The Rediff Special
'Shall we negotiate Kashmir too now?'
Nightmare of Flight 814, Message Board. Views verbatim, edited lightly.
Name:mahadevan
Email:devan_ram@hotmail.com
Message:Why are we keeping these criminals in our jails for such a long time?
Dossiers of these terrorists indicate that they have committed henious crimes. If the punishment had been swift (death penalty for killing several Indian citizens and waging war against the state), the criminals like Azar will be long gone and there would have been no reason for the terrorists to hijack the plane for the release of these demented people.
Our government has to explain why they have been keeping these terrorists in our jails for five years?
As far our home minister is concerned, he has proved to be tough talking, no acting minister (as the saying goes, barking dog never bites). We need a soft talking, tough acting home minister.
Name:Aptes
Email:
Message:Vajpayee govt. has been a big disgrace. They should not have bowed to the terrorist. What is the difference between the Vajpayee govt. and V P Singh's govt. Both seem to be equally spineless. Where they would have freed only one terrorist on the first day itself and spared the passengers such a long ordeal. They have played into the hands of the Taliban and Pakistan and literally made a fool of themselves and India and instead released three terrorists. The Taliban has executed everything to precision and must now be laughing over our stupidity. Not only have they helped the terrorists but also created a very positive image for themselves by pretending to help. It won't be long before India is declared an Islamic state if these state of affairs continue. What a great black way to start the new century.Our deepest sympathies to the three service chiefs and our soldiers. Be prepared for some more morale boosting episodes like this.
Name:
Email:Abdul@hotmail.com
Message:It is surprising that western nations have mostly kept quiet. I wonder which nation is now going to give asylum to these killers of an innocent passenger. These people have given Islam a bad name.
Name:K Taparia
Email:ktaparia@hotmail.com
Message:India Govt. has done the blunder by realising three (or four according to Rediff news) hardcore terrorists. This might lead to more blackmailing. After releasing Mufti's daughter in 1989, we did a big mistake, which lead to another few kidnapping cases to get the release of others. But the India govt. at that time took a very strong position and didn't release any of them. That was a strong message sent to those terrorists. But again releasing the terrorists, India has showed her cowardness. The fame we got by winning Kargil is lost now. It seems we can a won a battle of physical power, but not that of a nerve. Its a shame for us. I am really surprised, why the govt. act so hastily after waiting for seven days and at a time when the whole nation was against release of terrorists? My last question - can anyone find out whether any of the hostages is a relative to some politician or big businessman/industrialist?
Name:Kaamini
Email:karushri@aol.com
Message:Hi
I am extremely disappointed with the only govt that I had faith in. How could they release 3 militants. I would have even understood if only Azhar was released but zargar, the son of a bitch should never never have been released. I hope they at least injected some AIDS virus or some such thing in their system before releasing them. A sad sad day. A worse New Year than I had anticipated. Now what. Are they increasing their crackdown in Kashmir or just giving it up. Just hand it over to them and then I want Maharashtra as my own country. I probably should start an agitation with the help of the bastard pakis to accomplish this. Non Nationalistic Kashmiris should all be whacked till they get their senses back on track. They are like the spoilt child used to too much concessions. A sad day which will never be forgotten.
Name:Abhishek R Naik
Email:abhisheknaik@hotmail.com
Message:Niether of the political parties of India use this episode for their political advantage by blaming each others. This is question of all Indians and India as such.
Name:pvjagannathan
Email:pvjagannathan@hotmail.com
Message:the release means the sacrifice of kargil heroes is nothing but a cruel joke on them by these emotional relatives who brow beaten the govt and proxy win for pakisthan
Name:Nisha
Email:
Message: The hijacking clearly shows Pakistani as well as the Taleban involvement. I think these people who are fighting the so called 'Islamic wars' are SICK in their mind. One look at them shows that they are 'butchers', their only aim in life being to kill innocent people.
I wish India gets very vocal about all that has happened and reiterates to the world about Pakistan being a 'Terrorist nation'. Kargil should not be forgotten. These militants should be taught a lesson. Also it is so shameful that Pakistan is still our most favoured nation. They are a 'BIG CURSE' on India and its people.
It is a good decision by the govt. to have armed commandos aboard the Indian airlines (better late than never).
Name:Indian
Email:
Message:Of course, India sold out national interest.
