The Punjab Connection – Drugs & Women Trafficking
By: Amit Bhushan Date: 22nd Sept. 2016
With all the focus on orchestrated violence on Army and in the state, the commercial news media has again start picking up stories that are just a new version of the same ragaa rather than come up with some better research. What it has known is that there are people and organizations of mostly Punjabi men from across the border that would recruit and train people from across the world and supply them with arms and ammunitions to carry out mischievous tasks often at their own peril. Such people enjoy a robust support from sundry Islamist from the Rich World who would keep them funded including the sponsored ‘Victims’. The victim tag is used for the suicidal preys of these mentors here, since they often end up being castrated by society for their acts while their handlers enjoy all the fruits of the spoils. What is also known that region is a huge transit destination for Drugs and also is known for Trafficking of Women and Children.
What has the commercial news media failed to do all these years is to bring out the connect points and struck to the stories that have been prevalent or picking up the threads from global media. This even as our establishment would continue to boast about having most up-to-date information about the neighbor although that may not be good enough to prescience these attacks and foil them. Somehow the media’s love for second hand data/information and colloquial historical stories (mostly readymade) far outweigh its penchant for gathering current facts of ground. So we hear stories of a Don who control drug trade and is separate from ones indulging in Trafficking of Women and children although the Don did maintain a healthy connect with the cinema industry (which keeps attracting rather good looking people). And the ushering of youth to terrorism including its ideology remains a separately funded project under some purist clergy which doesn’t need their rations to carry out the well planned and orchestrated stunts. That speaks volumes about the rhetoric friendly neta and rhetoric friendly media and the brave soldiers might just need to be equally beware off them.
What is perhaps known is that poverty, gender discrimination, lack of education, and ignorance about legal rights are some of the underlying causes of the malaise mentioned above an instead of fighting out these malaise the government and its leaders seem to have taken all actions to maintain situation in such manner over the years despite of changes in government. Available data suggest several areas of concern, like, for instance: direct health effects, maladaptive coping leading to the use of illicit drugs, and inaccessibility to healthcare facilities. The state has continued t seek weapons rather than medical colleges and has continued to receive the same as well from its numerous, powerful and well meaning friends while the Indian commercial news media has been religiously focused to play stories on Cricketers and one off incidents and people such as a Malala and some sacred places. The extent of nexus of the illicit trade on the Indian side is also not known fully although we continue to suffer from some of these ill-effects as well including our own robust industry on these although what is a certainly is that there is a healthy cooperation with limited competition in these areas.
What is curious is that the ‘global independent news media’ has also ignored most such ‘stories’ perhaps because the state is a frontline on the ‘war against terror’. So it became understandable that weapons are more important than good medical facilities or medical education and cases of human trafficking can be ignored a bit here while the human rights abuses in other areas remain prominently highlighted. While the author doesn’t wish to be part of any rhetoric, however does want to lay his analysis of the ‘game’ that may have led to build up of pressures.
By: Amit Bhushan Date: 22nd Sept. 2016
With all the focus on orchestrated violence on Army and in the state, the commercial news media has again start picking up stories that are just a new version of the same ragaa rather than come up with some better research. What it has known is that there are people and organizations of mostly Punjabi men from across the border that would recruit and train people from across the world and supply them with arms and ammunitions to carry out mischievous tasks often at their own peril. Such people enjoy a robust support from sundry Islamist from the Rich World who would keep them funded including the sponsored ‘Victims’. The victim tag is used for the suicidal preys of these mentors here, since they often end up being castrated by society for their acts while their handlers enjoy all the fruits of the spoils. What is also known that region is a huge transit destination for Drugs and also is known for Trafficking of Women and Children.
What has the commercial news media failed to do all these years is to bring out the connect points and struck to the stories that have been prevalent or picking up the threads from global media. This even as our establishment would continue to boast about having most up-to-date information about the neighbor although that may not be good enough to prescience these attacks and foil them. Somehow the media’s love for second hand data/information and colloquial historical stories (mostly readymade) far outweigh its penchant for gathering current facts of ground. So we hear stories of a Don who control drug trade and is separate from ones indulging in Trafficking of Women and children although the Don did maintain a healthy connect with the cinema industry (which keeps attracting rather good looking people). And the ushering of youth to terrorism including its ideology remains a separately funded project under some purist clergy which doesn’t need their rations to carry out the well planned and orchestrated stunts. That speaks volumes about the rhetoric friendly neta and rhetoric friendly media and the brave soldiers might just need to be equally beware off them.
What is perhaps known is that poverty, gender discrimination, lack of education, and ignorance about legal rights are some of the underlying causes of the malaise mentioned above an instead of fighting out these malaise the government and its leaders seem to have taken all actions to maintain situation in such manner over the years despite of changes in government. Available data suggest several areas of concern, like, for instance: direct health effects, maladaptive coping leading to the use of illicit drugs, and inaccessibility to healthcare facilities. The state has continued t seek weapons rather than medical colleges and has continued to receive the same as well from its numerous, powerful and well meaning friends while the Indian commercial news media has been religiously focused to play stories on Cricketers and one off incidents and people such as a Malala and some sacred places. The extent of nexus of the illicit trade on the Indian side is also not known fully although we continue to suffer from some of these ill-effects as well including our own robust industry on these although what is a certainly is that there is a healthy cooperation with limited competition in these areas.
What is curious is that the ‘global independent news media’ has also ignored most such ‘stories’ perhaps because the state is a frontline on the ‘war against terror’. So it became understandable that weapons are more important than good medical facilities or medical education and cases of human trafficking can be ignored a bit here while the human rights abuses in other areas remain prominently highlighted. While the author doesn’t wish to be part of any rhetoric, however does want to lay his analysis of the ‘game’ that may have led to build up of pressures.