No one in the country believes in the deceptive rhetoric of the N-Leaguers regarding the undeclared war India is waging against us on the borders as well as on Pakistan’s own soil through sponsored terrorism and well-funded and well entrenched saboteurs. There are serious concerns regarding the Sharif family’s secret as well as well-flaunted links with Prime Minister Modi of India and his protégés in business.
There certainly have been routine and conventional statements of condemnation of Indian aggression from Sartaj Aziz and other ‘tools’ of foreign policy functioning under the direct control of Mian Nawaz Sharif, but there has been no serious operational plan to deal with Modi’s India. On the contrary Nawaz Sharif’s clandestine actions have provided impetus to Indian designs. One such example is the unprecedented act of registering an FIR in Gujranwala against our own citizens regarding an incident occurring in Pathankot. The other example is the Dawn-Leak case in which some unknown persons in the PM House are alleged to have engineered a fake news to be published in Dawn to provide endorsement to Indian allegation that non-state actors from Pakistan were engaged in fomenting strife across the border and sponsoring terrorist activities on the Indian soil.
It has been a well-known policy of India to support Pakistan’s so-called democratic civil leadership against Pakistan’s Army which is seen as an obstacle in the way of an Islamabad-New Delhi reconciliation that will give India an upperhand in the region.
But for the freedom our Army enjoys on Security matters, the notorious Kalbhushan Yadav would by now have been handed over to Modi as a gesture of ‘goodwill’.
It is in the light of these facts that we have to view the news that Pakistan’s fuel reserves have fallen below the strategic levels at a time when India seems to be in a mood to test Pakistan through a well-engineered plan to trigger escalation of fire-exchange on the borders.
If this shortfall is a planned effort to clip the wings of our Army, the Nation has a great reason to worry.