To better understand the story behind the violence in Balochistan, one needs to understand the mind of india (RAW). This operations has many similarities with its operations in Sindh and the so called Seraiki belt in southern punjab.
As the peace offensive through the Composite Dialogue process drags on, RAW is actively engaged in its own power play to rock the boat of peace so delicately set afloat. There appears to be a method in the madness as the two-prong attack—“Peace through dialogue and war through RAW”—is launched simultaneously. Arun Rajnath of the South Asia Tribune July 12, 2004, discloses the shenanigans of RAW operatives in his revealing article, aptly titled: ‘As Diplomats Hug and Talk, Secret India, Pakistan Intelligence Wars Go On’. The columnist divulges, “While the Governments of Pakistan and India are publicly shaking hands and exchanging diplomatic hugs, new ways to fight their secret wars are being tried to continue their covert intelligence operations against each other.”
Mr. Rajnath speculates regarding Pakistani Intelligence agencies stating: “Pakistan is believed to be employing Hindus and even Muslims who physically appear to be Hindus, as militants who cross into India.” However his exposé of the RAW’s summer offensive is really an eye opener. “New Delhi’s intelligence strategists are using known international drug and mafia dons against Pakistan. India has CIT ‘X’ and some international crooks with people of Indian origin to pay Pakistan in the same coin. CIT ‘X’ trains agents for covert operations in Pakistan. Under the Vajpayee government, the CIT ‘X’ and other sensitive organizations were authorized to strengthen contacts with ‘sleeping agents’, and recruit new front men to carry out covert operations in Pakistan.
They also engaged an international criminal for covert purposes during LK Advani’s tenure in the Home Ministry. Just before the Indian parliamentary elections, an official met this international criminal somewhere in South East Asia reportedly with an assurance of government’s continued support after BJP’s return to power. CIT ‘X’ is also involved in drug trafficking to finance its covert operations.
It is an open secret that illegal poppy is cultivated in bulk in Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and Uttar Pradesh. Dharamshala is one of the most infamous centers of drugs in Himachal Pradesh where drug barons have close links with their Afghan counterparts. Sources say that about 25 per cent of Indian poppy is diverted into illegal markets worldwide. The booming poppy crop in Himachal Pradesh and Northeast region has led to springing up of local refining laboratories to make heroin. Thus India has become the fifth largest country in the world in the production of illicit opium. Laos is 4th with 20 metric tons. Some people of Indian origin living in Surinam and Holland are reportedly helping Indian agencies in the drug trafficking. Under the benign patronage of CIT ‘X’, the ‘business’ of drug trafficking is flourishing, and the money earned goes for covert activities in Pakistan. “
The summer offensive of RAW includes establishing about 57 training camps in Occupied Kashmir, East Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Assam to train and launch terrorists inside Pakistan. Trainees are generally drawn from the Indian hatched dissident groups from Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM), Jiye Sindh Mohaz (JSM), Jiye Sindh Students Federation (JSF) and Balochi nationalists and other nationalist groups from various parts of Sindh an, Balochistan and Tribal Areas.
Offensive under Diplomatic Cover. Most of the Indian Embassies/Consulates around the world are dens for hatching RAW plots. These set ups are grouped together on regional basis under one head, known as the RAW center. This includes the espionage efforts as well as the subversion, sabotage and terrorism oriented operations. For Pakistan RAW centers at London, Dubai, Iran, and South Africa operate against Pakistan. However, for its summer offensive, RAW has laid out a whole network around Pakistan, to ensnare it in its trap and tighten the noose around it through destabilization.
India has opened Consulates in Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat, besides having an oversized diplomatic mission in Kabul when there is not much tourist travel between the two countries. Kandahar and Jalalabad are near the borders of Pakistan, which insinuates many things. The ongoing Wana operation is being fed cash, weapons and ammunition indirectly by these RAW operatives under cover of Al-Qaeda.
