By
Sajjad Shaukat
On November 26, 2008,
several persons were killed in the simultaneous terror attacks in Mumbai.
Without any investigation, Indian high officials and media had started blaming
Pakistan.
Mumbai
attack was just another false flag operation of Indian establishment to gain
sympathies of world community and defame Pakistan in the comity of nations. The
whole drama was staged to put blame Pakistan and its intelligence agency,
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI).
It is notable that
renowned thinkers, Hobbes, Machiavelli and Morgenthau opine that sometimes,
rulers act upon immoral activities like deceit, fraud and falsehood to fulfill
their countries’ selfish aims. But such a sinister politics was replaced by new
trends such as fair-dealings, reconciliation and economic development.
Regrettably, India is still following past politics in modern era.
Under the cover of the
Mumbai catastrophe, India began a deliberate propaganda campaign against Pakistan
and tried to isolate the latter in the comity of nations by showing that
Islamabad was sponsoring terrorism in India. In this regard, Indian former
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and its other high officials, while repeating old
rhetoric of baseless allegations, stated that Pakistan has “epicenter of
terrorism” and Islamabad should “end infrastructure of terrorism.” L.K. Advani,
leader of the BJP, while accusing Pakistan as the hotbed of terror in the
region, said that Pakistan’s secret agency ISI should be declared a terror
outfit.
In this respect, Indian
top officials and TV channels had remarked that Indian Mujahideen and the
banned Lashkar-e-Tayba (LeT) based in Pakistan and ISI were behind the Mumbai
terror attacks. With the assistance of Indian secret agency RAW, Indian
investigators fabricated a false story that 10 terrorists who executed Mumbai
carnage came in a boat from Karachi and were in contact with the members of the
banned Lashker-e-Taiba through phone calls. But a number of questions arise in
relation to the so-called links, deliberately entangling Pakistan. First, how
it is possible that the militants phoned 100 times inside Pakistan, but they
did not call their families? Second, the lonely gunman Ajmal Kasab who was
arrested, knew his address and why he did not indicate the names and home
addresses of other 9 fugitives with whom he lived for a long time? Third, after
the hard journey of more than 50 hours, traveling on the slow moving water,
evading 20 coastal guards of Indian Navy, how they reached Mumbai? Fourth,
where did they change their muddy shoes and wet dresses? Fifth, how it became
possible that they immediately hired a taxi and reached their targets, without
taking some rest? Sixth, why the terrorists killed only four people at the
Nariman house, sparing the other six guys present there?
Availing the pretext of
the Mumbai catastrophe, New Delhi had suspended the process of ‘composite
dialogue’ in wake of its highly provocative actions like mobilization of
troops. Islamabad had also taken defensive steps to meet any Indian prospective
aggression or surgical strikes. But, India failed in implementing its
aggressive plans, because Pakistan also possesses atomic weapons.
However, in the
post-Mumbai terror attacks, Indian rulers had started blackmailing Islamabad
that they would not resume the talks unless Islamabad takes actions against the
culprits of Mumbai mayhem. New Delhi urged Islamabad to arrest the perpetrators
of the Mumbai terror attacks. Rejecting Pakistan’s stand that its government or
any official agency was not involved in the Mumbai attacks, New Delhi wanted to
make Islamabad accept all other Indian demands since our rulers admitted that
Ajmal Kasab was Pakistani national. In fact, Islamabad’s admission which had emboldened
New Delhi was forced by the US. And, Ajmal Kasab was tortured by the Indian
intelligence agencies so as to endorse Indian false story against Islamabad,
while giving statement in an Indian court. Suppose, even if he was Pakistani,
it did not matter because he was a non-state actor, as non-state actors like
smugglers and the militants are found in many countries.
It is of particular
attention that on July 19, 2013, the Indian former home ministry and
ex-investigating officer Satish Verma disclosed that terror attacks in Mumbai
in November 26, 2008 and assault on Indian Parliament in January 12, 2001 were
carried out by the Indian government to strengthen anti-terrorism laws.
It has clearly proved
that Indian secret agencies; particularly RAW arranged coordinated terror
attacks in Mumbai and orchestrated that drama only to defame Pakistan in the
world, but also to fulfill a number of other sinister aims.
As a matter of fact, a
lack of seriousness on India’s part to settle all disputes, especially Kashmir
issue has compelled New Delhi to follow a self-contradictory and confused
strategy towards Islamabad.
Hence, New Delhi
earnestly found various pretexts to cancel peace talks, while shifting the
blame to Islamabad. For example, besides Mumbai attacks, in 2002, under the
pretension of terrorist attack on the Indian parliament, India postponed the
dialogue process.
In this connection, on
July 27, 2015, three gunmen dressed in army uniforms killed at least seven
people, including three civilians and four policemen in the Indian district of
Gurdaspur, Punjab.
