MONTH-IN-PERSPECTIVE

HARYANA: A report datelined Chandigarh informed “Parole plea of Dera Sacha Sauda Chief rejected”.

In a situation where parole pleas are granted left right and centre, and culprits who avail the benefit just give slip to the police and escape into the unknown, this rejection is a welcome development.

There are any number of cases, where murder accused undergoing life imprisonment have been granted parole without application of mind. The causes generally are the marriage of daughter or mother being unwell or something similar. A case of a pathan, who killed a lady lawyer in Mumbai, was undergoing  life imprisonment. He was granted parole for 30 days to visit his ailing mother. He was from Kashmir and would have been lost forever if he had escaped to POK, but police somehow managed to get him rearrested after a very long period.

There was no proper verification of the accused and the possibility that being a Kashmir, the possibility of his escaping the police net was very much there. Hence, he should not have been granted the parole. Even if Parole was to be granted, he should have been handed over to the police in his area in Kashmir, and make the police accountable at his daily attendance at the local police station, which was never done. It could be, there were different considerations at play while granting parole.

But in the case of parole to Dera Sacha Sauda chief he should have been granted a week’s parole to see his 83 years old mother under full police security. After all Gurmit Ram Rahim Singh is a known face and not easy to escape if a fool proof police security is provided.

NEW DELHI: Justice and judgment are appearing to be in conflict more often than not. As ultimate arbiter of justice, the highest court of the land is expected to render justice than go by the technical aspect of the case instead of merits of the case.

A person, who was accused of killing his own cousin in Aug 1980, if he was 17 years and 6 months of age on the day of the murder, he could be of 57 years of age today. But the Supreme Court disposing an appeal from the accused on the basis of his juvenile status and setting the convict free does not appear to be reasonable if not outright imbecile.

A report datelined New Delhi, in the print media informed “SC finds life convict a juvenile at time of murder, releases him”.

Prima facie, there should be nobody in jail. It is a state where both body and mind can get spiritually destroyed. Therefore system of judicial intervention should ensure that the accused should get minimum stay in the prison. But laws all over the world have been framed to deter people from committing crimes. More heinous the crime, greater is the punishment and longer is the stay in jail.

In the instant case, it was a murder of a blood relation by a juvenile who was 6 months short of being an adult. When convicted he must have been already an adult. The case is now 39 years old. Knowing the speed with which Indian courts work, it is safe to take some 9 years at least for the case to conclude. So this convict has undergone some 30 or so years’ imprisonment. Taking this 30 years into consideration, provided the accused behaved well in prison during those 30 years, it is a good enough reason to let the culprit free to go home, not his being a juvenile on the day of murder. At 17½ years, the youth was certainly aware of what he was doing. And the country has seen how horrendous crimes were committed by the youth below 18 and many adults must have used this lacuna to annihilate those whom they did not like. And it’s not for nothing that the government of the day deliberated and brought about the change to reduce the age of juvenile to 16 to be effective from Feb 2016. Therefore under the circumstances Apex court should think of alternating the prism through which it sees issues while considering imprisonment for juvenile convicts.

NEW DELHI: In their anxiety to make India Congress mukth, freedom from Congress, BJP is leaving no stones unturned. They are welcoming all kinds of characters from Congress party. Of course, in their attempt to increase the party foot prints, everybody and anybody is welcome, even if there are criminal cases, pending or settled, no matter which party.

There were some 10 MLAs joined in Goa from Congress to BJP. At least one of them had a clearly registered criminal case and Goa Chief Minister has openly admitted that this is politics.

Latest to enter is the “Big Amethi catch for BJP” as New Delhi datelined report informs. It says Sanjay Singh, known for proximity to Sanjay Gandhi & Rajiv Gandhi is joining BJP. This Sanjay Singh, a royal blood to boot, has been a Congress strong man from Amethi.

He is the same man, who was accused of killing former Indian Badminton Champion Syed Modi, to marry his wife Ameeta Modi, also a known badminton player of yester years.

Even Ameeta Modi too was accused of being a partner in the crime. But politics being what politics is, they both came out ‘clean’. Thanks to management skill of politicians and bureaucracy, the charges were dropped, for whatever reasons.

But truth cannot be killed; it has somehow remained a mystery who killed Syed Modi after all!

But then this is India, where politics is getting contaminated by opportunistic alliances in the name of serving the nation and its people. Indeed, ‘Mera Bharath is Mahaan!!’

