The real face of India

IN D IA
Myths and Realities

Riaz Ahmad Chaudhry

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Dedicated to my grandfather Chaudhry Din Muhammad (late) who took care of my education with all the worldly blessings and comforted my life after the sad demise of my father Chaudhry Farzand Ali who passed away in October 1939. I still miss his love and immense affection!

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Prefac Writers Note

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Chapter 1: INDIA & ITS PARTITION

Ancient India: Parallel Faiths The Rise of the Caste System Partition of India Congress responsible for division Exploitation of children and women The real face of India Role of the Gandhi family The fall of Nehru dynasty 17 19 21 24 26 28 30 32

Chapter 2: INSIDE INDIA

9. 10. 11. 12. 13. India ignoring its citizens Farm suicides False claims of secularism Indias hostile attitude The Myth of Confederation 35 37 40 44 46

Chapter 3: CHALLENGES FROM WITHIN

14. 15. 16. 17. The separatist movements The Naxalite Movement The Khalistan Movement The Indian Parliament - a gang of criminals 49 50 52 54

Chapter 4: BRAHMANICAL SCHOOL & FUNDAMENTALISM

18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Religious extremism Terrorism The Hindu Taliban Talibans triumph The Thakurs of India the messengers of hate 59 61 66 68 71

Chapter 5: INSIDE INDIAN ARMED FORCES

23. 24. 25. 26. Armys moral degeneration Women battalion of the army Arms theft and commission mafia Court Martial of soldiers 76 78 80 82

Chapter 6: PAK-INDIA COLD WAR

27. The real face of hypocrisy 5 86

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Conspiracies against neighbours Destabilizing Pakistan RAWs covert war against Pakistan Chaos in Balochistan Indias Pakistan Phobia! Indian propaganda campaign Our eternal enemy

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Chapter 7: HEGIMONY & EXPANSIONISM

35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. Aggressive designs of India Atomic sub-marine Arms build-up and poverty Unreasonable blame game Indian army chief going wild War mongering Expansionist policies Anxiety at Gawader port The proxy war 108 109 110 113 115 117 120 122 124

Chapter 8: INDO-AFGHAN NEXUS

44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. Indo-Afghan role Anti-Islam activities Indian activities in Afghanistan India can be spoiler in Afghanistan Indian bases in Central Asia Satellite for espionage 128 129 131 133 134 136

Chapter 9: CONFLICT WITH CHINA & NEIGHBOURS

50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. India and China Sino-Indian rift widens Occupation of Nepalese Territory RAWs activities in Nepal Indo-Bhutan relations Terrorism in China A wolf in sheeps clothing 140 142 145 147 149 151 152

Chapter 10: KASHMIR: A TEST CASE FOR PEACEMAKERS

57. 58. 59. 60. 61. 62. Freedom Movement in the Occupied Kashmir Resolution of Kashmir dispute The Kashmir issue and peace Backing away from Kashmir Issue Obduracy on Kashmir More forces in Occupied Kashmir 156 158 161 164 166 167

63. Atrocities on the Kashmiris 64. The national hero of Occupied Kashmir 65. Occupation of Siachen

168 169 171

Chapter 11: WATER WARS

66. 67. 68. 69. 70. Indias water theft Baglihar Dam Water hegemony Hydro power projects on Chenab Dam on Kabul River 186 179 180 182 183

Chapter 12: TERRORISM AND INDIA

71. Naked aggression 72. Indias role in terrorism 186 189

Chapter 13: UNDER PRESSURE INDIAN MUSLIMS

73. 74. 75. 76. The plight of the Muslims Demolition of Babri Mosque The Malegaon investigation report Maltreatment with Muslim prisoners 194 196 198 200

Chapter 14: INDO-US NEXUS

77. 78. 79. 80. 81. Indo-US defence pact The Indo-Israel designs Collaboration between the Hindus and Jews Campaign against ISI The Mysterious death of atomic scientist 204 206 207 209 211

Chapter 15: TIME FOR PEACE

82. 83. 84. 85. 86. India not ready for dialogue A time for peace India shining or declining Heading towards downfall Notes and References 216 218 219 221 224

Preface
India: Myths or Realities The Real Face of India is an attempt to dig out the hidden agenda of the so-called secular India. Riaz Ahmad Chaudhry has tried to reveal the brutality of India against all the Indian minorities mainly Muslims, Christians and Sikhs. At least 270 million Muslims (Indias biggest minority) seem to be more depressed than the other minorities. 5000 Muslims were killed in Gujrat state only and over 100,000 Kashmiri Muslims have been killed so far in the Held Jammu & Kashmir. Other minorities are also facing similar threats. Hundreds of thousands of Christians had been killed during last 62 years and 250,000 Sikhs had been killed after Golden Temple massacre of 1984. Recently 40,000 Christians were deprived of their free living in Orissa. Hindu extremists burnt their houses and forced them to migrate to other areas. Hence the real problem, which the author has attempted to highlight, is that 1700,000 Hindu extremists are actively involved in killing of minorities across India. Famous progressive Indian activist and founder of socio-political group ANHAD in her interview not only revealed atrocities she herself witnessed against Indian Muslims in Gujrat but also mentioned presence of 100,000 RSS schools which are continuously producing Hindu Taliban. Another problem that this book underlines is that Hindu extremists not only kill the minorities but also burn their houses, shops and work places. Many mosques, churches and temples had been destroyed including the demolition of Babri mosque and Golden Temple. The caste system is strongly practiced in India due to which 20,000,000 untouchables (Dalits) are passing their lives in miserable conditions. On the other hand, Indian economy had been progressing as fast as Chinese and other developed states. Its Information Technology (IT) industry, motors, universities, shopping centres, airports, and sea ports even its media industry is on the way to speedy expansion. Another quality of the writer is that he explained every issue with facts and figures that will give the reader a sense of authenticity. Without any bias, Riaz Ahmad Chaudhry has tried to highlight both the dark and bright sides of the Indian society. The author has expertly woven various personal accounts, news sources and scholarly sources into a cohesive and compelling manner. Most prominently the author warns the South Asian states, especially Pakistan, to keep an eye on Indias hegemonic moves. India wants to rule in Asia and for that purpose the country has been spending billions of dollars on its military build-up. Its intelligence services are aggressively setting up Indian bases in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Afghanistan, Held Jammu & Kashmir for fuelling violence in the neighbouring countries. It has almost become a fashion to slander our own beloved homeland Pakistan and to talk about the merits of enemy countries. There is a trend in our intellectual and liberal circles to appreciate everything about India, be it its military power or film industry or other social traits. It can be encouraging if it is done in good faith to 9

for competition or learning and to enhance our capacity and capabilities. But if it is meant to degrade our own nation and to keep us in a state of fear by magnifying the paper tiger, then it is an obvious act of suicide. Many enlightened and progressive scholars are appearing to be involved in this sort of adventure. They use media as weapon for this so-called noble cause. They get privileges and benefits for the service they render by slandering their own nation and praising the others. Unfortunately our young minds are brought up at a time when India has conquered their minds through its media propaganda. Majority of them think that whatever is shown to them on TV and film screen is real and conveys the real side of India. According to this image India is the ambassador of peace and a paradise on earth. Hence they look impressed and influenced by this image. In reality facts and the real face of India tell a different story. As Ghalib says: the stars are not what they appear; these acrobats swindle openly To unveil the real face of India and to make the youth aware of the real facts are acts nothing less than a service to our nation. Like many other patriotic scholars, Riaz Ahmad Chaudhry has elaborated his analyses with the help of necessary statistics and information. His analyses are a successful and effective effort to make the readers understand his view point with the help of logic and historical events. His columns and articles are often published in many national and regional newspapers. Even in his old age he appears to be more active than our youth. He has a deep love and reverence for Islam. Many secrets of the politics, government and journalism, from the inception of the country till today, remain as memoirs in his mind. A long experience and observations have given weight to whatever he says or writes. Therefore, we as readers are never disappointed; rather his writings have deepened our love for Pakistan. I hope that his book India: Myths or Realities - The Real Face of India will be helpful in creating a new passion in our hearts about our country. May Allah grant him more courage, strength and health! Dr. Ahsan Akhtar Naz Director, Institute of Communications University of the Punjab, Lahore May 2010 Studies,

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Writers Note
In my 55-years long association in the field of Journalism, I have been fortunate to have witnessed first-hand numerous important historic, religious, social and political events and come across, observed and have been acquainted with many historical personalities as well. My accounts, be those in the shape of articles and columns, or in the shape of books like these, all reflect the rich and fortunate experiences of my professional life. While I do hope to pen down detailed memoirs spanning over my professional experiences soon as and when Almighty Allah grants me the strength and time, the current account India: Myths and Realities is not just a book but an honest commentary on what I have observed, read and perceived in all these years through my direct interaction with hundreds of people, leaders and politicians from all sections of the Indian society. The book is also a collection of various newspaper articles, reports and stories relevant to the subject that I have taken the liberty of adding to the collection of my own columns. This book is not an attempt to demonise or slander India but present an objective and clear picture. This book captures and reflects feelings of all true Pakistanis and millions of Muslims living in India who feel marginalized, threatened and constantly harassed by the successive Indian governments and Hindu fanatics. It also exposes false claims of India for being the largest democracy and secular country of the world. I hope the book will help the readers to understand, question and debate the reality of all that India stands for in its true state. The purpose of this book is to initiate a debate on issues that are facing Muslims in India, Pakistan and all other South Asian neighbours of this otherwise an orthodox Akhand Bharat, an imperialist state. I hope my humble effort will contribute in taking this debate forward. I thank all those people who have helped me in collecting information, material, editing the script and improving the text wherever needed. I am personally grateful to Dr. Safdar Mahmood, former Secretary Education and Information, Government of Pakistan; Mr. Naseem Ahmed, Former Chief Editor of The Pakistan Times; Mr. Irfan Mufti; Mr. Imran Ghani, Director General Quaid-e-Azam Library, Lahore; Mr. Aleem Chaudhary, Resident Director and Editor of daily Khabrain Multan and Mr. Islam Hyder, former Director General Public Relations, Punjab who deserve my special gratitude for their time, valuable guidance and suggestions. Riaz Ahmed Chaudhry Lahore, July 2010

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Chapter 1

INDIA & ITS PARTITION

ROLE OF BRAHMANICAL SCHOOL TILL GANDHI FAMILY

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Ancient India: Parallel Faiths

Buddhism and Jainism Fall of the Mauryan Empire brought not only political changes but it also affected peoples religious life. As Buddhism lost its influence, the Brahmans gained more power and met the challenges of both beliefs Buddhism and Jainism. Once Brahmans got political support, they not only revived their old religious customs and practices but also constructed new beliefs in accordance with the changing times. On the other hand, Buddhism also changed with the passage of time. As it happens in every religion, new sects are formed to fulfill the demands and ambitions of certain factions of society. So, Buddhism also passed through the same phase and two sects namely Mahayana (great wheel) and Hinayana (small wheel) emerged in the society. Mahayana was influenced by Hinduism and its followers adopted most of the rituals and ceremonies of the Hindus, for instance, they started to worship Buddhas idol in the temples and also took out religious processions in order to express their devotion towards religion. In Mathura and Taxila, Buddhas statues were made like other Hindu gods and deities. As Buddhists also followed many of the traditions that belonged to Hindus, they gradually lost their own identity. On the other hand, the beliefs of Buddhism that were accepted by the people were also integrated in Hindu religion and, consequently, this weakened the roots of Buddhism in India. Though Buddhism has not totally disappeared in India, it has lost its significance at the place where it originated. This also goes to show the flexibility of Hinduism that absorbed other religious beliefs in its structure. The followers of Hinayana believed that Buddha was in heaven and guiding his disciples to the right path from there. There was simplicity in their rituals and ceremonies. Buddhism spread to western southern India where priests used to worship in caves these caves were built by rulers, queens, nobles and rich traders to get the blessing of Buddha. During this time a new concept of Bodhisattva became popular among the followers of Buddha. A Bodhisattva is anyone who is motivated by compassion and seeks enlightenment not only for him/herself but also for everyone. According to this concept individuals acquired spiritual knowledge to guide common people. Jainism Jainism first became popular in North India and from there it spread to Kalinga (Orissa). One of the rulers of Satavahana dynasty converted to Jainism and patronized it. He built monasteries for the priests.

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Jainism remained confined to small communities, mostly among traders. It never became a popular faith. However, it left its impression on Hindu customs and due to Jainism meat eating is prohibited in Hinduism. Both Buddhism and Jainism preached peace and tolerance. However, Hindus forced the followers of Buddhism to shift towards East Asia including Korea, Thailand, Vietnam, Laos, Japan and China, as a result the Buddhists became a minority in India where they once ruled.

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The Rise of the caste system

India has been an important member of the International Convention of 1968 against Racialism and Discrimination. No meeting of the international organization of civil and political rights can be conducted without its participation. It has been its member since 1979. But apart from this paperwork the real situation in India is entirely different. Discrimination on the basis of race and caste systems is a routine matter in India and mostly women are the main victims. Muslim women during partition (1947) and low caste women after partition were victimized so ruthlessly and terribly that the holy rivers of Ganga and Jamuna must have shed tears. Perhaps it is a feature of Hindu society to rape women, to make them walk naked in streets and markets and to deprive them of their possessions and properties by using force or under other pretexts including cultural, customary, religious or social norms. Many laws have been passed to safeguard women rights and their honour in India since Partition, but these treatises merely remain documents without proper enforcement and are not more than fairy tales. No one has ever dared to put them into practice. The world knows India as the largest democracy of the world. Indian intellectuals, politicians and government officials relish and feel proud of it. Nevertheless the practical scenario is contrasting. According to research and advocacy groups working in India, many incidents of group discrimination are not even reported. The Indian public is also an expert in hiding these heinous crimes. In fact they want to hide their real face from the international community. If the statistical data is taken into consideration, India will be deprived of its honour as the biggest democracy of the world. Indian streets and corners are replete with such characters and stories. Unfortunately many people have settled in Pakistan who earn their bread and butter by defaming Pakistan amongst the international community. If we look at the international press and listen to international broadcasting agencies, we think that Pakistan is the most unsafe and dangerous place for women in the world. NGOs (non-government Organizations) working for foreign funders have even forgotten the fact that Pakistan is our identity and a reason of our existence. Social situation in India is so dangerous and horrible that it appears that such a society cannot exist in the modern and civilized world. In 1961 dowry was banned through legislation, but like many other reformatory laws it is not ever enforced anywhere. The women who do not bring with them demanded dowry, are burnt alive or subject to physical and oral violence. The rite of Sati is still there as a symbol of ignorance. The number of women who become a victim of this obnoxious rite is increasing. The number of women who were burnt alive for Sati and for not bringing the desired dowry was 2209 in 1988. The number increased to 4835 in 1990. Today after a period of 15 years any one can guess quite easily that the figures will never be less than 100 000. In short, India is a failed country and is committing state terrorism. It is involved in the massacre of many innocent Muslims, Sikhs, Christians and individuals 19

belonging to different other religions and faiths in India. Freedom movements are working in seven north-eastern states of India, and the freedom fighters attack on Indian army and commit terrorist attacks in different parts of India. The Indian government is not willing to give them independence, and wants to keep them in perpetual slavery and control like they have done with Kashmiris. Perhaps, India is the only country in the world which is a victim of hypocrisy of its own rulers. On one hand, it preaches and claims fundamental freedoms, democracy and equality for its citizens, but on the other hand, in some parts of India dozens of individuals commit suicide due to hunger and deprivation. In the same way there is a minority killing riot in every part of India. Almost daily dozens of people are killed by state terrorism and aggression from fanatics.

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Partition of India
The first brick of Hindu-Muslim antagonism was laid when Muhammad Bin Qasim raised the banner of Islam in Sindh in 712 AD and tens of thousands of lower caste Hindus and Buddhists suffering under the tyrannical rule of Raja Dahir, embraced Islam. Throughout the 1000 year rule of India by the Muslims, Hindu cultural values and religious sentiments were respected and preserved. Benevolence of Muslim rulers of India and their patronage to high caste Hindus resulted in failure to assimilate Hinduism into the fold of Islam. This can be gauged from the fact that at the time of partition of India, Muslim population in the Indian subcontinent was only 22%. Hindus never reconciled to any meaningful integration with generous Muslim culture and population. Behind apparent public cordiality, there was deep-rooted antagonism. Muslims were always looked down upon as defiled and polluted and treated as intruders by their Hindu fellows. Hinduism reluctantly submitted to Muslim rule, but all the time strived to weaken Muslims by corroding it from within. When the British captured power in India, Hindus became natural allies of the British and both went all-out to destroy social, educational, cultural and religious heritage of Muslims. The Hindus deep-rooted hatred got accentuated when the Muslims opted for a separate homeland. Notwithstanding the aspirations of the Muslims of India, the idea of a separate Muslim state was repugnant to Indian Congress and hence unacceptable to them. This led to a bitter and prolonged quarrel between the two communities. While it was a question of survival for the Muslims, for the Hindus it was matter of preventing vivisection of so-called Mahabharata. Despite many hurdles created by the Hindu leaders, upsurge for gaining independence was too great and beyond human control. In spite of MA Jinnahs loud protestations, the provinces of Bengal and Punjab were deliberately partitioned while Kashmir was allowed to accede to India. These callous acts failed to deter the Hindus from sowing seeds of permanent antagonism between Pakistan and India. When the Kashmiris rose up in revolt, over two-third of Kashmir was forcibly annexed by Indian forces. Failing to reconcile to the existence of Pakistan and cherishing the fond hope of its re-absorption into Indian dominion, Indian leaders worked hard for the dismemberment of Pakistan soon after its inception. Many Indians regarded the creation of Pakistan as a tragic mistake that could still be corrected or reversed. Break up of Pakistan and its absorption within the fold of Indian Union had become the national goal of Congress leaders. To consolidate the Indian dominion, by March 1949, India had absorbed 538 princely states out of the total 565 states under the Indian control till that time. Indias insatiable greed to gorge as many states and her menacing attitude towards Pakistan made the latter wary and worried. At the time of Partition, Pakistans geographical frontiers had yet to be 21

determined. It was without a seat of government or an administrative structure to enable it to exercise its sovereignty. It was without a Constitution; its armed forces were scattered and without proper weapons; civil servants and other administrative and technical hands were in the midst of migrating from India; its political and economic systems were completely disrupted and the communication system had broken down and needed a serious overhaul. As if these settling problems and the hanging evil shadow of Mountbatten and Radcliffe were not enough, Pakistans horizons became clouded with hostile acts of its neighbours in the east and the northwest. Their hostility cast perverse shadows across its path. Hindu leaders in their quest to re-unite India, continued to hurl threats and saddle Pakistan with knotty problems to prevent the toddling state from standing on its own feet. They refused to accept the creation of Pakistan with good faith, and to settle all outstanding differences on the basis of justice and fair play. In struggling to create a state structure in the chaotic environment of partition and an early war with India on Kashmir, our leaders remained tied down fighting the battle of survival and identity. There was no certainty that Pakistan would survive its traumatic birth. Very few states in the world started with greater handicaps than Pakistan did on August 14, 1947. After a lapse of over six decades, it is rather not possible for the present younger generation to think about the complexities and difficulties faced by the pioneers of Pakistan at the time of independence. For those who lived through that difficult and troubled times of history and personally experienced the turmoil, human tragedies, mass carnage of the Muslims by the Hindu-Sikh combine, and the Hindus abominable Bania mentality, it was not less than a nightmare. Given their common past spread over centuries, it was hoped that the two countries after having won their independence from the brutal British rule would close the chapter of suspicion and aversion, and instead strive to live as peaceful neighbours. It was expected that rather than beating war drums and sinking into the bottomless ocean of arms race, leaders of the two countries would concentrate on the well being of people through mutual cooperation and support. Unfortunately, these hopes have so far remained an elusive dream. After tearing Pakistan into two in 1971, Indian hawkish leaders kept scheming to fragment rest of Pakistan. The 1980s saw rise of the Hindu fundamentalism in India. Militant Bharatya Janata Party (BJP) government in India that captured power twice, repeatedly voiced its wish to reunite the subcontinent and to annex Azad Kashmir by force, and vowed to establish Hindutva (the Hindu code). The Indian Congress is no less antagonistic towards Pakistan and has taken no concrete steps to control the growth of Hindu fundamentalism threatening all minorities in India. Hate phobia and age-old prejudices in the two neighbouring countries have not died down. Hindus continue to view the Muslims as destroyers of Hindu culture and for mutilating mother India. Their pent-up anger and hatred against Indian Muslims was physically demonstrated in 1992, when Ayodhya Mosque (or Babri Mosque) was pulled down and it was demanded that a temple be erected at the same site. Large scale state sponsored massacre of Muslims in Gujrat took place in 2003. 22

Muslims in Occupied Kashmir were killed like stray dogs and women brazenly raped. Indian Muslims are looked with suspicion and treated shabbily. Shiv Sena Chief Bal Thackeray stated on the 12th of January, 2010 that Indian Muslims were untrustworthy since they are loyal to Pakistan. On the slightest pretext, Hindu scalawags fan communal riots and kill tens of Muslims. These riots in India have increased rather than lessened with the passage of time. Muslim minority (13%) in India feels marooned and fearfully watch the growing Hindu fanaticism, which finds no place for the Indian Muslims unless they adhere to Hindutva and agree to join the ranks of Sudras (untouchables). Glimpse of Indian deep-seated antagonism was seen on the occasion of a terrorist attack on Indian parliament on December 13, 2001 in which not a single parliamentarian was killed, injured or even abused. While the whole nation demanded for blood of Pakistan on mere suspicion, Indian armed forces rushed towards their western border and remained in a menacing mode for ten months. This kind of frenetic fury and war mongering were again seen in the aftermath of 26/11 attacks in Mumbai. Over one year has elapsed, but Indian leaders have not forgotten the incident and refuse to recommence composite dialogue. They do not recall the deep wounds they have consistently inflicted upon Pakistan without any sense of remorse. They ignore that thousands of innocent Pakistanis have died as a result of ongoing RAW sponsored acts of terror in various parts and main cities of Pakistan. As long as India is ruled by self-serving vicious Brahmans, antagonism will prevail and hope for peaceful co-existence will remain elusive.

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Congress responsible for division

The Bahartiya Janta Party (BJP) expelled former foreign minister Jaswant Singh from the party for appreciating the Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in his book 'Jinnah, India, Partition, Independence' while the Congress workers expressed their anger and hatred by burning a thousand copies of the book. After a three-day meeting in Simla, BJP chief Raj Nath Singh announced to expel Jaswant Singh from the party. After the decision, Jaswant Singh said that the matter he wrote in the book was part of the history and he has not committed any sin by writing the book. The day will be very bad for the politics of the country when the sequence of learning and holding discussion will close among the political parties of India. The British and Hindu critics admit the transparent role of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah with regard to the establishment of Pakistan and the division of the sub-continent. It is conceded that the biased attitude and discriminatory treatment of the British and Hindus against the Muslims forced the Muslim leadership and public to the establishment of a separate country. Thinker of Pakistan, Allama Iqbal presented the idea of a separate country for the Muslims in the united India, keeping in view the conspiracies of the Hindus against the Muslims, who were usurping their rights. Sectarian riots occurred on a daily basis. He proposed to form a state where the Muslims could not only lead a peaceful life but also could establish an Islamic, democratic and welfare society by publishing and disseminating the Islamic teachings and their ideas. Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah tried his best that the Congress Brahmin leadership should assure the protection of the rights of the Muslims by admitting the separate identity of the Muslims, but it was not ready to accept the Muslim League and the Quaid-i-Azam as representatives of the Muslims. Owing to the continuous refusal of the two-nation theory and insistence on the joint nationality, the Muslims refused to accept anything less than Pakistan which was established due to their democratic struggle. The stubbornness of Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru and Patel is also part of the history. At the time of the division, the Hindu-Muslim riots occurred due to this inflexibility and Muslim enmity. Maulana Abu Al-Kalam Azad later admitted that Patel and Nehru had accepted the separate state of Pakistan on the basis of misunderstanding and their untrue consideration that it will fall in the lap of the Congress and India like a ripened fruit due to economic and financial problems. Jaswant Singh is also a bigoted nationalist and against the establishment of Pakistan like other Indian leaders. However, he accepted the right stance and historical struggle of Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah on the basis of historical facts, which was not tolerated by the narrow-minded, extremist and anti-Pakistan and anti Islam parties the BJP and the Congress. Before it, the Congress used to cause the commotion of insult across the country. By expelling its 30-year-old loyal leader from the party, the BJP proved that the 24

Hindu mentality had neither changed even after 62 years nor enmity against the Quaid-i-Azam, the great Muslim leader and creator of Pakistan, had reduced. Jaswant Singh has given short weight in his book and he practically tried to prove that the establishment of Pakistan was the result of the historical mistake of Jawaharlal Nehru and Patel while admitting the services and role of Quaid-i-Azam. From one point of view, he negated the political vision of Quaid-i-Azam and the Muslims struggle for a separate homeland. The extremist BJP could not tolerate it and awarded severe punishment to its old leader by expelling him from the party. Bias, narrow-mindedness and hatred was expressed by burning thousands of copies of the book of the former foreign minister preaching secularism and tolerance. Indias Brahmin leadership and the Hindu mentality is the same even today which was six-seven decades ago. Indian war preparations, anti-Pakistan negative propaganda, aggression through excuses, intervention and sabotage attempts are the proof of the fact that India is hell-bent on effacing Pakistan. The water terrorism is also a link of the chain so that the Muslim state should be turned into barren by building dykes on the rivers of Pakistan. Unfortunately, some Pakistani writers and India-frightened politicians, who are totally ignorant of the stimulants to the establishment of Pakistan and Pakistan Ideology, are busy beating tambourine that India and Pakistan should not let the Kashmir issue become a hurdle in the establishment of pleasant and mutual relations. According to their viewpoint, India is not the opponent of the existence of Pakistan and both countries can cross the stages of progress by improving economic, cultural and diplomatic relations. A few of them do not consider Indias political, economic and military hegemony bad and see every evil in Pakistan. If the compromised people singing the songs of Indias democracy, secularism, tolerance, enlightened moderation and international importance have some sense of honour, they should learn a lesson from the result of Jaswant Singh. They should see that no such treatment was meted out to the devotees of Gandhi in Pakistan. Khan Abdul Wali Khans book against Quaid-i-Azam was made public. Even today writings are not only being published in favour of India and the Indian leadership with facelessness, but also some media anchors end their talks by appreciating India in each program. No one opposes them. Former prime minister Mian Nawaz Sharif, chief of Muslim League (N), has also pinned hopes on India that they should promote trade and economic relations without solving the Kashmir dispute. The end of Jaswant Singh is a lesson for all Pakistani leaders, intellectuals, analysts and the public. We should prepare our horses, atomic weapons and missiles every time to fight against Indias mischief, conspiracies and aggressive designs. If it is established that India is not a threat to Pakistan, then there is no need for the atomic program, missiles, latest weapons and so much army because no other neighbour among China, Iran and Afghanistan is our enemy. 25

Exploitation of children and women

National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) is an official human rights body of India. It has revealed in its report that young children are tortured in India which is a matter of embarrassment for the country. Indian government instead of paying attention to the report has ignored it. Nevertheless, the bleak picture of Indian children's poverty comes from an official Indian source and cannot be set aside as a work of prejudice or propaganda. According to reports from the Human Rights Commission of India, more than eleven thousand young children are abducted daily who never see their parents again in their life time. Furthermore, almost 60 million children are put to rigorous child labour which is unimaginable in a civilized society. Factory owners prefer to employ young children in India and use them as cheap labour. They force them to do hard work and give low wages without any other incentives. These children are also sexually victimized which has conveniently been overlooked by the Indian government. In Odhampur, a district in the held Kashmir, hundreds of children were brought to be sold in the local market for human trade. They were between the ages of 8 to 15 and were being sold for five to twenty thousand rupees. These children were holding banners which said: buy us. The children sold here were not only Muslims but also belonged to Hindu families. The victim families were of the view that they were forced to sell their children due to poverty. According to an estimate, 80% of these children were girls who were traded for money. Some commentators think that Indian democracy is famous throughout the world and the condition of human rights is exemplary in India. However, the situation on ground speaks otherwise. According to Indian newspapers a wife was forced to be burnt at the pyre of her husband after his death. This ritual is known as "sati" in India and is widely practiced among Hindu community all over the country. The investigatory commission was informed by the 15 and 12 years old daughters of the unfortunate family that their mother did not want to die and she was not willing to be burnt alive at the pyre but their uncles beat her and forcefully put her on fire. No one from the village came to rescue her. The girls were so much affected by the incident that they became unconscious. What will be the mental condition of the innocent children whose father died in front of them a few hours ago and then their unfortunate mother became a victim of the worst kind of violence and was forced to burn alive with her dead husband. After the incident both of the girls were unclaimed. Had this incident taken place in Pakistan, the so-called champions of human rights would have raised lots of hue and cry. Some would have declared society responsible for it and some would have targeted religion. Some so-called human rights institutions do their utmost to declare Pakistan a failed state. These incidents take place regularly in the biggest democracy of the world, but all of the institutions remain dumb and silent due to their own vested interests. Lives of children and women in India have assumed such a horrible shape that in some parts of India the 26

selling and buying of children has become a ritual. The worst kind of human rights violations take place in Indian occupied Kashmir and the main victims are unarmed civilians and innocent youth that are victimized due to their religions. Particularly women and children are treated in the most horrifying manner. The economic giant of South Asia does not look at the cancer of human trade. This ugly blemish on the Indian face is a proof of its hypocritical policies.

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The real face of India

India claims to be the biggest democracy of the world. She wants to maintain her dominance in Asia. She has recently been in the headlines of the world media because of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai city in November 2008. India uses any fair or unfair means to remain in the headlines be it the Golden Temple case, demolition of Babri Mosque, riots in Gujrat, the burning of Churches in Orissa, the murders of Indira Gandhi or Rajiv Gandhi, but still being portrayed as the worlds largest democracy and the second fastest growing economy after China or for her extreme poverty. No civilized person can even imagine what India has been doing with her religious and cultural minorities. 200 million untouchables have been compelled to live a life worst than that of animals, devoid of any human rights. The conditions of the 270 million Muslims are even lower than that of the untouchables. More than 1.7 million fanatic workers of the extremist Hindu organizations have made the lives of religious and cultural minorities as miserable as ever. Hindu-Muslim riots are the order of the day. The Hindus along with the Sikhs killed about one million Muslims at the time of partition. They martyred thousands of Muslims during the demolition of the Babri Mosque in 1993. 5,000 Muslims were killed in Gujrat carnage. 2500 of them were burnt alive. More than 100,000 Muslims were martyred in the Kashmir valley. Recently, 40,000 Christian families were severely tortured in Orissa. Their homes were looted. Hundreds of churches were torched. Priests were burnt alive. About 300,000 Christians had been killed in Nagaland since 1947 and 250,000 Sikhs murdered since 1984. Due to the cruelties of the extremist Hindu organizations, movements for separate homelands have been going on in 22 states of India. More than 800,000 Indian troops have been fighting against them. There are 175 rebel organizations in Occupied Kashmir and in the north-western states, 39 in Manipur and 36 organizations in Assam have been fighting for their freedom and independence. Maoist rebels have captured about 40 percent of India giving hard time to the Indian military forces. May these fanatic Hindus learn that instead of dreaming of a greater India and spending 320 billion rupees annually on weapons and army to teach Pakistan a lesson, to avenge the 1000 years of slavery, to occupy Kashmir forcefully, to crush the freedom movements and to enslave the cultural and religious minorities, India should give freedom to the Kashmiris and recognise Pakistan and spend the countrys money on the welfare of its citizens. It would not only benefit billions of her own people but also all the people of the region and the whole world. India, instead of claiming to be the biggest democracy of the world, should call itself an extremist, highly prejudiced, clever and cunning, imperialist, war-monger, uneducated and simply declare that it wants to dominate Asia in spite of all its sins. India has many faces. Economists tell us that in the future, India would be the second biggest power of the world after China. Her GDP today is 1.2 trillion dollars. She is the 12th biggest economy of the world. The rate of her industrial growth is over 9 percent annually, which is the highest in the world after China. Its foreign 28

reserves amount to 262.306 billion dollars which rank fifth in the world. There is no multi-national company which doesnt have an office or a factory in India. Its shopping centres and industrial zones are at par with those in Europe and America. Foreign investors are getting no new opportunities for investment. Indias Information Technology (IT) industry is at the highest point. Thousands of IT specialists, engineers and economists are graduating from the universities and contributing towards the countrys development. Their demand is there all over the world. Developing motorways, fastest railways, latest intercity transport system, busiest airports and seaports point to the countrys economic development. The historical buildings, especially the Taj Mahal, and other sites of tourism attract tourists from around the world. Indian films have enchanted the viewers all around the world. The Indian film industry is the second largest film industry in the world after Hollywood in The United States. It is believed that because of its vulgarity and boldness, it would leave Hollywood far behind. However, with all these glaring figures, India still has more than 450.6 million people out of its 1.2 billion populations living below the poverty line. This number is the largest poverty population in the world. 960.3 million people of the world are dying of hunger, and 200 million of them are Indians. 70.2 million Children are victims of mal-nutrition in India. 580.4 million Children die every year, and 200 million of them are Indians. 10.21 billion people of the world dont get clean drinkable water, and 380 million of them are Indians. 2006 million people of the world do not have access to basic hygiene and sanitation, and 580 million of them are Indians. There are 42 million people suffering from AIDS/HIV and 5.7 million of them are living in India. 3.61 million of them die every year. There are 200 million patients of TB in the world and 3.5 million of them are Indians. 525,600 women die every year in the world during pregnancy, and 78,000 of them are Indians. 400 million people in India are illiterate, that is the highest illiteracy rate of the world. 40 million of Indian children do not go to schools and 30 million of them live on footpaths. About 1.25 million of the peasants commit suicide every year and 1.2 million women are being killed every year because of dowry related issues. India spends 32.7 billion dollars on defence annually. India has 1.325 million armed, 1.155 million reserve and 1.293 million paramilitary forces, along with 3978 tanks, 1260 fighter planes, one aircraft carrier and 60 atom bombs. Its appetite has still not been filled and it is continuously buying more weapons and recently purchased three latest AWACS planes from Israel. One has already reached home.

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Role of the Gandhi family

Rahul Gandhi, the son of the ruling Congress partys Sonia Gandhi, claimed that the Gandhi family not only got freedom from the British for India but also divided Pakistan. This he says was a big success of Congress. The spokesman of Pakistans foreign ministry described it as an intervention in Pakistans internal affairs and an attempt to destabilise Pakistan. The Gandhi family sowed the seed of hatred towards Pakistan and Muslims. The people of India call Mr Gandhi Bapoo and Mahatma. His statues are fixed at many places. In fact, the Gandhi family had been dominant in Indian politics since the very beginning. They did not want to develop relations with Pakistan because they believed that Pakistan wouldnt survive for long. They claimed that the division of India was unnatural. That is why their leaders never accepted Pakistan; they rather always wanted to harm it. If we look back at Pakistans relationship with India, we see that Indias ruling party, Congress, had always been conspiring against Pakistan. Congress started its plans to eliminate Pakistan soon after its creation. It started with indiscriminate killing of refugees. Pakistan was refused its share in ammunition and assets. This miserable state of Pakistan gave the Congress leaders a chance to chant that Pakistan would soon beseech India for reunion. History proves that this never happened. Pakistan faced and foiled the conspiracies of Congress even with little financial assets and small army. It is Indias policy of double standards that it wants to have friendly relations with Pakistan when she is also conspiring against this country. The Indian Prime Minister is talking about friendship but at the same time is maligning Pakistan everywhere. He announced to start a new chapter in the Indo-Pak relations on the basis of tolerance and mutual trust. People of both the countries realise the need of better relations, but Indias policy of double standards is at its highest point and it has started anti-Pakistan activities. First of all, India spread a network of conspiracies and used some nationalist Balochi leaders to separate Balochistan from Pakistan. But the Congress failed miserably. Indira Gandhi was so full of hatred that when she was doing her best to break Pakistan, she rebuked the Muslims in Delhis Red Fort because she felt that their slogans in her favour were not full of zeal. The story of Indian atrocities on the Kashmiris is quite long. Its agenda is to stop Pakistan from developing at any cost. Although India is a nuclear power, not a super power, yet it wants to impose its decisions on others. Its 700,000 soldiers are there in the held Kashmir and it has also built fences along the Line of Control. Even then it had failed to stop terrorism. This just goes to show that India itself is involved in state terrorism. The European Union has described The Occupied Kashmir as a horrible paradise and criticised India. While praising Pakistans role for the solution of this problem, they say that India backs away from its promises. The Congress government of India wants to make Pakistan its market place without solving the basic issues. It again wants to make Pakistan a target of its 30

destructive activities and terrorism. May our nation understand the Indian designs and think about our countrys security and safety. Now when confidence building measures are being taken and negotiations are being held, Rahul Gandhi of the Gandhi family says, The credit of breaking Pakistan goes to my family. What does it mean? This is Indias flagrant policy of hypocrisy.

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The fall of Nehru dynasty

India is such a society which has been wallowing deep in the filthy mud of caste system for centuries. Only the Hindus of high castes have the right on all resources there. People of lower castes can do nothing but serve the people of the higher caste. The so-called secular Hindus have now started calling Maleechs, Shudars and Chamars as Dalits. But despite this change of name, the poor Dalits leave themselves at the mercy of circumstances. They consider it as their fate and live a life of miseries. On the other hand, all the facilities, luxuries, jobs and posts in bureaucracy and other blessings are the right of the people of higher castes only. The only qualification to get all these luxuries is the birth in a higher caste. The highest caste in India is that of a pundit, especially a Kashmiri pundit. The first prime minister of India Jawahar Lal Nehru was a Kashmiri pundit. Therefore he was entitled to be the prime minister. Later on, his daughter Indira Gandhi became the prime minister of India. On her death, her son Rajiv Gandhi became the prime minister. Even today, this so-called Nehru dynasty has been occupying the biggest political party of India, Congress, being Kashmiri pundits. The strings of the puppet Manmohan Singh, who has no personal electoral constituency, are in the hands of the party leader Sonia Gandhi. Jawahar Lal Nehru was a pure Kashmiri pundit. Indira was his only daughter. Nehrus are basically a high caste of Kashmiri pundits. Indira married a Parsi gentleman, Feroze Gandhi, and became Indira Gandhi. Feroze Gandhi was a Parsi and Indira belonged to Hindu religion. According to the history, a Parsi can be a Parsi only by birth. People of other faiths cannot enter their religion. It means a Parsi can change his religion, but others cannot convert into this religion. The same thing is there amongst the Jews. Only those can be Jews who are born in Jewish families. People of other faiths cannot convert. Indira Gandhi gave birth to two sons Sanjay and Rajiv. Feroze Gandhi died in youth. After completing his education and graduating as a pilot Rajiv Gandhi remained away from politics and started flying a plane in Indian airlines. Mrs Indira Gandhi, who was the prime minister of India, appointed her son Sanjay Gandhi as her successor. In the meanwhile, Rajiv Gandhi married an Italian Catholic girl, Sonia, who was studying and working in London. Sanjay Gandhi married a Sikh girl, Manika. Sonia gave birth to two children Rahul and Priyanka. Sanjay had one son Vrun. Sanjay Gandhi died in a plane accident when Indira Gandhi was a prime minister, and his widow Maneka had to leave the prime minister house because Sonia Gandhi and Maneka Gandhi were not on good terms with each other. Later, Indira Gandhi was killed and thus Rajiv Gandhi accidentally came into politics and became the prime minister of India in his mothers place. Now the Gandhi family calls itself the Nehru family although Indira married a Parsi and her son a Parsi married a Catholic Christian. But Sonia Gandhi is standing on a high pedestal not only as a leader of Congress but also as a member of the Nehru dynasty when in fact the Nehru family and Kashmiri pundits had come to an end four decades ago. 32

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INSIDE INDIA?
SOCIO-POLITICAL PICTURE OF THE WORLDS BIGGEST DEMOCRACY

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India ignoring its citizens Despite criticism by civil society and the free press, the states continuing violent campaigns against Maoists go unchecked
Along with the plethora of venomous remarks against China, & the vicious paranoia of murdered journalists in Sri Lanka, India appears self-critical. And yet, for all the vociferous passion of its journalists and activists in calling the powerful to account, the overall impression is of voices screaming into a vacuum. Nowhere is this feeling more evident right now than on the issues of insurgencies from Maoists and other left-wing forces raging through Indias poorest regions. Under the broad brush moniker of Maoists or Naxalites, these insurgents represent one of the few forms of resistance from villagers and hill tribesmen against the inequities of continuing feudal structures and the encroachment of global corporations backed by the state that treats them as awkward impediments to mining plans. The Naxalites can be brutal, and the villagers under their control often find themselves unwillingly excluded from health services, basic education and development. But they have held on to the moral high ground, thanks largely to a state response that has been unremittingly heavy-handed: special forces operations, the arming of vigilante groups, the dispossession of land, forced encampment, etc. all accompanied by tales of extrajudicial killings, gang rapes and, for some despicable reasons, the chopping off of childrens fingers and other body parts. Indias civil society looks on in abhorrence at what is widely seen as a fullblown war against the poor. Even the government-appointed council of experts had to conclude that: Often any individual who speaks out against the powerful is dubbed a Naxalite and jailed or otherwise silenced through state oppressions. The search for Naxalite cadre leads to severe harassment and torture of its supporters and sympathizers. Those who try to report these crimes find themselves bundled away to police custody for their own protection. This has been happening to Sodi Sambo, a 28-year-old woman from Gompar village in Chattisgarh who says she witnessed security forces murdering nine of her neighbours in October 2009, and was herself shot in the foot in front of her two small children. She tried to file a complaint, only to find herself under armed guard in a nearby hospital with no visitors allowed and denied the right to travel to Delhi for treatment. With Amnesty International and the Supreme Court wading in, her case might just be heard. A couple of troops might even be reprimanded. Home Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram announced another massive offensive across five states, confidently claiming it would target only insurgent leaders. Since no journalists are allowed anywhere near these war zones, we have to take 35

his word for it. This brings us back to the issue of freedom of speech, and also its implications for military strategy. One of the key lessons of modern counterinsurgency is that you have to take the voters and therefore the media along. Militaries have long struggled to balance the rights of a free press with the risk that they might record something that damages its credibility. In the west, this took centre stage in Vietnam war, which many in the US military felt was a war fought and lost on the evening news and in the pages of Time Magazine. That thinking has led to embedded journalism, military Public Relations (PR) departments even dedicated You Tube channels which seek to sell the campaign back home and abroad. It has made governments acutely conscious of legitimacy, if not for moral reasons, then at least for its impact on operational effectiveness. In India, however, there seems to be a scant concern for legitimacy in the anti-Naxal campaign beyond flagrant attempts to silence witnesses and bar journalists and activists from affected areas. When it does try to justify itself, the government hides behind the argument that the Maoist are impeding economic development that could improve the lives of the poor ignoring studies that show this model of development may have actually increased the number of poor by 100 million. The Naxalite issue shows up a yawning chasm between what civil society says and what the government does. The failure to listen means the government is losing not just the battle of hearts and minds, but even the physical fight on which it has focused its efforts. In 2009, 319 security forces were killed compared to 219 Maoists insurgents an extraordinary tally given the discrepancy in each sides resources. The fact is that any number of exposes on the wrongs of this campaign has little or no impact on voters with so many other issues and allegiances to consider. Nor does the government fear the opprobrium of the international community, which is preoccupied with winning Indias support in Afghanistan and salivating over her enormous defence budgets. The editor of one leading news publication admitted that the medias efforts were having no political impact. The most pessimistic conclusion to draw is that free speech in India only serves to strengthen those who flout other articles in the constitution. How can we be authoritarian, the government can protest, when we allow the media such freedom to criticize us? Too often, however, the only victory of expression is its freedom to exist, rather than its power to effect change. Or we can be more optimistic, and take heart in the strength of ideas to gradually permeate through generations of leaders, tired of a system that stands so apart from the moral conscience embodied in its academics, activists, journalists and ordinary citizens, in whose name the brutal price of progress is paid.

