Dear Friends,
I have written about Husain Haqqani's former Ambassador intv with Maroor Raza as well as what has been happening in Kashmir and across the border in Pakistan. If you like it please circulate.
Best Regards,
Ashali
Pakistan's proxy war in Kashmir proved
August 3, 2016, 7:15 PM IST Ashali Varma in No Free Lunch | India | TOI
Freelance journalist Ashali Varma has authored the biography of her father late Lt. Gen. PS Bhagat — 'The Victoria Cross: A Love Story'. She was executive producer with the International Commentary Service Inc, New York in 1990. She was the executive publisher of The Earth Times, New York (1992- 98). She has also worked as the editor of Choices Magazine, United Nations Development Programme. She writes on various issues including human rights, population and sustainable development.
Recent news on Times Now have brought out the extent of the game Pakistan and it's so
called non-state actors, who are joined to the hip of the ISI, are playing in Kashmir. Perhaps the most damning aspect is that many of our journalists—Arnab calls them the Pakistan Apologist Group, actually help to fan the flames.
First they make it out as if all the terror in the valley is homegrown and then they actually have the gall to criticize security forces that fire pellet guns when they are faced with angry mobs of stone pelting youth, who outnumber them 100 to one, at times. No matter who talks about Pakistan's games; no matter the reams of proof that comes out; apart from Times Now, I have seen other channels biased towards Burhan Wani, a terrorist, who was all out to kill our security forces and had also been responsible for killing Kashmiri panchayat heads.
On Sunday night I saw a riveting interview with Maroof Raza on Times Now—Latitude—where the former Ambassador to the US from Pakistan—Husain Haqqani spoke very candidly of Pakistan's Army's angst against India. His two books Magnificent Delusions and India versus Pakistan are indeed mind blowing as he is perhaps the most senior Pakistani ever to put the blame of all India's Kashmir problems squarely on Pakistan's proxy war with India, including the terror attacks such as 26/11 and the parliament.
He agreed that Pakistan allocates almost 75% of its budget towards the military and instead of focusing on the prosperity of its people; its leaders have chosen to define Pakistani nationalism through the prism of India.
Haqqani also said, until the discovery of Osama bin Laden in Pakistan, the government and elected representatives could look the other way, when Pakistan was named for terror attack in other countries, but now this has become a subject of discussion amongst the citizens of America and the equation has to change. He also agreed that Pakistan uses irregulars for warfare against India to try and equalize the balance of a much larger country since they have lost all the regular wars against India.
"This is the doctrine," he said.
When the US and Europe ask Pakistan why they continue to use international terrorists like Hafiz Saeed—an internationally recognized terrorist—Pakistan says but we don't see anything that he has done that can be called terrorism. This according to Haqqani is the Pakistani deniability factor which is wearing thin.
Thus India is still sending more and more evidence to Pakistan on the 26/11 attacks while Hafiz is roaming free and appreciating Barkha Dutt because she says the problem in the Valley has to do with poor young people and their human rights. This even though the security forces and army face stoning and grenades and AK 47s all instigated by Pakistan. Militant encounters also kill our soldiers every day but it does not makes news because the mainstream media has never shown the bloodied face of a policeman or photos of the way security forces are kicked and hit and killed. Some in the media are India's worst enemies. One can only wonder why.
For instance: Why would an international terrorist like Hafiz Saeed in a TV program shower praise on Barkha Dutt for her great work on the struggles Kashmiris face from an aggressive BJP government, which has no respect for human rights?
It is only Times Now that showed us how the terrorists marched near the Wagah border with a 10,000 strong backing and the Pakistani government let it happen. There were hundreds of trucks with we hate India, boards and big bill boards calling Burhan Wani, who is an Indian terrorist, a martyr!
Why is only Arnab Goswami one of the very few anchors giving the hard facts to the people?
Facts as reported by newspapers:
Thousands of trained militants are sent across the border from Pakistan but thanks to the security forces a few hundred get in.
Thousands of trained militants are sent across the border from Pakistan but thanks to the security forces a few hundred get in.
This costs our Indian Army several lives and even more wounded but this is hardly mentioned in most of the news channels or newspapers.
The police and other security forces are also wounded and some of them critically in mob rage even though they only attack when surrounded by hundreds.
I have seen dozens of photographs of policemen with bloodied faces, shrapnel wounds and some even dead but the Indian public never gets to see this. Why?
Why does Pakistan allow their terror heads to openly bring a huge rally right near the Wagah border with internationally known terrorists with huge "We hate India," signs.
Why is Asiya Andrabi calling Hafiz Saeed after Burhan Wani, the terrorist in Kashmir's, death? She said in a 15 minute phone call "Why is it that our Pakistani brothers are not helping us?"
And then how is it that suddenly money is poured into Kashmir to initiate protests with somebody from the LeT leading the protest. We only know about it because it was reported by Arnab in Times Now.
Why does India allow this? People like Asiya, Geelani and all their ilk—so called separatists—to continue to live under Indian security get medical treatment, all at the cost of the Indian taxpayer.
Hafiz Saeed and other terrorists, in the anti-India rally, said, "In three days we made arrangements to cause havoc in Kashmir. We are organizing it, leading it, and funding it, as part of the terror we want in Kashmir. Indian forces will now have to face this." And "we will raise the Pakistani flag in Kashmir."
The fact that these terror assets are allowed to come so close to the Wagah border shows that it has been allowed by the Pakistani authorities.
Indians Nationalists and Journalists should come together to condemn this. Can Barkha Dutt and others, in the main stream TV media really call this conflagration, home grown?
The facts as the Pakistani former Ambassador, Haqqani spoke and those that the Indian Government have sent and the international media also has written about are all there for us to see.
Can we still afford to live in denial?
DISCLAIMER : Views expressed above are the author's own.
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