This is a sordid business, looked from any angle. Now Haresh wants Indian government to teach Pakistan a lesson if its government does not release a person its courts convicted for terrorism. As if the Indian government needed any prodding if it could.
News have indeed been filtering out that poor villagers from border districts of Indian Punjab have been enticed for a pittance to go into Pakistan for sabotage and terrorist attacks. Any that later turned recalcitrant were threatened with being handed over to Pakistan for hanging. A life long blackmail in short. But, you know worst things happen in the name of patriotism. President Musharraf will have a hard time deciding this case. There may be (although with a heavy dose of reservations) to postpone the execution if in the offing but this case cannot be and should not be dealt with in isolation. If at all legal due processes are to be tempered with, the whole lot of Indian, Pakistani and of course Kashmiri people will have to be included.
