Raghav’s Take: Deadly Similarity Between two Terror Strikes
In two separate episodes of terror, there is one deadly similarity.
Two of our top stories today are about terror, over a thousand miles apart, but caught in a deadly geo-political embrace.
In one editorial, we are urging Pakistan Army Chief Raheel Sharif to focus all his energies on the enemy within, the terrorist threat that is consuming Pakistan’s innards, instead of stoking insurgent fires in Afghanistan and India.
In the second, we chronicle the vicious attack which killed nearly 17 Indian Army jawans in the North-East, a territory which has been in the grip of violence, often thought to be cradled, even incited, by China.
To close the loop, China is treating Pakistan like a virtual client state, giving nuclear reactors, strategic ports and 1000-mile link roads, perhaps as dowry for the “deadly geo-political embrace”.
Get it?
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