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The Revenge Of The Near

The 11/26 attack on India was no 9/11—and India's reaction must also be different from America's.

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  • Posted By: mirror2008 @ 03/14/2009 3:32:49 PM

    Mr khilnaani you appear to be from sind the part that belongs now to pakistan. Your subliminal message is but only an extention of your foriegn policy and for this your Indian pay masters have very ably guided and nuttured you. First then you must stop trying to destabilize Pakistan you havee about a dozen consulates spannining the rim line along Pkaistans border and from which your intelligence RAW is fanning all the trouble. Next under the cloak of Talibans you are sending the purchased pashtuns after necessary training to fight and keep Pakistan army busy. Rs 10000/00 per fighter is a lot of attraction. Your proxy - mullah Fazal ullah brain washes adolascent young fellows to martyr themselves for the glory of Islam. Little do they realise that their mentor is paid a heavy sum for each suicide bombing. These poor guys are heavily drugged in the terminal phases of their mission- which is akin to what was practiced by hasan bi sabah - centuries ago and who in the dictionary is known as" tha old man of the mountains". Very innocently the writer has chosen to ignore the "hindu fundlementalism" gaining grounds in India with considerable speed. He has also chosen to ignore thirteen odd seperatist movements spawning the lenght and breath of Indiia. Most significant being the Kashmir movement. They do not want to be with India. It is India trend setter to terrorism. Remember 1971 when you for the first time introduced terrorism in this region.- by training and arming the mukti bhanis or the bangladesh fighters to carry out terror activities in Pakistan. You have - in collobration with Israel- the kosher-trying to control the Kahmiris and terror operations in our Baluchistan and Swat - malakund -Bajaur areas! How come most pakistanis view that Mumbai was a project of RAW-Mossad - Modi combined and not that of Pakistan. The same is true of Attack on SriLankan taem in Lahore. Do not qoute our president because he thrives on the bandwagon of CIA!!

  • Posted By: lovejusticepeace @ 02/27/2009 3:40:51 AM

    The world and India needs to stand with Sheikh Hasina who is trying to bring to justice the perpetrators of the Bangla Genocide of the 1960s and political assassins of 1971.
    The timing and the manner of the present BDR mutiny smells of political mischief by the Perpetrators and Assassins.

  • Posted By: Tonychowdhury @ 02/24/2009 10:01:11 AM


    India also needs to be rational and cool headed when it response to any sort of terror attacks in it's soil , it appears that within an hour of any sort of terror attack it will almost inevitably blame Pakistan and now increasingly Bangladeshi elements for all these attacks , if the Indian authorities are so efficient in resolving the crime so soon , how come it can't prevent such violent terror crime .

    India is not America . American is unique in the world it has the inherent ability and greatness to address it's wrongdoing and dramatically improve things for better in future , it's also honest in it's approach , not denying it's shortcomings and problems .

    India needs to address many of it's problem more candidly, it will serve them better , rather than always blaming it's small neighbors for all it's problems .

    It's still a very poor country , even though it brags about sending rockets in to the lunar orbit, 70% of it's population still earns less then dollar a day .

    It has serious class & caste problem in rural areas , that undermines it's progress and liberal social thinking .

    It has huge population that it can't take care of properly , lack of sanitation , clean water , health care and education .
    India needs to address it's problem with Maoist guerillas in Adndraparedesh and Bihar - there is regular insurgency activities in these states , which is non communal in nature , that is hardly ever publicized or dramatized by Indian media , but is major strategic threat for India .

    There is serious Insurgency problem in India's Norther Eastern Seven sisters states like Assam ( ULFA Guerrillas ) since 1960's . A problem is far more complicated and dangerous for India's strategic interest in the long run .
    And of course it never resolved the Kashmir problem , wishing it will go away by allowing local election.

    Than it has long standing dispute with it's various small neighbors , from water sharing , transit , corridor and trade imbalance .

