Monday, July 17, 2006
Mumbai attack...!!!!!
What is the need of the hour in india after Mumbai attack?
Like all of you, i was shattered when i heard about another bomb attack in the mumbai metro rail network killing nearly 200 people. Such a loss of life had definitely affected people's mind but mumbaikars have been asked to carry on their life as usual. What does the government meant by saying 'as usual'. How come the families of 200 people can carry on as usual? How come the passengers board the train as usual? How come the people in the entire city feel safe?
I would salute the neta's of india, if they had done what had to be done. A serious retaliation by physical means. PM told the people of india, that he and everyone knows who is behind this attack and gave usual warnings. I use the word 'usual warnings' because it has become an habbit with the indian politicians to show false courage with words and nothing in action. We had faced such attacks before and people have died before. When someone is killed in this way, it is a murder and the criminals responsible for this should be punished. But the government consistently failed to punish these criminals and terrorists.
How can the people trust the government if its attitute towards terror is not firm. Whether it is diplomatic or military means, whatever is needed, had to be done so that these attacks won't happen again. Does the government think losing few lives in crores of population is not a big deal?
We all see a similar bomb attack happened in london last year. There were intelligence failures and mistakes made initially but the agencies were quick enough to identify their mistakes and nabbed the culprits behind the attack. Can we expect the same from mumbai police? Say even if they catch the terrorist who planted the bomb, what are they going to do to the criminals who masterminded it? We all knew this is co-ordinated from outside india as mentioned by our PM himself and hence the police has their limitations. In UK, the scotland yard works closely with intelligence agencies such as MI6 and MI5 in matters such as these and they could go to any level to punish the terrorists. Whereas in india, we dont hear or see anything serious from our so called Intelligence agencies. As far as i could see, our intelligence agencies never predicted or gathered information about any attacks neither before or after any attack. They failed in intelligence gathering at all times and we have plenty of examples like Kargil, Parliment attack etc.
It is high time for the government to revamp the intelligence agencies of india and put them under strict and efficient management so that we get what we expected out of them, 'Warnings' about possible threat to our society and people. Again, i stress that in order to protect people from terror, just the police department is not enough. We need strong and covert intelligence agencies with efficient skills who would have the power to find, prevent and punish the elements of threat to india and its people.
Will the government realize this?
Like all of you, i was shattered when i heard about another bomb attack in the mumbai metro rail network killing nearly 200 people. Such a loss of life had definitely affected people's mind but mumbaikars have been asked to carry on their life as usual. What does the government meant by saying 'as usual'. How come the families of 200 people can carry on as usual? How come the passengers board the train as usual? How come the people in the entire city feel safe?
I would salute the neta's of india, if they had done what had to be done. A serious retaliation by physical means. PM told the people of india, that he and everyone knows who is behind this attack and gave usual warnings. I use the word 'usual warnings' because it has become an habbit with the indian politicians to show false courage with words and nothing in action. We had faced such attacks before and people have died before. When someone is killed in this way, it is a murder and the criminals responsible for this should be punished. But the government consistently failed to punish these criminals and terrorists.
How can the people trust the government if its attitute towards terror is not firm. Whether it is diplomatic or military means, whatever is needed, had to be done so that these attacks won't happen again. Does the government think losing few lives in crores of population is not a big deal?
We all see a similar bomb attack happened in london last year. There were intelligence failures and mistakes made initially but the agencies were quick enough to identify their mistakes and nabbed the culprits behind the attack. Can we expect the same from mumbai police? Say even if they catch the terrorist who planted the bomb, what are they going to do to the criminals who masterminded it? We all knew this is co-ordinated from outside india as mentioned by our PM himself and hence the police has their limitations. In UK, the scotland yard works closely with intelligence agencies such as MI6 and MI5 in matters such as these and they could go to any level to punish the terrorists. Whereas in india, we dont hear or see anything serious from our so called Intelligence agencies. As far as i could see, our intelligence agencies never predicted or gathered information about any attacks neither before or after any attack. They failed in intelligence gathering at all times and we have plenty of examples like Kargil, Parliment attack etc.
It is high time for the government to revamp the intelligence agencies of india and put them under strict and efficient management so that we get what we expected out of them, 'Warnings' about possible threat to our society and people. Again, i stress that in order to protect people from terror, just the police department is not enough. We need strong and covert intelligence agencies with efficient skills who would have the power to find, prevent and punish the elements of threat to india and its people.
Will the government realize this?
