Monday, January 14, 2013

Time for us to shrug off ‘soft state’ tag

Saswat Panigrahi

The gruesome and unprovoked killing of two Indian soldiers by Pakistani Army has shocked the nation. Pakistani troops entered 600 metres into Indian territory along the Line of Control (LoC) in Poonch sector and killed Lance Naik Hemraj and Lance Naik Sudhakar Singh. Their bodies were mutilated and their heads were chopped off. One of the heads was carried away by the enemy.
This is a chilling reminder of the brutal torture and killing of Captain Saurabh Kalia and his team by Pakistani troops during the Kargil war.
A soldier represents the nation in the battlefield. No one’s presence is as direct as a soldier’s. Every drop of our soldiers’ blood is sacred to us. The death of a soldier is a huge loss to the nation, a loss which should make us all die a little.

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