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Our terror, their terror
83 years ago
An interesting read indeed. The column was published in the Hindustan times. The writer, Vir Sanghvi, exposes the BJP’s double standards and how Muslims are victimized in India.
Shortly before LK Advani spoke at the HT Summit on Friday, I was chatting to Ajit Doval. Though he is not yet a household name, Doval is a former director of the Intelligence Bureau who was close to Advani when the latter was Home Minister and he will probably be National Security Advisor if the BJP comes to power.
As Advani has — by his own admission — been reluctant to say very much about the allegations of terrorism against various militant Hindus, I asked Doval how he viewed the arrests and the claims made by the Anti Terror Squad (ATS).
Doval’s response was that the term ‘Hindu terror’ worried him. There were, he said, two dimensions to any battle against terror. The first was law and order. You should treat all terrorists as murderers regardless of their religions, ethnic origins or whatever. (more…)
India ‘staged’ Mumbai drama, hotel guests testify
3 years ago
A recent report published by the BBC points more fingers towards Indian security agencies for actually staging the entire Mumbai drama. The stories craft by the Indian electronic and print media were absolutely absurd from the very beginning. Now we have it that the guests who had trapped themselves inside hotel rooms for safety were actually instructed by policemen to leave the building while the fighting raged on.
Several other things have been left unanswered, including the gross failure of Indian security and intelligence agencies that such a big terrorist attack happened right under their nose, in a country aspiring to become a regional superpower. All these questions that raise in one’s mind have been discussed before here and at several other forums.
So much so that the Indian minister for minorities had to resign for raising the issue of Mr. Karkare’s suspicious killing at an unknown location on the same day – the senior Indian policeman who had exposed the masterminds of the Samjhota express bombings and held a Hindu serving Indian army Colonel for the same.
Discredible India
23 years ago
By Laila Sohail
Saturday, 13th December – 2008
The Mumbai blasts on the 26th of Nov 08 sent panic waves across India. The three day melodrama and carelessly engineered scheme lead to the most preposterous allegations that blame game history has revealed.
The Indian media had passed its judgment within only a couple of hours into the attack. It was convinced that 10 men had taken a cruise from Karachi to Mumbai, fully equipped with ammunition and explosive material, bypassed the Coast Guard, and made their way into the heart of the city. One of the reports had a fisherman claiming that he had himself questioned one of the terrorists, after seeing the explosives in the bag. It is a wonder how the reporter could keep a straight face as this fisherman armed with a fishing line in one hand and a net in the other, claimed to be nothing short of Superman, while the terrorist responsible for killing so many people was meek enough to simply continue the remaining journey on foot. Within minutes, they had an animation/carton film to depict his tale. While flipping news channels, I came across a film trailer, and I said to myself, damn that Ram Gopal Warma, he does not give up making atrocious Hollywood rip off suspense thrillers…only it wasn’t a trailer, but a documentary on one of the Indian channels, complete with music effects. Still, the Indian Media’s propaganda has been rather rusty. The channels could not decide on the number of the terrorists, which ranged from 9 to 15, or the name of the mastermind [Kamal, Qasab or Rahman chacha being some of the options} There was ambiguity about whether the terrorists had spent a night in some hotel, or come right before the attacks. The channels made a mockery out of this tragedy. (more…)
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