Old Game with a New Venue

By Aasef Chauhdry

The Kashmir freedom movement was picking up momentum every day. Inventive Indian minds decided to cash in on international events. The tragic incident of 9/11 was fresh in the minds and hence no other opportunity could have been better than this one. Suddenly the Kashmiris, through celluloid footages, were shown as inhuman terrorists and psychopaths. The Kashmiris were described as animals instead of human beings. The viewers were forced to believe that the just struggle of Kashmiri freedom is terrorism and not a war of deliverance. The tempo of this anti-Pakistan celluloid campaign gained paced slowly but surely. By the end of the century it was at its peak. The successors of Dada Sahib Phalikay and Ird Sher Irani literally maligned the names of their predecessors. An industry which had motion pictures like Alam Ara, Anarkali, Amrit and Admi to its credit has now made it its religious duty to fill the market with venomous trash like Maan Tujhay Salam, Hindustan ki Qasam, The Hero, Dewaar, Sheen, Dressing Room, Dil Pardesi Ho Gaya, Dil Jalay, Dev, Agni Punkh, Zameen, Pukkar, Refugee, Sarfrosh and many more. It has now become a fashion to whack Pakistan, and disparage her armed forces. The Bollywood producers are now making heavy budget movies. The producer of Border, J. P. Dutta has become a VIP overnight. He was begged to cancel his English tour and make another pathetic movie LOC Kargil, which is nothing more than a distortion of historical facts, and an effort not only to fabricate the war account but also to humiliate the neighbouring country’s soldiers through cheap dialogues. It’s an open secret by now that, who is behind this never ending story. Never mind how gigantic the Bollywood film industry is but that fact remains that its beyond their producers’ capabilities to throw in four hundred to five hundred million rupees for producing a propaganda trash. The obvious answer is that yes, it’s none other than the world’s most notorious intelligence agency RAW.

RAW id known for creating troubles in the neighbouring countries, especially Pakistan and keep them on hinges always. It doesn’t believe in any ethic and keep all the options open when it comes to malign Pakistan and Pakistan army and its prime intelligence agency ISI. As said earlier that RAW did achieve a breakthrough in the Kashmir freedom movement by breaking its momentum and impetus through a tireless propaganda and succeeded in labeling the freedom fighters as the terrorists; thanks to the 9/11 scenario for facilitating the baseless and inhuman game. India and especially RAW, went one step ahead with an aim to put Pakistan army and ISI on back foot, while having hallucinations that they might have been helping the freedom fighters. It was their propaganda that Pakistan at the same time was alleged and labeled as the US collation partner in the global war on terror and helping the Taliban, simultaneously; a magic that only the Indian ‘Jadoogars’ (magician) could do.

RAW is known rogue Indian Intelligence Agency in literal meanings and sense. It has a long list of clandestine operations in many countries of the world and amazingly the only agency that carried out and even now carrying out many sabotage operations in its own country. Mumbai drama and Samjhota Express burning are few of the incidents to mention. It’s a loud thinking in India that if impartial investigations are carried out then one may find RAW’s dirty hand behind the killing of Muslims in Ahmadabad during Modi’s government there. All along, Pakistan has been one of its favorite targets. The other side of the picture is that RAW’s links with terrorist organization including TTP are beyond any doubt. In their culpable activities, it even exploits the cover of extremist religious groups to foment terrorist activities and simultaneously propagate to implicate Pakistan.

In the backdrop of recently held sham elections in IOK, BJP has lost the desire to rule IOK and abrogate article 370. Through the participation, it appears as if the occupied people have succeeded by the whisker to thwart, for the time being, one more attempt by New Delhi to completely incorporate their land in the Indian Union, thanks largely to an unusually large turnout officially reported to be about 70 per cent. The occupied people usually resort to boycott or disruption of the poll process to undermine the legitimacy of such elections. However, sensing that a repeat of these tactics this time would enable the BJP to win enough seats to form a government on its own and then mange to get rid of Article 370 of Indian Constitution that had so far protected the occupied territory from being gobbled by India, the people of the occupied land came out of their houses apparently in masses to stop the BJP’s political onslaught with their votes. Under Article 370, the Indian parliament is obliged to seek the consensus of the Kashmir Assembly in all matters except defense, foreign affairs, finance and communication. Also, this Article can be removed from the Indian Constitution only if the Kashmir Assembly itself were to vote in favour of its elimination. That is what the BJP has promised to manage in its rallies during the Indian elections held earlier this year. However, the just concluded assembly election in Indian-occupied Kashmir has thrown up a hung house with the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) winning 28 seats and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of India 25 in a house of 87. Thus, frustrating the Modi’s hopes.

Now it’s very painful for the Modi Sarkar, hence one of the most radical political icons of the Indian history now tasked RAW to initiate series of terrorist activities in the valley to malign Pakistan so that terrorist operating in FATA on their behest can have some respite. Consequently, RAW is on the job right away and has recruited and trained certain terrorist groups to mock terrorist activities in Baramulla, Sopore, Puwama, Shopian, Anantnag and Kulagm areas in next about two weeks. While their collation partners (TTP) in Pakistan, who are at run due to Operation Zarb e Azb, will have a break, the simulated activity of RAW will be coupled with Media offensive to allege Pakistan’s involvement in terrorist activities in IOK. The storyboard is very much ready and the India Media knows its role in this drama; a production by RAW and they are preparing their cameras, contents, microphones and studios to put the thrilling stuff on air. As it is part of the LeT JUD etc would be the main villainous characters for blame game. Same format, same tricks, same strategy of RAW to malign and implicate ISI/Armed Forces of Pakistan. Only the venue is changed.

Coming to Pakistan, now if we see the ISI has very limited resources as compared to responsibilities it has. None of other agency or institute of the country is working diligently and honestly, as one expects from them, be it IB, Police, CID, judiciary, parliament or be it our mighty media. It is ISI who has to fight and guard the national interests on media, through a yet another kind of war. The prime intelligence agency is fighting a war on many fronts; against international operators, their local proxies and agents in Baluchistan, resisting a proxy war, pursue terrorists, their facilitators and detain them in Punjab, Sindh, FATA, KPK and AJK. Also fighting a war against those factors who are trying to re-blood the dead nationalist movements in Sindh and above all ISI has thrown everything in her support to the Army in its decade long war against terrorism.

The time has come that our ignorant and irresponsible media to wake up before it’s late. Let a group of bunch of few rascals labeled as journo to remain busy with their immoral activities against the country, Army and ISI and let the GEO be what it is as it’s a known hard fact that every dog has a day, but the majority of the media has to pull up their socks and stand beside the ISI in its war against our arch rival India and RAW. We have to remember that in case we as a nation and our media as one of the most important and key part, if ever showed ignorance or carelessness then not only the history but the innocent Kashmiri brethren will never forgive us.

Modi has laid his cards and hardly any doubt left that what is on his mind. He will never spare a chance to bag majority in the Valley and that would not be possible without gaining the sympathies of the oppressed Kashmiris. To cash that sympathy he is reverting to old tactics and drama of maligning Pakistan Army/ ISI with the help of his vital weapon RAW. Time for own media to decide whether they are with the Army/ ISI or against them?