Sajjad Shaukat
ADDRESSING a press conference with Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on 14 November this year, Director General (DG) of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Major-Gen. Babar Iftikhar unveiled a dossier containing “irrefutable evidence” of India’s sponsorship of terrorism in Pakistan. DG ISPR disclosed: “RAW has given banned organizations the task to target cities, including Lahore, Karachi and Peshawar in November and December this year RAW made two transactions to promote terrorism in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa through Indian banks Indian Embassy and Consulates in Afghanistan have become a hub of terror sponsorship against Pakistan to spread terrorism in Balochistan. An amount of US$5 million has been given to nationalists the Balochistan Liberation Army and the Balochistan Liberation Front were involved in the attack on PC Gwadar and its mastermind was RAW officer Anurag Singh India raised a 700-strong militia to sabotage CPEC [Chnia-Pakistan Economic Corridor]…India is aggressively pursuing clandestine agenda of destabilising Azad Jammu and Kashmir and Gilgit Baltistan”.
He said that they had “caught 17 clips of the facilitator Dr Allah Nazar in which Allah Nazar was getting instructions from RAW We have apprehended a RAW-sponsored sleeper cell in Karachi, which wants to target important personalities to create unrest in the country”. DG ISPR highlighted attacks at “the Agriculture University in Peshawar, the Army Public School…an IED attack on Peshawar police which were traced back to RAW. Maj-Gen. Babar revealed that India is running 87 terrorist camps; 66 in Afghanistan and 21 in India India united Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) with banned dissident [Terror] organizations the Indian intelligence agencies are also trying to establish Daesh-e-Pakistan has recently shifted 30 terrorists of Daesh to Pakistan India did “terrorism in Pakistan through Altaf Hussain [through] the MQM London terrorists.” Besides terrorists’ funding, “RAW is providing training, weapons, ammunition and IEDs to TTP” and other terrorist outfits. He further stated: “Pakistan’s intelligence agencies averted a massive terrorist attack on 14 August this year. A network of six terrorists was recently discovered which also had links to the attack on the Pakistan Stock Exchange in Karachi on June 29”.
Foreign Minister almost expressed similar thoughts by adding: “India has three objectives: derailing Pakistan’s journey towards peace, economic and political stability. You can see a pattern of constant ceasefire violations we have irrefutable facts that we will present before the international community through this dossier”. Nevertheless, DG ISPR and Foreign Minister called on the international community to take notice of Indian-supported terrorism and make efforts for peace and stability in South Asia. It is notable that Pakistan’s security forces had successfully foiled an attack on the Chinese Consulate in Karachi on 23 November 2018. BLA had claimed responsibility for that failed terror attempt. Pakistan’s media and reliable sources have disclosed that mastermind of that terrorist attack was Aslam alias Achu-a commander of BLA, who frequently visited Afghanistan and was receiving medical treatment at Max Hospital in the Indian capital New Delhi, where he died. In the recent past, some terror attacks were carried out in Karachi, Ghotki and Larkana in Sindh, and Balocistan, Waziristan and Peshawar in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, leaving several people including some personnel of the security forces dead and a dozen injured. In fact, RAW which is in collusion with Israeli Mossad and Afghanistan’s intelligence agency National Directorate of Security (NDS) has well-established its network in Afghanistan and has been fully assisting cross-border incursions and terror-activities in various regions of Pakistan through Baloch separatist elements and anti-Pakistan groups like Jundullah and TTP, including their affiliated outfits.
RAW is also using some terrorists of ISIS which claimed responsibility for a number of terrorism-related attacks in Pakistan and Afghanistan. These terror entities also abducted and killed many Chinese and Iranian nationals. Besides Pakistan, RAW is also making efforts to destabilise Tibetan regions of China and Iranian Sistan by arranging the subversive activities, promoting acrimonious sense of dissent, sectarian violence and arousing sentiments of separatism. Pakistan’s defence forces and especially Army have successfully broken the back of the foreign-funded terrorists by the military operations Zarb-e-Azb and Radd-ul-Fasaad, while country’s primary intelligence agency ISI has broken the network of these terrorist groups by capturing several militants and thwarting a number of terror attempts. So, peace was restored in various regions of the country, particularly in Balochistan and Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa provinces and Karachi.
But, latest terror assaults, especially in Balochistan which is central point of the CPEC indicate that the CIA-led RAW, NDS and Mossad are weakening Pakistan and want to damage the CPEC project which is part of China’s OBOR initiative or BRI. The US and India have already opposed this project. Notably, reliable sources on 18 August 2020 revealed that TTP has merged with its splinter groups Jamat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) and Hizb-ul-Ahrar (HuA) in Afghanistan. NDS and RAW played a key role in their reunification. The agreement, reportedly, designated Mufti Noor Wali as the Amir (Chief) of TTP, making him responsible for all planned terrorist activities inside Pakistan and Afghanistan. Islamabad has repeatedly accused Kabul of turning a blind eye toward TTP and other terrorists who fled to Afghanistan to escape counter-terrorist operations in Pakistan. According to the UN report of 26 July 2020, “The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan and its splinter group Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) continue to target Pakistan from their bases in Afghanistan the significant presence of ISIL-K (The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant Khorasan) in Afghanistan”, which the UN warns “now pursues a global agenda. The UN report warns of “a strong presence of ISIL-India in Kerala and Karnataka. ISIL-K considers Afghan territory a base for spreading terrorist influence across the wider region. The investigators found links between Indian nationals and terrorist attacks in Sri-Lank”. Nonetheless, the joint press conference of the DG ISPR and the Foreign Minister, undoubtedly, exposed Indian terror network through the dossier.
—The writer is freelance columnist based in Lahore.
