01-10-2009, 02:45 AM
<b>Pakistani Terrorism: its real aim and how to respond</b>
By: Dr.Dipak Basu
<i>(The author is a Professor in International Economics in Nagasaki University, Japan)</i>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The terrorist attack on Mumbai is already a few days old. Thus, the journalistic emotions have died down and now this is the time to think hard about the Pakistani terrorism and its aim before we can think about how to respond. The journalists in the British media are making the mistake of trying to link the issue of Kashmir to this terrorism, while most of these Western journalists, including the "English woman born in India" Arundhuti Roy, have no idea about long history of Islam and the history of the Indian subcontinent to understand the basic issue.
Let us take the case of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the main terrorist group based in Pakistan and financed by Saudi Arabia and U.A.E, named by the Indian authority as the real culprit behind the Mumbai attack. Lashkar-e-Taiba - "The army of the pure" - was a militant offshoot of Markaz Dawatul Irshad, was founded in 1989 by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and Zafar Iqbal. Saeed was a former teacher of Islamic studies at Lahore"s University of Engineering and Technology.
Lashkar based its philosophy on Wahhabism, the austere brand of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia, and has relied on donations from these Saudis and the Gulf Arab states. The group"s objective is to impose Islamic rule to the whole of South Asia so as to free the Muslims from being ruled by the Hindus, who as the "idolaters" are specifically targeted by The Koran itself. In the Chapter Al-Taubah 9:5 of The Koran it is written clearly: " When the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them." and in 9: 12: "Make war on them. God will chastise them at your hands and humble them".
Thus, Kashmir is a small fry in this strategy. Even if India will hand over the whole of the Jammu & Kashmir to Pakistan, the war against the "unbelievers" will go on. Although almost all Hindu reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Sri Aurobindo, Swami Dayananda even Ramakrishna Param Hansa have no hesitation to accept the similarity of the Hinduism and Islam as both of these religions accept only one creator, Muslims will never accept even the purest fundamentalist Hindus as "monotheist". Thus, there will be no end of this war.
Anglo-American journalists do not understand that there are no comforts for the Christians or the Jews, the so-called "people of the books" either. The Koran said clearly in the chapter Al-Maidah, 5:15, " Unbelievers are those who declare, "God is the Messiah, the son of Mary" and in 5:51, " Believers, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends". Attack on the Jewish center in Bombay shows that Jews are legitimate targets of the "believers".
Most commentators, whether Indian or Western, completely ignore this aspect of fundamental religious difference between Islam on one side and all other religions on another side and try to analyse the issue in terms of contemporary world politics. As a result, the analysis presented by them in the world media is always missing the main point and the solutions they are now suggesting now to India, i.e., to compromise on Kashmir, falls short of the reality. When the aim of these terrorists groups is to hoist "Green Flag of Islam" on Washington and Moscow, the battleground is the whole world not just Kashmir.
India needs to think its strategy considering this grim reality. It is unfortunate that in 1947, at the time of the birth of India, India had two leaders, Gandhi and Nehru, who could not understand the history of the world since 7th century and had looked at the communal problem from a very narrow view. According to them, secularism and an appeasement policy towards Islam can eventually narrow the gap between the two warring communities. However, the recent history of the subcontinent showed that no amount of well intentional gestures could undermine the basic religious aim of Islam where secularism has no place but considered to be a dangerous heresy.
Here let us analyse some recent issues to demonstrate that the worldview of the Muslims are entirely different from that of the secular political analysts. Whether it is Kashmir or Afghanistan or Kosovo or 9/11 or 26/11, that worldview of the Muslims is very consistent but unknown to the secular media.
Kashmir Issue:
The view of Arundhuti Roy and assorted journalists in the British media is that India disregarded the UN resolution of plebiscite on Kashmir and the right of the self-determination of the people of Kashmir, which according to the Pakistan are all Muslims. That has created an outrage for the Muslims to react as they did on 26/11 in Mumbai.
However, there are about 20 resolution passed by the UN security council on Kashmir from 1948 to 1971, the most important one is the Resolution no 47, all others are repeating the same points. The UN Resolution No 47, on April 1948, which Pakistan regularly refers, said clearly: ".After Pakistan troops withdrawal, India to withdraw the bulk of its forces but to maintain a requisite strength for safeguarding the law and order in the state." As Pakistan never vacated the areas it had occupied, no plebiscite could take place. It makes no sense, after fifty years to implement the UN resolution in only 45 percent of the original state of the Jammu and Kashmir, which is in India now.
