Dr. Shahid Zia
Indian government is creating a narrative that there is a strong likelihood of a major terrorist attack from Pakistan in India before or on 26 January 2020.(Indian Republic day).Such fake narratives may be utilized for a possible False Flag operation by Indian establishment to divert the domestic outburst against NRC/ CAA. A major terror attack has been averted before the Republic Day of India as Srinagar police busted a module of Pakistan-based terror group Jaish-e-Mohammed. The police have arrested five operatives associated with the terror group helmed by Masood Azhar, who is on the UN-designated terrorist list. Jaish-e-Mohammed has been behind several terrorist attacks on Indian soil, the later was the Pulwama terror attack, which claimed the lives of 40 CRPF personnel in Jammu and Kashmir in February last. In the major bust, the Srinagar police recovered a huge cache of explosives. The arrested terrorists have been identified as Aijaz Ahmed Sheikh, Umar Hameed Sheikh, Imtiyaz Ahmed Chikla, Sahil Farooq Gojri and Naseer Ahmed Mir.”This is a major success, the Srinagar Police has busted Jaish Module averting a terror attack,” J&K Police DGP Dilbagh Singh. Amongst huge cache of arms and ammunition, the police have recovered a vest laded with explosives. A source in security grid said fixing these materials to a vest and making an RC-IED (remote control IED) out of it requires precision and skill. “This can not and not be achieved by novices,” the source said. Over 140 gelatine sticks and 40 detonators were also recovered. With Recent arrests, Srinagar police have claimed that it has resolved two cases of recent blasts in the Valley. On January 8, a low-intensity explosion had rocked Habbak crossing, resulting in minor injuries to some civilians. A similar grenade attack which had taken place near Sir Syed Gate, Kashmir University, on November 26, 2019. The police made the bust during the investigation in these blasts, an official statement said. Acting on artificial and human intelligence inputs, the police conducted raids at hideouts and homes of the suspected persons and arrested two people, Aijaz Ahmad Sheikh and Umar Hameed Sheikh, suspected to be associated with Pak terror outfit Jaish. During interrogation, the two suspects admitted to their role in January 8 blast and provided leads for November 26 grenade attack, the statement said. Following the fresh leads, the police arrested Imtiyaz Ahmed Chikla, Sahil Farooq Gojri and Naseer Ahmad Mir. Subsequent interrogation led the police to raid a house where the explosives had been stored, “It appears that they were planning a major IED/Fidayeen attack leading up to 26th January 2020. Moreover, their primary aim behind the attacks was to subvert the return of normalcy in the region. Further investigation is underway to ascertain their role in other similar incidents in the city, and more arrests and recoveries are anticipated,” the official statement said. Arundhati Roy hints Pulwama attack was a ‘false flag’ and ‘intelligence failure’.India’s acclaimed writer Arundhati Roy opening up about the Pulwama attack on Monday hinted at it being a ‘false flag’ while also calling it a major intelligence failure. During her interview with Democracy Now, the Man Booker Prize winner expressed her qualms about the incident that took place on February 14, subsequently surging tensions between India and Pakistan. “Pulwama is a really big question mark, which we need to understand what actually happened. Because in Kashmir, historically, there have been many, many false flag attacks,” she stated. Speaking about the intelligence failure in the region, the God of Small Things writer said: “I don’t even know what is Jaish-e-Mohammed anymore. Because the situation in Kashmir is that there are real terror groups, there are fake terror groups, there are penetrator terror groups. There was a massive intelligence failure, which even the governor of Kashmir spoke about. And then suddenly everyone went quiet.” Moreover, the writer went on to question the motives of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi who was largely accused of capitalizing in on the Pulwama attack: “Modi started campaigning using the pictures of the dead security forces, which was so terrible. And there’s absolutely no talk about the intelligence failure. How could it happen? How could so much RDX be smuggled in when people are just-people are stopped and checked while they’re going to buy milk? How did this happen? The convoy-the route of the convoy is always protected.” Treading further on the strains that arose in the past three months between the two neighboring countries, Roy stated: “Well, let’s put it simply-that in April, India and Pakistan became the first nuclear-armed countries ever in history to bomb each other. So that should be enough reason for everybody to sit up and pay attention.”
