There is a little bit of RAW in every Pakistani kitchen
By Dr Irfan Waheed, NewAgeIslam.com
Recently, Pakistani singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was arrested by the custom officials with Indian currency worth Rs 60 lakh, much above the permitted limit. The arrest was a result of the violation of custom laws and he was duly detained and fined. The Pakistani government intervened and the government of India co-operated with its neighbour. Rahat got released after paying the fine of Rs 15 lakh. He had no grudges and said that he would keep coming back to India.
But the Pakistani media had made a hue and cry, smelling a conspiracy to malign a Pakistani artist and in doing so they crossed all the limits of diplomacy and decency competing with each other in their show of love of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan. But not long ago, a popular English newspaper of Pakistan had come out with ‘a startling investigative report’ that said that Rahat Fateh Ali Khan was an agent of the Indian Intelligence agency RAW. In one of its many ‘special reports’ the newspaper churns out regularly, it carries a report with the headline, ‘RAW wants to hire Rahat for projects striking at Two Nations theory’. The report says:
‘The Daily Mail’s findings have indicated on 28th July, 2010 that After years of speculation, finally Indian Intelligence Agency Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) appears to have found a smooth operator in the form of Rahat Fateh Ali Khan from Pakistan, on whose shoulder’s they can land their gun and put forward the agenda of making the concept of two-nation theory completely evaporate from the minds of the Pakistani children, make them dance to the tunes of one nation, one world, through its recently initiated project Chhote Ustaad, a so called kids’ musical competition show on India’s Star Plus TV while it is being reproduced back in Pakistan by a local TV Channel that is already doing some joint ventures with the known anti-Pakistan Indian Newspaper, The Times of India reveal the investigations of The Daily Mail.
The Daily Mail’s investigations further reveal that the desire to rob the Pakistanis of their very identity was on the minds of the RAW for decades but it is only now that the agenda has found a vent through where the very idea can be materialized, infecting the young minds with the idea that their culture is but the same as the Indian one. And what better way than to initiate a supposed talent hunt, putting a music legend of Pakistan; Rahat Fateh Ali on its pay roll, to make him dance to the tunes of unity, preaching the idea that two-nation theory is all but a lie, The Daily Mail sources reveal.
The Pakistani kids taken in for the programme are in fact, being used by Rahat Fateh Ali, like camel jockeys, sold on the hands of the RAW, all belonging to poor families and Karachi for that matter, only one being that from Faisalabad.’
Surprisingly though, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan has not been arrested by the ISI or the police even after this nerve-raking investigative report by its own mouth-piece, the Daily Mail and allowed to travel to India freely.
Indian TV channels have been telecasting reality shows featuring Pakistani artists, comedians, models and singers for a long time and it has promoted cross-border relations among the people of Pakistan and India. Star Plus’s reality show ‘Chhote Ustad – Do deshon ki awaz’ featured talented children from Pakistan.But it did not go down well with the so called exponents of the Two Nation Theory because they do not want people of the two country blur the boundaries and come together.
This is not the first time that the Pakistani media has smelt a hand of RAW in anything happening in Pakistan whether good or bad. Earlier, the same newspaper had raised a hue and cry over a Pakistani Kabaddi team visiting India to take part in Kabaddi tournament. In August 2010, the secretary of the Pakistan Kabaddi Federation (PKF) in a letter wrote to the Indian High Commissioner Sharat Sabarwal, requesting him to block a visit of unregistered kabaddi organisation to India.
He further said: “We have learnt through news item appeared in local press and after a probe initiated by the PKF, it was revealed that around 20 local amateur players will be travelling to India and appear in 15 kabaddi matches.”
The newspaper smelt a RAW conspiracy in this event too and noted:
‘It is quite unimaginable that these kabbadi players are actually getting ninja training thus turning a conventional and traditional game into such a serious and deadly affair. These players are sent to India with the help of RAW and it is a matter of grave concern that the Indian Embassy issuing visa in a jiffy. It calls for attention and sorting of part of the embassy as such players can be used after the wicked game training against Pakistan.’
It shows how the Pakistani media and the government agencies see the ghost of Indian conspiracy in every happening in their own country and seems that they do not have faith in their own citizens. Every Pakistani artist or player who visits India or intends to do so comes under suspicion.
Recently a former ISI official known as Colonel Imam who was in charge of Afghanistan affairs was killed by Tahreek Taliban Pakistan. Imam, along with another former ISI official Khalid Khawaja and a British journalist Asad Qureshi, had been missing since March 23, 2009. Khalid Khwaja was killed by the Taliban last year. The Taliban have taken the responisibility of the killing of Col Imam. Even then the Pakistani media, particularly the Urdu newspaper Ummat came up with its ‘investigative report’ that Col Imam was killed at the behest of RAW who paid double the ransom demanded by Taliban as his family could not pay the hefty amount. Such baseless assumptions and presumptions of the Pakistani media have become the order of the day. Pakistanis have also been accusing India and particularly RAW of aiding and abetting the insurgency in Balochistan though last year one of the Baloch leaders denied on a live TV interview on an Indian TV channel having any links or getting any help from Indian agencies.
The conspiracy theories churned up by the media about the involvement of India in terrorist activities in the country have been publicized so much that the people of Pakistan have also started to believe that whatever happens in Pakistan is the work of Indian agencies. So much so that when the Taliban attacked two sufi shrines in Pakistan, the Pakistani bloggers said that it might also be a conspiracy of the RAW though Taliban had taken the responsibility and they had announced their plan weeks ahead of the attack.
Recently, Raymond Davis was arrested and is being tried for killing two Pakistanis. A British newspaper has revealed that Davis was a CIA agent who was recruiting youth for Taliban. The activities of CIA and Blackwater have become so common that newspapers like Daily Mail do not have to do investigations into their covert activities because the world knows that. But investigative media houses like Daily Mail and the Urdu newspapers like Ummat keep mum on this issue while they cook up RAW conspiracies without any proofs and evidences.
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