India’s Blame Game Revisited
By Mamoona Kazmi • Nov 25th, 2009 • Category: Politics • 4 CommentsRecently, India’s Home Minister Chidambaram gave a statement that India would retaliate strongly to Pakistan-backed terrorism. He said, “If terrorists and militants from Pakistan try to carry out any attacks in India, they will not only be defeated but will be retaliated very strongly”. He said he has been warning Pakistan not to play with India and that the Mumbai attacks should be the “last game”. Contrary to the statement of Indian Home Minister, it is the Indian soil which is being continuously used for subversive activities against neighbouring countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and China etc. No wonder New Delhi is facing some serious security threats but from within. These problems and threats are of absolutely indigenous nature. India is facing Naxal menace, which according to the Indian Prime Minister is the biggest threat to country’s security. Similarly, the turmoil in the Northeastern states is also a result of Indian Governments’ inability to address their grievances. India is also facing communal violence perpetrated by Hindu extremists, having patronage of Indian government. The demolition of Babri Mosque, Gujarat pogrom and burning of Samjhota Express are few examples in which Hindu extremists butchered Muslims with complete impunity.
Being the traditional enemy, India always tried to create chaos in Pakistan and RAW performs this duty very efficiently. Since its inception, RAW tried in one way or the other to destabilize Pakistan. After East Pakistan started demanding autonomy from 1969 onwards, RAW extended open and full cooperation to the movement leading to the dismemberment of Pakistan and creation of Bangladesh. In fact, this was more a war between India and Pakistan rather than the movement of autonomy. After the separation of East Pakistan and the creation of Bangladesh, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi delivered a speech at New Delhi Ground in which she mocked the Two Nations Theory by saying, “Today ‘WE’ have taken the revenge of the one thousand years’ slavery and the birth of Bangladesh is the death of Two Nations Theory.”
India is engaged in creating disturbance in Pakistan. It currently has an extensive diplomatic presence in Afghanistan. It includes the Indian embassy in Kabul and four consulates in Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat. These Indian diplomatic missions serve as launching pads for undertaking covert operations against Pakistan from Afghan soil. Particularly, the Indian consulates in Kandahar and Jalalabad and their embassy in Kabul are used for clandestine activities inside Pakistan in general and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Baluchistan in particular. Indian consulates in Afghanistan are printing fake Pakistani currency, using it to recruit poverty-stricken Afghans to carry out acts of sabotage and terrorism on Pakistani territory. A senior official in Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said that, “Pakistan very much wants a stable Afghanistan, because they are next to us, and any instability up there will leak into Pakistan but as for the Indians, we told Afghanistan that the only purpose of opening those consulates is cross border terrorism into Pakistan”. India is using Afghanistan as the launching base for ‘proxy war’ and is constantly encouraging and promoting activities detrimental to Pakistan.
India is continuously interfering into the internal affairs of Bangladesh. She is supporting the Chakma refugees of Bangladesh in order to create unrest in that country. Her expansionist design intends to merge the whole Bangladesh into Indian Territory. For this purpose India is supporting many separatist groups and fifth columnists for covert and overt operations. Tracts of Bangladeshi territories are in forced possession of India. She presently occupies 110 enclaves of Bangladesh. Human Rights Congress of Bangladeshi Minorities (HRCBM), a Hindu organization is creating communal violence in Bangladesh. It is facilitating the settlement of Hindus in border districts of the country in order to facilitate Indian annexation of border territory of Bangladesh. The area identified is about 30% border territory of Bangladesh and has been named a Bango Bhumi to be annexed with India. Economic growth of Bangladesh has been hampered due to excessive penetration of Indian smuggled goods into the markets of Bangladesh. Indian intelligence agencies have also flooded Bangladesh with fake paper money to ruin its economy.
