GOI Cricket Diplomacy with Pakistan pays rich dividends

[shiv]

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/indi ... 948179.cms?
Terrorists dressed in cricket kit

Terrorists attack CRPF camp in Srinagar, five jawans killed

SRINAGAR: Terrorists attacked a CRPF ( Central Reserve Police Force) camp in Srinagar on Wednesday. Two terrorists have been killed in the encounter, and five CRPF jawans have also lost their lives, according to reports. Some CRPF jawans have also been injured.

Firing is reported near a public school in the Bemina area of Srinagar.

The operation is still on and some terrorists are still holed up in the area.

[shiv]

[shiv]

News from 3 months ago
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2012 ... 16588.html
India eases visa restrictions for Pakistan
Tourists and business visitors to travel more freely, in a sign of warming relations between the neighbours.
Last Modified: 14 Dec 2012 11:40

[nawabs]

http://www.firstpost.com/india/live-pak ... 58507.html

Protesters throw stones at CRPF camp

Just barely two hours after the terror strike claimed the lives of five CRPF personnel a group of protesters is indulging in stone throwing outside the CRPF camp in Bemina, reports said.The CRPF and police personnel are now attempting to disperse the protesters.

Farooq Abdullah says he’s seen worse, seeks removal of AFSPA

Former Chief Minister and Union Minister Farooq Abdullah nonchalantly said that he had seen worse in the past. When asked about the contentious Armed Forces Special (Protection) Act, Abdullah said that the legislation needed to go except in areas near the borders.

[shiv]

http://www.timesnow.tv/Militants-attack ... 423011.cms

According to DIG Central Kashmir Ahfadul Mujtaba, the militants had entered into the Police Public School ground on the pretext of playing cricket.

"They were carrying guns and grenades in their kits," Mujtaba said.

He said although the identity of the slain militants could not be yet established, the attack bore the signature of Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit.

Meanwhile, the deceased CRPF personnel have been identified as Assistant Sub Inspector A B Singh, constables Om Prakash, L Parmol, Subhash and Satish Shah. The injured personnel included Sub Inspector Ashok Kumar, constables Jeevan Kishore, A R Parveen, T Bharatbhai, G Yadesh and Ram Prasad.

Video
http://www.timesnow.tv/videoshow/4423016.cms

[Pranav]

It looks like the CRPF let their guard down, with very expensive consequences. And it seems the poaks had studied the pattern of life there with some care. Perhaps it was quite routine for boys to come and play cricket there.

[SSridhar]

Perhaps it was quite routine for boys to come and play cricket there.

That was part of the 'winning hearts and minds' of Kashmiris, especially young ones. This has been taken advantage of by TSP.

There is no point in blaming anyone else but ourselves for death and destruction repeatedly at the hands of the jihadi terrorists. We must be the stupidest and most cowardly country in the whole world ever in its history. To be repeatedly mauled like this by a mortal enemy who has vowed to destroy us and with complete impunity at that without the mildest retaliation, and in fact facilitating even their evil acts against us, is beyond mere stupidity. We must be lunatics of the highest order with an irresistible death wish.

Any kindred soul with a chankian theory ?

[Nihat]

Only solace to be found is the fact that for every terror attack like this in India there is much much worse happening across the border to the instigators of these attacks , but at the very least we should be looking to facilitate and encourage the mayhem in TSP in every way possible. History tells us that whenever we've even made an effort to pay TSP back in the same coin , it has paid rich dividends. .
Even a step like banning LeT and JeM by Musharraf , plastic as it may have been seems impossible now , with this paralyzed incapable govt. . This has to be without a doubt the worst Govt. in the history of Independent India.

[ramana]

It looks like the CRPF let their guard down, with very expensive consequences. And it seems the poaks had studied the pattern of life there with some care. Perhaps it was quite routine for boys to come and play cricket there.

Blaming the victim aren't we? Atleast wait for 24 hours courtsey before you@ do this.

@ You includes everyone.

[ramana]

X-Post...

The foolish decision of granting of permission to visit India not to mention the hosting of a lunch for the PM of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan by the Congress Party led UPA Administration seems to have been reciprocated with more of the same Pakistani sponsored Mohammadden Terrorism.

