Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Cannot say that I am unhappy at the killings at the police training school in Lahore, Pakistan. Perhaps the Pakis should feel some of the grief we felt after Mumbai. Let them collect corpses of innocent people as we did a few months back. The common belief is that this is an attack by the Taliban. It is also widely believed that the ISI, the intelligence wing of the Pakistani army, is training and supplying arms to the Taliban. It was the Paki army which initially formed the Taliban, from students in Madrassas in Pakistan after the Soviets withdrew from Afghanistan, and supported them as they conquered that country and set up an islamic government there. The ISI are said to believe that the Taliban are their pet rottweilers and can be called off at will after having followed their orders and got rid of the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan. If that is so then they are surely mistaken. You cannot control mad dogs, you just shoot them. What is really scary is that the ISI does not want to control the Taliban at all but wants to establish an islamic state armed with nuclear weapons right on our border. If that seems like happening the international community will have to decide whether to continue embracing Pakistan as they have been doing for 60 years or to destroy it to dust. The Indian government will have to secure our borders so that Pakis do not flood across much as the Bangladeshis are doing at the moment. With the garbage we have at this time we should fear for our future.

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