hnair wrote:KLNMurthy wrote:
I remember this same b***ard, after 26/11, coming on Indian TV and saying, ok, we hit you hard. But now you should stop finger pointing and resolve Kashmir.
We should dig this up ASAP!
Hnair-ji, your request led me down a deep rabbit hole! Here are a few choicest of nuggets from this a-hole in chronological order. This fellow is similar to their coupta. Well connected, wily, full of himself and a key player in track-thoo dialogues.
Mind you, all of these op-eds predate 2014. As we all know, Narendra Modi's elevation as prime minister marked an epoch and fundamentally altered the course of Bharat's history.
26/11/2010
Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s use of the phrase ‘terror machine’ to describe Pakistan is interesting, if laden. In these two words he alleges an entire process of conception, creation, industrialisation and application of terror as an organised state activity — in Indian speak, as an instrument of state policy.
Irregular components have always been part of Pakistan’s military capacity to make up for the inadequate numbers when staring up India’s military superiority — in 1948 the Quaid ordered the then Colonel Akbar Khan to lead tribal lashkars into the first Kashmir war. This option has remained as a thought in reserve in the strategic calculus, allegedly finding expression in the 1989 uprising in Kashmir. [This used to be the default Paki position for nanha mujahids on BRF who may not know what it was like to grow up in 90s and early 00s. Dealing with smug Pakis who would openly flaunt that they have an *irregular military capacity* to be used strategically against India.]
Although she has bigger insurgencies to handle against the Maoists and the Naxalites, India harbours one refrain — Pakistan’s use of terror against India. Pakistan hasn’t obliged with a more affirmative response to India’s continuous harp, since India will not engage with Pakistan on a range of issues. Judicial processes in both countries are based on the same law and can always act as a convenient ruse for hedging a process. [We know that you know that we hurt you for no cost whenever we wish but you can't do s**t.]
https://tribune.com.pk/story/82194/the- ... cul-de-sac
19/1/2011
Decreasing space for moderation in the Pakistani societal construct has finally pushed India to realise that while it was fun entangling a beleaguered Pakistan in a senseless blame-game, a capsizing Pakistan will only mean more trouble at India’s doorstep. Without doubt, the fallout of a collapsing state structure or societal fragmentation in Pakistan will be for India to bear, with a probability of graver consequences. Remember Mani Shankar’s invocation of Siamese twins; it never goes away and is unlikely to, however hard one may try. [Another classic whcih I do not see nowadays. If we go down we'll make sure to pull you down with us!]
Two parallel developments within the Indian monolith accrue. One; a December 18, 2010 confession by Swami Aseemanand , speaking of complicity in the Samjhota Express blast, as well as other major blasts at Muslim sites within India, is made public and a court process begins to take shape, after four years of dithering on a persistent Pakistani refrain to bring to book the Samjhota perpetrators. Two; the Indian establishment, till date the real block in letting the dialogue between the two countries resume, is amenable to re-initiating the dialogue; never mind the subsequent qualifications of terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan being the core Indian interest. [Just another reminder of why the people of this country got rid of UPA 2!!!]
11/7/2012
In a recent discussion on an Indian TV channel at which I was present, I likened the Indian proclivity to hark back to Mumbai at the mere mention of Pakistan, to India “milking Mumbai”. It didn’t go down too well with my Indian colleagues since the three-and-a-half-year-old pain still seems real. Though it is not in their character, Indians persistently embellish that episode with emphatic sensitivity and as a great injustice that to them has still not found closure. No question on the morbidity that underwrote such heinous enactment, but even morbidity should find closure, especially if it involves two states whose past has a sad history of violence. [Think this is the bit KLNM was referring to]
November 26, 2008 is a reality. There had been a similar attack on the Indian parliament in 2001, and then a couple more in Kashmir. Pakistan has had its own share of similar embarrassing attacks on the GHQ and on the Mehran base in Karachi. Afghanistan is currently suffering through similar episodes of brief takeovers by militants of sensitive buildings for some hours, meant to embarrass security outfits. That doesn’t make the pain any less; just that it signifies the occurrences as common experience of these three nations as they fight off insurgencies and heinous episodes of terror emerging from multiple sources. They can do better by making coordinated efforts to fight this pervasive menace. [equal == equal onlee]
What a slimy bunch of snakes! Going forward this adharmic entity called naPakistan will certainly be relegated to the footnotes of history. I hope the godforsaken place keeps simmering in turmoil (and not boil over), gasping for a few billion dollars every few quarters for the next three decades while Bharat grows into a $30T economy. That would be divine justice. Not that I wish bad for 20 crore humans but this is just karma biting them in the ass.