> What about the terror organizers of Samjhota express blasts... Who will > prepare the list of suspects and ask the other to handover? India or > Pakistan? Or will the list be prepared jointly?
The short answer is, India. The Samjhauta blast occurred at a place where the jurisdiction of Indian courts and law enforcement runs. Therefore, it is incumbent upon the Government of India to seek the extradition of any individual, foreign or Indian, involved in the crime, who is not a resident, form the respective countries and try them according to Indian law. Interestingly, the Pakistan government has just asked for the extradition of Samjhauta accused. Without any basis, one ought to say. > Uniformed men from ISI or from Indian military > Intelligence or from both? The despicable attempt to hyphenate India and Pakistan on terror sponsorship is the product of a sick mind and ideology, to put it mildly. No need to emphasize that it is a bogus comparison, totally orthogonal to all established facts. The BJP's defense of Abhinav Bharat, without doubt is an abominable act that should be condemned in the strongest terms by all who believe in the rule of law. It is one thing to provide the accused with legal assistance, which is the right of every accused, and a totally different one to attempt to subvert the course of law. No finger pointing at others who defend convicted terrorists like Afzal Guru or glib talk about innocent-until-proven guilty theory will change that. That said, the comparison of Abhinav Bharat to LeT, JeM and other Pakistani terrorist organizations is an unutterably brainless act. Further, the perpetrators of Malegaon blast are behind bars, and as the latest reports indicate, the law enforcement agencies are vigorously pursuing the case. Contrast this with the less than a slap on the wrist that terror perpetrators generally get in Pakistan. Let me add one observation I made during the exchanges here. The mode in which many people think here seems to be one which swings from one extreme to the other. So the thinking goes: "this guy doesn't believe in peace marches. So he must be a war monger" or "this guy talks ill about Jihadi terrorism. So he must be a crypto-Hindutvavadi". The reality is, as Brahma Chellany says<http://chellaney.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns%214913C7C8A2EA4A30%21960.entry?sa=246262713>, there are a hundred options between complete inaction and total war. What we lack is the political will to exercise any of them and a debilitating sense of political correctness that interprets any mention of these options as war mongering. I am not for such feel good measures as peace marches not because I don't believe in peace. Not even because they are ineffectual - most political mobilizations achieve next to nothing after all. My beef with the peace marchers is that their attitude quite often comes across as arrogant and insulting to the victims. Maybe they don't mean it. But it is still true. *Look at this: We need support..with media coverage, with people from all walks of life to come to our meetings and lend their voices to combat the dogs of war. We have a common enemy. *As if war has been imposed on "us" by aliens from planet Thedus in the constellation of Ursa Major! It was Pakistan that imposed all the four wars. Count on the jihadist-military complex to initiate the fifth one. Or this: *we urge both the governments to take all appropriate initiates to contain and root out the activities of all fanatic and terrorist groups and catch and punish perpetrators of any acts of terror in their respective countries to make the subcontinent safe and secure for all*. As if India is another SEZ of the terror industry like Pakistan! The hyphenation is utterly phoney and concocted and an insult to the memory of the tens of thousands perished in Pak sponsored terrorism. Or this one, which is not just an insult to the dead, but to the intelligence of every living being: *Both the governments should immediately set up a Joint Action and Investigative Agency for total cooperation and mutual assistance to address and overcome the problem of terrorism effectively and without any further delay*. The only analogy is the STF inviting Veerappan to assist in the fight against the Veerappan gang. The peace marches and candle light vigils serve only to divert attention from the real issue, which is Pakistan's state reared terror infrastructure, and dilutes any effort to punish the perpetrators of the Mumbai carnage. By the way, why don't any of the professors or peace activists say anything about punishing the guilty? Oh, I forget, they believe only in peace and recoil in horror at the mention of punishment, which is after all, violence. Another presiding myth perpetuated by the jholawala brigade is that lasting peace can be built by engaging the civil society in Pakistan. It is a brilliant idea. The only problem is where to find the civil society in Pakistan. Who are the constituents? The military which owns 70% of the country? The non-entities that light candles at the Wagah cross? The Taliban, that is, the vast body of the madrassa student community? At any rate, whatever left of the civil society quickly rallies behind the jihadist-military complex, as evidenced by the recent events. Pervez Hoodbhoy has written <http://www.newsline.com.pk/NewsJan2009/cover2jan2009.htm>a seminal article on the near complete Saudi-isation of the Pakistani society. As far as I can see, Hoodbhoy is not a frothing-at-the-mouth Hindutva fascist. Of course, we should understand the Professors' dilemma. They, after all, have families back home. Maybe they are mortally afraid of a visitor from the local madrassa. Maybe they are too terrified about the midnight knock. We understand. But please, spare us the sanctimony. Cheers, Murali On Jan 18, 11:21 am, Afthab Ellath <[email protected]> wrote: -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Liberty, if it means anything, is the right to tell people what they don't want to hear. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
