Declare India the Terrorist State

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By Sajjad Shaukat
Since the US started global war against terrorism, after the 9/11 tragedy, various political experts
have opined that terrorism comes in a variety of forms such as religious terrorism, secular
terrorism, cross-border terrorism etc.
Bruce Hoffman, in his book ‘Inside Terrorism’ writes: “For the religious terrorist, violence is the
foremost divine duty executed in direct response to some demand or imperative…the secular
terrorist sense leads to a sanctioning of almost limitless violence against a virtually open-ended
State terrorism refers to terrorist acts by governmental agents or forces, which involves the use of
state resources to achieve ideological or political goals as part of state’s foreign policy.
 
Judging in these terms, India has broken all the records of violence by applying terror-related
tactics in relation to its internal and external policies, and its genesis is ideology of Hindutva
(Hindu nationalism). In fact, Hinduvta agenda enabled BJP hardliner, Narendra Modi to get a
land sliding triumph in the Indian elections 2014 and become the prime minister of India. During
the election campaign, Hindu majority was mobilized on anti-Pakistan and ‘hate Muslim’
slogans. Hence, Modi regime is giving impetus to Hindu chauvinism.
 
Although New Delhi has been destabilizing all regional states through its well-planned and
deliberated strategy, however, its major focus has always been towards Pakistan.
 
In this regard, Indian Defence Minister, Manohar Parrikar, while using the Hindi phrase “kante
se kanta nikalna’ (removing a thorn with a thorn) assertively said, on May 23, this year, “We
have to neutralise terrorists through terrorists only…why does my soldier have to do it…the
issue could not be discussed beyond this…there are certain things that I obviously cannot discuss
Showing grave concerns, Pakistan’s Foreign Office, prime Minister’s advisor on national
security and foreign affairs, Sartaj Aziz Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, Interior Minister
Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan and other political leaders remarked, “The Indian defence minister’s
open statement has proved that India is sponsoring terrorism in Pakistan—and Indian secret
agency RAW is playing this nefarious role—it is also against others in the region and beyond.”
 
In fact, Indian defence minister’s statement cannot be seen in isolation, it is part of inter-related
developments against Pakistan, China and Afghanistan. In this respect, Indian External Affairs
Minister, Sushma Swaraj has recognized, on June 1, this year that India strongly opposes $46
billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) project.
 
In her reply, on June 2, Sartaj Aziz clarified that the CPEC project will bring stability in the
whole region—even China has clearly stated that this project is not against any other country.
Meanwhile, apart from previous terror attacks, a new wave of RAW-arranged assaults is
noteworthy. On May 13, 2015, 45 persons were killed, after gunmen brutally opened fire on a
bus of the Ismaili community in Karachi. Ahmed Marwat, a spokesman for Jundullah which is
the affiliated group of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the bus
attack. On April 11, gunmen killed 20 laborers at a dam construction site in the Turbat district of
Baluchistan.
On May 29, 20 people were killed when unknown militants opened fire at the kidnapped passengers in Mastung area of Balochistan—after abduction of two buses. New
Delhi’s the main aim behind such terror-activities is to create hurdles in completion of the CPEC,
as Pakistan’s economic development irks its eyes. Besides other related projects, the
establishment of CPEC between deep Gwadar seaport of Balochistan and the historic Silk Road
city in western regions-Xinjiang of China will connect Gilgit-Baltistan through Khunjerab Pass.
 
Notably, RAW has well-established its network in Afghanistan, and with the tactical assistance
of anti-Pakistan secret agencies, it is fully backing cross-border incursions including terror-
activities in Balochistan province and other regions of Pakistan so as to destabilize the latter. It
has continuously been assisting the Baloch anti-Pakistan groups like BLA, Jundullah and TTP
including their affiliated outfits with logistic support—the militants kidnapped and killed many
innocent people and the security personnel in the province and other areas of Pakistan through
suicide attacks, bomb blasts, targeted killings and sectarian violence to create lawlessness in the
country. They also abducted and killed many Chinese and Iranian nationals in Pakistan.
 
