Posted by: zanshin, 2008-02-09 03:52

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New Delhi's War Hysteria
Mohamed Abdi Hassan "Diridhaba", 2003-01-11 (Saturday), Somaliland Times
The 10-month long military confrontation between India and Pakistan ended when New Delhi started pulling back its armed forces from the frontlines to their peacetime locations. A year ago India had suddenly rushed its armed forces to their battle positions for 'a decisive fight' to 'teach Pakistan a lesson'. India's fit of rage rang alarm bells in South Asia and beyond. It followed the attack on the Indian parliament in January 2002 by five unknown civilians armed with small arms. Notwithstanding the reality of the attack, it was an ill-conceived operation. Its motive is obscure and the true picture may take a long while to emerge. For the present, let us examine the balance sheet of India's red alert.

Its coercive policy and intimidating brinkmanship took advantage of the 9/11 attacks and of the subsequent "war against terror" in Afghanistan. The US fury to crush the Taliban and Al-Qa’eda focused global attention on the menace of terrorism. New Delhi seized this opportunity for implementing its agenda in Kashmir to subdue the on-going indigenous freedom struggle that has crippled the valley.

India's additional objectives were to drive a wedge between Pakistan and the All Parties Hurriyat Conference, isolate Islamabad in the comity of nations, and pressurize it into accepting Indian dictation. Politically and diplomatically, Pakistan was asked to 'do more' and stop 'cross-border infiltration in Kashmir'. India's war cry was based on the logic that if US had a global agenda for protecting its national interest, why should it not use its own military superiority to achieve Indian objectives in South Asia?

With the sounding of the red alert, India withdrew its high commissioner from Islamabad, cancelled the rail service between the two countries, stopped overflights of Pakistani aircraft, and declined to issue travel visas to Pakistani citizen. These unilateral decisions resulted in a state of no-peace no-war between the two countries, and a military confrontation ensued.

Simultaneously, an extensive diplomatic, political and media war was launched to blackmail Pakistan to either downgrade its Kashmir policy or face military aggression. Pakistan opted for the honorable course and took security measures to protect its interests and to prevent being surprised. While so doing, it maintained that it was against military confrontation and was ready to settle all disputes with India, including the core issue of Kashmir, through negotiations. This reasonable policy won universal acclaim.

The international community expressed deep concern on the deteriorating regional situation and all countries urged upon India and Pakistan to withdraw their armed forces to the barracks, defuse tension, start negotiations, and remove the possibility of open hostilities breaking out between the two nuclear weapon states.

Sustained external pressure, Pakistan's refusal to be coerced and internal ground realities created a realization in India that world opinion had turned against its arrogance of power. This resulted in scaling down the military confrontation. The return of opposing forces to their peace locations is an appropriate opportunity for a post-mortem of the developments that brought India and Pakistan to the precipice of war.

India's declared and implied intentions were to harm Pakistan militarily, diplomatically, economically and psychologically and to cripple or weaken the freedom struggle in Indian held Kashmir. Did India succeed in achieving these objectives, wholly or partially?

Much to the regret of India, the freedom struggle in Kashmir continues and the election drama staged in the valley under the shadow of Indian bayonets flopped as indicated by the poor turnout of voters. US Secretary of State Colin Powell's statement that "Kashmir is on the international agenda" and that elections are not a solution of the dispute is based on irrefutable ground realities.

Pakistan declined to compromise its Kashmir policy, and its relations with the APHC remain strong and doubt-free. The people and the government of Pakistan support the right of the people of Kashmir to decide their own future through a UN-supervised referendum.

The people of Kashmir are justified in resisting Indian occupation and Pakistan backs them diplomatically, politically and morally. There is total unanimity on this support within the country. This is significant because political parties in Pakistan differ on many other domestic issues. External pressures have strengthened Pakistan's determination to remain steadfast in its principled stand.

The Line of Control is a temporary arrangement to which the people of Kashmir are not a party. It is destined to disappear sooner than later. If the LoC has any military sanctity, it is to be mutually observed by the troops deployed on either side. In reality, it is observed in the breach. India routinely violates the Loc by firing across it with machine gun, mortar and artillery fire and occasionally with aircraft. UN monitors can best check the Indian allegations of 'cross-border infiltration'.

But India rejects this fair proposal, for spurious reasons. This country has dealt with India's trigger-happy policy with patience and has shown resilience and firmness despite extreme provocation. The people of Kashmir do not recognize the Loc and they feel justified in traveling across it. Disruption of bilateral relations hurt both countries economically.

The cost of maintaining a force in the field is invariably higher than supporting it in peace locations. The suspension of the Samjhota Express and air and bus services adversely affect intending travelers and the inconvenience caused to them cannot be measured in mathematical terms. As a rough guide it is estimated that the economic price paid by India because of suspension of trade and travel facilities is about five to six times larger than what it costs Pakistan.

The Indian media laments that banning of over-flights has badly hurt their airlines, which had to cancel or divert over 120 flights. The loss suffered by Pakistani airlines on this account is relatively small because only about a dozen of their flights are adversely affected. Significantly, Pakistan's economy has shown resilience in absorbing the loss in revenue.

The war hysteria created by India reflects its mindset. It has become a norm with India to threaten its neighbors in South Asia to keep them under pressure. The Indian media frequently indulges in malicious personal slander against Pakistani rulers, which is against diplomatic norms and moral ethics. Such hitting below the belt is not done in a civilized society. This undignified Indian attitude seems to enjoy an official nod because the trend persists. Pakistani society is not fault free, but this does not give a license to any country to interfere in our domestic affairs.