Iran, having contiguous borders with Pakistan, is a hotbed of intrigues and constant source of support and inspiration to RAW functionaries. The Indian Embassy at Tehran and Consulates in Zahidan, Mashhad and Bandar Abbas are actively engaged in establishing links with disgruntled elements of Balochistan and Sindh for destabilizing these provinces. Iran also serves as a base for fomenting sectarian trouble in Pakistan. Irani intelligence provides support to RAW operations by using disgruntled Shia elements in Pakistan.
Arun Rajnath admits that RAW has learnt a lot from Israel. He comments, in the article quoted above: “Such an intelligence practice is not new. Israeli secret agency Mossad has infiltrated several Jewish agents into the occupied territory of Palestine as Muslims. These agents practice Islam like any ordinary Muslim. They say prayers in mosques, observe fast during Ramadan, and mingle into local Muslim population just to wait for the appropriate time to strike. During the armed struggle in former East Pakistan, Indian army regulars, after they were physically made to look like Muslims and taught Bangla, were pushed into East Pakistan to fight as Mukti Bahini against the Pakistan Army.”
The summer offensive of RAW includes working on ethnic, regional, parochial and secular themes, which include Sindhu Desh Movement in Sindh, Saraiki Movement in Punjab, Tribal Balochis in the name of Greater Balochistan and taking advantage of Northern Alliance Government in Afghanistan and using its tentacles at Kabul, Jalalabad, Khost, Kandahar and Spin Boldak, the tribals in Waziristan and Balochistan are continuously being kept activated for fomenting trouble while Taliban and Al-Qaeda gets the blame and Pakistan gets the rap for “not doing enough” by US and Afghan authorities.
Pakistan is in for a long hot summer as the RAW summer offensive continues. Despite fencing the LoC with a highly sophisticated system of monitors and sensors, India persists in blaming Pakistan for “cross-border terrorism” and “infiltrating militants” while it foments trouble for us at home.
While the foreign secretaries of the two countries continue to have rounds of talks and being eulogized all over the world, the feeling of mistrust and enmity continues. The key to lasting peace is not merely paying lip sympathy to peace talks but by making genuine efforts to withdraw the covert offensive and attempts to destabilize Pakistan.
As the peace offensive through the Composite Dialogue process drags on, RAW is actively engaged in its own power play to rock the boat of peace so delicately set afloat. There appears to be a method in the madness as the two-prong attack—“Peace through dialogue and war through RAW”—is launched simultaneously. Arun Rajnath of the South Asia Tribune July 12, 2004, discloses the shenanigans of RAW operatives in his revealing article, aptly titled: ‘As Diplomats Hug and Talk, Secret India, Pakistan Intelligence Wars Go On’. The columnist divulges, “While the Governments of Pakistan and India are publicly shaking hands and exchanging diplomatic hugs, new ways to fight their secret wars are being tried to continue their covert intelligence operations against each other.”
Mr. Rajnath speculates regarding Pakistani Intelligence agencies stating: “Pakistan is believed to be employing Hindus and even Muslims who physically appear to be Hindus, as militants who cross into India.” However his exposé of the RAW’s summer offensive is really an eye opener. “New Delhi’s intelligence strategists are using known international drug and mafia dons against Pakistan. India has CIT ‘X’ and some international crooks with people of Indian origin to pay Pakistan in the same coin. CIT ‘X’ trains agents for covert operations in Pakistan. Under the Vajpayee government, the CIT ‘X’ and other sensitive organizations were authorized to strengthen contacts with ‘sleeping agents’, and recruit new front men to carry out covert operations in Pakistan.
They also engaged an international criminal for covert purposes during LK Advani’s tenure in the Home Ministry. Just before the Indian parliamentary elections, an official met this international criminal somewhere in South East Asia reportedly with an assurance of government’s continued support after BJP’s return to power. CIT ‘X’ is also involved in drug trafficking to finance its covert operations.
