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'India should never compromise nor buckle under international pressure'
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Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:46:06 -0400 Major Adhikari is the second officer to die in Kargil. Everybody else is living a normal life except our brave soldiers. What should I say? I am also one of the common Indian citizen living in the US. When I read news like this, my blood pressure rises but what can I do to prevent this? This is all happening because of dirty politics started even before our Independence. I salute Major Adhikari and all the other brave soldiers who have sacrificed their lives in this battle.
Prafulla
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Tue, 01 Jun 1999 12:32:09 -1000 The news of Major Adhikari's death brought tears to my eyes. It is Indians like him that make me proud of being an Indian. It is because of Indians like him that our selfish politicians are living peacefully. Had every Indian been like Major Adhikari, there would be no Pakistan, no intruders.
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Tue, 01 Jun 1999 21:19:07 GMT Can the PM or DM clarify what they want to convey to the enemies by allowing the safe passage of intruders? That anyone can attack India and if they are not successful, they can retreat safely and come back at their convenience to attack us. Does anybody think of armed forces, how this might affect them?
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Tue, 01 Jun 1999 16:39:20 -0500 What is this nonsense that I read on the web? Why should the intruders be allowed to safely return to Pakistan -- only to hit back again at a later time, after being better trained? We have seen enough of this and have lost many men of valour defending our country many a times. I say obliterate the enemy before our politicians decide to undo all that our troops have achieved, like they have done so many times in the past! Jai Hind. Srinivas Ganti
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Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:39:50 -0700 I fully agree with this report. India should never compromise nor buckle under international pressure. The armed forces should continue their operation till the infiltrators are captured, killed or driven away.
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Wed, 02 Jun 1999 06:29:23 +0530 George Fernandes goofed and then made vigorous efforts to deny and cover up the failure of intelligence. He should be barred from making public statements on the matter and quickly removed from decision making. He said in a Star TV interview that his military intelligence was provided by a shepherd on May 6th and he acted on May 8th. Don't we have no sophisticated means of intelligence! The question is why didn't the army intelligence report this. The man is incompetent and should be dismissed before he causes more damage. The service PROs need to be restrained from letting their emotional involvement from overriding their public statements. Why are the same pictures of outdated guns and wrong type of helicopters (all pictures probably from file archives) used day after day? The drill for firing heavy artillery guns do not seem to have changed from what we were trained as NCC cadets in the 1950s! Can we not do better on this front? Dr Siddiqui
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 1999 21:17:42 EDT After suffering through 20,000 civilian and military casualties because of the terrorist operation in Kashmir, Pakistan finally launches a frontal attack which in a few days has seen the military loss climbing to 46 dead, 170 wounded and 12 missing. But our defence minister exonerates the Pakistani PM and ISI in a public statement just when we have started getting strong international support for our air and military action. Then he gets the army top brass involved in a political vendetta to save his skin from the BJP hawks and now the talk of safe passage. It should be just the other way round --s as the diehard heavily indoctrinated mujahideen are not likely to cease their fight against India even if they are allowed safe passage back to Pakistan, and as per the Western intelligence report of another 3,000 infiltrators waiting in the wings across the LOC, India should lure these mujahideen across the border to some of the not so strategic passes with the purpose of liquidating them. This would rather be the kind of damage, which might not only inflict serious damage to the terrorist organisations but discourage future recruitment. This would help our cause immensely internationally in further substantiating our claim of Pakistan sponsored terrorism in Kashmir.
Rajan Panda
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Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:44:44 -0700 Fear of the Kargil situation escalating into a war can be seen in almost all the articles I have read in Rediff, not to mention that caution and conservatism was expressed by military personnel. I am sad to say that we are walking on the path of self-submission as our ancestors did on every occasion of invasion by foreign armies. We are always afraid to fight or retaliate with determination. I am ashamed that the fear of war is being expressed by army personnel, who on the other hand should be keen about fighting a war as was the case in other countries around the world. I am ashamed that even after 3,000 years of submission, we are consciously choosing to surrender our freedom than fighting a war. Nathan
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Mon, 31 May 1999 16:26:24 -0700 Gaurav's article has some important points but only one repeated for emphasis -- the mistake of the Indian nuclear tests. Damned if we do, damned if we don't. That's what one feels about India's decision to go for nuke weapons. The fact that we exposed Pakistan's weapons programme goes uncredited. The fact that we need deterrence that assures mutual destruction in the face of the China-Pak nexus does not merit attention. The only point being beaten to death is that India has nukes but to what avail (in relevance to the war in Kargil). Well, my take on this subject is as follows: Let this current conflict engulf the two nations a full fledged war begin and let China intercede on behalf of Pakistan. At that point our forces will have the justification to use any and every weapon to defend the nation. It might not be a great day but at least people will have the opportunity to watch a few "pundits" eat their shoes. Indian "nukewallahs" never proclaimed that nukes will solve all the problems. Rather they proclaimed that with nukes all problems will be forced to the table rather than decided through war. Arun
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Mon, 31 May 1999 19:51:27 -0400 My friends and me are very seething with anger. It's high time for these guys to know what we can do. I totally agree to the use of napalm bombs. If the need arise I am ready to fight. Raj
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Mon, 31 May 1999 16:51:45 PDT The article by Wing Commander R V Parasnis is the most appropriate, interesting, and to the point analysis of the situation that I have read so far. The defensive and non-aggressive nature of India's attitude with Pakistan has cost numerous lives, not to mention the overall cost of these years of conflict. If only these views could be conveyed to the persons who could actually use this as a motivation to wake up, and adopt a more aggressive and decisive stand against the Pakistanis. But I suppose it takes generations to change the mind-set of an entire population, and changing our patient, tolerant, and "showing the other cheek" attitude will take no less. This tame mindset, which costs us dearly in politics, international affairs, sport, and just about everywhere else, does not seem to be changing. Unilateral maturity, and desires for peace will lead no where. Once again, thanks for the excellent article, if only this wisdom were implemented... Tejbir Singh
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Tue, 1 Jun 1999 23:17:34 +0530 It is completely a one-sided report, giving the Congress side of the news. Avoid these.
