The accusatory fingers of India settled conveniently on Pakistan after an attack on Indian Army Camp in Uri, Jammu and Kashmir during the early hours of September 18. The attack happened at a time when Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was going to raise Kashmir issue in the United Nations General Assembly. In the aftermath of the attack, India seemed to be lacking the underlying theory of communication in the peace talk arena and has been more than eager to shore up its irrational catastrophic pessimism while hurling a number of threats, saying it would reduce Pakistan to the status of a pariah in the international community.
India's blatantly implausible claims hardly convinced anyone as their statements and actions are lacking in credibility due to the morass of lies and myopic point of view prevailing in their corridors of power. The hostile narrative and accusations intended to weaken the cause of Kashmir before the United Nations General Assembly came before the matter was even investigated, deflecting attention from the deaths of over a hundred Kashmiris, hundreds of blinded children and infants by shotgun pellets and over six thousand unarmed civilians injured during the last two months.
Uprising in Kashmir is undoubtedly indigenous. Kashmir is subject to India’s Armed Forces Special Powers Act which grants the military wide powers to arrest, shoot to kill, occupy or destroy property. The result is a culture of brutal disdain for the local population. The people have been victimized severely while being denied all human values, as there’s hardly any atrocity and humanitarian abuse that hasn’t been committed against them by the Indian troops.
Besides its repression and gross human rights violations in Kashmir, India has been sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan in various forms. It has carried out bomb blasts in Pakistan through the militant proxies, doled out money for the separatist cause in Balochistan, and sponsored TTP and BLA terrorist networks. To cite a recent prominent example, Kulbhushan Yadav, an Indian naval officer operating in our territory, blew the cover off of India’s intentions to fail CPEC for the achievement of its military and political ends, and, also exposed the ring of RAW agents working along the same lines.
India also falsifies when it claims to have carried out 'surgical strikes' inside Pakistan which actually was cross-border firing that killed two Pakistani soldiers. Besides India is also preparing to launch a cyber war which will give a new dimension to this warfare and bring out India's nefarious designs for weakening Pakistan. In face of all these provocations and naked Indian aggression, Pakistan is ready for a matching response should the need arise.
It is no secret that the aggressive intelligence approach of RAW takes support of psychological warfare, terrorism and insurgency to destabilize the country it is targeting. The evolving nature of the threat preceding the Uri attack may expand the notion of irregular warfare beyond its previous bounds. Antidotes to the probable forms of sub-conventional warfare should be found now that conventional war has become a receding option and India is likely try to find and exploit opportunities in Pakistan like it has done in the recent past.
Although India is a big market economy and is carrying out trade with a large number of countries in a number of sectors and industries, the world must probe India's involvement in state-sponsored and cross-border terrorism in all reason and fairness irrespective of these trade links.
But let us not deviate from the real cause and focus on Kashmir while responding to India in a befitting manner. While we catalogue this mendacity and uncover the truth for the world, the international community must heed the calls of the people of Kashmir and send a UN fact-finding mission to Kashmir to take stock of extra-judicial killings followed by demilitarization of Jammu and Kashmir and UN-backed plebiscite to save the region from grave repercussions.
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