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| Islamabad's hierarchs are squirming at the latest volley India's prime minister Manmohan Singh has fired at them. But aren't they paying the wages of their own act of inaction? Even a babe can easily discern India is working on a game plan to get Pakistan declared a terrorist state and is leaving no opportunity unexploited to further its objective. And what has been the Islamabad establishment's counteraction all along? Next to nothing; can anyone rationally say if it is not?
Just consider this. When the army moved in Swat and Malakand to curb Swati thug Fazlullah's murder squads, it stumbled on foreign weapons in their arsenals. These included Indian-made arms. Yet Islamabad establishment made no issue of it. And as the Frontier Corps, earlier, launched its pacification campaign in Bajaur Agency, weapons and infiltrators started pouring in sizably in militants' aid from across the border from Afghanistan, where India's RAW is snuggling up in CIA's lap for joint ventures in destabilising Pakistan. The military establishment spoke of this aid initially and then inexplicably went into a mysterious unbroken fast of silence religiously.
And in its ongoing South Waziristan operation, the army has come across evidence of India's involvement with thug Hakimullah Mehsud and Co, which the army said it had passed on to the foreign office for necessary action. What necessary action the foreign ministry took, one knows not. What one knows only is the prime minister saying the evidence of India's involvement in Pakistan he will disclose at an appropriate time. But when will that appropriate time come? After the Indian dagger has pierced through our chest, leaving this nation fatally wounded? One is really flabbergasted by this Islamabad hierarchy's act. Here an inimical power is palpably all out to gore and prostrate this nation incurably, and Islamabad's hierarchs are just talking of appropriate times and the bunkum of this sort.
What kind of a leadership is this? Nowadays, Singh is given fondly to the chanting of mantra that another Mumbai-like strike on India is being planned in Pakistan. Nobody in Islamabad is bothered to take him on it, asking him equally loudly, persistently and bluntly either pass on relevant information to us, and if you don't then you are plainly only lying. Nobody in Islamabad is contesting the Indians' incessant tirade that Pakistan is dragging its feet on bringing the Mumbai strike's perpetrators in its custody to justice. Out there, all are only on the defensive, none venturing to tell the Indians if the lone surviving attacker in their custody is yet to be tried and convicted by their own court, how could they expect Pakistan to bring the accused in its custody to justice on piecemeal dossiers they are giving to Islamabad?
And yet these hierarchs of Islamabad have the sweet delusion that the world community is appreciative of its action in the episode. When this appreciation is whispered and in which Islamabad ears, we know not. All we hear is foreign leaders and chancelleries asking Pakistan to speed up trial of perpetrators it holds. And all we see is India getting away unscathed with its charade of security threat of terrorism emanating from Pakistan. At home, Singh never tires of warning his compatriots of Maoist insurgents being the "single largest security threat" to India. They indeed hold India's one-third under their sway. And the country's northeast is in the grip of a host of raging insurgencies and separatist movements, with certain parts in control of insurgents, not accessible even to its army.
Yet to the international audience he tells security threat to India comes only from terrorism from Pakistan, even accusing it of using terrorism as state policy. And for no counter from Islamabad establishment, he is carrying conviction with the world audience. So inert indeed is this establishment that it has not even raked up publicly and internationally the complicity of a serving Indian Military Intelligence colonel in the Samjhota Express bomb blast that killed and wounded scores of Pakistani passengers. And since ages interior minister Rehman Malik has stopped even alluding obliquely to Indian complicity in Balochistan troubles.
Amazingly, it has come to light only now to foreign office spokesman that India is not sincere in dialogue with Pakistan, which was long discernible to the street supposed to be not even fractionally initiated in diplomacy as is the foreign affairs establishment. And the nation's top diplomat Shah Mahmood Qureshi now says either India must return to dialogue or not waste our time. But who will tell him that India is taking them for a ride? It is high time Islamabad's hierarchs must get their act together. Tomorrow will be too late. |
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