India must listen to Nepali Street’s ‘Big Brother’ syndrome
“Every man is guilty of all the Good he did not do.” - Voltaire
Kathmandu: Al Jazeera claims that it has been pointedly told by some high-placed Pakistani officials that “at least eight killings could be linked to India.
New Delhi, as usual, rebukes the Pakistani charges. Pakistani accusations and India’s rebuttal go together more often than not.
In a report for Al Jazeera on April 5, 2024, Abid Hussain says that “since June 2021, Pakistan has tracked and accused Indian intelligence agencies of multiple attempts, some successful, at assassinating individuals New Delhi views as terrorists sheltered by rival Islamabad. Needless to say, New Delhi and Islamabad traded charges against each other over the decades.
Pakistani officials speaking to Al Jazeera on conditions of anonymity acknowledged at least six killings in 2023 and two in the years before.
Habbah Elis Peterson, Aakash Hassan and Shah Meer Baloch made a detailed report for the Guardian (British) that the Indian government assassinated individuals in Pakistan as part of a wider strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil, according to Indian and Pakistani intelligence operatives who spoke to the Guardian.
The Guardian report adds, “Interviews with intelligence officials in both countries, as well as documents shared by Pakistani investigators, shed new light on how India’s foreign intelligence agency allegedly began to carry out assassinations abroad as part of an emboldened approach to national security after 2019. The agency, the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), is directly controlled by the office of India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, who is running for a third term in office in elections later this month.
Some even say that the current drive of the Indian regime to hit the target deep inside Pakistan is aimed at gaining some electoral points in favor of PM Modi’s third round of parliamentary elections. Modi’s win will bring disaster in South Asia: But will he win?
PM Modi and his BJP Hindutva party hope to bag the third electoral race in the approaching elections. Modi’s victory means untold suffering for South Asia’s smaller countries, obviously including Nepal. The question across India is also whether PM Modi will really bag the next election!
Possible sufferings for Nepal:
PM Modi’s third win in India is sure to bring untold sufferings to Nepal in that Foreign Minister S Jaishankar, who used to travel to Kathmandu to dictate to his disciples or say deputed servants as of now, shall henceforth take no pains in running to Kathmandu but instead order the Indian envoy, Navin Babu, in Kathmandu to take upon Nepal’s internal politics seriously and command it boldly so that Nepalese people may not feel that they were being administered from a distance as much as Delhi. Servants deserve this.
The Kathmandu envoy must take up the Nepal issue much the same as things used to run around 1950, the beginning of the horrific tale of 1950 NepalIndia bilateral relations, which opened up Pandora’s box for Nepal and the bounties were preserved “as per the treaty” for India, the just freed British colony after serving the British India Company for centuries. The climax would be, as I see it, the early Sikkimization of Nepal into the Indian Union, for which the servants and the fifth columnists currently working for India as Nepali nationals have been working day in and day out.
However, Modi’s win will bring happy moments for those who wish to restore Nepal’s lost Hindu identity. That’s it. No more expectations, please! But what if Hindu identity is against losing sovereignty?
Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka:
Baby Bhutan and India created Bangladesh shall have no liberty in exercising their fundamental rights in expanding their ties with China. They will feel that they were under colonial rule.
Bhutan, which tried to flex its arms last year in establishing diplomatic ties with China, was served an ultimatum to King Jijmey not to dare to do so in the coming years. So Dhaka shall be kept under tight control by Delhi and not cosy with Beijing.
Likewise, the doubleplaying Colombo shall be told in no uncertain terms that any twin playing with Delhi will see the replay of the violence that erupted at the time of the Gotabaya brothers.
Ranil Wickremesinghe is Delhi's confidante, and all he has to do to remain in power is keep China at a distance or replay if the Indian Peacekeeping Forces (IPKF) inside Colombo are inevitable. Pakistan:
Pakistan shall remain the single contender in the entire South Asian region, which can’t be threatened by the Indian regime, whether it is Hindutva India or whatever it is.
Pakistan shall be a fitting match for India and ever shall remain a strong bulwark for the preservation of South Asian peace and regional stability.
