Subramanian Swamy terms Kandahar episode 'worst capitulation' to terrorists in Indian modern history

The release of three dreaded terrorists in exchange of hijacked Indian Airlines passengers in Afghanistan's Kandahar in 1999 is the "worst capitulation" to terrorists in India's modern history writes BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in his newly-released book "Human Rights and Terrorism in India".

New Delhi: BJP MP Subramanian Swamy in his newly-released book "Human Rights and Terrorism in India" has termed the release of three dreaded terrorists in exchange of hijacked Indian Airlines passengers in Afghanistan's Kandahar in 1999 as the "worst capitulation" to terrorists in India's modern history.

Swamy's new book has described how to counter terrorism in harmony with human and fundamental rights with reasonable restrictions, which is constitutionally enriched and upheld by the Supreme Court.

He said that the study recognizes that India as a nation must provide a concept of identity to deter terror. This identity must restructure the human rights foundation. A strategy to deter terror with human rights secured then can be formulated, he writes in the book, published by Har-Anand Publications.

'A study of nations that have remained united and contrasted with those which have disintegrated, it seems that the fundamental element of national integrity is the concept 'who we are' which is accepted by people within a certain geo-political boundary. The concept however has to be nurtured, renewed, continuously enriched, and to be quantified,' the book stated.

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According to Swamy, "today, India is under terrorist siege of Pakistan, Taliban controlled Afghanistan, ISI and other religion-based terrorists and extremists from China-backed North-east and we now need effective solution not in a piecemeal".

His book reads, 'Never before has such a formidable group of destructive forces has threatened the territorial integrity of India and terrorised India's peace-loving people through violence".

The Rajya Sabha member then claims that the political goal of terrorists is to "demoralise the Hindus and undermine the Hindu foundation of India in order to destroy the Hindu civilization", and the government must "never capitulate and never concede" to any of their demands.

"The release of three hardcore terrorists from jail in December 1999, including Mohammed Azhar of Jaish-e-Mohammed, for release of hijacked Indian Airlines passengers in Kandahar, in Afghanistan is an example of such a disastrous capitulation," he writes.