Modi living up to his sullied reputation
Asif
Haroon Raja
Hindu
bigot Narendra Modi, well known for his acute animus towards Indian Muslims and
Pakistan and his passion for Hindutva was elected as the PM of India in June
2014 with a heavy mandate. He was eulogized and lionized by Indian media duly
backed by western media and all his past sins were pushed under the rug. He was
projected as a go-getter and an economic wizard who would once again make India
shining and a world power. There were some in Pakistan who went overboard
applauding him and saw everything good in him. They went to the extent of
saying that he would prove to be the harbinger of peace between the two
archrivals since his and Nawaz’s chemistry was in sync and both would give
preference to economy over conflict. They forgot about his background, his
brought up and mindset which he displayed during his 13 years rule in Gujarat
State. Besides the 2002 pogrom, he assiduously promoted Hindutva in his State.
Not
only he was groomed by infamous RSS to wear the crown, he was backed by
corporate sector and senior officers of Indian armed forces and many joined his
party. He has been chosen with a specific Pakistan driven agenda since Pakistan
is in the eye of the storm and is the square peg in round hole which doesn’t
fit into the security calculus of US, Israel and India.
Modi’s
performance has been exactly what had been predicted. Unlike Nawaz’s signals of
friendship, right from the time of his coronation ceremony, Modi’s acts towards
Pakistan have been offensive in nature. He is on record having stated that he
will cause ‘pain’ to Pakistan. Scheduled meeting of foreign secretaries to resume
dialogue was abruptly and haughtily cancelled on the plea that Pakistan’s High
Commissioner in Delhi had hurt the sensitivities of Indians by meeting a
Hurriyat leader. Highlighting unresolved Kashmir issue in the UN by Nawaz irked
Modi. Soon after, temperature along the LoC was heated up, which still
persists. For the first time, Working Boundary in Sialkot Sector has been
brashly brought under intense fire causing lot of human casualties and damage
to property and forcing locals to shift to safer places.
Like most high profile terror attacks
in Pakistan, RAW was certainly behind suicide attack on Wagah check post in
November 2014 where spectators were the target. Gruesome attack on Army Public
School in Peshawar was again the doing of RAW since runaway Fazlullah and Wali
Muhammad (alias Omar Khalid Khurasani) take dictation from RAW and Afghan
Intelligence. Mobile phone conversation between the seven-member kill-team and
mastermind in Kunar who was connected with Indian Embassy in Kabul was
intercepted by ISI and the whole script was taken along by Gen Raheel Sharif
and DG ISI and presented to authorities in Kabul as a solid proof of
RAW-Fazlullah nexus.
16th December was chosen
with a purpose since it had great significance for India. 43 years ago, India
had brutally sliced Pakistan into two. Apart from martyring 34 teenagers and
injuring 125, two lady teachers were burnt to death in front of the students by
the terrorists. Resort to burning of women is handiwork of Hindus who worship
fire, resort to Satti, carryout marriage ritual around fire, feel no hesitation
in throwing children into fire.
Firing
upon two Punjab Rangers soldiers after inviting them for a flag meeting and
then trying to carry away the injured who later succumbed to injuries was a
calculated scheme to prepare a case that Pak security forces were involved in
cross border terrorism in Kashmir. A Pakistani fishing boat in high seas was
dubbed as a terror boat. Indian xenophobia was timed with
Operation Zarb-e-Azb, and it was not difficult to decipher that Pak Army’s
success in uprooting the last bastion of TTP in North Waziristan (NW) is not to
the liking of India and she seems desperate to
disrupt the progress of military operation and discredit Pak Army.
India
refuses to get out of Mumbai drama and insists that it had been planned by
terrorists in Pakistan and wants them to be punished. This is in spite of the
fact that India has been unable to produce evidence to corroborate her
allegations and also the hard fact that senior officials of Manmohan regime had
revealed that it was an in-house false flag operation. Bhagwan worshipping and
Marhatti speaking Ajmal Kasab was quietly hanged inside the prison courtyard
without anyone else meeting him. Indian Court sentenced him to death without
conclusive evidence merely to cool down the tempers of Hindus. Same excuse was
given after hanging Kashmiri Afzal Guru, falsely implicated in attack on Indian
Parliament in December 2001.
