Kashmiri
Leader Says India Will Have to Withdraw From Kashmir
Main
Points:
1. This
hints Taliban plans for heightening militant activities in Kashmir in near
future.
2. India
needs to shrug off complacency.
3.
India needs to chalk out a defence strategy in face of current challenges in
Afghanistan.
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By
New Age Islam Staff Writer
9 August
2021
According
to MEMRI, the Afghan Taliban have made their intentions clear about Kashmir in
an interview to Pakistan’s Urdu daily Ummat recently and this should alert
India. The Taliban leader Farooque Rahmani said in no uncertain terms, “As has
happened in Afghanistan, the occupation forces will have to leave Kashmir too.”
He says,” The evacuation of the US and NATO forces from Afghanistan and
Taliban’s advances has become a ray of hope for the oppressed Muslims of the
occupied Kashmir. All Party Hurriyat
Conference convenor Farooque Rahmani and
other Kashmiri ‘freedom fighters’ have
described advances of the Taliban in Afghanistan as the writing on the wall for
India.
Farooque Rahmani,
the convenor of APHC, also said "We hope
that the advances of the Taliban fighters will have positive
consequences for the region and the entire world.”
Earlier, the Afghanistan government had sought India’s military help in preventing Taliban form gaining ground.
Pakistan Urdu Daily Ummat
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The interview should open India’s eyes and it should come out of the air of
complacency. If the Taliban come to power in Afghanistan, they will certainly
open a front against India. Pakistan is openly supporting Taliban in
Afghanistan and for this it has already shifted terrorist outfits like Lashkar-e-Taiba
and Jaish-e-Mohammad to Afghanistan to
help it against the Afghan government and fight India in case of Indian
intervention. In return Pakistan plans to use Taliban in Kashmir.The interview
exposes dangerous intent of Taliban and Pakistan in future. After Taliban gains
a clear foothold in Afghanistan, it will expand its militant activities in
Kashmir.
India has
made investments worth billions in Afghanistan and Pakistan will try to
dislodge India in Afghanistan both politically and economically. India has
important trade interests in the country. Until now, India’s trade and economic
interests were protected due to the US and NATO presence. But now that the US
and NATO have left, India needs to chalk out its diplomatic and defence
strategy to save its investments worth billions..
In this
regard, India may have some lessons to learn from Russia. When its trade and
economic interests were at stake because of the ambitions of the US and Saudi
Arabia during the Syrian civil war, Russia took a hard and decisive stand that
if the US and Saudi Arabia attack Syria, it will not sit silent but will wage a
war to protect its investments in the region. Putin even ordered its military
to remain on 2-minute mode meaning being ready for a full fledged decisive war.
This aggressive posturing saved Russia the day and the US did not muster
courage to attack and destroy Syria. Will India go to that extent to save its
interests in Afghan? Only time will tell.
URL: https://www.newageislam.com/radical-islamism-jihad/taliban-afghanistan-kashmir-pakistan/d/125197