An open letter to the US President
3. What follows is even more confusing. A note supposedly found in the car was what gave the media an initial idea that Jaish-e-Mohammad had been behind the attack.
The note, which was circulated to the media as well, includes the words Jaish-e-Mohammad in English, and claims that the attack was done as retaliation for India’s decision to hang Afzal Guru, a convict in the Parliament attacks case.
4. Next there is the question of strange providence. Firstly, because the SP was let off, he was able to alert authorities about the terrorists being at large.
Almost farcically, Punjab Police did not believe his story at first, in part because of his “colourful background”.
Gopal, his cook, even claims that he was tortured by police, who kept asking him for the real story about what happened to the car.
Secondly, one of the terrorists is said to have used the SP’s phone to make phone calls, including one to his mother where he reportedly said that he was heading for martyrdom.
This has apparently given authorities some evidence that they can now use to pin blame on elements in Pakistan, despite the Kashmir-based UJC taking credit for the attack.
5. Next is the question about sending in the team of National Security Guard. Once the Punjab Police came around to believing that the SP’s story was real, and that it was connected to terror, alarm bells were rung.
Delhi was informed about the concerns, at which point National Security Advisor Ajit Doval reportedly swung into action.
According to Ajai Shukla, who covers national security for the Business Standard, Doval didn’t let the army run the operation and instead moved a team of the National Security Guard to the Pathankot base.
This left security of the air base in the hands of the existing Defense Security Corps, mostly retired military veterans, the air force’s Guard commandos who lacked a specific operational brief, and the NSG.
Intent on directly controlling what he anticipated would be a walk in the park, and without anticipating that there might be more than one group of terrorists, Mr.
Doval led with his trump card – he ordered 150-160 National Security Guard (NSG) troopers to be flown down immediately from New Delhi.
The army was placed on the side-lines. It is revealing that not a single Pathankot casualty is from the army.
The hapless DSC [Defence Security Corps] Jawans took most of the casualties. The NSG took unacceptable losses, including an officer killed from a booby-trapped terrorist body.
The army knows this ploy well and approaches terrorist bodies in J&K with caution, knowing the jihadi’s dying act could have been to activate a grenade and lie on it. ”
6. Manu Pubby’s story for the Economic Times suggested that a lack of a proper command-and-control system in place made the response haphazard.
“Constant calls from the centre sent confusing messages and led to a lack of clarity over the status of the operation,” his story says, which is why the home minister and the defense minister tweeted about the success of the operation before it was actually over.
7. Harinder Baweja in the Hindustan Times echoes the same concern, raising the main question: Despite advance intelligence, how did India allow terrorists into a base located so close to the border, take three whole days to neutralise the situation and lose 11 people in the process?
Now, Your Excellency, let us have a cursory look of how Pakistan as the most trusted friend of the United States has served the cause of friendship with your great nation and also weigh its worth of services in USD terms to determineand calculate whether in the past almost 75 years who owes how much to whom?
In this regard, kindly peruse below the two messages dated 22 August 2017 (link:- https://www.snayyar.com/america-pakistan-a-saga-of-love-hate.html) and 24 January 2016 (link:- https://www.snayyar.com/mr-president-obama.html) to former Presidents Donald Trump and Barack Obama respectively.
Your Excellency, while concluding it can never be forgotten that how Pakistani government keeping with its tradition of peace and international cooperation opened its air and geographical space to ensure safe evacuation of thousands of European and American civilians from Afghanistan during the extremely precarious and sensitive days of August 2021 onwards.
As far as, the Indian government is concerned it absolutely wrongly maligned your government in their own sordid affairs with this false flag operation against America so that to hide their own grave human rights violations (which now has turned into a full-fledged genocide against Indian Muslims and Kashmiris as per the findings of Prof.
Gregory Stanton of Genocide Watch) and nuclear provocation of intentional firing, as Indian inquiry has confirmed that there was no technical fault in the nuclear supersonic BrahMos cruise missile which landed 124 Km’s deep inside Pakistan on 9 March 2022, wherein a nuclear holocaust was only averted because of the alertness and cool mindedness of the highly confident and responsible Pakistani civil and military leadership.
In view of the foregoing, it is incumbent upon you as the President of the great superpower of this planet, to come out clean and order your State Department to apologise to the government and people of Pakistan, for the wrong and incorrect mention of Pakistan, in the 11 March 2022 Indo-US meeting joint statement.
—Concluded.
—The author writes on strategic, political, economic, current affairs & sports.
