FRONTAL ATTACK ON TALIBAN BY ARMY

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Pakistan Army Attacks Taliban
By Brigadier Chitranjan Sawant,VSM

THE DOOMS day for the Taliban terrorists in South Waziristan in Pakistan arrived on 16 October, 2009 when the Pakistan Army launched a full scale attack from the air and on the ground. When the reports last came in, a fierce fire fight was going on. Under orders of the Army Chief, General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani 28,000 troops were mobilised and a massive attack launched. The helicopter gunships pounded the Taliban positions from the air and destroyed their training camps.

It is a fight to finish, said an Army spokesman who declined to be identified. The point of no return for the Army came when the Taliban laid a seize to the general Headquarters of the Army in Rawalpindi and killed some senior officers including a brigadier and a colonel. Moreover, for more than a week the Taliban terrorists mounted attacks on the security forces and police outfits killing and maiming many to prove to the Pakistan civilian population that the Taliban was in control and not the army or the civil administration. Enough was enough, said the Army and launched a massive hunt for the Taliban in their citadel, South Waziristan.

The new Taliban chief,Hakimullah said that the taliban would not take the assault lying down. A fitting response will be given to the Army. it may be mentioned that the Taliban terrorists have quite a few sympathisers in the Army and the Administration. Further , there are dissensions between the army and the civil administration. It is public knowledge that the Army did not allow the Interior Minister to enter the GHQ to lay a wreath on the martyrs memorial on behalf of the president of pakistan. The point proved was that the Army is supreme in its own domain.
In South Waziristan the civilian population is leaving its home and hearth and fleeing to safer areas. More than 2 million families are likely to be displaced. Many of them have arrived in dera Ismail Khan. The situation is quite chaotic.

The Razmak base of the Army saw a road side bomb burst and killing 4 soldiers and injuring 11 of them. The number of Taliban terrorists killed in air and ground attack has touched double digits.

The Pakistan Army was left with little option but to take a hard line and do what it should have done long ago. The dilly dallying of the generals and terror sympathisers cost many lives of their compatriots. A statement of the Army Chief that the Taliban would fight shoulder to shoulder with the Pak army against India and protect Pakistan's flank had emboldened the taliban. What the army had sown it is reaping. Anyway, an attack now is better than no attack at all on the terroists.

NEW RAILWAYS NEW DIPLOMACY

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NEW RAILWAYS NEW GAME
By Brigadier Chitranjan Sawant,VSM

The name of the game is: open new railways and play new game of diplomacy. Diplomacy is the art of the impossible. A diplomat never clogs his line of communication even with the bitterest of the enemies because there is always a kind of hope of getting information that might help the home country in winning the cold war. Railways in India and elsewhere in the world have been a good means of communication. Espionage and pumping of fake currency in the adversary’s country are aims plus of running new railways. Now a piece of news emanating from Nepal has unnerved some greenhorn diplomats, albeit there is nothing to worry about.
The government of Nepal has requested the government of the People’s Republic of China to extend the Beijing-Lhasa railway line to Kathmandu, capital of Nepal. Nothing wrong with that request nor with the response that is likely to be a positive one. China might launch another adventurous project of building the new railway line from Lhasa, capital of Tibet to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal. The railway engineers will be adequately employed and their skills will be tested day in and day out in that rugged Himalayan terrain where the crust of earth is yet to settle down. No wonder there are landslides every now and then. This valuable experience will help the Chinese engineers in advising military engineers if the PLA has to fight a war in that inhospitable region.
SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEFS
There has been a flurry of intellectual activity in the strategic study circles to assess the impact of this project on the future military planning. Will the new railway line bring the People’s Liberation Army(PLA) of China too close to be comfortable. A cool headed assessment will reassure the panicky fellows that there is nothing to be afraid of. If the Chinese forces come to Kathmandu, so what? Aren’t they so close to the Indian Army troops across the Nathula pass in Sikkim? Aren’t they so close to the Indian territory in Arunachal Pradesh at the Bumla pass? Rest assured, heavens won’t fall if the Beijing-Lhasa railway line is extended to Kathmandu. It may benefit Nepal economically and we Indians, as neighbours of Nepal, should be happy about it.
A STUDENT OF HISTORY WILL BE REMINDED OF ANOTHER SUPERSTITIOUS BELIEF ABOUT A NEW RAILWAY LINE BEING LAID CLOSE TO THE Red Fort in New Delhi. King Bahadur Shah Zafar, a pensioner of the East India Company represented to the Company Bahadur that the railway line running so close to the Red Fort and palaces inside may induce miscarriage among the pregnant queens. He was assured that the new railway line would bring joy and not sorrow to one and all.
The Red Indians of America had also opposed laying of new railway lines through their reservations but eventually were convinced that the new fangled thing is an instrument of economic progress.
One may recall that the very first railway line laid and used to run a train was from Bori Bunder in Bombay (now Mumbai) to Thane, a princely distance of 34 kilometers. On April 16, 1853 as many as 14 carriages pulled by three locomotives had carried 400 guests. A 21 gun salute was given to the train and the Governor’s band was in attendance. No superstitious beliefs plagued the people and the journey was a grand success.
One should take the Chinese effort in helping Nepal with the same smoothness as the Marathas took the inaugural run of the Bori Bunder-Thane railway. A step forward in any direction means progress for the Mankind. Peace brings prosperity in the region. Where prosperity prevails, poverty retreats and fades into the pages of history. A prosperous country hates to go to war with a neighbouring country because a war spells economic disaster for all concerned. Let us hope and trust that the new railway line, as and when made operational, will bring an economic boom to our kith and kin in Nepal.
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DESPERATE FOR DIRTY BOMB

