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Myths and Realities
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Table of Contents
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Conspiracies against neighbours Destabilizing Pakistan RAWs covert war against Pakistan Chaos in Balochistan Indias Pakistan Phobia! Indian propaganda campaign Our eternal enemy
63. Atrocities on the Kashmiris 64. The national hero of Occupied Kashmir 65. Occupation of Siachen
Preface
India: Myths or Realities The Real Face of India is an attempt to dig out the hidden agenda of the so-called secular India. Riaz Ahmad Chaudhry has tried to reveal the brutality of India against all the Indian minorities mainly Muslims, Christians and Sikhs. At least 270 million Muslims (Indias biggest minority) seem to be more depressed than the other minorities. 5000 Muslims were killed in Gujrat state only and over 100,000 Kashmiri Muslims have been killed so far in the Held Jammu & Kashmir. Other minorities are also facing similar threats. Hundreds of thousands of Christians had been killed during last 62 years and 250,000 Sikhs had been killed after Golden Temple massacre of 1984. Recently 40,000 Christians were deprived of their free living in Orissa. Hindu extremists burnt their houses and forced them to migrate to other areas. Hence the real problem, which the author has attempted to highlight, is that 1700,000 Hindu extremists are actively involved in killing of minorities across India. Famous progressive Indian activist and founder of socio-political group ANHAD in her interview not only revealed atrocities she herself witnessed against Indian Muslims in Gujrat but also mentioned presence of 100,000 RSS schools which are continuously producing Hindu Taliban. Another problem that this book underlines is that Hindu extremists not only kill the minorities but also burn their houses, shops and work places. Many mosques, churches and temples had been destroyed including the demolition of Babri mosque and Golden Temple. The caste system is strongly practiced in India due to which 20,000,000 untouchables (Dalits) are passing their lives in miserable conditions. On the other hand, Indian economy had been progressing as fast as Chinese and other developed states. Its Information Technology (IT) industry, motors, universities, shopping centres, airports, and sea ports even its media industry is on the way to speedy expansion. Another quality of the writer is that he explained every issue with facts and figures that will give the reader a sense of authenticity. Without any bias, Riaz Ahmad Chaudhry has tried to highlight both the dark and bright sides of the Indian society. The author has expertly woven various personal accounts, news sources and scholarly sources into a cohesive and compelling manner. Most prominently the author warns the South Asian states, especially Pakistan, to keep an eye on Indias hegemonic moves. India wants to rule in Asia and for that purpose the country has been spending billions of dollars on its military build-up. Its intelligence services are aggressively setting up Indian bases in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, Held Jammu & Kashmir for fuelling violence in the neighbouring countries. It has almost become a fashion to slander our own beloved homeland Pakistan and to talk about the merits of enemy countries. There is a trend in our intellectual and liberal circles to appreciate everything about India, be it its military power or film industry or other social traits. It can be encouraging if it is done in good faith to 9
for competition or learning and to enhance our capacity and capabilities. But if it is meant to degrade our own nation and to keep us in a state of fear by magnifying the paper tiger, then it is an obvious act of suicide. Many enlightened and progressive scholars are appearing to be involved in this sort of adventure. They use media as weapon for this so-called noble cause. They get privileges and benefits for the service they render by slandering their own nation and praising the others. Unfortunately our young minds are brought up at a time when India has conquered their minds through its media propaganda. Majority of them think that whatever is shown to them on TV and film screen is real and conveys the real side of India. According to this image India is the ambassador of peace and a paradise on earth. Hence they look impressed and influenced by this image. In reality facts and the real face of India tell a different story. As Ghalib says: the stars are not what they appear; these acrobats swindle openly To unveil the real face of India and to make the youth aware of the real facts are acts nothing less than a service to our nation. Like many other patriotic scholars, Riaz Ahmad Chaudhry has elaborated his analyses with the help of necessary statistics and information. His analyses are a successful and effective effort to make the readers understand his view point with the help of logic and historical events. His columns and articles are often published in many national and regional newspapers. Even in his old age he appears to be more active than our youth. He has a deep love and reverence for Islam. Many secrets of the politics, government and journalism, from the inception of the country till today, remain as memoirs in his mind. A long experience and observations have given weight to whatever he says or writes. Therefore, we as readers are never disappointed; rather his writings have deepened our love for Pakistan. I hope that his book India: Myths or Realities - The Real Face of India will be helpful in creating a new passion in our hearts about our country. May Allah grant him more courage, strength and health! Dr. Ahsan Akhtar Naz Director, Institute of Communications University of the Punjab, Lahore May 2010 Studies,
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Writers Note
In my 55-years long association in the field of Journalism, I have been fortunate to have witnessed first-hand numerous important historic, religious, social and political events and come across, observed and have been acquainted with many historical personalities as well. My accounts, be those in the shape of articles and columns, or in the shape of books like these, all reflect the rich and fortunate experiences of my professional life. While I do hope to pen down detailed memoirs spanning over my professional experiences soon as and when Almighty Allah grants me the strength and time, the current account India: Myths and Realities is not just a book but an honest commentary on what I have observed, read and perceived in all these years through my direct interaction with hundreds of people, leaders and politicians from all sections of the Indian society. The book is also a collection of various newspaper articles, reports and stories relevant to the subject that I have taken the liberty of adding to the collection of my own columns. This book is not an attempt to demonise or slander India but present an objective and clear picture. This book captures and reflects feelings of all true Pakistanis and millions of Muslims living in India who feel marginalized, threatened and constantly harassed by the successive Indian governments and Hindu fanatics. It also exposes false claims of India for being the largest democracy and secular country of the world. I hope the book will help the readers to understand, question and debate the reality of all that India stands for in its true state. The purpose of this book is to initiate a debate on issues that are facing Muslims in India, Pakistan and all other South Asian neighbours of this otherwise an orthodox Akhand Bharat, an imperialist state. I hope my humble effort will contribute in taking this debate forward. I thank all those people who have helped me in collecting information, material, editing the script and improving the text wherever needed. I am personally grateful to Dr. Safdar Mahmood, former Secretary Education and Information, Government of Pakistan; Mr. Naseem Ahmed, Former Chief Editor of The Pakistan Times; Mr. Irfan Mufti; Mr. Imran Ghani, Director General Quaid-e-Azam Library, Lahore; Mr. Aleem Chaudhary, Resident Director and Editor of daily Khabrain Multan and Mr. Islam Hyder, former Director General Public Relations, Punjab who deserve my special gratitude for their time, valuable guidance and suggestions. Riaz Ahmed Chaudhry Lahore, July 2010
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Jainism remained confined to small communities, mostly among traders. It never became a popular faith. However, it left its impression on Hindu customs and due to Jainism meat eating is prohibited in Hinduism. Both Buddhism and Jainism preached peace and tolerance. However, Hindus forced the followers of Buddhism to shift towards East Asia including Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Japan and China, as a result the Buddhists became a minority in India where they once ruled.
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belonging to different other religions and faiths in India. Freedom movements are working in seven north-eastern states of India, and the freedom fighters attack on Indian army and commit terrorist attacks in different parts of India. The Indian government is not willing to give them independence, and wants to keep them in perpetual slavery and control like they have done with Kashmiris. Perhaps, India is the only country in the world which is a victim of hypocrisy of its own rulers. On one hand, it preaches and claims fundamental freedoms, democracy and equality for its citizens, but on the other hand, in some parts of India dozens of individuals commit suicide due to hunger and deprivation. In the same way there is a minority killing riot in every part of India. Almost daily dozens of people are killed by state terrorism and aggression from fanatics.
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Partition of India
The first brick of Hindu-Muslim antagonism was laid when Muhammad Bin Qasim raised the banner of Islam in Sindh in 712 AD and tens of thousands of lower caste Hindus and Buddhists suffering under the tyrannical rule of Raja Dahir, embraced Islam. Throughout the 1000 year rule of India by the Muslims, Hindu cultural values and religious sentiments were respected and preserved. Benevolence of Muslim rulers of India and their patronage to high caste Hindus resulted in failure to assimilate Hinduism into the fold of Islam. This can be gauged from the fact that at the time of partition of India, Muslim population in the Indian subcontinent was only 22%. Hindus never reconciled to any meaningful integration with generous Muslim culture and population. Behind apparent public cordiality, there was deep-rooted antagonism. Muslims were always looked down upon as defiled and polluted and treated as intruders by their Hindu fellows. Hinduism reluctantly submitted to Muslim rule, but all the time strived to weaken Muslims by corroding it from within. When the British captured power in India, Hindus became natural allies of the British and both went all-out to destroy social, educational, cultural and religious heritage of Muslims. The Hindus deep-rooted hatred got accentuated when the Muslims opted for a separate homeland. Notwithstanding the aspirations of the Muslims of India, the idea of a separate Muslim state was repugnant to Indian Congress and hence unacceptable to them. This led to a bitter and prolonged quarrel between the two communities. While it was a question of survival for the Muslims, for the Hindus it was matter of preventing vivisection of so-called Mahabharata. Despite many hurdles created by the Hindu leaders, upsurge for gaining independence was too great and beyond human control. In spite of MA Jinnahs loud protestations, the provinces of Bengal and Punjab were deliberately partitioned while Kashmir was allowed to accede to India. These callous acts failed to deter the Hindus from sowing seeds of permanent antagonism between Pakistan and India. When the Kashmiris rose up in revolt, over two-third of Kashmir was forcibly annexed by Indian forces. Failing to reconcile to the existence of Pakistan and cherishing the fond hope of its re-absorption into Indian dominion, Indian leaders worked hard for the dismemberment of Pakistan soon after its inception. Many Indians regarded the creation of Pakistan as a tragic mistake that could still be corrected or reversed. Break up of Pakistan and its absorption within the fold of Indian Union had become the national goal of Congress leaders. To consolidate the Indian dominion, by March 1949, India had absorbed 538 princely states out of the total 565 states under the Indian control till that time. Indias insatiable greed to gorge as many states and her menacing attitude towards Pakistan made the latter wary and worried. At the time of Partition, Pakistans geographical frontiers had yet to be 21
determined. It was without a seat of government or an administrative structure to enable it to exercise its sovereignty. It was without a Constitution; its armed forces were scattered and without proper weapons; civil servants and other administrative and technical hands were in the midst of migrating from India; its political and economic systems were completely disrupted and the communication system had broken down and needed a serious overhaul. As if these settling problems and the hanging evil shadow of Mountbatten and Radcliffe were not enough, Pakistans horizons became clouded with hostile acts of its neighbours in the east and the northwest. Their hostility cast perverse shadows across its path. Hindu leaders in their quest to re-unite India, continued to hurl threats and saddle Pakistan with knotty problems to prevent the toddling state from standing on its own feet. They refused to accept the creation of Pakistan with good faith, and to settle all outstanding differences on the basis of justice and fair play. In struggling to create a state structure in the chaotic environment of partition and an early war with India on Kashmir, our leaders remained tied down fighting the battle of survival and identity. There was no certainty that Pakistan would survive its traumatic birth. Very few states in the world started with greater handicaps than Pakistan did on August 14, 1947. After a lapse of over six decades, it is rather not possible for the present younger generation to think about the complexities and difficulties faced by the pioneers of Pakistan at the time of independence. For those who lived through that difficult and troubled times of history and personally experienced the turmoil, human tragedies, mass carnage of the Muslims by the Hindu-Sikh combine, and the Hindus abominable Bania mentality, it was not less than a nightmare. Given their common past spread over centuries, it was hoped that the two countries after having won their independence from the brutal British rule would close the chapter of suspicion and aversion, and instead strive to live as peaceful neighbours. It was expected that rather than beating war drums and sinking into the bottomless ocean of arms race, leaders of the two countries would concentrate on the well being of people through mutual cooperation and support. Unfortunately, these hopes have so far remained an elusive dream. After tearing Pakistan into two in 1971, Indian hawkish leaders kept scheming to fragment rest of Pakistan. The 1980s saw rise of the Hindu fundamentalism in India. Militant Bharatya Janata Party (BJP) government in India that captured power twice, repeatedly voiced its wish to reunite the subcontinent and to annex Azad Kashmir by force, and vowed to establish Hindutva (the Hindu code). The Indian Congress is no less antagonistic towards Pakistan and has taken no concrete steps to control the growth of Hindu fundamentalism threatening all minorities in India. Hate phobia and age-old prejudices in the two neighbouring countries have not died down. Hindus continue to view the Muslims as destroyers of Hindu culture and for mutilating mother India. Their pent-up anger and hatred against Indian Muslims was physically demonstrated in 1992, when Ayodhya Mosque (or Babri Mosque) was pulled down and it was demanded that a temple be erected at the same site. Large scale state sponsored massacre of Muslims in Gujrat took place in 2003. 22
Muslims in Occupied Kashmir were killed like stray dogs and women brazenly raped. Indian Muslims are looked with suspicion and treated shabbily. Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray stated on the 12th of January, 2010 that Indian Muslims were untrustworthy since they are loyal to Pakistan. On the slightest pretext, Hindu scalawags fan communal riots and kill tens of Muslims. These riots in India have increased rather than lessened with the passage of time. Muslim minority (13%) in India feels marooned and fearfully watch the growing Hindu fanaticism, which finds no place for the Indian Muslims unless they adhere to Hindutva and agree to join the ranks of Sudras (untouchables). Glimpse of Indian deep-seated antagonism was seen on the occasion of a terrorist attack on Indian parliament on December 13, 2001 in which not a single parliamentarian was killed, injured or even abused. While the whole nation demanded for blood of Pakistan on mere suspicion, Indian armed forces rushed towards their western border and remained in a menacing mode for ten months. This kind of frenetic fury and war mongering were again seen in the aftermath of 26/11 attacks in Mumbai. Over one year has elapsed, but Indian leaders have not forgotten the incident and refuse to recommence composite dialogue. They do not recall the deep wounds they have consistently inflicted upon Pakistan without any sense of remorse. They ignore that thousands of innocent Pakistanis have died as a result of ongoing RAW sponsored acts of terror in various parts and main cities of Pakistan. As long as India is ruled by self-serving vicious Brahmans, antagonism will prevail and hope for peaceful co-existence will remain elusive.
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Hindu mentality had neither changed even after 62 years nor enmity against the Quaid-i-Azam, the great Muslim leader and creator of Pakistan, had reduced. Jaswant Singh has given short weight in his book and he practically tried to prove that the establishment of Pakistan was the result of the historical mistake of Jawaharlal Nehru and Patel while admitting the services and role of Quaid-i-Azam. From one point of view, he negated the political vision of Quaid-i-Azam and the Muslims struggle for a separate homeland. The extremist BJP could not tolerate it and awarded severe punishment to its old leader by expelling him from the party. Bias, narrow-mindedness and hatred was expressed by burning thousands of copies of the book of the former foreign minister preaching secularism and tolerance. Indias Brahmin leadership and the Hindu mentality is the same even today which was six-seven decades ago. Indian war preparations, anti-Pakistan negative propaganda, aggression through excuses, intervention and sabotage attempts are the proof of the fact that India is hell-bent on effacing Pakistan. The water terrorism is also a link of the chain so that the Muslim state should be turned into barren by building dykes on the rivers of Pakistan. Unfortunately, some Pakistani writers and India-frightened politicians, who are totally ignorant of the stimulants to the establishment of Pakistan and Pakistan Ideology, are busy beating tambourine that India and Pakistan should not let the Kashmir issue become a hurdle in the establishment of pleasant and mutual relations. According to their viewpoint, India is not the opponent of the existence of Pakistan and both countries can cross the stages of progress by improving economic, cultural and diplomatic relations. A few of them do not consider Indias political, economic and military hegemony bad and see every evil in Pakistan. If the compromised people singing the songs of Indias democracy, secularism, tolerance, enlightened moderation and international importance have some sense of honour, they should learn a lesson from the result of Jaswant Singh. They should see that no such treatment was meted out to the devotees of Gandhi in Pakistan. Khan Abdul Wali Khans book against Quaid-i-Azam was made public. Even today writings are not only being published in favour of India and the Indian leadership with facelessness, but also some media anchors end their talks by appreciating India in each program. No one opposes them. Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, chief of Muslim League (N), has also pinned hopes on India that they should promote trade and economic relations without solving the Kashmir dispute. The end of Jaswant Singh is a lesson for all Pakistani leaders, intellectuals, analysts and the public. We should prepare our horses, atomic weapons and missiles every time to fight against Indias mischief, conspiracies and aggressive designs. If it is established that India is not a threat to Pakistan, then there is no need for the atomic program, missiles, latest weapons and so much army because no other neighbour among China, Iran and Afghanistan is our enemy. 25
selling and buying of children has become a ritual. The worst kind of human rights violations take place in Indian occupied Kashmir and the main victims are unarmed civilians and innocent youth that are victimized due to their religions. Particularly women and children are treated in the most horrifying manner. The economic giant of South Asia does not look at the cancer of human trade. This ugly blemish on the Indian face is a proof of its hypocritical policies.
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reserves amount to 262.306 billion dollars which rank fifth in the world. There is no multi-national company which doesnt have an office or a factory in India. Its shopping centres and industrial zones are at par with those in Europe and America. Foreign investors are getting no new opportunities for investment. Indias Information Technology (IT) industry is at the highest point. Thousands of IT specialists, engineers and economists are graduating from the universities and contributing towards the countrys development. Their demand is there all over the world. Developing motorways, fastest railways, latest intercity transport system, busiest airports and seaports point to the countrys economic development. The historical buildings, especially the Taj Mahal, and other sites of tourism attract tourists from around the world. Indian films have enchanted the viewers all around the world. The Indian film industry is the second largest film industry in the world after Hollywood in The United States. It is believed that because of its vulgarity and boldness, it would leave Hollywood far behind. However, with all these glaring figures, India still has more than 450.6 million people out of its 1.2 billion populations living below the poverty line. This number is the largest poverty population in the world. 960.3 million people of the world are dying of hunger, and 200 million of them are Indians. 70.2 million Children are victims of mal-nutrition in India. 580.4 million Children die every year, and 200 million of them are Indians. 10.21 billion people of the world dont get clean drinkable water, and 380 million of them are Indians. 2006 million people of the world do not have access to basic hygiene and sanitation, and 580 million of them are Indians. There are 42 million people suffering from AIDS/HIV and 5.7 million of them are living in India. 3.61 million of them die every year. There are 200 million patients of TB in the world and 3.5 million of them are Indians. 525,600 women die every year in the world during pregnancy, and 78,000 of them are Indians. 400 million people in India are illiterate, that is the highest illiteracy rate of the world. 40 million of Indian children do not go to schools and 30 million of them live on footpaths. About 1.25 million of the peasants commit suicide every year and 1.2 million women are being killed every year because of dowry related issues. India spends 32.7 billion dollars on defence annually. India has 1.325 million armed, 1.155 million reserve and 1.293 million paramilitary forces, along with 3978 tanks, 1260 fighter planes, one aircraft carrier and 60 atom bombs. Its appetite has still not been filled and it is continuously buying more weapons and recently purchased three latest AWACS planes from Israel. One has already reached home.
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destructive activities and terrorism. May our nation understand the Indian designs and think about our countrys security and safety. Now when confidence building measures are being taken and negotiations are being held, Rahul Gandhi of the Gandhi family says, The credit of breaking Pakistan goes to my family. What does it mean? This is Indias flagrant policy of hypocrisy.
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Chapter 2
INSIDE INDIA?
SOCIO-POLITICAL PICTURE OF THE WORLDS BIGGEST DEMOCRACY
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India ignoring its citizens Despite criticism by civil society and the free press, the states continuing violent campaigns against Maoists go unchecked
Along with the plethora of venomous remarks against China, & the vicious paranoia of murdered journalists in Sri Lanka, India appears self-critical. And yet, for all the vociferous passion of its journalists and activists in calling the powerful to account, the overall impression is of voices screaming into a vacuum. Nowhere is this feeling more evident right now than on the issues of insurgencies from Maoists and other left-wing forces raging through Indias poorest regions. Under the broad brush moniker of Maoists or Naxalites, these insurgents represent one of the few forms of resistance from villagers and hill tribesmen against the inequities of continuing feudal structures and the encroachment of global corporations backed by the state that treats them as awkward impediments to mining plans. The Naxalites can be brutal, and the villagers under their control often find themselves unwillingly excluded from health services, basic education and development. But they have held on to the moral high ground, thanks largely to a state response that has been unremittingly heavy-handed: special forces operations, the arming of vigilante groups, the dispossession of land, forced encampment, etc. all accompanied by tales of extrajudicial killings, gang rapes and, for some despicable reasons, the chopping off of childrens fingers and other body parts. Indias civil society looks on in abhorrence at what is widely seen as a fullblown war against the poor. Even the government-appointed council of experts had to conclude that: Often any individual who speaks out against the powerful is dubbed a Naxalite and jailed or otherwise silenced through state oppressions. The search for Naxalite cadre leads to severe harassment and torture of its supporters and sympathizers. Those who try to report these crimes find themselves bundled away to police custody for their own protection. This has been happening to Sodi Sambo, a 28-year-old woman from Gompar village in Chattisgarh who says she witnessed security forces murdering nine of her neighbours in October 2009, and was herself shot in the foot in front of her two small children. She tried to file a complaint, only to find herself under armed guard in a nearby hospital with no visitors allowed and denied the right to travel to Delhi for treatment. With Amnesty International and the Supreme Court wading in, her case might just be heard. A couple of troops might even be reprimanded. Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram announced another massive offensive across five states, confidently claiming it would target only insurgent leaders. Since no journalists are allowed anywhere near these war zones, we have to take 35
his word for it. This brings us back to the issue of freedom of speech, and also its implications for military strategy. One of the key lessons of modern counterinsurgency is that you have to take the voters and therefore the media along. Militaries have long struggled to balance the rights of a free press with the risk that they might record something that damages its credibility. In the west, this took centre stage in Vietnam war, which many in the US military felt was a war fought and lost on the evening news and in the pages of Time Magazine. That thinking has led to embedded journalism, military Public Relations (PR) departments even dedicated You Tube channels which seek to sell the campaign back home and abroad. It has made governments acutely conscious of legitimacy, if not for moral reasons, then at least for its impact on operational effectiveness. In India, however, there seems to be a scant concern for legitimacy in the anti-Naxal campaign beyond flagrant attempts to silence witnesses and bar journalists and activists from affected areas. When it does try to justify itself, the government hides behind the argument that the Maoist are impeding economic development that could improve the lives of the poor ignoring studies that show this model of development may have actually increased the number of poor by 100 million. The Naxalite issue shows up a yawning chasm between what civil society says and what the government does. The failure to listen means the government is losing not just the battle of hearts and minds, but even the physical fight on which it has focused its efforts. In 2009, 319 security forces were killed compared to 219 Maoists insurgents an extraordinary tally given the discrepancy in each sides resources. The fact is that any number of exposes on the wrongs of this campaign has little or no impact on voters with so many other issues and allegiances to consider. Nor does the government fear the opprobrium of the international community, which is preoccupied with winning Indias support in Afghanistan and salivating over her enormous defence budgets. The editor of one leading news publication admitted that the medias efforts were having no political impact. The most pessimistic conclusion to draw is that free speech in India only serves to strengthen those who flout other articles in the constitution. How can we be authoritarian, the government can protest, when we allow the media such freedom to criticize us? Too often, however, the only victory of expression is its freedom to exist, rather than its power to effect change. Or we can be more optimistic, and take heart in the strength of ideas to gradually permeate through generations of leaders, tired of a system that stands so apart from the moral conscience embodied in its academics, activists, journalists and ordinary citizens, in whose name the brutal price of progress is paid.