NEW DELHI: Issue of posting of doctors in rural areas has been making rounds interminably, or so it appears. The latest news report datelined New Delhi tells it all. “SC: Frame policy for compulsory service in rural areas by doctors”, was the news report in the print media. This has not come a day too early.

For doctors to work in rural areas has many dimensions, where parties involved need to think with a sense of responsibility.

Supreme court while asking the Central Government to frame policy for rural posting of doctors has made a statement which is a long held view which none can fault. “Huge infrastructure has to be developed and maintained…...Amount of fees from students is meager in comparison to private medical colleges…….” Even the cost is not covered by the fees. In fact its only pittance for merit students.

“Reasonable stipend has to be paid to the doctors. There is a need to provide health care to the people…… consequently, a policy decision taken by the states to utilize the service of doctors who were beneficiaries of government assistance to complete their education cannot be termed arbitrary”.

All that the court has observed have been there in public domain from different stake holders since quite sometime. Clearly bench of Supreme Court need not be the ultimate arbiter of wisdom. In fact courts must be left to do better jobs than attending to a fight between doctors and state government. However, in a system of grievance redressal, the highest court of the land has its role cut-out, due to the closed mind approach of different stakes holders.

Its nobody’s case that doctors, who were huge beneficiaries of the government assistance should not repay their dues to the society, even a small fraction like working in a rural set-up for a few years. As court observed both Medical Council of India (MCI) and the centre must sit together to frame a policy for this compulsory rural service by fresh doctors just out of the medical college.

This has to be applied, pari passu, across the country. All states should have same terms, whether, the number of years or the bond amount. But what the court has not gone into, is the problems faced by doctors working in rural hospitals. Doctors have always complained of poor accommodation and other deficiencies, food availability water, electricity and ablution facility etc., and of course security. Governments, both at Centre and State should attend to the physical needs of doctors, who are required to work in difficult and trying conditions of some of the rural surroundings. The policy framework must incorporate some redressal mechanism within the service spparatus, so that doctors should not feel exploited, which in turn can make this doctors to work with commitment and dedication. Doctors on their part too, should not make fancy demands like air-conditioner etc.

Thus in a spirit to give and take, all issues can be sorted out, without the need to approach courts. Hope wise counsel prevails.

UTTAR PRADESH: Barking up the wrong tree is our national trait. Those issues which need attention shall be allowed to languish but those which can wait are more often than not-highlighted.

Sanskrit language is one of India’s identity, supposedly by the best language for computer and representing India’s past glory. But somehow, whether it’s the bias against the language by successive administration or ignorance, the languages did not really grow in India in its acceptance in the public space.

Strangely, there are 42 universities in Europe alone that teach Sanskrit, whereas in India, it is dying. In an attempt to popularize, the language, UP chief minister started issuing press statements in Sanskrit language. But how will this promote the language, when the whole structure of teaching Sanskrit in UP is in dole drums. As per the state education deptt, some 260 posts of principals and some 900 posts teachers are lying vacant in 921 schools teaching Sanskrit.

Students are reportedly giving up learning the language due to the want of faculty in these Sanskrit Paatshaalas. Unless the instructive is strengthened, how do you expect the students number to go up!

Universities having department of Sanskrit should conduct a study how this language can be made acceptable to students community and avenues for development of the language. Reportedly there is this report by the MHRD which has prepared a road map how to go about it.

So what is stopping UP Chief Minister to appoint a committee of educationists to study the report and try to implement its recommendations instead of issuing press releases in Sanskrit, which will be hardly read by anybody. So it’s a classic case of barking up the wrong tree and wasting resources when better management is possible.

UTTAR PRADESH: Prime Minister Narendra Modi's clarion call "BETI BACHAVO" has gone for a six, instead apparently it has degenerated into ‘MLA BACHAVO’. Courtesy Mahant Yogi Adithtyanath has ensured that rapist Kuldip Singh Sengar enjoys the safety of prison and the minor rape victim in the hospital fighting for life. The case is over 2 years old. It was only after the death of minor victim's father in a false case hoisted by the police apparently at the behest of the accused MLA that court acted suo moto to get the accused MLA arrested. CBI who took over the case clearly proved a Caged Bird of India when they failed to pursue the case even after a year apparently under the influence of Adityanath government. Its a shame on both UP CM and home minister Amith Shah who is also the president of BJP, and deeply disappointing that PM Modi had nothing to say on the whole episode for two years. Now that Apex court has intervened BJP expelled the criminal MLA Sengar.  Too little too late.

