On Friday, US Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will meet with Indian Home Minister P. Chidambaram for the first time to discuss counter-terrorism ties between two sides. India is capitalizing on the discovery of Osama bin Laden and the attack on PNS Mehran by whispering in the ear of US officials that Pakistan cannot be trusted. Even though US officials reaction to the discovery of Osama bin Laden was to admit that the operation was made possible by intelligence cooperation with Pakistan and US officials have repeatedly confirmed that no government or military officials had knowledge of bin Laden’s hideout, India is playing on American fears of a repeated 9/11 attack to be a ‘devils advocate’ against Pakistan.
Inside the country, the Indian talking points are boosted by statements by those such as Shireen Mazari and Hamid Gul for example who appear on TV to beat the drum of anti-Americanism and whip up feelings in the US that Pakistan is not an ally. It should be noted that Shireen Mazari has been saying for years to cut off funding and supplies for Pakistan’s defences. Some of India’s Trojan Horses must have been quite pleased to see the destruction of Orion planes which were essential to detecting and tracking Indian submarines.
The article in Economic Times ends by noting the statement by DG ISI Pasha warning India that any Abbottabad-like attack would invite a befitting response. Why this is included in an article about the coming US-India meeting unless India is planning to request US not to intervene to protect Pakistan in the event that they carry out such a plan? We must recall that US military training and supplies has always played a key role in enabling Pakistan to defend itself against Indian aggression.
Removing this source of defence and security resources has been a goal of India since they were rebuked by the US military chief Admiral Michael Mullen when he told Defence Minister A.K. Antony last summer that US would not turn its back on its friend Pakistan again.
Characterising U.S.-Pakistan military cooperation as being reflective of the growing relations and friendship between the two countries, Admiral Mullen said Washington was broadening its military relations with Islamabad after the ties were cut off for almost a dozen years.
This is why Indian newspapers run so many English language articles describing US aid to Pakistan as the cause of terrorism.
No sooner had U.S. President Barack Obama assumed office than he implemented a military surge in Afghanistan. In Pakistan, however, he implemented an aid surge, turning it into the largest recipient of American aid. This only deepened U.S. involvement in the wrong war and emboldened Pakistan to fatten the Afghan Taliban, even as sustained U.S. drone and other attacks in Waziristan continued to severely weaken the already-fragmented al- Qaeda.
Recent articles by India lobby admits that the goal of their plan is “to cut off aid to Pakistan’s military might”.
The US has but one interest which is to see terrorism stamped out. This is the same goal of Pakistan which has borne the greatest burden of terrorist violence including the loss at PNS Mehran, the suicide bombing against CID building in Peshawar, and the suicide bombing against police bus in Jalalabad one week ago. Each of these attacks has targeted Pakistan’s defences which are boosted with the American military aid. Therefore India knows that by cutting off this vital lifeline of security and defence cooperation between Pakistan and US, they’re plan will come to bear fruit.
So now the moment is at hand and we must ask whether we will allow ourselves to be betrayed in this manner not by the US who is rather but a confused pardesi caught in a web of Indian intrigue but the betrayal of the Trojan horses who are acting as a fifth-column and facilitating this scheme from the inside also.
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