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Farm suicides From 2006 to 2008, Maharashtra saw 12, 493 farm suicides. That is 85 per cent higher than the 6,745 suicides it recorded during 1997-1999. That was the worst three-year period for any Indian state ever
The loan waiver year of 2008 saw 16,196 farm suicides in the country, according to the National Crime Records Bureau. Compared to 2007, thats fall of just 436. According to economist Professor K. Nagaraj who worked in-depth on farm suicide data says, The numbers leave little room for comfort and none at all for self-congratulation. There were no major changes in the trend that set in from the late 1990s and worsened after 2002. The dismal truth is that very high numbers of farm suicides still occur within a fast decreasing farm population. Between just the Census of 1991 and that of 2001, nearly 8 million cultivators quit farming. A year from now, the 2011 Census will tell us how many more quit in this decade. It is not likely to be less. It could even draw that 8 million figure as the exodus from farming probably intensified after 2001. The state-wise farm suicide ratios number of farmers committing suicide per 100,000 farmers are still pegged on the outdated 2001 figures. So the 2011 Census, with more authentic counts of how many farmers there really are, might provide an unhappy update on what is going on. Focusing on farm suicides as a share of total suicides in India misleads. That way, its aha! The percentage is coming down. Thats silly. For one thing, the total number of suicides (all groups, not just farmers) is increasing in a growing population of India. Farm suicides are rising within a declining farm population. Two, an all-India picture disguises the intensity. The devastation lies in the big five states (Maharashtra Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh). These account for two-thirds of all farm suicides during 2003-08. Take just the big 5 their percentage of all farm suicides has gone up. Worse, even their percentage of total all-India suicides (all categories) has risen. Poor states like Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh have been doing very badly for some years now. During the period from 1997-2002, farm suicides in the big 5 states accounted for roughly one out of every 12 of all suicides in the country. From 2003-08, they accounted for nearly one out of every 10 suicides. The NCRB has farm suicide data of 12 years. Actually, farm data appears in its records from 1995 onwards, but some states failed to report for the first two years. Hence 1997, from when all states have been reporting their farm suicide data, is a more reliable base year. The NCRB has also made access much easier by placing all past year Accidental Death & Suicides in India reports on its website. 37

The 12-year period allows us to compare farm suicide numbers from 19972002, as how they turned out in the next 6-year period from 2003-2008. All 12 years were pretty bad, but the latter six were decidedly worse. Reading a trend into a single years dip or rise is misleading. Better to look at 3-year or 6-year periods within 1997-2008. For instance, Maharashtra saw a decline in the farm suicide number in 2005, but the very next year proved to be its worst ever. Since 2006, the state has been the focus of many initiatives. Manmohan Singhs, Prime Minister of Indias visit to Vidharbha in 2006 brought the Prime Ministers Relief Package of Rs. 3,750 crore for six crisisridden districts of the region. This came atop Chief Minister Vilasrao Deshmukhs Rs. 1,075 crore relief package. Then followed the nearly Rs. 9,000 crore that was Maharashtras share of the Rs. 70,000 crore central loan waiver for farmers. To which the state government added Rs. 6,200 crore for those farmers not covered by the waiver. The State added Rs. 500 crore for a one-time settlement (OTS) for poor farmers who had been excluded from the waiver altogether because they owned over five acres of land. In all, the amounts committed to fighting the agrarian crisis in Maharashtra exceeded Rs. 20,000 crore across 2006, 2007 and 2008. (And thats not counting huge handouts to the sugar barons.) Yet, that proved to be the worst three-year period ever for any state at any time since the recording of farm data began. From 2006-08, Maharashtra saw, 12,493 farm suicides. That is nearly 600 more than the previous worst from the years 2002-2005 and 85 per cent higher than the 6,745 suicides recorded in the three-year period from 1997-1999. The same government was in power, incidentally, in the worst six years span. Besides, these shockingly higher numbers are emerging within a shrinking farm population. By 2001, 42 percent of Maharashtras population was already urban. Its farmer base has certainly not grown. So was the loan waiver scheme has been useless? The idea of a waiver was not a bad at all. And it was right to intervene. Most of the specific actions were misguided and bungled. Yet it could also be argued at the relief the waiver brought to some farmers and the suicide numbers of 2008 could have been a lot worse. The waiver was a welcome step for farmers, but its architecture was flawed. A point strongly made in this journal (Oh! What a lovely waiver, March 10, 2008). It dealt only with bank credit and ignored moneylender debt. So only those farmers with access to institutional credit would benefit. Tenant farmers in Andhra Pradesh and poor farmers in Vidharbha and elsewhere get their loans mainly from moneylenders. So, in fact, farmers in Kerala, where everyone has a bank account, were more likely to gain. (Kerala was also the one state to address the issue of moneylender debt.) The 2008 waiver also excluded those holding over five acres, making no distinction between irrigated and non irrigated land. This devastated many struggling farmers with eight to 10 acres of poor, dry land. On the other hand, West Bengals farmers, the giant numbers of small holders below the 5-acre limit, stood to gain far more. Every suicide has a multiplicity of causes. But when you have nearly 200,000 38

of them, it makes sense to seek broad common factors within that group. As Dr Nagaraj repeatedly pointed out, the suicides appear concentrated in regions of high commercialization of agriculture and very high peasant debt. Cash crop farmers seemed more vulnerable to suicide than those growing food crops. Yet the basic underlying causes of the crisis remained untouched. The predatory commercialization of the countryside; a massive decline in investment in agriculture; the withdrawal of bank credit at a time of soaring input prices; the crash in farm incomes combined with an explosion of cultivation costs; the shifting of millions from food crop to cash crop cultivation with all its risks; the corporate hijack of every major sector of agriculture including, and especially, seed; growing water stress and moves towards privatization of that resource. The government was trying to beat the crisis leaving in place all its causes with a one-off waiver. In late 2007, The Hindu daily carried the sorry result emerging from Dr Nagarajs study of NCRB data: that nearly 1.5 lakh peasants had ended their lives in despair between 1997 and 2005. Just days later, Union minister for agriculture Sharad Pawar confirmed those figures in Parliament (Rajya Sabha Starred Question No. 238, Nov, 30, 2007) citing the same NCRB data. It is tragic that 27 months later, the paper had to run a headline saying that the number had climbed to nearly 2 lakh. Mocking its victims, heckling its critics and cosmetic changes wont make it go away or help the reality fade away!

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False claims of secularism

The modern world looks at India as a beacon-house of South Asia due to safeguards provided to freedom of expression in its constitution. Its founder and an important political figure Jawahar Lal Nehru writes in his book Discovery of India" that Tolerance is practiced in the circle of Indian unity regarding rites and faiths of people and difference of opinion is welcomed. But his speech made on 23rd February 1956 is quite important which he delivered in the Indian parliament while talking about Hindu extremism and militarism: We Indians have a distorted personality. We talk about non-violence, our great culture and civilization but our manners and social behaviours have deteriorated enough that we cannot call them civilized." Most of the political parties of India, be it All India Congress the ruling party or Bhartia Janta Party (BJP) currently the main opposition party, bear the same stamp. Due to their hypocrisy, India is in quite an uncivilized condition so far as the freedom of expression as referred by Jawahar lal Nehru is concerned. A famous Pakistani Film producer, Hassan Zaidi who was working on a film with famous Indian counterpart Mahesh Bhatt, could not get a room in a Mumbai hotel as Pakistanis and Bangladeshis were not allowed to stay in that hotel. The manager of the hotel stated that most of the hotels do the same as both Pakistan and Bangladesh were suspected of being involved in Mumbai bomb blasts. The treatment of India with Pakistanis and Bangladeshis is quite deplorable. India claims to be the biggest democracy of the world and loses no chance to accuse Pakistan. But its own face is quite ugly. It is despicable the way it has banned Pakistanis and Bangladeshis from staying in Mumbai hotels or guest houses. In any case, this makes one thing clear that India is not a well-wisher of Pakistan. Accusing Pakistan for the terrorist attacks in Mumbai in 2008 further has made it obvious. At one hand it shows such attitudes to Pakistanis but on the other hand some of our artists feel it an honor to work in the films or TV shows of the neighbouring country. But the way they are treated there is an open secret now. Although India wants to enjoy amicable relations with the SAARC countries but its practical behavior is quite different. Its hypocritical attitudes have made one thing clear that its attitude towards the SAARC countries is based on biases and prejudices. Every year at the occasion of the SAARC meeting it claims to make the Organisation an effective forum for the prosperity and welfare of the SAARC countries. But in reality it does not want to have friendly relations with any country. Indian attitude towards all SAARC countries, be it Maldives, Bhutan, Sri Lanka, Nepal, or Bangladesh, is prejudice oriented and it has not yet recognized Pakistans existence. Mistreatment with the Pakistanis and Bangladeshis is normal for India. Due to its clandestine activities and dangerous intentions anything can be expected. If a country like India which claims to be the torch-bearer of democracy lowers itself to the negative strategies what remains behind? There is no doubt that Pakistan has done its best to extend a hand of friendship with India but all of its efforts ended in smoke due to Indias extremist and stubborn 40

attitude. What a contradiction between its claims of democracy at international forums and its actual practice. It is the need of the hour that Pakistan and other SAARC countries should take a stern stand at the prejudice of India to improve the situation with its immediate neighbours. SAARC countries should learn a lesson from Indian attitude towards Pakistan and realize that all efforts of peace, international agreements and reconciliations with India will be futile. India is revealing its horrible face in Kashmir by indulging in criminal activities against the Kashmiris. It is not merely a matter for film producer Hassan Zaidi, the whole SAARC film industry should take notice of such treatment to their citizens in India. All of them should suspend their diplomatic ties with India. It is mere futility to expect a better attitude from India; it must be paid in the same coin. As India was a multi-religious society, it was thought necessary to construct its society on the basis of secularism. Hence in 1976 a constitutional amendment was introduced to add the word secularism as the state dispensation. At one hand secularism means to provide religious groups equal opportunities and freedom of faith and worship but on the other hand it also demands the state to be above all religious belief and faiths. In other words, religion is taken as a private affair of citizens and not of the government and the state. Since ancient times, Indian political life bears a deep stamp of religion. After the independence of India, the same concept was regularly nourished. At one hand, secularism was welded to the preamble of the Indian constitution but on the other hand Indian political life was deeply wedded to religion and Hindu beliefs. As a result secularism remained merely a slogan whereas the non-secular aspects are consolidated strongly. In the modern era it appears that the concept of secularism is affecting its real spirit by changing into a dynamic force. Its apparent demands are different from the practical ones. The Mughal kings left deep imprints of religious tolerance on the Indian soil that resulted in an atmosphere of religious unity. Later on, during the British period the English rulers promoted sectarian politics for their political interests. They adopted the policy of "divide and rule" which further strengthened roots of sectarian politics in the entire region. The Government of India Acts of 1909 and 1919 were to incorporate the Muslim demand of separate electorate and the two nation theory ultimately led to the division of the Indian sub-continent. After the political division of the country, a secular constitution was adopted in India but the sectarian trends got even stronger and entered in political and social spheres. Sectarian riots were frequently erupted in the Indian states of Gujrat, Maharashtra, Bihar and Andhra Pradesh which had political objectives on the basis of religious extremism. Practically speaking, Indian politics is drenched in religiosity: from elections to the allocation of ministries all matters are settled on religious grounds. It has become an important feature of Indian politics to use religion as a tool for political motives. The controversy over Ram Janam Bhomi and the destruction of Babri Mosque are some glaring examples. Many political parties of modern India like Akali Dal, All India Muslim League, Vishwa Hindu Parishad, and Rashtaria Sewak Sangat (RSS) have been constructed 41

on the basis of religious beliefs and preachings. These parties try to solve problems of a particular religious sect by using their political might. To serve their political ends using religion has become an important tradition of Indian democracy. Now-adays the tenure of collision governments is not determined by the majority views rather it is based on the unity of the religious problems. Prime Minister VP Singhs government was the best example. The religious base is playing an important role in determining key trends of the Indian voters. The criterion of votes is not the candidates ability but the related religious identity. The same trend is making it impossible to attain the non-religious role of democracy and national unity in India and the concept of sectarian democracy is getting popular. We can find a proof of amalgamation of religion in politics in the general elections of the parliament of 1977 when the Imam of Jamia Masjid of Delhi appealed to the Muslims of the country to vote for Bhartia Janta Party (BJP). Apart from it he also declared his full support to Indira Gandhi in the general elections of 1980 and asked the Muslims to vote for Congress. However, during the controversy of Ram Janam Bhomi and Babri Mosque Shankar Achariya of Kashi tried to seek a peaceful solution and played an important role between the two sects but miserably failed. Religion has always been playing an important role in politics of the different Indian states, such as All India Muslim League in Kerala and Akali Dal in Punjab. Moreover many religious based parties of central and regional nature Like Arya Samaj, All India Muslim League, Shromati Akali Dal, Anglo-Indian Association, Rashtaria Sewak Sangat (RSS) and Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP) have always influenced practical politics of the country. Sometimes one thinks that without appeasing these parties there is no proper future for the political governments. On the basis of the growing nexus between the modern politics and religion it can be said that religion and politics are indispensable now. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar added to the same theory when he said: This concept of Hinduism is so vast that it encircles all aspects of life from birth till death. The theory of secularism in the Indian constitution is nothing more than paperwork and its practical demands have assumed different shapes whereas the true face of Indian secularism is fading away. Donald Smith, who has written many research articles on Indian secularism, has raised an important question to the Indians due to the rising influence of religion on Indian politics: Is India really a secular state? The Indians have to answer this question realistically if they want to be considered responsible citizens that say and believe the same thing. Such evidences show that the classical form of secularism is almost non-existent in India and its politics and it has become impossible for the state to play its impartial role amongst all religious communities. THE absence of any condemnation of the vandalism of the demolition of the Babri Masid on December 6, 1992 was a conspicuous aspect of the Ayodhya verdict of the Allahabad High Court. So great was the sense of outrage from the Muslim community in India that the Indian Prime Minister and the Central Government said on December 7, 1992 and December 27, 1992 that the mosque would be re-built. 42

The Ayodhya judgment of the Allahabad High Court made no note of the vandalism of December 6, 1992. On the other hand, it took the demolition as a fait accompli, as if the disputed 2.77-acre site was vacant land. After holding that the area beneath the central dome of the erstwhile Masjid must be allotted to Hindus because of their faith that lord Rams place of birth was there, and the areas covered by the Ram Chabutara and Sita Rasoi should be allotted to the Nirmohi Akhara, the court said that the remaining area of the disputed site should be divided, two-thirds to the two Hindu plaintiffs and one third to the Muslim plaintiff by metes and bounds. The judgment, therefore, legalised and legitimized the 1992 demolition, as the decree of the court proceeded on the basis that there was no Masjid on the disputed site today. It is an elementary rule of justice in court that when a party to a litigation takes the law into its own hands and alters the existing state of affairs to its advantage, (as the demolition in 1992 did in favour of the Hindu plaintiffs), the court would first order the restitution of the pre-exisiting state of affairs. The test of the soundness of the courts verdict is this: assuming the correctness of the High Courts findings that the area beneath the central dome of the mosque was the birthplace of Lord Ram or that the Masjid was built over the ruins of a temple in 1528, if the Masjid had not been demolished and had remained on the site, would the court have ordered a division and partitioning of the disputed site in the manner it has directed? This could have been done only by the Masjid of 500 years being brought down to create a vacant site which clearly would have been an impossible direction. The judgment is bound to create a burning communal problem in India. It will leave simmering resentment in the Muslim community, for the judgment will be seen as the courts condonation and legitimization of a place of worship having been vandalized.

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The past 63 years have shown Indias tendency to throw its weight about and browbeat its neighbours. With those that are bigger and more powerful, India tends to adopt a moralistic and intellectually superior tone, as noted by some American leaders. With her smaller neighbours, she does not hesitate to take off its gloves. Of course, we do not claim to be the champions of virtue either, and in some cases, there have been our own faults and follies, more than the Indian machinations, that have contributed to our failures and losses, however, in 1971 India committed aggression in East Pakistan and during the capture of Kargil in early 1999. It was, however, expected that with the restoration of a democratic dispensation in Pakistan and with virtually all major political parties committed to establishing a friendly relationship with India, New Delhi would engage in a comprehensive dialogue aimed at resolving the differences and issues that have plagued ties between the two South Asian neighbours. The Mumbai terror attack in November 2008 angered the Indian government, deciding thereafter to suspend the dialogue with Pakistan that was understandable. Since then, the Pakistani political leadership had been engaged in a major effort to convince New Delhi that it was sincere in its desire and efforts to cooperate with India with the common objective of confronting extremists and other internal and regional problems. In fact, the most remarkable thing was the near unanimity with which the Pakistanis not only condemned the Mumbai attacks, but also acknowledged that their country needed to take concrete steps to assuage Indias anguish. None of this, however, appears to have had much impact on the Indian establishment and politics. Even the expectations raised at the Gilani-Singh meeting in Sharm El Sheikh in 2009 were snuffed out when Manmohan Singhs colleagues publicly expressed their misgivings. Then again, Singhs statement in October 2009 in Srinagar, about not setting preconditions for the dialogue had raised fresh hopes. However, it did not indicate anything new, for he placed his readiness for talks in the context of Pakistan being able to create an environment conducive to negotiations. His pronouncement neither accompanied nor followed any move to re-engage Islamabad in a meaningful dialogue on all outstanding issues. Instead, Delhi declined to respond to the roadmap for resuming talks that Pakistan had conveyed to Indian officials. This led many to believe that Prime Minister Singhs remarks in Srinagar were merely meant to coincide with US Secretary Hillary Clintons visit to Pakistan, as well as his own visit to Washington in later days. The Pakistanis kept pleading for the resumption of dialogue, while the Indians continued to rebuff these offers. The Indian foreign minister ridiculed 44

even the offer of back-channel exchanges and diplomacy. It was then that realization dawned on the Pakistani leadership that the countrys repeated requests were becoming demeaning. India appears to have raised the ante, with the Indian army chief Gen Kapoor remarks that the possibility of a limited war in a nuclear overhang is still a reality, at least in the Indian subcontinent. What has been particularly annoying is the failure of the Obama administration to act on its seemingly wise policy pronouncements during the election campaign. Instead of pressurizing India to reduce its presence in Afghanistan and ceasing to stir up trouble in Balochistan, the US appears to have gone along with Indian allegations, agreeing to inject into the US-India joint statement a provision to work jointly to deal with terrorism emanating from Indias neighbourhood. This statement exposed American hidden relationship with India. This was strange, coming from an administration that had publicly expressed a desire to promote Indo-Pakistan normalization and to work for the resolution of the Kashmir problem. The Indian army chiefs latest statement in which he spoke of his armys capacity to fight a two-front war evoked great surprise and disappointment. But while it conveyed hostility and belligerence, his words were neither realistic nor achievable as India does not have the military capability to successfully initiate its much-heralded cold start strategy, much less wage two wars against two neighbours simultaneously. This does not mean, however, that we can dismiss these claims as mere rhetoric or unfounded. There could be more evidences of the increasing inclination of the Indian forces to have a role in the India-Pakistan equation. According `to some observers, there has been a slow but perceptible change in India where an increasing numbers are reported to have insisted on being more than merely a hearing on issues relating to Pakistan, especially Siachen and Sir Creek. The Indian armed forces have gradually come to believe that given the growing challenges that India faces both domestically and on its frontiers, a more visible role for it is in order. Another important factor is the newfound confidence acquired from the special relationship that the US has so eagerly conferred on India, not only as its strategic partner, but also as a potential counter-weight to China. No less important could be the growing influence of rightwing parties and religious groups that want India to adopt more nationalist policies vis--vis its neighbours. Instead, what is required is a dispassionate analysis of what these signals indicate for Pakistan and sensitizing our friends to Indian actions. While we must not be distracted from the objective of seeking a peaceful resolution of our differences with India, we must not show undignified haste towards that end.

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They talked of a federation and a confederation even in 1947. Lord Mountbatten longed to be made the governor-general of Pakistan and India. India accepted that, but Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah rejected the idea. Muslims have always known Hindus anti-Pakistan mentality and its imperialistic designs. Brahman leadership had accepted the 3-June formula with a wishful thinking that the newly created Islamic state would not survive long. They refused to give Pakistan its due share in the assets and created the Kashmir issue only to destabilize Pakistan. But, thank God with determination of the people of Pakistan, this country is not only standing on solid ground but also has become a nuclear power. If the Indian leadership and the people want friendly relationship with Pakistan, they must first give importance to the solution of the Kashmir issue because neither can the relationship be improved nor can durable peace be established in South Asia until the Kashmir issue is resolved. Will there be some improvement in the miserable state of the Muslims if there are friendly relations between India and Pakistan? We believe that there will be no improvement. Therefore, our rulers should keep in mind the miserable state of Muslims before adopting a policy of friendship towards it. India has come to the negotiation table with the sole purpose of improving its own economy by ensuring a smooth flow of gas through a pipe line in Pakistan. Both Pakistan and India cannot resolve the Kashmir issue without the consent of the Kashmiris. The proposal of handing over Kashmir to the UN is in the interest of Kashmiris, India and Pakistan. Indias proposal to keep the Muslims out of their majority areas is not only unacceptable but also against Pakistan ideology. It is our right and our duty to express our anger against the former Indian presidents bragging. We share with each other neither a common culture nor a common history. We separated as the result of a historic and evolutionary process. Even after living together for centuries, the Muslims and Hindus could not come closer to each other. The notice boards like Muslim water and Hindu water at railway stations and at other public places prove that both the nations had and have different identities. It is due to these different identities that the British rulers agreed on the separate electoral system in the subcontinent. According to a former president of India Abdul Kalam, a sort of confederation can be worked out in the next fifty years. If the hatred between Russia and America can come to an end, if Germany can unite again and if the European Union can become a confederation, why cant there be a confederation between Pakistan and India? The Indian leaders statement that a confederation between both the free and autonomous countries can be established is ludicrous. There was no justification for partition if we had to establish a confederation with India. The fact is that millions of the Muslims in the subcontinent sacrificed their lives and honour for the creation of Pakistan and founded a separate state on the basis of two-nation theory. 46

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CHALLENGES FROM WITHIN?

INSIDE STORY OF RELIGIOUS AND ETHNIC MINORITIES OF INDIA

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From Kashmir to Assam, one can find, in India, several separatist movements trying day and night to get rid of the Indian occupation and to establish their own separate states. According to a Delhi-based South Asia Terrorism Report, 2750 people lost their lives in 2006 during the fights between the separatist groups and the Indian army. The exact number of separatist groups in India cannot be estimated but they are an outcome of the repulsive caste system and mistreatment with minorities. In Hinduism some people are declared to be inferior because they were born to lower families despite the fact that they are same in physical identity, frame and face, and share other traits. The upper class Hindus declare the lower class Hindu as untouchable and lower them from the status of humanity and basic dignity. These outcast and deprived people then organized themselves and demand an independent state and greater autonomy. Sometimes the elders, chiefs, and feudal of the victims get united to start a rebellion for a separate homeland. The separatist movements in India gave birth to such groups which did not demand a separate country but had created immense problems of law and order. The Naxalite movement is one such movement. It is called Naxalite in English because it is named after a village in Western Bengal, Naxal-body. The movement originated from that village in 1967. In 1970 the Indian army started military operation against these villagers demanding rights and autonomy and forcibly crushed the movement. The movement ended but was fragmented into groups. The same groups are again active now in the form of a bigger movement. Peoples War Group and Maoist groups are leading the separatist movement. Naxalite movement was initiated as a result of the mistreatment of poor local farmers by the landlords but now it has spread in every corner of the country. It is nothing less than a nightmare for the Indian police and army. It has established a parallel government in the county. The areas of Andhra Pradesh, Bihar, Western Bengal, Jhar Khand and Orissa are mainly the centre of this movement. The area of Chhattees Garh is the centre of Maoists. All these areas are replete with poverty and misery. Almost every individual of these areas is a member of these organizations. India has tried off and on to get rid of these separatist groups but they are getting stronger with the passage of time. Now they play key political role in formation of local and central governments. It has become a second nature of the Hindus that they think whatever happens in their country is backed by Pakistan. Therefore, they accuse Pakistans intelligence agencies for the Naxalite movement, Mumbai blasts and any other mishap happens on Indian soil. Indian rulers quite stubbornly declare that both the Naxalite and Maoist movements are Pakistani sponsored. Its a matter of gratification for Pakistan that there is not a single separatist movement here. In the past, efforts were made on the instigation of foreign powers to divide Pakistanis but the whole Pakistani nation was organized against such threats besides all superficial differences. 49

The Naxalite Movement

In twenty two provinces of Northern India freedom movements are active and resisting Indian control and Military might. The freedom fighters attack the Indian army and are involved in militant attacks on military forces. The Naxalite Movement is one key among them. Its centre is the under-developed rural areas of eastern Bengal. According to a report published in 2009, twenty two districts of the twenty states are under control of the separatists. It comprises of almost 40 percent of the Indian Territory. Its total area is more than 92000 square kilometers and about 20000 armed people live there who are giving military training to another 50000 rebels. That is why the Indian prime minister declared this move a threat for the solidarity of India. Apart from the Northern states Orissa, Jhar Khand, and Chhattees Garh, located in the eastern side of Bengal, the South Eastern states, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Kerala and the small but thickly populated states of Nagaland, Manipur and Mizoram between Bangladesh and Burma are also guarded by the Brahman imperialists of India. All these provinces are like forts. People living in these areas are neither willing to recognize themselves as Hindus nor are ready to bow down before the Brahmans of Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh. Hence there is perpetual tension between the government and the freedom fighters. An encounter between the law enforcing agencies and the freedom fighters is a routine matter in Indian politics. In 2004, in an encounter between the Naxalite rebels 1639 persons were killed including the police, Para-military forces and the rebels. The number of skirmishes in 2005 was fewer but the death toll was much higher than previous years. There was comparative peace in 2006 but in 2007 the death toll rose to more than 2000. According to a report, the Naxalite movement is spreading rapidly in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The difficult terrain and the thick forests of the state provide heaven for the Naxalite rebels to hide and launch terrorist attacks. Apart from the states of Jhar Khand and Chhattees Garh the Naxalite rebels are already active in the state of Assam. Due to their activities security personnel, police, and the para-military forces move like an army convoy. The same strategy is being adopted in Andhra Pradesh which has frightened the state police to great extent. Hence the security personnel and police are busy in saving their own skin. As a result the control of Andhra Pradesh has fallen in the hands of the Naxalite rebels. The Naxalites are instituting their own courts as they did in Assam, Manipur and Mizoram and making it sure that their rule is established there. They are also busy in extending their influence to Uttar Pradesh through Nepal by collaborating with the Maoist rebels. What will be the fate of India? It is too soon to predict that how long India will sustain and protect its present boundaries and resist such freedom movements. However, keeping in view the attitude of the Brahmans towards the lower caste Hindus, it can be surely said that whatever measures the Brahman imperialists take 50

for Akhand Bharat (united India) dismemberment is its fate. How long it will take depends upon the courage of the Naxalites, Maoists, the Assam Liberation Army and the patience of the slave-like population of backward provinces of India, who not only have gotten their maps and flags printed but also issue their own currency to the desired independent states.

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The Khalistan Movement

Before the establishment of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah offered the Sikhs equal rights, independence and freedom to look after their religious places if they were willing to join Pakistan but the Sikhs so-called Akali leader, Master Tara Singh rejected the offer from the Quaid. He waved his sword in front of the Punjab Assembly in Lahore and provoked the Sikhs for the massacre of Muslims. Master Tara Singh was a Rawalpindi born Hindu whom the Congress projected as the leader of the Sikhs because of his enmity towards the Muslims. Quite shrewdly, the Congress misguided the Sikhs and prepared them for the division of (United) Punjab. When the East Punjab emerged after independence, the Hindu leadership of Congress showed quite a discriminatory attitude toward the Sikhs. Annoyed by the Hindu leadership of the Congress they launched a movement for the establishment of independent Sikh state named as Khalistan. During the Khalistan Movement the Indian government blindly used force and killed thousands of Sikhs. To eliminate the movement of Sikhs the Congress divided Eastern Punjab into three provinces namely: East Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh. The Sikh movement hibernated for some time, but in 1970 it again emerged as an organized movement. India used a lot of force to control it. Meanwhile the Sikhs declared the Golden temple of Amritsar as the head-quarters for the Khalistan Movement. All of the Sikh leadership including Jarnail Singh Bhindranwala and leaders of the All India Sikh Students Federation were operating from Golden Temple. When the Khalistan Movement was at its peak, the Khalistan Movement leadership was sending out messages from Golden Temple to the Sikh freedom fighters. The Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi ordered the army to attack the Golden Temple in 1984. All the prominent Sikh leaders and thousands of other followers were killed in brutal military operation called Operation Blue Star. As a result in the villages and cities of East Punjab the Hindus were targeted and mercilessly killed. The armed Hindu groups also mercilessly butchered Sikhs, their women and children. The world knows how minorities are treated in India. The demolition of Babri Mosque, the construction of Ram Mandir (or Ram Temple), setting churches on fire and the operation in the Golden Temple of the Sikhs and their massacre are the ugly scars on the secular face of India. How can India hide a long list of atrocities like the massacre of Sikhs in the name of Operation Blue Star, killing in East Punjab, the murder of Indira Gandhi and the Hindus efforts to eliminate the Sikhs? Twenty five years have passed since murder of Indira Gandhi, the ex-prime minister of India. She was killed by one of her own Sikh body guards. The main reason of the murder was the operation blue star conducted at the Golden Temple on the 6th June 1984. It was an act of desecration of the most sacred and religious place of the Sikhs. During the operation thousands of Sikhs were killed but the Indian government still treats the Sikhs as the accused. India does not allow the names of 52

the Sikhs who died naturally or unnaturally to get erased from the list of suspicious persons. The very reason it does not allow the Sikhs to live peacefully anywhere in the world, India is afraid of the fact that Sikhs may restart their movement for an independent state at any time and may create more trouble for the country. All these facts expose the realities behind Indian claim of a secular democracy. A huge minority is being spied upon and is regarded anti-India. Thousands of Sikhs were killed after the assassination of Indira Gandhi. The Congress leaders themselves provoked rioters on the roads of Delhi. Since then the Sikhs are living in India as a paranoid minority. The heirs of those who lost their lives in the anti-Sikh riots in 1984 were given one million rupees as compensation on the orders of the Indian Supreme Court. Can this monetary compensation for aggrieved families be an alternative to the lives of the deceased? After their killings at such a mass scale, the Sikhs chose other countries, particularly, Canada as final refuge and also to initiate their activities. But India later started objecting at activities of Sikhs in those countries too. The Canadian government is neither helping them economically or politically nor have the Sikhs established their exiled government of Khalistan there. There is something wrong with Indias thinking and political system as it looks at every gathering of minorities as suspicious. It should also review its attitudes, state practices and peoples behaviors towards minorities. What rights and freedoms has it granted to the minorities? The situation in Occupied Kashmir, East Punjab, Chhattees Garh, Maharashtra, and Madhya Pradesh, Eastern Uttar Pradesh, Jhar Khand, West Bengal, Western Orissa and Bihar is a proof of the fact that Indian state has deprived its own population of the fundamental right to live. The western countries talk about India as a secular and democratic country but the reality is very different from the general perception about India. It has just disguised itself in a cloak to safeguard the vested interests of a particular class. The western media does not talk about these facts but India is a failed democracy and is indulging in the acts of terrorism against its own population, especially those belong to the minorities. The extremist Hindus are involved in the murder of millions of innocent Muslims, Sikhs, Christians, and other religious and cultural minorities.

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The Indian Parliament--- a gang of criminals

Now the Indian Election Commission has conceded that the Indian houses of Parliament are replete with gangs of criminals. According to the Indian rulers their houses of parliament are the abode of the gentle, pure, and civilized representatives. But the election commission has revealed facts that show the different picture. The claimants of the largest democracy of the world are involved in shady deeds behind the faade of democracy. According to a report issued by the Indian Election Commission, every third member of the parliament has been nominated in some sort of criminal acts and is facing serious charges. In this way every sixth member of the Madhya Pradesh assembly has a criminal record and every ninth member of the Rajasthan assembly has been involved in some crime. This is the assembly which the Indians call a comparatively noble assembly. Sadhu Yadav, a member of the lower house of Indian parliament, whose elder sister Rabri Devi had been the Chief Minister of Bihar, has a long list of crimes to his credit. Many times his arrest warrants were issued but he is not only out of jail, he is also playing his political game in the parliament. He has been accused of heinous crimes like bribery, fraud, rape and setting the property of people on fire. Not only the present but also the previous members of the parliament, state chief ministers, union ministers, and prime ministers have been involved in a variety of serious crimes. Narsima Rao, the former prime minister, was sentenced to three years imprisonment by the court for offering bribe to the parliament members in 2000. In 1989 the Indian Prime Minister Rajeev Gandhi was involved in purchase of canons for Indian army from a Swedish company Bofors. L. K. Advani played a prominent role in the demolition of Babari Mosque. The court also implicated the following people: Murli Manohar, Joshi, ex-Minister Uma Bharati, President of Vishwa Hindu Parishad Ashok Singhal, Vinay Katiyar, President of BJP Uttar Pradesh and a member of parliament from Faizabad, Vishnu Hari Dalmiya, Giri Raj Kishore and Sadhvi Ritambhara. They also arranged for Rath Yatra and provoked religious sentiments of the Indian Hindus. When the Hindus were demolishing the Babari Mosque, Advani was present there and was instigating the rioters and demolishers. His pictures appeared in all main newspapers of India and globally. His daughter-in-law also revealed that he was personally involved in demolition of the mosque. Had L.K. Advani not arranged for the Rath Yatra and did not provoke the Hindus the Babari mosque could have been saved. At that time, Advani was the main leader of the ruling party, and later became the Deputy Prime Minister of India. All of his accomplices were members of the parliament and office holders of the government and the Bhartya Janata Party (BJP). Bhata Raja, the ex- interior minister of India was sentenced to three years imprisonment by the court for taking bribe. Shahab-ud-din, a member of Lok Sabha was sentenced to life imprisonment in a case of abduction with intention of killing. He was tried for thirty serious criminal cases. 54

The ex-union interior minister of India, N. N. Vohra wrote in his report, which was published in 1995, that a mafia network is actively working along with the Indian government, which is devastating the state institutions and the state is fast losing control over them. According to an NGO, The National Social Watch Coalition, 16.28 percent of the total candidates in the general elections of India were involved in criminal activities. In the same way, 30 percent of the members of parliament from 35 to 45 years of age had registered cases against them. In other words, the power corridors of India are full of murderers, criminals and goons. Corruption and crimes are not only restricted to members of the Indian parliament but also higher officers of the Indian army and lower cadres are involved in such cases. Corruption rate is higher in the Indian army. The Indian army officers are bribed and receive commissions and kick-backs in an arms deal and supply of equipment within the country and abroad as well. They also take kick-backs in buying and supplying food articles. Every officer is involved in fraud and corruption at every level of rank and position. In spite of the fact that their secrets were revealed, the Indian traders and Indian defence experts are always seeking ways to make money. Two senior generals of the Indian army posted at Kashmir were involved in corruption while buying and supplying chickens to the army. Both of them earned millions of rupees by fraud, corruption and other illegal deals during their stay in occupied Kashmir. Likewise, commissions were received in the purchase of guided shells from Russia which did not work during the Kargil war. It is high time to mention the huge amount of money that was received during the purchase of atomic submarines from Russia. During the Kargil war a dispute arose regarding disposal of dead bodies of the Indian soldiers. According to the defence minister, 4000 coffins were ordered, whereas only 650 people were killed and the coffins were made of inferior quality wood in spite of high prices. Indian history is replete with crimes that the politicians, rulers and the army officers commit. The claimants of the largest democracy of the world are not even ashamed of the fact that they are not worthy of being called politicians and soldiers.

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BRAHMANICAL SCHOOL & FUNDAMENTALISM

GROWTH OF HINDU TALIBANS A THREAT TO COUNTER TERRORISM

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The American Commission for the Religious Freedoms has warned India that its name should be included amongst the list of countries which are involved in the worst kind of violations and crimes of religious freedoms and against their religious minorities. Many ministers of India are not only busy in increasing sectarian hatred on behalf of Hindu extremist organizations but many central and state government ministers took an active part in violent activities based on religious discrimination. As the top political leadership is patronizing such acts, therefore no prominent personality involved in such criminal activities has ever been brought to justice. All the socio-welfare organizations of Maharashtra, including Mumbai, protest that the Indian government has reduced Muslims and other minorities to the status of second rated citizens. They also demand that recommendations of the Justice Sri Krishna Commission be implemented and the victims of 1992 and 1993 sectarian riots be given justice. Justice Sri Krishna has declared the head of Shiv Sena, Bal Thackeray and other four leaders of his party responsible for the Suleiman Usman Bakery firing Case but no inquiry has been conducted against any involved in the firing case. Jamiat Ulema-i-Hind, Jamat-i-Islami Hind, World Mushaikh Counsel, Aima Masajid Council, Rashtariya Bheem Saina and Rights Pune had also demanded to arrest Bal Thackeray, the head of RSS. The United Nations Charter provides a guarantee to minorities of a country to hold religious gatherings for worship, to specify places for the same purpose, to establish charitable organizations, to seek funds voluntarily, to publish and distribute relevant literature, to educate a particular faith or religion at proper places, to reserve places of rest according to ones faith, to declare holidays, to make arrangements for the preaching of ones faith at local and foreign levels, along with the guarantees of general security, discipline, health, ethics, and rights of others. But all these clauses are neglected in India. The extremist Hindu leaders have evolved a new strategy to force the Indian Muslims to adopt non-Islamic ways and to adopt attitudes like non-Muslims. Sadhus and Joggies are ready to take control of the central government in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Bihar, Jhar Khand, and Orissa. Internally they are constantly making efforts for the same and at the same time they are also trying to exploit Muslims and other minorities to merge them with the Hindu majority. The main aim of Hindutva is to de-track the Indian Muslims and to make them into secular non practicing Muslims. The extremists have not yet succeeded in their aims because their ideas are shallow and baseless. Any person with common sense cannot accept such ideas. While addressing a large gathering of the extremists, the extremist leader S. Sadharshan said that they could not throw the Muslims and Christians in to the ocean; therefore, they must make them realise the importance of Hindutva and force them to convert. 59

One of the leaders of Hindutva, Praveen Togadia declared Muslims as Jihadis and appealed to the Christians to stand with them against these Jihadis (Holy war) The present Congress lead government is accused of taking measures to support the Muslims. Prominent Indian scholars and journalists have expressed their concern with despair and said that in the coming years the conditions of the Indian minorities; particularly the Muslims would not be changed. In these conditions the Indian solidarity is in great danger. BJP an extremist Hindu organization is getting popular day-by-day and its rival secular forces are getting weaker and weaker. In these circumstances, the sense of being insecure is rising among the minorities particularly, Muslims, Sikhs and Christians. Its a matter of great concern that international community and the international human rights organizations have also ignored this real face of India and its attitude and have allowed its governments to let secularism be smashed into pieces.

