Modi: the front man

Modi:  the front man

Dr. Jassim Taqui

The Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi is in the news again. This time, Modi has been taken by surprise. When the Uri base operation took place on 18^thSeptember, Modi had no clue whatsoever as what was the Indian army doing. He was in New York, contacting heads of states of various countries to make new friends when he received a call from his Interior Minister Rajnath Singh, breaking the news of the suicide attack.

Subsequently, Modi was in a state of panic. He ordered Singh to immediately put all civil and military bases in a state of alert. Later, he ordered Singh to visit the LoC and file a report to him. A few hours later, Modi accused Pakistan of being behind the attack and declared that Pakistan was a “terrorist state.”

Modi was given more shocks by his generals and the Indian Intelligence agencies especially RAW. They informed him that the militants were camped near the LoC and were planning massive attacks on major Indian cities. Modi, promptly believed the Army Generals and RAW, who have now emerged as a state within a state. Thus, on 29^th September, Modi ordered a surgical attacks on the “ militant camps” close to the LoC, stating that a large number of militants were killed.

The ISPR reacted quickly denying “surgical attacks” but confirmed the  Indian army resorted to shelling the Pak Rangers’ camps resulting in the martyrdom of two soldiers.

The ISPR issued, however, a statement saying that if Indian carried a ”surgical operation”, Pakistan would respond in kind.

Al-Bab learnt from reliable military sources that the SSG forces killed 8 Indian soldiers. However the Nawaz Sharif Government opted not to declare the Indian losses since it still hopes to do business with New Delhi  despite the hostile attitude of Modi towards Islamabad and his cancellation of the MFN status to Pakistan. Ironically, Lahore continues to witness border trade with India. Shahbaz Sharif exempted  Indian businessmen from taxes, resulting in dumping  Indian commodities all over Lahore. Obviously, the local business community does not like this India-Shahbaz Sharif deal since it is putting them out of business. Ultimately, the anger of the Lahori businessmen would explode and a movement will start against the Sharif brothers.

India managed to convince Bangladesh, Bhutan and Afghanistan to boycott the November SAARC summit scheduled to be held in Islamabad but failed to use pressure on Sri Lanka.

Afghanistan has shown that its policy is influenced by the India Establishment and RAW. Thus, the government of Ashraf Ghani openly defied Islamabad despite the fact that QCC has asked Pakistan to convince various Taliban factions to participate in the Afghan reconciliation process to put an end to the civil war in Afghanistan. Ironically, Ashraf Ghani indicated that he was ready to deal with Islamic State-Khorasan but refused to end his hostile policy against Pakistan.