    India really needs to look itself in the mirror and address it's own shortcoming first before giving lectures to it's neighbors . Just having democracy does not make things disappear . India has lot of deep rooted problems , social injustice ,inequalities in extreme form , communal tension and poverty , which yo this day it really has not solved . It wants to think that having 250 million middle class in country of 1 billion plus makes it a rich first world country , the reality is India has a long way to go to feed it's deprived 700 million plus poor , before it can brag it's a developed country

    Tonychowdhury

  • Posted By: Tonychowdhury @ 02/24/2009 9:59:06 AM

    India also needs to be rational and cool headed when it response to any sort of terror attacks in it's soil , it appears that within an hour of any sort of terror attack it will almost inevitably blame Pakistan and now increasingly Bangladeshi elements for all these attacks , if the Indian authorities are so efficient in resolving the crime so soon , how come it can't prevent such violent terror crime .

    India is not America . American is unique in the world it has the inherent ability and greatness to address it's wrongdoing and dramatically improve things for better in future , it's also honest in it's approach , not denying it's shortcomings and problems .

    India needs to address many of it's problem more candidly, it will serve them better , rather than always blaming it's small neighbors for all it's problems .

    It's still a very poor country , even though it brags about sending rockets in to the lunar orbit, 70% of it's population still earns less then dollar a day .

    It has serious class & caste problem in rural areas , that undermines it's progress and liberal social thinking .

    It has huge population that it can't take care of properly , lack of sanitation , clean water , health care and education .
    India needs to address it's problem with Maoist guerillas in Adndraparedesh and Bihar - there is regular insurgency activities in these states , which is non communal in nature , that is hardly ever publicized or dramatized by Indian media , but is major strategic threat for India .

    There is serious Insurgency problem in India's Norther Eastern Seven sisters states like Assam ( ULFA Guerrillas ) since 1960's . A problem is far more complicated and dangerous for India's strategic interest in the long run .

    And of course it never resolved the Kashmir problem , wishing it will go away by allowing local election.

    Than it has long standing dispute with it's various small neighbors , from water sharing , transit , corridor and trade imbalance .

    India really needs to look itself in the mirror and address it's own shortcoming first before giving lectures to it's neighbors . Just having democracy does not make things disappear . India has lot of deep rooted problems , social injustice ,inequalities in extreme form , communal tension and poverty , which yo this day it really has not solved .

    the reality is India has a long way to go to feed it's deprived 700 million plus poor , before it can brag it's a developed country .

    Tony Chowdhury

  • Posted By: amitgo @ 02/09/2009 8:27:28 PM

    There is enough ignorance to go around in every country but the real problem is a culture of violence and lies in countries like Pakistan. What is the probability of Hindu or Christian extremists coming to Pakistan and shooting up people? Do we need to count the number of times the opposite occurs - i.e. Islamic extremists trained in Pakistan going out to neighboring countries and the US to commit murder? Until the underlying culture of Islamic extremism is faught head-on in Pakistan, there will be no peace.

  • Posted By: tigerwoods @ 02/04/2009 7:34:06 AM

    Beggars cant be chooser. Writer should understand the need between necessity and choice. In unlikely event if America had suffered 10 percent of attacks or deaths (you can choose any) due to Pakistani terrorism as suffered by India, America would have also shown restraint (if mutual destruction was assured) or become police state (as under Bush or as UK is currently is) . This has got nothing to do with treatment of minorities after all Pakistanis are treated worse in UK and you have royalty to vouch for it. But it all gets down to law enforcement and maintaining deterrence. Hijacking in Kandhar was trail run for 9/11. Those who think that they can make peace with wolves will be again be disappointed.

    • Posted By: Etiquette @ 02/04/2009 4:06:56 PM

      You forgot "Hindoos Terrorism" here, who are terrorizing Christians, Muslims and Low Cast Hindoos. You can't hide the truth.

      • Posted By: tigerwoods @ 02/05/2009 10:30:24 AM

        What you are referring to is problem of integration which multiracial society will always face and have faced. In fact you seem to be contradicting yourself by saying "Hindoos Terrorism" against low caste Hindoos. There is certainly difference between riots and terrorism. Problems can be due to race, caste, religion, region and even language and every democratic and civilized country faces any or all of these problems. For your information about 40 or more Muslims also died in Mumbai attacks along with Christians (of Indian, US, UK and others origins), Jews and many others which may include atheists. As I said earlier it was terrorist act by Pakistan and nothing else

        • Posted By: Etiquette @ 02/06/2009 12:28:44 PM

          If this is the terrorist act of Pakistan, then why don't you invade Pakistan as your "Out of their minds" Prime Minister and Foreign Minister crying for. India knows very well the outcome. You coward Indian can't hide you ugly face from the World. You need some brain treatment.