Srinagar attack carried out by Mohammadden Terrorists linked to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

CNN-IBN:

Pak terrorists may be behind CRPF camp attack, says Home Secy


First Post:

Srinagar CRPF attack is the fruit of UPA’s schizoid Pakistan policy

Zee News:

Scale down ties with Pak: BJP after Srinagar attack

[pentaiah]

I waiting for home minister Shinde to suspect Hindu terror out fits
What a shame
Some how safety in the country is assured for only VVIPs

[Surya]

ramana

to be fair to Pranav - many security professionals would review it in like manner. eg. my army friends used the same descriptions

The turds are always going to try and kill you and you have to think and avoid falling into a routine.
Sadly its quite possible that this happened.

[Sanku]

^^^
They were forced to let their guard down.

Rediff ticker

12:21 CRPF jawans: Most of us are allowed to carry only lathis: NDTV'S Nitin Gokhale tweets: Angry CRPF jawans in Srinagar point out that half of them are forced to carry only lathis post 2010 agitation.Only the back up team has guns.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/srina ... l/1087984/

Srinagar attack shocker: Omar Abdullah absents himself from CRPF jawans funeral

The funeral ceremony for the five CRPF jawans killed in the Srinagar attack by militants turned into a controversy today as Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah absented himself from the proceedings, an act that infuriated the rank and file.

Loud calls of 'Where is Omar Abdullah' were made as the jawans coffins, wrapped in the tri-colour, were carried through the streets by their grieving comrades.

[Sanku]

From rediff

14:11 Angry Sushma tells govt: Don't challenge BJP, challenge Pak: Raising the issue of terror attack in the CRPF camp in Srinagar, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Sushma Swaraj on Thursday accused the government of not being concerned about CRPF jawans losing their lives in attacks by militants sponsored by Pakistan.

"Are the top leaders of the government not concerned about terrorism? " she asked and said: "Don''t challenge BJP, instead, let us unite and ''challenge Pakistan unitedly."

"We should not challenge each other. We should be challenging Pakistan in one voice," she said.

" It is sad that on a terror attack that the Parliament should seriously discuss, the members are challenging each other," she added.

Swaraj further asked the government to explain reports that there were intelligence inputs about the attack. "Why were the jawans not saved despite that?" she asked.

She also criticized External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid, who was in the House, for lunching recently with Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf when he visited the Ajmer Dargah or shrine near Jaipur last weekend.

Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh on Wednesday said the terrorists who posed as cricketers and attacked the CRPF camp in Srinagar were from Pakistan.

14:48 Shinde in a stupor? Reads terror statement twice: Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde today committed yet another faux pas in Lok Sabha by reading out twice a part of his statement on the terrorist attack in Srinagar.

Members were agitated and even Shinde's ministerial colleagues were looking in disbelief as the Home Minister started reading the statement for the second time.

Several BJP members stood up to point out to Speaker Meira Kumar that the statement was being read again.

Unmindful of this, Shinde went on and read out almost half of the five-paragraph statement.

Finally, he stopped only after a Lok Sabha official went up to him to apparently say that he has already read it out and was repeating it.

15:12 High drama in Parliament as Sushma Swaraj holds sway: The Opposition today accused the government of failing to check terror strikes in the country, including yesterday's attack in Srinagar in which five CRPF personnel were killed.

"The External Affairs Minister treats Pakistani Prime Minister to a sumptuous lunch when he comes to Ajmer Sharif and just four days later, this terror attack happens. ... We should unite and challenge Pakistan," Leader of Opposition Sushma Swaraj said in the Lok Sabha during the Zero Hour.

"I salute the Diwan of Ajmer Sharif (who refused to welcome the visiting Pakistani Premier last week). He did what the government could not do," Swaraj said, seeking a response from the government on the Srinagar terror strike.

She lamented that "the front row of the treasury bench was empty when the House was condoling the death of the CRPF personnel earlier today. Neither the Leader of the House (Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde), nor senior ministers or the UPA Chairperson (Sonia Gandhi) were present when the Speaker was making the obituary reference. It is a sad situation." Swaraj said it was "very shameful" that every other day Pakistan was attacking Indian soldiers, including beheading one of them recently, and "there is no reaction."

"We got some assurance when the visa on arrival (to Pakistanis) was stopped and the Prime Minister made a statement that business as usual will not do", but the attacks happened again, she said. Heated exchanges took place between members of National Conference (NC) and the BJP, when Swaraj said, "These attacks are occurring when there is a demand for withdrawal of the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA)."

As soon as Swaraj spoke of AFSPA, NC members Sharifuddin Shariq and Mirza Mehboob Beg were on their feet shouting that the law, which gave stringent powers to the armed forces, should be withdrawn, prompting BJP members to rise and shout back.

