India’s blame game revisited
Fatima Syed
Recently, India’s Home Minister Chidambaram gave a statement that India
would retaliate strongly to Pakistan-backed terrorism. He said, “If
terrorists and militants from Pakistan try to carry out any attacks in
India, they will not only be defeated but will be retaliated very
strongly”. He said he has been warning Pakistan not to play with India
and that the Mumbai attacks should be the “last game”. Contrary to the
statement of Indian Home Minister, it is the Indian soil which is being
continuously used for subversive activities against neighbouring
countries such as Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and China etc.
No wonder New Delhi is facing some serious security threats but from
within. These problems and threats are of absolutely indigenous nature.
India is facing Naxal menace, which according to the Indian Prime
Minister is the biggest threat to country’s security. Similarly, the
turmoil in the Northeastern states is also a result of Indian
Governments’ inability to address their grievances. India is also facing
communal violence perpetrated by Hindu extremists, having patronage of
Indian government. The demolition of Babri Mosque, Gujarat pogrom and
burning of Samjhota Express are few examples in which Hindu extremists
butchered Muslims with complete impunity.
Being the traditional enemy, India always tried to create chaos in
Pakistan and RAW performs this duty very efficiently. Since its
inception, RAW tried in one way or the other to destabilize Pakistan.
After East Pakistan started demanding autonomy from 1969 onwards, RAW
extended open and full cooperation to the movement leading to the
dismemberment of Pakistan and creation of Bangladesh. In fact, this was
more a war between India and Pakistan rather than the movement of
autonomy. After the separation of East Pakistan and the creation of
Bangladesh, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi delivered a speech at
New Delhi Ground in which she mocked the Two Nations Theory by saying,
“Today ‘WE’ have taken the revenge of the one thousand years’ slavery
and the birth of Bangladesh is the death of Two Nations Theory.”
India is engaged in creating disturbance in Pakistan. It currently has
an extensive diplomatic presence in Afghanistan. It includes the Indian
embassy in Kabul and four consulates in Kandahar, Jalalabad,
Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat. These Indian diplomatic missions serve as
launching pads for undertaking covert operations against Pakistan from
Afghan soil. Particularly, the Indian consulates in Kandahar and
Jalalabad and their embassy in Kabul are used for clandestine activities
inside Pakistan in general and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
(FATA) and Baluchistan in particular. Indian consulates in Afghanistan
are printing fake Pakistani currency, using it to recruit
poverty-stricken Afghans to carry out acts of sabotage and terrorism on
Pakistani territory.
A senior official in Pakistan’s Foreign Ministry said that, “Pakistan
very much wants a stable Afghanistan, because they are next to us, and
any instability up there will leak into Pakistan but as for the Indians,
we told Afghanistan that the only purpose of opening those consulates is
cross border terrorism into Pakistan”. India is using Afghanistan as the
launching base for ‘proxy war’ and is constantly encouraging and
promoting activities detrimental to Pakistan. India is continuously
interfering into the internal affairs of Bangladesh. She is supporting
the Chakma refugees of Bangladesh in order to create unrest in that
country. Her expansionist design intends to merge the whole Bangladesh
into Indian Territory. For this purpose India is supporting many
separatist groups and fifth columnists for covert and overt operations.
Tracts of Bangladeshi territories are in forced possession of India. She
presently occupies 110 enclaves of Bangladesh. Human Rights Congress of
Bangladeshi Minorities (HRCBM), a Hindu organization is creating
communal violence in Bangladesh. It is facilitating the settlement of
Hindus in border districts of the country in order to facilitate Indian
annexation of border territory of Bangladesh. The area identified is
about 30% border territory of Bangladesh and has been named a Bango
Bhumi to be annexed with India. Economic growth of Bangladesh has been
hampered due to excessive penetration of Indian smuggled goods into the
markets of Bangladesh. Indian intelligence agencies have also flooded
Bangladesh with fake paper money to ruin its economy.
Apart from Pakistan and Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka are also the
victims of RAW’s wicked designs. India engineered internal strife and
conflicts in Nepal through RAW to destabilize the successive legitimate
governments.In Sri Lanka RAW created and supported Tamil Tigers. On the
Mukti Bahini model, RAW built up terrorist training camps in Tamil Nadu
for a number of Tamil terrorist organizations. The militants trained in
India sidelined the moderate Tamils and started demanding complete
independence. The Indian diplomat G. Parathasarathy admitted supporting
terrorism in Sri Lanka. “We have learnt our lesson” for backing the
terrorist and that “India paid it price for backing the LTTE“. The
former Indian High Commissioner in Sri Lanka, J.N. Dixit even accused
RAW of having given Rs. five crore to the LTTE.
India, which is in habit of blaming others for all its wrongs most of
the time forgets that it has many elements on its soil which are
creating terrorism. In most of the subversive activities on Indian soil
the Hindu extremist groups are involved. They executed such activities
sometimes to have an excuse to start backlash against Muslims and
sometimes to inflict harm upon Muslims and damage to their properties
and belongings. Despite knowing the involvement of Hindu fanatics in
most terrorist acts the Indian government is in habit of blaming
Lashkar-i-Taiba, Jaish-e-Muhammad, Indian Muslims and Pakistan for every
subversive activity. This is just like deliberately closing ones eyes
and ignoring the facts.
There are several incidents in which the Indian government readily put
the blame on Indian Muslims and Pakistan such as Sabarmati Express
incident, Malegaon Blasts and Samjhota Express explosion. It was,
however, cleared afterwards that Hindu extremist groups have had a hand
in all these events as the style of execution was much similar. In its
well known way, India is double crossing its neighbours and leaving no
stone unturned to expand beyond its territory. In order to understand
the Indian political objectives one has to recall childhood story of the
wolf and the lamb. Just like wolf, India on the basis of lame-excuses
and absurd reasons trying to eat up the small neighbouring states. After
all this is the only way a Greater India can emerge on the map of the
world.
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