Prime Minister Narendra Modi condemned an attack on an Indian army convoy in Manipur by ‘militants’ who are reported to have used rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons in the ambush killing at least 20 personnel. In retaliation the Indian Army conducted on last Tuesday a cross-border revenge attack in Myanmar in which it killed nearly a dozen militants thought to be involved in the massacre of 18 soldiers a week back in Manipur that borders Myanmar.
There had been reports a week earlier that officials from the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) were allegedly in touch with the top leadership of the insurgent group.
Pakistani Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan commented on this incident that seems to have remained without reaction or protest from the side of Myanmar that India should not mistake Pakistan for Myanmar, adding that “our armed forces are fully capable of responding to any foreign aggression”. Well, that reminds one of the US invasion into Pakistan on 2 May, 2011, when a dozen US Navy SEALs with helicopters entered Pakistan from an airbase in Afghanistan, raided a compound in Abbottabad and flew back to Afghanistan without being intercepted by the Pakistan Border Control. What was that if not an invasion like the one of India into Myanmar if it is right what our governments repeat, namely that they were not informed about the ‘operation’? What a cruel joke by those otherwise ride on the back of our nation.
Both incidents are ample proof of two things at the same time. One, the idea of sovereignty in a growingly globalised world that in addition is facing the threat of Islamic militant organisations that anyway don’t recognise national borders is getting increasingly undermined and that is why cross-border military operations will occur in future as well unless we change to give sanity some room to restore peace and tranquility. Secondly, people who live in glass houses should not throw stones; otherwise, they could expose themselves for being not very bright.
ALI ASHRAF KHAN
Karachi
Well said, I hope there are more sane persons in Pakistan government and the Military establishments!. Terrorist is a Terrorist let us all work together to eliminate them and not give them safe heaven on our soil!
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