By
Sajjad Shaukat
Besides other
related-developments about the US-supported Indo-Israeli nexus, first of all,
we need to refocus on terror attacks in Munich where on July 22, 2016, the lone
gunman Ali David Sonboly killed 10 people after the deadly shooting in Olympia
shopping mall and outside a nearby McDonalds.
Having no connections
with the Islamic State group (Also known as Daesh, ISIS, ISIL), the shooting in
Munich was the result of self-radicalization and self-resentment, conducted by
the Ali David Sonboly. After investigation, French Police revealed that he was
a mentally troubled person and police also discovered extremist material,
linked to the attack by Andres Behring Breivik, the white supremacist who
murdered 77 persons in Norway (Oslo) in 2011. The massacre in Munich took place
on the fifth anniversary of the Norway attacks and Sonboly had recently changed
a profile picture on an online messaging service to one of Breivik.
On July 22, 2011, the
twin terror-attacks in Oslo had killed 80 persons. The Norwegian man Anders
Behring Breivik, a right-wing fundamentalist Christian, who admitted these
attacks was obsessed with what he saw as the Muslim immigration—left behind a
detailed online manifesto, calling for a Christian war to defend Europe against
the threat of Muslims domination.
In this context, Kevin
Barrett disclosed on October 14, 2015 through Veterans Today, “The official
story claims that Anders Breivik acted alone…but survivors of the massacre on
Utoya Island, which annihilated the anti-Zionist leadership of the youth wing
of the Norwegian Labor Party, reported there were multiple gunmen…as in dozens
of other false flag terror operations. The purpose was to punish Norway and its
Labor Party for two policy breaches: Refusing to join NATO’s war on Libya, and
moving toward a full boycott of Israel.”
In his message, Breivik
also favoured the Hindu nationalism (Hindutva)—the anti-Muslim movement of the
Hindu fanatic parties.
As regards
terrorism-related events of India, this could be judged from the incident, when
on April 6, 2008 in a house of the fundamentalist outfit Bajrang Dal in Nanded,
a bomb went off. The investigation proved that the militants were found in
bomb-making. Anti-Terrorism Squad (ATS) of the Maharashtra arrested a serving
Lt. Col. Srikant Purohit along with other army officials, indicating that they
were helping in training the Hindu terrorists, providing them with the
military-grade explosive RDX, used in terrorist attacks in various Indian
cities. ATS further disclosed that Lt. Col. Purohit confessed that in 2007, he
was involved in bombing of Samjhota express (Train between Pakistan and India
in which a majority of Pakistanis travel), which burnt alive 70 Pakistanis.
In one of his various
tapes, LT. Col Purohit said about Indo-Israeli nexus, “We are all on the same plane, Hindu Rashtra (Nation)”. He even claimed,
“Gen. J. J. Singh (Singh was Army Chief till Sept. 2007) is with us…one
of our own captain had visited Israel”, and demanded “continuous supply of
arms, training, an office with a saffron flag in Tel Aviv, political asylum and
support for our cause of a Hindu Nation in the UN.”
Regarding Hindu
terrorism, the then Indian Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde pointed out on
January 20, 2013 that organized training camps run by the fundamentalist
parties; RSS and BJP (Ruling party of India) were promoting Hindu Terrorism. He
also explained that these extremist parties were behind the Samjhauta Express,
Meccca Masjid and Malegaon blasts.
While, Indian top
officials and media had been accusing Pakistan-based
banned Lashkar-e-Tayba and country’s intelligence agency ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) of these terrorism-related incidents, including Mumbai
terror attacks of November 2016, the Indian parliament assault of
December 13, 2001 and militants’ attack at
Indian Air Force Base in Pathankot, which occurred on January 2, 2016.
It is of particular
attention that on July 19, 2013, the Indian former home ministry’s official and
ex investigating officer Satish Verma disclosed that terror attacks in Mumbai
in November 26, 2008 and assault on Indian Parliament in January 12, 2001 were
carried out by the Indian government to strengthen anti-terrorism laws.
However, Indo-Israeli
secret nexus is not confined to the statements of Anders Breivik and LT. Col
Purohit, as it has official links. This could be assessed from the interview of
the then Israel’s ambassador to India, Mark Sofer, published in the Indian
weekly Outlook on February 18, 2008. Regarding India’s defense arrangements
with Tel Aviv, Sofer had surprisingly disclosed, “We do have a defense
relationship with India, and “with all due respect, the secret part will remain
a secret.”
