10-09-2006, 07:05 PM
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It is incredible that the capital punishment given to Mohammad Afzal for his unpardonable crime in waging a war against our nation state should be a matter of debate. The cynical fringe elements in the society are attempting to orchestrate a campaign to pressurise the government and through it the President of India to pardon Afzal and commute his death sentence.
The people who seek pardon for Afzal in the name of political wisdom are turning their back on the sacrifices of the families of those who lost their lives in the defence of the country, not only in Parliament but in Kashmir, Punjab and the north-east. The people of India have expressed their verdict on Afzal punishment in any number of opinion polls conducted by TV channels and newspapers. Invariably, an overwhelming 90 percent and above have supported the capital punishment handed out to Afzal.
The Congress party and the communists are falling to greater depths in their desperate attempt to please and placate the marginal fanatic and separatist section in the minority community. The Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Gulam Nabi Azad actually had the gall to seek pardon on behalf of Afzal. The Congress leaders like Mangat Ram Sharma and Digvijay Singh were quick to distance themselves from such absurdities.
To see Afzal as a Muslim or as a Kashmiri is a shame. For, those who strike to weaken the nation have but one nameâtraitors. They have no regional, religious or communal identity. Afzal or those pleading for him have not said that he did not commit the crime. Nor does he seem to regret it. If the responsibility of his family and community could not prevent him from taking this course, there is no cause for them to plead for him.
Maninder Singh Bitta, the relentless campaigner against terrorists, deserves praise for taking a delegation of the family members of the victims of the Parliament attack to the President of India to press for the maintenance of the death sentence of Afzal. The media, especially some of the TV channels have been trying to whip up a frenzy of hope for Afzal. When the mercy petition by Afzalâs wife reached the President of India, some channels announced that the President had âacceptedâ the petition and that the hanging was on hold now.
Hanging Afzal is not a message to the terrorists. It is only carrying justice to its logical conclusion. That his accomplices escaped unscathed because of lack of evidence does not diminish his crime. If he was prepared to face death when he planned the attack on Parliament, his family and people who speak on his behalf and in the name of fair trial are only trying to further the enemy's strategy of confusing our fight against treason and terror. It is the will of the nation that has to express itself and prevail.
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It is incredible that the capital punishment given to Mohammad Afzal for his unpardonable crime in waging a war against our nation state should be a matter of debate. The cynical fringe elements in the society are attempting to orchestrate a campaign to pressurise the government and through it the President of India to pardon Afzal and commute his death sentence.
The people who seek pardon for Afzal in the name of political wisdom are turning their back on the sacrifices of the families of those who lost their lives in the defence of the country, not only in Parliament but in Kashmir, Punjab and the north-east. The people of India have expressed their verdict on Afzal punishment in any number of opinion polls conducted by TV channels and newspapers. Invariably, an overwhelming 90 percent and above have supported the capital punishment handed out to Afzal.
The Congress party and the communists are falling to greater depths in their desperate attempt to please and placate the marginal fanatic and separatist section in the minority community. The Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir Gulam Nabi Azad actually had the gall to seek pardon on behalf of Afzal. The Congress leaders like Mangat Ram Sharma and Digvijay Singh were quick to distance themselves from such absurdities.
To see Afzal as a Muslim or as a Kashmiri is a shame. For, those who strike to weaken the nation have but one nameâtraitors. They have no regional, religious or communal identity. Afzal or those pleading for him have not said that he did not commit the crime. Nor does he seem to regret it. If the responsibility of his family and community could not prevent him from taking this course, there is no cause for them to plead for him.
Maninder Singh Bitta, the relentless campaigner against terrorists, deserves praise for taking a delegation of the family members of the victims of the Parliament attack to the President of India to press for the maintenance of the death sentence of Afzal. The media, especially some of the TV channels have been trying to whip up a frenzy of hope for Afzal. When the mercy petition by Afzalâs wife reached the President of India, some channels announced that the President had âacceptedâ the petition and that the hanging was on hold now.
Hanging Afzal is not a message to the terrorists. It is only carrying justice to its logical conclusion. That his accomplices escaped unscathed because of lack of evidence does not diminish his crime. If he was prepared to face death when he planned the attack on Parliament, his family and people who speak on his behalf and in the name of fair trial are only trying to further the enemy's strategy of confusing our fight against treason and terror. It is the will of the nation that has to express itself and prevail.
http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.p...&pid=152&page=4
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