By
Sajjad Shaukat
On
the direction of Pakistan’s Chief of Army Stafff General Raheel Sharif,
country’s superior intelligence agency, ISI done hard to bring almost all the
factions of Afghan Taliban to the negotiating table in order to have talks with
the Afghan government. These efforts materialized when representatives from
both the sides reached Islamabad. In this regard, Pakistan Foreign Office said,
“To facilitate Afghan peace talks. A meeting hosted by Pakistan between the
Afghan High Peace Council (HPC), the body tasked with opening negotiations and
Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan representatives in Murree (On July 8, this year)-an
Afghan-owned peace and reconciliation process-the representatives of China and
the USA also participated in the meeting. The participants expressed their
collective desire to bring peace to Afghanistan and the region-agreed to
continue talks-the next meeting will be held at mutually convenient date after
Ramazan”.
India
which has been making attempts to foil the dialogue between the Afghan rulers
and the Afghan Taliban is creating an impression that some groups like Haqqani
outfit did not take part in the new talks. While, the US, China and Pakistan
are jointly working to facilitate the process so as to bring peace both in
Pakistan and Afghanistan. In order to obtain its secret aims, India is
destabilizing the regional countries in general and Pakistan in particular. The
exploitation is aimed at augmenting Indian hegemony in the region. However,
India is sabotaging the peace process between Afghanistan and Pakistan by
managing terrorist attacks on sensitive buildings like the recent assault on
the Afghan parliament. In this context, former Chief of Indian secret agency
RAW, Amarjit Singh Dulat disclosed on June 4, this year that Indian intelligence
agencies have over the years paid money to militants and separatists in the
Indian occupied-Kashmir and Pakistan. However, the statement of RAW chief is
not surprising, as recently, Indian Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar and even
its Prime Minister Narendra Modi Modi openly confirmed assistance to
anti-Pakistan elements including separation of East Pakistan.
It
is notable that Indian former Army Chief Gen. VK Singh also confessed that
during his tenure, he supervised special army unit, Tactical Support Division
(TSD) on the instructions of the then defence minister to sponsor subversive
activities in Pakistan, particularly Balochistan. Undoubtedly, these blatant
admissions clearly prove that New Delhi has been sponsoring worse kinds of
terrorism inside Pakistan by promoting sub-nationalists. New Delhi has been
exploiting these entities locally and abroad as proxies against Pakistan.
Therefore, the matter must be taken up with UN Security Council to declare
India a terror sponsoring state. Nevertheless, Indian RAW has well-established
its 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 and Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) including their affiliated
outfits. They also abducted and killed many Chinese and Iranian nationals. On a
number of occasions, these insurgent groups claimed responsibility for their
acts of sabotage.
RAW
is making efforts to weaken Afghanistan, Tibetan regions of China and Pakistan,
especially Balochistan by arranging the subversive activities, promoting
acrimonious sense of dissent, political volatility, sectarian violence and
arousing sentiments of separatism. It is mentionable that New Delhi which has
already invested billion of dollars in Afghanistan, also signed a wide-ranging
strategic agreement with that country on October 5, 2011. And, the then
President Karzai had also signed another agreement with India to obtain Indian
arms and weapons. However, under the cover of these agreements, India has
further strengthened its grip in Afghanistan. By taking advantage of
lawlessness in Afghanistan, India is up to its usual tirade to foment an
environment by conducting terrorist attacks in that country to prove that
Pakistan is creating trouble for Afghanistan.
It
is noteworthy that Gen. Raheel accompanied by the DG of ISI went to Kabul on
December 17, 2014. During his meeting with his Afghan counterpart, President
Ashraf Ghani and the ISAF commander, he presented the evidence of linkage
between the massacre of children at Peshawar school and TTP sanctuaries in
Afghanistan. He also asked about action against the TTP chief In response,
Afghan government and US has started taking action against the TTP. A number of
TTP militants have been captured in Afghanistan, while Fazlullah survived in a
drone attack. Meanwhile, Washington has also designated Mullah Fazullah as a
global terrorist and seized his Unlike the Indian-backed Afghan President Hamid
Karzai, President Ashraf Ghani realized that Afghanistan and Pakistan are
facing similar challenges of terrorism and will combat this threat collectively.
On May 18, 2015, the two countries signed the security agreement—Pakistan’s ISI
and Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security (NDS) to share intelligence
and conduct coordinated operations against terrorists. And, frequent visits of
Pak-Afghan civil and military leaders to each other’s country also irritate New
Delhi.
Now,
even the US and its western allies who intend to seek stability in Afghanistan
realize that after the withdrawal of foreign troops, Afghanistan will be thrown
in era of uncertainly and civil war—and terrorism or stability in Pakistan and
Afghanistan is interrelated. Hence, US-led developed nations which also pledged
billions of dollars for the development of Afghanistan have repeatedly agreed
that without Islamabad’s help, stability cannot be achieved. So, Indian
desperation in Afghanistan is increasing in the backdrop of growing engagements
of Pakistan, Afghanistan, China and US. Besides, New Delhi is trying to
sabotage the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). Recent terror-attacks in
Pakistan and Balochistan might be noted as example. In this connection, Indian backed
Baloch secessionists have been directed to step up their activities on the CPEC
project. Indian RAW has created a heavily funded China-Pakistan specific desk
to target growing Pak-China-Afghanistan relations.
Nonetheless,
it will be hard for New Delhi to digest these new developments, and it will
create every sort of hurdles to sabotage the same. India is also pressurizing
the British government for not sharing terrorist financing trail with Pakistan,
so that its ulterior motives remain hidden. In fact, India wants instability in
Afghanistan, which favours its clandestine aims. But Pakistan seeks stability
in Afghanistan, which is essential for both the countries including US, China, Iran
and other regional states. In this perspective, facilitation of dialogue
between the Afghan rulers and the Taliban is a positive development, but India
will try to foil these talks.
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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