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We Have To Fight Our Own Battles!

President Barack Obama signed a defence authorization bill last week that provides for $1 billion in aid to Pakistan in 2015 contingent to Islamabad taking steps to disrupt the Haqqani Network and eliminating safe havens of al Qaida and Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP).

But, it makes no mention of the Punjab-centric terror groups such as the LeT aka Jamaatul-Dawa (JuD), Lashkar-eJhangvi (LeJ) and others that are considered proxies of the Pakistani state.

Indian political analysts are extremely peeved at the fact that Washington has not called for a clampdown on these terror outfits which are India-centric and is only focused on those outfits targeting America or American interests!

And this is exactly where the problem lies! Why will the United States pay Pakistan to flush out terrorists operating in India? It is basically this kind of thinking that has got us where we are today!

We have to learn to stand up for our own problems or else lose further territory and lives!

Cribbing to the US or other developed nations every time there is a terrorist strike in India has got us nowhere.

Had Nehru taken on Pakistan directly instead of approaching the UN, ‘Kashmir’ would have ceased to be an issue today. Thankfully, his daughter, Indira Gandhi was made of sterner stuff and intervened in Bangladesh by defying the US.

Whenever something happens in India, a best the rest of the world will offer us a few sympathetic words but the battle will have to be fought us by. It is India that will have to pull the trigger!

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