It is of particular attention, that Indian former Army Chief Gen. VK Singh openly admitted that
during his tenure, he supervised special army unit, Tactical Support Division (TSD) on the
instructions of the then defence minister to sponsor subversive in Pakistan, particularly
During the recent visit of the US Secretary of State John Kerry to New Delhi, Indian Prime
Minister Modi was humbled in the meeting when American team showed some hard evidence of
TTP chief Mullah Fazalullah and RAW nexus in Afghanistan to influx terror in Pakistan.
It is worth-mentioning that 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.
During the visit of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and army chief General Raheel Sharif to Kabul, on May 18, this year, 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. Now, frequent visits of Pak-Afghan civil and military leaders to each other’s country also irritate New Delhi.
It is notable that theoretically, Indian Constitution safeguards the rights of minorities, but in
practice, ideology of Hindutva prevails. Hindu politics and culture, dominated by the
fundamentalist parties such as BJP, RSS VHP, Bajrang Dal and Shiv Sena including other
extremist outfits have been propagating Hindutva. Provocative utterances of their extremist
leaders and the BJP rulers have resulted into unending violence against the Muslims, Christians
Sikhs, and Dalits, while creating war-like situation between Pakistan and India, as Indian
unprovoked shelling across Line of Control and Working Boundary displays.
 
In this connection, destruction of the Babri Masjid (mosque) in 1992, massacre of 2500 Muslims
in the in the BJP-ruled Indian state of Gujarat in 2002 and those of more than 2002 Muslims
during the communal riots of 2008 in Uttar Pradesh—participation of Indian high officials and
leaders of the VHP, BJP and Bajrang Dal in the incidents including attacks on churches might
also be cited as instance. Similarly, under the BJP regime, forced conversions of Muslims and
Christians into Hindus might also be noted as example.
On April 30, in its annual report 2015, the US Commission on International Religious Freedom
said, “Since the [last year’s] election, religious minority communities have been subject to
derogatory comments by politicians linked to the ruling party BJP and numerous violent attacks
and forced conversions by Hindu nationalist groups, such as RSS and VHP.”
It is mentionable that on January 20, 2013, Indian External Affairs Minister Salman Khurshid
and Home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde confessed the nexus between BJP and the RSS,
disclosing that organized training camps run by these fundamentalist parties were promoting
Hindu terrorism. They also disclosed that these parties were behind the Samjhauta Express,
Meccca Masjid and Malegaon blasts including Gujarat and Babri Masjid incidents.
 
Earlier, New Delhi was accusing Pakistan’s primary intelligence agency, ISI for blasts in Malegaon and other While, on July 19, 2013, the Indian former home ministry and ex-investigating officer Satish Verma revealed that terror-attacks in Mumbai in November 26, 2008 and assault on Indian
Parliament in January 12, 2001 were carried out by the Indian government to strengthen anti-
terrorism laws. But, Indian top officials and media had blamed Islamabad and a Pakistan-based
group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) for those attacks.
In the recent past, Indian agencies orchestrated a boat drama to defame Pakistan, allegedly
reporting that a Pakistani fishing boat as a Pakistan-based outfit LeT was intercepted by Indian
Coast Guards, off the coast of Porebandar, Gujarat. And Indian Coast Guard crew set the boat on
fire and it exploded. But, its reality exposed Indian terrorism, because, some Indian high officials
admitted that there was no such boat which came from Pakistan.
As regards Hindutva terror, besides other brutal tactics, it is also employed in the occupied
Kashmir. In this context, various human rights groups have reported thousands of unmarked
mass graves in the Indian controlled Kashmir. Especially, in August, 2011, Indian Jammu and
Kashmir State Human Rights Commission (SHRC) officially acknowledged in its report that
innocent civilians killed in the two-decade conflict have been buried in unmarked graves.
 
Notably, foreign sources have said that unnamed graves include those innocent persons, killed by
the Indian military and para-military troops in the fake encounters including those who were
Nonetheless, India is also manipulating the so-called statement of the ISIL or ISIS which said on
May 23 that it can buy nuclear device from Pakistan within a year. Most alarming point is that
RAW can itself supply nuclear bomb to this militant group to use against America, Israel or any
western country so as to cause World War 111 in wake of global war against terrorism.
We can conclude that it is the right hour that the US-led western countries must declare India the
terrorist state, as it is carving out a disastrous strategy, and it would never help in rooting out
terrorism which is an international issue, threatening all states.