Wednesday, January 18, 2006

The Politician-Terrorist Nexus in J&K

What begins with K, ends in R, and promises to be a thorn in India's foot for a long while because of its political leaders' historical blunders to deal with it and the fact its the 'jugular vein' of somebody that hates us very much?

India has a strange problem in Kashmir. We call it our own, yet the state is governed by Article 356, which exempt it from many obligations of the other states of the union, and the crores of rupees ensure that it has the lowest poverty levels in the entire country. Yet I don't see know solution coming forth to solve its "militancy" problem. Our soldiers die fighting the terrorist scum being regularly trained and sent forth from the jihad factories in the west, while the state politicians are pampered by the federal government to show them how much better it is to work in the world's largest democracy than join the Hurri-rats and shout for independence.

Yet when i read news reports that active politicians in the state have been involved in abetting the terrorists by providing them information and shelter, it makes my blood boil. According to intelligence reports, active terrorists are working as party workers, even are elected officials in some places and at the same time hatching plots to hurt the nation.
Two political workers in J&K were involved in an abduction attempt of the Prime Minister of India! Is it obvious or what to see how high these scum aim for?
I simply can't believe that the intelligence agencies and more importantly the Union Government was not aware of this little nexus for so long. I would like to believe that our intelligence agencies and network is competent enough to know what is going on in our own country to the most extent. So why is now that the J&K Police has come forward and threatens to reveal more names as it continues with its 'investigation?'
I dont know, but I could probably put together a few events that point to this change:

For one, the IISc attacks in Bangalore. For once, it woke the establishment up to the fact that these terrorists can hit elsewhere than Kashmir. The New Delhi attacks didnt seem to result in much from the Government except for the few tears and kind words, but when you hurt an IIT professor in one of India's finest institutes, apparently you have hit a raw nerve.
My only thought is that dont these pusillanimous politicians realize by now that Kashmir and North-East and Bangalore are part of the same great country? Is the life of a soldier at the frontier or the common man in a market any less important than any other Indian? No it is not, but I dont know who will succeed in breaking the nice little system we have created, that of keeping the north-east and Kashmir out of the national mainstream.

Then there is the change of guard in the J&K Government. Ghulam Nabi Azad, an established Congress party leader, is the new CM. He belongs to the state and took over the helm from Mufti Sayeed, the leader of PDP. Azad has been talking tough on Musharraf's so-called peace proposals, and maybe the PMO, and ultimately Sonia Gandhi, is interested in changing the way things are done up there.

Already the IISc blast accused have been shot dead in, where else, Kashmir, and numerous other operatives have been arrested all over. So finally, what about the politicians who abet the terrorists? All I ask is for the GoI to see that this is not what is good for the country, and it scars the very souls of soldiers and innocent, unarmed civilians that lose their lives to these barbarians. This scum needs to be cleaned from J&K politics, and used as a stepping stone to clean up the traitors in other parts of the country. We have them everywhere, no doubt. Petty, theiving politicians without a vision and without a care for anybody but themselves. Lets start with getting rid of our internal demons first, otherwise all this talk of the next world power is hogwash.

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