Pakistan launched three large-scale wars on India in 1965, 1971 and in 1999 with an attempt to militarily change the territorial status of J&K. As soon as the Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, Islamic Muzzahadins, who were fighting in Afghanistan, came to Jammu & Kashmir, supported by Pakistan, to change the territorial status of J&K unilaterally. In 1992, all Hindus from the Indian part of Kashmir were forcibly expelled. There are large-scale infiltrations of Pakistanis in the Indian part of the state of J&K. The percentage of the Muslim in Ladakh went up from about 10 in 1947 to 46 in 2001; in Jammu it went up from about 20 in 1947 to 30 in 2001. In the "Northern Area Province", there were hardly any Muslims in 1947, now there is no non-Muslims in either there or in the Pakistan held Kashmir. The original people of Kashmir have long since left, thus it would be next to impossible to determine who are now eligible to vote in the plebiscite as real Kashmiris.
The proposal of the former President General Musharaf in November 2004 has listed several options for a settlement: (a) the whole area could be demilitarized and made autonomous; (b) it could be put under the joint control of the two countries; © some parts could be divided between the two countries and the Kashmir Valley either would become autonomous or would be under UN supervision (The Nation, 21 November, 2004). Pakistan"s demand is now not restricted to the Indian part of Kashmir valley only, but it has extended to include Kargil of Ladakh Valley and Muslim inhabited districts of western Jammu as well. Pakistan has clearly explained that the problem of Kashmir is religious and a partition along the religious line is the only acceptable solution for Pakistan.
The increased appetite of Pakistan to include Kargil and western Jammu means Pakistan and Bangladesh both gradually demand inclusions of Muslim majority areas in India in their respective countries. In about six districts of Assam, Muslims are now in majority. The situation is the same in parts of West Bengal, north Kerala, and northwestern Uttar Pradesh. Pakistan and Bangladesh will not wait for a long time to demand these areas. Thus, acceptance of Musharaf"s proposal would imply fragmentation of India in future and open war between Muslim and non-Muslim communities as we have seen in the former Yugoslavia recently.
Plebiscite, Exchange of Population and the Origin of Pakistan:
Pakistan came into being because the leaders of the Muslims in British India had refused to live with the non-Muslims. In Kingsway Hall, London on December 13, 1946, Jinnah made a passionate plea for the Muslim State of Pakistan, which would be inhabited by "one hundred million people, all Muslims. Earlier in August 1946, the Muslim League resorted to the "Direct Action" against the non-Muslims in British India to get the Muslim homeland. Jinnah said, referring to the driving out of non-Muslims from East Bengal, that it was already the transfer of population in action, and some machinery should be devised for affecting it peacefully and on a large scale. At a press conference in Karachi on November 25, 1946, Jinnah had appealed to the central as well as provincial governments to take up the question of exchange of population based on religion.
However, the exchange of population was never implemented, as Britain has never included it in the Independence of India Act of 1947 as presented to the British Parliament. Pakistan went ahead to implement the expulsions of the non-Muslim population. In 1947, about 34 percent of the population of Pakistan was non-Muslim. In 2001 less than 3 percent of the population of Pakistan are non-Muslims and less than 1 percent of the population are Hindus. In India, the percentage of the Muslim population increased from 9 percent in 1947 to 14 percent in 2001. Thus, only an one-way transfer of non-Muslims from Pakistan to India took place, but there was no proper exchange of population. That is the root of the Kashmir problem and the Muslim terrorism in India, which the Western media ignores. If there are no Muslims, the Muslim terrorism can only be a part of an invasion from the neighbouring countries but cannot be sustained and supported by the Muslim population in India, as it is the case today.
The cases of Greece-Turkey, Germany-Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria-Turkey, Poland-Germany, Bosnia-Serbia, Croatia-Serbia, are the examples where full-scale exchanges of population along with partition were organized under the administration of the League of Nations and the United Nations. Soviet Union immediately after 1945 has organized exchanges of populations between Germany and Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany, Ukraine and Poland, and between Bulgaria and Rumania. In 1989, the Soviet Union has organized an exchange of population between Armenia and Azerbaijan as well. In fact, it is unnecessary to partition a country if the populations are not to be exchanged.
In 1989, the last soldier of the Soviet Union had left Afghanistan. A full-scale attack on the non-Muslims of Kashmir also had started in 1989 to drive them away from Kashmir. General Zia addressed a meeting of selected military commanders and top bosses of I.S.I. (Inter Services Intelligence) in April 1988 and said:
" As you know, due to our preoccupation in Afghanistan, I have not been able to put these plans before you earlier. Let there be no mistake, however, that our aim remains quite clear and firm and that is the liberation of the Kashmir Valley - our Kashmiri brothers cannot be allowed to stay with India for any length of time, now. We whip up anti-Indian feelings amongst the students and peasants, preferably on some religious issues, so that we can enlist their active support for rioting and anti-government demonstrations. By the grace of God, we have managed to accumulate large stocks of modern arms and ammunition from US consignments intended for Afghan Mujahideen. This will help our brethren to achieve their goals."
