Tuesday, August 23, 2016

The Indian connection

The Indian connection
Dr. Jassim Taqui


Escalating the state of tension with Pakistan, both India and Afghanistan, with the tacit support of Washington, took a highly provocative stance vis-à-vis Pakistan.

The Indians proclaimed that they would boycott the SAARC conference, which is to be held in Islamabad on 25th August 2016.
On the other front, the MQM Chief Altaf Hussain initiated army bashing and attack on the media, which exposed his links with RAW and MI-6.

Having failed to destabilize Pakistan through its agents in Balochistan and Karachi, the RAW and MI-6 gave a green signal to MQM to rise again and act in any way. Evidently, the agents failed to win over the sympathy of the civil society. People discarded them and MQM.
The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi has openly stated he would support terrorists in Balochistan and Gilgit-Baltistan just to show his opposition to the CPEC project. However, the LEAs acted swiftly by registering sedition cases against the RAW-supported terrorist including Brahmdagh, leader of the so-called The Baloch Republican Army (BLA) and Banuk Karima, the leader of Balochistan Student Organization- Azad (BRA). The BLA and BRA are involved in terrorist activities in Balochistan.
India has also declared that it would supply the Afghan Army with weapons including 4 attack helicopters of the type Mi-25. One would ask the Afghan government and US administration as to what has happened to $68 billion of dollars, which were, theoretically, spent on the Afghan armed forces since 2002? Why the Afghan Army prefer aging Russian weapons system over sophisticated American weapons?
Clearly, all these moves including the quartet alliance (India-Iran-Afghanistan-US) are meant to hit Pakistan and sabotage the CPEC.
However, Washington is committing a grave mistake by pushing Pakistan to the wall. Such a move would harm the US national interests because they would compel Islamabad to rely on China and Russia and its tactical nuclear weapons.
The euphoria of the Afghan President he shows whenever, he meets Modi, would not last long. Don’t make a mistake when you deal with India. It would not give a damn to anyone because India would follow its own policy in the region that seeks to marginalize Ashraf Ghani and change him in a mere puppet.

One would also question the policy of Iran, Afghanistan and the United States as to how you morally justify making an alliance with a man who has been condemned by his own people for killing in cold-blood  thousands of Indian Muslims when he was the Chief Minister of Gujarat? 

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