The Fourth Empire Collapses-When To Expect The Godot!
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WAITING FOR GODOT is a famous play by Thomas Becket that depicted a few characters waiting for a persona called GODOT and their interactions while they wait and interact, brings out the essence of human longing for crude material substances to sublime moral, spiritual and mystic ideas. Innumerable Biblical references add classical touch to the drama.
The idea of Godot has been variously commented by the literary critics as God, spiritual quest, materialisation of desire etc. Godot is perhaps the final goal for which men strive. The goal keeps changing, day to day, person to person and nation to nation. In Indian context if Godot is imagined as an achievable goal, than the goal, soon after the Renaissance, was connecting our windows to the world. The next goal musthave been ‘self-realisation’ leading to the dream of ‘self rule and independence.’
Another drama was staged in India right from 1857 to 1947 when two main characters, the Hindus and Muslims woke up from the shackled slumber of history, felt the urge of nationalism, Hindu, Muslim and Pan-Indian nationalism and acted and waited for their GODOT. This Godot was self-governance and independence either as a monolithic One India or dissected Hindu Bharat and Muslim Pakistan. Unlike the drama of Becket, Godot arrived for India with devastating effects. He flew on the wings of communal riots, mass killing, genocide, Exodus and vivisection of the country.
The Hindus (say Congress) asserted that they got their Godot as the sole representative of all Indians including Muslims and the soul of this Godot was secular democracy. The system is now lurching for fresh breath and waiting for bold renewal.
The Muslims (say Jinnah’s Muslim League) claimed that they achieved a homeland for the Muslims of India, a Promised Land assured to them by the early raiders who professed Islam. Pakistan’s political-ideology, though originally defined as demo-based jamhuriyat, finally ended up as a queer broth in which military molecule had replaced the molecules of jamhuriyat.
In this game M. K. Gandh, besides earlier nationalist stalwarts played vital roles to take the Indian masses (say Hindus) nearer to their Godot, though he and his party vainly claimed that they represented the will of the entire people of India. History has spoken loudly that they never did, from the day of growth of Congress as a representative Indian political entity.
Some historians and critics describe ‘Mahatma’ Gandhi as the ‘impotent omnipotent idiosyncratic moral dictator’ of India who experimented with the country and the peoples just to prove that his presumed idealism were the only ways to deliverance.
It is rather difficult to dissect the total personality of a Yugapurusha like Gandhi. However, no one disagrees with the historicity of the growth of the personality of Muhammad Ali Jinnah who, once convinced that Muslims of India formed a different Nation and could not expect fair deal from the Hindu majority, almost steamrolled the vast majority of the Muslim community and achieved what he thought was the rightful residue of the nearly 800 year long Muslim imperial geopolitical, racial and religious existence in India. He was aptly described by some historians as the potent omnipotent pragmatic political leader of the subcontinental Muslims. He had re-emerged as the symbol of the Second Coming of the Faith.
Gandhi was pilloried about by some of his close disciples, some of whom were tired with his often vacillating political decisions that were mystified with religious and moral overtones. They wanted pure political power and Gandhi wanted power that was based on morality and unity of the people, even though he was painfully aware that unity of the people was a mirage.
Jinnah could not be pilloried by any of his political followers and colleagues and even the Chief Ministers of Assam, Bengal, Punjab and Sind who were eager to maintain their identity outside the Muslim League, had to fall in line. His single minded determination to achieve a separate Muslim homeland could not be deflected. Jinnah was a political and intellectual dictator, a potent omniscient messiah like the Moses who played his cards with shrewd political and military precision and battle field ruthlessness (say 1946 Direct Action). He did not succumb to Gandhi’s vague, mysterious and vacillating moral shenanigans, which were of Victorian New Age concept and nearer to the ideological heaven of Leo Tolstoy.
