Mohammad Jamil
The United Nations Security Council has rejected a proposal by India seeking sanctions against Pakistan over terrorism, the Foreign Office said on Sunday. “UN Security Council’s 1267 Sanctions Committee related to Islamic State (IS) and al Qaeda has rejected a politically motivated proposal by India replete with frivolous information and baseless allegations. The Indian proposal had no merit and was aimed at advancing its narrow national agenda,” the FO spokesperson said. Meanwhile, Pakistan is poised to share with the UN and international community about India’s involvement in perpetrating, sponsoring and supporting terrorism in Pakistan. Confessions of RAW’s agent Kulbhushan Yadev for his involvement in terrorist activities in Pakistan is concrete evidence in this regard. On Friday, China blocked India’s proposal to list Pakistan-based JeM chief Masood Azhar as a designated terrorist by the United Nations, as China understands the shenanigans of India.
Indian investigating agencies had found Azhar to have masterminded the attack on the IAF base in Pathankot in January this year. India-US nexus and malicious intent was obvious with the announcement of sanctions against seven Pakistani entities allegedly associated with the country’s missile program at a time when India sought sanctions against Pakistan. The notification by the US Department of Commerce said that the entities added to the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) list have been determined by the US government to be acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. According to the notification, the US government determined that “there was reasonable cause to believe, based on specific and verifiable facts that these government and private entities in Pakistan are determined to be involved in activities that are contrary to the national security and/or foreign policy of the United States”.
The placement on the list imposes a licence requirement for all items subject to the EAR, and the licence requirements apply to any transaction in which items are to be exported, re-exported, or transferred (in-country) to any of the entities. The notification neither specified the violations these entities supposed to have committed nor gave details of the items they were supposed to have exported, imported or re-exported. This means that for any transfers of technology to these entities, U.S. exporters will need a license; however, Pakistani authorities were examining the case to ascertain the facts behind the listing. The facilities in question were thought to be associated with Pakistan’s missile development program. Officials in Islamabad have not acknowledged it, as the US government did not reveal details of violations these entities alleged to have committed.
Pakistan FO spokesman said that Pakistan was ready to work with the U.S. at the level of experts to devise mutually agreed-upon procedures for end-use guarantees. “This will help in assuring non-diversion of high-technology exports from the U.S. without hampering our legitimate imports for socioeconomic development activities,” the spokesman added. One can infer from the way the US and India accuse Pakistan of supporting militants that India-US interests converge so far as Pakistan is concerned. A joint statement issued after a meeting between US President Barack Obama and then Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh at the White House during his visit to the US had reaffirmed the global strategic partnership between India and the US. It was a comprehensive statement encompassing vast areas of their cooperation from bilateral to environmental issues. The statement had also mentioned about threat to India from its neighbor; of course it meant Pakistan.
Among analysts there were two schools of thought; one describing it as a pressure tactic and the other believed that the US wanted to neutralize Pakistani nukes. Indian desire to make Pakistan irrelevant in South Asia and to weaken it so that it forgets about Kashmir is too well known. It was reflective of its consistent policy that even before former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had departed for Washington, propaganda offensive was launched against Pakistan accusing it of procrastination on taking action against terrorists and their masterminds of Mumbai attacks. Whereas they are referring to Mumbai attacks, Pathankot air base attack, nobody questions India about martyrdom of Babra Masjid and Gujarat riots when more than 2000 people were killed and many more injured and maimed by the Hindu extremists supported by the police and armed forces.
Since Narendra Modi is at the helm, the relations between India and Pakistan have further been strained, and the situation on the Line of Control and working boundary is explosive. After the martyrdom of Burhan Wani, Kashmiri freedom fighter, there have been protests in OIC in all cities and towns. More than 130 Kashmiris have been killed by Indian forces and more than 1000 suffered severe injuries when the Indian security forces used pellet guns. Despite Pakistan’s protests, international community fails to act and only issues statements on the deaths in the Occupied Kashmir. Being a country with plus one billion population and big market for selling weapons, the US and the western countries would not annoy India. Furthermore, US-India strategic partnership has emboldened India to up the ante against Pakistan. It was in this backdrop that India’s foreign policy of subterfuge has been successful.
In June 2016, Prime Minister Narendra Modi and President Barack Obama had met in the White House during an official working visit of Prime Minister Modi to the United States. Both leaders had reviewed the deepening strategic partnership between the United States and India, what they said, rooted in shared values of freedom, democracy, universal human rights, tolerance and pluralism, equal opportunities for all citizens, and rule of law. The leaders acknowledged the continued threat posed to human civilization by terrorism and condemn the terrorist incidents from Paris to Pathankot, from Brussels to Kabul. Names of Jaish-e-Muhammad and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were specifically mentioned in the joint statement. Meanwhile, Prime Minister Narendra Modi also hurled threats that he would stop every drop of water in River Ravi and River Sutlej, whereas India is constructing dams on Pakistani rivers.
