Is China slowly tightening the noose around india's neck?

[future_bound]

Murder sheds light on China

Murder sheds light on China’s expansion

By Tarek Fatah ,Toronto Sun

An alarming development is unfolding in a far off corner of the world that will have far reaching geo-political consequences for the West.

But other than a handful of protesters in Washington DC, London and Toronto, few in the West have either noticed or grasped the significance of an assassination and an announcement.

Last week, the newly-elected Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif revealed, even before he had taken oath of office, he had met with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang and given Beijing the green light to build a $10-billion, 2,000 km railway link between China’s troubled Xinxiang region the Balochistan port of Gwadar, a city that sits at the mouth of the Straits of Hormuz on the Persian Gulf.

According to Pakistan’s Express Tribune, the implementation of this rail network “will help China secure oil supply and commercial routes on the Indian Ocean, furthering its plans to secure yet another strategic energy and trade corridor.” China’s plans to use Pakistan as a client state to reach the Persian Gulf is part of Beijing’s “Strings of Pearl” strategic initiative to build naval bases in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh and Maldives. The objective is to surround India in a vice grip with the People’s Liberation Army on India’s northern borders and Chinese naval muscle in the south, threatening India along its entire Indian Ocean coastline.

Already, Pakistan has surrendered its sovereignty and handed over the city of Gwadar to China, an act straight out of 18th century colonialism.

It is not just the Straits of Hormuz and the Indian Ocean that China wishes to dominate, it is also eyeing Gilgit-Baltistan that Pakistan sliced off from Kashmir. According to the Urdu language newspaper Roznama Bang-e-Sahar, Pakistan is considering leasing the entire area to Beijing for 50 years.

In fact, thousands of Chinese troops and workers are already inside Pakistan-administered Kashmir leading to outrage among the local population who see the Chinese as uninvited outsiders taking over their land, their jobs and plundering its resources.

Hitherto, Kashmiris inside Pakistan have been docile onlookers as Islamabad-appointed bureaucrats have used them as puppets in the never-ending Kashmir conflict with India. However, now it appears Kashmiris in Pakistan are refusing to be mere pawns. They are speaking out against Islamabad selling their land and resources to Chinese state run corporations and the military.

And while the West seems asleep, the first casualty of this new Sino-Pak aggressive strategic partnership has taken place.

On May 14, Arif Shahid, chair of the Jammu-Kashmir National Liberation Conference (JKNLC) was shot dead by two men in the Pakistani city of Rawalpindi. Shahid was a unique leader in that he demanded independence for Kashmir as against joining Pakistan. He was vocal against Pakistan’s use of the territory to smuggle ****** terrorists inside India and he was almost alone in warning against the presence of Chinese troops and workers in Kashmir.

For daring to differ with the dictates of Pakistan’s deep state, the man lost his life. Protests broke out across Kashmir with fingers pointed at Pakistan’s notorious military intelligence agency ISI as the killers.

At a demonstration in Toronto, Mumtaz Khan, chair of the Kashmiri Canadian Congress said: “Arif Shahid was killed by Pakistan because he was against China’s military presence in Pakistani-occupied Kashmir.

He was opposed to the territory being used by the Islamabad to smuggle ****** terrorists inside India.” Will the U.S. take a serious look at the new Sino-Pak strategy for what it is? North Korea and Iran may be the dogs that bark — China and Pakistan are the one’s that’ll bite.

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

"When you can't see the angles no more. That's when you in trouble."

- From some old movie with old themes.

 

[F-16 Viper]

Murder sheds light on China

Pakistan is considering leasing the entire area to Beijing for 50 years.

Pakistan will handover Gilgit-Baltistan to China for 50 YEARS??? what Pakistan is up to???

 

[manojb]

One murder - two ways to interpret. here's another version!! @future_bound
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Jonathan Kay: Pakistan’s toxic obsession with Kashmir is still generating fresh victims
Pakistan’s toxic obsession with Kashmir is still generating fresh victims
Pakistan is beset by such a bewildering array of militant political and religious movements that it is sometimes difficult to keep them straight. The most spectacular events — such as last week’s drone-strike killing of Waliur Rehman, a major Pakistani Taliban leader — make the front pages in the West. But many others do not.

That is the case with Arif Shahid, a 62-year-old Kashmiri political leader who was gunned down on May 15 near Islamabad, after he’d met with an NGO that promotes a peaceful settlement of the Kashmir question. His killing received some scattered coverage in Western media outlets, including the BBC. But it deserved wider attention, because it represents a new threat to Pakistan and the nations that sit on its bloody borders.

In many ways, Kashmir is a microcosm of Islamic civilization’s self-destructive tendencies in this part of the world. When India and Pakistan became separate entities in the late 1940s, Kashmir’s maharaja (pictured above) wavered between the two regional giants. It was only when Pakistani-supported guerrillas came flooding into Kashmir that he sought terms with India, which took control of most of the contested territory.

