Operation SIndoor brings justice to the family of US journalist Daniel Pearl

Daniel Pearl

India's targeted military strike, "Operation Sindoor," was launched in response to the brutal Pahalgam terror attack in which 26 civilians were murdered Islamic terrorists. The operation achieved an unexpected but significant outcome: delivering long-overdue justice to the family of American journalist Daniel Pearl, who was brutally murdered in Pakistan in 2002. 

On May 7, one of the nine terrorist targets destroyed was a facility in Bahawalpur, a known stronghold of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM), a terrorist group led by Masood Azhar. JeM is responsible for multiple attacks in India, including the 2001 Parliament attack and the 2019 Pulwama bombing.

Daniel Pearl, the South Asia bureau chief for The Wall Street Journal and a Jew, was kidnapped in Karachi while investigating links between Pakistan’s intelligence agencies and terrorists. A month later, a horrifying video showed his beheading. Despite worldwide outrage, those responsible faced no consequences, protected by terrorist groups and their supporters in Pakistan.

Reports, including from the Bharatiya Janata Party, claimed that Abdul Rauf Azhar, Masood Azhar’s brother, was killed in the strike. Abdul Rauf’s involvement in the IC-814 hijacking led to the release of Omar Saeed Sheikh, who later kidnapped and murdered Pearl.

Pearl’s colleague, Indian-American journalist Asra Nomani, highlighted the connection between Bahawalpur and Pearl’s death. She wrote on X: "My friend, WSJ reporter Danny Pearl, went to Bahawalpur in December 2001 with a notebook and a pen. Gen. Pervez Musharraf had just promised he was shutting down Pakistan’s militant groups after a strike by Pakistan’s terrorists against the Parliament in India, and Danny reported on the militant offices in Bahawalpur. He literally knocked on their doors.

Dear Dr.@yudapearl, this story is a window into Danny’s reporting enterprise. And because people will wonder: Danny was no cowboy. This was a calculated low-risk reporting trip because no journalist had been targeted for kidnapping in Pakistan. Around that time, Danny sent me an email: ‘I’m anxious to go to Afghanistan, but I’m not anxious to die.’"

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Named after the vermilion worn by married Indian women, Operation Sindoor carries deep symbolic meaning, reflecting the lives lost in the April 22 Pahalgam attack. By targeting those who supported terrorists responsible for attacks not only in India but worldwide, the operation may have finally brought closure to a tragic chapter that began with Pearl’s death over twenty years ago.

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India's Victory, Islam's Loss

The votes are in and Narendra Modi, of the Bharariya Janata Party is the new Prime Minister of India. Modi won in a landslide over the Congress Party, which had been in the center of Indian politics since the country's independence from Britain in 1947.

And the one group of people India can thank for the victory are the Islamic jihadist/terrorists.

Hassanal Bolkia smiling

While Hollywood awoke from its coma a few days ago and boycotted the Beverly Hills Hotel, when Brunei's leader, Sultan Hassanal Bolkia set the country's clocks back 1400 by re-implementing sharia law, Modi has known all along what the jihadists in India intend to do with his country.

If you don't know what sharia law is (and it's often capitalized by those who respect it), you probably read Time, or The New York Times, or only watch mainstream television. Most people in the know, which really means people who aren't liberal, are aware of the archaic, demonic, misogynistic, anti-Semitic, cruel, and intolerance of Islam. Sharia is its constitution--it allows the killing of those who leave the religion for one less violent or none at all; it punishes gays by hanging from a "high place;" it demeans women by taking away most of their rights; and it thoroughly enjoys be-headings, stonings, burning of individuals, and killing Jews for being Jewish.

But Hollywood seems to just be finding out about sharia. When they learned Bolkia re-implemented sharia and owns the Beverly Hills Hotel, they grabbed their signs and self-righteous indignation, and performed protest rallies. There was Jay Leno with time on his hands, Ellen DeGeneres, and Richard Bronson out there in protest. 

Where was the left when Ayaan Hirsi-Ali was banned from Brandeis? Why were they mute about the 50 boys who were burned to death by Boko Haram, but finally woke up when 276 school girls were kidnapped? 

But armed with their trusty hashtags and scowling faces, they are fighting the good virtual fight. I'm sure the jihadists of Boko Haram are peeing in their lungies, quaking in fear that Michelle Obama will force them to read her sign while Hillary tells her to be cool, "they aren't really terrorists."

India has the advantage over the US right now. They know who the enemy is and they refuse to allow them to put their foot in the door and work their way into their government. Unlike Obama, they don't invite them to their Parliament House.

In my latest novel, a New York reporter is taken hostage by terrorists. If POTUS refuses to release 3 Gitmo jihadists, the reporter will die in 24 hours—they will behead him and show it on the Internet. There is only one way out but the clock is ticking . . .

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