In the words of former Home Minister, Shri Sushilkumar Shinde “Centre’s handling of the Pathankot Attack was a ‘complete failure’ and demanded Prime Minister Narendra Modi fix responsibility for the security lapse.” “Earlier, the PM used to speak about being answerable to one’s conscience. Now he must do the same and sack whoever is responsible – whether that be the defense minister, home minister or officials”
“When the NDA was in power, IC 184 hijack happened. “The then foreign minister accompanied the terrorists to Kandahar and released them. Since 1999, there has been a belief that India has no strength. Terrorists think they can do anything and they will be released”
When such words come out of a leader’s mouth, it is safe to assume that the leader is a strong nationalist who puts Country and its people over and above any selfish interests. But when such words come out of the mouth of a Senior Congress Leader, you can safely discard him as a phoney, a two faced hypocrite who lies through his teeth. Because Congress has created the whole Congress Empire by killing the aspirations of Indians, siphoning the taxpayer’s money and jeopardizing the national security.
According to latest revelations Congress’ criticism of the Modi govt. has fallen flat on their own wretched faces. As a “goodwill gesture” the Indian government had released Jaish-e-Muhammed (JeM) terrorist Shahid Latif, chief handler of the Fedayeen squad in 2010 under UPA II rule. Shahid Latif was the chief handler of the Pathankot Attack earlier this year. Shahid Latif was released by India in 2010 as part of the UPA government’s effort to repair ties with Pakistan.
According to TOI sources, 47-year-old Rashid Latif, who was in an Indian jail for 11 years for acts of terrorism, was among 25 militants belonging to Lashkar-e-Taiba, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen and JeM who were freed on May 28, 2010, as part of the Centre’s outreach to the hostile neighbour. They were lodged in jails in Jammu, Srinagar, Agra, Varanasi, Naini (UP) and Tihar, and were deported to Pakistan through Wagah.
It is alleged that Latif’s release was sought by Jaish terrorists, the same bunch of terrorists who hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC-814 and managed to get their main man, Maulana Masood Azhar, freed along with two others in exchange for 154 passengers in December 1999. The then Vajpayee government had refused to release Latif and 31 others on Jaish’s “wish list”.
As per intelligence sources Latif is considered Masood Azhar’s right hand and holds an important seat in Jaish’s corporate-like hierarchy. Latif heads the Sialkot region as its main handler. He launches JeM cadres into India. In the aftermath of the IC-814 hijacking and the attack on Parliament in 2001 by Jaish modules, Latif was shifted from a J&K Prisons to Varanasi central jail in 2002. According to intgelligence reports JeM was mobilizing its units to free Latif from J&K Jail.
Latif currently is NIA’s Most Wanted Man. He is wanted by NIA as the ‘handler’ of the four fidayeen — identified as Nasir Hussain, Hafiz Abu Bakar, Umar Farooq and Abdul Qayum, the ones who executed Pathankot Attack on January 2. It was Latif who arranged the weapons, clothes and shoes of the jihadis apart from SOS injections and medicines, food packets and other logistics.
That UPA-II was a brazenly corrupt regime is known to one and all but the fact that India was being governed by anti-Indians for 10 long years is shocking. They painted LeT Terrorist Ishrat Jahan as a peace dove. They booked Sadhvi Pragya and Col Purohit under fake charges. They created “Saffron Terror” lie out of thin air. Congress’s Goodwill gesture led to Pathankot Attack, cost us lives of fine men, better than any Congress Leader can ever be.