Indo-Israeli nexus
remained under wraps till 2003, when Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
visited India to officially expose it. In this regard, Indian ‘The Tribune’
wrote on September 10, 2003, “India and Israel took giant leaps forward in
bolstering the existing strategic ties and forging new ones” and Tel Aviv has
“agreed to share its expertise with India in various fields as anti-fidayeen
operations, surveillance satellites, intelligence sharing and space
exploration.” Nevertheless, from anti-missile systems to hi-tech radars, from
sky drones to night-vision equipment, Indo-Israeli defense cooperation has
known no bounds in recent times.
The matter is not
confined to purchasing of military equipments only, Indo-Israeli overt and
covert connections are part of a dangerous strategic game in Asia. In this
connection, the then Israeli premier, Benjamin Netanyahu had already made it
clear in July 1997 saying, “Our ties with India don’t have any limitations—as
long as India and Israel are friendly, it is a strategic gain.”
In the first week of
February, 2012, Israeli secret agency, Mossad’s Chief Tamir Pardo visited
India. Pardo’s detailed talks with the Chief of Indian spy agency, RAW, Sanjeev
Tripathi was part of Indo-Israeli secret alliance. The major aim of that
meeting was to accelerate joint initiatives through their intelligence agencies
so as to manipulate the strategic developments in South and Central Asia
including Middle East. The purposes behind the liaison were also to intensify
covert activities particularly to destabilize Pakistan, Syria, Iran, and other
Middle Eastern countries, and to exploit the US hard-lining approach against
China.
Particularly, fast
growing economic power of China coupled with her rising strategic relationship
with the Third World, and especially Pakistan—after signing of agreement,
China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) has irked the eyes of Americans,
Indians and Israelis Owing to jealousy, America desires to make India a major
power to counterbalance China in Asia.
It is notable that for
these aims, by availing the phenomenon of lawlessness in Afghanistan, secret
agencies like American CIA, Mossad and RAW have well-established their covert
network in that country, and as part of the double game, they have been using
the terrorists of the Islamic State group (ISIS) and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan
(TTP) for conducting various terror attacks in Pakistan. These secret agencies
are also making efforts to weaken Tibetan regions of China, Pakistan’s province
of Balochistan and Sistan-Balochistan of Iran by promoting acrimonious sense of
dissent and political volatility, and sectarian violence between Sunnis and
Shias, as noted in case of Syria including other Middle Eastern countries. Collectively or individually, these intelligence
agencies are also assisting Jundullah (God’s soldiers)—the Sunni militant group
which is active in Balochistan against Shias. Besides martyring several
personnel of Pakistan’s security agencies in the province, these foreign-backed
entities kidnapped and massacred many innocent people, including Chinese and
Iranian nationals. In this connection, The World Beast Com has also
pointed out foreign conspiracy against Balochistan.
Pakistan has become hub
of cross frontier proxies and the role of New Delhi has become naked after
Pakistan’s security forces arrested Indian spy Kulbhushan Yadav in Balochistan
on March 24, 2016. Yadav openly admitted that he was the serving agent of Indian
secret agency RAW in Balochistan province, and during his stay, he contacted
various Baloch separatist leaders and insurgents, including Dr Allah Nazar
Baloch, to execute the task to damage the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
project.
Taking cognizance of
aggressive policies of the US-led Western countries, in the recent past, China
has openly offered Russia a military alliance against NATO. In April 2016,
China also decided to join Russian alliance by sending 5,000 of its most elite
military forces into the Levant War Zone to help Russia in the fight against
ISIS, particularly in Syria.
Meanwhile, keeping
silence over the Indian new phase of state terrorism and protests of the
Kashmiris, which started since July 8, 2016 against the martyrdom of the young
Kashmiri leader Burhan Wani by Indian security forces, during the visit of the
US Secretary of State John Kerry to New Delhi, speaking at a joint news
conference Kerry and Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj said on August 30,
this year that the dialogue in New Delhi comes a
day after the two countries, at the Pentagon, signed a watershed agreement to
allow their military forces access to each other’s bases—to intensify
intelligence sharing on terrorism—the two countries also renewed their commitment
to track down and prosecute perpetrators of several terrorist attacks on Indian
soil. Swaraj stated that Kerry had had a “meeting of the minds” on cross-border
extremism that India and its neighbors face from militants in Pakistan.”
