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Kashmir LoC Skirmishes and Anti-Pakistan Hysteria in India

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Deadly skirmishes started between Indian and Pakistani forces along LoC in the disputed territory of Kashmir in early January 2013, barely weeks after Pakistan Army doctrine acknowledged domestic militancy as the biggest threat to national security.

Here's how Najam Sethi, a well-known Pakistani peacenik and a strong advocate of India-Pakistan friendship, described the events in his Friday Times editorial titled "Don't derail Indo-Pak relations":

"It is established that when the Indian army recently started to build some bunkers in Charanda in Haji Pir Sector of the LoC, it violated an agreement in 2005 not to change the status quo. This provoked the Pakistanis to shell Indian positions in a bid to stop the construction of the bunkers. The Indian commander of 161 Brigade in the area countered on January 6th by ordering a raid across the LoC to silence the troublesome Pakistani post. One Pakistani soldier was killed, provoking a protest by Pakistan's DGMO on 7th Jan, followed by a Pakistani counter attack across the LoC on Jan 8th in which two Indian soldiers were killed. At that stage, on Jan 9th, the Indian media erupted with allegations of a "beheading" of one Indian soldier and "castration" and "mutilation" of the other by the Pakistanis. This was an unprecedented act of savagery, said the Indian media, that called for reprisals. The initial reaction of the Indian foreign and defence ministers was measured and cautious no less than that of the spokesmen of the Indian army. But this soon gave way under media pressure, prompting both to become hawkish."

Barkha Dutt, a hawkish TV anchor at NDTV, led the Indian media charge against Pakistan by accusing Pakistani military of "savagery" and "barbarism". Indian prime minister talked of "no business as usual", and Indian Army and Air Force chiefs threatened to use "all options". Pakistan's offer to have the incidents independently investigated by the United Nations was rejected.

All the talk of "Aman Ki Asha" went out the window when Pakistani hockey players were unceremoniously ejected from India as the right-wing Hindu organizations were aided and abetted by the hawkish anti-Pakistan Indian media. Hindu Nationalist BJP leader Sushma Swaraj demanded "ten Pakistani heads for one Indian head".

Soon, Barkha Dutt's phony outrage and Sushma Swaraj's bloodthirsty rhetoric about "beheading" were exposed by a quick Google search by Najam Sethi. Sethi found an article in a Nepalese publication Himal in which Barkha described how she was shown a severed head of a Pakistani as war trophy by an Indian Army officer in Kargil in 1999. Here's what she wrote in the article titled "Confessions of a war reporter":

"I had to look three times to make sure I was seeing right. Balanced on one knee, in a tiny alley behind the army’s administrative offices, I was peering through a hole in a corrugated tin sheet. At first glance, all I could see were some leaves. I looked harder and amidst all the green, there was a hint of black – it looked like a moustache. “Look again,” said the army colonel, in a tone that betrayed suppressed excitement. This time, I finally saw.

It was a head, the disembodied face of a slain soldier nailed onto a tree. “The boys got it as a gift for the brigade,” said the colonel, softly, but proudly. Before I could react, the show was over. A faded gunny bag appeared from nowhere, shrouded the soldier’s face, the brown of the bag now merging indistinguishably with the green of the leaves. Minutes later, we walked past the same tree where the three soldiers who had earlier unveiled the victory trophy were standing. From the corner of his eye, the colonel exchanged a look of shard achievement, and we moved on. We were firmly in the war zone."


Further research by Shivam Vu published in India Today found that reports of beheading of soldiers are not "unprecedented". Here's an excerpt from Shivam Vu's piece titled "Cheap Logomachy" :

"Buried inside a report by Shishir Gupta in the Hindustan Times was the claim that two Indian soldiers were beheaded in July 2011 and “three months later, heads of three Pakistani soldiers went missing, with Islamabad lodging a protest with New Delhi.” Don’t you love it that while Indian soldiers are beheaded, Pakistani soldiers’ heads go “missing”—as though they detach themselves from the bodies of the soldiers and just disappear? The report also claimed that similar beheadings (of Indian soldiers) and heads going missing (of Pakistanis) had taken place in 2000, 2003 and 2007. When Admiral Lakshminarayan Ramdas (retd), former chief of the Indian navy, tried to say on Barkha Dutt’s show on NDTV that the Indian army has also beheaded Pakistani soldiers, he was cut short by Dutt. But in 2001, Dutt had herself written that she had seen a head displayed as a war trophy by the Indian army during the Kargil war in 1999. Two other journalists were not shy of recalling similar experiences: Sankarshan Thakur of The Telegraph (on his website) and Harinder Baweja of the Hindustan Times on Twitter.