[Sanku]

From Rediff

17:03 CRPF rushing to donate blood, pelted with stones: Jammu and Kashmir government today said the CRPF men rushing for blood donation to their injured colleagues came under attack by the group of stone pelters and opened fire in which one youth was killed.

"Men of 73 BN of CRPF were on way to SKIMS to donate blood for the CRPF personnel, who had been injured in the Bemina attack earlier in the day," Minister for Law, Justice and Parliamentary Affairs Mir Saifullah today informed the Legislative Assembly today.

"They were reportedly attacked by an alleged group of stone pelters at Saidpora Eidgah, Srinagar, the minister said. The CRPF men retaliated and opened the fire in which 35-year-old Altaf Ahmad Mir was killed, he said.

[ramana]

So there were no adjectives/qualifiers like :"alleged" or "reported" when CRPF fired in retaliation!

[RoyG]

The PA is slowly ramping up the pressure before 2014 pullout. AFSPA back in the news and now this. We should be careful that an Arab spring type situation doesn't occur in the valley.

[ramana]

Ind Express:
Policy to be changed after the attacks

THE Jammu and Kashmir government will review its decision about providing lathis to police and para military personnel who are deployed on routine law and order duties in the Valley.

Giving an indication about it, the Minister for PHE, Irrigation and Flood Control, Sham Lal Sharma, said that following Wednesday's fidayeen attack that killed five CRPF personnel in Srinagar, "there was a need to revisit the SOP (standard operation procedure) available to police and para military personnel deployed in the Valley. We will take up the matter in the cabinet," he added.

With assembly elections coming nearer, there has been spurt in incidents of militant attacks, Sharma said. The government thought that days of militancy in the Valley have been over, but yesterday's attack has proved that militants were still hiding there, he added.

The rethinking over the present SOP available to police and para military personnel in the Valley has come within the state government following yesterday's fidayeen attack in Srinagar which shattered peace in state's summer capital after a period of three years. According to reports, only one of the five CRPF men killed in attack was carrying the gun.

Significantly, this had been the second such incident during the last fortnight when police and para military personnel in the absence of weapons have been caught as sitting ducks by armed militants. Earlier on March 2, two police men carrying lathis were shot dead by militants at Handwara in Kupwara district on North Kashmir.

The decision to provide lathis in place of weapons to cops deployed on routine law and order duties in the Valley was taken following argument by state government that armed police and security force personnel moving around in the Valley instilled fear among the people. However, while CRPF agreed not to carry arms, the Border Security Force rejected it.

{So who in CRPF agree to the option to not carry firearms in the insurgency zone? That person is the responsible one and not the J&K govt. Was it Shinde or PC? }

Pointing out that present SOP will have to be re-looked in the backdrop of yesterday's fidayeen attack on a CRPF camp in Srinagar, Minister of State for Home, Sajjad Ahmed Kitchloo, said that "Srinagar was not free of militancy''. However, the situation in Valley was under control with Chief Minister himself monitoring it at Srinagar , he added.

In the State Legislative Assembly, there were uproarious scenes with BJP and Panthers Party staging walk out from the House over the rejection of an adjournment motion over the killing of five CRPF jawans in fidayeen attack. The motion, which was moved by Balwant Singh Mankotia of Panthers Party, was disallowed by Deputy Speaker Sartaj Madni on grounds that Chief Minister Omar Abdullah as Leader of the House has already made a statement over the issue and the House has also condemned it.

Meanwhile, nearly a dozen BJP workers were injured in police lathicharge near Shalamar Chowk this afternoon. The police action came when BJP workers tried to break through police cordon to ghearo the civil secretariat in protest against state government's soft attitude towards militants.

In the rhona/dhona or hue and cry (for the inglis speakers!) after each incident we lose track of who is accountable. The MHA Home Secy by blaming TSP based attackers has washed his hands off the decision to disarm the CRPF voluntarily. Who was responsible for that decision?

Can we have someone scour the Kashmir papers for this moronic decision?

I think UPA is between rock and hard place

They have raised the bogey of saffron terror to preclude taking any action on TSP terror attacks all over India. In addition they have CBMs to favor TSp in J&K terror attacks.
The whole charade is coming down.

http://www.firstpost.com/india/attack-o ... 61854.html

This Bemina attack means its two times TSP has attacked in J&K with in that many months.
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Answering my own question, Omar Abdullah demanded and got CRPF to be 1/3 armed with lathis, 1/3 with riot gear and 1/3 armed wtih rifles.

