Whenever strong measures by our armed forces are suggested
by our opposition parties ----or any citizen’s forum or an individual--against
terror-outfits or their support actors from across the border, immediately a
grave warning comes from our internal sources advising us against any such
action. Same thing happened when I
suggested that if our military is given a free hand, without any political
interference, our forces will surely act positively and ensure that there is no
border infiltration which will effectively reduce the support base of the indigenous
terror outfits. One reader went to the
extent of stating that if we act against Pak.interests, even US and China
will come to Pak’s rescue because of its strategic importance and hence we
cannot act “hot-headed”.
Let me analyze this
point carefully.
1]. Firstly I have only suggested that we act firmly with
infiltrators –our border level aggressors- and against our indigenous terror
outfits who receive active support from anti-national elements. Cross border
shelling and firings are merely a cover to enable trained anti-national
elements to infiltrate across the national border and hence treating infiltrators
as terrorist-traitors and using our military might without restriction against
them can never be equated to aggression against Pakistan.
We are only solving our internal problem
by eliminating infiltrators as they enter our territory. Military can have a free hand in curbing these
menaces.
2] Secondly china did not interfere to help Pakistan
when US raided inside their territory repeatedly since they knew US was not
attacking Pakistan.
They knew that US just directed their might against their known enemies holed
up inside Pakistan.
3] Thirdly When China
acted firmly against “demonstrators in favor of democracy” within their
territory, neither US nor India--greatest
democracies in the world--raised any objections but treated it as their
internal matter.
In the same way neither US nor China
will interfere if we act firmly in our national interest against indigenous
terror outfits who receive assistance from abroad. Even Pakistan
will not dare to interfere in this act of ours overtly. Once infiltrators are
killed while in the process of crossing the border surreptitiously, Pakistan
may just disown them.
4] Fourthly India’s
threat is actually internal and not external. Presence of innumerable number of
elected representatives with dubious criminal records is a major stumbling
block for our government to act tough against terror outfits, anti-nationals
and corrupt elements. No external force
will ever interfere in our operation to neutralize these anti-socials overtly since
we are only solving our internal problem.
All that is required is just a strong will to protect our national
interests at all costs. We need men of
steel at the helm of affairs willing to sacrifice their personal
self-interests. The present set of
rulers either in the centre or their supporting partners in states do not have
these qualities. Only leaders with no strong family attachments can fit the
bill under present conditions. Choose one such leader and our nation can be
deemed to be in safe hands.