Benazir Bhutoo, the darling of the British media, was the main architect of that plan to turn Kashmir from " a heaven on earth" to "a killing field". In 1992 President Clinton"s special assistant to South Asia Robin Rafael had declared that USA recognize the whole of J&K as a disputed area but not a part of India.
Destruction of Afghanistan:
Pakistan has invaded Afghanistan informally many years before the Soviets came to Afghanistan in December 1979. Major General Naseerullah Babar, later Interior Minister of Benazir Bhutto and the organizer of Taliban, said,
" In October 1973 an Afghan named Habibur Rahman Shaheed came and contacted me about setting up a resistance movement in Afghanistan with active military assistance of Pakistan. I conveyed the same to Zulfiqer Ali Bhutto, who accepted my proposal in view of the changed situation in Afghanistan and asked me to organize training of Afghans. Thus we established the base of Afghan Mujahideen resistance in 1973. We gave them basic infantry weapons, some specialized training in how to conduct guerrilla warfare. It was a top-secret affair and the ISI had no role. The secret was shared between Bhutto, myself, Aziz Ahmad and Tikka Khan, then the Army Chief. Who were the pioneers of the anti-Daud Afghan resistance? They were Ustad Rabbani, Hikmatyar, and a host of others who came to Pakistan after October 1973. Mr Bhutto laid the foundation of the Afghan resistance in 1973. He had the foresight and vision to do it. As a matter of fact we created the organizational network which was used by Zia and the USA to oppose the Soviets." ("Remembering our Warrior-Babar the Great" in Defence Journal, April 2001).
If Benazir Bhutto, the darling of the British press, was so opposed to Osama Bin Laden and terrorism, why then did she work with a retired military general as her Interior Minister, Naseerullah Babar to create the Taliban? Major General Naseerullah Babar was a leader of the Jamiat-e-Ulema-i-Islami, which was a political party that controlled the Madrasahs (religious schools) where the Talibs (students) were recruited to create the Taliban. During the 1965 war with India, Babar was awarded Sitara-e-Jurat. In the 1971 war, he commanded an artillery brigade. Then he was appointed Governor of NWFP because of his close association with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. He contested the 1977 election on a Pakistan Peoples Party ticket from his home district of Nowshera. In 1988 he became the Special Assistant to Benazir Bhutto to mobilize the Muzzahideens to capture and destroy both Afghanistan and India.
In Bebar"s own words, "All my life thence I have not been able to reconcile with the feigned Indian democracy and been involved in four wars against India, viz; 1948 (Kashmir); 1965 Rann of Kutch, 1965 (Indo-Pak War), 1971 (Indo-Pak War). In three of these I found myself in Kashmir! I took part in the 1947-48 Kashmir War as commander of a Tribal Lashkar in Jul/Aug 1948 in the Poonch Sector. " (In "Remembering our Warrior-Babar the Great" in Defence Journal, Pakistan, April 2001)
Destruction of Yugoslavia:
The crisis in Yugoslavia and its eventual destruction was caused by Germany when it had recognized pro-Nazi provinces of Yugoslavia, Croatia and Bosnia, as sovereign nations and started calling the Yugoslav government as the Serbian government and the Yugoslav army as the occupation army in Bosnia and Croatia. Later the NATO member countries also recognized these former provinces of Yugoslavia. The breakup of Yugoslavia was caused by mass murder of thousands in which Pakistan, along with Turkey, and Saudi Arabia played major role. Their aim was to create the Islamic Bosnian state and to destroy Yugoslavia through their campaign of terror. Pakistan was the leading light of these terrorists.
A contingent of 20,000 heavily armed men was formed from the Harkat-ul- Ansar (HUA) terrorist group and trained by the ISI of Pakistan, which was then sent to Yugoslavia at the request of the Clinton administration. About 200 Pakistani Muslims living in the UK went to Pakistan, trained in HUA camps and joined the HUA"s contingent in Bosnia. In January 1993 already, a Pakistani vessel with ten containers of arms, which were destined for the Bosnia, was intercepted in the Adriatic Sea ["Wapens moslims onderschept" ("Muslim arms intercepted"), Trouw, 21/01/93]. Sophisticated anti-tank guided missiles were air lifted by the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, to help Bosnians fight the Serbs, an ex-ISI Chief Lt.
Despite a UN arms embargo, and with the support of the US, arms, ammunition and thousands of fighters from Pakistan and Afghanistan were smuggled into Bosnia. General (Retd) Javed Nasir has officially admitted in a written petition submitted before a court in Lahore ["Ex-ISI Chief Reveals Secret Missile Shipments to Bosnia defying UN Embargo", in: South Asia Tribune Publications, Issue No 22, Dec 23-29, 2002]. During a visit to Sarajevo of the later Prime Minister of Turkey, Tansu Ciller, and the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, both publicly called for a lifting of the arms embargo.
