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The aftermath of Mumbai 26/11 makes me beleive that a handful of terrorists can havoc in the peaceful country, and we as ordinary citizens and media people put together makes it sucessful. This makes the “Saint out of a sinner”, for fundamendalists, these terrorists becomes God.

Lets review the post Mumbai 26/11 impact on our political front, we have our Home Minister steps down, our finance minister moves to Home Ministry and our Prime Minister will handle his normal job as well as the finance minstry. At this stage of global recession where we need finace minster in full swing, we have a part time finance minister, and Home Minister who has little expertise in handling Home Land Security portfolio before…this is at the national level. At state level we have our Deputy CM stepping down, our CM has put the papers, and waiting for the feedback from the high command.

Every body is waitng to captilze on the aftermath, this gives them a better platform to start a blame game. This is not limited to our politicans, even companies like LIC, on 30th of Nov LIC has circulated a sms message saying that they have cleared the LIC claim of Hemant Karkare with in 24 hours of the event, what are they trying to do? Hard-Sell that , they are prompt in processing the claim?

The business for tour operators were slow due to the global meltdown and added that the attack will impact tourist inflows to the city, both from within and outside the country. The tourism trade would take a huge hit as the season had just begun, this will also directly impact the currency liquidity in the market as well as the small time traders in mumbai who’s main business are with the tourist.

Wall Street Journal Quotes ….”The deadly attacks in Mumbai, in addition to the human toll, have damaged the city’s ambitions of becoming an international finance capital. The Taj Mahal hotel and the Oberoi Trident Hotel, luxury hotels that were both targeted, are among the most coveted retail address for luxury-goods firms that are tapping into India’s growing number of wealthy individuals.”

I am having a fear of going out to dine with my family or friends , I am having the fear that some one will barge in and start firing, haven’t the terrorists being successful in impacting my thought process about security at my town.  During the initial phase of the attacks the number of terrorists were more than 20, now they are accounting only for 10, so whats the truth, do we still have some terrorists roaming in our neighborhood? Am I panicked? or Am I panicked by the media by providing me with the unwarranted news?

Our Insane Media adds fuel…

If these are not enough, our media is making statements like “We should rage war on the neighbors” , these kind of statements make our investors / foreign investors to think twice before they invest in the business process. And our media is keep on forgetting that there are lot of people in Fortune 1000 companies who are watching India closely, as some of their business process are outsourced here either as BPO / ITES or in terms of Software development / support. These kind of statements can have a big impact to these industries.

If I am a Fortune 1000 Company outsourcing my work to India here is my first thought…What would happen to my operations if a full-scale war broke out between Pakistan and India ? The answer is , I will suffer a catastrophic loss of their operations. These kind of events can bring down the day to day oursourcing operations to stand-still and who will be responsible for this? We dont have a definite answer for this and we will never have it…since for us these kind of teror operations become a day to day event, Oh there was a blast in Kurla last week, but everything is normal today…and the media will what ever possible to blame the politicians and the authorities , not because they are concerned about the people, but, they will get more TRPs ….before the analysis and the report come in we will start the blame game, and the funny thing is they wont even apologize the people whom they have defamed out of mistake…what we are forgetting in the middle of this is, these statements and blame games has direct impact on our small time business man, export business etc., as everybody is watching us through the media….if you give out the wrong information without being official, the people are going to get scared.

At no point any of the Indian officals has said, they are going to attack Pakistan, but the media has started their own view point by saying that we will attack Pakistan, this has created so much panic that Rice has to fly down to India immediately so that the tensions between India and Pakistan has reduced and no war will started…

Can some one leash the media whos unleased and spreading rumors?

