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NEW DELHI: The Communist Party of India (Marxist) has cautioned against the “half-baked and dangerous proposals for military action” and war-mongering by a section in the country and pointed out that it is wrong to compare the situation in the U.S. after 9/11 to the domestic scene in India. “It must be realised that the problem of terrorism in India cannot be separated from the communalisation that has taken place during the last two decades. Communalism and religious extremism feed terrorist violence…The extremist forces based in Pakistan have found congenial conditions to intervene because of this vicious cycle of communalism and terrorism in India,” an editorial in the latest issue of party organ People’s Democracy said. Referring to the comparison to the U.S., it said that what George Bush did was to wage a war against Iraq, a country and government, which had nothing whatsoever to do with the 9/11 attacks. The attackers came from Saudi Arabia and Egypt but they were not touched, as they were close U.S. allies. The reality is that terrorism had spread worldwide and not curbed by the U.S. global “war against terror” post 9/11. The editorial said the fight against terrorism would fully succeed only when the forces of religious communalism were isolated and defeated. This required not the anti-political campaign “sponsored by the upper class and the corporate media,” but a greater determination to firmly adhere to democratic and secular politics, which alone would keep India’s integrity and unity safe. On the chorus of demands for military action against Pakistan, it said calls for air strikes against terrorist camps in the Pak-occupied Kashmir and massing of troops on the border was “half-baked and dangerous.” Such strikes would be a sure way to provoke a war between India and Pakistan, a result “exactly what the extremist outfits like the Lashkar-e-Taiba want.” Karat’s suggestionReiterating the suggestion made by party general secretary Prakash Karat at the all-party meeting on Sunday, it said while investigations clearly pointed to links in Pakistan, the issue was to get the government in Islamabad to act against the extremist groups which sponsored terrorist activities both within Pakistan and in India. “What requires to be done is to collect all the evidence and present it to the Pakistan government and ask them to act promptly. It they do not respond, then India should take the mater to the U.N. Security Council.” While observing that the United Progressive Alliance government was legitimately in the dock for its continuing failure to tackle terrorism, the editorial criticised the Bharatiya Janata Party for falling back on its usual game of seeking to utilise terror attacks to deepen the communal divide hoping for an electoral dividend. It said at the November 30 all-party meet, the BJP refused to be part of a joint resolution condemning the attack and resolving to unitedly defeat terrorism. “It was more interested in putting the blame on the government.”
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