Reema Shaukat
It seems that India always boost its misadventures in a way that all its public, wherever they are fantasise it even after ages. Though proven wrong but still Indian media exaggerates and overstates about the Mumbai attacks which happened 11 years ago and always sought to blame Pakistan. Generally speaking, Pakistan has never remained apple of an eye for any foreign or regional power because of its geographical location and resources. Particularly from India, the inherent animosity is always clear and blame game chosen as an easy way out. Somehow or the other Pakistan being strategically important country remains in limelight and often target of accomplices by involving it in blame game. Accusation certainly is a never missed opportunity particularly by India as we often witness tension across LOC and despite warnings India continues to have unprovoked firings. On different instances India has often created hype and for any kind of terrorist activity without validations, India indicts Pakistan. Be it Pulwama incident, Pathankot occurrence, Uri attack or claims of surgical strikes, India has always sought to direct its guns towards Pakistan. 11 years ago the Mumbai attacks which took place from November 26 – November 29 of the year 2008, caused more receding tides between both nuclear armed neighbours. India criticised Pakistan and its security forces for the training of terrorists and fully created drama to grab attention of international community. India try to portray 26/11 as its own 9/11 and wants that international community should give same response to it. But with passage of time it is proved that it was a created drama and the aim and intention behind it was to malign Pakistan. Time has exposed that India is busy in continuous struggling to destabilize Pakistan through various tactics. Pulwama happening is another show which has exposed India all over world when it tried to take so called revenge from Pakistan but failed badly.
Years later after Mumbai mishap, a book created squall in India about the false flag operation of Mumbai attacks. The book ‘The Betrayal of India: Revisiting the 26/11 Evidence’, is written by Elias Davidsson, who is considered as a big name in research based investigative journalism. This book has revealed how India manipulated this saga of Mumbai attacks and attained the sympathies of world power for more military aid and arms procurement from US and Israel. Davidsson in his book has proved how India was able to stage this ploy. He claims that “the attacks in Mumbai in November 2008 – designated as 26/11- left 162 people dead in a traumatic event that some people described as India’s 9/11. Exclusive media coverage has created the impression that all the relevant facts on this audacious operation have been reported. Unfortunately, this impression is false. This book represents a comprehensive and critical evaluation of the official narrative of 26/11 as reflected in court documents and the news media. It represents the testimonies of dozens of important witnesses, whom Indian courts ignored because they shed a radically different light on the events. The book presents a detailed analysis of the benefits accruing to powerful constituencies in India and the US from the mass-murder. The results of this evaluation are shattering for they expose a tacit consensus by leading news media, the political class, the police and the judicial system, to cover up the true facts on 26/11 and thereby shield the real criminals. The book’s ultimate purpose is to serve as a wake-up call to the Indian public to liberate itself from the grips of a predatory, corrupt and ruthless ruling class that prevents the majority of Indian citizens from enjoying a life of dignity and peace”. According to Elias Davidsson, “The first definite conclusion of this book is that India’s major institutions, including the central government, parliament, bureaucracy, armed forces, Mumbai police, intelligence services, judiciary and media, have deliberately suppressed the truth regarding 26/11 and continue to do so. I could discover no hint of a desire among the aforementioned parties to establish the truth on these deadly events.”
Different chapters in the book, gives the detailed analysis of this whole four days long melodrama. First chapter highlights who were the attackers or those unidentified killers which India claims that they belonged to Pakistan and came via sea-route to enter India. Then the other chapter details the operation which was by India and briefs about the suspicions in particular domestic operation and the bluff of telephone calls. Later in book, Davidsson describes how the cover-up was done by Indian media, police and authorities for this attack. Conclusions of this book are very interesting as they expose the India’s true face and suggest how India used this attack to conceal its flaws and put blame on Pakistan. Earlier investigations done in lieu of Mumbai attacks already exposed Indian lies but this book by foreign author evidently confirms how India blames Pakistan without evidences.
This incident after so many years of occurrence is now a declared false flag operation. This was also revealed by American academic and political scholar Dr. Kevin Barrett that US president Obama at that time never wanted to distinguish between terrorist groups attacking India or USA. Indian being a darling of US was never questioned for Kashmir atrocities or blame game on Pakistan. President Obama at that time favoured official version of Mumbai attacks and said that US was just as interested in prosecuting the attackers of the 2008 Mumbai slaughter as India was. But those attacks have proven to be a false flag by the elements of the Indian government itself in partnership with the US. According to Dr Barret, a book titled “The betrayal of India” by “Elias Davidsson” proves Mumbai attack as a created drama. Similarly research by many Pakistani scholars earlier proved that this Mumbai carnage was Indian stage drama and well fabricated with blames on Pakistan while India preserved that Pakistan and its non-state actors are behind this episode. After so many years of these attacks and witnessing relations between both countries presently one can say with clarity that India has always stepped back from findings and joint investigations of any kind of attack because it knew world will come to know about its false allegations on Pakistan. India had been sending spies into Pakistan for covert actions with TTP and other militant groups, while Pakistan has curbed militancy with successful military operations to flush out extremists. The question is can India be trusted for cordial relations with such behaviours of allegations without confirmations?