Apart from Pakistan and Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka are also the victims of RAW’s wicked designs. India engineered internal strife and conflicts in Nepal through RAW to destabilize the successive legitimate governments and prop up puppet regimes which would be more amenable to Indian machinations. India is creating problems in Terai area through armed groups who are now openly talking of a separate Madhesi State. A regional party named Terai Madhesh Loktantsrik Party (TMLP) has been launched in Terai area. Reportedly, the party is fully backed by India. India is critical of the working of United Nations Mission (UNMN) in Nepal, which is working in Nepal since January 2007 to monitor the cease fire between Army and Maoists. UNMN has been able to find out Indian involvement into the internal affairs of Nepal.
In Sri Lanka RAW created and supported Tamil Tigers. On the Mukti Bahini model, RAW built up terrorist training camps in Tamil Nadu for a number of Tamil terrorist organizations. The militants trained in India sidelined the moderate Tamils and started demanding complete independence. The Indian diplomat G. Parathasarathy admitted supporting terrorism in Sri Lanka. “We have learnt our lesson” for backing the terrorist and that “India paid it price for backing the LTTE“. The former Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, J.N. Dixit even accused RAW of having given Rs. five crore to the LTTE.
Indian interference in China is stimulated by different factors. First, its growing economy is becoming a challenge for India. India wants to damage foreign trade of China and for this purpose it is maligning China internationally as a violator of human rights. Secondly, India never took China as a friend; in 1998 it conducted nuclear tests and claimed that its nuclear programme was not Pakistan but China centric. India at the moment is illegally capturing 90,000 sq km area of China. Similarly, both Indian media and intelligentsia are claiming Indian right over Tibet by saying that it is a part of Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh. India is supporting Dalai clique, which is demanding the separation of Tibet from China. India has provided political asylum to Dalai Lama, political and spiritual leader of Tibetans, in 1959 and allowed him to run a Tibetan government in exile in Dharamshala, Himachal Pradesh. Dalai Lama once said, “We regard India as a guru and consider ourselves disciples of India”.
India, which is in habit of blaming others for all its wrongs most of the time forgets that it has many elements on its soil which are creating terrorism. In most of the subversive activities on Indian soil the Hindu extremist groups are involved. They executed such activities sometimes to have an excuse to start backlash against Muslims and sometimes to inflict harm upon Muslims and damage to their properties and belongings. Despite knowing the involvement of Hindu fanatics in most terrorist acts the Indian government is in habit of blaming Lashkar-i-Taiba, Jaish-e-Muhammad, Indian Muslims and Pakistan for every subversive activity. This is just like deliberately closing ones eyes and ignoring the facts. There are several incidents in which the Indian government readily put the blame on Indian Muslims and Pakistan such as Sabarmati Express incident, Malegaon Blasts and Samjhota Express explosion. It was, however, cleared afterwards that Hindu extremist groups have had a hand in all these events as the style of execution was much similar. In its well known way, India is double crossing its neighbours and leaving no stone unturned to expand beyond its territory. In order to understand the Indian political objectives one has to recall childhood story of the wolf and the lamb. Just like wolf, India on the basis of lame-excuses and absurd reasons trying to eat up the small neighbouring states. After all this is the only way a Greater India can emerge on the map of the world.
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If you play the game of USA and allow blackwater to use your territory just like you did SEATO/CENTO games, it will only add to your woes.Leave the Wahabies of Saudi arabia and come back to ancient islam propagated by traders who interacted with Prophet Mohamed (PUBH)personally.
India is the biggest threat to our national security!
First, Dear Johann, please don’t instigate sectarian conflicts between Muslims. Please forget it who is wahabi or sunni. First think we are muslims and others are also muslims. Plz think about our nation/ country on top priority.
You didn’t understand the strategies of our enemies. They all are united even their religions are different with each others but unfortunately our religion are same but we have many differences and instigating these differences.
India is making effort to destabalize Pakistan with the help of U.S and Israel. Pakistan is also playing its own strategy based on national interest but our position is defending. Pakistan is under attack from three sides.
