DESTRUCTION OF TEMPLES HAS RUINED PAKISTAN

WARNING SIGNS AND HARD LESSONS FOR BHARAT

DESTRUCTION OF TEMPLES HAS RUINED  PAKISTAN

WARNING SIGNS AND HARD LESSONS FOR BHARAT

PAKISTANIS through wilful destruction of sacred spaces, especially Hindu Temples, have brought on themselves , death, destruction, loss of sovereignty, enmity with neighbours and economic misery.

Many politicians and political parties in India are conspiring and acting to push India that is Bharat down the same road to destruction.

PAKISTAN : LOSS OF SPIRITUAL AND CULTURAL  HERITAGE

The Northwestern area of the sacred land of Bharat, made fertile beyond measure by its rivers Sindhu, Saraswati and their tributaries had many a holy Theertha Sthan , temples belong to Saivites, Vaishnavites, Buddhists and Jains. Gurdwaras, birth places of Sikh Gurus, and  Devi temples  consecrated over centuries were thriving in the villages and towns.

Many acts of omission and commission by the Wahabi- Salafi rulers of Pakistan and its citizens has led Pakistan to become a failing state, bankrupt, violent, and unmanageable. Lifestyles of Pakistani Mullahs  will put Sodom and Gomorrah to shame. Rulers in Pakistan have not only been spiriting away its wealth but even selling its citizens for money.[i]

Imported ideologies have defiled the once holy and pristine  lands of Sindhu and Saraswati, distanced the population (presently the  Pakistani State) from their vast heritage of spirituality and confined them to material concepts based on animal instincts, limited to survival, power and procreation of species only.

They have not only failed to recognise, retain, and take advantage of the treasure house of knowledge of dharma that was available to them as a matter of heritage, but have proceeded to destroy their very roots. Wilful destruction of Temples has been a part of this process, to distance themselves from their spiritual heritage.

This has resulted in an upsurge of mindless violence, contempt for fellow human beings and clouded judgements. The inability of the rulers to differentiate between Shreyas and Preyas has led to intemperate actions  leading to economic debility and hostility with all its neighbours.

‘Sivan Sothhu Kula Nasam’ is a common saying in Tamil. In South India there is a custom, devotees dust even the seat of their pants to ensure that even a speck of dust from a Sivan Koil (Siva temple) is not carried home.

The loot of temples, their destruction and desecration of holy ghats. have led to collapse of its economy and absence of peace within its borders.

Fed on a steady diet of Jihad and Terrorism by the state and imported ideology[ii], the lack of spiritual base is leading to  many acts of omission and commission, including forced conversions , slavery,  and FGMs. The rulers of Pakistan (dual citizenships)[iii] have lost any commitment to the welfare of the citizens. Loot and Scoot is the motto of all its elites , generals, bureaucrats, politicians, and businesspersons.

DESTRUCTION OF TEMPLES AND CONSECRATED AREAS

TEMPLES ARE CENTERS OF POSTIVE ENERGY. The  important point  is that the  temple is a neutral entity.[i]

Agamas are very clear that protection of Temples is the responsibility of the ruler. He has to ensure that the physical structure and the properties of any temple are protected. Agamas have several instructions in this regard. Any harm caused to temples or the  deities will create problems for the ruler and the subjects.[ii]

Agamas have also clearly mentioned the problems that will arise when the sacred spaces and idols are not maintained with due reverence. Ill effects of non-performance of pujas are many, and adversely affect the material and spiritual well beings of the rulers, the citizens, and the state.

In the case of Pakistan, we are able to clearly see the adverse effects of the non-observance of agama prescriptions and wilful destruction of temples and sacred spaces. Non acceptance of dharmic principles and adharmic activities have impinged on the spiritual and material ambience of Pakistan adversely.

In Pakistan “Islam got mired in the cycle of global terrorism, driven by radical Salafi ideology”[iii] The rulers and citizens of Pakistan forgot their responsibilities with respect to their temples and holy sacred places which are holy and exist for the spiritual and material welfare of all.

HARD LESSONS FOR BHARAT

The Salafi version of Islam of Ibn Taymiyyah , that preached against ‘devotional Islam’ of the Sufis had entered the sub-continent in the fourteenth- fifteenth centuries. The  ruthless ultra orthodox  version of Islam inspired by Wahabis has been  the bane of the humane aspects of Islam since the  eighteenth century.

Idea of Pakistan as an Islamic state,  attempting to following the Sharia law in all its aspects has spawned the Pakistani army whose prime motto is Jihad i.e. war against all non-Muslims ( including Shia, Ahmedia, Baha’i, Qadiani etc).

In India  Salafism and Wahabism have entered and are changing the ambience of Muslim community. Muslims, especially the naïve youth have been brainwashed over the last four decades. Kashmir valley, Kerala, West Bengal , parts of Maharashtra and UP have seen hundreds of mosques being targeted and taken over by mullahs trained in the Middle East.

There is an urgent need for the Muslim community to stop the extremists from taking over the minds of their youth.

Milder form of Sufi Islam is being rapidly displaced. The destruction of temples and the ethnocide of Kashmiri Pandits is a warning of what the future can be in the states of Kerala and Bengal.

It is a matter of great concern that many politicians like Udayanidhi Stalin,  playing vote bank politics are actively encouraging anti Hindu feelings in the country. They regularly denigrate Hindus,  deities,  sacred scriptures and encourage sectarianism.

The politicians of the ruling party in Tamil Nadu i.e. DMK openly call for destruction of Santhana Dharma, i.e. Hindus. Temple lands, and Hundi collections are being misused and spent for purposes not connected with the welfare of Hindu community.

Misappropriation and Looting of temple properties, destruction of temples in Bharat as in Pakistan and Kashmir valley will lead to the same results as in Pakistan.

Loss of spirituality, failure of justice systems, and rise of lawlessness. This will encourage anti national elements, split the population on sectarian grounds and bring ruin to the society.

It is time for every Bhartiya to stand up for religious freedom, and protection to adherents of Sanathana Dharma.

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[i] “The  important point  is that the  temple is a neutral entity. The agamas do not have allegiance to  particular king and do not specify which king-….who  at that moment by forces of universal law is the   ruler of that land…… he could seek the ritual protection of the temple by heeding the agamic injunctions and protecting the temple. this is in line with the Vedic principle of dharmo rakshati rakshitaha (dharma which is protected  protects).”[i]

[ii][ii] “If there is a proximity of harm to be deities due to rebellion internal enmity, enemy action, burglary and so on the deity must be removed to safe location either in a cave underwater or buried in the “ page 206 reference 348

[iii] Fault lines in the Faith, Iqbal S Hasnain ,xi

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[i] Pakistani authorities have illegally sent hundreds of Pakistanis and foreigners to prisons or handed them to the United States for money, said a report released Friday by Amnesty International. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pakistan-hands-hundreds-of-suspects-to-u-s-for-money-report-1.620799

[ii] The ideological source of global jihad is based on the literature of Taqi al-Din Ahmad Ibn Taymiyyah, Abd Al Wahab and Maududi.

[iii][iii] Pakistan has dual nationality arrangements with 21 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, Iceland, Jordan, Syria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Citizens of these countries do not need to give up their nationality to acquire Pakistani citizenship. 

KHALISTAN CONNECTION TO ILLEGAL IMMIGRATIONS

KHALISTANIs their network of agents and  operators in Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat appear to have refined and speeded up the process of obtaining Green cards, Citizenship , Permanent Residency, etc in various countries of Europe, especially USA and Canada.

Khalistani Tour operators, agents and sub agents in Punjab have linked with the ‘Migration Mafia’ in Canada, USA, Europe and South America to streamline the process of physical movement of ‘Dunkees’ (illegal immigrants) to western countries and streamline the process for naturalization in these countries.^[1]

The majority of asylum seekers from Punjab claim that they are supporters of the Khalistan movement and want an independent Sikh state, and claim that police and other agencies of the Indian government put them in jail without a just trial.  

The racketeers pocket hundreds of crores hoodwinking the innocent youth of India.

The disease of Illegal emigration is catching up in Haryana too.

            Failure of Legal Immigration

A genuine and bonafide migration aspirant adopting the legal route is routinely harassed through imposition of Quota systems, racial profiling, and bias.

For the educated, technically qualified, and socially acceptable, disciplined  and  well-meaning individuals, legal migration is an uphill task. In the case of the USA , obtaining green cards and citizenships for a family  can total up to hundred years.

Hopefully things will ease  with Dr Harpreet Singh Kochar taking over as Deputy Minister for immigration in Canada.[i]

This contrasts with the ease with which anarchists, and  drug peddlers can move freely into western countries, especially Canada posing as asylum seekers.

ASYLUM SEEKERS

THE process of Asylum seeking, upgrading to Refugee Status under UNHCR regulations , obtaining benefits of special financial funding, and prioritizing citizenship, have been fine-tuned by organisations posing as NGOs advocating Human Rights issues, claiming to be working to help refugees fleeing from religious persecution, or political vendettas by ‘non -secular, nationalist’ governments.

In 2022,  four thousand one hundred individuals from India had claimed refugee status in Canada.

“A Brampton-based Punjabi lawyer says on condition of anonymity that the newspaper reports and films emanating from India showing violence against a particular community are presented before the courts to convince the judges that India persecutes them based on their religion and political beliefs.” https://www.business-standard.com/article/international/thousands-from-punjab-seek-asylum-in-canada-over-period-of-last-10-years-122102600487_1.html.

In this definition, dictatorships by governments of Christian denominations, or Islamic countries are considered ‘secular, peaceful and compassionate’. Exceptions are made from time to time depending upon requirements of the MNCs, Western industrial lobbies, Evangelists, and Western governments.

Iran and Syria are two Muslim countries in the doghouse at present. India is considered a ‘non-secular’ country since 2014, ever since the people of India voted the BJP, a nationalist Party into power. Tirades against India under Modi, portraying India as unsafe for 250 million Muslims and millions of Sikhs  are a daily occurrence in the western media, funded by Evangelists, Castiest NGOs in USA, sponsored by Universities like Harvard. Protection given to ‘Break India’ organisations like Khalistan by the US State Department its organs are out in the open, and matters of record.

‘Break India’ forces backed by foreign intelligence agencies are making full use of social factors in Punjab to cause disruption. They are bringing  a bad name to the hard working Sikh community in USA, UK, and Canada.

“Punjab is very much in the bottom half of India’s literacy rankings. Over the last decade, unemployment (though not alarming compared with states like Kerala) went up a point to around 4 per cent. But there is another figure that is telling: only two of every 10 students pass class XII. ‘The new generation of youth doesn’t even seem competent enough to supervise farm work.’ says a well-known social worker. Instead, because families do have decent incomes from land, they move around towns like Jalandhar and Nawanshahr with cars that have things like ‘Singh is King’ pasted on their rears.”

 “ …best bets especially for parents, is to sell some land (going rates: Rs 7-10 lakh an acre) and send their children abroad. Somehow, the idea that in India there is a link between a good education and career opportunities, has not really filtered down. Parents would rather send a son abroad to do work that he would get little pay for here (driving a truck, say) if he could overcome social pressure and do it all. The investment, argue those who have made it, is worthwhile: there are recurring returns. Once a family member is naturalised, everyone else can move one  by one.” ^[1],

Khalistan Punjab Farmers’ Agitation & Emigration

Punjab Farmer’s ‘Agitation’ for MSP, and a host of other benefits by the rich farmers of Punjab and Haryana is a significant step in the process of migration to Canada, and USA.^[1][2]

From the  information gleaned from various sources, the pattern of emigration to Europe, UK, USA, and Canada appears to be well oiled and financially remunerative to those engaged in the chain. The organizations and individuals involved at different stages are remunerated and rewarded through multiple sources from direct payments to cash transfers through FCRA.

Sub agents get in touch with the families that wish to send someone abroad. Some money is exchanged.  Details are procured, further Payments details (twenty lacs and above depending on destination) are worked out. Those with extra cash, and some education manage to get letters of recommendation addressed to embassies from legislators^[3] for grant of a visa.    

“It was found that the agents adopt various methods to facilitate irregular migration. These include use of forged Indian passports, photo substitution in Indian and foreign passports, jacket substitution of Indian passports, use of re-stitched passports, the exchange of boarding cards in the security areas and the use of forged foreign passports, visas and residence permits”.^[4]

“It was noted that the Immigration Authorities at Delhi prevented irregular migration in 45 per cent of the cases or almost one half of the cases on an average during the reference period.”^[5]

“……irregular migrations were organised through highly efficient international networks with links in the countries of origin, transit and destination.”^[6]

For Others less educated,  Agents manage documents, chalk out routes, and the move commences, to Europe, or the Americas. This can be by road, air, sea or even on foot. The routes through Eastern Europe, South America can stretch to months, and can prove to be fatal.[i]

Immediately on reaching the destination, the ‘dunkee’ claims to be fleeing from political / religious persecution from the government in India.^[1]

Lawyers of Indian origin in various countries, connected with NGOs claiming to be working on human rights issues, churn out stories and prepare necessary legal documents as per requirements of the host country,  These are then further handed over to white lawyers, for submission to authorities and courts. According to sources, thirty to fifty lakhs are charged for these steps in the host country.

Manufactured Narratives

Grounds for claiming asylum, political, or religious  have  been prepared and fine-tuned over the years. Negative narratives of India have been the norm, depicting  India as an undemocratic and intolerant nation.  This has taken on greater virulence after BJP under Prime Minister Modi has been elected to government oriented to national interests in 2014.

Individuals, writers, organizations, NGOs, all claiming to be ‘activists’ churn out anti India narratives regularly. Leaders of Political parties claiming to fight for democracy and secularism regularly visit UK, USA, Canada etc, make presentations and deliver lectures to specially invited audience against India and  paint Hindus as violent.

Criticism within the country, of government of the day or the  Prime Minister,  by political parties in election mode, is normal in a democracy. However, the anti-India anti Hindu virulence  of some politicians and journalists working on behalf of  foreign organisations and media is clearly  to set a negative narrative.

These narratives have been streamed almost daily by influential newspapers abroad like New York time, Washington Post , or news channels  BBC, Al Jazeera etc. unfortunately Initiators of anti India, anti Hindu rhetoric are mostly Indians only.

Repeated accusations by party leaders visiting UK, USA, Canada, painting bleak pictures of the condition of  religious ‘minorities’, photographs and articles from newspapers and magazines that depict India in poor light are used to buttress the cases of illegal immigrants for asylum.

Financial Rewards

Financial rewards for those running the immigration operation and those involved in manufacturing and spreading anti India anti Hindu narratives is very high; upward of a thousand crores a year.

An average of 60 lakhs is collected from the unfortunate ‘dunkees’. Even a low estimate of would be 1500 illegal emigrants annually, would amount to over one thousand crores.

Though the exact amounts paid to agents, lawyers, and political bigwigs cannot be accurate, a fair guess would be over fifteen hundred crores.

It is understood that there may be a few who are unable to pay the full amount. These ‘dunkees then work on unpaid services including driving trucks that are used to carry drugs and prohibited items. It is a major risk to work as ‘mules’ but many youngsters fall into the trap of these Khalistanis who own large fleets of trucks especially in Canada.

Breaking the Nexus

How does India break the nexus between ‘Break India’ forces, foreign agencies and India based supporters? Funding of individuals, NGOs , media houses through FCRA route needs to be stopped immediately. The non-renewal of FCRA for Oxfam, CPR, Amnesty International India and dozens of others involved in building negative narratives and conversion activities is in the right direction.

Government of India should continue to take strict action against fake travel agencies, watch on Politicians and scribes indulging in building false narratives.

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[1] The agents instructed the passengers from Punjab to identify themselves as Khalistanis and seek asylum in the US if they were caught at the border. The story will be different for other passengers. In the US, the government allows asylum seekers to work on humanitarian grounds,” stated SP Rajkumar.This revelation has shed light on the exploitation of the Khalistan brand, revealing that it may be used as a convenient shield for those seeking asylum rather than representing the true sentiments of the majority of its proponents. The investigation has raised questions about the authenticity of Khalistan activism, indicating that for some, it might merely be a pretext to gain entry into the US under the guise of humanitarian grounds. https://neherald.com/world/khalistan-used-as-a-shield-by-asylum-seekers-entering-the-us-illegally

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[i] https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/family-froze-death-crossing-us-foot-

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[1] “The use of Sikh religious shrines (Gurudwaras) is made by irregular migrants for taking shelter. It appears a cost-cutting measure on part of network of intermediaries and also to avoid detection by authorities in a transit/ destination country. ”. CARIM-India RR2013/03 © 2013 EUI, RSCAS

5 UK lawyers ask illegal immigrants from India to pose as Khalistanis to claim asylum: Report: https://www.wionews.com/world/uk-lawyers-ask-illegal-immigrants-from-india-to-pose-as-khalistanis

[3] Legislators sympathetic to extremist causes for a sum 5-7 lakhs. Possibilities of Involvement of personnel in the embassies cannot be ruled out.

[4] ”Nearly 700 Indian students living in Canada are staring at deportation after the admission offer letters issued to them by a Punjab-based immigration and counselling services agent were found to be fake.” https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/punjab-biggest-immigration-scam

[5] https://www.unodc.org/documents/human-trafficking/Smuggling_of_Migrants_from_India_to_Europe_-_Punjab_Haryana.pdf

[6] Ibid

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[1] Ibid

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[i] Punjabi-Canadian Harpreet Singh Kochhar has been named the new deputy minister in the immigration department. Senior bureaucrat Kochhar transitions into this role from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, where he served as the president.

Kochhar, an alumnus of Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), Ludhiana, is a distinguished bureaucrat who has held various high-profile positions in the past. He served as the president of the Public Health Agency of Canada from 2021-2023.

A deputy minister in Canada is the senior-most bureaucrat in a department. https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/canada-calling-immigration-support-international-students-9118784/

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[1][1] “The presence of Indians in this intricate web of illegal migration is striking. According to the US Customs and Border Patrol (CBP), a staggering 96,917 Indians were arrested attempting to enter the US illegally in 2023 alone. This places Indians as …”
Read more at: https://www.deccanherald.com/india/indians-take-the-donkey-route-through-nicaragua-to-enter-us-canada-2830231

TERRORISM EXCERCISED AS A RIGHT BY ISLAMIC RADICALS : A THREAT TO WORLD PEACE

Brutality and unabashed violence unleashed by the terrorist organisation HAMAS against Israel, supported with weapons including thousands of mortars and rockets, training for terrorists in military camps in Iran and Pakistan is an indication of the next major step up in terrorist operations by aggressive Islamic states, against non-Muslim countries.

Many theories are advanced as to why and how this major terrorist action was perpetrated by HAMAS against Israel at this time. They range from  scuttling reforms by Mohammad Bin Salman and his efforts to lift Saudis from stone age beliefs, peace in the Middle East, reconciliation with Israel, impede the rail and ports plan to link India to Europe via Middle East, rivalry between Iran and Saudi Arabia etc.

No matter what, the idea of “Vasudaiva Kutumbakam” is in Danger from malevolent Islamic organizations and their sponsors.

Danger of Subjugation And Loss of Freedoms

Islam as a religion has spread around the world and as many as fifty seven countries consider themselves to be Islamic. Many of these Islamist countries are actively involved in the spread of their official religion and are willing to go to any extent, including destructive wars against their neighbors as in the Middle East against Israel, or against India in South Asia. 

Countries like Iran ,  Turkey, Syria, and Pakistan openly support terrorist organizations like Al Qaida, HAMAS, Hezbollah,  ISIS, Boko Haram Lashkar- e -Tayyaba, Jamaat e Islami, Tablighi Jamaat etc. who believe in Sharia law and openly call for destruction of non-Muslim countries.

There is an urgent need for people in India and other non-Muslim countries to know and understand the present dangers that confront them in the international arena.

Countries that believe in equality, freedom of speech and religion, brotherhood of humans and peaceful coexistence of diverse philosophies and religious practices need to protect themselves from the looming dangers of terrorism and aggression openly indulged in the name of Islamic religion.

BRUTALITY & UNABASHED VIOLENCE

(JAHILIYYA) SANCTIFIED,

Many of the practices and customs of the pre–Islamic Arabic society continue to be practiced by Muslims around the world, some repulsive  and many considered anti social in the modern era, especially in countries that practice democracy, secularism, and an open approach to scientific knowledge with constitutional safeguards for equality and justice.

Many ‘Ayat’ and quotes from ‘Hadith’ that openly call for violence and destruction are considered not only just and lawful but  binding on every Muslim.

“ In the Islamic chronology there are two very distinct historical periods: the pre-Islamic and the Islamic periods.”

