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To Curb Terrorism, Resolve The Active Conflicts
Around The Globe
 Anyone,
individual, group, international organization or govt. who is
interested in dealing with terrorism should focus on the
resolution of active conflicts around the globe, because as long
as these conflicts remain active, terrorism will continue
flourishing in leaps and bounds all around the globe.
In 2001 it was 9/11, then it was New Delhi, then Madrid, then
London, then Islamabad and now it is Mumbai. In these terrorist
attacks thousands of innocent people lost their lives, whereas,
respective governments blamed their opponent groups, agencies
and governments for carrying out these attacks.
In each case, all victim governments
responded in the manner of their choice. US government attacked
Afghanistan and Iraq. Spanish, British, and Pakistani government
cracked down on local terrorist groups to control and eliminate
them. Indian government moved one million armed forces on
Pakistani border in response to terrorist attack on Indian
parliament. Now, in response to Mumbai attacks, we yet have to
wait for Indian government’s response.
Initially different segments of Indian
society and government have reacted differently. Some of them
have blamed internal Hindu or Muslim, depending on their
lineage, terrorist groups. Some others have blamed Israeli
intelligence agency Mossad behind the attacks, yet some others
have pointed fingers to Pakistan.
It will be a while before the real culprits
of Mumbai attacks will be unmasked. Meanwhile, it would be
better if speculators avoid pointing fingers in any particular
direction.
Having said that, we would like to suggest,
that governments’ victim of possible terrorism attacks should
sit together and devise a comprehensive policy to deal with the
menace of terrorism. These governments must include USA,
Britain, Saudi Arabia, India and Pakistan.
The steps needed to be taken to deal with
terrorism should focus on:
1) Lowering
the rhetoric against selective countries and people of faith
2) Definite
plans to resolve active international conflicts such as Kashmir,
Palestine, and Tamils.
3) Banning
of manufacturing of armaments by non state owned companies.
4) Tight
international control over movement of arms around the globe.
5) Limited
military, but active and effective intelligence operations
against suspected terrorist individuals, groups and
organizations.
Right now, the kinds of responses we are
seeing by various governments to deal with terrorism, instead of
curbing terrorism, they are fanning more terrorism around the
globe. The terrorist groups constantly look for soft targets.
Wherever, they find a soft target, periodically they hit it and
cause casualties of innocent lives and agitate and frustrate the
world governments.
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