It is an open secret that illegal poppy is cultivated in bulk in Himachal Pradesh, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur, Mizoram and Uttar Pradesh. Dharamshala is one of the most infamous centers of drugs in Himachal Pradesh where drug barons have close links with their Afghan counterparts. Sources say that about 25 per cent of Indian poppy is diverted into illegal markets worldwide. The booming poppy crop in Himachal Pradesh and Northeast region has led to springing up of local refining laboratories to make heroin. Thus India has become the fifth largest country in the world in the production of illicit opium. Laos is 4th with 20 metric tons. Some people of Indian origin living in Surinam and Holland are reportedly helping Indian agencies in the drug trafficking. Under the benign patronage of CIT ‘X’, the ‘business’ of drug trafficking is flourishing, and the money earned goes for covert activities in Pakistan. “
The summer offensive of RAW includes establishing about 57 training camps in Occupied Kashmir, East Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Karnataka and Assam to train and launch terrorists inside Pakistan. Trainees are generally drawn from the Indian hatched dissident groups from Mohajir Qaumi Movement (MQM), Jiye Sindh Mohaz (JSM), Jiye Sindh Students Federation (JSF) and Balochi nationalists and other nationalist groups from various parts of Sindh an, Balochistan and Tribal Areas.
Offensive under Diplomatic Cover. Most of the Indian Embassies/Consulates around the world are dens for hatching RAW plots. These set ups are grouped together on regional basis under one head, known as the RAW center. This includes the espionage efforts as well as the subversion, sabotage and terrorism oriented operations. For Pakistan RAW centers at London, Dubai, Iran, and South Africa operate against Pakistan. However, for its summer offensive, RAW has laid out a whole network around Pakistan, to ensnare it in its trap and tighten the noose around it through destabilization.
India has opened Consulates in Kandahar, Jalalabad, Mazar-e-Sharif and Herat, besides having an oversized diplomatic mission in Kabul when there is not much tourist travel between the two countries. Kandahar and Jalalabad are near the borders of Pakistan, which insinuates many things. The ongoing Wana operation is being fed cash, weapons and ammunition indirectly by these RAW operatives under cover of Al-Qaeda.
Iran, having contiguous borders with Pakistan, is a hotbed of intrigues and constant source of support and inspiration to RAW functionaries. The Indian Embassy at Tehran and Consulates in Zahidan, Mashhad and Bandar Abbas are actively engaged in establishing links with disgruntled elements of Balochistan and Sindh for destabilizing these provinces. Iran also serves as a base for fomenting sectarian trouble in Pakistan. Irani intelligence provides support to RAW operations by using disgruntled Shia elements in Pakistan.
Arun Rajnath admits that RAW has learnt a lot from Israel. He comments, in the article quoted above: “Such an intelligence practice is not new. Israeli secret agency Mossad has infiltrated several Jewish agents into the occupied territory of Palestine as Muslims. These agents practice Islam like any ordinary Muslim. They say prayers in mosques, observe fast during Ramadan, and mingle into local Muslim population just to wait for the appropriate time to strike. During the armed struggle in former East Pakistan, Indian army regulars, after they were physically made to look like Muslims and taught Bangla, were pushed into East Pakistan to fight as Mukti Bahini against the Pakistan Army.”
The summer offensive of RAW includes working on ethnic, regional, parochial and secular themes, which include Sindhu Desh Movement in Sindh, Saraiki Movement in Punjab, Tribal Balochis in the name of Greater Balochistan and taking advantage of Northern Alliance Government in Afghanistan and using its tentacles at Kabul, Jalalabad, Khost, Kandahar and Spin Boldak, the tribals in Waziristan and Balochistan are continuously being kept activated for fomenting trouble while Taliban and Al-Qaeda gets the blame and Pakistan gets the rap for “not doing enough” by US and Afghan authorities.
Pakistan is in for a long hot summer as the RAW summer offensive continues. Despite fencing the LoC with a highly sophisticated system of monitors and sensors, India persists in blaming Pakistan for “cross-border terrorism” and “infiltrating militants” while it foments trouble for us at home.
While the foreign secretaries of the two countries continue to have rounds of talks and being eulogized all over the world, the feeling of mistrust and enmity continues. The key to lasting peace is not merely paying lip sympathy to peace talks but by making genuine efforts to withdraw the covert offensive and attempts to destabilize Pakistan.