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Farm suicides From 2006 to 2008, Maharashtra saw 12, 493 farm suicides. That is 85 per cent higher than the 6,745 suicides it recorded during 1997-1999. That was the worst three-year period for any Indian state ever
The loan waiver year of 2008 saw 16,196 farm suicides in the country, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. Compared to 2007, thats fall of just 436. According to economist Professor K. Nagaraj who worked in-depth on farm suicide data says, The numbers leave little room for comfort and none at all for self-congratulation. There were no major changes in the trend that set in from the late 1990s and worsened after 2002. The dismal truth is that very high numbers of farm suicides still occur within a fast decreasing farm population. Between just the Census of 1991 and that of 2001, nearly 8 million cultivators quit farming. A year from now, the 2011 Census will tell us how many more quit in this decade. It is not likely to be less. It could even draw that 8 million figure as the exodus from farming probably intensified after 2001. The state-wise farm suicide ratios number of farmers committing suicide per 100,000 farmers are still pegged on the outdated 2001 figures. So the 2011 Census, with more authentic counts of how many farmers there really are, might provide an unhappy update on what is going on. Focusing on farm suicides as a share of total suicides in India misleads. That way, its aha! The percentage is coming down. Thats silly. For one thing, the total number of suicides (all groups, not just farmers) is increasing in a growing population of India. Farm suicides are rising within a declining farm population. Two, an all-India picture disguises the intensity. The devastation lies in the big five states (Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh). These account for two-thirds of all farm suicides during 2003-08. Take just the big 5 their percentage of all farm suicides has gone up. Worse, even their percentage of total all-India suicides (all categories) has risen. Poor states like Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have been doing very badly for some years now. During the period from 1997-2002, farm suicides in the big 5 states accounted for roughly one out of every 12 of all suicides in the country. From 2003-08, they accounted for nearly one out of every 10 suicides. The NCRB has farm suicide data of 12 years. Actually, farm data appears in its records from 1995 onwards, but some states failed to report for the first two years. Hence 1997, from when all states have been reporting their farm suicide data, is a more reliable base year. The NCRB has also made access much easier by placing all past year Accidental Death & Suicides in India reports on its website. 37
The 12-year period allows us to compare farm suicide numbers from 19972002, as how they turned out in the next 6-year period from 2003-2008. All 12 years were pretty bad, but the latter six were decidedly worse. Reading a trend into a single years dip or rise is misleading. Better to look at 3-year or 6-year periods within 1997-2008. For instance, Maharashtra saw a decline in the farm suicide number in 2005, but the very next year proved to be its worst ever. Since 2006, the state has been the focus of many initiatives. Manmohan Singhs, Prime Minister of Indias visit to Vidharbha in 2006 brought the Prime Ministers Relief Package of Rs. 3,750 crore for six crisisridden districts of the region. This came atop Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukhs Rs. 1,075 crore relief package. Then followed the nearly Rs. 9,000 crore that was Maharashtras share of the Rs. 70,000 crore central loan waiver for farmers. To which the state government added Rs. 6,200 crore for those farmers not covered by the waiver. The State added Rs. 500 crore for a one-time settlement (OTS) for poor farmers who had been excluded from the waiver altogether because they owned over five acres of land. In all, the amounts committed to fighting the agrarian crisis in Maharashtra exceeded Rs. 20,000 crore across 2006, 2007 and 2008. (And thats not counting huge handouts to the sugar barons.) Yet, that proved to be the worst three-year period ever for any state at any time since the recording of farm data began. From 2006-08, Maharashtra saw, 12,493 farm suicides. That is nearly 600 more than the previous worst from the years 2002-2005 and 85 per cent higher than the 6,745 suicides recorded in the three-year period from 1997-1999. The same government was in power, incidentally, in the worst six years span. Besides, these shockingly higher numbers are emerging within a shrinking farm population. By 2001, 42 percent of Maharashtras population was already urban. Its farmer base has certainly not grown. So was the loan waiver scheme has been useless? The idea of a waiver was not a bad at all. And it was right to intervene. Most of the specific actions were misguided and bungled. Yet it could also be argued at the relief the waiver brought to some farmers and the suicide numbers of 2008 could have been a lot worse. The waiver was a welcome step for farmers, but its architecture was flawed. A point strongly made in this journal (Oh! What a lovely waiver, March 10, 2008). It dealt only with bank credit and ignored moneylender debt. So only those farmers with access to institutional credit would benefit. Tenant farmers in Andhra Pradesh and poor farmers in Vidharbha and elsewhere get their loans mainly from moneylenders. So, in fact, farmers in Kerala, where everyone has a bank account, were more likely to gain. (Kerala was also the one state to address the issue of moneylender debt.) The 2008 waiver also excluded those holding over five acres, making no distinction between irrigated and non irrigated land. This devastated many struggling farmers with eight to 10 acres of poor, dry land. On the other hand, West Bengals farmers, the giant numbers of small holders below the 5-acre limit, stood to gain far more. Every suicide has a multiplicity of causes. But when you have nearly 200,000 38
of them, it makes sense to seek broad common factors within that group. As Dr Nagaraj repeatedly pointed out, the suicides appear concentrated in regions of high commercialization of agriculture and very high peasant debt. Cash crop farmers seemed more vulnerable to suicide than those growing food crops. Yet the basic underlying causes of the crisis remained untouched. The predatory commercialization of the countryside; a massive decline in investment in agriculture; the withdrawal of bank credit at a time of soaring input prices; the crash in farm incomes combined with an explosion of cultivation costs; the shifting of millions from food crop to cash crop cultivation with all its risks; the corporate hijack of every major sector of agriculture including, and especially, seed; growing water stress and moves towards privatization of that resource. The government was trying to beat the crisis leaving in place all its causes with a one-off waiver. In late 2007, The Hindu daily carried the sorry result emerging from Dr Nagarajs study of NCRB data: that nearly 1.5 lakh peasants had ended their lives in despair between 1997 and 2005. Just days later, Union minister for agriculture Sharad Pawar confirmed those figures in Parliament (Rajya Sabha Starred Question No. 238, Nov, 30, 2007) citing the same NCRB data. It is tragic that 27 months later, the paper had to run a headline saying that the number had climbed to nearly 2 lakh. Mocking its victims, heckling its critics and cosmetic changes wont make it go away or help the reality fade away!
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attitude. What a contradiction between its claims of democracy at international forums and its actual practice. It is the need of the hour that Pakistan and other SAARC countries should take a stern stand at the prejudice of India to improve the situation with its immediate neighbours. SAARC countries should learn a lesson from Indian attitude towards Pakistan and realize that all efforts of peace, international agreements and reconciliations with India will be futile. India is revealing its horrible face in Kashmir by indulging in criminal activities against the Kashmiris. It is not merely a matter for film producer Hassan Zaidi, the whole SAARC film industry should take notice of such treatment to their citizens in India. All of them should suspend their diplomatic ties with India. It is mere futility to expect a better attitude from India; it must be paid in the same coin. As India was a multi-religious society, it was thought necessary to construct its society on the basis of secularism. Hence in 1976 a constitutional amendment was introduced to add the word secularism as the state dispensation. At one hand secularism means to provide religious groups equal opportunities and freedom of faith and worship but on the other hand it also demands the state to be above all religious belief and faiths. In other words, religion is taken as a private affair of citizens and not of the government and the state. Since ancient times, Indian political life bears a deep stamp of religion. After the independence of India, the same concept was regularly nourished. At one hand, secularism was welded to the preamble of the Indian constitution but on the other hand Indian political life was deeply wedded to religion and Hindu beliefs. As a result secularism remained merely a slogan whereas the non-secular aspects are consolidated strongly. In the modern era it appears that the concept of secularism is affecting its real spirit by changing into a dynamic force. Its apparent demands are different from the practical ones. The Mughal kings left deep imprints of religious tolerance on the Indian soil that resulted in an atmosphere of religious unity. Later on, during the British period the English rulers promoted sectarian politics for their political interests. They adopted the policy of "divide and rule" which further strengthened roots of sectarian politics in the entire region. The Government of India Acts of 1909 and 1919 were to incorporate the Muslim demand of separate electorate and the two nation theory ultimately led to the division of the Indian sub-continent. After the political division of the country, a secular constitution was adopted in India but the sectarian trends got even stronger and entered in political and social spheres. Sectarian riots were frequently erupted in the Indian states of Gujrat, Maharashtra, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh which had political objectives on the basis of religious extremism. Practically speaking, Indian politics is drenched in religiosity: from elections to the allocation of ministries all matters are settled on religious grounds. It has become an important feature of Indian politics to use religion as a tool for political motives. The controversy over Ram Janam Bhomi and the destruction of Babri Mosque are some glaring examples. Many political parties of modern India like Akali Dal, All India Muslim League, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and Rashtaria Sewak Sangat (RSS) have been constructed 41
on the basis of religious beliefs and preachings. These parties try to solve problems of a particular religious sect by using their political might. To serve their political ends using religion has become an important tradition of Indian democracy. Now-adays the tenure of collision governments is not determined by the majority views rather it is based on the unity of the religious problems. Prime Minister VP Singhs government was the best example. The religious base is playing an important role in determining key trends of the Indian voters. The criterion of votes is not the candidates ability but the related religious identity. The same trend is making it impossible to attain the non-religious role of democracy and national unity in India and the concept of sectarian democracy is getting popular. We can find a proof of amalgamation of religion in politics in the general elections of the parliament of 1977 when the Imam of Jamia Masjid of Delhi appealed to the Muslims of the country to vote for Bhartia Janta Party (BJP). Apart from it he also declared his full support to Indira Gandhi in the general elections of 1980 and asked the Muslims to vote for Congress. However, during the controversy of Ram Janam Bhomi and Babri Mosque Shankar Achariya of Kashi tried to seek a peaceful solution and played an important role between the two sects but miserably failed. Religion has always been playing an important role in politics of the different Indian states, such as All India Muslim League in Kerala and Akali Dal in Punjab. Moreover many religious based parties of central and regional nature Like Arya Samaj, All India Muslim League, Shromati Akali Dal, Anglo-Indian Association, Rashtaria Sewak Sangat (RSS) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) have always influenced practical politics of the country. Sometimes one thinks that without appeasing these parties there is no proper future for the political governments. On the basis of the growing nexus between the modern politics and religion it can be said that religion and politics are indispensable now. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar added to the same theory when he said: This concept of Hinduism is so vast that it encircles all aspects of life from birth till death. The theory of secularism in the Indian constitution is nothing more than paperwork and its practical demands have assumed different shapes whereas the true face of Indian secularism is fading away. Donald Smith, who has written many research articles on Indian secularism, has raised an important question to the Indians due to the rising influence of religion on Indian politics: Is India really a secular state? The Indians have to answer this question realistically if they want to be considered responsible citizens that say and believe the same thing. Such evidences show that the classical form of secularism is almost non-existent in India and its politics and it has become impossible for the state to play its impartial role amongst all religious communities. THE absence of any condemnation of the vandalism of the demolition of the Babri Masid on December 6, 1992 was a conspicuous aspect of the Ayodhya verdict of the Allahabad High Court. So great was the sense of outrage from the Muslim community in India that the Indian Prime Minister and the Central Government said on December 7, 1992 and December 27, 1992 that the mosque would be re-built. 42
The Ayodhya judgment of the Allahabad High Court made no note of the vandalism of December 6, 1992. On the other hand, it took the demolition as a fait accompli, as if the disputed 2.77-acre site was vacant land. After holding that the area beneath the central dome of the erstwhile Masjid must be allotted to Hindus because of their faith that lord Rams place of birth was there, and the areas covered by the Ram Chabutara and Sita Rasoi should be allotted to the Nirmohi Akhara, the court said that the remaining area of the disputed site should be divided, two-thirds to the two Hindu plaintiffs and one third to the Muslim plaintiff by metes and bounds. The judgment, therefore, legalised and legitimized the 1992 demolition, as the decree of the court proceeded on the basis that there was no Masjid on the disputed site today. It is an elementary rule of justice in court that when a party to a litigation takes the law into its own hands and alters the existing state of affairs to its advantage, (as the demolition in 1992 did in favour of the Hindu plaintiffs), the court would first order the restitution of the pre-exisiting state of affairs. The test of the soundness of the courts verdict is this: assuming the correctness of the High Courts findings that the area beneath the central dome of the mosque was the birthplace of Lord Ram or that the Masjid was built over the ruins of a temple in 1528, if the Masjid had not been demolished and had remained on the site, would the court have ordered a division and partitioning of the disputed site in the manner it has directed? This could have been done only by the Masjid of 500 years being brought down to create a vacant site which clearly would have been an impossible direction. The judgment is bound to create a burning communal problem in India. It will leave simmering resentment in the Muslim community, for the judgment will be seen as the courts condonation and legitimization of a place of worship having been vandalized.
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even the offer of back-channel exchanges and diplomacy. It was then that realization dawned on the Pakistani leadership that the countrys repeated requests were becoming demeaning. India appears to have raised the ante, with the Indian army chief Gen Kapoor remarks that the possibility of a limited war in a nuclear overhang is still a reality, at least in the Indian subcontinent. What has been particularly annoying is the failure of the Obama administration to act on its seemingly wise policy pronouncements during the election campaign. Instead of pressurizing India to reduce its presence in Afghanistan and ceasing to stir up trouble in Balochistan, the US appears to have gone along with Indian allegations, agreeing to inject into the US-India joint statement a provision to work jointly to deal with terrorism emanating from Indias neighbourhood. This statement exposed American hidden relationship with India. This was strange, coming from an administration that had publicly expressed a desire to promote Indo-Pakistan normalization and to work for the resolution of the Kashmir problem. The Indian army chiefs latest statement in which he spoke of his armys capacity to fight a two-front war evoked great surprise and disappointment. But while it conveyed hostility and belligerence, his words were neither realistic nor achievable as India does not have the military capability to successfully initiate its much-heralded cold start strategy, much less wage two wars against two neighbours simultaneously. This does not mean, however, that we can dismiss these claims as mere rhetoric or unfounded. There could be more evidences of the increasing inclination of the Indian forces to have a role in the India-Pakistan equation. According `to some observers, there has been a slow but perceptible change in India where an increasing numbers are reported to have insisted on being more than merely a hearing on issues relating to Pakistan, especially Siachen and Sir Creek. The Indian armed forces have gradually come to believe that given the growing challenges that India faces both domestically and on its frontiers, a more visible role for it is in order. Another important factor is the newfound confidence acquired from the special relationship that the US has so eagerly conferred on India, not only as its strategic partner, but also as a potential counter-weight to China. No less important could be the growing influence of rightwing parties and religious groups that want India to adopt more nationalist policies vis--vis its neighbours. Instead, what is required is a dispassionate analysis of what these signals indicate for Pakistan and sensitizing our friends to Indian actions. While we must not be distracted from the objective of seeking a peaceful resolution of our differences with India, we must not show undignified haste towards that end.
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the Sikhs who died naturally or unnaturally to get erased from the list of suspicious persons. The very reason it does not allow the Sikhs to live peacefully anywhere in the world, India is afraid of the fact that Sikhs may restart their movement for an independent state at any time and may create more trouble for the country. All these facts expose the realities behind Indian claim of a secular democracy. A huge minority is being spied upon and is regarded anti-India. Thousands of Sikhs were killed after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. The Congress leaders themselves provoked rioters on the roads of Delhi. Since then the Sikhs are living in India as a paranoid minority. The heirs of those who lost their lives in the anti-Sikh riots in 1984 were given one million rupees as compensation on the orders of the Indian Supreme Court. Can this monetary compensation for aggrieved families be an alternative to the lives of the deceased? After their killings at such a mass scale, the Sikhs chose other countries, particularly, Canada as final refuge and also to initiate their activities. But India later started objecting at activities of Sikhs in those countries too. The Canadian government is neither helping them economically or politically nor have the Sikhs established their exiled government of Khalistan there. There is something wrong with Indias thinking and political system as it looks at every gathering of minorities as suspicious. It should also review its attitudes, state practices and peoples behaviors towards minorities. What rights and freedoms has it granted to the minorities? The situation in Occupied Kashmir, East Punjab, Chhattees Garh, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Jhar Khand, West Bengal, Western Orissa and Bihar is a proof of the fact that Indian state has deprived its own population of the fundamental right to live. The western countries talk about India as a secular and democratic country but the reality is very different from the general perception about India. It has just disguised itself in a cloak to safeguard the vested interests of a particular class. The western media does not talk about these facts but India is a failed democracy and is indulging in the acts of terrorism against its own population, especially those belong to the minorities. The extremist Hindus are involved in the murder of millions of innocent Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, and other religious and cultural minorities.
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The ex-union interior minister of India, N. N. Vohra wrote in his report, which was published in 1995, that a mafia network is actively working along with the Indian government, which is devastating the state institutions and the state is fast losing control over them. According to an NGO, The National Social Watch Coalition, 16.28 percent of the total candidates in the general elections of India were involved in criminal activities. In the same way, 30 percent of the members of parliament from 35 to 45 years of age had registered cases against them. In other words, the power corridors of India are full of murderers, criminals and goons. Corruption and crimes are not only restricted to members of the Indian parliament but also higher officers of the Indian army and lower cadres are involved in such cases. Corruption rate is higher in the Indian army. The Indian army officers are bribed and receive commissions and kick-backs in an arms deal and supply of equipment within the country and abroad as well. They also take kick-backs in buying and supplying food articles. Every officer is involved in fraud and corruption at every level of rank and position. In spite of the fact that their secrets were revealed, the Indian traders and Indian defence experts are always seeking ways to make money. Two senior generals of the Indian army posted at Kashmir were involved in corruption while buying and supplying chickens to the army. Both of them earned millions of rupees by fraud, corruption and other illegal deals during their stay in occupied Kashmir. Likewise, commissions were received in the purchase of guided shells from Russia which did not work during the Kargil war. It is high time to mention the huge amount of money that was received during the purchase of atomic submarines from Russia. During the Kargil war a dispute arose regarding disposal of dead bodies of the Indian soldiers. According to the defence minister, 4000 coffins were ordered, whereas only 650 people were killed and the coffins were made of inferior quality wood in spite of high prices. Indian history is replete with crimes that the politicians, rulers and the army officers commit. The claimants of the largest democracy of the world are not even ashamed of the fact that they are not worthy of being called politicians and soldiers.
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The American Commission for the Religious Freedoms has warned India that its name should be included amongst the list of countries which are involved in the worst kind of violations and crimes of religious freedoms and against their religious minorities. Many ministers of India are not only busy in increasing sectarian hatred on behalf of Hindu extremist organizations but many central and state government ministers took an active part in violent activities based on religious discrimination. As the top political leadership is patronizing such acts, therefore no prominent personality involved in such criminal activities has ever been brought to justice. All the socio-welfare organizations of Maharashtra, including Mumbai, protest that the Indian government has reduced Muslims and other minorities to the status of second rated citizens. They also demand that recommendations of the Justice Sri Krishna Commission be implemented and the victims of 1992 and 1993 sectarian riots be given justice. Justice Sri Krishna has declared the head of Shiv Sena, Bal Thackeray and other four leaders of his party responsible for the Suleiman Usman Bakery firing Case but no inquiry has been conducted against any involved in the firing case. Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, Jamat-i-Islami Hind, World Mushaikh Counsel, Aima Masajid Council, Rashtariya Bheem Saina and Rights Pune had also demanded to arrest Bal Thackeray, the head of RSS. The United Nations Charter provides a guarantee to minorities of a country to hold religious gatherings for worship, to specify places for the same purpose, to establish charitable organizations, to seek funds voluntarily, to publish and distribute relevant literature, to educate a particular faith or religion at proper places, to reserve places of rest according to ones faith, to declare holidays, to make arrangements for the preaching of ones faith at local and foreign levels, along with the guarantees of general security, discipline, health, ethics, and rights of others. But all these clauses are neglected in India. The extremist Hindu leaders have evolved a new strategy to force the Indian Muslims to adopt non-Islamic ways and to adopt attitudes like non-Muslims. Sadhus and Joggies are ready to take control of the central government in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jhar Khand, and Orissa. Internally they are constantly making efforts for the same and at the same time they are also trying to exploit Muslims and other minorities to merge them with the Hindu majority. The main aim of Hindutva is to de-track the Indian Muslims and to make them into secular non practicing Muslims. The extremists have not yet succeeded in their aims because their ideas are shallow and baseless. Any person with common sense cannot accept such ideas. While addressing a large gathering of the extremists, the extremist leader S. Sadharshan said that they could not throw the Muslims and Christians in to the ocean; therefore, they must make them realise the importance of Hindutva and force them to convert. 59
One of the leaders of Hindutva, Praveen Togadia declared Muslims as Jihadis and appealed to the Christians to stand with them against these Jihadis (Holy war) The present Congress lead government is accused of taking measures to support the Muslims. Prominent Indian scholars and journalists have expressed their concern with despair and said that in the coming years the conditions of the Indian minorities; particularly the Muslims would not be changed. In these conditions the Indian solidarity is in great danger. BJP an extremist Hindu organization is getting popular day-by-day and its rival secular forces are getting weaker and weaker. In these circumstances, the sense of being insecure is rising among the minorities particularly, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians. Its a matter of great concern that international community and the international human rights organizations have also ignored this real face of India and its attitude and have allowed its governments to let secularism be smashed into pieces.