Yet only 1 in five jawans killed had a rifle. So CRPF over disarmed.

At a minimum, the commandant of that batallion should be cashiered.

[disha]

MHA (Shinde or some journos call him now derisively as Shendi) is responsible for CRPF welding lathis instead of guns. CRPF comes under MHA and to appease the wine drinking mullah (omar abdullah), CRPF was made to weld lathis as a soft form of AFSPA.

Worst thing is that this guys go to donate blood for their colleagues and they are pelted with stones! The "protestors" are accessory to murder and should be tried as such. But nah, CRPF == Hindu terrorists and the kashmiri cimalsi terrorists == protestors.

[Sanku]

http://zeenews.india.com/news/nation/af ... 35491.html

Afzal Guru resolution: End dialogue with Pakistan, demands Arun Jaitley

Leader of Opposition in the Rajya Sabha Arun Jaitley called for suspending dialogue with Pakistan.

"We need to revisit the policy of dialogue with Pakistan which has crossed all limits. All dialogues with them should be stopped," BJP's Jaitley said.


Jaitley said "if India can be kicked around in this manner, there is something seriously wrong about our external policy". He added: "We need to relook at it."

Jaitley said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has been magnanimous in saying that he was willing to walk an extra mile with Pakistan. "Forget about walking an extra mile, we need to stop walking with them," he added.

[Muppalla]

By the way the government today cancelled Hockey series. Same story like the Sharm-el-shake. When there is high pressure from domestic front they do all these cancellation and go to Sharm-el-shakes and do all the shakes to get back to puppy-jhappy sessions.

[SSridhar]

Such Indian reactions are a farce to pacify anger in India. GoI has agreed to making everything 'uninterruptrd and uninterruptible', thanks to the 3Ms Maino, Man Mohan Singh, Mani Shankar Aiyyar. When GoI restarts the process claiming that the stand-off has started giving diminishing returns, they will go a lot longer distance then if the stand-off had not taken place, because they would be overcome by pangs of separation, a feeling of guilt for having neglected the prodigal brother for so long, and a renewed hope of turning around the wayward and suffering brother.

This cycle is in an endless loop and is draining India without it being realized. It is all fine to say that we should outgrow Pakistan but that country is our present and grave danger.

[ramana]

Nightwatch has comments from Indian writers:

India: Feedback from another Brilliant and well-informed Reader judged that the Kashmir attack that killed five Central Reserve Police Force men probably was not the work of the Kashmiri militant group who reportedly claimed responsibility. The Reader suggested a more sinister, Pakistani connection, because the Kashmiri militants do not conduct usually suicidal attacks, which this was.

Today Indian media reported that India's Home Secretary told the press that items made in Pakistan were found on the dead attacker; the claim by the Kashmiri militant group is not confirmed and the Ministry suspected a link to the Pakistan-based and -supported Lashkar e Taiba (LeT) terrorists.

Some Indian analysts tentatively have concluded that the claim by the Kashmiri group was intended to mask the role of the LeT. The LeT executed the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament and the 2008 attack in Mumbai.

An increase in attacks in Kashmir in the coming months is highly like and almost certainly would be intended to influence Pakistani elections by weakening the appeal of the Pakistani political parties that favor friendlier ties with India. Generally, the Islamist parties oppose reconciliation with India along with veterans and groups in the Pakistan Army.

Also by leaving evidence (medicine tube, etc) that can be traced back to TSP they were not keen on hiding thier roots!

Also Shinde was saying the terrorists bodies were shaven implying they were Islamist jihadis seeking raisins!!! Same as the 911 hikackers.

[shiv]

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/k ... 509439.ece
State funeral for CRPF jawan

The grief-stricken mother of N. Sathish Shetty (26), who was among the seven Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) personnel killed in the militant attack in Bemina area in the Kashmir valley on Wednesday, has demanded strong action from India against the perpetrators of the attack.

“That will be the real tribute to my martyred son,” Savithramma said on Thursday.

“The Pakistani Army and militants from that country have been killing Indian civilians and soldiers... I wonder why the Centre and the Indian Army have been tolerating such horrendous attacks,” Ms. Savithramma, who lost her husband two years ago, said. Her elder son, Harish Shetty, a soldier with the Indian Army, is posted in Punjab. Ms. Savithramma said she would never allow Mr. Harish to quit the Army.

