What does Praveen Swami know that the Coast Guard doesn’t? opindia/2015/01/what-does-praveen-swami-know-that-the-coast-guard-doesnt/ Praveen Swami says 1.“India claims to destroy Pakistani Boat”. Ans. The Coast Guard’s press release never claims that it “destroyed” the boat, it just intercepted it. 2.“India claims to destroy Terror Boat”. Ans. Defence Minister said it was a “suspected” terror plot. 3.“new evidence has begun to emerge that those on board might have been small-time liquor and diesel smugglers.National Technical Research Organisation (NTRO) had intercepted mobile phone traffic involving small-time smugglers operating out of the fishing port of Keti Bandar, near Karachi. Ans. what Swami’s “New Evidence” is, because he does not present any, except for what his “SOURCES” told him.NTRO apparently recorded the radio communication between TWO (not one) Pakistani boats. This conversation reveals that the boats had “plans to repeat 26/11 carnage in Porbandar” and that “both the vessels were in regular contact with Pakistan’s maritime agency and the army”. 4.These “smugglers” were to carry bootleg “from the port of Gwadar to other fishing boats which were to have carried it into Karachi’s Keti Bandar harbour.” Ans. Basically, Swami wants us to believe that this boat came all the way down into this green area, to pass on some stuff to another boat which also came down all the way, to carry it back up. COOL STORY BRO! 5.The open-source (?) meteorological data for the Porbandar coast shows conditions were almost ideal with cloudless skies on December 31-January 1. Ans. Indian Meteorological Department site and checked the report for 31/12/2014. The report says “An upper air cyclonic circulation laid over east central and adjoining northeast Arabian Sea off north Konkan and south Gujarat coasts and extended upto 1.5 km above mean sea level on 31st December, 2014. 6. Narsibhai Jungi Jadeja, head of the Porbandar fishing boat owners’ association. Jadeja says that it is surprising that nobody saw anything “because a fire at night would be visible many nautical miles away”. Ans.“Irrespective of how huge a fire is, you won’t be able to see it beyond a certain distance, simply because the Earth is round (My sources have confirmed that Earth is indeed round).” 7.“There is a suggestion of use of disproportionate force on the poor boat (...!!!) since its engine wasn’t capable of outrunning Indian interceptors. He also says there isn’t much clarity “on the circumstances under which lethal force was used”. Ans.Pakistan has once successfully used this modus operandi, that Pakistan is continuously violating ceasefire norms as we speak, that this boat is not obeying your orders, that this boat could have another Kasab, did what the Coast Guard did, qualify as “Lethal Disproportionate Force”? In my opinion, NO! Maybe Praveen Swami has more sympathy for the passengers of this boat who were surely in some or the other “Illicit activity” rather than for innocent Indian civilians.I would have loved to ask Praveen Swami to clarify this, but he blocked me on Twitter, as soon as I tagged him in a tweet with my earlier post. So much for good old tolerance preached by “Liberals”!
Posted on: Sun, 04 Jan 2015 05:39:15 +0000