 Prophet Muhammad grew up in the pre-Islamic era prior to his appearance as the messenger of God in the  Arabian Peninsula . The Prophet’s  attitude and approach towards the many aspects of life affecting individual behaviour, society and the approach to peace and conflict and Arab customs on the prehistoric Islamic periods have been subject to “ outright rejection to adaptation and modification at different levels”. ( Hasan Ud Din Hashmi, Islamic Jurisprudence in Early Islam)

Muslims usually called the pre-Islamic era the jahiliyyah an era of ignorance”. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41932575

Prophet Muhammad himself usually referred the term Jahiliya to  “ a state of mind that caused violence and terror in the seventh century Arabia.” (Armstrong, Mohd., a prophet for our time).

“Although , social and cultural institutions of mediation, arbitration, and reconciliation in Arab-Muslim communities are intensely influenced by Islam, researchers’ findings illustrate that conflict resolution methods and institutions in Arab societies appears to parallel to the intervention mechanism in pre-Islamic times when tribal customs, which has been passed on from one generation to the other….”. https://www.jstor.org/stable/41932575

Sanctification of Inequality,

Brutality & Violence

Inequality is built into constitutions of all Islamic countries.

Many of the Islamic countries have taken on the highly negative attributes of ancient Arab society, guided by their ‘reformers’ from  Al Ghazali, Wahab to Abul Ala Maududi.

‘Riyasat e Madina’ has meant that hatred against Christians and Jews is openly encouraged by leaders of political parties, religious and terrorist organisations supported by the Governments in Islamic states. 

Pakistan is a country where radicals are encouraged to create havoc among non-believers i.e., Hindus, Christians, and Jews primarily, as also those from different sects of Islam including Ahmadis, Shia, Bhora etc. Tirades against Christians, Jews and Hindus are regularly spewed by preachers and politicians’ day after day from ‘places of worship’, pulpits and rostrums.

There are many statements  in the Quran and Hadiths that fly in the face of scientific deductions and factual data. There are also contradictions in the essence of the spirit of the holy book. Fatwas from Muslim scholars over the centuries (from Ibn Tamiya against the Mamelukes to Ruhollah  Khomeini, and hundreds more) have created vast confusion and inflicted great miseries on innocents and acted as spoilers in international relations.

Quotes from Quran and Hadiths are presented to the followers of Islam as a license for many acts that are heinous and inhuman.

According to Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) “in the Muslim community, holy war is a religious duty, ….Muslim mission and (the obligation to) convert everybody to Islam either by persuasion or by force”. Islam is “under obligation to gain power over other nations”.[i]

It must be understood that ultimately there is no sanctity of treaties entered into, between Muslims and non-Muslims. This was made clear in the case of treaties with the Jewish tribes Banu qaynuqa, Banu nadir and Banu Qurayza. (as has been demonstrated time and again in history and Indian experience with Pakistan).

Torturing innocents to extract their hard earned wealth by the powerful is approved given the precedence on order given against the Jew Kinana “torture him until you extract what he has”.

In Muslim lands non- Muslims and minorities have no rights except as upon the goodwill and sufferance of Muslim mobs and governments. In country after country history is witness to jihadi hordes dispossessing land of the natives and women enslaved. Genocides of Armenians, Assyrians, Yazidis by the caliphs and their successors in have taken place in the last century only.

Countries like Turkey (under President Erdogan) are reverting to Ottoman days of harassing Armenians, Syrians, and Yazidis.

ISIS has been indulging in such brutal acts of massacres and sex slavery. The recent abduction, rapes and killing of women and children by Hamas is a living example of how Muslim Jihadis treat others.

The manner in which Hindus and Sikhs were targeted and driven out by Pakistani backed Taliban in Afghanistan is fresh in the memory of nationalist Indians.

It is a shameful chapter in the History of independent India, when local Muslims teamed with Jihadis from Pakistan and drove out lakhs of Hindu Pandits from the Kashmir valley. Government of India did not lift a finger to help the Hindus who became refugees in their own country.

Harassment of Shias, Ahmedias Hazaras, and Baluchis are a daily occurrence in the Islamic country of Pakistan. Rapes, abduction of Hindu girls,  their forcible conversion to Mohammadanism and marriage to powerful , wealthy old men is a daily occurrence in the Islamic country of Pakistan.

Malaysia under President Mahathir has taken away the liberties of Chinese and Indian non-Muslims over the last three decades. It has been encouraging preachers like Zakir Naik who preach extremism and openly support  terrorist organisations like Al Qaeda, ISIS, and HAMAS.

Islamic Jihadis believe that  non-Muslims men have no choice except to become Muslims, else pay Jizya or be killed. Women who refuse to be converted will be treated as sex slaves. This is being enforced even today in parts of the world by organisations like ISIS, Boko Haram, JeM, Tablighi Jamaat and dozens more.

Slavery is still practiced in some Islamic countries ( though officially banned due to international pressure, Mauritania is an example of covert practice of slavery in 21 century).[ii]

Grooming gangs,[iii] incentivized by radical mullahs from Deobandi and Tablighi  Jamaat in UK have ruined the lives of thousands of Christian girls in the last three decades, and are moving around freely, enjoying their right to freedom, while denying it to others.

Denial of education,  unfair marriage laws and genital mutilation degrade women in many Islamic countries and are sought to be imposed on non Muslims.

Growing power of the mullahs and oil rich sheiks was clearly demonstrated  the influence of obscurant ideas when over thirty student organizations took out processions in support of the terrorist  HAMAS in an American University.

The danger to the free world posed by Islamic extremists cannot be underestimated or ignored .

It is a matter of concern that Every prayer led by mullahs in masjids around the world  , five times a day, end with ill will for fellow human beings who are not Muslims and worse, incitements towards violence as a sacred duty i.e., Jihad on ‘infidels.

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[i] Ibn Khaldun in ‘Mukaddima’ An introduction to History, translated by Franz Rosenthal

[ii]  Of the Arab states, Saudi Arabia was the country with the highest prevalence of modern slavery, reaching over 20 per 1,000 inhabitants. The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait followed behind, both with around 13 per 1,000 population. The Arab states was the world region with the highest prevalence of modern slavery in 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1399583/prevalence-modern-slavery-arab-states-country/#:~:text=Prevalence%20of%20modern%20slavery%20in%20Arab%20states%202021%2C%20by%20country&text=Of%20the%20Arab%20states%2C%20Saudi,around%2013%20per%201%2C000%20population.

[iii] In the past two decades, Britain has been rocked by reports of child abuse rings, which came to be known as the grooming gangs. Girls as young as 11 were plied with alcohol and drugs and sexually abused. They were trafficked, forced into prostitution, raped by several men on more than one occasion. The magnitude of child sex abuse was hair-raising. Worse still, some of the perpetrators have been tried and convicted, but not all. https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/uk-grooming-gangs-british-pakistanis-minors-sexual-assault-rishi-sunak-suella-braverman-2356084-2023-04-05

INDIA

Naïve Indians  ask, can what happened to Israel happen to India?

 Can terrorist organizations supported from outside by countries like Pakistan indulge in open aggression, mass murders, kidnappings, and killings in India also?

IF we Indians  forget or refuse to learn from history, our ancient civilization will perish,

 Indians must remember how lakhs Hindu Pandits  were driven out from Kashmir valley by Muslim locals supported by Pakistani jihadis. Just three decades back. Can one afford to forget the  massacres in Calcutta organized by the Muslim league, or the massacre of Hindus in Bangladesh by Pakistani army.

The mobs were turned loose on the streets chanting “Sar tan Se Judah”, bomb blasts across the country on a weekly basis blowing up innocent men women and children.

Incidents of 26/11 in Mumbai orchestrated by ISI and Lashkar e Tayyaba, and Jamaat Ul Dawa,  terrorist groups sponsored by ISI of Pakistani government, Pulwama and four wars unleashed on India by Pakistan from1948 are clear indications that Pakistan, an Islamic country considers India with its Hindu population as prey, to their maniacal beliefs.

Also, not to be forgotten is the support that Pakistan consistently received, in its misadventures against India,  from other Muslim countries and also China and USA.

Or the open support to terrorist organizations like HAMAS by political parties in India and organizations like PFI, SIMI, ( under different names). The number of youth from Kerala and other parts of India who have moved to Syria and Afghanistan to join terrorist organisations is a matter of concern.

What is even more worrying is the news that  dozens of young women from Kerala and other parts of India are being bing brainwashed into moving to Syria and Afghanistan to become wives (sex slaves?) of ISIS jihadis.

The real question for India is how well prepared we are, to tackle the Jihadis  when the next attack from Pakistan aided by China comes, for  come it will.

[1] Ibn Khaldun in ‘Mukaddima’ An introduction to History, translated by Franz Rosenthal

[1]  Of the Arab states, Saudi Arabia was the country with the highest prevalence of modern slavery, reaching over 20 per 1,000 inhabitants. The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait followed behind, both with around 13 per 1,000 population. The Arab states was the world region with the highest prevalence of modern slavery in 2021. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1399583/prevalence-modern-slavery-arab-states-country/#:~:text=Prevalence%20of%20modern%20slavery%20in%20Arab%20states%202021%2C%20by%20country&text=Of%20the%20Arab%20states%2C%20Saudi,around%2013%20per%201%2C000%20population.

[1] In the past two decades, Britain has been rocked by reports of child abuse rings, which came to be known as the grooming gangs. Girls as young as 11 were plied with alcohol and drugs and sexually abused. They were trafficked, forced into prostitution, raped by several men on more than one occasion. The magnitude of child sex abuse was hair-raising. Worse still, some of the perpetrators have been tried and convicted, but not all. https://www.indiatoday.in/world/story/uk-grooming-gangs-british-pakistanis-minors-sexual-assault-rishi-sunak-suella-braverman-2356084-2023-04-05

WHITHER PAKISTAN : 2023

Future Bleak? Recovery or Break Up?

Pakistan is a classic case of poor leadership & subservient citizens.

Leadership being shrewd, clever, cunning, proficiency in deception and double dealing is no substitute for maturity and statesmanship.

Pakistan is suffering from injuries inflicted on it by its own leadership, the Pakistani army and elites.

It is no secret that Pakistani Army, Pakistani politicians, Pakistani Bureaucracy are the elites who have hijacked the state of Pakistan with all its resources. Islam in   most destructive aspects have been used to infest the Pakistani society. Mullahs and Jihadis partnered by dictatorial regimes have acquired  millions selling the opium of jihad and fundamental Islamism.

Ever since its inception in 1947, deceptive propaganda attributing dangers to the Pakistani  state, and Islamic religion have been used  to divert the attention of the public ( nearly 50% illiterate) from the real problems of the country

Billions upon billions of dollars, that poured into Pakistan from USA (35+ billion US$ : Fight against Communism & terrorism) and China (40+ billion US$: CPEC) over the last seven decades have been squandered away on infructuous wars, armaments and a parasitic army and greedy politicians. Misgovernance over decades has led to economic collapse, and the resultant inflation is running over 50% at street level.

There is not much to choose from the Pakistani basket of leadership.

 Three generations of brainwashing by the state run by the elites has ensured mental chains that tie down the Pakistani army, politicians, and the public that the idea of Islam of the Medina days as   being  perfect state and society. This has moulded Pakistan into a state with  a siege mentality, and resulted in its transformation to a “Garrison State” in which population considers itself to be under  attack at all times, from all its neighbours and even nations from far  away.

 Pakistan’s transformation into a Jihadi military state   led to warped economic policies resulting in its  present state of bankruptcy. Pakistan’s decent into economic chaos facing it today was obvious to the entire world. However, this was concealed from the Pakistani public by its own elites and rulers. Pakistani public is still of the opinion that all its problems are due to manipulations and machinations of Western nations,  Hindu India , and world Jewry represented by Israel.

 So long as Pakistanis do not realise how they have been fooled and cheated for over seven decades by their own rulers, there is no hope of peace or prosperity for the common citizens of Pakistan. .

 Pakistani Army, Imran Khan & Democracy

Democracy could not take roots in Pakistan. All Elections but one by Gen Yahya Khan in 1970, have been farce. Army with its strangle hold on all state processes and resources has ensured the demise of Political stability.

All presidents, prime ministers and party leaders have been chosen, and installed in offices, as per the requirements of the army. No Prime Minister has ever served a full term. In its hunger for power and wealth, assassinations of leaders, political personalities (Liaquat Ali Khan in 1948, Benazir Bhutto etc), incarcerations of thousands and even hangings been resorted to by the Pakistani army, fronted by its monster offspring, the dreaded ISI. 

Pakistani army has openly declared Jihad as its motto, i.e.  subjugation or decimation of non-Muslims. India is a land where Hindus live in peace with members of all religions. Repeated attacks on India are the result of its Jihadi mindset.

Imran Khan has time and again expressed his unhappiness with the present Constitution of Pakistan and is demanding Presidential form of government; Of course, with him as the President. Imran Khan had no problems in incarcerating political opponents, threatening, and bullying opposition party leaders and members. His reactions to legal summons, presenting himself before judicial courts have been full of drama and violence at street level in major cities of Lahore and Karachi.

Imran has always been advocating talks and dealings with extremists, from Taliban, PPT, to Labbaiks. However he is unwilling to open any conversation with leaders of other political parties. His tirades against the Sharifs and Bhuttos had the blessing of the army. However, When Imran turned his guns against the very army which had selected him to be the Prime Minister of Pakistan, army ensured his displacement, and the new government has lodged nearly a hundred FIRs against him.

Imran khan is out of office, frustrated and angry. He is venting his anger against the army and the government and is openly inciting violence on the streets. Shahbaz Sharif’s government and the army have not been able to bring him back to the negotiating table. The animosity between Imran khan and Sharifs appears to have taken on the proportions of a life and death struggle.  

After the Musharraf era of army dictatorship, In view of the criticism in the international arena and its isolation from even the Commonwealth, Pakistani army had desisted from openly taking over the government and state of Pakistan. Imran’s antics and calls for violence on the streets  are bringing Pakistan close to a civil war like situation. Pakistani army, the only group with hard power is bound to step in sooner or later. This hands-off posture the army may soon change.

However  in the present conditions of a complete breakdown of law and order, economic crisis, and  even worse,  the common people of Pakistan coming to realise how they have been fooled all these years by the greedy elites led by the army.

Veteran journalist Zarrar Khuhro views the present scenario as the worst that he has seen over decades. In an interview he talks of Pakistan facing not one or two  but as many as five crises, from security, economic, political, constitutional to the decay of institutions which are “discredited and divided “.

Today Pakistan is facing a default on its loan commitments.

Can Pakistan manage its burden of loan repayment during the current year? The exact figures are not available in the public domain. There is an obvious outgo of a minimum of five billion US $ and there are figures of up to 6.5 billion US $. The unfortunate part is that the Pakistani reserves of foreign currency are pegged at less than 4 billon of which 3 billion was deposited In the Central bank by Saudi Arabia in late 2022 to tide over an emergency situation.

Pakistan a country of 220 millions is in an unenviable situation economically and politically. It is teetering on the verge of an economic collapse. At this juncture its political scenario Is one of confusion, worse  confounded. No one knows who is running the Pakistani government today, and  how the administration is functioning , or has it collapsed ?

 According to IMF, Pakistan will be needing about twenty five  to thirty five billion US $ in the coming years to meet its external debt obligations.   

Pakistan is hoping for an infusion of 1.2 million US $ from IMF and about . 6 billion US $ from other countries like Saudi Arabia China and the UAE. This will enable it to tide over the immediate crisis, for the next couple of months without going into a default.

However, this is not a cure but only a temporary relief.

Dangers of default

Can Pakistan with its population of 22 million afford a default at this stage?

 Inflation is already raging at over 50 % on the streets ,and prices of essential items from food to petrol  are climbing beyond the reach  of the poor and the middle Class.         

A default will lead to a complete disruption of the national economy. The rate of inflation which is around 50% will shoot up to unaffordable levels ( predicted to exceed 100%) ,  cast unbearable burden on the poor and the middle class. Public anger is already mounting against the civil government and voices are being heard against the ‘establishment’ i.e. Pakistani army which really runs the country.

 Society will break down, and possibilities of social unrest can rise to dangerous levels, in an society already  flush with legal and illegal fire arms. Law and order situation is under great pressure with the antics of political leaders openly calling for mass protests and strikes.

The inability of the state police and even Pakistani rangers to execute the court orders to take Imran Khan into custody is an indication of the breakdown in the ability of the civil government of Shahbaz Sharif  to ensure rule of law. 

The fact that the judiciary had to withdraw its orders on the issue of non bailable warrant reflects on the inability of the judiciary and the state, to stand up to goons openly defying legal and lawful authorities. Of course the followers of Imran khan who have descended on the streets of Lahore and Karachi to prevent his arrest consider themselves to be upholders of the idea of  democracy and justice.

A default will widen the regional schisms already present in the country, and many even consider the possibility of Pakistan breaking up.

Future Bleak? Recovery or Break Up?

Roll over of loans by China, world bank, charity by Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and UAE can only be palliatives. Unless hard economic decisions are taken, and fiscal discipline including appropriate taxation imposed on its elite, there is no hope of improving the economic condition.

Political parties cannot take hard decisions. Only the army can, and implement them. Unfortunately the Pakistani army has transformed into a parasite living off the wealth of the land.

Can the army leadership change the habits developed over seven decades of economic promiscuity, and Jihad mentality in the short time available before default?

Or will the Chaos worsen and Pakistan break up?

DEBT TRAPS: IS CHINA’S ROAD & BELT INTIATIVE RESPONSIBLE?

WHAT ABOUT GREED, BAD CHOICES &

GROSS MISMANAGEMENT BY GOVERNMENTS?

All the countries in the world are walking into debt traps with open eyes. They include developed countries like the USA and some major European nations as well.

Dictatorships and elitists captured countries are worse off.

The only way out of debt traps is the prudential economic approach of governments. There is no short cut. Blaming China will not help.

DEBT TRAPS

By the end of April 2022, total outstanding external debt of the central Government of Srilanka was US$ 34.8 billion. (Only 17% is of Chinese Loans)

TOP EXTERNAL DEBTORS DEVELOPED COUTRIES

Country/Region External debt US dollar, Per capita US dollars

United States : 31 trillion, 94,188

United Kingdom 8.73 trillion, 129,203

France 7.04 trillion, 107,245

Germany 6.46 trillion, 77,607

A look at the Belt and Road initiative positively. A Win- Win situation from Chinese point of view.

Please note, China was NOT planning to sell weapons, missiles, and destructive systems, nor interfering with or overthrowing governments in the countries it was dealing with.

The Chinese Road and Belt initiative was meant to utilise the assets the Chinese had accumulated over two decades of fast industrial growth and trade surpluses. China had also acquired expertise in executing major infrastructure projects.

China under Xi Jinping chartered out a course that would enable China to utilise its surplus trade balances, and utilize its newly acquired expertise in planning and execution of grand infrastructure projects around the world. The Chinese Belt and Road initiative would have linked the entire world starting with the Eurasian continents, opening new trade routes, and given Chinese goods access to countries as never before.

There are more than 150 Underdeveloped and developing countries in the world today

Click to access 2014wesp_country_classification.pdf

REALITY CHECK ON ROAD AND BELT INITIATIVE

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Touted as Win -Win the Road and belt initiative has floundered in implementation.

Funds made available to countries were on business terms, i.e., carrying interest above the rates of IMF or World Bank. Projects identified by countries were often politically oriented for the benefit of the elites ruling classes and did not consider the utilisation and economic viability.

China linked many of the projects to its own strategic views and perceived security needs. This has set alarm bells ringing in many countries in Asia and the western world.

The ‘String of Pearls ‘and the CPEC project in Pakistan, is specifically designed to encircle India on land and by sea. It has sent alarm bells ringing in India and Asia.

Chinese acquisition of ports in Asia, Africa, and Europe and even in the Americas have led to fears of Chinese ability to interfere with trade routes, and movements on vital shipping lanes. Chinese claims of absolute control on South China Sea, buildup of fortified islands has rattled the entire world.

Aid, Grants, Loans,

and Revenue Generation

The difference in approach between aid, grant and loan needs to be understood, as also the approach of governments utilising entering into agreements for utilisation of funds received under various schemes. In the case of aids and grants even if they are tied to specific projects from poverty alleviation, extermination of Polio to specific infrastructural projects, the amounts are not to be returned to the donor in cash or kind.

Tax exemptions and subsidies may be allowed to buoy up private enterprises and encourage private investments. A possible fall in revenue if judicially compensated will not affect the overall economy.

However, loans must be returned to the lender, eventually. Debt servicing cannot be avoided. This is possible only if the projects are viable, generate profits over time. Otherwise, tax revenues must be increased over time to cater for debt servicing. Problems arise when finances obtained from loans are frittered away on infructuous and unviable projects.

Sri Lanka is an example. Srilanka owes approximately 35 billion US $ in foreign debt.

The unviable Hambantota Port Project in Srilanka was built at a cost of approx. 1.5 billion US$. It was just one more loan obtained from international lenders by successive Srilanka governments.