Extraordinary
success of Operation Zarb-e-Azb in dismantling RAW trained TTP terrorist
network in NW-Tirah/Bara as well as Haqqani and Hafiz Gul Bahadur networks,
planned return of IDPs to NW next month, lifting of moratorium on hanging and
commencement of hangings of convicts, establishment of military courts to
carryout speedy trials of terrorists, Pakistani
nation backing the Army to defeat and root out terrorism, withdrawal of
ISAF from Afghanistan without achieving any objective and leaving behind a huge
mess, changed perceptions of Ashraf Ghani led regime in Kabul towards Pakistan
and growing Pak-Afghan military/intelligence cooperation to jointly tackle
terrorism, emergent trust of the US in Pakistan’s civil and military
leadership, growth of Pak-China strategic cooperation in building economic
corridor/Gawadar and battling energy crisis, China, duly encouraged by USA,
playing a pro-active role in Afghanistan, Pakistan helping China’s Envoy
to meet Afghan Taliban delegation in Peshawar and then facilitating a meeting
in Beijing, Pak-Russia defence deal and latter’s decision to sell combat
helicopters to Pakistan, and last but not least sudden demise of sit-ins are
some of the recent developments which are repugnant for India.
Ongoing
escalation of tension along the LoC and working boundary in Sialkot sector,
sudden rise of terror activities in Balochistan (three in this month so far)
and false flag operations are frantic attempts by baffled India to distract the
attention of Pakistan government and Army towards eastern border. All her efforts
to snare Pakistan seems to be failing and it looks like that India is falling
into the pit she had dug for Pakistan.
Song
of terrorism directed against Pakistan which was continuously sung in chorus by
Indo-US-Afghan grouping for many years thrilled India the most. So was the ‘do
more’ mantra. Modi wants to reinvent the song of Pak-bashing. Continuation of war on terror suits India the most since
she can strike any sensitive target through TTP militants and also keep
one-thirds of Pak Army embroiled in guerrilla war. Modi’s team was assiduously
working to cook up a drama that could bring tears in the eyes of Obama during
his forthcoming visit to India. India had succeeded in making Bill Clinton
tearful in March 2000 on an engineered Chittisinghpura massacre in occupied
Kashmir and Obama was made grief-stricken on his last visit to India in November
2010 over the concocted Mumbai drama.
However, to the utter frustration of India, her strategic partners
USA and Afghanistan are no more interested in playing the Indian dirty game
against Pakistan because of their compulsions. John Kerry on his recent visit to Delhi confronted
Indian leadership with concrete evidence of RAW-Fazlullah connection and asked
Modi to tame Indian National Security Adviser Ajit Doval who had audaciously
confessed using TTP terrorists to destabilize Pakistan from Afghan soil. The
evidence which Kerry carried had been provided to the US by Gen Raheel on his
last visit to Washington.
Gen
Raheel had been forthright in reminding the US Generals and policy makers that
having carried out across the board operation in NW, it was now the turn of the
US to reciprocate by ‘doing more’ and showing results. He reminded them of the
presence of Baloch rebel leaders based in Washington promoting separatism in
Balochistan. He stopped saying that otherwise he will be compelled to say that
“either the US is complicit or is inefficient’. Kerry is not the first American
official to reveal India’s clandestine operations against Pakistan. Earlier on,
Gen McChrystal and Chuck Hegel had also accused India of exporting terrorism to
Pakistan.
Operation
in Kunar by ANA against Fazlullah group and declaration of Fazlullah as a
global terrorist by the US are other bombshells fallen on India. Yet another
upsetting development is Gen Raheel’s meetings with top British civil/military
leaders in London and he pressing them to stop foreign paid fugitives Harbyar
Marri and Sulaiman Khan from fuelling terrorism in Balochistan and also help in
reining in Brahamdagh Bugti in Geneva. They were also reminded of the UK based
Hizbul Tahrir linked with al-Qaeda and Da’esh, which has its tentacles in
Pakistan as well.
Mercifully, baleful activities of
India have not deterred Pakistan from its course of defeating terrorism. It has
given a befitting reply to India’s aggressive posturing in Kashmir and has
pooh-poohed her usual black mailing/coercive tactics. It is however, very
important to fully expose the ugly face of India and to make all out efforts to
get her subversive activities from Afghan soil closed. In this regard, efforts
made by Gen Raheel and Lt Gen Rizwan should be followed up aggressively at the
foreign office, diplomatic and media levels as well. The world community must
be asked to hold India accountable for playing a lead role in fomenting
terrorism in the region, killing well over 50,000 and injuring 200,000
Pakistanis, wanton destruction of property and strategic assets like PC-3 Orion
and AWACs and made to pay the price for inflicting tens of thousands cuts on
the body of Pakistan. It is high time to declare RAW a rogue outfit and to
collar it.
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