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7 years of Parliament attack: did we learn anything?

Posted by Nikhil on Saturday, December 13, 2008

December 13th 2001: A group of gun weilding terrorists attacked the Parliament of India (the so called Temple of Democracy).


Seven years down the line, India is still bleeding from the wounds the terrorists have given it. Have we learnt anything? Lets see what have we learnt or NOT LEARNT.

How not to politicize the terror issues

Afzal Guru, the terrorist convicted in Parliament attack case is still ALIVE! Supreme court had pronounced a death penalty on him 2005. The execution was to happen on October 20, 2006, but the man and his family filed a clemency plea to the president of India. the decision is still pending.

Are we waiting for another IC-814 to be hijacked so that we can set Afzal free? Please stop the vote bank politics and hang the terrorist. Send a strong signal to all who think they can do anything they want to India and still be free.

Intelligence System still needs overhauling

There needs to be a better coordination between different departments. In Mumbai attacks, we had prior information about such an attack but did not act on the information. Result in there for all to see. There should be some accountability in such cases. Intelligence system should be modernized. There should be follow up actions once the information is provided.

Real time Physical security

We should learn from Isreal. Isreal is surrounded by 13 enemies and is still surviving. We need to nip the terror camps at the preparatory stage itself. The preparedness of Police and Security agencies should be on a war scale.

We need to secure our borders first and then launch a major assualt on the terrorists at the root level. Dry up their funds, their access to weapons. Finish the support staff first. The terror camps will seize to exist on their own. This would require deplomatic initiatives, warfront efforts.

But for all this, our polititians have to be at their best and wouls need to work towards a common goal without looking for the petty gains over each other.

May we live long enough to see that day!




3 comments:

Anonymous said...

This is quite right. We need to improve a lot of things

Vikas said...

Nice thoughts dude.... I appericate your thinking and when all of us are thinking like that, we can surely shape up future of our country

Unknown said...

Afzal is still not hanged because 7 security members were killed in that attack. God forbid..if instead of security members any single parliament member had been attacked/dead then the situation would have been totally different.
The whole point of making my comment is that our government dont give much importance on the security of common man.
Now I welcome the government proposal of setting up a National Intelligence agency but I feel sad that govt. waited for the mumbai like attack to happen in order to set up NIA.

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