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- May 29, 2011
- By Bharat Karnad
- "Pakistan is the only Muslim nuclear power state. Isn't it a shame for us to have the Islamic bomb, and even then we are bowing down to the pressures of America?" - Ehsanullah Ehsan, Taliban Spokesman.
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- It is a wonder that in 26/11, the jihadis after successfully breaching three layers of Indian maritime defence, inactive in all but name - the outer zone manned by the Indian Navy, the coastal zone patrolled by the Coast Guard, and the inner-most defensive line policed by Harbour patrols — merely shot up a couple of hotels when they could have done something really spectacular — a “Pearl Harbour” by sinking a good part of the Western Fleet anchored at the time in the Mumbai naval base, only a few hundred meters from where they landed.That the raiding team did not have expert frogmen capable of attaching limpet mines to warships below the waterline to sink them; and, instead, the AK-47-toting yahoos (like Ajmal Kasab) were given license to raise hell on Mumbai streets and in hotels, suggested that while the Pakistan Army was quite happy to show off its ISI-managed terrorist-operational prowess and, its flipside, India's vulnerability, it was simply not prepared to risk instigating action — such as the destruction of the Indian naval strike fleet that was well within its capacity to prosecute — that would have triggered total war, ending in Pakistan's extinction. In other words, for all its risk-taking propensity, Pakistan Army understands that it cannot afford to provide India provocation so outré as to push Delhi into a justifiable ratcheting up of violence to the strategic level.Full Article at,
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