MAHARASHTRA: Some days ago, there was this Pune datelined report that a beat marshal was beaten, abducted and dropped far out of the city on Mumbai/Bengalooru highway for him to fend for himself.

Three men, Jaganath Deenbandhu Roy, Sachin Balu Ranawade and Mayur Arun Mate were found drinking in a car without number plate on Sinhagad Road in Pune around 11.00 pm. Beat Marshal Sachin Tanpure seeing the trio drinking, gets into their car and asks them to drive to the nearest police station. They were 3 men, inebriated and aware that they are on the wrong side of the law, cannot be expected like small children to follow the instruction of a beat cop. This Sachin Tampure, simply did not know policing. He could have alerted the beat vehicle around the place and should not have got into the vehicle with three culprits.

In the event, they assaulted him inside the car, took his mobile and walky talky and drow him to a far off place so that he had to reach his station on his own. Fortunately he was left alive to tell the story. What if the revelers were bad men?!

It is another matter that police have arrested one of the three and two are untraceable.

MAHARASHTRA: Something is seriously wrong with the police in Maharashtra. People dying in custody, especially during interrogation is becoming increasingly frequent. A report datelined Mumbai “Court orders probe against cops after two years” reflects poorly on the state of policing.

Aurangabad Bench of Bombay High Court ordered a probe against the police officials in whose custody son of Pushpa Pimple had died. She, a resident of Newasa, had been seeking justice for her son, Amol Pimple, a labourer, who died allegedly due to extreme torture subjected by the Newasa Police.

According to Pushpa Pimple, her son was picked up by the police on suspicion of theft and trespass in Aug 2017. Reportedly, after his death, police conducted an enquiry and concluded that he committed suicide in the lock-up with the two towels provided to him. Reportedly, the judicial magistrate who went into the case agreed with police version saying there were no signs of torture on Amol’s person. Aggrieved Pushpa moved the High Court. After almost 2 years and having heard her petition court expressed suspicion on the police version and how judicial magistrate failed to ask pertinent questions to get to the bottom of the case.

According to judges Tanaji Nalawade and Kishor Sonavane, autopsy report had mentioned an injury to the head but there was no explanation of what and how the injury was there on the head. They also debunked the theory that two towels were used to commit suicide, also since no fixture was mentioned as to from where the towels were tied. The bench expressed surprise that the other person in the lock-up was ignorant about when and how Amol committed suicide. Also the presence of CCTV camera, while Amol was being interrogated, was not mentioned nor any record considered by the judicial magistrate.

Thus clearly there were many unanswered questions and hence the High Court ordered the Aurangabad SP for a fresh probe by an independent senior police officer. Hope, the police take up the case with all seriousness so that the justice denied since August 2017 to the mother of the dead Amol Pingle gets the appropriate relief in the name of justice and all those policemen are stringently dealt with. In similar circumstances, Kerala High Court had given death sentence to two Kerala police officers.

It is indeed very sad that for those vulnerable sections of our society, the justice in the system is becoming increasingly a mirage, even after 72 years of free India.

MAHARASHTRA: Among the growing number of jokers in Indian politics BJP is a serious player. You have all sorts among their Members of Parliament and MLAs.

Jokers are found in most parties, but as compared to the rest, BJP appears to be having most of them.

Mobile phones, while being very functional for its portability and multiple functionality, it has also exposed the pettier side of the users. It helps in publishing, besides being helpful in spreading information’s to build one’s persona.

It helps in taking photographs of men and matters for better use of such portrayals. It is also used for taking self photos or selfies. This is one area, where, serious functionaries like ministers are a caught in self promotion.

There have been many ministers and members of parliament who were caught taking their photographs of themselves in place where such actions can be easily described as insensitive.

The latest to be caught in such pettiness was Maharashtra State Water Resources Minister Girish Mahajan. Reportedly two videos of the minister surveying flood hit areas in Kolhapur district went viral where the minister was found smiling and waving to people.

He was the same joker, who was found dancing when centre had abrogated the provisions of Article 370.

No wonder, opposition parties have demanded the minister’s resignation. Characters like this, who are more like city college students on an eternal picnic, should be given dressing down by the party leadership for bringing ‘bad’ name for the party.

It is another matter that BJP has, like most parties, have perfected the craft of protecting these wayward people’s representatives, and they call themselves ‘a party with a difference’.

