By
Sajjad Shaukat
It has been learnt
through credible online sources that Engineer Mohammad Khan, the 1st Advisor and a close friend of Afghan Chief Executive Abdullah
Abdullah has been arrested by Afghan forces/agencies for alleged links with the
Islamic State group also known as Daish, ISIS or ISIL. Information strongly
suggests that Daish has penetrated even in high ranking Afghan government
officials as well.
In this regard, it is
notable that Ajit Doval, the ex-spymaster who is now National Security Advisor
of Indian Prime Minister Narendra is the real author and controller of India’s
offensive-defensive doctrine.
As part of its
offensive-defensive doctrine, India is destabilizing Afghanistan—all regional
states, while its major focus has always been towards Pakistan, a policy of
weakening Pakistan.
Waging a prolonged war
in Afghanistan, the US and other NATO countries have realized that after the
withdrawal of foreign troops, Afghanistan would be thrown in an era of
uncertainly and civil war. They recognize the fact and terrorism or stability
in Pakistan and Afghanistan is interrelated. Therefore, US-led developed
nations which also spent billions of dollars for the development of Afghanistan
have repeatedly agreed that without Islamabad’s help, stability cannot be
achieved there. Unfortunately, India does not intend see peace in that country
and is undermining regional stability by creating unrest in Afghanistan and
some other countries, and by sabotaging their cordial relations.
As regards Afghanistan,
India is playing a double game in accordance with the offensive-defensive
doctrine of Ajit Doval. RAW has well-established its network in Afghanistan and
is in connivance with the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and Daish). On
January 13, 2015, at least seven personal of the Afghan security forces died
during the suicide attack which targeted the Pakistani consulate in Jalalabad.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the terror assault.
The attack which
coincided with efforts to restart the stalled peace process with Taliban
insurgents and ease diplomatic tensions between India and Pakistan, added a
dangerous new element to Afghanistan’s volatile security mix. In this context,
delegates from Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States had met to
try to resurrect efforts to end nearly 15 years of bloodshed in Afghanistan.
In this respect, in the
recent past, cordial relations were established between Pakistan and
Afghanistan when Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had realized that Afghanistan
and Pakistan were facing similar challenges of terrorism and would combat this
threat collectively.
While, it is misfortune
that on direction of New Delhi and like the former regime of Afghan President
Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan’s present rulers have also started accusing Pakistan
of cross-border terrorism. In this connection, after hours of the Taliban
captured Kunduz city, on September 28, 2015, during his address to the UNO
General Assembly, Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah blamed
Islamabad for carrying out cross-border attacks and destabilizing Afghanistan.
Differences exist
between Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah and President Ashraf Ghani, as the
former wants cordial relations with New Delhi at the cost of Afghanistan and
the latter prefers Islamabad.
It is mentionable that
on December 10, 2016, President Ghani accepted the resignation of Rahmatullah
Nabil as director of the Afghan intelligence agency, National Directorate of
Security (NDS), after developing differences of the spymaster with him over
Ghani’s move to attend the regional conference in Islamabad.
And Prime Minister
Sharif and President Ghani also showed their determination that their countries
would cooperate in fighting the threat of ISIS.
The US is also playing
double game with Pakistan, because it is the only nuclear country in the
Islamic World, which irritates America and Israel. Hence, secret agents of
American CIA, Israeli Mossad and Indian RAW which are well-penetrated in Daish
are making efforts to weaken Tibetan regions of China, Iran and especially
Pakistan’s province of Balochistan by arranging the subversive activities,
promoting acrimonious sense of dissent, political volatility, sectarian
violence and arousing sentiments of separatism. In this regard, the
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is their special target.
Again, in case of
Afghanistan, there are several groups of Al-Qaeda, Daesh and Taliban like the
TTP. Some of them are being used by secret agencies like CIA, Mossad and RAW to
obtain the collective and individual designs of their countries against Pakistan
and Middle Eastern countries. India and Israel
which want to prolong the stay of the US-led NATO troops in Afghanistan which
have become the center of covert activities, are exploiting their dual policy,
especially of America against Pakistan, China and Iran. Particularly,
terrorists of Daish and TTP which are strategic assets of the CIA, RAW and
Mossad have claimed responsibility for several terror attacks inside
Pakistan, including the recent ones in Lahore, Balochistan, Karachi and in
Afghanistan.
In fact, in collusion
with Afghanistan’s NDS, especially, RAW has set up its secret network in
Afghanistan, and is fully assisting cross-border incursions and
terror-activities in various regions of Pakistan through Baloch separatist
elements and anti-Pakistan groups like Baluchistan Liberation Army (BLA),
Jundullah (God’s soldiers) and TTP.
It is an undeniable fact
that Ajit Doval’s cronies are creating law and order problems in Afghanistan.
Particularly, Indian nexus with Daish and TTP leaders like Hakimullah Masood
and Mulla Fazalullah has been proved by the recent revelation of the TTP
militant Latifullah Mahsood regarding the incident of Army Public School
Peshawar and exploitation of Baloch sub-nationalists. It has also exposed Ajeet
Doval’s offensive-defensive doctrine—anti-Pakistan statements of India’s BJP
leadership, while pointing out that New Delhi is the main spoiler of peace in
Afghanistan, and is still manipulating the militants of Daish, TTP,, East
Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM) etc. against Pakistan, China and Afghanistan.
Notably, with the start
of 2016, frequency of terrorist incidents has increased manifold in
Afghanistan, indicating the frustration of the spoiler (India), after her
proxies were uprooted from Pakistani soil. Moreover, Afghan people also feel
wary of protracted proxy warfare, strife and lawlessness in their country and
are desirous for peace. But, New Delhi does not want it.
Besides, Indian high
officials and media have always shifted the blame game of Afghanistan’s unrest
towards Pakistan. It is a true reflection of Indian establishment which is
intolerant to any improvement in the bilateral relations between both Pakistan
and Afghanistan.
Nevertheless, if not
checked in time by the US-led western powers, India’s offensive-defensive
doctrine will destabilize Pakistan and Afghanistan including the whole region,
jeopardizing the political and economic interests of America and NATO countries
which demand stability and peace in the region, particularly in Afghanistan and
Pakistan. They must also abandon their double game.
Sajjad Shaukat writes on
international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants,
Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
Email:
sajjad_logic@yahoo.com
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