If these incidents happen so often, why did anonymous sources in the Indian army decide to use the defence correspondents to make it seem like an unprecedented provocation from Pakistan? There is little doubt that the beheading of a soldier, and the taking away of his head as a war trophy is sickening and outrageous and every such incident should come to light. But it should also remind us of the brutalities of war, and that the LoC is a ceasefire line where hostilities have merely been halted until the next battle; that the two armies stand eye-to-eye there because of the Kashmir dispute; that Jammu and Kashmir is not a settled question. Such thoughts are apparently anti-national. And bad for TRPs."


Indian media, military and politicians have a history of whipping up anti-Pakistan frenzy on many occasions in the past. Many Indians suffer from what Sashi Tharoor has aptly described as India's "Israel Envy". The Indian hawks must clearly understand that their miscalculations can lead to devastation in the entire South Asia region.

These recent events and the warmongering response by the Indian govt, politicians and media are a reminder that Pakistan can not afford to become complacent about peace with India. Pakistanis should hope for the best and prepare for the worst.

Haq's Musings: Indian Security Hawks and Media Whip Up Anti-Pak Hysteria
 
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they lost all their credibility when even their army chief couldnt confirm about a so-called "be-headed soldier"

indian hysteria and toothless saber-rattling is neither new nor out of their national character....but Pakistan gets the last laugh.
 
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They made a joke out of themselves with all the warmongering.
 
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Lol to be honest I am enjoying their behavior. :D
 
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India Partition happened for the only reason of hindu terrorism which is proven by history facts.... where millions lost there life due hindus attitude of supremacy, injustice and there atrocities and terrorism which still they dont accept as the root cause partition and still on course of divisiveness in society, if this terrorism is not stop then many more division of india on card, be it by muslim, sikh, dalit ...etc etc
 
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India Partition happened for the only reason of hindu terrorism which is proven by history facts.... where millions lost there life due hindus attitude of supremacy, injustice and there atrocities and terrorism which still they dont accept as the root cause partition and still on course of divisiveness in society, if this terrorism is not stop then many more division of india on card, be it by muslim, sikh, dalit ...etc etc

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Anyways stick to the topic.
:rofl:
 
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Indians are too scared of Pakistan. The Pakistanis bombed India in 2008 and they did nothing, the Pakistanis f**ked the Indian military, the Indians did jack sh*t.
 
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India is a big mouth but cant really do anything
 
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i'd like to correct an earlier post; 2008 was not war-time. Pakistan did not attack india at any time, though there were some reported LoC cross-firing incidents - some which involved casualties
 
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Very sad to see that beheading of Pakistani soldiers first started by Indian army during kargil in 1999. Indian army have many times beheaded Pakistani soldiers and Pakistan have taken revenge every time but now suddenly india have started making stories of beheading like they have never beheaded Pakistani soldiers and presented them as trophy to their brigade and showed to war reporters also, what a bunch of hypocrite savage people.
 
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Indians are too scared of Pakistan. The Pakistanis bombed India in 2008 and they did nothing, the Pakistanis f**ked the Indian military, the Indians did jack sh*t.

Yes agreed. Out of this fear we ripped Pakistan into two parts in 1971. The other part is known an Bangladesh.

We are again scared of Pakistan and Indan Army wants to again bet fucked by the mighty Pakistan Army. Out of this fear this time we willl again rip away Baluchistan and also take back Occupied Kasmir part.
 
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Yes agreed. Out of this fear we ripped Pakistan into two parts in 1971. The other part is known an Bangladesh.

We are again scared of Pakistan and Indan Army wants to again bet fucked by the mighty Pakistan Army. Out of this fear this time we willl again rip away Baluchistan and also take back Occupied Kasmir part.

Before that Maoist areas, Khalistan, Kashmir, North eastern, and other 35 sepertist groups in India will achieve independence from India.. Lol... India will be fucked dude.
Or, India will be nuked.

Maybe you can reincarnate as a radioactive flower? Hmm... ?
 
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Indians are too scared of Pakistan. The Pakistanis bombed India in 2008 and they did nothing, the Pakistanis f**ked the Indian military, the Indians did jack sh*t.

Ok...i now understand why the Moderators have banned you ....you write so nice and sweet words that anybody may ban you.
 
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