Anti-India Policies of the Dictators, General Ziaul Haque and General Pervez Musharraf, Made Pakistan A Terrorism Hub
By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
27 February
2023
Pakistan
Has Reached This Situation Because Of The Wrong Policies Of Its Dictators.
Since Army Generals Have Ruled For Most Part Of Its History, They Have Tried To
Resolve All Its Political Problems And Internal And External Disputes With The
Use Of Force
Main
Points:
1. Yahya Khan
ordered army crackdown on East Pakistan in 1971 leading to Pakistan 's break
up.
2. General
Ziaul Haque trained Taliban mujahideen for billions of dollars.
3. Gen. Pervez
Musharraf patronised and funded LeT to fund terrorism in Kashmir.
4. Musharraf
was behind the Kargil infiltration.
5. Musharraf
facilitated Mumbai terror attacks.
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General Ziaul Haque and General
Pervez Musharraf
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Pakistan is
in the midst of a severe financial crisis and on the edge of a civil war. Its
foreign reserves have depleted to the brink of bankruptcy and under the IMF
conditions for a loan, it has imposed more taxes on services and goods leading
to increased inflation and price rise. The terrorist attacks conducted by the
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan has caused bloodshed across the country. The
Peshawar mosque attack and Karachi police headquarters attack are only two
major attacks by the TTP recently. The Balochistan separatists have also been
attacking Pakistan military personnel on a daily basis. The common people or
the lower middle class cannot buy wheat and flour and other essential
commodities because of the food shortage and the steep price rise. The PoK
leader Amjad Ayub Mirza has given Pakistan army 100 days' ultimatum to leave
PoK as the PoK people want to unite with India.
Pakistan
has reached this situation because of the wrong policies of its dictators.
Since army generals have ruled for most part of its history, they have tried to
resolve all its political problems and internal and external disputes with the
use of force. In 1971, when Awami Party of Sheikh Mujeebur Rahman demanded
autonomy because of the economic exploitation and deprivation of the people of
East Pakistan, the only solution that General Md Yahya saw was a military
crackdown. The crackdown resulted in a huge influx of migrants from East Pakistan
into India prompting India to interfere in the conflict leading to the
independence of Bangladesh.
During the
last years of the 8th decade, Gen. Ziaul Haque patronised Taliban by providing
training and funds at the behest of the US to oust the Russians from
Afghanistan. Pakistan received huge funds for training the Taliban. The US used
Pakistan's religious affinity to Afghanistan and was able to mobilise Afghan
refugees with the help of Pakistan's military leadership and Osama bin Laden.
This fight became a continuous source of US funding to Pakistan which it needed
to upgrade its military vis a vis India which had become a nuclear power in
1974. Thereafter, all the democratic governments and dictators pursued the
policy of promoting terrorism and then pretending to fight it for foreign
funds. An article on the website of The Human Rights Watch gives account of
Pakistan's policy of terror funding:
"Pakistan
has a history of military support for different factions within Afghanistan, at
least as far back as the early 1970s. During the 1980s, Pakistan, which was
host to more than two million Afghan refugees, was the most significant
front-line state serving as a secure base for mujahideen fighting against the
Soviet intervention. Pakistan also served in the 1980s as a US stalking horse:
the US through the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) granted Pakistan wide
discretion in channelling some $US 2-3 billion worth of covert assistance to
the mujahideen training over 80,000 of them. Even after the withdrawal of troops
in 1989, serving and former Pakistani officers continued to provide training
and advisory services in training camps within Afghanistan and eventually to
Taliban forces in combat."
Gen. Pervez
Musharraf took this legacy of using terrorism.as a foreign policy against
India. Soon after taking charge as the military head during Nawaz Sharif
government in 1998, he plotted the infiltration bid in Kargil in 1999 leading
to a war between India and Pakistan. He did not get demoralised by his defeat
in Kargil. He plotted the Parliament attack in India in 2002. His deep urge to
cause damage to India and avenge 1971 kept him conspiring against India and
finding new ways to cause harm to India. During his tenure, he established
contacts with Bangladesh army and its intelligence agency DGFI during Khaleda
Zia government, and used DGFI to allow ULFA to carry out its subversive
activities against India from Bangladesh soil. He also facilitated the Mumbai
attacks in 2008 with the help of ISI and Lashkar-e-Taiba.
This is not
only an allegation. Both Nawaz Sharif and Pervez Musharraf have acknowledged
this fact before the media. During an interview to India Today, on 13 February,
2006, Musharraf said, "Inter Services Intelligence trains Jaish-e-Mohammad
(JeM) and Lashkar-e-Taiba(LeT) terrorists."
In July
2018, he said to the Economic Times, that Hafiz Saeed was involved in Kashmir
and he ( Musharraf) supported his involvement.
While
talking to Pakistan's leading English daily Dawn, Nawaz Sharif had said:
"Militant
organisations are active. Call them non-state actors. Should we allow them to
cross the border and kill 150 people in Mumbai? Why can't we complete the
trial?"
The only
surviving terrorist in Mumbai attack Ajmal Kasab had implicated Hafiz Saeed,
ISI, David Headley (A Pakistani origin American) and ISI operative Tahawwur
Rana. Headley and Tahawwur Rana confessed in the courts in the US that they
helped LeT in executing the Mumbai massacre and that ISI was actively involved
in the planning. A court in Pakistan has sentenced Hafiz Saeed to 31 years
imprisonment while he is the most wanted criminal in India.
The TTP
that was formed in Pakistan in 2007 is now the favourites of Pakistan army and
the Pakistani politicians. They patronised it to use it against India but they
have turned the table on them. They have conducted more than 1500 attacks in
Pakistan since last year and have targeted the police and government
installations. Politicians may be the next target. Imran Khan is said to be
sympathetic to them. The politicians have found the terrorist groups useful in
furthering their anti-India rhetoric as after every terrorist attack, they
raise the Indian hand slogan. The TTP was earlier helpful to Nawaz Sharif's
party in winning elections. Now, Imran Khan is close to them. His government
facilitated the release of the TTP fighters from Afghan prisons and their
return to Pakistan with arms.
Pakistan
has become a terrorist hub because of the anti-India policies of its dictators
and worse, the politicians have taken forward the legacy of patronising
terorist groups for short term political gains.
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