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DESPERATE FOR THE DIRTY BOMB
By Brigadier Chitranjan Sawant,VSM
The dirty bomb is being desperately sought for by the Al Qaida to destroy the civilised world. The civilised world is desperately keeping the nuclear weapon system out of the reach of the Islamic terror groups. A decade and a half ago Osama bin-Laden was prepared to pay 1.5 billion US dollars to acquire enriched uranium but could not find a reliable seller not dealing in spurious goods. Meanwhile Pakistan made the bomb but the American control was so tight that nuclear proliferation to Osama and his tribe was not feasible. Thanks to AQ Khan of Pakistan nuclear arsenal, some nuclear proliferation did take place and some third world countries were the beneficiaries.
The Islamic terror groups per force changed their strategy for spreading their tentacles. Now they cast their net far and wide to catch big and important fish that would be helpful in acquiring the dirty bomb. The desperation for the dirty bomb grew more and more as the terror leaders wanted it as a weapon for brow beating the western world and cause mass destruction. The theory and practice of the suicide bombing in crowded places and government posts and buildings proved effective for a limited period and purpose only. Tactically it was fine but strategically speaking, they needed something that would give spectacular results and shock the civilised world into stunning stupor leading to mental paralysis. The nuclear weapon system, especially the bomb would ideally fit into the new scenario. A committed group of specialised scientists converted to the philosophy of terror was needed by Al Qaeda to put this ideology into practice.

PATH TO PROSPERITY

A team of top notch scientists, doctors, engineers and intellectuals who would wield influence on the civil society was drafted for the purpose. The arrest this week in France by the French police of a distinguished physicist of Algerian descent living in France, blew off the lid and exposed the aforesaid plot. Dr Adlene Hicheur, an Algeria born naturalised Frenchman with deep sympathy for the cause of the Islamic terror, was arrested on charges of indulging in a criminal activity that could endanger the life and limbs of citizens leading to mass destruction. He was convinced that a total destruction of the present administrative and social set up was the only way to come out of the present logjam. Thereafter a new social order will take shape that would lead Mankind of the Islamic world on to the path of prosperity. The French physicist was so possessed by the idea of destroying the western world that he commenced his research on the “Anti-Matter Bomb” that would be more powerful than the known nuclear devices at present. Further, there will be no radiation and the terrorists using the device would be safe.
Indeed the idea was fine on paper and in principle. But it was a costly proposition. It sounded like science fiction. Therefore, the donors to the concept and making of the Anti-Matter bomb had to be convinced that their money would not go down the drain. The fabulous amount of money was withdrawn from the banks in North Africa, Maghreb and transferred to France to be handed over to Dr Adlene Hicheur. However, the French police that had been keeping track of the uncommon and unusual activities of the Doctor of Destruction swooped over his laboratory and residence to seize the objectionable material and arrest him for unlawful activity leading to mass destruction. The eminent soft spoken Physicist confessed to his links to and sympathy for Al Qaida. The French police had even arrested his brother, a chemist, but let him off without a charge as there was no evidence of his involvement in the devilish design. Before long the doctor started singing and spilled the beans exposing sinister designs of Islamic terrorists. The names of other eminent scientists are likely to come up in the course of a though investigation. It will then be revealed how deep the roots of Al Qaida have gone into the European soil.
Algeria was a French colony before it gained independence after a long and violent struggle. Right from the colonial days through the present times many Algerian Muslims have chosen to settle down in France for a better standard of living and a civilised lifestyle. Since most of the Algerians are born Muslims , they have their sympathy for men like Osama and outfits like Al Qaida. The eminent Physicist was a part of the sympathisers of the Islamic terror group planning mass destruction of the western world.
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EQUALITY BEFORE LAW

