India’s Erratic and Irrational Behaviour
ASIF HAROON RAJA
ASIF HAROON RAJA
THIS KIND OF HIGHLY COMMUNALISED AND MISLEADING ARTICLES ARE ORDER OF THE DAY (Commonplace) IN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF PAKISTAN.
Mahesh Bhatt and Barkha Dutt who champion, the Unity Mission for India and Pakistan should to be made to read these kinds of naked outburts from the Elite of Pakistan. Moreover, the highly Paid News anchors of Times Now, NDTV Ltd, CNN IBN, Star News, etc, should also be made to read these kinds of misleading articles coming out from the Pakistani Media.
I wonder if Dr.Manmohan Singh, Mr.Hamid Ansari, Ms.Nazma Heptullah, Mr.A K Antony, Mr.Laloo Prasad Yadav, Ms.Mayabati, Mr.Tarun Gogoi, Mr.Narendra Modi, Dr. Kalaignar M Karunanidhi, Mr.Ashok Chauhan, Mr.Omar Abdullah, Shri Shivraj Singh Chouhan, etc. are at all Brahmins!!
WHILE India has made impressive improvements in the domain of military, technology, economy and education, these improvements had little impact on Hindu extremism and political culture. The Hindu extremists have become more and more intolerant, bigoted and fickle-minded when in seen in context with their behaviour towards the minorities of other religions residing in India. Their venom against Indian Muslims in particular is astonishing.
The Brahmans who consider it their birth right to rule and to enjoy all the perks and privileges continue to look down upon low caste Hindus.
Their ambition for Akhand Bharat burns as strongly as ever. It is this desire to rule the whole of Indian subcontinent and to turn Indian Ocean into Indian lake which makes the Indian ruling elite suffer from megalomania and arrogance. Governed by superiority complex and hegemonic ambitions, their behaviour with neighbours is marked by chauvinism, belligerence and irrationalism.
While dealing with neighbours much smaller in size, resources and military strength they are always in a mood to bully, to terrorise and to dictate terms. They always try to impose their will on others and any country trying to resist their pressure tactics and their intrusion in domestic affairs is punished through various means. The typical means are diplomatic pressure, economic blackmail, military coercion and application of military instrument. The favourite means to make the defiant neighbour bend to its dictates are propaganda war, use of Kautylian tactics, sabotage and subversion and aiding and abetting insurgency. It has trained RAW in this game and over a period of time it claims to have excelled in the art of disinformation campaign, espionage and sabotage. There is no country in its neighbourhood which has not been jolted by India through immoral methods, be it Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Tibet and Pakistan. The latter has suffered the most at its hand and continues to endure. Sri Lanka too is an old victim of Indian machinations and Tamil Tigers insurgency is Indian manufactured.
It is essentially because of their high-handed tactics, erratic and irrational behaviour and covert operations which makes all the neighbours wary. Despite being the largest and strongest country it has failed to earn respect of any. It behaves in a petty and miserly manner whenever it comes to give and take. India believes in taking only and giving nothing. Other than India, none harbour aggressive or expansionist designs. Whereas India has disputes with almost all its neighbours, others have no complaint against each other. SAARC has essentially failed to takeoff in true sense because of India trying to monopolise it. No member of this organisation can raise any bilateral issue since all issue are connected with India.
Social inequalities are inherent in Indian polity which have given rise to separatism and terrorism. At the momentum 19 full blown insurgencies are raging in various parts of India and there are over 100 terrorist groups operating in India. Maoist movement which has its roots in central India but has spread to over 200 districts of India is the most dangerous which has the potential to break up India. Kashmir whether with Pakistan or India or independent is a volcano that is simmering for a very long time and may burst anytime with fatal consequences for India. Terrorism has enveloped India completely and there is hardly any day in India when an act of terror doesn’t take place. From 2000 to 2008, there were 11200 terror related deaths in India. In the last five years, India ranks second in the world in deaths caused through terrorist acts. As per US Institute of Counter Terrorism Report, between 2004 and 2007, 3674 deaths took place in India due to terrorism; only Iraq surpasses this figure.