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America attacked Afghanistan to seek Osama-bin-Laden and Al-Qaida. These atta00cks could never prove fruitful without the cooperation of government of Pakistan. Hence, Nawaz Sharifs government was toppled down and General Pervez Musharraf was imposed on Pakistan in October 1999. Apparently, Americans provided many facilities to the General Musharrafs regime to show the Pakistanis that his government was useful for them and then forced it to work in the interests of America. In those days, the Indian Prime Minister Attal Bihari Vajpai and the interior Minister Lal Krishan Advani made a public request to American President George W. Bush and offered their services. But at that time General Musharraf was more useful for America. After playing havoc in Afghanistan, US government wanted to deal with Pakistan the way it had dealt with Iraq and Afghanistan in its so called war against terror. Iran was ready to fight with USA, therefore, it dared not to attack Iran despite its warnings. It was aware of weaknesses in Pakistani political and governance systems and intended to maintain its control on the country. When Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan after a long exiled life, she was attacked twice and the last attack in Rawalpindi proved fatal. The purpose of these attacks was to undermine the country and create chaos. After the general elections in February 2008 Asif Ali Zardari, husband of deceased Benazir Bhutto, Chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party, became the President of Pakistan, but America did not like it and some undemocratic forces started conspiring and destabilizing the country. Its evident now that Indian electronic media started presenting the situation which aims to push the two neighbouring countries to war. The main reason of the war is to control terrorism in India and the sixty hour long operation in Mumbai was declared the biggest act of terrorism on Indian soil. Almost two hundred people were killed and three hundred were injured at the Taj Hotel, Obroi Hotel and Trident in main Mumbai city. On the statements of Ajmal Qasab, the lone survivors and captor of the terrorist attacks, and two policemen, the thousands of Indian army men and other blood thirsty elements created a war-like situation against the so called terrorists. It is particularly noteworthy that the terrorists gathered around the best hotels of Mumbai city like the Taj Hotel and Oberoi Hotel. There was intense exchange of firing and innocent people were killed but all the responsible elements of Maharashtra government, the Indian Air Force and Navy could only kill nine terrorists and arrested only one. The whole world watched this show live on television. Some of the prominent figures of the country objected and it was demanded in almost all newspapers of India that Pakistani media should be banned. Later on the media alleged that the terrorist act was planned in the neighbouring country and excuses were sought to attack Pakistan. The country was deprived of solidarity, peace and prosperity. The mutual sentiments of hatred and enmity were provoked amongst the peaceful and 61

loving people of the two neighbouring countries. After considering whole situation carefully one comes to the conclusion that it was a well planned conspiracy and act of sabotage. Why was it insisted to believe in all the facts relating to terrorism in the light of Ajmal Qasabs statement? A native of Mumbai, ex-chief minister of the same province, an experienced, loyal, prominent and a blue-eyed Congress minister of minorities, Abdul Rehman Antolay demanded that the evidence of the honest police officer Hemant Karkare and others be properly investigated. Why did Sangh Parivar dislike the statement? Sangh Parivar showed anger when Hemant Karkare revealed the involvement of Praveen Togadiya, Colonel Prohat, Sahdvi Pargya and Dayanand Pandey and demanded that he must leave the investigation of the Maligaon. Even Karkare was threatened to be killed. In light of the newspaper reports and the information received from certain friends it is evident that Karkare was killed for his honesty and truthfulness. There is no doubt that Karkare and the two officers additional commissioner of police Ashok Kamte and senior inspector Vijay Salaskar were killed because they exposed that the main culprits of terrorist attacks in India was Bhawa Brigade whose real face remained hidden while the Muslims were declared responsible for those attacks. The thief always knows ones own crime, it does not matter whether the police knows it or not. India is supposed to identify terrorists inside its own country as well as across the borders and must deal with them sternly instead of simply blaming others. It is a fact that Bhawa Brigade has been planning to convert India into a Hindu state and it has been nurturing a particular fascist temperament for the same purpose. On the surface there are flowers but inside there is smouldering fire. It is essential to know who is lighting this fire. If the Islamic seminaries in the country are watched with suspicion, it is necessary to watch the activities of the centres closely which are working under the kind patronage of Lal Krishan Advani, Ashok Sanghal, Sadarshan and Praveen Togadiya. South Asia Terrorism Portals report revealed, 231 of Indias 608 districts have been affected by various insurgent terrorist movementscontinued to pose serious challenges to the countrys security framework. It is high time we should pay attention on the Indian law and order situation. India started militia operation against insurgents in Lalgarh tribal region of the west Bengal, and also banned the Communist Party of India-Maoist (CPI-M), terming it a terrorist organization in the wake of fresh insurgency by the Maoist insurgents. The CPI-M came into existence following the merger of the Communist Party of India, the Peoples War Group (PWG) and the Maoist Communist Centre (MCC). Several states such as Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh declared the CPI-M an unlawful organization. In the eastern regions, Naxalites have established their writ running large hundreds of villagers. Recently, Maoists intensified their struggle, attacking official installments in the major Indian cities. In this context, on October 31, 2009, the New York Times wrote, Indias Maoist rebels are now present in 20 states and have killed more than 900 62

Indian security officersIndias rapid economic growth has made it an emerging global power but also deepened stark inequalities in society. The Maoist militants oppose the ruling Communist Party of Indias government in Bengal. It is unfortunate that the US and the West do not see any threat of the Indian nukes falling in the hands of insurgents, terrorists or Communists. In addition, wide areas of the country appear to have fallen off the map of good governance, and are acutely susceptible to violent political mobilization, lawlessness and organized criminal activity. It is notable that historical background and religious beliefs, which have formed the habits and national character of Hindus, are quite different from the other ethnic and religious communities. Indians still have a strong belief in the superiority of their race. Indian Hindus are followers of Chanakya (Say some thing else and do some thing else). These facts have been verified by the misdeeds of Hindu fundamentalist parties like the BJP, RSS, VHP, Shiv Sina and Bajrang Dal which have missed no opportunity to communalize national politics of India even under the Congress rule. With the backing of Indian officials, these parties have intensified anti-Christian and anti-Muslim bloodshed in the last decade, coupled with the dissemination of Hidutva. Besides previous genocide of Muslims and destruction of the Babri Mosque, more than 2500 Muslims were massacred in 2002 in the BJPruled Indian state of Gujarat. Regarding that massive genocide, both Human Rights Watch in 2002 and Amnesty International in 2003 charged the Gujarat state administration for involvement in a massive cover-up-of the states role in that massacre and pointed out numerous officials specifically ministers, high officials and leaders of the VHP, BJP and Bajrang Dal as participants. On September 13, 2008, the communal riots in Uttar Pradesh killed more than 200 Muslims. In one of the most tragic incidents in Assam, Hindu extremists burnt alive six members of a Muslim family. Violence has continued against the Muslims from time to time. Similarly, assaults on Christians and their properties have been executed by the Hindu mobs in Orissa, Assam, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. In this respect, at least 60 Christians have been assassinated in the recent past by Hindu extremists in the state of Orissa. Other minorities of India are also target of Hindu terrorism. Under the mask of democracy and secularism, all Indian regimes in sequence, dominated by politicians from the Hindi heartland, have been using brutal force ruthlessly against any move to free Assam, Kashmir, Khalistan, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu and Tripura, where wars of Independence are alive in one form or the other. Indias prime minister met with Naga separatists on March 2, 2010 in an attempt to end one of the South Asian nations longest-running insurgencies. The meeting could not succeed because Indias is offering wide autonomy to the group, though it has already rejected the separatists demand for an independent homeland in northeastern India. The Naga insurgents began fighting more than 50 years ago. As regards the Indian-held Kashmir since 1947, Indian forces have intermittently been employing all the possible techniques of military terrorism, such as curfews, crackdowns, sieges, massacres, targeted killings, etc. to maintain their alien rule. 63

However, under the new puppet regime in the occupied Kashmir, Indian brutalities are continuing during the current phase of Kashmiri uprising, which began on August 12, 2008. In the last two years, more than 3000 unmarked graves of the unidentified bodies were uncovered in villages of Indian-held Kashmir. Sources have suggested that these graves include bodies of extrajudicial executions committed by the Indian military and paramilitary forces. European Parliament strongly condemned India regarding human rights violations in the Occupied Kashmir. In Maharashtra, non-Hindu communities have lived in constant fear and awe since the advent of the fundamentalist party, Shiv Sena, whose chief Bal Thackeray has organized army of hoodlums to beat up any religious minority, openly directing the Hindu terrorists to loot and stone any of their shop or house. Silence of the subsequent governments on every challenge of Shiv Sena and lack of serious action against Thackerays vandalism have clearly defeated the secular echoes of India, which is in fact a secular terrorist state. More alarming point is that Bajrang Dal has also been imparting arms training to its members near Ayodhya. It is mentionable that ideology of Hindu nationalism prevails in every field at the cost of other minorities. It is even supported by Indian defence forces clandestinely. This fact could be judged from the recent past, when on April 6, 2008 in the house of Bajrang Dal fundamentalists in Nanded, a bomb went off. The investigations proved that the militants belonging to the Bajrang Dal were found in the bomb-making and attack on a mosque in Parbhani in 2003. Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra arrested a serving Lt. Col. Srikant Purohit along with other army officials, indicating that they were helping in training the Hindu terrorists, providing them with the military-grade explosive RDX, used in the Malegaon bombings and terrorist attacks in other Indian cities. ATS further disclosed that Lt. Col. Purohit confessed that in 2007 he was involved in bombing of Samjhota Express, which burnt alive 69 Pakistanis. Leaders of the Indian extremist parties, Shiv Sena, BJP, VHP and RSS are now pressurizing the Congress regime to release the culprits. Before thee revelations about Hindu terrorism, Indian government has been accusing the Islamic organizations in contact with Pakistani or Bangladeshi intelligence agencies in carrying out bomb blasts in Malegaon and other Indian places. As regard Hindu terrorism, BBC indicated on November 21, 2008 that a new phrase has entered the sometimes clich-riddled Indian press: Hindu terrorism, calling it the latest addition to the media lexicon. It is now clear that instead of taking action, New Delhi has been using Hindu terrorists to create frenzy against the other religious communities. Most dangerous point is that Hindu terrorists with the support of Indian army and their intelligence agency RAW, would try to get weapons of mass destruction and will use them in the US and major European states in order to show that Muslim radicals or al Qaeda-related insurgents have performed this sinister job. While Hindu extremists, with the backing of RAW have already started a nefarious strategic game in destabilizing Pakistan by creating insurgency in the K-P Province, and backing separatist elements in Balochistan. In fact, there is a co-relationship of the Hindutva and Hindu fundamentalism, which is the genesis of Hindu terrorism. Nonetheless, Hindu terrorism is on the rise, which 64

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In India, the level of tolerance among the people is declining due to anti-Muslim campaigning of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP). As a result there is a rising number of Hindu Taliban in the so-called secular country which has given birth to the danger of violent activities. As the Hindu Taliban have become active in India, the dwindling trend of Talibanization in the sub-continent has again been refreshed. In Pakistan, some religious organizations of veiled (burqa-clad) women have threatened the music and movie shop owners in Islamabad and asked for a deadline for the enforcement of the Islamic Sharia. In India, Hindu organizations have raised the issue of Hindu girls getting married with the Muslim boys. The bewilderment of the Hindu extremists can be judged from the fact that the Bhartiya Janta Party has to take back the video documentary when the election commission accused them of spreading hatred in society and the real face of Bhartiya Janta Party has been revealed by this act. A Hindu girl from Bhopal eloped with a Muslim boy. The police abducted the elder brother of the boy to pressurize him to produce the girl to the police and her family. The brother of the accused boy was released on court order of the Mumbai high court. The court also ordered the police to provide security to the accused boy. Meanwhile the organization Kanya Suraksha Samiti was established with the help of the BJP which is supposed to provide security to the Hindu girls. In Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh) under the state government of BJP the police declined the abduction of the boy but later on when someone had filmed the abduction on a mobile phone, the case was then reported to the media. If the Taliban type government is established in India, the extremist and violent trends will be promoted in the society and such incidents will increase. A new trend of mutual hatred between the different sects will start. The inter-marriages between Hindu girls and Muslim boys was declared as a conspiracy by the Hindus, but when a Mumbai based television channel telecasted the statement of the couple, its studio was attacked. The couple succeeded in escaping from the scene with the help of the police on the request of the TV channel officials. An extremist organization, Shiv Sena is quite popular in the world for its extremism and using religious orthodoxy to promote its politics. Its salient feature is to destroy the pitch before cricket matches between India and Pakistan, and to beat couples violently on the occasion of Valentines Day. It is of the view that such activities are against their culture. It attacked the office of Star News channel when Hollywood film star Richard Gear kissed Bollywood Actress Shilpa Shetty during the AIDS awareness campaign. It also threatened them of dire consequences. The Hindu groups involve themselves in sectarian violence with such a quick pace that the danger of intolerance and extremist activities in India has risen. The anti-Muslim and anti-Christian movement of the so-called BJP has created an environment of intolerance and violence which is enhancing sectarianism. So far as the Christians are concerned, the major aim of the extremist Hindus is to prevent their followers from converting to Christianity. It resulted in attacks on 66

churches in several states of India. This mocks an international propaganda campaign against Muslims in which they are portrayed as terrorists. The Hindus are in a fix due to the rising number of minorities in India. They are worried that they might become a minority in their own country. Emolia Ganguly, a political analyst has accused the Muslims that they are not patriots because they refuse to sing the Indian national anthem Vande Mataram. All these attitudes are quite obvious proofs of Indian extremism. The so-called secular country must indulge in introspection before accusing others of extremism and terrorism.

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Indian courts have tried to educate those who claim to have been hurt. It observes; A painter has his own perspective of looking at things and it cannot be the basis of initiating criminal proceedings against him. In India, new Puritanism is being carried out in the name of cultural purity and a host of ignorant people are vandalizing art and pushing us towards the pre-renaissance era. A painter at 90s deserves to be sitting at his home and painting his canvas (rather than living in exile). Another ruling says: There are so many such subjects, photographs and publications. Will you [complainant] file cases against all of them? It is art. If you dont want to see it, then dont see it. There are so many such art forms in the [Hindu] temple structures. Mr. Ali Murtaza Syed while commenting on the migration of Mr. M.F. Hussain writes: When I learnt that one of the most celebrated artists of India, Maqbool Fida Hussain has taken up the nationality of Qatar to escape from the Hindu zealots who have been gunning for his life, there was a feeling of remorse. It was not because he was known to me or I am an admirer to his paintings, but simply because he has been such a colourful personality in India and I have practically grown up reading about his activities. Now when I realize he will no more be gossiped about in the media as before, a stream of thought flows my memory lane at various points of my life. It was exactly 1980, when I first saw M.F. Hussain. That was when I was an undergraduate student in AMU, Aligarh. Hussain had come there to finalize the huge cutouts to adore the front entrance of the geography department. The campus was abuzz with the news of his arrival and we rushed from the arts block to the Kennedy Hall, where his older work greets the visitors. I had a chance to see him in real flesh and blood. He was wearing white kurta-pajama and sported long white beard. The only intriguing part of his personality was, he was bare footed! As usual it happens in AMU, such personalities are mobbed by the students and Hussain was no exception. I saw him waving hands as he was escorted into a car that drove him out of the campus. My second encounter with MF Hussain was at JNU, New Delhi, in 1987 where I was a PhD student. This again was just a coincidence when one evening I saw Hussain walking with few Professors outside the Kaveri Hostel. This time he had trimmed his beard and had short hairs. In fact, I was walking from the opposite side but could not realize who he was. Again, his trademark, the barefooted man, rang bells into my ears. By the time I realized he was MF Hussain, I saw him driving a car, and moving out of my sight. I saw Hussain for the third time in 1995 when I was in Hyderabad working as a city reporter. One evening after attending a press conference at the Hyderabad secretariat, I was returning to my Secundrabad office in a bus when it got flat tires. Since, it was an important assignment, and I had to reach my office quickly and so I decided to walk the bridge over the Hussain Sagar Lake. It was a breezy evening, and I was enjoying my stroll. Suddenly from somewhere, when I was on the middle of the bridge, I saw Mercedes Benz very slowly moving by my side. In the back seat, I saw a man wearing white Kurta-Pajama complementing the white beard. 68

The car was so slow, that I was almost walking with it. My mind was racing, searching the memory files to locate this character sitting on the back seat. By the time I could realize he was M F Hussain, his car sped past me. I was seeing from the rear glass of the car the image of M F Hussain fading out of my sight. Well that was the last time I saw the man who is called the Picasso of India. Since then his images use to adorn my sight through the pages on magazines and newspapers and I could feel he was there somewhere a part and parcel of the Indian social life. Now when I realize he has been hounded out and forced to take residence in a city of another country, I feel I may not be able to follow him as before. The forces of bigotry and intimidation have won against those who hold liberal views. In the simple words, the Indian Taliban have got the trophy, while their counterparts from across the border are busy making the headlines for the newspapers. Hussains time of troubles started since 1996, when a Hindi monthly published an inflammatory article on his paintings done in 1970s. This led to a slew of criminal cases filed against him, alleging that the artist has hurt the Hindus sentiments. The painter was harassed by the fanatical mobs; the exhibitions of his work were vandalized, and about 900 cases filed against him. The magnitude of the protest against M F Hussain suggests the organized and entrenched strength of the Hindutva forces is in this country. This makes me ponder how long those who uphold the secular, plural and democratic values will allow such forces to have a free run? How long we may be delegating the responsibility to the government to keep such elements under check? To me, its time those opposing such regressive forces, have to be equally organized if we want to make India an oasis of peace and harmony. M F Hussains son Owais Husain, a film maker-writer-painter-rationalizes the predicament of his father. My father is older than modern independent India. As a child he struggled to make ends meet. During British India he painted slogans against the colonial rulers. In independent India, he painted pictures that sold for astronomical sums of money. He didnt plan any of this. He didnt plan his exile in Dubai and now his citizenship in Qatar. His life has been charted by destiny. Some have argued that many undeserving individuals in the country have been given red level security, why not M F Hussain? Its the duty of the government to provide security to its national icon. To this there runs a counter argument; why should a creative person be living in captivity watched by hosts of security guards. How can he work in such a claustrophobic atmosphere? Hussain is justified for his action because it is important at this stage of his life to have a sense of belongingness. There are others who feel that a national campaign should be launched to request the distinguished artist to return home. Notwithstanding this, the fact remains that M F Hussain undoubtedly is one of the top most celebrities in the field of painting that India has produced in modern times. The irony is, even after being acknowledged so, he is haunted out of the country, forced to live in exile, and eventually have to take a foreign nationality. 69

However, these arguments do not placate those who maintain their distinct line of thought and like to compete with the Talibans from across the border in such matters. Its a major victory for them as they have forced M F Hussain to accept a foreign nationality. Its a real shame for those who uphold liberal, secular, plural and democratic values that failed to keep its national icon in its motherland.

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Who doesnt know BAL Thackeray? He, under the banner of Shiv Sena, has been in the forefront in spreading hatred against Muslims in the southern state of Maharashtra in India. But these days it is his nephew Raj Thackeray who is so prominent in Indian politics. It is the same Raj Thackeray who rebelled against his uncle BAL Thackeray a year or so before and broke away from Shiv Sena and founded his own party. His candidates contested the municipal elections in Mumbai but Raj Thackeray was not as successful as his uncle. Nor did his party succeed much as a regional party in the elections in Maharashtra, and it was believed that the sun of his politics would set soon. But the politicians these days do not accept defeat easily. And the same family has been following for the last 20 years this quick recipe of torture and hatred for success. It is a mixture of hatred, regionalism, provincialism, fear and intimidation. The people of a particular region or caste are targeted and tortured. Some politician delivers a speech against those targeted people and thus becomes a hero in his own area, and then easily wins the elections using the same emotional feelings of hatred and regionalism. Narinder Modi did the same in 2002 and won elections in Gujrat and now he has formed his own government in the province using his anti-Muslim tactics. This politics of regionalism and hatred is quite common in India these days. When Raj Thackeray was about to fail, he thought of using the same recipe which his uncle BAL Thackeray and Narinder Modi had been using. So this Raj Thackeray, rising from oblivion, is in the news again. No one is there in Indian politics these days except Raj Thackeray. Using the Meerathi regionalism like his uncle BAL Thackeray, he has been coercing the people of northern India and of other cities. They beat up the people of other places in Mumbai, in Nasik and in Poona and tell them to leave Maharashtra. Raj Thackerays slogans are: Maharashtra is for Meerathis and O people of northern India get out of Maharashtra. The Maharashtra province is in fact the centre of Indias industrial development and its city of Mumbai is the heart of Indias progress. Mumbai is not only a modern developed city with so many factories in it, but is also known the world over as Bollywood because of being the centre of the film industry. People from every nook and corner of India come to earn a livelihood in this city of over 10 million and succeed here after forgetting about their religion, city and home. About half of its citizens are from northern India who have made this city so full of fun and pleasure. Raj Thackeray would not have found a better victim than the people of northern India to air the feelings of regionalism and provincialism. That is why his party workers have started beating up the people of northern India in Maharashtra. Thus Abu Asim and some other people of the Samaj Wadi Party rose against it. It is strange that sometimes Malayam Singhs Samaj Wadi Party wins some seats in Mumbai municipality but his party has not been as successful as Raj Thackerays party. In fact the Samaj Wadi Party won elections due to the people of northern areas. That is why the Samaj Wadi Partys leader in Mumbai, Abu Asim, after Raj 71

Thackerays attacks on northern Indians, realized that his Samaj Wadi Party can revive again if he starts talking of the provincial prejudices of northern Indians. No one can tell who will succeed in this tug of war between Raj Thackeray and Abu Asim in Maharashtra. But it is clear that the leaders like Raj Thackeray and Abu Asim have been using successfully this mixture of provincialism and animosity, and they aim at winning the provincial elections in Maharashtra at the end of this year. Only the election results there will tell whether Raj Thackeray succeeds like Modi or not. But it is clear, the future of Indias national parties like Congress and Bhartia Junta Party is becoming misty and dark. Both these national parties have now been confined to a few provinces only. The political vacuum created by this shrinkage of a national party like Congress is being filled with the politics of regionalism and personalities. Raj Thackeray, like the Gujrati leader Narinder Modi, is a symbol of the increasing provincial feelings in Indian politics, and if the people like Raj Thackeray and Modi continued winning, the influence of the centre on national politics would go on decreasing and that of regional leaders would go on increasing. It means that like the last days of the Mughals, the influence of Delhi in India is decreasing and the influence of provinces and provincial leaders is increasing. Let us see which way the wind blows in the next parliamentary elections.

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INSIDE INDIAN ARMED FORCES

1 MORAL DEGENERATION 2 COMISSIONS 3 COURT MARTIALS
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The basic power of an army lies in its best training, courage and bravery and high moral grounds. High morale and brotherhood along with high standard of morality are the qualities which distinguish an army from other fighting forces, but all these elements are absent in the Indian army. The junior ranked officers sacrifice their own lives to save the lives of their commanders but in the Indian army, disobedience to the higher officers, having ones own way and crimes are rising. Apart from Indian Occupied Kashmir, the Indian army is quite fed up and has begun indulging in crimes and immoral activities during fighting against separatist organizations in Nagaland, Jhar Khand, and other areas. Most of the Indian army men avoid being posted in harsh weather zones like Kashmir and Siachen Glacier. The Indian army which has always been an example of moral degeneration is now devoid of best human values and morals. In Occupied Kashmir, the Indian army has completely lost heart and its declining morale is a source of great depression for the Indian government. The Indian army is heading towards a great crisis. Its army, navy and air force personnel are undergoing intense mental stress. The Indian youth is not ready to get commission in the Indian army. When soldiers from different army cantonments get orders to leave for Occupied Kashmir they tremble with fear and no one is ready to go there and fight for the Indian government cause. Sixty two years have passed since India got freedom and since that time the Indian army has been involved in trying to curb freedom, rebel and separatist movements in Kashmir, Assam, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu, and other areas. The Indian army men ask their government why they are being sacrificed even during peace time. Particularly in Jammu and Kashmir where seven hundred thousand troops are appointed and fifty or sixty soldiers are killed or injured almost daily. They are in the worst situation due to constant fear. The fear-stricken soldiers either attack their own officers or commit suicide in desperation. Rebellion incidents have occurred even in the Indian air force at large scale. In February 1998, engineers, technicians, & pilots rebelled openly for not getting proper increments in their salaries. Even the air chiefs were surrounded by their subordinates. India is buying weapons from Israel, America, France, Sweden, Germany, and South Africa. It has earned a bad reputation in the arms-purchase scandals throughout the world. Due to these defence bargains the international defence dealers and agents are attracted to sell and they revolve around the Indian Defence Ministry so that they can bribe the ministry and earn huge profits. India sought the services of an agent in buying the Mirage 2000 fighter planes from the Wasalt Company of France. The deal was signed in the year 2000. It is said that the Panama Company worked as an agent in this deal and bribed many higher officials of the Indian Defence Ministry for this purpose. Air Marshal Krishna Swami explained that the Wasalt Company of France, which makes Mirage planes, got the services of Kaiser company to investigate the prospects of selling its Mirage planes in South Asia. But the contract was over before September 2000. He 76

further said that all legal procedures were adopted for procurement of the planes. The statement of the Indian air chief further made the matter suspicious. Panama Company Kaiser which has already accessed the French court in this matter is notorious for these kinds of bargains. In 1989, Rajiv Gandhi, the ex-prime minister of India was involved in the kickbacks in the purchase of Bofors Guns for the Indian army from a Swedish company, Bofors. Another ex-prime minister of India Narsima Rao was also declared criminal by a court in corruption cases in 2000. In March 2001, a web site Tehlka dot com and a news agency Off Line shook the world by pointing out the defence scandals involving key politicians and several other high-ups of the Indian government. Two of their journalists went to the BJP officials as defence traders with plans of selling defence equipments. The government officials not only expressed their interest but also demanded bribery. While they were demanding inducement, the journalists secretly filmed them and, when the secret was exposed, the Indian Defence Minister George Fernandes had to resign. It was another story when he was again appointed on the post of a minister, and succeeded in victimizing workers of the Tehlka dot com. Corruption among officers has converted Indian armed forces into rogue forces. Indian Army is now the most corrupted institution in the region and in most of the cases, officers even senior ones are involved in sexual harassment, bribe, selling military secrets, terrorizing and kidnapping people and smuggling weapons. Lieutenant General Avadesh Parkash, who had been the military secretary at the Army Headquarters in New Delhi till recently, was the latest in the list of the top commanders found guilty on various charges of corruption after a court of inquiry established his involvement in a land scam in Sukna Cantonment in West Bengal. He was found guilty, along with another officer of the same rank, PK Rath, who was designated the deputy chief of army staff, of conspiring to give a no-objection certificate to an educational institution to get land near the cantonment. In early 2007, two lieutenant generals of the Army Service Corps (ASC), S.K. Dahiya and S.K. Sahni, were indicted in two separate cases involving irregularities in the procurement of dry rations for troops posted in Jammu & Kashmir. In 2009, two major generals of the Army Ordinance Corps (AOC), Anand Swaroop and S.P. Sinha, faced separate charges of irregularities in the purchase of stores. The list of officers facing charges of indiscipline and corruption include Major General B.P.S. Mander, who was charged with irregularities in the procurement of dry rations. Two other major generals, K.T.G. Nambiar and Rana Goswami, were convicted of financial irregularities in a case relating to the Central Command. Another dangerous aspect of the roguishness of Indian armed forces is their close links with extremist groups, including RSS, Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena for targeting the members of minority communities in the country. A glaring example of such links is Lieutenant Colonel Shrikant Purohit, who was involved in Malegaon blasts in 2008, and Samjhauta Express explosions in 2007 in which several people, majority of them Muslims, were killed. 77

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The Indian army has formed a women battalion either due to good performance of its male troops or out of frustration to strengthen its defence capabilities. This comprises of 300 women soldiers, to be posted on Pakistani borders. They will also perform espionage tasks. They have been recruited directly under the Indian secret service RAW. The said battalion has been a result of a study mission of Major General Kumar who officially visited Russia to study causes of increasing tendencies of suicide and sexual frustration within Indian army ranks. General Kumar recommended posting of women on border areas. RAW was bestowed upon the responsibility to form an espionage and sex-ridden battalion for the border areas after due military training. RAW is notorious for using its strong network of beautiful women for security purpose. Now it appears why RAW makes it a point to use pretty women. Perhaps it is due to the boredom within spies that have to be tackled with aesthetic incentives to make spying operations more fun! First batch of 178 pretty women troops have already been posted on Indo-Pak borders. Apparently it is being argued that these women will monitor border movements. They have been ranked as constable within the Border Security Force (BSF). In recent years we hear strange stories. In one case, the Inspector General of BSF met with the head constable posted on front line, Mr Nathu Ram, his wife constable Shrimati Birmala Kaur and their three kids on the occasion of holy festival. This family hurled many colors upon the Inspector General, who was impressed. He praised character of front line soldiers especially the women despite the fact that their character had been thoroughly scrutinized before recruitment under RAW. Incidences of suicide and killing fellow colleagues within the Indian army are on the rise. Psychologists believe that majority of soldiers in occupied Kashmir are married, live far away from their homes and are vulnerable to emotional anxiety. The present solution to do away with psychological issues is like fighting one evil with another evil. Indian army is trained under ideological teachings of Hindu scholar and thinker Chankiya, who does not believe in nobility of people or institutions. He views that people should not be gentle or noble, because this kind is first casualty and victim of enemies. Hence, it does not matter if some hundred women are posted on border areas in a Hindu society which is devoid of any moral values. However, the Indian women rights organizations should agitate over such kind of women empowerment. Sexual frustration is not a new thing for the Indian army. We hear about sexual exploits and scandals of soldiers and officers on daily basis. One of its Major Generals was found harassing a junior women officer and won massive disrepute. An army Major who was staying in a hotel of Andaman Islands could not resist women of a touring family and was found peeping from his bath room to the ladys bathroom. The women not only hit the Major but also lodged a complaint to the 78

hotel authorities. Whatever strategy the Indian army may adopt to appease its soldiers posted on Indo-Pak borders and, particularly, in occupied Kashmir cannot work. Indian soldiers are incapable to crush freedom movement of Kashmiri youth. They dont have the courage to confront them. The thoughts of Mujahidin shake their bodies and they go into a psychological comma which is regarded by Indian army psychologists as mental stress and boredom. Women have to work hard to save their skin. How can they save lives of other Indian soldiers? If some Mujahid of an orthodox group sees men and women soldiers working together, then the chances of life are further decreased. Hindus could not get respect of women even after many hundred years of Muslim dominance. They at least should give respect to women to even a lesser extent of being in homes. In fact poverty has reached to such an extent in India that the parents of these 300 women soldiers were ready to send their daughters posted at border areas. There is no doubt that women today are advancing shoulder to shoulder in every field of life and performing even higher services in some sectors, but despite that women have a respectful place that every civilized society reserves for them.

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India is a big country with the second largest army of the world which consists of more than a million army-men. A Good army is maintained only through good and exemplary discipline. But the army with corruption cannot have good discipline. So far, there have been eight thousand and one hundred court martial cases in the Indian army. It is said that an army is always selfless and it is above monetary rewards and personal gains. Contrary to this, Indian army has always been involved in efforts of getting rewards by hook or by crook. The Indian army created so much havoc to grab rewards that Mankat Ram Sharma, the non-Muslim Vice Chief Minister of Occupied Kashmir could not control his agitation. He admits that Indian army officers, appointed in Occupied Kashmir are making false accounts of the surrender of freedom fighters to get promotions and rewards. Similarly, a commanding officer of the Indian army, after destroying an artificial check-post at Siachen Glacier, not only tried to prove it a Pakistani post but also declared it a great achievement. But his plan exposed by his own mistakes and the truth came out. The Indian authorities arrested two Brigadiers on the charges of stealing ammunition. Brigadiers Maery Lal Shankar and Ramesh Kumar Varma of Kolkata headquarters were taken into custody on the orders of central Army Headquarters Delhi. Both of them stole ammunition worth three and a half billion rupees from the secret ammunition stock of Kolkata. This most modern ammunition was bought by India from Israel and Russia. One hundred and eight sealed boxes of modern Israeli rifles were brought to Kolkata from Calicut. Some time ago, thirteen senior Indian officers were arrested on the charges of corruption. Eight of them were from the army and five from navy. Director General Lieutenant General Surrindar Sahni, Deputy Commissioner of Indian Army Supply Corps was also one of the culprits. Four brigadiers were also involved in it. These officers were also involved in taking kick-backs in the purchase of military ration. The sub-area Commander is responsible for the logistic supply of all the army of his area. In this area, it is his responsibility to provide purchase of every kind of ration and transportation for the movement of the army and to conduct construction. In this work, there is a vast opportunity of corruption. Some officers did corruption in buying sauce for the army against whom action was taken. The Indian defense ministry declared punishment for the Indian general through court martial. Major General Graqbal Singh was charged of stealing four trucks of wine. The tax- free wine was for the front-line soldiers. After the charges were proved, he was demoted and was sentenced to three years imprisonment. Sixteen other officers were also involved with General Garqbal. Ration Scandal, Kolkata scandal and FIR against Defence Minister George Fernandes regarding the purchase of defence system Burk from Israel with kickbacks, are some other prominent cases of corruption in Indian Army. Before the above mentioned scandals, there has been involvement of the corrupt group of Army Officers in the defence deal of Bofors Guns. Bofors scandal 80

destroyed the political reputation of Ex-Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi and his image of being Mister Clean was tarnished at the public level. George Fernandes stubbornness is matchless regarding these scandals. George Fernandes was at the top of the list among the individuals who made financial benefits from the Kargil War between Pakistan and India. He earned commission in the import of steel-coffins for the Indian soldiers who were killed during that war. In the purchase of the coffins high ranked army officers also took full advantage.

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General Court Martial in Chandigarh dismissed two brigadiers on the allegations of involvement of liquor preparation, misuse of military intelligence funds, issuing false statements, and getting loans from a private company. According to army headquarters, Brigadier R.J.Deva and R.S. Rana had to quit their jobs. Both of them belonged to an infantry division of Braily. It is essential for the development of a country that its army should be highly trained and enjoys good reputation because the prestige of a country depends upon a good army. India claims to be the torch bearer of democracy and has the largest army of the world. Its army has never been recognized as a professional and ethical institution. It has always been lacking moral and military strengths. The decadence of its army can be judged from the fact that its soldiers attempt to murder their seniors on one charge or the other. They also suffer from moral crimes and accused of being immoral and unethical officers. Their drinking habit has risen to the extent that every year a huge number of army men are hospitalized for over-drinking. Due to this habit they have become lethargic and often take arms against each other on petty issues without considering their status. They also commit moral crimes against each other and firing is on top of the list. In this regard the Indian soldiers say that they indulge in these activities to lessen their depression, because due to long and arduous duty hours they have lost their mental balance. In Kashmir and in other states, they have to be on duty for several days without break. Excessive use of liquor is also due to the fact that it is an important part of the Indian culture. Particularly on the events of holi and diwali, its free use is not hidden from anyone. According to a medical Journal, issued from the military hospital of India, two out of every thousand officers and eight out of every thousand soldiers indulge in drinking to a hazardous extent. Official statistics are totally different from it and the number of the soldiers, who drink, has not been mentioned. In the use of liquor, the army is on top of the list, navy is second, while air force is third. It is said that apart from the cultural factor, the extraordinary and the dangerous situation also instigate them to use excessive wine. According to psychologists, although liquor is used to release tension, the motives behind it also include being away from home, long duty hours, disagreeable conditions and many other problems. Being disheartened, the Indian soldiers are committing different crimes. The circumstances, while fighting against the separatist of Nagaland, Jhar Khund and other areas beside occupied Kashmir, instigate them to do so. Many Indian soldiers are reluctant to be appointed in Occupied Kashmir and on high fronts like Siachen Glacier. Indian army has always been facing the problems of moral decay but now this decline and institutional deterioration has become intense and visible. The decline in morality in Occupied Kashmir is a great source of tension for Indian government. And surely this can be the fore shadow of greater crisis. In India the youngsters are so discouraged from the army that they do not join it even if the commission is offered to them. The basic reason of it is their possible appointment in Occupied Kashmir and other separatist areas. The souls of the soldiers tremble 82

when they are ordered to go to Occupied Kashmir from different cantonments. They prefer to resign instead of going to Kashmir front for military duty. In Occupied Kashmir, about 700,000 soldiers are appointed. About fifty soldiers die and many get injured every month. The soldiers are too terrified that they hide their faces when they hear the name of Kashmir. Last year, it was told that a large number of soldiers committed suicide on account of some unreasonable conditions. The incidents of rebellion and disobedience have happened in the Indian Air Force on a large scale. In February 1998, the engineers, the technicians and the pilots rebelled openly on account of low increment in their salaries, whereas their wives surrounded the office of the Chief of Air force. There is always conflict on some matters among the three forces of India, which is a source of tension for the Indian government. Not only this but also the stories of negligence and corruption are published in the newspapers every day. On account of it, the image of the Indian army is deteriorating day by day. Whereas, the morale of the Indian army has fallen due to their involvement in immoral crimes.

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PAK-INDIA COLD WAR

ANTI-PAKISTAN CAMPAIGN BASED ON HATRED & DESTABIZATION OF PAKISTAN

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The real face of hypocrisy

Indian media and political leadership make tall claims and forceful assertions to project India as a secular state where proverbial maxim forget and forgive remains the fundamental teaching and a predominant practice. Indian diplomats and business community while interacting with the foreign counterparts remain submissive and docile showing their well-camouflaged and mock posture pretending to be cosmopolitan and open minded. This is one side of the picture as they do not mean what they say. Unfortunately their subjective posturing and ambiguous pledges are very elusive reflecting Hindu tricks to cheat others and to take advantage of the situational setting. They keep their real intention well disguised under the cover of a latent scheme (naturally developed in Indian milieu) to determine the real worth and potential of the counterpart. When the opposing side is more influential and powerful, Indians resort to non-violent and passive techniques to record their feelings and protests. Gandhis practice in South Africa and later in India during the British rule is a point in case. On the other hand, when dealing with similar neighbours, India believes in bulldozing its way through irrespective of the legitimacy of its stance. Thus India resorts to double talks and maintains double standards. This is inbuilt in the Indian Hindu character and can well be categorized as the collective character of the Indian nation. The speech made by General V.P. Malik, the former Indian army chief, on Indias Strategic Culture and Security Challenges at ORF Institute for India was nothing but on exercise in hypocrisy. On one hand, he cherished the leadership of Shri Bhimsen Sachar, who imbibed secular ethics from Swami Dayanands teachings, showing his dislike for the double standards and the wastage of public money. While on the other hand, he openly professed a much aggressive role of India in the regional and international arena. He argued that Gandhi adopted a non-violent strategy against the British because at that time India did not, and could not, possess the force of arms to fight them. In 1947, General V. P Malik allowed Brigadier L.P. Sen to uplift troops to Kashmir to fight the Pakistani intruders, maintaining that violence was better than cowardice. Hence, India reflects a mindset, a philosophy of prejudice and an unending animosity towards Pakistan. More than 63 years have passed since Pakistan was created, but India has not forgotten nor forgiven the incident that lead to the creation of Pakistan. India disliked the idea of Pakistan (the TwoNation Theory) and has not accepted Pakistan as a reality. Surely Indian claims to forget and forgive are false. India has recently undertaken an exhaustive and expensive media campaign to project the country as Incredible India. The aim is to show India as a fascinating land with established democracy, refined political institutions and expansive social justice. The purpose of such a media campaign is to attract foreign investors and win over the opinion makers of the world, thereby making it possible to explore wider acceptance for Indian pledges without uncovering 86

the real face of Indian hypocrisy. Projection through media is not a bad thing, but sending cheating messages to the world for vested interests is not only immoral and wicked but illegal and devious. Indian democracy is actually a fraud in which might is right is the prevalent law, while minorities and non-Hindu communities are denied their very fundamental rights. Caste system, Hindu extremism, deep prejudice and discriminations based on creed and status, acrimonious political malice, institutional corruption, illegitimate occupation of disputed land, especially, Kashmir and Sikkim, and related genocide, human rights violations and above all natural and traditional animosity for foreigners and non-Indians, with a crude blend of religious hatred, are some of the aspects which represent the real worth of Indian democracy. Hence, it would not be out of sync to conclude that India is more irresponsible than being projected as incredible. The world must objectively see the real functioning of Indian democracy (Hindu chauvinism) and discrimination against Dalits, Maleechh and other minorities, including Muslims and Christians. As an irresponsible state, India not only targets its own nationals, but also tends to coerce its neighbours, besides having general feelings of rancour and resentment for non-Hindus. Recently, India decided to resume peace talks with Pakistan and, therefore, invited Pakistan to participate in secretary-level talks in India. The secretarylevel talks took place, but the outcome was discouraging, as India showed its double face by maintaining its intransigence to press its irrational demands on terrorism, while keeping the core issues of Kashmir and water terrorism out of focus. India once again managed to sabotage the secretary-level talks and failed to create the environment and resume a composite dialogue. Will India realize its unjust and irresponsible stance is the multimillion question? India must show magnanimity matching its size.

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Conspiracies against neighbours

A Sri Lankan Newspaper The Island has revealed that almost six thousand Indian boats illegally enter the Sri Lankan ocean, and the fishermen take away tons of fish. Even knowing it that the economy of Sri Lanka depends on fishing, India blames Sri Lanka for stealing fish. India not only irritates Sri Lanka by violating its sea boundaries but also provides Tamil rebels with arms through these boats. In Sri Lanka, the agents of RAW (Research and Analysis Wing: an elite Indian Intelligence Agency) were working against the Sri Lankan solidarity. The Indian agents are helping the Tamil rebels by providing ammunition to them. The purpose of these condemnable activities is to bring Sri Lanka completely under Indian control. The evil intensions of India against its neighbouring countries are not hidden. India wants to control its neighbours to weaken South Asian fraternity by dominating the regional politics. The only purpose is to exploit their markets to boost the Indian economy. India has embarked on a new adventure of destabilizing Bangladesh by controlling its water courses. India wants to claim each and every drop of water that flows from Himalayan Mountains towards Bangladesh. India wants to do this by making dams on the rivers. In the past, India tried to swallow up Bangladesh by creating a so called Mukti Bahni in 1970. However, New Delhi could not get any appreciation in Bangladesh. India has been creating trouble and destabilizing Nepal to gain complete control of that country the way it did in Sikkim. The agents of RAW openly help the Nepalese rebels and are instigating them to rebel against Nepal. Similarly in Bhutan, India has started its activities against the Shah of Bhutan. The agents of RAW want to create instability there too. These agents have created strong roots in Bhutan because India wants complete control on it. India is perhaps a unique country in the world that has never had good relations with its neighbouring countries. Its relationship with Pakistan and Bangladesh are well-known to everyone. After a long period of time, due to reforms in Chinese diplomatic policies and a determination to befriend with all its neighbours, there is peace on Sino-Indian borders. Otherwise Indian relations with China have been the same as with Pakistan and Bangladesh. Indias dangerous intensions are not hidden from anyone. That is why the SAARC countries as well as Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kirghizstan should be aware of the evil intensions. In this way, India will not be able to cause any harm to them by attacking them unexpectedly. Unfortunately, India has become a sign of danger for its neighbours due to its bad intensions and expansionist aims. The greatest proof of this is that all neighbours of India have complaints against it in one way or the other. It is strange that India has not only the desire to be a member of the UN Security Council but also declares it as its right. On the other hand, it is continuously violating the UN resolutions on Kashmir. Today there is hardly any human-right organization which has not published commentaries on the Indian atrocities in 88

Occupied Kashmir. Regarding this issue, there have been debates in the UN and other notable forums. And the atrocities on Kashmiris and ineffectiveness of UN resolutions have been lamented. If India becomes a member of the Security Council with a veto power, it will create serious apprehensions and dangers for international peace. That is why, the Russian President Putin, during his visit to India has clarified that he is not in favour of giving India the right of veto, but is only in favour of its membership.

