US Defense Secretary Robert Gates has warned in New Delhi today that Al-Qaeda is trying to destabilize the whole of South Asia hoping to provoke a deadly war between India and Pakistan, according to the BBC. In addition to Al-Qaeda, he has pointed the finger at the Taliban in Afghanistan and in Pakistan, and the Pakistan-based group Lashkar-e-Taiba as groups seeking to spark conflict between India and Pakistan, or to provoke instability in Pakistan.
Mr. Gates is only partially correct. Conspicuously absent from his list of the region's "bad guys" are the Hindutva terrorist outfits who are implicated in a series of bombings designed to fan the flames of hatred between Hindus and Muslims and then blame Pakistan for their handiwork.
In a new book titled "Who Killed Karkare?"(published by Pharos Media), the author and former Maharashtra police chief S.M. Mushrif says a nationwide network of Hindutva terrorists that has its tentacles spread up to Nepal and Israel is out to destroy India's secularism and to reshape it into a theocratic state like Afghanistan under the Taliban.
Mushrif believes that it is not Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh or Rahul Gandhi who actually run India on a day-to-day basis. Rather, it is a "power establishment" that is in charge of India, and it does not want to expose the Hindutva terrorists. One example is the blasts in Samjhauta Express, which the IB said was carried out by Pakistans ISI. Mushrif quotes a report in The Times of India that said, the Center had blamed the ISI on the basis of the IBs findings. However, during a narco-analysis test under Karkare, Lt. Col. Purohit had admitted having supplied the RDX used in the blast. The IB, which draws its power from its proximity to the Prime Minister (its director briefs the PM every morning for half an hour), did not want Karkares investigation that blew the cover off the IBs shenanigans, to continue.
Recently, India's Vice President Hamid Ansari has called for greater "oversight and accountability" of the operations of the nation's intelligence agencies by the Indian parliament. Ansari also said that, just like in other democracies like the US and the UK, the concerned agencies should make public their mission statement, outlining periodically their strategic intent, vision, mission, core values and their goals.
As India constantly highlights the terror of green variety, it must not ignore its own homegrown terror dressed in saffron. The terror of both of these hues have the potential to spark a deadly conflict in South Asia that can easily spin out of control, and completely devastate the region.
Haq's Musings: Hindutva Terror to Spark India-Pakistan War?
Haq's Musings: Terror in India--Who Killed Karkare?
Mr. Gates is only partially correct. Conspicuously absent from his list of the region's "bad guys" are the Hindutva terrorist outfits who are implicated in a series of bombings designed to fan the flames of hatred between Hindus and Muslims and then blame Pakistan for their handiwork.
In a new book titled "Who Killed Karkare?"(published by Pharos Media), the author and former Maharashtra police chief S.M. Mushrif says a nationwide network of Hindutva terrorists that has its tentacles spread up to Nepal and Israel is out to destroy India's secularism and to reshape it into a theocratic state like Afghanistan under the Taliban.
Mushrif believes that it is not Sonia Gandhi, Manmohan Singh or Rahul Gandhi who actually run India on a day-to-day basis. Rather, it is a "power establishment" that is in charge of India, and it does not want to expose the Hindutva terrorists. One example is the blasts in Samjhauta Express, which the IB said was carried out by Pakistans ISI. Mushrif quotes a report in The Times of India that said, the Center had blamed the ISI on the basis of the IBs findings. However, during a narco-analysis test under Karkare, Lt. Col. Purohit had admitted having supplied the RDX used in the blast. The IB, which draws its power from its proximity to the Prime Minister (its director briefs the PM every morning for half an hour), did not want Karkares investigation that blew the cover off the IBs shenanigans, to continue.
Recently, India's Vice President Hamid Ansari has called for greater "oversight and accountability" of the operations of the nation's intelligence agencies by the Indian parliament. Ansari also said that, just like in other democracies like the US and the UK, the concerned agencies should make public their mission statement, outlining periodically their strategic intent, vision, mission, core values and their goals.
As India constantly highlights the terror of green variety, it must not ignore its own homegrown terror dressed in saffron. The terror of both of these hues have the potential to spark a deadly conflict in South Asia that can easily spin out of control, and completely devastate the region.
Haq's Musings: Hindutva Terror to Spark India-Pakistan War?
Haq's Musings: Terror in India--Who Killed Karkare?
still people kills others on name of JIHAD...
