By Sajjad Shaukat
At least 44 Indian
soldiers were killed in the Pulwama district of the Indian Occupied Kashmir
(IoK) on February 14, this year when a suicide bomber rammed a car into a
convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). Next day, India’s Prime
Minister Narendra Modi blamed Pakistan for the Pulwama terror attack and warned
of a strong response, ratcheting up tension between the nuclear-armed
neighbors.
New Delhi also removed the most favored nation (MFN) trade
privileges that had been accorded to Pakistan-though annual bilateral trade
between the two countries. Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)
claimed responsibility soon after the assault. Without any investigation and
evidence Indian high officials and media started accusing Islamabad, saying
that the attackers had come from Pakistan to stage the assault. The Indian
foreign ministry said in a statement, “We demand that Pakistan stop supporting
terrorists and terror groups operating from their territory and dismantle the
infrastructure operated by terrorist outfits to launch attacks in other
countries.”
Speaking in the Indian
tone and remaining silence on the CIA-Mossad-RAW anti-Pakistan secret
terror-network in Afghanistan, the White House also shared Indian blame game,
urging Pakistan “to end immediately the support and safe haven provided to all
terrorist groups operating on its soil”. On the other side, Pakistan’s Foreign
Office spokesperson said: “We have always condemned acts of violence anywhere
in the world…We strongly reject any insinuation by elements in the Indian media
and government that seek to link the attack to Pakistan without investigations.”
Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Quereshi also rejected Indian false
allegations. Speaking to the Indian media, former Chief Minister of the Indian
Held Kashmir Farooq Abdullah stated: “I was saddened to hear about the deaths
of the soldiers. This is not something happening for the first time. These
incidents happen everyday there…India should talk with Kashmiris, because using
the force of guns and army is not the solution…Don’t blame Pakistan because
local people are joining Kashmiri fight” [War of liberation].
Meanwhile, on February
21, 2018, India was humiliated once again at the diplomatic level when
Pakistan’s name was not mentioned in the declaration by the UN Security Council
condemning Pulwama attack. New Delhi tried everything possible to involve
Pakistan’s name in the statement and tried to use American influence as well.
Multiple countries were briefed in New Delhi regarding the attack. However,
various contradictory developments and reports proved that Pulwama terror attack
was a false flag operation, conducted by New Delhi to malign Islamabad in order
to obtain various designs. In this regard, quoting the report of the daily
Kashmir Times of September 10, 2017, Pakistan’s media and even some leading
newspapers of India revealed that the Indian drama was exposed after the
disclosure that the alleged suicide attacker of the Pulwama attack Adil Ahmed
Dar was already in the custody of the Indian army. “The Indian army had
arrested Adil Ahmed Dar during an operation in Shopian on September 10, 2017…
It is a big question that how he carried out the suicide attack when he was
already in the custody of Indian army.”
Blindly alleging
Pakistan, some Indian newspapers, especially India Today wrote: “Intelligence
agencies in Jammu and Kashmir believe Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Mohammed
commander-Ghazi Abdul Rasheed is the mastermind behind the gruesome Pulwama
terror attack that rocked the nation on February 14. He is one of the closest
aides of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Maulana Masood Azha.” It is notable that
religious cleric Abdul Rasheed Ghazi was killed in 2007 during the Lal Masjid
operation in Islamabad, launched by the then President Gen. Pervez Musharraf.
It is of particular
attention that Indian Prime Minister Modi’s extremist party-Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) had got a land sliding triumph in the Indian elections 2014 on the
basis of anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan slogans. Therefore, since the Prime
Minister Modi came to power, he has been implementing anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan
agenda with the support of fanatic coalition outfits. Now, double game has
become the BJP strategy to win the Indian general elections 2019. In this
respect, BJP leadership seems to have geared up its activity for forthcoming
poll-2019. Hence, suicide assault of Pulwama which is false flag operation is
also election stunt of the BJP. In the aftermath of the Pulwama terror attack,
across India, many Kashmiri people, including students have been arrested and
attacked and their shops looted by the Hindu extremists. Young people have been
charged with sedition for criticizing the Indian Army, and Indians are lashing
out at Pakistani civilians, including Bollywood actors. A wave of jingoism has
been created by the BJP-led fanatic parties against the Muslims and Pakistan.
It is mentionable that
on September, 2016, New Delhi had staged the drama of the terror attack in the
IOK at a military base in Uri, close to the Line of Control (LoC) with
Pakistan. After the episode, without any investigation, India’s top civil and
military officials, including their media started propaganda against Pakistan,
it Army and primary intelligence agency ISI by accusing that the militants who
targeted the Uri base came from Pakistan’s side of Azad Kashmir.
In fact, failed in
suppressing the indigenous Kashmir movement, Indian central government imposed
President’s rule in Jammu and Kashmir which began from December 20, 2018. The
main purpose is to accelerate atrocities on the Kashmiris who are demanding
their genuine right of self-determination in accordance with the UNO
resolutions. Besides, India’s another aim is to deflect the attention of the
international community from the new phase of Kashmiri Intifada, while in this
connection; pressure has been mounting on the Modi government both domestically
and internationally to settle the dispute of Kashmir with Islamabad. While, New
Delhi is still showing its intransigence to resolve Kashmir issue by also
neglecting the fact that Kashmir remains a nuclear flashpoint between both the
neighbouring countries.
Nevertheless, taking
cognizance of Indian blame game and war-like posture, Pakistan’s Prime Minister
Imran Khan said on February 19, this year, that Pakistan will take action, if
New Delhi shares any actionable evidence, concerning the suicide bombing in the
occupied Kashmir’s Pulwama area which targeted Indian paramilitary soldiers.
Offering cooperation and another chance at a dialogue over the Kashmir issue,
the premier also warned India against any act of aggression, saying Pakistan will
not hesitate in retaliating to a provocation. But, Indian extremist government
of the BJP rejected any cooperation in this respect, and has continued
threatening diplomacy against Islamabad.
Following Indian
war-like strategy, Prime Minister Imran Khan on February 21, 2019 chaired a key
meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) attended by Pakistan’s Army
chief Gen. Qamar Javed Bajwa, services chiefs, heads of intelligence agencies,
security officials and the concerned federal ministers—during which the
country’s security situation was discussed, amidst heightened tensions between
India and Pakistan following the Pulwama terror attack. NSC said that the
country was not involved in any way in the Pulwama terror attack and it was
conceived, planned and executed indigenously, as Prime Minister Imran Khan
authorised the military to respond decisively to any aggression by India.
It is worth-mentioning
that at present, fanatic leaders are in power in the US, India and Israel and
they are in collaboration against the Muslims, Islamic World, Russia and China.
And it is also part of Zionist agenda to ‘denuclearize Pakistan’, as she is the
only nuclear country in the Muslim World.
Notably, Israel does
not want the two-state settlement of the Israeli-Palestinian issue and will
prefer atomic war between the US and Russia. Similarly, in order to avoid the
solution of Kashmir dispute, extremist Prime Minister Modi can take the risk of
nuclear war with Pakistan.
In these terms, we may
conclude that Pulwama terror attack was a false flag operation, conducted by
the Indian security forces to crush the war of liberation in the Indian
Occupied Kashmir and to implicate Islamabad in this regard. So, in wake of
India’s war-like threats, danger of nuclear war remains between India and
Pakistan, as even a conventional conflict can result into an atomic war.
