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India’s War Against Pakistan And PPP’s Weak Response
India has taken a major act of war against Pakistan by blocking its water from a river in occupied Kashmir. This comes when Pakistan faces a food crunch. What was the PPP government’s response? They opened up trade across the temporary Line of Control between the Pakistani and Indian militaries in Kashmir. It’s a good move but not so if it means not speaking up when New Delhi blocks our water and uses the trade to argue its case for normalization without resolving the international dispute over Kashmir.
By ZAID HAMID
Thursday, 30 October 2008.
Ahmed Quraishi-Pakistan/Middle East politics, Iraq war, lebanon war, India Pakistan relations
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—With Pakistan facing severe food shortage and economic crisis within, India has launched an economic war of its own against its arch rival State. Blocking Pakistani waters at this critical juncture would mean severe food and water shortage in Pakistan in the coming months and increase in provincial and social disharmony.
If the harvesting season passes and then India release water, even then it would be an act of war as time critical harvesting season would have passed making it impossible for farmers to sow their fields. India is obviously using these delay tactics but the PPP government in Islamabad is too naïve or corrupt to even take up the issue with India seriously.
On the other hand, the PPP government has given in totally to the Indian demand of initiating trade and business across the Loc without discussing the long standing issue of Kashmir dispute. On the surface, trade between two divided Kashmir regions is a positive move and would allow Kashmiris in Indian held region to have closer trade and business interests with Pakistan. But if this move is being done at the cost of Kashmir dispute resolution and without seriously confronting the Indians on water blockage, then this is a betrayal and not progress. In the recent months, Kashmir has been up in arms in an unprecedented rebellion against the Indian State but the massive civil disobedience movement is not getting any media or State support from Pakistan. This complete abandonment of Kashmir freedom resistance is an alarming sign and castes shadows on the concept of free trade between two divided Kashmir regions.
On the western front, U.S. continue to create security issues for Pakistan. The U.S. strategy is strange to say the least if not downright sinister. Within Afghanistan, U.S. is involved in direct talks and dialogue with most hard core Taliban leaders. But in Pakistani tribal areas, where only the local Pakistan Taliban are based, U.S. want Pakistan army to wage a full fledged war!!
The fact of the matter is that local Pakistani Taliban like Baitullah Mehsud or his likes are only fighting the State of Pakistan and NOT the Americans inside Afghanistan. In fact, there is clear evidence to suggest that U.S. and India are actually patronizing and protecting these terrorist assets operating against State of Pakistan. Also, these local Taliban or their allies are no threat to U.S. or its allies anywhere in the world. So, why is U.S. so keen to force Pakistan into a bloody war inside its own tribal areas? The reason is obvious – it is another chapter in CIA’s dirty war to create enough anarchy in Pakistan to justify its case against Pakistan’s nuke assets.
But U.S. is now increasing pressure on Pakistan army and ISI to wage a war on U.S. terms. To complicate matters for Islamabad, U.S. drones continue to violate Pakistan’s air space and attack inside Pakistan on random targets of their choice without any concern for civilian losses or political or social crisis for Islamabad.
It would be a tight balancing act for the army and ISI. They know the CIA game plan and have already been bitten seriously by their allies in this secret covert war against the State. The army was forced and then duped to fight a war which was not its own.
U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan is NOT Pakistan’s war. The war by CIA’s backed militant assets against the State, army and ISI has been forced upon Pakistan due to U.S. invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. The way to fight this war is NOT just to push it away from within but also to extinguish from its source – the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. As the Pakistani spy chief visits Washington these days, he will have to address both these prongs. There cannot be any peace in the region as long as U.S. remains as an occupation force in Afghanistan. It seems that while Pakistan fights local Taliban it will also have to confront U.S. on this fundamental issue.
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What is the future of our current puppet government? Speculate.
