ACCORDING to a news report, a key suspect in the Samjhota blast case has been held by India’s National Investigation Agency.
This is surely a great breakthrough as it exposes Hindu extremist groups involved in terror activities inside India. Kamal Chauhan was captured from Indore and is being termed as the mastermind of the deadly blast that resulted in the death of 70 innocent Muslim passengers in 2007.
Despite the lapse of five long years, no significant progress has been seen over the case by Indian authorities.
Incidents of terrorism in India have always been suspiciously viewed as the work of external elements such as the Pakistan-based religious organisation Lashkar-e-Tayyiba in India, thus becoming a popular India narrative circulated through Indian media extensively, both nationally and internationally.
The confessions made by Swami Aseemanand, an important member of RSS, had drastically changed ground realities and has stripped naked the true Indian face.
The attack on the Indian parliament is another incident of terror that was used by the Indians to take military, political and diplomatic action against Pakistan as it happened soon after the 9/11 incident.
This became instrumental in accusing Pakistan for perpetrating cross-border terrorism, thus gaining sympathy from the international community.
The Indian case had been backed internationally without any convincing evidence as nothing had been confirmed against Pakistan-based groups.
Saffron terrorism becomes the most vicious form emanating from the Indian soil that threatens to destroy the prospects of any relations between the two neighbours.
Indian authorities need to expose all saffron terror networks that operate with such blatant impunity upon its territory.
For that it needs to increase efforts of its security apparatus as Hindu extremists enjoy full support of the masses and have profoundly entrenched themselves into the societal fabric in such a manner that it poses great problems for the state to reverse its momentum.
This network needs to be dismantled immediately if peace is to prevail in the region.
As India is growing with great rapidity to become the biggest democracy to dominate South Asia, a core infested with terrorism of the most malignant nature can destabilise the entire region.
Furthermore, the Indian authorities ought to speed up their investigation procedure to apprehend all the perpetrators of the Samjhota blast case.
AYAANA MALIKIslamabad