[pankajs]

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Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh accuses Pak of 'bleeding' India, trashes talk of CBMs

The Indian Army Chief Gen Bikram Singh today made it clear to Pakistan that it cannot keep the tap of exporting terrorism to India open and hope for confidence-building measures (CBMs) with it.

"The term CBM has got to be preceded by addressing trust deficit. You cannot talk of these things for endless years the way the things are going on. You cannot afford to keep open this tap of exporting terrorism to India. You have to check that and only then we can move forward," he said.

To a query that governments of India and Pakistan are close to agreement on Siachin but the Army was opposing it, he said, "Please understand it is our area and it is strategically important. Why are we talking about giving our own area to somebody. It defies logic."

The time is "not right" for the removal of AFSPA from Jammu and Kashmir, Army Chief General Bikram Singh said today emphasising that any decision on this "should not be politicised" - he was speaking in the wake of the Srinagar attack in which 5 CRPF jawans were killed.

"It is important to observe the situation and it is important to understand the security contours of the situation before we take a decision. The decision should be a pragmatic one, it should be in national interest and it should not be politicised," he said.

"This decision (on AFSPA) has to be taken in the backdrop of violence profile, in the backdrop of what can happen in future, in the backdrop of futuristic contours. We have to be very confident that it does not relapse. We shall not be left in a position of disadvantage," Gen Singh said.

So the present government is resigned to current state of affairs till the end of its term.

[CRamS]

Guys, leaving aside why TSP attacked the CRPF camp, how did they know that those killed would be Hindu jawans? Not that they give a flying f!ck for any Indian Muslim except use them as cannon fodder, but at the same time targeting Muslims CRPF jawans wouldn't bring them any brownie points even if the Muslim jawans were symbols of India.

I watched Arnab show last night. Man, TSP is now utterly brazen; they are not even claiming "non state actors" anymore; its back to "freedom fighters", conduct plebiscite, you name it. I mean the dichotomy between their super aggressiveness, and India's eunuch response cannot be any more stark. And TSP and its 3.5 say that TSP faces a "threat" from India. What a cruel joke.

[Sanku]

Ms. Savithramma said she would never allow Mr. Harish to quit the Army.

I offer my humble regards to the great lady. May she be a mother of hundred such sons.

[ramana]

PTI reports:

Srinagar: The Pakistani militant arrested in a major breakthrough in the suicide strike that killed five CRPF men was a LeT recruit and it was he who allegedly dropped the two 'fidayeens' in the outskirts of the city on the day of the attack, investigations show.

In a swift operation a day after the attack, the Special Operations Group of the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested 22-year-old Zubair alias Abu Tallah alias Riaz from Chattabal area in the outskirts of the city late Thursday night when he was talking to his handlers, official sources said Friday.

Zubair, a resident of Multan in Pakistan, is the second person to be arrested in the attack on the CRPF camp near the Police-Public school in Bemina on Wednesday after Bashir alias Haroon Bhai was held hours after the attack.

Sources said that Bashir, who hailed from Uri along the Line of Control(LoC) in Baramulla district, had tipped the state police about Zubair's movements which led to his arrest.

The sources said that Zubair told the interrogators that he had dropped the two 'fidayeens' (suicide attackers) hailing from his country along with Bashir, a surrendered militant.

According to the police, Zubair had crossed over from Uri in north Kashmir a month back and was followed by the two 'fidayeens' who hailed from Sahiwal and Dera Gazi Khan in Pakistan.

Zubair showed no signs of resistance when he was being overpowered by the SOG personnel on a roof top in a densely populated area when he was talking to his handlers, they said.

During his night-long interrogation, the arrested terrorist gave details about his recruitment by terror outfit Lashker-e-Taiba(LeT) in Pakistan and also claimed he joined the outfit in view of the abject poverty he was living in. or

Zubair has two sisters and an elder brother in Pakistan and the family is reported to be financially weak with the father working in farms, the sources said.

He has undergone several training sessions with LeT including those given by known Lashkar commanders like Hanzullah and Furqaan, police claimed, and said he had attended the last training session six months back.

However, he has not been able to provide the actual identity of the two terrorists who carried out the suicide attack.

The two terrorists, disguised as cricketers, stormed a CRPF camp here in the first major attack in the city in three years. They were killed by the security personnel.


PTI

Looks like he should be Kasabed.

