By
Sajjad Shaukat
Because of its ideal
strategic location, and being the lonely nuclear country in the Islamic World,
Pakistan has become special target of the US, India and Israel whose secret
agencies have been destabilizing it through various kinds of terror attacks. These
hostile elements are also using propaganda in maligning Pakistan. For the
purpose, they have also hired the services of those Pakistanis who are
vulnerable and can work against the national interest of their own country. In
this regard, Mrs. Farahnaz Ispahani, the wife of
the former ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani has also proved
herself as another anti-Pakistan agent like her husband.
On January 13, 2016,
Farahnaz Ispahani, ex-Member of Pakistan’s Parliament was invited by Observer
Research Foundation (ORF)-Indian secret agency, RAW affiliated think tank in
New Delhi to launch her newly written book titled ‘Purifying the Land of the
Pure – Pakistan’s Religious Minorities’. The launch ceremony was moderated by
Ashok Malik, senior fellow at ORF/ journalist with leaning towards the ruling
party BJP’s, Shankar Ayer ex-Minister/Indian National Congress, Vevik Katju,
ex-Ambassador/highly anti-Pakistan writer and Sushaini Haider, leading Indian
anchor, journalist of ‘The Hindu’. A good number of Indian foreign analysts,
diplomats, retired defence and intelligence officers attended the event. Ashok
Malik highlighted the plight of minorities in Pakistan, terming it against the
concepts of Pakistan’s founding father. Indian participants mainly focused on
Pakistan’s identity and argued that most suitable national identity for
Pakistan was not Islam, but their being part of Indian civilization was more
realistic and sustainable.
During presentation Mrs.
Farahnaz said that the basic ideology of Pakistan i.e. to make a nation on the
basis of religion is fundamentally wrong. Pakistan has most dangerous
anti-blasphemy laws in the world that has made the life of minorities in
Pakistan extremely difficult. Since minorities in Pakistan have gone down from
23% (on partition) to the present 3%, the main target now is Shias and
Ahmedies—recent acts by Pakistani Prime Minister Muhammad
Nawaz Sharif and the political parties to show attention towards
Hindus and Christians in merely tokenism.
She elaborated that the
former President of Pakistan, Gen. Zia-ul-Haq-the military dictator was the
main author of the plight of minorities in Pakistan. Pakistan Army also
persecuted Bengalis as a separate ethnic group which was considered more close
to the Hindu Bengalis due to similar language and culture. Pakistan created
Al-Shams and Al-Badar groups to target Bengalis.
Farahnaz further said
that use of jihadis for strategic objectives by Pak Army with Saudi and US
funding is the latest cause of growing persecution of minorities in
Pakistan—Pakistani leadership is responsible for hardening of public attitude
towards minorities in Pakistan.
However, while following
the foreign agenda against Pakistan, Farahnaz Ispahani has totally ignored the
plight of religious minorities in India. She did not pay attention to the fact
that since the leader of the ruling party BJP Narendra Modi became Prime
Minister of India, various developments like unprecedented rise of Hindu
extremism, persecution of minorities, forced conversions of other religious
minorities into Hindus, ban on beef and cow slaughter, inclusion of Hindu
religious books in curriculum etc. clearly show that encouraged by the
fundamentalist rulers, Hindu extremist outfits such as BJP, RSS VHP, Bajrang
Dal and Shiv Sena including other similar parties have been promoting religious
and ethnic chauvinism in India by propagating ideology of Hindutva (Hindu
nationalism). The extremist Hindus have particularly accelerated assaults on
Muslims and Christians, including their places of worship. In this context,
event western media have highlighted the plight of minorities in India.
She must realize that
radicalization of India by Hindu fanatic groups could be judged from some other
developments. On May 28, 2014, Rashtriya Hindu Andolan, a Mangalore-based
Hindutva outfit and activists from various right wing groups organized a
protest in Mangalore in front of the office of Deputy Commissioner by demanding
the authorities to ban the morning Muslim call to prayer (Azan) across the country.
Besides, forcing the Muslim employee in a Parliament Canteen by BJP leader to
break his fast by stuffing piece of bread in his mouth, statement of Deputy
Chief of Goa, declaring India as a Hindu state and opposition to declaration of
Sania Mirza as Ambassador of Indian state by calling her daughter-in-law of
Pakistan, including previous events such as the planned destruction of the
Babri Masjid (mosque) in 1992 and genocide of the 2500 Muslims in 2002 in the
then BJP-ruled Indian state of Gujarat where Modi was Chief Minister—and
participants of the Indian high officials in the events also need her
attention.
Although Farahnaz
Ispahani is and educated lady, yet she also neglected facts in relation to
propaganda of India and Bagladesh regarding the events, leading to separation
of East Pakistan.
