Pakistan, cricket, terrorism and conspiracy

After the terrorist attack on Srilanka cricket team, Pakistan government is playing the cards of blame game again.

Lahore commissioner Pervez Khusro said, we could not rule out Indian involvement in the terror attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.

A retired ISI official Rt. General Hameed Gul said that India was trying to weaken Pakistan, India wanted to declare Pakistan a terrorist state and the firing on Sri Lankan cricket team is a part of that conspiracy.(more on Times of India)

This is not the first time when Pakistan tried to colour its fallacies, intelligence failure and security lapses as some conspiracy against Pakistan. Even Indian government do the same. It seems like a cats fight, Indian government will blame Pakistan for every Indian security failure, and Pakistan government will blame India for its own security failure.

Conspiracy has become cliché, too much overused.

Yet all these incidents significantly shows one reality and that is, governments are seriously unable to protect common citizens, even they cannot protect a foreign delegate. Now since in a government ruled state, there is monopoly of government over the security system, they seriously lack any competitive check for their own failures and blaming the other countries becomes a hide out for them.

The common man in the absence of any better alternative find himself forced to believe such blames and that further infuriates the environment, creating further grounds of discontent, disbelief and hatred.

It is not hard to realize that the terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan team simply suggest that the security net was thoroughly breached by terrorists, they had information about the route through which team will be headed to the Gaddaffi cricket ground, they exactly knew how much security guards will be there with the Sri Lankan team. Anyone can surmise that the terrorists has all prior knowledge and hence they were able to plan the attack in such a managed way, that is, the terrorists have connections within the security services of Pakistan too.

In case of Hotel Taj attack also, we simply cannot rule out the possibilities of help for the terrorists to implement their attacking plan from within Indian borders. Furthermore, just like Pakistan had prior information that some terrorists may try to attack and harm the Sri Lankan team, Indian intelligence and government had information about a possible terrorist attack at specific points of Mumbai, and yet the intelligence and security services failed.

The way Indian and Pakistan government blames each other for conspiracies and support for terrorist attacks just strengthen the illusion that a country can stabilize and progress only at the cost of the failure of other state. Now that is a blatant lie.

If the neighbouring states of India remain in troubled waters, even India cannot maintain peace, individual liberty, security and progress, and this is true for other neighbouring states too.

The very basic and simple idea of cumulative progress is the environment of peace, justice, individual liberty and security within whole of the Indian sub-continent and adjoining states. A failure of Pakistan or Bangladesh or Sri Lanka cannot help India, nor does a terrorist attack on India help any other country by any means. Such acts can destroy progress, wealth and human life only; they cannot bring forth any sort of progress or success.

Yet, the states are unable to provide any secure, peaceful friendly and trustworthy environment and that aborts any try to improve the human life and its standards.

It is very easy to claim that certain brutal minds cause such havoc. Some may blame fundamentalist nature of Islam Taliban and other insurgent groups and to insure safety against such insurgent groups, they will claim strong government is necessary.

So can we say that Pakistan was better under military rule of Pervez Musharraf?

Often people ignore the fact that the real cause of such fissures in intelligence and security system actually signifies the failure of the government system. India is suffering similar failure and nobody has any solution.

Furthermore, when there are inklings that the terrorist have some links in the inner realms of security departments, we cannot expect a proper investigation and a justified trial for the real conspirators and criminals behind the crime.

Overall, the situation is fuzzed up.

The security lapses although can be rectified, yet can any government monopoly provide a proper security system progressive and competitive enough?

With whom will they compete and on what grounds.

Obviously, when they have no solution for the existing problems, they will keep blaming each other in hope of gaining some sort of relief.

Ultimately, it would be the individuals who will need to give up their subjective view point and will have to realize the sanctity of life; they will have to realize the importance of peace, freedom, happiness and they will have to realize the importance to defend themselves too.

Let us hope that apart from engaging in blame games, and announcing restrictive laws on common innocent citizens, these governments will take some positive steps to solve out the problem of terrorism and militancy.