Justice & Law Quote by Manmohan Singh

“International unity and resolve” is doing double duty here: it’s a moral summons and a diplomatic bargaining chip. Manmohan Singh frames terrorism as a “global scourge,” a phrase that deliberately strips the phenomenon of political specificity. No grievances, no local histories, no messy distinctions between militancy, insurgency, and state violence - just contamination. That move matters because it narrows the space for equivocation. If terrorism is a scourge, then tolerance isn’t merely misguided; it’s unsanitary.

The key ambition is in the pivot from cooperation to codification: “bring about an international law of zero tolerance.” Singh isn’t only asking for sympathy after an attack; he’s pressing for a rule-based order that binds everyone, including countries accused of sheltering or selectively excusing militants. “Zero tolerance” reads like domestic crime policy, but in this context it’s strategic: it challenges the international system’s habit of condemning terrorism in general while litigating it in particular. Singh is calling out, politely, the geopolitical loophole where “your terrorists” and “our freedom fighters” become interchangeable based on alliances.

As a statesman, Singh chooses clean, institutional language over vengeance. The subtext is pressure without provocation: India positioning itself as a responsible democracy demanding collective enforcement, not unilateral retaliation. It’s a bid to convert outrage into infrastructure - norms, treaties, compliance - because outrage fades, but law, ideally, outlasts the news cycle.