11-07-2006, 12:58 AM
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The 'secular' protagonists claim that his execution will make a martyr of Afzal. I will not enter into these fallacious arguments, but the time has perhaps come to remember a true martyr: Major Somnath Sharma who on November 3, 1947 saved Srinagar airport (and Kashmir) at the supreme cost of his life.
Had he not sacrificed his life, Afzal's defenders would not today make front page news in the Indian press, for the simple reason that they would be Pakistani citizens living under a military dictatorship.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Today, the world has gone topsy-turvy: true heroes are forgotten and terrorists become martyrs.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Major Somnath Sharma: The soldier who won India's first Param Vir Chakra - by Claude Arpi
Had he not sacrificed his life, Afzal's defenders would not today make front page news in the Indian press, for the simple reason that they would be Pakistani citizens living under a military dictatorship.
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Today, the world has gone topsy-turvy: true heroes are forgotten and terrorists become martyrs.</b><!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Major Somnath Sharma: The soldier who won India's first Param Vir Chakra - by Claude Arpi