tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007509643610309350.post538503246817391674..comments2024-01-22T10:47:38.507+05:30Comments on As I Please: Pankaj Mishra is at it againRahul Basuhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07751088048215388592noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007509643610309350.post-33501411911990756362009-12-10T09:27:02.099+05:302009-12-10T09:27:02.099+05:30I don't think the two situations are exactly e...I don't think the two situations are exactly equivalent. In Pakistan the people they nurtured for years have turned against them. (A bit like Bhindranwale and Indira Gandhi). Secondly what is remarkable is that most surveys carried out in Pakistan show the younger generation actually admiring of Islamic Law and the Pakistani Army. The tide turned somewhat after that infamous Swat valley video of a young girl being caned by the Taliban<br /><br />In India's case there are people being actively trained from just across our border in Kashmir to infiltrate and create havoc in India. The terrorist training camps are not fiction. No country OTOH has trained any terrorists to go in and attack Pakistani establishments. It's their own creation. <br /><br />I find this moral equivalence of bracketing India and Pakistan as 'both having suffered greatly from terrorism' somewhat far-fetched. And the usual stick to beat India with -- its human rights record in Kashmir -- is, though true, a red herring. Even if all human right violations in the Kashmir valley stopped from today, terrorism will not.Rahul Basuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07751088048215388592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007509643610309350.post-24954489440843392762009-12-09T23:50:26.763+05:302009-12-09T23:50:26.763+05:30"...that we have been at the receiving end of..."...that we have been at the receiving end of the terrorist violence for the last two decades."<br /><br />Over the last decade, Pakistan (the common people of Pakistan i.e.) have just as much been victims of terrorism.Venkataramanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07520870317069435093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007509643610309350.post-82575648922477811692009-12-09T17:09:14.414+05:302009-12-09T17:09:14.414+05:30fixedfixedRahul Basuhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07751088048215388592noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2007509643610309350.post-11405403862659540002009-12-09T15:55:41.992+05:302009-12-09T15:55:41.992+05:30The first link (to the NYR blog) goes somewhere el...The first link (to the NYR blog) goes somewhere else...Rahul Siddharthanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04809667965184094636noreply@blogger.com