Some people in India were rejoicing at 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 existed at a hanging. Ajmal was just a foot soldier; an illiterate young boy brainwashed into militancy. As long as his ideologists, financiers and handlers remain out of reach of the 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 Pakistan with immunity as Pakistan is unable to catch or incriminate any 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 find and eliminate the philosophy of hatred, which is used by the trainers to indoctrinate a sense of achievement and after life 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 back to the Stone Age.
MASOOD KHAN,
Jubail, November 22.