Pakistan’s security scenario

A new wave of suicide attacks and subversive acts which have especially targeted the installations of the security personnel in the country in recent days cannot be seen in isolation. They are part of rapidly occurring inter-related developments.
Pakistan’s armed forces have been rapidly achieving successes in dismantling militant strongholds in South Waziristan where they have launched “Rah-i-Nijat” (Path to Deliverance). But, at the same time, as alarming development has taken place, as ISAF commanders have removed security check posts located on the Afghanistan side of the international border. This move entails multiple intriguing motives. First, it will encourage infiltration of militants into Afghanistan to justify the American claim that key Al-Qaeda-related insurgents are present in FATA and Balochistan. Second, the open border can be used by the Afghan Taliban commanders to send large-scale reinforcements in South Waziristan to sabotage the military operation. Third, route could be used by India to dispatch more suicide bombers in Pakistan.
ISPR spokesman Major General Athar Abbas and Interior Minister Rehman Malik have openly talked of Indian Afghan involvement behind the attacks, pointing out that Hakimullah Mehsud, Chief of the TTP, “are the enemies of the state” receiving arms and ammunition through Afghanistan to destabilise the country. India has set up secret training centres in Afghanistan where its secret agency, RAW imparts training to new recruit militants. In fact, New Delhi has the support of Israel and US to weaken Pakistan which is the only nuclear country in the Islamic world.
It is pertinent to note that NWFP Governor Awais Ghani accused some world powers of trying to divide Pakistan in June this year, adding that if he were not governor, he would expose them, and in an in-camera sitting of the Senate, Rehman Malik displayed documentary evidence of Indian use of Afghanistan to create unrest in Pakistan. The in-camera session was intended to show CIA’s role against Pakistan. Significantly, America has been playing a double game: Tough conditions in the Kerry-Lugar Bill and prospective military aid coupled with praise for Pakistan’s successful military operations in Swat and now in South Waziristan. Moreover, some US officials indulge in a blame game against Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI, while giving strong signals to widen the course of drone strikes in Balochistan.