Friday, December 26, 2008

The Masterstroke of Pakistani Army

I have no idea how we (India) always find classically fooled by Pakistan again and again? The Mumbai attack and the politics that followed is very well executed plan of Pakistan Army and we dumb Indians always find ourselves at the receiving end. Not only that we were criminally unprepared for the genocide that these Muslims unleashed in Mumbai, the responses to these ghastly murders are imbecile and lack ingenuity or statecraft. One of the Muslim cabinet minister speaking his ‘mind’ (it is so obvious that he was paid by Saudis!) is like icing on cake for highly incompetent and useless government headed by an equally retarded Prime Minister.

Let’s first dissect the situation in India. It was surprising to see that Indians were surprised with the attacks on Mumbai. We are having bomb-blasts practically every month in each and every major city in India. Even a retard could figure out that Mumbai is the next target and yet, both the state government as well as central government was dumbfounded with the meticulous execution of the attack. Bunch of clean shaven fanatics from other side of the border systematically butchered hundreds of people in plain sight and it took us three days to put them down.

But fear not, we are going to be world super power soon. A baloney that only balloon headed Indians can believe in!

Of course, politicians know better. They knew that within a month things will go cold turkey. People will forget about everything. There will be few protests (as BAL Thackeray correctly said that the protesters were probably protesting against their party place- Taj and Oberoi – being not open for New Year party!) and after that there will be deathly silence. The government will go about doing usual business of not doing anything until the next attacks when the whole drama will be recreated again.

In recently concluded state election Congress party won two states. The press went gaga over the fact that terrorism didn’t play any role in deciding election. Well, if that’s true then it’s in fact a tragedy of gigantic proportion. In spite of hundreds of thousands of innocent Indian citizen getting butchered by the nation of Pakistan, our oblivious public is not asking hard questions to the ruling party. That’s bad. That’s really really bad. We should brace ourselves for more attacks now. Because a nation sleep walking through killing fields of their own kith and kin deserves nothing better.

Now about Pakistani army - it’s a well known fact that whether they are officially in power or not, they are the one who govern this failed state of Muslim fanatics. The façade of democratically elected government is a joke. For example, the current so called President – Asif Ali Zardari – pleaded insanity in the court as recently as year ago. In short, we have an officially declared retarded person at the helm of a virulently Muslim fanatic society. So anything that this nutcase or his equally doorknob prime minister says is absolute garbage. They have no idea about what the fuck’s going on! They are clue less as well as shit less. Taking them with even pinch of salt will be too much. The real actor is Pakistan Army and its current chief – General Kayani. All though our beloved dictator Mr. Musharaff retired peacefully, the army is still running the show in Pakistan. The spectacularly successful attacks in Mumbai are going to pay them huge dividends. In fact, mother of all dividends.

Currently they are getting squeezed harder than the squash by American army. American army already bombing shit out of terrorists through un-manned Drones have started going into Pakistani territory for military operations. That means American army is violating sovereignty of Pakistani land and rightly so. All the bombast as well as hoax threats that Pakistani army regularly issues to their spine-less neighbors, are worth nothing against American army. Because by openly intruding Pakistani land American army made a statement that they don’t give a zilch about Pakistanis anymore. Plus the new administration has openly stated their disdain for Pakistani army. Now if I were in Pakistani army, that’s scary.

Apart from this worrisome development, Indian government as well as Indian intelligence is building huge infrastructure in Afghanistan. (This is a crown of Indian strategy planning. Kudos to brave people in Indian Intelligence community) The old fears of India encircling Pakistan from all sides are coming into fore once more. All most all of the Afghani government officials are educated in India and they are not only staunchly pro-Indian but they hate Pakistan more than Indians do. So even on Afghan front Pakistani army is finding itself increasingly impotent. The only weapon they have in arsenal to counter both American as well as Indian influence is Taliban. And that’s not slowing down the major strides the Indians and Americans are making. In such situation the only thing these cowards can do is to go after soft targets –that is, innocent Indian citizens. Because these bastards know that Indian ruling class are ball-less and Indian society suffers from short-term memory loss. And so far the attack on Mumbai is doing wonders.