In this respect,
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajid and her ruling party Awami
League have continuously been pursuing Indian directions by conducting
anti-Pakistan campaign. In connivance with New Delhi, Bangladesh government and
Awami League have launched a massive media campaign in order to spread venom
against Pakistan and its armed forces and against all those Bangladeshi
nationals who were loyal to the state during 1971 crisis. They exaggerate the
figures of Bengalis’ deaths by Pak Army.
The dismemberment of
Pakistan was aimed at creating a compliant country through Indian trained and
financed terrorists (Mukti Bahini) who had killed thousands of Pakistanis in
cold blooded activities. In this connection, while addressing a ceremony during
his Bangladesh tour, Indian Prime Minister Modi openly stated on June 7, 2015
that Indian forces helped Mukti Bahini to turn East Pakistan into Bangladesh.
He elaborated that former prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had played an
active role in separating Bangladesh from Pakistan, and he had also come to
Delhi in 1971 to participate in the Satyagraha Movement, launched by Jana Sangh
as a volunteer to garner support for the Mukti Bahini members.
A regards the so-called
genocide of the Bengali people, a famous Bengali journalist Sarmila Bose
authored a book, “Dead Reckoning: Memories of the 1971 Bangladesh War” after
thorough investigation. She terms the number, a gigantic rumor, while
Hamoodur Rahman Commission Report considers even 26,000 as an exaggerated
figure. Richard Sisson and Leo E. Rose in book titled “War and Secession:
Pakistan, India and the Creation of Bangladesh” and Gary Bass in his book “The
Blood Telegram” clearly admit that figures about so-called genocide were
Indian purported.
Sheikh Mujeeb-ur-Rehman was already in collusion with India for separation of
East Pakistan. In this context, Farahnaz should also read the book of Asoka Raina, ‘Inside RAW: The Story of India’s Secret
Service’, which discloses, “Indian intelligence agencies were involved in
erstwhile East Pakistan…its operatives were in touch with Sheikh Mujib as the
possible ‘Father’ of a new nation-Bangladesh, who went to Agartala in 1965. The
famous Agartala case was unearthed in 1967. In fact, the main purpose of
raising RAW in 1968 was to organise covert operations in Bangladesh. Indian
army officers and RAW officials used Bengali refugees to set up Mukti Bahini.
Using this outfit as a cover, Indian military sneaked deep into East
Pakistan…the story of Mukti Bahini and RAW’s role in its creation and training
is now well-known.”
It is
notable that there is no difference between Farahnaz and her husband Hssain
Haqqani who also leaves no stone unturned in distorting the image of Pakistan
and it armed forces, while showing the country a fundamentalist state in order
to please their external masters. As regards Husain Haqqani, while serving as
Pakistani ambassador, he was protecting American interests. He had issued visas
to many CIA agents like Ramond Davis to weaken Pakistan. Besides, working at
various American institutes, Husain Haqqani developed secret liasons with
Indo-Israeli lobbies and became covert element of anti-Pakistan campaign.
Particularly, this could be judged from his book, titled, ‘Pakistan: Between
Mosque and Military.’ In this book, Husain Haqqani targeted both military and
Islamic ideology. While pointing out relationship of the Pak Army and its primary
intelligence agency, ISI with the Islamic militants, Haqqani allegedly wrote,
“since September 11, 2001, the selective cooperation of Pakistan’s military
ruler, General Pervez Musharraf—sharing intelligence with the United States and
apprehending Al Qaeda members—have led to the assumption that Pakistan might be
ready to give up its long-standing ties with radical Islam.” He advised
America, “Washington should no longer condone the Pakistani military’s support
for Islamic militants.”
American
famous writers and authors exaggeratedly praised the book of Husain Haqqani.as
it was in accordance with the hidden agenda and blame game of the US high
officials and media which still continue against Pakistan and its security
agencies. Especially, Stephen P. Cohen, author of the book, ‘The Idea of
Pakistan and The Pakistan Army’ allegedly wrote, “We are in Husain Haqqani’s
debt for providing the authoritative account of the linkages between Pakistan’s
powerful Islamists and its professional army.”
Moreover,
Hussain Haqqani also escaped to America to avoid judicial inquiry of the famous
memogate issue, which proved his disloyalty to Pakistan.
It is mentionable that
during his briefing to the National Assembly, on January 19, this year, while
confirming anti-Pakistan lobbies in the US, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for
Defence Khawaja Asif revealed, “Pakistan is trying to acquire eight F-16 fighter
jets from the US on lease, but Husain Haqqani, the
former ambassador to the US is campaigning along with India to malign
Pakistan and to block delivery of F-16 fighter jets.”
Nevertheless, we can
claim that like her husband, Farahnaz Ispahani is also anti-Pakistan agent.
Email:
sajjad_logic@yahoo.com
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