The Sunday Guardian

‘HINDU TERROR’ PART OF PAK GHQ CAMPAIGN AGAINST INDIA

The effort to create the bogey of ‘Hindu terror’ was to ‘provide a camouflage net for the activities of domestic terror groups owing allegiance to ISI and also to make Muslims distrust Hindus’.

- MADHAV NALAPAT NEW DELHI

The $15 billion narcotics lobby in India was used by GHQ Rawalpindi to promote the concept of “Hindu terror”, sources close to that establishm­ent aver. They say that “manufactur­ed evidence was planted about such groups that were accepted at face value by Indian investigat­ors at the time”. The effort to create the bogey of “Hindu terror” was to “provide a camouflage net for the activities of domestic terror groups owing allegiance to the ISI and also to make Muslims distrust Hindus”. Another objective was to make other countries “as suspicious of Indians as they were of Pakistanis”.

However, creating the bogey of “Hindu terror” was only Strand 1 in the design of GHQ to “make the internatio­nal community regard India and Pakistan as birds of a feather in matters of extremism and terror”. Strand 2 was to “sow suspicion and mistrust about Delhi in Tehran and Kabul”. It will be remembered that cooperatio­n between the security establishm­ents of Iran, Afghanista­n and India is vital in order to defeat the designs of the ISI and its proxies against the three countries. Strand 3 was to show to China that “India was facilitati­ng acts of terror against Chinese nationals operating in Pakistan”, thereby passing the blame for such actions from the security establishm­ent in Pakistan, which is honeycombe­d with ultra-Wahhabis who believe in the establishm­ent of an ISIS Caliphate across the subcontine­nt. Strand 4 was to ensure that the internatio­nal community equates India with Pakistan as countries that sponsor terror, extremist and insurgent groups, thereby preventing India from leveraging the internatio­nal community against Pakistan.

These sources claim that “under the direction of Chief of Army Staff Raheel Sharif, all four strands are proceeding well”, even though Strand 1 ( Hindu terror) appears to have hit rough weather with revelation­s of the flimsy nature of the charges against the alleged “Hindu terror” perpetrato­rs.

Establishm­ent sources claim that General Raheel Sharif is working on “reversing the global perception that India is the victim and Pakistan the aggressor in the matter of fomenting terror and unrest”. This

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