By Sajjad Shaukat
During his first visit
to Pakistan, Afghanistan’s President Ashraf Ghani who was accompanied by high
security officials also met Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif.
President Ashraf lauded Pakistan’s efforts to combat terrorism. Besides mutual
cooperation in other fields, Islamabad’s proposal to offer security and defence
cooperation to Afghanistan was received positively.
Afghan President said,
“His government and the people of Afghanistan desire to further strengthen
bilateral relations with Pakistan in all areas of mutual interest. He
elaborated, “We must overcome the past…we will not permit the past to destroy
the future.”
It is notable
that Gen. Raheel accompanied by the DG of Inter-Services Intelligence agency
(ISI), went to Kabul on December 17, 2014. During his meeting with his
Afghan counterpart, President Ashraf Ghani and the ISAF commander, he presented
the evidence of linkage between the massacre of children at Peshawar school and
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) sanctuaries in Afghanistan. He also
asked about action against the TTP chief Mullah Fazlullah and his network which
is being assisted by India.
Similarly, Indian Prime
Minister Modi was humbled by the US Secretary of State John Kerry when he met
him during a recent official visit to India. During the meeting, American team
got furious and showed some hard evidence of Mullah Fazalullah and RAW nexus in
Afghanistan to influx terror in Pakistan.
It is mentionable that
New Delhi which has already invested billion of dollars in Afghanistan, also
signed a wide-ranging strategic agreement with that country on October 5, 2011.
And, the then President Karzai had also signed another agreement with India to
obtain Indian arms and weapons. However, under the cover of these agreements,
India has further strengthened its grip in Afghanistan.
Besides, Indian secret
agency RAW has well-established its network in Afghanistan, and with the
tactical assistance of anti-Pakistan secret agencies, it is fully backing
cross-border incursions including terror-activities in Balochistan province and
other regions of Pakistan, and is also destabilizing China and Iran.
As regards Balochistan,
based in Afghanistan, particularly RAW has continuously been assisting the
Baloch separatist groups like BLA to create lawlessness there. In this regard,
Indian former Army Chief Gen. VK Singh openly admitted that during his tenure,
he supervised special army unit, Tactical Support Division (TSD) to sponsor
acts of sabotage, especially in Balochistan.
In this context, after
the recent visit of the Chinese President Xi Jinping to Pakistan, who signed 51
agreements for cooperation in various fields, related to China-Pakistan
Economic Corridor (CPEC)—between deep Gwadar seaport of Balochistan and the
historic Silk Road city in western regions-Xinjiang of China, the director of
The Second Floor (T2F), a social activist Sabeen Mahmud was shot dead by
unidentified gunmen in Karachi on April 24, this year—followed by a bomb blast
in Sibi, which killed several persons on April 26. However, she had left T2F after
attending the session on Balochistan, when she was targeted. She was likely
conduct a seminar at LUMS in Lahore about Balochistan. No doubt, RAW is behind
the assassination of Sabeen Mahmud-a well thought-out plan not only to try to
sabotage Pak-China alliance, but also to accuse ISI.
While, the DG, ISPR
Maj-GEN, Asim Bajwa strongly condemned the murder of Sabeen Mahmud, adding that
intelligence agencies have been tasked to assist in the investigation of the
killing.
However, taking note of
Indian secret function, now, Afghan government and US has started taking action
against the TTP. A number of TTP militants have been captured in Afghanistan,
while Fazlullah survived in a drone attack.
Unlike the Karzai
regime, Afghan leadership is visionary and desires to stay away from the Indian
proxy wars in the region. Afghan new rulers are no
more interested in carrying forward the “Arms deal”
with India and are only interested in socio-economic development, peace and
stability in the region.
During his visit to
India from April 27 to 29, Afghan President Ashraf is reportedly, interested in
asking New Delhi to stop interference in Afghanistan and its neighbours. Due to
exposed Indian links with TTP and Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan (TTA), and
her involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan, India which is finding it
hard to entice the new Afghan government, resultantly, feels
marginalized in the unfolding Afghan chessboard.
Indian leadership is
desperate and impatient to woo the new afghan leadership and to revive the
bilateral relations to continue her evil designs towards Pakistan and China.
To overcome growing
feelings of frustration, Indian rulers may expand engagements with Afghan
leadership, but Afghan Government which may fulfill the formality is not ready
to support Indian maneuvers towards Beijing and Islamabad.
Taking advantage of Afghanistan’s
dwindling economy, during the visit of President Ghani, Indian leadership is
also expected to announce many incentives for Kabul by boasting about investing
$2 billion in infrastructural and humanitarian projects in Afghanistan.
Notably, India has not
made any investment for the war torn country since
2012, which exposes its
sham sincerity and commitment for Afghanistan.
India has still been in
thick contact with extremist terrorist outfits like TTP etc. A person namely
Asim Umar (an Indian citizen of Utter Pardesh who had migrated to Pakistan in
1990) maneuvered to become Chief of Al Qaeda’s South Asia Chapter. He is a
confirmed RAW agent and his organization is involved in an attempt to hijack
PNS Zulfikar. He has even created AQIS women force under title of “Shaheen
Force.”
Emergence of ISIS in
Afghanistan (to counter-weight Taliban) has also connections with Indian
security agencies, as majority of the groups, announcing allegiance with it,
enjoyed good contacts with Indian RAW and were exploited as proxies against
Pakistan. Recently, ISIS claimed incident in Jalalabad (Suicide attack) has
also traces of Indian linkage. In fact, India through ISIS in Afghanistan is
trying to counter Taliban.
Moreover, RAW and
anti-China secret agencies may step up activities by strengthening East
Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) along Pak-China border to support
terrorism in China. Undoubtedly, Indian secret function in Afghanistan has been
exposed.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on
international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants,
Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
Email:
sajjad_logic@yahoo.com
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