There’s an old joke about legendary bowler B.S. Chandrashekhar. On a tour in New
Zealand he had the batsman plumb in front of the wicket and appealed for LBW
and jumped in delight, only to hear the umpire say “not out”. A little later he had the batsman caught in the slips off
a thick edge and gently appealed. To his horror the umpire again said “not out”. After a few more deliveries
he clean-bowled the batsman. As he walked back past the umpire Chandrashekhar
gently said to him: “Almost got him, didn’t
I”? So all these years our media was quiet about the Owaisis and suddenly
they realised they were “clean-bowled” and had to be outed. There are
non-bailable warrants on Asaduddin Owaisi and Akbaruddin Owaisi since 2005. The “friendly”
police under the Congress govt in Andhra never arrested them. They don’t have
the guts and they are in alliance with the MIM, the party of Owaisis. So when
the media finds Akbar’s speech is the equivalent of being “clean-bowled” they couldn’t
cheat the nation anymore. Even the likes of Javed Akhtar couldn’t help condemning him. Same goes for issues
with Pakistan. All the farce wasn’t condemned by the media till two of our
soldiers were killed on January 7. They were beheaded and bodies mutilated.
Some report that one head was taken away by the killers.
DNA aptly called it “Return of the barbarians”. Our PM, Manmohan Singh, seemed desperate to somehow seek the impossible
peace with Pakistan. It wasn’t long after the 26/11 disaster that he severely
bungled at Sharm-El Sheikh with a stupid joint statement. It was truly “Sharm-nak”!
Our media and Bollywood types don’t tire from calling Pak a “good neighbour” and offering
employment to their third rate artists when we have more talented artists in
this country. Media celebs like Barkha
Dutt and the Unholy Trinity of NDTV-CNN-IBN-HindustanTimes
don’t spare any effort to celebrate Parvez Musharraf. This guy should have been
rightly treated as the “war-criminal” of Kargil. Barkha Dutt even runs to
London to interview the guy. Such is the passionate love for him. In 2001 when
he was invited to a summit by PM ABVajpayee
(which was a terrible mistake and failure) who organised an impromptu presser?
You guessed it right! Prannoy Roy of
NDTV. Their next favourite is politician Imran Khan, who is not even in any
official position.
The most criminal among the lot when it comes to Pakistan
is, of course, TOI. The blood from
26/11 had not even dried and they launched their farce called “Aman Ki Asha”. I can say this with
absolute confidence: Peace with Pakistan is NOT possible. All the people to
people nonsense has to stop. We need not treat them as enemies but they
certainly don’t deserve our friendship or any MFN status. The latest nonsense
from TOI is TV ads that state Pak and India are “competitors and not enemies”
in their AKA campaign for the recent Indo-Pak ODI series. Competitors? How and
what exactly is Pakistan even a worthy competitor? And we have our activists
with their own nonsense of "don’t mix politics and sports". Our GOI is no
different. Palestinian terrorists attacked and killed at least 11 Israeli
athletes in the 1972 Olympics in Munich. Olympics have been boycotted by USA
and Russia. South Africa was banned from sports because of apartheid. Who are
these people fooling? Pakistan itself is
a ‘Cricketing-Pariah’ after the terrorist attack on Sri Lankan players.
Arun Jaitley,
BJP top leader and also the leader of Opposition in RajyaSabha, now says (in an
interview with Barkha): “This government needs to
understand that the spirit of Sharm El Sheikh can never define approach with
Pakistan.. Review engagement with Pakistan now; the mutilations break all rules
of war”. Elsewhere, he goes on to say “name and
shame Pakistan internationally”. Hypocrisy and third rate nonsense from
a man who neither has hindsight nor prudence. Why didn’t he oppose the recent
Indo-Pak cricket series? Forget opposing, he was blissfully in attendance at
the Delhi ODI on January 6 in a Nawabi cap. For all his pathetic sound-bites
neither he nor the BJP seem to have learnt anything from the past. They should
be hanging their heads in shame and saying sorry to the nation for not taking a
strong opposing line against engaging Pakistan in any which way. Two days after
the match in Delhi Lance Naik Hemraj
and Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh were
killed by Paki Army soldiers who had intruded across the LoC. Their mutilated
bodies sent back to their devastated families and the nation. In return for
Vajpayee’s Bus to Lahore they gave us Kargil
in return. When will these people learn? (Do read “Twenty yards of dead bodies”)
As for the GOI the less said the better. This is
the most corrupt and shameless govt we have ever had in our history. All the
balderdash that now flows from govt spokesmen like Salman Khurshid, AK Antony
and Manish Tiwari is the same that
has been heard over and over again. What hasn’t been said is that the PM didn’t
say that the killers “had the advantage of surprise” like he said after a
terrorist attack in Mumbai in July 2011. They can’t get anything right but
never forget to make stupid moves like easier visas for Pakistanis. Now a
terrorist can land in Delhi or Mumbai and have a visa stamped I suppose.
Fabulous! The worst of the lot in this situation has to be the tainted Salman
Khurshid: “Mutilation of jawans unacceptable, but attack
should not be escalated” and “Pak high
commissioner spoken to in very strong terms”. I am unable to fathom how
this guy is even holding any ministerial office. This response by Tarek Fateh to a tweet by Barkha Dutt
says it all (although we aren’t signatories to that court the sentiment is to
show courage and act). The GOI has yet to take any strong stance or action on
the issue of Saurabh Kalia killed
during Kargil. Even the Italian Defence Minister rushed to India to negotiate
release of the Italian marines arrested for killing fishermen off Kerala. But
Indians getting killed anywhere, taken hostages on high seas doesn’t bother
this govt.
Whenever such a barbaric incident happens our media
never fails to call some Paki stooges on their channels for a panel discussion.
What are they expecting? That these guys will accept responsibility when they aren’t
even official govt spokesmen? Predictably, every Pakistani, from panellists to
their High Commissioner Salman Bashir and their EAM Hina Rabbani Khar has
denied their army was involved. So why is it that Arnab Goswami keeps bringing these useless voices on TimesNow? There
is some strange arousal that Arnab gets from bashing these Paki panellists when
he should be bashing our reckless govt and its ministers. Even TimesNow’s
defence expert Mahroof Raza asked
Arnab “Why do you give them so much airtime on Indian
channels”?
The hypocrisy of the TOI group deserves condemnation. They
run the AKA campaign and then behave as if they care. They have once even
admitted peace with Pakistan is not possible under “Times View”. Raza also said on January 9 on Timesnow that Obama takes two days off every year to understand the nuclear chain of
command again. He also asked “when was the last time a PM took time
understand the difference between Northern Command and Western Command”? He
makes a very pertinent point.
I have stated before and say it again; peace with Pakistan is NOT possible. We
need not wage war but there is no way a nation from which many have promised a
1000-year Jihad against India can ever be true friends. This is like expecting
Iran to become a friend of Israel. Not happening! This sucking up to and molly-coddling Pakistan is just another feature
of ‘Muslim vote-bank’ politics by our govt and nothing more. As far as our
national interest is concerned Pak has nothing to offer; not even a small
safety pin. For all our genuine gestures of goodwill we have only got barbaric
acts in return. It’s time to dump this charade. Instead of uttering more
useless statements the GOI should recall our High Commissioner from Pakistan
and expelled theirs from Delhi. The one article that has honestly acknowledged
peace with Pak is not possible for many reasons is by TheJaggi in Firstpost. He aptly titles it “We are fools: 6 things we need to realise about Pakistan”. I
would have to say not all but our govt and appeaser-politicians have been fools
all along. There is no way friendship with barbarians will be possible.
