20 August 2010 By Asif Haroon Rajar Both Israel and India aspire to
become unchallenged military powers of Middle East and
South Asia respectively. The USA provides the
requisite backup support to accomplish their
ambitions. In order to retain their regional
ascendancy both have paid particular attention towards
modernising conventional and unconventional military
means far outmatching their neighbours. Apart from
building their military power it becomes necessary for
the duo to ensure that none of its neighbours acquires
any weapon system superior to its own or is in a
position to flex muscles or unite to pose a credible
challenge. Above all, they over ensure
that no Muslim country can possess nuclear capability
and be in a position to avert blackmailing and
bullying tactics. In
other words, both desire weak and subservient states
doing their bidding. Nuclear capability with any
country is a death knell for their megalomaniac
aspirations and hence a binding necessity to prevent
its acquisition. Iraq was the first Muslim country
which was fast moving towards acquiring nuclear
capability. Once Iraq got fully embroiled in war with
Iran, Israel destroyed the Iraqi nuclear plant at
Osirak in 1981. Later on, the USA helped in decimating
Iraqi conventional military power through First and
2nd Gulf Wars and reducing the most powerful military
machine of the Arab world to a mere counter insurgent
force. Having already neutralised Egypt through the
Camp David Accord, Israel emerged as the unchallenged
military power of the region. The suspected nuclear
program of Syria was destroyed by Israeli planes. Israel is now worried about Iran
which it suspects is developing a weapons grade
nuclear program with the active assistance of Russia.
Iran’s well-developed delivery means and the
aggressive stance adopted by the Iranian leadership
against Israel add to its woes. Tel Aviv is not in a
position to cause any harm to Iran on its own and is
therefore persistently pestering the USA to destroy
Iran’s nuclear plants. Unless these nuclear facilities
are destroyed, Israel would always remain insecure and
even hesitant to go full out against the Iranian
backed Hezbollah and Hamas, the two radical groups who
have seriously compromised the authority of Israeli
military power for the first time. Ever since the rise
of Islamists in Iran, the USA has been resorting to
covert means to bring the regime down and replace it
with moderate reformists. It had pumped in millions of
dollars during the last elections in Iran to affect a
regime change but failed. It has also failed to
coerce, isolate or entice the leadership to abandon
its nuclear program in return for monetary benefits.
The CIA is however still busy carrying out covert
operations through Iraq and Baluchistan where it has
cultivated a Sunni Iranian group Jandullah for
carrying out sabotage and subversion in neighbouring
Zahidan province. Shamsi air base in Baluchistan is
still in use by US troops for monitoring Iran. As far as India is concerned, it is
faced with a nuclear Pakistan which is presently an
ally of the USA in the ongoing war on terror. Pakistan
has never accepted the hegemony of India even when it
was non-nuclear and had gone to war with India in
1948, 1965 and in 1971. The Kargil conflict in summer
of 1999 had the potential of getting converted into a
full blown war with possible nuclear overtones.
Nuclear Pakistan is a common threat to both India and
Israel since the latter feels that either it could
transfer nuclear technology to any of its Arab
neighbours or come to the aid of a Muslim country
embroiled with it. It also fears that Islamic
militants might steal nuclear bombs and pose a threat
to its existence. Because of a commonality of threat
perceptions, both India and Israel are working in
tandem in pursuit of common objectives. The duo has developed close
military, economic, and nuclear ties and Israel is now
the biggest arms supplier to India. Both have been
vying to destroy Pakistan’s nuclear facility at Kahuta
since the 1980s. Having discerned that its destruction
through a surgical strike is risky because of the
efficient and credible response system of Pakistan,
the duo has been trying to disable Pakistan’s nuclear
capability through indirect means. The occupation of Afghanistan in
the aftermath of 9/11 provided a godsend opportunity
to India and Israel to give practical shape to their
nefarious plan of disarming Pakistan. From 2002
onwards RAW, Mossad with the active collaboration of
the CIA and FBI have been undertaking subversive
activities inside Pakistan from Kabul to weaken all
the protections around nuclear assets and hijack them
at an opportune time without having to wage a war. The
godfather USA helped its chief operators by winning
over Gen Musharraf and opening up the western border
for undertaking clandestine operations in selected
regions. The trio then set about weakening Pakistan’s
state institutions through a wilful and well
orchestrated propaganda campaign. India has always
used propaganda warfare as an instrument to achieve
