Tuesday, September 30, 2008

Terror Strikes Again

alas! the terror returns with its most ugliest face. this time in two neibouring states of Gujarat and Maharashtra. according to the news reports both places are muslim dominated and market areas where muslms were shopping for Idd which falls on Wednesday or thursday depending upon the sight of the moon. muslims follow their lunar calendar. the two places Malegaon and Modasa in Maharashtra and gujarat respectively are described by the media reports as communally sensitive. The sookha bazaar where a timer device was used as told by the district suprintendent of police R Brahmabhat, but preliminary reports of the explosion said it was a cylinder blast which was later ruled out by the Inspector general of Police Nasik Range, S P Gupta. Talking to CNN IBN he said that Improvised Explosive Device was used to trigger the vlast and terror. ATS official also confirmed later that it was not cylinder blast but a crude bomb that killed at least four people. The Chief Medical Officer , L N Chavan, at the Wadia govenemnt hospital in Malegaon said to CNN IBN that there were four bodies lying at the hospital.
The bone of contention is not the facts and figures. Our Intelligence Agencies have again failed to prevent another terror strike. The terrorist are now seeing into the eyes of these agencies and an eye ball to eye ball game is underway, it seems. What makes these terrorist to confront country's robust police forces? Are they have developed their own network to such an extent that they can strike at will? Or is there a lack of will on part of the governemnt to get deep into the networks and dismantle them. So far only conflicting reports are coming from the two epicentres. The IANS termed it a cylindrical explosion. News X said it was a cylide vlast. To the writer's astonishment the horrible incidence could not find a place, till the time of writing the article, in country's premium Press trust of India. The Teror of terror is so terrible that we drifted from the topic and went into the details of what happpened in these two muslim dominated areas. The victims are not muslims or hindus they are human beings in first place. And the Islam saya that killing one innocent human being is tantamount to killing the whole humanity. Similarly the terrorists are neither Hindus nor Muslims. Though their name smight suggest their affiliations to a particlular religion but they are not the followers of that religion. If they were one they would nevr have resorted to violence in first place. But nowadys there is a trend to stereotype these incidences. The Hinud terrorism and the Muslim terrorism which is not acceptable at least in the secular country of India. People should behave as mature persons instead of passing the bucks and indulging in a sliging game. That is detrimental to our pluralistic socialt structure. The neeed of the hour is that the law enforcers hudle up and remove the spectacle of bias and persecution and bring every community in its fold in the fold of fight against terrorism to overpower the imp. The probe as well as the remedial measures should be inclusive not exclusive other wise we can never lead the fight against terror to its logical conclusion.

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