Kerry said, “The U.S.
stands with India against terrorism no matter where it comes from.” But, he did
say he had spoken recently with Pakistani officials about “the need for
Pakistan to deprive any (terrorist) group of sanctuary.”
Although peace and
brinksmanship cannot co-exist in the modern era, yet with backing of America,
India and Israel seeks to destabilize Asia through their aggressive designs.
As part of the double
standards, America brushed aside the Indian poor record regarding the safety of
nuclear weapons and materials. And despite, Indian violations of various
international agreements and its refusal to sign Non-Proliferation Treaty
(NPT), Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and Additional Protocol with the
International Atomic Agency (IAEA), during President Barack Obama’s visit to
India, on January 25, 2016, the US and India announced a breakthrough on a pact
which would allow American companies to supply New Delhi with civilian nuclear
technology, as agreed upon in 2008. During Indian Prime Minister Modi’s recent
visit to America, President Obama strongly assured him to favour India’s
membership in the meeting of the Nuclear Supplier Group (NSG). Earlier,
Washington also pressurized IAEA to sign an accord of specific safeguards with
New Delhi. America had already contacted the NSG to grant a waiver to India for
starting civil nuclear trade on larger scale.
On November 2, 2010, US
agreed to sell India the most expensive—the new F-35 fighter jets including US
F-16 and F-18 fighters, C-17 and C-130 aircraft, radar systems, Harpoon weapons
etc. Besides acquisition of arms and weapons from other western countries,
America emerged a potential military supplier to India.
On the other side,
following contradictory policy, the US high officials who had praised the
safety of Pakistan’s atomic weapons, again expressed concern on February 12,
this year over the security of Pakistan’s tactical nuclear weapons, as stated
by spokesman of the US State Department. Recently, the US State Department
official David Ranz stated that the deal of supplying F-16 aircraft to Pakistan
was no longer possible, because the deal expired on May 24, 2016, as the US
Congress did not approve it.
In case of Afghanistan,
there are several groups of Al-Qaeda, ISIS and Taliban. Some of them are being
used by CIA, Mossad and RAW to obtain the collective and individual designs of
their countries against Pakistan and the Middle East. India and Israel which
want to prolong the stay of the US-led NATO troops in Afghanistan which have
become the center of their covert activities, are exploiting their dual policy,
especially of America against Pakistan, China and Iran. In order to obtain
their collective aims, RAW and Mossad are using terrorists of ISIS and TTP to
conduct terror attacks in Afghanistan to create further lawlessness in that
country because it suits their clandestine interests.
In the first week of
May, 2016, credible online sources disclosed 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 ISIS.
Information strongly suggests that the ISIS has penetrated even in high ranking
Afghan government officials as well.
It is noteworthy that
those Taliban groups which are fighting against the foreign occupying forces
for the liberation of their country know that ISIS is backed by the US-led
countries such as Israel and India Hence, a number of times; they have attacked
on the ISIS terrorists in Afghanistan.
In the recent years,
when the US-led NATO forces felt that they were failing in coping with the
stiff resistance of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the high officials and media of
their countries started accusing Pakistan’s army and country’s spy agency, ISI
of supporting the Afghan Taliban so as to pacify their public for the
protracted war in that country, which still continues. India avail the
opportunity and also accused Islamabad of cross-border terrorism in
Afghanistan.
It is also of particular
attention that the armed forces of Pakistan have broken the backbone of the
foreign-backed terrorists by the successful military operation Zarb-e-Azb,
which has also been extended to other parts of the country, including
Balochistan where CIA, RAW and Mossad were assisting the insurgents of ISIL,
TTP and separatist elements to conduct subversive acts. And Pakistan’s primary
intelligence agency, ISI has broken the network of these terrorist groups by
capturing several militants, while thwarting a number of terror attempts.
But, based in
Afghanistan, with the tactical support of the US, India and Israel were behind
a deadly suicide bomber in Quetta-the provincial capital of Balochistan, which
killed at least 74 people on August 8, 2016 in an attack at the government-run
Civil Hospital.
Through its Amaq news
agency, ISIL claimed responsibility for the explosion at the Civil Hospital by
saying, “The Middle East-based movement was behind the atrocity…a martyr from
the Islamic State detonated his explosive belt at a gathering of justice
ministry, employees and Pakistani policemen in the city of Quetta.”