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America attacked Afghanistan to seek Osama-bin-Laden and Al-Qaida. These atta00cks could never prove fruitful without the cooperation of government of Pakistan. Hence, Nawaz Sharifs government was toppled down and General Pervez Musharraf was imposed on Pakistan in October 1999. Apparently, Americans provided many facilities to the General Musharrafs regime to show the Pakistanis that his government was useful for them and then forced it to work in the interests of America. In those days, the Indian Prime Minister Attal Bihari Vajpai and the interior Minister Lal Krishan Advani made a public request to American President George W. Bush and offered their services. But at that time General Musharraf was more useful for America. After playing havoc in Afghanistan, US government wanted to deal with Pakistan the way it had dealt with Iraq and Afghanistan in its so called war against terror. Iran was ready to fight with USA, therefore, it dared not to attack Iran despite its warnings. It was aware of weaknesses in Pakistani political and governance systems and intended to maintain its control on the country. When Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan after a long exiled life, she was attacked twice and the last attack in Rawalpindi proved fatal. The purpose of these attacks was to undermine the country and create chaos. After the general elections in February 2008 Asif Ali Zardari, husband of deceased Benazir Bhutto, Chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party, became the President of Pakistan, but America did not like it and some undemocratic forces started conspiring and destabilizing the country. Its evident now that Indian electronic media started presenting the situation which aims to push the two neighbouring countries to war. The main reason of the war is to control terrorism in India and the sixty hour long operation in Mumbai was declared the biggest act of terrorism on Indian soil. Almost two hundred people were killed and three hundred were injured at the Taj Hotel, Obroi Hotel and Trident in main Mumbai city. On the statements of Ajmal Qasab, the lone survivors and captor of the terrorist attacks, and two policemen, the thousands of Indian army men and other blood thirsty elements created a war-like situation against the so called terrorists. It is particularly noteworthy that the terrorists gathered around the best hotels of Mumbai city like the Taj Hotel and Oberoi Hotel. There was intense exchange of firing and innocent people were killed but all the responsible elements of Maharashtra government, the Indian Air Force and Navy could only kill nine terrorists and arrested only one. The whole world watched this show live on television. Some of the prominent figures of the country objected and it was demanded in almost all newspapers of India that Pakistani media should be banned. Later on the media alleged that the terrorist act was planned in the neighbouring country and excuses were sought to attack Pakistan. The country was deprived of solidarity, peace and prosperity. The mutual sentiments of hatred and enmity were provoked amongst the peaceful and 61
loving people of the two neighbouring countries. After considering whole situation carefully one comes to the conclusion that it was a well planned conspiracy and act of sabotage. Why was it insisted to believe in all the facts relating to terrorism in the light of Ajmal Qasabs statement? A native of Mumbai, ex-chief minister of the same province, an experienced, loyal, prominent and a blue-eyed Congress minister of minorities, Abdul Rehman Antolay demanded that the evidence of the honest police officer Hemant Karkare and others be properly investigated. Why did Sangh Parivar dislike the statement? Sangh Parivar showed anger when Hemant Karkare revealed the involvement of Praveen Togadiya, Colonel Prohat, Sahdvi Pargya and Dayanand Pandey and demanded that he must leave the investigation of the Maligaon. Even Karkare was threatened to be killed. In light of the newspaper reports and the information received from certain friends it is evident that Karkare was killed for his honesty and truthfulness. There is no doubt that Karkare and the two officers additional commissioner of police Ashok Kamte and senior inspector Vijay Salaskar were killed because they exposed that the main culprits of terrorist attacks in India was Bhawa Brigade whose real face remained hidden while the Muslims were declared responsible for those attacks. The thief always knows ones own crime, it does not matter whether the police knows it or not. India is supposed to identify terrorists inside its own country as well as across the borders and must deal with them sternly instead of simply blaming others. It is a fact that Bhawa Brigade has been planning to convert India into a Hindu state and it has been nurturing a particular fascist temperament for the same purpose. On the surface there are flowers but inside there is smouldering fire. It is essential to know who is lighting this fire. If the Islamic seminaries in the country are watched with suspicion, it is necessary to watch the activities of the centres closely which are working under the kind patronage of Lal Krishan Advani, Ashok Sanghal, Sadarshan and Praveen Togadiya. South Asia Terrorism Portals report revealed, 231 of Indias 608 districts have been affected by various insurgent terrorist movementscontinued to pose serious challenges to the countrys security framework. It is high time we should pay attention on the Indian law and order situation. India started militia operation against insurgents in Lalgarh tribal region of the west Bengal, and also banned the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M), terming it a terrorist organization in the wake of fresh insurgency by the Maoist insurgents. The CPI-M came into existence following the merger of the Communist Party of India, the Peoples War Group (PWG) and the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC). Several states such as Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh declared the CPI-M an unlawful organization. In the eastern regions, Naxalites have established their writ running large hundreds of villagers. Recently, Maoists intensified their struggle, attacking official installments in the major Indian cities. In this context, on October 31, 2009, the New York Times wrote, Indias Maoist rebels are now present in 20 states and have killed more than 900 62
Indian security officersIndias rapid economic growth has made it an emerging global power but also deepened stark inequalities in society. The Maoist militants oppose the ruling Communist Party of Indias government in Bengal. It is unfortunate that the US and the West do not see any threat of the Indian nukes falling in the hands of insurgents, terrorists or Communists. In addition, wide areas of the country appear to have fallen off the map of good governance, and are acutely susceptible to violent political mobilization, lawlessness and organized criminal activity. It is notable that historical background and religious beliefs, which have formed the habits and national character of Hindus, are quite different from the other ethnic and religious communities. Indians still have a strong belief in the superiority of their race. Indian Hindus are followers of Chanakya (Say some thing else and do some thing else). These facts have been verified by the misdeeds of Hindu fundamentalist parties like the BJP, RSS, VHP, Shiv Sina and Bajrang Dal which have missed no opportunity to communalize national politics of India even under the Congress rule. With the backing of Indian officials, these parties have intensified anti-Christian and anti-Muslim bloodshed in the last decade, coupled with the dissemination of Hidutva. Besides previous genocide of Muslims and destruction of the Babri Mosque, more than 2500 Muslims were massacred in 2002 in the BJPruled Indian state of Gujarat. Regarding that massive genocide, both Human Rights Watch in 2002 and Amnesty International in 2003 charged the Gujarat state administration for involvement in a massive cover-up-of the states role in that massacre and pointed out numerous officials specifically ministers, high officials and leaders of the VHP, BJP and Bajrang Dal as participants. On September 13, 2008, the communal riots in Uttar Pradesh killed more than 200 Muslims. In one of the most tragic incidents in Assam, Hindu extremists burnt alive six members of a Muslim family. Violence has continued against the Muslims from time to time. Similarly, assaults on Christians and their properties have been executed by the Hindu mobs in Orissa, Assam, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. In this respect, at least 60 Christians have been assassinated in the recent past by Hindu extremists in the state of Orissa. Other minorities of India are also target of Hindu terrorism. Under the mask of democracy and secularism, all Indian regimes in sequence, dominated by politicians from the Hindi heartland, have been using brutal force ruthlessly against any move to free Assam, Kashmir, Khalistan, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu and Tripura, where wars of Independence are alive in one form or the other. Indias prime minister met with Naga separatists on March 2, 2010 in an attempt to end one of the South Asian nations longest-running insurgencies. The meeting could not succeed because Indias is offering wide autonomy to the group, though it has already rejected the separatists demand for an independent homeland in northeastern India. The Naga insurgents began fighting more than 50 years ago. As regards the Indian-held Kashmir since 1947, Indian forces have intermittently been employing all the possible techniques of military terrorism, such as curfews, crackdowns, sieges, massacres, targeted killings, etc. to maintain their alien rule. 63
However, under the new puppet regime in the occupied Kashmir, Indian brutalities are continuing during the current phase of Kashmiri uprising, which began on August 12, 2008. In the last two years, more than 3000 unmarked graves of the unidentified bodies were uncovered in villages of Indian-held Kashmir. Sources have suggested that these graves include bodies of extrajudicial executions committed by the Indian military and paramilitary forces. European Parliament strongly condemned India regarding human rights violations in the Occupied Kashmir. In Maharashtra, non-Hindu communities have lived in constant fear and awe since the advent of the fundamentalist party, Shiv Sena, whose chief Bal Thackeray has organized army of hoodlums to beat up any religious minority, openly directing the Hindu terrorists to loot and stone any of their shop or house. Silence of the subsequent governments on every challenge of Shiv Sena and lack of serious action against Thackerays vandalism have clearly defeated the secular echoes of India, which is in fact a secular terrorist state. More alarming point is that Bajrang Dal has also been imparting arms training to its members near Ayodhya. It is mentionable that ideology of Hindu nationalism prevails in every field at the cost of other minorities. It is even supported by Indian defence forces clandestinely. This fact could be judged from the recent past, when on April 6, 2008 in the house of Bajrang Dal fundamentalists in Nanded, a bomb went off. The investigations proved that the militants belonging to the Bajrang Dal were found in the bomb-making and attack on a mosque in Parbhani in 2003. Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra arrested a serving Lt. Col. Srikant Purohit along with other army officials, indicating that they were helping in training the Hindu terrorists, providing them with the military-grade explosive RDX, used in the Malegaon bombings and terrorist attacks in other Indian cities. ATS further disclosed that Lt. Col. Purohit confessed that in 2007 he was involved in bombing of Samjhota Express, which burnt alive 69 Pakistanis. Leaders of the Indian extremist parties, Shiv Sena, BJP, VHP and RSS are now pressurizing the Congress regime to release the culprits. Before thee revelations about Hindu terrorism, Indian government has been accusing the Islamic organizations in contact with Pakistani or Bangladeshi intelligence agencies in carrying out bomb blasts in Malegaon and other Indian places. As regard Hindu terrorism, BBC indicated on November 21, 2008 that a new phrase has entered the sometimes clich-riddled Indian press: Hindu terrorism, calling it the latest addition to the media lexicon. It is now clear that instead of taking action, New Delhi has been using Hindu terrorists to create frenzy against the other religious communities. Most dangerous point is that Hindu terrorists with the support of Indian army and their intelligence agency RAW, would try to get weapons of mass destruction and will use them in the US and major European states in order to show that Muslim radicals or al Qaeda-related insurgents have performed this sinister job. While Hindu extremists, with the backing of RAW have already started a nefarious strategic game in destabilizing Pakistan by creating insurgency in the K-P Province, and backing separatist elements in Balochistan. In fact, there is a co-relationship of the Hindutva and Hindu fundamentalism, which is the genesis of Hindu terrorism. Nonetheless, Hindu terrorism is on the rise, which 64
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Indian courts have tried to educate those who claim to have been hurt. It observes; A painter has his own perspective of looking at things and it cannot be the basis of initiating criminal proceedings against him. In India, new Puritanism is being carried out in the name of cultural purity and a host of ignorant people are vandalizing art and pushing us towards the pre-renaissance era. A painter at 90s deserves to be sitting at his home and painting his canvas (rather than living in exile). Another ruling says: There are so many such subjects, photographs and publications. Will you [complainant] file cases against all of them? It is art. If you dont want to see it, then dont see it. There are so many such art forms in the [Hindu] temple structures. Mr. Ali Murtaza Syed while commenting on the migration of Mr. M.F. Hussain writes: When I learnt that one of the most celebrated artists of India, Maqbool Fida Hussain has taken up the nationality of Qatar to escape from the Hindu zealots who have been gunning for his life, there was a feeling of remorse. It was not because he was known to me or I am an admirer to his paintings, but simply because he has been such a colourful personality in India and I have practically grown up reading about his activities. Now when I realize he will no more be gossiped about in the media as before, a stream of thought flows my memory lane at various points of my life. It was exactly 1980, when I first saw M.F. Hussain. That was when I was an undergraduate student in AMU, Aligarh. Hussain had come there to finalize the huge cutouts to adore the front entrance of the geography department. The campus was abuzz with the news of his arrival and we rushed from the arts block to the Kennedy Hall, where his older work greets the visitors. I had a chance to see him in real flesh and blood. He was wearing white kurta-pajama and sported long white beard. The only intriguing part of his personality was, he was bare footed! As usual it happens in AMU, such personalities are mobbed by the students and Hussain was no exception. I saw him waving hands as he was escorted into a car that drove him out of the campus. My second encounter with MF Hussain was at JNU, New Delhi, in 1987 where I was a PhD student. This again was just a coincidence when one evening I saw Hussain walking with few Professors outside the Kaveri Hostel. This time he had trimmed his beard and had short hairs. In fact, I was walking from the opposite side but could not realize who he was. Again, his trademark, the barefooted man, rang bells into my ears. By the time I realized he was MF Hussain, I saw him driving a car, and moving out of my sight. I saw Hussain for the third time in 1995 when I was in Hyderabad working as a city reporter. One evening after attending a press conference at the Hyderabad secretariat, I was returning to my Secundrabad office in a bus when it got flat tires. Since, it was an important assignment, and I had to reach my office quickly and so I decided to walk the bridge over the Hussain Sagar Lake. It was a breezy evening, and I was enjoying my stroll. Suddenly from somewhere, when I was on the middle of the bridge, I saw Mercedes Benz very slowly moving by my side. In the back seat, I saw a man wearing white Kurta-Pajama complementing the white beard. 68
The car was so slow, that I was almost walking with it. My mind was racing, searching the memory files to locate this character sitting on the back seat. By the time I could realize he was M F Hussain, his car sped past me. I was seeing from the rear glass of the car the image of M F Hussain fading out of my sight. Well that was the last time I saw the man who is called the Picasso of India. Since then his images use to adorn my sight through the pages on magazines and newspapers and I could feel he was there somewhere a part and parcel of the Indian social life. Now when I realize he has been hounded out and forced to take residence in a city of another country, I feel I may not be able to follow him as before. The forces of bigotry and intimidation have won against those who hold liberal views. In the simple words, the Indian Taliban have got the trophy, while their counterparts from across the border are busy making the headlines for the newspapers. Hussains time of troubles started since 1996, when a Hindi monthly published an inflammatory article on his paintings done in 1970s. This led to a slew of criminal cases filed against him, alleging that the artist has hurt the Hindus sentiments. The painter was harassed by the fanatical mobs; the exhibitions of his work were vandalized, and about 900 cases filed against him. The magnitude of the protest against M F Hussain suggests the organized and entrenched strength of the Hindutva forces is in this country. This makes me ponder how long those who uphold the secular, plural and democratic values will allow such forces to have a free run? How long we may be delegating the responsibility to the government to keep such elements under check? To me, its time those opposing such regressive forces, have to be equally organized if we want to make India an oasis of peace and harmony. M F Hussains son Owais Husain, a film maker-writer-painter-rationalizes the predicament of his father. My father is older than modern independent India. As a child he struggled to make ends meet. During British India he painted slogans against the colonial rulers. In independent India, he painted pictures that sold for astronomical sums of money. He didnt plan any of this. He didnt plan his exile in Dubai and now his citizenship in Qatar. His life has been charted by destiny. Some have argued that many undeserving individuals in the country have been given red level security, why not M F Hussain? Its the duty of the government to provide security to its national icon. To this there runs a counter argument; why should a creative person be living in captivity watched by hosts of security guards. How can he work in such a claustrophobic atmosphere? Hussain is justified for his action because it is important at this stage of his life to have a sense of belongingness. There are others who feel that a national campaign should be launched to request the distinguished artist to return home. Notwithstanding this, the fact remains that M F Hussain undoubtedly is one of the top most celebrities in the field of painting that India has produced in modern times. The irony is, even after being acknowledged so, he is haunted out of the country, forced to live in exile, and eventually have to take a foreign nationality. 69
However, these arguments do not placate those who maintain their distinct line of thought and like to compete with the Talibans from across the border in such matters. Its a major victory for them as they have forced M F Hussain to accept a foreign nationality. Its a real shame for those who uphold liberal, secular, plural and democratic values that failed to keep its national icon in its motherland.
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Thackerays attacks on northern Indians, realized that his Samaj Wadi Party can revive again if he starts talking of the provincial prejudices of northern Indians. No one can tell who will succeed in this tug of war between Raj Thackeray and Abu Asim in Maharashtra. But it is clear that the leaders like Raj Thackeray and Abu Asim have been using successfully this mixture of provincialism and animosity, and they aim at winning the provincial elections in Maharashtra at the end of this year. Only the election results there will tell whether Raj Thackeray succeeds like Modi or not. But it is clear, the future of Indias national parties like Congress and Bhartia Junta Party is becoming misty and dark. Both these national parties have now been confined to a few provinces only. The political vacuum created by this shrinkage of a national party like Congress is being filled with the politics of regionalism and personalities. Raj Thackeray, like the Gujrati leader Narinder Modi, is a symbol of the increasing provincial feelings in Indian politics, and if the people like Raj Thackeray and Modi continued winning, the influence of the centre on national politics would go on decreasing and that of regional leaders would go on increasing. It means that like the last days of the Mughals, the influence of Delhi in India is decreasing and the influence of provinces and provincial leaders is increasing. Let us see which way the wind blows in the next parliamentary elections.
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further said that all legal procedures were adopted for procurement of the planes. The statement of the Indian air chief further made the matter suspicious. Panama Company Kaiser which has already accessed the French court in this matter is notorious for these kinds of bargains. In 1989, Rajiv Gandhi, the ex-prime minister of India was involved in the kickbacks in the purchase of Bofors Guns for the Indian army from a Swedish company, Bofors. Another ex-prime minister of India Narsima Rao was also declared criminal by a court in corruption cases in 2000. In March 2001, a web site Tehlka dot com and a news agency Off Line shook the world by pointing out the defence scandals involving key politicians and several other high-ups of the Indian government. Two of their journalists went to the BJP officials as defence traders with plans of selling defence equipments. The government officials not only expressed their interest but also demanded bribery. While they were demanding inducement, the journalists secretly filmed them and, when the secret was exposed, the Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes had to resign. It was another story when he was again appointed on the post of a minister, and succeeded in victimizing workers of the Tehlka dot com. Corruption among officers has converted Indian armed forces into rogue forces. Indian Army is now the most corrupted institution in the region and in most of the cases, officers even senior ones are involved in sexual harassment, bribe, selling military secrets, terrorizing and kidnapping people and smuggling weapons. Lieutenant General Avadesh Parkash, who had been the military secretary at the Army Headquarters in New Delhi till recently, was the latest in the list of the top commanders found guilty on various charges of corruption after a court of inquiry established his involvement in a land scam in Sukna Cantonment in West Bengal. He was found guilty, along with another officer of the same rank, PK Rath, who was designated the deputy chief of army staff, of conspiring to give a no-objection certificate to an educational institution to get land near the cantonment. In early 2007, two lieutenant generals of the Army Service Corps (ASC), S.K. Dahiya and S.K. Sahni, were indicted in two separate cases involving irregularities in the procurement of dry rations for troops posted in Jammu & Kashmir. In 2009, two major generals of the Army Ordinance Corps (AOC), Anand Swaroop and S.P. Sinha, faced separate charges of irregularities in the purchase of stores. The list of officers facing charges of indiscipline and corruption include Major General B.P.S. Mander, who was charged with irregularities in the procurement of dry rations. Two other major generals, K.T.G. Nambiar and Rana Goswami, were convicted of financial irregularities in a case relating to the Central Command. Another dangerous aspect of the roguishness of Indian armed forces is their close links with extremist groups, including RSS, Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena for targeting the members of minority communities in the country. A glaring example of such links is Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Purohit, who was involved in Malegaon blasts in 2008, and Samjhauta Express explosions in 2007 in which several people, majority of them Muslims, were killed. 77
hotel authorities. Whatever strategy the Indian army may adopt to appease its soldiers posted on Indo-Pak borders and, particularly, in occupied Kashmir cannot work. Indian soldiers are incapable to crush freedom movement of Kashmiri youth. They dont have the courage to confront them. The thoughts of Mujahidin shake their bodies and they go into a psychological comma which is regarded by Indian army psychologists as mental stress and boredom. Women have to work hard to save their skin. How can they save lives of other Indian soldiers? If some Mujahid of an orthodox group sees men and women soldiers working together, then the chances of life are further decreased. Hindus could not get respect of women even after many hundred years of Muslim dominance. They at least should give respect to women to even a lesser extent of being in homes. In fact poverty has reached to such an extent in India that the parents of these 300 women soldiers were ready to send their daughters posted at border areas. There is no doubt that women today are advancing shoulder to shoulder in every field of life and performing even higher services in some sectors, but despite that women have a respectful place that every civilized society reserves for them.
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destroyed the political reputation of Ex-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his image of being Mister Clean was tarnished at the public level. George Fernandes stubbornness is matchless regarding these scandals. George Fernandes was at the top of the list among the individuals who made financial benefits from the Kargil War between Pakistan and India. He earned commission in the import of steel-coffins for the Indian soldiers who were killed during that war. In the purchase of the coffins high ranked army officers also took full advantage.
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when they are ordered to go to Occupied Kashmir from different cantonments. They prefer to resign instead of going to Kashmir front for military duty. In Occupied Kashmir, about 700,000 soldiers are appointed. About fifty soldiers die and many get injured every month. The soldiers are too terrified that they hide their faces when they hear the name of Kashmir. Last year, it was told that a large number of soldiers committed suicide on account of some unreasonable conditions. The incidents of rebellion and disobedience have happened in the Indian Air Force on a large scale. In February 1998, the engineers, the technicians and the pilots rebelled openly on account of low increment in their salaries, whereas their wives surrounded the office of the Chief of Air force. There is always conflict on some matters among the three forces of India, which is a source of tension for the Indian government. Not only this but also the stories of negligence and corruption are published in the newspapers every day. On account of it, the image of the Indian army is deteriorating day by day. Whereas, the morale of the Indian army has fallen due to their involvement in immoral crimes.