The 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999, directed by the US general Wesley Clark, was said to be stopping an alleged "genocide" by the Serbs in Kosovo. However, the real goal of USA was to assist the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), although the year before, the US state department had branded the KLA a terrorist organization, financing its operations from the heroin trade and funds from some Middle-Eastern countries and individuals, including Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden and his network were also active in Kosovo, and KLA members trained in his camps in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Albania.
During an interview on Fox TV in the summer 2006, the former US federal prosecutor John Loftus reported that British intelligence had used the Al-Muhajiroun group in London to recruit terrorists with British passports for the war against the Serbs in Kosovo. One British of Pakistani origin took very active part in the civil war in Yugoslavia was Omar Saeed Sheikh. Omar Sheikh, at the behest of General Mahmood Ahmed, head of the ISI, wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the leading 9/11 hijacker, before the New York attacks [as confirmed by Dennis Lormel, director of FBI"s financial crimes unit].
Omar Skeikh has killed the journalist Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal, who has disclosed the link between Al-Queada, Pakistan"s ISI and the CIA. According to Benazir Bhutto Omar Sheikh also has killed Ben Laden later after his job of the 9/11 incident was completed (according to the statement of Bhutto on November 2, 2007 in Al-Jazeera TV channel). Thus, the link between Al-Queada, Pakistan"s ISI and CIA is very obvious, thus raising serious question about the real purpose of the "war on terror".
Analysis:
In recent past particularly since 1978 USA and NATO has been actively helping Pakistan and their fellow Muslims to subvert all progressive governments in Eurasia but they could not understand that they are also helping the real ambition of Saudi Arabia-UAE and the rest of the Islamic nations to re-establish the Islamic Empire from France to the Philippines and from Russia to Sri Lanka and eventually turn the entire world Islamic.
In 2006 in Munich, former US Defense Secretary has warned the world about the rise of a "global extremist Islamic empire" that could be as deadly as Hitler"s Third Reich, as "the Islamic radicals seek to take over governments from North Africa to Southeast Asia and to re-establish a caliphate they hope, one day, will include every continent. They have designed and distributed a map where national borders are erased and replaced by a global extremist Islamic empire." It may be too late for the Western countries to realize this plan but the British media is still ignorant about the nature of this Islamic revival, as explained by the founder of the Mujahideen movement Hasan-Al Banna.
According to Hasan Al Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of the pioneers of today"s Islamic revival, "Islamic Homeland extends to the first Islamic Empire which the Pious Ancestors built with their dear and precious blood, and over which they raised the banner of Allah. The Muslim will be asked before Allah why he did not work to restore its lands. Then the homeland of the Muslim expands to encompass the entire world."
Also "Working for Islam is a must from the Islamic point of view because the existing political and economic system and manmade laws operate functionally to deny the wisdom of Allah on earth. This denial makes it compulsory for every Muslim to establish a functionally Islamic society in every country on earth and to restore the Islamic way of life taught by all the prophets." "Since transforming every society into a functionally Islamic community and governing in accordance with the law of Allah, the Almighty, is a must, therefore every effort to accomplish these goals, according to the shari"ah is also a must."
Thus, no amount of "confidence building measures" or bus trips to Lahore or trains to Dakha will change the mindset of the Muslims, for whom it is their religious duty to fight the unbelievers. They have taken their fight against modern civilizations whether it is Anglo-American or Slavic or Hindu, because in the words of Hasan-Al Banna,
" Our task in general is to stand against the flood of modernist civilization overflowing from the swamp of materialistic and sinful desires. Western secularism moved into a Muslim world already estranged from its Qur"anic roots, and delayed its advancement for centuries, and will continue to do so until we drive it from our lands. Moreover, we will not stop at this point, but will pursue this evil force to its own lands, invade its Western heartland, and struggle to overcome it until all the world shouts by the name of the Prophet and the teachings of Islam spread throughout the world. Only then will Muslims achieve their fundamental goal, and there will be no more "persecution" and all religion will be exclusively for Allah."
Thus the 9/11 in New York or 26/11 in Mumbai cannot be neutralized by giving small concessions in Palestine or Kashmir as the worldview of the Muslims are not restricted to these insignificant issues. Those who do not understand it are suffering from serious myopia and complete ignorance of the world history since the seventh century.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
By: Dr.Dipak Basu
<i>(The author is a Professor in International Economics in Nagasaki University, Japan)</i>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The terrorist attack on Mumbai is already a few days old. Thus, the journalistic emotions have died down and now this is the time to think hard about the Pakistani terrorism and its aim before we can think about how to respond. The journalists in the British media are making the mistake of trying to link the issue of Kashmir to this terrorism, while most of these Western journalists, including the "English woman born in India" Arundhuti Roy, have no idea about long history of Islam and the history of the Indian subcontinent to understand the basic issue.