          • Posted By: tigerwoods @ 02/06/2009 10:08:22 PM

            One of the largest surrender by any organized Army after world war 2 was in 1971 during Indo -Pak war. When thousands of Brave Pakistani soldiers 90 thousand to be precise realized that terrorizing there own countrymen and ruling them like Mafia was not same as fighting a war. But unfortunately that doesn't mean that feudal-narco-mulla- army combination ruling Pakistan accepted peace cause to rule in Pakistan they need bogeyman called India.India has defeated them every time and we will defeat the again and again conventionally or unconventionally but that enables Mulla -Army to fool Pakistanis that they can only save this nation and India is out to destroy Pakistan. In fact they realize that they wont be able to win any war with any country or group after are being battered by Taliban in Swat Valley and elsewhere.Thing to note is Taleban has now overgrown Mullas who created them and know that Pakistani Army is useless and instead of Mulla - Army combine it could easily be Mulla - Taleban combine to rule Pakistan. India's aim is not to defeat Pakistan or control wretched people of Pakistan whose only salvation is to blow themselves and hope for better deal in Heaven. India's aim is to ensure that next time the prospective paki prime minister (Ms Bhutto) candidate gets blown up they don't need to go to UN for justice when those who planned and executed the blasts are in Pakistan. If Mr. Zardari has to go to UN for justice then it only shows the failed state that Pakistan is and what sham democracy is in Pakistani.

  • Posted By: byronraum @ 02/05/2009 4:08:41 PM

    I am not quite sure why the author seems to believe that India is a viable country, any more than Pakistan or Bangladesh is a viable country. The GDPs of these countries are pretty much comparable. Except for a small minority in India who have adopted capitalistic values, India is very firmly a subsistence third-world economy, pretty much like most of that region.

    • Posted By: srakesh @ 02/05/2009 6:29:21 PM

      So the GDP of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh are comparable? The figures were $1.27 trillion for India, $ 0.16 trillion for Pakistan and $ 0.083 trillion for Bangladesh. Source is http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_GDP_(nominal).

      Maybe you are so ignorant that you understand these numbers? And last when I heard, India has been a democracy. Pakistan isn't.

      • Posted By: Etiquette @ 02/06/2009 1:42:23 PM

        You are comparing five times bigger India with Pakistan. Do you know millions of Indians sleeping on the side walks evry night with hunger, but nobody sleeps on sidewalks in Pakistan. Actually you typical stubborn Indian thinks you are at the level of china as well, but you are not. Wake-up and see the facts and truth, actually you Indians are ignorant.

  • Posted By: Raghav Murthy @ 02/06/2009 10:23:08 AM

    The whole idea of Muslims not given enough in India is actually nonsense. If you want to spend the rest of your life reading and mastering the Koran in Madrassas, no body can help the Muslims.

    Remember, there are at least three muslims in the Indian cricket team, the third largest IT company Wipro is headed by a Muslim, Has had a couple of Muslim presidents, Bollywood is headed by the Khans.

    No Sir! That argument will not wash!

    Muslims should learn to leave Islam within the four walls of their homes or Mosque. They should bow to a common civil law unlike some medieval laws apparently written by God.

    • Posted By: Etiquette @ 02/06/2009 12:48:13 PM

      Three or four Muslims in a more than one billion population at higher posts does not make a sense. Don't cry about religious practice as we are all naked in the bathroom no matter what religion we practice. You need to read the excerpts of your Prime Minister Manmohan Singh speach to find out the truth and true "Ugly Face" of Indian Hindoos.

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    • Posted By: Etiquette @ 02/06/2009 12:36:09 PM

      It seems to me that you are a typical Indian Psycho. You need a psychiatric evaluation. No matter what you do or say, the World knows the "Ugly Face of India" very well now.

  • Posted By: lovejusticepeace @ 02/04/2009 12:17:25 PM

    The best solution is a Free Kashmir .
    The best solution for the region is a Free Eelam.
    The best solution for the world is a Free Palestine.

    • Posted By: Etiquette @ 02/04/2009 4:22:34 PM

      Thanks for your honest remarks.