[JohnTitor]

I think if we give them more incentives they will stop. How about we help Pakistan by providing a $10b loan?

[JohnTitor]

PTI reports:

Srinagar: The Pakistani militant arrested in a major breakthrough in the suicide strike that killed five CRPF men was a LeT recruit and it was he who allegedly dropped the two 'fidayeens' in the outskirts of the city on the day of the attack, investigations show.

In a swift operation a day after the attack, the Special Operations Group of the Jammu and Kashmir police arrested 22-year-old Zubair alias Abu Tallah alias Riaz from Chattabal area in the outskirts of the city late Thursday night when he was talking to his handlers, official sources said Friday.

Zubair, a resident of Multan in Pakistan, is the second person to be arrested in the attack on the CRPF camp near the Police-Public school in Bemina on Wednesday after Bashir alias Haroon Bhai was held hours after the attack.

Sources said that Bashir, who hailed from Uri along the Line of Control(LoC) in Baramulla district, had tipped the state police about Zubair's movements which led to his arrest.

The sources said that Zubair told the interrogators that he had dropped the two 'fidayeens' (suicide attackers) hailing from his country along with Bashir, a surrendered militant.

According to the police, Zubair had crossed over from Uri in north Kashmir a month back and was followed by the two 'fidayeens' who hailed from Sahiwal and Dera Gazi Khan in Pakistan.

Zubair showed no signs of resistance when he was being overpowered by the SOG personnel on a roof top in a densely populated area when he was talking to his handlers, they said.

During his night-long interrogation, the arrested terrorist gave details about his recruitment by terror outfit Lashker-e-Taiba(LeT) in Pakistan and also claimed he joined the outfit in view of the abject poverty he was living in. or

Zubair has two sisters and an elder brother in Pakistan and the family is reported to be financially weak with the father working in farms, the sources said.

He has undergone several training sessions with LeT including those given by known Lashkar commanders like Hanzullah and Furqaan, police claimed, and said he had attended the last training session six months back.

However, he has not been able to provide the actual identity of the two terrorists who carried out the suicide attack.

The two terrorists, disguised as cricketers, stormed a CRPF camp here in the first major attack in the city in three years. They were killed by the security personnel.


PTI

Looks like he should be Kasabed.

Yes, he should be fed biryani for a few years. Afterall, athithi devo bhava is something we are all taught.

[SSridhar]

Guys, leaving aside why TSP attacked the CRPF camp, how did they know that those killed would be Hindu jawans?

CRS, if Muslim Indian soldiers got killed in the process, the jihadist terrorists' thinking is that they deserved it for collaborating with the kafir against the momin. They are killed for the same reason the non-Deobandi Muslims are targetted in Pakistan though usually no Muslim kills another Muslim or no Muslim kills an innocent.

I watched Arnab show last night. Man, TSP is now utterly brazen; they are not even claiming "non state actors" anymore; its back to "freedom fighters", conduct plebiscite, you name it. I mean the dichotomy between their super aggressiveness, and India's eunuch response cannot be any more stark. And TSP and its 3.5 say that TSP faces a "threat" from India. What a cruel joke.

Yes, they are brazen and have been so for quite some time now. The 'plausible deniability' facade was given up a long time back because when one is drenched completely where is the need to cover the head ? Tell-tale signs have been left behind, whether by design to tease us or because of carelessness or because there was no need to cover the tracks anymore, in many terrorist strikes since the beginning of this millennium.

I watched the NDTV discussion (on Pakistan Parliament resolution on Afzal Guru) last night only because my favourite Mani Shankar Aiyyar was there. From the Pakistani side, there was Lt. Gen Talat Masood, a more reasonable man that the rest of the Pakis. Even he was saying that the stories were all Indian versions. He even contested that that the Pakis were involved in the Parliament attack ! He was categorical that India should expect strikes against CRPF and similar attacks.

The situation, in TSP's analysis, is very similar to 1989. The US is leaving, Pakistan has US backing, jihadis are available to be employed, Afghanistan will slip into Pakistani hands once again etc. Besides, TSP may even think, unlike in c. 1989, that India needs to be bottled up in J&K and the rest of India for it not to think of meddling in Afghanistan during the crucial phase of re-establishing the Taliban rule in 2014 or latest by 2015.

[RamaY]

^ Saar

Unfortunately India too is resembling 1989. A defense scam ridden govt with Italian connections.

Who will be next PVNR? Do we see "Kabhi beti Kabhi bahu" part2 in five years?