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the real face of Indian hypocrisy. Projection through media is not a bad thing, but sending cheating messages to the world for vested interests is not only immoral and wicked but illegal and devious. Indian democracy is actually a fraud in which might is right is the prevalent law, while minorities and non-Hindu communities are denied their very fundamental rights. Caste system, Hindu extremism, deep prejudice and discriminations based on creed and status, acrimonious political malice, institutional corruption, illegitimate occupation of disputed land, especially, Kashmir and Sikkim, and related genocide, human rights violations and above all natural and traditional animosity for foreigners and non-Indians, with a crude blend of religious hatred, are some of the aspects which represent the real worth of Indian democracy. Hence, it would not be out of sync to conclude that India is more irresponsible than being projected as incredible. The world must objectively see the real functioning of Indian democracy (Hindu chauvinism) and discrimination against Dalits, Maleechh and other minorities, including Muslims and Christians. As an irresponsible state, India not only targets its own nationals, but also tends to coerce its neighbours, besides having general feelings of rancour and resentment for non-Hindus. Recently, India decided to resume peace talks with Pakistan and, therefore, invited Pakistan to participate in secretary-level talks in India. The secretarylevel talks took place, but the outcome was discouraging, as India showed its double face by maintaining its intransigence to press its irrational demands on terrorism, while keeping the core issues of Kashmir and water terrorism out of focus. India once again managed to sabotage the secretary-level talks and failed to create the environment and resume a composite dialogue. Will India realize its unjust and irresponsible stance is the multimillion question? India must show magnanimity matching its size.
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Occupied Kashmir. Regarding this issue, there have been debates in the UN and other notable forums. And the atrocities on Kashmiris and ineffectiveness of UN resolutions have been lamented. If India becomes a member of the Security Council with a veto power, it will create serious apprehensions and dangers for international peace. That is why, the Russian President Putin, during his visit to India has clarified that he is not in favour of giving India the right of veto, but is only in favour of its membership.
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If we analyze the incidents of terrorism in Balochistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, we find many proofs of Indian involvement and interference in local affairs and its support to militants. Along with Indian agents many drug smugglers also enter in these areas and through these smugglers arms, illegal currency, prohibited literature and many anti-religious and anti-Pakistan materials are brought and spread in the country. As a result, the law and order situation is getting from bad to worse. India has established its consulates in the southern provinces of Herat, Jalalabad and Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan, which are always engaged in anti-Pakistan activities. Apart from it, Indian army officers are training young people in Afghanistan, who will never be well-wishers of Pakistan rather they will act as mercenaries. India is increasing its forces in Afghanistan quite imperceptibly. An Indian company named Border Road Organization which is busy in the construction and maintenance of roads in Afghanistan, para-military force for its protection and a huge number of Black Cat Commandos have already been sent to Afghanistan. India knows that the resources of Central Asia can only be accessed by road networks. Afghanistan is providing the best opportunities for Indian construction companies. In the past Indian sympathies were with the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, which did not like to hear the very name of Taliban and Pakistan. Now India is trying its best to increase its influence in Afghanistan, to destabilize the country and spreading hatred against Pakistan by using local tribes and warlords in Afghanistan. We want to tell the Afghan leadership to be aware of the conspiracies and negative propaganda of India. So far as the Afghanis are concerned, they must remember that actions speak louder than words. It is the need of the hour that they should restrain Indian activities there as mere usage of decorative words is not enough. It is not only the responsibility of Pakistan to maintain peace in the region, but the other countries must also play their role. The sooner India and Afghanistan realize it, the better it is. If the leadership of these countries does not adopt a responsible attitude the situation of South Asia will be dangerous and peace will not prevail in the region. The government and elements which took control of Afghanistan after the ouster of Taliban were friends and well-wishers of India. Their enmity against Pakistan was quite apparent because they thought that the Taliban were the creation of Pakistan and a symbol of the hegemony of Pakhtoons. The ground reality is this that Kabul, Qandhar, Herat, and Jalalabad have become centres of the agents of RAW, and the Afghan defence and foreign ministries and intelligence agencies are replete with elements who are Pakistans enemies. They are busy in destabilizing and committing terrorist activities in the neighbouring country. The Indian consulates and training centres of RAW were established in Afghanistan, whereas Pakistani consulates were looted and burnt and attacked several times. The country which had a long tradition of brotherly relations with 90
Afghanistan and was quite indispensable with respect to religion and region became a stranger for the Afghans. The Pakistanis, who played the role of a host for their Afghan brothers and sacrificed for them, have been neglected completely and their hospitality and sacrifices have altogether been forgotten, and India has become the patron in-charge of the Afghans. India has initiated a pernicious campaign to waylay the staunch religious Afghans. The new Indian government is spending huge amount of funds & lots of money for this purpose. The Muslims of Afghanistan have deep love for Islam and practice religion in their day to day life. The Congress government in India has started a project of waylaying the innocent Afghan Muslims and to drive them away from religious and moral values. The Indian government is giving incentives to the Afghan people to give up Islamic values and convert to Hinduism or non-Islamic thoughts. It wants to desecrate the religious and moral values of Afghanis so that they can be easily turned against Pakistan and against their own true Islamic virtues. It provides financial aids to the poor Afghanis as an incentive to convert them to Hindu values and beliefs. Schools and hospitals are being set up in different areas of Afghanistan to waylay the Muslims of Afghanistan with the help of the Hindu staff. Pakistan government has also verified that Indian RAW is involved in the incidents of Balochistan, Karachi, and Waziristan. In the border areas of Balochistan and NWFP, the agents of RAW collaborate with the local traitors and indulge in bomb blasts. In this way India creates misunderstandings between Pakistan and Afghanistan to distort their bilateral relations and consolidate its presence in the region.
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of fire took place in connection with many terrorist incidents as the militants reached their targets with the latest weapons. In this respect, on March 3, 2009, terrorists targeted the bus of the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore and killed eight people after a continuous gunfire. Pakistani officials confirmed that grenades and rocket launchers had been recovered which were of foreign origin. Afterwards, official inquiry disclosed that RAW was behind that attack. Besides on March 30 last year, more than 10 terrorists raided the Manawan Police Training Centre, Lahore leaving at least 12 dead. After eight hours of gun-battle, Pakistans security forces regained control of the police academy, capturing five terrorists alive. On May 27, 2010 more than 30 people were killed in Lahore when an explosive-laden Suzuki van exploded near the Rescue 15 building of the police which was completely destroyed. It also damaged the building of the Lahore Capital City Police Office (CCPO) and that of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) which was the main target, but could not be hit due to heavy firing by the security guards on the terrorists who came along with the vehicle firing at the security guards. Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaulah had stated on the same day that the Indian involvement in suicide attacks in Lahore cannot be ruled out. Similar types of terror tactics were applied by the culprits in relation to the Pearl Continental Hotel, Peshawar where more than 20 persons had been killed. Another guerrilla technique of the RAW-trained terrorists is that they camouflage themselves by wearing the uniform of Pakistani security forces so as to deceive the security guards and to get inside the targeted point for conducting their assigned task. In this connection, last year, UNs World Food Program in Islamabad was attacked by a suicide bomber who was wearing an official uniform, evaded tight security and killed five people. Again, the militants who attacked the GHQ on October 10, 2009, were wearing army uniforms. In fact, during the past 10 months, Pakistans security forces have broken the backbone of the suicide bombers by arresting most of their commanders and insurgents, while thwarting a number of suicide missions through pre-arrests. But RAW, with technological support of Israel has succeeded in training the new fugitives who are regularly being sent to Pakistan with orders of destabilizing our country. Now, this fact is known to everyone that Pakistan is the only nuclear country in the Islamic world. Hence, US, Israel and India want to weaken it by creating lawlessness for achieving their secret strategic interests. Notably, Pakistans civil and military high officials have openly revealed that Indian secret agency, RAW, Israeli Mossad and other foreign agencies are involved in supporting insurgency in the Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, separatism in Balochistan and subversive acts in Karachi and Lahore. On June 28, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa governor Awais Ghani disclosed that some world powers were trying to divide Pakistan, adding that if he were not a governor, he would have exposed them. In this context, on April 23, 2009, in the in-camera sitting of the Senate, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik displayed documentary evidence of the Indian use of Afghanistan to create 93
unrest in Pakistan. During the ongoing military operations, some of our high officials repeatedly pointed out that the late Baitullah Mehsud, chief of the TTB, who was killed in a US drone attack on August 5, last year had been backed by the foreign powers. He was having a number of secrets regarding foreign intelligence agencies. Nevertheless, like Baitullah, his successor, Hakimullah Mehsud was also a collective agent of RAW and CIA. While playing a double game like his paymasters, his real aim is to incite the innocent Pakhtoons in order to further weaken Pakistan. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmud Qureshi and the ISPR spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas have repeatedly stated that they have concrete evidence of Indian support to terrorism in Pakistan through Afghanistan. At present, apart from other volatile regions, the military operation has succeeded in South Waziristan, but India with the tactical help of the US has also intensified its strategy to sabotage the same through clandestine tactics applied by its Waziristan-based agents. It is of particular attention that on October 7, 2009, BBC telecasted a documentary regarding the eighth anniversary of the US-led NATO invasion of Afghanistan. It stated, Now this war is being fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it will soon spread to Pakistan. Nonetheless, RAW has launched a secret war inside Pakistan by inciting the militants through various techniques of propaganda, supported by the subversive acts of guerilla warfare.
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It is now evident that India is Pakistans eternal enemy and it is a fact that right from the creation of Pakistan the Indian leaders had started claiming that within six years Pakistan would be quite helpless and it would rejoin India or will be a failed state. In the beginning India wanted to anchor its warships at the coast of Makran to capture this strategic location so that it could satisfy its expansionist designs of reaching the Gulf States and Muscat. The Soviet Union was to help it in this regard. But Quaid-iAzam was well aware of the Indians intention and evil plan. There were different groups in Balochistan in the beginning with their own interests. One of them thought of annexing Balochistan with Afghanistan, whereas the other group was lobbying for Congress and wanted to join India. At that crucial moment, Quaids wisdom came in to play and Balochistan was annexed to Pakistan. At that time, the Soviet Union also wanted to gain access to Makran to capture the coast of Gwadar, and its access to hot waters through Makran coast, and India was supposed to side with it. When Pakistan was created, the USSR or Soviet Union contacted the Khan of Qalat (or ruler of Kalat State now part of province of Balochistan) Ameer Muhammad Khan through their agents and told him that they wanted to extend Qalat to Muscat. The Sultan of Muscat informed Pakistan. Sardar Abdul Rab Nishtar was in Balochistan in those days. He was informed about it. When the Wali of Makran (Ruler of Makran State now part of Balochistan province) Meer Mahmood Khan Lehki came to know about it, he at once declared to join Pakistan. He advised the same to the Khan of Qalat. It failed the vicious designs of our enemies. He also predicted that a time would come when Gwadar, Pasni and Marha (cities in Balochistan province) would be a junction on the road to Central and West Asia and Europe and many new cities would emerge from this land. But, at the end of the cold war between Soviet Union (USSR) and America, America increased the number of its priorities in Central Asia and the way to it was through Pasni Marha Gwadar. At this moment, India is playing its role on Americas instigation and would fight until Americas presence in Afghanistan. India, Israel and America all three of them are trying to get access and control on Pakistans nuclear assets. Indian, Israeli and American arms are being used in NWFP, Swat, Buner, Malakand, South and North Waziristan Agencies and Balochistan, and many of those who have been killed or arrested are Indians, Afghans and Kurds who were involved in terrorist activities in Pakistan. General Pervez Musharraf had imposed restrictions on Kashmiri mujahideen. We should review our Kashmir agenda to teach India a lesson, because India has openly been playing its anti-Pakistan role on the behest of the present Afghan government. India has been stressing upon other countries to pressurize Pakistan for a dialogue while itself it is the wolf in sheeps clothing. Our government should think before taking any step. The only way to maintain peace in Balochistan is that we should not try to change the sardari or local Tribal Jirga system there, because people there are getting easy justice in this system and they are not satisfied with the formal judicial system. If the sardari system were unjust, people would have stopped respecting the sardars, but the tribal sardars consider 95
the people as their slaves. The Indian secret agency RAW (Research and Analysis Wing)s former chief B Raman has described the present terrorism in Balochistan as a liberation movement, thus, believing that the situation in Balochistan is an internal problem of India, he stressed upon the Indian government to support the terrorists. And, with a view to making the so-called liberation movement successful, India has established forty terrorist training camps in Balochistan where every terrorist is being given Rs 10,000 every month and training in terrorist acts against law enforcement agencies of Pakistan. The Indian consulate in Kandahar province is the headquarters of RAWs terrorist planning in Afghanistan; otherwise, there is no justification of a consulate in such a far flung area of Afghanistan. All the transport of Indian goods and citizens is through Jalalabad. The only aim of opening the Indian consulate in Kandahar is to ensure Indias intervention for terrorism in Balochistan. Indias secret agency, in compliance with anti-Pakistan elements in the Northern Alliance, is doing everything. No one is ignorant about the game that India and its other foreign allies are playing in Balochistan. But the simple and proud Balochi people do not know that, with the help of Israel, a so-called government of greater Balochistan has been established. There is an organization of Balochistan on an international level, and, while announcing the establishment of a government-in-exile of Balochistan, a map has also been drawn in which Baloch settlements in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran have been pointed out and marked as separate country. If some Baloch leaders consider India and Israel as their friends, they should review Indias role in Israel and Occupied Kashmir. The only aim of the Hindu Unity Organizations so-called Baloch Liberation Movement (BLM) on the internet is to use the extremist Baloch youth for Indian interests and to create new problems for Pakistan by strengthening the anti-Punjabi feelings of the Baloch youth. This website is in contact with the waylaid Baloch leaders and with a view to creating mini nationalist states in Pakistan, the extremist Hindu organizations and Indian institutions have been intensifying terrorism in this part of Pakistan. The formation of a government-inexile with the help of India and Israel is an Indian conspiracy which only the Baloch people and Pakistan government can foil. India has always been airing the flame of conspiracy in Balochistan. The former RAW chief B Raman has described it as Indias historical and moral duty to help those separatist forces in Balochistan who have been fighting against the Pakistani government. This blatant lie was spread that the cause of Pakistan forces present operation in Balochistan were the Hindu Balochs whom the provincial government of Balochistan wanted to send in exile, and that the Baloch nationalists had shielded them against air strikes, and that they very tactfully and boldly started destroying Gas installations in Sui area of Balochistan and railway tracks to divert Pakistan forces attention from the Hindu Balochis. These disruptive activities of some angry Baloch leaders and their supporters in Balochistan started a few years ago when the federal government started construction of the Gwadar port and a network of roads there. In fact, this was the first time since 1947 when the government, instead of doing a lip service, started the development work without consulting the Baloch sardars. It was like a challenge to 96
the Sardari system. But the Baloch Sardars should understand that the world has changed. How can a region remain in darkness when modern eras lights are all around? The world is fast becoming a global village. Then how can the people of Balochistan stay away from the rest of the world? They remained illiterate and uneducated by choice and by omission. But their children deserve to be educated through technology as much as the children of the other provinces do. They have every right on medical facilities and means of transport and communications. The Sardari system and feudal system cannot survive for too long. Both India and Israel are involved in the conspiracy of greater Balochistan. But India should think that Pakistan has got the shield of the two-nation theory whereas India has got no such shield. The citizens of more than half a dozen Indian states do not consider themselves as Hindus. They want to separate from India as the Muslims did because they have their own separate and distinct identities. Their religion, their culture and their civilizational background are not the same as those of the Indian Brahmans. They have got their own languages and their own ways of life. Therefore, only a strong Pakistan can guarantee the security of a federation of India. The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, in light of the principles of mutual peaceful existence and the regional, national and international integration, insists that we would not allow Pakistani soil to be used for terrorism and for against any neighbouring country. The same thing we expect from our neighbours they should not allow their soil to be used against Pakistan or any other country. The best principle is that neither should you interfere in the affairs of the others, nor should the others interfere in your affairs. If our neighbours and all the other countries on the planet make it their motto of not to interfere in the affairs of others nor allowing their lands to be used for direct or indirect disruption and terrorism in other countries, many of the differences and rifts among them would automatically die out. Our Prime Minister met the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the Non-Align Movement (NAAM) Conference held in Sharm-el Shaikh, Egypt in July 2009 and exchanged views and agreed on the need of restoration of comprehensive dialogues on all issues including cooperative actions to end terrorism, the Kashmir issue and Mumbai attacks. The most important of all these was the use of the land of Afghanistan by India for intervention in Balochistan. About the Indian intervention in Balochistan, Sardar Manmohan Singh said that he would consider it if Pakistan provides them concrete proofs. At this, Prime Minister Gilani provided Manmohan Singh copies of important proofs and evidences of Indian involvement in Balochistan. On seeing them, the Indian Prime Minister remained silent and surprised for some time. It was due to the importance of these proofs and evidences that they were included in the Pak-India joint declaration, which was later talked about so vehemently in India. The anti-government parties, along with the media, started satirizing and chastening Manmohan Singh and said that by mentioning the Indian intervention in Balochistan in the joint declaration, the Indian Prime Minister had testified and confirmed the Pakistani allegations. That is why BBC, while commenting on the meeting of the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers, said that a 97
weathered politician like Manmohan Singh was defeated by a comparatively younger prime minister of a country which was confronting problems of diverse nature and that Mr Gilani had succeeded in entrapping his Indian counterpart. BBC said it in its analysis that while trading with Pakistan, Mr Singh gave more and gained less. Prime Minister Gilani was criticized in Pakistan for not mentioning the Kashmir issue in the joint declaration. The Pakistani foreign office explained that though this issue was not included in the joint declaration, it was discussed in detail on the dialogue table. Those who are aware of the demands of diplomacy know that such conversations are always recorded. The proofs that the Indian Prime Minister was provided with at Sharm-el-Shaikh 2009 showed that India, in compliance with Israel, had established about 14 consulates in Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, where, apart from the Afghanis, some Israeli and American nationals too have been appointed. In these consulates, training of terrorism and disruption is being imparted to the people, especially to the people of Balochistan. Moreover, funds and latest Indian, Israeli and American weapons are also being given to them. During his meeting with the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Prime Minister Gilani also provided to him many useful proofs about the Afghan land being used against Pakistan. Apart from that, the Federal Home Minister Rahman Malik also met Afghanistans President Hamid Karzai and some other concerned Afghan officials and provided them with proofs of sabotaging activities in Balochistan. Rahman Malik in these meetings insisted that Nawabzada Brahamdagh Bugti had been leading the dissidence from Afghanistan and demanding the liberation of Balochistan in other countries. He demanded that Nawabzada Brahamdagh Bugti should be handed over to Pakistan. Hamid Karzai assured that full cooperation would be done with Pakistan. He would investigate Nawabzada Brahamdagh Bugtis activities and if he is found guilty, action would be taken against him. The Federal Interior Minister Mr. Rahman Malik added that the Afghan government had assured him of full cooperation about handing over Brahamdagh Bugti to Pakistan and about eliminating the training camps there. The Foreign Office spokesman announced that Pakistan had decided to raise the issue of Indian intervention at the United Nations. All proofs and evidences would be provided to the United Nations. But the Indian Foreign Minister said that the joint declaration of the prime ministers of India and Pakistan had no legal or documentary status. But the world must know that joint declarations are always prepared with the mutual agreement of parties concerned. The Indian Prime Minister admitted the Indian intervention in Balochistan and he was quite upset when he saw the proofs and evidences and he remained silent. They were then included in the joint declaration with his consent. Nawab Khair Bukhsh Marris son Balach Marri died in an armys attack by NATO forces in Afghanistan. The Baloch circles around him expressed their grief on this incident. Balach Marri had gone to Afghanistan from Balochistan some time back. He had formed the so-called Balochistan Liberation Army (known as BLA). It must be remembered that the Governor of Kandahar, Asadullah Khan, had admitted a few days earlier that some Baloch leaders had been residing there. Balach Marris death in a NATO attack is regrettable. NATO forces usually 98
attack the civilians and many civilians die in such attacks. It is also regrettable that some Baloch elements have gotten refuge in Afghanistan and they have been playing in the hands of Indian diplomats for disruption and terrorism in Pakistan. Balach Muri was in the shelter of the Afghan government, even then the NATO forces killed him. Patriotic circles believe that RAW was involved in his murder. India has been playing a double role in Afghanistan. Indian diplomats there and RAW agents explode bombs at different places and accuse Pakistan and the Taliban. On the other hand they send some Baloch young men to Balochistan and the frontier areas for terrorism after training them for disruption. RAW wants to create chaos and instability in Balochistan and the tribal areas. The Indian way of intervening in the internal affairs of the neighbouring countries and weakening them internally is not new. They have been doing it since 1947, especially in Pakistan and other smaller countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Indias secret agency RAW has been working on it in a much organized way. Its consulates in Afghanistan have been providing these people every sort of help and aid. There are proofs to the effect that RAWs agents have been involved in organized activities of disruption in Balochistan. India has fixed its evil eyes on Balochistan. It opened in haste a consulate in Kandahar after the opening of a consulate in Kabul, the aim of which is to intervene in the affairs of Balochistan. It is also learnt that the Balochistan Liberation Army had received a huge amount from the Indian consulate in Kandahar to purchase arms. India is sending terrorists to Balochistan after training them in Afghanistan to spread chaos, create law and order situation and insecurity among people. India has increased its diplomatic, military and intelligence staff in Afghanistan. Apart from its embassy in Kabul, it has consulates in the provinces of Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar Sharif in Afghanistan and Balochistan in Pakistan. These consulates are big centres of Indias subversive activities against Pakistan. The Afghan land is being used against Pakistan. Indian consulates have started subversive activities in Pakistan, especially in Balochistan and Sindh and in tribal areas. India has been encouraging and supporting the Baloch rebels and militants and also supplying money and other resources to militant outfits operating from Balochistan. The centre of Indian conspiracies is Afghanistans province of Kandahar. Many of its branches have been opened in other provinces of Afghanistan too, where unemployed kidnapped young people are being instigated against their own country for money. The aim of RAWs subversive activities is to destroy the atmosphere of foreign investment. For this India has been patronizing the angry elements in Balochistan. Pakistan wants to maintain peaceful relationships with its neighbouring countries. It does not want to interfere in the affairs of others. It is regrettable that the Indian secret agency RAW, in compliance with the Afghan government, is involved in bomb explosions and suicide attacks in Balochistan and it is patronizing the Baloch rebels and providing them with funds. It seems that Hamid Karzai too is following the same motto under Indian patronage. In spite of Pakistans clear role against terrorism, he is hurling baseless accusations against Pakistan. 99
strategic space by engaging it constructively. Proponents of this school of thought argue that as and when India had a life time chance, or would have such a chance against Pakistan, she did not and would not want to miss it. Unfortunately, this notion draws support from historic occurrences. India diverted Pakistans attention away from western borders at a critical stage of Afghan resistance against Soviets. A national level exercise Brass Tacks was launched with highly provocative objectives, this exercise had the potential of blowing up into full-fledged war. This manoeuvre, presumably on Soviet behest forced Pakistan to deploy its military on the eastern border in a full readiness status. Once again now when Pakistan is engaged in facilitation of a workable arrangement in post de-occupation Afghanistan, India is comprehensively involved in a wide spectrum of stabbing in the back kind of activities. India is striving for a larger than life role in Afghanistan; effort is mainly motivated by the instinct to acquire a launching pad for destabilizing the western stretch of Pakistan. Incontrovertible evidence of Indian involvement in Baluchistan and many other incidents of terrorism in various parts of Pakistan support the notion that India is yet once again on a Pakistan squeezing spree. When we review the Indian military capability and postulate its various employment options in the regions, clear perception which emerges is that a major bulk of its war material is Pakistan specific. Systems capabilities as well as supporting infrastructure are indicative of their exclusive suitability against Pakistan. Location of command and control centres and their tasking is Pakistan oriented. Even those command centres which are east or north poised have a Pakistan specific contingency tasking. Most of Indian missiles are of short range, hence their application is Pakistan biased. Indias mammoth wherewithal for mechanized warfare and ambitious naval flotilla are solely Pakistan focused, China bogie has frequently been raised by India to achieve two objectives; first, to justify its larger than life arsenal, and secondly, to capitalize on mythical western concerns in the context of China. In cold war era, erstwhile Soviets also had unfounded reservations about the rise of China as a major power, hence India squarely exploited it. Indeed India presented itself mercenary of both super powers of that era to contain China. Indias focus has all along been Pakistan. In fact after the humiliating defeat in Indo-Chinese war of 1962, India has permanently abdicated the military option against China. Moreover, an exceptionally prudent policy of China makes the likelihood of any China-India military clash highly improbable. China even did not react to provocative statement of General Deepak Kapoor while he was day dreaming to fight China and Pakistan simultaneously and gain strategic advantage within 96 hours. Indeed Indian military capability is predominantly Pakistan centric, this coupled with volatile anti-Pakistan public frenzy, duly patronized by the state, makes it dangerous proposition for the well wisher of good Pak-India relation to ignore.