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Destabilizing Pakistan
If we analyze the incidents of terrorism in Balochistan and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces, we find many proofs of Indian involvement and interference in local affairs and its support to militants. Along with Indian agents many drug smugglers also enter in these areas and through these smugglers arms, illegal currency, prohibited literature and many anti-religious and anti-Pakistan materials are brought and spread in the country. As a result, the law and order situation is getting from bad to worse. India has established its consulates in the southern provinces of Herat, Jalalabad and Mazar-e-Sharif in Afghanistan, which are always engaged in anti-Pakistan activities. Apart from it, Indian army officers are training young people in Afghanistan, who will never be well-wishers of Pakistan rather they will act as mercenaries. India is increasing its forces in Afghanistan quite imperceptibly. An Indian company named Border Road Organization which is busy in the construction and maintenance of roads in Afghanistan, para-military force for its protection and a huge number of Black Cat Commandos have already been sent to Afghanistan. India knows that the resources of Central Asia can only be accessed by road networks. Afghanistan is providing the best opportunities for Indian construction companies. In the past Indian sympathies were with the Northern Alliance in Afghanistan, which did not like to hear the very name of Taliban and Pakistan. Now India is trying its best to increase its influence in Afghanistan, to destabilize the country and spreading hatred against Pakistan by using local tribes and warlords in Afghanistan. We want to tell the Afghan leadership to be aware of the conspiracies and negative propaganda of India. So far as the Afghanis are concerned, they must remember that actions speak louder than words. It is the need of the hour that they should restrain Indian activities there as mere usage of decorative words is not enough. It is not only the responsibility of Pakistan to maintain peace in the region, but the other countries must also play their role. The sooner India and Afghanistan realize it, the better it is. If the leadership of these countries does not adopt a responsible attitude the situation of South Asia will be dangerous and peace will not prevail in the region. The government and elements which took control of Afghanistan after the ouster of Taliban were friends and well-wishers of India. Their enmity against Pakistan was quite apparent because they thought that the Taliban were the creation of Pakistan and a symbol of the hegemony of Pakhtoons. The ground reality is this that Kabul, Qandhar, Herat, and Jalalabad have become centres of the agents of RAW, and the Afghan defence and foreign ministries and intelligence agencies are replete with elements who are Pakistans enemies. They are busy in destabilizing and committing terrorist activities in the neighbouring country. The Indian consulates and training centres of RAW were established in Afghanistan, whereas Pakistani consulates were looted and burnt and attacked several times. The country which had a long tradition of brotherly relations with 90

Afghanistan and was quite indispensable with respect to religion and region became a stranger for the Afghans. The Pakistanis, who played the role of a host for their Afghan brothers and sacrificed for them, have been neglected completely and their hospitality and sacrifices have altogether been forgotten, and India has become the patron in-charge of the Afghans. India has initiated a pernicious campaign to waylay the staunch religious Afghans. The new Indian government is spending huge amount of funds & lots of money for this purpose. The Muslims of Afghanistan have deep love for Islam and practice religion in their day to day life. The Congress government in India has started a project of waylaying the innocent Afghan Muslims and to drive them away from religious and moral values. The Indian government is giving incentives to the Afghan people to give up Islamic values and convert to Hinduism or non-Islamic thoughts. It wants to desecrate the religious and moral values of Afghanis so that they can be easily turned against Pakistan and against their own true Islamic virtues. It provides financial aids to the poor Afghanis as an incentive to convert them to Hindu values and beliefs. Schools and hospitals are being set up in different areas of Afghanistan to waylay the Muslims of Afghanistan with the help of the Hindu staff. Pakistan government has also verified that Indian RAW is involved in the incidents of Balochistan, Karachi, and Waziristan. In the border areas of Balochistan and NWFP, the agents of RAW collaborate with the local traitors and indulge in bomb blasts. In this way India creates misunderstandings between Pakistan and Afghanistan to distort their bilateral relations and consolidate its presence in the region.

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On March 12, 2010 two suicide blasts targeting the army, ripped through RA Bazaar in Lahore, killing 57 people including eight soldiers and injuring a over a 100 people. Hours after, seven low-intensity bombs six in Iqbal Town and one in Samanabd exploded, causing no fatalities, but creating panic in the city. Just like the past events, although Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the Lahore attacks, yet there are clear indications that the Indian intelligence agency RAW is behind the latest terror-strikes in Lahore, the heart of Pakistan. A few days ago, 13 people were killed in a suicide car bomb at an intelligence building in Model Town, Lahore. On October 15, 2009, 16 people, including 12 personnel of the security forces had been martyred in foiling three separate terrorist assaults by killing nine terrorists at the FIA Building, Manawan Police Training Centre in Lahore. Besides various terror incidents in Lahore, Peshawar and Rawalpindi which involved gun battles between the terrorists and the security forces, the previous pattern of subversive acts through suicide attacks has also been intensified. In one of the latest incidents, on March 13, 2010 some 14 people, including three security personnel were killed when a suicide bomber targeted a security forces check post in Mingora. Notably, in the last five years, Pakistans various regions have faced suicide attacks by the militants who entered the country from Afghanistan where tentacles of terrorism exist. In this respect, India has set up secret training centres in Afghanistan where its military personnel in collaboration with RAW have been imparting training to the youngsters. By setting aside the atrocities of the Taliban insurgents, they propagate that Pakistans armed forces are killing its own people. All the terror incidents indicate that RAW has been waging a secret war against Pakistan through its well-trained insurgents who could conduct attacks in major cities despite Pakistans successful military operations against the militants and the death of the renowned militant commanders. The sponsoring of bomb blasts and suicide attacks in the past, and a perennial wave of terrorism in 2009/2010 proves that the RAW has modified its tactics of subversion in Pakistan. Apart from direct suicide events, now militants armed with hand-grenades and machine-guns also come to help the explosive-laden vehicles so as to penetrate the security at the target points. Sometimes, exchange of fire takes place between the saboteurs and the security guards, and sometimes, purpose is to directly kill the security personnel of our country, either through suicide explosion or through hand grenades. A number of terror events in Pakistan endorse that RAWs agents have been acting upon guerrilla techniques. In this regard, in most of the terror-tragedies, huge quantity of explosives has also been used. Apart from the previous and latest incidents in Peshawar, Islamabad and Lahore, similar tactics of suicide attacks and exchange 92

of fire took place in connection with many terrorist incidents as the militants reached their targets with the latest weapons. In this respect, on March 3, 2009, terrorists targeted the bus of the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore and killed eight people after a continuous gunfire. Pakistani officials confirmed that grenades and rocket launchers had been recovered which were of foreign origin. Afterwards, official inquiry disclosed that RAW was behind that attack. Besides on March 30 last year, more than 10 terrorists raided the Manawan Police Training Centre, Lahore leaving at least 12 dead. After eight hours of gun-battle, Pakistans security forces regained control of the police academy, capturing five terrorists alive. On May 27, 2010 more than 30 people were killed in Lahore when an explosive-laden Suzuki van exploded near the Rescue 15 building of the police which was completely destroyed. It also damaged the building of the Lahore Capital City Police Office (CCPO) and that of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) which was the main target, but could not be hit due to heavy firing by the security guards on the terrorists who came along with the vehicle firing at the security guards. Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaulah had stated on the same day that the Indian involvement in suicide attacks in Lahore cannot be ruled out. Similar types of terror tactics were applied by the culprits in relation to the Pearl Continental Hotel, Peshawar where more than 20 persons had been killed. Another guerrilla technique of the RAW-trained terrorists is that they camouflage themselves by wearing the uniform of Pakistani security forces so as to deceive the security guards and to get inside the targeted point for conducting their assigned task. In this connection, last year, UNs World Food Program in Islamabad was attacked by a suicide bomber who was wearing an official uniform, evaded tight security and killed five people. Again, the militants who attacked the GHQ on October 10, 2009, were wearing army uniforms. In fact, during the past 10 months, Pakistans security forces have broken the backbone of the suicide bombers by arresting most of their commanders and insurgents, while thwarting a number of suicide missions through pre-arrests. But RAW, with technological support of Israel has succeeded in training the new fugitives who are regularly being sent to Pakistan with orders of destabilizing our country. Now, this fact is known to everyone that Pakistan is the only nuclear country in the Islamic world. Hence, US, Israel and India want to weaken it by creating lawlessness for achieving their secret strategic interests. Notably, Pakistans civil and military high officials have openly revealed that Indian secret agency, RAW, Israeli Mossad and other foreign agencies are involved in supporting insurgency in the Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa, separatism in Balochistan and subversive acts in Karachi and Lahore. On June 28, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa governor Awais Ghani disclosed that some world powers were trying to divide Pakistan, adding that if he were not a governor, he would have exposed them. In this context, on April 23, 2009, in the in-camera sitting of the Senate, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik displayed documentary evidence of the Indian use of Afghanistan to create 93

unrest in Pakistan. During the ongoing military operations, some of our high officials repeatedly pointed out that the late Baitullah Mehsud, chief of the TTB, who was killed in a US drone attack on August 5, last year had been backed by the foreign powers. He was having a number of secrets regarding foreign intelligence agencies. Nevertheless, like Baitullah, his successor, Hakimullah Mehsud was also a collective agent of RAW and CIA. While playing a double game like his paymasters, his real aim is to incite the innocent Pakhtoons in order to further weaken Pakistan. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani, Foreign Minister Shah Mahmud Qureshi and the ISPR spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas have repeatedly stated that they have concrete evidence of Indian support to terrorism in Pakistan through Afghanistan. At present, apart from other volatile regions, the military operation has succeeded in South Waziristan, but India with the tactical help of the US has also intensified its strategy to sabotage the same through clandestine tactics applied by its Waziristan-based agents. It is of particular attention that on October 7, 2009, BBC telecasted a documentary regarding the eighth anniversary of the US-led NATO invasion of Afghanistan. It stated, Now this war is being fought in Iraq and Afghanistan, and it will soon spread to Pakistan. Nonetheless, RAW has launched a secret war inside Pakistan by inciting the militants through various techniques of propaganda, supported by the subversive acts of guerilla warfare.

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It is now evident that India is Pakistans eternal enemy and it is a fact that right from the creation of Pakistan the Indian leaders had started claiming that within six years Pakistan would be quite helpless and it would rejoin India or will be a failed state. In the beginning India wanted to anchor its warships at the coast of Makran to capture this strategic location so that it could satisfy its expansionist designs of reaching the Gulf States and Muscat. The Soviet Union was to help it in this regard. But Quaid-iAzam was well aware of the Indians intention and evil plan. There were different groups in Balochistan in the beginning with their own interests. One of them thought of annexing Balochistan with Afghanistan, whereas the other group was lobbying for Congress and wanted to join India. At that crucial moment, Quaids wisdom came in to play and Balochistan was annexed to Pakistan. At that time, the Soviet Union also wanted to gain access to Makran to capture the coast of Gwadar, and its access to hot waters through Makran coast, and India was supposed to side with it. When Pakistan was created, the USSR or Soviet Union contacted the Khan of Qalat (or ruler of Kalat State now part of province of Balochistan) Ameer Muhammad Khan through their agents and told him that they wanted to extend Qalat to Muscat. The Sultan of Muscat informed Pakistan. Sardar Abdul Rab Nishtar was in Balochistan in those days. He was informed about it. When the Wali of Makran (Ruler of Makran State now part of Balochistan province) Meer Mahmood Khan Lehki came to know about it, he at once declared to join Pakistan. He advised the same to the Khan of Qalat. It failed the vicious designs of our enemies. He also predicted that a time would come when Gwadar, Pasni and Marha (cities in Balochistan province) would be a junction on the road to Central and West Asia and Europe and many new cities would emerge from this land. But, at the end of the cold war between Soviet Union (USSR) and America, America increased the number of its priorities in Central Asia and the way to it was through Pasni Marha Gwadar. At this moment, India is playing its role on Americas instigation and would fight until Americas presence in Afghanistan. India, Israel and America all three of them are trying to get access and control on Pakistans nuclear assets. Indian, Israeli and American arms are being used in NWFP, Swat, Buner, Malakand, South and North Waziristan Agencies and Balochistan, and many of those who have been killed or arrested are Indians, Afghans and Kurds who were involved in terrorist activities in Pakistan. General Pervez Musharraf had imposed restrictions on Kashmiri mujahideen. We should review our Kashmir agenda to teach India a lesson, because India has openly been playing its anti-Pakistan role on the behest of the present Afghan government. India has been stressing upon other countries to pressurize Pakistan for a dialogue while itself it is the wolf in sheeps clothing. Our government should think before taking any step. The only way to maintain peace in Balochistan is that we should not try to change the sardari or local Tribal Jirga system there, because people there are getting easy justice in this system and they are not satisfied with the formal judicial system. If the sardari system were unjust, people would have stopped respecting the sardars, but the tribal sardars consider 95

the people as their slaves. The Indian secret agency RAW (Research and Analysis Wing)s former chief B Raman has described the present terrorism in Balochistan as a liberation movement, thus, believing that the situation in Balochistan is an internal problem of India, he stressed upon the Indian government to support the terrorists. And, with a view to making the so-called liberation movement successful, India has established forty terrorist training camps in Balochistan where every terrorist is being given Rs 10,000 every month and training in terrorist acts against law enforcement agencies of Pakistan. The Indian consulate in Kandahar province is the headquarters of RAWs terrorist planning in Afghanistan; otherwise, there is no justification of a consulate in such a far flung area of Afghanistan. All the transport of Indian goods and citizens is through Jalalabad. The only aim of opening the Indian consulate in Kandahar is to ensure Indias intervention for terrorism in Balochistan. Indias secret agency, in compliance with anti-Pakistan elements in the Northern Alliance, is doing everything. No one is ignorant about the game that India and its other foreign allies are playing in Balochistan. But the simple and proud Balochi people do not know that, with the help of Israel, a so-called government of greater Balochistan has been established. There is an organization of Balochistan on an international level, and, while announcing the establishment of a government-in-exile of Balochistan, a map has also been drawn in which Baloch settlements in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iran have been pointed out and marked as separate country. If some Baloch leaders consider India and Israel as their friends, they should review Indias role in Israel and Occupied Kashmir. The only aim of the Hindu Unity Organizations so-called Baloch Liberation Movement (BLM) on the internet is to use the extremist Baloch youth for Indian interests and to create new problems for Pakistan by strengthening the anti-Punjabi feelings of the Baloch youth. This website is in contact with the waylaid Baloch leaders and with a view to creating mini nationalist states in Pakistan, the extremist Hindu organizations and Indian institutions have been intensifying terrorism in this part of Pakistan. The formation of a government-inexile with the help of India and Israel is an Indian conspiracy which only the Baloch people and Pakistan government can foil. India has always been airing the flame of conspiracy in Balochistan. The former RAW chief B Raman has described it as Indias historical and moral duty to help those separatist forces in Balochistan who have been fighting against the Pakistani government. This blatant lie was spread that the cause of Pakistan forces present operation in Balochistan were the Hindu Balochs whom the provincial government of Balochistan wanted to send in exile, and that the Baloch nationalists had shielded them against air strikes, and that they very tactfully and boldly started destroying Gas installations in Sui area of Balochistan and railway tracks to divert Pakistan forces attention from the Hindu Balochis. These disruptive activities of some angry Baloch leaders and their supporters in Balochistan started a few years ago when the federal government started construction of the Gwadar port and a network of roads there. In fact, this was the first time since 1947 when the government, instead of doing a lip service, started the development work without consulting the Baloch sardars. It was like a challenge to 96

the Sardari system. But the Baloch Sardars should understand that the world has changed. How can a region remain in darkness when modern eras lights are all around? The world is fast becoming a global village. Then how can the people of Balochistan stay away from the rest of the world? They remained illiterate and uneducated by choice and by omission. But their children deserve to be educated through technology as much as the children of the other provinces do. They have every right on medical facilities and means of transport and communications. The Sardari system and feudal system cannot survive for too long. Both India and Israel are involved in the conspiracy of greater Balochistan. But India should think that Pakistan has got the shield of the two-nation theory whereas India has got no such shield. The citizens of more than half a dozen Indian states do not consider themselves as Hindus. They want to separate from India as the Muslims did because they have their own separate and distinct identities. Their religion, their culture and their civilizational background are not the same as those of the Indian Brahmans. They have got their own languages and their own ways of life. Therefore, only a strong Pakistan can guarantee the security of a federation of India. The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani, in light of the principles of mutual peaceful existence and the regional, national and international integration, insists that we would not allow Pakistani soil to be used for terrorism and for against any neighbouring country. The same thing we expect from our neighbours they should not allow their soil to be used against Pakistan or any other country. The best principle is that neither should you interfere in the affairs of the others, nor should the others interfere in your affairs. If our neighbours and all the other countries on the planet make it their motto of not to interfere in the affairs of others nor allowing their lands to be used for direct or indirect disruption and terrorism in other countries, many of the differences and rifts among them would automatically die out. Our Prime Minister met the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh during the Non-Align Movement (NAAM) Conference held in Sharm-el Shaikh, Egypt in July 2009 and exchanged views and agreed on the need of restoration of comprehensive dialogues on all issues including cooperative actions to end terrorism, the Kashmir issue and Mumbai attacks. The most important of all these was the use of the land of Afghanistan by India for intervention in Balochistan. About the Indian intervention in Balochistan, Sardar Manmohan Singh said that he would consider it if Pakistan provides them concrete proofs. At this, Prime Minister Gilani provided Manmohan Singh copies of important proofs and evidences of Indian involvement in Balochistan. On seeing them, the Indian Prime Minister remained silent and surprised for some time. It was due to the importance of these proofs and evidences that they were included in the Pak-India joint declaration, which was later talked about so vehemently in India. The anti-government parties, along with the media, started satirizing and chastening Manmohan Singh and said that by mentioning the Indian intervention in Balochistan in the joint declaration, the Indian Prime Minister had testified and confirmed the Pakistani allegations. That is why BBC, while commenting on the meeting of the Indian and Pakistani prime ministers, said that a 97

weathered politician like Manmohan Singh was defeated by a comparatively younger prime minister of a country which was confronting problems of diverse nature and that Mr Gilani had succeeded in entrapping his Indian counterpart. BBC said it in its analysis that while trading with Pakistan, Mr Singh gave more and gained less. Prime Minister Gilani was criticized in Pakistan for not mentioning the Kashmir issue in the joint declaration. The Pakistani foreign office explained that though this issue was not included in the joint declaration, it was discussed in detail on the dialogue table. Those who are aware of the demands of diplomacy know that such conversations are always recorded. The proofs that the Indian Prime Minister was provided with at Sharm-el-Shaikh 2009 showed that India, in compliance with Israel, had established about 14 consulates in Afghanistan near the Pakistan border, where, apart from the Afghanis, some Israeli and American nationals too have been appointed. In these consulates, training of terrorism and disruption is being imparted to the people, especially to the people of Balochistan. Moreover, funds and latest Indian, Israeli and American weapons are also being given to them. During his meeting with the Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Prime Minister Gilani also provided to him many useful proofs about the Afghan land being used against Pakistan. Apart from that, the Federal Home Minister Rahman Malik also met Afghanistans President Hamid Karzai and some other concerned Afghan officials and provided them with proofs of sabotaging activities in Balochistan. Rahman Malik in these meetings insisted that Nawabzada Brahamdagh Bugti had been leading the dissidence from Afghanistan and demanding the liberation of Balochistan in other countries. He demanded that Nawabzada Brahamdagh Bugti should be handed over to Pakistan. Hamid Karzai assured that full cooperation would be done with Pakistan. He would investigate Nawabzada Brahamdagh Bugtis activities and if he is found guilty, action would be taken against him. The Federal Interior Minister Mr. Rahman Malik added that the Afghan government had assured him of full cooperation about handing over Brahamdagh Bugti to Pakistan and about eliminating the training camps there. The Foreign Office spokesman announced that Pakistan had decided to raise the issue of Indian intervention at the United Nations. All proofs and evidences would be provided to the United Nations. But the Indian Foreign Minister said that the joint declaration of the prime ministers of India and Pakistan had no legal or documentary status. But the world must know that joint declarations are always prepared with the mutual agreement of parties concerned. The Indian Prime Minister admitted the Indian intervention in Balochistan and he was quite upset when he saw the proofs and evidences and he remained silent. They were then included in the joint declaration with his consent. Nawab Khair Bukhsh Marris son Balach Marri died in an armys attack by NATO forces in Afghanistan. The Baloch circles around him expressed their grief on this incident. Balach Marri had gone to Afghanistan from Balochistan some time back. He had formed the so-called Balochistan Liberation Army (known as BLA). It must be remembered that the Governor of Kandahar, Asadullah Khan, had admitted a few days earlier that some Baloch leaders had been residing there. Balach Marris death in a NATO attack is regrettable. NATO forces usually 98

attack the civilians and many civilians die in such attacks. It is also regrettable that some Baloch elements have gotten refuge in Afghanistan and they have been playing in the hands of Indian diplomats for disruption and terrorism in Pakistan. Balach Muri was in the shelter of the Afghan government, even then the NATO forces killed him. Patriotic circles believe that RAW was involved in his murder. India has been playing a double role in Afghanistan. Indian diplomats there and RAW agents explode bombs at different places and accuse Pakistan and the Taliban. On the other hand they send some Baloch young men to Balochistan and the frontier areas for terrorism after training them for disruption. RAW wants to create chaos and instability in Balochistan and the tribal areas. The Indian way of intervening in the internal affairs of the neighbouring countries and weakening them internally is not new. They have been doing it since 1947, especially in Pakistan and other smaller countries like Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Indias secret agency RAW has been working on it in a much organized way. Its consulates in Afghanistan have been providing these people every sort of help and aid. There are proofs to the effect that RAWs agents have been involved in organized activities of disruption in Balochistan. India has fixed its evil eyes on Balochistan. It opened in haste a consulate in Kandahar after the opening of a consulate in Kabul, the aim of which is to intervene in the affairs of Balochistan. It is also learnt that the Balochistan Liberation Army had received a huge amount from the Indian consulate in Kandahar to purchase arms. India is sending terrorists to Balochistan after training them in Afghanistan to spread chaos, create law and order situation and insecurity among people. India has increased its diplomatic, military and intelligence staff in Afghanistan. Apart from its embassy in Kabul, it has consulates in the provinces of Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar Sharif in Afghanistan and Balochistan in Pakistan. These consulates are big centres of Indias subversive activities against Pakistan. The Afghan land is being used against Pakistan. Indian consulates have started subversive activities in Pakistan, especially in Balochistan and Sindh and in tribal areas. India has been encouraging and supporting the Baloch rebels and militants and also supplying money and other resources to militant outfits operating from Balochistan. The centre of Indian conspiracies is Afghanistans province of Kandahar. Many of its branches have been opened in other provinces of Afghanistan too, where unemployed kidnapped young people are being instigated against their own country for money. The aim of RAWs subversive activities is to destroy the atmosphere of foreign investment. For this India has been patronizing the angry elements in Balochistan. Pakistan wants to maintain peaceful relationships with its neighbouring countries. It does not want to interfere in the affairs of others. It is regrettable that the Indian secret agency RAW, in compliance with the Afghan government, is involved in bomb explosions and suicide attacks in Balochistan and it is patronizing the Baloch rebels and providing them with funds. It seems that Hamid Karzai too is following the same motto under Indian patronage. In spite of Pakistans clear role against terrorism, he is hurling baseless accusations against Pakistan. 99

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An objective analysis of Indias national security policy leads us to drawing conclusions that her national strategy is predominantly focused on Pakistan. Especially the military component of national security conglomerate perpetually oozes out a stream of Pakistan phobia. The phenomenon has historic and cultural groundings so strongly perpetuated through mythological exclusiveness, more than often, supersedes the logic. Rationality is submerged into ocean of irrationality when isolated and at times minor incidents are hyped into a frenzy to equate these with a magnitude justifying declaration of final and conclusive war on Pakistan, with a presupposed victory. Pakistan has along lived under the shadow of existential threat originating from India; commencing with politico-military occupation of a major chunk of Kashmir, dismemberment of Pakistan and numerous incidents of en-massing of troops along Pakistani borders in medieval style posturing. Such unrelenting approach substantiates a Pakistan phobic mindset in India which is rather unfortunate. Actually Indian political leadership has fallen prey to believing in their self created anti-Pakistan hype as a substitute of Indias Pakistan policy. This contradiction of the sorts has induced Pakistan centric psyche in over all national approach towards Pakistan. Anything that happens or is likely to happen in India has a readily available scapegoat. Right on the start of an occurrence, anti-Pakistan drums start beating. All soft talk and CBMs evaporate and Indian forces start marching towards Pakistan. On Pakistan side, a thick cloud of Indian mischief has induced a cautious approach towards India. Stagemanaged events like hijacking of Indian aeroplane Ganga, to sever air link between West and East Pakistan prior to 1971 war, fake attack on Indian parliament to justify year long deployment along Pakistan border always ring alarm bells in Pakistani circles to rule out strings of conspiracy before embracing Indian overtures. At cultural level, there is no dearth of Indian movies and media events highly charged to demonize ISI and other Pakistani institutions. At academic level, there are heaps of hate culture for strengthening and sustaining Pakistan phobia. Hate icons of the like of Moody and Bal Thakrey symbolize institutionalization of anti-Muslim campaign which ultimately boils down to anti-Pakistan frenzy. With this kind of sustained and perpetual anti-Pakistan sentiment, the political leadership has ended up in abdicating the prerogative of prudently steering bilateral relations with Pakistan; the initiative now rests with political opportunists and ideological zealots. Cues picked up by Indias ultra right organizations are sufficient to tighten the noose around the Indian governments, irrespective of their political hue, on as cal required basis. Both mainstream political parties of India appear to be in a competitive anti-Pakistan race. As of now Indian policy making tier finds itself thoroughly mired in self created slush, with hardly any honorable exit options. Perception has that during difficult patches when Pakistan gets busy handling the developments on its western borders, India wishes to see it consumed in the process, rather than giving a 100

strategic space by engaging it constructively. Proponents of this school of thought argue that as and when India had a life time chance, or would have such a chance against Pakistan, she did not and would not want to miss it. Unfortunately, this notion draws support from historic occurrences. India diverted Pakistans attention away from western borders at a critical stage of Afghan resistance against Soviets. A national level exercise Brass Tacks was launched with highly provocative objectives, this exercise had the potential of blowing up into full-fledged war. This manoeuvre, presumably on Soviet behest forced Pakistan to deploy its military on the eastern border in a full readiness status. Once again now when Pakistan is engaged in facilitation of a workable arrangement in post de-occupation Afghanistan, India is comprehensively involved in a wide spectrum of stabbing in the back kind of activities. India is striving for a larger than life role in Afghanistan; effort is mainly motivated by the instinct to acquire a launching pad for destabilizing the western stretch of Pakistan. Incontrovertible evidence of Indian involvement in Baluchistan and many other incidents of terrorism in various parts of Pakistan support the notion that India is yet once again on a Pakistan squeezing spree. When we review the Indian military capability and postulate its various employment options in the regions, clear perception which emerges is that a major bulk of its war material is Pakistan specific. Systems capabilities as well as supporting infrastructure are indicative of their exclusive suitability against Pakistan. Location of command and control centres and their tasking is Pakistan oriented. Even those command centres which are east or north poised have a Pakistan specific contingency tasking. Most of Indian missiles are of short range, hence their application is Pakistan biased. Indias mammoth wherewithal for mechanized warfare and ambitious naval flotilla are solely Pakistan focused, China bogie has frequently been raised by India to achieve two objectives; first, to justify its larger than life arsenal, and secondly, to capitalize on mythical western concerns in the context of China. In cold war era, erstwhile Soviets also had unfounded reservations about the rise of China as a major power, hence India squarely exploited it. Indeed India presented itself mercenary of both super powers of that era to contain China. Indias focus has all along been Pakistan. In fact after the humiliating defeat in Indo-Chinese war of 1962, India has permanently abdicated the military option against China. Moreover, an exceptionally prudent policy of China makes the likelihood of any China-India military clash highly improbable. China even did not react to provocative statement of General Deepak Kapoor while he was day dreaming to fight China and Pakistan simultaneously and gain strategic advantage within 96 hours. Indeed Indian military capability is predominantly Pakistan centric, this coupled with volatile anti-Pakistan public frenzy, duly patronized by the state, makes it dangerous proposition for the well wisher of good Pak-India relation to ignore.

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A few days ago, the law enforcing agencies arrested some of the Indian terrorists with maps of the border areas and some sensitive documents during their search operation in Lahore. An Indian spy, Nazar Husain said that many of his companions had returned back to India. He further told them that his duty was to smuggle some Pakistani weapons to India so that India could tarnish Pakistans image by propagating that Pakistani weapons were used in a certain incident. The Mumbai incident was that kind of incident in which India accused Pakistan of designing the plan of the attack and showed Pakistani citizens and the weapons. India just wants to destabilize Pakistan by doing such explosions. India doesnt realize that the more lies its rulers are fabricating to accuse Pakistan, the more complications they are creating for themselves. To hide their faults they are using their media to create hatred among the Indian masses to provoke them against Pakistan. On the other hand, all the evidences provided to America to accuse Pakistan are based on assumptions. The information given to the international institutions clearly reveals that the incident was a failure of the Indian intelligence. India has always been propagating against the Pakistan army and ISI. Negative information in the media just aims at tarnishing the image of the Pakistan army and ISI. All India Radio, BBC, Sada-i-Kashmir (The Voice of Kashmir), and Radio Kabul are broad casting aggressively against the Pakistan army and ISI. India wants Pakistan to pull back its army from the Indian borders and use it at the Western borders against the Taliban so that India can find Pakistans Eastern border unguarded. India has manoeuvred it through its benefactor and friend America that Pakistan should move its army away from the Eastern border and root out the Taliban at the Western border. Its like offering Pakistan to India on a silver platter. Can a sane attitude be expected from India after the withdrawal of the forces from the Eastern front? Will India not attack Pakistan at once and start the smuggling of arms. Its spies and terrorists can easily sneak in to Pakistan and indulge in terrorist attacks. The war maniac Indian leaders are quite aware of the fact that Pakistan is not involved in any terrorist attack including the Mumbai attacks. In other words, they are using the Mumbai attacks as an excuse and by accusing Pakistan it wants to attack it. They think that they can harm Pakistan by attacking it. Our eternal and clever foe desires to smash our solidarity to fulfil its condemnable aims, but it should never forget that Pakistan is not a weak country. Its an atomic power now and its impossible to conquer it. These countries should not think of any action against Pakistan because we have ability to retaliate. Pakistans defence is in strong hands and every malicious act will be paid in the same coin.

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Discussions and dialogues about Pak-India relationships are being held on mainstream media. The views, beliefs and proposals of the intellectuals are painful. Islam does not teach its followers to be on enmity with others. Islam is another name of having well-wishes and fortitude and love for humanity. What pains us is the fact that these intellectuals, though they claim to be Muslims, do not make the Quran and Sunnah the basis of their experiments and proposals. Their conversations show their Pakistaniat, yet they, in the light of their individual thinking and their love for Pakistans national interests, give proposals about current international politics and Pak-India relationships in an un-Islamic background. Though Pakistan was formed on the basis of a two-nation theory of Islam and Hinduism, it has yet to become a real Islamic country. God willing, Pakistan would become an Islamic welfare state like the one established by the rightful Caliphs in accordance with the Quran and the Sunnah and become a model for other countries to follow. This was the aim of the creation of Pakistan. It is very important to keep in mind that international relationships, whether with India or with any other country or nation, should be formed in the light of the Quran and the Sunnah and the way of the rightful caliphs. The first thing to keep in mind is the fact that India is a polytheist, A Hindu nationalist state where all important government departments like politics, economy, civil and military bureaucracy and media are under the control of the anti-Islam and anti-Pakistan Brahmans. The Quran does not allow us to have friendly relations with such a country because friendship is a matter of a meeting of minds and secret sharing. Allah says it clearly in the Quran that your friends are the believers of Allah and His prophet; friendship with others is not right. (Al-Imran, 82) At another place, Allah forbids the believers to share secrets with non-believers. That is why in Islam friendship with others is not just under any circumstances. It allows Muslims to have dealings with those non-Muslim nations and countries only which do not coerce the Muslims and are not in war with Muslims. India is our neighbour and Islam teaches us to behave with our neighbours well even if they are non-Muslims. But Pakistan has not been treated well by India. India never accepted from its heart the division of the sub-continent and separate identity of Muslims. It still has occupied our assets and geographical territory. It did not give Pakistan its share in the British Indian Army Canteen Stores Department. Now it is building dams on our rivers to make Pakistan a barren land. It is also coercing the Muslims and the Kashmiris. Under these circumstances, any sorts of dealings with India, like trade and culture, are not right. India has the second largest Muslim population, but still they are considered as the citizens of the sixth grade. They are deprived of all political, economic and social rights. They are the citizens of the sixth grade in the sense that first there are the four castes of the Hindus, then the Sikhs and after that are the Muslims and other minorities. The Muslims share in the present government jobs is about one percent. When some Muslim citizens or family or village starts the journey to economic improvement, the Hindu-Muslim riots are started under a conspiracy to destroy their economy. The most important is the fact that the Kashmiris have been deprived of their right of self-determination. Indias army has 103

been shedding the innocent blood of millions of Kashmiri men, women, children and young people albeit their right of self-determination has been recognized at international level. No doubt at the moment India, according to Islam, is a combatant infidel. Those of the Pakistani leaders who think of or recommend having friendly, commercial or cultural relationships with India are violating the teachings of the Quran. The much awaited verdict on the Kasab trial in India finally came and it was no surprise, given how the deck was loaded against him from the start. He was found guilty on all 86 charges, including murder and waging war against India. The two Indians accused of helping him were acquitted. Judge M.L. Tahiliyanis verdict, that Kasab was a member of Lashkar-i-Taiba and that his handlers were in Pakistan, was reflective of the Indian governments claims. According to Tahiliyani, the gunmen came prepared for sustained urban combat and that such preparations were not normal for ordinary criminals but are made in an organized type of war. Clearly the judge had not seen the crime movies of Bollywood where criminal mafias have everything from machine guns to GPS devices! It is interesting how the judge came to this highly political conclusion. The judge also stated that Kasabs confession was not acquired under duress, despite Kasabs claim and the general knowledge about how police torture to squeeze confessions in our part of the world. Be that as it may, this verdict and the sentencing, which included death, would impact Pakistan-India relations. The Indians, along with the US, have been keen to lay the blame at Pakistans doorstep and more specifically the LT leadership, while Pakistan continues to claim that the Indians have not furnished any hard evidence to support their claims. Nor has India responded to Pakistans request to hand over Kasab and co-defendant (now acquitted) Ansari to Pakistan for trial. Undoubtedly, India will use this verdict to further pressure Pakistan on all manner of issues, and no doubt the US will add its voice to the pressure. Yet, the Kasab trial and verdict leave many serious question marks, not the least of it being what exactly happened to Indian officer Karkare at the start of the Mumbai terrorism. After the highly politically-motivated trial of Dr Aafia in New York, we have the Kasab trial and verdict in India. How long will the Pakistani state continue to allow its citizens to be subjected to such trials with no legal support or defence?

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HEGIMONY & EXPANSIONISM

1 ARMY BUILD UP 2 PROXY WARS 3 BLAME GAME 4 WAR MONGERING

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The Indian Defence Minister A K Anthony has accused that the presence of terrorist camps in Pakistan is a threat to Indias security. He claims that there are dozens of camps of terrorists along the Pak-India border. The Indian Foreign Minister has also accused that the American military aid to curb terrorism is being used against India; therefore, India has informed America about its apprehensions. This series of Indian accusations is not new. Rather, India has always tried to maintain an atmosphere of strained relations by hurling accusations. Formerly, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had hurled this ludicrous accusation that the terrorist organizations in Pakistan are planning to attack India. All these statements show that India, according to its planning, wants to sabotage the attempts to improve relationships. In the meeting of prime ministers of India and Pakistan in Sharm-el-Shaikh, (Egypt 2009) it was agreed that intelligence information would be exchanged if the situation deteriorated. Instead of talking on a diplomatic level, India has tried to worsen the situation with its irresponsible remarks. In fact the Indian Prime Minister had no answer to the proofs of the Indian involvement that the Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Gilani provided to him at Sharm-ul-Shaikh. So India, because of this humiliation there, has responded with this shower of accusations. Even in the past, India had started such propaganda campaigns the aim of which was to isolate Pakistan on an international level, to avail itself of such a situation and get more and more aid from the world. But Pakistans foreign minister quite effectively foiled these aspirations of India. But sometimes India has succeeded in its loathsome propaganda and got aid from other countries. India cannot digest Pakistans progress; that is why India starts its mischief whenever Pakistan takes a step towards economic stability. India has aggressive designs against Pakistan; so Pakistans secret agencies should keep a close watch on everything. The statement of the prominent analyst and the former director of ISI, General (R) Hameed Gul, are worth remembering. It is the troika of India, Israel and America that wants to make Pakistan a victim of instability. Their main aim is to deprive Pakistan of its atomic weapons. That is why American President Obama and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh are issuing non-stop statements. Instead of accusing Pakistan, India should set the things right at home. The way the minorities are treated there is enough to start a revolution. No notice of the raping of two Muslims in Shopian was taken. The Muslims all over Occupied Kashmir protested against it, but to no avail. There were again anti-Muslim riots in the state of Gujrat; many Muslims were martyred, many houses were burned, women raped and many Muslims families were made homeless. India started its abominable propaganda campaign to hide all these brutalities against its Muslim population. India is also enraged at the Pakistan armys operations in Pakistans tribal and border areas, which forced Indian agents to flee from there. This shower of false accusations is tantamount to Indias admission of defeat. But we must take note of this propaganda campaign. The Pakistan government should make it clear to India that all its adventurisms would be seriously confronted and Pakistan should not delay informing the world about Indian designs. 108

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India is preparing herself for war whereas Pakistan is busy in defence arrangements. It is commonly believed that India would attack Pakistan at an opportune moment. That is why India has been trying to improve its atomic and missile power. The inclusion of atomic submarines into the Indian navy is a part of that plan. This submarine has gotten the latest technology and atomic missiles and the ability to hit its targets from the depth of the sea. It is learnt that India wants a partnership with America in anti-missile defence system. America is providing them with information about the technical and practical points of anti-missile defence system. India itself is busy in buying weapons, making missiles and in other war arrangements, but it cannot tolerate it if Pakistan buys some arms from America. It shows its dishonesty and ill-will and not love for peace. Indias craze of amassing so many atomic and traditional arms has become dangerous for its neighbouring countries. At the same time, it has started threatening and intimidating Pakistan. It is worrisome that India can make fissile material and atomic weapons in a large quantity from the atomic reactors which were rendered unsafe in the civil atomic agreement. Pakistan avoids the arms race but India is crazy about getting them. It wants to get arms of every sort through any means. America should adopt a fair policy if it wants peace in the region. They should provide civil nuclear energy and capability to Pakistan too as they signed such a deal with India in 2009. America has imposed restrictions on military aid to Pakistan whereas to India it is giving even forbidden arms. Pakistan always fulfilled all the demands of the IAEA. India never did. Atomic weapons there are not safe. Indian reactors can produce a large amount of fissile material and atomic weapons which would have a negative impact on the military stability of the region. Indias purchase of conventional arms from all over the world has disrupted the balance of power in the region. Pakistan now has no option but to maintain the level of the least deterrence in untraditional arms. Pakistans nuclear and missile projects are for its own defence and deterrence against any untoward threat from India. It has no aggressive designs against any other country. Every nation has the right to complete its defence preparations. Pakistan should always be on alert. The people of Pakistan are ready for any sacrifices required for defence purposes. Pakistan has never had expansionist and hegemonic designs in the region. According to the spokesman of foreign office, Pakistan is following a defence policy to stop foreign aggression. Pakistan wants peace and stability in the sub-continent, but she also wants a balance of power in the region. Aggression is born whenever there is no balance of power, and the repercussions and effects of aggression are borne by the victim nations and countries.

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According to the budget presented by the Finance Minister Indias defence expenditure has been raised to Rs. 1,47,344 crore for 2010-11, a 4 percent increase from the last years 1,41,703 crore. The rationale being given by the finance minister for the increase in the budget was deteriorated security environment of India. It seems quite astonishing that India now is using the internal mishaps as basis for the increase in the defence budget. Whereas, in reality India needs a huge defence budget to finance its defence deals with different countries such as Israel, Russia and America. Israel is poised to grab a major chunk of the whopping $ 30 billion that New Delhi will spend on defence purchases over the next five years. In the past three years, India has spent as much as $ 10.5 billion on military imports, making it amongst the largest arms importers in the developing world. Indias military imports are expected to reach $ 30 billion by 2012. India is a country, which bullies neighbouring countries and has no direct threat of aggression from any other country, so it cannot justify such a massive defence budget. The Indian government is increasing its defence budget and is not bothering about what is happening to the common man. Two-thirds of Indias 1.1 billion citizens continue to live on less than 1 a day. The people living below the poverty line have nothing to do with the defence budget. The socio-economic indicators of Indian society do not allow India to have a huge defence budget. The poor conditions of its agriculture, education, employment, etc. have exposed its fake economic progress. According to International Herald Tribune, there are too many signs of an over confidence (in India) that look more and more like hubris. Paradoxically, only a false sense of economic growth is spreading throughout India, notwithstanding the reality. According to a survey conducted by the BBC World, almost half of all Indians feel that their countrys economic miracle has done nothing to benefit them or their families. The survey revealed the growing sense of division in Indian society between the newly affluent middle classes and the socially disenfranchised rural poor. The percentage of inflation is much higher than what is projected at the national level by the government. For common man, inflation means rise in the prices of wheat and flour. The poverty-stricken people are committing suicides in the country at an alarming rate. The Indian Government failed to provide employment to its vast population. The proportion of the unemployed to the total labour force has been increasing from 2.62 percent (1993-92) to 2.78 percent (199-2000) and 3.06 percent (2004-05). According to the minister of labour and employment the enrolment of the unemployed in the employment exchange in 2006-07 was 79 lakhs against the average of 58 lakhs in the past ten years. The quality of education is also not satisfactory, which is indicative of Indian governments ignorance towards this sector. According to a study, 38 percent of 110

the children who have completed four years of schooling cannot read a small paragraph with short sentences meant to be read by a student of class II. The number of people living in slums in India has doubled in the past two decades. According to Indian Government, the population of people living in slums has exceeded the entire population of Britain. According to Kumari Selji, Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation, Indias slum-dwelling population had risen from 27.9 million in 1981 to 61.8 million in 2001. The ever increasing slum population is also an evidence of the governments failure to build enough housing and other basic infrastructure for its urban poor, many of whom live without electricity, gas or running water. Indias largest slum population is in Mumbai where 6.5 million people live in tiny makeshift shacks, surrounded by open sewers. Mumbai is also home to Sharani, Asias biggest single slum, which is estimated to be home to more than a million people. Delhi has the countrys second largest slum population, amounting to a total of about 1.8 million people, followed by Calcutta with about 1.5 million. According to Maju Varghese of YUVS, an NGO that has been working with urban poor for more than 20 years, the rise in slums is due to the lack of affordable housing provided by the government. India is in negative growth mode. Industrial production is down for the first time in two decades. Export fell by 20 percent and at least 1.5 million officiallyemployed workers are expected to lose their jobs within this quarter. In the diamond polishing industry alone, 14,000 factories have been shut down; another 10,000 will follow suit in forthcoming weeks. Thousands of small-scale outfits supporting textile and machinery exporters have entered bankruptcy. A worried market analyst at the Bombay stock exchange, who was looking for additional measures directed at stimulating the Indian economy, questioned why the government failed to incorporate any genuine economic stimulus in the interim budget, and why the focus was on defence? Apart from the industrial sector, the agricultural sector despite being the back bone of Indian economy viewed a decline. The agricultural growth of 3.2% observed from 1980 to 1997 decelerated to two percent subsequently. This was due to low investment, imbalance in fertilizer use, low seeds replacement rate, a distorted incentive system and low post-harvest value. In 1951, agriculture provided employment to 72 percent of the population as compared to 58 percent in 2001, and its share in GDP also declined from 24 percent to 22 percent in 2006-07. Similarly, the number of rural landless families increased from 35 percent in 1987 to 45 percent in 1999, further to 55 percent in 2005. The farmers are destined to die of starvation or suicide. More than 1,00,000 Indian farmers committed suicide during the period 1993-2003 mainly due to indebtedness. Mere growth of defence budget does not solve the chronic poverty and backward level of living norms of the people. In the last three years, the Indian government has made the life in middle class more miserable. The high rate of inflation has created stress among the citizens and, when finding no way out how to fulfil their basic needs, they started ending their lives. The welfare of a common Indian is not guaranteed from the hike in the defence budget. There is a 111

need that India should first provide basic amenities such as clean water, food, and housing to its citizens. The rationale on which India is increasing its defence budget is absurd. Firstly, India has no threat from neighbouring countries but its the smaller neighbours that are being threatened by the big brother. Sometimes it harmed them by blocking their water wealth, and sometimes by creating instability through its intelligence agency RAW. Secondly, Indian claims of allocating good part of budget to fight insurgencies in North East and central India are farce. As basic stimulus behind insurgencies in these parts is underdevelopment and neglect by the successive governments. For that matter, gentle way to deal with these rebel movements is by addressing their causes rather than fighting oppressed people with arms. There is direct correlation between extremism and poverty in practice and the social, political, economic, and cultural discrimination faced by (Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes, who are among Indias poorest people) has resulted in discontented people resorting to violence for their rights. In view of these bitter realities, a humble suggestion to Indian authorities would be to adhere to the dictum of Martin Luther King, Jr. that. A nation spending more money on military defence than social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.

