Deniel Pearl
On 22 April 2025, Hindu tourists were massacred in Pahalgam’s Baisaran Valley by Islamic terrorists sent by Pakistan after asking them about their religion. The Indian government retaliated to this terrorist attack by Pakistan by launching Operation Sindoor on 7 May and started bombing and destroying terrorist hideouts in Pakistan. In return, Pakistan also retaliated with attacks.
In the attack carried out by India, many terrorists who carried out attacks and bomb blasts at various places in the country during the rule of Congress Party and UPA , some of the main terrorists were killed. The terrorist of Kandahar plane hijacking , the terrorist involved in the conspiracy to blow up the Twin Towers of America , the terrorist of Mumbai attack etc. The airstrike carried out by India in Pakistan on May 7 under Operation Sindoor also included an attack on Bahawalpur , where the headquarters of the terrorist organization Jaish-e-Mohammed run by terrorist Maulana Masood Azhar is located. This terrorist organization had killed Wall Street Journal journalist Daniel Pearl. Daniel Pearl was beheaded in Pakistan in 2002.
Daniel Pearl’s father Judea Pearl, on learning of the incident, said, “We are very grateful to India. Pakistan is both unable and unwilling to control terrorist camps or stop their spread. Israel is probably the only country in the world that has been able to control the phenomenon of terrorism to some extent.” ( In a conversation with Times Now Group editor-in-chief Navika Kumar, Judea Pearl said that he is “very grateful to India” for taking action against terrorism.)
Daniel Pearl, a journalist of the Wall Street Journal, was kidnapped when he was in Karachi to investigate the 2001 attack on the twin towers of America. His pregnant wife was with him in Mumbai. In 2002, terrorists lured Daniel into an interview and captured him. Daniel Pearl was an American Jew .
In January 2002, Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl was kidnapped outside an airport in Pakistan. The kidnapper was Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, who lured Pearl to Karachi by promising him an interview with radical Islamic cleric Maulana Mubarak Ali Gilani . Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh was educated at the London School of Economics and had also acquired British citizenship. Sheikh was the same person who was arrested in India in 1994 on charges of kidnapping three British people. Omar Saeed Sheikh was one of the three people released by the Indian government, including Maulana Azhar Masood, after the hijacking of an Indian plane to Kandahar in 1999.
Those terrorists were fully prepared to extort ransom or kill American journalist Daniel. They demanded the release of some prisoners from America by showing a chain around Daniel’s neck and a newspaper in his hand. Daniel’s pregnant wife kept pleading but 9 days later Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and Abdul Rauf Azhar turned on the camera and beheaded Daniel. Before beheading Daniel, these words were made to be uttered and this was recorded and sent to the world along with the video of the murder – ‘ My father is Jewish, my mother is Jewish, I am Jewish’.
This was in 2002, today 23 years later, in the year 2025, Rauf and Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh were killed in the Operation Sindoor attack. The death of Sheikh and Rauf was a revenge for the death of Jew Daniel Pearl and there was a flood of thanks from Israeli officials. Because even if an American citizen was a Jew, he was one of Israel’s own.
India’s Operation Sindoor has resulted in the killing of nearly a dozen high value terrorists (HVTs) , including Abdul Rauf Azhar, who was the brother of Masood Azhar. Rauf was the operational head of Jaish-e-Mohammed and masterminded the IC-814 hijacking . His elimination is significant in the global fight against terrorism, especially given his role in the release of Omar Saeed Sheikh, who kidnapped and killed American-Jewish journalist Daniel Pearl in 2002.
Today, the top leadership in India kept the S400 on all night , carried out most of the attacks with drones or even made quick in and out in Operation Sindoor, because these soldiers are our own. If someone asks if there is anyone from your family on the border? Then the answer we get is that the entire army is our family!
Be it any attack, be it India’s retaliatory action or a terrorist attack like Pulwama or Uri Surgical, the Indian leadership has not let even a single soldier or pilot get killed. The cabinet meets regularly after such attacks to know what arrangements are there for the safety of our soldiers and the public. If we start firing with our eyes closed, half of Pakistan will be wiped out in 2-4 days, Indian soldiers are our own, India is our country. Every Indian feels sad to lose his soldiers.
At the same time, everyone asks what kind of neighbouring country is this that knows no one is coming to its aid, knows its technology and military power is weak, yet why is it inviting war?
See, Pakistan does not care because they are fighting Allah’s war . And Pakistan’s Defense Minister Khawaja Asif says that ‘Pakistan has been doing this dirty work for America and Britain for 30 years. ‘ So America and Britain and now China , Turkey , etc. countries are also behind Pakistan. That means for the rulers of Pakistan, the Pakistani people are like goats and chickens . They have built all their houses and bungalows in London, France, America. Every big leader or officer is running a good business. The one who has been made a Kshatriya by giving him the responsibility of protecting the country is also filling his pockets by doing business. There are 50 fidayeen attacks in Pakistan throughout the year but no strong action is ever taken because these are a different matter, so it does not matter.
Please note that Pakistan was demanded so that our people, fanatics of the same ideology, could live together. On the other hand, in India, 100 types of people are found fighting 70 types of wars throughout the year. This time too it seemed that there would be internal strife in the country but no, as soon as the first sign of trouble was seen, we all united. Be it the opposition, Muslims, Sikhs or Jains, all are rock solid with the country at their own level. Pakistan becomes a suicide bomber in the name of Islam, having an Islamic ideology. It is a different matter that now many provinces in Pakistan are fighting internally due to discontent and these may break into pieces of Pakistan in the near future. The important thing is that the pieces separated from Pakistan should not become the area of domination of America, Britain or China!
This Operation Sindoor is a lesson for our country as well. Those in India who dream of destroying each other with Islamic fundamentalist thinking should first see the condition of our neighbours Pakistan and Bangladesh and how fundamentalism has ruined them. Because whether it is defence or education, infrastructure or building relations with foreign countries, all this is not achieved by fundamentalist mentality but by the thinking of live and let live. It is achieved by respecting each other’s thinking, by considering every citizen of our country as our own even after a million wars. Because we are Indians first, we have the pride of this soil in our veins, our DNA is Indian.
This is the reason why these Islamic terrorists never dared to attack the USA again. This is the reason why Israel , surrounded from 7 sides , prevails over all its enemies. This is the reason why even after India’s befitting reply, no third party is trying to jump in between.
After all, Daniel Pearl’s wife must have felt relieved after the death of Sheikh, Abdul Rauf Azhar and other terrorists!– Arun Pradhan (Image courtesy Google)