Though temporarily, the financial issues have gripped the nation yet it hopes to recoup shortly. Writes Abid Hussain for Al Jazeera, March 24, that a veteran Pakistani Banker Muhammad Aurangjeb, a political outsider, has been tasked with the challenge of steering the country, Pakistan, out of its current economic woes. Muhammad Aurangzeb, a political outsider tasked with the challenge of steering the country out of its economic woes. Aurangzeb, an old-time banker who previously headed one of Pakistan’s largest commercial banks, Habib Bank Limited (HBL), has been given the reins of a $350 billion economy over several other contenders, including the four-time finance minister Ishaq Dar.
A socially, economically and politically stable Pakistan means much for South Asian regional stability.
And now Maldives:
As of now since Pakistan is economically weak and a new government has just taken a formal shape, it is the tiny Archipelago Maldives which is almost at a mini war with the elephantine Indian regime.
Hopefully, after the third election win, PM Modi will pounce upon Male with all his might and force the tiny Island nation to kneel down, however, President Mohammad Muizzu is also made of different stuff so he will devise some mechanisms to adjust ties with India and one knows what one has to pay for living in South Asian wherein the jungle roaring lion permanently resides threatening other small creatures.
To adjust to a comfortable life in South Asia when India is around is definitely a terrible scheme or dream. It would be like sleeping with the Lion unknowingly in the dark.
Back to the main story: Pakistan has traded charges against India which has been backed by the British Guardian paper as mentioned earlier, however, India summarily rejects those charges stating that Pakistan is a terror factory and India is obliged to do the needful in order to keep India safe and secure.
The Climax:
That India had a track record of extra-territorial killing was made public when Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau while attending the New Delhi-sponsored G20 meet last year accused India on several occasions had successfully trying to kill many Canadian Citizens, for example, Hardeep Singh Nijjar, a Sikh from Punjab then permanently residing in Canada. He was shot dead by an unknown Indian sharp-shooter in British Columbia, on June 20, 2023, and Justin found it opportune to expose New Delhi right in the crowd of international top leaders including President Biden.
Hardly had the accusation subsided, India and its entire Godi media pounced upon Canada and its visiting PM Trudeau was apparently forced not to attend the rest of the G20 proceedings. Meanwhile, India manufactured all the stuff which could be used and overused to castigate Canada and the latter have had to gulp a bitter pill all along his Delhi’ stay.
To sum up, India-Canada bilateral ties took a new low which perhaps is still awaiting oxygenation. India accuses Canada that the latter nurses most of the wanted Sikhs, the Khalistanis, who have migrated to Canada to continue their “mission Khalistan”.
Sometime later one Sikh, US national, Pannum, too was made a target by India but the timely intervention of the US State Department restricted India from going ahead with its avowed mission.
The Canada-India ties that took a nose dive last year remain to be repaired.
Symptoms that the bilateral ties need some more time to heal, come to the surface when one knows that the relations need thorough hauling wherein both have to admit that they have to keep the bilateral ties going for which both need to change their erratic considerations each other. Will India and Canada also take some steps in mending the derailed Canada-India ties?
Now to the main point: The Pakistani accusation that the Indian government assassinated individuals in Pakistan as part of a wider strategy to eliminate terrorists living on foreign soil, according to Indian and Pakistani intelligence operatives who spoke to the Guardian, on April 04, 2024, appears closer to truth as the sitting Home Minister Raj Nath Singh himself in a rage of anger admitted that “if needed, India will enter Pakistan and strike, while responding to a media report that said the Indian government was allegedly behind the killings of almost 20 individuals in Pakistan that the intelligence officials deemed a threat to the nation's security. In an interview with News 18, the defence minister said, "If any terrorist will try to disturb India from Pakistan, we will give much tod jawab (befitting reply).
But India unexpectedly, writes Cherylann Mollan, for the BC News, Mumbai on April 07, 2024, its highly arrogant defence minister Raj Nath Singh bluntly said that India would kill anyone who escaped to Pakistan after disturbing the peace in