I agreee whole heartedly with the views of the author. I was a volunteer in 1972 on the Indo Bangladesh border when we went to war. We should have taken Lahore then, we chickened out. I also agree that the massive display of tanks and missles is pointless. Even now, let us cancel the order for submarines, fighter planes and air craft carriers and buy weapons for the police, set up elite SWAT units, get electronic wire tapping and listening devices, video monitors across the stations and public places with control rooms. All these will go a small way in preventing such outrages. Finally, where do the terrorists get safe refuge? I think it is in the millions of illegal shanties and hutments. If we do one thing today, let all parties pass a bill to abolish and demolish all illegal hutments and encroachments on public lands, TODAY. Clean the scars on the city and the scum will vanish. All of us have a chance to vote in the Municipal elections next year, DO NOT VOTE for a party nominee, find an independant from your constituency and vote for her/him. Let us have a corporation of wise people.
