My article was never meant to be an ‘India vs Pak’ treatise, but merely to highlight the fact that terrorism is the biggest scourge that afflicts mankind today – whether it is in US, Palestine or in Pakistan or in India – and if civilisation as we know it is to survive, then somebody has to combat it. The Indian army is fighting it in Kashmir, the Sri Lankan army in Northern Sri Lanka, and the Pakistan army on its border with Afghanistan. In all the above cases, as a soldier I fully back the armies concerned. If 9/11 did some good, it was to bring to the fore the realisation that terror simply could not be used as a political weapon any longer. It virtually eliminated any difference between `freedom fighters’ or mujahideen or plain and simple terrorists.
I think it is ridiculous to believe, as some Pakistanis do, that 9/11 was an ‘inside job’ – just as I castigate Sushma Swaraj (a leading BJP politician) for suggesting that the recent Ahmedabad blasts were perpetrated by the Congress to deflect attention from the ‘money for votes’ scandal. Democratic governments responsible to the people simply do not deliberately kill their own citizens in order to ensure political longevity.
http://newageislam.com/fighting-terrorism-in-fata--an-indian-view-/war-on-terror/d/587
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