Editor,
It’s more than 10 days since the gruesome killing of Innocent tourists at Baisaran Meadows in Pahalgam, Kashmir, took place. This attack shocked India and the world. And yet, there are no retaliatory actions from the Indian authorities to date, except expressions of solidarity with the loved ones of the victims. May we ask why there is no ready-made planning in the pipelines? Even in the past many years, we have witnessed many innocent civilians and security forces being massacred at the hands of terrorists. Still, the reply of our Indian authorities was rather sparingly mild, except the surgical strike at Balakot, which was just a mosquito bite to the Pakistani establishment.
The terrorists that Pakistan has intentionally exported to Jammu and Kashmir and other parts of India to cause terror and destruction have already killed thousands of people in our country and foreigners in India. The destruction of our country’s infrastructure has caused immeasurable loss to our economy. Yet Pakistan did not bother but continued to spill the blood of our people and cause havoc to our properties and our economy through this proxy war. But Indian authorities allowed this evil to be perpetrated again and again. If the US could take down Osama Bin Laden inside the headquarters of the Pakistani Army, why can’t India do the same?
Yours etc.,
Philip Marwein,
Shillong
