Zaffar Alam
Inorder to expose India an innocent state, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) under the Hindutva groups are laying the ground for greater insecurity for India. Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) always used and will use tactics to malign Pakistan by instructing BJP leadership in the future as well. Previously, hindu extremist leaders in India portray their all staged-managed dramas against Pakistan and Mumbai Attack is one episode.
Irrespective of the fact that who was Ajmal Kasab and what was his nationality, India, the so-called largest democracy, had dared to kill its own citizens to defame its neighbour during the fake Mumbai Attack. This melodrama and accusations by the Indian government developed a scenario of mistrust among the South Asian countries. Primarily, Mumbai attack was organized to put Pakistan into a propaganda scenario and label it out as the epicentre of terror in South Asia. In 2013, the Indian officials revealed that the terror attack in Mumbai and an assault on the Indian Parliament (2001) was actually carried out by the Indian government to strengthen anti-terrorism laws, which was also exposed by former Indian Home Ministry official of the CBI-SIT team. The Indian secret agencies arranged these terror attacks to defame Pakistan’s image in the world, primarily by linking the ISI to the banned group, Lashkar-e-Taiba.
The state sponsered Indian drama of the Mumbai attacks had killed 167 innocent people, including Hemant Karkare, an in-charge of anti-terror squad, who was conducting an inquiry on the terror attack carried out/organized by the then serving Indian Army officer, Colonel Prashad Srikant Purohit, who was arrested on the charges of attacking Malegaon mosque bomb blast and Samjota Express. Evidences show that the organized Indian drama took 1,000 security personnel’s for more than 60 hours to pacify 10 gunmen. The Indian authorities immediately blamed Pakistani entities (before any investigation). The Indians didn’t brainstorm this incident, instead, they copied the episodes of America’s 9/11, Brussels, Copenhagen and Paris attacks to create an atmosphere under the shade of Mumbai Attack to portray Indian leaders as the victims of terrorism.
Meanwhile, international and domestic media created confusion that militant organizations are active in Pakistan and questioned the policy to allow the ‘non-state actors’ to cross the border and ‘kill’ people in Mumbai. All characters of the Mumbai attack were stage-managed, and so were the court proceedings that went on for years before Kasab’s final execution. Moreover, Hemant Karkare, the chief of the Mumbai anti-terrorist squad was killed on the same day by the Indian establishment, he was investigating state-sponsored terrorism activities, which was also a dramatic co-incident.
The Pakistani LEAs were not allowed to interrogate Kasab. The hanging was also done secretly in jail and his body, like the bodies of the other dead terrorists, was buried in a secret place. This shows the Indian pre-planned production to hide any clues against itself. Moreover, haste in hanging Kasab clearly indicates that India used him as a tool against Pakistan. Maybe India was afraid that Kasab may expose its drama. Moreover, the Indian officials admitted that Kasab was arrested before 2006 from Kathmandu by the Indian agency RAW with the help of the Nepalese forces. Pakistan rejected all India’s self-serving illusions. In response, Pakistan opposed and condemned acts of terrorism inside its territory and also elsewhere in India, who(India) claims to be a champion of democracy and International Law.
The BJP must not hide its state-sponsored terrorism in Pakistan under RSS backed hindu extremism. Pakistan always urged to resolve all outstanding issues through dialogue, but India never adopted the resolutions. India’s hegemonic thoughts have always been involved in conspiring against neighbouring countries. For this, India needs to realize that global dynamics have changed, and it is the time for economic development and cooperation as Pakistan already welcomed India for the CPEC project.
An investigation carried out by the CIA, the FBI, and the Indian LEA’s found no authentic or glaring evidence of Pakistan’s involvement in the attacks. Likewise, allegations levelled against Hafiz Saeed could not be proved, nor any links with proscribed terrorist organization ‘Lashkar-e-Taiba’ could be established. Hafiz Saeed has already approached the ICJ through his private lawyer to declare him innocent against the demands of the US, Israel and India who demanded his arrest and trail previously.
As a responsible country, Pakistan remained committed to provide all cooperation to India in terms of accelerating the Mumbai attack trial and bringing all perpetrators to justice, but India never adopted a serious attitude in this regard. Instead, India was not interested in a transparent investigation. It is also an emerging threat against Pakistan that BJP with backing of RSS extremist hindu party may use another anti-Pakistan propaganda similar to Mumbai Attack drama to win hindu vote bank up coming 2019-elections. But, Pakistan always cooperated with India over information-sharing pertaining to all incidents of terrorism. Meanwhile, the uncooperative attitude of the Indian government has been the biggest obstacle in the Mumbai terror attacks trial, for reaching analytical conclusion.