Let us take the case of Lashkar-e-Taiba, the main terrorist group based in Pakistan and financed by Saudi Arabia and U.A.E, named by the Indian authority as the real culprit behind the Mumbai attack. Lashkar-e-Taiba - "The army of the pure" - was a militant offshoot of Markaz Dawatul Irshad, was founded in 1989 by Hafiz Mohammad Saeed and Zafar Iqbal. Saeed was a former teacher of Islamic studies at Lahore"s University of Engineering and Technology.
Lashkar based its philosophy on Wahhabism, the austere brand of Islam practiced in Saudi Arabia, and has relied on donations from these Saudis and the Gulf Arab states. The group"s objective is to impose Islamic rule to the whole of South Asia so as to free the Muslims from being ruled by the Hindus, who as the "idolaters" are specifically targeted by The Koran itself. In the Chapter Al-Taubah 9:5 of The Koran it is written clearly: " When the sacred months are over, slay the idolaters wherever you find them." and in 9: 12: "Make war on them. God will chastise them at your hands and humble them".
Thus, Kashmir is a small fry in this strategy. Even if India will hand over the whole of the Jammu & Kashmir to Pakistan, the war against the "unbelievers" will go on. Although almost all Hindu reformers like Raja Ram Mohan Roy, Sri Aurobindo, Swami Dayananda even Ramakrishna Param Hansa have no hesitation to accept the similarity of the Hinduism and Islam as both of these religions accept only one creator, Muslims will never accept even the purest fundamentalist Hindus as "monotheist". Thus, there will be no end of this war.
Anglo-American journalists do not understand that there are no comforts for the Christians or the Jews, the so-called "people of the books" either. The Koran said clearly in the chapter Al-Maidah, 5:15, " Unbelievers are those who declare, "God is the Messiah, the son of Mary" and in 5:51, " Believers, take neither the Jews nor the Christians for your friends". Attack on the Jewish center in Bombay shows that Jews are legitimate targets of the "believers".
Most commentators, whether Indian or Western, completely ignore this aspect of fundamental religious difference between Islam on one side and all other religions on another side and try to analyse the issue in terms of contemporary world politics. As a result, the analysis presented by them in the world media is always missing the main point and the solutions they are now suggesting now to India, i.e., to compromise on Kashmir, falls short of the reality. When the aim of these terrorists groups is to hoist "Green Flag of Islam" on Washington and Moscow, the battleground is the whole world not just Kashmir.
India needs to think its strategy considering this grim reality. It is unfortunate that in 1947, at the time of the birth of India, India had two leaders, Gandhi and Nehru, who could not understand the history of the world since 7th century and had looked at the communal problem from a very narrow view. According to them, secularism and an appeasement policy towards Islam can eventually narrow the gap between the two warring communities. However, the recent history of the subcontinent showed that no amount of well intentional gestures could undermine the basic religious aim of Islam where secularism has no place but considered to be a dangerous heresy.
Here let us analyse some recent issues to demonstrate that the worldview of the Muslims are entirely different from that of the secular political analysts. Whether it is Kashmir or Afghanistan or Kosovo or 9/11 or 26/11, that worldview of the Muslims is very consistent but unknown to the secular media.
Kashmir Issue:
The view of Arundhuti Roy and assorted journalists in the British media is that India disregarded the UN resolution of plebiscite on Kashmir and the right of the self-determination of the people of Kashmir, which according to the Pakistan are all Muslims. That has created an outrage for the Muslims to react as they did on 26/11 in Mumbai.
However, there are about 20 resolution passed by the UN security council on Kashmir from 1948 to 1971, the most important one is the Resolution no 47, all others are repeating the same points. The UN Resolution No 47, on April 1948, which Pakistan regularly refers, said clearly: ".After Pakistan troops withdrawal, India to withdraw the bulk of its forces but to maintain a requisite strength for safeguarding the law and order in the state." As Pakistan never vacated the areas it had occupied, no plebiscite could take place. It makes no sense, after fifty years to implement the UN resolution in only 45 percent of the original state of the Jammu and Kashmir, which is in India now.