It revealed the truth to the world that
we do not have good Crisis Management.
These stupid politicians are leading us to
a complete destruction.
Vajpayee disappointed us, Indians.
They proved they are also the same stinking
politicians like the congress.
So to save India, Military should take over,
and all Militants shouls be killed along with
corrupted politicians.
Name:Anonymous
Email:Anony
Message:The decision by the Indian govt to relase 3 milits would demoroalise the spirit of the armed forces/police/intelligence authorities fighting Insurgency in Kashmir.
It would embolden the Terrorists and Pakistan.
The international community would care a damn since India took a compromising attitude both with Taliban (which US loathes) and in the Kidnapping issue.
The repercussions of this fiasco would be seen very soon
Name:GAURAV CHANDNA
Email:gauravchandna@hotmail.com
Message:no, the govt. shouldn't have released the three millitants.
but, it had no other option left with them because the relatives of the under captivity
were also pressuring it to quickly get the people released.
Name:Muhammed Asif
Email:tajintl@hotmail.com
Message:India made mistake at Amritsar airport. All this story may be ended here only.I think Indian goverment shows laziness too much in contacting the hijackers for their demand & the problem would be solved better in India only. Whether the attack by commondos or dialoges could be shared with hijackers about their demand.As we made now , As news shows that armed to the hijackers had provided at KAndhar airport to hijackers.it means that they were not having too much weapons with them but they tried to show through PILOT of aircraft that they are having heavy weapons with them & all belived that this would be danger to attack on hijackers. In the end I would like to vote that we made mistake at Amritsar airport.I also want to say that all aircraft must carry at least two trained commandos with each every flight in civil dress with weapons for the safty of passangers.
Name:sharada
Email:kumarv@egujarat.net
Message:Govt was wrong in giving in.
How will we answer the relatives of kargil/ independence martyrs when we give in to protect the lives of private pleasure seekers. The govt should have stayed away from the beginning saying that it cannot be responsible.
It should at least declare that henceforward it will not be responsible for the security of its citizens outside its territory and those venturing outside were doing so at their own risk and that no attempt will be made by the Govt to rescue them.
Name:M S Sodhi
Email:f1idea@swiftech.com.sg
Message:Never mind what happened now India MUST SCREW Pakistan.
Name:krishna prasad
Email:kr_prasad@usa.net
Message:They should not have been handed over to the hijackers.
VP Singh is a real stupid fellow.
He feels that he has done a lot good to the country.
But actually he had done more harm by first introducing the
so called Mandal system, which caused casted polarisation & now,
releasing the JKLF dreaded members for the sake of a minister's daughter.
The politicians should set an example by holding to morally high grounds
by refusing to surrender to the ultimatums.
I feel, vp singh is the real culprit, and I would say he is a bruit in Indian
politics
Name:vrishab
Email:vsikand@quarrytech.com
Message:Ordinarily i would not support release
of terrorists, but when a government fails
to take adequate precautions to protect its citizens,
then it is forced to compromise.
I hope we will learn lessons from this.
1) we have to improve security
at airports, including foreign ones.
2) we should have atleast two commandoes on every flight.
3) Improve our intellience, coordinate with like minded
countries like isreal and usa.
4) we have to become economically strong, so that there
is no hesitation when western countries have to decide
between india and terrorist states and we know
who they are.
It would be very interesting to see where
these terrorists find welcome.
Thanks god our passengers are back in one peace.
Name:Sridhar Kumar
Email:gunnamama@yahoo.com
Message:Alas, my heart is petrified at the thought of our nation being led by senile leaders with no sense of self-esteem or pride. Our national interest! What is that? Pride and fortitude! These are not in our Indian dictionary. Are they really? In our present day lives!
Our parents do not inculcate in us the virtues of a warrior and patriotism, even in light of national interests. Our leaders do not know what they are, for the basis behind their success is nothing but a cache of lies, cowardice and self-interests.
Achieving independence over fifty years ago was just a quirk of fate. I now wonder whether it was a good thing after all. Our spineless souls should have just let British rule us over for centuries to come. There would have been a chance in the present situation that under slavery, at the least, we might have been forced to stand up and face challenges with true grit and a firm hand.
