US-India-Israel alliance
By
Mukhtar Ahmed Butt
Admiral Mike Mullen has branded the border areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan as the “epicenter of terrorism”. He also stated that ‘Pakistan army considers India its traditional enemy’.
The fact of the matter is that until India withdraws its occupation forces from held Kashmir and act upon United Nations resolutions, it would naturally be considered as enemy.
Notwithstanding, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh surpassed Mike Mullen in this regard and declared that ‘Pakistan owns terror factories and until they are blocked, our relations cannot move towards normalization.’ So far as our meek opinion is concerned, Pakistan has no terror factory so far but of course our country is spying those terrorists which are coming from cross-border areas.
It is pertinent to mention here that Sikh leaders, who had come to Pakistan to participate in Baba Guru Nanak’s 542 birthday, said while talking to media that the whole world knows that ‘India is busy in suppressing Kahmiri and Khalsa freedom movement on gun point through its police and army. It is a sheer injustice to Kashmiris and Sikh community’.
This is not our opinion but Indian citizens and Sikh leaders have delivered such statements. Now we just have to see as to when and how much seriously the world community does take notice. Prior to it, Arundhati Roy too had declared that Kashmir is not an integral part of India. Now the freedom movement in Kashmir is being organised by Kashmiri youth. Perceiving its intensity and success, Russia has offered to play the role of a mediator between India and Pakistan.
Russia has been an alley to India, providing her full and modern military assistance. Russia had always opposed Pakistan in regard of Kashmir issue and remained a stumbling block to the settlement of Kashmir dispute.
In this backdrop, the proposal from Russia seems to be a big change. Pakistan should welcome it and raise it on international front. Pakistan should also applaud Russia for it. Unfortunately, we go for compromises and for that very reason we could not raise Kashmir issue on international front. Our emphasis was on hollow slogans but we never took any practical step in this regard. We have sufficient proof of RAW involvement in Balochistan and Karachi but it is astonishing that we could not raise it on international front.
Target killings, kidnappings, assaults on government buildings and damaging oil pipelines have become a routine affair in Pakistan. A common perception is that Raw is involved in it. According to some information, India is providing financial and logistic support to those elements who are involved in chaos and lawlessness in Pakistan. It is being orchestrated by India’s intelligence agencies and their agents who get full support from them.
In fact, India provides visas and other facilities to such elements so that they could carry out terrorist activities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. Besides this, RAW and MOSAD are backing up some ‘groups’ for carrying out terrorist activities in an effort to embitter Pakistan’s relations with China and Iran. History bears witness to the fact that India always supported anti-Pakistan elements so that terrorist activities could be conducted in Pakistan. India and Israel tend to work with US collaboration and its financial support to incite rebel elements in Pakistan for terrorism so that Pakhtun areas could be declared as ‘AL-Qaeda havens’ and under this pretext US could carry out drone attacks in Balochistan and sabotage the atmosphere of reconciliation between government and nationalists.
The fact of matter is that all previous governments of Pakistan have just pushed aside Balochistan and could not utilized precious natural resources. Notwithstanding, anti-Pakistan elements are taking optimal advantage of this situation and inciting local populace for disintegrating Pakistan.
Unfortunately, this issue is not taken up beyond rhetoric and local people are not being included practically. If the present situation goes on, US-India-Israel alliance could be detrimental to our interests. For that very reason, we would have to pay heed to resolve such issues seriously.
The writer is a well-known columnist of Jang newspaper.