President Asif Ali Zardari in an interview to EORO-NEWS has said that India is not a military threat to Pakistan, but the Taliban are an international threat to the world.
“India is a reality. Pakistan is a reality. But the Taliban is a threat,” says President Zardari.
I am sure the “talk-now-and-think-later” President hasn’t any negative intentions while saying all that. This is no more (and no less) than an attempt on his part to market himself in the Taliban-obsessed West.
Of course the Taliban now are a threat to Pakistan. But who has created this threat? Who is (or who are) arming the Taliban? And financing their operations against Pakistan? Most importantly, who are Taliban? Any specific outfit with a specific agenda, or various armed mercenaries and miscreants who have been calculatedly branded as the Taliban, so as to create a reason or a justification for pointing accusing fingers at Pakistan’s ISI?
I am sure our President can’t be ignorant enough not to know that the entire U.S propaganda has sometimes overtly, and always covertly been directed at the ISI as the secret ‘assembler’ and “sympathizer” of the Taliban. Meaning thereby that the West that President Zardari wants to please by not regarding India a military threat may have a ‘complicated’ sinister plan to make Pakistan change its strategic priorities. To say that India is not a military threat to Pakistan itself is a success of this plan. It also is a sad ignorance of the harsh realities of the region. India, that President Zardari doesn’t regard as a military threat, is in fact an invader. It is occupying Kashmir with sheer force—with the brutal presence of a 7000 thousand-strong army to control about 10 million subjugated people.
It is a matter of perception. If you start perceiving that India, even if it captures Sialkot for strategic reasons, will not be a military threat, you can only be regarded as mentally asleep…….
(This Column was
first published on
25-06-2009)
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