The Pakistani Spectator

Part 1

India is a vast country and it is also the world’s biggest democracy. It happens to be the major emerging power in South Asia which lies in the heart of the eastern sphere. This country, for its progress and to keep its industrial wheel turning is in dire needs of mineral energy resources, especially the oil and gas. She is headlong and desperate to reach for the energy resources rich lands in Middle East and Central Asia. Unlike the western advanced countries and especially in case of sole super power; the United States of America that they are located some thousand of miles away from these treasure lands; for India these lands are located at just a stone throw distances. The West in order to keep the Middle East and Central Asian countries in their fold, keep on throwing the divisive webs of deceit, like of brinkmanship, oppression, subjugation and inhalation of the indigenous populace to meet their ends. But for India; geographically these treasure lands are just close by across Pakistan and to secure a safe corridor through Pakistan to connect other side and make a firm anchorage there is but natural.

India also considers this corridor to be vital for her that it forms an umbilical cord for the life line of Indian industries because of India’s peculiar inherent geographical drawbacks at home. India happens to be a physically locked country. On its North all along it is locked by the towering snow bound Himalayas. Where as, in the East, South and in the South-West, it is bounded by the vast deep Indian Ocean limiting its horizons all around. The only over land opening in the North-West toward the lucrative energy lands and offering a most convenient as well as a shortest possible over land route is through Pakistan.

The physical lay of Pakistan is just like an old tree trunk with its roots spread toward Arabian Sea in Indian Ocean and its long trunks extends to the North with its top branches reaching the highs of western Himalayas. Pakistan is a land sandwiched between India and Middle East. From western India to Iran, there is a distance of some 600 kilometres across its trunk. Pakistan predominantly a Muslim state is divided into four distinct ethnic sections; Pashtoon in the Northwest, with Punjabi in the East, Sindhis live in its south and vast barren lands of Baluchistan lies in the west. All four sections of area maintain their separate geographical identities. They are distinct in their own physical features, culture and form their separate provinces. Although national language of Pakistan is Urdu with official language as English but due low literacy rate all the province have their own four separate languages. Inter provincial marrying up of masses or intermingling of all the four identities is sadly minimal. Out of 600 kilometres over land route distance in its East from India to West toward Middle East, for about 400 kilometres of western span; there lies the barren and scarcely populated land of Baluchistan. This area has the least of infra structure developed except some good roads net work from east and south to west. Rest of about 200 kilometres of route is very well developed in shape of irrigated lands of Punjab. The immediate neighbour Iran is in due west and the high lands of Afghanistan in Northwest have about 500 and 1000 kilometre long borders respectively. The 1000 kilometres long border especially with Afghanistan is least controlled and is the most porous borders in the world.

About 96% of Pakistani population is Muslim, leading a moderate life style. Pakistanis are talented and hard working people. They are supposed to be the most peace loving nation but for the vicious designs of its eastern neighbour India, primarily to secure an Indian corridor through Pakistan; it usually remains simmering in anarchy and turmoil. This is a known fact that India wants to see Pakistan a weak, least resistant, subservient and a nation which be seen as in its utter disarray and open to exploitations.

Leaving aside the war on terror that after 9/11 incident, the Al Qaeda allegedly based in Afghanistan, close to Pak –Afghan borders were blamed for this attack and hence after US with the help of Pakistan is busy eliminating those forces. On other hands; the fact remains that India has since raised some six consulates in various cities right across Pak-Afghan borders in Afghanistan. India currently has an extensive diplomatic presence in Afghanistan to exploit the given situation. It includes the Indian embassy in Kabul and another four consulates in Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat. These Indian diplomatic missions serve as launching pads for undertaking covert operations against Pakistan, from Afghan soil. Particularly, the Indian consulates in Kandahar and Jalalabad and their embassy in Kabul are used for clandestine, subversive activities inside Pakistan in general and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Baluchistan in particular.

Indian diplomatic and RAW, the Indian intelligence organisation officials have significant ingress in the Afghan ministry of tribal affairs, and are exploiting it to conduct covert activities. Indian agents are instrumental in arranging meetings of tribal elders and Afghans with dual nationalities with Indian consulate officials in Jalalabad, and assisting them in spotting and recruiting suitable tribal elders from Jalalabad and Pakistan’s North and South Waziristan Agencies for covert activities.

RAW has established its training camps in Afghanistan in collaboration with the Northern Alliance remnants. Approximately 600 ferraris, or Baluchi tribal dissidents, were recently given specialized training to handle explosives, engineer bomb blasts, and use sophisticated weapons in these camps. India is gradually increasing the number of its paramilitary personnel in Afghanistan. It is stationing them there on the pretext of providing security and protection to the Border Roads Organization, which is constructing the Zaranj-Dilaram road, and its consulates which even include the Indian Black Cat Commandos.

In pursuance of the vicious designs that India want to see a weaker, subservient Pakistan; she is all out on a subversive war to induce a separatist movement in Baluchistan. India is also paying heftily to the tribal leaders in FATA and back up the Pakistani Taliban with sophisticated weapons, surveillance equipment and money to create anarchy and to challenge the government writ. Pakistan Taliban are carrying out their insurgent and treasonous activities under the pretext of various concocted religious myths to paralyze the government machinery. Reportedly Taliban under the name of Tehrik e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have been able to raise a fully paid army and they also collect taxes. They are spewing terror every where and are fighting to grab, the loosely kept FATA of Pakistan to declare it as their formal domain along with surounding Pashtoon areas. On the other hand India had also struck deals with Iran for developing an energy-motivated transport corridor. This plan was formally launched in 2000 to primarily draw Europe-bound commercial trade traffic away from the Suez Canal to an alternative and much shorter road, rail, and sea route leading from the major Iranian port of Bandar Abbas north westward to the Caspian Sea and beyond to the St. Petersburg gateway and Europe . But with the inception of newly built deep sea, all weather sea port of Gwader of Baluchistan, built with the help of China; there is a mark momentum observed in India’s subversive activities inside Baluchistan and it is more so on increase.

Internationally with its panoramic portrait; Pakistan is seen a complex country, which had its origins formed as a homeland for Indian Muslims. Ever since, it has stayed as a military-dominated state divided into four separate provincials identities. It has experienced uneven economic growth, political chaos, sectarian violence, and several nuclear crises with its much larger neighbour- India for last about sixty years. India remains the most active oppressor and a foe working against the interests of Pakistan as an arch rival to challenge its integrity.

Under the current precarious political situations in the country and war looming at the western borders; Pakistan’s future seems uncertain. Can it survive and able to fulfil its promise of joining the community of nations as a moderate Islamic state, at peace with its neighbours, or could it dissolve completely into a failed state, spewing out terrorists and be known as the culprit in spreading nuclear weapons in several directions? Or stays exploited as ever at the hands of its neighbours i.e. India in the East, China in the North or US oppression force present in Afghanistan?

We need to under stand this critical situation of our home land where we find that its few ignorant, faithless and mutinous sons of soil, very distastefully are seen louvered in by our enemies to work against the interests of Pakistan for their paltry personal gains and they prefer to ‘bed and sleep with the enemy’. Huge sums are pelted at these abettors’ doors to carry out subversive activities and eventually they are bringing this nation (God forbid) to the brink of disintegration. Will they be successful in creating these cracks that some times they become so visible…!

But Pakistan is a God given country. Pakistanis are aware of it that India is all out to take the wind out of their sails. But Pakistanis believe in their God who is still on throne; so their just survival only may not be the God’s best; but they will certainly thrive above the rest. Amen.

To be continued in part 2.

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