Sponsors of terror

Apropos of the editorial It will be a long haul and Vikram Sood's Enough is enough (July 13), the scale of the attack on Mumbai demands a review of our policy against terrorism which is being exported by Pakistan.

Sponsors of terror

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Apropos of the editorial It will be a long haul and Vikram Sood's Enough is enough (July 13), the scale of the attack on Mumbai demands a review of our policy against terrorism which is being exported by Pakistan. It is painful that after the attack our leadership played cynical vote bank politics over the dead bodies.

Their repeated rhetoric of communal harmony and determination to teach the terrorists a lesson only show that we have learnt nothing from the past. Let us stop announcing our resolve to crush terrorism and start doing something seriously.

Ved Guliani
Hissar

II

What the earlier attack on Parliament proved was that unless the politicians are threatened or themselves hurt, nothing will ever change in India. It is easy for a politician to call dying people brave from inside a bullet-proof office. The 9/11 attacks proved that unless you hit back where it hurts, attacks will keep coming.

Mike Vig
Canada

III

The alleged involvement of the Simi and LeT in the Mumbai blasts shows that efforts to bring fanatic Muslims into the mainstream are in vain. It’s a matter of shame that such a heinous crime has been committed in the name of Islam and Allah. Islam advocates peace and fraternity and whoever defies it is not a Muslim.

KNN Hashmi
Delhi

Left's double standards

One is amazed at the brazen attempt by Sitaram Yechury Trial by fire (July 13) to hold the BJP responsible for the misgovernance by the Congress-led UPA.

He forgets that his party along with other minority communalists screamed when Simi was banned, and that the West Bengal government did not enforce the ban. They shamelessly demanded the release of Madani who is now in jail for the 1998 Coimbatore blasts.

RP Haran
via e-mail

Both are guilty

Apropos of Indrajit Hazra’s He did it his way (July 12), both the players should have been chucked out as the French legend had been provoked by a derogatory slur from the Italian.

Ashok Kumar Ghosh
Kolkata

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