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Waleed Khawaja
The September 22 bomb blasts that claimed nine lives in Lahore and maimed dozens of people clearly point to the fact that India is continuing with its agenda of destabilizing Pakistan under the smoke-screen of so-called peace talks.
The history of Indian-sponsored cross border terrorism in Pakistani towns especially in Karachi, Lahore, Faisalabad and Rawalpindi/Islamabad spans over many decades. Be it the bombing spate of 1980s and 1990s or recent incidents of terrorism, Indian hand has always been behind these acts. The arrests of saboteurs, both Indians and their local agents and their subsequent confessions show that India is playing a double game by engaging Pakistan in peace talks on one hand and carrying out acts of saboteur on the other. The allegation of cross-border-terrorism hurled by India on Pakistan is just an attempt to mask its own wrong doings in the region especially in the neighbouring countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal where Indian Intelligence Agency RAW is all out to create instability.
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How RAW carries out espionage
and terrorists acts in Pakistan?
The Cabinet Secretariat Research and Analysis Wing [RAW], one of world’s most notorious intelligence agencies, is India’s external intelligence agency. RAW has become an effective instrument of India's national power, and has assumed a significant role in formulating India's domestic and foreign policies. RAW has engaged in disinformation campaigns, espionage and sabotage against Pakistan and other neighbouring countries. RAW has enjoyed the backing of successive Indian governments in these efforts. Working directly under the Prime Minister, the structure, rank, pay and perks of the Research & Analysis Wing are kept secret from Parliament. The RAW has had limited success in dealing with freedom movements movements in Manipur and Tripura in the northeast and Tamil Nadu in the south, and East Punjab. In 1968 India established this special branch of its intelligence service specifically targeted on Pakistan. RAW has been engaged in all sorts of sabotage activities in Pakistan. The agency is also believed to be behind the parochial movements. RAW has an extensive network of agents and anti-government elements within Pakistan, including dissident elements from various sectarian and ethnic groups of Sind and Punjab. As many as 40 terrorist training camps at Rajisthan, East Punjab, Held Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and other parts of India are run by the RAW's Special Service Bureau (SSB). Throughout the Afghan War RAW was responsible for the planning and execution of terrorist activities in Pakistan to deter Pakistan from support of Afghan liberation movement against India's ally, the Soviet Union. The assistance provided to RAW by the KGB enabled RAW to arrange terrorist attacks in Pakistani cities throughout the Afghan War. The defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan did not end the role of RAW in Pakistan, with reports that suggest that India has established a training camp in the town of Qadian, in East Punjab, where non-Muslim Pakistanis are trained for terrorist activities. |
The recent Lahore attacks are just a sequel of these Indian acts. These terrorist attacks warrant that the law enforcing agencies should take measures to pre-empt such incidents by combing out the Indian saboteurs and their local operators to restore the confidence of the people of Pakistan who are presently suffering from the sense of insecurity. The incidents of the terrorism can be averted by giving exemplary punishment to those found involved irrespective of their nationality. The execution of the capital punishment to Indian terrorist, Sarbjeet Singh can send a signal to the enemies of Pakistan and Islam that Pakistani government is committed to protect the lives of people. It is time that government should not be swayed by the media hype created by Indian government in a bid to seek clemency for the Indian terrorist, Sarbjeet Singh alias Majit Singh who has been awarded capital punishment by the court. It was the Indian government that tried to invoke the sympathy for the persons involved in the killing of dozens of Pakistanis in five bombing incidents in Lahore, Faisalabad and Multan by putting the family of the terrorist on the fore. The Indian diplomats were allowed to meet Sarbjeet Singh. Such a treatment has never been provided to hundreds of Pakistanis languishing in the Indian jails.
Anyhow, the September 27 verdict of Supreme Court speaks of the fact that terrorists should be awarded due punishment to avert acts of sabotage in the coming days.
Any lenient view in Sarbjeet Singh case can lead to dire consequences for Pakistan’s security as well as the lives of people. Any clemency may encourage terrorist activities of RAW, the Indian intelligence agency known for its anti-Pakistan endeavours.
According to political analysts, any grant of clemency to the Indian terrorists may widely be perceived as an act of double standards in Pakistan where a number of persons involved in a life attempt on an important personality have been condemned to death.