Do you’ll agree that it is Pakistan which is bleeding more because of terrorism and Jihad than India. Pakistan’s policy towards India was “Bleed India through a thousand cuts” . Is this policy working?
I think Pakistan needs to abandon its ‘bleed India by a thousand cuts’ policy totally.
A thousand cuts
Monday, January 19, 2009
Jihadi outfits were cultivated by Pakistan to bleed India with a thousand cuts. But India was able to conduct elections in the entire occupied Kashmir, thankfully, without a single suicide attack. Suicide attacks happened in Buner instead, where we were trying to hold a bye-election in one constituency only. It is clear today that it is Pakistan bleeding with a thousand cuts, and not India.
The recent attacks in Mumbai are said to have been planned in Pakistan, by non-state actors, without the knowledge of the government. The Pakistani government apparently stands absolved. However, the mere fact that the ‘non-state’ actors planned and launched operations of such a massive scale, without the knowledge of the Pakistani security establishment, proves that these actors have today become larger than their intended size. It doesn’t reflect positively on the ability of our security agencies, commonly clubbed as establishment.
It is thus in our own interest to weed out such outfits, and all networks that support them in any way, shape or form. Propagating an impression, that jihadi outfits would bleed India, in some sense downplays the importance and stature of our professional military — not just outside, but more importantly in the minds of ordinary Pakistanis like me. I would like to believe that Pakistan is safe, and that our enemies are being deterred by our professional soldiers, and not because of jihadi outfits.
Tayyab Rashid
Islamabad