It is worth-mentioning
that Pakistan considers that peace in
Afghanistan is a guarantee of peace in Pakistan, therefore, has been striving
for the same in utter sincerity. But, the US-led, India and Israel do not want
to see the peace and prosperity in the region. Sadly, Pakistan’s dominant role
in Afghanistan’s peace process under the Quadrilateral Coordination Group (QCG)
has, deliberately, been sabotaged by killing of the Taliban leader Mullah
Akhtar Mansur in a CIA-operated drone attack in Nushki, Balochistan on May 21,
2016, which badly derailed Afghan dialogue process, as Afghan Taliban leaders
refused to participate in the US-sponsored talks with the Afghan government.
While, in the recent past, with the help of Islamabad, a series of meetings
were held in Islamabad and Kabul among the representatives of Pakistan,
Afghanistan, China and the US to develop an understanding for the earliest
possible resumption of stalled talks between the Afghan government and the
Taliban with view to ending nearly 15 years of bloodshed in Afghanistan.
On the one side, America was asking Pakistan to help in convicting the Afghan
Taliban for a solution of the Afghan war through negotiations, but they
deliberately killed their leader through drone attack.
It is mentionable that
on January 13, 2015, at least seven personnel of the Afghan security forces
died during the suicide attack which targeted the Pakistani consulate in
Jalalabad. The ISIL claimed responsibility for the terror assault which
coincided with efforts to restart the suspended peace process with the Afghan
Taliban. Pakistani sources suggested that Indian secret agency RAW was behind
this terror attack to thwart these peace talks. Besides,
ISIS claimed responsibility for the twin suicide blasts which killed more than
80 persons by targeting the peaceful rally of the Shiite minority of Hazaras on
July 23, 2016 in Kabul.
It is due to American
double game and double standards in relation to India and Pakistan that trust
deficit has deepened between Islamabad and Washington. Therefore, on June 10,
2016, a high-level delegation of the US visited Islamabad and met Pakistan’s
Chief of the Army Staff Gen. Raheel Sharif and Adviser to the Prime Minister
Nawaz Sharif on Foreign Affairs Sartaj Aziz Adviser separately.
During the meeting,
expressing his serious concern on the latest
drone strike in Balochistan as violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty, Gen.
Raheel Sharif highlighted as to how it had impacted the mutual trust and was
counterproductive in consolidating the gains of Operation Zarb-e-Azb against
terrorists. He elaborated, “All stakeholders need to understand Pakistan’s
challenges-inter-tribal linkages and decades-old presence of over three million
Afghan refugees—blaming Pakistan for instability in Afghanistan is
unfortunate—target TTP and its chief Mullah Fazlullah in their bases in Afghanistan—Indian
RAW and NDS [Afghan National Directorate of Security] are fomenting terrorism
in Pakistan.”
US ambivalent policy
about Islamabad could also be judged from some other development. In this
respect, another delegation of US Senators including Senator Lindsey Graham led
by Senator John McCain, Chairman of US Senate Arms Services committee visited
Islamabad and North Waziristan Agency (NWA) on July 3, 2016. The US Senators
visited areas cleared of terrorists during Operation Zarb-e-Azb. American delegation
appreciated the Pakistan Army’s accomplishment of cleansing the entire area of
NWA right up to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, after witnessing the
terrorists’ hideouts and communication infrastructure dismantled by the
Pakistan Army.
Outwardly, American top
officials have been admiring the capabilities of Pakistan’s security agencies
against terrorism, but inwardly, they are not pleased regarding the successes,
achieved by the armed forces of Pakistan against the militants, because the US
is acting upon a dual strategy in relation to Islamabad.
Notably, 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, perennial atrocities on the innocent Kashmiris in the Indian-occupied
Kashmir, creation of warlike situation with Pakistan, extremist statements of
Modi against Pakistan etc. clearly show that encouraged by the fundamentalist
rulers, Hindu extremist parties such as BJP, RSS VHP, Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena
have been promoting religious and ethnic chauvinism in India. Especially,
assaults on Christians and Muslims including their places of warships and
property have been intensified by the fanatic Hindu mobs.
Under Modi rule, as part
of anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan approach, New Delhi accelerated unprovoked
firing at the Line of Control in Kashmir and Working Boundary across Pak-Indian
border. While, in the recent months, extremists Hindus and other fundamentalist
groups intensified assaults on the Muslims and Pakistani artists, famous
literary persons—members of the cricket boards etc.
Taking note of
maltreatment of minorities by the fanatic Hindus, in the recent past, more than
200 Indian writers, authors, scientists, artists, filmmakers, film-stars etc.
decided to return their national awards in protest to rising Hindu extremism,
while more than 100 persons have returned their rewards. Former Indian military
personnel have also started returning their medals, criticizing the policies of
the BJP government.