      • Posted By: tigerwoods @ 02/06/2009 6:46:17 AM

        For added honesty free Baluchistan, free Sindh, free country for Shias in Pakistan.

  • Posted By: BOFORCE @ 02/05/2009 3:12:44 PM

    what a stupid allegation....do you believe that 10 youngters travel more than 500 km a back breaking journey in the sea with loads of weapons in rubber boat and hold up Mumabai for 70 hours?...it can be possible in Bollywood movies only.

    • Posted By: tigerwoods @ 02/06/2009 6:39:32 AM

      Then 19 or so young people armed with paper knife and their wits, plunging planes in twin towers killing more US national than were killed in Pearl Harbor, would seem like Hi tech Si Fi film like Matrix.

  • Posted By: simp @ 02/05/2009 9:27:33 PM

    Mr. Khilnani crapped a big one on the pages of a magazine that is going from bad to worse. I cancelled my subscription today after reading this article.

    Maybe Mr. Khilnani can ask himself what do the muslims do with the Rs. 2500 Crore received from donors outside India. Why don't they use it for the uplifting of muslim women and children?

  • Posted By: kimskams80 @ 02/05/2009 7:40:10 PM

    Author saying n'importe quoi .. suppressing rest of the countries against India ... Globalism etc ... Why did not you mention the Indian RAW involvement in helping SriLankan Tamils, insurgency in Pakistan from Afghanistan, similarly in Bangladesh ... Is this you call Globalism??

  • Posted By: IndianDP @ 02/05/2009 7:20:41 PM

    Muslims should come out openly as to how fix their own religion by themselves. Identify the problems and address each one of them

    • Posted By: kimskams80 @ 02/05/2009 7:32:29 PM

      Dear Indian Brother ... Islam has no Problems in itself .. It is the interpretation of Islam that is creating problem but here in this case religion has nothing to do with anything .. it is all politics ... Talibanization holds on both sides : in Muslims and Hindus ...

  • Posted By: IndianDP @ 02/05/2009 7:24:29 PM

    muslims should accept their inherent tenet of iintolerance and change it to acceptance of other faiths and live in harmony among others in any nation

  • Posted By: sea4 @ 02/05/2009 4:29:18 PM

    Not sure where Newsweek find these so called 'experts' who's sole job is to mislead the world about the Indian role in sabotaging peace in South Asia... If exteremish and insurgencies are the benchmark of sovereignty then India is hardly a sovereign state as currently over twenty freedom movements are going on in India in addition to Kashmir. Two Indian prime ministers had been killed by those extremist. While outside India these so called analyst sings the songs of secularism, in India thousands Muslims are murdered by the State goverment and places of worship razed without any accountability.

    On showing restraint against Pakistan after the Mumbai attack is not one side story - there military and political leaders know full well the kind of response they would gotten from Pakistan.. That had a sobering effect on them to make the right choice - not thier own pricniples.

    To the Newsweek - you are really losing your credibilty as a respected journal by including these articles which are nothing but propaganda and far away from reality ...

    • Posted By: srakesh @ 02/05/2009 7:10:46 PM

      In US, JFK and Lincoln were assassinated. US has had secessionist groups like Alaskan Independence Party, RNA, People's Republic of the North Star, New England Confederation Alliance to name a few. Every country has its own set of issues.

      The Mumbai attacks exposed India's intelligence and logistic failures. And yes, with a large population, resources are stretched thin.

      You say - "Thousands Muslims are murdered by the State government and places of worship razed without any accountability.". You imply a state conspiracy. Why don't you share with me what you've been smoking?

      To Newsweek - Keep up the good work. You are a respected magazine offering different perspective.

  • Posted By: AshSmith @ 02/05/2009 4:03:29 PM

    Any time you say something about Muslims or Pakistan, suddenly you become communal. I have compassion for Muslims and specially the one in Pakistan. Unfortunately, they are not smart enough to get out of identity crisis. They need to always fight with India to look and feel separate. They are separate. They are too forward thinking (i.e. they think about after death), not future forward.
    Thank you Newsweek for this article because most channels feel that anything against Pakistan is politically incorrect. What kind of proof these guys want? I was in India at that time and these terrorist called local TV station to talk about their agenda and ???teach India a lesson???. Unless, I think my interpreter is lying (and I have mo reason to distrust her), I have every reason to belive in India???s claim that Pakistan???s leadership??? sole agenda is to create disturbance in India.