Pakistan launched three large-scale wars on India in 1965, 1971 and in 1999 with an attempt to militarily change the territorial status of J&K. As soon as the Soviet forces withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989, Islamic Muzzahadins, who were fighting in Afghanistan, came to Jammu & Kashmir, supported by Pakistan, to change the territorial status of J&K unilaterally. In 1992, all Hindus from the Indian part of Kashmir were forcibly expelled. There are large-scale infiltrations of Pakistanis in the Indian part of the state of J&K. The percentage of the Muslim in Ladakh went up from about 10 in 1947 to 46 in 2001; in Jammu it went up from about 20 in 1947 to 30 in 2001. In the "Northern Area Province", there were hardly any Muslims in 1947, now there is no non-Muslims in either there or in the Pakistan held Kashmir. The original people of Kashmir have long since left, thus it would be next to impossible to determine who are now eligible to vote in the plebiscite as real Kashmiris.
The proposal of the former President General Musharaf in November 2004 has listed several options for a settlement: (a) the whole area could be demilitarized and made autonomous; (b) it could be put under the joint control of the two countries; © some parts could be divided between the two countries and the Kashmir Valley either would become autonomous or would be under UN supervision (The Nation, 21 November, 2004). Pakistan"s demand is now not restricted to the Indian part of Kashmir valley only, but it has extended to include Kargil of Ladakh Valley and Muslim inhabited districts of western Jammu as well. Pakistan has clearly explained that the problem of Kashmir is religious and a partition along the religious line is the only acceptable solution for Pakistan.
The increased appetite of Pakistan to include Kargil and western Jammu means Pakistan and Bangladesh both gradually demand inclusions of Muslim majority areas in India in their respective countries. In about six districts of Assam, Muslims are now in majority. The situation is the same in parts of West Bengal, north Kerala, and northwestern Uttar Pradesh. Pakistan and Bangladesh will not wait for a long time to demand these areas. Thus, acceptance of Musharaf"s proposal would imply fragmentation of India in future and open war between Muslim and non-Muslim communities as we have seen in the former Yugoslavia recently.
Plebiscite, Exchange of Population and the Origin of Pakistan:
Pakistan came into being because the leaders of the Muslims in British India had refused to live with the non-Muslims. In Kingsway Hall, London on December 13, 1946, Jinnah made a passionate plea for the Muslim State of Pakistan, which would be inhabited by "one hundred million people, all Muslims. Earlier in August 1946, the Muslim League resorted to the "Direct Action" against the non-Muslims in British India to get the Muslim homeland. Jinnah said, referring to the driving out of non-Muslims from East Bengal, that it was already the transfer of population in action, and some machinery should be devised for affecting it peacefully and on a large scale. At a press conference in Karachi on November 25, 1946, Jinnah had appealed to the central as well as provincial governments to take up the question of exchange of population based on religion.
However, the exchange of population was never implemented, as Britain has never included it in the Independence of India Act of 1947 as presented to the British Parliament. Pakistan went ahead to implement the expulsions of the non-Muslim population. In 1947, about 34 percent of the population of Pakistan was non-Muslim. In 2001 less than 3 percent of the population of Pakistan are non-Muslims and less than 1 percent of the population are Hindus. In India, the percentage of the Muslim population increased from 9 percent in 1947 to 14 percent in 2001. Thus, only an one-way transfer of non-Muslims from Pakistan to India took place, but there was no proper exchange of population. That is the root of the Kashmir problem and the Muslim terrorism in India, which the Western media ignores. If there are no Muslims, the Muslim terrorism can only be a part of an invasion from the neighbouring countries but cannot be sustained and supported by the Muslim population in India, as it is the case today.
The cases of Greece-Turkey, Germany-Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria-Turkey, Poland-Germany, Bosnia-Serbia, Croatia-Serbia, are the examples where full-scale exchanges of population along with partition were organized under the administration of the League of Nations and the United Nations. Soviet Union immediately after 1945 has organized exchanges of populations between Germany and Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia, Poland and Germany, Ukraine and Poland, and between Bulgaria and Rumania. In 1989, the Soviet Union has organized an exchange of population between Armenia and Azerbaijan as well. In fact, it is unnecessary to partition a country if the populations are not to be exchanged.
In 1989, the last soldier of the Soviet Union had left Afghanistan. A full-scale attack on the non-Muslims of Kashmir also had started in 1989 to drive them away from Kashmir. General Zia addressed a meeting of selected military commanders and top bosses of I.S.I. (Inter Services Intelligence) in April 1988 and said:
" As you know, due to our preoccupation in Afghanistan, I have not been able to put these plans before you earlier. Let there be no mistake, however, that our aim remains quite clear and firm and that is the liberation of the Kashmir Valley - our Kashmiri brothers cannot be allowed to stay with India for any length of time, now. We whip up anti-Indian feelings amongst the students and peasants, preferably on some religious issues, so that we can enlist their active support for rioting and anti-government demonstrations. By the grace of God, we have managed to accumulate large stocks of modern arms and ammunition from US consignments intended for Afghan Mujahideen. This will help our brethren to achieve their goals."
