Surely nobody would support such a policy these days, and rightly so (especially in the case of India, which has a Muslim president and a very large and peaceful Muslim population). But it’s nonetheless one of the few cards one could play that would provide some hold over the terrorists, some way of checking them at the gate, telling them they do have something to lose after all.

Or would it? I seem to recall we’ve tried a whole lot of these “creative” solutions