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FeedbackUK Sells Arms to Pakistan The Following Found At: http://www.indiavotes.com/elections/news/feature279.html What is Pakistan up to?
Free Press Journal, January 25, 2000
By Founder Editor: S SadanandThe repulsion of a Pakistan attack on an Indian post in the Chamb area (Akhnoor sector) with heavy casualties has made Gen. Pervez Musharraf to sound a warning to India on crossing the Line of Control (LC).
On the same day in a panel interview to various Pak papers, the chief executive of Pakistan stopped short of sneering at the US warning about Pak encouragement of cross-border terrorism and religious fundamentalism.
In a clever twist of what the official US delegation has told Pakistan on the worsening climate for peace in the sub-continent as a result of Pakistan funding, training and facilitating terrorists for their chilling terrorist acts in Kashmir and other parts of India (especially in the northeast), Gen. Musharraf has denied that the US talked about Pak terrorism in Kashmir.
He had the cheek to say that Pakistan agreed with the US on ending terrorism but not in the context of Kashmir.
Coming to Maulana Masood Azhar (one of the released terrorists in the wake of the hijacking of the Indian Airlines plane), Gen Musharraf has said that the Americans were concerned about the statement by the terrorist in Karachi that his outfit would eliminate the US. But the US assistant secretary never talked anything about the maulana in the context of Kashmir. No more cynical instance of standing truth on its head can be seen.
The same kind of sneering comment has been made in the case of the Saudi terrorist, Osama Bin Laden. The Pak supreme chief has pretended that the US words relating to the Saudi financier of terrorism had no relevance to Kashmir. What is more, the general has gone a step further to say that the US had never warned Pakistan on terrorism-related matters at all.
In fact he has advised the newspapers that such comments, even if the US did make, should be avoided. In other words, the army would soon decide what is to be printed in Pakistan newspapers and what is to be left out.
The Chamb incident is a harbinger of what can be expected in the weeks ahead. Having been beaten roundly in the Kargil area last year, Pakistan is burning with mindless anti-Indian feelings for revenge. The Chamb attack has not only not succeeded but has turned the tables on Pakistan. And hence the Pak army comes out with a cock and bull story that the Indian soldiers tried to cross the LoC and if it happens again the Pak army would teach India a lesson.
Such sabre-rattling by the Pakistan army and former prime ministers is nothing new. But who has taught whom a lesson is part of history. Let the Pak general establish a certain degree of legitimacy for his army regime before he threatens India.
In his own country, he is losing face by the day. The entire world community has advised the military man to fix a time frame for bringing in civil authority. Except China, most countries have taken this view. But the Pak general pretends that by indulging in irrational acts of terrorism, he can make the world community to advise the country most affected by his indefensible actions, namely India, to show more and more restraint in the interests of avoiding a nuclear holocaust in
the sub-continent.Some time or other, this country has to call the Pakistan bluff on a nuclear war. With bluffing about a nuclear war, Pakistan has converted the whole of Kashmir into a battlefield where it can hit and run at will. The riposte at the Chamb outpost is the kind of response that Pakistan will understand. Let the armed forces be ready.
These purblind generals of Pakistan cannot afford to keep quiet in the encircling gloom on the economic front in Pakistan. The ordinary Pakistani is totally disillusioned with the goings-on in his country. The only way of keeping his mind away from his domestic worries is for the army rulers to cry wolf about India.
This country (India) has to realise that the UK, in spite of all its talks about democracy in Pakistan, is not willing to forgo its trade interests in Pakistan. That is why Britain has not placed any embargo on the sale of military hardware to Pakistan.
The UK has behaved in this fashion throughout its history and the more so in the last 50 years in the wake of the Indo-Pak dispute on Kashmir. The UK's role in complicating issues and confusing world opinion on Kashmir forms a despicable chapter of Indo-UK relations.
Let India beware.
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