How come no one accuses India of being involved in state-sponsored terrorism?
KARACHI: It’s so easy to forget that it was India which annexed the princely states of Hyderabad and Junagadh following Partition. Of course, Pakistan is to be blamed. It strolled into and attacked ‘Indian territory’ that India claimed was under dispute. And people seem to forget that a serving lieutenant-colonel of the Indian army remains under arrest for alleged involvement in the bombing of the Samjhota Express inside India in 2007. How come no one accuses India of being involved in state-sponsored terrorism? Also, why no mention of India funding and training the LTTE or the Mukti Bahini? Any Pakistani who highlights this fact is immediately labelled an ISI agent. As for cross-border terrorism, only Pakistan can be involved in this because it sends its proxies across the border into India. Of course, India does not do the same in the case of Pakistan because, as conventional wisdom follows, New Delhi does not employ the tactics that Islamabad employs.
Qaiser Habib
Published in The Express Tribune, July 30th, 2011.