Jinnah led his people like a General and personally waged a single handed war to achieve what he thought was the GODOT for the Muslims of India. Jinnah never displayed any pining for democracy and if he were around after 1948, it is presumed, he would have run his country like one of the Mughals. The Muslims got an imitation Godot and not real jamhuriyat most of the British bred Muslims pined for.
History of that crucial period of India and Britain had juxtapositioned strange conflicting personalities like Gandhi, Nehru, Subhas, Jinnah, and Churchill. Churchill presided over the War Cabinet as good or as bad a dictator as his counterpart in Germany. Gandhi’s ‘moral dictatorship’ was accepted as inviolable mantras of the Vedas by Indian National Congress; an often vacillating Nehru followed and often mostly tricked his political Guru, Subhas was a born rebel and defied Gandhi only to be thrown out of the party and Jinnah’s determination to have a Muslim homeland for himself had turned him to a ‘political and ideological dictator’ who promised a real Godot to the Muslims of India but delivered an alloyed one.
However, none of them could be described as Dictators in etymological as well as implicational sense. They were much above the rest around them in their respective spheres of activities and earned the privilege to lead and not to be led. Not even Indira Gandhi, a distant shadow of the giant leaders of liberation struggle, could be described as a dictator, in spite of her short dalliance with extra-constitutional rule.
India has come to be a home for people’s democracy. Our neighbour Pakistan still waits for the arrival of the GODOT (democracy) like the tragicomic characters Estragon and Vladimir of Samuel Becket’s famous symbolic drama Waiting for the Godot.
In the course of sixty one years of independence Pakistan was ruled by four military dictators for 41 years. The Rouges Gallery is interesting: Ayub Khan had ruled with guile and craft for nearly ten years, during which he was misled into a war against India by his foreign minister Z. A. Bhutto. Yahya Khan’s rule was marked by the disintegration of Pakistan. Zia-ul-Haq deposed and judicially killed his benefactor Bhutto and ushered in the most historic events of Islamisation of Pakistan, Afghanjihad and the jihadi involvement of sizeable parts of the civil society in Pakistan. Pervez Musharraf, a political-military chameleon championed jihad against India, led the Kargil War, promoted the Taliban and al Qaeda and later tried to don on a ‘Kemailst garb’ and dragged Pakistan into the US’s war against terror, thereby making enemies out of his former friend in the Talibani, Jihadi and al Qaeda associates. His peace overtures to India was another facet of hypocritical height in diplomatic shenanigan.
Muhammad Ayub Khan (October 1958 to March 1969)
Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan (March 1969 to December 1971)
Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (July 1977 to August 1988)
Pervez Musharraf (December 1999 to August 2008)
During forty one years of Army rule military molecule was injected into the soul of Pakistan in such a manner that in spite of temporary restoration of democracy (twenty years) the people could not consolidate the gains. Historicity of the peoples and political leaders of Pakistan bear clear testimony that even after living under the shadows of democratic government of the Great Britain the Muslims of India, barring some honourable exceptions, had not reconciled with the idea of ‘rule of the people’ through majority of the elected representatives under a constitutional dispensation. Jinnah was personally opposed to formation of a Constituent Assembly envisaged by the Act of 1935 simply on the ground that such an assembly would be dominated by majority Hindus. The so called ‘fear of majority rule’ by the Hindus on Muslims, who had rule over the Hindus for over 800 years was not a myth, as believed by blinded Congress leaders. It was the truth in 1857, 1906, 1916 and 1935, 1947 and even in 2008 it is the loud ringing truth.
Power grabbing by Major General Sahibzada Sayyid Iskandar Ali Mirza, (a Bengali from Murshidabad nawab family) a descendant of Mir Zafar, who helped Robert Clive to conquer Bengal (1757), in October 1958 boomeranged on him and his martial law administrator Muhammad Ayub Khan, a Hindco speaking frontier tribal, grabbed power ending the pattern of leadership of the Indian Muslims of Mumbai, Delhi, and Bengal origin. The interregnum of Liquat Ali Khan (Karnal-Punjab-Haryana), Nazimuddin and Muhammad Ali Bogra (both Bengalis) was replaced by Punjabi, Sindhi, Mohajir and Frontier political and military leaders. The renewed effort by another Bengali, Mujibur Rahman, to claim democratic political power out of the hands of the Peoples of the Sind ended in the break up of Pakistan.
