DEATH SENTENCE AS DETERRENT

"Nobody will believe your agencies if they make a promise next time. Nobody will trust the Indian government in future," - says Chota Shakeel. 

Yes this country does not want any terrorist to believe our agencies. Our agencies seems to have given them a clear and understandable message this time that they must think thousand times before executing such heinous terror plans as they would have none to trust upon in future. He must know that we are not interested to investigate terror attacks, we want to prevent them.

Pseudo-intellectuals mainly of left-leaning variety are chest-beating these days saying that death sentences have never served as deterrent in terror cases. Let me add to their confusion by stating that no punishment has been able to stop any crime anywhere on this earth - so what would be there suggestion? Would they suggest the governments to convert all the police stations and army outposts into advice and counseling centers? 

No law can put brakes on crime rates - it has never achieved that feat anywhere. What can control a crime rate is not strict laws but the seriousness with which the existing law of the land is taken both by the government and its people. One can behave ignorant while claiming that it would have been 'politically correct' to reject the death sentence of Yakub - but the wrong message that would have gone to all of us would have fueled an already established perception that there is always a way to take the law of this land lightly.

Chota Shakeel further said "Somebody trusted a government but the government breached the trust. The company doesn't have any faith in the government. Who will come back to get killed?" 

Now they seem to have got the message right. The country wants them back not to give them a red carpet welcome, but to punish them instead for the crimes committed by them - using our established and transparent legal procedures.

Reportedly, Shakeel said that India will face consequences for hanging Yakub. Unfortunately for them, this threat works both ways.