MAHARASHTRA: Statutory auditors of Limited Companies coming under court scanning for professional misconduct or unethical practices are not unknown. It’s been there ever since auditors became part of the statutory requirement to certify financial reports of joint stock companies. Banks and lending institutions depend on the report of these auditors to grant loans and overdrafts. Greater the reputation of the audit firm, higher the credit rating a company gets.

Therefore there is a huge responsibility on these statutory auditors to be thorough on the efficacy of their scrutiny and auditing. Delloitte Haskins and Sells from UK is one of the big four globally, so is KPMG from the US.

Once such big names certify the financials of any company or organization then lending institutions will have much less counter verification to check the veracity of figures mentioned in the balance sheet.

IL &FS, which owes over `95000 crores to different financial institutions, and has gone burst, is in the bankruptcy court for liquidation. Reportedly good part of this debt is due to false certification by these so called ethically oriented chartered accountancy firms of global repute, and mind you there are other 21 audit firms of repute who have lied to make some more money. Clearly it is a case of failure of protective agencies having swallowed the protected.

Reportedly these two firms of Delloitte and KPMG Indian affiliate BSR have been banned by the government to do any audit work in the country for the next 5 years and on appeal even National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has upheld the government decision. The acts of commission and omission by these audit firms are a bad precedent. NCLT has to be commended for their tough stand in confirming the government stand. Hope the message goes to auditing and accounting profession that government means business, fair & square.

MAHARASHTRA: “Stay in water for 2 days to avail relief”, was a report datelined Mumbai regarding the compensation for damage suffered due to flooding. The condition adopted by the government in Mumbai, is a bit insensitive to say the least.

Those who suffered due to the water logging in their living area certainly need help from the authorities to return to normal life. Once the water enters the living area then there is not much you can salvage. It is true that longer it stays greater the damage to both life and property. Only thing the government should have done was to pay little less for those with less than 2 days and more for those where water remained for inside the living areas for over 2 days.

While opposition has criticized the government for this government order, the BJP has come up with a story that during 1999-2014, period, when Congress & NCP were in the government, the then government order was “peoples should have been in an area submerged in water for over 7 days to qualify for flood relief”.

Certainly two wrongs do not make one right. Hope and wish governments everywhere remain sensitive to the suffering and travails of people everywhere.

MAHARASHTRA: Who and what is this MNS party in Mumbai. A breakaway outfit of Shiv Sena, it has inherited the negatives of Shiv Sena, of creating physical nuisance especially for north Indians. Biharis among North Indians are those who suffered the most at the hands of MNS. Earlier it was Shiv Sena, which would create violent situations for both South Indians and North Indians including Gujaratis. Later Shiv Sena reduced such violence and the breakaway MNS carried this legacy.

No wonder, the voters, whether locals or others, decided that MNS candidates should be rejected in the elections to Maharashtra Assembly. The only MLA that MNS had has changed over to BJP and hence there is no MLA of MNS in Maharashtra Assembly.

But MNS has the potential to create trouble and therefore it has organized a rally against EVM. The report in the print media “MNS chief summons opposition on EVM rally” conveys the strong-arm approach of its leader Raj Thackeray. Reportedly he had met Central Election Commissioner on EVM issue, besides meeting Sonia Gandhi and Mamata Bannerjee.

Those who attended the meeting were president of Congress in Maharashtra and State President of NCP, besides Raju Shetty of Shetkari Sanghatana.

All these parties have existential crisis with the emergence of BJP as the strongest party in India. And to reverse the irrelevance of MNS, Raj Thacharay is trying all his tricks.

MAHARASHTRA: Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC) is one of the important legislation, independent India has taken. It is a game changer, by any stretch of imagination. It’s a very purposeful and insightful piece of law, meant to truly protect lending banks.

Non Performing Assets (NPA) of especially public sector banks has been the most mismanaged area of banking in India. Various governments, their politicians and bureaucrats included, have misused different aspect of this NPA to their advantage and to their friends and cronies. For far too long banks have suffered due to non recovery of these loans, which in other word, denied general public, who are truly owners of these public sector banks, resources meant for development purposes.

Recapitalisation of banks due to NPAs have always come from the government of the day which is truly speaking money belonging to people.  Thus this latest law – IBC – is a measure meant to recover the NPAs from defaulting debtors in a time bound manner with interest of all creditors being protected to the maximum within the available resources of insolvent debtor. This law has been very sensibly extended to Real Estate developers, and Supreme court has confirmed that they will remain, when challenged by these Real Estate Companies.