That the military molecule in Pakistan’s body politick has resulted in ‘cancer of the idea of democracy’ is amply proved by dramatic grabbing of power by Musharraf, the General who had pushed Pakistan to the edges of a nuclear war by attacking Kargil. His present ‘Kemalist’ garb notwithstanding, Musharraf Dehlvi was only second to Zia-ul-Haq Jullandhari in pushing Pakistan to the precipice of jihadi activities till he was bridled by US threat after 9/11 attack by the al Qaeda, duly backed by the ISI.
This article is not about listing the misdeeds of Pervez Musharraf. All dictators are bad and he was not the worst Pakistan was cursed with, so far. But his initial tenure of encouraging the Inter Services Intelligence to spawn, breed and deploy jihadi forces in Indian Kashmir and Indian heartland was never suspended.
Loud claims that he had banned Laskhar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e.Muhammad, and Harkat-ul-Jihad al Islami etc should be licked with tons of salt and chilli. This was done under US, EU and Western pressure. Moreover, the jihadists had started running parallel governments in many parts of Pakistan in connivance with lower ranks of the army, police and intelligence community. The jiahdi tanjeems changed nametags and continued to operate in India, Bangladesh, Afghanistan, Somalia, Iraq and India in tandem with the Taliban and al Qaeda. The intrinsic strength of these organisations has not been diminished and these are thriving as usual with winks of approval from certain ranks of the administration, political, intelligence and military establishments.
Under US and EU pressure Musharraf declared that most of the jihadi training camps in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, Punjab and other provinces were shut down. Fact of the life is, there are still, as of to day, 43 jihadi training camps in POK and Punjab. Constraints of space forbid marking each and every camp on an integrated map. However, there are nearly 36 camps in POK itself run by the LeT, Jaish-e-Muhammad, HuJI (Pak), Hizbul Mujahideen and other components of the United Jihad Council, of which Sayyid Salhauddin claims to be the chief.
In Punjab at least seven camps have been well identified at Dhallewali, Kanpur, Balani, Rari Kalan, Chakwal, Muridke and Wandala Nasir. What adds to the worry is recent location of Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) camps nearer to POK border at Gidar, Panjnadi, Ali Jan, Manshera and Bher. TTP associates in al Qaeda is reported to have a camp in Manshera. These hard facts indicate two important aspects of Musharraf’s dalliance with the jihadis.
He has been a close co-operator of the ISI and SSG. Himself a commando Musharraf had excellent relationship with the jihadi tanzeems and tribal mujahids, whom he had liberally used al a Jinnah’s faked tribal invasion of the kingdom of Kashmir, to surreptitiously occupy, with the help of Pakistani troops, certain crucial heights inside Indian areas in Kargil-Drass sector. His strategy was clear; he wanted to advance the LoC arbitrarily cutting off Leh from Kashmir valley and create a Pakistani parabola around Siachen Glacier formations of the India Army. History is loud about his tryst with the tribal mujahids and the jihadi tanzeems. No amount of ‘Kemalist’ paint can remove that taint.
In Afghanistan also Musharraf pursued the policy of ‘eye-closed’-‘mind-open’ policy in respect of Taliban resurgence and strengthening of the al Qaeda activities. Between 1999 and 2001 Pakistan under Musharraf maintained flourishing trade and military relationship with the Taliban regime. Detachments of Pakistani troops were deployed to train Taliban army and the ISI had set up field units in a couple of provinces in the guise of strengthening Taliban’s intelligence infrastructure. Musharraf was forced by the USA to remove his ISI chief for proven collaboration with the al Qaeda jihadis who carried out the 9/11 attack. At the height of attack on Afghanistan Special Pakistani flights were allowed by the USA to Kunduz to evacuate Pakistan Army and ISI detachments. He was also forced to induce the jihad breeding and promoting country to join the global coalition against jihadists considered archenemies of the West. However, under the thin veil of cooperation Musharraf’s Pakistan continued to help the Taliban and al Qaeda and patronised the FATA and Waziri and NWFP tribals to accommodate the fleeing jihadis from Afghanistan.
