Drone strikes proves conspiracy against Pakistan
Sajjad
Shaukat
Since the Tahreek-e-Taliban Pakistan
(TTP) Chief Hakimullah Mehsud was killed by the US drone strikes on November 1,
this year, leaders of the ruling and opposition parties including prominent
figures and Unlmas (Religious scholars) have started taking the event as a
conspiracy against Pakistan.
In this
regard, Federal Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ahmad Khan said on November 1
that killing of the TTP leader, Hakimullah Mehsud in the US drone strikes is a
conspiracy to sabotage process of peace talk with the Taliban. He pointed out
that it had been decided by the government that a delegation would be sent on
November 2 to initiate the process of dialogue with the Taliban, and the US
ambassador had assured him that drone attacks would not be carried out during
the peace talks. He explained that if the US was to kill Hakimullah then there
were number of occasions in the past but they did not do it. He added that the
entire perspective of Pakistan-US relations and cooperation would be reviewed. However,
majority of the political leaders like Munawar Hassan of Jamaat-e-Islami,
opposition leader Khursheed Shah and Imran Khan of Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) have
termed drone strikes which targeted Hakimullah Mehsud as a conspiracy to thwart
peace dialogue with the militants.
It is
mentionable that by setting aside the parliament resolution, the trip of
Director General of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Lt. Gen. Zaheerul Islam
to America, rallies and processions of Pakistan’s political and religious
parties—even opinion of the experts of international law that these drone attacks
are illegal, unethical and violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty as well as the
UN Charter, while ignoring the recent report of Amnesty International, decision
of the All Parties Conference (APC), and the Pak-US new rapprochement, these
strikes have kept on going on FATA. While,
many political analysts see strikes by the CIA-pilotless aircraft in Pakistan
in isolation, but, there is a co-relationship of other subversive activities
which have perennially been taking place in various regions as part of the US
secret strategy against the country. When
in the past, the former government of the Pakistan Peoples’ Party (PPP) had
signed the peace agreement with the TTP; US had opposed it, and had accelerated
attacks by the unmanned aircraft so as to castigate it. Owing to the American
policy, Pakistan faced dire consequences because TTP suspended peace agreement,
and also occupied Swat, Dir, Buner and other adjoining areas. When Pakistan’s
armed forces successfully ejected the TTP militants out of these areas, the
leader of the TTP Maulvi Fazlullah who had close connections with
Pakistan-based TTP leader Hakimullah Mehsud, had run to Afghanistan. Based in
the Afghan provinces of Kunar and Nuristan, his insurgents intensified
subversive activities in Pakistan by sending suicide bombers and
heavily-equipped militants in the country. Pakistan’s civil and military
leadership lodged a strong protest with their counterparts in Afghanistan, but
no action was taken against these terrorists.
In fact,
in order to fulfill collective covert designs of India, Israel and US, TTP has
been given a free hand by these countries to continue acts of sabotage in
Pakistan because it is the only nuclear country in the Islamic world. In this
regard, Pak-China strategic ties and Pak-Iranian close friendship also irritate
them.
Such
American duplicity contains a number of clandestine aims. In the recent months,
the fresh wave of strikes by the spy planes has thwarted the offer of Taliban
for peace talks with the government led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. And,
the TTP accelerated subversive activities in the country.
Now, by
killing the TTP leader, US has not only caused suspension of peace process, but
also provided a pretext to the Taliban outfit to conduct more terror-attacks in
the country, which has almost started. In this context, blaming the Pakistan
government for the killing of Hakimullah Mehsud in the US drone attack, the TTP
spokesman Shahidullah Shahid announced on November 3 that they would not hold
any peace negotiations with the government and threatened to avenge the killing
of their leader.
Besides
increasing recruitment of insurgents, these latest strikes are likely to unite
the various Taliban factions, inciting them against Pakistan’s security forces
whose checkposts have been targeted by these insurgents from time to time.
Another aim of these aerial strikes is to create a rift among Pakistan’s armed
forces, political and religious parties including general masses. In this
context, central government of PML (N) does not want to stop NATO supply to
Afghanistan; while the PTI Chief Imran Khan threatened on November 4 to cut the
NATO supply lines en-route Khyber Pukhtunkhwa (KP) after November 20, if drone
attacks continued. The KP assembly also passed a similar resolution.