    • Posted By: kimskams80 @ 02/05/2009 6:46:55 PM

      Oh No .. Don't mention INDIAN Media .... I mean Indian Media is too much impressed by Bollywood that they cannot make difference between Movies and News ... Please just go and surf YOUTUBE and you will find many such ridiculous clips of Indian Media reporting this incident ... Now let me tell you about the person talking to Indian TV .. now ask any Indian anywhere and he will tell you that "this should be an Indian or a Pakistani talking in that accent and the terms being used... And the Dossier Mr Author is talking about ..ha ha .its nothing less than another proof of lack of expertise on part of Indian Agencies... Have you seen this dossier?? Have you read that report .. please check that report, read it and then me as a Layman will tell you ... what it is .. I am not sure who was behind this Mumbai Attacks but who ever did it.. should be punished severely ... and I feel sorry for the department Mr Author is serving for .. ha ha .. Just a bag of lies in this article ..

    • Posted By: kimskams80 @ 02/05/2009 6:46:37 PM

      Oh No .. Don't mention INDIAN Media .... I mean Indian Media is too much impressed by Bollywood that they cannot make difference between Movies and News ... Please just go and surf YOUTUBE and you will find many such ridiculous clips of Indian Media reporting this incident ... Now let me tell you about the person talking to Indian TV .. now ask any Indian anywhere and he will tell you that "this should be an Indian or a Pakistani talking in that accent and the terms being used... And the Dossier Mr Author is talking about ..ha ha .its nothing less than another proof of lack of expertise on part of Indian Agencies... Have you seen this dossier?? Have you read that report .. please check that report, read it and then me as a Layman will tell you ... what it is .. I am not sure who was behind this Mumbai Attacks but who ever did it.. should be punished severely ... and I feel sorry for the department Mr Author is serving for .. ha ha .. Just a bag of lies in this article ..

    • Posted By: catspaw @ 02/05/2009 4:55:07 PM

      Considering Pakistan was originally apart of India in the time of Gandi, is there a chance India will not let Pakistan forget this?

      • Posted By: catspaw @ 02/05/2009 5:00:09 PM

        I apologize to all if you feel my question is inappropate, I just want to understand way this would happen. Gandhi was upset about it but yet seemed to understand why it had to happen, the separation of the one into two countries.

  • Posted By: AshSmith @ 02/05/2009 3:58:20 PM

    any time you say something about muslims,

  • Posted By: bobcat4424 @ 02/05/2009 2:11:55 PM

    It is good that they didn't follow the Bush Doctrine and attack Argentina.

  • Posted By: sandruv1 @ 01/31/2009 12:34:24 PM

    It is a foolishness to attribute India's Muslim's state to 26/11 or Kashmir as these are nothing to do with this. 26/11 is a senseless hatred activity done by the terrorist country whose birth is done on the basis of hatred against India.

    I agree there are improvements to be done with respect to the conditions of the Muslims of India, but we should remember Minorities enjoy much freedom and right to grow in India rather than the so called land of the Poor. It is none of the business for Pakistan or Any muslim country to remind. Some of the undevelopment is due to the Muslim leadership and the Rigidity of the religion to adopt to the changes and also attitude of the people in feeling isolated, insecure and become threatened. India's systems, values are good and can be called as model values. Can you comment on the plight of the minority communities in Pakistan and Bangladesh. They literally near to the extinction and whoever is living they will be living under fear. In India, minorities have Huz subsidies, Wakf Lands, etc.,

    • Posted By: news8111 @ 02/05/2009 1:24:28 PM

      Your ignorance is both refreshing as well as reprehensible.

      In Bangladesh the Hindu community is thriving.

      Be it in business, the arts, politics, you name it.

      Just recently one of Bangladeh's most famous Hindu artists and a man with a long history of involvement in plays and dramas actually joined other members of a cultural group and protested Israeli atrocities in GAZA.

      In India priests are killed, Christians are being persecuted in some states openly, churches are burned, laws passed making it illegal to convert people, and not too long ago an Australian priest was killed when he was burned to death in his vehicle...........some fine examples of tolerance in India.......

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