Why threaten neighbours without rhyme or reason?
Monday, 29 December 2008
WHAT is India up to? Her Prime minister and various rabidly fundamentalist leaders threaten her neighbours without rhyme or reason and ask us to behave or else. After the Mumbai attacks her ire towards Pakistan was understandable but Bangladesh? Remember how the Bangladeshi militant action sometime ago was finally unearthed as the work of Hindu militants where a lieutenant colonel of the Indian army was giving training and supplying weapons and explosives to fundamentalist Hindu saboteurs?
A few days ago their intelligence agents discovered that anti-Indian saboteurs from Pakistan were trained in Bangladesh. They even thought that Khulna was a neighbourhood of Dhaka.
There is a saying that the Indian intelligence is normally inept unless they are creating mischief inside the territories of their neighbours. How far this is true is open to debate but there is little doubt that overtly too they are always acting the Big Brother. In fact, they never forget to anoint themselves as being the victims of treachery of other countries, including Bangladesh. They say they are peaceful but how many people have they killed at our borders? How many militants were among them? None, to the best of our knowledge but listen to them continuously claim that we have training camps for anti-Indian elements.
Farakka is a great example of insensitivity and greed of a big country towards its smaller and weaker neighbour. They continue to occupy Talpatty Island and now claim our territorial waters as their own in the Bay of Bengal.
According to a national daily, three Indian oil and gas survey ships entered seven miles into Bangladesh maritime boundary last Thursday and when challenged, not only claimed they were inside their maritime boundary but also asserted that the Bangladesh Navy frigate Khaled Bin Walid which had arrived to point them back towards their own waters was 60 miles inside Indian territory! Is it not obvious that they have little respect for such things? That or their instruments, and these were survey ships mind you, were put together by a ten-year old!
What is obvious is that India does not care whether its actions are popular among its neighbours. They want to rule through Pax Indiana whether the neighbours like it or not.
AKM Jahangir
Bara Magh Bazar,
Dhaka
A few days ago their intelligence agents discovered that anti-Indian saboteurs from Pakistan were trained in Bangladesh. They even thought that Khulna was a neighbourhood of Dhaka.
There is a saying that the Indian intelligence is normally inept unless they are creating mischief inside the territories of their neighbours. How far this is true is open to debate but there is little doubt that overtly too they are always acting the Big Brother. In fact, they never forget to anoint themselves as being the victims of treachery of other countries, including Bangladesh. They say they are peaceful but how many people have they killed at our borders? How many militants were among them? None, to the best of our knowledge but listen to them continuously claim that we have training camps for anti-Indian elements.
Farakka is a great example of insensitivity and greed of a big country towards its smaller and weaker neighbour. They continue to occupy Talpatty Island and now claim our territorial waters as their own in the Bay of Bengal.
According to a national daily, three Indian oil and gas survey ships entered seven miles into Bangladesh maritime boundary last Thursday and when challenged, not only claimed they were inside their maritime boundary but also asserted that the Bangladesh Navy frigate Khaled Bin Walid which had arrived to point them back towards their own waters was 60 miles inside Indian territory! Is it not obvious that they have little respect for such things? That or their instruments, and these were survey ships mind you, were put together by a ten-year old!
What is obvious is that India does not care whether its actions are popular among its neighbours. They want to rule through Pax Indiana whether the neighbours like it or not.
AKM Jahangir
Bara Magh Bazar,
Dhaka