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American Foreign Minister Hillary Clinton has blamed Pakistan in New Delhi that Pakistan is responsible for the 9/11 and Al-Qaeda leadership poses threats to the world. Rejecting the American foreign minister's allegation, a spokesperson for the Pakistan's Foreign Office said that responsible people for the 9/11 are not in Pakistan, but Afghanistan. The American foreign minister's accusation is not a new thing. America has always tried to shift the responsibility of its failures in Afghanistan onto Pakistan. In his initial statement, US President Barak Obama had said that America wanted to stay in Afghanistan for 30 years. The reality is that a hue and cry about terrorism is being raised to satisfy the international public opinion and maintain its domination in Kabul otherwise the situation is that only Pakistan is the victim of terrorism where suicide attacks are occurring in daily while no attack has occurred in America after the 9/11. America had entered the land of Afghanistan with tall claims. It had said that it would change the destiny of the country after taking keen interest in the reconstruction of the country. But it seems through ground realities that its all projects had gone to the dust. The remaining infrastructure of Afghanistan is changing into a heap of ash. The local population of Afghanistan is wandering here and there in a decrepit condition. There is a strange kind of pell-mell and it seems that blue fairy has gone somewhere far-off. The former Bush administration and now Obama have made the change in the strategy to deal with this situation. It has started increasing pressure on Pakistan and made the tribal areas its target. It seems that pressure on Pakistan will be increased in the coming days. The military activities of American and the NATO have turned their cannons toward Pakistan. The wave of unrest is turning to the bordering cities after crossing the tribal areas. It is also a reality that any personality of the country going to India always issues a statement against Pakistan. Nobody knows that whether they are forced to do so or the Indian influence is enough. Despite knowing facts, they blame Pakistan. When the 9/11 occurred, the Al-Qaeda leadership was in the shelter of Taliban in Afghanistan. The US foreign minister should remember that the American administration had held talk with Taliban and Al-Qaeda. After its failure, a plan to attack Afghanistan was made. But Al-Qaeda is not in Pakistan. The presence of the Al-Qaeda members is not possible in Pakistan due to the ongoing operation. The US foreign minister's assurance regarding the safety of Pakistan's nuclear assets is pleasing and based on reality. It is reiterated from the West that Pakistan's nuclear assets are not safe and may go into the hands of terrorists at any time. It has always been explained from our government that our atomic weapons are quite safe and there is no possibility of them going into the hands of extremists. After the American explanation, the foreign and Indian media are spreading rumours; we should silence them in this regard. America should also restrain itself from levelling such types of allegations. It does not look nice for a civilized country 113

like America to level allegations against Pakistan to please India. It is a matter of the international credibility of any country and it is affected by such meaningless and false statements.

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Has India become pawn of geo-strategic politics or the General (Kapoor) gone xenophobic? The 21st century may be termed as time of peace, harmony, economic growth and war against terrorism by the entire world except India. Reasons are quite obvious but, of course, not highlighted effectively by regional as well as international media. The social system of India is founded on inequality, intolerance, conservative thoughts and religious extremism. In recent past, Indian politicians have falsely driven the nation of 1.2 billion heads into a utopia that they are sooner becoming a super power. Hence, it is just like creating unnecessary hype about wishful, wrongly set objectives in all circles of the society. In the process, politicians, specially running the state affairs, have fallen into the hands of international power brokers who have never been friend to anybody other than themselves. They are actually loyal to their economical interests and promoting the agenda of war industry mainly based in the USA. Indian leaders are indeed extremely frustrated over increasing hype, militancy and extremism within their society and armed forces, yet they are sounding more cocky and belligerent towards Pakistan and China as well. It was not only surprising but also babyish to listen when the Indian army chief in Dec 2009 talked about a limited nuclear war between Pakistan and India. It really kept many in a state of shock and also revealed Indian future design to destabilize the region, and, of course, stabbing the forces that are fighting the war against terrorism. The agenda was clear as India did not want an end to terrorism. The critics, military experts and analysts were discussing about the consequences of this nuclear war, which was termed as limited by the Indian General, who probably required an immediate briefing about the after-effects of a nuclear break out between two atomic powers. The famous scientist Albert Einstein said, I know not with what weapons World war III will be fought, but I exactly know that war after that will be fought with stones and sticks. The general did not stop even for a few days and banged the world with another millennium statement saying that India was capable of fighting a two front war with Pakistan and China. It was rightly termed as bizarre by someone in the media, as such a uncontrolled statement could end into a conflict, which would only bring turmoil in the region, and its effects will ultimately bring horrified results for the world. It will not only bring atomic powers in quarrel but also severely damage the world efforts against war on terrorism. Indian premier, always crying for peace, seems in no control of its army chief, or this all is happening as per his strategy. Situation at the moment is quite complex and role of India has gone really dubious on the chess of world power game. Seeing the situation and increasing intolerance in India, the statement of the General looks quite relevant. Increasing intolerance, militancy and terrorism in Indian army, which were unveiled first in incidents like Samjohta express and Malegaon blasts, are now evident from the statements of the highest ranks of 115

Indian armed forces. This is probably the strongest indication that extremist elements and their thought-process are nourishing vastly the Indian army, in particular, and Indian society, in general. Opening nuclear fronts on two borders of India is really horrifying but every free media of India is silent at this critical juncture of time. Actually everyone in India fears the strength of her extremist elements that are developing to form an organization just parallel to Al Qaeda. Media has recently witnessed the attack of an extremist group on a TV channel and exactly knows that this conservative mindset with religious faith will very soon go out of the hands of state apparatus. The statements of the army chief are warranting a future which will only give blood and poverty to India and the region. World must take notice of such hot air and a diplomatic pressure must be built on a country which is responsible for 1.2 billion heads. At the moment, Indian army is undergoing enormous pressures and discipline issues. Extremists groups have crept into the ranks of the army and now implementing their bloodiest thought process. With the passage of time, they are building strength and General Deepak Kapoor has no other option to keep them under control other than giving statements, which keep these groups happy. Discipline of the officers in the ranks of Indian army is pitiable, as recently about 41 officers were found selling their weapons to terrorists, and a case against a Lt. General who was indicted in a land scam in Sukhna Cantonment in West Bengal is still pending as general Deepak Kapoor will take decision on his punishment. Reportedly, the corruption money was being sent to extremist elements of Indian army for their activities. On the other hand, security arsenal of Indian atomic installations have gone so week that fires are breaking out quite frequently in atomic installations of India. Fire in Bhabba atomic plant is the recent example and none knows the exact reason, but it was a serious security lapse. None knows that why is this all happening? It will be formidable for the world to know some day that this all was actually the result of the activities of extremist elements within the ranks of Indian army.

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Many attempts were made during the General Musharafs era to change unconditionally the Indo-Pak relationships into permanent amity, so much so that shameful unilateral elasticity was shown about the jugular vein of Pakistan Kashmir. Attempts were made to please India by forgetting our traditional stance and the sacrifices of the Kashmiri people and by dividing Kashmir into 8-10 pieces. But India too continued demanding Do more like America. It continued insisting on part and parcel stance whereas the previous rulers had made pieces of the map of our jugular vein. When attempts were being made to create the atmosphere more flexible to improve indo-Pak relations, a senior journalist friend of mine asked me if the PakIndia relations would really take the form of a permanent friendship. My quick response was, No, not in the next 2-3 centuries. Hindus and Muslims had been living together for centuries and share the same culture, history and social practices. Our ancestors directly witnessed the Hindus narrow-mindedness. There was nothing in their eyes except hatred and animosity for the Muslims. Had there been even an iota of possibility of friendship and tolerance, the Muslims of sub-continent would not have demanded a separate country on the basis of the two-nation theory. At the time of the creation of Pakistan, our ancestors saw the narrow- mindedness of the Hindus changing into madness. The Hindu fanatics stained their hands with the blood of millions of Muslims children, men, women and the aged. Such ferocity is quite rare. My grandfather usually used to narrate to us the cruel nature of Hindus and their antagonism towards other religions. Tears used to well up in our eyes on the telling of these tales. Though we were very young then, we could see terrible scenes of these moving pictures in front of us. Thus we too could see the narrow mindedness, barbarism and ferocity of the Hindus. In view of this, we cannot even think of developing friendship with India. Such feelings may be transferred to many among the next generations. Many centuries are required to dim these scenes of Hindu barbarism. We have witnessed many aspects of Indias cunningness since the creation of Pakistan many faces of friendship-like-animosity and enmity-like-friendship and the wolf in sheeps clothing. But the notions of greater India and integral part were there behind every face. It is foolish to expect something good from India. India has been aggressive towards Pakistan, especially during the previous 2 3 years. India threatened to attack Pakistan after the attack on its parliament and the Mumbai incidents. Its a lack of far-sightedness on the part of president Zardari when he says that there is no danger to Pakistan from its eastern border. He should understand that India is involved in disruption not only on the eastern border but also on the western border. It is supporting and patronizing the terrorists to create instability in the frontier province and in the tribal areas. The arms and ammunitions captured from the terrorists during the Operation Rah-e-Raast prove that involvement of India in instigating local people against Pakistan. Major-General Ijaz 117

Awan, the commander of Swat operation, disclosed in an interview that the arms and ammunitions the terrorists are using in Malakand are Indian made. India is also involved in the disruption in Balochistan. India is harming peace in Balochistan by providing arms and money to the Baloch Liberation Army and to some other terrorist groups operating from Balochistan. The present wave of target killing is also due to the Indian involvement. Talal Bugti (Tribal chief of Bugti tribe living in north eastern part of Balochistan province in Pakistan ) has openly admitted that the Indian secret agency RAW is giving military training to more than 30,000 Balochis to spread anarchy in the province. The Indian consulates in Afghanistan are busy in destabilizing Pakistan. It was also disclosed recently that India is preparing a group of 500 people in Afghanistan for an attack on Pakistans nuclear installations. They would attack these installations in the manner of Mumbai and Lahore attacks to get international media attention. It will give India, America and the western world a chance to propagate that Pakistans atomic weapons are not safe. What is strange is the fact that Karzai and Obama, who have full control over Afghanistan, are silent although they know everything about Indias intentions. The tremendous increase in Indias defence budget in the recent years should be an eye-opener to those who think that our eastern borders are safe. India again has ignored its poor people and increased the defence budget of 2009 and 2010 by 34%. Thus its total defence budget is now 3200 billion which is 5 times more than that of Pakistan. India has also signed some defence pacts to buy the latest weapons from many countries. It is already getting AWACS planes and other weapons from Israel. 230 latest Russian planes Saikhui will be included in the Indian air force by 2015. It is also trying to buy the latest planes from America and submarines from France. India is also doing experiments on different types of missiles. India has already experimented Brahmos which is supersonic in speed and can break the sound barrier. India is the only country in south Asia which was always the first one to do nuclear tests on and test atomic missiles. This entire war craze is for the realization of the dream of a greater India and to maintain its control and hegemony in the region. India is trying to appease America and fool the world by convincing them that it is stocking all these weapons for China and not for Pakistan. The fact is that it cannot fight against a super power like China. It only wants to realize its dream of a greater India by weakening Pakistan. This monster who is creating instability and promoting terrorism in her neighbouring countries is also trying to get a permanent seat in the Security Council of United Nations. It is regrettable that France and China, despite knowing the hateful face of India and its expansionist designs, are supporting this Indian demand. It is vital for Pakistan that it should not compromise on its defence capabilities in the face of Indias aggressive designs. We must increase our defence budget and continue our atomic and missile projects. We should also train our armed forces on the most modern lines to tackle the menace of terrorism. It wont be unwise to tell our intellectuals that they should stop criticizing Pakistans defence budget and they should not sit silent on an increase in Indias defence budget. According to news in Jerusalem Post, India has decided to buy 18 spider missiles worth 100 million dollars from Israel. These are the latest land-to-air 118

missiles which would be handed over to India soon. India has also got the latest atomic submarine for completion of its aggressive designs against Pakistan. It shows that India is planning to strike Pakistan not only from land and air but also from the sea. It is also determined to develop its missile project. It shows that India has the worst aggressive intentions against Pakistan and the Indian rulers are not ready to tolerate Pakistan at any cost.

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Everyone knows Indias expansionist designs against all its neighbouring countries. Indian rulers can go to any extremes for the realization of their heinous designs. Seven countries of South Asia, which comprise of Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan and India, founded SAARC. It aimed at raising the standard of living of the poor people of the region, and not interfering in the internal affairs of others. But India, since the very beginning, has been interfering in Pakistans affairs. Its intervention divided us into two. Its 700,000- strong army in Occupied Kashmir is involved in state terrorism and they have killed more than 100,000 Kashmiris so far. Indias attitude towards Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan also reflects the same thing. The Indian government is trying all the time to prove that its neighbouring countries are conspiring against it and are trying to harm it; while actually the fact is that India is creating restlessness in the neighbouring countries. India has announced to fix a barrier on its 1000 km long border with Bangladesh to stop interference from there. Although India supported the movement of Bangladesh, it doesnt have friendly relations with it. They have differences on the issues of the border and the rivers. Which neighbouring country of India is safe from Indias aggressive intentions? It has been on the forefront in pushing Sri Lanka into the fire of civil war. Tamil guerrillas were trained in India and sent to Sri Lanka with arms and ammunitions. More than 100,000 people have died in the India-sponsored civil war in Sri Lanka. It sent more than 10,000 soldiers to Sri Lanka on the pretext of Operation Pon, and coerced the people for three years. Indias former foreign minister Pranab Mukherji and former Defence Minister A K Anthony told the Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu that India didnt allow the supply of arms to Sri Lanka. But the state of Tamil Nadu was involved in supplying arms and ammunition to the Tamil rebels and to the government of Sri Lanka. The Tamil Chief Minister has directed the police to investigate whether some private companies were providing arms to Tamil rebels and Sri Lanka. A group of Tamil rebels attacked Maldives to maintain dominance over the Indian Ocean. It is no secret how Nepal was barricaded to send its people in the mud of hunger and poverty. Despite the fact that pro-Mao rebels used Indian Territory to get training and weapons, India always refused to seal the borders because it had never recognized the international border. Contrary to that, its forces arrested many people and took them across the Nepali border. Nepal has never been someones colony. It has always been free and autonomous. India is greedy about this Hindu state of Himalayas and has been using all illicit means to weaken the country. Indian rulers didnt spare even a state like Bhutan. They are still interfering there. India occupied Goa and Sikkim without . It also occupied Junagarh, Manader and Hyderabad Deccan. The history of Indian aggression against Pakistan is quite long. It is coercing the helpless people of Occupied Kashmir. It has shown no elasticity in its stance on Kashmir. There is no likelihood that this issue would be resolved in the near future. 120

India has never accepted any proposal for its solution. It seems that it does not want to solve the Kashmir issue. India is trying to dominate all the countries around it. It wants to snatch the rights of the people on the basis of its power and unfair means. Peace will prevail in this region when people get their rights. These are the heinous acts of the rulers of this so called democracy that have endangered the security of the SAARC countries.

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The chief of the Indian navy has expressed his concern that the Gwader Port which is being constructed at the Southern coast of Balochistan in Pakistan with the help of china contains strategic complexities for India. The port is being constructed 180 aeronautical miles away from the straight of Hurmaz (abna-i- hurmaz). After the construction of the port, Pakistan will control passages of vital international trades from this sea rout and it will be able in a position to stop Indian oil ships passing through this route. One wonders why this port is haunting India. It has played its key role in creating disturbance in Balochistan to stop the construction of the port. The on-going disruption in the province is part of an international conspiracy. RAW has established forty terrorist training camps in the area adjacent to Iran (near Makran area in Balochistan) and the Bloch unemployed youth is paid up to Pakistan rupees 10,000 for their anti state activities. Some of them were arrested with remote control electronic devices, satellite phones and some important documents and maps. The South Asian countries and the West are quite aware of the fact that the Gwader Port is extremely important for the region. In fact it is a gateway to South Asia which can link the area to foreign trade. Pakistan decided to complete the construction of the port with Chinese help, whereas some Western countries wanted to have the control of the port. Due to Pakistans denial to their control, they had left no stone unturned to create chaos in the province. They even tried to create bad faith between China and Pakistan. The Gwadar deep sea port will have positive effects on Pakistans economy. The port will improve Pakistans economic position which is not acceptable to India. The second important factor is the presence of China in the region. Indian malice is not hidden. The statement of the Indian chief of navy expressed his concern over Chinese presence in the region. The Gwader port is being constructed 675 kilometers away from Karachi in the Western part of the country. Engineers of a Chinese company Harbour are working on the project. The port is being constructed 16 kilometres in the deep water and will provide facilities for the transportation of ships. It will also open new ways to the surrounding ports and the transportation of oil and other commodities will become easier. It will provide a passage and staying facilities to the ships going East or West which pass by and stay at the ports of Dubai and Salala (Sultanate of Masqat, Oman). The seven hundred and fifty kilometres long coastal line is considered to be one of the deepest sea areas. Along with these natural coasts large oil reserves are located, which have drawn the attention of the world. The trade activities will be increased after the completion of the port. Industries are being established there in anticipation of the increased trade activities from this area. . Five thousand acres of land has been acquired to establish an industrial zone in Gwader. It has been turned into an important centre of trade as it is located at the juncture of South Asia, Central Asia and Europe. It cannot be ignored that both Pakistan and China are surrounded by dangerous enemies. China is comparatively safer from these enemies. But the tribal areas of Pakistan and Balochistan are in continuous danger. From Khunjrab Pass(a historical 122

pass on Karakorum Mountains near Pakistan China border) to Hawailiyan via Sust, Hunza, Gilgit, Challas, Kohistan, Bisham, Thankot, Mansehra, and the Karakuram Highway to Abbotabad are a source of pain for the Indians. Hence there is a chance that they will speed up their activities in Pakistan, particularly in the Northern tribal areas. It is required that the Pakistani people should recognize the vicious objectives of their enemies and face the network of their conspiracies. Every Pakistani has to realize that his existence depends upon the existence of the country. We have two important responsibilities at this time. We have to save our country from the enemies and at the same time to contribute in its development.

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Pakistan supported America in the war against terrorism but has to pay a heavy price in the shape of human lives, properties and serious damages to it economy. Its land bathes in blood daily. Suicide attacks are a routine matter now. Hundreds of people have been martyred in military operations, terrorist attacks in civilian areas, shopping malls, mosques, schools and other public places. Properties are being damaged. Law and order situation is in danger. Who are these terrorists blasting in the country? Where are they coming from? Is the country being pushed towards civil war and who is benefiting out of this situation? Who will be happy in the destruction of the Pakistani economy? India is responsible for creating the worse situation in Pakistan. India is at daggers drawn with Pakistan since its inception. The Indian government has not recognized the creation of Pakistan from the core of its heart. It is dreaming to be the super power of Asia and it has aggressive designs against its neighbouring countries, particularly Pakistan. Our army soldiers are being beheaded. No patriot Pakistani can think of attacking the army men of his own country. Those who claim to be fighting for Islam but are involved in killing their own brothers and desecrating their dead bodies, and are openly violating the Islamic principles of brotherhood, are responsible for the killing of our army men. Islam teaches brotherhood and peace. It does not allow you to kill even your enemy. Ex-Chief of army staff, Mirza Aslam Beg says that he has many proofs that India helps terrorist activities from Afghanistan. American, Indian, Afghani and Israeli intelligence agencies are doing terrorist activities in Pakistan under the leadership of India. The basic spy network has been established in Afghanistan which is being used for terrorism and interference in Pakistan. Terrorists are trained, and then sent to Pakistan for terrorist activities from Srohilly near Jalaabad or from Asadabad, near the forward base of Afghanistan near Chitral or from Faizabad. The foreign minister of Afghanistan who had communist views sought refuge in India during the Taliban regime. He wanted to start a proxy war in Pakistan by pitting Pakistani people against their own brothers. Both India and Afghanistan are towing the same line collectively. They are also helping the Bloch liberation army. The terrorists who attack in Balochistan have their base camps in Kandahar. During chaos in Balochistan, a news item appeared in the press that the Balochistan Liberation Army received a huge amount of money from the Indian Consulate to purchase weapons. The Indian secret agency RAW is working in these areas in an organized manner. The consulates in Afghanistan are providing every sort of help to these people. There are certain evidences that the agents of RAW are involved in creating disruption in Balochistan. They provide financial incentives to the unemployed and educated young people to incite them against their own country. It can further patronize the dissident elements in Balochistan. So far as the Afghanis are concerned they must remember that actions speak louder than words, and they must control the Indian activities in their country instead of using flowery language. It is not the duty of Pakistan alone to maintain peace in the region. The other 124

countries should also play their role. The sooner India and Afghanistan realize it, the better it is. If the leadership of Afghanistan does not adopt a responsible attitude, peace will remain in danger in South Asia and the situation will become quite dangerous, and peace of the region will be jeopardized. Our across the border enemy provide funds and support to the separatist organizations like Jiye Sindh. At one hand, India is talking about composite dialogues but, on the other hand, it encourages and patronizes the enemies of Pakistan. Its main aim is to divert the attention of the world from the freedom movements working in its many states. It is providing support to the anti-Pakistan elements in Sindh and Balochistan to spread hatred against our country.

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INDO-AFGHAN NEXUS
1 INTERFERENCES 2 CONSPIRACIES 3 CROSS BORDER INTERVENTIONS

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The Afghan home ministry has established an institution for destructive activities in Pakistan. Uzbek, Tajik and some self-exiled Pakistani traitors are getting training there. Some languages of Pakistan are also being taught there, especially the languages being spoken in the frontier areas to facilitate them for terrorism in Pakistan. The accusations by the Afghan president Hamid Karzai and the members of his cabinet, especially the former home minister Abdullah that Pakistan is interfering and sheltering the terrorists, have created a serious situation. Pakistan always helped Afghanistan magnanimously and today all the terrorism incidents that we are facing are due to Afghanistan. Pakistan even supported and helped Karzai to reach his present high position, and he is punishing us for that. No one could even imagine that the Afghan president would be so ungrateful. It is tragic that with a view to hiding his own sins, he is hurling every accusation on Pakistan. They are looking for those of the returning mujahedeen who know Balochi, Brahvi and Urdu languages, for terrorism in Pakistan. The India-bound Hindus too are getting training there. Many of the arrested people during the confrontation in northern, southern and other tribal areas are usually Tajik and Uzbek. One Uzbek leader Yalda Shiv has recently claimed that God Himself has given South Waziristan to the Uzbeks. Such a misleading claim by a foreigner on the Pakistani soil is quite condemnable. No patriotic Pakistani or someone from the tribal areas can tolerate such a claim. This mischievous claim by a foreign war-monger shows what their aims are. Some foreign elements residing in Waziristan think that they are masters of the tribal areas and the local people are their slaves. They believe that the tribal areas are theirs, not of the tribal people. They are engaged in criminal and sabotaging activities and playing with the lives of the local people. The tribal people have been living here for thousands of years and they have pride and hubris about their culture, civilization and high moral values. But unfortunately the foreign warriors have thrown them into a pit of troubles. They are harming the locals day in and day out. Those Afghan refugees are also with them who have returned home. Hamid Karzai in a recent interview praised India quite vehemently for spending a lot of money on rebuilding Afghanistan, constructing the building of parliament and building schools, hospitals and roads. His praise shows that India has been safeguarding its own interests and, at the same time, making Pakistan helpless. India wants to create estrangement between Afghanistan and Pakistan for its personal interests. The Indo-Afghan union also revealed that dozens of arrested innocent Pakistanis in Afghanistan have been sent from Kabul to India with a view to presenting them as terrorists and thus maligning Pakistan at an international level. Despite all their vicious plans, we want peace in Afghanistan and in every part of the world. Our mission is love for humanity, and those who love humanity in fact love God and his prophet (peace be upon him). We should hate terrorists and save humanity. That is why we believe that this heinous role of India and Afghanistan is hateful. 128

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The people of Afghanistan love Islam and follow Islamic injunctions like fasting, and offering prayers strictly. The Congress led government of India has started implementing its plan of driving away the innocent Afghan Muslims from Islam, religious and moral values. It is provoking them to abandon Islam and embrace Hinduism. India thinks that it can easily make its strong hold in Afghanistan by driving them away from Islam. The Indian government wants to desecrate the religious and national values of the Afghanis so that they could be easily turned against Pakistan and used for Indian designs. The Indian government has devised a plan of taking the majority of the Muslim Afghanis away from Islam by providing financial assistance to the poor Afghan people. They are being provided with incentives to turn to Hinduism. To materialize this dream they have opened many hospitals and schools which are run by Hindu staff who de track the Muslims. The Indian government has also started the onslaught of the Hindu culture in the far flung areas of Afghanistan. The Indian embassy in Kabul and consulates in Kandahar and Northern areas are actively involved in these kinds of activities. India has appointed many RAW officials in its consulates. It must be kept in mind that in 1970-1971 India initiated the same kind of plan in East Pakistan and later on entered the Indian army in the garb of Mukti Bahni. The agents of RAW are distracting the innocent Afghanis the way they did in East Pakistan. The Indian TV channels telecast obscene programs in Pashto, Persian and in other regional languages around the clock which aim at the destruction of the morality of the Afghan people. The Indian diplomats and agents are also involved in the smuggling of Afghan women and children who are sold in the Gulf States and are forced to prostitution. There is a flood of obscenity and nudity in Afghanistan. In the smaller and bigger cities of the country there are prostitution and obscenity centres which are patronized by the government. Apart from this, cable net works, TVs, VCR, and dish antennas are providing means of debauchery at cheap rates. These centres also provide liquor, prostitutes and drugs without any restrictions. It is the utmost effort of India to destabilize Afghanistan, to spread hatred against Pakistan and to use the Afghan tribes against Pakistan. We want to tell the Afghan leadership that it should be aware of the conspiracies and misleading propaganda campaign of India. The Afghans should not let the bonds of historical and Islamic brotherhood weaken at any moment. They should keep in mind the nasty role of India that it played in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. They must ask the people of Bhutan, Nepal, Sikkim, and Sri Lanka in general and their Muslim brothers in Bangladesh in particular, how they were betrayed by India. India is dreaming to capture all the countries of South Asia. The Afghan administration must keep an eye on the elements that are collaborating with India and are distorting the relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan. They must be aware of such elements. The presence of some unwanted persons in Afghanistan is also embittering their mutual relations. Presently, India is more influential in 129

Afghanistan than Pakistan. At this stage, we want to request all the tribes and their leaders in Afghanistan that a reasonable representation must be given to the entire minority, majority of the tribes and majority of the Pashto speaking people in the government so that democracy could flourish and peace could be established in Afghanistan. God forbid, if the minority and majority tribes were deprived of this representation peace could never be established in Afghanistan and the war ridden land of the country will always be a centre of chaos. So far as the Afghanis are concerned they must keep in mind that actions speak louder than words. Therefore, they should restrict the Indian activities in Afghanistan. Its not only the duty of Pakistan to play its role for maintaining peace in the region but the other countries must also realize their responsibility. The sooner India and Afghanistan realize it, the better it is. If the leadership of these countries does not adopt a responsible attitude the peace in South Asia will always be in danger and the situation will be quite destructive. Peace of the region will be shattered in to bits.

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War on terror in Afghanistan seems moving towards negotiations as allied forces are exhausted to eradicate al Qaeda. America is passionate to go all-out to have peace in Afghanistan either it be through dialogue or whatsoever possible way out to have safe and respectable exit from Afghanistan. Respect and victory are not at the same pace sometimes; till America considers the exit in cover of negotiations as respectful. The US understands that the delays in talks and withdrawal of the forces will pave the way to the fate the USSR had met. The US is repeating the history by repeating the same blunders as to suppress Afghans by using force. Although certain Afghan leaders have given proposals to the US which if observed, may get the US a respectable withdrawal. They have asked the US to pull out its forces within six month time and handover security responsibilities to Afghan national army and the police. But Americans seem looking for a superfluous resolve of the issue. Sooner or the later, American has to realize that it has killed many Muslims in Iraq and Afghanistan as its action caused severe collateral damage to the human lives and their properties. It had to face suicide bombings and actions in retaliation resulting in loss of precious lives of many innocent citizens and the security officials. Although people consider terrorist activities a retaliated move from the terrorists but still a number of evidences have been gathered which established keen Indian involvement in destabilizing Pakistan by interfering in Baluchistan, FATA and in big cities of the country. These actions were designed to engage security forces in internal front and to demoralize the masses of this land. Pakistan is frontline ally of the US in war on terror, still the US never snubs India who is busy in subversive activities against Pakistan and that too using Afghan soil. It depicts India enjoys full US support and its patronage for doing the same. A number of times, America was activated but no solid action has yet been taken to stop India. Instead, it is being felt that America has given an under-hand go ahead to Indian agencies to operate against Pakistan. Without American patronage, it is impossible for any country to make its own infrastructure in Afghanistan and that too at a time when Afghanistan is under American control. Indian agencies have been running training camps in Afghanistan. Reliable sources have disclosed that Indian consulate in Kandahar has dispatched more than hundred Pakistani dissidents for six months training in India. On return these persons will be paid five hundred to one thousand American dollars and will be deputed to the terrorist groups in tribal areas and elsewhere. Some of them would be retained in Afghanistan for their further and time to time utilization against Pakistan. American has turned a blind eye towards it as no action is suggested against Indian consulates. Ignoring Pakistans sacrifices in the war against terrorism, the US officials support Indian stance and appreciate its interest even in training Afghan national 131

army, but after Pak Army Chief Gen Kayanis clear warning that Pakistan will never accept such move which permits India to train Afghan national army, this issue has subsided for the time being. However, Indias training camps are in full swing and are continuously sending their lots to Pakistan for different assigned tasks i.e. bombs blasts, suicidal attack and other activities to destabilize Pakistan by creating uncertainty among the masses, crushing economy and spoiling the infrastructure of the country to declare it as a failed state. To fulfil all the above mentioned designs, India is looking forward to have some sort of permanent role in Afghanistan to get its vested agenda to be met by destabilizing Pakistan and establish its the only power which can see into its eyes and possesses the strategic and military strength to wipe of Indian designs against Pakistan. One could appreciate Indian resolve to manage its stay in Afghanistan but India must realize that the moment American forces will ensure respectful withdrawal from Afghanistan, they would somehow or the other have to leave that place as Afghans have the history of conquering India time and again. How would they be comfortable with their permanent presence on their land, and that too to destabilize the neighbouring Islamic countries. Whatsoever infrastructure is established in Afghanistan, that is prone to Mullah Umer-like governments, which ensured peace, harmony and justice in the society? India is living in fools paradise by thinking that they might get hold of Afghans after withdrawal of allied forces.

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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has failed to muster Saudi support for his countrys stances on relations with Pakistan and its possible role in Afghanistan. His visit to Saudi Arabia, the first in the past three decades by any Indian premier, has failed to convince King Abdullah that Pakistan is involved, in any way, in what is being called cross border terrorism for targeting India. While on way back from Riyadh, Dr Singh told the media that he had requested King Abdullah to use his good offices to check the so-called cross border terrorism by Pakistan. However, he did not say what sort of reaction or response he got. He reportedly told the King that if there was cooperation between Pakistan and his country, vast opportunities would open up for trade, travel and development, and that all these would create prosperity in the region. One would ask the Indian premier as to what was the hitch therein, and if there was any, it could be resolved through dialogue the only way to sort out issues amongst nations. It may be recalled that while at Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt in 2009, Mr Singh had agreed with his Pakistani counterpart Yusuf Raza Gilani that dialogue was the only way forward. It was also agreed that the so-called terrorism would not be linked to the composite dialogue process. Then, what went wrong, nobody knows. Why did India backtrack from that commitment? It is still a mystery. The recent talks between foreign secretaries also could not make any headway except the two diplomats saw each other faceto-face for some time. India had been desperately lobbying in Afghanistan. This was also a part of his agenda for talks in Riyadh. That was despite the fact that all the countries neighbouring Afghanistan knew very well that India could be a spoiler rather than a facilitator. Yet, Mr Singh, whose country had nothing to do with Afghan affairs, tried to influence the parties concerned through King Abdullah; but failed. India must sort out its own issues. There is need to resolve all the issues with Pakistan, including Kashmir, through a composite dialogue. But to reach that end, there ought to be the fullest realization by the Indian leadership that all roads to peace, prosperity and well-being of the one-fifth population of the world lead through the result-oriented composite dialogue. For this Saudi Arabia, and for that matter any country, would be ready to use its good offices if not mediation - a word, India pretends to be allergic to.

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Indian diplomatic relationships with Pakistan and other neighbouring countries were already strained, but now it has collaborated with Israel. And to have an access to the natural resources of Central Asia, and to further pressurize Pakistan, it has installed its MI 17 helicopters and Mig 29 fighter planes at the Ayani air base of Tajikistan These army bases are located near Dushanbe in Tajikistan which was used by the Russian forces against Mujahedeen during the Afghan Jihad. Later on the same was used by Ahmad Shah Masud, the head of the Northern Alliance. This army base located near Pakistan at a suitable place in Central Asia is complete now and is being used by India. Indian forces, particularly the Indian air force can target any place in Pakistan from this base. The Afghan government is fully supporting these Indian activities. Not only in Kabul but in all of Afghanistan, India has established its consulates in the areas adjacent to Pakistan which are working as centres for terrorist activities in Pakistan. Uzbekistan and Kirghizstan in the north, China in the East and Afghanistan are located in the South of Tajikistan. In a way, Pakistan is also a neighbouring country of Tajikistan. The Dakhan belt in the Afghan province of Badakhshan, separates Pakistan from Tajikistan. Generally this belt is 50 kilometres wide but, at a certain point, it is only 16 kilometres in distance. The air distance between Islamabad and Dushanbe is the same as that of Lahore and Islamabad. The distance between Pakistan and the states which emerged after the disintegration of Soviet Union is quite short. These states can be called the neighbours of Pakistan. As India has established its bases there, Pakistan has to face the enemies from two sides. India wants to besiege Pakistan by establishing these bases in Tajikistan. Its real target is none but Pakistan. Tajikistan lies in a desert area where rain fall is scanty, therefore its atmosphere is dry and hot. The Monsoon season passes without rain. On one hand, India has established its base in Tajikistan and, on the other hand, it is establishing a big army base at Avanti Pura, a few kilometres away from Sri Nagar. An area of more than one thousand acres has been procured for this purpose. If we look at the world map, we realize that these two army bases are a great challenge for the security of the Northern areas of Pakistan and the Independent Kashmir. After Tajikistan, America is vacating one of its big army bases at Khanabad in Uzbekistan at the intense protest of the Uzbek people. After the American withdrawal it will fall in the hands of India. It is only 500 kilometres away from Tashqand, the capital of Uzbekistan. It is only 200 kilometres away from the Uzbek Afghan border. A 34% increase in the war budget of India unravels its deplorable war designs. Therefore, all the SAARC countries of South Asia and Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kirghizstan, and Kazakhstan must be aware of the expansionist aims of India lest it attack a country secretly and damage it. Unfortunately India has become a symbol of danger for its neighbouring countries. The biggest evidence is that there is not a single country which does not complain of 134

Indias attitude. India has expansionist designs in south Asia and has become a sign of danger for all of its neighbouring countries. Will India use these bases against China? It just wants to show America that it can make an aggressive attack on China whenever it is required, but it can never dare to do it. However, it wants to establish its military and economic dominance over Pakistan, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Kirghizstan, and all the SAARC countries. There is a chance that it has entered Tajikistan to devour the central Asian states one by one after weakening them. Therefore every kind of military activity from India in this region is against Pakistan. Our foreign ministry should start a campaign at every level against the expansionist designs of India, and should collaborate with the Islamic countries to make the rulers of Tajikistan and the Central Asian states aware of the Indian aims, so that they do not allow it to have a strong hold there.

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A satellite named Tuksar was sent in to the air from Sri Hari Kota Launching Centre in the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. The objective of the satellite is to spy upon Pakistani and Iranian atomic activities. This satellite was developed by Israeli aerospace with the most modern technology. It can not only take pictures from a microscopic lens but can also perform well in bad weather and dark clouds. Israel, like India, is also concerned over Pakistans nuclear program, but both the countries are silent over their spying operations. Now their friendship for a mutual anti-Pakistan stance has explicitly unfolded. One of the reasons for secrecy of their relations was Indias close relations with Soviet Russia, an arch rival of the US, Britain and many other western countries. India was also closely associated with those Arab countries that were part of the Soviet bloc. India met its petroleum needs from these Arab countries. Indo-Israeli relations are established since long. The Israeli Prime Minister David Ben Gurian had advised his nation in one of speeches made in 1967 that International Jewish movement should not be misled about Pakistan. Mental resources and military might and situation of Pakistan can any time cause troubles for us. We should pre-empt it as of now. Thats why friendship with India is not only necessary for us but we can also benefit from Indo-Pak disputes. Indo-Israeli collaboration is not a new story. It was in the air that the Israelis intend to attack the atomic laboratory of Pakistan in Kahuta. Pakistani advancement in atomic technology is undesirable for both India and Israel. Despite the physical distance of Israel from Pakistan, it is dwindling around our borders with assistance from India. Israel via Indian missions has entered those countries which do not have direct diplomatic ties with it. Israel has always opposed Pakistan. It thinks that Pakistan is the leading influence upon Arab countries not to accept Israel. Israel views if Pakistan dies out, it can dominate the Islamic, particularly the Arab, countries. Thats why it is an active part of every anti-Pakistan alliance. Pakistan has not yet accepted Israel. Sheer distance has checked Israel so far to attack Pakistan. Rather it has adopted a way of scheming with India for the destruction of Pakistan. Despite having thousands of miles distance, Israel is contemptuous towards Pakistan. It is creating troubles in collaboration with India and cannot stand Pakistan at any cost. Many of its spying satellites are already in air. Ofik seven, Ofik five, Eros B, Amos one and Amos two are a few to be mentioned. These spying satellites monitor Iran and many Arab countries round the clock. Israel has launched a satellite from the Indian plains to shoot pictures of the Iranian nuclear installations and movements there. It will also monitor Pakistan along with Israel. The satanic triangle of the US, India and Israel is not only operative against Iran and Pakistan, but it has zeroed in all their resources to completely eliminate all Muslims of the world. The Israeli intentions against the Muslim Ummah are no secret now. Israel not only threatens to attack our atomic installations, but is also scheming against us in collaboration with India. Mutual satellite is a part of this 136

conspiracy. India and Israel both are enemies of Pakistan. They cannot accept the existence of Pakistan, its progress, well-being, freedom and security. Thats why despite spelling charms of peace by tongue, they are busy scheming against Pakistan by throwing it into political and economic instability, and depriving it of a sustainable defence guarantee from its atomic program.

