Is Swapping Terrorists for Hostages an Encouragement to Plane-Hijackers?

Hi i am vikram singh shekhawat, and i would like to initiate this group discussion and i am not in support of terrorist exchange with the hostages, due to our soft policies towards these kind of activities, its now like a tradition in our country.

We must be harsh like russians as they don't surrender so easily, and even the swapping of terrorists has increased the number of hijackings considerably as it is the easiest way to get through their demands.

I thinks the kind of policy which India has adopted againt terrorism and terrorist is not working properly. India needs quick judgement and hang all terrorists as sonn as they are found guilty not like kasab's case. He is still enjoying even after killing hundred's of innocents. If no terrorists are in custody then the question of swapping does'nt arise. India needs to change thier policies, only then after we can hope of decrease in such activities.

Hi I'm vishal and I totally agree with this that swapping terrorists in exchange wid hostages gives rise in plane-hijacking, example-if some terrorist hijacks a plane carrying 200 passengers and for a person who is currently in jail to be released, then you can understand from this that how important is that person to the terrorists. When taht terrorist is released he can also be a major part of another 9/11 or 26/11 attack. If its that much easy for terrorists to retain such a dangerous person then its definately goona increase their confidence and encourage them to hijack plane. Only solution to this is tht terrorists shud not be released easily, try to retain hostages by attacking them by building commando teams. By doing this, they will think many times before doing any such activity.

In hostage situations, another angle to approach the situation is to use the U.S strategy of "We do not negotiate with terrorists"
However in most cases, this situation cannot be applied in most situations as there is always a human life at stake.
So it always boils down to the question "Is one life worth another?" If we exchange a terrorist for a hostage, that free terrorist could end up killing more people. If we do not exchange the terrorist for a hostage, the hostage could lose his/her life. So it's a very difficult decision to make, after all, this situation is very similar to playing god!

Nope.. I dont think that encourages terrorists to do such things and even if it happens, still no one has right to play with other's life. If swapping terrorists can save life of hostages then it should be done. And i totally disagree with the fact that a terrorist after being released can kill more people.

I totaly agree with the fact that Swapping Terrorists for Hostages an Encouragement to Plane-Hijackers the reason is that our government cannot take the risk of so many lives just because of 1 terrorist its a big thing to them.Rather they can negotiate with the terrorists about it and should any how get them to now that wat they are doing is wrong or they can be trapped in an circumstances so that they definitely have to work according to the government,this need proper planning and should be dealt with great shrewdness.

Well i surely think that swapping Terrorists for Hostages is an Encouragement to Plane-Hijackers so the only way we can stop this is first and formost prompt action must be taken to execute these terrorist unlike Kasab who is enjoyin our hindu tradition of "Atithi devo bhava". If immediate action is taken against these terrorist and give them capital punishment these terrorist will have nothing to swap. Secondly tight security should be maintained not only in the ground but also in the air so that such activities cannot take place

yes i universly agree with saurav agarwal, becausy we dont have strict lows and only for this lacking terrorists taking the adevantage. if we would have punished them on the spot they would have not done it. if some one comes under the doc and found gulty we should cut their all boddy parts and the person who is victim he should struggle fore death and again people who are involved in such groups they will not dear. and ther might be such happnings.

I don't think anybody ever wants to take a stake in killing people. There is no way we can save the hostages once they are hijacked. The only way doing this is to kill a terrorist as soon as he is used to get some information. By this there may not be any activity of hijacking, but no doubt a new issue arises.

I don't quiet agree with suman. The reason why ajmal kasab was taken and reatined in the cusotdy for so long because pakistan wants proof that terrorism is evolving form their soil. If terrorists are hanged to death as soon as they are caught then India will not be able to accumulate much evidence against pakistan. And until that these high jacking issues will keep popping up because India has not been able to put sufficient amount of pressure on pakistan in the international arena.