The attack on hotels in Kabul targeting Indians is another in the series of desperate acts by jehadi networks in Pakistan. But I don't think they are doing this to 'scare' Indians away from Afghanistan, or simply to provoke India so it complicates matters for Pakistan, as Stratfor has apparently thought up:
Kabul attack might be to 'provoke' India
I think the aim is to somehow have India to get involved militarily in Afghanistan. That will give the aQ's more India-focussed arms just the trigger they need to initiate the 'ghazwa-e-Hind' terror mayhem in India which Ilyas Kashmiri talked about in his very strange interview to Saleem Shehzad of Asia Times Online:
Al-Qaeda's guerilla chief lays out strategy
aQ (and the jehadi network leading all the way into Pakistan Army, 'rogue' or not, its your call) perhaps believe that a spectacular series of attacks that would leave India humiliated would polarize Pakistanis in their favour and lead them to their long term goal of capturing power there. But they need a trigger - they are not able to justify all-India attacks solely on the basis of Kashmir.
India must tread carefully - we should not give them any such chance at a time when we are not at all confident we have plugged all our internal security loopholes and nor do we have much covert action capability:
Hit but stealthiliy
At best we have to increase physical security to the staffers of India's humanitarian effort in Afghanistan, wherever they stay, within the embassies or otherwise. And request the Afghan Govt to punish the culprits as much as possible.
Saturday, February 27, 2010
Thursday, February 25, 2010
Inspector Karamchand: Prologue
A new thriller series
Prologue
No. This is not the comeback series of Pankaj Kapoor after his long break from TV, though for sure he is contemplating one. This is also not the launch of his son Shahid Kapur into the high world of the telly. His career is doing too good for that, now that he is finally over his addiction to the social networking site, bebo.com.
This is the story of a patriotic jasoos from our much maligned IB, a rare babu who's trying desperately, to help our countrymen from yet another terrorist attack. Now, because he was so Deolesque in his patriotism, in typical filmi style, he was shifted out of a secret branch of IB that thought it was safe from the hands of netalog. Well netalog ke haath bahut lambe hote hain. That was something Karamchand learned the hard way, as he rued the day he had a heated discussion with a pulisman investigating the latest terrorist attack in Mumbai. Apparently, the Chief Minister, who was afraid hs bhaanje and saale would all be caught napping after gourging on samose if the attack was investigated well, had ordered his corrupt puliswaale to come up with some ingenious plan. So the commissioner of pulis secretly commissioned a wellknown fiction writer to author ten 1000 page dossiers on the involvement of 'elements' in Pakistan in the dastardly act and sent them off to the Home Ministry to buy time.
Anyhow, here he was, posted in a new IB cell that was serving the purposes of democracy well. They have hit upon a brilliant plan to nab the terrorists who keep commiting murder in India. They will wait until the next attack, so they can follow the trails. Meanwhile they keep him busy typing away hundreds of 'analysis' notes on what the son of politicians of opposition parties were upto, for the ruling party president to review in her weekly meetings. But our hero is also up to some plan. He secretly manged to slip his 3G compatible Nokia E71 into the lid of his box size 1995model nokia phone. Now every few hours a day, he secretly surfs the net looking for leads on the next possible attack. How good is the team he secretly put in place just for this eventuality? Can he prevent the next big attack without the compromised IB moles stopping him in his tracks?...
Inspector Karamchand will follow after a few days when I take a break from not working.
Prologue
No. This is not the comeback series of Pankaj Kapoor after his long break from TV, though for sure he is contemplating one. This is also not the launch of his son Shahid Kapur into the high world of the telly. His career is doing too good for that, now that he is finally over his addiction to the social networking site, bebo.com.
This is the story of a patriotic jasoos from our much maligned IB, a rare babu who's trying desperately, to help our countrymen from yet another terrorist attack. Now, because he was so Deolesque in his patriotism, in typical filmi style, he was shifted out of a secret branch of IB that thought it was safe from the hands of netalog. Well netalog ke haath bahut lambe hote hain. That was something Karamchand learned the hard way, as he rued the day he had a heated discussion with a pulisman investigating the latest terrorist attack in Mumbai. Apparently, the Chief Minister, who was afraid hs bhaanje and saale would all be caught napping after gourging on samose if the attack was investigated well, had ordered his corrupt puliswaale to come up with some ingenious plan. So the commissioner of pulis secretly commissioned a wellknown fiction writer to author ten 1000 page dossiers on the involvement of 'elements' in Pakistan in the dastardly act and sent them off to the Home Ministry to buy time.
Anyhow, here he was, posted in a new IB cell that was serving the purposes of democracy well. They have hit upon a brilliant plan to nab the terrorists who keep commiting murder in India. They will wait until the next attack, so they can follow the trails. Meanwhile they keep him busy typing away hundreds of 'analysis' notes on what the son of politicians of opposition parties were upto, for the ruling party president to review in her weekly meetings. But our hero is also up to some plan. He secretly manged to slip his 3G compatible Nokia E71 into the lid of his box size 1995model nokia phone. Now every few hours a day, he secretly surfs the net looking for leads on the next possible attack. How good is the team he secretly put in place just for this eventuality? Can he prevent the next big attack without the compromised IB moles stopping him in his tracks?...
