![]() ![]() A widely acknowledged element of criminal investigation indicates that an act of victim’s malafide should ideally be explored if the victim gets maximum benefits out of a criminal offence. Since these incidents of violence have shown the capacity of exacerbating the tension to the brink of war, it is important to understand the phenomenon of terrorism in India and a deeper analysis of the terrorist incidents allegedly carried out by Pakistan.Īn important aspect of Ganga hijacking case and the attack on Indian parliament is the fact that both the incidents proved to be politically and strategically more beneficial for India instead of being advantageous to Pakistan as in the aftermath of the former, India was able to achieve a strategic victory by dismembering Pakistan and the latter helped India mount effective political pressure on Pakistan for withdrawing its support to freedom movement in Indian Held Kashmir (IHK). Earlier, Ganga hijacking incident in early 1970’s set the stage for the 1971 war between the two neighbors and the attack on Indian parliament in early 2000’s resulted in the largest mobilization of Indian forces after the 1971 war along Pak-India border. ![]() Interestingly, the 26/11 Mumbai incident and the case against Pakistan in its aftermath that was largely based on hypothesis in the beginning and got the international media carried away with it was not the only instance of terrorism in India that created war hysteria in South Asia. The question arises whether a terrorist incident sabotaging the peace process which Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and then Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf declared as ‘irreversible’ was a natural outcome of a violent incident or in Shakespeare’s words, there is a method in madness. The manner in which Indian government, political and military establishment, and media reacted to the incident, campaigning against Pakistan on all fronts-military, political and diplomatic-effectively wrapped up the four-year long composite dialogue, confidence building measures (CBMs), and backchannel diplomacy in a zero-sum outcome. While the attacks were still going on at different places in Mumbai, Indian External Minister Pranab Mukherjee made a statement that some elements from Pakistan were responsible for these attacks. The element of external involvement in the terrorist activities in India literally consumed the popular Indian discourse in the aftermath of Mumbai terrorist attacks of November 26, 2008. ![]()
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