For a while Pakistan Army operated in the Northern and Southern Waziri tracts. However, the Pakistani Taliban groups and other jihadi tanzeems gradually accrued strength and inducted foreign jihadis of Arab, Uzbek, Chechen, Uyghur and Tajik origin. Nearly 2000 foreign fighters are operating in Waziri and NWFP areas alongside the TTP and other Pakistani jihadi groups. In addition to that increased forays inside Pakistan by the Omar, Haqqani groups of Afghan Talibans and al Qaeda forces have offered additional muscles to Pakistan’s indigenous jihadis operating in the interior areas. Pakistani efforts to defeat the Pan-Pushtun idea have virtually failed. The Talibani forces have near-complete control on these areas, despite presence of Pakistani troops and stationing of NATO troops on Afghan side of the Durand Line. It is now learnt that the Baloch rebels have also started welcoming the Afghan Pushtuns fleeing NATO attacks. Simply speaking the entire western front of Pakistan is on fire courtesy Musharraf’s short sighted policies and connivance of the ISI and certain political elements like the MMA and Jamiat-e-Islami.
By following American dictat Musharraf had ordered the army into the north-west tribal areas bordering Afghanistan. Musharraf won $11.8 billion in American aid, most of it military. However, there are allegations that huge chunks of US money had disappeared in private pockets. Many Pakistanis hated him for blindly supporting the US. They reasonably blamed his policies for a Taliban insurgency in the north-west and terrorism all over, including a suicide attack on a hospital in the frontier town of Dera Ismail Khan on August 19th that killed 30 people.
The Taliban supporting forces had established their fort inside the capital at Lal Masjid. This had encouraged the jihadis to spread terror in interior Punjab, certain areas of Sind and important pockets in NWFP. By storming the Lal Masjid Musharraf dispersed the Talibanis but they are now almost everywhere in Pakistan.
Musharraf’s handling of the civil society is also far from satisfactory. Under US and Western pressure he allowed Benazir and Nawaz to return on the eve of general election. The story of Benazir’s assassination, attempts on Nawaz’s life and subsequent election results have settled only one issue: removal of Musharraf from presidency. The contentious issue of reinstatement of the former judges appear to be an impassable Gordian knot. As I write this article the PPP and PML (N) coalition has collapsed and Pakistan’s jamhuriyat appears to be in the vortex of another uncertain twister. In short, Musharraf stayed in power more than it was necessary for Pakistani civil society. In US and the West the leaders had realised that Musharraf had lost credibility and functional edge. They did not hesitate to dump him and the Army Chief Kiyani nodded silently.
Mushrraf has relinquished his office gracefully but he has left plenty of debris, almost equalling the debris left by Zia-ul-Haq, though he failed to touch the ribbon forced cut by General Yahya Khan. Yahya presided over the break up of Pakistan well assisted by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, the second indomitable “I”in Pakistan after Jinnah. General Zia infallibly pushed Pakistan to the laps of the jihadis and facilitated its umbilical connectivity with global jihad. He (ISI) and the CIA bosses, assisted by Royal Saudi Intelligence had recruited over 20,000 jihadi volunteers from Bangladesh, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia and left the legacy of jihad in these countries also.
Musharraf tangoed with the Pakistani and Afghan jihadis before he was forced by the USA to cooperate or face action. By that time the military molecule of the soul of Pakistan was transfused with the jihadi molecules. Pakistan had turned into a jihad manufacturing factory, which was ostensively aimed at India. However, fire is a matter that cannot be fanned with directional mechanism. Often it burns the home of the fire-juggler.