Now, India and U.S are playing game in insurgency of Balochistan. They have mainly two objectives:
1) Balance the presence of China in Balochistan and stop its access to warm water at Gawadar port.
2) Supporting Balochis for covert operation in Iran and provide assistance to Balochis leader following conspiracy theory against Pakistan.
The enemies also want to break Pak-Iran Bilateral Relations by covert operation through Balochistan of Pakistan.
The Pakistani state as a suicide bomber
Venkatesan Vembu
Wednesday, November 25, 2009 0:33 IST
A year ago tomorrow, as no one in India needs reminding, Urban Jihad set sail from hostile shores, came aground in Mumbai, flickered live on our TV screens, and purveyed death across the city. Recovering from the monstrous invasion, a wounded and incensed India that had had enough of Pakistan-sponsored terrorism seriously contemplated letting rip against terrorist targets in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. But following entreaties to hold back in the interests of not diverting attention and military resources away from the larger goal of targeting jihadi forces in Afghanistan, it exercised tremendous restraint.
A year later, look at where Pakistan stands. It has failed to bring the Mumbai terrorist masterminds to book, but the karmic law of jihadi sponsorship has recoiled on it and not a day passes by without a lethal suicide bombing or terrorist attack in its cities. US drone aircraft routinely target militants inside Pakistan, and occasionally claim civilian lives in ‘friendly fire’ incidents. Pakistani nationals’ complicity in terrorism around the world is being unmasked with disturbing frequency. Pakistan stands exposed as the nearest thing to a ‘jihadi suicide-bomber state’ with a fanatical finger on the nuclear button.Within Pakistan, even among the moderate intelligentsia, there is little evidence of an acknowledgement of the grave risk of implosion that the failed state faces. Much less is there evidence of an honest attempt at introspection over Pakistani state complicity, over the decades, in the country’s descent into the hellish world of jihadi terrorism. The tendency instead has been to bizarrely blame the daily dose of recent terror on the Israeli Mossad, the Indian RAW and the American CIA — in fact, just about anyone other than itself.
Such infinite capacity to look away from the unflattering mirror of history and delude oneself isn’t, of course, the sole preserve of Pakistani players. US interlocutors stand guilty of it every time they draw specious connections, as US envoy on Af-Pak affairs Richard Holbrooke does, between mindless jihadism in Pakistan and the Kashmir issue. It’s evidently a perspective that Barack Obama shares, but it is fundamentally flawed. India has for years faced down Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in Kashmir, which the US ignored at its own (subsequent) peril. To suggest that India should talk Kashmir with an unrepentantly terror-exporting Pakistan is to yield unconditionally to the twisted mentality of the suicide bomber.
Obama’s newest effort — to initiate indirect talks with a section of the Taliban in Afghanistan in an effort to end the stalemate — amounts to a similar yielding to Pakistan’s jihadi blackmail tactics. Much of the violence against NATO troops in Afghanistan bears the signature of Pakistani agencies and of the Taliban fighters they support. US officials aren’t unaware of this, and Pakistan’s own experience of negotiating with the ‘good Taliban’ in the Swat Valley earlier this year is a shining example of the folly of such a course. Yet the incredibly naïve search for ‘good Taliban’ persists.
Every US president goes through a ‘learning curve’ on the job, at the end of which the lessons of history are brought home forcefully to them. Bill Clinton too started off with an interventionist agenda on Kashmir, but by the time of the Kargil war of 1999, he’d learnt a lot about Pakistani perfidy. It was widely believed that given Obama’s intellectual calibre and his keen understanding of history, he wouldn’t need to go through this process, but he evidently believes that, somehow, this time it will be different.
For India, all this is more than a little bothersome, but as was revealed following the Mumbai attack last year, there is some merit in exercising restraint rather than rush into war. One of two things will then happen: wisdom will eventually dawn in the White House or the ’suicide bomber state’ will implode further.