Benazir Bhutoo, the darling of the British media, was the main architect of that plan to turn Kashmir from " a heaven on earth" to "a killing field". In 1992 President Clinton"s special assistant to South Asia Robin Rafael had declared that USA recognize the whole of J&K as a disputed area but not a part of India.
Destruction of Afghanistan:
Pakistan has invaded Afghanistan informally many years before the Soviets came to Afghanistan in December 1979. Major General Naseerullah Babar, later Interior Minister of Benazir Bhutto and the organizer of Taliban, said,
" In October 1973 an Afghan named Habibur Rahman Shaheed came and contacted me about setting up a resistance movement in Afghanistan with active military assistance of Pakistan. I conveyed the same to Zulfiqer Ali Bhutto, who accepted my proposal in view of the changed situation in Afghanistan and asked me to organize training of Afghans. Thus we established the base of Afghan Mujahideen resistance in 1973. We gave them basic infantry weapons, some specialized training in how to conduct guerrilla warfare. It was a top-secret affair and the ISI had no role. The secret was shared between Bhutto, myself, Aziz Ahmad and Tikka Khan, then the Army Chief. Who were the pioneers of the anti-Daud Afghan resistance? They were Ustad Rabbani, Hikmatyar, and a host of others who came to Pakistan after October 1973. Mr Bhutto laid the foundation of the Afghan resistance in 1973. He had the foresight and vision to do it. As a matter of fact we created the organizational network which was used by Zia and the USA to oppose the Soviets." ("Remembering our Warrior-Babar the Great" in Defence Journal, April 2001).
If Benazir Bhutto, the darling of the British press, was so opposed to Osama Bin Laden and terrorism, why then did she work with a retired military general as her Interior Minister, Naseerullah Babar to create the Taliban? Major General Naseerullah Babar was a leader of the Jamiat-e-Ulema-i-Islami, which was a political party that controlled the Madrasahs (religious schools) where the Talibs (students) were recruited to create the Taliban. During the 1965 war with India, Babar was awarded Sitara-e-Jurat. In the 1971 war, he commanded an artillery brigade. Then he was appointed Governor of NWFP because of his close association with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. He contested the 1977 election on a Pakistan Peoples Party ticket from his home district of Nowshera. In 1988 he became the Special Assistant to Benazir Bhutto to mobilize the Muzzahideens to capture and destroy both Afghanistan and India.
In Bebar"s own words, "All my life thence I have not been able to reconcile with the feigned Indian democracy and been involved in four wars against India, viz; 1948 (Kashmir); 1965 Rann of Kutch, 1965 (Indo-Pak War), 1971 (Indo-Pak War). In three of these I found myself in Kashmir! I took part in the 1947-48 Kashmir War as commander of a Tribal Lashkar in Jul/Aug 1948 in the Poonch Sector. " (In "Remembering our Warrior-Babar the Great" in Defence Journal, Pakistan, April 2001)
Destruction of Yugoslavia:
The crisis in Yugoslavia and its eventual destruction was caused by Germany when it had recognized pro-Nazi provinces of Yugoslavia, Croatia and Bosnia, as sovereign nations and started calling the Yugoslav government as the Serbian government and the Yugoslav army as the occupation army in Bosnia and Croatia. Later the NATO member countries also recognized these former provinces of Yugoslavia. The breakup of Yugoslavia was caused by mass murder of thousands in which Pakistan, along with Turkey, and Saudi Arabia played major role. Their aim was to create the Islamic Bosnian state and to destroy Yugoslavia through their campaign of terror. Pakistan was the leading light of these terrorists.
A contingent of 20,000 heavily armed men was formed from the Harkat-ul- Ansar (HUA) terrorist group and trained by the ISI of Pakistan, which was then sent to Yugoslavia at the request of the Clinton administration. About 200 Pakistani Muslims living in the UK went to Pakistan, trained in HUA camps and joined the HUA"s contingent in Bosnia. In January 1993 already, a Pakistani vessel with ten containers of arms, which were destined for the Bosnia, was intercepted in the Adriatic Sea ["Wapens moslims onderschept" ("Muslim arms intercepted"), Trouw, 21/01/93]. Sophisticated anti-tank guided missiles were air lifted by the Pakistani intelligence agency, ISI, to help Bosnians fight the Serbs, an ex-ISI Chief Lt.
Despite a UN arms embargo, and with the support of the US, arms, ammunition and thousands of fighters from Pakistan and Afghanistan were smuggled into Bosnia. General (Retd) Javed Nasir has officially admitted in a written petition submitted before a court in Lahore ["Ex-ISI Chief Reveals Secret Missile Shipments to Bosnia defying UN Embargo", in: South Asia Tribune Publications, Issue No 22, Dec 23-29, 2002]. During a visit to Sarajevo of the later Prime Minister of Turkey, Tansu Ciller, and the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Benazir Bhutto, both publicly called for a lifting of the arms embargo.
