Afia Ambreen
Reportedly, the mastermind behind the attack on Chinese consulate in Karachi, Aslam alias Achu, along with his companion, was killed in Afghanistan. Reportedly, Aslam Achu, Taju Mari, Rahim Mari and four guards of Aslam got injured, in an attack over his residence in Kandahar, when a meeting of the terrorists was underway. The injured were moved to Kandahar’s medical facility, but Aslam along with his companions succumbed to his injuries. Aslam was wanted in many heinous crimes, including an attack on Chinese consulate in Karachi. He was involved in carrying out terror activities in Pakistan from Afghan soil. Achu was reportedly sent to Afghanistan earlier this month in a desperate bid by India to distance itself from its terrorist proxy after the high-profile incidents from its ‘asset’ threatened to undermine New Delhi’s delicate relations with China and Iran. And now that he’s been killed, questions have been raised as to if he was eliminated deliberately by his own masters or his death at the hands of another militant outfit was just an accident in the war-ravaged Afghanistan where different groups keep fighting each other for securing maximum space and influence.
India’s involvement in the Balochistan unrest cannot be ruled out in view of the rapidly changing geopolitics of the region. India, which has ambitions of dominating the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean, is upset over China’s growing stakes in the Gwadar port. A fully-developed and functional Gwadar port near the Strait of Hormuz enables China to frustrate India’s dream of dominating regional waterways. New Delhi feels that the Gwadar port would have serious strategic implications for India. It perceives that it would empower Pakistan to control strategically important energy sea-lanes on the Persian Gulf, while India controls no choke-points on the coastline of the subcontinent through which international shipping may pass. India sees Chinese involvement in Gwadar with suspicion and believes that China wants to set up bases and outposts across the globe to monitor and safeguard energy flows.
The BLA’s connections with Indian intelligence agency RAW (Research and Analysis Wing) are no secret. The agency funds and trains BLA cadres and provides them logistic support for its operations to destabilise Pakistan in general and frustrate the Sino-Pak mega project of CPEC in particular. BLA was set up by the former Soviet Union and was now being supported by the governments of India and Afghanistan. According to sources 4,000 to 5,000 Baloch people were in various camps in Afghanistan and they were being trained there for terrorist activities in Pakistan. Brahumdagh Bugti is one of the founders of the BLA. BLA is an Indian proxy against Pakistan and Indian consulates in Kandahar and Jalalabad, Afghanistan, for providing arms, training and financial aid to the BLA in an attempt to destabilize Pakistan. As the Pakistan Army is busy conducting targeted operations against the terrorists and miscreants in connection with the Operation Radd-ul Fasaad and the arrest of Indian Navy officer Kulbushan Jadev’s for his sabotage activities in Balochistan, India has yet not stopped creating rifts and continuing its nefarious designs to spread anarchy in Balochistan and to subvert the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC).
In reality there is no issue of any separatist movement in Balochistan as there does not exist anything like this on ground. The only issue in Balochistan is a few RAW funded militants, trying to create anti Pakistan environment in the region. But its magnitude is too low enough to create enough resistance from within the locals. Ironically, the only successful way the India can part it successfully is to send a full fledge trained force kind of Mukti Bahni in Balochistan at once from Afghan side, and cease Balochistan to be part of Pakistan anymore. But that is too hard to be possible, because any of this kind of mischief by India may lead Pakistan to take a few warheads out of the pocket and show it to them, if not detonated. The matter has to be naturally neutralized then for sure. So India is wasting its time and resources in Balochistan, as it can create local turbulence, a few killings, bursting the pipelines, damage few infrastructures etc, but cannot achieve the desired bigger objective.
Since decades, India is always busy spreading negativity and rifts to destabilise Pakistan especially Baluchistan due to its geo-strategic location and currently due to Gawadar and CPEC. Moreover, it is no more difficult to understand that the foreign actors have evil designs against Pakistan as they are supporting anti-state elements and hired criminals for the disturbance of state system and in this situation, what all we need is national cohesion.