Real Estate companies had challenged the application of IBC provisions, stating, that, home buyers can approach RERA for redressal and therefore IBC provisions are duplication. However having been convinced, that IBC provisions will only help better, the case of home buyers, when caught up in litigation with non-performing Real Estate developers, Apex Court upheld the amendments to IBC.

These are important and significant developments where the interest of the consumer is protected.

KARNATAKA: My friend Niranjan T from Bengalooru Whatsapped that he bought a train ticket with concession for senior citizens and was shocked to see a printed remark on the ticket "Are you aware that 43% of your fare is borne by the common citizens of the country ". While responding that ' he had no problem foregoing the concession ' he asked a very relevant question about the innumerable concessions enjoyed by Members of Parliament ' are they not borne by the common citizens of the country?' Mr. Piyush Goel, not sure if it was your idea or some mandarin in the Rail Bhavan to get this remark printed on the face of the train ticket. You as an educated person, also a Chartered Accountant to boot, must get this insulting remark removed from the face of the train ticket until all concessions granted and shamelessly enjoyed by Members of Parliament are also removed. It's high time politicians understand that they are not on employment to enjoy the benefits of office. They are on service to the Indian nation. They cannot enjoy the state largesse interminably. Mr. Goel as a responsible Member of Parliament must take this issue on the floor of the parliament to debate and possibly get this passed. Government should not be run on only citizens taxes and giving up concessions but also on the free services by the parliamentarians.

KARNATAKA: VGSidhartha, the blued eyed boy of Indian industry and commerce died rather young at 59. He ended his life allegedly due to harassment by income tax deptt. It's very sad that a person who built an international brand name had to commit suicide unable to cope with some financial issues plaguing his enterprise.
When everybody thinks alike, truly speaking nobody thinks. It was evident that all those media men and women, opposition politicians and business leaders were one in condemning 'tax terrorism' which according to them killed Sidhartha.
But all governments work in similar fashion. You become slow to act - mallya & nirav ran away- you are damned. You act fast you are damned too. So what does enforcement men do?! Slowly but steadily skeletons are emerging from the cupboard of CCD, the iconic brand created by VGS. According to some he had borrowings from some 20 or so financial institutions. According to another source he was involved in series of unaccounted transactions. According to third source when his father-in-law was the Karnataka CM he even threatened bankers for asking to clear debts.When Congress party failed to help, his father-in-law left Congress and joined BJP. When Modi being at the helm things were pretty tight.

So was he overtrading - stretched himself too far or was he into large scale money laundering ! Truth will surely come out someday. Now sooner, than otherwise it would have been possible. In any case, now that his mortal remains was consigned to flames, MAY HIS SOUL REST IN PEACE.

KARNATAKA: A Bengalooru datelined report “cases against Hindu youths may be withdrawn”, has certainly raised question of propriety. While it is true that media just wait for controversies and controversial statements from political class, the stupidity of BJP state leadership is clearly visible.

Sometime in Dec 2017, there was some violent protest in the Uttara Kannada district over the killing of one Paresh Mesta. The BJP had claimed that Paresh Mesta was a BJP worker and that he was murdered.

It resulted in communal tension in the Uttara Kannda district. After the violent protest the then government of Siddaramaiah reportedly booked some 2000 Hindu youths.

Now that the old government lost power, coalition came and went and BJP back in the government in Bengalooru, certainly those who are ‘protectors of Hindus’ are up in arms to get the people booked are cleared of these cases.

So, Karwar MLA Roopli Naik writes to the Chief Minister BS Yediyurappa. Reportedly, the letter included a sentence “cases registered against Hindu youths should be withdrawn”.

Innocents anywhere, belonging to any section of society should not suffer for no rhyme or reason. Therefore in fitness of things the letter should have requested the release of all innocents who have been wrongly booked. This could have saved the day for both the MLA and the Chief Minister. CM Yediyurappa could have applied himself to get the request rewritten to omit the word ‘Hindu’ to say
“cases registered against innocent youth be withdrawn” could have won the support of the entire political class. Instead now the Congress and other political parties are in town justifiably crying hoarse.

This is one area BJP must improve its management skill. Hope someday sometime this happens. This will only increase the acceptability of BJP.

KARNATAKA: “Party in police Station: Cops in a lather after b’day boy arrest”, was a news datelined Bengalooru. This is the story of a youth of 25, who celebrated his birthday in Vidyaranyapura police station sometime in August 2018, that is an year ago. He is not a policeman but somebody who helped policemen find accommodation on transfer, since he was a real estate agent. Naturally, he became confidant of police.

