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Terrorism with its crude, cruel, barbaric and brazenly violent face is perpetrating every day tragedies in Kashmir and elsewhere. That this extremist and fanatic “ideology” could have had disastrous impact on India's democratic polity was reflected in the daring but fortunately not successful attack on December 13, 2001 on the Indian Parliament and earlier in October 2001 on the legislative assembly building of the State of Jammu and Kashmir in the city of Srinagar.
Terrorism recognizes no territorial borders or national sovereignty - concepts which have been basic in two World Wars fought in the 20th century. It has no ear for any international law or convention. It is fanatic to the point of becoming rabid “anti-religion”.
This is the most vicious face of violence the World has yet seen-at once so committed, so blinded, and so passionate although unhappily for the wrong cause and cult of destruction,
There is fear and nervous anxiety gripping not only ordinary human beings but also organized Governments. How does one tackle it? US President Bush sounded enraged and vengeful and wanted 'Osama bin Laden dead or alive'. However after all the bombing of Taliban targets in Afghanistan, not only Osama bin Laden but indeed none of the senior Taliban leaders have been caught. Taliban may have been politically / militarily defeated, but violence-perpetrators have so far escaped punishment for their crimes against humanity.
Many times we hear both individuals and Governments speaking of one who commits a crime "as though he were not one of us, human beings, but a stranger unto you and an intruder upon our World”.
So while in political management terms violence has been answered by violence it does not offer a lasting solution. Furthermore violent attack on terrorists through extensive carpet-bombing has led to many civilian casualties and destruction of whatever little infrastructure that poor country had.
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