B.RAMAN
As the nation observes the fourth anniversary of
the 26/11 terrorist strikes in Mumbai, there are still many unfinished tasks
arising from the strikes to which attention needs to be drawn. These are the
following:
·
The Government of Pakistan is yet to
complete the prosecution and trial of the seven masterminds of the strikes.
They have been arrested, but the trial against them before an anti-terrorism
tribunal of Rawalpindi is being repeatedly adjourned under some pretext or the
other, thereby making a mockery of the trial.
·
Pakistan has not taken any action against the officers of its Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI), who had helped the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LET) in carrying out
the strikes. We find ourselves without any diplomatic or covert action options
to force the Pakistani State to act against them. This dramatically illustrates
our powerlessness in the face of the continued sponsorship of terroism by
Pakistan against Indian citizens in Indian territory.
·
Hafiz Mohammad Sayeed, the Amir of the
LET and its political wing Jamaat-ud-Dawa, continues to be a free man. Pakistan
has repeatedly rejected all the evidence produced by us against him.
·
The anti-India terrorist infrastructure
of the LET in Pakistani territory continues to function unimpaired. The
Pakistani State is not prepared to act against it. By our continued reluctance
to revive our covert action capability, we have denied ourselves the means of
acting against it covertly and effectively.
·
We have not yet been able to
reconstruct the conspiracy in our territory completely. We have not been able
to identify the Indian Muslims who might have acted as the accomplices of the
LET in the planning and execution of the strikes and arrest them. We have not
been able to interrogate thoroughly David Coleman Headley and Tahawwur Hussain
Rana of the Chicago cell of the LET and establish the identities of their
contacts in India who helped them in the collection of operational intelligence
for being passed on to the LET in Pakistan. It is inconceivable that Headley,
who repeatedly visited India at the instance of the LET and the ISI, had no
contacts in India on whose help he relied. The sleeper cells in the Indian
Muslim community which helped Headley and Rana remain unidentified and
unneutralised.
·
We have not yet been able to establish
how Headley and Rana repeatedly managed to evade detection by the Indian
intelligence and immigration during their visits to India before the strikes.
·
The quality of our investigation has
not improved despite our setting up the National investigation Agency (NIA)
after the strikes. This would be evident from the poorly detected cases that
have taken place after 26/11.
·
The exercise to set up a National
Counter-terrorism Centre (NCTC) has got stuck up without any forward movement
due to political mishandling by the Government of India.
·
We have failed to mobilise and persuade
the relatives of the foreigners killed to act legally against the ISI in the
courts of their countries.
·
We have failed to take follow-up action
against our TV channels and TV journalists on whom strictures were passed by
the Supreme Court while confirming the death sentence on Ajmal Kasab. These strictures
related to their irresponsible live coverage of the strikes, which complicated
the tasks of the security forces. The channels and the journalists have
succeeded in creating a wall of silence around their sins of commission and
omission. It is as if the TV journos are a law unto themselves and not subject
to any scrutiny or even public debate on the judicial strictures.
2.Unless these tasks are
completed, we can never talk of closure in respect of the terrorist strikes.
Will the closure ever come? I have my doubts unless the voters decide to
teach all concerned a lesson during the
forthcoming elections and continue to keep the spotlight on the irresponsible
and unprofessional coverage by the TV
journos. ( 26-11-12)
(The writer
is Additional Secretary (retd), Cabinet Secretariat, Govt. of India, New Delhi,
and, presently, Director, Institute For Topical Studies, Chennai, and Associate
of the Chennai Centre For China Studies. E-mail: seventyone2@gmail.com Twitter @SORBONNE75)
6 comments:
Sir you too are blaming Barkha dutta here as the responsible TV Journo? Will she threaten to file a defamation case against you like Chaitanya Kunte, and will you take down this post subsequently? :)
YES SIR,ITS TRUE.BUT IT IS ALSO TRUE STILL WE COULD NOT FIND THE EXACT PEOPLE WHO KILLED KARKARE AND THE MASTERMIND BEHIND THAT.AS U SAID PAKISTAN IS DIFFERENT COUNTRY AND WE HAVE THE DIPLOMATIC PROBLEMS.BUT THE WHAT STOPS TO FIND OUT THE ABOVE QUESTIONS WHICH HAS KILLED A REAL HERO OF INDIA.OUR SALUTES TO HEMANT KARKARE.
I think Prabhat and Vellai have not grasped the the analysis that Mr.Raman has made and the point that he is trying to make . He is right on every count and he is not trying to "blame"anyone here. His faultless English is sometimes hard to understand by everyone, no doubt.
may be u r right mr peter.may i make u a suggestion?please read the book ''who killed karkare? '' a book written by a former top police official.thanks
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