Pakistan is another country which has taken large loans periodically and is in a debt trap. Pakistan has been unable to launch an economic growth, including a rise in exports inspite of massive amounts being pumped into its economy under CPEC.

“If a large share of these loans is provided on highly concessional terms, and loans are frequently forgiven, policymakers may come to view them, over time, as roughly equivalent to grants.”

GROSS ECONOMIC MIS-MANAGEMENT

LEADS TO DEBT TRAPS

China’s Belt and Road initiative is no different from the infrastructure projects taken on and completed in the south by USA and Europe during heydays of colonialism and in the twentieth century.

India had managed to avoid moving into the Belt and Road initiative, having foreseen the unviable economics of this initiative. India is a Democracy. Malaysia and Indonesia have also pulled out of many of the BRI projects.

Problems of Debt Repayment rests squarely on the governments run by families as in Srilanka, elitist capture as in Pakistan, Oligarchies and dictatorships which have recklessly borrowed from external agencies, banking institutions and governments.

Profligacy of governments, immature acts of military aggression as that of USA and Europe in Iraq and Afghanistan have led to shortages of essential commodities and unwarranted rise in prices.

The Ukraine war forced on Russia by USA and NATO has led to unbearable burden on developing countries. The economic downturns in the last decade, COVID and natural disasters have aggravated matters. The fall in tourism and trade during the last decade has led to a precarious situation across the continents.

The only way out of debt traps is the prudential economic approach of governments. There is no short cut. Blaming China will not help.

INTER SERVICES INTELLIGENCE AGENCY (ISI) OF PAKISTAN ‘NEUTRALISING’ ITS ASSETS WHO HAVE TURNED INTO LIABILITIES

FATF, AND FINANCIAL BANKRUPTCY COMPELS PAKISTANI SPY AGENCY TO ACT AGAINST ITS OWN , HOMEGROWN  TERRORISTS

International pressure, threat of FATF*, precarious financial condition are compelling Pakistani army to review its open support of terrorists. It is trying to present a face of a ‘normal’ state.

Today there is great panic among terrorists living luxurious lives in Pakistan under the protection of ISI and the Pakistani army.

Terrorists big and small, heads of multi million $ organisations like Lashkar e Tayyaba, JeM, Taliban, Teherike Taliban Pakistan are quaking in their boots.

Among them are Masood Azar of Jaish-e-Mohammed, a Deobandi group (ideologically closer to the Taliban), Qari Ramazan the newly appointed head of JeM in Afghanistan, Hafiz Saeed Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), led by 26/11 Mumbai terror attacks mastermind, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Abdul Rehman Makki, who is also the brother-in-law of LeT leader Hafiz Saeed. &

Heads of Terror groups Hizbul, Lashkar and Jaish, Roaming Freely in Pakistan.

Abdul Rehman Makki

(2 million $ bounty)

Abdul Rehman Makki (2 million $ bounty)

More than half a dozen terrorists who had been given protection, safety, and lifelong pensions for terrorist activities against India have been eliminated in the last one year in Pakistan or Afghanistan by ISI directly and by USA based on information provided by ISI. Of course, all this while the government of   Pakistan has been denying even the presence of homegrown terrorists in that country.

Pakistani Army and ISI had perfected the art of recruiting innocents, ‘educating’ them in Madrassas, and turning them into killing machines, in the name of their duty to kill ‘kafirs’.

“Specially designed school textbooks preaching jihad were produced in the US and supplied free of cost   the children in these madrasas.  The number of madrassas grew   from 246 in 1947 to 2886 by 1988, and most of  them  dotted the Afghanistan Pakistan  border. By 2010 the number of madrasas had grown to nearly 29,000. Just by 2003 more than 600,000 youth in Pakistan had passed out of these   madrassas receiving training for armed jihad.”

These young jihadis were sent to Afghanistan and Kashmir by ISI and the Pakistani army, to create havoc and mayhem. These depredations by Jihadis through cross border terrorism has always been supported by the civilian government in Pakistan.

Pakistani Avarice and Double Dealings

Inter-Services Intelligence agency is the premier spy agency of Pakistan, headed by Generals from the Pakistani army that boasts of its Jihadi Credentials, (Motto JIHAD E SABILLILAH) in an unabashed manner.

The Director General of ISI in Pakistan is the second most powerful person in Pakistan, second only to the Chief of Pakistani Army.

Osama Bin Laden (killed in 2011 in a covert operation carried out in Abbottabad, Pakistan)

The close association and partnership of Pakistani army, Government and its spy agency ISI with terrorist agencies, even when in partnership with USA are not a secret anymore.

Pakistan’s economy is in ruins. Pakistan has been going around the world begging for alms. Pakistan is now eliminating its homegrown older terrorists and usefulness to claim relief from FATF and simultaneously claim bounty money amounting to millions of US$.

Remember how Musharraf and the Pakistani establishment denied complete knowledge of the midnight raid that terminated Osama Bin Laden who had been given shelter and ‘safe hideout ‘near Pakistani Military Academy.

             “The irony is that even while hosting terrorists and their leaders like Osama Bin Laden, and Haqqani; Pakistani Generals like Musharraf and spy chiefs of ISI like Gen Kayani were fingering terrorists at various levels to CIA, and collecting huge sums as bounty, running into millions of US$.

How else could Pakistani generals afford to buy mansions in Dubai or fast-food chains in USA?

“Gen. Pervez Musharraf, revealed in his memoir, “In the Line of Fire,” that Pakistan had captured 689 al-Qaeda terror suspects, and turned over 369 to Washington.” “We have earned bounties totalling millions of dollars,” Musharraf said, without specifying how much was paid. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/pakistan-selling-innocents-to-us/

BUSINESS OF BREEDING TERRORISTS AND SELLING THEM

Terrorism is a highly viable lucrative   proposition with low risk and high rewards for its organisers in Pakistan viz, Pakistani Army and the ISI.

As a tool of state policy Pakistan has been forming terrorist organisations and incubating them on its soil, openly in Bahawalpur, Murdike FATA, POK and even Afghanistan.

Thousands of Madrassas have been established across Pakistan where poor Muslim children are indoctrinated into to the most violent and perverse aspects of Islam and sent out to create mayhem and kill innocents.

Funds, billions in US $, £, and € for these ‘religious institutions’ pour in from the Middle East countries and Muslims from across the world in the name of Jihad. CIA has also been funding Pakistan in these nefarious projects for many years.

 China, in its animosity towards India has been supporting Pakistan’s breeding terrorists. It has blocked the naming and identifying as international terrorists, those trained and employed by Pakistan in cross border terrorist activities against India.

China along with Turkey ensured that Pakistan was brought out of the FATF grey list last year.

The youth indoctrinated into violence are then channelled to terrorist  organisations like JeM, LeT, Al Qaida, ISIS etc.   or later many of these young men and women upgraded themselves to be sighted in the list of ‘most wanted’ terrorists and carry bounty on their heads.

These terrorists with bounty on their heads are handed over to CIA and other intelligence agencies, by their trainers and ISI generals, who collect fat sums of money from USA. The terrorists themselves are unaware who has ratted against them.

A few cases of terrorists betrayed / eliminated by Pakistani Army and ISI

AL Zawahiri: (03-Aug-2022 The United States on Sunday eliminated al-Qaida fugitive and Osama bin Laden successor Ayman al-Zawahiri in a drone strike in Afghanistan)

Bashir Ahmad Pir alias Imtiyaz Alam,

Syed Khalid Raza,

Ripu Dhaman Singh

Bashir Ahmad Pir alias Imtiyaz Alam, a ‘top ranking commander’ of terror outfit Hizbul Mujaheddin. Imtiyaz Alam, is believed to have been close to Hizbul Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin, was attacked and killed on Monday (20 February). This Hizbul Mujahideen terrorist was killed recently in Pakistan on 20 February 2023.  

Syed Khalid Raza, a former commander of Pak-backed terror group Al Badr killed in Karachi (source: ANN News)

Syed Khalid Raza, a former commander of Pak-backed terror group Al Badr killed in Karachi (source: ANN News)

On Sunday, February 26, unidentified men killed Syed Khalid Raza, a former commander of the Pakistan-based terrorist outfit Al Badr. The dreaded terrorist was shot outside his residence in Gulistan-e-Johar Block 7 area of Karachi, Pakistan

Ripudaman Singh Malik, 75, who was acquitted of charges of playing a role in the terrorist bombing of the Air India flight Kanishka in 1985, was murdered at Surrey in the Canadian province of British Columbia on  14 July 2022.

Ripudaman Singh Malik, 75, charged with a role in the terrorist bombing of the Air India flight Kanishka in 1985, but acqitted.

 An   official said the murder could be connected to his return to India and concerns that he may speak out about the Kanishka tragedy. The killing may have been carried out to send a message to others as well, the official added. The official expressed apprehension over the killing in the style of gangs. It potentially points towards a link between pro-Khalistan elements and organised crime, much of what Indo-Canadian gangsters run, the official said.

INDIA

Not completely Helpless or Spineless?

Under Modi the government of India has promised to take retaliatory measures against perpetrators of terrorism. Balakote strike, neutralizing terrorists in J&K who target Kashmiri Pandits, depriving terrorists of their illegal properties in India, are moves in the right direction.

However, there is a long way to go and much more to be done.

Perpetrators of murderous terrorist attacks on India are roaming freely in Pakistan and around the world today. Incursions in Kashmir are going on a daily basis.

Bombings on March 12, 1993, killed 257 innocent Indians and injured more than 700. Targeting of Mumbai trains on 11 July 2006 killing more than 200 innocents and severely injured over 600 others.

No justice to these victims and their families. pain of nationalist have not been addressed so far.

What about those more than twenty Pakistanis and US citizens like Hadley involved in the dastardly attack on 26/11 in Mumbai?

We know that the terrorists involved on 26/11 “had been motivated and briefed personally by Hafiz Saeed, the head of LeT (which had renamed itself Jamaat-ud-Dawah) and were trained by Pakistan Army officers.”

Yet no action has been taken against these terrorists*, who are being protected by Pakistani government and its Jihadi oriented army.

Last but most necessary:

India must strengthen itself to take action anywhere in the world against terrorists. India must reserve the right to deliver justice anywhere in the world.

India must send a firm message across to all perpetrators of terrorist activities that India will retaliate and no mercy will be shown to terrorists.

* SUDDEN MEASURES TO REASSURE FATF

• To avoid FATF blacklist, Pak sanctions 88 banned outfits
• First time, Dawood on a Pak list

DETAILS

• Dawood, Lashkar-e-Toiba chief Hafiz Saeed, Lashkar’s operations head and 26/11 accused Zaki-ur-Rahman Lakhvi, Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar figure in a list of 88 names, published as a Statutory Regulatory Order by Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. https://www.studyiq.com/articles/pakistan-sanctions-88-new-terrorists-including-dawood-ibrahim-pdf/

&

https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india-india-tv-exclusive-hizbul-mujahideen-lashkar-e-taiba-jaish-e-mohammed-chain-of-command-revealed-528188

ARE BHUTTOS A BANE FOR THE SUBCONTINENT ?

IS BILAWAL BHUTTO ALSO A DANGER FOR PAKISTAN?

Bilawal Bhutto , (born 12 September 1988) the current Foreign minister of Pakistan since April 2022, has been indulging in brinkmanship, and making extremely uncivil and uncalled for comments on India and the Indian Prime Minister. These remarks on India and Prime Minister Modi have been made repeatedly on different occasions, in the UN assembly, and the US. The demeanor and body language of Bilawal Bhutto indicate that these are not off the cuff remarks, or slip of the tongue, but deliberate attempts to inflame passions in India and Pakistan.

The relationship between India and Pakistan is already poor, consequent to the cross border terrorism foisted on India by Pakistan. One would assume that as a foreign minister , he would be diplomatic in his approach and work towards rapprochement between the two countries.

However, the aim of Bilawal Bhutto is clearly to derail any possibility of peace between the two countries.

Bilawal Bhutto is also sabotaging any cooperation of Taliban which at present is governing Afghanistan, It is the same Taliban, which has been supported by Pakistan for over four decades and whose government Pakistan has helped to install in Afghanistan.

Bilawal Bhutto has also made inflammatory remarks against Taliban government in Afghanistan, even though they have denied any support to TTP elements which are carrying out raids in Pakistan. “Speaking to the media at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, Bilawal said: “We will not ignore if we found out that Taliban are not stopping TTP.”

He also advised the US government “we urge to release frozen funds for the Afghan people not for the Taliban……”

Today Bilawal Bhutto emulating Zulfiqar Bhutto is a threat to peace in the subcontinent.

BHUTTO FAMILY ANTICS

Bhuttos over three generations have been instrumental in ruining millions of lives in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh.

For full three generations Bhuttos have been by sowing the seeds of hatred, causing death , destruction and immense misery in the subcontinent, by inciting animosities between countries, ethnic and religious groups. History shows that Deception was practiced by successive generations of Bhuttos in their unabashed quest for power.

A tragedy stricken family whose fate appears to be entwined with that of India and Pakistan, unfortunately, to their mutual detriment. Rarely has there been a country like Pakistan whose fortunes have been decimated by a family through successive generations.

It appears that the representative of the fourth generation of Pakistani Bhuttos, Bilawal Zardari Bhutto as he calls himself , will continue to inflict damage on the peoples of Pakistan and India.

SHAH NAWAZ BHUTTO
Shah Nawaz was the father of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and grandfather of Benazir Bhutto.

SHAHNAWAZ BHUTTO

.https://www.blogger.com/profile/04458355047890080856

“According to noted Junagadh-based historian Pradhuman Khachar, the last Nawab of the state, Mahabat Khanji, had appointed Shahnawaz as Diwan on May 30, 1947.”

Shahnawaz managed to manipulate his master, then Nawab of Junagadh who was the ruler of erstwhile state of Junagadh.

Location of Junagadh State in Saurashtra

“The Diwan’s office was the hotbed of politics during those turbulent days. According to Khachar, Shahnawaz had played a vital role in the Nawab’s decision regarding the merging of Junagadh state with Pakistan.”( http://archive.indianexpress.com/news/the-bhutto-family-s-junagadh-connection/255376/)

He connived with Jinnah, to opt for annexation with Pakistan in Aug 1947, even though the state had a majority of Hindus and was not even adjacent to Pakistan. Jinnah agreed to the accession offer in September 1947, creating great turbulence in Delhi, which was attempting to forge a unified Indian state through the lawful process of accession of Indian princely states in to the Indian Union.

The Nawab advised by Bhutto refused to meet the representative of the Indian government, VP Menon to discuss the issue of a Hindu majority kingdom opting for Pakistan. Bhutto was instrumental in sending troops from Junagadh to occupy neighbouring areas of Mangrol and Babriawad which had majority of Hindus. Chaos reigned and thousands of Hindus fled Junagadh in panic.

India went out of its way and agreed to a plebiscite which was held in Feb 1948, when the people of Junagadh voted overwhelmingly to Join the Indian Union.

Shahnawaz and his foolish master, the Nawab of Junagadh fled to Pakistan. (The nawab of Junagarh left his subjects behind , but took his menagerie of dogs to Pakistan). The Nawab took with him the entire cash balances of the State and all the shares and securities in the treasury.

(The Nawab realised that events were not going as he had anticipated; and he decided on flight. Towards the end of October, he left for Karachi with most of the members of his family, some of his dogs and much of the family jewellery. As the party was about to enter the plane, it was found that one of the Begums had forgotten to bring her child but the Nawab refused to wait; the plane took off, leaving the Begum behind to find her child. (The Story of the Integration of the Indian States — V. P. Menon; Copyright © www.sanipanhwar.com 119)

Mohammad Ali Jinnah, amongst the cleverest lawyers of his times, had no problems acceding with this completely unacceptable proposition. Jinnah in fact no qualms demanding that the state of Hyderabad be independent and was instrumental in sending raiders and Pakistani army into Kashmir valley to annex it through force.

(Jinnah failed in his attempts to create an adversarial state of Hyderabad in the Indian heartland. He also failed to annex Kashmir its entirety. However Pakistani army did forcibly occupy Baluchistan and enslaved Baluchis 27 March 1948).

ZULFIQAR ALI BHUTTO

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto represented the next generation of Bhuttos, Presentable, educated and sweet tongued, he was chosen by Ayub Khan to become the foreign minister. He also served as President of Pakistan from 1971 to 1973, and as Prime Minister from 1973 to 1977. As Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Under Ayub Khan, Bhutto had promised a ‘thousand year war’ against India, and the PPP ‘s founding documents have Jihadi references.Bhutto was a proponent of Operation Gibraltar in Kashmir, leading to war with India in 1965.

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto had no qualms in ensuring split in the Pakistani society, through the ostracization of Ahmadis as heretics, and even enacted a legislation in the parliament. “Both the Islamic socialist Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto and the Muslim radical General Zia-ul-Haq enacted anti-Ahmadis law that are still in force.”

To Indians especially the Hindus, who were watching the entire episode of Ahmadis in Pakistan it was a confirmation of the laws of Karma. Jinnah the clever lawyer had used the education and talents of Ahmedia community for over a decade to propound the two nation theory that lead to partition of India on religious lines and led to immense blood shed and untold misery to millions. Ahmedias who claimed special privileges even among Mohammedans and were instrumental in the partition of India were not only declared to be non-Muslims but were even prohibited from entering mosques! A strange turn of fate indeed for front runners of the idea of Pakistan. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto be Praised.

Bhutto dissolved the government of Baluchistan in 1973 and sent in the Pakistani army under Tikka Khan. Thousands of Baluchis were killed in 1973 by Pakistani army.

Bhutto’s influence over then then President Yahya khan led to the rape and murder of a million Bengalis by the Pakistani army under General Tikka Khan and General Niazi in the year 1971. The story of the birth of Bangladesh is known to all of us in the subcontinent. The sacrifices of hundreds of lives of Indian soldiers, sailors and airmen in the war for independence of Bangladesh are a part of the history of the subcontinent.

Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was completely unfazed by the fact that he was responsible for the break up of Pakistan. He even managed to sell the idea that getting rid of Bengalis was an achievement. Sure enough, he promoted Tikka Khan the butcher of Bengalis, as the Chief of Army staff.

All the cleverness, deceptive powers failed when confronted with General Zia Ul Haq, whom he had promoted as army chief overlooking many qualified seniors. Zia was as ambitious and clever as Zulfiqar but was apparently more shrewd and cunning. General Zia not only managed to displace him as Prime minister, but also had him tried and sentenced to death by a court of law.

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Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged unceremoniously in the jail on 04 April 1979, after being incarcerated from September 1977 and a prolonged trial of five months and further appeals.

BENAZIR BHUTTO

“The plane crash that terminated the life and presidency of Zia opened a political process that led to Benazir Bhutto, the daughter of the executed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, ascending to the position of Prime Minister on December 2, 1988.”

Benazir Bhutto

“She promised democracy and human rights.” She talked of equality and protection of minorities but did nothing to alleviate the pain of Ahmadis. Benazir Bhutto did not touch Ordinance XX, and answered international criticism by arguing that several cases were pending before Pakistan’s Supreme Court, and whether the anti-Ahmadi ordinance was compatible with the Constitution was a matter to be solved by the judiciary. https://bitterwinter.org/

Pakistani courts affirmed the validity of Ordinance XX . This “triggered new anti-Ahmadi riots. While the Supreme Court had commented that Ahmadi religion cannot be called Muslim nor propagated, but Ahmadi lives should be protected against mob violence, its verdict was intended as a license for further persecution of the Ahmadiyya by local courts, the police, and Muslim extremists…” https://bitterwinter.org/

Baluchis were made to pay a heavy price when she unleashed the Pakistani Army against them. Hindus and Christians were murdered with impunity during her reign.

Benazir Bhutto along with Zia Ul Haq and ISI was responsible for the formation of terrorist organisations in Pakistan. The same terrorist organisations are turning against Pakistan today.

“After the terrorist violence that broke out in Jammu and Kashmir in the year 1990s, lakhs of Kashmiri Pandits left the Valley while many people were killed. ……The poisonous speech of the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, had added fuel to the fire in instigating this massacre of Kashmiri Pandits. However, the biggest thorn in this dream of Benazir became Jagmohan, the then Governor of Jammu and Kashmir. This is the reason why Benazir had openly threatened to kill him. “https://hindustannewshub.com/world-news/kashmir-files-benazir-bhutto-instigated-the-killing-of-kashmiri-pandits-threatened-to-cut-jagmohan/

When Benazir Bhutto was attempting to fight elections and become the prime minister of Pakistan once again in General Musharraf thought that she was getting to be too popular, especially with the west, and might topple him from his dictatorship.