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been shedding the innocent blood of millions of Kashmiri men, women, children and young people albeit their right of self-determination has been recognized at international level. No doubt at the moment India, according to Islam, is a combatant infidel. Those of the Pakistani leaders who think of or recommend having friendly, commercial or cultural relationships with India are violating the teachings of the Quran. The much awaited verdict on the Kasab trial in India finally came and it was no surprise, given how the deck was loaded against him from the start. He was found guilty on all 86 charges, including murder and waging war against India. The two Indians accused of helping him were acquitted. Judge M.L. Tahiliyanis verdict, that Kasab was a member of Lashkar-i-Taiba and that his handlers were in Pakistan, was reflective of the Indian governments claims. According to Tahiliyani, the gunmen came prepared for sustained urban combat and that such preparations were not normal for ordinary criminals but are made in an organized type of war. Clearly the judge had not seen the crime movies of Bollywood where criminal mafias have everything from machine guns to GPS devices! It is interesting how the judge came to this highly political conclusion. The judge also stated that Kasabs confession was not acquired under duress, despite Kasabs claim and the general knowledge about how police torture to squeeze confessions in our part of the world. Be that as it may, this verdict and the sentencing, which included death, would impact Pakistan-India relations. The Indians, along with the US, have been keen to lay the blame at Pakistans doorstep and more specifically the LT leadership, while Pakistan continues to claim that the Indians have not furnished any hard evidence to support their claims. Nor has India responded to Pakistans request to hand over Kasab and co-defendant (now acquitted) Ansari to Pakistan for trial. Undoubtedly, India will use this verdict to further pressure Pakistan on all manner of issues, and no doubt the US will add its voice to the pressure. Yet, the Kasab trial and verdict leave many serious question marks, not the least of it being what exactly happened to Indian officer Karkare at the start of the Mumbai terrorism. After the highly politically-motivated trial of Dr Aafia in New York, we have the Kasab trial and verdict in India. How long will the Pakistani state continue to allow its citizens to be subjected to such trials with no legal support or defence?
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The Indian Defence Minister A K Anthony has accused that the presence of terrorist camps in Pakistan is a threat to Indias security. He claims that there are dozens of camps of terrorists along the Pak-India border. The Indian Foreign Minister has also accused that the American military aid to curb terrorism is being used against India; therefore, India has informed America about its apprehensions. This series of Indian accusations is not new. Rather, India has always tried to maintain an atmosphere of strained relations by hurling accusations. Formerly, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had hurled this ludicrous accusation that the terrorist organizations in Pakistan are planning to attack India. All these statements show that India, according to its planning, wants to sabotage the attempts to improve relationships. In the meeting of prime ministers of India and Pakistan in Sharm-el-Shaikh, (Egypt 2009) it was agreed that intelligence information would be exchanged if the situation deteriorated. Instead of talking on a diplomatic level, India has tried to worsen the situation with its irresponsible remarks. In fact the Indian Prime Minister had no answer to the proofs of the Indian involvement that the Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Gilani provided to him at Sharm-ul-Shaikh. So India, because of this humiliation there, has responded with this shower of accusations. Even in the past, India had started such propaganda campaigns the aim of which was to isolate Pakistan on an international level, to avail itself of such a situation and get more and more aid from the world. But Pakistans foreign minister quite effectively foiled these aspirations of India. But sometimes India has succeeded in its loathsome propaganda and got aid from other countries. India cannot digest Pakistans progress; that is why India starts its mischief whenever Pakistan takes a step towards economic stability. India has aggressive designs against Pakistan; so Pakistans secret agencies should keep a close watch on everything. The statement of the prominent analyst and the former director of ISI, General (R) Hameed Gul, are worth remembering. It is the troika of India, Israel and America that wants to make Pakistan a victim of instability. Their main aim is to deprive Pakistan of its atomic weapons. That is why American President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are issuing non-stop statements. Instead of accusing Pakistan, India should set the things right at home. The way the minorities are treated there is enough to start a revolution. No notice of the raping of two Muslims in Shopian was taken. The Muslims all over Occupied Kashmir protested against it, but to no avail. There were again anti-Muslim riots in the state of Gujrat; many Muslims were martyred, many houses were burned, women raped and many Muslims families were made homeless. India started its abominable propaganda campaign to hide all these brutalities against its Muslim population. India is also enraged at the Pakistan armys operations in Pakistans tribal and border areas, which forced Indian agents to flee from there. This shower of false accusations is tantamount to Indias admission of defeat. But we must take note of this propaganda campaign. The Pakistan government should make it clear to India that all its adventurisms would be seriously confronted and Pakistan should not delay informing the world about Indian designs. 108
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India is preparing herself for war whereas Pakistan is busy in defence arrangements. It is commonly believed that India would attack Pakistan at an opportune moment. That is why India has been trying to improve its atomic and missile power. The inclusion of atomic submarines into the Indian navy is a part of that plan. This submarine has gotten the latest technology and atomic missiles and the ability to hit its targets from the depth of the sea. It is learnt that India wants a partnership with America in anti-missile defence system. America is providing them with information about the technical and practical points of anti-missile defence system. India itself is busy in buying weapons, making missiles and in other war arrangements, but it cannot tolerate it if Pakistan buys some arms from America. It shows its dishonesty and ill-will and not love for peace. Indias craze of amassing so many atomic and traditional arms has become dangerous for its neighbouring countries. At the same time, it has started threatening and intimidating Pakistan. It is worrisome that India can make fissile material and atomic weapons in a large quantity from the atomic reactors which were rendered unsafe in the civil atomic agreement. Pakistan avoids the arms race but India is crazy about getting them. It wants to get arms of every sort through any means. America should adopt a fair policy if it wants peace in the region. They should provide civil nuclear energy and capability to Pakistan too as they signed such a deal with India in 2009. America has imposed restrictions on military aid to Pakistan whereas to India it is giving even forbidden arms. Pakistan always fulfilled all the demands of the IAEA. India never did. Atomic weapons there are not safe. Indian reactors can produce a large amount of fissile material and atomic weapons which would have a negative impact on the military stability of the region. Indias purchase of conventional arms from all over the world has disrupted the balance of power in the region. Pakistan now has no option but to maintain the level of the least deterrence in untraditional arms. Pakistans nuclear and missile projects are for its own defence and deterrence against any untoward threat from India. It has no aggressive designs against any other country. Every nation has the right to complete its defence preparations. Pakistan should always be on alert. The people of Pakistan are ready for any sacrifices required for defence purposes. Pakistan has never had expansionist and hegemonic designs in the region. According to the spokesman of foreign office, Pakistan is following a defence policy to stop foreign aggression. Pakistan wants peace and stability in the sub-continent, but she also wants a balance of power in the region. Aggression is born whenever there is no balance of power, and the repercussions and effects of aggression are borne by the victim nations and countries.
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the children who have completed four years of schooling cannot read a small paragraph with short sentences meant to be read by a student of class II. The number of people living in slums in India has doubled in the past two decades. According to Indian Government, the population of people living in slums has exceeded the entire population of Britain. According to Kumari Selji, Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Indias slum-dwelling population had risen from 27.9 million in 1981 to 61.8 million in 2001. The ever increasing slum population is also an evidence of the governments failure to build enough housing and other basic infrastructure for its urban poor, many of whom live without electricity, gas or running water. Indias largest slum population is in Mumbai where 6.5 million people live in tiny makeshift shacks, surrounded by open sewers. Mumbai is also home to Sharani, Asias biggest single slum, which is estimated to be home to more than a million people. Delhi has the countrys second largest slum population, amounting to a total of about 1.8 million people, followed by Calcutta with about 1.5 million. According to Maju Varghese of YUVS, an NGO that has been working with urban poor for more than 20 years, the rise in slums is due to the lack of affordable housing provided by the government. India is in negative growth mode. Industrial production is down for the first time in two decades. Export fell by 20 percent and at least 1.5 million officiallyemployed workers are expected to lose their jobs within this quarter. In the diamond polishing industry alone, 14,000 factories have been shut down; another 10,000 will follow suit in forthcoming weeks. Thousands of small-scale outfits supporting textile and machinery exporters have entered bankruptcy. A worried market analyst at the Bombay stock exchange, who was looking for additional measures directed at stimulating the Indian economy, questioned why the government failed to incorporate any genuine economic stimulus in the interim budget, and why the focus was on defence? Apart from the industrial sector, the agricultural sector despite being the back bone of Indian economy viewed a decline. The agricultural growth of 3.2% observed from 1980 to 1997 decelerated to two percent subsequently. This was due to low investment, imbalance in fertilizer use, low seeds replacement rate, a distorted incentive system and low post-harvest value. In 1951, agriculture provided employment to 72 percent of the population as compared to 58 percent in 2001, and its share in GDP also declined from 24 percent to 22 percent in 2006-07. Similarly, the number of rural landless families increased from 35 percent in 1987 to 45 percent in 1999, further to 55 percent in 2005. The farmers are destined to die of starvation or suicide. More than 1,00,000 Indian farmers committed suicide during the period 1993-2003 mainly due to indebtedness. Mere growth of defence budget does not solve the chronic poverty and backward level of living norms of the people. In the last three years, the Indian government has made the life in middle class more miserable. The high rate of inflation has created stress among the citizens and, when finding no way out how to fulfil their basic needs, they started ending their lives. The welfare of a common Indian is not guaranteed from the hike in the defence budget. There is a 111
need that India should first provide basic amenities such as clean water, food, and housing to its citizens. The rationale on which India is increasing its defence budget is absurd. Firstly, India has no threat from neighbouring countries but its the smaller neighbours that are being threatened by the big brother. Sometimes it harmed them by blocking their water wealth, and sometimes by creating instability through its intelligence agency RAW. Secondly, Indian claims of allocating good part of budget to fight insurgencies in North East and central India are farce. As basic stimulus behind insurgencies in these parts is underdevelopment and neglect by the successive governments. For that matter, gentle way to deal with these rebel movements is by addressing their causes rather than fighting oppressed people with arms. There is direct correlation between extremism and poverty in practice and the social, political, economic, and cultural discrimination faced by (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, who are among Indias poorest people) has resulted in discontented people resorting to violence for their rights. In view of these bitter realities, a humble suggestion to Indian authorities would be to adhere to the dictum of Martin Luther King, Jr. that. A nation spending more money on military defence than social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
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Indian armed forces. This is probably the strongest indication that extremist elements and their thought-process are nourishing vastly the Indian army, in particular, and Indian society, in general. Opening nuclear fronts on two borders of India is really horrifying but every free media of India is silent at this critical juncture of time. Actually everyone in India fears the strength of her extremist elements that are developing to form an organization just parallel to Al Qaeda. Media has recently witnessed the attack of an extremist group on a TV channel and exactly knows that this conservative mindset with religious faith will very soon go out of the hands of state apparatus. The statements of the army chief are warranting a future which will only give blood and poverty to India and the region. World must take notice of such hot air and a diplomatic pressure must be built on a country which is responsible for 1.2 billion heads. At the moment, Indian army is undergoing enormous pressures and discipline issues. Extremists groups have crept into the ranks of the army and now implementing their bloodiest thought process. With the passage of time, they are building strength and General Deepak Kapoor has no other option to keep them under control other than giving statements, which keep these groups happy. Discipline of the officers in the ranks of Indian army is pitiable, as recently about 41 officers were found selling their weapons to terrorists, and a case against a Lt. General who was indicted in a land scam in Sukhna Cantonment in West Bengal is still pending as general Deepak Kapoor will take decision on his punishment. Reportedly, the corruption money was being sent to extremist elements of Indian army for their activities. On the other hand, security arsenal of Indian atomic installations have gone so week that fires are breaking out quite frequently in atomic installations of India. Fire in Bhabba atomic plant is the recent example and none knows the exact reason, but it was a serious security lapse. None knows that why is this all happening? It will be formidable for the world to know some day that this all was actually the result of the activities of extremist elements within the ranks of Indian army.
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Many attempts were made during the General Musharafs era to change unconditionally the Indo-Pak relationships into permanent amity, so much so that shameful unilateral elasticity was shown about the jugular vein of Pakistan Kashmir. Attempts were made to please India by forgetting our traditional stance and the sacrifices of the Kashmiri people and by dividing Kashmir into 8-10 pieces. But India too continued demanding Do more like America. It continued insisting on part and parcel stance whereas the previous rulers had made pieces of the map of our jugular vein. When attempts were being made to create the atmosphere more flexible to improve indo-Pak relations, a senior journalist friend of mine asked me if the PakIndia relations would really take the form of a permanent friendship. My quick response was, No, not in the next 2-3 centuries. Hindus and Muslims had been living together for centuries and share the same culture, history and social practices. Our ancestors directly witnessed the Hindus narrow-mindedness. There was nothing in their eyes except hatred and animosity for the Muslims. Had there been even an iota of possibility of friendship and tolerance, the Muslims of sub-continent would not have demanded a separate country on the basis of the two-nation theory. At the time of the creation of Pakistan, our ancestors saw the narrow- mindedness of the Hindus changing into madness. The Hindu fanatics stained their hands with the blood of millions of Muslims children, men, women and the aged. Such ferocity is quite rare. My grandfather usually used to narrate to us the cruel nature of Hindus and their antagonism towards other religions. Tears used to well up in our eyes on the telling of these tales. Though we were very young then, we could see terrible scenes of these moving pictures in front of us. Thus we too could see the narrow mindedness, barbarism and ferocity of the Hindus. In view of this, we cannot even think of developing friendship with India. Such feelings may be transferred to many among the next generations. Many centuries are required to dim these scenes of Hindu barbarism. We have witnessed many aspects of Indias cunningness since the creation of Pakistan many faces of friendship-like-animosity and enmity-like-friendship and the wolf in sheeps clothing. But the notions of greater India and integral part were there behind every face. It is foolish to expect something good from India. India has been aggressive towards Pakistan, especially during the previous 2 3 years. India threatened to attack Pakistan after the attack on its parliament and the Mumbai incidents. Its a lack of far-sightedness on the part of president Zardari when he says that there is no danger to Pakistan from its eastern border. He should understand that India is involved in disruption not only on the eastern border but also on the western border. It is supporting and patronizing the terrorists to create instability in the frontier province and in the tribal areas. The arms and ammunitions captured from the terrorists during the Operation Rah-e-Raast prove that involvement of India in instigating local people against Pakistan. Major-General Ijaz 117
Awan, the commander of Swat operation, disclosed in an interview that the arms and ammunitions the terrorists are using in Malakand are Indian made. India is also involved in the disruption in Balochistan. India is harming peace in Balochistan by providing arms and money to the Baloch Liberation Army and to some other terrorist groups operating from Balochistan. The present wave of target killing is also due to the Indian involvement. Talal Bugti (Tribal chief of Bugti tribe living in north eastern part of Balochistan province in Pakistan ) has openly admitted that the Indian secret agency RAW is giving military training to more than 30,000 Balochis to spread anarchy in the province. The Indian consulates in Afghanistan are busy in destabilizing Pakistan. It was also disclosed recently that India is preparing a group of 500 people in Afghanistan for an attack on Pakistans nuclear installations. They would attack these installations in the manner of Mumbai and Lahore attacks to get international media attention. It will give India, America and the western world a chance to propagate that Pakistans atomic weapons are not safe. What is strange is the fact that Karzai and Obama, who have full control over Afghanistan, are silent although they know everything about Indias intentions. The tremendous increase in Indias defence budget in the recent years should be an eye-opener to those who think that our eastern borders are safe. India again has ignored its poor people and increased the defence budget of 2009 and 2010 by 34%. Thus its total defence budget is now 3200 billion which is 5 times more than that of Pakistan. India has also signed some defence pacts to buy the latest weapons from many countries. It is already getting AWACS planes and other weapons from Israel. 230 latest Russian planes Saikhui will be included in the Indian air force by 2015. It is also trying to buy the latest planes from America and submarines from France. India is also doing experiments on different types of missiles. India has already experimented Brahmos which is supersonic in speed and can break the sound barrier. India is the only country in south Asia which was always the first one to do nuclear tests on and test atomic missiles. This entire war craze is for the realization of the dream of a greater India and to maintain its control and hegemony in the region. India is trying to appease America and fool the world by convincing them that it is stocking all these weapons for China and not for Pakistan. The fact is that it cannot fight against a super power like China. It only wants to realize its dream of a greater India by weakening Pakistan. This monster who is creating instability and promoting terrorism in her neighbouring countries is also trying to get a permanent seat in the Security Council of United Nations. It is regrettable that France and China, despite knowing the hateful face of India and its expansionist designs, are supporting this Indian demand. It is vital for Pakistan that it should not compromise on its defence capabilities in the face of Indias aggressive designs. We must increase our defence budget and continue our atomic and missile projects. We should also train our armed forces on the most modern lines to tackle the menace of terrorism. It wont be unwise to tell our intellectuals that they should stop criticizing Pakistans defence budget and they should not sit silent on an increase in Indias defence budget. According to news in Jerusalem Post, India has decided to buy 18 spider missiles worth 100 million dollars from Israel. These are the latest land-to-air 118
missiles which would be handed over to India soon. India has also got the latest atomic submarine for completion of its aggressive designs against Pakistan. It shows that India is planning to strike Pakistan not only from land and air but also from the sea. It is also determined to develop its missile project. It shows that India has the worst aggressive intentions against Pakistan and the Indian rulers are not ready to tolerate Pakistan at any cost.
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Everyone knows Indias expansionist designs against all its neighbouring countries. Indian rulers can go to any extremes for the realization of their heinous designs. Seven countries of South Asia, which comprise of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan and India, founded SAARC. It aimed at raising the standard of living of the poor people of the region, and not interfering in the internal affairs of others. But India, since the very beginning, has been interfering in Pakistans affairs. Its intervention divided us into two. Its 700,000- strong army in Occupied Kashmir is involved in state terrorism and they have killed more than 100,000 Kashmiris so far. Indias attitude towards Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan also reflects the same thing. The Indian government is trying all the time to prove that its neighbouring countries are conspiring against it and are trying to harm it; while actually the fact is that India is creating restlessness in the neighbouring countries. India has announced to fix a barrier on its 1000 km long border with Bangladesh to stop interference from there. Although India supported the movement of Bangladesh, it doesnt have friendly relations with it. They have differences on the issues of the border and the rivers. Which neighbouring country of India is safe from Indias aggressive intentions? It has been on the forefront in pushing Sri Lanka into the fire of civil war. Tamil guerrillas were trained in India and sent to Sri Lanka with arms and ammunitions. More than 100,000 people have died in the India-sponsored civil war in Sri Lanka. It sent more than 10,000 soldiers to Sri Lanka on the pretext of Operation Pon, and coerced the people for three years. Indias former foreign minister Pranab Mukherji and former Defence Minister A K Anthony told the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu that India didnt allow the supply of arms to Sri Lanka. But the state of Tamil Nadu was involved in supplying arms and ammunition to the Tamil rebels and to the government of Sri Lanka. The Tamil Chief Minister has directed the police to investigate whether some private companies were providing arms to Tamil rebels and Sri Lanka. A group of Tamil rebels attacked Maldives to maintain dominance over the Indian Ocean. It is no secret how Nepal was barricaded to send its people in the mud of hunger and poverty. Despite the fact that pro-Mao rebels used Indian Territory to get training and weapons, India always refused to seal the borders because it had never recognized the international border. Contrary to that, its forces arrested many people and took them across the Nepali border. Nepal has never been someones colony. It has always been free and autonomous. India is greedy about this Hindu state of Himalayas and has been using all illicit means to weaken the country. Indian rulers didnt spare even a state like Bhutan. They are still interfering there. India occupied Goa and Sikkim without . It also occupied Junagarh, Manader and Hyderabad Deccan. The history of Indian aggression against Pakistan is quite long. It is coercing the helpless people of Occupied Kashmir. It has shown no elasticity in its stance on Kashmir. There is no likelihood that this issue would be resolved in the near future. 120
India has never accepted any proposal for its solution. It seems that it does not want to solve the Kashmir issue. India is trying to dominate all the countries around it. It wants to snatch the rights of the people on the basis of its power and unfair means. Peace will prevail in this region when people get their rights. These are the heinous acts of the rulers of this so called democracy that have endangered the security of the SAARC countries.