Bose, Shivaji, Patel are but figments of our imagination. Or so it seems, whenever I now look at invalids like our PM and Defense minister. Is our whole nation, without being partial to the leaders at the top, not a big hoard of maggots? When a billion of us are thrown into a pit together, we just slip and slide on top of one another trying to reach the boundaries of the secure land above, if necessary at the cost of our mates.
There is no accountability in our leadership. We as citizens, on the other hand, are incapable of doing anything but gasp, sigh and murmur and write letters like these.
Our defense minister is not accountable for leadership and decisiveness at times when they are of utmost significance to our integrity. Our PM has no backbone to begin with, so he is free to go and compile another one of his insipid speeches: "We will not succumb to the demands of the terrorists... Is that what I said at first! What I actually meant was
Name:indian123i
Email:india123i@hotmail.com
Message:It is shame that indian govt. had let down 100 crore indians
proud head into toilets, by releasing militants in exchange of 160 proud and self respecting heads.
Its a shame.
This shows how indian govt's are blacking-mailing indians and wiping out all the pride we got with independence.
It's like asking 100 crore people
U want 16o lives or 3 militants.
Its a shame
Name:Indian Citizen
Email:
Message:The New Century has started in the MOST SHAMEFUL WAY any body can expect, a minister going and giving in the militants. If India cannot act on small things like this, there is no way now that you can gurentee that another such incident would not occur. What is the use of so many soldiers giving their blood for this country and inocent civilens being killed by these people. Each and every thing india knows things are happening from pakistan but they do not take proper action. Its high time that india becomes pro-active against miltants and pak - otherwise their will be a day when india will not be a India. ( remember india is only country in world which has won wars , defeted a country and given land to that country )
Name:Komala Krishnaswamy
Email:komala@brokersys.com
Message:The Vajpayee government did the best it could under the circumstances.
Name:Nilesh Sahita
Email:n_sahita@hotmail.com
Message:'No criminal who dares to raise a hand against India shall, in the ultimate, go unpunished' - says our Honourable FM Jaswant Singh. Hello, Mr. Jaswant Singh - actions speak louder than words. Please stop making all these brave statements after Indian surrender at Kandhar. We have heard those brave statements before - show some concrete actions now.
Name:Sanjay
Email:sanjay112@vsnl.com
Message:There is going to be a lot of
talk about insurgency, questions like "should the government have released the terrorists?" and these will be debated till it becomes academic and just another news. Most of the people from the airline will go on with their daily lives. After a while everything will seem normal. As if nothing had happened. But one person's life has been affected - Rachna. Rippin Kityal has died for no reason. While for all the rest of us, it is news and, pardon me for saying this, just gossip, let us give a moment to think of why he had to die. And show that the nation shares her grief. I am sure the trauma has given the passengers a new outlook on life and will make them better human beings.
Name:JD BHARDWAJ
Email:JANNU@CHEQUEMAIL.COM
Message: I HAVE LOST FAITH FROM BJP GOVERNMENT - I AND MY GROUP HAVE DECIDED NOT TO VOTE OR SUPPORT BJP IN ANY FORM - HENCE FORTH WE HAVE TURNED TO ANTI BJP FROM STAUNCH BJP BELIEVER ? ASK MR. VAJPEYI HE HAS LOST US CONSIDERABLY .
Name:Nilesh Sahita
Email:n_sahita@hotmail.com
Message:'Our Sportsmen are rated best in the world' says ABV ! I wonder what sports he was referring to? Does he know how many sports medal India won at last Olympic ? I think this man is too old to be PM now and should retire and hand over to someone who has more energy (aka Yelstein).
I think the time has come to insist that all people occupying the high posts (PM, Ministers) should come from Military so that they at least have some basic sense of defence.
Name:Balajee Shrikanth
Email:balajee@singnet.com.sg
Message:Its time BJP starts focusing on National Interest and forget all Ram temples
that they had in mind. The entire National Security plan is a failure and Brajesh Mishra
has to resign immediately. Indian airlines should learnt place customer service above bureaucracy.
There is a lot of homework for the Government if it really wants
to be different. At a time of crisis, they have been found wanting.
Name:anonymous
Email:
Message:This is the most disastrous end any one can expect. It definetly the fault of the government. For sure they didnt handle this issue properly.
