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Surgical masterstroke: India should not bother with releasing details of its anti-terror ops
October 6, 2016, 10:54 AM IST
Chidanand Rajghatta in
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Don’t even think about it. Releasing video footage of India’s surgical strike across the Line of Control into Pakistan is a bad idea for several reasons.
At a technical level, it is unlikely the video will show much with any degree of clarity. It’s not like the Indian military took Karan Johar along with a dozen cameras to film the hit job. It won’t be annotated with background score, sub-titles, and geographic coordinates explaining every move to the brain-dead surrender monkeys demanding it. More likely it is grainy footage in the dead of the night that could have been shot anytime, anywhere.
In fact, that is already what Pakistan’s lifafa media is claiming. A story in Pakistan’s The News newspaper (whose title is evidently aimed at assuring readers that it is not dealing with fiction), is making precisely that allegation. “The Indians are busy filming a fake video of conducting ‘surgical strikes’ in Pakistan, which will be released in a couple of days,” it “reports” in a lead story under the headline: Covering up a hoax: Indian govt filming fake ‘surgical strike’ videos. It quotes an “independent Kashmir legislator” as saying “a fake video was being filmed adjacent to the border which will portray the Indians crossing the border into Pakistan.” Presumably has Sunny Deol in it?
Clearly, New Delhi will be wasting its time and effort trying to address Pakistani imbeciles and homegrown skeptics. Islamabad and its bosses in Rawalpindi will not recognize their terrorist credentials if your hit them squarely between the eyes — or between the legs — with Osama bin Laden’s dead body. Or Mullah Omar. Or Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Or Ramzi Yousef. Or Mir Aimal Kansi. Remember, this is a country where most people, including its elites, believe the U.S (or the Jews) staged 9/11 to defame Islam.
Expectedly, its Defense Minister, who once mocked the Pakistan Army in the National Assembly as “losers” who were routed by India in 1971, is now busy kissing up to his paymasters who steal from the Pakistani people to keep its “Cash Mere” scam going. His addled mind came out with the theory that Uri was a “false flag” operation conducted by the Indians themselves – to defame Pakistan. Like Pakistan needs to be defamed. It has done a pretty good job by itself.
Plenty of Pakistani elites – diplomats, generals, TV anchors – regurgitate this “false flag” theory after every terrorist attack in India. Clearly 70 years of toxic indoctrination has done its job, delivering a country that is stewing in paranoia, delusion, hatred and bigotry. You only have to watch their television program and read some of their history books (including ”Pakistan Studies”) to realize what a desperately make-believe world they live in.
Speaking of bin Laden, do you remember seeing any footage of the U.S raid in Abbottabad? Or photos of bin Laden? Or anything relating to him other than the fact that he was tossed out to the sea at some unknown coordinate to be feasted on by ocean life.
That’s how it’s done. Leave the rest to film-makers.
The US learned its lesson from the Mir Aimal Kasi episode. Remember Kasi? Most people wouldn’t. He was a Pakistani cretin who killed two CIA employees in front of its headquarters in Langley, Virginia, and fled to – where else? – Pakistan. They always run back to commodious Pakistan. It took a while, but the U.S tracked him down, got him back, put him on trial, convicted him, and executed him by lethal injection.
Then Washington made the big mistake of returning his body to Pakistan. He was given what was virtually a state funeral, in a stadium in Quetta, attended by the entire local civil hierarchy, and, according to reports, by the local Pakistan Army Corps Commander and the Pakistani Ambassador to the United States, Ashraf Jahangir Qazi.
Tell me this is not a terrorist — or terrorist worshipping — state.
Pakistan is a terrorist state and you don’t need UN resolutions or US declamations to say it. There are hundreds of victims in India, in Afghanistan, in the U.S., across the world, EVEN in PAKISTAN, who will attest to its vile Deep State being a long-time practitioner of terrorism.
But its establishment will continue to deny it, and it’s brain-washed diplomats and generals, indoctrinated by fifty plus years of toxic history and bigotry, lie to the face of the international community that they are acting “without discrimination” against terrorists, even as they sup with the likes of UN-designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed and his junior pal Jaish-e-Mohammed’s piglet Masood Azhar.
So to expect that this rag-tag country will acknowledge anything inconvenient to its constructs – including the fact that it was caught with its pants down staging Mumbai attacks thanks to the fortuitous capture of Ajmal Kasab and the phone taps of the Karachi control room – is plain naivete. Pakistan will keep denying it is involved in terrorism even as it is flushed down the toilet of history. Let it go. Save that grainy footage for the archivists to examine how it all accelerated.