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pass on Karakorum Mountains near Pakistan China border) to Hawailiyan via Sust, Hunza, Gilgit, Challas, Kohistan, Bisham, Thankot, Mansehra, and the Karakuram Highway to Abbotabad are a source of pain for the Indians. Hence there is a chance that they will speed up their activities in Pakistan, particularly in the Northern tribal areas. It is required that the Pakistani people should recognize the vicious objectives of their enemies and face the network of their conspiracies. Every Pakistani has to realize that his existence depends upon the existence of the country. We have two important responsibilities at this time. We have to save our country from the enemies and at the same time to contribute in its development.
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countries should also play their role. The sooner India and Afghanistan realize it, the better it is. If the leadership of Afghanistan does not adopt a responsible attitude, peace will remain in danger in South Asia and the situation will become quite dangerous, and peace of the region will be jeopardized. Our across the border enemy provide funds and support to the separatist organizations like Jiye Sindh. At one hand, India is talking about composite dialogues but, on the other hand, it encourages and patronizes the enemies of Pakistan. Its main aim is to divert the attention of the world from the freedom movements working in its many states. It is providing support to the anti-Pakistan elements in Sindh and Balochistan to spread hatred against our country.
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The Afghan home ministry has established an institution for destructive activities in Pakistan. Uzbek, Tajik and some self-exiled Pakistani traitors are getting training there. Some languages of Pakistan are also being taught there, especially the languages being spoken in the frontier areas to facilitate them for terrorism in Pakistan. The accusations by the Afghan president Hamid Karzai and the members of his cabinet, especially the former home minister Abdullah that Pakistan is interfering and sheltering the terrorists, have created a serious situation. Pakistan always helped Afghanistan magnanimously and today all the terrorism incidents that we are facing are due to Afghanistan. Pakistan even supported and helped Karzai to reach his present high position, and he is punishing us for that. No one could even imagine that the Afghan president would be so ungrateful. It is tragic that with a view to hiding his own sins, he is hurling every accusation on Pakistan. They are looking for those of the returning mujahedeen who know Balochi, Brahvi and Urdu languages, for terrorism in Pakistan. The India-bound Hindus too are getting training there. Many of the arrested people during the confrontation in northern, southern and other tribal areas are usually Tajik and Uzbek. One Uzbek leader Yalda Shiv has recently claimed that God Himself has given South Waziristan to the Uzbeks. Such a misleading claim by a foreigner on the Pakistani soil is quite condemnable. No patriotic Pakistani or someone from the tribal areas can tolerate such a claim. This mischievous claim by a foreign war-monger shows what their aims are. Some foreign elements residing in Waziristan think that they are masters of the tribal areas and the local people are their slaves. They believe that the tribal areas are theirs, not of the tribal people. They are engaged in criminal and sabotaging activities and playing with the lives of the local people. The tribal people have been living here for thousands of years and they have pride and hubris about their culture, civilization and high moral values. But unfortunately the foreign warriors have thrown them into a pit of troubles. They are harming the locals day in and day out. Those Afghan refugees are also with them who have returned home. Hamid Karzai in a recent interview praised India quite vehemently for spending a lot of money on rebuilding Afghanistan, constructing the building of parliament and building schools, hospitals and roads. His praise shows that India has been safeguarding its own interests and, at the same time, making Pakistan helpless. India wants to create estrangement between Afghanistan and Pakistan for its personal interests. The Indo-Afghan union also revealed that dozens of arrested innocent Pakistanis in Afghanistan have been sent from Kabul to India with a view to presenting them as terrorists and thus maligning Pakistan at an international level. Despite all their vicious plans, we want peace in Afghanistan and in every part of the world. Our mission is love for humanity, and those who love humanity in fact love God and his prophet (peace be upon him). We should hate terrorists and save humanity. That is why we believe that this heinous role of India and Afghanistan is hateful. 128
Anti-Islam activities
The people of Afghanistan love Islam and follow Islamic injunctions like fasting, and offering prayers strictly. The Congress led government of India has started implementing its plan of driving away the innocent Afghan Muslims from Islam, religious and moral values. It is provoking them to abandon Islam and embrace Hinduism. India thinks that it can easily make its strong hold in Afghanistan by driving them away from Islam. The Indian government wants to desecrate the religious and national values of the Afghanis so that they could be easily turned against Pakistan and used for Indian designs. The Indian government has devised a plan of taking the majority of the Muslim Afghanis away from Islam by providing financial assistance to the poor Afghan people. They are being provided with incentives to turn to Hinduism. To materialize this dream they have opened many hospitals and schools which are run by Hindu staff who de track the Muslims. The Indian government has also started the onslaught of the Hindu culture in the far flung areas of Afghanistan. The Indian embassy in Kabul and consulates in Kandahar and Northern areas are actively involved in these kinds of activities. India has appointed many RAW officials in its consulates. It must be kept in mind that in 1970-1971 India initiated the same kind of plan in East Pakistan and later on entered the Indian army in the garb of Mukti Bahni. The agents of RAW are distracting the innocent Afghanis the way they did in East Pakistan. The Indian TV channels telecast obscene programs in Pashto, Persian and in other regional languages around the clock which aim at the destruction of the morality of the Afghan people. The Indian diplomats and agents are also involved in the smuggling of Afghan women and children who are sold in the Gulf States and are forced to prostitution. There is a flood of obscenity and nudity in Afghanistan. In the smaller and bigger cities of the country there are prostitution and obscenity centres which are patronized by the government. Apart from this, cable net works, TVs, VCR, and dish antennas are providing means of debauchery at cheap rates. These centres also provide liquor, prostitutes and drugs without any restrictions. It is the utmost effort of India to destabilize Afghanistan, to spread hatred against Pakistan and to use the Afghan tribes against Pakistan. We want to tell the Afghan leadership that it should be aware of the conspiracies and misleading propaganda campaign of India. The Afghans should not let the bonds of historical and Islamic brotherhood weaken at any moment. They should keep in mind the nasty role of India that it played in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. They must ask the people of Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, and Sri Lanka in general and their Muslim brothers in Bangladesh in particular, how they were betrayed by India. India is dreaming to capture all the countries of South Asia. The Afghan administration must keep an eye on the elements that are collaborating with India and are distorting the relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan. They must be aware of such elements. The presence of some unwanted persons in Afghanistan is also embittering their mutual relations. Presently, India is more influential in 129
Afghanistan than Pakistan. At this stage, we want to request all the tribes and their leaders in Afghanistan that a reasonable representation must be given to the entire minority, majority of the tribes and majority of the Pashto speaking people in the government so that democracy could flourish and peace could be established in Afghanistan. God forbid, if the minority and majority tribes were deprived of this representation peace could never be established in Afghanistan and the war ridden land of the country will always be a centre of chaos. So far as the Afghanis are concerned they must keep in mind that actions speak louder than words. Therefore, they should restrict the Indian activities in Afghanistan. Its not only the duty of Pakistan to play its role for maintaining peace in the region but the other countries must also realize their responsibility. The sooner India and Afghanistan realize it, the better it is. If the leadership of these countries does not adopt a responsible attitude the peace in South Asia will always be in danger and the situation will be quite destructive. Peace of the region will be shattered in to bits.
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army, but after Pak Army Chief Gen Kayanis clear warning that Pakistan will never accept such move which permits India to train Afghan national army, this issue has subsided for the time being. However, Indias training camps are in full swing and are continuously sending their lots to Pakistan for different assigned tasks i.e. bombs blasts, suicidal attack and other activities to destabilize Pakistan by creating uncertainty among the masses, crushing economy and spoiling the infrastructure of the country to declare it as a failed state. To fulfil all the above mentioned designs, India is looking forward to have some sort of permanent role in Afghanistan to get its vested agenda to be met by destabilizing Pakistan and establish its the only power which can see into its eyes and possesses the strategic and military strength to wipe of Indian designs against Pakistan. One could appreciate Indian resolve to manage its stay in Afghanistan but India must realize that the moment American forces will ensure respectful withdrawal from Afghanistan, they would somehow or the other have to leave that place as Afghans have the history of conquering India time and again. How would they be comfortable with their permanent presence on their land, and that too to destabilize the neighbouring Islamic countries. Whatsoever infrastructure is established in Afghanistan, that is prone to Mullah Umer-like governments, which ensured peace, harmony and justice in the society? India is living in fools paradise by thinking that they might get hold of Afghans after withdrawal of allied forces.
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conspiracy. India and Israel both are enemies of Pakistan. They cannot accept the existence of Pakistan, its progress, well-being, freedom and security. Thats why despite spelling charms of peace by tongue, they are busy scheming against Pakistan by throwing it into political and economic instability, and depriving it of a sustainable defence guarantee from its atomic program.
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Indo-China war of 1962 was fought over the issue of the ownership of these regions. After that Bhart Verma, in a long article in India Today Review, writes, China would invade India before 2012. Why? Beijing has many reasons to teach India the last lesson and this way China would gain certain dominance over Asia by the end of this century. The shop of exports has closed because of a decrease in the exports of China and there is an unusual restlessness on the internal level. It has created a danger of communists grip on society. This is Bhart Vermas thought full of exaggeration. Chinas shop of exports (it reflects jealousy) has not closed. It is not facing any danger from the communists grip. If Bhart Verma knows what China is, he must also know how the fear of the Cultural Revolution has strengthened the Chinese people, though America cannot be stopped from trying to show a miracle of the Tiananmen square. Verma says that unemployment there is 14%, and there is a capital outflow through Hong Kong. China is worried at the attitude of Pakistan, which is their right hand, and which is involved in anti-India activities at their instigation. Indian democracy is an eye sore for China. He adds, The communists of China feel the need of a military victory to unite their people. After that Verma asks if the Indian leadership would tolerate the intensity of war. Does its army have enough weapons to face Beijing and Islamabad on two fronts? And, will the civil administration be able to face internal security challenges (meaning scenarist forces) which will be patronized from abroad? Verma answers: No. The peace loving India is ready for war neither on internal nor on external fronts. (peace loving is a heavy word for India.) In response to Vermas wrong notion about Chinas invasion of India in 2012, Chen Zheo Chen replied in China Business News, The reasons given for the invasion are senseless. There is only one possibility of a war, and that is Indias New Forward Policy which may increase border issues and compel China to use force. India can give all the answers. Indias extra 60,000 troops in Tibet where China has a small military garrison can create an imbalance. Indian army acted aggressively after a small row with China in 1959. It is its forward policy. In 1962, Chinas defensive attack was limited but successful. The deployment of 60,000 more Indian troops on the controversial border is a part of her recent forward policy. Then, what is Mr Chen saying? He is saying, Yes, war is possible. It seems to have started. They must remember that everything does not happen according to the plan. Only the destruction of mankind is the terrible scene. They should also remember that the sun of their sultanates set when the European imperialists started fighting with each other. The world leadership went into the hands of America and the Soviet Union, in which the former won and the 20th century was called Americas century.
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downtrodden that have massive support of people for their ideology. In this regard, on October 31, 2009, The New York Times wrote, Indias Maoist rebels are now present in 20 states and have killed more than 900 Indian security officersIndias rapid economic growth has made it an emerging global power but also deepened stark inequalities in the society. However, by neglecting all these ground realities, and accusing Beijing, New Delhi has been advancing towards a self-destructive path. Taking cognizance of Kapoors threat against China and Pakistan, on January 2, the Pakistan Joint Chief of Staff Committee (JCSC) Chairman General Tariq Majid rightly indicated, The Indian Army Chiefs statement exhibits a lack of strategic acumen. He further said that, Such a path could fix India on a selfdestructive mechanism. Indias misperceptions about Beijing in connection with the Maoist movement could also be judged from the fact that it has also been accusing the latter for supporting the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. Recently, India has also blamed China for backing a Maoist study centre so as to cause an uprising in Nepal. While the Indian allegations were already proven untrue when in the recent past, the Maoist political party won the over-whelming majority in the countrys first genuine elections. As regards to the Indian new military build-up against China, on May 31, 2009 after 43 years, New Delhi re-opened its Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) airbase in Northern Ladakh, which overlooks the strategic Karakoram Pas and is only eight kilometres, south of the Chinese border-the Aksai China area. India has also erected more than 10 new helipads and roads between the Sino-Indian borders. The Indian defence ministry planners are working on building additional airfields and increasing troops raising two new mountain divisions to be deployed along the 4,057-kilometre Line of Actual Control (LAC). With the help of Israel and America, on February 26, 2008, India conducted its project in connection with air, land and sea ballistic systems. In the recent past, the Indian Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta also accused Beijing and explained that the Indian Navy would keep a close watch on the movements of the Chinese submarines which are operating out of an underground base in the South China Sea and wish to enter the Indian Ocean. However, under the pretension of the China factor, New Delhi and Israel, with the tactical support of the sole superpower, are plotting to block the sea lanes of the Indian Ocean for their joint strategic goals. It is of particular attention that in May 1998, when India detonated five nuclear tests, the then defence minister George Fernandes had declared publicly that China is Indias potential threat No1. India successfully tested its missile Agni-111 in May 2007, and extended its range to target all the big cities of China. The US which signed a nuclear deal with India in 2008, intends to make India the mini-superpower of Asia by containing China and de-stabilizing Pakistan as well as Iran. Pakistans province, Balochistan where China has invested billions of dollars to develop the Gwadar seaport, irritates both Washington and New Delhi. However, Beijing and Islamabad cannot neglect their common defence when 143
their adversaries are following a covert strategy. President Zardari had decided to visit China after every three months to further cement ties between the two old friends. Both the countries have signed 11 agreements to enhance bilateral cooperation in diverse sectors. So the Sino-India rift is also part of the greater Cold War between the US and China. Besides, Indian reservations regarding Chinas infrastructural projects in Azad Kashmir are unjustified and discriminative. The Indian game plan against Beijing could also be assessed from the fact that New Delhi is grabbing waters of neighbouring countries. The Chinese plan to build a dam on the river Yarlung Tsangpo in the upper reaches of Tibetan plateau, reiterating that it would adversely affect navigation in the Brahmanputra River. Returning to our earlier discussion, India which has wideranging agreements with Beijing, apparently emphasizes mutual cooperation, but has been acting upon anti-China secret diplomacy. Hence, the Sino-Indian rift has only widened in the recent times.
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in Mechi and 450 hectares in Yarastan. 98% of work on the border has been finalized in a meeting of a joint technical boundary meeting in New Delhi. That is why the government is declaring that all the issues between India and Nepal have been resolved except the issues of Kalapani and Susta. But drawing of maps is no solution because they are prone to amendment. If we observe the border, we can see a lot of illegal occupations. There was a horrible war between India and China in 1962. After that the Kalapani issue emerged. There are 5 reasons for the occupation of the land in Susta including the Susta border issue and some other natural, social and political ones. The natural cause is the flood because the floods of 1845, 1954, , 1980 and 1989 have changed the course of the Naryari river and India claims that the land that the river is flowing on is theirs. The other natural reason is this that Susta is situated where there are Indian pieces of land on its north and east and the river Naryai flows on its west, and it separates Susta from Nepal. It is easy for India to occupy it. The social reason is the fast growth of Indian population. If Nepal wants to prove right the concept of a greater Nepal, it is important that it gets back all its territories which are one fourth of Nepal in the same way as China got Hong Kong back from Britain. The territory that Nepal has lost so far was never the property of the East India Company. The news about the Indian occupation of Nepals territories is sometime published in newspapers. India illegally occupied Nepals territory on 22 November 2007 for the last time.
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of Terai. The mission has found some irrefutable proofs of Indian intervention in Nepals internal affairs. If the mission is extended, it would be able to find some more heinous intentions of India which would end Indian hegemony in Nepal. It is the duty of the Nepali government to check the vicious activities of Indian saboteurs because India is determined to mar the relationships between Nepal and other Muslim countries.
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Indo-Bhutan relations
Bhutan, a Himalayan kingdom of 635,000 people, geographically located between China and India has one of the highest per capita incomes in South Asia of over $2,000. Bhutan is a very peace loving and friendly country and its people are happy and prosperous. On November 6, 2008, formal coronation of 29-year-old Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wang chuck took place in Thimphu. King Wang chuck, like his father is a ray of hope for the Bhutanese people and is contributing a lot for the uplift and development of his country. India had tense relations with Bhutan due to allegations of direct interference in Thimphus internal affairs and New Delhis support to insurgent groups in the northeast. It is however, good to see that India is trying to mend its fences with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries. In the latest positive development, talks between King Wang chuck and the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resulted in the signing of 12 agreements including four on hydropower generation, civil aviation, health and Information Technology (IT) fields. India will prepare the initial technical reports for four new hydro-electricity projects with capacity of over 3500MW in the Himalayan kingdom. Bhutan, with the domestic consumption of only 400 MW has currently an installed capacity of 1500 MW of hydropower. The entire surplus power is presently exported to India. The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had concluded an agreement with Bhutan in 2008 that it will help Bhutan build additional installed capacity of 10,000 megawatt in hydropower by 2020. It is pertinent to mention here that India is also assisting Bhutan to build three major hydro-electric projects at Chukh, Kurichu and Tala. Besides, India is also helping in the construction of Punatsagchhu-1 project. In the information Technology (IT) sector, India and Bhutan have inked a major project worth Rs. 205 crore. Under this project, computer training will be given to over 7,000 government officials, 5,000 teachers and 1,600 enterprises and 200,000 rural children. In the field of education, India would set up a 50seat undergraduate medical college on the lines of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Other agreements included curbing illicit drug trafficking. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has convinced King Wang chuck that India wanted the democratic experiment in Bhutan to succeed. The people of Bhutan are very loyal to the King and are happy and content, but India and other countries including US and Britain are attempting to abolish monarchy in Bhutan. Some analysts feel that on the instigation of western powers and own vested interests, India is playing a double game to bring popular revolt against King Wang chuck somewhere in the next decade. This cannot be achieved unless the minds of Bhutanese are brainwashed with the help of IT. India has hegemonic ambitions in the region and Bhutan is an easy prey. Indias main objective seems to create a greater India by placing Bhutan through a loose 149
confederation under Indian union. One wonders that the agreement in hydropower generation is New Delhis tool to enter Bhutan and win the hearts of masses. India believes that since Bhutan is surrounded by India on three sides and is dependent on India for access to the sea it should be part of India. Although Bhutan shares borders with China but India claims that a pro-China policy is not viable for Bhutan. During the ongoing discussions between King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wang chuck and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, it also came to light that India is interested in the security and defence cooperation with Bhutan. No doubt, it would be the greatest folly for Bhutan to fall in this trap. We have an example of Sri Lanka before us when the Indian armed forces physically occupied Sri Lanka in 1986 in the name of helping Colombo to get rid of insurgents. One wonders, if the Indian armed forces are so smart why are they unable to control the law and order situation in more than 28 of its insurgency hit states. India is also controlling Bhutan External Relations through the 1949 treaty between the two countries. Article 2 of the treaty requires Bhutan to be guided by the advice of India in the conduct of its external relations while Article 6 bars Bhutan from import of arms, ammunition, machines, warlike material or stores without assistance and approval of India. Although there were a lot of reviews and discussions but still Bhutan cannot frame its independent policies. India must realize that Bhutan is a sovereign country and changing the language of the 1949 treaty wont suffice. It needs the decision of the Bhutanese King and its people, and not India, whether or not to purchase lethal or non-lethal weapons. It is an irony that Bhutan can only purchase non-lethal military stores and equipment and there is a requirement of approval from New Delhi. The Indians past record is not very clean as regard to Bhutan. It is interesting to note that previously the SAARC conference used to fail due to Indias interference in the internal affairs of the member countries. India needs to change its imperialist and capitalist approach to bring peace in the region. The times have changed; Bhutan should be allowed to make its own independent decisions and be treated at par with other countries of the world. It is time to get united for which SAARC can act as a powerful platform in bringing the South Asian nations together.
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An NGO has been established by Indian spy agency RAW in Badakhshan, which persuades Chinese nationals to join it. They will be subsequently trained and sent to the Chinese province of Xingjian for creating instability. These Chinese nationals are believed to be the members of East Turkmen Independent Movement (ETIM) and are considered suitable for creating unrest in Northern china. Some other reports suggest that the Indian agents have categorically instructed their operatives in Afghanistan and elsewhere for maintaining close contacts with Al-Qaeda for their financial need for ETIM leadership. Indians have made progress into camps reportedly established by ETIM in Northern and Southern region of Afghanistan. Moral, material and financial assistance is regularly provided by Indian trained-operatives to strengthen and then launch ETIM members from Afghan soil against China. It is believed that Indian intelligence operatives based in Afghanistan, while taking advantage of the fragile situation, have made concerted efforts to attract maximum Chinese dissidents by offering them wide range of incentives. They are being encouraged to target vital installations and high profile personalities in the Chinese province, including security forces. The Indian persuasive efforts and training of Chinese dissidents are facilitated with the active support of Afghan intelligence. It is learnt that these trained Chinese dissidents will be sent to Xingjian province in the garb of businessmen through various routes to ensure their safe landing. Indians also aim to implicate Pakistani Taliban in these activities. To this end Indians may produce fake identities and push these passport holders to china and later reveal it as proof of Pakistani origin Taliban involvement in Xingjian. This move is aimed at creating cracks in the friendly relationship between Pakistan and China.
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occupation. Nothing can stop them. India has forgotten the UN resolution. It is occupying a large part of Kashmir. It is known as Occupied Kashmir. India has gotten entangled in it and cannot get a way out of it. Even the state terrorism cannot control the situation there. The 40 years patience has forced the Kashmiris to take up arms. This has annoyed India. The Indian government is trying to present it as terrorism at the international level, calling it across the border terrorism. The fact is that India itself is involved in terrorism against the Kashmiris. The Indian government, per its illegal contract with the Dogra rulers on October 27 1947, occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The whole world, the UN and the Kashmiris themselves consider this occupation as illegal and immoral. There is only one solution and that is the right of self-determination. The Muslim sons of the soil and the Kashmiri youth protest on October 27 every year against the so-called annexation of Kashmir to India. The maharaja of Kashmir had conspired on that day with the Indians to annex Kashmir to India. There was no moral or legal justification for that. The Muslims were in great majority in Jammu and Kashmir and so Kashmir should have been annexed to Pakistan. But the Dogra rulers conspired to make Kashmir a slave of India.
