Some people in India were rejoicing the hanging of Ajmal Kasab, the lone terrorist caught alive during the Mumbai attacks 26/11, but I wonder why such a sense of jubilation. Ajmal was just a foot soldier, an illiterate young boy brainwashed into jihad, came to Mumbai to cause death to as many as possible and then die. As long as his ideologists, financiers and handlers remained out of reach of law, mere hanging of a lone terrorist won’t achieve anything.
This is equally applicable on both sides of the border, Pakistan lost 45,000 civilians and military personnel during the last decade while locally-groomed terrorists are still roaming the streets of Karachi, Peshawar, Quetta and elsewhere with impunity as Pakistan is unable to catch and implicate real culprits for these crimes. What about Samjhauta Express bombers, instigators and killers of Muslims after the demolition of Babri Mosque, Mumbai riots of 92-93, Gujarat riots of 2002, the list goes on?
Unless we get away from the philosophies of blood-thirsty hatred which are used by the trainers to indoctrinate a sense of achievement and afterlife reward, nothing will change. Statements, vows, speeches won’t work anymore unless we open our eyes and see the real enemy who wants to push both the countries to Stone Age.
MASOOD KHAN
Jubail, Saudi Arabia