According to reports, the eighth Indian dossier containing more details on the Mumbai terror attacks has been handed over to the Interior Minister, Mr Rehman Malik by Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir, who had visited India and was given the dossier during the one-point foreign secretary level talks.
It seeks strict action against Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, who is alleged to be the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. The dossier is about the handing over of Saeed and 34 others wanted by India. However, after the talks, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir had commented that evidence presented by New Delhi against Saeed was mere literature and India did not have enough proof against him. Earlier, New Delhi had expressed severe concern over Islamabads inaction against Saeed. The Indian administration needs to accept the fact that Pakistans free and fair judiciary, whose independence was acclaimed by India too, had examined the evidence against him after he was arrested in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks. In light of the data presented by India as proof incriminating Hafiz Saeed, the independent judiciary in Pakistan had considered it inadequate to convict him. Thus, he was set free. India, which boasts of an independent, fair and free judicial system in its own country, should realise that it has Ajmal Kasab in its custody, who is alleged to be the sole survivor of the attackers involved in the Mumbai carnage. Despite Kasabs signed confession, video footage of the assailants and hundreds of witnesses of the heinous crime, the Indian judicial system has yet to declare him guilty of any crime. Nevertheless, India will have to put faith in Pakistans judiciary or provide solid evidence of Hafiz Saeeds involvement in the gory episode. India had also expressed dissent over Islamabad allowing Saeed to make provocative and insidious statements against India during a television interview. Saeed had declared an open Jihad against India in the interview. If India is not ready to talk on water and Kashmir then Pakistan should wage a war against India. JuD will fight along with the Pakistan army, the Jihadi leader had said. Hafiz Saeeds comments may be termed provocative but surely it is not a serious crime meriting his arrest and handing over to India. If it were so, Indias own firebrand demagogue Bal Keshav Thackeray, popularly known as Balasaheb Thackeray, who is the founder and chief of the Shiv Sena, a hardcore Hindu nationalist Marathi ethnocentric and extremist party, must be taken into consideration. The hothead, highly vocal radical leader, in his vitriolic comments seldom hides the venom he harbours for Muslims and Pakistan. In 2002, Thackeray issued a call to form Hindu suicide squads in orderto take the Muslims head on. Labelling them as trouble makers, Balaji demanded that the Muslims should be wiped out from the country to make India secure. Urging the Hindus to start referring to India Hindu Rashtra (Hindu nation), the Shiv Sena militant leader maintains that only our religion [Hinduism] is to be honoured here and then we will look after other religions. Therefore, at least two organisations founded and managed by the retired Indian army officers namely Lieutenant Colonel Jayant Rao Chitale and Lieutenant General P N Hoon (former commander-in-chief of the Western Command), answered Bal Thackerays call to set up the suicide squads in India. Lieutenant General Hoon claimed that Thackeray instructed him to set up the training camps. Another Balaji follower is the Indian armys serving Lieutenant Colonel Srikanth Prasad Prohit, most wanted by Pakistan for his complicity in torching the Samjhota Express which took a toll of 59 Pakistani passengers. Bal Thackeray continues to publish inflammatory editorials in his partys newsletter, Sa (Confrontation). When explaining his views on Hindutva he has conflated Islam with violence and has called for Hindus to fight terrorism and fight Islam. In an interview that is published in Suketu Mehtas book titled Maximum City, he advocates the hanging of Indian Muslims and mass expulsion of Muslim migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh. One of his more acerbic statements needs attention: They [Muslims] are spreading like a cancer and should be operated on like a cancer. The...country should be saved from the Muslims and the police should support them [Hindu Maha Sangh] in their struggle just like the police in Punjab were sympathetic to the Khalistanis. Moreover, Thackeray had criticised and challenged the Indian Muslims through his party newspaper, S⭮a, when the 16th century Babri Masjid was demolished by members of the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the northern town of Ayodhya, on December 6, 1992. The razing of the mosque was followed by mass killing and genocide of the Muslims. The Justice Srikrishna Commission of Enquiry, which investigated the communal riots in Mumbai, named Thackeray for sparking anti-Muslim violence that had led to more than 1,000 deaths in several ensuing riots. The Srikrishna Commission found that Thackeray was personally responsible, not only for inciting the mobs through his incendiary speeches, but also directly coordinating the movement of the rioters. In a deposition before the Srikrishna Commission a witness alleged Thackeray coordinated much of the January 1993 Mumbai carnage. Yuvraj Mohite claimed: Balasaheb ordered that not one Muslim be left alive to stand in the witness box, and asked his men to send the additional police commissioner, A A Khan, to his Allah. Balaji later announced: I am proud of what my boys have done. We had to retaliate and we did. If it was not for us, no one would have controlled the Muslims. He has since made more inflammatory statements regarding Muslims, and reiterated his desire for Hindus to unite across linguistic barriers and to see a Hindustan for Hindus and to bring Islam in this country down to its knees. Let the readers decide themselves, whether Bal Thackeray should be handed over to Pakistan to face trial for his crimes against humanity or not Surely, there is enough evidence to convict him. The writer is a political and defence analyst.
