Dr Muhammad Khan
IN its fresh acts of aggression and ceasefire violations, Indian Army carried out massive firing all along the Ceasefire Line (CFL) in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK). On November 13-14, 2020 Indian Army resorted to target the innocent civilian population of AJK all along the CFL using major weapons, rockets, motors and long-range artillery. In the Neelum Valley area, dozens of houses were burnt to ashes in many villages, located along the CFL. This is a serious violation of ceasefire agreement 2003 and grave violation of international law, Universal Declaration of Human Rights and covenants on human rights. Besides, this is a clear act of aggression against civilian population of the state of Jammu and Kashmir whose 67% area is under the illegal occupation of India since last 73 years. Apart from killing and brutalizing the innocent masses of Indian Illegally Occupied Jammu and Kashmir (IIOJK) Indian Army has intensified its firing across the CFL to target the Kashmiris of AJK at will. This is height of Indian aggression which must be responded well and United Nations and international community must take it seriously.
Amidst this unprovoked Indian firing across the CFL, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi and Director General Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR), Major General Babar Iftikhar addressed a joint press conference on November 14, 2020. They condemned the Indian firing across CFL in AJK and gave irrefutable evidence of Indian state sponsored terrorism within Pakistan. Pakistan has compiled a dossier containing “irrefutable evidence” of Indian state sponsored terrorism in Pakistan and demanded that international community must take notice of it in order to maintain peace and stability in nuclear South Asia. From its aggressive and terrorist acts, India is clearly presenting itself as world’s biggest rogue state. Mr Qureshi clearly said that Pakistan has the solid information which clearly indicates that India is fanning state terrorism in Pakistan with the sole purpose of destabilizing it. It is worth mentioning that Pakistan has been a target of Indian-sponsored terrorism for decades. Informally, the Indian state sponsored terrorism started immediately after Pakistan came into being in 1947. However, the Indian terrorism was channelized and formalized in 1968, following the establishment of Research and Analysis Wing (RAW).
Indeed, creating instability and domestic unrest in the former East Pakistan was the first objective of RAW. Within three years of its establishment, RAW was able to create a situation where Pakistan was disintegrated and former East Pakistan became Bangladesh. With the same intent, India is terrorizing Pakistan with the help of its sponsored terrorist organizations. In this regard, India RAW and Afghan National Directorate of Security (NDS) are largely collaborating with the common mission of making Pakistan a sandwich through terrorism. These spying networks are devotedly involved in the training, narrative making, financing and patronage of the banned outfits against Pakistan.
These banned organizations include: Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), Hizb-ul-Ahrar (HuA), and other sub-nationalist groups of Balochistan. RAW is making a dire effort for establishing a consortium between TTP, JuA, HuA and sub-nationalist groups of Balochistan Province (BLA, BLF and BRA). This all is done through a ‘Grand Indian Design’ against Pakistan. Pakistani security forces have already defeated these organizations in its drive; the global war against terrorism. Most of the terrorist elements of these organisations took refuge in neighbouring Afghanistan during the counter-terrorism drive of Pakistan from 2004 to 2017. Indian RAW is trying to breathe life into these terrorist outfits once again by making a consortium of these groups.
India has made a huge budgetary allocation for revamping and re-grouping these terrorist organizations against Pakistan. They are being supplied with needed training, finances, weapons and ammunition to target the already earmarked personalities and locations. With regard to financing the terrorism, the DG ISPR gave evidence in the press conference, “[In the first one,] $28,000 was transferred by Punjab Bank in India [while] the second transaction of $55,851 was made by an Indian national Manmeet from an Indian bank in New Delhi, which was received by Afghanistan International Bank.” General Iftikhar also presented a letter in Dari which stated that “India paid $820,000 to TTP leadership through its collaborators.” There have been repeated meetings between RAW officials and the hard core TTP leadership in Afghanistan.
The above-mentioned facts provide just a few indicators of grand Indian designs being implemented through terrorism and aggression. Indian military cannot face Pakistani military directly and legally Pakistan stands at a very high pedestal on Kashmir. Therefore, fearing a swift, stringent and a bold military response from Pakistan, India is resorting to attackthe sovereignty and solidarity of Pakistan through indirect warfare. Terrorising and killing the people of AJK all along the Cease Fire Line (CFL) through its heavy weapon firing is a clear act of aggression and violation of international law. In the same way, sponsoring indirect warfare against Pakistan by making a consortium of banned terrorist organizations indicate Grand Indian Designs to internally devastate Pakistan.
In fact, the long-term grand Indian designs are aimed at creating chaos, social unrest, rise in militancy and economic crisis in Pakistan. Already Pakistan has paid heavy price of its war against global terrorism. From 2001 to 2020, Pakistan faced 19,130 terrorist attacks on its soil. It has suffered over 83,000 human losses which include over 8000 personnel of security forces. Besides, Pakistan has suffered unprecedented economic losses amounting to over 126 billion USDs. Therefore, let’s not sit quietly over the grand Indian designs of aggression and terrorism against Pakistan. The Government of Pakistan must approach United Nations and international forums of human rights to registered its case with the irrefutable evidence and dossier.
— The writer is Professor of Politics and IR at International Islamic University, Islamabad.