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LAW IS ABOVE YOU

By Brigadier Chitranjan Sawant,VSM

When I passed the examination for the degree of Bachelor of Laws and obtained a First Division from the University of Allahabad in the year 1954, the soothsayers predicted that I would be a judge of the High Court or a successful lawyer in due course of time. Nothing of that sort happened. The astrologer was wrong. Our hopes were dashed when I became a lawyer without a brief in a district court. My gift of the gab helped me in arguing a case or two that I got from our native village where the litigants were in penury and could not pay a reasonable fee to an established lawyer. Notwithstanding my logical legal arguments and acquittal of the accused in an Arms Act case, my hopes of a flooded flow of new legal briefs were belied. I had no touts to go round singing my praise and hooking new clients. I learnt a lesson: honesty is not always the best policy, certainly not in the domain of law.

BIG FISH AND SMALL FISH

The courts of law in India follow the British jurisprudence and administration of justice is done exactly as it is done in the United Kingdom. In that country the language of the court is English and so is the case with the litigants. On the contrary, in India while the language of courts is, by and large, English, that of the litigants it is their mother tongue which is not English. The litigants do not follow a word of what is said by the lawyers or the judge and they depend solely on the briefing done by the clerk of the counsel at the end of the day. The higher you go in judiciary, the more removed you are from the litigating people. Generally speaking, the judges in their judgements delivered in the Indian courts quote observations of learned legal luminaries from the UK or USA that do not have much in common with the situation obtaining in India. It is said that there may be miscarriage of justice because of this communication gap between the bench and the bar on one side and our hapless litigants on the other side. It is the poor people who suffer. The people find no remedy for this perennial malady of communication gap in legal language and commoner’s rustic language.

Carrying the above point forward, one finds that the rich who engage high profile counsels on paying a fabulous amount as a legal fee go scot free whatever the charge against them might have been. It is the poor who becomes voiceless because his counsel is not as articulate as the rich man’s is. Many a time one finds that the big fish goes unpunished despite being a criminal in the eye of law and it is the small fish that gets caught despite its innocence or a relatively minor crime. In such cases one finds a travesty of truth that results in miscarriage of justice. This has been happening since the time when the Anglo-Roman jurisprudence was introduced in India by the East India Company to administer justice. One comes across a case here or a case there when an individual is found guilty of murder of a person who is actually alive and kicking. Collusion of the police plays a major role in derailing justice.

EQUALITY BEFORE LAW

I had learnt by heart an axiom of jurisprudence in my law class that I recall time and again.
“However high one may ever be, the Law is above him”.
It saddens me to see that this high principle is observed more in breach than any other law of the land. The high and the mighty announce from house tops that they have good connections in the higher echelons of the society and no one dares lay his hand on the mighty wrong doer. The politicians perhaps are the worst law breakers because they have the wherewithal to get away with it. I must hasten to add that with the advent of the electronic media, the cases that are covered by reporters in depth are per force being dealt with as per law. It is the media pressure that sees the sons of politicians, who infringe laws, behind bars. Such cases are indeed few and far between. It must be stated that the principle of equality before law is flouted flagrantly now more than ever before. Perhaps the higher judiciary is not strong enough to ensure that there is equality before law.

Let us take judges of the higher judiciary. Many of them, including sitting judges of the apex court are reluctant to disclose their assets and sources of income. Further, there have been accusations by eminent jurists that some judges of the higher judiciary, including a chief justice or two, have amassed wealth and immoveable property worth more than their known sources of income. There is corruption in the higher judiciary too but the big fish goes unpunished. The case of Justice Dinakaran, Chief Justice of the Karnataka High Court, for buying a lot of land at throw away price, has been hanging fire for a long time. The decision of the Chief Justice of India is still awaited in the matter. Another glaring example is that of Justice Ramaswamy of the Supreme Court against whom the impeachment proceedings were started for corruption but he survived because of his political connections. On the other hand many a time a petty clerk is sentenced to rigorous imprisonment for varying periods for accepting illegal gratification of a princely sum of five rupees. Is it equality before law? Both the lawmakers and the interpreters of law must think hard on the issue and come up with a rational solution lest the society erupts in a socio-legal upheaval.

