Re-kindling religious bigotry

India's propensity to extract maximum strategic advantage by aligning with the US/NATO forces, is due to its deep-seated prejudice against Pakistan. To have a firm holdover Afghanistan is to be able to extend its influence in the Central Asian Republics and reap the economic benefits of the energy reservoirs. Changing partnership is purely determined by material benefits as in the Cold War, India was reaping maximum benefits being on the side of the former SU. After its defeat, it is now developing strategic partnership with USA, the latent objective being to pile up nuclear weapons so that Pakistan could be thoroughly demoralised and intimidated. The common factor which induces it to support Bush is its chronic aversion towards Islam. It was not accidental that Afghanistan was subjected to all out military attack, on the flimsy ground of netting the so-called planners of 9/11 event. It is no secret now that those who planned the Manhattan tragedy were located in Germany and Spain. Afghanistan only gave shelter to bin Laden. Despite so much massacre and devastation in Afghanistan, spread over eight years, the US and its allies have not captured their "valued" targets, which in itself speaks of the shameful limitation that the superpower has. On the other hand, the power of the belief and commitment to high ideals that Afghanis possess is the major armour against the incredible might of the great military power of the world, which after having encountered great humiliation in Iraq is now facing a similar predicament in Afghanistan.
It is indeed a dangerous scenario brewing up in Afghanistan and its adjoining tribal belt of Pakistan. The US, NATO, Israel and India are out to create a situation in the tribal belt that it is transformed into a buffer zone, from where the major operations could be launched in Afghanistan. Ever since the infiltration of US sponsored insurgents into Pakistan's tribal territory, very well planned and coordinated through CIA, RAW and Mossad, there is a design to shake Pakistan right from its base. But there is a big shadow between the dream and reality. Pakistan is in a state of war, and there is a vicious plan to wean it from its main anchor - the tribal belt. Our valiant military forces are not killing its own people, to please USA, any more as they were made to follow General Musharraf's policy based on timidity during his tenure as COAS and an illegal president. Now the scenario has changed. Army is doing what it should do. ISI and MI are very powerful organisations that we should be proud of. There was a design to isolate them from intelligence-seeking in the tribal areas and hence there was so much of propaganda and image-tarnishing of these institutions.
Quaid-i-Azam, at the time of the struggle for Pakistan had given a 'rule of thumb', that whenever Hindu India criticised any policy of the Muslim League, it was expedient to think that it was in the interest of Muslims. Similarly all that mischievous propaganda against ISI and other agencies is a clear testimony to the fact that these institutions are hurting our adversaries very much. Most of the tribal people are honest to the core and cannot go to harm the cause of 'Islam' or that of Pakistan. The callous pouring of bombs through missiles and drones on the poor people of Waziristan, shall not shatter their 'Will'. The infiltrators masquerading as 'Pakistani Talibans', are in fact fake entities - agent saboteurs, who are engaged in killing innocent civilians through suicide bombing. The strategy being followed is that of Che'Guavera, who was a pioneer of the urban guerrilla movement. By killing the armed forces personnel that are supposed to protect the lives of citizens, the objective is to create a climate of collapse as the government is incapable of ensuring law and order, and so no place in Pakistan is safe enough so how could it protect the nuclear weapons, which must be brought into USA's control.
The systematic war on Islamic countries has two-fold objectives, to render them militarily so weak, that they are pushed sufficiently back into history so that they cannot emerge to pose any threat to Israel. Moreover, Iran, Pakistan, China and Russia, can be controlled by securing a permanent, holdover Afghanistan besides gaining monopoly over the oil wealth of the Central Asian Republics. Eric Margolis in his write up Time to face reality of Afghanistan (reproduced by a local newspaper, October 07, 2008) makes it quit explicit: "The current war is not really about Al-Qaeda and terrorism, but about opening a secure corridor through Pashtun tribal territory to export the oil and gas riches of the Caspian Basin of Central Asia to the West. The US/NATO forces in Afghanistan are essentially pipeline protection troops." Margolis, in the same article reiterates what Taliban leader Mullah Omer claimed: "The US was heading towards the same kind of catastrophic defeat in Afghanistan that the SU had met. The ongoing financial panic in the US lent substance to his words." The spilling of Muslim blood has found its retribution in near collapse of the economy of the US and that of its allies. Nemesis hardly spares the pirates and predators.
Bush blinded by rage and hatred against Islam, undertook 'missions impossible'. No doubt, he has the blood on his hand of millions of Muslims in Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan and its tribal territory and like Macbeth he cannot wash it off. His surrogate partners, Israel and India have done colossal atrocities against Muslims; killing over eighty thousand in the Indian held Kashmir alone and the gory drama of death, the Hindus of Gujarat played against Muslims in the massacre of 2002. The famous Babri Mosque was demolished on the concocted plea that it was built on a Hindu Temple - a great historical aberration. There is another Hindu 'Pseudo intellectual" P N Oak, who came out with a ridiculous idea that the great Taj Mahal - a great wonder of the world was not built by Muslim Ruler Shahjahan, but was a Hindu Temple called Tejo Mao Mahal.
Samuel Huntington is the proponent of the idea that it is not radical Islam, but Islam itself, which cannot coexist with the West. Bernard Lewis is another 'intellectual' supporter of Islam bashing. Unlike Capitalism and Communism Islam is a divine ideology. No power on the earth can obliterate it. "Militarism is one of the chief Bulwark of Capitalism and the day that Militarism is undermined, Capitalism will fall." (Helen Keller) That day is in the offing.
The writer is a political analyst
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