The intolerance of Indian leaders get exposed after seeing their volatile reaction whenever any act of terror take place in India and Pakistan is impulsively blamed for it. The xenophobic frenzy was witnessed during Kargil crisis in summer of 1999, attack on Indian parliament on 13 December 2001, Mumbai blasts in July 2006, Samjhota Train bombing in February 2007, suicide attack on Indian embassy in Kabul in July 2008, and now Mumbai attacks. Each time, the Indians went wild with rage and wanted to crush Pakistan.. Later probes proved that Pakistan was not involved in any of the incident over which so much of hue and cry was made. Many a times a drama was staged by the sitting regime to either bail itself out of a difficult domestic issue or to corner Pakistan and extract some concessions. India has never apologised for wrongly blaming Pakistan even when its own investigative teams revealed the truth as in the case of Samjhota Train incident.
Some of the motives behind Mumbai drama are to deflect attention from trouble brewing up in occupied Kashmir; claim that Lashkar-e-Taiba, linked with ISI is still active in Kashmir and has now reached mainland of India; get ISI declared as a rogue organisation; instigate militancy in Punjab by getting welfare outfits based in Punjab engaged in charity and educational works banned; seek UNSC permission for surgical strikes inside Pakistan to destroy Jihadi infrastructures; once Punjab gets destabilised paint Pakistan as an ungovernable and unviable state; pave the way for UNSC sanction to denuclearise Pakistan on the plea that world security would remain in danger as long as nuclear bombs and delivery means are stored in Pakistan. The ultimate aim is to turn Pakistan into a compliant state. Greatest wish of hawkish elements within India which are in plenty is that each Pakistani should keep its head bowed in submission irrespective of the humiliations inflicted upon them.
Pakistan has caught tens of RAW agents red handed carrying out acts of sabotage in Baluchistan, FATA, and Swat. George Bush on his visit to Islamabad in March 2006 was shown clinching evidence of RAW involvement in Baluchistan but he simply turned his face. Imagine if ISI agents were caught in any of the troubled regions of India where home-grown separatist movements are raging for decades. One can imagine how India would have reacted if Pakistan was in a position to stop the flow of river water into India and it had done so or constructed a dam in violation of Indus Basin Treaty, or if Pakistan had blamed India for Marriott suicide attack. USA, UK as well as other western nations would have immediately ganged up and all hell would have broken and Pakistan condemned in strongest words. We have seen how Pakistan was taken to task by US led G-8 during Kargil conflict. Could Pakistan have possibly sat over UN Resolution on Kashmir for 62 years? Could Pakistan have ever got a UNSC resolution within 24 hours on any issue in which India was involved? It could not get a UN resolution for ceasefire when Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto desperately pleaded for days to prevent fragmentation of Pakistan in 1971.
As long as hawks dominate the corridors of power in India, Indo-Pakistan peaceful co-existence based on mutual trust will remain a pipe dream. The scheming minds in India would continue to cook up stories and indulge in falsehood to gain political mileage and to harm Pakistan. Suchlike self-created hypes and dirty tricks would never extinguish the embers of hate. South Asia has lagged behind in the field of economic growth essentially because of Indian interventionist policies, unfair dealings and erratic behaviour.
The writer is a defence and political analyst. Email: ah.raja@yahoo.com
While dealing with neighbours much smaller in size, resources and military strength they are always in a mood to bully, to terrorise and to dictate terms. They always try to impose their will on others and any country trying to resist their pressure tactics and their intrusion in domestic affairs is punished through various means. The typical means are diplomatic pressure, economic blackmail, military coercion and application of military instrument. The favourite means to make the defiant neighbour bend to its dictates are propaganda war, use of Kautylian tactics, sabotage and subversion and aiding and abetting insurgency. It has trained RAW in this game and over a period of time it claims to have excelled in the art of disinformation campaign, espionage and sabotage. There is no country in its neighbourhood which has not been jolted by India through immoral methods, be it Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Bhutan, Tibet and Pakistan. The latter has suffered the most at its hand and continues to endure. Sri Lanka too is an old victim of Indian machinations and Tamil Tigers insurgency is Indian manufactured.
It is essentially because of their high-handed tactics, erratic and irrational behaviour and covert operations which makes all the neighbours wary. Despite being the largest and strongest country it has failed to earn respect of any. It behaves in a petty and miserly manner whenever it comes to give and take. India believes in taking only and giving nothing. Other than India, none harbour aggressive or expansionist designs. Whereas India has disputes with almost all its neighbours, others have no complaint against each other. SAARC has essentially failed to takeoff in true sense because of India trying to monopolise it. No member of this organisation can raise any bilateral issue since all issue are connected with India.