Right after the attack the whole of Pakistani political class started shedding crocodile tears. They started showing solidarity with India. This was just to show that the attackers had nothing to do with Pakistan. I mean, common, who’s going to believe that? All the terrorists’ links always circle back to Pakistan. They have become one stop mall for all terrorist needs. Of course, Pakistani political class knows this. So in second part they started telling the whole world that India is getting to ready attack Pakistan. In short, India is the bully and Pakistanis are the peace loving tree-huggers. Then there were alleged threatening calls from Indian defense minister (that guy can’t even summon his balls at his service, forget about him threatening Pakistan!) and alleged air space intrusion by Indian Air Force.

In the mean time, Americans scared of Mumbai incidence getting repeated on New York Streets was tightening screws on Pakistan. So Pakistani army started telling Americans that in the face of imminent danger from India they gonna have to move troops away from Afghan border to Indian border. In short the operation that they were helping Americans in capturing terrorists will have to go on hold for now. Bingo! With stakes at the center, this master stroke made sure that Americans will be involved between India and Pakistan, something India steadfastly refused to allow.

Basically, without facing any danger from moronic Indian leadership Pakistani army gave a check mate to both India and America. Plus, they managed to give breathing space to Taliban on Afghan border. They killed innocent Indian civilians which I am sure the whole of Pakistani nation celebrates. Pakistani army showed who’s daddy in Pakistan and we are back to square one. An Islamic terrorist infected chronically failed state that possesses nuclear weapon and is governed by army of religious zealots.

Oh and we should definitely tour Pakistan for Cricket and allow them to play for IPL and ICL. Plus we should certainly allow their singers to sing in India. What’s 170 killing has to do with them? We got a billion more!

Thursday, December 11, 2008

To be surprised or not to be surprised!

I am so tired of writing similar blogs that I can’t even think of any words anymore. How many times the words can be repeated to describe seemingly unchanging environment. We have terrorists coming from Karachi by sea this time. They captured an Indian fishing ship and killed all the fishermen (poor souls, no one is even counting them among the victims of Mumbai carnage) and after reaching Mumbai coast all hell broke loose. It’s obvious that readers will ask me that how come this is not surprising? Because same thing happened 15 years ago! Instead of men it was RDX that showed up at the shore. It wasn’t just Mumbai coast which is close to Pakistan border but the RDX landed all the way on to the shore of southern Konkan. Then explosives made their way into Mumbai and ended up killing at least 300 people. To be honest there was at least one difference in 93 bomb blast and 08 carnage. The main culprits Memon brothers were still in India after the blasts and so was Dawood Ibrahim – the sordid underworld mastermind of the blasts. But with grace of our politicians as well as cops then they were expatriated to Pakistan with 'honor'. In recent attack on Mumbai terrorists were killed in Mumbai only. Apart from this difference the Déjà vu continues!


One of my articles was published in Indian Express right after 2006 bomb blasts in Mumbai. In the article I mentioned that modus operandi of the attacks are eerily similar. It’s all most like cut-copy-paste. Years go by the peripheral of terrorists hitting at will is encompassing more and more cities the official response to it remains blithely incompetent and morally corrupt. The government doesn’t talk tough nor does it act tough. In 1993 RDX was planted across Mumbai and in 2008 terrorists planted themselves across Mumbai. The emergency response was not adequate in 1993 and it still doesn’t generate any confidence. The political response to the attack was absolutely shameful in 1993 and in 2009 the response doesn't even exist. Our Prime Minster - a clone of Neville Chamberlain - is hiding at some location thinking about how to retire nicely. Our home minister resigns only when Sonia Gandhi shows her displeasure at him, not when 173 people were savagely put to death by terrorists.

