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incorrigible country Pakistan seems to be having memory lapses far too
frequently. From what has happened in the recent past, it seems, it has
forgotten Balakot and Uri before that. In the last few days it has claimed the
lives of about a dozen of Indian security officials, including a Lt. Colonel
and a Major and a few others have been injured.
Surprisingly
Pakistan is continuing with its policy of inflicting thousand cuts on India
even as the Covid 19 pandemic is peaking in the country. The situation in
Pakistan is no better. West Punjab already has more than 10000 Corona patients
and the number is expected to go up to 20000. Around 160 doctors have tested
positive. Worse, there is severe shortage of the necessary equipment to fight
the pandemic. PPEs are in short supply as are nurses and doctors. There have
been strikes by doctors at various places for want of PPEs. Even if PPEs are
available healthcare workers are ignorant of the protocols to don and doff
them. Besides testing of patients is limited and in numerous cases, as told by
doctors, test results were not revealed to keep the numbers down.
While
their country is up against a pandemic with inadequate resources it thinks
nothing of sacrificing the cream of the nation’s youth in destabilizing
Kashmir. No wonder, PM Modi had occasion to remark that while India was
exporting medicines to friendly countries Pakistan was doing what it knows
best, i.e., exporting terror to India.
The
losses of a Lt. Colonel and a Major – two young and bright Indian Army
officers, as also several others of various ranks of the Army and Police have
hurt the people of this country. There are already anguished cries for revenge.
While it is for the government to decide about the nature of a response, people
can only make their feelings known. None can, however, deny the fact that
Pakistan can have no claims over any part of Jammu & Kashmir. Its
transgressions across the border to kill Indian security men cannot, therefore,
be tolerated.
Some
TV channels have described the killing of Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist Riaz
Naikoo as a revenge for the martyrdoms of Col. Asutosh Sharma and Maj. Anuj
Sood. That is, to my mind, is far-fetched. Riaz was a Kashmiri and he was only
a puppet of Syed Salahuddin, the Hizbul Mujahedeen chief. A true and proper
revenge for the martyrdom of Col. Asutosh Sharma would be to take out
Salahuddin so that Hizbul Mujahids are removed for ever from the face of this earth.
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