Name:Sanjiv Subramanium
Email:subbu121@mail.com
Message:We should not have released anyone. No one should ever trust Kashmiri terrorists, Pakistan or Talibans. For these people there is only one mission -- make the whole world islamic. They will strike again with more decisive force. Right now, treat it as Islam 1 - RestofTheWorld 0.
Name:Anil Sharma
Email:anusharma@email.msn.com
Message:If This was an USA plane and people, they would have done same to get release all passengers, As human life is very important. BUT next step they would have taken is, Once those terrorist enter the so called Sympathatic country Pakistan, Kill them all by firing a Missile or whatever way. This is the same we should do, whatever are the results. It can crete tension but otherwise these terrorist and the result that they are free will be worst.It will encourage these type of hijacking. So take the action and attack them the moment they entered in PAK.
Good Luck.
Name:AMERICAN
Email:VER@3RDM.NET
Message:MR.BAJPEYEE:
CONGRATULATIONS FOR SELLING YOUR COUNTRY TO THE HIJACKERS. MR. BAJPAYEE, ONE QUESTION FOR YOU. WHEN ARE YOU RESIGNING?
AT THE END YOU MADE SURE THAT THE HIJACKERS MISSION WAS ACCOMPLISHED. THEY STARTED WITH THE DEMAND FOR THE RELEASE OF ONE, AND AT THE END THEY GOT THREE.
Name:VB
Email:unmarked@hotmail.com
Message:Remember they had promised revenge after India downed their naval aircraft?
I thought they would blow up the plane.
I bet Paki authorities will report a small skirmish along their border with Afghanistan in which they will get a few of terrorists. The others of course will escape under the cover of "darkness".
Name:ramesh
Email:ramesh@yahoo.com
Message:I say the prime minister have to resign. He is solely responsible for what happened.
Theres no second thought about it.
Name:Rajesh Chugh
Email:chugrk@hotmail.com
Message:Our acheivements of the hijack :
Praised Taliban for supporting Hijackers.
Made hostages suffer for 8 days.
We could have acheived their release very first day if we wanted to release 3 terrorists.
We are very proud when our jawans sacrifice lives to protect our borders and kashmir against insurgents.
However, when it comes onto us we become cowards.
Once government started getting support from relatives of hostages, they should never have backed down. You can't always play diplomatic war sometimes you have to play real war. Unless, we learn to act tough we will continue paying such price. We messed it up in Amritsar and then again messed it up in Afghanistan. We should praise the only brave man among hostages i.e Mr Rupin Katyal. The way he was stabbed makes it very clear that hostages had virtually no hitech weapon with them till the time the plane was in Amritsar. We should all condemn the forces in power for ignoring the national interest.
Name:Rohan
Email:handsome8@hotmail.com
Message: I'm ashamed of being an Indian today for the first time in my life when the world saw our own government bowing down to terrorism. A humilating experience in which the minister himself flew with the the 3 militants .This government seems to be good only in building mandirs. Screaming n hurling abuses during elections..where were their voices this time???Where are the Thackerays and Joshis who are a part of the Democratic front?? They have proved that they are good only in talks from their bunglows. From here the path is down the hill for India. My heart goes out to the Jawans who laid their lives fighting these militants.
Name:Venugopal Ramakrishnappa
Email:ramkrishnappav@hotmail.com
Message:The whole episode is condemnable, Indian govt dealing with the security aspects is a BIG?, there is no safety in India either in flight or on Road, the govt should act tough, rule is a rule, they have released 3 people who have the potential and influence to kill thousands of lives. Is this the way we want to get 155 people released to get 155** xx people killed. This is a very bad decision and step.
At the least now the govt should give the army a free hand to tackle militants. There may be a few innocent killings, but these are less compared to thousands of innocent killings by terrorists. Hope Vajpayee does not turn out to be another hypocrat.
Name:Narinder Dogra
Email:dancescape.geo@yahoo.com
Message:Terrorism won!! It was expected.
Terrorism & hijacking is US product and Pakistan has just perfected it. Pakistanis are best students!!!
Japan perfects US technology and exports it all over the world.
So, whats the big deal if Pakistan has perfected terrorism and is successfully exporting it all over the
world ? Just different direction and priorities.
Yes, India sold out national interests.
From now on don't take any prisnors.
Name:ajay sharma
Email:sharmaa@sprint.ca
Message:IT WAS A COWERDLY ACT OF TERRORISTS,THANK GOD IT ENEDED WITHOUT MAJOR TRAGIDY. MY CONDOLANCES TO KATYAL FAMILY!