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Chinas think tanks are quite different. Contrary to American think tanks, which are outwardly free from governmental influences (and some of them are really free), in China they are answerable to the State Council or Communist Party of China, which itself is the biggest think tank of the country. They are also different because they comprise of real scholars and literati. They are not like our think tanks which have been stuffed with retired bureaucrats, generals, air marshals and journalists, who can do no real work because most of them get funds from the governments. There is no need to mention that sometimes we dont get anything important from them or the government doesnt want to use them, for which they should look unofficial, like the track-2 diplomacy with India. But they have little or no influence on the government policy. The Chinese think tanks should be taken seriously, especially when they talk to the people, because they certainly reflect the governments policies. In the beginning of August, BBC broadcasted this news that the Chinese institute of Strategic Studies, while referring to an analysis of a Zhan Leo (which means strategy), said that India would break up and divide into 30 autonomous states. The people were dumb-founded on this news. We are accustomed to listening to such bragging that America would divide Pakistan into pieces, but we never thought that China is talking of making pieces of India. It means that a cat of a lions body has jumped into a bevy of pigeons. The Indian foreign ministry has rejected Zhans report in these words, This is the work of an individual and it does not reflect Chinas official position. The question arises that if this does not reflect Chinas official position, then why did the Indian government take a note of it? Evidently, it means that the report is really serious and it was taken seriously. Zhan says that after such a division, India would become a prosperous country of the region and that would be in Chinas interest. The second thing is clear while the first one is worth consideration, because a big country like India which has such a strange and unfamiliar political system cannot eliminate the poverty of such a huge population just as China has done and is functioning under its own indigenous system (the same thing is true to Pakistan). More than 76% of the Indian people are living in extreme poverty, with the daily income of less than 2 dollars (in Pakistan this income is comparatively and shamefully a bit lesser), despite the general elections during the last 62 years. This report has been eliminated from the internet, but, according to Times of India, Zhan said, Beijing, with the help of friendly countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Bhutan, should break India into 20-30 pieces and establish Free states there. Zhan adds, China should work with different nationalities like the Tamil and Kashmiri people so that they could establish their own autonomous states. Zhan has also talked about Arunachal Pradesh near Chinas border which is a bone of contention between the two countries. The other area is Xaichen. The 140

Indo-China war of 1962 was fought over the issue of the ownership of these regions. After that Bhart Verma, in a long article in India Today Review, writes, China would invade India before 2012. Why? Beijing has many reasons to teach India the last lesson and this way China would gain certain dominance over Asia by the end of this century. The shop of exports has closed because of a decrease in the exports of China and there is an unusual restlessness on the internal level. It has created a danger of communists grip on society. This is Bhart Vermas thought full of exaggeration. Chinas shop of exports (it reflects jealousy) has not closed. It is not facing any danger from the communists grip. If Bhart Verma knows what China is, he must also know how the fear of the Cultural Revolution has strengthened the Chinese people, though America cannot be stopped from trying to show a miracle of the Tiananmen square. Verma says that unemployment there is 14%, and there is a capital outflow through Hong Kong. China is worried at the attitude of Pakistan, which is their right hand, and which is involved in anti-India activities at their instigation. Indian democracy is an eye sore for China. He adds, The communists of China feel the need of a military victory to unite their people. After that Verma asks if the Indian leadership would tolerate the intensity of war. Does its army have enough weapons to face Beijing and Islamabad on two fronts? And, will the civil administration be able to face internal security challenges (meaning scenarist forces) which will be patronized from abroad? Verma answers: No. The peace loving India is ready for war neither on internal nor on external fronts. (peace loving is a heavy word for India.) In response to Vermas wrong notion about Chinas invasion of India in 2012, Chen Zheo Chen replied in China Business News, The reasons given for the invasion are senseless. There is only one possibility of a war, and that is Indias New Forward Policy which may increase border issues and compel China to use force. India can give all the answers. Indias extra 60,000 troops in Tibet where China has a small military garrison can create an imbalance. Indian army acted aggressively after a small row with China in 1959. It is its forward policy. In 1962, Chinas defensive attack was limited but successful. The deployment of 60,000 more Indian troops on the controversial border is a part of her recent forward policy. Then, what is Mr Chen saying? He is saying, Yes, war is possible. It seems to have started. They must remember that everything does not happen according to the plan. Only the destruction of mankind is the terrible scene. They should also remember that the sun of their sultanates set when the European imperialists started fighting with each other. The world leadership went into the hands of America and the Soviet Union, in which the former won and the 20th century was called Americas century.

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INDIA which has openly signed a number of mutual agreements with China, calling the latter a strategic partner, has been playing a double game with Beijing by acting upon a secret strategy. Although Sino-Indian differences have always existed due to the Indian presumption that peace-loving China is its adversary, yet the same entered into an alarming situation when on December 29, 2009, Indian Army chief General Deepak Kapoor openly revealed that the Indian Army is now revising its five-year-old doctrine and preparing for a possible two-front war with China and Pakistan. While New Delhi is no match to Beijing in conventional and nuclear weapons, but this statement clearly shows that the Indian rulers are ready to go even to the extent of war especially against China. However, with the statement of Kapoor, Sino-Indian rift which was in its embryonic stage has come on the surface. In 2009, Indian leaders and media seriously reacted to an article of a Chinese think-tank, Zhan Lue, which suggested the disintegration of India. As a matter of fact, it was the only personal opinion of a Chinese think-tank, having no official backing, but Indian high officials took it as the state voice of Beijing. In this respect, on August 11, India Today cited Navy Chief Admiral Suresh Mehta disclosing: China is likely to be more assertive on its claims; especially on its immediate neighboursmatching division should be changed to technological advancement on the Indian military side. We should reduce the Chinese footprints on the Indian Ocean. New Delhi shows that despite the Sino- Indian border dispute, it does not favour independence of Tibet and avoids propaganda against Beijing. But the Indian stand was indirectly expressed by its leaders and media. For example, the former foreign minister Yashwant Sinha had said, We want good relations with China, but if we reach a point of conflict over Tibet, we should be prepared for the eventuality. The state-run China Daily, on July 27, 2006, denounced the Lama as a splittist and pointed out that he has collaborated with the Indian military and American CIA to organize Indian Tibetan special border troops to fight their way back into Tibet. It is notable that in order to conceal its covert activities, India has always blamed China for backing Maoist uprising. However, instead of addressing the root causes of the Maoist uprising, the Indian government recently intensified its blame-game against china, alleging for supplying arms to these insurgents. While everyone knows that in more than seven states, India itself faces separatist movements which are the result of acute poverty and social injustices. Particularly, Maoist movement has been raging in the form of peasant uprising in West Bengal. And its leader, Mupala Luxman Rao in 1969, protested against the Hindu landlords who left no stone unturned in molesting the poor people through their mal-treatment such as forced labour and minimum wages. Now this indigenous movement has expanded to other Indian regions, including Maharashtra. At present, it is a popular insurgency by the 142

downtrodden that have massive support of people for their ideology. In this regard, on October 31, 2009, The New York Times wrote, Indias Maoist rebels are now present in 20 states and have killed more than 900 Indian security officersIndias rapid economic growth has made it an emerging global power but also deepened stark inequalities in the society. However, by neglecting all these ground realities, and accusing Beijing, New Delhi has been advancing towards a self-destructive path. Taking cognizance of Kapoors threat against China and Pakistan, on January 2, the Pakistan Joint Chief of Staff Committee (JCSC) Chairman General Tariq Majid rightly indicated, The Indian Army Chiefs statement exhibits a lack of strategic acumen. He further said that, Such a path could fix India on a selfdestructive mechanism. Indias misperceptions about Beijing in connection with the Maoist movement could also be judged from the fact that it has also been accusing the latter for supporting the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. Recently, India has also blamed China for backing a Maoist study centre so as to cause an uprising in Nepal. While the Indian allegations were already proven untrue when in the recent past, the Maoist political party won the over-whelming majority in the countrys first genuine elections. As regards to the Indian new military build-up against China, on May 31, 2009 after 43 years, New Delhi re-opened its Daulat Beg Oldi (DBO) airbase in Northern Ladakh, which overlooks the strategic Karakoram Pas and is only eight kilometres, south of the Chinese border-the Aksai China area. India has also erected more than 10 new helipads and roads between the Sino-Indian borders. The Indian defence ministry planners are working on building additional airfields and increasing troops raising two new mountain divisions to be deployed along the 4,057-kilometre Line of Actual Control (LAC). With the help of Israel and America, on February 26, 2008, India conducted its project in connection with air, land and sea ballistic systems. In the recent past, the Indian Navy Chief Admiral Sureesh Mehta also accused Beijing and explained that the Indian Navy would keep a close watch on the movements of the Chinese submarines which are operating out of an underground base in the South China Sea and wish to enter the Indian Ocean. However, under the pretension of the China factor, New Delhi and Israel, with the tactical support of the sole superpower, are plotting to block the sea lanes of the Indian Ocean for their joint strategic goals. It is of particular attention that in May 1998, when India detonated five nuclear tests, the then defence minister George Fernandes had declared publicly that China is Indias potential threat No1. India successfully tested its missile Agni-111 in May 2007, and extended its range to target all the big cities of China. The US which signed a nuclear deal with India in 2008, intends to make India the mini-superpower of Asia by containing China and de-stabilizing Pakistan as well as Iran. Pakistans province, Balochistan where China has invested billions of dollars to develop the Gwadar seaport, irritates both Washington and New Delhi. However, Beijing and Islamabad cannot neglect their common defence when 143

their adversaries are following a covert strategy. President Zardari had decided to visit China after every three months to further cement ties between the two old friends. Both the countries have signed 11 agreements to enhance bilateral cooperation in diverse sectors. So the Sino-India rift is also part of the greater Cold War between the US and China. Besides, Indian reservations regarding Chinas infrastructural projects in Azad Kashmir are unjustified and discriminative. The Indian game plan against Beijing could also be assessed from the fact that New Delhi is grabbing waters of neighbouring countries. The Chinese plan to build a dam on the river Yarlung Tsangpo in the upper reaches of Tibetan plateau, reiterating that it would adversely affect navigation in the Brahmanputra River. Returning to our earlier discussion, India which has wideranging agreements with Beijing, apparently emphasizes mutual cooperation, but has been acting upon anti-China secret diplomacy. Hence, the Sino-Indian rift has only widened in the recent times.

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Nepal and India have been fighting a long war over a Nepalese piece of land. Kalapani is the basic cause of the row between the two countries. It is 20,276 feet high above the sea level. India believes that that piece of land would be crucial to stop Chinese forces from advancing. In a meeting of the Technical Committee, Nepal proposed that the Kalapani issue should be resolved according to the map of between 1850 and 1856 whereas India wants its solution according to the map of 1879. Nepal has totally rejected Indias proposal. It is quite interesting to note that both Nepal and India have shown this piece of land as their property. The Nepalese documents show the Kalee River as Nepals border whereas the Indian map refutes that and shows the river as Kutiyangh. The conflict has been going on between the two countries because India changed the name of this river. It is worth mentioning about the Susta border row that India has occupied 140002 hectares of land during the last 72 years. The basic causes of the conflict are those areas of Nepal which are near Indias borders. 250 laborers came to Susta to work on the Bhaisaloton project and settled there, but the political reason is the fact that BJP stopped the Biharis from going to Nepal. Their condition is a vote for their party. The Nepalese government did not deal with this problem in the way it should have been dealt. A committee of the foreign affairs has issued this statement that all the issues have been resolved except the Susta and Kalapani issues, yet there are many other places which India has occupied. Though belated, the Nepalese government and parliament have realized the seriousness of the matter, as is evident from their MPs recent visit of the Susta area when the foreign relations committee is focusing on it. Nepals Prime Minister has also expressed his concern, but no policy has been evolved so far on this issue. It is clear as daylight that this issue can be solved if the Nepalese Prime Minister works on it seriously. In a meeting of both the countries on the foreign ministers level, The Indian Foreign Minister insisted on a status quo. But what does it mean? This is no solution to the problem. Now this issue has reached the foreign office and it should reach the office of the prime minister too because the border issue is always a serious issue for every country. Those who are responsible for this loss of that piece of land must be punished. The dialogue about the border between the two countries has been going on for a long time. On March 4th 1816 Nepal and the East India Company signed a document which ended the long row about the border between the two countries. But it never ended because soon after the signing of the contract, the East India Company claimed that Antudanda was theirs, which later on was given to Sikkim. But then somehow Nepal succeeded in getting it back in 1838. This border issue lingered on even after 1947. In fact, due to the increasing population of India, some people cleared the forests in Nepals part and settled there. Still the war is going on. The border line between Nepal and India is 1808 km long, and 26 districts of Nepal are near the Indian border. There are 54 places in 21 districts where complaints of occupation of 60,000 hectares are so common. There is illegal occupation on 37,000 hectares in Kalapani, 14,000 hectares in Susta, 1,600 hectares 145

in Mechi and 450 hectares in Yarastan. 98% of work on the border has been finalized in a meeting of a joint technical boundary meeting in New Delhi. That is why the government is declaring that all the issues between India and Nepal have been resolved except the issues of Kalapani and Susta. But drawing of maps is no solution because they are prone to amendment. If we observe the border, we can see a lot of illegal occupations. There was a horrible war between India and China in 1962. After that the Kalapani issue emerged. There are 5 reasons for the occupation of the land in Susta including the Susta border issue and some other natural, social and political ones. The natural cause is the flood because the floods of 1845, 1954, , 1980 and 1989 have changed the course of the Naryari river and India claims that the land that the river is flowing on is theirs. The other natural reason is this that Susta is situated where there are Indian pieces of land on its north and east and the river Naryai flows on its west, and it separates Susta from Nepal. It is easy for India to occupy it. The social reason is the fast growth of Indian population. If Nepal wants to prove right the concept of a greater Nepal, it is important that it gets back all its territories which are one fourth of Nepal in the same way as China got Hong Kong back from Britain. The territory that Nepal has lost so far was never the property of the East India Company. The news about the Indian occupation of Nepals territories is sometime published in newspapers. India illegally occupied Nepals territory on 22 November 2007 for the last time.

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Nepal is the only Indian neighbour where almost everyone from Prime Minister to a policeman is on the pay role of RAW. Nepals Congress is in fact another part of the Indian Congress. Peace prevails in Nepal and Mao rebels attacks decrease when Congress rules there. No longer does the Congress leave due to the peoples protests and a strong opposition and the opposition coalition forms the government, lawlessness reaches the highest point. The Mao rebels attacks become severe and strong. Why? Nepal is the only country in the world where the state religion is Hinduism. The government of the Congress in Nepal means that the Delhi government is ruling Nepal too. RAW agents are there in government parties, who keep that country in its tentacles. Nepal is also an important member of SAARC, but the fact is that SAARC has never been an effective body because of Indias objectionable attitude. India has been dreaming of becoming a super power in Asia and it has aggressive designs against the neighbouring countries. As I have stated several times before, India is a wolf in sheeps clothing and wants to deprive all the south Asian countries of their freedom. Everyone knows Indias dangerous designs about the neighbouring countries. It wants to weaken the other south Asian countries and make its markets there. It is not ready to even tolerate its neighbouring Hindu country Nepal. Indias secret agencies are active in creating instability in Nepal. It is dreaming of occupying Bhutan and Nepal. It has already occupied Sikkim. Nepal is a weak neighbouring country of India, and its state religion is Hinduism. But India is thinking of occupying this land of Hindu faith on any pretext. India is behind all the disruption and economic difficulties there. Indian Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru was very upset when Shah Mahendra came into power in 1960, but then he signed some aid pacts. Indian intervention in Nepals internal affairs started from then. India has pushed Nepal into a civil war situation with its conspiracies. Then the genocide of the kings family in 1990 was according to the wishes of India. India helped and trained the Mao rebels, which created many problems for the people of Nepal. A mission of the UNO (UNMIN) was sent to Nepal for a complete restoration of democracy and peace there because the Indian intervention had created a civil warlike situation in Nepal. This mission completed its tenure in January 2008 but the government of Nepal has asked for an extension in its stay to put the country on the road to democracy and peace. About 13000 Nepalese were killed in the civil war. Many were made homeless and the exact number of the disappeared persons is not known. India wants instability in Nepal. That is why it objects to UN missions steps towards peace. The UN mission has taken action in Nepals Terai area which is also the centre of pro-India Mao rebels. India is criticizing it, whereas the missions leader says that they are looking for a safe passage for transport of food to the people 147

of Terai. The mission has found some irrefutable proofs of Indian intervention in Nepals internal affairs. If the mission is extended, it would be able to find some more heinous intentions of India which would end Indian hegemony in Nepal. It is the duty of the Nepali government to check the vicious activities of Indian saboteurs because India is determined to mar the relationships between Nepal and other Muslim countries.

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Bhutan, a Himalayan kingdom of 635,000 people, geographically located between China and India has one of the highest per capita incomes in South Asia of over $2,000. Bhutan is a very peace loving and friendly country and its people are happy and prosperous. On November 6, 2008, formal coronation of 29-year-old Bhutanese King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wang chuck took place in Thimphu. King Wang chuck, like his father is a ray of hope for the Bhutanese people and is contributing a lot for the uplift and development of his country. India had tense relations with Bhutan due to allegations of direct interference in Thimphus internal affairs and New Delhis support to insurgent groups in the northeast. It is however, good to see that India is trying to mend its fences with the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries. In the latest positive development, talks between King Wang chuck and the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh resulted in the signing of 12 agreements including four on hydropower generation, civil aviation, health and Information Technology (IT) fields. India will prepare the initial technical reports for four new hydro-electricity projects with capacity of over 3500MW in the Himalayan kingdom. Bhutan, with the domestic consumption of only 400 MW has currently an installed capacity of 1500 MW of hydropower. The entire surplus power is presently exported to India. The Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had concluded an agreement with Bhutan in 2008 that it will help Bhutan build additional installed capacity of 10,000 megawatt in hydropower by 2020. It is pertinent to mention here that India is also assisting Bhutan to build three major hydro-electric projects at Chukh, Kurichu and Tala. Besides, India is also helping in the construction of Punatsagchhu-1 project. In the information Technology (IT) sector, India and Bhutan have inked a major project worth Rs. 205 crore. Under this project, computer training will be given to over 7,000 government officials, 5,000 teachers and 1,600 enterprises and 200,000 rural children. In the field of education, India would set up a 50seat undergraduate medical college on the lines of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS). Other agreements included curbing illicit drug trafficking. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has convinced King Wang chuck that India wanted the democratic experiment in Bhutan to succeed. The people of Bhutan are very loyal to the King and are happy and content, but India and other countries including US and Britain are attempting to abolish monarchy in Bhutan. Some analysts feel that on the instigation of western powers and own vested interests, India is playing a double game to bring popular revolt against King Wang chuck somewhere in the next decade. This cannot be achieved unless the minds of Bhutanese are brainwashed with the help of IT. India has hegemonic ambitions in the region and Bhutan is an easy prey. Indias main objective seems to create a greater India by placing Bhutan through a loose 149

confederation under Indian union. One wonders that the agreement in hydropower generation is New Delhis tool to enter Bhutan and win the hearts of masses. India believes that since Bhutan is surrounded by India on three sides and is dependent on India for access to the sea it should be part of India. Although Bhutan shares borders with China but India claims that a pro-China policy is not viable for Bhutan. During the ongoing discussions between King Jigme Khesar Namgyel Wang chuck and Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, it also came to light that India is interested in the security and defence cooperation with Bhutan. No doubt, it would be the greatest folly for Bhutan to fall in this trap. We have an example of Sri Lanka before us when the Indian armed forces physically occupied Sri Lanka in 1986 in the name of helping Colombo to get rid of insurgents. One wonders, if the Indian armed forces are so smart why are they unable to control the law and order situation in more than 28 of its insurgency hit states. India is also controlling Bhutan External Relations through the 1949 treaty between the two countries. Article 2 of the treaty requires Bhutan to be guided by the advice of India in the conduct of its external relations while Article 6 bars Bhutan from import of arms, ammunition, machines, warlike material or stores without assistance and approval of India. Although there were a lot of reviews and discussions but still Bhutan cannot frame its independent policies. India must realize that Bhutan is a sovereign country and changing the language of the 1949 treaty wont suffice. It needs the decision of the Bhutanese King and its people, and not India, whether or not to purchase lethal or non-lethal weapons. It is an irony that Bhutan can only purchase non-lethal military stores and equipment and there is a requirement of approval from New Delhi. The Indians past record is not very clean as regard to Bhutan. It is interesting to note that previously the SAARC conference used to fail due to Indias interference in the internal affairs of the member countries. India needs to change its imperialist and capitalist approach to bring peace in the region. The times have changed; Bhutan should be allowed to make its own independent decisions and be treated at par with other countries of the world. It is time to get united for which SAARC can act as a powerful platform in bringing the South Asian nations together.

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An NGO has been established by Indian spy agency RAW in Badakhshan, which persuades Chinese nationals to join it. They will be subsequently trained and sent to the Chinese province of Xingjian for creating instability. These Chinese nationals are believed to be the members of East Turkmen Independent Movement (ETIM) and are considered suitable for creating unrest in Northern china. Some other reports suggest that the Indian agents have categorically instructed their operatives in Afghanistan and elsewhere for maintaining close contacts with Al-Qaeda for their financial need for ETIM leadership. Indians have made progress into camps reportedly established by ETIM in Northern and Southern region of Afghanistan. Moral, material and financial assistance is regularly provided by Indian trained-operatives to strengthen and then launch ETIM members from Afghan soil against China. It is believed that Indian intelligence operatives based in Afghanistan, while taking advantage of the fragile situation, have made concerted efforts to attract maximum Chinese dissidents by offering them wide range of incentives. They are being encouraged to target vital installations and high profile personalities in the Chinese province, including security forces. The Indian persuasive efforts and training of Chinese dissidents are facilitated with the active support of Afghan intelligence. It is learnt that these trained Chinese dissidents will be sent to Xingjian province in the garb of businessmen through various routes to ensure their safe landing. Indians also aim to implicate Pakistani Taliban in these activities. To this end Indians may produce fake identities and push these passport holders to china and later reveal it as proof of Pakistani origin Taliban involvement in Xingjian. This move is aimed at creating cracks in the friendly relationship between Pakistan and China.

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Those who attacked the security personnel and butchered them in Waziristan and Swat were not the local people because the local people of that area, whether they belong to a religious party or are non-religious, would never do such a heinous crime against even the worst of their enemies; nor does our religion allow it. Enmities and animosities of the tribal people linger on for many generations and even for many centuries. Many people are killed but dead bodies are never desecrated. They even spare their lives if enemies visit them. A visitor, even if he is an enemy, is respected as an honourable guest. Then, who were those people who not only attacked the security personnel but also were so cruel towards the local population, too? They were none other than the agents of the Indian secret agency RAW. There are so many similarities between the East Pakistan of 1971 and the tribal areas of present days. In East Pakistan, RAW, in the guise of Mukti Bahni, decapitated the Pakistani soldiers and treated even the Bengalis in the same way. Similar is the situation in Waziristan. The strings of this net of a greater India are in the hands of RAW. RAW established 40 terrorist training camps in the Makran Division of Balochistan adjacent to Iran. It paid a monthly salary of Rs 1,000 to the unemployed Balochi young men to use them for anti-state activities. About 60 of them have been arrested. The police recovered from these arrested people remote control electronic devices, satellite mobile phones and some important documents and maps. History proves that the Muslims of the sub-continent demanded a separate country for themselves because an anti-Muslim environment had been created there. Everyone knows how the Sikhs of East Punjab treated the migrating Muslims. Facts cannot be denied. It is a fact that India and Pakistan are two different countries. Borders between them cannot be eliminated. Nor can friendly relations be maintained between them. Extremist and sectarian organizations of India have been active not only in India but also in other countries. These extremist Hindu organizations are against Pakistan. They have never accepted the creation of Pakistan. Some people of India want friendly relationship with Pakistan. But these extremist Hindu organizations take them back to those hateful days of 1947. It not only adversely affects the development of both the countries, but also increases hatred and animosity. The strained relationships between both the countries, are due to the mean and biased activities of these sectarian Hindu organizations. Pakistan always extended her hand of friendship, but the Hindu bigots always gave the impression that Pakistan is aggressive and oppressive. The whole world, after a keen and careful observation, admitted that Pakistan is neither aggressive nor has it been sending trained terrorists to Kashmir. The Kashmiris have been fighting for their freedom since 1947 against the occupied forces of India. Hindus are very clever and cunning. They are wolves in sheeps clothing. They cannot be trusted. They never accepted the creation of Pakistan. They cannot occupy 152

Pakistan by force, but they want to tactfully continue their occupation of Kashmir and to find a market in Pakistan for its commodities. We shall have to first resolve the Kashmir issue before we improve our relationship with India.

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KASHMIR
A TEST CASE FOR PEACEMAKERS 1 FREEDOM MOVEMENT 2 ATROSITIES 3 KILLINGS 4 MILLITARY PRESENCE 5 UN RESOLUTIONS

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The Kashmiris, at the time of the creation of Pakistan, believed that they were a part of Pakistan. There are 90 percent Muslims in Kashmir though their raja was a Hindu. When, on October 27, Mountbatten ordered the Indian forces to enter Kashmir, the Muslims rose against them. The maharaja had taken no decision even two months after the division of India. On the basis of geo-strategic position, religion, civilization and culture, Kashmir had to be a part of Pakistan. This rule of freedom had been agreed upon at the time of partition. The Muslims and their leader Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah insisted on the two-nation theory. The Hindus party, Congress, had to accept it. Even the British realized the natural necessity of division of India into two autonomous states. This is also a historical fact that Mountbatten wrote a letter to the Kashmiri raja and the Indian forces entered Kashmir that very day. It means that the Indian forces had already made a plan to enter Kashmir. Then, how could the newly created Pakistan remain unconcerned about the situation in Kashmir? India benefited from Pakistan's shortage of manpower, arms and ammunition and means of transport. It was sure that the Indian forces would easily capture all of Kashmir. The Kashmir issue is in fact a part of an incomplete agenda of the division of India. Pakistan came into being in northern India on the basis of Muslim majority there. On the basis of this rule, the state of Jammu and Kashmir should have joined Pakistan. But the Hindus and the British rulers conspired to create hurdles in Kashmirs annexation to Pakistan. Kashmir was annexed to India. In 1947, the maharaja of Kashmir and Indian rulers sent their forces to Kashmir and occupied a large part of it. But when Kashmir was about to get freedom as a result of the struggle of the Kashmiris, India raised this issue in the United Nations. The UN passed resolution to solve the Kashmir issue. They admitted the right of self determination for the Kashmiris and decided that the Kashmiris would be given the right to decide their fate on the basis of adult franchise. The first Prime Minister of India, Jawahar Lal Nehru, promised that the Kashmiris would be given the right of self-determination as per the UN resolutions. But then, the Indian rulers not only refused to give them the right of self-determination but also declared that Kashmir is a part and parcel of India. The Kashmiri leaders demanded the Indian government to act upon the promises made to them in 1947. India has made Kashmir its colony. The Indian soldier checks the identity cards of every Kashmiri and hits him. He also behaves badly with the Kashmiri women. The whole nation has been suffering because of the wrong decision of the leadership in 1947. Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah (late) had declared that trusting the Indians was his greatest blunder. India has been acting upon many plans to make its imperialistic occupation eternal. But the Indian rulers fail to understand that Kashmir has become a big headache for them. Whatever India does in Kashmir, it cannot win the hearts and minds of the people there because they are determined to get rid of the Indian 156

occupation. Nothing can stop them. India has forgotten the UN resolution. It is occupying a large part of Kashmir. It is known as Occupied Kashmir. India has gotten entangled in it and cannot get a way out of it. Even the state terrorism cannot control the situation there. The 40 years patience has forced the Kashmiris to take up arms. This has annoyed India. The Indian government is trying to present it as terrorism at the international level, calling it across the border terrorism. The fact is that India itself is involved in terrorism against the Kashmiris. The Indian government, per its illegal contract with the Dogra rulers on October 27 1947, occupied Jammu and Kashmir. The whole world, the UN and the Kashmiris themselves consider this occupation as illegal and immoral. There is only one solution and that is the right of self-determination. The Muslim sons of the soil and the Kashmiri youth protest on October 27 every year against the so-called annexation of Kashmir to India. The maharaja of Kashmir had conspired on that day with the Indians to annex Kashmir to India. There was no moral or legal justification for that. The Muslims were in great majority in Jammu and Kashmir and so Kashmir should have been annexed to Pakistan. But the Dogra rulers conspired to make Kashmir a slave of India.

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The US and Britain often express concern over the looming threat of war between two nuclear states India and Pakistan. Prime Minister Gordon Browns statement that the solution of the Kashmir issue is vital for world stability is indeed encouraging. But he should take initiative and persuade international community to help resolve the dispute, as it is unfinished part of the partition of the subcontinent. President Obama has many a time expressed his desire that the dispute between India and Pakistan should be resolved but has stayed short of playing an active role in resolving the dispute. If the world powers including US and Britain take due interest in the matter and ensure implementation of the UN Resolutions on this issue, the oppressed millions in Jammu and Kashmir would get their basic rights, and would also strengthen world peace and stability, as it is a major flashpoint in the world. On 5th February 2010, British Labor Member of the Parliament Sir Gerald Kaufman in his address on Kashmir Solidarity Day seminar held in London said that the issue of Kashmir will be on top of the agenda in his meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown. But what transpired in the meeting was not known. He said that UK and US were concerned on the situation particularly for its bearings on stability and economy of Pakistan, which was essential for the peace of entire region. He asserted that UN Resolutions on Kashmir remained valid, and peaceful resolution of the issue was possible only through the implementation of these Resolutions. Sir Gerald Kaufman also shared his painful experiences of his visits of Kashmir where he was able to observe worst kind of violations of rights of people. He is perhaps the only British MP who believes that UN Resolutions are still valid. Anyhow, after that he did not speak on the subject as to what transpired in his meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown. It has to be said that the Kashmir Dispute owes its origin to machinations of the governor general Lord Mountbatten, and it is the responsibility of Britain to help resolve this issue. In January 2010, addressing Indo-Pak Conference on roadmap for peace, Jammu and Kashmir Liberation leader Yasin Malik said that he felt no decision would ever be taken to implement a roadmap for peace in the State. A 3-day conference organized on Jan. 10-12, 2010 by a consortium of Indian fora ended, which proved to be an exercise in futility. Participants were invited from Pakistan and Jammu and Kashmir, in addition to participants from the host country and the conference was opened by former Indian premier IK Gujral. On second day of the conference, i.e., January 11, the topic was Issue of Autonomy: Kashmir and Balochistan. The session was addressed by Asma Jahangir of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan and important personalities from Balochistan. One does not understand how members of Pakistani delegation had agreed to the topic, which bracketed Balochistan with Kashmir. Pakistani delegation should not have attended the conference for bracketing Balochistan with Kashmir, as the former is part of Pakistan, whereas Kashmir is 158

a disputed territory, which is pending in the United Nations. Britain is also in the picture that states Kashmir is either in India or Pakistan, and there was no concept of any independent state. Now Baloch sardars are peddling the idea the Balochistan was an independent entity in the plan for the partition of the subcontinent. In this backdrop, Britain should not allow leaders of the banned outfit Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) to issue instructions to the insurgents in Balochistan. Prime Minister Gordon Brown should look into the matter and, keeping in view excellent relations between Britain and Pakistan, he should take measures to get the headquarters of BLA closed. The long dormant crisis had erupted into a brutal confrontation with the centre in 1973 when late Zulfikar Ali Bhutto had tried to establish educational institutions and construction of roads in Balochistan. The insurgency had lasted for four years from 1973 to 1977, and it was after promulgation of Martial Law by late General Zia-ul-Haq that sedition cases were withdrawn against Baloch sardars. It is unfortunate that neither the British leadership nor the civil society in Pakistan consider it worthwhile to comment on what sardars have been doing to their people. No human right activist cries over the atrocities inflicted on them by their feudal lords and sardars in their private jails. It is too well known that RAW, CIA and Mossad are active in Balochistan and FATA to destabilize Pakistan, and Pakistani leadership ruling and opposition parties should work in unison to frustrate the designs of the enemies of Pakistan. There is no denying that during British Raj and after independence, Balochistan and NWFP were neglected so far as their development is concerned. But this is also true that despite being part of the provincial governments, sardars had neither done anything to develop Baloshistan, nor persuaded the central government to make development plans for their province. They consider all natural resources of Balochistan their personal property and want to pocket all the profits and royalties. From the statements and interviews of the scions of Akbar Bugti, one can understand that the bone of contention between late Akbar Bugti and the federation arguably was that the former wanted an increase in gas royalty. As regards Mian Nawaz Sharifs suggestion of holding talks with those who are not in Balochistan is intriguing, and he is trying to draw political mileage from the contradictions between sardars and the government. He should have known that Brahmadagh Bugti is ensconced in Afghanistan near President Karzais palace, and Mir Hybyar Marri is in London, and both are reported to have the backing and support from the enemies of Pakistan. It goes without saying that tribalism is firmly rooted in Balochistan, and ethnic and tribal identity is a potent force for both individuals and groups in Balochistan, with the result that there exists deep polarization among different groups. Each of these groups is based on different rules of social organization, which has left the province inexorably fragmented. Tribal group-ism has failed to integrate the state and enforce a national identity. But those who have not been weaned from the poison of sham nationalism, should take a look at the history of the Balkans, and the fate they met. A couple of times Sardar Ataullah Mengal 159

appeared in a television interview, and said that America did not pay any attention, and he would accept any outside help to disintegrate the country. Sardar Ataullah Mengal, Sardar Khair Bakhsh Marri and the scions of late Akbar Bugti should try to safeguard the interests of Baloch people but not through violence and bloodshed. It is heartening to note that there is dawning of realization on the part of the central government as well as provinces; and in this regard, Punjab and Sindh have sacrificed part of their share to Bahlochistan.

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Kapil Komireddi is an Indian journalist. He often writes on Indias foreign policy matters. His articles are published in some leading newspapers of India, America and Britain. His article entitled The Demise of Pakistan is Inevitable was published in Britains famous newspaper Guardian of June 14, 2009. The demise of Pakistan is the wishful thinking of India and Israel and some enemies of Pakistan. I firmly believe that with the grace of God, Pakistan will always go on shining like a star. The Indian journalist says, Pakistan's fight against the Taliban is like a fixed game. If the Pakistani government had been serious about eliminating the Taliban, it would not have allowed its 200,000 soldiers to sit idle on its eastern border. According to that journalist, Pakistan is only interested in getting billions of dollars from America. Even the Americans wonder how the aid of billions of dollars has been spent on strengthening the anti-India armed forces of Pakistan. He says, The recent bomb attacks of the Taliban have been pestering their Pakistani paymasters. But the Pakistani government would never change its attitude about the Taliban until the Taliban are determined to destroy India and liberate Kashmir. He tells us that when he met Yahya Mujahid of Jamaat-ut-Dawa in Lahore, he (Yahya) affirmed that the war against India would continue till the freedom of Kashmir. He continues that at the time of release of Hafiz Saeed, the Lahore High Court judges said that there was no mention of Al Qaeda or its world-wide terrorism in their books. According to the Indian journalist, there was no clear-cut justification for the creation of Pakistan in 1947. The myth that the Hindus and the Muslims could not live together would have been justifiable if India had become a Hindu state after the separation of Muslims. He believes that the Pakistan of 1947 came to an end in 1971. He says that it was the armed forces of a secular India which liberated the Bengalis from the madness of the Pakistani government though none of the commanders of the invading Indian army was a Hindu. Air Chief Idrees Latif was a Muslim. General Arora was a Sikh. Army Chief General Manik Shah was a Parsi. The planner of the war policy J F R Jacob was a Jew. The journalist thinks that Pakistan is a failed state where religious extremism; terrorism and atomic technologys illegal network are spreading. The last diatribe of this Hindu journalist in the Guardian was like this: Within the next 20 years Pakistan as we know it today will probably not exist. Which Pakistani is not aware of the anti-Pakistan mentality of the Hindus? I dont know why our leaders tell us that Pakistan has no threat from India when India, which has drenched hands with the blood of 90,000 innocent Kashmiri Muslims and which separated East Pakistan in 1971, is now attacking Pakistan's ideological frontiers. 161

India does not want a direct clash with Pakistan; rather it wants to weaken Pakistan from inside by separating us from the whole world, by fuelling internal rifts in the frontier, in Balochistan, in Southern Punjab and in Karachi, and by maligning our armed forces. The Pakistani nation, God willing, will destroy Indias illmotivated designs. There is no doubt in the fact that there is a foreign hand behind our internal problems. Doesnt the entry and capture of the 50 arms laden mules into Pakistan prove that the Hindus and the Jews and America are behind all the trouble here? The Drone plane can see even the number plate of a car. Why couldnt it see the 50 mules and vehicles entering Pakistan from Afghanistan? Our leaders may hug and embrace the Indians and forget the UN resolutions. They may also agree not to use atomic weapons. The Hindu will never tolerate Pakistan because he is imbued with the idea of a greater India. This Hindu journalist, who is all praise for a secular India, wrote on December 28, 2008 in a column entitled Indias Double Standard: According to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, there should be no double standards to end terrorism when the Indian leadership followed this double-standards rule when they helped LTTE in Sri Lanka. The journalist writes that the Chief of Army Staff of Sri Lanka, Sarath Fonsche, had strongly condemned Indias intervention in Sri Lanka. According to the Indian journalist, The LTTE could not have grown without the support of successive state governments in India. This proves Indias intervention in the affairs of her neighbouring countries. According to this journalist, the international Jeans Information group has also confirmed this intervention. He wrote that Indias role in Tibet and Burma is not praise-worthy. The journalist said, India tells Pakistan to rein in the jihadi organizations in Pakistan, but India itself is silent about the Tamil Nadu politicians involvement in Sri Lanka. India goes on repeating that it wont talk with the terrorists; but at the same time it sends her foreign minister to Sri Lanka to press on the government there to talk with the LTTE. Is that not a matter of double standards? The same journalist, who criticizes Pakistan and praises the secular India, wrote an interesting article in the Guardian of April 5th, 2009, entitled Indias Failing Secularism. He says, The religious minorities have always been worried since the partition because the economic development of India has not improved their miserable state. It means no day passes when there are no linguistic riots, poverty, prejudices in the lives of the minorities, especially the Indian Muslims. This journalist who opposes the creation of Pakistan, recently wrote that the story of Hindus atrocities against the Muslims is quite long. The Hindus butchered about 1000 Muslims in Gujrat in 2002, and, while defending their crime, the Chief Minister Modi said, Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The Muslims reaped what they had sowed. Moreover, the journalist says that Varun Gandhi, while pointing towards the Muslims, said, The hand that rises against the Hindus will be cut. He added, There are many frightening names of Muslims like Osama bin Laden. This journalist who predicts an imminent demise of Pakistan admitted a few months ago that the secularism of India can be explained according to the wishes of the Hindus. 162

According to him, India may break. After listening to the above mentioned facts as told by an Indian journalist Kapil Komireddi, you can easily imagine whether the Muslims demand for a separate free homeland was right or wrong. And you know how secular the Indian government is. No doubt Pakistan is in a state of war and is under attack from the inside and from the outside. Every Pakistani should understand this conspiracy. Our Ministry of Information and every Pakistani embassy in other countries must watch closely this venomous propaganda against Pakistan. All anti-Pakistan news and every article in foreign newspapers should be vehemently answered back. This jihad is our duty. If someone is doubtful about India, he should read this statement of Indias founding father Jawahar Lal Nehru (He said it on August 7th, 1952 in Indian parliament.) and see for himself the mentality of a greater India and atrocities against the Kashmiri Muslims: I want to stress that it is only the people of Kashmir who can decide the future of Kashmir. It is not that we have merely said that to the United Nations and to the people of Kashmir; it is our conviction and one that is borne out by the policy that we have pursued. . However sad we may feel about leaving, we are not going to stay against the wishes of the people. We are not going to impose ourselves on them at the point of the bayonet. The present leadership of India should understand that India will rise as a big economic power on the map of the world only when it gives the Indian Muslims the right of self determination in accordance with the UN resolutions and Nehrus promises. A former member of Indian assembly and a former high commissioner to UK, the respectable journalist Kuldip Nayyer wrote in the Gulf News on July 4th : There are no two opinions about the fact that the Kashmir issue should be resolved. The two nations fought three wars including the Kargil conflict because of this issue. The Indian rulers know that the relationship with Pakistan cannot improve until this issue is resolved. Then Kuldip Nayyer gave this strange proposal: A better environment for the solution of the Kashmir issue can be created if both India and Pakistan join hands and attack the Taliban together. God willing, such a day would never come when we would need Indian help to solve our internal problems. Kuldip Nayyer should tell the Indian leadership that the Taliban movement would come to an end only when the Kashmir issue is resolved and Indian Muslims are treated well and America leaves Afghanistan. Then the Afghan people would make their own government and peace would prevail in South Asia.

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On August 14, 1947, British rulers and Hindus conspired to make the partition of Kashmir controversial. According to the rule of division, the rulers of the gubernatorial states were given three options: they annex with India, they annex with Pakistan, or they live as an autonomous state. But then Pandit Jawahar Lal Nehru conspired and proposed a referendum in those states where the religious beliefs of the rulers were different from those of the majority. There were Muslim rulers in Hyderabad and Junagadh and the majority of the subjects there were Hindus. There the Hindus in the referendum decided to join India. Things were not the same in Kashmir. Here the maharaja was a Hindu and the people were Muslims. On November 2nd, 1947, Mr Nehru assured that the Kashmiri people themselves would decide the fate of Kashmir. But then the real face of India vis--vis Kashmir was revealed. Indian rulers knew that the people of Kashmir would never join India. Therefore many arguments were put forward to avoid a referendum there. The history of Kashmir is the history of broken promises. On January 5th, 1949, the UN Commission for India and Pakistan (UNCIP) passed a resolution and agreed that a neutral referendum would be held about Kashmirs annexation with India or Pakistan. Negotiations were held with Pakistan and India and the five members of the commission Argentine, Columbia, Czechoslovakia and America recognized it. Professor Joseph Karbil was the chairman of the commission. Indias Sir Benegal Rama Rao openly declared and guaranteed in the 399th session of the Security Council on January 13th, 1949 that his government would fully cooperate with the commission to resolve the Kashmir issue and would support the United Nations efforts to establish peace in every place of the world. The people of Kashmir are not a property which can be divided according to an inelastic formula. Their future should be decided according to their wishes. In 2004 Manmohan Singh and General Pervez Musharraf agreed on a UN platform that everything possible would be done to resolve the Kashmir issue. Then in 2005 the Indian Prime Minister told the UN that there should be no fresh talks about border demarcations. On September 5th, 2005 Manmohan Singh promised with Mir Waiz Omar Farooq (Chairman of the All Parties Hurriyat Conference in Indian Occupied Kashmir) that India would do everything possible to stop violations of human rights. Later, he said it in New York that across the border intervention was the cause of trouble in Kashmir. Our government has assured India many times that Pakistan is not intervening in the Occupied Kashmir. If India is doubtful, neutral observers can be appointed on the control line. But Indian government is reluctant to accept this proposal. Indian leaders talk of negotiations but at the same time they hurl baseless accusation of Pakistani intervention in the Occupied Kashmir. Every sensible person of the world can understand that Indian leaders are not sincere about a dialogue with Pakistan. India is in the habit of breaking promises about the solution of the Kashmir issue. India has imposed a strict government in Kashmir. About 700,000 military and Paramilitary personnel are involved in the hateful violation of human rights. Torture, 164

rape, looting, kidnapping, ransom, disappearance of prisoners, illegal arrests and torturing the political opponents in a cruel way are so common there. India is continuing military operations in Occupied Kashmir. The people of both Azad Kashmir and Occupied Kashmir should be included in all moves to resolve the Kashmir issue. The Kashmiri people are an important party in this issue. Their participation is so vital in all negotiations. The Kashmiris have been fighting for their genuine rights. The majority there are the Muslims who want to annex with Pakistan on the basis of a two-nation theory. They had already announced their annexation with Pakistan. But India never heeded to their wishes. Their struggle during the last 62 years proves that they want the right of self-determination for themselves. Pakistan has always supported their struggle. Three wars have been fought between India and Pakistan. Pakistan demands the right of self-determination for the Kashmiris. India should keep its promise. But it declares that Kashmir is an integral part of India, which has no moral, political and legal justification.

