The heated conflict between India and Pakistan remained the talk
of the town since 14th February, when a CRPF convoy was attacked by a
suicide bomber of Jaish-e-Muhammad, a Pakistan based terroristorganization. In
this unfortunate incident, India lost 40 of its brave soldiers. Right after the
incident, leaders worldwide condemned the brute act. The Prime Minister of
India, Narendra Modi called it a fatal mistake by the terrorists. When the
world was celebrating Valentine's Day, India wept for the loss and raging voices
for retaliation, were heard. The man behind this attack, Masood Azhar, the
chief of JeM took the responsibility for the attack. He is the same person
who was behind the 2001 terrorist attacks on the Indian parliament. Since
then he has been found roaming around freely in Pakistan while India remained a
victim of such terrorist attacks since the late 1990's. It never really
fought back however in order to conserve its sovereignty and protect its people
from any such further attacks, India retaliated in self defense, for
the second time since 2016's Surgical strike.
India decided to air strike the biggest training camp of JeM in
Balakot in the early hours of 26th February 2016 and with the helpful
assistance of its intelligence agencies, succeed in destroying the camps with
casualties. However Pakistani officials termed it as a violation of LOC and in
order to demonstrate their right, will and capability of self-defense,
undertook air strike against India. Indian officials have accused Pakistan Air force
for targeting their military installations. In a successful Aerial engagement
Pakistan's F-16 and India's MIG-21 were destroyed. However Indian
pilot, wing commander, Abhi Nandan crashed in Pakistan occupied
Kashmir. Pakistan have however agreed to return Wing commander Abhi Nandan to
India as a peace offering. India has appreciated its efforts towards
deescalating the issue but Pakistan's ignorant behavior towards terrorism is
what it needs to work towards. Persistent efforts are being made by Pakistan to
minimize the issue. But the question which remains is “did Pakistan had any
other choice? Pakistan's economy is going through an upheaval. It doesn't
have any finance to support any sort of a war. It’s being back boneless in
matters concerning terrorism is being globally criticized. According to
Geneva conventions, a prisoner of war has certain rights that are not to
be violated. A POW is to be treated with utmost respect and is to be
provided with medical facilities. But a video of bleeding wing commander Abhi Nandan
is seen where he is being interrogated by the Pakistani officials without given
a medical treatment. This is a direct violation of Geneva agreement. To cover
up its mistake, a second video was released where the Indian pilot was
seen sipping a cup of tea while giving statements about the impressive
Pakistan's hospitality. While many are suggesting that the steps that are being
taken by Narendra Modi are just for the upcoming elections. But I would like to
bring it to people's notice that under the leadership of Narendra Modi, India
has started fighting back against such brutal acts. People talk about Modi
being a warmonger, but the only thing that he did was the protect the integrity
of this vast nation. In this whole predicament, Pakistani officials have
been seen changing their statements on a regular basis. First they claimed
that they destroyed India's two jets, then they claimed
to have two Indian pilots and they also asserted that they never used F-16
fighter jet. All these fallacious lies were cleared by the Indian ministry of
foreign affairs in their press conference.