Without any
investigation, Indian high officials and media started accusing Pakistan, its
banned militant outfits and intelligence agencies for the Gurdaspur incident.
Indian Police remarked that the attackers are from Indian-held Kashmir, and
some said that they were Sikh separatists, while Indian Punjab police chief
claimed that the three gunmen were Muslim, but as yet unidentified.
Contradicting speculations, India’s Home Minister Rajnath Singh told parliament
that the gunmen came from Pakistan.
Khalistan Movement Chief
Manmohan Singh stated that the Gurdaspur incident is “a conspiracy of Indian
secret agency RAW to defame Pakistan.”
Besides, prior to the US
President Obama’s second visit to New Delhi, Indian intelligence agencies
orchestrated a boat drama to defame Pakistan, allegedly reporting that a
Pakistani fishing boat as a Pakistan-based outfit group Lashkar-e-Taiba was
intercepted by Indian Coast Guards, off the coast of Porebandar, Gujarat. And
Indian Coast Guard crew set the boat on fire and it exploded. But, its reality
exposed Indian terrorism, because, some Indian high officials admitted that
there was no such boat which came from Pakistan.
Similarly, India
orchestrated the drama of militants’ attack at Indian Air Force Base in
Pathankot on January 2, 2016. Indian media and top civil and military officials
started claiming that the attackers had arrived from Pakistani Punjab’s
Bahawalpur district, and had links with Jaish-e-Mohammad and ISI. But, despite
Islamabad’s cooperation with New Delhi like formation of the Joint
Investigation Team (JIT) consisting of professionals to investigate the
Pathankot attack, crackdown against the militant group Jaish-i-Mohammad—lodging
of a First Information Report (FIR) in relation to the incident, India failed
in providing any proof of Pakistan’s involvement in the Pathankot episode.
Indian authorities did
not cooperate with Pakistan’s Joint Investigation Team which visited India to
probe into Pathankot attack. The JIT members visited Pathankot Airbase on March
29 where Indian National Investigation Agency officials briefed and showed them
the route from where the attackers stormed the airbase. In fact, besides
fulfilling other sinister designs against Pakistan, New Delhi staged that drama
to postpone secretary-level talks with Pakistan, which were scheduled to be
held in Islamabad on January 15, 2016.
Sources said that the
lights along the 24-km perimeter wall of the Pathankot airbase found to be
faulty on the eve of the attack. The Pakistani investigators were allowed to
enter the military airbase from the narrow adjacent routes instead of main
entrance and their duration of the visit was just 55 minutes, enough to take a
mere walk through the airbase. The JIT could not collect evidence in this
limited time. And the visiting team was only informed about the negligence of
Boarder Security Force (BSF) and Indian forces. It was disclosed that at the
time of the assault, the BSF was sleeping, even though they had been alerted of
a possible attack 48 hours earlier.
India’s orchestrated
drama of the Pathankot incident could also be judged from the fact that
earlier, Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar had stated in confusion that
New Delhi would not allow access to the JIT into the base, though it was
allowed on very limited scale to fulfill the formality. It can undermine the
seriousness of bilateral commitments to find the truth.
Continuing false flag
operations, on Setember18, this year, India also staged the drama of the terror
attack in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) at a military base in Uri, close to
the Line of Control (LoC) with Pakistan.
Like the previous
terrorism-related events, without any investigation, Indian media, civil and
military high officials started blaming LeT and ISI, saying that the militants
who target the Uri base came from Pakistan’s side of Azad Kashmir. In this
regard, a senior Home Ministry official and a spokesman of the Indian army
allegedly said, “It is clearly a case of cross-border terror attack…the
militants infiltrated across the Line of Control from Pakistan before attacking
the base in Uri.”
The situation developed
in the aftermath of the Uri base terror assault like creation of Indian war
hysteria against Pakistan, mobilization of troops near the LoC, exposure of the
myth of Indian surgical strikes inside Azad Kashmir, differences between Indian
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Country’s Army Chief Gen. Dalbir Sing about
the ‘fake video’ of this episode, criticism Modi government inside India,
continuous violations at the LoC, targeting villages of Azad Kashmir etc., and
diversion of attention from the new phase of uprising in the Indian held
Kashmir where Indian security forces have martyred more than 100 innocent
Kashmiris since July 8, 2016, who have been protesting against the martyrdom of
the young Kashmir leader Burhan Wani by the Indian security forces in the
Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) in wake of continued sieges and prolonged curfew
have clearly proved that with the help of Indian intelligence agencies,
especially RAW, India has itself arranged the Uri base assault not only to
defame Pakistan abroad, but also to achieve a number of sinister designs.
Nevertheless, all these
terror attacks were planned by Indian security agencies to distort image of
Pakistan and its primary intelligence agency, ISI, linking it with the banned
group Lashkar-e-Taiba. In these terms, coordinated terror assaults of November
26, 2008 in Mumbai were part of the same Indian scheme.
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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