So what followed next was a repeat of past history. Benazir Bhutto was killed while on a public rally on 27 December 2007, in Rawalpindi. There had been two earlier attempts on her life, and she had asked for additional protection from general Musharraf , the then dictator of Pakistan.

Pakistan

Pakistan

Bhuttos have caused immense harm to Pakistan. They have divided the country and its people. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was a major player in the separation of Bangladesh from Pakistan.

The support by Benazir for opening Madrassas, and indoctrination of Pakistani youth lead to formation of dozens of terrorist modules that have resulted in the deaths of over 70,000 Pakistani civilians and military personnel. Death toll continues to rise even today

INDIA

The peoples of India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Afghanistan have paid a heavy price, due to the unholy ambitions of the Bhuttos through the last three generations.

It appears that Bilawal Bhutto is already on the path to aggravating tension between India and Pakistan and stoking flames in an effort to become a hero in Pakistan.

His approach to international relations indicate that in his quest for power he will emulate his grandfather Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto , incite the Pakistani public and the Pakistani army to indulge in adventurism, against its neighbors, India and Afghanistan.

Watch Out. Bilawal Bhutto is a Ticking Time Bomb.

FALL OF KABUL : A HISTORIC ROLE REVERSAL IN THE SUBCONTINENT : BUT AT A COST ?

On 15 August 2021, fully armed and vicious hordes , emerging from the plains of Punjab, stormed Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan and occupied it.

Over centuries, Armed invaders from Greece, Arabia, Turkestan Persia and Afghanistan had poured across the Hindu Kush mountains on to the plains of Punjab, the gateway to the rich lands irrigated by many perennial rivers from Indus to Ganga to Brahmaputra.

The valiant armies of the Indo Gangetic plains had won many battles and also lost some. Over the centuries, riches of the plains men continued to beckon endless barbaric hordes from far off lands in the west.

Looters and marauders from Turkestan, Arabia, Persia , Ghori to Ghazni, and the far off lands had poured in for loot and to enslave the people of the plains.

Rarely had the armies of the Indo Gangetic plain ventured across the Hindu Kush mountains to the West to subdue the uncivilised world of barbarians.

The country of Afghanistan with its inhospitable terrain has been occupied by mountainous tribes and was in the pathway of the invading armies. Armies from the Punjab plains had seldom moved to the west to preempt the looters, even it was well known that the invading armies came from that direction.

It was a rare event when Maharaja Ranjit Singh went on to wrest Kashmir and also defeat Afghan army and added its provinces to the Sikh Empire. In a short time with the defeat of the Sikh army at the hands of the British, Afghanistan became free of onslaughts by Sikhs from the plains of Punjab once again.

English in spite of their attempts could not subdue Afghanistan[1] and had to arrive at a face saving solution in 1893, to protect their colonial territories in the plains of Punjab from the depredations of Afghans, through a treaty with Abdul Rahman, the then Amir of Afghanistan. The English had drawn up a treaty delineating the frontier, a line up to which they would extend their administrative control. They did try and influence the rulers of Afghanistan through gifts and financial enticements from time to time, but they never did manage to occupy Afghanistan militarily in their 100 years of colonisation of the subcontinent.

USSR moved its armies in to Afghanistan in Dec 1979, in support of the communists after the Abdul Taraki’s unpopular communist government fell. (Taraki himself had been killed in the uprising against communists).

[1] “On one notable occasion in 1842 the Afghans massacred a British army numbering over 21,000, allowing one soldier, William Brydon, to go back and tell the story).” https://www.rbth.com/articles/2011/11/17/winning_in_afghanistan_what_the_west_can_learn_from_india_13265

Turning Point : Enter Wahhabism & Jihadi Mindset

It was left to the stratagems of the Pakistani government and its generals post 1979 to take help of Americans who were a superpower at that point of time, to wage war against the Russian forces which had occupied Afghanistan.

USA entered the fray with the help of Pakistan under Zia ul Haq, who having declared martial law in 1987, elevated himself to Presidentship (1988–1998).

Zia ul Haq convinced the Americans that Pakistan was a natural ally, and an Islamic one to boot. Hence was an ideal partner in to push out the godless Russian Communists from Afghanistan.

Zia Ul Haq greatly speeded up the process of islamisation of Pakistan by setting up of hundreds of madrassas, of the Deobandi schools in the border lands of Afghanistan. These were funded by the Saudis, and these madarassas imparted the most rigorous and fanatical Islamic ideas of the Wahhabis. The students, mostly the poorest of the Afghan and Pakistani population, were brainwashed into Jihadism as a way of noble and ideal life. This form of Islamic education continues even today in Pakistan.

This explosion of Wahhabi madrassas in the North western areas spread across Pakistan and misguiding the youth of Pakistan which commenced in 1979 continues even today. Over the last four decades over a million innocent youth have been brainwashed into becoming Jihadis.

These students of madrassas are the recruiting ground of all terrorist groups ( more than 80 on last count) in Pakistan including Taliban, Jaish e Mohammad, Haqqani Network, Lashkar- e-Tayyaba, TTP etc.

Teharike Labbaik Pakistan TLP, which has recently come into prominence is an organisation of the Barelvi school of Islam. This sect has long felt neglected due to Deobandi groups getting support of Pakistani government and the army. They have embarked on a journey of mass protests to display their strength and increase in their share in power and the government handouts.

Russians suffered heavy casualties (over 15,000 dead) and were compelled to leave Afghanistan post collapse of USSR

However peace did not come to Afghanistan even after the vacation by the Russian army. There was much infighting among the armed warlords, calling themselves Mujahideen, and chaos prevailed till 1996.

In 1996 Pakistan army from the plains of Punjab, managed to install a puppet regime of “Taliban”. Unfortunately in 2001, this puppet regime of Taliban incurred the wrath of the most powerful state in the world, namely the United States of America which occupied Afghanistan after driving out the Taliban regime. Leaders and fighters of the Taliban moved to the safe sanctuaries offered by its parent, Pakistan. Since the beginning, these groups were given, official recognition, financial support, and training and arms by Pakistani army and the civilian government.

Occupation Afghanistan by a new set of invaders, theAmericans and Europeans under the guise of United Nations was resented by the people of Afghanistan many of whom had migrated to Pakistan.

Once again the people of the plains, the Pakistani army and the leaders in Pakistan managed to fool the occupational forces and the foreign powers.

Even while talking of support, Pakistan trained, armed, and incited tribes in Afghanistan to continue their covert operations against the occupation forces of the Americans and the Europeans. This deception by Pakistani army continued for a long period of almost 20 years.

In the mean time the superpower that is the United States of America had grown weary and tired of drain on their economy due to the continuous unending warfare in which its troops were engaged.

USA wisely, though belatedly, decided to leave Afghanistan to its fate. Over two decades Pakistani army had manoeuvred in such a manner, that the occupation forces of the Western nations were forced to flee abandoning their arms and equipment and even many of their personnel at the mercy of the hordes that poured into Afghanistan from the plains of Punjab. The army of Pakistan which aided the local commanders of Afghan volunteers, managed to install a government dominated by a Pakistani group, the Haqqani Network.

Today Pakistani army, and the state of Pakistan have have not only driven out the foreign invaders from Afghanistan but also set up a puppet government.

This occupation of Afghanistan by the armies from the plains of Punjab is a momentous mark in the history of the Subcontinent.

It is almost as if the scale of justice have prevailed in that the conquerors who have subjugated the peaceful people of the plains have been pushed back. How long this occupation of Afghanistan will last only time will tell, but it is definitely heartening that the people of the plains are in no way less martial or inferior to any of the armies that have descended from the Western mountains .

This is a clear case of the armies of the plains overcoming for stronger armies from the West and should give courage to the people of the subcontinent of how they have been able to with stand the many attacks on their homeland and culture but have managed to survive over the centuries.

Pakistani Military Adventurism

Professor Ishtiaq Ahmad calls Pakistan a ‘Garrisons State’, Madeleine Albright a former Secretary of State of USA called out Pakistan for being an international migraine. Pakistan is a state owned and operated by an all powerful army that determines its every move. Pakistani army decides on all major political appointees from Prime Minister downwards, controls its legislature, judiciary and all the policies within the country and the international relations.

Pakistani history is replete with the misadventures of its generals from its inception. Pakistani army has self induced images of grandeur and hallucinations of victories.

Lurking Danger : COST : EXPANDING ISLAMIC EXTREMISM

Subjugation of Afghanistan by Pakistani army and its installation of a puppet regime in Afghanistan has come at a cost.

Pakistan since its formation in 1947, has been trying to establish an identity divorced from the geography and culture of the land it occupies. Pakistani elite has been working hard to justify the formation of a purely Islamic Mohammedan state completely separate from Hindus who were the original inhabitants of the subcontinent.

Even though the territory of Pakistan lay in the Indian subcontinent, and its people had been converts into Islam , and living cheek and jowel with the Hindus over centuries, Pakistani elite drew up constitutions emphasising solely on its Islamic religious identity.

Over time, influence of mullahs, ie Muslim religious teachers increased, to such an extent that the laws of the land in Pakistan were amended repeatedly to make the country more and more theocratic and rigid in its outlook.

Political elites past and present , Jinnah , Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and even the current prime minister Imran Khan have never had any qualms in using and misusing Islam to undermine their political opponents. Pakistani army and its generals, Ayub Khan, Zia Ul Haq, Musharraf, who were the virtual rulers of Pakistan have used the Islamic card over decades and have no hesitation to labelling themselves as Jihadis.

Over the past seven decades, Educational institutions and systems were tampered with, new versions of official history, and even text books on science, slanted in their approach were introduced in the curriculum. Distortions of facts and colouring of historical events continues till date.

This has lead to three generations of Pakistani citizens being brainwashed with extremist ideas and ideals. Today Pakistani society is highly communalised, extremely harsh in its approach towards members of other religions and actively suppresses any one identified as a non Muslim. Blasphemy laws, and legislation’s declaring Ahmedias as non Muslims are just a couple of examples of the highly negative outlook of the Pakistani society.

TTP, TLP and the Government of Pakistan

Talibanization of Pakistani society is moving forward at a very fast pace. The latest agreements and understanding that the Imran Khan government has arrived at with TTP and TLP in November 2021, has resulted in legitimising the two groups that are openly extremist and call for imposition of Shariah laws in Pakistan. These two organisations are among those that were banned for indulging in terrorism.

Pakistan has crossed the point of no return. World should be aware of the dangers of a Talibanised Pakistan and Afghanistan.

Indian options have been whittled down. To whom does India talk to ?There is no mature or ‘ Normal’ politician or political party that India can deal with. India will need to work out all its options with the clear understanding that it will be dealing with Islamic radicals and extremists.

SHARUKH KHAN: CELEBRITY PARENTS AND THE MILLSTONE OF PRIVILAGED BRATS

As a parent my sympathies are naturally with Bollywood actor Shahrukh khan and his wife, for having to face the world on account of their son Aryan Khan, who has got himself embroiled in an unpleasant police case involving narcotics.[1]

Aryan Khan is in judicial custody on date. Shahrukh Khan has maintained a dignified silence so far, against the onslaught of an offensive media and trolls.

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[1] https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/mumbai-drug-bust-case-live-aryan-khans-bail-hearing-today-2571197

Celebrity Identity

Identification with a celebrity or a lineage provides access to great privileges, many of them undeserved. We have seen and are seeing this phenomenon especially highlighted in the political families.

Unlike political personages, Hollywood-Bollywood-Mollywood personages are far more vulnerable. Being a cinema celebrity, especially of the Bollywood variety carries great deal of liability. Always out there are bullies, psychos, blackmailers and jealous losers, looking for an opportunity to grab any event or incident, to blow out of proportion in an attempt to demean, and destroy the reputation of a victim.

Shahrukh Khan and his family members are at present facing vicious attacks on every facet of their lives. This is very unfortunate, but appears to follow the same pattern as reserved for tinsel town celebrities around the world

The offensive media and the tormentors will soon move on to a new target. But the damage has been done and will take a very long to repair.

Well Wishers’ and their Rebuttal in Public

While the accusers are having a field day, manysupporters of Shahrukh Khan have jumped into the fray. [1]

Their contention is not that Aryan Khan did not or could not have committed an offence knowingly or otherwise, but that the family is being victimised on purpose. Politicians are also jumping in, accusing a political party of vindictive approach.

Many well-wishers of Shahrukh Khan have written long articles running into hundreds of words in newspapers and magazines, highlighting the fact that use of ganja and narcotics or mild narcotics are the in thing in in the high society and the cinema circles in Bollywood. Therefore, use of mild narcotics should not be taken seriously.

Their contention is that while no action has been taken against the 99.9% of drug pushers and abusers, Aryan Khan has been singularly identified purely to create a sensation for a very extremely minor slip that he might have made.

Aryan Khan is being painted as a young boy or at worst as an immature adult of just 24 years and therefore any action against him by law is unjustified. Shahrukh Khan’s being a Muslim, is being trotted out as another excuse to justify the victim tab on him, as being a target of a government, headed by a Hindu.

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[1] https://www.indiatoday.in/law/story/reasons-aryan-khan-bail-mumbai-cruise-drug-case-1863604-2021-10-11

Unfortunate fallout of Privileges

                Many rich and powerful parents are working hard, round the clock to maintain their status in the society and a present picture of a perfection.

Parents assuage their guilt of absence from families through overindulgence and doting on children whom they obviously love greatly.

On many occasions children must pay for the fame of their parents, their professional rivals and social misfits.

Most of the mud slinging against Aryan Khan and his parents stem from this.

However, there is also another perception. That of the public.

Aam Nagarik’s Perception

Then there are people who say justifiably that we have young men of 21 and 22 years of age sitting in trenches ready to face enemy bullets out on our borders.

Punjab Announces Ex Gratia for Families of 3 Soldiers from State Killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch – (khaboreprakash.com)

Punjab Announces Ex Gratia for Families of 3 Soldiers from State Killed in Jammu and Kashmir’s Poonch – (khaboreprakash.com)

These young men (young adults) do not claim immaturity or do any soft pedalling even while enduring terrible living condition in the Himalayas or sacrificing their lives fighting Pakistani terrorists in the Kashmir valley.

There are also thousands of our youngsters who are slogging day after day in our villages and towns to earn their daily bread and to sustain their families doing tough, low and menial jobs, around the country.

 These young men and women do not claim any special privileges, nor shield from being punished for unlawful activities.

Indian Public is aware of how the courts of the land dealt with Sanjay Dutt who had to undergo prison imprisonment. This was inspite of the immense prestige of his parents.

 It is also an open fact that action again VIP’s politicians and their weird acting brats are hardly ever initiated in our country and the judicial system is also highly biased in their favour.[i]

 Public is aware that nothing much will come out of this case, but the fact remains that the widely spread usage of narcotics has been highlighted in the recent past

Under an impartial administration consequence that will follow if the laws are applied equally, will hopefully act as a deterrent to other youngsters and their families who would otherwise take a benign view of breaking laws of the land.

As a parent my sympathies are with the parents of Aryan Khan.

But can the laws of the land be overlooked?

It would be for you to decide whether individuals like Aryan Khan brought up in privileged conditions should be given a free hand to break the laws of the land freely or be held up and dealt with like any other citizen. [ii]

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[i][i] During the last 18 months, the case witnessed several twist and turns, the most important of the twists being the bail granted to Rocky by the then Chief Justice of the Patna High Court Justice Iqbal Ahmad Ansari. The bail was promptly suspended and subsequently cancelled by a Supreme Court bench headed by Justice SA Bode. The HC bail left many tongues wagging in the judicial circles of the state. https://www.news18.com/news/india/bihar-politicians-son-rocky-yadav-found-guilty-in-road-rage-case-1506051.html

https://www.newindianexpress.com/states/odisha/2017/jul/07/former-odisha-dgps-son-convicted-in-german-woman-rape-case-released-from-jail-1625240.html

[ii] Aryan Khan drug case: NCB takes drug kingpin into custody; ‘young adult’ arrested in rave helped agency nab peddler

Aryan Khan drug case: NCB takes drug kingpin into custody; ‘young adult’ arrested in rave helped agency nab peddler | Hindi Movie News – Times of India (indiatimes.com)

Afghanistan: A Cauldron of Violence

The International Community Watching Helplessly

Afghanistan: A Cauldron of Violence

Afghanistan has been converted into an abattoir of innocents by Taliban fully backed by Pakistani Army and ISI.

Bomb blasts, murders, mayhem and barbaric acts against Afghans especially women and children have become the norm.

What is worse, Post withdrawal of NATO and American forces, , future of Afghanistan is unpredictable, and the entire International Community is nervous and anxious of the outcome. India is faced with difficult choices.

Difficult to govern in the best of times, the situation in Afghanistan is worsening day by day, with too many vested interests intruding into an already volatile zone.

Afghanistan 2021

Americans have been promised by President Biden that the remaining 2500 odd services personnel will be brought home by 11 September 2021.[1] Post USA withdrawing its remnant security details from Afghanistan there will be a major power vacuum in this most unstable area of the world.

Remnants NATO forces have already made a quiet exit  last week. Bagram Base of US troops has been vacated two days back.

“Afghan officials have sought to downplay the impact of the U.S. military withdrawal on their own forces’ capabilities, but some official U.S. assessments indicate that the withdrawal could lead to Taliban gains on the battlefield. By many measures, the Taliban are in a stronger position now than at any point since 2001, controlling as much as half of the country.”

“The Pakistani deep state, ISI is pushing the Haqqani Network to increase its stake in so-called Islamic State of Khorasan Province (ISKP) to retain its leverage on Afghanistan irrespective of the on-going peace process and maintain plausible deniability in future terror attacks in Af-Pak region, according to senior counter-terrorism officials.”

“Ultimately, stability will elude Afghanistan so long as Pakistan seeks to keep the country weak, divided, compliant and free from an Indian menace that exists only in Islamabad’s imagination.”

There is a possibility of an Islamic medieval state coming into being by the end of 2021. Another possibility is of a bloody civil war between the elected government of Afghanistan and extremist organisations like the Taliban, backed by Pakistani army.

Already Pakistan, China and Russia are fishing in the troubled waters, and the atmosphere is further vitiated by the presence of nearly 20 Islamic extremist organisations based in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Afghanistan National Defence and Security Forces are Not capable of facing the Taliban tide. The strength and combat readiness of the Afghan Army is also deteriorating by the day.

 President Ghani has already thrown up his hands and said very clearly that, the Government of Afghanistan will not be able to maintain its  army for even for six months without U.S. financial  support.

Major Players

Russia, China and Pakistan Iran and India are interested in the early settlement of the Afghan issue. However, the objectives are different.

Pakistan is keen to ensure a pliant and malleable government in Afghanistan. Pakistani army concocted a story of the need for ‘strategic depth’ post 1971, as a fall back for their army in the case of Indian forces over running Punjab.

Pakistan also is unhappy about the good relationship between the Afghan government and India, which has over the decades helped and aided Afghanistan in its major developmental projects.

A major reason for Pakistani army interests in Afghanistan, is however the fact that Afghanistan is a major producer of opium. Pakistani army in collusion with the Taliban control the manufacture and supply routes. Opium trade rakes in millions to Taliban and Pakistani generals.

China shares a short length of border and has its eyes on the mineral wealth of Afghanistan. It is also aware that it, through which Islamic terrorist organisations can funnel their men into China and create problems in Xinyang province which has seen anti-Chinese sentiments in the past. In fact, more a million Uighur Muslims are already in concentration camps for ‘re-education’.

China had supplied arms, ammunition and even animals for cartage purposes to Taliban in the past. It was a conduit for illicit weapons when USA had roped in Zia ul Haq to raise the Taliban in the 90 s to harass and drive out the Russians. China made millions by sale of weapons to Taliban. USA under Ronald Reagan was grateful to the Chinese for their ‘cooperation’.

Russia is aware of the possibility of Islamic organisations creeping up on its southern borders. It would like a regime which would keep the Islamic terrorist organisations in tight leash.

Moscow, for its part, having kept itself aloof from Afghanistan and Pakistan for years after the Taliban’s ouster, is refocusing on Afghanistan, because Islamist extremism and drug trafficking emanating from Central Asia have re-emerged as major threats to Russia’s national security.

Has Russian Putin Forgotten how China had back stabbed Russia in Afghanistan? It was the arms sold by China that killed Russian troops in Afghanistan.

Iran a Muslim Shia majority state had difficult times in dealing with the Sunni Taliban government in the 90s.However Iran’s anti American policies have sounded off well with Taliban and their relations have since improved. Iran would prefer a quiet and peaceful neighbourhood in Afghanistan.

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INDIAN OPTIONS

India has managed since 2001, to do a balancing act in Afghanistan, without getting involved in the military operations lead by NATO forces and USA.

India’s principled support to a democratically elected government, was the foundation of its Afghanistan policy. This policy is coming unravelled with USA coming to a face-saving agreement with an obscurantist and medieval minded Taliban in Feb 2020.

