Is India capable of fighting Terrorism?

After reading the piece of news that Delhi High Court has lifted 7 year old ban on Student Islamic Movement of India (known as SIMI), I was forced to think hard. What exactly is going on? In last seven years, Both BJP and Congress have ruled the country and they made most Indians believe that SIMI was a terrorist organization, providing logistic supports to Lashkar and Al-Qaeda. But After renewing the ban 3 times in last so many years, Government is not able to convince court of its own beliefs. How did that happen?

According to court, Government do not have enough proof to get SIMI declared as a terrorist outfit. What a shame? On what basis, did Government ban the organization in first place. Is it just another political stunt by congress to gain loosing Muslim vote? I would love to think otherwise. But having said that what is the answer to the question? Honestly, I don't know.

My idea here is not to defend or oppose the ban on SIMI. My real concern is Terrorism against India and how are we handling it? I am sure everyone will agree that we are soft on terror. But its easy to blame government for everything non-functioning. The real question is why is Government soft on terror? Why can't we go ahead and nuke the countries (I Hope you understand whom am I talking about!!) supporting terrorists inside our country. The answer is its not so simple. Lets discuss reasons behind it.

1. First Reason is We are not America. We definitely have the muscle power to do such an act. But unfortunately, we do not have enough friends in world to support our actions. Lack of proper foreign policies indeed.

2. It has taken ages for us to build some good relations with some powerful countries in the world. The last thing we would want now is to do something stupid and get immunized by the international community.

So, the question is what do we do to curb the terror? We can't sit back and watch hundreds of our countrymen die for nothing. It can be us or our family next. This truly is an alarming situation and something needs to be done and done real fast. Having said that, if the solution was so simple then it would have been implemented long back and we would not have been in such a situation. In my opinion, the answer lies in Judicial System of India. And not only solution of this problem but it is answer to most of our major problems.

We need to tighten the Judicial System in India. The court cases run longer than the age of the suspects. There are over 2.5 crore criminal cases pending in India. whew... that's a huge number. With population of 100 crore... that means 1 criminal case against every 4th man. Very shocking number indeed. And this is all due to our ever corrupt system and non-working judicial system. People who commit crime have no fear of getting the punishment. And this is what leads to fundamentals of terrorism.

People in India are willing to do anything for a few hundred bucks. I have heard of reports where officials at the border let terrorist in country for some sum of money. I hope this is just an allegation and not true at all. But looking at the current scenario in India, I can expect anything to happen.

We need higher punishment ratios. We need some fast tracked court, to handle sensitive cases of terrorism. Death penalty for Terrorists is not enough. They need to be kept alive and die everyday. If they can do barbaric acts, we need to show them that we can match them. Any one with even slightest of links with these masterminds or executioners need to be treated in same way. We can't let them off, just cause they actually did not pull the trigger, they only helped in putting the support together. they are equally responsible.

And when we start getting fast and hard results, people will start fearing before doing or even helping out in such heinous acts. I am sure the rates of such incidents will go down and peace will dawn on our nation.

What do you guys think we should do to curb terror. Do share your opinions. til next time.. ADIOS..