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a disputed territory, which is pending in the United Nations. Britain is also in the picture that states Kashmir is either in India or Pakistan, and there was no concept of any independent state. Now Baloch sardars are peddling the idea the Balochistan was an independent entity in the plan for the partition of the subcontinent. In this backdrop, Britain should not allow leaders of the banned outfit Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) to issue instructions to the insurgents in Balochistan. Prime Minister Gordon Brown should look into the matter and, keeping in view excellent relations between Britain and Pakistan, he should take measures to get the headquarters of BLA closed. The long dormant crisis had erupted into a brutal confrontation with the centre in 1973 when late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had tried to establish educational institutions and construction of roads in Balochistan. The insurgency had lasted for four years from 1973 to 1977, and it was after promulgation of Martial Law by late General Zia-ul-Haq that sedition cases were withdrawn against Baloch sardars. It is unfortunate that neither the British leadership nor the civil society in Pakistan consider it worthwhile to comment on what sardars have been doing to their people. No human right activist cries over the atrocities inflicted on them by their feudal lords and sardars in their private jails. It is too well known that RAW, CIA and Mossad are active in Balochistan and FATA to destabilize Pakistan, and Pakistani leadership ruling and opposition parties should work in unison to frustrate the designs of the enemies of Pakistan. There is no denying that during British Raj and after independence, Balochistan and NWFP were neglected so far as their development is concerned. But this is also true that despite being part of the provincial governments, sardars had neither done anything to develop Baloshistan, nor persuaded the central government to make development plans for their province. They consider all natural resources of Balochistan their personal property and want to pocket all the profits and royalties. From the statements and interviews of the scions of Akbar Bugti, one can understand that the bone of contention between late Akbar Bugti and the federation arguably was that the former wanted an increase in gas royalty. As regards Mian Nawaz Sharifs suggestion of holding talks with those who are not in Balochistan is intriguing, and he is trying to draw political mileage from the contradictions between sardars and the government. He should have known that Brahmadagh Bugti is ensconced in Afghanistan near President Karzais palace, and Mir Hybyar Marri is in London, and both are reported to have the backing and support from the enemies of Pakistan. It goes without saying that tribalism is firmly rooted in Balochistan, and ethnic and tribal identity is a potent force for both individuals and groups in Balochistan, with the result that there exists deep polarization among different groups. Each of these groups is based on different rules of social organization, which has left the province inexorably fragmented. Tribal group-ism has failed to integrate the state and enforce a national identity. But those who have not been weaned from the poison of sham nationalism, should take a look at the history of the Balkans, and the fate they met. A couple of times Sardar Ataullah Mengal 159
appeared in a television interview, and said that America did not pay any attention, and he would accept any outside help to disintegrate the country. Sardar Ataullah Mengal, Sardar Khair Bakhsh Marri and the scions of late Akbar Bugti should try to safeguard the interests of Baloch people but not through violence and bloodshed. It is heartening to note that there is dawning of realization on the part of the central government as well as provinces; and in this regard, Punjab and Sindh have sacrificed part of their share to Bahlochistan.
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India does not want a direct clash with Pakistan; rather it wants to weaken Pakistan from inside by separating us from the whole world, by fuelling internal rifts in the frontier, in Balochistan, in Southern Punjab and in Karachi, and by maligning our armed forces. The Pakistani nation, God willing, will destroy Indias illmotivated designs. There is no doubt in the fact that there is a foreign hand behind our internal problems. Doesnt the entry and capture of the 50 arms laden mules into Pakistan prove that the Hindus and the Jews and America are behind all the trouble here? The Drone plane can see even the number plate of a car. Why couldnt it see the 50 mules and vehicles entering Pakistan from Afghanistan? Our leaders may hug and embrace the Indians and forget the UN resolutions. They may also agree not to use atomic weapons. The Hindu will never tolerate Pakistan because he is imbued with the idea of a greater India. This Hindu journalist, who is all praise for a secular India, wrote on December 28, 2008 in a column entitled Indias Double Standard: According to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, there should be no double standards to end terrorism when the Indian leadership followed this double-standards rule when they helped LTTE in Sri Lanka. The journalist writes that the Chief of Army Staff of Sri Lanka, Sarath Fonsche, had strongly condemned Indias intervention in Sri Lanka. According to the Indian journalist, The LTTE could not have grown without the support of successive state governments in India. This proves Indias intervention in the affairs of her neighbouring countries. According to this journalist, the international Jeans Information group has also confirmed this intervention. He wrote that Indias role in Tibet and Burma is not praise-worthy. The journalist said, India tells Pakistan to rein in the jihadi organizations in Pakistan, but India itself is silent about the Tamil Nadu politicians involvement in Sri Lanka. India goes on repeating that it wont talk with the terrorists; but at the same time it sends her foreign minister to Sri Lanka to press on the government there to talk with the LTTE. Is that not a matter of double standards? The same journalist, who criticizes Pakistan and praises the secular India, wrote an interesting article in the Guardian of April 5th, 2009, entitled Indias Failing Secularism. He says, The religious minorities have always been worried since the partition because the economic development of India has not improved their miserable state. It means no day passes when there are no linguistic riots, poverty, prejudices in the lives of the minorities, especially the Indian Muslims. This journalist who opposes the creation of Pakistan, recently wrote that the story of Hindus atrocities against the Muslims is quite long. The Hindus butchered about 1000 Muslims in Gujrat in 2002, and, while defending their crime, the Chief Minister Modi said, Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The Muslims reaped what they had sowed. Moreover, the journalist says that Varun Gandhi, while pointing towards the Muslims, said, The hand that rises against the Hindus will be cut. He added, There are many frightening names of Muslims like Osama bin Laden. This journalist who predicts an imminent demise of Pakistan admitted a few months ago that the secularism of India can be explained according to the wishes of the Hindus. 162
According to him, India may break. After listening to the above mentioned facts as told by an Indian journalist Kapil Komireddi, you can easily imagine whether the Muslims demand for a separate free homeland was right or wrong. And you know how secular the Indian government is. No doubt Pakistan is in a state of war and is under attack from the inside and from the outside. Every Pakistani should understand this conspiracy. Our Ministry of Information and every Pakistani embassy in other countries must watch closely this venomous propaganda against Pakistan. All anti-Pakistan news and every article in foreign newspapers should be vehemently answered back. This jihad is our duty. If someone is doubtful about India, he should read this statement of Indias founding father Jawahar Lal Nehru (He said it on August 7th, 1952 in Indian parliament.) and see for himself the mentality of a greater India and atrocities against the Kashmiri Muslims: I want to stress that it is only the people of Kashmir who can decide the future of Kashmir. It is not that we have merely said that to the United Nations and to the people of Kashmir; it is our conviction and one that is borne out by the policy that we have pursued. . However sad we may feel about leaving, we are not going to stay against the wishes of the people. We are not going to impose ourselves on them at the point of the bayonet. The present leadership of India should understand that India will rise as a big economic power on the map of the world only when it gives the Indian Muslims the right of self determination in accordance with the UN resolutions and Nehrus promises. A former member of Indian assembly and a former high commissioner to UK, the respectable journalist Kuldip Nayyer wrote in the Gulf News on July 4th : There are no two opinions about the fact that the Kashmir issue should be resolved. The two nations fought three wars including the Kargil conflict because of this issue. The Indian rulers know that the relationship with Pakistan cannot improve until this issue is resolved. Then Kuldip Nayyer gave this strange proposal: A better environment for the solution of the Kashmir issue can be created if both India and Pakistan join hands and attack the Taliban together. God willing, such a day would never come when we would need Indian help to solve our internal problems. Kuldip Nayyer should tell the Indian leadership that the Taliban movement would come to an end only when the Kashmir issue is resolved and Indian Muslims are treated well and America leaves Afghanistan. Then the Afghan people would make their own government and peace would prevail in South Asia.
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rape, looting, kidnapping, ransom, disappearance of prisoners, illegal arrests and torturing the political opponents in a cruel way are so common there. India is continuing military operations in Occupied Kashmir. The people of both Azad Kashmir and Occupied Kashmir should be included in all moves to resolve the Kashmir issue. The Kashmiri people are an important party in this issue. Their participation is so vital in all negotiations. The Kashmiris have been fighting for their genuine rights. The majority there are the Muslims who want to annex with Pakistan on the basis of a two-nation theory. They had already announced their annexation with Pakistan. But India never heeded to their wishes. Their struggle during the last 62 years proves that they want the right of self-determination for themselves. Pakistan has always supported their struggle. Three wars have been fought between India and Pakistan. Pakistan demands the right of self-determination for the Kashmiris. India should keep its promise. But it declares that Kashmir is an integral part of India, which has no moral, political and legal justification.
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Every government of Pakistan has always aspired for permanent peace, prosperity, progress and stability in the region and for a peaceful resolution of all the problems through negotiations with all the countries, especially India, and to resolve in particular the Kashmir issue according to the wishes of the Kashmiri people and the UN resolutions, and to include the Kashmiri leadership in all parleys. So Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has stressed again the importance of talks between India and Pakistan to resolve all the issues. If there are no talks between these two countries, it would encourage the terrorists and adversely affect the peace and stability of the region. He said that the question of Indian intervention in Balochistan would be raised. He said it in a meeting in Islamabad that we want to maintain a friendly relationship with all the neighbouring countries, and that the politicians should build bridges, not barriers. It is a fact that the destructive wars between India and Pakistan could not help resolve the differences, problems and issues. Rather these wars increased the differences and problems. It is also true that India is responsible for all these wars because India never accepted Pakistan. It was agreed in the schedule of partition that the states would be allowed to annex with either India or Pakistan. But India never gave this right to any state. It occupied not only Hyderabad and Deccan but also Kashmir. When the Muslim majority of Kashmir started dissidence against India, Pakistan supported them. Indian forces met defeat and destruction in Kashmir. So India went to the UN and promised it would give the people of Kashmir the right of self-determination. It resulted in a cease fire under the supervision of the UN. India violated it and declared Kashmir an integral part of India. It coerced the Kashmiri people. It resulted in three destructive wars between the two countries. But the Kashmir issue is still unresolved. Even then, Pakistan has been trying to resolve this issue through talks and according to the wishes of the Kashmiri people, but India does not agree. It is sad to note that the American support of India has jeopardized the regional peace. If the Indian rulers did not change their attitude, and if America did not stop patronizing India, both India and America would be responsible for all the dangers to regional and world peace. Pakistani rulers should watch closely Indian designs and Indo-American conspiracies. They should also strengthen their defence. Both the government and the people of Pakistan should keep in mind that we will have to offer more sacrifices for our safety and freedom, and we should always be ready for that.
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the history of India. These freedom fighters wrote the history of freedom for India with their own blood. But when the historians of the Kashmir liberation movement make an impartial analysis, they will admit that the sons of mother India were betraying their own hero. They broke those very rules and regulations on the basis of which they fought against the British. The freedom of Kashmir is the writing on the wall. If East and West Germany can unite, Kashmir too will become a part of Pakistan. The time will come when the student of history, while visiting the memorial places in Naini jail, Central jail Alahabad, Sri Nagar jail and all those jails where Syed Ali Gilani was kept, would ask the followers of Gandhi that, if the struggle of Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru, Sukh Dev and Ashfaqullah is part of their story of freedom, why they didnt grant liberation to Kashmir. He would declare Syed Ali Gilani as Nelson Mandela. But at the same time, he would regret the world conscience which grants a Nobel Prize to Nelson Mandela for his struggle against apartheid, but ignores the person who struggled for the right of self-determination according to the UN Charter and resolutions. Syed Ali Gilani says it clearly, I dont accept Kashmirs so-called annexation to India. Im a rebel to Indian imperialism, and Id kiss even the rope of the gallows for that.
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Siachen undoubtedly is a part of Pakistan because foreign mountain climbers, since long, have been going to the Siachen glacier via Skardu with a formal written permission from the government of Pakistan. In 1957, a team from the Imperial Defence College, London, went to Siachen with the permission of the Pakistani government. In 1960-61, Australian climbers went there via Khaplu. In 1962, 1967 and 1969, the Indian forces suddenly occupied Siachen and it became a controversial place. The Pakistani government lodged a strong protest with India when it opened this controversial place for tourism. This opening of Siachen for tourism would be detrimental because Indian occupation of Siachen is illegal. Siachen glacier is in the east of Baltistan. It is 46 miles long and 6166 meters high. It is 30 miles from the Pak-China border, inside Pakistan. In 1984 Indian forces suddenly occupied a part of Siachen. Troops of both the countries are facing each other. According to the SinoPak contract of 1962, Pakistans control line is shown from the Korakoram Pass in the east, including Siachen. India never objected to it. The main cause of occupation of Siachen is to keep an eye on Sino-Pak relations via Shahrah-e-Raisham and control it if it is needed. After Siachen, India also tried to occupy the tops of Kargil but failed due to the timely action of the Pakistani forces. India insists that the present position of the troops be determined, whereas Pakistan insists that that would mean amendment to the line of control, which was determined in the Simla Accord. This amendment is a political problem not a technical one. So it should be resolved. The line according to the Simla Accord ended where the glacier started because the glacier is in that part which is towards Pakistan. On the failure of the Siachen parleys, the BBC representative asked Indias former Chief of Army Staff VP Malk, how would there be an improvement in relations when on one hand his government talks of confidence-building measures and, on the other hand, has such a strict attitude about Siachen. VP Malk could give no answer. According to an Indian journalist, India spends two million dollars daily on Siachen. While talking about Siachen, an Indian officer said that those who have served on Siachen, collectively believe that India is in a strange situation. They could have avoided being entangled in this cold hell, but due to lack of insight on the part of the Indian politicians and senior commanders, the troops of both the countries are entangled in a useless war. It is a cancer for India. Declaring Siachen as a nonmilitary area or withdrawal of troops of both the countries is in Indias interest, but India wants to delay it. The Kashmir issue is the main cause of all the wars between India and Pakistan. Though Siachen is an unpopulated snow capped piece of land, yet India has no right to occupy it because it is a part of Pakistan. It is a violation of international as well as moral laws. On the other hand, Kashmir is a paradise-like valley where millions of people live. It has become hell because of Indias obduracy. Is there any inhuman crime which India has not committed on the majority of its people? About 100,000 171
young men have been martyred there; thousands of women have been raped and millions of the people have been made homeless. Self-defence is the law of nature, but India accuses those who defend themselves as terrorists. If it is terrorism, then are Indian forces atrocities in Kashmir not state terrorism?
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Jhelum and the Kishan Ganga Water Project, which threatened Pakistans 930MW Neelam-Jhelum Project. India is also using more than its permitted water share through Ranbir and Partab canals. India should desist from the river water diversion which was a violation of the Indus Waters Treaty. It should not only provide complete information about the projects on the Jhelum and Chenab rivers but also allow the representatives of Pakistan to inspect all such projects. India has started work on its Morha plan of 9 megawatt on the Jhelum River in Occupied Kashmir. This project was started in 1993 but India stopped work due to a full-fledged protest from Pakistan. Now again India has started construction in violation of the Indus Waters Treaty. It has also started construction of another dam on the Jhelum River. The Pakistani commissioner of the Indus Waters Treaty, Jamat Ali Shah, declared the construction of this 240-megawatt Orhi 11 project as serious for Pakistan. Though India has stopped work on Wooler Barrage, yet the construction of a new dam is dangerous. India also is working on a project of a 105megawatt hydro power on lower Jhelum. India has never recognized Pakistan. That is why it wants to keep the Kashmir issue intact and increase confrontation so that Pakistan should spend its resources for its safety only and not to end poverty, illiteracy and other economic problems. India, violating the Indus Waters Treaty, tried to make Pakistan a barren land. At the time of Partition, the Radcliffe Award handed over two important head works Madhopur and Ferozepur to India, leaving West Pakistans agriculture at the mercy of India. The boundary commission was not impartial. Pakistan raised the issue of the one million acre land in front of the boundary commission. When India stopped the water of those rivers which flow towards Pakistan, the water crisis between the two countries became serious. Then Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan (late) declared that we would prefer to die on the battle field for even a single drop of water. India has been using water as a big weapon since 1948. When India tried to harm Pakistans agriculture by stopping water from the Sind river in 1951, the danger of war between the two countries increased. At last, with the efforts of the World Bank, a contract was signed on September 9th, 1960 in Karachi. It was agreed that India would use the water of the Ravi, Satluj and Beas rivers and Pakistan would use the water of the Chenab, Jhelum and Sind rivers. India would have no right on the water of these rivers. According to this accord, India would not build any dam or barrage on all these three western rivers namely Chenab, Jhelum and Sind. This accord is in danger because of Indias expansionism and ill will. First India tried to give a big blow to Pakistans agriculture by building the Wooler Barrage in 1994, which adversely affected 3 million acres of the Punjab province. It also affected the production of electricity of Mangla Dam because of a shortage of water there. After the construction of this dam, India can cause floods in Pakistan whenever it wants. During the last four decades, India continued making Pakistan a barren land and also provided lesser water than the agreement. Moreover, India created more problems for Pakistan by not providing timely information about the floods of monsoon. India starts a new 177
issue every now and then. The most important issue however between the two countries is the issue of Kashmir. Then the issue of the division of water started. In short, India shows obduracy all the time and succeeds in it, as it did in the case of the Kashmir issue, Wooler Barrage and media war. India has spread its net of conspiracies and is now constructing this dam with the help of Israel. It does not show Pakistan the designs of the dam, nor does it allow Pakistan to inspect it. It is high time India cooperated with Pakistan and provided Pakistans share of water, otherwise Pakistan would suffer severely.
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According to the puppet chief minister of Occupied Kashmir, Ghulam Nabi Azad, 450 megawatt electricity production in Baglihar Dam would start in June. The Indian government has been building many dams in Occupied Kashmir. All the rivers, canals and water channels which flow towards Pakistan are being closed. India aims at making Pakistan a desert like Somalia and Ethiopia. Pakistan is against the construction of Baglihar Dam which is being built on the river Chenab in the Doda district in Occupied Kashmir because this dam, which will cost Rs 4000 crore and produce 450 megawatt electricity is a violation of the Indus Waters Treaty. This will create more problems for Pakistan which has already been facing water shortage. India is building this dam despite many protests by Pakistan. Pakistan wanted to solve this problem seriously and sincerely but India is using the delaying techniques. When this problem was not solved through mutual talks, Pakistan, in the light of the Accords article no. 91, raised this matter before the World Bank. Pakistan had no other option because of Indias obduracy. Pakistan wants no favors from India; it only wants to stop India from taking an illegal action. Pakistan has many reservations and apprehensions about the construction of Baglihar Dam, about its design, height and its capacity to store water. Its height is 144.5 meters, its length on top is 317 meters and it can store 15 billion cubic meter water. According to the Indus Basin Accord 1960, no dam can be built to stop the water of the Chenab River in Kashmir. But India continued building dams despite Pakistans protests. Pakistan accepted the representative of the World Bank as an arbitrator. This arbitrator, after hearing Pakistans objections, initially stated that Pakistan was right, but then he changed his opinion and said that India was right. Indian experts had already been saying that all the arbitrators of World Bank would decide in favor of India. The World Banks neutral expert Professor Raymond Lafeeti reported that the Biglihar Dam issue cannot be resolved because they did not accept Pakistans stand that the construction of this dam was a violation of the SindTas Accord of 1960. The neutral expert said the height of Baglihar Dam was too much above the water level and India would increase its water level thus resulting in lesser water for Pakistan. Experts believe that after the construction of the Baglihar Dam, Pakistan would be deprived of 7000 cusec water every day and that would be a big loss to Pakistan. Pakistan informed India about its losses but India rejected our protest with this argument that it did not rain much during the last two years and that water shortage was not due to the construction of Baglihar Dam. After the completion of this dam, daily shortage of water during the rabi season would be from seven to eight thousand cusecs. Water from Tarbela and Mangla dams would be supplied for irrigation of wheat crops. The construction of Baglihar Dam would cause shortage of water in Tarbela and Mangla. Thus, enough water wont be provided to wheat crops in rabi. It will decrease per acre production of wheat. The design of Baglihar Dam is such that it would slow the natural flow of the Chenab River. According to the SindTas Accord, India has no legal right to stop the flow of the Chenab River. 179
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During the last couple of years, confrontation between India and Pakistan over the construction of Baglihar dam have created much bitterness between the two countries. Both countries already have had a bitter dispute over the Indus water. A similar situation was faced by Bangladesh after the construction of a canal by India, diverting the water of river Brahmaputra. According to Karl Marx, economic interests dictate the course of history. If we grill this statement with regards to Pakistan and India, it would be more appropriate to say that the water decides the true mechanism of any states survival and political profile. Any water controversy between India and Pakistan indicates lack of monitoring and implementation of the Indus Waters Treaty 1960 in its letter and spirit. Water is a gift from Almighty Allah and the symbol of life. The scarcity of water means strangulation and drought, resulting into a chain reaction leading to one problem after the other: For instance, land erosion, shortage of agricultural products, price hike, unemployment, law and order situation, chaos and anarchy and its ultimate product violence breeding more violence. There is no concept of plantation without water. Irrigation is the life-line of plants. More than 70 percent of Pakistan economy is based on agriculture. The same situation is faced by other South Asian states like Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan. It means the mainstay of survival of both rivals Pakistan and India rests on the availability of water. Even though the two countries do not fight against each other in the battlefield, water blockade by one state can defeat the other. During the last couple of years, confrontation between India and Pakistan over the construction of Baglihar dam created much bitterness between the two countries. Both countries already have had a bitter dispute over the Indus water. A similar situation was faced by Bangladesh after the construction of a canal by India, to divert the water of river Brahmaputra. Tension also continues between India and Nepal, India and China that might one day take a serious turn, as all the entities claim their share of water from the river water passing through their respective territories. Apart from the survival, the water of India and Pakistan also decides their respective prowess to twist the arms or brow beat its rival. When Pakistan raised its voice against hegemonic and expansionist designs, nobody bothered to heed. But now, when the water crisis has become the matter of life and death, its policies to choke the water resources by building dams such as Dulhasti, Dugar, Gondhala, Reoli/Dugli, Sach-Khas, Tandi, Teling Kirthal hydropower projects, besides Baglihar dam on Chenab further aggravates Pakistans position. According to reports, India has also commenced its projects like Uri-I and Uri-2, on the same river. According to the Indian prime Minister there are actually 67 projects, nineteen out of which have already been completed. 180
According to John Briscoe and Usman Qamar who compiled their book titled Pakistans Water Economy Running Dry, Pakistan is one of the worlds most arid countries, with an average rainfall of under 240mm a year. Its population and the economy are heavily dependent on an annual influx into the Indus river system (Including the Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi) Beas, and Sutlej rivers) of about 180 billion cubic meters of water that emanates from the neighbouring countries and is mostly derived from the snow that melts in the Himalayas. The first challenge arose when the partition of the Indo-Pak subcontinent severed the irrigated heartland of Punjab from the life giving waters of the Ravi, Beas and Sutlej rivers. In the unprecedented triumph of water diplomacy, Pakistani engineers, together with their Indian counterparts and the World Bank, negotiated the Indus Waters Treaty giving Pakistan the right in perpetuity to the waters of Indus, Jhelum and Chenab rivers, which comprise 75 percent of the flow of the whole Indus system. Experts on the water division surveys divide this region into three distinct plains; the Indus valley (mostly in Pakistan), the Punjab valley (divided between India and Pakistan including Haryana plains) and the Middle and Lower Ganga valley. By another definition, the Indo-Gangetic Plain is divided into two drainage basins; the eastern part consists of the Ganga-Brahmaputra drainage systems and Delhi Ridge. These regional distinctions are based primarily on the availability of water. In terms of availability of water, the Indian reservoir of water that it received through Brahmaputra and Ganga is much bigger than the share Pakistan received under the Indus Waters Treaty. Pakistan objected to the construction of the dams on the Indus and Chenab in Jammu and Kashmir which is part of the large dispute over water sharing of the Indus River and its tributaries. Will the whole South Asia die of hunger and lack of the necessities of life: food primarily, while Indian hegemonic and expansionist attitude will go on unrestricted?
