Indian Analyst Bharat Karnad to Modi: Use TTP Terrorists to Attack Pakistan

[RiazHaq]

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With the home-grown resistance of a new generation of Kashmiris against India's brutal military occupation turning into a full-blown insurgency, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's right-wing Hindu Nationalist government is trying desperately to divert attention from its human rights abuses by blaming Pakistan for Pulwama attack. Mr. Modi and his ministers are making war threats to "punish" Pakistan for Pulwama attack carried out by a local Kashmiri young man using explosives obtained locally. How will Mr. Modi "punish" Pakistan? Will India launch a full-frontal attack? Or opt for covert warfare using its terrorist proxies?


Bharat Karnad
In a recently published Bloomberg Quint Op Ed on Pulwama attack in Indian Occupied Kashmir, a top Indian analyst Bharat Karnad has said that "it (TTP) is an asset for India to support and grow with moral and materiel support, and to develop". "Indeed, TTP’s fighting qualities are sufficiently developed and effective to simultaneously fight the Pakistan army in Pakistan and the U.S.-led NATO forces in Afghanistan", Karnad adds.

During former US Defense Secretary James Mattis' visit to New Delhi in 2017, Bharat Karnad had also acknowledged TTP-RAW link in a Hindustan Times Op Ed in the following words:

"Mattis’ request that India moderate its support for TTP will put Delhi in a fix because TTP is useful as an Indian counterpart of the Hizbul Mujahideen, Lashkar-e-Toiba, and Jaish-e-Mohammad deployed by the Pakistan Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Jammu and Kashmir. Severing relations with TTP will mean India surrendering an active card in Pakistan and a role in Afghanistan as TTP additionally provides access to certain Afghan Taliban factions. This, together with the Abdul Ghani regime’s desire for India’s presence and the tested friendship with Abdul Rashid Dostum and his Tajik-dominated ‘Northern Alliance’, ensures that no solution for peace in Afghanistan can be cobbled together without India’s help."

Bharat Karnad is a Research Professor in National Security Studies at the Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi. But Bharat Karnad is not alone in advocating the use of India's terrorist proxies against Pakistan. Since 2013, India's current National Security Advisor Ajit Doval has been talking about "Pakistan's vulnerabilities" to terrorism and India's ability to take advantage of it. Here are excerpts of his speech at Sastra University:

"How do you tackle Pakistan?.....We start working on Pakistan's vulnerabilities-- economic, internal security, political, isolating them internationally, it can be anything..... it can be defeating Pakistan's policies in Afghanistan...... You stop the terrorists by denying them weapons, funds and manpower. Deny them funds by countering with one-and-a-half times more funding. If they have 1200 crores give them 1800 crores and they are on our side...who are the Taliban fighting for? It's because they haven't got jobs or someone has misled them. The Taliban are mercenaries. So go for more of the covert thing (against Pakistan)..." Ajit Doval, India's National Security Advisor

Based on recent comments from Indian analysts and past pronouncements of sentior India officials like Ajit Doval, I expect India to intensify its proxy war of terror against Pakistan.


Here's a video of Ajit Doval explaining his "Doval Doctrine":

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[Menace2Society]

Pakistan must link a TTP bombing with security of India. This is a must.

As soon as TTP do anything airstrikes within India.

This is a must to secure your internal security.

 

[D!nGa Ch!Ba]

Why Pakistani team misses this clip in ICJ????in Jadhave case.

 

[313ghazi]

Too late sunshine, we f**ked them already.

 

[YeBeWarned]

It's been going on for sometime .. ttp is using Indian made weapons , support they are getting from India through Afghanistan .

 

[Menace2Society]

Too late sunshine, we f**ked them already.

Terrorism must be a red line. Accuse and attack immediately.

Like you said they have been dismantled and India is in courts accused of supporting terrorist proxies.

 

[alphapak]

Pakistan should arm the Kashmiri's and Khalistan movement. Let India bleed.

 

[Path-Finder]

its time to tell the world now that zaleeldari and tooi are no more. Nothing is standing in the way.

 

[Zee-shaun]

Isn't that old news already? First BLA and MQM and then TTP. Now they're warming up PTM.

 

[randomradio]

Lot of people do not realise that initiating a proxy war against Pakistan is one of its nuclear red lines. So India has not initiated a proxy war against Pakistan, contrary to what Pakistanis believe, especially the ones on this forum.

But it is an option. Funding TTP, Balochis etc can be considered as "calling Pakistan's nuclear bluff".

 

[Pakistan Fascist Ball]

Lot of people do not realise that initiating a proxy war against Pakistan is one of its nuclear red lines. So India has not initiated a proxy war against Pakistan, contrary to what Pakistanis believe, especially the ones on this forum.

But it is an option. Funding TTP, Balochis etc can be considered as "calling Pakistan's nuclear bluff".

Is that what you guys tell yourself to feel better about yourselves? Angelic innocent, virgin India feeling threatened by bad boy, lucha Pakistan. India, of course, has never used proxies in neighboring countries to destabilize them. Wah, aapki masoomee-at per sadqe jawa.

 

[Cuirassier]

NDS is doing that already. So are you in Balochistan.

 

[randomradio]

Is that what you guys tell yourself to feel better about yourselves? Angelic innocent, virgin India feeling threatened by bad boy, lucha Pakistan. India, of course, has never used proxies in neighboring countries to destabilize them. Wah, aapki masoomee-at per sadqe jawa.

"Has never" is correct with the exception of East Pakistan. But against West Pakistan and all other South Asian states, no. India has not committed to proxy war against any country, including Pakistan, with the exception of Bangladesh, but the political factors in BD were completely different. BD was facing genocide, India was facing a refugee crisis etc, and people took up arms against West Pakistan then. So this 'proxy war' wasn't even created by India.

 

[Pakistan Fascist Ball]

"Has never" is correct with the exception of East Pakistan. But against West Pakistan and all other South Asian states, no. India has not committed to proxy war against any country, including Pakistan, with the exception of Bangladesh, but the political factors in BD were completely different. BD was facing genocide, India was facing a refugee crisis etc, and people took up arms against West Pakistan then. So this 'proxy war' wasn't even created by India.

Of course. And Pakistani lucha was giving innocent India the eye.

Bhai, thora kam piya karo. Only in the minds of Indians, is India a morally upright and clean nation. We know of your support for Baloch seperatists, of support for MQM, who's leader accepted India helped him, of your attempted support for Sindhi separatists. This is just in Pakistan.

Outside of Pakistan, you guys support or have supported different factions in Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh. Bas karo, koi itna saaf bhi nahi hay.

 

[infinity73]

That's the thing. Aggressive defense it was called. They have already played their cards vis a vis proxies in Pakistan. Pakistan was patient. Reminds me of the conversation in Gladiator movie where the senator advises Cesar giving an example of a fish which acts like its dead. The prey assuming its dead come near it and it doesn't move. The fish keeps still even as the prey starts eating its flesh and lowers its guard. Thats when the fish attacks its prey. Doval must have been dancing when TTP were wreaking havoc in Pakistan. Indians on their defense forums were rejoicing. Now they are banning tomatoes (last stage of aggressive defense before it death)