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The Indian fingerprints in the attack on the Sri Lanksn cannot be
ignored. New Delhi has been at war with both Islamabad and Colombo for
decades. Hitting both in one place is a masterstroke. Indian military
and its agents should brace for retaliation.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—You can't ignore the symbolism: Commando-style
trained young men with backpacks, carrying automatic machine guns and
armed with grenades and rocket launchers, bearing a shocking
resemblance to the video footage released by the Indian government of
the Mumbai attackers in November.
Figure 1: Indian Terrorists have infiltrated India's military & government.
The Indian connection, even if indirect and unintentional, cannot be ignored:
Lahore is the same city where Pakistani antiterrorism police arrested
several Indian citizens and their Pakistani accomplices in the past
few weeks and paraded them in public with evidence linking them to
India's spy agency Research & Analysis Wing, or RAW. Lahore lies a few
kilometers away from the Indian border and has bore the brunt of
India's covert operations in the 1970s and 1980s, mostly randomly
planted bombs in public places designed to spread terror.
Pakistani security officials had received a report that at least ten
Indian operatives have crossed the border into Lahore 48 hours before
the attacks.
India spearheaded a campaign to convince several countries to sever
sports relations with Pakistan and put tremendous pressure on Sri
Lanka not to send its cricket team to play here.
India has a history of supporting the terrorist LTTE group and arming
it with sophisticated weapons to fight the Sri Lankan government and
army. Pakistan, on the other hand, has been supporting Sri Lanka
against this terrorism. India has long been disturbed by the close
relationship between Colombo and Islamabad. In this connection, Sri
Lanka's foreign minister's statement is important. He said he won't
point fingers but said 'terrorism has no borders', an implied
suggestion that the Sri Lankans believe the perpetrators came from
outside Pakistan.
The timing of the attack shows the professional planning. Lahore
administration was in a flux after the change of provincial
government. Lahore was also the last Pakistani city that has not yet
been affected by the fallout from America's failed and disastrous war
in Afghanistan. This incident effectively brings chaos to Lahore as
well. The rest of Pakistan is already being destabilized by foreign
intelligence operatives working from the Afghan soil, inserting
professional saboteurs and flushing the country with money to recruit
criminals and activating them under the guise of religious extremists.
An important point to note here is that whoever planned this attack
made sure that the terrorists look similar to Mumbai attackers. This
can be an attempt to spark more conflict between Pakistan and India.
In this case, if evidence is found, it might be interesting to probe
the possibility of a third party trying to push both countries to war.
And it's not just religious elements in Pakistan that want this. There
is an organized terrorist infrastructure inside India, manned by Hindu
terrorist groups with recruits from Indian military intelligence. The
same Indian elements are also active in Kabul and other Afghan cities,
using the Afghan soil to export terrorism inside Pakistan. American
reports have also linked these Indian elements to attacks on U.S. and
NATO soldiers and blame them on Pakistan.
There is enough circumstantial and physical evidence that involves
India's intelligence agencies in terrorism inside Pakistan.
The Pakistani military must realize that this is an organized and not
a guerrilla war that is being waged against Pakistan. This terrorism
is deceptively hiding itself behind the label of religious extremism,
and has links with those countries that are actively destabilizing
Pakistan from the inside.
It is time now that patriotic Pakistanis and the Pakistani military
sit up and take notice of the apologetic statements of this
U.S.-installed government in Islamabad which, like the Indians, wasted
no time in linking the Lahore attack to the Mumbai attacks, which
means linking it to Pakistanis (which is not proven except in the
minds of India, their American backers and their backers in Pakistan,
i.e. President Zardari, Rehman Malik, Sherry Rehman, and the former
advisor Mehmud Durrani.) In this case, if the Zardari government is
accusing 'Mumbai attackers' of this latest attack, then this
government is indirectly accusing the Pakistani military and our
intelligence of attacking the Sri Lankans in Lahore. This is in
continuation of the covert efforts by elements in this government to
cause a confrontation between the Pakistani military and the world at
large.
Pakistan's response must be methodical. This is the time to expose
Indian terrorism. There is stunning evidence available with Pakistani
authorities about Indian activities in Afghanistan, inside Pakistan's
tribal and border areas and inside the rest of Pakistan. The Zardari
government will not bring this evidence forward. It is the
responsibility of the Pakistani military and its spy agencies to force
this government to unmask the Indian activities. Enough of this
apologetic attitude toward India. We urge Pakistan to publicly demand
that Indian's sponsorship of terrorism be curbed.
The Indians should also brace for retaliation. If Indian military and
security forces are using terrorism against Pakistan in multiple
places, then Indians from these organizations should be a fair game
for retaliation.
