On Wednesday 10 Dec 2008 4:20:05 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote: > Which India will prevail—the India that nurtures global industries and > rising affluence or the India of stalled hopes and endemic violence? A > year ago the answer was clear: The new India would win. That is probably > still true, but India now faces a struggle.
The India of "endemic violence" is sure to get stronger and stronger if people continue to remain completely blinkered to what is happening in our neighborhood and imagine that we have a monopoly on bigotry and violence. A series of governments are equally to blame for not taking things seriously. Indians do not want to believe that people can be bad. How should India respond to worse and more violent challenges that are SURE to come up? Irfan Husain is a Pakistani journalist who is as respectable as they come and is hardly the foamin' at the mouth Hindu fundamentalist supporter that I often get accused of being when I say some things. And this is what he said. Today. > Given this reality, it is difficult to see how terrorist groups like the > Lashkar-e-Tayyeba and the Jaish-e-Mohammed can be reined in. Both have > received official blessings and support in the past. Even if formal links > with the ISI have been severed, training camps are difficult to shut down > permanently, given the sympathy these groups enjoy in sections of the > military, the police and the judiciary. Since Zia’s poisonous rule in the > 80s, extremism has seeped into every level of the bureaucracy. Many > Pakistanis are in denial about the extent to which their country has been > infected by this plague. Under these circumstances, the arrest of an > individual like Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi, a commander in the LeT, is > meaningless. In the past, too, top terror suspects like Masood Azhar of the > Jaish-e-Mohammed and Hafiz Saeed of the Lashkar-e-Tayyeba have been scooped > up in the wake of terrorist outrages, only to be released a few weeks > later. http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=HomePage&id=25d01733-bb2f-44f2-8719-83786797a4c7&&Headline=%27It+is+an+eyewash%27 shiv
