Punishment is justice for the unjust and delaying punishment intends to delaying justice or further to denying justice. It has been many years to some atrocious incidents in India which took a number of precious lives whilst having the majority of Muslims in them but India still seems to be missing audacity to punish the Hindu extremists and their links with the Indian Army personnel.
Samjhauta Express blasts took the lives of 68 people and most of them were Pakistanis. At least 38 people were killed and over 100 injured in blasts that shuddered the Muslim-majority town of Malegaon in September 2006.
Makka Masjid blast in Hyderabad in May 2007 claimed 14 lives whereas three died and 15 were injured in blast at a Sufi shrine in Ajmer in October 2007. However, Pakistani demands of punishing the blitzkrieg perpetuators of all these incidents seem to go futile as lately the Indian Supreme Court stayed for three more weeks the Bombay High Court order allowing the National Investigation Agency (NIA) to interrogate the 2008 Malegaon blast accused Lt Colonel Prasad Shrikant Purohit and Sudhakar Dhar Dwivedi in its custody.
Likewise, many Indian Army personnel were detained in association with the Samjhota Express blaze; but the Indian government in a chaotic investigation cleared all the main accused of the Samjhota Express terror epic belonging to the Indian Army. In addition, they are giving utmost protection to culprits through the shoulder of Supreme Court. Isn’t India playing a double grimy game, singing the mantra of peace and economic relations before world while granting safe havens to the terrorists who targeted Pakistanis.
MOMINA ASHIER
Rawalpindi