Thanks to my first class law degree, I am able to delve deep into legal issues and call a spade a spade. I thank the Almighty for saving me from serving a system of jurisprudence where the common man is most uncared for. I also thank Him for saving me from corrupt practices in and out of courts of law where they all conspire, knowingly or unknowingly, to make a hash of law of the land. Long ago someone had said” Law is an ass”, now one may be tempted to say that those who implement the law of the land make an ass of one and all.

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RED TALIBAN IN INDIAN RED CORRIDOR

THE RED TALIBAN IN THE INDIAN RED CORRIDOR

By Brigadier Chitranjan Sawant,VSM



The Maoists in the eastern India are not only ferocious but also brutally cruel. On 30 Sep 09 they kidnapped Shri Francis Induvar, a police Inspector of the Jharkhand Police on intelligence duty from the market place, held him hostage, demanded a swap over with their top leaders like Ghandy, yadav and one more person who were in police custody . No interaction with the state government took place and the Maoists then beheaded him on 5th october. His torso was left lying across the road and the severed head was thrown away at a little distance. The Jharkhand state government says that no offer of a swap over was received by them from the Maoists. The beheading is a barbaric act and sends shock waves down the rank and file. The morale of the police jawans may be adversely affected.
The silver lining in this dark cloud has been the brave response of the late Inspector's wife, Sunita Induvar and his two teenage sons Animesh and Aniket who expressed their firm resolve not to ask the state govt to swap over their head of the family with the top Maoists. It is good that the Jharkhand government has announced a compensation of Rs ten lakh to the family of the deceased police Inspector.When the children grow up they may be offered a job in the police force.
What an irony of fate that the police personnel whom the Maoists are killing belong to the tribes and weaker sections of the society whom the Maoists profess to protect. One may recall that sometime back the Maoists had killed as many as nine women constables on duty in Garh Ciroli in Maharashtra. A very upsetting barbaric act indeed.
The Maoists have made a Red corridor from Nepal to Kerala via states like Bihar, Jharkhand, West Bengal, Orissa, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra. They are now trying to gain a foothold in Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Haryana too. Over a period of time they have gained the sympathy and support of the neglected and ignored sections of the society. The poor people look upon the Maoists as their friends and support them in more ways than one.The Maoists have acquired sufficient number of fire arms and improvised explosive devices to deter the civil police from hunting for them in the thick forests of the states concerned.
The Central government has to lead in forming an anti-Maoist Task Force and coordinate their police action against the Maoist rebels who are now called the Red Taliban because of their barbarity. The local people must be weaned away from Maoists and motivated to support the State. Economic reforms in the region will be urgently required to be implemented.
The Police Task Force should be well trained and well armed with sophisticated weapons to be used in jungles and close quarter battles. The motivation to fight against and eliminate Maoists has to be of a high order. The police personnel should be a committed group of people who believe in fighting for and even dying for the cause of the motherland. MATRIBHOOMI before self should be their ideal and there should be a role model for them to follow. Who can be a better role model than the officers selected to lead them from the front in fighting the Red Terror.
It is well known that a force that is mercenary can never fight against and defeat highly motivated guerrillas. Last but not the least, the people's support to the Maoists must be withdrawn by the local people themselves if they are economically and emotionally integrated with the main stream of the society.
Guerrilla fighters are like fish and the people are like water. If the fish is separated from water it dies. Let the Maoists be brought to that stage where they cannot survive for lack of people's support.

