tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post111924650355986272..comments2024-03-01T13:51:47.721+05:30Comments on Reality, one bite at a time: Siachen: solutions for the takingSiddharth Varadarajanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07721228307097170092noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-38480895128286680272006-11-29T20:03:00.000+05:302006-11-29T20:03:00.000+05:301. The whole world agrees that Pakistan has create...1. The whole world agrees that Pakistan has created and nurtured the Taliban and is trying to keep it alive, that it does not want a <br /><br />government in Afghanistan that might be hostile to it's own interests.<br /><br />2. It's also emerged that Pakistan's ISI tried it's level best to keep up the Monarch's rule in Nepal and the Maoist insurgency to keep out a <br /><br /> democratic government.<br /><br />3. Pakistan is also helping the Sri Lankan government to fight the LTTE.<br /><br />4. It supports insurgencies in the North East of India.<br /><br />5. It has created front organisations such as the Let, the JeM to carry out terrorist attacks in India.<br /><br />6. It is desperate to get some concessions from India ahead of the sham elections next year.<br /><br />7. It is the present regime that tried to occupy Indian territory in 99, did not even inform it's own civilian leadership, later ousted the <br /><br /> same and for years, even denied any involvement.<br /><br />8. They defiantly refuse to hand over even criminals with open-and-shut records such as Dawood Ibrahim. The reason ? Because he was groomed <br /><br /> by the ISI and provided assistance, he knows their secrets, there's no way they'll ever hand him over.<br /><br />9. Every time a terrorist attack takes place in India, the links can be traced to Pakistan. The leadership in Delhi might be uncomfortable <br /><br />that the Mumbai Police Commissioner chose not to be political but called a spade a spade when he had clinching evidence linking the blast <br /><br />perpetrators to a location Bahawalpur in Pakistan.<br /><br />10. Most importantly, it is the Kashmir issue that keeps military regimes in Pakistan in business. It is their way of convincing their own <br /><br /> people of the enemy at the door and why the military needs to stay in power.<br /><br />11. The Pakistan government has realised that Manmohan Singh is the man to dupe, fool, con, to use a few 'cheap' words. He honestly believes <br /><br /> that there can be peace in Kashmir if we only make some concessions to Pakistan. We need to remember that he is but a celeberated <br /><br />economist, a finance specialist, not a politician or a statesman. He cannot see through Pakistan's designs. His desire for peace is <br /><br />shared by all Indians, but withdrawing troops from Siachen cannot bring this about, all it can do is take away years of hardships, pain, <br /><br />suffering and even lives put in by our jawans on those peaks. A ceasefire on Siachen should be sufficient for both the armies to not lose <br /><br />unnecessary lives. It does not take a brilliant man to predict that no sooner does India vacate the peaks and passes in Siachen will <br /><br />Pakistan make it's move, probably covertly a la Kargil and the whole world will oppose a war just to get it back.<br /><br /><br />Manmohan Singh should sincerely avoid making promises like these to Pakistan, the effects of which would have to be born by future <br /><br />generations. Hope he does not make the same mistakes that Nehru made in 62 vis-a-vis his misplaced trust in China.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13437119.post-1119428224833135072005-06-22T13:47:00.000+05:302005-06-22T13:47:00.000+05:30You write really well. Although I have thus not re...You write really well. Although I have thus not read all of your write-ups on this page I have read the piece on Godhra and Guantanamo. I have added your site to my favourite list and will continue checking. By the way if you write on Bjorn Lomborg please keep in mind his book Skeptical Environmentalist in mind. If a man can sell his pen once to the corporate interests he can do it repeatedly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com