Rajnath Singh's visit to Pakistan met with vituperative animosities

Pakistan has intensified its infiltration bids this year. Official reports substantially confirmed it indicating that 90 infiltration bids were made till June 30^th as opposed to 29 during the same period in 2015. Of them 54 were reported to be successful. In the face-off between Indian security forces and Pakistani infiltrators, 10 CRPF personnel, 3 BSF jawans were martyred and 50 personnel sustained severe injuries. Indian security forces so far captured a huge haul of 94,000 Kalashnikov rifles from infiltrators. The colossal cache of arms is truly intimidating and is indicative of the scale of infiltration. Experts opined that rejuvenated Pakistan’s deep state support for the terror outfits and the compelling indoctrination of the localities have turned the tide in favor of Pakistan. The inclement infiltrations and insidious attacks of infiltrators that claimed lives of 8 CRPF personnel returning from a training session at Pampore aggravated the tensions further. On July 8^th in a joint operation launched by J&K police and 19 Rashtriya Rifles at Kokernag, 22-year old Hizbul-Mujahideen commander Burhan Wani, and two militants-Sartaj Ahmed Sheik and Pervaiz Ahmed Laskhari were killed. Militant outfits who lacked a strong leadership found one in Wani. He resurrected the jihadi movement by romanticizing it through the social media. Soon he acclaimed poster boy status in the Kashmir Valley. His death significantly altered the strategic dynamics of Pakistan’s jihadi movement. Seizing the opportunity, Pakistani terror networks with its sympathizers vitiated atmosphere in the Valley by demonizing India and arousing anti-India narratives. Civilians created a massive unrest in the Valley, launched attacks on police states, airbases, torched vehicles and began hurling stones at the Indian security who were trying to restore law and order. Curfew was clamped in the valley. Civilians defied the orders and with situation slipping out of hands, security forces were prompted to use force.

In a bid to internationalize the Kashmir insurgency, Pakistan dragged India to UN for alleged human rights violations in the valley. India in its toughest ever rebuttal, decimated Pakistan’s allegations. The Pakistan’s anti-India tirade was meted with subdued response from World nations. All along Pakistan carried out a vicious propaganda alleging Indian brutality against the Kashmiris and exonerated its deep state of any interventions. Indeed with Pakistan receiving an invaluable support from the media sympathizers and the leftist brigade of India which condemned security forces for acting against the hostile mobs, Pakistan downplayed the clandestine role of its terror outfits for fuelling unrest in the valley. Last week, unambiguous evidences unearthed by various agencies clearly deciphered the calamitous strategies rolled out the Pakistan based militant outfits for the Valley. Unabated free run of Pakistan-bred terrorists across the border and blatant unleashing of terror has become glaringly significant. It has emerged that mosques in the valley are now routinely playing the audio recordings of the jihadists. The recordings can be accessed @- https://clyp.it/j5blfhj0 or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Nf7MoREgl4 proclaimed of “hum subz pancham wali kashmir mein leharayengee meaning “We will flutter Pakistan’s green flag in the Kashmir Valley” and urged that “we are Pakistani, Pakistan is ours, long live Pakistan and what do we want, freedom, the kind of freedom that Burhan wanted.” The Burhan wali azaadi is indeed nothing short of Pakistan’s agenda of imposing sharia in the Valley. The fight for self-determination carried out by Kashmiris took an unprecedented turn from 1990’s when the azaadi movement was swamped by Pakistan trained militants deftly twisted it to realize its dream of imposing steadily in the state sharia. The myth of the freedom movement upheld by Pakistani militants is busted by the pugnacious pamphlets making rounds in the Valley recently.

A former senator Afrasiab Khattak in his column, opined that sudden escalation of terror can be traced to death of the Afghan Taliban head, Mullah Mansour in a drone attack by US in the restive province of Quetta on May 29^th. On May 30^th under the aegis of Defense of Pakistan Council, pro-jihadist groups decided to escalate attacks on Afghanistan and other neighbouring countries. During Ramzan month, these groups publicly collected funds from individuals and mosques. Government in the meanwhile allotted 300 million rupees to Haqqania groups. The financial support from government has undoubtedly empowered these outfits. Earlier in 2014, rattled Peshawar school mass killings, Pakistan displayed a unique conviction to wage war against terror and this disposition was evident in Operation Zarb-e-Azb and the National Action Plan (NAP) that proscribed certain outfits. But steadily the anti-terror stance eroded as a result the designated good terror outfits like Afghan Taliban, JuD, JeM were allowed to rearm. The Pervez Musharraf’s enlightened moderation resulted in rejuvenation of terror outfits.

Currently, Rajnath Singh’s visit to Pakistan is nixed by vituperative animosities. Home Minister Rajnath Singh is all set to leave for Islamabad to attend the South Asian Association Region Conference (SAARC) interior ministers meeting at Islamabad on Tuesday. The visit comes at a time when India-Pakistan relations have touched a new low. Despite Pakistan’s orchestrated Kashmiri insurgency honoring the commitment of working towards promoting peace, harmony and regional cooperation India will be represented by the Home Minister at the meet. Though the decision was severely criticized, Indian government maintained that it was a multilateral engagement and it was incumbent on India as the largest partner to foster South Asian outreach. Ruling out possibility of any bilateral talks, India downsized its contingent. India initially wanted to use this opportunity to remind Pakistan of its promise of permitting Indian team’s visit to Pakistan to investigate Pathankot attacks. But now, India affirmatively aims at puncturing the false of Pakistan which paints itself as victim of terror and to expose its hypocrisy.

To sabotage Rajnath Singh’s visit to Islamabad, 26/11 Hafiz Sayeed warned of country wide protests. Lashing out at Singh as the killer of Kashmiris, the Jamat-ud-Dawa leader who has $10 million bounty on head appealed to Pakistan to pull out its High Commissioner from India. Syed Salahuddin, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) chief called on Prime Minister Sharif to cancel Singh’s visit and suspend all trade and business engagements with India. The audacious, abominable warnings by the UN-designated terrorists is highly deplorable and reflective of decadence of civilian administration in Pakistan. While Pakistan feigns to be a democracy country, the real power centre is military establishment and Prime Minister is a nominal head. Outlandish ranting of Pakistan terrorists clearly demonstrates, the delinquency of Pakistan Prime Minister. Truly the powers of Prime Minister are vanquished. Terrorists, perpetuated, nurtured and sheltered in Pakistan are now dictating its foreign policy. The country is now run by the deep state. Nawaz Sharif’s solidarity with Kashmir and announcement of July 19^th as black day and protests march spearheaded by political outfit Jamaat-i-Islam with terror outfits JuD, HuM from Lahore City to Wagah border on July 31st unequivocally authenticates Pakistan’s agenda of raking up Kashmir issue. The temerity of terrorist outfits and their glaring public outreach, aggrandized government support especially in Punjab province is a subtle warning that Pakistan has now brazenly accentuated its attacks in India. Indian administration must be cautious of the obnoxious proxy war waged by Pakistan in Kashmir valley. A prelude of incidents too testimonies anti-India agenda of Pakistan. Kashmir has been Pakistan’s jugular vein and with no holds barred, the deep state is now very keen on pushing its agenda forward. Any attempts of any kind of engagement by India at this stage is contemporaneous to its scheme of things. While India has put the onus of security of Rajnath Singh on Pakistan, clearly the terror outfits are ruling the roost. The unabashed public presence of banned terror organizations are clearly aiming to score a massive victory with US preoccupied in Presidential elections.