Some
religious segments and majority of general masses have also favoured Imran’s
stand. These differences could be judged from the statement of the PPP leader
and, former Prime Minister, Syed Yousaf Raza Gillani who said on November 3
that the present government was confused over drone strikes and relations with
America—reminding that his government blocked NATO supply in reaction over
Salala check post attack.
The
strikes by the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which continued on Pakistan’s
tribal areas since 2004 have intensified under the Obama era, resulting into
killing of thousands of innocent persons than a few militant commanders.
Particularly,
a report of the New America Foundation indicated, while killing 10 militants,
the US has murdered more than 1400 Pakistanis, not involved in any terrorist
activities. Could it not imply that it gave birth to another 1400 militants?”
Notably,
in the recent past, US State Department had stated that Wali-ur-Rehman, the TTP
second-in-command was killed in a drone attack on a tip off provided by an
informer from Hakimullah Mehsud group. This has been a grave blow to
Wali-ur-Rehman’s faction of TTP, while, the late Hakimullah Mehsud succeeded in
eliminating his major opponent in TTP. The Khan Saeed alias Sajna hailing from
Mehsud tribe must realise that their leader has been eliminated by Hakimullah
Mehsud group to get the award of $5million from US. However, TTP has lost the
visionary leader who had supported negotiations with the elected government of
Pakistan to reach a peace accord and bring peace in the country.
Nevertheless,
some other sinister designs are also part of the similar plot against Pakistan.
In this respect, recently, tension arose between New Delhi and Islamabad when
Indian military conducted a series of unprovoked firings at the Line of Control
(LoC), and international border, killing a number of soldiers of Pak Army and
innocent civilians in wake of war-like diplomacy.
And,
while talking about the twin terrorist attacks in the Indian Occupied Kashmir
which killed 14 personal of army and police, India’s Foreign Minister Salman
Khurshid almost wrecked the Nawaz-Manmohan talks, held on the sidelines of the
annual UN summit, when he blamed Pakistan’s ISI and the army in this respect.
On the other hand, quite opposite to his earlier statement, Indian PM Manmohan
Singh remarked that such attacks by the non-state actors would not be allowed
to derail efforts to find solutions of all problems through peaceful dialogue.
In fact, these terrorist acts were engineered by the Indian fundamentalist
opposition party, BJP to refrain PM Singh from continuing peace process with
Pakistan. But, Indian military high command failed in producing dead bodies of
alleged terrorists who had crossed the LoC from Pakistan to Indian-occupied
Kashmir.
The
ground realities proved that it was just propaganda against ISI and Pak Army.
Meanwhile, on September 29, 2013, Hindustan Times published an article both in
its print and web editions that an upcoming TV channel “The BOL channel network”
was about to be launched, which has a unique backer–Dawood Ibrahim and was
allegedly supported by ISI. The legal notice issued to the Hindustan Times
resulted into an internal investigation by the management and removal of
offended article from the website. The entire allegation fired back uncovering
the real face of Indian propagandists.
Moreover,
in another event, Congress Vice-president Rahul Gandhi in his zealous speech
blamed that ISI was providing financial support to Indian students. He was too
shameless to feel any embarrassment on such a baseless allegation when chased
by the BJP to provide the list of students getting financial support from ISI,
but he had none. Besides, Indian scholar Jug Suraiya in her article titled
“States & Estates: India should offer to buy Azad Kashmir from Pakistan,”
published in The Times of India on October 29, 2013 awkwardly wrote that she
believed that 1000 tons of gold is buried in Unnao, UP, India, as revealed in
the dreams of Sadhu Shobhan Sarkar.
Thus, he
suggested to the Indian government to make payment to Pakistan through tons of
gold for purchasing Azad Kashmir. So, who can change Indian thoughts and belief
system which carry deep seated animosity against Muslims, Pakistan, Pak Army
and ISI? The world opinion builders must see the collective double game of the
US and India which talk in tone of peace, but in practice, they leave no stone
unturned in destabilizing Pakistan. Returning to our earlier discussion, death
of Hakimullah Mehsud in the drone strikes clearly proved conspiracy against
Pakistan.
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