were killed in one single day when a car-borne suicide attacker rammed his IED-laden car into a CRPF bus.
After 27th February’s failed attack by Indian Air Force and counter-strike by PAF, Indian politico military leadership tried to cover up its embarrassment to hid IAF technical, tactical and operation weaknesses. PM Narendra Modi had added to this embarrassment by stating that he wished to have Rafale on 27 February, which was in fact a slap on the face of Air Chief Marshal Birender Singh Dhanoa who was forced to toe the fake narrative of BJP government regarding strike on Balakot and downing Pakistani F-16. Since Rafale deal with France is already tainted with allegations of corruption of Modi’s lackeys, RSS cabal and officials of military establishment, the government tried to downgrade SU 30 to the chagrin of Russia. According to experts, SU 30 is superior to Rafale in many ways.
After Pulwama attack, Indian government had blamed Pakistan and threatened to isolate it at international level. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi insinuating Pakistan had said: “Those behind the terror attack would pay a very heavy price and had made a huge mistake”. Union Minister Arun Jaitley said they would take all possible diplomatic steps to ensure complete isolation of Pakistan, and withdraw Most Favoured Nation status. Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi while speaking to the media in Munich where he attended Munich Security Conference responded to the Indian threats and said: “The world knows Pakistan was not involved in the recent attack in Pulwama, Kashmir. The agenda given by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi to his foreign office to diplomatically isolate Pakistan is dream, which will never come true”. No country had believed that Pakistan was involved in Pulwama attack.
In fact, India is caught up in a tidal wave of war hysteria, shaped in part by the macho posturing of its political and military leaders and fired up the wild imagination of its jingoistic media. Saner voices, though a few, are being drowned in the cacophony of belligerent frenzy. The sabre-rattling had in the past begun after militants mounted a deadly attack on an Indian military base in Uri, in the disputed Kashmir state. New Delhi jumped the gun, blamed Pakistan for the assault and started making menacing statements. Having that said, India could not prove to the world that its air force caused any damage except destruction of a few trees, and also that it downed Pakistan’s F-16. India is still licking its wounds inflicted on 27th February when Pakistan downed Indian plane and arrested pilot, who was later released.