Pakistan itself is on fire now.
Pakistan’s relationship with al Qaeda and Taliban finally decomposed to the formation of Pakistani Taliban forces. The existing jihadi forces controlled by the ISI also started drifting towards the Taliban. Revolution of idea if not creatively used degenerate into cancer of ideas. Religious bigotry, international jihadism and universal hatred against other religions are some of the metastased forms of present day cancer of ideas plaguing Pakistan. Neither Nawaz nor Musharraf tried to tackle these forces. He turned the guns against them too late. The cancer has spread the entire body politick of Pakistan, which the present shaky coalition is not capable of addressing. These cancerous molecules are now advancing menacingly towards India.
Musharraf juggled with the democratic forces and created PML (Q) and encouraged the Jammat-ul Ulema and other fanatic organisations to coalesce to a political force, the Majlis-e-Muttahida-e-Amal (Jamiat-e-Islami+Jamait-Ulema-e-Islam=Fazlur Rahman group+Jamait Ulema –e-Pakistan, Tehrik-e-Jafaria Pakistan, Jamait Ahle Hadith etc.) The combination ruled in NWFP and was a partner in Balochistan government. These very forces have now degenerated into Talibani rabble rousers linking up activities with internal and Afghani jihadis. They have been joined by the forces of Lashkar-e-Jhagvi, Tehrike-Islam Pakistan and transferred members of Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jaish-e-Mohammd and other formations.
Jihad dances in the very heart of Pakistan.
Musharraf’s legacy to Pakistan does not end with the above observations. But, in India there are groups and individuals who sigh in melancholy that the sweet Dehlvi Musharraf was the only reasonable person who could solve the Kashmir problem and other outstanding problems between the two countries. It is impossible to convince the faithfuls that the steps taken by Musharraf could have never materialised because of opposition from vast segments of the civil society, Army and the ISI.
We have to live with those who see silver lining inside the darkest abyss of coal mines.
That Pakistan has been playing a visible double game on Kashmir issue are exemplified by the following:
○ Training camps in POK and Pakistan
○ Forays of Mujahideens into Kashmir under supervision and with collaboration of the ISI and Pakistan Army. Recent incidents of infiltration under cover of Pakistani army firing on Indian positions are a sure pointer.
○ Open encouragement to the separatist Hurriyat leaders.
○ Connivance with PDP for sabotaging the Amarnath land grant issue and fomenting of vicious trouble in the Valley with accompanying trouble in Jammu area.
○ Existence of transit camp in POK for over 1000 jihadis waiting to enter Kashmir
○ Collaboration with Pakistani and Indian Jihadi tanzeems to carry out large scale attacks in mainland India.
○ Assisting and fortifying the SIMI to open a new jihad front in the heartland of India Systematic subversion of vulnerable sections of the Indian Muslims with separatist ideas as it existed prior to partition of the country.
○ Collaboration with DGFI, Bangladesh to carry out jihadi attacks in India with helps from Bangladeshi jihadi tanzeems and helping the ethnic insurgents of Northeast India.
Therefore, India has reasons to tread cautiously on the issue of normalisation of relations with Pakistan. The diplomatic CBM posturing is a part of statecraft. The Track II diplomacy in which some ‘never retiring bureaucrats’ and ‘professional peaceniks’ excel, would continue to work in the name of bringing the peoples of the two countries together. However, it may be remembered that even a Neville Chamberlain could not satisfy the blood-thirst of Hitler by ceding him grounds. Pakistani Establishment is an untrustworthy entity.The molecules of separatist Muslim League-ism dominated civil society after partition. These are still vibrant and the military molecules in conjunction with the jihadist molecules have replaced the democratic building blocks of Pakistan. The legacy of the Muslim League to have Kashmir as a part of its share out of the division of the country on the basis of religion still occupy major spaces in Pakistani psyche.
