Mr. MO,
With regards to your highly diplomatic although engaging post of being "taken for a ride" by the authorities, I begin to ponder if it was you who boarded the ride and paid for the tickets.
Firstly, it is a highly sceptical view when you think of the government colluding with the security agencies in terms of the death numbers. At a moment like this, and in the prospect of sounding overtly patriotic, I think causing confusion with the numbers of dead will play little to no role in diverting public anger, as we have seen lately. It is, in my opinion, a result of utter confusion caused with the presence and subsequently absence of a leader (read Home min.) at the time of the attacks.
To discredit the forces in their analysis, not counting the police, as a motive by the government to use it to their advantage is inapproriate too. The attacks have assumed a larger face than just death numbers. So, although, your first point of the lack of co-ordination among the forces may be true, the government colluding on the number of dead may not be.
Also, I fail to understand how the government's constant mongering of Pakistan will garner it strategic and political points as we saw almost immediate concerns of seperatism-fuelled-violence amid the country being raised when fingers were pointed across the borders. And with Pakistan almost immediately reducing its troops against the war-on-terror at its western borders and placing them at its Indian borders, the onus was on India to reduce the tension. This I hope is the subject of our next discussion.
We have been taken for a ride all the while, surprising how the prospect of death numbers has woken you up to de-board suddenly.
With regards to your highly diplomatic although engaging post of being "taken for a ride" by the authorities, I begin to ponder if it was you who boarded the ride and paid for the tickets.
Firstly, it is a highly sceptical view when you think of the government colluding with the security agencies in terms of the death numbers. At a moment like this, and in the prospect of sounding overtly patriotic, I think causing confusion with the numbers of dead will play little to no role in diverting public anger, as we have seen lately. It is, in my opinion, a result of utter confusion caused with the presence and subsequently absence of a leader (read Home min.) at the time of the attacks.
To discredit the forces in their analysis, not counting the police, as a motive by the government to use it to their advantage is inapproriate too. The attacks have assumed a larger face than just death numbers. So, although, your first point of the lack of co-ordination among the forces may be true, the government colluding on the number of dead may not be.
Also, I fail to understand how the government's constant mongering of Pakistan will garner it strategic and political points as we saw almost immediate concerns of seperatism-fuelled-violence amid the country being raised when fingers were pointed across the borders. And with Pakistan almost immediately reducing its troops against the war-on-terror at its western borders and placing them at its Indian borders, the onus was on India to reduce the tension. This I hope is the subject of our next discussion.
We have been taken for a ride all the while, surprising how the prospect of death numbers has woken you up to de-board suddenly.
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