Name : Ajmel Amir Kasav

Age : 21 Years

Alias Names : Azam Ameer Qasab,Mohammad Ajmal Amir Iman,Ajmal Qasab,Ajmal Amir Kamal,Mohammad Ajmal Qasam,Mohammad Ajmal Amir Kasar,Amjad Amir Kamaal

Born at Faridkot village (Dipalpur tehsil, of Okara district in Punjab (Pakistan), 50 Kms from Multan) to Father Mohammed Amir Imran, runs snacks cart which sells dahi-puri. Mother Noori Tai (house-wife) , belongs to Qasai caste.

Ajmal is one of the 5 kids, eldest brother Afzal (25) works as a labourer in Lahore,  sister Rukaiyyen Husain (22) is married in village, then comes Ajmal, sister Suraiyya (14) and brother Munir (11) still at home.

Ajmal’s poor father cant keep him in government primary school. In 200 , 13 year old Ajmal who just passed class 4, is sent to Afzal in Lahore. Ajmal shuttles between Lahore and Faridkot. In 2005 , fights with father and leaves home, stays at shrine of holy man Syed Ali Hajveri and works as a labourer.

Finds the work degrading, gets attracted to petty crime, which friend Muzaffer Lal Khan , launches a new career in armed robberies. They wanted to procure more arms for their business, this is time they run into the activists of Jammat-ud-Dawa (politcal wing of Lashkar-e-Taiba). After brief chats, they signs up for the training, initially their plan was to learn more about arms and attack methods in training, which they can use it in the armed robbery.

Once they reached the LeT’s base camp in Markaz, the thought process of Ajmal starts changing after seeing various movies on India’s atrocities in Kashmir, impassioned speeches by by preachers etc., He started beleiving , it might be worth sacrificing his worthless life for glory of islam. Camp gives him sense of belonging that he never had, when he comes hime during a 2 month break, finds he s suddenly treated with respect by family and community.

After this break, Ajmal choosen for LeT’s basic combat course, Daura Aam, does well and choosen with small group of 42 for advanced training , Daura Khaas, at camp near Manshera, due to his performance in the training sessions, he get selected for the marine commando and navigation training , final selected for the fidayeen attack planned on Mumbai.

At 3:30 AM November 23 Ajmal with the unit sail off from a forlon creeek near Karachi , each equipped with loads of arms and grenades. LeT command Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi promises Rs 1.5 Lakh reward.

As per the victims trapped inside Taj, the terrorist were taking orders from their masters through satellite phone, the master will tell them what to do…may be the masters are watching these kind of live videos in the TV channels and instructing them where to go and how to go…

Is our TV media killed those brave officers? If you have watched TV during that period, you can clearly see that the TV channels mentioning the details about the Karkare’s visit plan, is it possible that the helpers of the terror elements are also watching this information and informed the terrorists about the movements of these officers?

In this team there is Vijay Salaskar who has killed more than 80 criminals in encounters….if he was not taken on surprise there were possiblities that those terror elements might be killed then and there….who was informing them about the movements of the police….

The terrorists who had killed these three people had done the firing at CST Stations just minutes before , and the entire vicinity is aware of the CST incidents…the security was also tight…in that situation how can they walk around 1.5 Km and surpassing all the patrolling vechiles with the gun in hand….was there some one helping them ?

During the interrogation the terrorist (who has been captured by the mumbai police) has mentioned that its their first visit to India, they have landed at colaba in the evening…for a person who have landed just hours before the incident how were they so sure about where to go and how to go????

As a lay person if we can see through this…imagine the terrorists master-minds what all they can see through… I feel if media was not reporting the live events then we could have saved lot of our heroes … I am not sure if you remember , even Barka Dutt had done a similar blunder during the Kargil war by which we have lost few jawans..out of excitement she had disclosed the co-ordinates of the next attack on the live media…

In our country there are hardly any rules laid for these kind of situations…we cannot do anything about it..but atleast our media can take up the responsiblity and censor the sensitive information before broadcasting it….no body has asked for the live coverage of the ongoing attack…why dont understand if you keep on disclosing the vital information along with your exagerration the public will be petrified…you create more terror in people’s mind than the terrorist themselves can….