Dr V P Middha
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Tue, 01 Jun 1999 14:03:02 -0400 I wanted to commend your editors about the excellent report. Although, the news is disheartening and depressing that the purported defence minister of India is still posturing politically, rather than doing everything in his power to stop such an invasion. My heart goes out to the soldiers who are fighting in Kargil and laying down their lives for the country. At least at this time, strong measures have to be taken to protect them and offer our undivided support putting aside petty political differences. It is disgraceful that our defence minister chooses to hide behind the army leaders rather than face the music from his own political party. The defence forces are and should be above any political differences. The defence minister should be fired and another senior leader appointed in his place as this is such a vital position for our country. The minister should forget about trying to save his job, without even doing his job, and try to save the lives of our brave jawans who are fighting for the country.
Suresh Ravindran
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Tue, 01 Jun 1999 13:09:52 -0500 Mr George Iype has been doing a series of news stories on his wishful misunderstanding among ministers in the government. I suppose Kargil is a serious matter and a journalist with more credibility than the one who had been wishing the "exodus" etc should be given this responsibility. If what Mr Iype writes is true then it's a very serious matter. We hope some another independent reporter can confirm that there does indeed exist one "senior defence ministry official" who is conveniently quoted so often. In another words these are not fanciful hypotheses in which Mr Iype has indulged in the past. The story is important and needs independent confirmation. Himanshu
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Tue, 01 Jun 1999 11:16:14 -0700 Mr George Iype, Relax. This is not the time to talk or discuss such issues. Better give some rest to your analytical brain for a while and allow others to work. Nagaraj
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Tue, 1 Jun 1999 14:10:14 -0400 If indeed the areas under discussion are barren, unpopulated, why are they not mined heavily to stop such incursions/intrusions by the Pakis? Samuel Beera
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Tue, 1 Jun 1999 13:38:05 -0500 I think you should encourage the authors to dwell on the rationale behind what they profess or advocate in their articles. For example, Major General Ashok K Mehta (retd) gives us a lot of dos and donts, but does not even once explain why. Why must we not cross the LoC? Why must we not order interdiction on the Pak side of LoC? To me the fact that the general lists option one -- "The easiest is: do nothing except cap and contain the intrusions." is a commentary on our army and state in general. The general goes on in his defeatist vein... "The danger will arise if and when the Pakistan Air Force takes to the skies to defend its air space or the army resorts to additional ground operations in another sector." Whew! man...I am glad the general is retired! Vijainder K Thakur
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Tue, 01 Jun 1999 20:53:37 -0700 I believe India should continue to take military action against the intruders, no matter what would be the outcome of the talks with the Pakistan foreign minister. As per the international laws, intruders can simply be 'killed'. In order to motivate the 'veer jawans' who are ready to lay down their lives for their motherland, and do justice to the jawans who have already laid down their lives, the BJP government should take every step to fight it out and fix this issue for ever rather than repeating history time and again. I see no reason why India should lose men, money and efforts only to drive the intruders back instead of killing them or capturing them alive. India needs to be more aggressive in actions, rather than diluting the intensity of the situation with political talks. Issues that remained unsolved over several decades cannot be addressed and resolved by the diplomatic visit of an individual. Goodness is often interpreted as incompetence. Let us now give room to our enemy to conclude that we are 'incompetent'. Nagesh
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Wed, 2 Jun 1999 12:10:42 +0530 Nice and forceful but ultimately inconclusive. Indubitably, to pledge independence to Kashmir is an easy way of washing our hands off the whole uncomfortable affair but very soon, a similar argument would be extended to the north eastern states and who knows if there would be any stopping thereafter. Think we need to dig our heels in the old-fashioned way, accept the LoC as the international boundary and work towards repudiating what the writer calls the raison d'etre of Pakistan -- its bellicosity towards India. Unfortunately, the guy on the street in both India and Pakistan today has little stake in the welfare of the other country -- if there were thousands of education scholarships being lost due to 'infiltration' or big trade contracts being jeorpadised, the governments in the two countries might pause before letting loose a few missiles. We need to integrate the two countries, and like it or not, India has to take the lead. The Pakistani junta will drag its feet as hard as it can, but that's where our politico-military structure must stand up and be counted. Prasanna
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