For India ceding Kashmir, through the process of war or peace would invite invitation for creation of more Kosovos out of the Indian Union. Any solution of Kashmir must be within the framework of India’s geopolitical boundary and national political ethos. This message has not been conveyed to the Hurriyat and other political forces and Pakistan. Another message that is required to be conveyed to Pakistan is that Gilgit, Skardu etc areas and the areas of POK belong to India, now under illegal occupation of Pakistan.
In addition to this Indian political forces are required to wake up from the ‘secularism induced sleep’ that national security is above petty vote-bank politics. There is immediate need for national contentious to review the situation of ‘rigor mortis of political thinking’ on the parts of certain political leaders and parties who vocally advocate for a separatist organisation like SIMI, demand probe on failure of the planted Surat bombs (on allegation that the ruling party had staged the show) and shed crocodile tears whenever demands come up for tougher laws for Homeland Security and strengthening the Central and State intelligence and security edifices.
India presents a queer combination of Rip Van Winkle and Cinderella syndrome. Our leaders wake up whenever serious attacks are mounted on civilian targets and certain ministers in the Union Home Ministry talks like way side Okra and Aubergine vendors (Bhindi, Bengan sellers). The ministry responsible for maintaining national security and the Provincial governments wake up like the American Rip and squeamishly blush like Cinderella. The Parliament is yet to consider framing laws and empowering and reformatting the intelligence and security agencies to face the grave threats posed to the entire country. Open trading with the Members of the Parliament show that they are obsessed with money at any cost, be it at the cost of integrity and sovereignty of the country. Are the nights of Jai Chand and Mir Zafar knocking at our doors?
Certain leaders, who depend on caste and community votes may now sit up and consider if vote is dearer than the unity of the country and that lives and properties of the people are to be protected by them. If they continue to fail they would cease to have the right to rule. The Peoples would have to soon decide whether if these leaders are worth to be masters of the Nation. By continuous attack on the “right reactionary communal Hindu Nationalist forces” they are wilfully weakening the very basis of Indian oneness. They are not evaluating that their policies have already ignited the scientific equation of generation of equal counter force amongst the people who are blasted day in and out as ‘communal and right reactionaries.’ Options still exist to re-evaluate both the ‘unidirectional misinterpretation of secularism’ and ‘unachievable only Hindu’ policy of certain rabid groups. If the nation fails to set up equilibrium now the near-posterity might face wider fissure than our generation faced during the partition orgies.
By their inaction certain political classes are pushing the society to a situation when greater parts of the civil society might be compelled to take to pro-active agitation further deteriorating the security scenario. The recent developments in Jammu and Kandhamal are ominous pointers. A vibrant and alive society is not a lump of ‘matter’ that would remain frozen when there is no action or action in opposite direction by the State. The society gathers own momentum and explodes. We sincerely hope that the Peoples would not be pushed to that ultimate tragedy, which we witnessed on the eve of first partition of the country. The Ogre of separatism is knocking at our doors.
Let us leave India to its Peoples and “mind and eyes closed” leaders.
What is likely to happen to Pakistan?
This trillion dollar question cannot be answered by any one. It is more or less certain that the present experiment would linger on uncertainly for a while. What runs in the vein of most Pakistanis in the civil society are the fears of take over of the political soul of the country by the Talibani and al Qaeda forces who live by the staple diet of jihad. If Afghanistan is any lesson another spell of Talibani rule in Pakistan would mean final destruction of the soul of Pakistan. The present government has failed to send signals that it is capable to stemming the rot.
They are also afraid that the military molecules in the Establishment might again take over with active connivance of the USA and the West would like to install a steady power factor in Islamabad to front their war against jihad. In case a section of the armed forces align with the jihadists Pakistan might face an additional crisis. They are already facing a mighty rebellion in Balochistan and the demand for Balawaristan in the Northern Areas is simmering under the thin crust of suppression.
