Salahuddin Haider
OFTEN accused of usurping peoples rights, because of repeated marshal laws, Pakistan army, since long, has emerged in a new role as guardian of democracy, backing civilian governments both in internal and external affairs to help raise the country’s image in the comity of nations. Its latest and most laudable effort in that direction has been preparation of a dossier on Indian hostility towards Pakistan, which depicts in considerable detail as to how our ten-time bigger neighbour, was involved in hostile propaganda against our God-given gift in the name of Pakistan, opposing it at FATF, UN, and other international for a, and indulging and backing terrorism within our geographical boundaries, using Afghanistan as the base for its nefarious designs, and trying to foment trouble to destabilize it, through a number of other measures.
The dossier presented at a press conference, jointly addressed by foreign minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, and Director General of ISPR, Maj-Gen. Babar Iftikhar, though only a first installment, is nevertheless is backed by solid evidence, collected through enormous efforts, and, which has now been submitted to UN Secretary General, and sent to other countries. If India is upset over it, their anger is natural, but such solid evidence which though denied by New Delhi, remains irrefutable. The age-old maxim that facts are invariably different from fiction, and can easily be sifted. So has been the case here. Evidence produced in the dossier is so solid that disputing it will be well nigh impossible. This again is Pakistan’s major success story as it unmasks the face of Indian government, headed by fascist BJP regime of Nirendera Modi, and his Hitlerite supporters of RSS, another extremist group, operating since 1925, but gaining power in recent years because of present Indian government’s arbitrary actions of occupied Kashmir, and the venomous attitude towards Muslims and other minorities in a country, claiming to be secular, but which has unashamedly replaced Gandhi’s “Ahinsa” by “Hindutva”.
The demolition of Babri Mosque, after its condemnable Supreme Court verdict, the Pulwama incident, intrusion into Pakistan from Iran of spy Kubhusha Jadev, still in Pakistan custody, and persistent use of dissidents from the country’s south-western province of Balochistan are few examples of its intent. India helplessly saw two of its combat aircraft shot down by Pakistan Air Force, one of which fell in Pakistani territory, but its pilot Abhinandan Varthaman, later released by prime minister Imran Khan as a gesture of goodwill, but Indian response continued by negative.
Challenging Indian denial of the substance in Dossier, Pakistan foreign office spokesman said in unambiguous words that “Pakistan categorically rejects the Indian Ministry of External Affairs’ denial of the irrefutable evidence on Indian state sponsorship of terrorism,”. The dossier “fully exposed that, India has typically resorted to sophistry, obfuscation and re-fabrication. Bland denials and a regurgitation of an old litany of charges, however, will not change facts,” it explained to the world. The dossier, the statement asserted, extensively documents India’s “active planning, promoting, aiding, abetting, financing and execution of terrorist activities against Pakistan.”
Since 2001, Pakistan has faced more than 19,000 terrorist attacks on its soil and suffered 83,000 casualties, in addition to the economic losses of $126 billion, according to the statement. The statement further emphasised that, India has “mischievously” masqueraded as a “victim” of terrorism and sought to mislead the international community by hypocritically leveling terrorism-related allegations against Pakistan.
Islamabad also exposed New Delhi of conducting “false flag” operations in disputed Jammu and Kashmir, and inside India to “malign” Pakistan. Pakistan’s alertness, and yeomen service done by ISI, counted among the world’s best, lifted the facade from Indian face. The world can see the real face of India – one blackened by its decades-long state-terrorism in Indian illegally occupied Jammu and Kashmir and facts mentioned above. India was reminded that Kulbhusan Jadav’s “complicity in subversion, sabotage and terrorism in Pakistan is part of the incontrovertible evidence against India.”
Pakistan’s dossier, for which ISPR deserved praise, perhaps is a reminder the “The world is familiar with “saffron terror” orchestrated and unleashed by the RSS-BJP zealots against Muslims in India and against Pakistan,” “Masterminds of Mecca Masjid, Ajmer Dargah, and Samjhota Express terrorist cases, like Swami Aseemanand, have been granted full state protection and acquitted in complete travesty of justice after having confessed to India’s National Investigation Agency (NIA).” The presence of Daesh and al-Qaeda in India as highlighted in recent UN reports, it asserted, indicates that India is emerging as a hotbed of UN-designated international terrorist organizations and posing a great risk to the region.
Demanding the UN counter-terrorism bodies proceed on the basis of “concrete” evidence, Islamabad urged the world body to play its part “in dismantling of the Indian terrorist infrastructure, details of which have been provided in the dossier.” New Delhi’s denial lacked conviction.