India over the years has committed more than two Billion in infrastructure projects, roads, schools, hospitals and the most important of all the Afghan Parliament building and the Salma Dam.

 A Grim Outlook for Afghanistan HARD FACTS

• USA IS withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan. USA and Pakistan have already colluded for the return of Taliban.
•  USA and its NATO allies have chosen to ignore the thousands of lives of their soldiers and citizens lost to Taliban attacks.
• Countries like USA, Canada, China etc and the rooftop screamers are not at all worried about the plight of minorities, women and children who will suffer most under the Mullah regime.
• Afghanistan under Taliban will be a Sharia state. All non-Muslim countries are fair game for terrorist activities. India will the first country to face the terrorist fall out.
• USA and NATO allies are resigned to one or more 9/11s.

• USA, and NATO countries have never sided with India in its fight against international terrorism. In fact, West has considered India as a ’sponge’, absorbing much of terrorist actions that would otherwise have targeted the western nations.
• China will encourage Pakistan to utilise Afghan soil to continue its nefarious activities of sponsoring terrorist organisations and using them to destabilise India.
• Indian Government cannot assume the management of its neighbours by a benevolent USA, the way it has been doing so far.

• If Pakistani Taliban government takes over Afghanistan, the political and economic capital India has invested in Afghanistan will go to waste.
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• India should not forget the IC-814 hijack that happened in December 1999. It can happen again.
• Taliban has new field commanders. “They love money. They have earned a lot of money. If they have become rich, they want to become businessmen in the future. They need to have friends in the region, outside Afghanistan, to do business with.”

Scenario I

Taliban takes over Afghanistan by Dec 2021.

Members of Afghanistan government would have sent their families out of Afghanistan and themselves be looking for safe places to migrate to, India, USA, or UK.

 Within a brief time, Afghanistan would be attracting major terrorist organisations around the world. It will become a safe home and training centre for Islamic terrorists from every organisation, around the world.  

Pakistani army And ISI will be training these Islamic terrorists and the sending them out on killer missions, all over the globe. in a short time many of these terrorist groups will be inducted into India for the specific purpose of creating havoc and mayhem

Afghanistan will be a major training ground for terrorist organisations like Boko Haram and Hamas.

Taliban has already proclaimed that Sharia law will be in force to Afghanistan. Educational institutions for women run by the government today, will all be shut down and converted into madrasas where only Shramik teachers will be allowed. 

           There is a distinct possibility that the Chinese will manage to buy off Taliban leaders who have grown rich and soft over the years China will be very happy if Pakistan trains terrorists and send them over to India to ensure that bulk of its forces are kept busy western border

SCENARIO 2

CIVIL WAR

There are nearly twenty Islamic extremist organisations in Afghanistan and the possibility of a civil war breaking out is a major possibility. This will lead to enormous bloodshed complete breakdown of any administration any administration or health services. Afghanistan will be driven back by a century.

Pakistan cannot escape unscathed. Refugees will pour into Pakistan once more. Pakistan will be unable to manage the influx of refugees. Economy of Pakistan already will collapse. This will lead to absolute chaos, not a very welcome situation for anyone in   South Asia. 

Limited Options are open.

Proactive approach is the best way forward

• First and foremost, India should shed its Timid approach to international affairs, especially in the neighbourhood.
• India is NOT sharing a common border with Afghanistan. It is a democracy has limited resources.
• India is NOT a Primary player in the Afghan arena. However, the location of Afghanistan, and the possible fallout of it becoming a Talibanized state moulded by Pakistan spells danger for Indian security.
• India will need to expand its diplomatic efforts to counter Pak-Talib cabal.
• India should continue its strategic partnership with the Afghan government. This will ensure that Taliban cannot take over Afghanistan in its entirety.
• India should work diplomatically to highlight the absence of legitimacy of the Talban rule.
• India must continue its support of organisations that will be working to stop Taliban from trampling on Afghan peoples (as in the case of Northern group in the nineties).
• Support to the Elected government of Afghanistan need not prevent talks with any other party in Afghanistan, including the Taliban.

Regarding Taliban: “There are new field commanders. They love money. They have earned a lot of money. If they have become rich, they want to become businessmen in the future. They need to have friends in the region, outside Afghanistan, to do business with.”

Do not be afraid to open dialogues even with Taliban.

Last but not the least, India must learn to be proactive in Afghanistan, not be over idealistic or sentimental in its approach. It must develop the capability and capacity to stand up alone if required to protect its interests.

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[1] Afghanistan: Background and U.S. Policy: In Brief

Afghanistan emerged as a significant U.S. foreign policy concern in 2001, when theUnited States, in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, led a military campaign against Al Qaeda and the Afghan Taliban government that harbored and supported it. In the intervening 19 years, the United States has suffered over 22,000 military casualties (including around 2,400 fatalities) in Afghanistan and Congress has

appropriated approximately $144 billion for reconstruction and security forces there. In that time, an elected Afghan government has replaced the Taliban; improvement in most measures of human development is limited; and future prospects of gains remain mixed. https://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R45122.pdf

New York Legislators Condone Aggression & Ethnic Cleansing in Kashmir

New York legislature has passed a malformed and ill begotten resolution to  whitewash Pakistani aggression and atrocities in Kashmir.[1]

Governor Andrew Cumo will be well advised to reject the resolution as it is completely biased and deceptive.

This is an attempt by Pakistani Muslim Lobbyists in New York to deceive the legislators and  to declare 05 February as ‘Kashmir- American Day’.

An Obviously Farce Resolution

In its present form, It is a blatant attempt to whitewash repeated aggressions by Pakistani army, forcible and illegal occupation of Kashmir and Baltistan. Even worse, it is a brazen attempt to insult the memories of hundreds of Hindus killed, and half a million Hindus driven out of their homes by Pakistani Jihadis and separatists.

It would have been really a mark of appreciation of the people of Kashmir and their diaspora, had it truly represented all the peoples and the true condition of affairs in Kashmir till from 1947 to 2019. It is a day when we in India and the people of the world, should question the legislators in New York State, why their actions belie their claim and stated

beliefs in the  freedoms and rights of citizens and their  applicability to peoples of the rest of the world.

While claiming to be endeavouring “… to champion human rights including freedom of religion, movement, and expression for all Kashmiri people, which are embedded within the United States Constitution, through the recognition of diverse cultural, ethnic and religious identities: and ……”, the legislators have actually done the opposite, inflicting  grave injustice to the people of India and the peoples of Kashmir, especially the Hindus.

This has been done through omissions and commissions in the Resolution.

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[1] https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/nation/new-york-assembly-passes-kashmir-resolution-india-calls-out-attempts-to-misrepresent-j-ks-rich-mosaic-209120

Intentional Omissions in the Resolution

The omissions in the resolution are so obvious, that one cannot but wonder at the brazen way crude attempts have been made to hide the most unpleasant truths of Pakistani perfidy in the recent history of Jammu and Kashmir.

The dark and hidden forces that  have gone into the drafting of the resolution,  deny  any sense of justice to the sufferings inflicted on the population of Jammu and Kashmir by Pakistani Jihadis and terrorists  trained and sent for the specific purpose creating mayhem and murders in the Kashmir valley and the erstwhile state of Jammu and Kashmir.

The resolution completely omits the brazen aggression by Pakistani raiders and Pakistani army in 1948. It omits any mention of the  ethnic cleansing of Hindus from the Kashmir valley in  by Muslim separatists aided by Pakistani terrorists.

There is no mention of the brutal murders of innocent Hindus by Jehadis and terrorists trained and sent to Kashmir over decades for the specific purpose of killing Hindu Pandits.

The resolution makes no mention of Jammu and Ladakh nor the travails of the Hindu and Buddhist population that has endured the most of atrocities by Mohammedan separatists in the Kashmir Valley.

Muslim Legislators in New York Encourage Terrorism by Pakistan

This resolution initiated by Nader Sayegh, a Jordanian Muslim, is an indication that the Pakistani government hand in vitiating the atmosphere against India in general and Hindus continues unabatedly in USA.

The fact that it has been spearheaded by a Jordanian, Nader Saheg is not surprising. Jordan was the country that utilised the services of Pakistani Brigadier Zia ul Haq (later Gen and Dictator of Pakistan) and  a Pakistani brigade to slaughter 25,000 Palestinians. By supporting the Pakistani version, this Jordanian  is only expressing ‘gratitude‘ towards Pakistan for ‘sanitising’ the  Palestinian refugee camps in Jordan.

In a tweet, Pakistan’s Consulate General in New York acknowledged the role of Sayegh and The American Pakistani Advocacy Group towards the adoption of the resolution.

Pakistan ‘An International Migraine’

Pakistan’s support to Terrorism is no secret.[1]

Pakistan has been investing heavily in propaganda since 1948, especially in the USA. Their agents have managed to infiltrate into the offices of the highest in USA over the last eight decades.[2]

‘Limousine Liberals’ in USA and UK are really soft targets for Pakistani influencers and lobbyists. This has allowed Pakistan to get away with outright aggressions against India, inhuman atrocities in Bangladesh, blatant Human rights violations in Baluchistan and Sind.[1] Pakistan’s active support to Taliban which has killed over two thousand American service personnel, has been consistently brushed under the carpet by American governments in the past.

With Trump as the president, it appeared as if Pakistan will be taken to task for its complete disregard for international norms.

Unfortunately, US need to pull out troops from Afghanistan appears to be a dampener in initiating any strict action against it.

 Despite being an ‘international migraine’[1] many countries like Erdogan’s Turkey in the Muslim world support it, despite its rogue army and unstable governments.

Pakistani Lobbying Efforts

Pakistan has been on a spree to hire Lobbying firms in the USA. “China’s favored lobbying firm — Brown Lloyd James — is believed to have been hired by Pakistan in the US to build up support for its Kashmir case. The firm in the past ran campaigns for erstwhile Libyan ruler Muammar Gaddafi, runs campaign for Qatar and has a branch office in Doha”.[1]

Pakistan has continued to lose support even from Muslim countries in its repeated attempts to internationalise the Kashmir issue. All the governments in

the world are aware today of the hollowness of its claims to leadership of Muslim Umma, threats of using atomic weapons. It is a country with tattered economy, made bankrupt by its parasitic army and corrupt politicians.

Th present Democratic dispensation in USA has many ‘limousine liberals’ in various occupations including Hollywood. Their tweets and comments draw attention. Many of the ‘celebrities’ and opinion makers get paid for their comments, and so are easy to manipulate.

Payment of over a million $ to a singer Rihanna in USA by the Khalistan Lobby has just surfaced.

Then there are ‘Useful Idiots’ too.

It is an obvious attempt by Pakistan to flog a dead horse, gain milage in its quest for some support for its failed Kashmir policy in the international arena.

Indian Options

Internationally: The Resolution in the New York State on Kashmir is completely lopsided, and bereft of vital facts. New York is one of the states in USA, and it does not formulate the foreign policy of USA.

However, there will be individuals in the academia and institutions who have connection with think tanks, legislators, and senators. Pakistani agents and lobbyists must be working overtime to whitewash their tarnished image. There is a need to identify and pre-empt their nefarious designs.

To achieve this, India will need to energise its embassies in USA, UK, and Europe, to present Indian case on sensitive issues like Kisan Morcha, CAA, COVID 19 restrictions etc.

Hiring of lobbyists and pushing them to yield favourable outcome is necessary.

Indian diaspora should be roped in to observe antagonistic actions by Pakistan and China in all world capitals and the United nations.

Educational institutions think tanks and opinion makers should be canvassed more vigorously.

Nationally: In the name of democracy and free speech a great deal of harm is being done by some in the media, institutions, and individuals by pedalling fake news.

Ideologically oriented parties with financial and political ties and sympathisers abroad,  have been taking full advantage of the freedom of speech in India to denigrate the government, set up road blocks in the governance, browbeat the judiciary, and mislead the public.

The professional way ‘Protests’ have been organised and executed with clockwork precision, indicate deliberate attempts to create cleavages in the name of religion, economic disparity, and manufactured discontent. Repeated attempts to weaken educational institutions as in the case of JNU, Jamia Milia, AMU, and blackmail administration are there for all to see.

Open support to Maoists by urban Naxals is the order of the day.

Opposition especially parties like Congress and communists, have been decimated in the recent elections. By stalling parliament sessions and supporting violence as in the case of raid on Red Fort and condoning violence and attempts to disrupt Republic Day celebrations are obvious signs of the extent to which they are willing to go to divide the nation.

The people of India must come together to defeat the forces of Communists and Communalists who are spreading messages of hatred and violence.

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[1] https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/world-news/pakistan-on-hiring-spree-for-us-lobbyists-appoints-third-firm-to-push-kashmir-agenda/articleshow/73023468.cms?from=mdr

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[1] “Pakistan continues to be an international migraine. It has poverty, extremism, issues of nuclear non-proliferation and a weak government. It needs to learn how to deal with extremism and the issue of nuclear non-proliferation.

The US is in a difficult situation to resolve this. It is central to many problems,” she said. https://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/pakistan-continues-to-be-an-international-migraine-albright-112062500518_1.html

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[1] 2 killed in pro-freedom protests in PoK, over 80 injured as police lathicharge crowd. Police clashed with a large group of protesters in PoK city Muzaffarabad on Tuesday during a pro-freedom rally. At least 2 people were killed in the clashes.

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[1] …19 former US ambassadors, military commanders and experts published a piece, arguing the US put the issue of Taliban safe havens as the top priority and “oppose Pakistan’s role in these dynamics at every turn”.

They called for further reductions in military aid and targeted sanctions against specific Pakistani organisations and individuals while encouraging other countries to take similar steps. They also recommended designating Pakistan a state sponsor of terrorism, a finding that “would not only be embarrassing to the country but also harmful to its economic prospects”. https://thewire.in/external-affairs/us-pakistan-trump

[2] Fahd Husain, an editor at Dawn, Pakistan’s leading English-language newspaper, has asked the Imran Khan government to recognise the wastefulness of efforts to mobilise Pakistanis over Kashmir. That is merely “preaching to the converted,” says Husain, who suggests that “this battle for Kashmir” would be better fought diplomatically in Washington, Moscow, London, Paris, at the UN, and in New Delhi. https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/india-pakistan-relations-modi-imran-khan-6574102/

Influence of Muhajirs on Pakistan’s Sectarian State

MOHAJIRS TURNED PAKISTAN INTO A SECTARIAN STATE

The unviable economic condition, sectarianism, religious extremism,  and rampant corruption that bedevil the state of Pakistan today has much to do with the steps taken in its formative decades from 1947.

Active support of the Pakistani army and society to multiple terrorist organisations has been the result of its adoption of Salafist philosophy. Sectarian aspects in the constitution of Pakistan , ‘othering’ Shias, Ahmadis, Hindus and Christians is the direct result of induction of Wahabism by the Muhajirs.

The Muslim League, responsible for the formation of Pakistan in 1947 carried a baggage of religious rhetoric that was fundamentalist. It became increasingly difficult for the elite who ruled Pakistan in the initial decades to continue on the path of democracy and build viable political institutions.

Abdication by the  civil society in the formation and sustenance of political institutions allowed the Pakistani army to take over the administration of the state of Pakistan in its entirety. Pakistani Army in its bid to hold on to power has over the decades waded into every aspect of Pakistani polity and governance. The responsibility and the power to rule the state of Pakistan has been taken over in its entirety from the civil institutions including the judiciary. The  civilian population has lost the ability and the will to wrest control from the Pakistani army.  The process of civilian abdication appears final and irreversible.

Dependence of the political fraternity, and the army on religious parties and proponents of Salafi-Wahabi philosophy led Pakistan into becoming not only a rentier state but also one that openly espouses terrorism. Pakistan is a state bearing an Acronym that stands for parts of the Indian subcontinent. The acronym is formed by the first letters of the erstwhile states of Punjab, Afghanistan[1][2], Kashmir with ’stan’ suffixed to render it somewhat meaningful and understandable to the

public in the mid twentieth century. Bengal which was also partitioned in 1947 on religious lines was not on  the canvas for the original ideators of the Two nation Theory.

Today in 2024 the state of Pakistan encompasses areas of West  Punjab, forcibly occupied areas of Baluchistan , Kashmir , Gilgit-Baltistan and the usurped parts of Afghanistan east of Durand Line. Subsequent to years of oppression and bloody battles, the Bengali people  of ‘East Pakistan’ , managed to dislodge and overthrow the West Pakistani elite with its unabashed contemptuous coloniser mindset.

Prior 1947 Two generations in India had been influenced by the Salafi Wahabi definition of a ‘true Muslim’ . This gave impetus to the Muslim league to go forth to the Muslims in the subcontinent in a big way after 1941, when the idea of Pakistan was mooted and accepted by the Muslim League

Muhajirs in Pakistan form the fifth largest ethnics, thirty million (disputed) in a population of approximately 250 million, up from 1948 when they  were estimated to be around 14.7 million.

 Both Fact and fiction are replete with writings by historians and novelists on the formation of Pakistan. Any one impartially looking back  at the last seven decades of Pakistani history, covering its troubled past cannot but wonder how a small percentage of migrants from the erstwhile India influenced every aspect of the Pakistani polity, policies, business, and the people.

Bengali Muslims had initially floated the idea of Pakistan, it grew on the fertile soil of Uttar Pradesh, moulded into a weapon, identified by the name ‘Two Nations Theory’ by Mohammad Ali Jinnah, it ensured the birth of Pakistan through the violent  dismemberment of the Indian subcontinent.

Migrants flowed into the newly created state of Pakistan from East Punjab, United Provinces, Bihar, and Bengal in large numbers. Many also came from the then presidency of Bombay , Central Provinces, Hyderabad, and  from other parts of undivided India.

Though fewer in number compared to the natives of the regions (they moved into Sind, Punjab and NWFP) they wielded great influence in the formulative years, thanks to possessing higher education, dominance in politics, bureaucracy, and the police forces. They were comparatively persons of substance and well versed in business.

The newly formed government of Pakistan was headed by Mohammad Ali Jinnah, who had himself moved from Bombay. Initially the bustling port of Karachi in Sind was the capital. (shifted initially to Rawalpindi & Islamabad in 1967)

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It is a matter of history, how a prosperous Punjab with thriving businesses and excellent educational institutions (with a population approx. 52 % Muslims and  48% non-Muslims, as per census report of  1941), was turned into an abattoir by the activities of the Muslim League. The  leaders of Muslim League hailed mostly from Bengal and UP.

These Muslim Leaguers from Bengal and United Provinces moved to the newly created state of Pakistan and carried with them the hatred for Hindus and contempt for their heritage. Over three generations their ideas have shaped and moulded Pakistan and brought it to the present level .

Muhajirs, (Muslims who migrated to the newly created country of Pakistan from various provinces of British ruled Indian subcontinent) considered themselves to be the true representatives of Muslim identity in the subcontinent, following the example  of those, who a millennium earlier had moved from Mecca to Medina with their revered Prophet Mohammad.

Muhajirs, the initial migrants and their progeny have had to face the resentment that had been built up over decades in the local communities. It was natural for them to adopt ways and means to project themselves as creators of the state of Pakistan, a haven for all Muslims in the subcontinent, but also to prove that they had initiated the right steps in achieving the goal of an independent country of Pakistan.

Muhajirs were anxious to prove that their philosophy of the Two Nation Theory was not only correct and justified ,  but it also had the backing of the entire Muslim community in the world and was considered an asset by the western powers who dominated the world economically, politically, and militarily. The original residents of Punjab, Sind and NWFP soon realized that the migrants had taken control over the land and the government. Special quotas were  introduced in various educational and institutions favouring the newly arrived outsiders. Locals were sidelined in

educational institutions and the Bureaucracy. The resentment at the migrants was a natural consequence. 

Individuals like Maulana Maududi and preachers from the Deobandi and Brelvi schools had been won over to the Wahabi philosophy.

Idea of the Two Nation Theory was the natural outcome of the schism that has been propagated by Salafists & Wahabis since centuries. Individuals like Maulana Maududi a Muslim scholar who migrated to Pakistan  on its formation, represented a growing adherence to the belief system that separated Mohammadans from others and actively spread the idea of a ‘Muslim Umma’ that not only transcended the borders but also refused to accept any reasonable interaction with Non-Muslims. [1]

Maududi formed the Jamaat e Islami on the same Islamic philosophy of the Muslim Brotherhood, formed by Al Banna, in Egypt. His party colluded with the Pakistani elite to turn Pakistan into a theocratic state.