Name:Tejas
Email:idontthink@itsnecessary.com
Message:A few things were very striking in my view of the crisis:
1. Once you give the hijacker 6 days while you worry about
it, he understands that he is in a stronger position and can demand much more. If at all anything needs to be done soon.
2. Its just not possible to storm the plane without Afghan permission, etc. because first its illegal, second it is hasty and third it is irrational
remember that the hijackers are also going to keep track of every movement outside the plane.
3. These goddam terrorists must not be released at any cost.
Name:Nikesh Sinha
Email:nikesh@imaginsoft.com
Message:As is usual, we cave in. The Indian government is learning fast to be like the Indian cricket team. It has star performers but you just need to put a fresh face like Brett Lee on an unfamiliar ground like Australia and we collapse. Similarly, give the Indian government Kandahar, a hijack on hand and they collapse. Now, these militants, terrorists will go around and kill at 160 more people except that these people will be in uniform and so no one in the country will care. After all, they are paid to die. Our men in uniform. And our sad and spineless government does not realise that the battle of terror is not fought only on the streets but in the mind. It is the mind space that needs to be taken but then these are wise honourable men who love stabbing their own country.
Even more pathetic is the relatives of the hostages who went about behaving as if their grief was the only thing that matters to a country. India is above 160 people. 10,000 lost their lives in Orissa. 600 in Kargil. Do they count ??? Shame on you traitors to our great country. Shame on you for being so weak for making others so weak. We are a nation of tears. We melt. We dont steel ourselves.
These equations that we talk about are so meaningless.
Name:H Singh
Email:harrymann@hotmail.com
Message:The Three terrorists are going to be responsible for killing atleast 200 innocent people each, and will inspire their followers to increase their Hit Rate.
They will also seek revenge against those who arrested them, interrogated them, and these barave officers/jawan may have to bear the brunt of the mistake.
Small time terrorists, gangs have also seen the path. The next hostage crisis may be enacted in a bus, or school !!
I dont think I will be checking the bulletin board, but please continue the discussion on this. If you feel strongly on what I have said, please do mail me.
Name:
Email:
Message:Will the government now negotiate Kashmir too ??
Name:Sudip Majumder
Email:sudipmajumder@hotmail.com
Message:Hard realizations from the episode:
a) Sacrifical lambs are only miltary personeel in J&K : Theie lives and families
don't count.
b) Disband & Derecognize Human Rights, Amnesty International, Red Cross
c) No 'court', no justice for militants : kill them at first sight : no jail terms. That's the only way to respect the heroes in Kargil.
b) This government does not have balls neither the oppositions
c) Civilan Indians are meak , coward, self-sevred and decpetive
d) Present lot of IAS/IFS lobby and the secretaries are 2nd rate half-baked administrators. Gone are the days of Jagat Mehta, KPS Gill, Riberio
e) Media are totally hyperbole and could only put flame to the meak passion
e) India does not have any friends in the world community who matters
f) India is meak and week
g) Remove the inept Farku Abdullah along with his entire bunch of admin folks. They just don't have balls
h) Remove people from Kashmir who wants to be resettled
i) Carpet Bomb Kashmir
j) Don't care about world opinion. do what is best for you - world does not care
Name:H Singh
Email:harrymann@hotmail.com
Message:Why dont we go step further, and give up Kashmir,
After all the tears of the families of the officers and Jawans dead, or fighting in the valley / Kargil should also be seen in retrospect.
Name:sudip Majumder
Email:sudipmajumder@hotmail.com
Message:One more lesson:
a) UN is a bunch of Enunch: stop going there
b) UN does not matter: do the bombing in Pak , Kasmir
c) Hit talibans; they are the kingpins
d) Severe diplomatic relationship with Pakistan RIGHT NOW.
e) Stop Playing CRICKET withose idiots
Name:Vinod Kumar
Email:vinod_t_kumar@hotmail.com
Message:It is a sad day for India; Even on the last day on the millennium the Indian republic lost yet one more fight against external aggression. Looks like history is repeating itself. The sad part is people had high hopes on this government, yet as past rulers/governments of Indian origin they have let the nation down.