Surprisingly, by
ignoring the solution of the Kashmir dispute between Pakistan and India,
silence of the US and some Western countries regarding these developments have
emboldened the Indian prime minister and Hindu extremist outfits to continue
their activities. This contradiction displays American hypocrisy, as now Modi
has become darling of the US and even of other Western countries which have
totally ignored Modi’s encouragement to Hindu terrorism.
Nevertheless, Tel Aviv
and New Delhi have been acting upon a secret diplomacy in targeting the whole
Islamic World in general and Pakistan, China, Iran, Libya and Syria in
particular. In this respect, by manipulating President Obama’s conflicting
strategy, both India and Israel have also been propagating that a ‘nuclearized’
Pakistan, having close ties with China is sponsoring cross-border terrorism in
Afghanistan and Kashmir. And Iran and Syria are doing the same acts in Saudi
Arabia, Lebanon and Israel. Particularly, New Delhi considers Pakistan as its
enemy number one. America and Israel are also against Pakistan, as it is the
only nuclear country in the Islamic World.
Both Tel Aviv and New
Delhi who had jumped on the bandwagon of American fake global war on terror
have been equating the ‘wars of liberation’ in Palestine and Kashmir with
terrorism and under the cover, accelerated state terrorism on these controlled
territories. Their main purpose is to divert the attention of the West from
their own brutal tactics, while employing delaying tactics in the solution of Kashmir
dispute and the Israeli-Palestinian issue.
In fact, Jewish-Hindu
lobbies are collectively working in America and are well-penetrated in the US
Administration and governments of the Western countries, especially Europe.
These lobbies are exploiting the war against terrorism and presumed threats of
Iran, China and Pakistan so as to protect the Indo-Israeli covert designs. With
the help of some American law-makers and media, these entities have introduced
dangerous socio-religious dimension in the world by equating the “war on
terror” with “war on Islam” and acts of Al-Qaeda and ISIS with all the Muslims.
With the support of these lobbies and in connivance with the US
neoconservatives, India and Israel have been exaggerating the threat of
Islamophobia.
In this context, on
October 19, 2007, the special issue of South Asia Multidisciplinary Academic
Journal, under the caption-‘Working for India or against Islam? Islamophobia in
Indian American Lobbies’ wrote, “In the past few years, Indian American community
has gained an unprecedented visibility in the international arena and now
constitutes influential ethnic lobbies in Washington. Among other factors,
Hindu aligned with Jewish pressure groups in relation to the war against
terrorism and to further the India-Israel-US strategic partnership play a major
role in exaggerating Islamophobic overtones in the Indian American lobbies.”
Preplanned scheme of the
CIA, Mossad and RAW is also inspiring the Christians and Muslims against each
other. In this regard, in connivance with CIA, Mossad and RAW, the Sunni-based militant groups, Al-Qaeda, ISIS
and their affiliated outfits conducted various forms of terror attacks in
Syria, Turkey, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia etc. and
some African countries like Yemen. Besides Muslims, they also massacred a
number of Christians.
Frustrated owing to
successes achieved by Russia in Syria and Iraq, the US-led India and Israel who
wanted to avoid the settlement of the Kashmir issue and that of the Israeli-Palestinian
disputed—terror attacks in Paris, Brussels, Orlando, San Bernardino, Nice and
Munich which killed several innocent persons were false flag operations and
were part of the secret strategy of CIA, Mossad and RAW which are in
collaboration with each other to obtain the clandestine designs of their
countries, particularly Zionist-Jewish unfinished agenda, while, similarity of
interests has brought Tel Aviv and New Delhi to follow a common secret
strategy. RAW, Mossad and some American CIA agents are also in collusion at the
cost of the global and regional interests of the US and Europe. Owing to these
false flag terror assaults, these intelligence agencies also wanted to divert
the attention of American and Western peoples from internal problems like
financial crisis etc. which are because of the prolonged war in Afghanistan and
phony global war on terror.
Nonetheless, if the
Kashmir issue, Israeli-Palestinian dispute and Syrian crisis remain unsettled,
these will remain nuclear flashpoints. In case, the US keeps backing
Indo-Israeli secret nexus, it may culminate into World War III, also called
“Clash of Civilizations” in Hutington’s sense.
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_pak@hotmail.com
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