Maulana Maududi firmly believed that “ Jihad should be used to eliminate un-Islamic rule everywhere and establish a worldwide Islamic state”. Maududi’s first work at the age of twenty-four  came to public attention through  Al Jihad fil-Islam (“Jihad in Islam”), its essentials, passed on through generations of Pakistanis  form the basis for the present political philosophy and the sectarianism of the Pakistani citizenry and state. The motto of the Pakistani army was changed by General Zia Ul Haq, (a Muhajir from Jalandhar),  today emphasises Jihad and is  ‘Iman, Taqwa, Jihad fi Sabilillah’. The Muhajirs considered it necessary to distance themselves from their past and establish a new identity for the country and people of the newly created political state of Pakistan based on religion. The elite among Mujahirs therefore decided to reject any

association with the history and culture of the subcontinent, and proceeded to claim to be the legitimate progeny, and inheritors of the  Muslim conquerors from the distant lands of Arabia, Mongolia, Persia, and Afghanistan and Turkey..

Through a strange quirk of logic, the Muhajirs turned looters, foreigners, and marauders of the subcontinent into heroes’ worthy of glory and  emulation.

They identified the state of Pakistan to a Mohammad Bin Kasim of Arabia who had come raiding in 714 AD. They proclaimed their idols to be Mohammad of Ghazni, Ghori, Nadir Shah and the Moguls who occupied the Delhi throne for two centuries. The fact that these ‘heroes’ were actually villains of the worst kind and  that they slaughtered the innocents in Panjab  and the Indo Gangetic plains, looted towns, and villages, raped and enslaved thousands of women, carted off booty , and marched off men, women, and children to be sold as slaves in the markets of Kandahar , Bukhara and Bagdad was portrayed as great feats. These evil men were projected as nobles in service of Islam and presented as  their forefathers.

That the Pakistanis look up to the USA and Europeans as saviours and role models even today, seven decades after the formation of the state of Pakistan is an indication of subservient mindset inculcated into a Pakistani.

REALITIES OF PAKISTANI WAHABISM

The adverse effects of Salafi Wahabi influence on young minds in the thousands of Madrassas, receiving funds from the middle east  in India are being hidden from public especially the Hindu community.

Nationalist  Indians have to understand that shared history, cultures including language and food habits  have been unable to withstand the onslaught of religious fanatism inculcated over generations in Pakistan.

The deep hatred for India and Hindus in the mindset of Pakistanis resulting from the Wahabi philosophy inculcated through their Madrassas and ‘Pakistani Studies’ is a fact that is not publicly acknowledged.

The fact that Pakistan has become a jihadi state through its greed for American dollars which has made it a rentier state and the middle east Wahabi embrace has to be understood by Indians.

The damage done to Pakistani society and its body politic over the last seven decades by the Muhajirs is  permanent and irreversible.

Fantasies of Indo -Pak amity,  talks and trade opportunities, ‘forget past mayhems by Pakistani terrorists and move forward’ are pure propaganda aimed to fool naïve and gullible Indians.

Indians especially Hindus need to realise that there is no putting the clock back. Pakistan considers India to be its enemy and every living Hindu a reason for Jihad.

LESSONS FOR BHARAT

The anti-Hindu stance of the Congress party, the DMK, SP, TMC and RJD has come out clearly in the recent election rhetoric. The  reversal to the days of appeasement politics is a surety if the parties believing in Indian Nationalism like the BJP, or Shiv Sena do not come back to power in the centre.

APPEASEMENT policies of Congress and its allies has led to sectarianism in the Indian society. It does not allow integration of Muslims into the idea of an Indian heritage and culture. Vote bank politics of Congress party and its allies has divided the society by religion, castes and sub castes.

It continues to be fashionable in India for self styled liberals claiming to be Hindu to flaunt foreign ideologies. The right to free speech  promoted by the tolerant Hindu majority in India is routinely misused for Hindu baiting, and  spewing venom against Hindu traditions and customs.

These  Self styled ‘liberals’  also preach  that it is the sole responsibility of the Hindus and Indian Muslims to adjust to the depredations of Jihadis. Their hearts melt for  terrorist Hamasis and Kasabs when they are brought to justice and made to answer for their crimes..

You are an  ‘intellectual’ if you take  pride in not only not learning from history, but to deny the atrocities and massacres of Hindus at the hands of looters, marauders, and religious fanatics.

Marxist historians in league with Jihadis in sheep’s clothing have over decades distorted Indian history to hide truths, and openly spread falsehood. Open discussions on the basic tenets of religions that exist and are practiced in India have been shunned, as divisive, thus not allowing the true aspects of negativity and othering aggressively  pronounced and promoted by proponents of Abrahamic religions.

While national feelings of a Chinese , Russian or an American is perfectly justified, a Hindu proud of being from Bharat is painted as an evil brute.

 A Hindu should be an ‘Achha Baccha’, not even complain when terrorists attack Bharat , and terrorist operations as in 26/11 are carried out with impunity. A Hindu is a troublemaker when he seeks justice for the Pandits driven out from their homes in Kashmir. Lutyens’ liberals advocate that Love jihads are liberating Hindu women from patriarchy  and should be encouraged.

At long last we have a government in India under Narendra Modi, that is completely nationalist in outlook and places Indian interests above party and personal interests.

The continued anti Indian propaganda churned out by the western media and the  political parties and leftist groups in India to paint Sanathana Dharma, indicates close cooperation among them to destabilise and destruct the Hindu Society.

There are continuous efforts to belittle Indian achievements in the fields of economy, science and space.

Public is aghast at the special favours shown by the highest courts of the land to a few favourites. Parroting quotes from foreign ideologies, and false equations with western approaches to societal norms from gender to worship, rights to justice indicate the pervasive influence of western power brokers and fixers.

Even so Bharat watches with great hope  the results of the 2024 elections.

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[1] He vehemently criticized and condemned all the schemes and programs of the Congress aimed to absorb the Muslims of the subcontinent into a common nationhood and lead them astray from the path of Islam. https://storyofpakistan.com/maulana-abu-ala-maududi/

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[1] The All-India Muslim League was a political party established in Dhaka in 1906 when some well-known Muslim politicians met the Viceroy of British India, Lord Minto, with the goal of securing Muslim interests on the Indian subcontinent. Wiki

[2] Parts of Afghanistan east of Durand Line also known as Afhghania, present FATA, formerly NWFP

DESTRUCTION OF TEMPLES HAS RUINED PAKISTAN : WARNING SIGNS AND HARD LESSONS FOR BHARAT.

PAKISTANIS through wilful destruction of sacred spaces, especially Hindu Temples, have brought on themselves , death, destruction, loss of sovereignty, enmity with neighbours and economic misery.

PAKISTAN : LOSS OF SPIRITUAL AND CULTURAL  HERITAGE

Many acts of omission and commission by the Wahabi- Salafi rulers of Pakistan and its citizens has led Pakistan to become a failing state, bankrupt, violent, and unmanageable. Lifestyles of Pakistani Mullahs  will put Sodom and Gomorrah to shame. Rulers in Pakistan have not only been spiriting away its wealth but even selling its citizens for money.[i]

Imported ideologies have defiled the once holy and pristine  lands of Sindhu and Saraswati, distanced the population (presently the state Pakistan) from their vast heritage of spirituality and confined them to material concepts based on animal instincts, limited to survival, power and procreation of species only.

They have not only failed to recognise, retain, and take advantage of the treasure house of knowledge of dharma that was available to them as a matter of heritage, but have proceeded to destroy their very roots. Wilful destruction of Temples has been a part of this process, to distance themselves from their spiritual heritage.

This has resulted in an upsurge of mindless violence, contempt for fellow human beings and clouded judgements. The inability of the rulers to differentiate between Shreyas and Preyas has led to intemperate actions that have led to economic debility and hostility with all its neighbours.

The loot of temples, their destruction and desecration of holy ghats. have led to collapse of its economy and absence of peace within its borders.

Fed on a steady diet of Jihad and Terrorism by the state and imported ideology[ii], the lack of spiritual base is leading to  many acts of omission and commission, including forced conversions , slavery,  and FGMs. The rulers of Pakistan (dual citizenships)[iii] have lost any commitment to the welfare of the citizens. Loot and Scoot is the motto of all its elites , generals, bureaucrats, politicians, and businesspersons.

TEMPLES ARE CENTERS OF POSTIVE ENERGY

ENERGY is abundant and all-pervading in the universe. It is concentrated , in physically discernible objects and in space not perceivable through the five senses which have limited range  and power. The abilities of the human to go beyond the five senses, even while utilising them, is a special characteristic.

Temples are storehouses of energy. Here the deity is invited to reside in the Garba Griha and the  spiritual energy is sustained only if the deities’ Sannithya remains unsullied. This is achieved through offering regular poojas i.e. prayers in the prescribed manner.

Pooja or worship of the deity bestows one with Bhakti and Mukti ,  prosperity in this world and salvation after death. [i] “Puja….. causes happiness to all worlds , grants  wealth, removes all obstacles and bestows prosperity on the king and the Kingdom” [ii]

 Idols depicting deities with special attributes are a part of human evolution. (Specialised knowledge of the modes and processes to endow an idol carved from stone or moulded from precious metals and converting it into a reservoir of energy has been evolved over millenniums in Bharatam. )

These processes are involved and unique. They are  structured and need to be performed under special conditions  in carefully chosen designated areas 

Agamas are very clear that protection of Temples is the responsibility of the king . He has to ensure that the physical structure and the properties of any temple are protected. Agamas have several instructions in this regard. The time and manner of conducting these rituals to install and energise the deities is called Prana Prathista.

Any harm caused to temples or the  deities will create problems for the ruler and the subjects.[iii]

Agamas and sacred spaces

Agamas have clearly mentioned the need for sacred spaces and  the process of consecration including installation of  idols,  their maintenance and upgradation of energy modules. They have explained in detail the need and advantages of various poojas and functions to be performed on a daily basis, regular intervals and those that need to be performed on special occasions with special objectives in view.

Agamas have also clearly mentioned the problems that will arise when the sacred spaces and idols are not maintained with due reverence.

The ill effects of non-performance of poojas are many, and adversely affect the material and spiritual well beings of the rulers, the citizens, and the state.

In the case of Pakistan, we are able to clearly see the adverse effects off the non-observance of agama prescriptions and wilful destruction of temples and sacred spaces. Non acceptance of dharmic principles and adharmic activities have impinged on the spiritual and material ambience of Pakistan adversely.

DESTRUCTION OF TEMPLES AND CONSECRATED AREAS

The Northwestern area of the sacred land of Bharat, made fertile beyond measure by its rivers Sindhu, Saraswati and their tributaries had many a holy Theertha Sthan , temples belong to Saivites, Vaishnavites, Buddhists and Jains. Gurdwaras, birth places of Sikh Gurus, and  Devi temples  consecrated over centuries were thriving in the villages and towns.

“The  important point  is that the  temple is a neutral entity. The agamas do not have allegiance to  particular king and do not specify which king-….who  at that moment by forces of universal law is the   ruler of that land…… he could seek the ritual protection of the temple by heeding the agamic injunctions and protecting the temple. this is in line with the Vedic principle of dharmo rakshati rakshitaha (dharma which is protected  protects).”[i]

The rulers of Pakistan forgot their responsibilities with respect to their temples and holy sacred places which are holy and the spiritual welfare of their citizens. In Pakistan “Islam got mired in the cycle of global terrorism, driven by radical Salafi ideology”[ii]

 The rulers of Pakistan did not understand that the purpose of establishing temples Is for benefit of the rulers and the welfare of the citizens. There are specific poojas which are conducted for the well being and prosperity of rulers and citizens. There are also poojas which  fulfil the ultimate objective of temple, which is the wellbeing of the universe at large even though immediate objective maybe the local land, people, and the king.

The king or the ruler performed Durga puja ceremony and Where he worship not only the deity but also his ancestors, the royal Insignia, and the royal elephant. These rituals bestowed health happiness and prosperity to the  They helped in the destruction of enemies while bestowing health, wealth, victory, and fame.[iii]

 While any offering of naivedya to Siva is sanctified and becomes nirmalya and is fit for consumption by all, coveting any offering of ornaments, land , which becomes the property of Siva leads to destruction of one’s own property and even that of the  descendants for many generations. ‘Sivan Sothhu Kula Nasam’ is a common saying in Tamil. In South India there is a custom, devotees dust even the seat of their pants to ensure that even a speck of dust from a Sivan Koil (Siva temple) is not carried home.

It is the responsibility of the ruler to ensure that all the rituals are performed at the right time, using the right material. Other than Nithya pooja there are pujas performed according to the calendar, astronomical events. (If there is shortfall in the snapana process., the people of the country will engage in sinful activities…. If Damanarohana and  Kritika masa Deepavali festivals are not performed people will be afflicted by enemy trouble.) [iv]

Benefits of the  Annual Mahotsav have been elaborately described In various. Scriptures. Inverted commas begins. “However, if at times of national confusion, Famine, fear of enemy kings and thieves, lack of funds and other extreme reasons one is unable to conduct the Utsava one should at least perform the Shanti homa…. If nothing is performed. It results in Maha Dosha or great sin…. If that is interrupted, the country shall certainly fall into ruin. Shanti homa must be performed again and Utsava recommenced”

HARD LESSONS FOR BHARAT

The Salafi version of Islam of Ibn Taymiyyah , that preached against ‘devotional Islam’ of the Sufis had entered the sub-continent in the fourteenth- fifteenth centuries. The  ruthless orthodox  version of Islam inspired by Salafism had been  the bane of the humane aspects of Islam since the  eighteenth century.

 However, the explosion of violence since 1979 has been unmatched

The Iranian regime change in 1979, brought about the takeover of Iran by extremist ideologues, followers of Khomeini and opponents of Sunni Islam. The Grand Mosque in Saudi Arabia  saw an attack by extremists in Nov 1979, who sought to take over the holy shrine in Mecca.

With dollars gushing out of their oil fields, Shiya and Sunni states from the Middle East have created ideological monsters. Al Qaida, ISIS, HAMAS, Jamaa e Islami, Lashkar e Taiyyaba, Harkat Ul Ansar and many more.

Idea of Pakistan as an Islamic state,  attempting to following the Sharia law in all its aspects spawned the Pakistani army whose prime motto is Jihad i.e. war against all non-Muslims ( including Shia, Ahmedia, Baha’i, Qadiani etc).

Pakistan, Funded and encouraged by USA and the Saudis has become the epicentre of terrorism in the world. “the student community…..were also taught in there early years about Islamic sanction and benefits of the Supreme Sacrifice by different means, including suicide bombing. The students who graduated from these madrasas were well armed to spread the extremist version of Islam.”[i]

 Salafism and Wahabism have entered and changed the ambience of Muslim community in India. Muslims, especially the naïve youth have been brainwashed over the last four decades. Kashmir valley, Kerala, West Bengal , parts of Maharashtra and UP have seen hundreds of mosques being targeted and taken over by mullahs trained in the Middle East.

Milder form of Sufi Islam is being rapidly displaced. The destruction of temples and the ethnocide of Kashmiri Pandits is a warning of what the future can be in the states of Kerala and Bengal.

The politicians of the ruling party in Tamil Nadu i.e. DMK openly call for destruction of Santhana Dharma, i.e. Hindus. Temple lands, and Hundi collections are being used for purposes not connected with the welfare of Hindu community.

Misappropriation and Looting of temple properties, destruction of temples in Bharat as in Pakistan and Kashmir valley will lead to the same results as in Pakistan.

Loss of spirituality, failure of justice systems, and rise of lawlessness. This will encourage anti national elements, split the population on sectarian grounds and bring ruin to the society.

There is an urgent need for the Muslim community to stop the extremists from taking over the minds of their youth.

It is time for every Bhartiya to stand up for religious freedom, and protection to adherents of Santhana Dharma.

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[i] Pg 5 Prologue, Fault Lines In The Faith, Iqbal S. Hasnain

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[i] Pg 181, Temple Management in the Agamas , Dr Deepa Doraiswamy

[ii] Fault lines in the Faith, Iqbal S Hasnain ,xi

[iii] Ibid

[iv] Ibid 293. Page 187.

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[i] Suprabhedagama says that pooja destroys all sin, is divine, causes happiness to all worlds, grants wealth, removes all obstacles and bestows prosperity on the king and the Kingdom. page 82Ttemple management in the agamas.

[ii] page 82 Ibid

[iii][iii] “If there is a proximity of harm to be deities due to rebellion internal enmity, enemy action, burglary and so on the deity must be removed to safe location either in a cave underwater or buried in the “ page 206 reference 348

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[i] Pakistani authorities have illegally sent hundreds of Pakistanis and foreigners to prisons or handed them to the United States for money, said a report released Friday by Amnesty International. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/pakistan-hands-hundreds-of-suspects-to-u-s-for-money-report-1.620799

[ii] The ideological source of global jihad is based on the literature of Taqi al-Din Ahmad Ibn Taimaiyyah, Abd Al Wahab and Maududi.

[iii][iii] Pakistan has dual nationality arrangements with 21 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, Belgium, Iceland, Jordan, Syria, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Citizens of these countries do not need to give up their nationality to acquire Pakistani citizenship. 

NUCLEAR PAKISTAN IS A DANGER TO ENTIRE HUMANITY

NUCLEAR AMBIGUITY AS A STRATEGY

[1] Nuclear triad, a three-sided military-force structure consisting of land-launched nuclear missiles, nuclear-missile-armed submarines, and strategic aircraft with nuclear bombs and missiles

Nuclear ambiguity strategy would appear to be a wise move, especially when taking into consideration, millions that would be spent on the research, assembly, manufacture, the considerable additional cost of delivery systems and even more, enormous risks in the safekeeping and storage of atomic weapons.

Nuclear ambiguity provides a cover from international sanctions even while acting as a deterrent against nuclear states. Israel has managed the art of deception and ambiguity with respect to the existence of nuclear arsenal in its armory quite successfully since decades.

Post Hiroshima and Nagasaki the world has realized, at least the saner nations of the world, (Pakistani generals and terrorist organisations excluded) , that nuclear option is no option.

However, the risks involved in this policy cannot be underestimated even with a nuclear power state which has signed a non-proliferation treaty, and issues statements of a ‘No First Use Policy’.

In the real world, malicious intentions have been concealed by bland statements of peace and friendship.

VECTORS, CARRIERS AND DELIVERING MECHANISMS

In the realm of nuclear weapons, Triad [1]is being increased to Quad with the addition of Space as another Vector.

“In a crisis or conflict, pre-launch ambiguity could create serious risks of escalation by leading one state to misjudge its opponent’s willingness to use nuclear weapons or that opponent’s nuclear or nonnuclear capabilities.” [2]

Attempts by Syria and Iran to produce nuclear weapons with the help of Pakistan North Korea, and China have been stymied more than once by the Western powers and Israel.

[2] Nuclear use could be a direct result; or in less extreme circumstances, an escalating series of moves and countermoves — threats, signals, and conventional military operations — could plausibly result in nuclear use. While estimating the likelihood of such escalation is extremely difficult (if not impossible), the potential dangers are so extraordinary that the risks demand attention. After all, a conflict that turned nuclear could cause catastrophic societal destruction, including deaths numbering in the tens, or even hundreds, of millions.” https://carnegieendowment.org/2020/04/09/introduction-pub-81447

Drawbacks of Nuclear Ambiguity (Danger)

Today with a variety of delivery systems, ‘Triad’ and tactical nuclear weapons, the need for clarity on presence of nuclear warheads and their detection in a missile has become a complicated process.

Speed of processing information and decision-making is being reduced with the increasing velocities of projectiles. It is an impossible task in the case of ground launched Tactical nuclear weapons which can be based on mobile carriers in action, in or near a battlefield.

“Mischaracterization can lead to a false positive (misidentifying a nonnuclear weapon as a nuclear one) or a false negative (misidentifying a nuclear weapon as a nonnuclear one).”

There have been occasions when there has been a false positive (misidentifying a nonnuclear weapon as a nuclear one), and the world has come close to a nuclear disaster.

Another major area of concern is the Prescence of a nuclear warhead, when only a conventional weapon is expected to be used. Remember Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The nuclear weapons were flown in ordinary B1 bombers, with only a few alterations. The Japanese never expected to be hit with nuclear weapons.

The risk of a catastrophic repeat should not be underestimated.

NUCLEAR PAKISTAN REALITIES

It is a fact that Pakistan has derived much mileage from its possession of a nuclear weapons arsenal, selling the idea of ‘Islamic Bombs’, a nuclear umbrella guaranteed by Pakistan to all Muslim states, especially the Arabs.[1]

Countries possessing nuclear weapons, from USA to India, (except Pakistan) had clearly ruled out ‘First Use’ option. India, which had for decades held that it is against use the nuclear option, was compelled to make a statement that any attack on India with a nuclear weapon, irrespective of its type, power, placement, and delivery will attract retaliation at unacceptable level.

This had to be pronounced publicly since Pakistani generals and statesmen had been rattling its nuclear defence arsenal regularly against India almost as a routine and had gone into producing Tactical nuclear weapons. [2]

Ambiguities do not always deter states which are motivated but constrained due to international pressures from acting against neighboring states but feel free to support non state actors and motivated individuals to operate in the grey zone between peace and war.

