PAKISTAN DOES NOT SPONSOR TERRORISM? WHAT A JOKE!!

Pakistan's President Asif Ali Zardari has said it. Pakistan's Prime Minister Gilani has said it. Pakistan's Foreign Minister Qureshi has said it. Now Pervez Musharraf has said it. Pakistan is more innocent than the just-born baby even. Pakistan does not know what terrorism is. Pakistan has nothing to do with any terrorist activity going on in this world. In fact Pakistan is an innocent victim of terrorism. Pakistan is unfairly accused of sponsoring and exporting terrorism, instead of getting appreciation for their role in the 'War On Terror' mounted by the USA.


Haven't we heard the ultimate TRUTH? What a great joke this is!! Well, Pakistan may well be justifiably banking on the USA standing by it in making such assertions. After all the Americans have had at least half a hand in the creation of such terrorist entities in Pakistan. For example, let us take a look at how the Taliban was created. This is from a "Special Report: From Cold War, Afghans Inherit Brutal New Age" by JOHN F. BURNS dated: February 14, 1996, in New York Times.(http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CE3DB1239F937A25751C0A960958260)

"The other macabre twist is that in Afghanistan this hostile force (Taliban) is a mutation of American cold war politics. For the Taliban emerged from the chaos of a war between American proxy warriors and Soviet troops, and is still supported by the arms network of American allies created to challenge Soviet power. ................. The name Taliban was taken from the Arabic word for students, a reference to the fact that the core group of Taliban came together at Muslim religious schools known as madrassahs in Kandahar and, before that, during the Soviet occupation, at similar institutions across the border in Pakistan. ................... Reinforced by defectors from the Communist Government's armed forces, and backed by Saudi Arabia and Pakistan -- American allies -- the Taliban thrived on popular disillusionment with the war. ..................... From the outset, the Taliban have been strongly backed by Pakistan, a fact that has prompted Iranian religious leaders to denounce the Taliban as part of an American plot to encircle Iran."


Here again as brought out by Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taliban):

"The overwhelming majority of the Taliban movement were ethnic Pashtuns from southern Afghanistan and western Pakistan, along with a smaller number of volunteers from Islamic countries or regions in North Africa, the Middle East and the former Soviet Union. The Taliban received valuable training, supplies and arms from the Pakistani government, particularly the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and many recruits from Madrasahs for Afghan refugees in Pakistan, primarily ones established by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam JUI. ....................... Although there is no evidence that the CIA directly supported the Taliban or Al Qaeda, some basis for military support of the Taliban was provided when, in the early 1980s, the CIA and the ISI (Pakistan's Interservices Intelligence Agency) provided arms to Afghans resisting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, and the ISI assisted the process of gathering radical Muslims from around the world to fight against the Soviets. Osama Bin Laden was one of the key players in organizing training camps for the foreign Muslim volunteers. The U.S. poured funds and arms into Afghanistan, and by 1987, 65,000 tons of U.S.-made weapons and ammunition a year were entering the war."


Centre for Research on Globalisation, Montreal, Canada, has published a paper by Michel Chossudovsky, Professor of Economics, University of Ottawa, captioned "Cover-up or Complicity of the Bush Administration? The Role of Pakistan's Military Intelligence (ISI) in the September 11 Attacks" (Posted at globalresearch.ca 2 November 2001) (http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO111A.html)

It says:"The existence of an "ISI-Osama-Taliban axis" was a matter of public record. The links between the ISI and agencies of the US government including the CIA are also a matter of public record. The Bush Administration was fully cognizant of (ISI Chief) Lt. General (Mahmoud) Ahmad's role. In other words, rather than waging a campaign against international terrorism, the evidence would suggest that it is indirectly abetting international terrorism, using the Pakistani ISI as a 'go-between'."


Well, what does all this have to do with Pakistan's terrorism against India, or America's tacit acquiescence to it?


So far India has fought 3 wars with Pakistan. It is very significant that (1) none of them were initiated by India, and (2) Pakistan always started them by infiltrating India with irregulars, like Pathan tribals and other civilians, and then following them with its regular army. When they did not get any purchase out of these adventures, they decided to give up any frontal confrontation and instead bug India with proxy war through terrorists.


The reason for Pakistan's insane hostility toward India is quite apparent, but it is not acceptable or excusable. Even though their focus is currently on grabbing Kashmir by hook or crook, their ultimate aim is to destabilise India internally using the substantial Muslim population still in India, and grab India as a whole to 'reclaim the glory of their Mughal rule'. It was not a casual or loose statement that the Pak Foreign Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto made in the UN when he referred to Indians as 'Indian Dogs' and said that they (the Muslims) had ruled over India for a thousand years and they would do it again. But the Americans too had developed an antogonistic attitude towards India and had joined hands with the Pakistanis in playing their game against India's interests.


