Pakistan Foreign Office’s spiteful outburst on current Kashmir unrest is reinforced by yet another vitriolic of the type from the office of Pak Prime Minister. We know the clipped-wing civilian regime of Pakistan is currently under great pressure from the hawks in olive green in the background of deepening domestic crisis in that country. Pak army is nervous that it is on the verge of loosing its seven decades-old traditional stranglehold over the civilian Government and sway over public opinion. Its apprehension is that in such a situation, army will become irrelevant to a nation that has been groaning under its iron heels for more than half of the life-period of Pakistan.
The Dawn of 12 July 2016 reported that mysterious posters in millions have suddenly appeared in almost all big cities of Pakistan carrying appeal to Pak army “ab to khuda ke lie ajao” with Army chief’s picture prominently splashed on top right corner of the poster. Sadists say that this is the handiwork of ISI. In the past, ISI has resorted to similar stunts and gimmicks when prompted by the GHQ to prepare the public mind for a coup and take-over by the army. The pressure tactics employed by the Army/ISI-combine is reflected in rancorous statements emanating from two civilian establishments indicated above, more to defuse the wrath of the Army than to empathize with Kashmiris.
What is Pak army’s mortification? This is the crux of the matter. General Raheel’s outing to Pentagon buddies and his entreaties at the White House, both drew a flake. F-16 deal is put in cold store and the 300 million dollar military assistance stands scuttled. The reasons are not far to seek. President Obama smells rat in Pak’s anti -TTP/Al Qaeda campaign. At the Capitol Hill, Congressmen are fretting and fuming against Pak Army and its intelligence wing shielding Haqqani, the number one sought after Afghan warlord and providing safe haven to his bandits. The spat has come to a level where Congressmen want the administration to put a simple question to the Pakistan Army Chief. “Are you our friend or foe”? This is the new refrain of Pak-US tragi-comedy.
The annual report (2016) of the Pentagon on Pakistan’s covert support to its non-state armed gangsters stalking the length and breadth of the country and beyond (including India) highlights its double speak. Obama administration’s open support to India’s application for admission to NSG countered by China on the behest of Pakistan drags Pakistan direct into Sino-US rivalry narrative in the India-Pacific region. Obviously, for the US democratic institutions, Pakistan is not on their side of the fence.
This is Pak army’s torment. While looking around for a safety valve, Pakistani Generals converge on Kashmir issue as their redeemer. From early spring this year, ISI accelerated a variety of anti-India activities like upstaging infiltration bids by its non-state legions in truly translating into practice the threat of former Army chief and president, Musharraf, which he doled out during a television interview to an Indian TV Channel saying that Pakistan could infiltrate two or three lakh of warriors into Kashmir if it so desired. At the same time, whipping up heightened anti-India propaganda and rabid communal passion among the Kashmiri youth, exacerbating unprovoked firing and shelling of border areas and pleading Kashmir-based armed groups to become pro-active are the ingredients of Pakistan’s more recent agenda in Kashmir.
Pakistani foreign office spokesman and the PM’s spokesperson, both are now invoking Human Rights of Kashmiris and the UN Resolutions. Human Rights, well and good! So we will ask these spokespersons to tell the world about the human rights of Shias, Christians, Hindus, Ahmadis and Barelvis of Pakistan. We will ask them about the human rights of freedom fighters of Baluchistan, Sindh, PK, PoK and Gilgit-Baltistan. We will ask about the human rights of thousands of peasants and farm workers kept as slaves on vast landed properties of the landlords of Pakistan especially of Punjab province. And if anybody has any doubt about Pakistan’s violation of human rights bordering on barbarism of medieval times, he should go through the Hamudur-Rahman Report on Pak army’s atrocities in Bangladesh. Three million Bengalis were butchered in cold blood and a million Bengali women were raped by Pakistan’s men in olive green. Does a Government of such a country have any right to raise finger towards India that is regularly conducting six-yearly election to the State Legislature. By beating its breast for Burhan, the slain terrorist and HuM Commander, who was wanted for a number of killings of policemen, Islamabad has proved to the world that it is the prime protagonist of terrorism in the region and the world. This is what the US Congress said recently in no ambiguous words.
A country that has so many dreadful skeletons in its cupboard has no right to call itself human and rational. It is a lawless country beset with chaos and confusion, and in that state it knows not what it is doing or saying. What right has Islamabad to interfere in the internal matters of India? If it is the Kashmir Muslim card, well what about the Muslims of Afghanistan, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa, Gilgit-Baltistan, Bangladesh, Baluchistan and PoK? Separation of Baluchistan from Pakistan and disintegration of Punjabi hegemony is imminent in that country. In desperation, it is trying to divert the attention of her people to give fillip to hate-India campaign. As for Kashmir, no power on earth will stop India from restoring the original State of Jammu and Kashmir that existed prior to the partition of 1947 which has acceded to India. The people of the State of Jammu and Kashmir are enjoying political, economic, social, and cultural rights which no group in the Islamic world is enjoying, leave aside Pakistan.
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