“The state and non-state actors can be persistent in launching broad-based low-level nonmilitary actions with hazy attribution that do not clearly violate international laws and norms”. They may even resort to “raising the level to moderate aggression but which falls below conventional thresholds”. These can occur with little or no warning, Pakistani attacks on Mumbai, Pulwama and Pathankot would come into this category.

The more aggressive direct and threatening military operations as seen 1965,1971, Parliament attack, and Kargil may not have been undertaken if India had been confident enough to communicate its determination to reply swiftly and firmly to cause extensive and unacceptable damage.

Pakistan has more than 170 nuclear warheads.[3] It is also producing Tactical nuclear weapons.

[1] The Pakistan’s Chagai-I nuclear test series was a single nuclear test conducted in 1998.

[2] India’s nuclear doctrine can be summarized as follows:

Building and maintaining a credible minimum deterrent;

i. A posture of “No First Use” nuclear weapons will only be used in retaliation against a nuclear attack on Indian territory or on Indian forces anywhere;

ii. Nuclear retaliation to a first strike will be massive and designed to inflict unacceptable damage. https://archive.pib.gov.in/release02/lyr2003/rjan2003/04012003/r040120033.html#:~:text=A%20posture%20of%20%22No%20First,designed%20to%20inflict%20unacceptable%20damage.

[3] approximately 170 warheads. Analysis of commercial satellite images of construction at Pakistani army garrisons and air force bases shows what appear to be newer launchers and facilities that might be related to Pakistan’s nuclear forces. We estimate that Pakistan now has a nuclear weapons stockpile of approximately 170 warheads (See Table 1).

11 Sept 2023. https://thebulletin.org/premium/2023-09/pakistan-nuclear-weapons-2023/#:~:text=Analysis%20of%20commercial%20satellite%20images,warheads%20(See%20Table%201).

Even a casual study of the of the unnecessary wars initiated against India by rulers and military dictators of Pakistan, from Major Akbar Khan (1947–48, Kashmir), Gen Ayub Khan (1965), Gen Yahya Khan (1971), Gen Musharraf (Kargil 1999), indicates a cavalier attitude and approach to warfare resulting in misery, wasteful death, and destruction.

Today the Pakistani Army is infested with extremists, Jihadis. The terrorist organisations like Lashkar e Tayyiba, Jamaat e Islami, Tablighi Jamat and a score more have a free run in the Pakistani society and many of their cadres have been recruited into the Pakistani army.

The recent incident of sabotage in the Pakistani base,[1] manufacturing nuclear weapons is a precursor of what is to come. Possibility of a Tactical nuclear weapon being taken or simply handed over to a terrorist group is extremely high.

Once in the hands of a terrorist organisation it can be expected to be used. Considering the ideologies of these terrorist organisations, who have resentment against Saudi Arabia for its attempts to modernize, Iran or Syria being Shia can also be targets. Israel, USA, Europe, and India can also be targets.

[1] Pakistani media reported on Friday that Pakistan’s Shaheen-3 missile has allegedly struck a nuclear facility in Dera Ghazi Khan city of the country’s Punjab province. https://sputniknews.in/20231006/pakistan-shaheen-3-missile-strikes-nuclear-facility-after-failed-test-media-4643189.html

“However, this isn’t the first time a Pakistan missile test has gone awry.” “Last year, an unidentified Pakistani missile fell in the Jamshoro city of the South Asian nation’s Sindh province.” Ibid

NUCLEAR PAKISTAN IS A DANGER TO ENTIRE HUMANITY

The total grip of the Pakistani army on the state and society in Pakistan, its entanglement with terrorist organisations, and non-accountability, bodes danger of a nuclear disaster to entire humanity.

All the nations in the world must band together urgently and ensure the removal of all nuclear weapons from Pakistan, disable its capacity to build any more weapons.

A HARSH REMINDER FOR INDIA & HINDUS HAMAS TERRORIST ATTACK ON ISRAEL

A HARSH REMINDER FOR INDIA & HINDUS

“On October 7, 2023, Israel suffered its deadliest day since its independence when Hamas launched a coordinated land, sea, and air assault. At least 1,200 Israelis were killed and about 240 others were taken hostage. The attack, which appeared to have required extensive planning, caught the Israeli defence establishment off guard, leading many Israelis to question the government’s lack of preparedness.” https://www.britannica.com/biography/Benjamin-Netanyahu

 SECURITY CONCERNS

INDIA  and   Isarel share similar security and existential issues created intentionally  by neighbouring states, and Islamic Terrorism .  Both nations, islands in a sea of Islamic states, one populated by Hindus and another  by Jews are at a great disadvantage, in facing Islamist extremists who do not subscribe to any civilised norms in war or peace.

 Since their inception, INDIA in August 1947and Israel in May 1948,  both countries have been facing serious threats to the security of their borders and citizens, through wars and brazen acts of terrorism sponsored by neighbouring states. Both countries have paid a heavy price over the last seven decades and it appears that they need to be prepared for facing such wars and terrorism in future also.

The aggression against India and Israel is not on issues of trade, commerce polity or territory . The overt and covert aggression against Hindus and Jews is based on fanatical  religious animosity of Islamist extremists and their supporters.

Islamisation of  conflicts

The initial dispute over land between Jewish settlers and Arabs in the area of Palestine in 1948 has been transformed into a life and death struggle for Isarel. The dispute over land has been transformed over time to a deadly conflict of ideologies and raw religious hatred of Islamists towards Jews.

In the case of India  we have seen how partition of the sub-continent was done on the basis of religion, the Two nation theory of Mohammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League. Every issue connected  with India has been twisted by Pakistan in the last seven decades as a Hindu – Muslim divide. The calls for destruction of Hindus by Islamic fundamentalists and the State of Pakistan is real and poses an existential threat to India that is Bharat and Hindus.

Arab Israel Conflicts

Arab states have been at loggerheads with the State of Israel since its inception on 15 May 1948. On 29 November 1947 the UN General Assembly passed the Resolution 181 which envisaged the division of Palestine into three parts: an Arab State, a Jewish State and the City of Jerusalem

On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel.

Palestinian guerillas were nearby and when they heard the news,  organized attacks within Palestine while  Egypt, Jordan, Syria, AND Lebanon, , invaded with their armies .

Their aim was to prevent the formation of the state of Israel AND simultaneously capture and annex as much land as possible to their own. Egypt captured areas of Gaza strip, Jordan the West Bank and Syria the Golan Heights. This created a sense of insecurity in Israel, which was only  made worse by the Arab neighbours refusing to recognise Israel but openly calling for its destruction.

“The surrounding Arab states which had invaded Palestine ostensibly in defence of the Palestine people, refused to recognise Israeli sovereignty and refused to validate the consequences on the war by signing PPT with their enemy. Israel remained in  a state of war with Egypt until  1979 and with Jordan until 1994.  Israel  still remains in a state of war with Syria and Iraq.” Countries like Iran, and Pakistan have been openly calling for the destruction of Israel and elimination of all jews in living in Israel.

Israel as a state and Jews as a minority, persecuted for centuries, have been saddled with expectations of ideal behaviour even under the most difficult circumstances, even when engaged in  life and death struggles against relentless foes fully determined to  obliterate not only the state of Israel but openly advocate  the killing of every Jew in the Middle East.[1]

Palestinian Liberation Organization PLO was formed in 1964. [2]

Led by Yasar Arafat as Chairman PLO  took on an aggressive stand against Israel from the very beginning and sought the destruction of Israel. PLO  carried out  terrorist actions and supported the ‘Intifada’ for nearly two decades. PLO  was compelled to accept the reality of the State of Israel, at least officially and even signed an accord which brought semblance of peace in the region. In 1988 “Addressing the General Assembly in Geneva, Arafat renounced terrorism and condemned all its forms. He also called for the implementation of the 1947 partition resolution…” 

HAMAS & NETANYAHU MISJUDGEMENT : A LESSON FOR INDIA

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[1] States that conform to a certain identity are expected to comply with the norms that are associated with that identity. This idea comes with an expectation that some kinds of behaviour and action are more acceptable than others. This process is also known as ‘the logic of appropriateness’, where actors behave in certain ways because they believe that this behaviour is appropriate (March and Olsen 1998, 951–952). 

[2] The Arab League established the PLO in 1964 in an effort to control Palestinian nationalism while appearing to champion their cause. https://lsa.umich.edu/content/dam/cmenas-assets/cmenas-documents/unit-of-israel-palestine/Section2_%20PLO.pdf

HAMAS

Hamas[1] is an offshoot of Muslim Brotherhood[2], a militant Islamist organization Formed in the West Bank and Gaza Strip In 1987. Hamas since the initial days has been opposed to the State of Israel and even the presence of Jews in the geographical area of Palestine. it has embraced the use of violence including acceptance of terrorism as a means to achieve its goals and, “ it  has been responsible for thousands of deaths primarily of Israeli citizens” ; the latest being the massacres on  October 7^th, 2023.

Hamas has followed the same tactics as the Muslim Brotherhood   had established its network of charities, clinics and schools and subsequently evolved into a  terrorist organization .  This has been the modus operandi  of most of the terrorist organisations supported by  Islamic states . Lashkar e Tayyaba, Jaish-e-Mohammad, are  examples from Pakistan next door.

 “Hamas, like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Fatah in the Palestinian territories has maintained its militia alongside its political wing-and has not been reluctant to use it against both Israelis and Fatah rivals in PLO.

Hamas in the Gaza strip is  reputed for its fanatic  Islamism and Puritanical zeal.[3]

Hamas has never accepted the two states solution of Palestine and Israel. Even though it has not been averse to ‘ceasefires’ whenever it found it suitable and convenient to itself, it is important to note that ceasefires by Hamas are different from recognition of  the State of Israel to exist or the right of Jews to live peacefully in the land of Israel.

The introductory memorandum of Hamas states clearly that  “it bases Its ideology and policies on the teachings of Islam and its juridical traditions.” For Hamas , Palestine Is a place for confrontation with the enemy, which is Israel, the state of Israel and the Jews settled there. Hamas draws  Support from the Arab countries in the region and Islamic states outside. Support pours into this terrorist organization Hamas from Islamic countries in the form political support, media disinformation channels,  and financial  contributions.

Pakistan is another country that openly provides military training to Jehadis of Hamas and financial support.

The Israeli government  definitely committed a major error in judgement in assuming that Hamas would be a counterweight to the PLO. Hamas has Consistently refused to accept the two  states policy as was passed in the UN resolution of 1948, and to which PLO as the sole representative of Palestinians had given its acceptance.

Netanyahu was keen to weaken the Palestinian liberation Organization under Mahmood Abbas and  supported  Hamas in the hope that he can  influence Hamas to refrain  from demanding the dissolution of Israel and establishment of an independent Palestinian state. Netanyahu  accepted its precedence among Palestinians and held indirect negotiations via Egypt.  He even allowed the infusion of funds from abroad to  Hamas which was given recognition. Hamas was  also allowed to take part in discussions on behalf of Palestinians in Gaza.  

In 2021 about 3000  work permits were issued to Gazans during the end of Netanyahu’s 5th government, by January 2023 more than 20,000 work permits had been issued. It is also alleged that Netanyahu government had allowed transfusion of funds to from other countries including Iran.

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[1] Hamas has governed Gaza Strip since June 2007, replacing PLO. Yahya Sinwar is the leader of Hamas since 2017.

[2] Muslim Brotherhood, religious-political organization which was founded in Egypt by Hassan al Banna. It is a radical organization and advocated a return to the Quran and the hadith and recommended it to be the model for a modern Islamic Society. This Muslim Brotherhood spread rapidly in the Middle East and Africa and North Africa.

[3] The Israel Palestinian Conflict, One Hundred Years of War, James L Gelvin

Over Confidence

Isarel was lulled into a sense of peace, assuming  that its intelligence wing MOSSAD, which  had taken on extremely difficult tasks earlier and succeeded (considered  among the best in the free world) was perfect. 

Building high walls with barbed wire on top surrounding its settlements will give them protection.

Electronic gadgets and Control Rooms with high-tech instruments can replace Human Intelligence.

A strong army equipped with latest weapons and an Airforce with UpToDate missiles can stave off attacks on ground and from air.

Pakistan, our neighbour, is facing a difficult situation  today as a consequence of  its support to terrorist organisations

Ignoring the  strengthening of Hamas even while tolerating small attacks over the years and being blind to its extensively noisy exercises close to the border including firing of rockets and skydiving. Israeli government  allowed Hamas to accumulate weapons and conduct military drills and practices.

 Indians should remember how terrorism in Punjab was the result of ignoring the warning signs of   incitement  by   infiltrated Khalistanis from Pakistan and  support to Bhindranwale and Khalistan movement.

 Now Israel is facing demanding situation thanks to the error in judgement  and actions or rather lack of actions that have resulted in Hamas gathering strength to become a strong terrorist organization. The growth and conduct of Hamas is another reminder to all nation states of the danger of supporting extremist groups under any circumstances .

The growth of terrorist organisations like Hamas should wake up all governments around the world to the dangers of supporting terrorist organizations which will result in extreme danger  to innocent citizens.

A Harsh Reminder for India

The disaster faced by Israel on 7 Nov could have been avoided. Israeli leaders knew the  background of Hamas being a terrorist organisation, funded by and weaponised by inimical neighbours,

Hamas has never accepted the state of Israel or the right of Jews to live in Palestine. Hamas had conducted a number of terrorist attacks on Jews since its  .Trust and faith placed on an organisation pledged to Jihad and undying hatred of Jews was completely uncalled for.

For Israel, every war imposed on it has meant fighting with its back to the wall simply to survive as a nation.

India has been comparatively lucky due to its size and large population. However successive Indian governments have failed in more areas than one when dealing with aggressive neighbours. It is no secret that Indian territories are under occupation by Pakistan and China, and worse Pakistan has been training terrorists and sending them across the border almost on a daily basis.

 1 Growing Prosperity and Status  alarms neighbours

Increasing power of a country increases insecurity of its neighbours, who will surely  plan to undermine progress. India’s progress economically and its rise in status especially in the Modi era acts as a major irritant to its closest neighbours, China, and Pakistan.

2.Intentions of China and Pakistan have never been hidden.

The motto of the Pakistani Army reads: “Iman, Taqwa, Jihad fi Sabilillah”. which means “A follower of none but Allah, The fear of Allah, Jihad for Allah” . Four wars initiated by Pakistan against India and unending stream of terrorists sent into India by Pakistan are clear indications of its permanent  state of war with  India and Hindus.

China desires domination of Asia and the world. India is an obstacle. The series of attacks on India both major and minor from 1962, cannot be wished away.

2. Overconfidence breeds complacency.

            India cannot rest on its laurels assuming that defeating Pakistan in 1965, 1971 and in the Kargil operation in 1999, will deter Pakistan from invading India again.

Past victories are just  history. India must be prepared for future conflicts. Continuous assessment of enemy capacity, capability and intentions are necessary. India needs to review  Upgrade and evolve  its security doctrines, cover all dimensions, including space and electronic warfare.

3. Media Management & Diplomacy

“Through artful propaganda and intensive use of media, villains can conflate their identities with the genuine victims.”

The recent demonstrations across the Muslim world , in the American Universities and UK and Canada against Israel and the support to terrorist organisation Hamas indicates the power of a biased media to paint victims as villains.

The open challenges to law and order by Khalistanis in Canada, UK and USA, denigration of Hindus and their places of worship has not invoked any action against the criminal acts of Khalistanis. Support of Trudeau government and of the State department in USA indicate the need for aggressive diplomacy on behalf of India.

This lack of action against  Hindu bashing , goes side by side with support to an extremist Pakistani state whose Prime minister calls for Jihad against India and which throws out a million Afghan refugees.

5. The dangers of d omestic disunity

“By Hamas’s own admission, domestic disunity in Israel contributed to the timing of Hamas’s invasion—with the Israeli government distracted by fierce political battles and daily protests.”

Pakistan continues to support separatist organisations of  Khalistanis, Mizo National Front, SIMI, PFI, Hurriyat etc. It is no secret Political Parties in India have been receiving funds from institutions inimical to Indian national interests from abroad.

Sri Ram Mandir

The current propaganda by opposition parties (with an eye on the vote bank?) against the consecration  of Ram Mandir on 22 January, Prime Minister Modi and Hindu beliefs appears to be an act that will incite the Muslims against the Hindus in this country.

This is a sensitive moment in the History of India. The central government cannot afford to take a recess or a lenient view of anti-national organisations and individuals. We The people of India must realise the dangers posed to our social fabric and security from inimical agencies both without and within and support our democratically elected government to discharge its functions effectively and efficiently, especially on issues of National Security.

AFGHANS IN PAKISTAN FEAR ETHNOCIDE

The continuing tragedy of Israel under attack by terrorist Hamas  backed by Islamic states of Iran, Syria, Turkey, and Pakistan should serve as a warning to people of Afghanistan.

Pakistani Attempts to Browbeat and subjugate Afghanistan, carryout ethnocide of Afghans MUST FAIL. 

Pakistani army has carried out genocides and ethnocides in the past with impunity. There are reasons to believe that  Pakistan is planning another one against  Afghans residing in Pakistan.

Pakistan has given an ultimatum to Afghan refugees who were compelled by circumstances created by Pakistan and USA in Afghanistan post 1981.

It is learnt that Pakistan has ordered 1.7 million Afghan refugees residing in Pakistan to migrate back to Afghanistan within the next three weeks or face the consequences. We know what the consequences will be mass killings and ethnocide of  Afghans.

Pakistan is once again playing with the lives of millions of Afghans, an old habit that seems to reassert itself from time to time.

Pakistani Army and elite had counted on a pliable  government in Afghanistan after the installation of Taliban as rulers in Kabul. Taliban run government has shown its independence in many ways and is not willing to dance to Pakistani tunes. 

Afghan government has clearly told Pakistan that it does not accept the Durand line as the border and will not tolerate any military moves in FATA. The economic condition of Afghanistan is far better than that of Pakistan.

An angry and frustrated Pakistani army is attempting to browbeat the Afghan government. Pakistan is using the Afghans residing in Pakistan since decades as hostages. 

Pakistan is emboldened to carryout gruesome acts of genocide, ethnocide in an unfettered manner since it has never been taken to task for its past and continuing misdeeds against Hindus, Bangladeshis, or Palestinians. Its depredations against Ahmedias, Christians, Shias and Hazaras continues with impunity. 

PThe continuing tragedy of Israel under attack by terrorist Hamas  backed by Islamic states of Iran, Syria, Turkey, and Pakistan should serve as a warning to people of Afghanistan.

Pakistani Attempts to Browbeat and subjugate Afghanistan, carryout ethnocide of Afghans MUST FAIL. 

Pakistani army has carried out genocides and ethnocides in the past with impunity. There are reasons to believe that  Pakistan is planning another one against  Afghans residing in Pakistan.

Pakistan has given an ultimatum to Afghan refugees who were compelled by circumstances created by Pakistan and USA in Afghanistan post 1981.

It is learnt that Pakistan has ordered 1.7 million Afghan refugees residing in Pakistan to migrate back to Afghanistan within the next three weeks or face the consequences. We know what the consequences will be mass killings and ethnocide of  Afghans.

Pakistan is once again playing with the lives of millions of Afghans, an old habit that seems to reassert itself from time to time.

Pakistani Army and elite had counted on a pliable  government in Afghanistan after the installation of Taliban as rulers in Kabul. Taliban run government has shown its independence in many ways and is not willing to dance to Pakistani tunes. 

Afghan government has clearly told Pakistan that it does not accept the Durand line as the border and will not tolerate any military moves in FATA. The economic condition of Afghanistan is far better than that of Pakistan.

An angry and frustrated Pakistani army is attempting to browbeat the Afghan government. Pakistan is using the Afghans residing in Pakistan since decades as hostages. 

Pakistan is emboldened to carryout gruesome acts of genocide, ethnocide in an unfettered manner since it has never been taken to task for its past and continuing misdeeds against Hindus, Bangladeshis, or Palestinians. Its depredations against Ahmedias, Christians, Shias and Hazaras continues with impunity. 

Pakistan has  obtained immunity for its innumerable atrocities and  criminal acts through servitude to  dominant western powers and claiming  Islamic identity with emphasis on Jihadakistan has  obtained immunity for its innumerable atrocities and  criminal acts through servitude to  dominant western powers and claiming  Islamic identity with emphasis on Jihad. 