Inspector Karamchand will follow after a few days when I take a break from not working.
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
News Flash - 1
Hello and welcome to the randomly updated news flash section on current affairs
* Just when people were beginning to wonder where the PM will surface this time after his latest vanishing act, he appeared again, at yet another remote 'peace conference'. His words of wisdom were that the country is facing grave internal and external dangers. Apparently everybody appluaded. Sources also say that most important topics concerning the country came up for discussion in the Q and A session and our PM responded, as usual, with a dignified and ponderous smile.
* HM Sri Chdiambaram has hit upon a novel plan for peace with the naxalites. He will appear on TV at midnight on one random day this week when IB are sure everybody is asleep, and announce a mechanism for the formation of the new state of Naxalangana. The whole affair it seems, will be in the manner of a live press conference and the naxals can call in and raise their concerns. Last heard, the naxls were desperately trying reach someone in a friendly neighbouring country to check on the proposed map of the new state.
* Companies in India may soon be hiring graduates without interviews. Yep, that's the latest gem from Kapil Sibal, following closely on the heels of his master-acts abolishing board exams, clamping down on the arrogant IITs, and pioneering IMFD (Indian made foreign degree). We assure him every success with his efforts for the 'best performing minister' award instituted by the PM.
* Highly placed sources confirmed that Nitin Gadkari is on a lean diet these days. No, not because he wants to look fit like Rahul. This is because he has vowed to Lord Ram that from now on he will eat at every village including and adjoining those that Rahul visits.
* Varun Gandhi has again said that BJP is losing out because they are not focussing on cows, which are our national wealth.
* A spokesperson for the Chinese Government bemoaned that while they are only providing humanitarian assistance to Pakistan,Sri Lanka, Burma, Bangladesh and Nepal pointing out that these countries dont just surround India, they are desperately poor and need lots of guns to survive, India is playing a dangerous game by training Bhutan, China's most prosperous and important southern neighbour.
* Pakistan has said that India was daydreaming. Apparently the 10 Pakistanis trained by their Army to kill hundreds in India in late 2008, were just that. Our collective nightmare. The Pakistani Ambassador to Chile, who is also a famous qawwali expert, clapped his hands and sang a song, 'hum parindey hain do watan ke lekin hain hum ek qom ke, jindagi kya hai kya maut sab hai khuda ke haath me, faraq kya padta hai kaun jiye kaun mare jab hum hai ek qom ke..such dreams should not come in the way of normalization of ties between one and the same people. how much does it matter who lives,if we are one and the same people'.
* Barack Obama has met the Dalai Lama. But he believes he has delivered the right message to China by not meeting him in the Oval Office.
* Just when people were beginning to wonder where the PM will surface this time after his latest vanishing act, he appeared again, at yet another remote 'peace conference'. His words of wisdom were that the country is facing grave internal and external dangers. Apparently everybody appluaded. Sources also say that most important topics concerning the country came up for discussion in the Q and A session and our PM responded, as usual, with a dignified and ponderous smile.
* HM Sri Chdiambaram has hit upon a novel plan for peace with the naxalites. He will appear on TV at midnight on one random day this week when IB are sure everybody is asleep, and announce a mechanism for the formation of the new state of Naxalangana. The whole affair it seems, will be in the manner of a live press conference and the naxals can call in and raise their concerns. Last heard, the naxls were desperately trying reach someone in a friendly neighbouring country to check on the proposed map of the new state.
* Companies in India may soon be hiring graduates without interviews. Yep, that's the latest gem from Kapil Sibal, following closely on the heels of his master-acts abolishing board exams, clamping down on the arrogant IITs, and pioneering IMFD (Indian made foreign degree). We assure him every success with his efforts for the 'best performing minister' award instituted by the PM.
* Highly placed sources confirmed that Nitin Gadkari is on a lean diet these days. No, not because he wants to look fit like Rahul. This is because he has vowed to Lord Ram that from now on he will eat at every village including and adjoining those that Rahul visits.
* Varun Gandhi has again said that BJP is losing out because they are not focussing on cows, which are our national wealth.
* A spokesperson for the Chinese Government bemoaned that while they are only providing humanitarian assistance to Pakistan,Sri Lanka, Burma, Bangladesh and Nepal pointing out that these countries dont just surround India, they are desperately poor and need lots of guns to survive, India is playing a dangerous game by training Bhutan, China's most prosperous and important southern neighbour.
* Pakistan has said that India was daydreaming. Apparently the 10 Pakistanis trained by their Army to kill hundreds in India in late 2008, were just that. Our collective nightmare. The Pakistani Ambassador to Chile, who is also a famous qawwali expert, clapped his hands and sang a song, 'hum parindey hain do watan ke lekin hain hum ek qom ke, jindagi kya hai kya maut sab hai khuda ke haath me, faraq kya padta hai kaun jiye kaun mare jab hum hai ek qom ke..such dreams should not come in the way of normalization of ties between one and the same people. how much does it matter who lives,if we are one and the same people'.
* Barack Obama has met the Dalai Lama. But he believes he has delivered the right message to China by not meeting him in the Oval Office.
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