Pakistan’s obsession with control of Kashmir lies at the root of many of its modern pathologies: The ****** groups now sowing chaos and mass murder in Pakistan and Afghanistan got their start in Kashmir as proxy forces supported by the Pakistani military and its intelligence branch. The deployment of these forces became a toxic manifestation of Pakistan’s obsession with incorporating local Muslim populations into its land mass — a spirit that continues to affect Pakistan’s hegemonistic relationship with Afghanistan.

But it is important to remember that the enduring political — and sporadically paramilitary — battle over Kashmir is not a simple fight between Pakistan and India: There is a large swathe of public opinion in Kashmir that seeks independence from both countries.

Indeed, Arif Shahid was a champion of that very cause. His All Parties National Alliance (APNA) sought the creation of a new state, and sought to end Pakistani rule and military oversight in western Kashmir (which is divided into quasi-autonomous entities known as Azad Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan). He wanted no part in the pointless terrorist campaign waged by Sunni militants against India on Kashmiri soil — and often spoke of Pakistan as a “colonial” power in the region. This infuriated the Pakistanis, who tried to prevent him from traveling, and accused him of “anti-state activities.” It is unknown whether the Pakistani military or its proxies had involvement in his killing. But it would surprise no one if they did.

The history of Kashmir is complex, and whole books have been written about the fateful period in the late 1940s, when this physically magnificent part of the northwestern Indian subcontinent was divided in the way it was. But whatever the rights and wrongs of what happened more than six decades ago, one can understand why even many local Kashmiri leaders have grown weary of the violence and dysfunctionality that is now part of daily Pakistani life.

Indeed, the murder of Shahid shows that things are getting worse: The lives of enemy “infidels” are regarded as cheap among Sunni militants. But Shahid wasn’t an Indian stooge. He was merely someone agitating politically for self-determination. And his killing is a big event: It is the first time a pro-Kashmir independence figure has been targeted for assassination in this way.

Notwithstanding this year’s relatively peaceful election in Pakistan, the larger pattern in this country is unmistakably grim: Anyone who deviates in any way — whether theologically or politically — from hardline Islamo-nationalist rhetoric is seen as a potential target. The killers who struck down Shahid have simply given Kashmiris one more reason to reject Pakistani rule.

 

[jbond197]

Gilgit Baltistan is a disputed land. Can Pakistan really lease it to some one? It's when I was thinking about it and then I found out the article is written by Pakistani origin-ed think tank, Tarek Fateh. This guy is known for hating Pakistan so I will take the news with not a pinch but a bag of salt. In other words it is pure BS. And if it gonna happen then India will make noise much before people like Tarek Fateh.

 

[Kompromat]

Written by a clinically dead Indian psychopath Tarek Fateh.

 

[manojb]

Written by a clinically dead Indian psychopath Tarek Fateh.

whats your opinion on Jonathan Kay?

 

[Genesis]

how can pakistan be a client state? It has 180 million people and a capable military. Have this guy heard of allies, this is like saying France or Germany is a client state of US.

Also Gwader is not only a lease, but it's also to help develop the whole region, it's not like Chinese officials will be there. Perhaps he should look at Hong Kong and how the Brits "leased" it.

That's colonialism not this.

 

[Kompromat]

how can pakistan be a client state? It has 180 million people and a capable military. Have this guy heard of allies, this is like saying France or Germany is a client state of US.

Also Gwader is not only a lease, but it's also to help develop the whole region, it's not like Chinese officials will be there. Perhaps he should look at Hong Kong and how the Brits "leased" it.

That's colonialism not this.

The Author is an Indian pretending to be a Canadian.

 

[Genesis]

The Author is an Indian pretending to be a Canadian.

well his name does sound Canadian. He had me fooled.

 

[Ilyas naik]

These kinds of reports also flooded in newspapers of indian kashmir that pakistan is going to lease gilgit baltistan to china. Pakistan cant lease it because it is disputed territory and if they did it . It will turn people of indian kashmir against pakistan

 

[faithfulguy]

well his name does sound Canadian. He had me fooled.

I also look up the author three sentences into the article. The first hint is the "opinion" piece. Its more like a fictional fantasy than anything else.

 

[Roybot]

The Author is an Indian pretending to be a Canadian.

Born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1949. How is he an Indian

Fatah was born in Karachi, Pakistan.[citation needed] Although he graduated with a degree in biochemistry from the University of Karachi, Fatah entered journalism as a reporter for the Karachi Sun in 1970, and was an investigative journalist for Pakistani Television. He left Pakistan and settled in Saudi Arabia, before emigrating to Canada.

@Genesis.

Tarek Fatah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[third eye]

Written by a clinically dead Indian psychopath Tarek Fateh.

The Author is an Indian pretending to be a Canadian.

In which case he must be the first Indian to be born in Karachi on November 20, 1949. Karachi became a part of Pakistan in 1947.

Fatah was born in Karachi, Pakistan. Although he graduated with a degree in biochemistry from the University of Karachi, Fatah entered journalism as a reporter for the Karachi Sun in 1970, and was an investigative journalist for Pakistani Television. He left Pakistan and settled in Saudi Arabia, before emigrating to Canada.

Tarek Fatah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Kompromat]

Born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1949. How is he an Indian



@Genesis.

Tarek Fatah - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I know. He calls himself "an Indian born in Pakistan".