"Return of the Memons- A Pyrrhic Victory" continues...

The demolition of Babri Masjid, as is well known, had deeply hurt the religious sentiments of the Muslim community, not only in Bombay but across India and even overseas. The communal riots that followed further aggravated the anti-Hindu and anti-Establishment feelings in the minority community of India. The mood amongst the extremist and fundamentalist elements within the Muslim community was one of seeking revenge. The communal atmosphere in the
country stood vitiated like rarely before. The ISI of Pakistan sensed an invaluable opportunity to strike at India, using Indian nationals, and seized it with both hands.

Taufiq Jalianwala and Syed Arif, two gold and silver smugglers of Karachi, were ISI’s ‘assets’,
whose services were always at the disposal of the so called Inter-Services-Intelligence wing of the Pakistani establishment. Their (the smugglers’) ‘handlers’ in the ISI conceived of a grand and vicious plan of hitting India with multiple terror attacks at its major metropolitan cities.

The plan, as only the ISI can conceive of, was to train Muslim youth from cities like Bombay, Madras, Calcutta, Ahmedabad, Bangalore etc in handling of Kalashnikovs and Improvised
Explosive Devices (IEDs). On a major Hindu festival like Ganesh Chaturthi or Dussehra, when lakhs of Hindus gather, major explosions would be caused killing thousands of people belonging to the majority community. The masterminds behind the sinister conspiracy expected, and perhaps rightly so, that these bomb attacks and resultant heavy casualties would lead to Hindu backlash wherein mobs of Hindus would march towards Muslim localities to seek vengeance.

Muslim youth, trained in Pakistani camps and subsequently equipped with automatic weapons sent by the conspirators, would open fire in self-defence, thereby killing more Hindus. These attacks would further infuriate the majority community. A civil war-like situation would be created between the majority and the minority communities, as anticipated by the ISI. The Hindu-Muslim divide in India would then be immutable and irreversible, permanently destroying the country’s social fabric once and for all.

To be continued...