After India won independence from British rule, the Americans tried to enlist India as their front line partner to contain any Soviet expansion in this region. As India did not want to make such alignments with anybody and wanted to chart out its own course in such matters, like a jilted lover on rebound the Americans transferred their affection to Pakistan who welcomed them with both hands. Maybe they were also influenced by the British assessment in this regard. "Convinced by the British, Americans subscribed to the thesis that while Islam would bind Pakistan (a state carved out of India) firmly, India—with its inherent diversity of languages, culture, and religion— would not be able to keep itself united." (USAWC Strategy Research Project. From Estrangement To Engagement: Threats And Opportunities In Indo-U.S. Relations And The Roles Of Their Armed Forces ... by Brig. Anil Chait --- 2006 -- www.strategicstudiesinstitute.army.mil/pdffiles/ksil303.pdf)


Even though India did procure some of its weaponry and armaments from the US also apart from other sources, it was nowhere near what the Americans poured into Pakistan, in quantity as well as sophistication, of course with the eyewash of a condition that it was all for use against the Russians and not to be used against India. But what happened in reality was something else.


Look at this report from K.Subrahmanyam, an expert commentator on Indian security aspects, in his article in Rediff.com about the 1965 war. (http://www.rediff.com///news/2005/sep/06war1.htm -- 1965 decided fate of the subcontinent -- September 06, 2005)

"The Americans were well informed about the possibility of Pakistani infiltration into Kashmir and the subsequent offensive months in advance, as has been recorded by the then Central Investigative Agency operative in India, Duane Claridge, in his book A Man for All Seasons.

"The American military and political establishment had concluded that in case of a war, Pakistan would win.

"The Pentagon and Harvard University played a war game at the Institute of Defence Analysis, Washington, DC, in March 1965. The war game and its results were available in a book, Crisis Game by Sidney Giffin, by the spring of 1965.

"The total failure of the Kashmir uprising, the complete destruction of the Pakistani Patton Armoured division at Khem Karan in Punjab and the Pakistan Army running out of ammunition and being saved from total humiliation through the UN ceasefire constitute a turning point in the history of India-Pakistan relations.

"Islamabad's use of American arms against India was against the assurances given by President Dwight Eisenhower to Jawaharlal Nehru that in case Pakistan used US-supplied arms against India, necessary corrective action would follow.

"Though the US bureaucracy and the Pentagon were prepared to look the other way if Pakistan had won the war, they found it difficult to overlook the miserable performance of Pakistani armour at Khem Karan."


This is the sort of perfidy, treachery that the US has been practising against India all the time.


Can the UK be far behind? After all, it will be appropriate to modify a Nursery Rhyme as follows:
Mary (US) had a little lamb (UK), whose fleece was white as snow;
Wherever that (US) Mary went, the (UK) lamb was sure to go.

I was in England at the time of the 1965 skirmishes and I can very well remember the anti-Indian reporting in the UK newspapers. Particularly one Earl of Arran used to spew venom on India liberally. They were reporting with glee that Pakistan was dishing it out to India in full measure, and they were almost knocking at New Delhi's doors. I landed back in Bombay on the day the UN mediated cease-fire was to take effect. Only on reaching India I got the true picture that the Paks were on their knees, and the cease-fire rescued them from further destruction.


If this was the treachery of the Americans before and during the misadventure, what about after the war was over? The same report from K.Subrahmanyam continues:

"Pakistan drew correct lessons from the failure of Operation Gibraltar when the Kashmiris did not rise against India in consequence to large-scale infiltration of Pakistani commandos into the Kashmir valley. They bided their time and in the late 1980s trained disaffected Kashmiris, who crossed over into Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, in arms and infiltrated them back.

"That this strategy too did not wholly succeed is a different story but it did begin the prolonged proxy war against India in Kashmir.

"Pakistan also discovered it was not difficult to run rings around the conditions of American arms supplies and hide things from US inspection teams. They were able to covertly raise a second armoured division in 1965. Unfortunately for them it did not give them the victory in Punjab they expected. The second armoured division met its defeat at Khem Karan.

"Pakistan used this experience of getting around US procedures in the 1980s to divert American arms -- meant for Afghans fighting Soviet forces -- to arm the various jihadi militias and to install the Taliban regime in Kabul."


