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India tries to milk its interior ministers US visit by faking a Pakistani rocket attack across the border. In 2000, when President Clinton was about to land in New Delhi, the Indians sent fake Kashmiri freedom fighters to kill innocent minority Sikhs in Kashmir in cold blood and blamed Pakistan. Like synchronized film dances, the Indians have perfected the art of political drama.
ISLAMABAD, PakistanIn an attempt to make the most of Indian Home Minister P Chidambarams visit to the US, India has floated a sensational news leak that India was attacked by Pakistani rangers using several rockets at the only border crossing between the two countries, called the Wagah sector.
Staging false flag attacks is nothing new for Indians when trying to paint Pakistanis as terrorists. These accusations are usually timed with high-profile talks with American leaders.
Lets rewind to year 2000: Chattisinghpora, Occuped Kashmir On the eve of the then US President Bill Clintons visit to India, 35 Kashmiri Sikhs were massacred in cold blood by Indian security forces posing as Kashmiri freedom fighters. The usual Lashkar-e-Tayba militants were rounded up and executed in fake-encounters, the Pakistani National was produced, ensuring Clintons entire visit focused on what India calls Pakistan-backed terrorism. It was only much later when the damage was done that the truth of the massacre came out, implicating Indian soldiers and intelligence agencies in this heinous crime.
The Indian security forces went a step ahead in their brutality back then. Indian police opened fire on unarmed Kashmiris protesting the murders of five innocent Muslims right after the staged Sikh massacre, killing another eight innocent people and bringing the total toll of this massacre closer to fifty.
P Chidambaram has ensured his entire trip to the United States was focused on Pakistans alleged lack of seriuosness in dealing with the Mumbai attackers, and the recent allegations of rocket attacks provides the perfect backdrop to Indias persecution complex.
Pakistan calls Indias bluff.
Pakistan has officially offered to hold an open debate with the Indian home minister over the probing of Mumbai attacks.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said, I am ready for the debate anywhere in India, Pakistan or wherever his Indian counterpart likes.
Talking to journalists in Islamabad, Malik started off by pointing out that the first formal response to Pakistans February 9 request for information came on June 20th and that too was in Marathi language. Besides citing other Indian lapses, he pointed out that India refused to share the Samjotha Express dossier which was of critical importance as a friendly country, which is also close to India, had told us that one of the Mumbai terrorists was also involved in the Mumbai incident.
Malik said he had received the latest Indian dossier in which the Indians have provided us with a statement from Ajmal Kasab, who claims now speaking to Hafiz Saeed when he was in Mumbai.
Initially the Indians said Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was the mastermind and we arrested him now they have started saying that Hafiz Saeed is the mastermind, Malik said.
Pakistan to take up Kashmir and Afghanistan before the UN
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has decided to take up the issue of Kashmir and Afghanistan effectively at a session of the United Nations General Assembly this year.
Pakistan will inform the international community about reservations with regard to Indians tactics not to resolve the Kashmir issue as well as the war against terrorism in Afghanistan.
The decision to this effect was taken during two separate meetings held at the foreign office, a private TV channel reported. Relevant authorities briefed the Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi about Kashmir and Afghanistan.
During the meeting it was decided that Pakistan would ask the United Nations to ensure a resolution of the long-lingering issue of Kashmir on a priority basis for durable peace in the region.
The international community would also be informed about the human rights violations committed by Indian forces in held Kashmir, sources said.
Besides officers of relevant authorities, officers of intelligence agencies including Director General Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shujja Pasha attended the meeting.
Pakistan will also take up the issue of Afghanistan during the session and would inform the largest world body about problems being faced by Pakistan due to action of Afghanistan based allied forces in neighboring country, channel reported.
Dan Qayyum works as a consultant and analyst for Bridgehead Institute and PKKH, and can be reached on [email protected]
ISLAMABAD, PakistanIn an attempt to make the most of Indian Home Minister P Chidambarams visit to the US, India has floated a sensational news leak that India was attacked by Pakistani rangers using several rockets at the only border crossing between the two countries, called the Wagah sector.
Staging false flag attacks is nothing new for Indians when trying to paint Pakistanis as terrorists. These accusations are usually timed with high-profile talks with American leaders.
Lets rewind to year 2000: Chattisinghpora, Occuped Kashmir On the eve of the then US President Bill Clintons visit to India, 35 Kashmiri Sikhs were massacred in cold blood by Indian security forces posing as Kashmiri freedom fighters. The usual Lashkar-e-Tayba militants were rounded up and executed in fake-encounters, the Pakistani National was produced, ensuring Clintons entire visit focused on what India calls Pakistan-backed terrorism. It was only much later when the damage was done that the truth of the massacre came out, implicating Indian soldiers and intelligence agencies in this heinous crime.
The Indian security forces went a step ahead in their brutality back then. Indian police opened fire on unarmed Kashmiris protesting the murders of five innocent Muslims right after the staged Sikh massacre, killing another eight innocent people and bringing the total toll of this massacre closer to fifty.
P Chidambaram has ensured his entire trip to the United States was focused on Pakistans alleged lack of seriuosness in dealing with the Mumbai attackers, and the recent allegations of rocket attacks provides the perfect backdrop to Indias persecution complex.
Pakistan calls Indias bluff.
Pakistan has officially offered to hold an open debate with the Indian home minister over the probing of Mumbai attacks.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said, I am ready for the debate anywhere in India, Pakistan or wherever his Indian counterpart likes.
Talking to journalists in Islamabad, Malik started off by pointing out that the first formal response to Pakistans February 9 request for information came on June 20th and that too was in Marathi language. Besides citing other Indian lapses, he pointed out that India refused to share the Samjotha Express dossier which was of critical importance as a friendly country, which is also close to India, had told us that one of the Mumbai terrorists was also involved in the Mumbai incident.
Malik said he had received the latest Indian dossier in which the Indians have provided us with a statement from Ajmal Kasab, who claims now speaking to Hafiz Saeed when he was in Mumbai.
Initially the Indians said Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi was the mastermind and we arrested him now they have started saying that Hafiz Saeed is the mastermind, Malik said.
Pakistan to take up Kashmir and Afghanistan before the UN
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has decided to take up the issue of Kashmir and Afghanistan effectively at a session of the United Nations General Assembly this year.
Pakistan will inform the international community about reservations with regard to Indians tactics not to resolve the Kashmir issue as well as the war against terrorism in Afghanistan.
The decision to this effect was taken during two separate meetings held at the foreign office, a private TV channel reported. Relevant authorities briefed the Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi about Kashmir and Afghanistan.
During the meeting it was decided that Pakistan would ask the United Nations to ensure a resolution of the long-lingering issue of Kashmir on a priority basis for durable peace in the region.
The international community would also be informed about the human rights violations committed by Indian forces in held Kashmir, sources said.
Besides officers of relevant authorities, officers of intelligence agencies including Director General Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shujja Pasha attended the meeting.
Pakistan will also take up the issue of Afghanistan during the session and would inform the largest world body about problems being faced by Pakistan due to action of Afghanistan based allied forces in neighboring country, channel reported.
Dan Qayyum works as a consultant and analyst for Bridgehead Institute and PKKH, and can be reached on [email protected]
