Exactly on the day Pakistan’s Sartaj Aziz and India’s Sushma Swaraj were exchanging pleasantries, and the Indian foreign minister was announcing that Pathankot JIT in India would begin on the 27th of March, the hawkish defense minister of India Manohar Parikar was telling the Indian legislators that Terrorism had to be treated as war, and fought as such.
“Our enemies cannot go scot-free,” he said in a stern tone.
When Parikar uses the word ‘enemies’ he clearly means Pakistan. He has never been ambiguous in this respect. He is infact on record to have stated that the principle of hot pursuit could be and if necessary would be applied to the cases in which India’s enemies dared to attack India through terrorists.
One hopes the minds of the aging Sartaj Aziz and his ‘peace-loving’ boss are ‘functional’ enough to understand India’s strategy and designs.
India quite clearly will be seeking and finding opportunities and excuses to divert the attention of our policy-makers as well as the outside world from the continuous act of war on the part of India on the land called Kashmir (to keep occupied which, over seven hundred thousand Indian soldiers have remained constantly engaged for several decades) to the incidents like those of Mumbai and Pathankot.
India’s state terrorism against Kashmir can never be matched by any such events which might have, or might not have been sponsored by India herself.
India’s war-mongers need to be told that the people of Kashmir are victims of the world’s longest act of terror. The only other example of terrorism that can match India’s brutal occupation of Kashmir is Israel’s war on Palestinians.