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Virginity of bride and the groom

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FAKING VIRGINITY TO FOOL HUSBANDS
By Brigadier Chitranjan Sawant,VSM

The Chinese people enjoy a good reputation as inventors of the newest of the new. The invention of gun powder and the paper, among other things, goes to their credit. The famous Chinese silk adorned the body and the bedroom of the high and the mighty like Julius Caesar and his successors in Rome and the pretty women like Cleopatra in Egypt who travelled to Rome to display her best and win hearts of Romans. Now in the 21st century the Chinese have come out with a new fangled device dear to hearts of girls who enjoy pre-marital sex and yet gladden their husbands on nuptial night with an intact hymen. The Chinese invented device costs just thirty US dollars. It is indeed worth buying it.
The artificial virginity kit is marketed by Gigimo, a Chinese company. When inserted it emits a blood like fluid that the gullible husbands believe to be blood coming out of the torn hymen that was intact prior to the groom copulating with the bride. In a conservative society like the ones in the Orient and the Middle-East, the artificial virginity kit is likely to be sold like hot cakes among the fair sex who now feel sexually liberated. The women’s lib movements in various parts of the world, not excluding the Arab world, have given girls mental and physical, read sexual, freedom. The end result is their ending up in bed with a boy friend for experiments in sex. In some cases it may be just a one-evening stand. The virginity, however, is lost and the broken hymen bears testimony to it. The conservative males are not yet prepared to accept a bride on a nuptial night who had had pre-marital sex. The new kit is an answer to this vexing question.
The male-dominated society in the Middle-east has, however, raised a hue and cry against the Chinese invented artificial hymen kit. The opinions expressed by them and carried by the Arabic press pointedly say that the new device will increase promiscuity in the conservative society. Thus the traditional values will go down the drain. Wives who get used to playing deception on husbands may enlarge the area of cheating on their husbands. Where will the moral values go? The female lobby has not yet openly favoured the freedom to buy or not to buy the aforesaid kit. Should they do so, they are likely to be exposed as women of loose morals. The stigma may stay on for life. To quote Shakespeare “All the perfumes of Arabia may will not sweeten the hand ”that committed the sexual sin. Generally speaking the male lobby is vociferous and the female defence is too feeble to withstand this male onslaught.
Is the male who becomes the bridegroom as pure as fresh snow? You never can tell. In this respect our Lord and our Maker did not put a physical device to test the virginity of a man. Thus the male, after committing a thousand sins goes scot free. No stigma is attached to him and no proof lingers on to bother him except his own conscience, if he has one. The male society may be educated on the subject so that they practise perfect equality between male and female in matter of pre-marital sex. It will be dream come true. The Chinese inventors will, however, lament the thought of equality of this kind permeating the fabric of a conservative society. Then their business of artificial hymen kit will bomb and the conservative world will laugh at them.
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COSMETIC LOVE FOR CONVERSION

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COSMETIC LOVE FOR CONVERSION

By Brigadier Chitranjan Sawant,VSM

The High Court of Kerala has found out that some organisations may be active in the state to entice nubile girls in the name of love and later convert them to Islam by dubious methods. There have been cases where intelligent Hindu girls with a strong will power resisted conversion to Islam but they were abducted and forced to convert. In some such cases the parental families reported the criminal offence of abduction and forced conversion to the police. The police investigated and found clues that led to sinister designs of the bigots.

Fearing imminent arrest two men of the dubious activity outfit approached the High Court for anticipatory bail as they were allegedly involved in abducting and compelling girls to convert to Islam. The Hon’ble Judge, Mr Justice K.T. Shankaran while hearing the anticipatory bail application went through the police diary and found that there were indications that there had been several similar instances of abduction and forcible conversions. The Judge observed there was a movement called “Love Jihad” or “Romeo Jihad’ conceived by some Muslims in Kerala. It may be the handiwork of such dubious persons to promote fake love to entice girls and achieve personal gratification.

The Hon’ble High Court has asked for the views of the Government of India on the issue of fake love leading to forcible religious conversions. The High Court has also directed the Union Home Ministry to file a report on action contemplated or taken to combat activities leading to forced religious conversions.

The High Court has directed the State Government of kerala to provide information within three weeks on plans and projects of “Love Jihad”.

The High Court has gone into the case in depth and has taken appropriate action. It is indeed the duty of socio-religious organisations to go round towns and cities where such cases of cosmetic love to cheat have taken place and assure the affected girls and their families of support of society. It is the social support cutting across party lines that will boost the morale of exploited girls and their families to fight against strong arm tactics of the Islamic mafia. As a matter of fact the right thinking leaders of the Islamic community should rise and put a stop to such un-Islamic nefarious activities being perpetrated in the name of Islam. Abduction, rape and other sexual offences committed in the name of religion must be condemned, never condoned, by leaders of society and dharmacharyas who preach the word of the Almighty for the happiness of the common man.