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Every government of Pakistan has always aspired for permanent peace, prosperity, progress and stability in the region and for a peaceful resolution of all the problems through negotiations with all the countries, especially India, and to resolve in particular the Kashmir issue according to the wishes of the Kashmiri people and the UN resolutions, and to include the Kashmiri leadership in all parleys. So Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has stressed again the importance of talks between India and Pakistan to resolve all the issues. If there are no talks between these two countries, it would encourage the terrorists and adversely affect the peace and stability of the region. He said that the question of Indian intervention in Balochistan would be raised. He said it in a meeting in Islamabad that we want to maintain a friendly relationship with all the neighbouring countries, and that the politicians should build bridges, not barriers. It is a fact that the destructive wars between India and Pakistan could not help resolve the differences, problems and issues. Rather these wars increased the differences and problems. It is also true that India is responsible for all these wars because India never accepted Pakistan. It was agreed in the schedule of partition that the states would be allowed to annex with either India or Pakistan. But India never gave this right to any state. It occupied not only Hyderabad and Deccan but also Kashmir. When the Muslim majority of Kashmir started dissidence against India, Pakistan supported them. Indian forces met defeat and destruction in Kashmir. So India went to the UN and promised it would give the people of Kashmir the right of self-determination. It resulted in a cease fire under the supervision of the UN. India violated it and declared Kashmir an integral part of India. It coerced the Kashmiri people. It resulted in three destructive wars between the two countries. But the Kashmir issue is still unresolved. Even then, Pakistan has been trying to resolve this issue through talks and according to the wishes of the Kashmiri people, but India does not agree. It is sad to note that the American support of India has jeopardized the regional peace. If the Indian rulers did not change their attitude, and if America did not stop patronizing India, both India and America would be responsible for all the dangers to regional and world peace. Pakistani rulers should watch closely Indian designs and Indo-American conspiracies. They should also strengthen their defence. Both the government and the people of Pakistan should keep in mind that we will have to offer more sacrifices for our safety and freedom, and we should always be ready for that.

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India had called back a limited number of its forces from Occupied Kashmir in November 2004 as a confidence building measure. But now again it has sent there thousands more soldiers and has kept on an alert position two brigades of its forces. As usual, the Indian Chief of armed forces has held Pakistan responsible for it. He argued that terrorists from Pakistan had started entering India again; that is why India increased its forces in Occupied Kashmir to stop them from entering India. There were already about 700,000 soldiers in Occupied Kashmir. Then why did India send thousands of more troops? India built an iron wall on the border and fixed search lights on them. India is vigilant on the border all the time. Not even a sparrow can enter India. India has developed this bad habit of accusing Pakistan of intervention. Indian forces have been coercing the Kashmiri people for the last 62 years. Rape cases have been increasing. Indian forces have been violating the human rights. They beat and kidnap the Kashmiris if they refuse to work for them. People are being killed in fake encounters. Last year more than 300 people were killed for not working for them. More than 1500 women were kidnapped. Indian forces have turned all of Occupied Kashmir into a jail. The state prisons are terrible. All sorts of atrocities are done against the Kashmiris. They are thrown into boiling or freezing water and they are mercilessly beaten. The Indian forces kill and rape without compunction. Can there be a bigger terrorism? But no one sees the Indian armys terrorism. So we cant even think of a decent civil society there. Civilization will come to Occupied Kashmir only when peace prevails there. The freedom movement there is not a foreign element. The Kashmiris themselves want freedom from India. It is an illegal occupation; still they call it foreign intervention. India itself is intervening. Mental disorders and diseases are on the rise in the occupied valley because of the presence of Indian troops. More than 200 people with mental disorders visit Sri Nagars mental hospital daily. All the Kashmiris hope that the sun of the new day would bring a message of freedom for them. Blood would go on mixing with the waters of the Sind, Jhelum and Poonch rivers until this day of freedom dawns. After the cease fire of January 1st 1949, the Kashmiris have realized that freedom wont be offered on a plate. Therefore, they have to struggle for it and make sacrifices and defeat the enemy. The state of Jammu and Kashmir is not a spacious or dense area. Outwardly it appears that the freedom fighters too are not in a great number. Even then 700,000 of strong Indian army is facing defeat. Kashmiris cannot be free until the last Indian soldier leaves. The mujahideens struggle is on the rise because of Indian atrocities. They are determined to get freedom. India cannot go on enslaving the Kashmiris for a long time. The desire for freedom is there in spite of the Indian armys cruelties. All the Pakistanis support the Kashmiris right of self-determination. If India tried to suppress the Kashmiris forcefully, it would be considered as state terrorism.

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India has been working on many plans for a permanent occupation of Occupied Kashmir. But the Indian rulers dont understand that they cannot swallow it. Whatever they do, they cannot win the hearts and minds of the Kashmiris. The Kashmiris want freedom from India at every cost. Nothing can stop them from their struggle for freedom. About seven hundred thousand Indian soldiers have been violating the human rights to suppress the freedom movement. RAW is fully supporting them. Their atrocities are heart rending. The mujahideens struggle has exposed the claims of the puppet government there. The land of Occupied Kashmir is a victim of state terrorism of Indian forces. The Special Forces there have been committing every inhuman crime. They kill, shoot, rape, burn houses and force the people to migrate. The Indian government has established a special bureau (SSB) under the supervision of RAW. Its training camps are there in Jammu, Rajori, Mandhar and Poonch. Those who get a 6-week training there are given a free hand to murder and commit other inhuman crimes. Some of them are sent to Azad Kashmir for espionage and destruction. India is not ready to read what is writ on the wall. It has given no importance to world opinion and to the UN resolutions. India is involved in state terrorism but it accuses Pakistan and ISI. Its brainless answer to everything is across the border intervention. India must realize that this trend has never helped it; nor would it help it in the future. Truth will prevail. India must realize that a peaceful solution of the Kashmir issue would solve all the problems. This is the only solution to the problems of millions of people who are living in adverse conditions across India India has been committing crimes and atrocities in Occupied Kashmir. It has been killing 10 to 15 innocent Kashmiris daily. Their number has risen to about 100,000. Millions of the young people are being tortured in jails, thus crippling them mentally and physically. Children are being made orphans and women, widows. The Kashmiris will heave a sigh of relief if India calls back its army from there. So much blood has been shed in Kashmir. This issue must be resolved now.

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Indian imperialists offered chief premiership dozens of times to the son of a labourer and a Syed. In response to such an offer, Syed Ali Gilani said, The office of the chief minister has no value against that grand mission for which Ive devoted myself. My motto and my mission of life cannot be sacrificed for this designation. The world must know that we are not a saleable commodity. India cannot buy us. Nor can we bow before any hegemonic power. The 80-year old ailing Syed Ali Gilani was imprisoned for two years under the Indian black laws. The pangs of imprisonment and torture didnt matter much to him. This leader of the freedom fighters was first arrested on August 28 1962 when he was quite young. The same thing is happening even in 2009. This son of the Syed, who is true to his word, has been carrying his own cross since long. He was handed over to different investigation institutions many times. Many cases were registered against him. But not even a bullet has been recovered from him. Even then the Indian imperialists are afraid of him and they even arrested him despite his severe illness. Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah had declared Kashmir as the jugular vein of Pakistan. We have Islamic as well as strategic and geographical ties with Kashmir. We share a 700-mile long border with this state. The only road that connects it with the rest of the world is the Rawalpindi road. The inhabitants of Kashmir have Islamic, religious, cultural and social relationships with Pakistan. All the rivers from Kashmir flow towards Pakistan. Cool breezes come from Kashmir. Pakistan is now facing the water crisis. This crisis is gradually taking Pakistan and the Pakistanis towards death. India has started building illegal dams on three of the rivers that flow towards Pakistan. Pakistans second biggest water-related plan Bhasha Dam is in jeopardy. Why? Our jugular vein is in the hands of the enemy. Not only that. The presence of enemy forces on the snow-laden tops of Kashmir has jeopardized even the defence of Pakistan. Syed Ali Gilani is Pakistan's advocate in Kashmir, whom the Pakistanis have forgotten, although Gilani says it clearly, Pakistan has a right on the waters of Kashmir and no one can deny this right. This son of a Syed is faithful to Pakistan even at the age of 80. But then, what are the Pakistanis doing? Did they ever think about that? It was expected that the Pakistani media and people would show a strong reaction against the unconstitutional and immoral arrest of Syed Ali Gilani. But his arrest could not make headlines in the Pakistani media. The dictator had taken a u-turn on Kashmir after which the graveyards of Shopian, Sri Nagar and Islamabad have been expanding. Even then there is silence in Pakistan. Even the literati have not written anything about this sad state of affairs in Kashmir despite the fact that Syed Ali Gilani is not only a freedom fighter but also a literary man. He was an editor of the most popular weekly Azaan of Kashmir, and the Pakistani media had declared his Roodad-e-Qafs as the best book of the year. Historians would declare Syed Ali Gilani as the greatest freedom loving leader of this era. Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru, Sukh Dev and Ashfaqullah occupy a high place in 169

the history of India. These freedom fighters wrote the history of freedom for India with their own blood. But when the historians of the Kashmir liberation movement make an impartial analysis, they will admit that the sons of mother India were betraying their own hero. They broke those very rules and regulations on the basis of which they fought against the British. The freedom of Kashmir is the writing on the wall. If East and West Germany can unite, Kashmir too will become a part of Pakistan. The time will come when the student of history, while visiting the memorial places in Naini jail, Central jail Alahabad, Sri Nagar jail and all those jails where Syed Ali Gilani was kept, would ask the followers of Gandhi that, if the struggle of Bhagat Singh, Raj Guru, Sukh Dev and Ashfaqullah is part of their story of freedom, why they didnt grant liberation to Kashmir. He would declare Syed Ali Gilani as Nelson Mandela. But at the same time, he would regret the world conscience which grants a Nobel Prize to Nelson Mandela for his struggle against apartheid, but ignores the person who struggled for the right of self-determination according to the UN Charter and resolutions. Syed Ali Gilani says it clearly, I dont accept Kashmirs so-called annexation to India. Im a rebel to Indian imperialism, and Id kiss even the rope of the gallows for that.

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Siachen undoubtedly is a part of Pakistan because foreign mountain climbers, since long, have been going to the Siachen glacier via Skardu with a formal written permission from the government of Pakistan. In 1957, a team from the Imperial Defence College, London, went to Siachen with the permission of the Pakistani government. In 1960-61, Australian climbers went there via Khaplu. In 1962, 1967 and 1969, the Indian forces suddenly occupied Siachen and it became a controversial place. The Pakistani government lodged a strong protest with India when it opened this controversial place for tourism. This opening of Siachen for tourism would be detrimental because Indian occupation of Siachen is illegal. Siachen glacier is in the east of Baltistan. It is 46 miles long and 6166 meters high. It is 30 miles from the Pak-China border, inside Pakistan. In 1984 Indian forces suddenly occupied a part of Siachen. Troops of both the countries are facing each other. According to the SinoPak contract of 1962, Pakistans control line is shown from the Korakoram Pass in the east, including Siachen. India never objected to it. The main cause of occupation of Siachen is to keep an eye on Sino-Pak relations via Shahrah-e-Raisham and control it if it is needed. After Siachen, India also tried to occupy the tops of Kargil but failed due to the timely action of the Pakistani forces. India insists that the present position of the troops be determined, whereas Pakistan insists that that would mean amendment to the line of control, which was determined in the Simla Accord. This amendment is a political problem not a technical one. So it should be resolved. The line according to the Simla Accord ended where the glacier started because the glacier is in that part which is towards Pakistan. On the failure of the Siachen parleys, the BBC representative asked Indias former Chief of Army Staff VP Malk, how would there be an improvement in relations when on one hand his government talks of confidence-building measures and, on the other hand, has such a strict attitude about Siachen. VP Malk could give no answer. According to an Indian journalist, India spends two million dollars daily on Siachen. While talking about Siachen, an Indian officer said that those who have served on Siachen, collectively believe that India is in a strange situation. They could have avoided being entangled in this cold hell, but due to lack of insight on the part of the Indian politicians and senior commanders, the troops of both the countries are entangled in a useless war. It is a cancer for India. Declaring Siachen as a nonmilitary area or withdrawal of troops of both the countries is in Indias interest, but India wants to delay it. The Kashmir issue is the main cause of all the wars between India and Pakistan. Though Siachen is an unpopulated snow capped piece of land, yet India has no right to occupy it because it is a part of Pakistan. It is a violation of international as well as moral laws. On the other hand, Kashmir is a paradise-like valley where millions of people live. It has become hell because of Indias obduracy. Is there any inhuman crime which India has not committed on the majority of its people? About 100,000 171

young men have been martyred there; thousands of women have been raped and millions of the people have been made homeless. Self-defence is the law of nature, but India accuses those who defend themselves as terrorists. If it is terrorism, then are Indian forces atrocities in Kashmir not state terrorism?

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WATER WARS
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It seems that India is trying to choke Pakistan in every way possible. There is no shortage of well-meaning, pro-peace commentators in this country who some-how find hope in the face of brazen provocation. But even they must accept that New Delhi can be most intransigent when it comes to issues that Pakistan rightly sees as a matter of life and death. True, Pakistan nurtured militants who operated on both the western and eastern borders and ultimately turned their guns on the country itself once Islamabad renounced links that only the most ill-informed could ignore. But now India is usurping water supplies that rightfully belong to us under the terms of the 1960 Indus Waters Treaty, a move that could deal a body blow to an agrarian economy that is already under severe stress. Whats more, it could be said that Indias decision to go ahead with the Kishanganga hydropower project and four other dams in Indian-administered Kashmir are geared not so much towards meeting its own needs as impoverishing Pakistan. Under the World Bank-sponsored Indus Waters Treaty, Pakistan enjoys exclusive rights to the volumes generated by the Chenab, Jhelum and Indus rivers; Clearly, India is not abiding by the rules probably because it sees itself as a power that is somehow above regulations. This attitude has harmed its credentials not only in Pakistan but also in other SAARC countries as well. In fact, India is seen as a regional bully throughout SAARC. Under the terms of the Indus Waters Treaty, India is required by law to inform Pakistan six months in advance if work is to commence on diverting or stalling waters covered under the 1960 agreement. That did not happen and it is up to the comity of nations to ensure that Indias transgression is stopped dead in its tracks. The Pakistan government would take up the issue of proposed construction of four dams by India, which would affect the flow of water to Pakistan, damaging its agriculture production. The construction of four dams by India would be discussed at an expert level and after finding its solution, it would be taken up at the top government-to-government level. India could build run-of-river hydropower projects and utilize 2.85 MAF water of Chenab, Jhelum and Indus under the Indus Waters Treaty. It is instead, trying to destroy the agriculture of Pakistan by executing projects for stealing water of the three rivers in violation of the treaty. India has started construction of the 1,030MW Basrur Multipower project, 1,200 MW Siwalkot dam and 1,000MW Pakot Dul dam on Chenab after the completion of the Baglihar Hydropower Project. It had not provided any technical information about the new dams to Pakistan as required under the Indus Waters Treaty. These dams would be built by cutting in the occupied Kashmir which would affect rainfall in Pakistan. India is not only building projects on Chenab but was also building 240MW Uri Power Project and 330MW Kishan Ganga Power Project on the Jhelum River. India plans to build a 21-Kilometre-long tunnel for diversion of the Neelam176

Jhelum and the Kishan Ganga Water Project, which threatened Pakistans 930MW Neelam-Jhelum Project. India is also using more than its permitted water share through Ranbir and Partab canals. India should desist from the river water diversion which was a violation of the Indus Waters Treaty. It should not only provide complete information about the projects on the Jhelum and Chenab rivers but also allow the representatives of Pakistan to inspect all such projects. India has started work on its Morha plan of 9 megawatt on the Jhelum River in Occupied Kashmir. This project was started in 1993 but India stopped work due to a full-fledged protest from Pakistan. Now again India has started construction in violation of the Indus Waters Treaty. It has also started construction of another dam on the Jhelum River. The Pakistani commissioner of the Indus Waters Treaty, Jamat Ali Shah, declared the construction of this 240-megawatt Orhi 11 project as serious for Pakistan. Though India has stopped work on Wooler Barrage, yet the construction of a new dam is dangerous. India also is working on a project of a 105megawatt hydro power on lower Jhelum. India has never recognized Pakistan. That is why it wants to keep the Kashmir issue intact and increase confrontation so that Pakistan should spend its resources for its safety only and not to end poverty, illiteracy and other economic problems. India, violating the Indus Waters Treaty, tried to make Pakistan a barren land. At the time of Partition, the Radcliffe Award handed over two important head works Madhopur and Ferozepur to India, leaving West Pakistans agriculture at the mercy of India. The boundary commission was not impartial. Pakistan raised the issue of the one million acre land in front of the boundary commission. When India stopped the water of those rivers which flow towards Pakistan, the water crisis between the two countries became serious. Then Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan (late) declared that we would prefer to die on the battle field for even a single drop of water. India has been using water as a big weapon since 1948. When India tried to harm Pakistans agriculture by stopping water from the Sind river in 1951, the danger of war between the two countries increased. At last, with the efforts of the World Bank, a contract was signed on September 9th, 1960 in Karachi. It was agreed that India would use the water of the Ravi, Satluj and Beas rivers and Pakistan would use the water of the Chenab, Jhelum and Sind rivers. India would have no right on the water of these rivers. According to this accord, India would not build any dam or barrage on all these three western rivers namely Chenab, Jhelum and Sind. This accord is in danger because of Indias expansionism and ill will. First India tried to give a big blow to Pakistans agriculture by building the Wooler Barrage in 1994, which adversely affected 3 million acres of the Punjab province. It also affected the production of electricity of Mangla Dam because of a shortage of water there. After the construction of this dam, India can cause floods in Pakistan whenever it wants. During the last four decades, India continued making Pakistan a barren land and also provided lesser water than the agreement. Moreover, India created more problems for Pakistan by not providing timely information about the floods of monsoon. India starts a new 177

issue every now and then. The most important issue however between the two countries is the issue of Kashmir. Then the issue of the division of water started. In short, India shows obduracy all the time and succeeds in it, as it did in the case of the Kashmir issue, Wooler Barrage and media war. India has spread its net of conspiracies and is now constructing this dam with the help of Israel. It does not show Pakistan the designs of the dam, nor does it allow Pakistan to inspect it. It is high time India cooperated with Pakistan and provided Pakistans share of water, otherwise Pakistan would suffer severely.

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According to the puppet chief minister of Occupied Kashmir, Ghulam Nabi Azad, 450 megawatt electricity production in Baglihar Dam would start in June. The Indian government has been building many dams in Occupied Kashmir. All the rivers, canals and water channels which flow towards Pakistan are being closed. India aims at making Pakistan a desert like Somalia and Ethiopia. Pakistan is against the construction of Baglihar Dam which is being built on the river Chenab in the Doda district in Occupied Kashmir because this dam, which will cost Rs 4000 crore and produce 450 megawatt electricity is a violation of the Indus Waters Treaty. This will create more problems for Pakistan which has already been facing water shortage. India is building this dam despite many protests by Pakistan. Pakistan wanted to solve this problem seriously and sincerely but India is using the delaying techniques. When this problem was not solved through mutual talks, Pakistan, in the light of the Accords article no. 91, raised this matter before the World Bank. Pakistan had no other option because of Indias obduracy. Pakistan wants no favors from India; it only wants to stop India from taking an illegal action. Pakistan has many reservations and apprehensions about the construction of Baglihar Dam, about its design, height and its capacity to store water. Its height is 144.5 meters, its length on top is 317 meters and it can store 15 billion cubic meter water. According to the Indus Basin Accord 1960, no dam can be built to stop the water of the Chenab River in Kashmir. But India continued building dams despite Pakistans protests. Pakistan accepted the representative of the World Bank as an arbitrator. This arbitrator, after hearing Pakistans objections, initially stated that Pakistan was right, but then he changed his opinion and said that India was right. Indian experts had already been saying that all the arbitrators of World Bank would decide in favor of India. The World Banks neutral expert Professor Raymond Lafeeti reported that the Biglihar Dam issue cannot be resolved because they did not accept Pakistans stand that the construction of this dam was a violation of the SindTas Accord of 1960. The neutral expert said the height of Baglihar Dam was too much above the water level and India would increase its water level thus resulting in lesser water for Pakistan. Experts believe that after the construction of the Baglihar Dam, Pakistan would be deprived of 7000 cusec water every day and that would be a big loss to Pakistan. Pakistan informed India about its losses but India rejected our protest with this argument that it did not rain much during the last two years and that water shortage was not due to the construction of Baglihar Dam. After the completion of this dam, daily shortage of water during the rabi season would be from seven to eight thousand cusecs. Water from Tarbela and Mangla dams would be supplied for irrigation of wheat crops. The construction of Baglihar Dam would cause shortage of water in Tarbela and Mangla. Thus, enough water wont be provided to wheat crops in rabi. It will decrease per acre production of wheat. The design of Baglihar Dam is such that it would slow the natural flow of the Chenab River. According to the SindTas Accord, India has no legal right to stop the flow of the Chenab River. 179

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During the last couple of years, confrontation between India and Pakistan over the construction of Baglihar dam have created much bitterness between the two countries. Both countries already have had a bitter dispute over the Indus water. A similar situation was faced by Bangladesh after the construction of a canal by India, diverting the water of river Brahmaputra. According to Karl Marx, economic interests dictate the course of history. If we grill this statement with regards to Pakistan and India, it would be more appropriate to say that the water decides the true mechanism of any states survival and political profile. Any water controversy between India and Pakistan indicates lack of monitoring and implementation of the Indus Waters Treaty 1960 in its letter and spirit. Water is a gift from Almighty Allah and the symbol of life. The scarcity of water means strangulation and drought, resulting into a chain reaction leading to one problem after the other: For instance, land erosion, shortage of agricultural products, price hike, unemployment, law and order situation, chaos and anarchy and its ultimate product violence breeding more violence. There is no concept of plantation without water. Irrigation is the life-line of plants. More than 70 percent of Pakistan economy is based on agriculture. The same situation is faced by other South Asian states like Nepal, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Bhutan. It means the mainstay of survival of both rivals Pakistan and India rests on the availability of water. Even though the two countries do not fight against each other in the battlefield, water blockade by one state can defeat the other. During the last couple of years, confrontation between India and Pakistan over the construction of Baglihar dam created much bitterness between the two countries. Both countries already have had a bitter dispute over the Indus water. A similar situation was faced by Bangladesh after the construction of a canal by India, to divert the water of river Brahmaputra. Tension also continues between India and Nepal, India and China that might one day take a serious turn, as all the entities claim their share of water from the river water passing through their respective territories. Apart from the survival, the water of India and Pakistan also decides their respective prowess to twist the arms or brow beat its rival. When Pakistan raised its voice against hegemonic and expansionist designs, nobody bothered to heed. But now, when the water crisis has become the matter of life and death, its policies to choke the water resources by building dams such as Dulhasti, Dugar, Gondhala, Reoli/Dugli, Sach-Khas, Tandi, Teling Kirthal hydropower projects, besides Baglihar dam on Chenab further aggravates Pakistans position. According to reports, India has also commenced its projects like Uri-I and Uri-2, on the same river. According to the Indian prime Minister there are actually 67 projects, nineteen out of which have already been completed. 180

According to John Briscoe and Usman Qamar who compiled their book titled Pakistans Water Economy Running Dry, Pakistan is one of the worlds most arid countries, with an average rainfall of under 240mm a year. Its population and the economy are heavily dependent on an annual influx into the Indus river system (Including the Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi) Beas, and Sutlej rivers) of about 180 billion cubic meters of water that emanates from the neighbouring countries and is mostly derived from the snow that melts in the Himalayas. The first challenge arose when the partition of the Indo-Pak subcontinent severed the irrigated heartland of Punjab from the life giving waters of the Ravi, Beas and Sutlej rivers. In the unprecedented triumph of water diplomacy, Pakistani engineers, together with their Indian counterparts and the World Bank, negotiated the Indus Waters Treaty giving Pakistan the right in perpetuity to the waters of Indus, Jhelum and Chenab rivers, which comprise 75 percent of the flow of the whole Indus system. Experts on the water division surveys divide this region into three distinct plains; the Indus valley (mostly in Pakistan), the Punjab valley (divided between India and Pakistan including Haryana plains) and the Middle and Lower Ganga valley. By another definition, the Indo-Gangetic Plain is divided into two drainage basins; the eastern part consists of the Ganga-Brahmaputra drainage systems and Delhi Ridge. These regional distinctions are based primarily on the availability of water. In terms of availability of water, the Indian reservoir of water that it received through Brahmaputra and Ganga is much bigger than the share Pakistan received under the Indus Waters Treaty. Pakistan objected to the construction of the dams on the Indus and Chenab in Jammu and Kashmir which is part of the large dispute over water sharing of the Indus River and its tributaries. Will the whole South Asia die of hunger and lack of the necessities of life: food primarily, while Indian hegemonic and expansionist attitude will go on unrestricted?

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India has planned to build four hydro power projects on the Chenab River. They would produce 1180 megawatt electricity. During the last four decades, India not only continued its efforts to make Pakistan a barren land but also provided lesser water than it had agreed on. Moreover, India created more problems for Pakistan by not providing timely information about the floods during the monsoon. India has also started construction of a controversial Baglihar Dam on the Chenab River, in violation of the Sind-Tas Accord. Pakistan raised this issue in the World Bank but India did not act upon its decision too. India built the Biglihar Dam in spite of the protests from Pakistan. Pakistan appealed to the World Bank but India continued violating the accord. It wants to hit hard our agricultural economy by building Baglihar Dam and Gangakishan Dam. Due to the Indus Waters Treaty, India not only dried the three rivers of Pakistan but also strengthened its hold on Occupied Kashmir by occupying the sources of the rivers. India is so active in stopping the flow of water into Pakistan that it is closing the rivers starting from Occupied Kashmir and also using every influence to compel Afghanistan to build a dam on the Kabul river so that the Warsik hydro power house near Peshawar should stop working and Pakistan should be deprived not only of water but also of electricity. India has made the Baglihar Dam a controversial issue as it had made the Wooler Barrage. The Baglihar Dam has been completed on the Chenab River in the Chanderkot area of the Doda District of Occupied Kashmir, 150 km from Jammu. It would produce 450 megawatt electricity. It has caused a shortage of 10,000 cusec water daily. It amounts to 250,000 cusecs in one season. The Baglihar Dam is an irredeemable loss for our country. Its construction is a big shock to the Pakistani nation. It would cause an immense loss to the Pakistani agriculture and economy. India has already occupied the rivers of the Punjab. The construction of dams in Occupied Kashmir has caused shortage of 7000 to 8000 cusecs of water daily. Water from Tarbela and Mangla is provided for wheat crops in Pakistan. There is also a shortage of water in Tarbela and Mangla due to these dams. Thus, enough water would not be supplied to wheat crops in Rabi, and per acre production of wheat would decrease.

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Many rivers of all sizes in the eastern part of Afghanistan fall into the Kabul River in Pakistan and thus they provide some extra water to it. The Indian government has made this large-hearted offer to Afghanistan that it would provide not only technical know-how and expert services but also a large amount of three billion dollars to construct a big dam on the Kabul River. India has already taken some practical steps in that direction. As a result of Indian conspiracies, the US ambassador in Afghanistan has offered the Afghan minister for water and electricity the US aid to build a mega dam on the Kabul River at Dromund, near Jalalabad. The water experts of Pakistan are seriously worried because Pakistan uses the clear drinkable water of the Kabul River. If a dam is built on this river, it would deprive millions of acres of agricultural land of Pakistan of water from the Kabul River. The Kabul River starts its journey from Pakistans Chitral valley and enters into Afghanistan about 45 km west of Kabul. It enters Pakistan north of the Khyber Pass after a long journey through the city of Kabul. It flows through the Peshawar district and falls into the Sind River near Attock. The length of the Kabul River is about 700 kilometres. 560 kilometres of it is in Afghanistan and 140 kilometres is in Pakistan. The present rulers after the Taliban naturally consider themselves to be nearer to India. That is why they, under a sort of silent diplomacy, easily feel inclined to antiPakistan plans. India exploits this situation. It puts forward such proposals to the Kabul administration which outwardly are beneficial to the Afghan people but they in fact aim at harming Pakistan. The aim of building a dam on the Kabul River is to deprive Pakistan of a large amount of water and to hamper Pakistans efforts to achieve its agricultural targets of self sufficiency. The provincial government of Nangarhar planned to construct a long dam on the Kunar River, to change its direction towards the Imberi desert to make it irrigable. Work has started on this plan too, under the supervision of the Indian experts. As a result, Pakistan would be deprived of three fourth water of the Konar River. Similarly, the proposed Indo-US sponsored Dromund Dam on the Kabul River would stop a large amount of water from flowing into Pakistan. If India succeeds in its efforts, the dam on the Kabul River would hit hard the Kalabagh Dam project, too. Water from both the Sind River and the Kabul river can be stored in the Kalabagh Dam. We badly need water from the Kabul River to fill the Kalabagh Dam. The shortage of water in the Kabul River would adversely affect the Warsik Dam which gets water from that river. Both India and Pakistan, in accordance with the Sind-Tas Accord, can appeal to the World Bank for arbitration, as they did in the Baglihar Dam case. But there is no such contract with the Afghan government. The Pakistan government needs to contact the Afghan government to inspect the site of the dam and, if needed, should use its influence to stop the Afghan government from constructing this dam.

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TERRORISM AND INDIA

INTERFERENCE IN PAKISTAN PROMOTES TERRORISM IN THE REGION

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The Congress leaders Gandhi, Pandit Nehru and Patel believed that Pakistan wont survive long. The Congress leadership never accepted the creation of Pakistan. It, under the leadership of Pandit Nehru, Indira Gandhi, Lal Bahadur Shastri and Nrisma Rao, has always been conspiring to harm and divide Pakistan. First of all, India spread a network of conspiracies and used some Sindhi nationalist leaders to separate Sindh from Pakistan. But it failed. Later, the Indira Gandhi government tried to trap Sheikh Mujib-ur-Rahman and some other leaders of the Awami League. Sheikh Mujib had always been exploiting the linguistic crisis for his political gains. Indira Gandhis government trained groups of Hindu teachers to mislead the patriotic people of East Pakistan, who started a maligning campaign against West Pakistan. Indian diplomats openly distributed money among the journalists and literati in Dhakas press club and instigated them against West Pakistan. In the late 1960s, India planned to create Bangladesh and funded Mukti Bahni and gave money and arms to the Hindus and to the Awami League workers all over East Pakistan. India came to the fore front when General Yahya Khan announced to hold elections in 1971 and it provided money and a well-organized force of agents to the Awami League which paved the way for its success in the general elections. It won the elections in East Pakistan thanks to its vandalism and rigging. When General Yahya Khan postponed indefinitely the meeting of the National Assembly, the Indian agents and rogues of Mukti Bahni and the Awami League started killing the Biharis, the citizens of West Pakistan and pro-Pakistan people. When our armed forces had crushed this rebellion and normalized the situation there, India attacked Pakistan and at the same time founded Mukti Bahni for which its own soldiers worked and it gave them arms and ammunition and spread them all over East Pakistan. Mukti Bahnis headquarter was established in Calcutta and given the name of Mujibnagar. India severed the air and naval communications between East and West Pakistan and founded Bangladesh through naked aggression. At the time of the 1971 war, the Indian media hurled some illogical accusations against the Pakistani forces. Three of them were these: they killed about 3 million Bengalis, raped 300,000 women and burned down many villages. It also gave the same feedback to the international media which, without any investigation, maligned Pakistan. Thus Pakistan was not only left alone in the world but also became a victim of hatred from all the people. The big powers at last decided to separate East Pakistan and India made it Bangladesh. The vitriolic anti-Pakistan Indira Gandhi made pieces of an Islamic country, created rifts among the Muslims and divided them. But see natures law of retribution. Her sons and she could not die a natural death. It is strange that all the political actors of the December 1971 incident and their children died unnatural deaths. Indira Gandhi was killed when she was on her way to the Prime Minister House or Rashtrapati Bhavan. Her son Sanjay Gandhi died in a plane crash. Her second son was killed in a bomb attack when he was a prime minister. The dead 186

body of Shaikh Mujib-ur-Rahman could not be removed from the stairs of the president house for hours. All the members of his family except Hasina Wajid who was out of the country at that time were killed. Indira Gandhi was very proud on the breaking of Pakistan; yet the fact is India never benefited from the creation of Bangladesh. Rather it created and strengthened movements for a separate homeland in East Punjab, Sikkim, Tamil Nado and in more than twenty other regions. Outwardly Indira Gandhi succeeded, yet the Bangladesh of today is a country of Islamic identity in every aspect. This refutes Indira Gandhis claim that she had drowned the two-nation theory in the Gulf of Bengal. Pakistan was divided into two and East Pakistan became Bangladesh, but we need not be disappointed about Pakistan ideology. The Bangladeshi Muslim is not less Islamic, nor is it ignorant about Indias designs. We should be realistic and fulfill our dream in the vaster interests of the Muslim ummah. If both the countries of South Asia cannot unite again, they should at least agree on a confederation which would be encouraging for Indian Muslims too. India has established at least 18 training camps in Afghanistan, where terrorists are being trained under the supervision of RAW. After training they are being sent to different parts of Pakistan, especially to Waziristan and Balochistan, for terrorism and destruction. At the same time, on the instigation of India, the Afghan government has established an institution where Uzbek, Tajik and some self-exiled Pakistani traitors are being trained. India wants no peace for Afghanistan because only then will it be able to continue using the Afghan tribes there to spread hatred and animosity against Pakistan. Some members of the Indian and Afghan forces are involved in internal and external attacks on Pakistan with a view to establishing Indias dominance in the region. India has bought the services of some so called jihadis in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and they are involved in terrorism and destruction in Pakistan for money. Beautiful girls of other countries are provided for sexual satisfaction of these people in Kabul every sixth month. These girls are recruited on the basis of their beauty, physical features and attraction and not on the basis of their education and qualifications. 600 girls (of 20 years) of infidel and irreligious families are provided to these traitors. After the arrival of America in Afghanistan, India again opened its embassy in Kandahar. After that, a new wave of destruction and terrorism started in Balochistan. The Indian secret agency RAW is believed to be behind the murder of shias and sunnis there. Foreigners were arrested in connection with suicide attacks on imam bargahs. India also opened her consulates at different places near Pakistans borders, from where they are committing terrorism against Pakistan. Our investigation departments have concluded that Indian secret agencies, especially RAW, are behind all the recent terrorist attacks in many cities of Pakistan. The Indian consulate in Kandahar is in fact the headquarters of RAW in Afghanistan. Otherwise, the presence of this consulate in that city has no justification. Indian trade and arrival and the departure of the Indian citizens and diplomats is through Jalalabad, not Kandahar. The only aim of opening the Indian consulate in Kandahar is to intervene 187

in Balochistan and do terrorist activities there. The Afghan and Balochistans borders are common and weapons are provided to the Baloch Liberation Front through this way. With the compliance of Afghanistan, India has appointed 300 commandos in Kandahar, Jalalabad and Kabul for the safety of Indian citizens. In fact India is using their safety as a pretext to do terrorism in Balochistan with the compliance of the Afghan government. Indian consulates there are in fact camps of terrorism. The recently established Indian camp at Koshila Jadeed north of Kabul is very important. India can use it to blackmail the Afghan government and use it against Pakistan. India has increased the number of its diplomatic, military and intelligence staff there. Apart from its embassy in Kabul, its consulates are there in Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar Sharif and Herat and they are big centres of antiPakistan activities. The Afghan territory is being used against Pakistan. All the antiPakistan planning, especially about terrorism in Balochistan and tribal areas, is done there. The world should keep in mind this heinous character of India, which it revealed in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Ask your Muslim brethren how treacherously India treated them. India has been dreaming of occupying all the countries of South Asia.

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The incidences of terrorism from Waziristan to Balochistan prove that anti-Pakistan forces have been destabilizing our country for their own nefarious ends. These very forces are behind terrorism that is happening in the name of Taliban. Our democratic and military leadership have said it time and time again that there is a foreign hand behind all these incidents. The real face of these players has been exposed. The biggest hand is that of India which thinks that creating problems for Pakistan is its first and foremost duty. The military leadership has proved that India is involved in terrorism in Waziristan and Balochistan and RAW has been helping the extremists. The name of the Taliban is being used when in fact the real actors are the anti-Pakistan forces. India has long since given its RAW agents the task of spreading restlessness, instability and terrorism. Even its friendly countries are not spared from Indian conspiracies and evil designs. It is a fact that it is America which has given India the task of rebuilding Afghanistan, which India wants to use to destabilize Pakistan and to establish its own role of a policeman. Apart from its embassy in Kabul, Indian consulates in Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar Sharif and Herat are the biggest centers of anti-Pakistan activities. The land of Afghanistan is being used against Pakistan. Anti-Pakistan activities in our country, especially in Balochistan and tribal areas, are being planned in Indian consulates. America has now told India to close its consulate in Jalalabad because of Pakistans complaints about it. Strange that America has requested India to close one of its 15 consulates! Will closure of one consulate only stop terrorism here? Are the other consulates playing a gentle role? America perhaps cannot answer these questions. How is it possible that America is not aware of Indias anti-Pakistan activities in Afghanistan? If India is involved in activities against Pakistan when America is present in Afghanistan, isnt it evident then that America is patronizing India? The Indian secret agency RAW is busy in activities of terrorism in Pakistan. The agents of RAW are being trained in the Mazar Sharif area of Afghanistan and then they are being sent to Pakistan. The masterminds of RAW brainwash the suicide bombers, train them and then send them to Pakistan for bomb explosions and suicide attacks. An institution has been established in Afghanistan with the cooperation of RAW, which is a centre of destructive activities in Pakistan. Criminals get there training from Indian terrorists. They are being taught languages of Pakistans tribal areas so that they can easily mix with the people here. The American observers have stressed upon their government to press upon Afghanistan to close the training camps of the RAW. There are agents of RAW in the Indian consulates in Kandahar and Jalalabad, who enter Pakistan via Torkham and Chaman for terrorism which is detrimental for both Pakistan and America. RAWs training camps and Indian consulates were opened at many places in 189

Afghanistan. On the other hand, Pakistani consulates were attacked, stoned, looted and burned. Pakistan, which has long-lasting religious, regional, national, geographical and political relationships with Afghanistan, suddenly became a stranger. They all forgot Pakistans hospitality, sympathies and magnanimity. But India has become everything to them. After getting training from RAW in Afghanistan, the suicide bombers enter Pakistan. There is strong evidence of Indias involvement in Balochistan and in the frontier province. Drug traffickers also enter Pakistan with them. These smugglers bring with them weapons, currency notes and forbidden anti-Pakistan and anti-Islam literature, which adversely affects the peace here. India has been covertly increasing its forces in Afghanistan. A large number of paramilitary forces and black cat commandos have reached Afghanistan for the safety of Indias Border Road Organization which has been making and expanding roads there. Chinas role in Pakistans progress is tremendous. The Chinese experts have been working in different institutions of Pakistan. They are being targeted. RAW is responsible for their deaths. No Pakistani can kill Chinese people. We cannot even imagine that a Pakistani can ever target the citizens of that great friendly country. Such activities aim at straining our friendship. The Chinese citizens were targeted in Gawader and at Gomal dam. Some American analysts have been crying about a possibility of Pakistans atomic weapons going into the hands of terrorists. But it is impossible. Every arrangement has been done for their safety. The terrorists have been eliminated in the tribal areas; therefore their access to atomic weapons is not possible. Nor do they have planes and aircrafts to transport and drop these weapons. America should give Pakistan every possible help because Pakistan has been fighting this war against terrorists and has become a victim of terrorism.

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UNDER PRESSURE INDIAN MUSLIMS

1. ANTI MUSLIM RIOTS 2. DEMOLITION OF BABRI MOSQUE 3. NAKED ACT OF KILLINGS IN GUJRAT 4. THE MALEGAON INVISTIGATION REPORT

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Though about one million Muslims migrated to Pakistan in 1947, a large majority of Muslims stayed back in India. According to the historian Ram Chander Goha, there was hardly a Muslim left in the Secretariat and the defence institutions at the time of partition. Some thinkers and literati thought of making a separate party for the Muslims in 1953 a year after the first elections. They raised a voice against the absence of Muslims in political and government offices. Even 62 years after the independence, the miserable state of the Muslims has not improved. There are 13 percent Muslims in India. Out of a population of 1000 million, their number is 138,000,000 which is less than the number of Muslims in Pakistan and Indonesia only. During the last 62 years, there have been three Muslim presidents in India. But the authority of the president is just nominal. Indian people are crazy about Bollywood and cricket which have nothing to do with religion. The Muslims dominate both of these fields. Shah Rukh and Aamir Khan have dominated the film industry in Mumbai while the Indian teams fast bowler Zaheer Khan is the centre of attention due to his good performance. The captain of the Indian cricket team was a batsman like Azhar-ud-Din. There are only 5 percent Muslims in Indias giant governmental network. The railways there provide the maximum number of jobs. The Muslims in it are 4.5 percent. Similarly, the number of Muslims in other government departments and bureaucracy is so meagre. There are 3 % Muslims in Indias powerful bureaucracy and civil services, 1.8 % in foreign ministry, 4 % in the police and 7.8 % in judiciary. The Indian Muslims are mostly illiterate and poor. The literacy rate among the Muslim minority is 60 percent which is 5 percent lower than that of the country. The literacy rate among the Muslim women is even lower. Only 50 % of Muslim women are literate. About one fourth of the Muslim children between the ages of 5 and 14 either never go to school or leave school sooner or later. The literacy rate among the Muslims in Andhra Pradesh is 68 percent which is more than the literacy rate of both the province and the country. Ninety percent of Muslim children in Kerala and Tamil Nadu are registered at school. 31 % Muslims are living under the poverty line, which is slightly better than those of the poorest strata including the untouchables and the tribal people. According to a sociologist, the uncountable economic and social problems of the Muslims have become more complicated because of their identity, security and inequality in society. According to a report prepared for the Indian Muslims, sometimes their patriotism is doubted and sometimes attempts are made to appease them. The historians say that it is quite painful that majority of the population of India, the Hindus, sometimes are charmed by the extremist Hindus slogans that the governments policy of appeasing the Muslims has been depriving the Hindus of their legal rights. The situation in the private sector is slightly better. What are the factors for the Muslims backwardness in India? The first cause is the government itself. The Muslims could not get their right share in education, health and 194

government jobs. The poor and backward strata were adversely affected by the governments attitude. The number of the Muslims is comparatively high among them. They had to face the political prejudice of the Hindu extremist party The Bhartia Junta Party after its ascension in the centre and some other states. The process of their economic and intellectual progress could not start because of a vacuum of leadership among the middle class Muslims. Some time-serving elements exploited this situation and dominated the Muslims. One cause of this vacuum of leadership among the Muslims was the fact that the government officers, skilled workers, teachers and doctors among them had migrated to Pakistan at the time of partition. That is why the Muslims could not get their share in politics. But the Muslims have always been in the forefront in the film industry. Ram Chander Guha says that the Indo-Pakistan enmity and bitterness and the treatment of the minorities in Pakistan also adversely affected the Indian Muslims and they remained backward. Apart from that, the miserable state of the Muslims was also due to the form of government, inequalities in society and lack of equal opportunities for jobs in northern India. There are 31 % of Muslims in Uttar Pradesh which is one of those provinces that have a greater number of populations. The population of Muslims in Behar in the north is more than 10 million. Things are different in southern India. Another historian, Mahesh Ranga Rajan, says that there are more opportunities of education and private business there due to social and cultural changes, and the Muslims availed themselves of it. He adds that the Muslims were affected most because of poverty and a lack of welfare policies.