Name:Narendhra S
Email:archith83@hotmail.com
Message:I believe that India has done a wrong thing. They have set a precedent for further hijackings. They should offered an ultimatum. If One passeneger is touched wipe out the whole Muslim community. Its a bad precedent they have set and firstly Nepal is to be blamed for the carless and irresponsblibe securuty methods.
Name:Vijay Mohan
Email:mvijay@operamail.com
Message:I feel that the Indian Govt. should not have released the terrorists in exchange for the lives of the crew and passengers of Flight 814. By releasing these hardcore terrorists, they may have saved some lives but put thousands of other lives in jeopardy. This could prove to be a very costly deal for India. This will have an adverse effect on the morale of our security forces who are courageously battling terrorism in Kashmir. Are the lives of hundreds of soldiers who died in terrorist encounters and the lives of many more who risk their lives daily not precious to the Govt? I personally feel the govt. has sold out on national interest in this matter.
Name:Sourav Dasgupta
Email:dakku@worldnet.att.net
Message:The hijacking has finally ended. We had to pay the price for being a nation of incompetent people.
It's time to get rid of our callous attitude towards the nation.
I am sure that our weak adminstration will not be able to bring the killers of Indian citizens to justice. They have never been able to do so. The country it seems is run from Dubai, Islamabad and Kathmandu. The militants are scoring victories every day because we have no policy of tackling terrorism.
The Indian government should sit up and do something about all the Pakistani criminals held in Indian jails.
Otherwise we will have more hijackings and bombings.
Name:sai
Email:ksairam@egroups.com
Message:Now the whole world knows about the release of hostages. But the price we paid for this is groslly unacceptable. Infact we Indians have every reason to feel sad about the way we started the millennium. The way this governement fooled/manipulated the people by anouncing wrong demands and later conceding to the original demands shows the week kneed policy of this governement. Even during Kargil war we witnessed this govt choosing to sacrifice more Indian lives than standing upto US/PAKISTAN.
May I ask Mr Advani is this what he meant by a policy of HOT PURSUIT ??? Looks like the pursuit is happening in the wrong direction. Atleast now they take make some concrete steps to protect the lives of Indians without compromising the National Interests. Also the public would like see some heads roll for the Amritsar Fiasco. There is no justification for the existence of NSG, if a police man in Amritsar Airport has to take crucial decisions.
Name:Hari
Email:
Message:The relatives of the hostages
applied so much pressure on
the government that they
made the goverment cave in
to the demand of the hijackers. This opens
potential flood gates for
future hijacking.
Name:Rajesh K
Email:rajeshk@metabyte.com
Message:I am ashamed the way India let itself be bullied by these
terrorist.
We bend and then break that is why we are the target of all these people.
We will be spared only and only if we lean to hit back and hurt the opposition real hard.
Name:indian
Email:indian@india.com
Message:BJP ought to be ashamed of
itself for dealing with the
Taliban. Especially, Jaswant
Singh for expressing "India's
gratitude for the help received
from the Taliban". Help with
what ? Brokering the release
of three hard-core terrorists ?
Shame on Jaswant Singh again
for sharing an aircraft with
the three terrorists. What
did he think he was delivering ?
A Xmas or New Year's gift? I can't
even imagine a cabinet minister
handing over a bunch of terrorists
in exchange for the passenger's
freedom. And who is he to say
that the hijackers have been
given 10 hours to leave Afghanistan ?
Did he think he was making a policy
statement on behalf of the Taliban ?
Is this the BJP that we thought
was "nationalistic". BJP promised us
that it would take a hard line
against terrorism. In the past few
weeks since its assuming office we have
seen an escalation of militancy in the
Kashmir region.
I am ashamed of our spineless
response to this hijack episode. All
along, I was rooting for a tough
line against these Paki terrorists
and now we have capitulated.
Name:Pankaj Risbood
Email:rrisbood@cyberspace.org
Message:It was the most tragic end of the millennium for India. Three
militants including Maulana were released or rather bartered for 155
worthless pieces of flesh, who can not protect themselve. They
were very Happy on their release, and two days later will give
statements like the militants were very human and very friendly and what
not, F@#? .They should be ashamed of themselves that their nation had to
pay a heavy price for their release. It would have been better if India
had done away with these 155 cowards, who were busy playing cards and
chess rather thinking of some way to kill the hijackers.