It seeks strict action against Jamaat-ud-Dawah (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, who is alleged to be the mastermind of the 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks. The dossier is about the handing over of Saeed and 34 others wanted by India. However, after the talks, Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir had commented that evidence presented by New Delhi against Saeed was mere literature and India did not have enough proof against him. Earlier, New Delhi had expressed severe concern over Islamabads inaction against Saeed. The Indian administration needs to accept the fact that Pakistans free and fair judiciary, whose independence was acclaimed by India too, had examined the evidence against him after he was arrested in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks. In light of the data presented by India as proof incriminating Hafiz Saeed, the independent judiciary in Pakistan had considered it inadequate to convict him. Thus, he was set free. India, which boasts of an independent, fair and free judicial system in its own country, should realise that it has Ajmal Kasab in its custody, who is alleged to be the sole survivor of the attackers involved in the Mumbai carnage. Despite Kasabs signed confession, video footage of the assailants and hundreds of witnesses of the heinous crime, the Indian judicial system has yet to declare him guilty of any crime. Nevertheless, India will have to put faith in Pakistans judiciary or provide solid evidence of Hafiz Saeeds involvement in the gory episode. India had also expressed dissent over Islamabad allowing Saeed to make provocative and insidious statements against India during a television interview. Saeed had declared an open Jihad against India in the interview. If India is not ready to talk on water and Kashmir then Pakistan should wage a war against India. JuD will fight along with the Pakistan army, the Jihadi leader had said. Hafiz Saeeds comments may be termed provocative but surely it is not a serious crime meriting his arrest and handing over to India. If it were so, Indias own firebrand demagogue Bal Keshav Thackeray, popularly known as Balasaheb Thackeray, who is the founder and chief of the Shiv Sena, a hardcore Hindu nationalist Marathi ethnocentric and extremist party, must be taken into consideration. The hothead, highly vocal radical leader, in his vitriolic comments seldom hides the venom he harbours for Muslims and Pakistan. In 2002, Thackeray issued a call to form Hindu suicide squads in orderto take the Muslims head on. Labelling them as trouble makers, Balaji demanded that the Muslims should be wiped out from the country to make India secure. Urging the Hindus to start referring to India Hindu Rashtra (Hindu nation), the Shiv Sena militant leader maintains that only our religion [Hinduism] is to be honoured here and then we will look after other religions. Therefore, at least two organisations founded and managed by the retired Indian army officers namely Lieutenant Colonel Jayant Rao Chitale and Lieutenant General P N Hoon (former commander-in-chief of the Western Command), answered Bal Thackerays call to set up the suicide squads in India. Lieutenant General Hoon claimed that Thackeray instructed him to set up the training camps. Another Balaji follower is the Indian armys serving Lieutenant Colonel Srikanth Prasad Prohit, most wanted by Pakistan for his complicity in torching the Samjhota Express which took a toll of 59 Pakistani passengers. Bal Thackeray continues to publish inflammatory editorials in his partys newsletter, Sa (Confrontation). When explaining his views on Hindutva he has conflated Islam with violence and has called for Hindus to fight terrorism and fight Islam. In an interview that is published in Suketu Mehtas book titled Maximum City, he advocates the hanging of Indian Muslims and mass expulsion of Muslim migrants from neighbouring Bangladesh. One of his more acerbic statements needs attention: They [Muslims] are spreading like a cancer and should be operated on like a cancer. The...country should be saved from the Muslims and the police should support them [Hindu Maha Sangh] in their struggle just like the police in Punjab were sympathetic to the Khalistanis. Moreover, Thackeray had criticised and challenged the Indian Muslims through his party newspaper, S⭮a, when the 16th century Babri Masjid was demolished by members of the Shiv Sena and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the northern town of Ayodhya, on December 6, 1992. The razing of the mosque was followed by mass killing and genocide of the Muslims. The Justice Srikrishna Commission of Enquiry, which investigated the communal riots in Mumbai, named Thackeray for sparking anti-Muslim violence that had led to more than 1,000 deaths in several ensuing riots. The Srikrishna Commission found that Thackeray was personally responsible, not only for inciting the mobs through his incendiary speeches, but also directly coordinating the movement of the rioters. In a deposition before the Srikrishna Commission a witness alleged Thackeray coordinated much of the January 1993 Mumbai carnage. Yuvraj Mohite claimed: Balasaheb ordered that not one Muslim be left alive to stand in the witness box, and asked his men to send the additional police commissioner, A A Khan, to his Allah. Balaji later announced: I am proud of what my boys have done. We had to retaliate and we did. If it was not for us, no one would have controlled the Muslims. He has since made more inflammatory statements regarding Muslims, and reiterated his desire for Hindus to unite across linguistic barriers and to see a Hindustan for Hindus and to bring Islam in this country down to its knees. Let the readers decide themselves, whether Bal Thackeray should be handed over to Pakistan to face trial for his crimes against humanity or not Surely, there is enough evidence to convict him. The writer is a political and defence analyst.
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