Social inequalities are inherent in Indian polity which have given rise to separatism and terrorism. At the momentum 19 full blown insurgencies are raging in various parts of India and there are over 100 terrorist groups operating in India. Maoist movement which has its roots in central India but has spread to over 200 districts of India is the most dangerous which has the potential to break up India. Kashmir whether with Pakistan or India or independent is a volcano that is simmering for a very long time and may burst anytime with fatal consequences for India. Terrorism has enveloped India completely and there is hardly any day in India when an act of terror doesn’t take place. From 2000 to 2008, there were 11200 terror related deaths in India. In the last five years, India ranks second in the world in deaths caused through terrorist acts. As per US Institute of Counter Terrorism Report, between 2004 and 2007, 3674 deaths took place in India due to terrorism; only Iraq surpasses this figure.
The intolerance of Indian leaders get exposed after seeing their volatile reaction whenever any act of terror take place in India and Pakistan is impulsively blamed for it. The xenophobic frenzy was witnessed during Kargil crisis in summer of 1999, attack on Indian parliament on 13 December 2001, Mumbai blasts in July 2006, Samjhota Train bombing in February 2007, suicide attack on Indian embassy in Kabul in July 2008, and now Mumbai attacks. Each time, the Indians went wild with rage and wanted to crush Pakistan.. Later probes proved that Pakistan was not involved in any of the incident over which so much of hue and cry was made. Many a times a drama was staged by the sitting regime to either bail itself out of a difficult domestic issue or to corner Pakistan and extract some concessions. India has never apologised for wrongly blaming Pakistan even when its own investigative teams revealed the truth as in the case of Samjhota Train incident.
Some of the motives behind Mumbai drama are to deflect attention from trouble brewing up in occupied Kashmir; claim that Lashkar-e-Taiba, linked with ISI is still active in Kashmir and has now reached mainland of India; get ISI declared as a rogue organisation; instigate militancy in Punjab by getting welfare outfits based in Punjab engaged in charity and educational works banned; seek UNSC permission for surgical strikes inside Pakistan to destroy Jihadi infrastructures; once Punjab gets destabilised paint Pakistan as an ungovernable and unviable state; pave the way for UNSC sanction to denuclearise Pakistan on the plea that world security would remain in danger as long as nuclear bombs and delivery means are stored in Pakistan. The ultimate aim is to turn Pakistan into a compliant state. Greatest wish of hawkish elements within India which are in plenty is that each Pakistani should keep its head bowed in submission irrespective of the humiliations inflicted upon them.
Pakistan has caught tens of RAW agents red handed carrying out acts of sabotage in Baluchistan, FATA, and Swat. George Bush on his visit to Islamabad in March 2006 was shown clinching evidence of RAW involvement in Baluchistan but he simply turned his face. Imagine if ISI agents were caught in any of the troubled regions of India where home-grown separatist movements are raging for decades. One can imagine how India would have reacted if Pakistan was in a position to stop the flow of river water into India and it had done so or constructed a dam in violation of Indus Basin Treaty, or if Pakistan had blamed India for Marriott suicide attack. USA, UK as well as other western nations would have immediately ganged up and all hell would have broken and Pakistan condemned in strongest words. We have seen how Pakistan was taken to task by US led G-8 during Kargil conflict. Could Pakistan have possibly sat over UN Resolution on Kashmir for 62 years? Could Pakistan have ever got a UNSC resolution within 24 hours on any issue in which India was involved? It could not get a UN resolution for ceasefire when Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto desperately pleaded for days to prevent fragmentation of Pakistan in 1971.
As long as hawks dominate the corridors of power in India, Indo-Pakistan peaceful co-existence based on mutual trust will remain a pipe dream. The scheming minds in India would continue to cook up stories and indulge in falsehood to gain political mileage and to harm Pakistan. Suchlike self-created hypes and dirty tricks would never extinguish the embers of hate. South Asia has lagged behind in the field of economic growth essentially because of Indian interventionist policies, unfair dealings and erratic behaviour.
The writer is a defence and political analyst. Email: ah.raja@yahoo.com
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