Don’t politicise forces
If the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) returns to power two months from now, piggybacking the armed forces, one central fact will be eminently clear: The optics of a powerful military with high morale belies the ground reality. The Government has misled the country on defence modernisation and preparedness through high-decibel claims and self-praise for its devotion to the soldier. Read More..
Another face of jihad
This is a gross human rights abuse at so many levels — the abduction, conversion and marriage of two Hindu minor girls in Sindh district of Pakistan — that it merits not only India’s but the world’s concern. For it is about child abuse, possibly trafficking and slavery, a perverted suppression of free will, religious persecution of minorities and the propagation of a Salafi ideology-driven jihad of using women and girls as human shields to Islamise non-believers and for procreating a mass army of believers. Read More..