its ends. The vilification campaign was intensified
from 2005 onwards and it gained momentum in 2008
onwards. The targets chosen were the army and the ISI
since the plotters knew that without sufficiently
enfeebling these two institutions it would not be
possible for them to achieve their objectives. The trio worked on following
objectives: One, dupe the Pakistan leadership
by promising carrots, peace with India and solution to
Kashmir. Two, cultivate important officials
in various government departments, media and legal
fraternity. Three, inject secularism and remove
the notion of Jihad, project militancy as the main
threat to the existence of Pakistan and accentuate a
secular-Islamist divide. Four, stoke ethnic tensions,
sectarian strife, and aid insurgencies. Five, create divisions within the
society and polarise it politically. Six, defame the army and then
create a wedge between the army and the civil
government. Seven, create misgivings,
frustration, disillusionment, fear and despair among
the people. Eight, cripple state institutions
and render the nation headless and disoriented. Nine, weaken the economy and make
Pakistan subservient to IMF. Ten, deny the Pakistani army and
the ISI any role in protecting the nuclear arsenal. Eleven, make Pakistan ungovernable
and a failing state. Twelve, justify the entry of US-Nato
forces into Pakistan to save Pakistan from its
takeover by militants and to take nuclear assets into
their safe custody. While India established a string of
Pakistan-specific consulates in Afghanistan, RAW was
given huge funds to accomplish its mission of
destabilisation of Pakistan. It recruited, trained and
launched agents into Baluchistan, Fata and Swat.
Likewise, Mossad set up camps in Badakshan to launch
its agents into areas which had already been made
restive by the CIA as a consequence of forced
introduction of Pakistani troops into Fata and the
CIA-FBI combine playing a double game. Afghans,
Chechens, Uzbeks, Caucasians and disgruntled elements
within Pakistan were trained in a manner that they
could easily mix with locals. Some of the Hindu agents
of RAW were caught and found uncircumcised. The tasks
assigned to the agents were to create lawlessness and
to defame the Taliban and to keep militancy boiling. After making the peaceful areas
restive, ironically, increasing militancy in
nuclear-armed Pakistan has become one of the major
causes of worry for USA. Madeline Albright said that
Pakistan is an international migraine. Continuous
drone attacks killing innocent people and the
meddlesome role of RAW and CIA has in fact given a
migraine to Pakistan. It must be remembered that the
CIA was instrumental in fomenting Jihadism and
militancy in Pakistan in the 1980s which is the cause
of most of the suffering of the people of Pakistan.
The illegal occupation of Afghanistan in 2001 together
with the oppressive policies have triggered militancy
in the region. In nuclear-armed India, neither the USA
nor any other country stoked extremism and militancy.
Yet the level and scale of militancy in India far
outweigh Pakistan. While Hindu-Muslim riots in India
are a regular phenomenon, in Pakistan the Hindus have
never been persecuted. Whereas the Hindu extremists
are intolerant towards all the minorities living in
India and are always looking for an excuse to butcher
them, in Pakistan all minorities are treated more
fairly. Indian Muslims are looked at with
suspicion and they live in perpetual fear. The hatred
of Hindu Rightists and Leftists against them is so
intense that they treat them as second rate citizens
and yearn to kill each one of them. The recently
released film Slum dog Millionaire has exposed the
wretched state of affairs of Indian Muslims and has
become a cause of embarrassment for India. No
religious party in Pakistan seeks the destruction of
India while the Hindu extremist parties have often
voiced their wish to nuke Pakistan. There has not been
a single incident of theft of nuclear material in
Pakistan but several cases of theft have taken place
in India and yet the western world brazenly says that
Pakistan’s nuclear assets are in danger of getting
stolen by extremists. Hindu extremists are so
intolerant that they cannot even see their sports
teams getting defeated by aPakistani team. The newly appointed Special Envoy
Richard Holbrooke undertook a visit to Pakistan,
Afghanistan and India to tie up loose ends of a
planned joint military operation from both sides of
the Durand Line. In this US-Nato-Afghan-Pakistan
troops would be taking part under the overall command
of the US or Nato with a focus on the strip along
Pakistan-Afghan border. This operation would enable
foreign troops to gain entry into Pakistan and to
establish a military base in Fata under the guise of
providing protection to nuclear assets. Looking at the
list of objectives set against Pakistan, alot of
ground has already been covered by our adversaries.
Having come out of the Mumbai trap unscathed, it is
now to be seen how our leaders will respond to this
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