The 78-day bombing of Yugoslavia in the spring of 1999, directed by the US general Wesley Clark, was said to be stopping an alleged "genocide" by the Serbs in Kosovo. However, the real goal of USA was to assist the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), although the year before, the US state department had branded the KLA a terrorist organization, financing its operations from the heroin trade and funds from some Middle-Eastern countries and individuals, including Osama bin Laden. Bin Laden and his network were also active in Kosovo, and KLA members trained in his camps in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Albania.
During an interview on Fox TV in the summer 2006, the former US federal prosecutor John Loftus reported that British intelligence had used the Al-Muhajiroun group in London to recruit terrorists with British passports for the war against the Serbs in Kosovo. One British of Pakistani origin took very active part in the civil war in Yugoslavia was Omar Saeed Sheikh. Omar Sheikh, at the behest of General Mahmood Ahmed, head of the ISI, wired $100,000 to Mohammed Atta, the leading 9/11 hijacker, before the New York attacks [as confirmed by Dennis Lormel, director of FBI"s financial crimes unit].
Omar Skeikh has killed the journalist Daniel Pearl of the Wall Street Journal, who has disclosed the link between Al-Queada, Pakistan"s ISI and the CIA. According to Benazir Bhutto Omar Sheikh also has killed Ben Laden later after his job of the 9/11 incident was completed (according to the statement of Bhutto on November 2, 2007 in Al-Jazeera TV channel). Thus, the link between Al-Queada, Pakistan"s ISI and CIA is very obvious, thus raising serious question about the real purpose of the "war on terror".
Analysis:
In recent past particularly since 1978 USA and NATO has been actively helping Pakistan and their fellow Muslims to subvert all progressive governments in Eurasia but they could not understand that they are also helping the real ambition of Saudi Arabia-UAE and the rest of the Islamic nations to re-establish the Islamic Empire from France to the Philippines and from Russia to Sri Lanka and eventually turn the entire world Islamic.
In 2006 in Munich, former US Defense Secretary has warned the world about the rise of a "global extremist Islamic empire" that could be as deadly as Hitler"s Third Reich, as "the Islamic radicals seek to take over governments from North Africa to Southeast Asia and to re-establish a caliphate they hope, one day, will include every continent. They have designed and distributed a map where national borders are erased and replaced by a global extremist Islamic empire." It may be too late for the Western countries to realize this plan but the British media is still ignorant about the nature of this Islamic revival, as explained by the founder of the Mujahideen movement Hasan-Al Banna.
According to Hasan Al Banna, the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood and one of the pioneers of today"s Islamic revival, "Islamic Homeland extends to the first Islamic Empire which the Pious Ancestors built with their dear and precious blood, and over which they raised the banner of Allah. The Muslim will be asked before Allah why he did not work to restore its lands. Then the homeland of the Muslim expands to encompass the entire world."
Also "Working for Islam is a must from the Islamic point of view because the existing political and economic system and manmade laws operate functionally to deny the wisdom of Allah on earth. This denial makes it compulsory for every Muslim to establish a functionally Islamic society in every country on earth and to restore the Islamic way of life taught by all the prophets." "Since transforming every society into a functionally Islamic community and governing in accordance with the law of Allah, the Almighty, is a must, therefore every effort to accomplish these goals, according to the shari"ah is also a must."
Thus, no amount of "confidence building measures" or bus trips to Lahore or trains to Dakha will change the mindset of the Muslims, for whom it is their religious duty to fight the unbelievers. They have taken their fight against modern civilizations whether it is Anglo-American or Slavic or Hindu, because in the words of Hasan-Al Banna,
" Our task in general is to stand against the flood of modernist civilization overflowing from the swamp of materialistic and sinful desires. Western secularism moved into a Muslim world already estranged from its Qur"anic roots, and delayed its advancement for centuries, and will continue to do so until we drive it from our lands. Moreover, we will not stop at this point, but will pursue this evil force to its own lands, invade its Western heartland, and struggle to overcome it until all the world shouts by the name of the Prophet and the teachings of Islam spread throughout the world. Only then will Muslims achieve their fundamental goal, and there will be no more "persecution" and all religion will be exclusively for Allah."
Thus the 9/11 in New York or 26/11 in Mumbai cannot be neutralized by giving small concessions in Palestine or Kashmir as the worldview of the Muslims are not restricted to these insignificant issues. Those who do not understand it are suffering from serious myopia and complete ignorance of the world history since the seventh century.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->