Just guess, your bag has been picked by somebody. You are just watching the thief and you have nothing to do at that moment. Seeing you are crying yourself silly, he stops and listens you sympathetically. “I have been summoned by the boss,” he tells you. “If I find the thief on my way, I will catch him and get back your bag,” he adds helpfully. Meanwhile, the cop on the other side has vanished.
Its really a wretched situation. You can see the thief and you can’t do anything about it. You only have a number of non-options and this leaves you virtually paralyzed. You curse your luck that the bag contains the month’s salary. Now magnify this crime a hundred times over.
Friend! It’s not just that you have lost your bag with month’s salary. It’s matter of your life and security. The killer has already mowed down thousands and coming towards you. You may have many ways of stopping him but each option will come with scary side effects. You face the same paralysis- inducing dilemma, leading to a sense of helplessness.
That’s really the predicament of the government in the wake of the Mumbai carnage – it knows the killers, knows where they were trained, who were the trainers, their links with the sections of ISI, and much more. Yet it doesn’t know what to do next.
Let’s get into the full story. Pieced together after talking to people who are in thick of it.
The Indian government feels the attack this time was meticulously planned, with the help of top intelligence inputs and professional. It thinks that its unlikely the Indian fishing trawler Kuber was hijacked. A well planned attack mission like this would not depend on the off-chance of hijacking a boat for it’s success, Rather the Indian crew of the boat were probably mixed up in smuggling and got sucked into this deadly game. And paid with their lives.
The Indian government knows the attack organized by Pakistan related communities. In fact, the Pakistan government does not deny this. Even now when Asif Ali Zardari is telling Larry King that the terrorist attackers are “stateless people”, he isn’t saying they are not Pakistanis. Earlier, foreign minister shah mehmood Qureshi, who was in India when the attack took place, told the media he was willing to send the ISI chief for joint probe, signaling that he believed the attackers were Pakistanis.
The ISI was telling the civilian government to get off. Meanwhile, the Pakistan army sounded a warning about an Indian military buildup along the border. Media close to the army like “Pakistan Observer” and “Frontier Post”, and some TV channels played up this alleged buildup.
What is in our hands? Let us see what will be happen in the next phase of this current situation.
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