Was this all done without the knowledge of the Americans? How naive should one be to believe such a thing!!


Subsequently any amount of Pakistani terrorist attacks in Kashmir and in the rest of India has not elicited any response from the Americans to pull up their protege and make them behave. For these Rip Van Winkles of America, terrorism was born in this world only when a gang of terrorists hoodwinked the Americans, hijacked some planes from American airports and flew them into the twin towers of World Trade Centre in New York. What sweet Divine justice!! These 'Christian' Americans should be aware of what their own Bible says: "For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind". Maybe the 9/11 experience was not the full whirlwind, but just a sample, an advance warning.


However, as part of their consequent 'War on Terror' they forced Pakistan to ban the Lashkar-e-Toiba and some other terrorist outfits. But the Paks made it clear that the ban applied to all of Pakistan except the Pak Occupied Kashmir where their anti-Indian activity will go on as usual. Why? Did the Americans take note of it? Did they care? India, and the Indians, can go to hell for all they care. Isn't that the message they are sending? The USA is Pakistan's accessory before, during and after the fact of every Pakistani terrorist activity against India.


Why, in the aftermath of the Mumbai terrorist attack, have they suddenly started 'acting' tough against Pakistan and getting a UN Security Council resolution passed banning the Pak terrorist units? "Elementary, my dear Watson", as Sherlock Holmes would say. The non-stop TV coverage for 3 days of the Taj Hotel burning has caused a world-wide revulsion on par with the revulsion created by similar TV presentation of the WTC collapsing. Even the Americans cannot ignore this. To compound it further for them, the list of casualties included half a dozen Americans and, more than that, half a dozen Jews. The Americans can ignore this only at their peril. Obviously it is time to jettison the Pakistanis at least temporarily, for a short time.

SHAME ON THE CONGRESS/UPA GOVERNMENT

A team of FBI officials from America have landed here to 'help' Indian intelligence units with the investigations on the recent terrorist attack on Mumbai. A team of Scotland Yard sleuths have also landed here for the same task. A team of intelligence experts from Australia also seem to have arrived. So also a team from Israel.

WHAT IS HAPPENING? Has the Government of India decided that Indian intelligence personnel are not capable of carrying out this investigation? If that is so, it is a recent development which is very worrying.

We cannot easily forget the investigation of the 1995 Purulia Arms Dropping case where the British operative Peter Bleach and 5 Latvian crew of the aircraft were successfully prosecuted and jailed. Subsequently the 5 Latvian crew were pardoned and released in 2000, and Peter Bleach himself was given a Presidential pardon and released in 2004. However one more operative, Kim Davy from Denmark, had escaped and was absconding. The latest news seems to be that he has been caught by Danish authorities, and he is likely to be extradited to India to face trial.

Then again it is the alertness and pioneering investigation of the Delhi Police who smelled a rat, which was followed by a CBI investigation, that exposed the match-fixing scandal involving players of all major cricket playing countries, leading to many of them being banned from playing.

Just take a look at this 03FEB2005 report in
http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/02-03-05.asp captioned:
"Remote viewing Indian intelligence makes India withdraw from SAARC meet in Bangladesh all of a sudden to protect India’s leaders from Islamic militants" by Kiran Chaube, Special Correspondent.

"India all of a sudden decided not to attend the SAARC meeting with the seven South Asian countries next week. Expressing shock and dismay at India's decision not to attend the SAARC summit, Bangladesh on Wednesday accused New Delhi of holding the seven-nation club "hostage to bilateral onsiderations." ................ According to sources in New Delhi, field intelligence, remote viewers in India’s military intelligence RAW and satellite feed from communications channels confirmed that Islamic militants were planning a major strike against Indian leaders during the SAARC meeting. Bangladesh has harbored Islamic militants and has secret training camps to train them .................... According to field intelligence and remote viewers, militants were well positioned to strike a major blow of catastrophic nature against India in Dhaka. A team of security experts who is in Dhaka investigated the suspected breach of security and possible means by which the Islamic militants can attack the Indian leaders in Dhaka. They were surprised at the pin pointed source of problem provided by the remote viewers and field intelligence. .............. India had no plans to cancel the plan of attending the meeting. As a matter of fact some solid breakthrough in relations between India and Pakistan was expected in the meeting and India was looking forward to the same."

That is how alert and effective our intelligence community has been.

