Dismantling terror infrastructure

Following the release of Hafiz Saeed from house arrest, India’s home minister P.Chidambaram evinced disappointment about Pakistan’s seriousness to dismantle terror infrastructure operating in their country.

Though America played a huge part in pressuring Pakistan to take the perpetrators of Mumbai 26/11 to task, they are more concerned about annihilating Taliban in Pakistan’s north west. In an era of situational politics, one cannot expect the USA to provide any more assistance in solving what is India’s problem than what they have already provided.

While we can liberally blame Pakistan for not seriously prosecuting Hafiz Saeed and others, we must not forget the kind of assistance our intelligence agencies have provided to Pakistan to expedite the trial.

When Pakistan asked for DNA samples of all the attackers killed in the encounter, one of the samples India provided did not match with any of the attackers. Later, India confessed that there had been a clerical error and they would soon provide the correct DNA sample.

While no criminal should be denied the prerogative of arguing his guiltlessness, India have gone a bit overboard in providing Ajmal Kasab with a five-star jail accomodation. When the charge sheet against him was prepared in Hindi, India have danced to Kasab’s whims and fancies and got the charges translated to Urdu, a language he understands. And when one thought all obstacles were cleared and a trial can take place, Kasab comes forward and disagrees with the charges raised on him, thereby making a mockery of our legal system. In a country that dishes out timely punishment to petty thiefs and pick pockets, it pains to see an international terrorist exploting the loopholes in the Indian legal system.

If that was not enough, India submits the investigation reports from the Mumbai probe in Marathi. Pakistan officials get back to India to get the document translated to English or Urdu. Even a 10th grade student will not submit his assignments and record note books with such shocking carelessness.

If the Indian government were any serious in bringing the perpetrators to justice, they can’t be commiting these schoolboy-type mistakes over and over again.