The advice-giving moralists in India may divert their energies inwards. The electoral farce staged in Kashmir and in the home state of Gandhi brings shame to the 'democratic' credentials of 'secular' India. The hands of the ruling junta in India are tainted with the blood of minorities who are threatened to either change their religion or migrate elsewhere.

Narinder Modi and his benefactors in New Delhi are guilty of cold-blooded massacre of over 2,000 Muslims in one state. Sane Indians condemn the atrocities committed in their country against Tamils, Nagas, Dalits, Sikhs, Christians and Muslims.

Pakistan seeks peace but will defend itself from external aggression. It seeks peace not only for itself but also for all countries in South Asia on the basis of sovereign equality of states as enshrined in the United Nation's Charter. India and Pakistan should peacefully co-exist for the common good of their people. Let them fight together against poverty, want and hunger.

Bilateralism is the name given to the game of imposing the hegemony of the strong on the weak. This concept has reached a dead end in India-Pakistan relations and should best be dumped in the Indian Ocean.

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2007-02-26Legal Issues in the War on Terrorism
2007-02-26Which Will It Be America, Empire or Democracy?
2007-03-09Assembly, Opening Debate On Question Of Palestine, Hears Call For Enhanced UN Involvement In Current Middle East Situation
2007-03-14Timeline of events in the Cold War
2006-12-26The Great Game on a razor's edge
2006-12-18“Osama’s Dream”
2007-01-16Guantanamo stirs protests
2007-01-09Despite their shoddy track record on Iraq analysis, O'Reilly trusts only "my military analysts
2007-01-29Whose Iran?
2007-01-23Crusading in the Arc of Instability - George Bush's Crusading Scorecard (2001-2007)
2007-01-24President Bush’s State of the Union Address
2007-01-25MIDDLE EAST - Timeline of recent developments
2007-04-17Human Rights Council Discusses Reports On Health, Right To Food And Human Rights Defenders
2007-05-02Country Reports on Terrorism -- Chapter 2 -- Country Reports: Western Hemisphere Overview
2007-05-03National Security Briefing == Presented to then-Governor Bush
2007-04-04Al Qaeda's Nuclear Program: Through the Window of Seized Documents
2007-04-04Breaking Ranks -- What turned Brent Scowcroft against the Bush Administration?
2007-04-04"Don't Attack Saddam" -- OP-ED Wall Street Journal
2007-04-05"Promoting Democracy: A Progressive Foreign Policy Agenda".
2007-08-14Editorial: Tread carefully after 60 ideologically mismatched years
2007-08-07Pakistan Forces Destroy Militant Hideout
2007-08-07President Bush Participates in Joint Press Availability with President Karzai of Afghanistan
2007-08-08Rorschach and Awe -- The War on Terror
2007-08-08Monsieur Lévy’s Working Holiday
2007-08-17U.S. urges Musharraf, Bhutto to consider cooperating
2007-08-16China, Russia, Central Asian leaders meet in security summit
2007-08-22Bush ties Iraq to Vietnam, South Korea, Japan
2007-08-23Suicide Bomb Teams Sent to U.S., Europe
2007-07-08Inside the jihadi worldview
2007-07-07Why They Really 'Hate Us'
2007-07-01Democratic Realism -- An American Foreign Policy for a Unipolar World
2007-06-28TALIBAN WON'T HAND OVER OSAMA BIN LADEN
2007-06-22When Lawyers Go to War -- Book Review
2007-06-25Tribunals break sharply from civilian courts
2007-06-25'A Different Understanding With the President'
2007-07-22Iran's Renewed Threats to Take Over the Arab Gulf States
2007-07-15Lal Masjid: FAQs —Dr Hasan-Askari Rizvi
2007-07-17A world wide web of terror
2007-07-17Al-Qaida may use Iraqi network to attack U.S.
2007-07-26President Bush Discusses War on Terror in South Carolina
2007-07-31CNN Late Edition with Wolf Blitzer
2007-07-31Franco – Arab Ties Could Yet Survive Sarkozy’s U-Turn
2007-06-05President Bush Visits Prague, Czech Republic, Discusses Freedom
2007-06-07Al-Qaeda spark for an Iran-US fire
2007-06-15The Nobel Peace Prize 2005 - Nobel Lecture
2007-06-16The Osama Files
2007-05-10Hezbollah, Illegal Immigration, and the Next 9/11
2007-05-05WHY IRAN WILL HAVE THE BOMB
2007-05-15The New Demographic Balance in Europe and its Consequences
2007-05-17300: Proto-Fascism and Manufacturing of Complicity
2007-05-30Lost in transition
2007-05-30Meet the Press [NBC] Interview With Prince Bandar
2008-01-23Surge to Nowhere
2008-01-24Root Causes and Rotten Ideas: On Dinesh D'Souza's The Enemy At Home
2008-01-17Pakistan Takes Control of Swat Valley From Militants (Update1)
2008-01-09Why I Believe Bush Must Go -- Nixon Was Bad. These Guys Are Worse
2008-01-07U.S. Considers New Covert Push Within Pakistan
2008-01-08Eurasia Group President Ian Bremmer Announces Top Risks and Red Herrings for 2008
2008-01-14Bush to court Saudi allies after warning Iran
2008-02-06The 2007 Irving Kristol Lecture by Bernard Lewis
2008-01-30Jew-Hatred and Jihad -- The Nazi roots of the 9/11 attack
2008-01-31THE NEW WORLD ORDER' -- A Critique and Chronology
2008-02-24Strategy and the Limitation of War