The terror plot points directly to Pakistan in 1993 and it’s beyond doubt that it’s Pakistan (yes the whole nation is a terrorist nation!) that organized killing fields in Mumbai., In 1993 Pakistan was asking for proof and it’s still can’t understand that why on earth Indians are blaming them? Perhaps they should ask that question to Osama Bin Laden who I am pretty sure is celebrating his Christmas with Zardari!


But that’s not it. What’s worse is the public response to these killings remains same too! Life must go on and show must go on are some of the favorite phrases that always make merry appearance after terror attacks. You know what, fuck that shit…..sometime life doesn’t go on. It should be stopped and problem should be solved before starting the show. When diagnosed with Cancer do we say that “oh too bad but life must go on!” no, we immediately do the surgery. Similarly, right now it’s absolutely imperative for Indian society to take care of politicians (Sonia Gandhi? Where the heck is she? Holidaying in Italy?) And more importantly take care of Pakistan. The nation of Pakistan is a cancer to the world. With no known contribution to the civilization, it’s only known export to the world is terrorism. Moreover it’s not our responsibility to save that cancerous gland. We need to put all the options on the table (Mr. Mukharji, shame on you. You are defense minister of India, not of Pakistan) and evaluate pros and cons. We don’t have to go to war right away. But sever economic sanctions with complete freeze on any kind of ties with Pakistan would be a good start. And for the love of all that is sweet in this world fuck all the cricket (does anyone even know that Javed Miandad’s daughter is married to Dawood Ibrahims’ son?) Please I am begging the money-mongers of BCCI to not to send Indian team to Pakistan. In fact, I am begging to Sachin to opt out of tour. I am pretty sure when Sachin says no then the tour will be cancelled.

Also send all those bastard contestants in sa re ga ma back to Pakistan. We don’t need those terrorist singers in India. Anyone who says that music heals, should stand in a Local train approaching the train station where AK-47 wielding gunmen are firing 600 rounds per minute. Healing my ass!


Rabindranath Tagore went to Japan once. The university organized his lecture series. Surprisingly no one showed up. So the organizers started knocking doors in the neighborhood and asking people to come. But people refused to show up. They said that the speaker represents a defeated nation and what’s the point in listening to a defeated philosophy.


Japanese were right in their assertion. A Defeated nation can give only a defeated response. Only a defeatist society would go on with their lives nonchalant in the face of repeated catastrophe. Our society stands true to this criteria.

We are a defeated nation.

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

Mumbai Carnage and the Media.

As the gruesome carnage in Mumbai comes to macabre end the politicians, especially of the ruling party, are under severe attack for their ineptitude to read bold letters of terror on the wall. The failure that these coward politicans show in protecting innocent citizens borderlines treachery. But politicians and the terrorist are not alone in this ghoulish drama of Muslim appeasement and ghastly killings that usually follow that are worringly becoming a common picture. The media should be equally blamed for their biased propaganda that nurtures the Muslim terrorism. At least politicians have to care about the vote banks. But Media is answerable to none.


Media is fast transforming itself from merely publishing the happenings to actually creating the happenings. Moreover they have gained uncontested power in recording the history as they please. Mostly owned by conglomerates these news organizations have became a profit seeking predators and they can go to any extent, not to acquire the truth but to get the advertisers.
The case with Indian media is peculiar as these media houses are aligned themselves with political parties. So not only that these media houses more worried about making money but they are also concerned about keeping their political bosses happy.


The recent attacks on Mumbai were not only heinous in nature but the audacity of the terrorists to produce rampant mayhem was never witnessed before. And all though the enormity of the incidence is yet to settle into Indian conscience the media is working overboard to insert the jaundiced view that ranges from the recent terrorist attacks simply being a reaction to ‘Hindu terrorism’ to unsatisfied Muslim population and finally settling onto US foreign policy.
The public discourse regarding the Islamic terrorism that these media houses propagates is very similar to the policies the so called ‘secular’ parties tries to implement. The message that the Muslims are the victims in India and Hindus are hell bent on destroying them is constantly dished out. This rhetoric has finally created a monster that is spreading throughout India like a cancer. To illustrate my argument let’s analyze the a verbal exchange between terrorists and the victims published in recent edition of Wall Street Journal