It is unlikely that the present ethnic juxtaposition in the parties taking part in the democratic process would synthesise well with the need for national unity. While two military dictators belonged to Punjab and Frontier areas two prime ministers were from Sind. Nawaz Sharif is the only pure blooded Punjabi who was brought to power by the ISI only to be dismissed by a Mohajir Army chief Musharraf. Punjab’s aspiration to get back political power from Sindhi dominance cannot be underplayed. Zardari-Nawaz tussle is not only personal and between two parties. Nawaz represent Punjab’s aspiration to gain back the power structure.
Now that the trauma of Benazir’s assassination is becoming faint a Zardari, who is not a Bhutto, cannot score another astounding victory if he continues to falter and display incoherent political behaviour. The USA supported Benazir. However, they may not support an uncertain and vacillating Zardari for a prolonged period.
Amidst this chaotic scenario the stable factor that can restore sanity in Pakistan is holding of another general election after the dusts raised by Zardari-Nawaz wrestling and Musharraf’s sacking settle down. The USA and the Pakistani army brass may tolerate the present impasse for a limited period. The experiment of another election can offer another chance to the civil society to stabilise the political radar, evoke confidence in the civil society and activate the State in fighting the jihadist forces. One more trail of democratic strength of the people of Pakistan should get fair chance.
Failing that scenario, the Pakistanis as well as the world community know that the main building molecule of Pakistan, the Army would take over.
The Pakistani Estragons and Vladimirs would have wait for the Godot, in this interpretation, people’s democracy for aeons. Waiting for the Godot is the only option for them. Had Thomas Becket written that drama visualising such situations of people’s personal and organised lives? Well! The seers can see beyond their own times.
We in India have to ensure that we do not sacrifice our Godot and helplessly surrender to the national grave-diggers, our politicians, who are capable of doing anything in the name of few votes and for crave for Power Kentucky Fry, free, at the cost of people.
September 22nd, 2008 at 9:12 am
Sir, this article is excellent. I wish you continue to write to write more boldly on such issues. There are no bravehearts amongst us.
September 20th, 2008 at 6:07 pm
Dear Sir,
I visited your site via the Googles. I congratulate you for writing so boldly about affairs in your vicinity. I think you should write about Islamic jihad in other parts of the world.
September 19th, 2008 at 9:07 am
Dear Mr Dhar. I have visited your site. Living in Ontario I now understand that my country is in grave danger. Our nation should rise above vote politics and unify toprotect it. Pkkistan is going to be the most disturbing factor for us. Some Indian Muslims are quislings. In my place near Toronto the Muslim congregation is pro-Pakistani. Even Indian Muslims support them and donate money. Canadian government do not take notice of this. Would you agree to visit Ontarion on a lecture tour?
September 18th, 2008 at 1:00 pm
Your views are biased against the Muslims. What have we got in India? We have been neglected for over 60 years. 1939 congress governments had discriminated against the Muslims. Same Nehru policy is continuing now. What else but jihad can save us?
September 16th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Hi Dhar. You are maligning the Muslims. We have the historic right on India. Today or tomorrow we would again get our due share out of your Hindustan. JIhad is only the begining.
September 15th, 2008 at 6:02 pm
Dear Mr. Dhar,
As a former CIA agent, now in oil business I stumbled on your site via Googles. I have enjoyed most of the articles. Now I am trying procure your books. Please expose the jihadi Muslims and tell the world that another Islaimc wave is about engulf the world.
September 14th, 2008 at 9:04 am
The Delhi bombing incidents now prove correct what you spoke in our gathering a few days back. If the Sonia/Manmohan government cannot protect us we will organise our own defence. These Mulim lovers should be banished to Pakistan and Italy. Let there be another civil war, if that is the need of the hour.
September 13th, 2008 at 9:08 am
Your views are jaundiced, you are anti-Islam. Come and embeace the Allah and you will get wonderfully beautiful Muslim girl as reward.