Extracts of an article by an atrticle by @sarkar_swati :> Evidences corroborating the veracity of the IB input have periodically emerged throughout this entire saga. The terrorist outfit, Lashkar-e-Tayyeba had celebrated the ‘martyrdom’ of Ishrat Jahan shortly after her death and a terrorist captured in USA, David Headley, had confessed to the federal bureau of inves- tigation, his knowledge of her recruitment as a suicide bomber. Finally, tapes aired by a Headlines Today confirm that a Pakistan-based handler has been closely collaborating with an assassin commissioned to eliminate target number 5, Narendra Modi. Let us therefore assume henceforth that the late Ishrat Jahan has indeed been a terrorist and examine a substantially more controversial issue. The Gujarat High Court has recently instructed the SIT to focus on establishing whether the encounter has been fake rather than on the veracity of the intelligence input; on the ground that even a terrorist ought not be liqui- dated without due judicial sanction. This seems consistent with the norms of a civilised society, but only from the safety of the glittering, air-conditioned TV studios. It is about time we pose the politically inconvenient query of whether the same norms ought to apply when we fight our war on terror, seeking to prevent surgical operations meticulously planned by the dreaded terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Toiba or massacres executed by Maoists in the killing fields of Andhra or Chattisgarh. Spare our war on terror! | Niti Central niticentral/2013/06/18/spare-our-war-on-terror-91753.html
Posted on: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 07:09:21 +0000
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