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The Congress leaders Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Patel believed that Pakistan wont survive long. The Congress leadership never accepted the creation of Pakistan. It, under the leadership of Pandit Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Nrisma Rao, has always been conspiring to harm and divide Pakistan. First of all, India spread a network of conspiracies and used some Sindhi nationalist leaders to separate Sindh from Pakistan. But it failed. Later, the Indira Gandhi government tried to trap Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rahman and some other leaders of the Awami League. Sheikh Mujib had always been exploiting the linguistic crisis for his political gains. Indira Gandhis government trained groups of Hindu teachers to mislead the patriotic people of East Pakistan, who started a maligning campaign against West Pakistan. Indian diplomats openly distributed money among the journalists and literati in Dhakas press club and instigated them against West Pakistan. In the late 1960s, India planned to create Bangladesh and funded Mukti Bahni and gave money and arms to the Hindus and to the Awami League workers all over East Pakistan. India came to the fore front when General Yahya Khan announced to hold elections in 1971 and it provided money and a well-organized force of agents to the Awami League which paved the way for its success in the general elections. It won the elections in East Pakistan thanks to its vandalism and rigging. When General Yahya Khan postponed indefinitely the meeting of the National Assembly, the Indian agents and rogues of Mukti Bahni and the Awami League started killing the Biharis, the citizens of West Pakistan and pro-Pakistan people. When our armed forces had crushed this rebellion and normalized the situation there, India attacked Pakistan and at the same time founded Mukti Bahni for which its own soldiers worked and it gave them arms and ammunition and spread them all over East Pakistan. Mukti Bahnis headquarter was established in Calcutta and given the name of Mujibnagar. India severed the air and naval communications between East and West Pakistan and founded Bangladesh through naked aggression. At the time of the 1971 war, the Indian media hurled some illogical accusations against the Pakistani forces. Three of them were these: they killed about 3 million Bengalis, raped 300,000 women and burned down many villages. It also gave the same feedback to the international media which, without any investigation, maligned Pakistan. Thus Pakistan was not only left alone in the world but also became a victim of hatred from all the people. The big powers at last decided to separate East Pakistan and India made it Bangladesh. The vitriolic anti-Pakistan Indira Gandhi made pieces of an Islamic country, created rifts among the Muslims and divided them. But see natures law of retribution. Her sons and she could not die a natural death. It is strange that all the political actors of the December 1971 incident and their children died unnatural deaths. Indira Gandhi was killed when she was on her way to the Prime Minister House or Rashtrapati Bhavan. Her son Sanjay Gandhi died in a plane crash. Her second son was killed in a bomb attack when he was a prime minister. The dead 186
body of Shaikh Mujib-ur-Rahman could not be removed from the stairs of the president house for hours. All the members of his family except Hasina Wajid who was out of the country at that time were killed. Indira Gandhi was very proud on the breaking of Pakistan; yet the fact is India never benefited from the creation of Bangladesh. Rather it created and strengthened movements for a separate homeland in East Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nado and in more than twenty other regions. Outwardly Indira Gandhi succeeded, yet the Bangladesh of today is a country of Islamic identity in every aspect. This refutes Indira Gandhis claim that she had drowned the two-nation theory in the Gulf of Bengal. Pakistan was divided into two and East Pakistan became Bangladesh, but we need not be disappointed about Pakistan ideology. The Bangladeshi Muslim is not less Islamic, nor is it ignorant about Indias designs. We should be realistic and fulfill our dream in the vaster interests of the Muslim ummah. If both the countries of South Asia cannot unite again, they should at least agree on a confederation which would be encouraging for Indian Muslims too. India has established at least 18 training camps in Afghanistan, where terrorists are being trained under the supervision of RAW. After training they are being sent to different parts of Pakistan, especially to Waziristan and Balochistan, for terrorism and destruction. At the same time, on the instigation of India, the Afghan government has established an institution where Uzbek, Tajik and some self-exiled Pakistani traitors are being trained. India wants no peace for Afghanistan because only then will it be able to continue using the Afghan tribes there to spread hatred and animosity against Pakistan. Some members of the Indian and Afghan forces are involved in internal and external attacks on Pakistan with a view to establishing Indias dominance in the region. India has bought the services of some so called jihadis in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and they are involved in terrorism and destruction in Pakistan for money. Beautiful girls of other countries are provided for sexual satisfaction of these people in Kabul every sixth month. These girls are recruited on the basis of their beauty, physical features and attraction and not on the basis of their education and qualifications. 600 girls (of 20 years) of infidel and irreligious families are provided to these traitors. After the arrival of America in Afghanistan, India again opened its embassy in Kandahar. After that, a new wave of destruction and terrorism started in Balochistan. The Indian secret agency RAW is believed to be behind the murder of shias and sunnis there. Foreigners were arrested in connection with suicide attacks on imam bargahs. India also opened her consulates at different places near Pakistans borders, from where they are committing terrorism against Pakistan. Our investigation departments have concluded that Indian secret agencies, especially RAW, are behind all the recent terrorist attacks in many cities of Pakistan. The Indian consulate in Kandahar is in fact the headquarters of RAW in Afghanistan. Otherwise, the presence of this consulate in that city has no justification. Indian trade and arrival and the departure of the Indian citizens and diplomats is through Jalalabad, not Kandahar. The only aim of opening the Indian consulate in Kandahar is to intervene 187
in Balochistan and do terrorist activities there. The Afghan and Balochistans borders are common and weapons are provided to the Baloch Liberation Front through this way. With the compliance of Afghanistan, India has appointed 300 commandos in Kandahar, Jalalabad and Kabul for the safety of Indian citizens. In fact India is using their safety as a pretext to do terrorism in Balochistan with the compliance of the Afghan government. Indian consulates there are in fact camps of terrorism. The recently established Indian camp at Koshila Jadeed north of Kabul is very important. India can use it to blackmail the Afghan government and use it against Pakistan. India has increased the number of its diplomatic, military and intelligence staff there. Apart from its embassy in Kabul, its consulates are there in Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar Sharif and Herat and they are big centres of antiPakistan activities. The Afghan territory is being used against Pakistan. All the antiPakistan planning, especially about terrorism in Balochistan and tribal areas, is done there. The world should keep in mind this heinous character of India, which it revealed in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Ask your Muslim brethren how treacherously India treated them. India has been dreaming of occupying all the countries of South Asia.
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Afghanistan. On the other hand, Pakistani consulates were attacked, stoned, looted and burned. Pakistan, which has long-lasting religious, regional, national, geographical and political relationships with Afghanistan, suddenly became a stranger. They all forgot Pakistans hospitality, sympathies and magnanimity. But India has become everything to them. After getting training from RAW in Afghanistan, the suicide bombers enter Pakistan. There is strong evidence of Indias involvement in Balochistan and in the frontier province. Drug traffickers also enter Pakistan with them. These smugglers bring with them weapons, currency notes and forbidden anti-Pakistan and anti-Islam literature, which adversely affects the peace here. India has been covertly increasing its forces in Afghanistan. A large number of paramilitary forces and black cat commandos have reached Afghanistan for the safety of Indias Border Road Organization which has been making and expanding roads there. Chinas role in Pakistans progress is tremendous. The Chinese experts have been working in different institutions of Pakistan. They are being targeted. RAW is responsible for their deaths. No Pakistani can kill Chinese people. We cannot even imagine that a Pakistani can ever target the citizens of that great friendly country. Such activities aim at straining our friendship. The Chinese citizens were targeted in Gawader and at Gomal dam. Some American analysts have been crying about a possibility of Pakistans atomic weapons going into the hands of terrorists. But it is impossible. Every arrangement has been done for their safety. The terrorists have been eliminated in the tribal areas; therefore their access to atomic weapons is not possible. Nor do they have planes and aircrafts to transport and drop these weapons. America should give Pakistan every possible help because Pakistan has been fighting this war against terrorists and has become a victim of terrorism.
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government jobs. The poor and backward strata were adversely affected by the governments attitude. The number of the Muslims is comparatively high among them. They had to face the political prejudice of the Hindu extremist party The Bhartia Junta Party after its ascension in the centre and some other states. The process of their economic and intellectual progress could not start because of a vacuum of leadership among the middle class Muslims. Some time-serving elements exploited this situation and dominated the Muslims. One cause of this vacuum of leadership among the Muslims was the fact that the government officers, skilled workers, teachers and doctors among them had migrated to Pakistan at the time of partition. That is why the Muslims could not get their share in politics. But the Muslims have always been in the forefront in the film industry. Ram Chander Guha says that the Indo-Pakistan enmity and bitterness and the treatment of the minorities in Pakistan also adversely affected the Indian Muslims and they remained backward. Apart from that, the miserable state of the Muslims was also due to the form of government, inequalities in society and lack of equal opportunities for jobs in northern India. There are 31 % of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh which is one of those provinces that have a greater number of populations. The population of Muslims in Behar in the north is more than 10 million. Things are different in southern India. Another historian, Mahesh Ranga Rajan, says that there are more opportunities of education and private business there due to social and cultural changes, and the Muslims availed themselves of it. He adds that the Muslims were affected most because of poverty and a lack of welfare policies.
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In the light of the incident, it is clear that the slogan of secularism signifies nothing. The Indian judiciary also seems to be impressed by the racial, linguistic, religious and sectarian prejudices. If the temple is built on the place of a mosque, not only will the judiciarys authority be destroyed but the slogan of secularism will die its death.
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are being used for terrorism, and by using Hinduism are maligning it. National newspapers and TV channels were honestly bringing out ATS revelations for the first time. Countrys majority secular circles had now understood to a great extent what was happening and who was behind these bomb blasts and what they were targeting. But on November 26, direction of the Malegaon investigation went back to its traditional path. These terrorist attacks took the lives of brave and honest ATS officers. Eight terrorists were killed. One Ajmal Qasab was captured. It was found out that he had targeted the ATS chief. Some terrorists fled from the scene. Under suspicion of links with these new terrorist organizations, an indiscriminate spree of arrests of innocent Muslims again erupted like before. Terrorists would not stop until either BJP or the NDA comes to power in the central government. When the dust would settle after some days we would like to witness that Sahdvi Pargya Singh Thakar, Lieutenant Colonel Prohat and Swami Dayanand Pandey are freed by the court on the basis of insufficient proofs. This is the real scenario of the Malegaon and Madosa investigation and turning point of bomb culture. Nevertheless, we will remember the Indian Muslims and Hindu fighters of ATS, who were killed in the struggle to unfold the real terrorists of the country. Blood of these martyrs would definitely speak and Indian Muslims will get rid of the curse of cruelty and terrorism forever. Cruelty has to meet its poetic justice in the end!
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unimportant. On the one hand, America has practically linked the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a nuclear state, with Afghanistan after inventing a new term "AfPak". On the other side, India has gained superiority in every respect with regard to America's regional priorities. After the 9/11, a tool has come into the hands of India in the form of ongoing war against terrorism, which is being used in propaganda against Pakistan. America is accepting the Indian stance and cooperation happily for the accomplishment of its anti-Islam crusade agenda. Allah Almighty has clearly said in the Holy Quran: "Oh believers! Do not make the Christians and Jews your friends and some of them are friends of some others. One who made them his friends he will be among them." Pakistan has gained no benefit from the friendship of America. Pakistan has caused unlimited loss to itself in the American war and the future conditions also seem dangerous. What is the justification for ignoring steps taken by the well-wisher and friend of our first enemy? They are a threat to our Islamic liberties, defence and survival. Our rulers should consult the elected representatives after convening a special meeting of the parliament in this regard. Moreover, they should not delay in the formulation of the new effective national policy after discussing the role of America. Foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was right in saying that a permanent UN Security Council seat for India would upset the balance of power in South Asia. The concern about Indias zeal to gatecrash into the UNSC, endorsed by the US, was to a certain extent allayed by Chinas opposition on this count. Another factor that would ultimately thwart New Delhis bid is the fact that expansion of the UNSC is a long-drawn process, and in this particular case theres many a slip betwixt the cup and the lip. The reforms package, which envisions the enlargement of the body is a bone of contention amongst the member states and there is little possibility of a consensus in near future. President Obamas support for Indias seat was only a deceptive move to curry the favour of the Indians. He has no authority to speak on behalf of the UN. So far as the question of regional representation on the basis of population and economic strength goes, we have China as a permanent member. At the same time, it must not be forgotten that there are other promising contenders like Japan, Germany and Brazil whose bid for a permanent slot deserves to be given precedence. India, by contrast, has open enmity and difficult relations with all neighbouring countries and is disposed to pick up quarrels at the slightest of provocations and brandish its nuclear sword to intimate adversaries be it China or Pakistan. It is struggling to overcome at least 13 insurgencies within, and is mired in pervasive poverty. Most important of all, the country has been for the past many decades sitting on the UNSC resolutions, calling for a solution of the Kashmir dispute through a plebiscite held under UN auspices. Its atrocities in Held Kashmir are a matter of record of the bodies of the UN. Its accession to the UN Security Council, even with the US promised support, would remain a dream unless it peacefully settles disputes with neighbouring countries and sets its own house in order. 205
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the joint declaration was just a diplomatic paper, not a legal document. Under the given circumstances, it can never be expected from India that it is convinced to solve our old Kashmir issue at the table of dialogues in the light of our principled stance on the basis of the UN resolutions. Because of Indias stubbornness, our rulers should also not advance the step towards friendship and trade till the resolution of the Kashmir and water disputes according to the UN resolutions.
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Pigs in 1961. Through these tactics an environment would be created among international community that the Pakistani nuclear program is dangerous and unsafe and should be handed over to international monitoring to disable its function. The Most dangerous element in this plan was that once the mission would be achieved, after some time a small scale atomic blast would be planted at American or NATO forces bases in Afghanistan to ensure that the Afghani Taliban or Muslim extremists have successfully succeeded in penetrating Pakistani nuclear installations. On May 16 an Israeli website Debka revealed a story titled Singh Warns Obama Pakistan Is Lost which states that: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has warned the American President that Pakistans nuclear sites situated in NWFP are already partially in the hands of Muslim extremists. Times of India also mentioned a report in this context which complains America has lost confidence that Pakistans atomic assets are unsafe and they are ignoring the reality. As it is evident from the above mentioned story that Israel is even more interested in the Pakistani atomic program; the whole world knows about the collaboration and cooperation between India and Israel on security affairs. US White House, Pentagon, Foreign Ministry and CIA all admit this fact. Indian security establishment is always bent upon to dominate Pakistan and occupied Kashmir. It is clear that Israel sent utmost support to India during its war and tension with Pakistan in 1999 which resulted in the loss of marching Pakistan and the Kashmiri freedom fighters. 5.
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other way but the composite dialogue for the solution of Pak-India disputes. We welcome the Indian desire for resumption of composite dialogue, Basit said adding Pakistan has always been making efforts in this regard. He said the Pakistans delegation visited India with a positive approach. We have given a road-map to Indians and now it depends upon them, as and when they respond to this road-map positively. Continuity of dialogue is not only in the interest of Pakistan and India but in the interest of entire region. Pakistan was never desperate for the dialogue with India but being nuclear powers it was in mutual interest of both the countries to settle their differences and disputes through negotiation for the security of entire region. Basit said that, to address the issue of terrorism it is also imperative that Pakistan and India should work in cooperative form. To make hostage the entire peace process on the pretext of one single incident was not a mature approach. Pakistans position from day one was crystal clear to everyone with regard to composite dialogue and it will keep on pursing it in future also. We will keep on trying to get engaged with India in a meaningful, purposeful and result oriented dialogue process, he explained.
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India is currently facing the world insurgencies of Naxalites, Kashmiris, Nagaland, Sikhs and other minorities all over the country. Millions of people are struggling to get rid of evil imposed on them by the Indian government. To look at the dramatic increase of differences between rich and poor, the worsening human rights situation for minorities and the uprising of insurgencies in the country, a very different picture emerges. Indeed India is shifting for a very small proportion of its population, the rich and the richest; for the ninety percent of population India is on a fast way to decline. With the current policies, it will take centuries to turn existing India into shining India.
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greater defence expenditure exceeded to the maximum, resulting in economic crisis inside the country. However, militarization of the Soviet Union failed in controlling the movements of liberation, launched by various ethnic nationalities. On the other hand, while learning no lesson from its previous close friend, India has been acting upon the similar policies in some way or the other. Under the mask of democracy and secularism, subsequent Indian regimes dominated by politicians from the Hindi heart-land Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) have been using brutal forces ruthlessly against any move to free Asam, Kashmir, Khalistan, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu and Tripura, where wars of independence continue in one form or the other. Recently, Maoist intensified their struggle, attacking official installments in the major Indian cities. In this context, on October 31, 2009, The New York Times wrote, Indias Maoist rebels are now present in 20 states and have killed more than 900 Indian security officers Indias rapid economic growth has made it an emerging global power but also deepened stark inequalities in society. Indias prime minister met with Naga separatists on March 2 this year in an attempt to end one of the South Asian nations longest-running insurgencies. The meeting could not succeed because India is offering wide autonomy to the group, though it has already rejected the separatists demand for an independent homeland in northern India. The Naga insurgents have been fighting for more than 50 years. As regards to the Indian-held Kashmir, since 1947, Indian forces have intermittently been employing all the possible techniques of military terrorism such as curfews, crack-downs, sieges, massacre, targeted killings, etc. to maintain their alien rule. However, under the new puppet regime in the occupied Kashmir, Indian brutalities keep on going against the current phase of Kashmiri uprising which began on August 12, 2008 when Indian forces killed Hurriyat Conference leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz. Nevertheless, by neglecting all the ground realities, New Delhi has been advancing towards a self-destructive path. Post-Napoleonic era in Europe proves that it is not possible to suppress the independence wars through military terrorism. In that context, Prince Metternich, emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire did what he could to subjugate the alien people by employing every possible techniques of state terrorism. According to Indian historian, Mahahin, Matternich had to admit that he was fighting for a useless cause, and the empire disintegrated, resulting in the independence of Italy, Bulgaria and other states. In the recent past, despite the employment of unlimited atrocities by President Milosevic, collapse of the former Yugoslavia could not be stopped. Every entity of South Asia is well-aware that even under the rule of Congress, which claims to be a secular party, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Singh (RSS), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Shiv Sina and Bajrang Dal have missed no opportunity to communalize the national politics of India. Although violence against the other communities has been used 222
by Hindu fundamentalists as a normal practice since Partition, yet anti-Christian and anti-Muslim bloodshed in the last decade coupled with the dissemination of Hindutva has increased. Besides the previous genocide of Muslims and destruction of the Babri Mosque, more than 2500 Muslims were massacred in 2002 in the BJP-ruled Indian state of Gujrat. On September 13, 2008, in one of the most tragic incidents in Assam, Hindu extremists burnt alive six members of a Muslim family. Similarly, assaults on Christians and their property have continued by the Hindu mobs in Orissa, Assam, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. In this respect, at least 60 Christians have been assassinated in the recent past by Hindu fundamentalists in the state of Orissa. Other minorities of India are also target of Hindu terrorism. It is mentionable that the ideology of Hindu nationalism prevails in every field at the cost of other minority groups. It is even supported by Indian defence forces clandestinely. This fact could be judged from the recent past, when on April 6, 2008 in the house of Bajrang Dal fundamentalists in Nanded, a bomb went off. The investigations proved that the militants belonging to the Bajrang Dal were found in the bomb-making and attack on a mosque in Parbhani in 2003. Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Mahrashtra arrested a serving Lt. Col. Srikant Purohit and along with other army officials, indicating that they were helping in training the Hindu terrorists, providing them with the military-grade explosive RDX, used in the Malegaon bombings and terrorist attacks in other Indian cities. ATS further disclosed that Lt. Col. Purohit confessed that in 2007, he was involved in the bombing of Samjohta Express, which burnt alive 69 Pakistanis. Leaders of the Indian extremist parties, Shiv Sena, BJP, VHP and RSS are now pressurizing the Congress regime to release the culprits. Indian fundamentalism and mistreatment of religious minorities could also be assessed from some other developments. After serving the BJP for 30 years, Jaswant Singh was expelled from the party for praising Mohammad Ali Jinnah and echoing the pain of the Indian Muslims in his book, Jinnah-India, Partition. Independence. While pointing out BJPs attitude towards the minorities, Singh wrote: Every Muslim that lives in India is a loyal Indianlook into the eyes of Indians, the author warned in his book, if such a policy continued, India could undergo a second partition. Nonetheless, the artificial union of India which is maintained through a militarization of the country by incurring too much expenditure for importing arms, subjugating minorities through force, crushing wars of liberation with brutal tactics and for sponsoring insurgency in Pakistan, China, and other regional countries, is bound to result in a downfall.
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