Here again is another report Dated:02/03/2007 from:
http://www.thehindu.com/2007/03/02/stories/2007030204681400.htm
"Indian intelligence had warned about attack on Musharraf"Amit Baruah

"NEW DELHI: Indian intelligence had warned Pakistan about the first assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf in December 2003, claims a new book by a senior Pakistani journalist Zahid Hussain.

"In Frontline Pakistan, Mr. Hussain claimed that the December 14, 2003 attempt to kill Gen. Musharraf by blowing up a bridge used by his vehicle in Rawalpindi was the work of the Jaish-e-Muhammad (JeM), a group formed by cleric Masood Azhar, freed by India after the IC-814 hijacking in December 1999.

""Ironically, it was Indian intelligence that had warned Musharraf of the first attempt to kill him by blowing up the bridge," the book said, stating that some two dozen Pakistan Air Force personnel were part of a clandestine JeM cell to assassinate the President."

"(Top Indian officials, familiar with the events of December 2003, confirm that Mr. Hussain's account of a warning being passed on by Indian intelligence agencies to Pakistani authorities relating to Gen. Musharraf, is accurate)."


Here is another report dated 03APR2002 on: http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=8901, captioned:
"Indian intelligence wiretap identified 9/11 hijackers"

"Washington, April 3: Indian intelligence agencies helped the US to identify the hijackers who carried out the deadly September 11 terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, a media report said here on Wednesday.

"The new probe began after US officials learned that intelligence agents in India had wiretapped the telephone of a Pakistani charity funded by the Saudi government and discovered the transfer of 100,000 dollars to Mohamed Atta, one of the 19 hijackers, the paper quoting US officials said.

"The information helped US officials identify all the 19 hijackers -- 15 of whom were Saudi nationals, the officials said."

This has basically been the calibre and pedigree of our intelligence establishments. It is such a set-up which finds itself degraded, depreciated and reviled to the extent that, in the wake of the terrorist attack on Mumbai, the Congress/UPA Government at the centre has invited, or at the least allowed, the 'experts' from the USA, the UK, Australia and Israel to investigate this terrorist action. What a shame!!

One has to wonder whether this Government will go one step further now and outsource our intelligence/security/defence activities to the Americans, Britishers, Australians and Israelis. What a shame!!

'Cowards can't run cricket, I'll return to India'

That's what Kevin Pietersen, the captain of the English cricket team, says, hiding behind the skirts of his wife in his house in England after he and his team of cowards ran away to the security of their wives' bosoms as soon as they got news of some gunshots and bombings in some part of India far away from where they were.

The press report from London, datelined NOV 30, 2008 says:

"Most of his teammates may have developed cold feet but England captain Kevin Pietersen said he would return to India for the Test series, provided security adviser Reg Dickason okays the tour. Back in the comfort of his family, Pietersen said he could not sleep since terror struck Mumbai but asserted terrorism should not be allowed to play spoilsport.

"We can't allow these cowards to run our game," Pietersen wrote in Sunday's News of the World. "It puts it all into perspective when you see blood on the streets. But if Reg gives us the OK, then I'll be back for the two Test matches and complete the tour. He has been around the block and I trust his judgement 100 per cent. If he says it is safe to go back to India for the First Test in 11 days, then you can count me in," added the England captain. 

"Pietersen, however, made it clear that he would not force any teammate to join the touring party."

Very brave words indeed!!! If KP really meant what he said -- "We can't allow these cowards to run our game" --  he and his team should have stayed put, thumbed their noses at the terrorists and carried on with the tour. Well, it is not to be. Andrew Flintoff and Steve Harmison have announced they will not return to India for the rest of he series. Maybe other players have also said so in private. Oh! What brave souls!! The Government of India should invite KP & Co as special guests for the Republic Day function in January 2009 and give them Bravery awards.

It looks like the ECB has said that the senior players are not ready to make the tour, and they will send a 2nd string team for the 2-Test series. Is the BCCI shameless enough to accept this, or do they have the guts to tell the ECB and the ICC that it is not acceptable?

Contrast this with the reaction and response of some people who were trapped inside the hotels during the stressful encounter, literally staring down the barrel of the gun. In TV interviews after their rescue, there were a good number of them who said they are not planning to leave India immediately because of this bad experience, They said they like India and they will continue with their tour. In fact a group of people from South Africa, who had booked for a 3-week tour of India, canceled their booking as soon as they heard about the terrorist attack. But when the crisis blew over in 3 days, they have immediately revived their plan and reinstated their bookings.

These are brave people. Not this bunch of English cricketers who are as cowardly as the terrorists whom KP calls as cowards.