{EOP}India’s Questionable Role in Afghanistan

India’s Questionable Role in Afghanistan

INDIAN Foreign Minister, S.M. Krishna, during his visit to Afghanistan in January 2011, warned that external interference could adversely affect Afghan reconciliation efforts and be detrimental to the future of a “democratic, stable, pluralistic and prosperous Afghanistan.” India has been desperately lobbing in Afghanistan despite the fact that all the countries neighboring Afghanistan knew very well that India could be a spoiler rather than a facilitator. She has nothing to do with Afghan affairs but tried to influence the parties concerned; though failed. Although people consider terrorist activities a retaliated move from the terrorists but still a number of evidences have been gathered which established keen Indian involvement in destabilizing Pakistan by interfering in Balochistan, FATA and in big cities of the country. These actions were designed to engage security forces on internal front and to demoralize the masses of this land.

The Indian government wants to desecrate the religious and national values of the Afghanis so that they could be easily turned against Pakistan and used for Indian designs. It has devised a plan of taking the majority of the Muslim Afghanis away from Islam by providing financial assistance to the poor Afghan people. They are being provided with incentives to turn to Hinduism. To materialize this dream they have opened many hospitals and schools which are run by Hindu staff who de-track the Muslims. The Indian government has also started the onslaught of the Hindu culture in the far flung areas of Afghanistan. The Indian embassy in Kabul and consulates in Kandahar and Northern areas are actively involved in these kinds of activities. Taking advantage of impoverishment of Afghanistan, New Delhi deployed 4000 spies under the garb of Indian doctors, engineers, scientists, executives and laborers etc. India is also providing well coordinated military supplies to the northern alliance through air base in Tajikistan. This includes weapons, equipments and spare parts aimed at strengthening the anti-Pakistan elements and instability in Afghanistan on boil. According to an estimate 2,637,000 illegal Indian nations are residing in Karachi, persons from Indian backgrounds have shifted in bulk to Tribal areas and established training camps there. The Indian footprints in Swat and the Pakistani tribal belt includes Indian currency, Indian bullets, Indian small and heavy explosives, blood banks and all supportive products i.e. fresh frozen plasma etc special hideouts like tunnels, caves underground passages to help sustain a long term war. Reliable sources have disclosed that Indian consulate in Kandahar has dispatched more than hundred Pakistani dissidents for six months training in India. On return these persons will be paid five hundred to one thousand American dollars and will be deputed to the terrorist groups in tribal areas and elsewhere. Some of them would be crushing economy and spoiling the infrastructure of the country to declare it as a failed state. To fulfill all the above mentioned designs, India is looking forward to have some sort of permanent role in Afghanistan to get its vested agenda to be met by destabilizing Pakistan and establish its supremacy in the region as Pakistan is the only power which can see into its eyes and possesses the strategic and militarily strength to wipe out any of Indian designs against Pakistan.

The Indian TV channels telecast obscene programs in Pashto, Persian and in other regional languages around the clock which aims at the destruction of the morality of the Afghan people. The Indian diplomats and agents are also involved in the smuggling of Afghan women and children who are sold in the Gulf States and are forced to prostitution. The Afghan leadership should be aware of the conspiracies and misleading propaganda campaign of India. The Afghanis should not let the bonds of historical and Islamic brotherhood weaken at any moment. They should keep in mind the nasty role of India that it played in Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka. They must ask the people of Bhutan, Nepal and Sri Lanka in general and their Muslim brothers in Bangladesh in particular, how they were betrayed by India. India is dreaming to capture all the countries of South Asia. The Afghan administration must keep an eye on the elements that are collaborating with India and are distorting the relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan. They must be aware of such elements. The presence of some unwanted persons in Afghanistan is also embittering their mutual relations.

India is living in fool’s paradise by thinking that they might get hold of Afghans after withdrawal of allied forces. As far as the Afghanis are concerned they should restrict the Indian activities for the sake of peace in the region. If Indian leadership does not adopt a responsible attitude, peace in South Asia will always be in danger and the situation will be quite destructive.

By Asma Mujahid, PakObserver