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6th of December is a black day for the Muslims of South Asia when millions of the prejudiced Hindus, in the leadership of L.K.Advani demolished Babri mosque. It spread a wave of sorrow and anger among Muslims of the whole world. After the incident the Hindu extremists killed two thousand Muslims in India. Babri Mosque was built by Zahir-ud-Din Babar, the Mughal king of India, in 1526. The archeologists of India have come to the conclusion that there was no temple at this place and the mosque was built for the first time. The president of Vishwa Hindu Parishad International, Ashok Singhal has demanded from the government of B.J.P that a referendum should be held for the construction of Ram Temple if the legislation in parliament is not possible on this issue. The Indian extremists know that the voice of the minorities have been suppressed by terrorism and now, there is no hurdle in their mission of making India a pure Hindu state. After the demolition of the mosque by the extremist Hindus under the leadership of B.J.P., a series of bloody riots started in which two thousand Muslims were killed. Thousands were injured and driven away from their houses. In the B.J.P ruled states, the minorities are unable to defend themselves from atrocities of the extremist Hindus. A special court of Raey Braely ignored the central culprit of the crime of demolishing the mosque. According to the report of the commission formed for the investigation of this crime, L.K.Advani, Murli Manohar Joshi, ex-minister Uma Bharti, the president of Vishwa Hindu Parishad Ashok Singhal, the president of B.J.P Uttar Pradesh and the member of parliament from Faizabad Vinay Katiyar, Vishnu Hari Dalmiya, Giri Raj Kishore and Sadhvi Ritambhara are directly involved in the demolition of the mosque. After studying the incident of the demolition of Babri Mosque, we come to know the role played by L.K.Advani in the incident. It was he who arranged Rath Yatra and aroused the emotions of the Hindus of all of India. When the mosque was being demolished, he was present there and his photo was published in the newspapers. His daughter-in-law also revealed that he was fully involved in the crime. Had he not held Rath Yatra and arose the emotions of the Hindus; the mosque would have been still there. The fact is that he was the vice-prime minister of India and the exPrime Minister did not do anything without consulting him. The extremist Hindus not only demolished the mosque but also killed two thousand Muslims in the aftermath. So it became clear to the Muslims that their future was not safe in India under the slogan of secularism, whether the slogan was raised by Congress or B.J.P, it was just an empty slogan. It is a weapon to get votes of the Muslims in elections. The Indian Muslims asked for justice from the special court of Braely for the survival of their identity, distinctiveness and separate culture. As a result of the decision of the court, it became further clear that the mosque was demolished through an organized scheme. 196

In the light of the incident, it is clear that the slogan of secularism signifies nothing. The Indian judiciary also seems to be impressed by the racial, linguistic, religious and sectarian prejudices. If the temple is built on the place of a mosque, not only will the judiciarys authority be destroyed but the slogan of secularism will die its death.

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No patriotic Indian would ever be able to forget the dark night of Indian history on November 26, 2008, when the terrorist attacks shook all of Mumbai! The bloody drama continued for 60 hours and took the lives of 200 people with a physical loss worth of 400 crore rupees. No one knew that the results of the Malegaon, Modasa, Nanded and Parbhani blasts would reveal in such a manner. Aims of the terrorists were unclear except that they wanted to eliminate anti-terrorist officials or the investigators of terrorism within ATS. These terrorist attacks took lives of the chief of ATS Hemant Karkare, encounter specialist Vijay Salaskar and additional commissioner police Ashok Kamte. People who were worried due to the investigation of the Malegaon and Modasa bomb blasts would have now been happy and slept in peace. In fact, investigation of the Malegaon and Modasa blasts can be regarded as a beginning and turning point of a bomb culture in India. These investigations brought the new faces of terrorism in shape of Hindu terrorists Sahdvi Pargya Singh Thakar, Lieutenant Colonel Prohat and the self-assumed Swami Dayanand Pandey. These Hindu terrorists are linked with Hindu organizations BJP, RSS, VHP, Bajarang Dal. After their misdeeds were revealed, the term of Hindu Terrorist was coined for the first time in history. Till then the Indians were only familiar with linking terrorism with the Muslims. Whenever there was a bomb blast in a mosque, shrine or any other place, Muslims were the natural suspects. They were arrested in suspicion of terrorist activities and put behind the bars. There are thousands of such Muslims who are in jails without any remedy or care. A network of Hindu terrorist organizations started coming in the limelight after the arrest of Sahdvi Pargya Singh Thakar, Lieutenant Colonel Prohat and Swami Dayanand Pandey, that created massive rupture in the ranks of RSS, VHP, Bajarang Dal for the fear of their own deeds on verge of being unfolded before the Indian nation. They would apprehend that their involvement in blasts could be proved. That would compel people to think that terrorism has no religion. Before these episodes, Islam was the sole source of terrorism in the eyes of the Hindus. The Hindu organizations started maligning against the ATS and termed the investigation as a conspiracy of UPA government to trap them and politically die them out. Pitto Gahrya accused Congress president Sonia Gandhi of supervising the ATS investigation to take revenge from Hindu forces. He even questioned whether the ATS wants to have Bhagwans narco-test? She wanted to make terrorism an elections issue but that proved to be the key stumbling block. ATS investigation revealed about what was happening in Nagpur Bhonsala Military Training School and who was imparting training there. It further unfolded so many sectarian elements like Colonel Prohat and revealed those who were putting the Indian army into disrepute and other questions i.e. who is funding terrorism; how many corporate families are investing with financial support; how Sadhus and Saints 198

are being used for terrorism, and by using Hinduism are maligning it. National newspapers and TV channels were honestly bringing out ATS revelations for the first time. Countrys majority secular circles had now understood to a great extent what was happening and who was behind these bomb blasts and what they were targeting. But on November 26, direction of the Malegaon investigation went back to its traditional path. These terrorist attacks took the lives of brave and honest ATS officers. Eight terrorists were killed. One Ajmal Qasab was captured. It was found out that he had targeted the ATS chief. Some terrorists fled from the scene. Under suspicion of links with these new terrorist organizations, an indiscriminate spree of arrests of innocent Muslims again erupted like before. Terrorists would not stop until either BJP or the NDA comes to power in the central government. When the dust would settle after some days we would like to witness that Sahdvi Pargya Singh Thakar, Lieutenant Colonel Prohat and Swami Dayanand Pandey are freed by the court on the basis of insufficient proofs. This is the real scenario of the Malegaon and Madosa investigation and turning point of bomb culture. Nevertheless, we will remember the Indian Muslims and Hindu fighters of ATS, who were killed in the struggle to unfold the real terrorists of the country. Blood of these martyrs would definitely speak and Indian Muslims will get rid of the curse of cruelty and terrorism forever. Cruelty has to meet its poetic justice in the end!

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According to some unofficial estimates, the Muslims make about thirty percent of the inhabitants of prisons in the country. Experts think this ratio to be alarming, dangerous and disproportionate. This is also attributed to the biased attitude of courts and the police towards Muslims. Official Indian data puts Muslims population at 12.5 per cent of the total populace. But they are more than 30 percent when it comes to prisons. In cities like Dehli and Mumbai this ratio exceeds further from 30 to 40 percent. Iftikhar Gilani, Bureau Chief of the newspaper Kashmir Times, authored a book named, My Days in Prison, on the Tehar jail of Dehli. He states that Muslims are quickly outnumbering others in Indian jails. According to his version: The Muslim population of jails in India is indicated every year before Ramzaan. This year the total inhabitants were fourteen thousand three hundred and twenty eight. Muslims were five thousand six hundred and twenty. Vijay Helmet of the Centre for Human Rights and Law, who has been working on jail issues for the last many years, says that number of Muslims is 40 percent in Mumbai jails. Despite contacting with authorities of jails in Dehli, the same information has not been provided. Senior journalist Praful Bidwai laments over the number of Muslim prisoners that 30 percent, while in the country they are only 13.5 percent. He says: There is a bias against Muslims in lower courts and police in Dehli, which is a cause of injustice done with the Muslim community. There are almost 40 percent accused under trials in jails. Numerous people have been unjustly captured under laws like TADA and POTA, Muslims are in a majority number in these cases. He says that whenever some bomb blast happens, Muslims are held on priority in suspicion. Human rights activist Gotam Nolakha says: Discriminatory attitude towards Muslims is a norm. Police has dual standards; in that it throws one community into jails on an iota of suspicion, while the other roams freely even when implicated under severe criminal activities. Gotam Nolakha says there is a need to hold administration and police accountable to end this injustice. Praful Bidwai maintains that Sachar Committee formed by the government on the economic and educational situation of Muslims has brought out a true picture of jails through its survey. Its recommendations can potentially reform the situation. Still he insists that there is the need to reform some jails on an urgent basis. This is a routine matter that countrys majority jails are over-crowded. One of the reasons is that many accused people are waiting for the court decisions and have passed twice as many number of years in jails as in case decisions would have been held against them. Neither any one is prepared to bail them out, nor do they have resources to contest their trials.

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INDO-US NEXUS
THE DEFENCE PACT AGAINST WHOM CHINA OR PAKISTAN, OR BOTH?

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It is a saying of Hazrat Ali (RA): "Your enemy's friend is your enemy. This saying is applicable to the Indo-US friendship. Whereas, America terms Pakistan its frontline ally and friend that is fighting its war in the country under pressure from America: another side of the picture depicts some other scene. America is inking defence pacts with our enemy, which has not accepted us till now and remains busy in conspiracies for weakening our roots. Our real enemy is not India, but its friend America. America and India have recently colluded in a big defence agreement with mutual willingness, which will be a big step towards equipping the Indian army with the latest weapons. Under the agreement, America will give the latest technology, weapons and atomic parts to India. Under the defence pact, 126 fighter jets, satellite and two atomic reactors will be provided to India so that India could practically display its biased mentality. It has already proved a collaborator in the terrorism incidents and for terrorists in Pakistan. India has provided huge amount of weapons, money and training to terrorists. India is not only involved in a rebellion in Swat and Waziristan but also collaborating in the terrorist attacks in the God-given country. India has established consulates along the border belt of Pakistan whose majority of officials consists of the RAW agents. Our rulers have always been ignoring the strategic partnership of America and India. An attempt is made to mislead the people by saying that America is Pakistan's trustworthy friend and wants to maintain pleasant relations with India as well. India is also a strong defence ally of America. It means if (God forbid) there is a war between India and Pakistan, America will support India while Pakistan is fully relying on America. America is showing partiality towards India as it wants to make the latter a monopolist in the region in future. America is our friend but it is not ready to give us the drone technology, which we will use for it. America backtracked from the promise of giving F-16 jets in the 90s and refused to return the received money as well. During the rule of General Musharaf, it had promised to give a few F-16 jets to Pakistan for its need and continued to postpone the matter. It is not only generously providing atomic reactors to India but also has given 126 bomber jets to the country which has already a big reservoir of Mirage, MIG and other fighter jets. The Indian defence budget has reached Rs 14 trillion and 17 billion after a recent increase of Rs three trillion, 167 billion and 300 million. Through America's civil atomic cooperation agreement with India and unjustified pressure on Pakistan after recent Mumbai attacks, the reality has been clarified that in fact America is a friend of India. It has always been using Pakistan for its objectives. Pakistan was not included in the American Foreign Minister Hillary Clinton's tour to South Asia. It was also a signal to the fact that America considers the equilibrium, which was maintained between India and Pakistan in the past, as 204

unimportant. On the one hand, America has practically linked the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, a nuclear state, with Afghanistan after inventing a new term "AfPak". On the other side, India has gained superiority in every respect with regard to America's regional priorities. After the 9/11, a tool has come into the hands of India in the form of ongoing war against terrorism, which is being used in propaganda against Pakistan. America is accepting the Indian stance and cooperation happily for the accomplishment of its anti-Islam crusade agenda. Allah Almighty has clearly said in the Holy Quran: "Oh believers! Do not make the Christians and Jews your friends and some of them are friends of some others. One who made them his friends he will be among them." Pakistan has gained no benefit from the friendship of America. Pakistan has caused unlimited loss to itself in the American war and the future conditions also seem dangerous. What is the justification for ignoring steps taken by the well-wisher and friend of our first enemy? They are a threat to our Islamic liberties, defence and survival. Our rulers should consult the elected representatives after convening a special meeting of the parliament in this regard. Moreover, they should not delay in the formulation of the new effective national policy after discussing the role of America. Foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi was right in saying that a permanent UN Security Council seat for India would upset the balance of power in South Asia. The concern about Indias zeal to gatecrash into the UNSC, endorsed by the US, was to a certain extent allayed by Chinas opposition on this count. Another factor that would ultimately thwart New Delhis bid is the fact that expansion of the UNSC is a long-drawn process, and in this particular case theres many a slip betwixt the cup and the lip. The reforms package, which envisions the enlargement of the body is a bone of contention amongst the member states and there is little possibility of a consensus in near future. President Obamas support for Indias seat was only a deceptive move to curry the favour of the Indians. He has no authority to speak on behalf of the UN. So far as the question of regional representation on the basis of population and economic strength goes, we have China as a permanent member. At the same time, it must not be forgotten that there are other promising contenders like Japan, Germany and Brazil whose bid for a permanent slot deserves to be given precedence. India, by contrast, has open enmity and difficult relations with all neighbouring countries and is disposed to pick up quarrels at the slightest of provocations and brandish its nuclear sword to intimate adversaries be it China or Pakistan. It is struggling to overcome at least 13 insurgencies within, and is mired in pervasive poverty. Most important of all, the country has been for the past many decades sitting on the UNSC resolutions, calling for a solution of the Kashmir dispute through a plebiscite held under UN auspices. Its atrocities in Held Kashmir are a matter of record of the bodies of the UN. Its accession to the UN Security Council, even with the US promised support, would remain a dream unless it peacefully settles disputes with neighbouring countries and sets its own house in order. 205

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Israel has recently suggested opening an international nuclear market for those countries that have not rectified NPT. These non-signatory countries include Pakistan, India and Israel. Israel thinks that only India and itself can benefit from the international nuclear market. 45-membered nuclear supplier countries have put a ban on nuclear trade with Pakistan, India and Israel because of their non-signatory status on NPT. These three countries cannot purchase atomic reactor, uranium and fuel, etc, from the international nuclear market. Israel had actively participated for US-India nuclear agreement and now wants an open market for India that has never accepted the existence of Pakistan. It has always dreamt of Akhand Bharat. It tries to link every internal terrorist activity with Pakistan. India explicitly made an unsuccessful move to implicate secret agency of Pakistan in Mumbai bomb blasts. Despite clarification and clear rebuttal the Indian government was shamelessly stubborn to its assertions. Prior to this, India has many a time threatened Pakistan to chase within its own territories? It was thought that hostility between the two countries will lessen after the IndoPak dialogue. Pakistan went to extents to make it happen, but India remained unmoved. In this scenario, the instigation of the Israeli ambassador to attack Pakistan indicates that Israeli-Indian hobnobbing is a security threat to Pakistan. The Pakistani atomic program is a nightmare not only for India and Israel but also for other western countries. They cannot stand nuclear capability of an Islamic state. Thats why there has been time and time again scheming for depriving us of nuclear capability through threats of attacking our nuclear installations and pressure tactics. There were reports of repeating rapid operations in the 1990s by Israel that it had committed against Iraqi installations. The similar conspiracy was unfolded in 1988 that compelled Pakistan to declare its nuclear status. Israel says that it reserves the right to sabotaging and operating within any other country. It also claims to have the right to intervene in any country where it thinks there are terrorist camps. Israeli secret agency Mossad and the Indian RAW have established an organized and coordinated mutual network. When militant activities of Mujahidin accentuated in occupied Kashmir to fail the Indian army, Israeli commandos reached the occupied territory to train and assist the Indian army.

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India and Israel are fearful of Pakistans international role. They want to weaken it and have been in a mutual relationship since long. One of the main reasons of the Israel-India collaboration is arms trade, where Israel supplies arms. Israelis use American arms and have recently offered India to buy American arms. India has purchased arms from Israel to the tune of 5 billion dollars for the last 5 years. Moreover, an agreement worth 100 billion dollars was signed to develop earth-to-air missiles. India is the largest customer of Israeli arms worldwide. The Indian plane-manufacturing program is dead. It wants to rebuild it with assistance from Israel. India also possesses MIG-21 planes, which are over-dated and have to be upgraded. Israelis have promised to do the up-gradation of the Indian air force. They are also ready to train more Indian pilots in Israel. Same is the case with missile manufacturing. Israel has supplied arms to India in the past as well. It provided India with pilotless spy planes and modern air surveillance equipment during the Kargil operation. Likewise, the most modern Falcon carrier radars were provided to India. All this weapon-system is American made and cannot be sold to other countries without permission of the Americans. The US had banned Israel to sell this gadgetry to India in the past, but now the selling is being done with the willingness of the Americans. Falcon radars have the capability to sense planes in the range of about 200 miles and after its procurement India can have an eye over almost all important cities of Pakistan. Its installation over the coastal areas will also enable India to monitor Pakistani sea boundaries. The Eero missile is yet another important military equipment supplied by Israel to India. It is the latest form of Patriot missile. It is used to hunt ballistic missiles. Americans were quite apprehensive of the Iraqi ballistic missiles, so they experimentally used the Eero missiles for the first time in Iraq. Its results were quite positive. India and Israel both are enemies of Pakistan and they cannot stand Pakistans existence and its progress, well-being, freedom and security. Thats why despite spelling charms of peace by tongue they are busy scheming against Pakistan by throwing it into political and economic instability and depriving it of a sustainable defence guarantee about its atomic program. The Israeli-Indian scheming against Pakistan is not a new phenomenon. It was demonstrated in the past as well. Rumours of an Israeli attack on the Kahuta plant were then in the air due to the fact that the Pakistani program is undesirable to both the countries. Pakistan is an Islamic republic, whose founder and leader supported the Palestinian cause even before establishment of Pakistan. He declared the establishment of Israel as illegitimate. On one hand, Israel has tried to make good relations with Pakistan and, on the other, it never lost an opportunity to harm 207

Pakistan and Muslims in collaboration with India. Indian genocide of Kashmiris in occupied territory has persisted under Israeli guidance. Israeli leaders have never advised Indians to soften on Pakistan. Israel has shown India an anti-Muslim path. India is murdering Muslim youth in occupied Kashmir and within its own country just as Israel kills Palestinians with a view to Muslim mass-murders. India has already resorted to Israeli cooperation to crush the independence movement of Kashmir. Israel is also selling weapons like radars and other equipment to monitor movement of the Mujahidin and check their activities. Moreover, its commandos are training the Indian army. It has provided military and human support to save Indians from Mujahidin attacks and to monitor their activities. Some Israeli commandos have also been arrested or killed at the hands of Mujahidin in occupied Kashmir.

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The India's rogue agency, RAW, has so much influence over its government that everything was settled between the Pakistan President General Pervez Musharaf and Indian Prime Minister A.B.Vajpayee during the Agra dialogues, and chairs were laid out for the ceremony of putting formal signatures on the documents of the agreement; but the ceremony and the agreement were scrapped as a result of behindthe-curtain pressure and intervention of the RAW. Not only that, America has itself asked to close the Indian Consulate in Jalalabad, Afghanistan. India established the spying network and training camps for terrorism in Afghanistan at the behest and will of America. Pakistan's ISI provided the proofs of terrorism and Indian intervention in Pakistan from Jalalabad, including Afghanistan, to the Americans. For this reason, America asked India to close the RAW's centre of terrorism in the name of the Jalalabad Consulate from where saboteur activities are carried out in Balochistan and weapons and money were provided to the BLA and the BRA. Pakistan Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani has presented the proofs of Indian terrorism to the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Under strategy of the RAW, the Indian opposition parties exerted the pressure in such way that Manmohan Singh turned lesser into the prime minister than a RAW spokesman and explained that there was no centre of the RAW in the Jalalabad's Consulate. The biggest hurdle in anti-Pakistan plans of the evil triangle of RAW, Mossad and the CIA is the ISI. The Indian media's propaganda against the Pakistan Army, behind which there is the media cell of RAW, which is continuing. Though the Pak Army's spokesman institution, the ISPR, has refuted this mischievous report of the Times of India in which it was claimed that the Pak Army and the ISI have started efforts to join talks with India. With regard to diplomatic sources, the newspaper said that the Pak Army and the ISI are certain that they can play an important role in the talks with India because they have a deep relation in the policy-making in Pakistan. According to the newspaper's claim, ISI chief General Shuja Pasha, a trustworthy friend of Pak Army Chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, is busy making efforts in this regard. The Times of India report is based on mischievousness and depicts the wickedness of the wicked Hindu usurer so that no opportunity should be lost to attack our security by getting benefit from this weakness. The Indian wickedness can be gauged from the fact that when it was agreed between Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani and his counterpart Manmohan Singh in Sharm Al-Sheikh not to link the Kashmir dispute to terrorism, a tumult was raised against the Indian prime minister in his country. He had also to face the allegations of bowing before Pakistan while the Indian diplomatic sources are hellbent on proving this meeting inconclusive after terming the joint declaration of this meeting bed-drafting. Indian Federal Deputy Foreign Affairs Minister, Shashi Throor has claimed that 209

the joint declaration was just a diplomatic paper, not a legal document. Under the given circumstances, it can never be expected from India that it is convinced to solve our old Kashmir issue at the table of dialogues in the light of our principled stance on the basis of the UN resolutions. Because of Indias stubbornness, our rulers should also not advance the step towards friendship and trade till the resolution of the Kashmir and water disputes according to the UN resolutions.

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The death of an Indian scientist is quite suspicious especially under unknown circumstances and due to unknown reasons. But a more alarming fact is the silence of the Indian media on the death of an important person. This happened on May 2009. 47 years old nuclear scientist named Lok Nathan Mahalngam used to live in the Karnataka state of South India. He worked at Kika Atomic Power Station near an Indian military project C-BIRD. The news of his death and being lost as an important scientist has not been highlighted the way it should be. The whole Indian media kept quiet on the event as if it was a routine loss like similar happenings in every second street and corner of the country. Even the British and USA media ignored the news. If we look at the track record of events as analyzed by experts, the matter sounds to be highly sensitive. They would tell the story as mentioned below. India hired late Baitullah Mehsud (leader of Taliban) against 25 million dollars to attack nuclear installations in Pakistan. We cannot say for certain that the purpose of this attack was to demolish nuclear installations but certainly it was directed to demonize Pakistan before the international community for not protecting its nuclear installations and to establish that these weapons are not safe in Pakistan. On the basis of which a military intervention would be held justified in Pakistan. It would further shake the American trust over the safety of nuclear installations in Pakistan. Baitullah Mehsud selected a group of 500 militants who were trained in the similar terrain of Afghanistan for the specific operation. Its a question whether Baitullah Mehsud was backed by experts of India or Israel during the training? For sure USA and Britain were not aware of the plan hence its experts are not a party to the operation. Its still not clear originally whose brain child this idea is - either India or Israel and when it was converted into thoughts. If the mentioned facts are reality based then it shows that the Pakistans atomic activities are alarming for both the states. One of the countries has already sent the message to destroy nuclear installations of Pakistan where as Indian strategy to oppose it is more mysterious and driven by conspiracies. India intends to demonize the country in international politics and weaken it by involving international pressures. All the recruiters of Baitullah Mehsud were Pakistani and they belonged to (or still come from) the Mehsud tribe. A brief sketch of the plan is discussed here: 1. Baitullah Mehsuds army would attack once and for all the Pakistani nuclear installations or spread smaller groups at different locations to do the task. 2. All the groups should be equipped with advanced communication instruments and weapons. 3. Wherever it is possible the offenders must enter the nuclear installations and scare the Pakistani people through maximum media coverage at the international level. 4. International media particularly those of the USA and Britain should portray an exaggerated picture equaling it to the situation during the Bay of 211

Pigs in 1961. Through these tactics an environment would be created among international community that the Pakistani nuclear program is dangerous and unsafe and should be handed over to international monitoring to disable its function. The Most dangerous element in this plan was that once the mission would be achieved, after some time a small scale atomic blast would be planted at American or NATO forces bases in Afghanistan to ensure that the Afghani Taliban or Muslim extremists have successfully succeeded in penetrating Pakistani nuclear installations. On May 16 an Israeli website Debka revealed a story titled Singh Warns Obama Pakistan Is Lost which states that: Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has warned the American President that Pakistans nuclear sites situated in NWFP are already partially in the hands of Muslim extremists. Times of India also mentioned a report in this context which complains America has lost confidence that Pakistans atomic assets are unsafe and they are ignoring the reality. As it is evident from the above mentioned story that Israel is even more interested in the Pakistani atomic program; the whole world knows about the collaboration and cooperation between India and Israel on security affairs. US White House, Pentagon, Foreign Ministry and CIA all admit this fact. Indian security establishment is always bent upon to dominate Pakistan and occupied Kashmir. It is clear that Israel sent utmost support to India during its war and tension with Pakistan in 1999 which resulted in the loss of marching Pakistan and the Kashmiri freedom fighters. 5.

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TIME FOR PEACE

DIALOGUE, A KEY FOR PEACE, BUT INDIA IS NOT READY FOR DIALOGUE WITH PAKISTAN

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As was widely apprehended, the Delhi parleys between Foreign Secretaries of Pakistan and India on Feb 25, 2010 produced nothing substantial mainly because of the belligerent attitude of India. All media accounts of the short interaction between the two sides suggest that no progress could be made towards normalization of relations as India was not willing to discuss the real issues in a meaningful manner. Despite the fact that no progress was achieved in New Delhi, some observers point out that the meeting itself was as a step forward in the sense that the two countries were not on speaking terms ever since Mumbai incident and, therefore, their engagement augurs well for the future. The talks afforded an opportunity to Pakistan Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir to present the countrys point of view on issues of concern to Islamabad in an articulate and forceful manner. Though publicly India had been claiming that it would not discuss anything except terrorism but credit goes to Salman Bashir for a straight talk on the core issue of Jammu and Kashmir, violation of Indus Basin water treaty by India and the issues of Siachin , Sir Creek. This is because Pakistan firmly believes that there can be no genuine peace and progress in South Asia without resolving the problems that bedevil relations between the two nuclear neighbours. However, response of the Indian Foreign Secretary, though understandable, was shocking as she claimed that time was not ripe for composite dialogue. This forced the Pakistan side to convey to India that the focus was unfair, unrealistic and counterproductive and that the process of dialogue should not be allowed to stall by a single incident. This is also important in the backdrop of the reality that Pakistan itself is witnessing almost on a daily basis the Mumbai like incidents. Indian approach is highly deplorable and should be a cause of concern for policy-makers in Islamabad. If India is not even willing to talk then how can we expect that New Delhi would ever reciprocate in sincere and serious manner to address the real issue? The two countries have been holding talks for decades but these have produced nothing worthwhile except conveying a false impression of engagement to the outside world. We would, therefore, urge Pakistani leadership to insist on a timeframe for negotiations, otherwise we would again be falling into the Indian trap. Pakistan was ready to participate in the process of composite dialogue with India, provided there were no preconditions from the other side. Pakistan can also pose a number of preconditions for entering into the process of dialogue but the country believes in settlement of its bilateral issues with India through a positive negotiation process. Ball is in Indias court, we are ready for a proper process of composite dialogue the Pakistan spokesman said while responding to a latest statement of Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh wherein he stated that there was no 216

other way but the composite dialogue for the solution of Pak-India disputes. We welcome the Indian desire for resumption of composite dialogue, Basit said adding Pakistan has always been making efforts in this regard. He said the Pakistans delegation visited India with a positive approach. We have given a road-map to Indians and now it depends upon them, as and when they respond to this road-map positively. Continuity of dialogue is not only in the interest of Pakistan and India but in the interest of entire region. Pakistan was never desperate for the dialogue with India but being nuclear powers it was in mutual interest of both the countries to settle their differences and disputes through negotiation for the security of entire region. Basit said that, to address the issue of terrorism it is also imperative that Pakistan and India should work in cooperative form. To make hostage the entire peace process on the pretext of one single incident was not a mature approach. Pakistans position from day one was crystal clear to everyone with regard to composite dialogue and it will keep on pursing it in future also. We will keep on trying to get engaged with India in a meaningful, purposeful and result oriented dialogue process, he explained.

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Nowhere is the militarys say greater than in the sphere of foreign policy vis-vis hostile neighbours or ostensible allies that sometimes try to dictate terms to Islamabad. Indias armed forces are wholly answerable to the government of the day. So how then are we to interpret a recent statement by the Indian army chief Gen Kapoor that his country can take on both Pakistan and China simultaneously? He even suggested that a limited war under a nuclear overhang is possible in South Asia. Is this Gen Kapoors personal opinion or is he articulating government policy? What precisely is the nature of this new offensive nuclear doctrine and why is it needed in the first place? And could it be that Indian generals, as opposed to elected politicians, are now calling the shots where regional policy is concerned? Islamabads rejoinders have been stern, and perhaps never more so than when CJCSC Gen Tariq Majeed warned against outlandishstrategic postulations, adding that Gen Kapoor knows very well what the Pakistani armed forces can pull off. It seems that the Indian army is the largest component of the Indian armed forces. Its primary mission is to ensure the national security and defence of the Republic of India from external aggression, threats and maintaining peace and security within its borders. It also conducts humanitarian rescue operations during natural calamities and other disturbances. But unfortunately, officers like Col Prohat were found in killing and creating humanitarian crisis and the general was himself trying to threaten its own borders on grounds unknown to anyone and probably to himself as well. Pakistan army in its response termed the statement of Indian General as jingoistic and it was rightly so. As per spokesman, such statements like one Indian General gave, actually betrayed hostile intents as well as hegemonic and jingoistic mindset that were out of step and proportion with realities of the times. Pak spokesman further added that no one should underestimate our capabilities and determination to foil any nefarious designs against the security of Pakistan. We are mindful and ready about any threats to security of Pakistan as well as importance of promoting peace in South Asia. Analysts, media, civil society and well-wishers of the region will keep discussing the two-front war statement of the Indian ex-army chief (looked inspired from Bal Thackeray and Bollywood) who left no space for India to clear its position on increasing militancy, extremism and terrorism in so called secular India. Whether, Indian as well as international media will highlight this or not, remain a million dollar question. If India becomes pawn of international politics, it will not only damage regional peace but also destroy herself in totality. But at the moment, Indian army from its statement looks as being commanded by subalterns and not generals.

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A beautiful phrase has been drummed by western and Indian media into the heads of millions of people all around the world to build an image of India as a fast growing and responsible country, having potential to become a world power in near future. But a question arises here, does this beautiful phrase shining India has any line with reality? Here is a try to find an answer. The uplifting images of India as a fastest growing economy in S. Asia and the largest democracy of the world are getting world recognition. But just step outside these glorious images for a moment, and look into the fringes of the picture, which actually make up the background. Having the second largest population of the world, India is home to roughly one-third of all poor people living on this earth. India, according to the new estimates, had 456 million people or about 42% of the population living below the new international poverty line of $1.25 per day. The number of Indian poor also constitute 33% of the global poor, which is pegged at 1.4 billion people. India also has 828 million people, or 75.6% of the population living below $2 a day. Sub-Saharan Africa which is considered the worlds poorest region, is better it has 72.2% of its population below the $2 a day level. Economists say millions of Indians still do not have access to potable water, electricity, decent housing or even good roads. Agrarian crisis and worsening food security for the poor across the country is growing with every passing day. There are daily reports of starvation deaths and increasing number of suicides by indebted farmers unable to cope with the strain. In rural areas the majority of Indian citizens live in more fragile, vulnerable and insecure material circumstances than a decade ago. The collapse in employment generation is creating depression in youth while the huge population is providing a large number of workers every year. Besides these facts the situation of human rights in India is very complex. India considers itself a secular and democratic republic and its constitution provides basic human rights to all citizens. For any civilized person, its hard to believe that Indian Dalits or untouchables are still suffering from centuries old inhuman caste system. Indian media is also under strict control of the government and cannot portray the real picture. In 1975 Mrs. Indra Gandhi said that All India Radio is a government organ and it is going to remain a government organ. That policy still exists. Large scale human trafficking is also a major concern over human rights situation in the country. Each year nearly twenty five thousand women and children from Bangladesh and ten thousand women from Nepal are trafficking to India for commercial sexual exploitation. Religious violence is another major problem for people living in India. Then anti Sikh riots in 1984 and anti Muslim riots in 1992 and 2002 are just the example of minoritys situation in India. On the other hand, the poor safety measures adopted by Indian nuclear management authorities are making India the greatest threat to the natural resource and environment of South Asia. 219

India is currently facing the world insurgencies of Naxalites, Kashmiris, Nagaland, Sikhs and other minorities all over the country. Millions of people are struggling to get rid of evil imposed on them by the Indian government. To look at the dramatic increase of differences between rich and poor, the worsening human rights situation for minorities and the uprising of insurgencies in the country, a very different picture emerges. Indeed India is shifting for a very small proportion of its population, the rich and the richest; for the ninety percent of population India is on a fast way to decline. With the current policies, it will take centuries to turn existing India into shining India.

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Although India has been supporting the forces of separatism especially in Pakistan and the Chinese Tibetan regions, like the former Soviet Union, it has rapidly been heading towards its downfall. On one side, New Delhi, which decided a 34 percent increase in its defence budget in 2009, and raised its military budget by 50 percent to almost $40 billion during 2010, signed the pact of a civil nuclear technology with the US in 2008 and has been importing the latest arms and ammunition from Israel, America, Russia, Germany and other western countries. On the other side, the provincial and regional disparities have been widening in the country day by day as majority of the Indian population is living below the poverty level, lacking basic facilities like fresh food and clean water. While yielding to acute poverty, everyday people are committing suicide in India. In the past, India which incurred huge amounts on advancement of its nuclear weapons and successfully tested missile, Agni-III in May 2007, has been extending its range. On July 27, 2009, India launched its first nuclear-powered submarine. For the last 25 years, India has been providing its military and intelligence agency RAW with huge funds in order to support insurgency, separatism and lawlessness in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and China. Although these covert activities vary from country to country, yet the same intensifies in the case of Pakistan. In this respect, a well-established network of the Indian army and RAW has been working to destabilize Pakistan by supporting insurgency in the Frontier Province and separatism in Balochistan. New Delhi has been spending huge money to train and equip the militants who have been entering Pakistan on a daily basis and have been conducting suicide attacks in our country, and assaults on our security forces. The Indian anti-Pakistan plan has also been endorsed by a 72-page white paper handed over to its Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in the aftermath of the Mumbai carnage. The paper titled, War on Terror: The Agenda for Action, (Also available on the website of India Today) advised New Delhi to exploit the divisions within Pakistan and expose its weaknesses in Balochistan, FATA and Azad Kashmir including building pressure on Islamabad, especially by the US. However, India has been endangering the regional peace by dreaming to become a super power in the wake of modern world trends like renunciation of war, peaceful settlement of disputes and economic development. In this regard, New Delhi has been paying attention to its internal multi-faceted crises, which are becoming serious and threatening the Indian union. It is notable that the former Soviet Union which has subjugated the minorities and ethnic groups in various provinces and regions through its military, disintegrated in 1991; even its nuclear weapons could not save its collapse. One of the important causes of the disintegration of the Russian Empire was that its 221

greater defence expenditure exceeded to the maximum, resulting in economic crisis inside the country. However, militarization of the Soviet Union failed in controlling the movements of liberation, launched by various ethnic nationalities. On the other hand, while learning no lesson from its previous close friend, India has been acting upon the similar policies in some way or the other. Under the mask of democracy and secularism, subsequent Indian regimes dominated by politicians from the Hindi heart-land Hindutva (Hindu nationalism) have been using brutal forces ruthlessly against any move to free Asam, Kashmir, Khalistan, Mizoram, Nagaland, Tamil Nadu and Tripura, where wars of independence continue in one form or the other. Recently, Maoist intensified their struggle, attacking official installments in the major Indian cities. In this context, on October 31, 2009, The New York Times wrote, Indias Maoist rebels are now present in 20 states and have killed more than 900 Indian security officers Indias rapid economic growth has made it an emerging global power but also deepened stark inequalities in society. Indias prime minister met with Naga separatists on March 2 this year in an attempt to end one of the South Asian nations longest-running insurgencies. The meeting could not succeed because India is offering wide autonomy to the group, though it has already rejected the separatists demand for an independent homeland in northern India. The Naga insurgents have been fighting for more than 50 years. As regards to the Indian-held Kashmir, since 1947, Indian forces have intermittently been employing all the possible techniques of military terrorism such as curfews, crack-downs, sieges, massacre, targeted killings, etc. to maintain their alien rule. However, under the new puppet regime in the occupied Kashmir, Indian brutalities keep on going against the current phase of Kashmiri uprising which began on August 12, 2008 when Indian forces killed Hurriyat Conference leader Sheikh Abdul Aziz. Nevertheless, by neglecting all the ground realities, New Delhi has been advancing towards a self-destructive path. Post-Napoleonic era in Europe proves that it is not possible to suppress the independence wars through military terrorism. In that context, Prince Metternich, emperor of the Austro-Hungarian Empire did what he could to subjugate the alien people by employing every possible techniques of state terrorism. According to Indian historian, Mahahin, Matternich had to admit that he was fighting for a useless cause, and the empire disintegrated, resulting in the independence of Italy, Bulgaria and other states. In the recent past, despite the employment of unlimited atrocities by President Milosevic, collapse of the former Yugoslavia could not be stopped. Every entity of South Asia is well-aware that even under the rule of Congress, which claims to be a secular party, Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), Rashtriya Swayamsevak Singh (RSS), Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP), Shiv Sina and Bajrang Dal have missed no opportunity to communalize the national politics of India. Although violence against the other communities has been used 222

by Hindu fundamentalists as a normal practice since Partition, yet anti-Christian and anti-Muslim bloodshed in the last decade coupled with the dissemination of Hindutva has increased. Besides the previous genocide of Muslims and destruction of the Babri Mosque, more than 2500 Muslims were massacred in 2002 in the BJP-ruled Indian state of Gujrat. On September 13, 2008, in one of the most tragic incidents in Assam, Hindu extremists burnt alive six members of a Muslim family. Similarly, assaults on Christians and their property have continued by the Hindu mobs in Orissa, Assam, Kerala and Andhra Pradesh. In this respect, at least 60 Christians have been assassinated in the recent past by Hindu fundamentalists in the state of Orissa. Other minorities of India are also target of Hindu terrorism. It is mentionable that the ideology of Hindu nationalism prevails in every field at the cost of other minority groups. It is even supported by Indian defence forces clandestinely. This fact could be judged from the recent past, when on April 6, 2008 in the house of Bajrang Dal fundamentalists in Nanded, a bomb went off. The investigations proved that the militants belonging to the Bajrang Dal were found in the bomb-making and attack on a mosque in Parbhani in 2003. Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Mahrashtra arrested a serving Lt. Col. Srikant Purohit and along with other army officials, indicating that they were helping in training the Hindu terrorists, providing them with the military-grade explosive RDX, used in the Malegaon bombings and terrorist attacks in other Indian cities. ATS further disclosed that Lt. Col. Purohit confessed that in 2007, he was involved in the bombing of Samjohta Express, which burnt alive 69 Pakistanis. Leaders of the Indian extremist parties, Shiv Sena, BJP, VHP and RSS are now pressurizing the Congress regime to release the culprits. Indian fundamentalism and mistreatment of religious minorities could also be assessed from some other developments. After serving the BJP for 30 years, Jaswant Singh was expelled from the party for praising Mohammad Ali Jinnah and echoing the pain of the Indian Muslims in his book, Jinnah-India, Partition. Independence. While pointing out BJPs attitude towards the minorities, Singh wrote: Every Muslim that lives in India is a loyal Indianlook into the eyes of Indians, the author warned in his book, if such a policy continued, India could undergo a second partition. Nonetheless, the artificial union of India which is maintained through a militarization of the country by incurring too much expenditure for importing arms, subjugating minorities through force, crushing wars of liberation with brutal tactics and for sponsoring insurgency in Pakistan, China, and other regional countries, is bound to result in a downfall.

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Sino-Indian rift widens (Sajjad Shaukat), Pakistan Observer Islamabad. Indo-Bhutan relations (Afsheen Afzal), Pakistan Observer Islamabad. India and China (Humayun Gohar) Daily Khabrain. Kashmir Issue and Peace (Lt-Gen ( R ) Abdul Qayyum Khan) Nawa-i-Waqt, Lahore. Ancient India, Dawn Magazine, Feb 2010. Indian defence budget and poverty, The Post Lahore, Feb 16, 2010. India shining or declining, (Mamoona Butt) The Pakistan observer Islamabad. Raws secret war against Pakistan, (Sajjad Shaukat) US v Islamic Militants The Post Lahore. Indian role in terrorism, The Frontier Post Peshawar. Indian water hegemony, The Frontier Post, Peshawar. India heading towards downfall, India Today, The Post Lahore Feb 12, 2010. Water talks, Daily Times 01-04-2010. Weekly Cutting Edge, March 25-31, 2010. The Indo Pak stalemate, The News International March 6, 2010. India can be spoiler in Afghanistan, Pakistan Observer March 6, 2010. Resolution of Kashmir dispute, The Pakistan Observer April, 3, 2010. A Time for peace, Dawn Feb 4, 2010. Indian activities in Afghanistan, (Yousaf Alamgirian) The Post Lahore March 4, 2010 p-126. Indian army chief going wild, The Pakistan Observer ISD Jan 12, 2010. Russia is helping India (extend range of missile), The New York Times April 27 1998. Army acquires Brahmos missile, The Hindu New Delhi June 22, 2007. Indias Pakistan-centric calculus! Pakistan Observer April 03, 2010. Terrorism in China, The Post Lahore April 12, 2010. Talibans triumph, The Post Lahore. The real face of hypocrisy, The Post Lahore.

The author consulted numerous reports, magazines, books and newspapers of South Asia, Britain and USA.

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