A Pakistani ambassador's view on Mumbai mayhem

This is what, a former Pakistani diplomat has to say about the Mumbai terror attacks. This article appeared on "Encounter" a weekly magazine of the Dawn(One of the leading english newspaper in Pakistan). I am putting some excerpts from the entire article. Just go through it and you will very well understand.


"Their arrogance has been whetted, no doubt, by the West’s gullibility to swallow whatever their Indian ‘allies’ conjure up and dish out in a massive disinformation campaign, of which the sole objective is to lampoon Muslims all over the world. The saturation coverage of the Mumbai drama by the likes of BBC and CNN was graphic evidence of the western unqualified concurrence in whatever the Indian propagandists would spoon-feed them."

Another paragraph goes by
" Take, for instance, the mystery surrounding the actual count of the alleged terrorists involved in the episode. The official brief says there were only ten, out of which one — still alive and in captivity — was overpowered at the railway station. That leaves nine of them. Two are said to have held the inmates of Nariman House, the Israeli enclave. That leaves just seven. These seven must have divided themselves into two groups. Let’s assume they split 4:3. It couldn’t be 3 ½ for each of the two giant hotels invaded and occupied by them.

Can anyone in their right mind perceive, for a moment, that three or four people could hold up a huge 600-plus room hotel like Taj, and an equally cavernous hotel like Oberoi, for more than 60 hours, fight off hundreds of counter-insurgency commandoes, terrorise and kill scores of their hostages, trash the hotels from inside (as subsequent television footage so graphically displayed for the world)? They had to be supermen to accomplish all that."

Is it a joke or something?? Here, there has been an irreparable loss in terms of life and this guy is making a mockery of the situation..

To read the entire article, i am providing you the link:http://www.dawn.com/weekly/encounter/20081213/encounter2.htm

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