…Restaurant workers there ushered guests closest to the kitchen inside. The assailants jumped in front of another group that tried to run out the door. "Stop," they shouted in Hindi. They corralled 16 diners and led them up to the 20th floor. One man in the group dialed his wife in London and told her he'd been taken hostage but was OK. "Everybody drop your phones," one of the assailants shouted, apparently overhearing. Phones clattered to the floor as the three women and 13 men dug through their purses and pockets and obeyed.
On the 20th floor, the gunmen shoved the group out of the stairwell. They lined up the 13 men and three women and lifted their weapons. "Why are you doing this to us?" a man called out. "We haven't done anything to you."
"Remember Babri Masjid?" one of the gunmen shouted, referring to a 16th-century mosque built by India's first Mughal Muslim emperor and destroyed by Hindu radicals in 1992.
"Remember Godhra?" the second attacker asked, a reference to the town in the Indian state of Gujarat where religious rioting that evolved into an anti-Muslim pogrom began in 2002.
Gunfire was reported at luxury hotels, a restaurant, police headquarters and a train station.
"We are Turkish. We are Muslim," someone in the group screamed. One of the gunmen motioned for two Turks in the group to step aside.
Then they pointed their weapons at the rest and squeezed the triggers.


Even in this narration one can see how information is selectively presented or rather, misrepresented. The Babri Mosque is a bone of contention for last four hundred years. It is an unequivocal fact that Babur built a mosque at the birth place of Lord Shri Ram and yet media consistently decides not to present the whole information. The discourse regarding this issue in Indian media oscillates from absurdity to outright falsehood. But one thing remains constant is that it’s Hindus that should be punished. Even after the fall of mosque the riots in Mumbai were started by Muslims only. (Radhabai Chawl burning incidence) and the coordinated 13 bomb blasts that took more than 300 lives were perpetrator by fanatic Muslims too.


Similarly Gujarat riots took place because 59 Hindus were burnt alive in a train by Muslim mob in Godhra, Gujarat. The riots, all though bloody and deplorable, were reaction to the gruesome murder of innocent Hindus.


Following is another example where truth is purposefully twisted in the name of secularism. All though this interview was conducted long time before Mumbai carnage, the questions that Shekhar Gupta asks will astound any sane reader. Unfortunately it is the common man that bores the brunt of this inanity. My favorite questions are “But why is your state a major victim? Is it because Gujarat is next door? And • Do you think Maharashtra is paying a price for being Gujarat’s neighbor? The questions were in regards with prior bomb-blasts that shook Mumbai.
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http://www.indianexpress.com/news/it-a-breakthrough-is-expected-as-early-as-possible.-i-cant-say-whe.../8691/)

I have not seen anyone mentioning that three of the biggest Hindi movie stars are Muslims along with numerous old luminaries. The last President of India was a Muslim and so were two more in laste 70’s. The most successful captain of Indian cricket team was a Muslim. Till recently richest Indian was an Muslim too. In fact, current commissioner of Mumbai is a Muslim and yet not a single Hindu is pointing fingers at any of them. The constant portrayal that Muslims are marginalized by a nefarious design is simply not true. As India is dusting poverty as well as other social ills off its clothes, there are opportunities everywhere. But only a hard-working and ambitious person can grab them.


As the facts are filtered and the context and the perspective are muddled, all that is left a misinformation on which terrorism feeds itself. On one hand we have so called ‘secular’ politicians who for their petty interest try hard to appease Muslims and on the other hand we have extremely biased media that support the inherently counter-productive rhetoric. These two players play major role in accelerating self-victimization in the minds of Indian Muslims. It’s easy to see how a whole community high on half knowledge consistently produces youth who think it’s their right to take revenge.


At least we can vote out the politicians but how are we going to deal with the Media?