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| Pakistan's new political dichotomy | | | India favours normal ties with Pakistan
and Islamabad threatens New Delhi
by announcing that Pakistan could use the option of striking India with nuclear weapons.This may be called political dichotomy.If Pakistan says that the nuclear weapons it has are not meant to be kept in the show window does it mean that India's nuclear weapons were merely for show. Notwithstanding the efforts being taken by the BJP government at the Centre led by Prime Minister Narendra Modi to improve relations with neighbouring countries, Pakistan has made a provocative statement threatening that the option to use nuclear weapons is always available to Islamabad. The statement was made by Pakistan's Defence Minister Khawaja Asif, who also accused India of waging a proxy war against the country through terrorism."If we need to use nuclear weapons for our survival, we will," Asif has said.He has stated that use of nuclear weapons was always an option as they were not kept merely for show but as deterrents.The establishment in Islamabad has fears that the unrest in Balochistan was the result of India's proxy war against Pakistan in that province.In fact Islamabad has made a pointed reference to the role of RAW, Indian external intelligence agency in supporting terrorists in Balochistan despite of the fact that New Delhi has categorically denied any involvement in the violence and unrest in Balochistan.
It seems that Islamabad has grown wiser from series of mistakes it had committed which included launching of proxy war against India first in Punjab and then in Jammu and Kashmir.At one stage Pakistan had helped groups of foreign mercenaries in crossing into Jammu and Kashmir between 1990 and 1995.And when the Indian intelligence and security agencies arrested a number of these foreign mercenaries, including those from Pakistan and Afghanistan, agencies across the border opted for pulling out these mercenaries in order to prevent the Indian agencies and the Government of India from accusing Islamabad of exporting terror to Jammu and Kashmir.Right from 1988 till today Pakistan has been using its soil for exporting terror to Jammu and Kashmir and to other Indian states.Several countries, including the US,have been critical of Pakistan's support to terror.
And now Islamabad has found a convenient way to malign the name of India by blaming it for having launched proxy war in some of the provinces of Pakistan.At one stage Islamabad had blamed the Indian agencies for having supported terrorists in Sindh province and after it failed to provide any documentary evidence in support of its contention Pakistan has started accusing India of having launched proxy war in Balochistan.
Against this India had submitted evidence on involvement of Hafiz Saeed and Zakir-u-Rehman Lakhvi in the 2008 Mumbai carnage. But Islamabad and courts in Pakistan announced that the evidence was not sufficient.This way Lakhvi was released from the jail and the Government did not act against Saeed who has been allowed full freedom for launching anti-India campaign on the soil of Pakistan. And the latest report indicating that Pakistan has ruled out the possibility of banning Jamaat-ud Dawah led by Hafiz Saeed is being treated as a fresh affront by New Delhi. Pakistan has claimed that there is no evidence to link it with terrorism and the Lashkar-e-Toiba.Even if Pakistan has stated that Saeed has no link with Lashkar-e-Toiba has Islamabad enforced the ban on the Lashkar ? No it has not.That is the reason for Lashkar activists to infiltrate into Jammu and Kashmir for raising the level of violence.Islamabad should make it clear whether it wants talks or is bent upon supporting terrorists. |
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