Three articles, one by an Indian, two others
-- one by a Paki and other by Scott Baldauf. Scott Baldauf specializes in
writing anti-India pieces. Google him and get hold of other pieces he has
written on India. The first piece lauds the Indian Army. The other two promote
the terrorists as providing the most help. Baldauf probably is in the pay
of the US state dept. (i.e., CIA), like many US journos working the international,
esp. "third world" beat. Murli
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-10-15-mosques-kashmir_x.htm
Separatists, mosques fill void of official
quake aid in region
By Scott Baldauf and Laura J. Winter, The Christian Science Monitor
" Even five days later, no aid workers
have come to Madian. No Army helicopters have carried away the wounded. The
villagers are wondering what is the point of being part of India. "
" On both sides of the border, the best
organized aid groups are radical Islamic parties such as Jamaat i-Islami,
a group that previously threw its support behind the Taliban government of
Afghanistan. "
Note that no villager is reported to have
said, "what is the point of being a part of Pakistan".
Then this one from Reuters India
http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2005-10-14T192537Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-219493-1.xml&archived=False
Militants take high profile in Kashmir quake
relief
Fri Oct 14, 2005 7:32 PM IS
" Kashmiri boys surround the gunmen,
staring in open admiration at the men they presume to have fought the Indian
Army on the other side of the ceasefire line dividing disputed Kashmir. "
Then the standard boilerplate part that is
written and approved by the CIA:
" India has long accused Islamabad of
backing the militants, saying they slip into Indian Kashmir from the Pakistani
side. Pakistan says it provides diplomatic and moral support to the Kashmiri
groups, while accusing the Indian army of human rights abuses. "
And finally, incredibly, from leftist rag
Outlook:
http://www.outlookindia.com/full.asp?fodname=20051024&fname=CoverStory&sid=5
The Unknown Soldier Was Here
The Indian army's relief efforts has endeared them to Kashmiris like never
before
SAIKAT DATTA
It finally took an epic tragedy to bring together
two armies divided by generations of mistrust. As the quake wreaked havoc,
Indian army personnel made a quick trip into PoK, across the Aman Setu, to
help their Pakistani counterparts rebuild a bunker. An official Pakistani
denial, though, followed soon after. But there was considerable goodwill on
the ground.
If there was a hero on the morning of October
8, it was the faceless Indian jawan. They had lost 38 men and 267 were wounded,
but local commanders took charge of the situation and sent out relief columns.
What made a crucial difference in relief operations was the speed with which
army engineers, along with teams from the Border Roads Organisation, cleared
the Baramulla-Uri road enabling relief from Srinagar to reach interior villages
devastated by the quake.
Medical teams from local posts moved in while
the army's aviation corps established air bridges to reach villages cut off
by landslides. In a few hours, an army that had forever been criticised as
an "occupation force" became the only face of relief. Twenty tons
of medical supplies and 200 tonnes of rations were despatched overnight while
over a thousand people were taken into the makeshift shelters the army columns
had set up.
The collapsed telecommunications network was
quickly replaced by the army's Signals radio sets. By the third day, over
3,000 troops were deployed in Tanghdar, Uri, Baramulla, Kupwara and Poonch
while the 8 Engineer battalions was deployed to extricate the buried, set
up a makeshift bridge over the Chenab as well as reopen roads. As Operation
Imdad progressed, goodwill was the one thing in abundance.