Since youth are imaginative these days, he tried his luck trying to brow beat a person after hiring his vehicle and not pay. He has threatened his victim posing as police officer. After initially having buckled, victim complained to the police and youth is already in Parappana Agrahara Central prison.

Deputy Commissioner of police, Bheemashankar S Guled has reportedly stated “It is not acceptable that the birthday celebration was in police station even if it took place a year ago prior to the arrest of Abhishek”. But Sir, there are many things that happen in police stations, in different parts of the country that are not acceptable. But they keep happening, especially parties, with alcohol and non-veg food served by non-police outsiders. It’s not new.

It hit the bull’s eye only when the video of the party went viral and media came around to publish the story. This is one of the better uses of mobile phones. It can instantly record the incident or event for the information of posterity.

While it is true that there are many reforms needed in police, for the overall health of policing there are also areas which need course correction by the police themselves for their own good. Unfortunately it is the political class which should be blamed, why Indian police is not a model, the country can feel comfortable with!

WORLD: Politics of Israili-Palestine assertion not withstanding, Israilies per se commanded certain degree of respect for their disciplined way of life, their being a people who proved themselves, that despite all difficulties, living in a hostile surrounding, they made a discernible mark in global arena.

But a report in the print media indicated they are as vulnerable as any in the world to petty human foibles. The UK based, The Independent, reported “Bibi’s wife tries to enter cockpit to demand respect”.

Reportedly Sara Netanyahu, wife of Israili Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, behaved like a bollywood flunkey.

The couple were flying to Ukraine and the captain of the flight, while making a customery welcome announcement on board the flight, took only Prime Minister’s name and did not mention the name of his wife Sara. Upset that she was not specifically welcomed by the captain she tried to barge into the cockpit, but was stopped by the security guards.

Following the ruckus, pilot reportedly made another announcement over the loud speaker welcoming the 60 year old Ms. Sara Netanyahu, who was accompanying her Prime Minister husband.

Of course, as usual, uncomfortable at the happening, PM’s office didn’t react to the report initially, but later reported to have denied the happening, as if it was a case of misunderstanding, despite the incident being reported in different media outlets, including an Israili web.paper.

Oh dear! All that image that Israilies had were shaken to wonder, “aren’t humans same Israil or India! When it comes to mental pettiness of a ballooned ego!”.

WORLD: Mess in Afghanistan continues. After hundred years of Independence from British in 1919 to 2019, it has been a cavalier journey with uncertainty of all kinds.

From an absolute monarchy, to constitutional monarchy to dictatorship to communism to a kind of democratic experiment, Afghans have seen it all.

With all kinds of players playing to their vested interest and communism gaining upperhand but divided on ethnic lines brought Russian army in 1979. According to Vivek Katju, a former diplomat and secretary in MEA, ‘last 40 years, from 1979 to 2019 have been the darkest in its post independent history with no end in sight’.

Russians came in to protect the communist regime. To stop the spread of communists US intervened. After 10 years in 1989, Russia withdrew from Afghanistan. A rag-tag government continued with Taliban playing dominant vote calling itself Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. 2001 brought U.S forces after the World Trade Centre attack on 11^th Sept 2001. And U.S forces stay put ever since, to return the power to democratically elected government and leave the country for good. But the involvement has been rather messy and U.S is finding itself in knots, not able to leave without a definite semblance of order. If it was President George Bush when Afghanistan was invaded to capture Osama Bin Laden, now its Donald Trump, who wants to get out of Afghanistan. Not sure of anything, President Trump keeps on changing his stand to suit his election chances in the next Presidental election due next year. Now he wants greater military role for both Pakistan and India, so that he can leave. U.S came in without invitation unilaterally, they should empower the local government to remain democratic. But they want a role for Taliban as well. Taliban and civilian government together cannot work together with diametrically different ideology for men and matters.

Just the other day REUTERS reported from Kabul “63 killed as suicide bombers strikes wedding in Kabul; IS claims responsibility”. This is a clear indication of dangers if Taliban becomes a part of the government.

It is sad but true that all thoughtless super power interventions have always led to irretrievable situations. Be it, Vietnam, be it Iraq and how Afghanistan. United Nations Oraganisation, which was established to protect the civilian world also has to take the call with courage and conviction. May be then another dawn, towards a purposeful regimen may be possible. A tough call but one within the realm of possibility.