DSP Davinder Singh’s arrest and startling disclosures have once again raised questions on Indian Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and false flag operation against their own people. India Today report of 13 Jan suggests that the nexus between a decorated J&K Police officer and the terrorists is likely to ruffle many a feather as the past of the DSP is going to haunt the intelligence agencies for long. Interestingly, this DSP was awarded Police Medal for gallantry by the Occupied State of J&K and was awaiting his promotion to the rank of SP. While India has a track record of involvement of her Military, Police and Intelligence agencies in false flag operations to gain international attention, there is a need to carry out an analysis of how deep is this network and why international community needs to raise the issue. There is also a question of whistle blowers and officer of conscience in Indian establishment who have raised their voice against this network and are persecuted by the Indian intelligence. First is the case of IPS officer Sanjiv Bhatt (Gujarat intelligence bureau 2002); in our piece published in the Nation on 29 Dec 2019 we had pointed out that Sanjiv Bhatt was one such star. BBC report of 2011 had identified that police officers in India had openly stated in the Supreme Court that Modi had nodded to start of Gujarat Massacre in 2002. Sanjiv Bhatt’s sworn statement to India’s Supreme Court alleged that the then Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi deliberately allowed anti-Muslim riots. Thousands of people were killed in the violence in 2002. Sanjiv Bhatt had said that he attended a meeting at which Mr Modi is alleged to have said that the Hindus should be allowed to vent their anger. He also alleged that, in a meeting in the night before the riots, Mr Modi told officials that the Muslim community needed to be taught a lesson following an attack on a train carrying Hindu pilgrims.Sanjiv Bhatt has been arrested, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment by BJP government in 2018 to punish him in speaking truth to power.Next is the case of IPS officer Hemant Karkare who was Chief of the Mumbai Anti-Terrorist Squad (ATS). A series of bomb blasts took place in Malegaon, Maharashtra on 8 Sep 2006, Samjhauta Express in Feb 2007 and Modasa, Gujarat and Malegaon on 29 Sep 2008. Karkare led the investigation, in late October 2008 and ATS arrested eleven suspects, all Hindus, including a former ABVP student leader Sadhvi Pragya Singh Thakur, Swami Amritananda alias Dayanand Pandey, a retired Major Ramesh Upadhyay and a serving Army officer Lt. Col. Prasad Shrikant Purohit. The accused belonged to a Abhinav Bharat with links to Sangh Parivar . Karkare’s ATS identified, for the first time, Hindutva organisations as being responsible for terrorism in India, and political commentators began to call it Hindutva terror or Saffron terror. S M Mushrif is an ex IGP of Maharashtra and the author of famous book ‘Who Killed Karkare’. While addressing in seminar on Dahashat gardi aur Musalman organised by Muslim Numainda Council Aurangabad on 26 Jan 2018, Mushrif disclosed that Col Purohit talked about his ideas and ideology during investigation by Karkare. Col Purohit believed that current Indian Constitution was to be annulled and this Nation should be broken to erect the Hindu Rashtra. Prohit also disclosed that they had planned to train 40 officers and 200 Jawans in Nepal and few officers in Israel to make a core group. He was also in contact with Mohan Bhagwat, the Chief of RSS. Col Purohit acknowledged that a lot of RSS cadres had become officers in Indian Army and other services and would help in erecting the Hindu Rashtra. Karkare was put under lot of pressure in 2008, while investigating the case of Samjhauta Express; As per IGP Mushrif, the Indian Intelligence Bureau(IB) is completely under the control of Brahmins, actually IB is more Brahmanic than RSS and BJP. In order to stop investigations on Samjhauta Express case, Hemant Karkare was killed by IB in a false flag operation during Mumbai Attacks. Mushrif believes that false narrative by Intelligence agencies and Media has been deliberately built against Muslims; Brahmins blast the bomb and you hang Muslims. Hemant Karkare lost his life in Mumbai attacks but changed the course of communalism in India. IGP Mushrif believes that Indian IB needs a clean up and till that time Muslims and Lower Caste will keep suffering. Col Purohit was released after 9 years in jail, granted interim bail by the Supreme Court on 22 August 2017 and his case is still pending in the High Court of Mumbai. Pragya Singh Thakur, the prime accused in these terror attacks is a sitting MP in Lok Sabha and there is no one to ask the Indian establishment and judiciary. Now we come to the issue of false flag operation by Indian Intelligence. After Pathankot terror attack an article by Waqar K Kauravi was published in the News on 12 Jan 2016, the author pointed out fishy things in the whole story. An official SUV belonging to the SP Talivinder Singh of Gurdaspur district was hijacked by terrorists, who managed to throw out the SP and head towards the Air force base of Pathankot. The hijackers easily penetrated the heavily guarded airbase. Incidentally the entrance barriers of the airbase were removed exclusively for the vehicle to enter. The attackers then went on a terrorizing spree for almost a full day, right under media glare. SP Talvinder Singh was cleared of all charges by NIA; however he was convicted in another case of rape and sentenced to 10 years, the question is why are LEAs involved in dubious activities, and why they are found to have links with terrorists?Coming back to DSP Davinder Singh; Afzal Guru in a letter to his Advocate Sushil Kumar had stated before his hanging that same very officer Davinder Singh had sent him to Delhi. How come a decorated Police Officer of Indian Police is involved in apparent support and ferrying of “Muslim Terrorists” in two high profile cases? Why was he posted at the Airport when foreign ambassadors were visiting Srinagar on 10 Jan 2019, who can be seen in a group photo with 15 Ambassadors, should the International community be worried? Even some people of conscience like Ravish Kumar raised the questions in Prime time NDTV on 14th Jan. It is stated that DSP Davinder Singh got 12 lac Rs for ferrying the so called Hizb terrorist to Jammu and onwards to Delhi. This amount is peanuts as there was a head money of 20 lac on Naveed Babu of Hizb who was arrested, more interesting to note is that Naveed Babu was also a Police absconder and had served in Indian Police. Same DSP was posted closer to Pulwama during the attack on Indian Military convoy in Feb 2019. Congress MP AR Chowdhury said in a series of tweets that a “chink in the armour” had been exposed in the Kashmir Valley, and questioned who the “real culprits” behind the Pulwama bombing were India Betrayed published in the Nation on Feb 2018 had similar argument.
