–Arghya Jyoti Ganguly
Almost a year after 12 March 1993 Bombay serial blasts, the Parliament of India undertook a resolution which is known as PoJK Sankalp Diwas. Both Houses of Parliament on February 22, 1994, passed a resolution unanimously on Jammu & Kashmir which has neither been rescinded nor amended so far.
The Resolution noted deep concern on Pakistan’s role in imparting training to the terrorists in camps located in Pakistan and Occupied Kashmir, supplying them with weapons and funds, as well as providing them assistance in infiltrating into India with the intent to create disorder, disharmony, and subversion. It called upon Pakistan to stop its support to terrorism immediately and desist from the campaign of making of false and defamatory statements against India.
The Resolution declared that the state of Jammu & Kashmir has been, is and shall be an integral part of India and any attempts to separate it will be resisted by all necessary means. It demanded that Pakistan vacate the areas of the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir, which they have occupied through aggression. It firmly determined that all attempts to interfere in the internal affairs of India will be met resolutely.
Since 1970 to 1993 there had been at least 2219 terror attack incidents that left 6828 dead and 8,042 injured. The 12 March 1993 Bombay serial blasts was the single largest till then, where a series of 12 bomb explosions shook Mumbai and the nation at large. These were the first serial-bomb-blasts of their kind in the world. It resulted in 257 fatalities and 717 injuries. Surprisingly the then-Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Sharad Pawar from Indian National Congress, announced thirteen blasts, including a fictitious bomb in a Muslim quarter of the city, to prevent the events from taking on a communal hue, which was intune with the minority appeasement policy that was ailing India during Congress rule.
The Parliament passed the Resolution on PoJK due to public sentiment but no retaliation against Pakistan for nurturing and harbouring terrorists were taken. Obviously from 1994 to 2015 the Congress government saw at least 7763 terror attacks, that left
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