ETHNIC CLEANSING IN KASHMIR

Pakistan is used to dealing with a soft state, India that is Bharat, and assumes that it can play with the Taliban Government in Afghanistan the same way it did  with India and Hindus over the last seven decades.^[1]

Pakistan through consistent propaganda among the Muslims and violent acts against unarmed , and peace-loving Hindus drove out Kashmiri Pandits from Kashmir in 1990. The mass murders of men, rapes of Hindu women, and open threats of genocide by terrorist groups led by Syed Ali Shah Geelani of Jamaat-e-Islami, Yasin Malik and Maqbool Bhat of JKLF , Lashkar e Tayyaba, Jamaat e Mohammad etc funded and organised by Pakistani army drove out more than a quarter million Hindus from the Kashmir valley.

The ethnic cleansing of Hindus from Kashmir was possible due to a weak Indian government, in a country where Hindus are said to be in a majority. There was no public outcry in India, as the information on this heinous action by Pakistan was downplayed by the government and media dominated from Lutyens’ Delhi.^[i]

Pakistan has been emboldened by the nonintervention in its ethnocide activities by western powers and support from other Muslim countries in the past. It plans a repeat of ethnic cleansing of Afghans stranded in Pakistan.

            There was no outcry from the rest of the world, and its ‘liberal media’ either. Even today, as the hate campaign against the film Kashmir Files nationally and internationally , shows  that any attempt by nationalist Indians to even mention ethnic cleansing of Hindu Pandits from Kashmir provokes violent reaction from political parties and left media and even the judiciary as attempts to ‘disturb the peace’.

 This episode of the driving out of Pandits from their homes, in post-independent  India,   stands as a monument of shame. 

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^[1] Since the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021, thousands of Afghans have fled into surrounding countries. More than 600,000 are estimated to have entered Pakistan, bringing the country’s total population of Afghan refugees (both registered and unregistered) to 3.7 million. 1.4 million are unregistered..

https://reliefweb.int/report/pakistan/afghan-refugees-ordered-leave-pakistan-or-face-deportation#:~:text=Since%20the%20Taliban%20takeover%20of,1.4%20million%20are%20unregistered.

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Read more at: https://organiser.org/2023/01/19/104961/bharat/7-times-when-the-kashmiri-hindus-had-to-face-genocide/

Genocide in Bangladesh

Pakistani army egged on by its Prime Minister Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was responsible for thousands of rapes and mass shooting of thousands of unarmed and helpless civilians in Bangladesh. Hindus were special and chosen targets for murders. It was all done in the name of Islam and Jihad. 

Army personnel who were involved in these heinous acts were never brought to book. In fact, Tikka Khan also called the ‘Butcher of Bangladesh’ was promoted by Zulfiqar Bhutto to the rank of  full general and became the Chief of the Pakistani army. 

Instead of condemning the atrocities committed by Pakistan, it was encouraged and supported by NATO powers led by USA, and all Islamic countries. Gaddafi called it ‘jihad’, Saudis supplied them with tanks and guns post liberation of Bangladesh.

Baluchistan 

The forcible subjugation and occupation of a defenceless Baluchistan was a clear travesty of international laws. It was the handiwork of Mohammad Ali Jinnah (who as a lawyer had formalised the ‘Stand Still Agreement’ between the governments of Pakistan and Kalat).^[i]

Death and destruction of hundreds of Baluchis using USA gifted armed helicopters, relentless bombings, and military raids by Gen Tikka Khan at the behest of Zulfiqar Bhutto, have not been addressed till today.  Mass abductions and ‘disappearances’ of young men in Baluchistan are unquestioned and continue even today.

DURAND LINE 

Durand Line was an administrative arrangement arrived at by the colonial British Government and the Ruler of Afghanistan Abdur Rahman Khan in Nov 1893. It was beset with many issues ab-initio and was not settled inspite of repeated negotiations and treaties. Its demarcation was left incomplete, and finally the validity of the line itself was negated by King Zahir Shah of Afghanistan after a Loya Jirga on 26 July 1949.^[ii]

This line artificially divided the areas inhabited by Pushtun tribes and was a part of Afghanistan since times immemorial. In 1947, the  outgoing  British colonial government handed over West Punjab  to the Dominion of Pakistan headed by its first president Mohammad Ali Jinnah. Jinnah was advised by the outgoing Governor General Lord Louis Mountbatten to formalise the Durand Line as the border with Afghanistan, after consultations with the Afghan government.

However, neither Jinnah’s government nor the successive governments in Pakistan including its martial law administrators cared to come to an understanding with the Afghan governments. 

‘Strategic Depth” : Colonisation of Afghanistan by Another Name 

Worse,  Pakistani Military which dominates (owns?) Pakistan has gone out of the way to absorb Afghanistan and convert it into a subservient colony, in the same manner as it has annexed Baluchistan.    

“ Strategic  Depth” is the deceptive name used by the Pakistani army generals (trained in strategy by UK and US in their military colleges of warfare ). For the consumption of the Muslims around the world it was just practising ‘Umma’ , all believers in Islam getting together and waging jihad against infidels from Russia, Israel , India and of course the western world.

A subservient Afghanistan, with a pliable puppet regime installed by Pakistani army has been the dream of all Pakistani generals. 

The art of Deception has been practiced and  perfected by Pakistani army and its elite. They have managed to milk USA of Billions in the name of fighting against communism and terrorism  over the last seven decades. Pakistanis have fooled the oil rich countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, Turkey etc , to fund their luxurious lives in the name of Islam and Umma. 

USA, UK, and European NATO countries have been silent but willing partners in aiding the acquisition of production facilities, and proliferation of lethal atomic weapons by Pakistan. 

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^[i] the Pakistani army moved into the coastal areas of Pasni, Jiwani, and Turbat in March 1948. The Khan of Kalat was forced to merge Baluchistan with Pakistan-a decision taken under duress as its parliament had already rejected the merger.”

“Kinra says: “It is not that Pakistan and Mohammad Ali Jinnah betrayed Balochistan but Britain also did the same by way of Standstill Agreement which has a lot of contradictions. The UK never wanted Balochistan to be an independent nation” https://www.thestatesman.com/world/74-years-after-a-false-dawn-balochistan-fights-again-for-its-freedom2-0-1502993585.html

^[ii] https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/170887/Durand%20Line_History%20Legality%20%20Future_Final.pdf

Methodical Ethnocide

Pakistan has in the past adopted means and methods copied from the Nazis and communists. They have executed their nefarious plans in Bangladesh, Kashmir, Jordan (against Palestinians) , Baluchistan, NWFP now FATA. 

Ethnic groups meant for slaughter are named and accused of working against the state. It is followed by earmarking areas and zones occupied by ethnic groups. Extremist elements^[1] trained and supported move into specified areas and identify targeted ethnics who are then terrorised into leaving their homes and are shunted into ghettoes. Those who refuse to move are dealt with ruthlessly and killed. 

Government of Afghanistan : WAKE UP: WORLD MUST ACT NOW

The continuing tragedy of Israel under attack by terrorist Hamas  backed by Islamic states of Iran, Syria, Turkey, and Pakistan should serve as a warning to people of Afghanistan.

Pakistani moves to finger persons of Afghan descent living in Pakistan and is born out of frustration. Innocent Afghans are being held to ransom. However, the possibility of it turning into ethnocide is extremely high.

Every country in the world must intervene immediately in the name of humanity and stop Pakistan from embarking on the ethnocide of Afghans living in Pakistan.

Government in Afghanistan must take up this issue most seriously, build support among the international community, to sanction Pakistan and save the unarmed and defenceless Afghans in Pakistan. 

https://www.hurights.or.jp/archives/human_rights_education_in_asian_schools/section2/2004/03/insensitivity-of-pakistani-school-education-to-religious-diversity-of-the-nation.html#note04

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^[1] Razakars in Hyderabad, Bihari Muslims of JeM in Bangladesh, terrorists from LeT, JeM, factions and brainwashed locals.

PAKISTAN : TRANSFORMATION THROUGH ISLAMISATION

Pakistan Today & The World

The precarious and unviable conditions of Security and economic bankruptcy facing the state of Pakistan, with its  broken democracy, limping governance systems, violence in the streets, and utter disregard of the rights of non- Muslims  are there for all to see. 

It has evolved into  an aggressive and  unstable state, unhinged by an ideology that openly promotes terrorism and  presents a threat to humanity with its cavalier approach towards the production and use of nuclear weapons.

This downward spiral commenced in 1947 and continues today. The current terrible situation in Pakistan is the result of the actions by many actors, elites and common citizens who were guided initially, and later, driven by ideas and interpretations of  a few philosophers of what an   ideal Islamic state  should be.

TWO NATIONS THEORY

The Two Nations  Theory conceived and developed  by members of the Muslim League under the leadership and guidance of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, an England educated Gujarati Shiya lawyer (later converted to Sunni) took hold of the imagination of many Muslims, and aided by the outgoing British rulers, became a reality in 1947. 

 The State of Pakistan, sought for in the name of  Islam , for Muslims, was formed in Aug 1947, as a geographical entity, with a legal and legitimate government acknowledged under international Laws, with sovereignty over its territorial limits. It was carved out of the Dominion of India, ruled then by the British, in the Indian subcontinent.

The evolution of Pakistan since 1947 has been  on a  plane and trajectory different from the rest of the subcontinent,  that became India i.e., Bharat and Bangladesh, which both countries are working democracies with economic growth.

Jinnah said Pakistan was a laboratory. He was right, for  Pakistan was to follow the dictates of Quran, which did not delineate the concept of a Westphalian state as defined, understood, adapted  and practiced post 1648. 

This precondition to strictly adhere to the Quran and Hadiths (more than one interpretation), had to be adapted to a system of governance based on an inheritance of colonial administration from the British, following their departure in 1947. To add to the confusion were the novel concepts of democracy, spirit of scientific enquiry, equality, fairness and justice etc..

There is no doubt that the rulers of Pakistan had to contend with diverse pulls and pressures, of religion, cosmopolitanism, international laws and  real politick. Pressure groups pressing for social justice, rule of law, economic equality had also to be dealt with by those in power.

Many options on the path to wed Islam to Democracy  were available, some were tried for a short time and discarded. Over seven decades Pakistan has deliberately chosen and travelled on the path towards complete Islamization of the state of Pakistan and its society.

The journey towards total  Islamization of Pakistan, its state, institutions , and society are yet incomplete . 

  PAKISTAN: PATH TO ISLAMISATION 

Pakistan is slowly but surely moving forward  towards complete Islamization of the society in the territory of Pakistan. There have been three constituent assemblies  in Pakistan producing two constitutions in  1957 and 1973. Of course, its constitutions have been suspended more than once and Martial law declared by the Pakistani army chiefs in the past.

Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi (1903-1979) & Political Islam in Pakistan

The march towards total Islamization of Pakistani state and society cannot be understood without a study of  Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, his concepts of Political Islam, and the influence of the cadre based  political party formed by him in 1941,viz Jamaat-e-Islami (Islamic Society). He was a prolific writer and speaker. 

Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi  introduced ideas, and his support to the Pakistani state and its leaders like Liaquat Ali Khan , and Ayub Khan, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, set the shape and narrative that have reduced Pakistan to its current unenviable situation today.^[1]  He wrote many parts of the script and even acted as a player in the Islamization of Pakistan.

He was initially opposed to the idea of division of the subcontinent on religious lines, not because he was happy to live in a country with large Hindu population, but because he had dreams of converting   Hindustan, a country with people of many faiths  into a Dar-Ul-Islam ie a country ruled by Muslims only. He moved to Pakistan at the time of partition. 

“His Utopia was to establish an Islamic state on the lines of Prophetic state of Medina and orthodox Caliphate”.^[2] He opposed the concept of Nationalism and Nation. “He admitted that his proposed Islamic state will be totalitarian on the lines of communist or fascist states however there will be no ideological coercion in the Islamic state. 

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^[1] The contributions and support from various quarters including the Muslim world like Saudi Arabia , friends and allies in USA and Europe should not be underestimated.

^[2] Political Ideology of Abul Ala Maududi, Dr Mohd Zakirullah Firdausi, pp 206

While there are heaps of praise showered on him for orchestrating the revival of Islam there are many who criticize that “the Jamaat legitimated communalism in Islamic terms”.^[1]

Abul Ala Maududi had a  major influence on the concept of ‘political Islam’ as practiced in Pakistan. in  his Islami Riyasat he presents the characteristics of the Islamic state as a working model with an  ideal Islamic government in an organised manner with references to Quranic  provisions.^[2]

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^[1] Pakistan Between Mosque and Military by Husain Haqqani pp23

^[2] Political Ideology of Abul Ala Maududi, Dr Mohd Zakirullah Firdausi, pp151

“According to Maududi, an  Islamic state is basically an ideological institution”.       ^[1]

On the formation of Pakistan, he said  “It came into origin to establish and enforce the will and commandments of God over earth hence it is quite different from a National Democratic state”.

According to Maududi “the  believers in Him have no choice except follow his commandments. They have no authority to decide what is good or bad for them as it is the exclusive prerogative of God almighty”… “No Islamic constitution can be drafted unless the political and legal sovereignty of Allah is accredited in that. The Islamic constitution must embody that it is subservient to Allah, acknowledges Him as the Supreme Ruler and his commands have a binding effect on it.”^[2]

As an Islamic state and ideology, the government has a duty to divide the inhabitants into two sections based on their faith; those who are Muslims and those who are not Muslims. The state of Islam is to be administered by those who are Muslims only , in other words he trusts the majority community only and avoids implicitly the minorities who will not have a share in any policy making. 

Even if the constitution of an Islamic state declares all citizens to be equal, the discrimination against the minorities is inbuilt in its approach to non muslims. He has no objections to non-Muslims to be  treated and  protected as citizens and allow them freedom in personal and religious affairs provided they accept in full,  the supremacy of the Islamic state and pay Jizya,  (a  special  tax) to the state.^[i]

An Islamic state is obviously a totalitarian state since it controls the entire gamut of activities that go to form a human life in a society and  has specific moral principles to abide by, and  no individual can claim that his or her right over his personal and private lives.  It does resemble to some extent a socialist state but is different from authoritative systems regarding individual rights and liberties.

This in short meant the absence of sovereignty of the state, and absence of any rights for an individual as acknowledged and accepted in a progressive society in the modern world.

Theo Democracy, Consultations (Shura)

Maududi also coined a new term ‘Theo Democracy’ (which was different from Western concepts) where according to him, “Commandments of God are unamendable by the state and the people”….. “ The real political sovereign too is God and Muslims are just His viceregents  to carry out His Commands” ^[i]. 

Maududi also accepts the elected representatives from democracy, as viceregents without limiting the franchise to Ashab hall wa ‘aqd (refers to legal scholars whose task it was to offer the caliphate to the most qualified person).^[i]

(For Maududi Islamic Democracy is based on  the principle of  popular viceregency in the  same manner as the western democracy is based on popular sovereignty.)^[ii]

He has no issues with a non-Qureshi becoming an Amir or a Caliph as from eighth century onwards Qureshiete who enjoyed certain characteristics have gradually lost the qualities necessary to be a Caliph or an Amir.^[iii]

Quran describes consultation as an attribute of Muslims and provides for a consultative council.^[iv] Modern legislative assemblies can cater for consultative purposes.

Regarding Foreign Policy he states that the State should not resort to aggressiveness or treachery. “The Quran equivocal words condemns treachery in the name of selfish or national interests.” ^[v]

Maududi had no hesitation in demanding exclusive rights for Muslims. “Public offices for Maududi can be held by Muslims alone.”  Also “the right to propagate the religion is enjoyed exclusively by Muslims.”^[vi]

While “Quran initiates the non-Muslim change their religion,” However, if any Muslim changes his religion he will be prosecuted and sentenced to death”.

Non-Muslims will be treated as Dhimmis, who will have to pay a special Tax if they wish to live safely and with honour in the country and follow their religious practices.

Women were not considered on par with men. Maududi was an ardent advocate of purdah and seclusion of sexes. For Maududi the real place of activity for women is her family and home. He quotes Quran:   “And stay quietly in your houses and make not a dazzling display like that of formal times of ignorance.” For Maududi there are two basic functions for women ; obedience to men and guard what is possessed by men in their absence.^[vii]

Maududi opposed the participation of women in public life, envisaged a society completely secluded on a gender basis, limiting them to four walls of a house.

An admirer of Ghazali, a member of Islamic Brotherhood, he opined that ‘It is not Islam that has to be adjusted in accordance with science or the west but, rather the science and the west itself has to be modified according to the Islam”.^[viii]

A staunch believer in Jihad as a means of propagation of Islamic religion.

Islamisation of the Constitution of Pakistan,  State and Citizens

Pakistan promulgated its first Constitution in 1956 ( abrogated in a military coup in 1958). The second  Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan  was promulgated on 14th August 1973. However, the seeds of the move towards an Islamic ideological state had already been sown when the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan passed the ‘Objective Resolution’ in March 1949 ,^[i] “which was a curious mix of theology and political science”.^[1] It linked the constitution under drafting to “democracy, freedom, equality, and social justice ‘as enunciated by Islam’ opening the door for future controversies about what Islam required of state”^[2]

“After the Objectives Resolution , there was no turning back from Pakistan’s status as an Islamic Ideological state.”^[3]

“Discrimination and oppression are built into the Constitutional, legal, and institutional framework. This is compounded enormously by an enveloping and state-supported culture of religious bigotry, religious polarisation, and extremism, propagated through governmental, educational, and dominant social institutions.”^[4] . Various issues in Pakistan were addressed by successive rulers , the elite, based on the interpretations of Quran and Hadith as was convenient and suitable at that point of time. 

Discrimination and oppression against non-Muslims and women is the norm.

What is worse the proliferation of terrorist organisations in Pakistan, many of them ( over 50 ) including Lashkar e Tayyaba, JeM, TTP, Labbaik , JUD etc raised, trained, funded, and used in terrorist operations by the Pakistani Army and its dreaded ISI against its neighbours including India, Afghanistan, Iran.  

Afghan Taliban is the brainchild of Pakistan. Possibility of extremist militant organisation like Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan located and operating from Afghanistan taking over large swathes of territory is a direct and distinct possibility today. TTP and many other terrorist organisations like JeM within Pakistan, who believe in the imposition of Sharia laws as being most essential.

Pakistan possesses not only nuclear weapons of magnitude but also Tactical nuclear weapons, which are easily transportable. Pakistani Presidents, Prime Ministers, in the government of Pakistan  and army chiefs have no hesitation in threatening the world with the use of atomic weapons and calls for Jihad. This coupled with the jingoist approach of Pakistani army poses a major threat to entire humanity.

The most obnoxious interpretations of the sayings in Quaran and Hadiths have been consistently drilled into young minds from early school days along with incessant propaganda against non-Muslims and non-Islamic countries. 

The motto of the Pakistani army to display its Jihadi  purpose was the outcome of the  combination of poisonous minds like that of Gen Zia Ul Haq, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and Maududi. Today there are over 50,000 Madrassas that turn out jihadis by their thousands every year.

TIME TO RETHINK AND REVIEW ?

It is for the Pakistanis to introspect and decide where their path towards complete Islamisation is taking them. Is it possible for Pakistan to slow down and halt the downward spiral to Chaos and self-destruction?

In the meantime, every country in the world needs to take note of the dangers that the State of Pakistan with its jingoistic and unbridled military and terrorist organisations pose, not only for its neighbours ,but to entire humanity.

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^[1]“ Pakistan Between Mosque and Military” by Husain Haqqani pp 17

^[2] Ibid 17

^[3] Ibid pp19

^[4] https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/the-sounds-of-silence/270806

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^[i] Maududi only fully entered the country’s politics after Jinnah’s demise and after the passage of the March 1949 Objectives Resolution which resolved to evolve Pakistan as an Islamic Republic. Critics of the Resolution see the document as a ‘political stunt’ by Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan to appease the religious parties,…….” https://www.dawn.com/news/1378535

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^[i]https://www.google.com/search?q=ashab+hall+wa+%27aqd+meaning+in+english&rlz=1C1RXQR_enIN1008IN1008&oq=ashab+hall+wa+%27aqd+meaning&aqs=chrome.3.69i57j33i160l3.29769j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

^[ii] Political Ideology of Abul Ala Moududi, Dr Mohd Zakirullah Firdausi, pp167

^[iii] Ibid pp168,169

^[iv] Quran 42:38

^[v] Political Ideology of Abul Ala Moududi, Dr Mohd Zakirullah Firdausi, pp178,179

^[vi] Ibid pp191

^[vii] Ibid pp 197

^[viii] Ibid pp 88

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^[i][i] Islami Riasat, pp 481-482, Islamic Law, pp 139,140

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^[1] Ibid 155

^[2] Ibid 152

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^[i] Jizya was a fee the Muslim kings imposed on the region’s Hindu citizens in exchange for their protection. Jizya was originally imposed in India by Qutb-ud-din Aibak. The Mughal emperor Akbar abolished jizya in the 16th century,but Aurangzeb reinstated it in the 17th. Jizya was frequently paid for with silver.