Sikandar Noorani
It was shocking for most of the simple hearted Pashtuns that so called rights activists desecrated national flag and incited hatred against state during a rally of PTM at Charsada. It is not the first stance when a foul mouth MNA affiliated to PTM uttered what our enemies are eager to listen. It is about time to draw a clear line defining freedom of expression and incitement of hate in the garb of constitutional provisions.It is an undeniable fact that India, under ultra-extremist RSS’ cult, seems more than ever desperate to destabilize Pakistan through overt and covert means. Besides patronizing Afghan based proxies to conduct hardcore terrorist attacks deep inside Pak territory, India has been actively supporting linguistic groups to spread separatist tendencies by fueling hateful sentiments.
East Pakistan model of exploiting the fault lines always fascinates the trigger happy decision makers in New Dehli. Massive rise of violent linguistic terrorists in Sind during the decade of 80s actually kept the Karachi under siege for about three decades. Similar style and hateful violence was brought in play to disturb the dynamics in Baluchistan. Time revealed that all such destabilizing moves were conceived, financed and executed with massive support of New Dehli. Not much ago, Indian connection of absconder Altaf Hussain was exposed in broad day light. It turned so obvious that founder of MQM AltafHussain, who happened to be in the mask of a king maker politician, was recently seen in a video clip openly appealing Indian PM Modi to attack Pakistan . Separatist terrorists undertook hard core attacks against armed forces and LEAs in Baluchistan which could never be possible without military grade equipment and expertise. Indian national security advisor openly divulged New Dehli’s venomous designs to strike Pakistan by hiring terrorists.
Pakistan cannot afford to remain oblivious from this bitter fact that politicians pressing demands for a particular linguistic community, like Altaf and Shaikh Mujeeb, were traditionally found hand in glove with New Dehli . Sub-nationalist politicians from Sindh, Balochistan and KPK are no exception to this trend. It was Pundit Nehru who set this dangerous anti-Pakistan course for India, immediately after the partition in 1947. Heavy investments were made to spread the linguistic hatred among the Bengalis ,Balochs, Pushtoons and Sindhis . Right from the outset in ,Pushtoon factor was exploited by India through Afghanistan to fan the separatist tendencies against Pakistan. This worked well for India in East Pakistan where blunders of unwise rulers enhanced the process of disaster manifolds. We have seen similar oblivious response in mega city Karachi which practically remained under siege in the hands of gangsters patronized by top political parties. Karachi was entirely at the mercy of a London based absconder who maintained his shadowy control over the city through almost untouchable goons. Poor residents of Karachi took a sigh of relief once the exposure of Indian connection eventually brought an end to this dirty game. End of this deadly game in Karachi has sunken heavy Indian investments. Side by side, gradual success against Indian sponsored terrorist groups in KPK including erstwhile FATA and Balochistan has largely rolled back all coercive plans of New Dehli.
Arrest of RAW operative Commander Khalbhoshan Jhadev, a serving naval officer ,brought greater embarrassments for India on many accounts. A stable, peaceful and economically prosperous Pakistan is not acceptable to India at any cost. In order to put Pakistan back on the path of disaster and destabilization, India has started resurrecting dead giant of Pushtoon card. Mysteriously a movement surfaced on the political canvas with a demand of justice for the bereaved family of NaqeebUllahMehsood and suddenly transformed in a Pushtoon pressuregroup. PTM has started playing all notorious tricks to malign the armed forces of Pakistan as it was done in the past by leaders like Mujeeb and Altaf. Unfortunately, just like past, careless handling of political leadership has provided enough exploitable space to PTM.
A failure or flaw in governance, pointed out by PTM or any other group, should be dealt or rectified by the ruling party. At this moment, PTM’ leadership is over exaggerating the problems of war ridden erstwhile FATA by directly maligning the armed forces of Pakistan. This false blaming by PTM against armed forces clearly proves that master minds of terrorism, sitting in New Dehli, have launched an attack to sabotage the Pak successes in war against terror. Surprisingly, so called sympathizers have never uttered a single word on the plight of Pushtoons suffering in Afghanistan. Resilient Pushtoon masses are well familiar with treacherous ways of foreign sponsored sub-nationalist jugglers. It is an established fact that politicians perpetuating linguistic hatred always pursue venomous agenda dictated by their foreign masters. People of KPK and Balochistan had already been deceived, in the past as well, on hateful linguistic themes.
There had been terrorist training camps and subversion centers on Afghan soil, in the decade of 60 and 70, where Baloch and Pushtoon youth was pushed on the path of violent criminal struggle against Pakistan. Old comrade and an insider Jumma Khan Sufi, in his book titled ‘Fareb e Na Tamam’ has revealed numerous eye opening facts about treacherous politics of sub-nationalist jugglers. If PTM persistently alleges Pak army in the middle of the battle, it is equivalent of pressing terrorists’ narrative dictated by none other than New Dehli. Most apparently, PTM is a revised edition of those Indian fabricated puppetswho had already found their place in the dust bin of history.PTI , being the ruling party and major stake holder of KP, should come forward to counter the hateful propaganda being persuaded by PTM.