Think of the army man who have lost their lives in arresting
militants like Masud, all their sacrifice have gone in vain. Its very sad
that Indian govt instead of starting an operation has released the
militants. They even didn't consult the chiefs of three command. The
release of these three is not just release of three but its the beginning
of many more hija Media is also in some sense is responsible for all that has
happened. The relatives of the people on board, who were very agitated and
did all sorts of drama should also be ashamed of themselves. May be its
their pressure that has led govt to take such a decision
Be Indian Be Bharat
Pankaj Risbood
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Name:anandkoodagi
Email:anandkoodagi@usa.net
Message:Since thousands of years,there are cases of kidnapping and hijacking took place in India.In ramayana Sita was kidnapped from Ravana
and Rama took his own time to kill Ravana(militant), and bought sita back.There we can learn his patience,building his army and keeping constant vigil on enemy camp.From this we can learn how to organise ourselves and keep in readiness.When he made is mind to kill Ravana, he was only one.Afterwords nobody stopped him,instead every body joined there hands in search of sita.They built the Bridge on the ocean.(will power).
So there is no big deal for India to deal with such low level militants.Only main thing is that we should be determined in weeding out these mean minded militants.
Government of India is a mixture of different parties,nobody wants to take the risk at this situation.Even we have an able PrimeMinister,but his hands and legs are tied.(I think so).Not only now India sold out national interest now,since V.P.Singh was prime minister ,he sold out national interest for desh ki beti (Rubia Sayeed)!.He gave number of militants for only one.Those militants killed and raped so many betis of India.What action taken? no.
When PVN was there as PM, he freed nine militants for one Director.Where the national Interest gone at that time.
Kashmir is nodoubt it's a part of India.Nothing will impact on kasmir insurgency.
Only solution for India is take a very strong action against millitants and proper attacks on militant's camp.I know it takes time,i don't know how many innocents will pay there lives.If we won't take action in immediate,no doubt in future militants hijack anything.That becomes fun for them.
We need such a doctor(Leader) for India,that just pricking a needle a cures all diseases of India.
Jai Hind
Anand N Koodagi
Name:Khushhal
Email:Kmahajan@micron.com
Message:It was really amusing to see a foreign minister working on Security matters. Thats how india had been ruled for last 50 years. and govt with difference is also same...... so people dont be too optimistic..... i would perdict if same people and policies continue. kashmir wont be with us in next 50 years. so why not to give it now and save this bloodshed.
Amen. and a happy Indian Millenium
Name:M.K.Suresh
Email:mkshms@yahoo.com
Message:I was told sometime back a minister's daughter was kidnapped and released for exchange for freeing of a terrorists. If this is rue there is nothing wrong in saving 160 human lives for exchange of 3 terrorists. Terrorists could be recaptured but once we lose the lives who is going to bring them back.
regards
Suresh
Name:Prakash
Email:prakash@net.com
Message:http://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/31yadav.htm
'PM learnt about hijacking 40 minutes late'
The article (linked above) clearly shows the professional
unpreparedness, negligence and probably incompetence of the
Civil Aviation Minister, the Prime Minister and their
offices to deal with such emergencies.
It sounds like Mr. Yadav is trying to be nice to the secretaries
by telling that he is not holding anyone responsible. The
secretaries involved here, Mr. Brajesh Mishra and Mr. Prabhat
Kumar are not directly answerable to us, the citizens of India.
But Mr. Yadav and the Prime Minister ARE. They must show proof
of responsible actions on their part to be prepared for any
future emergencies.
Name:Suresh Iyer
Email:sureshkiyer@hotmail.com
Message:1)Govt.Should not have release the Terrorists.
2)Yes
3)yes
Read what other readers said:
'Get into Afghanistan and kill the hijackers'
'The Govt should directly talk with the hijackers and release the passengers without succumbing to their demands'
'Distract the hijackers, storm the plane, shoot the criminals and rescue the hostages'
'An SOP must be in place, formulated without a second's delay'
'We should do an operation a la Entebbe whatever the consequences'
'The Govt should avail of all diplomatic means to get the passengers released'
'Never give in to terrorist demands'
'The relatives' behaviour is understandable --- they are under emotional pressure'
'It is scary to think what the 35 terrorists would do if they were released'
'Indian are and will always be ready to sacrifice their lives for the nation'
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