MURDER OF MAULANA SHOWKAT AHMAD SHAH KASHMIR:DISINFORMATION BY ISI
Following the dastardly murder of Maulana Showkat Ahmad Shah, the news of ultras having masterminded the assassination plot from across the border in PoK has come in through an interception monitored by the army. It is revealing though not unprecedented. The difference is that now the army is better equipped digitally to monitor the exchange of messages through satellite and impose effective control on clandestine crossing on the border. Of course, if the messages could be monitored in advance, though in some case it has been done, the impending blast of IED explosions could be averted. Hopefully that too will be achieved shortly.
It is clear that promotion of terrorism has not only stopped but rather intensified from across the border. This belies all the sweet words emanating from Pakistani ruling circles about their denying the terrorists the use of Pakistani soil for perpetrating terror against India. All this talk of change of hearts is nothing but eyewash. In fact, what has been intercepted clearly shows that renewed tactics of terrorism are going to be adopted by the ultras in due course of time. Their prime motivator, the ISI, has brought pressure on them to indulge in killing and subversion so that peace and harmony in the valley are disrupted. The ISI is uneasy with the ease that has prevailed in the valley for some months now and the measures that the union and state governments are taking to remove peoples' alienation. The snow on high mountains is melting and passes are now open for crossing over difficult terrains.
It has been already stated by army commanders that a sizable number of militants are assembled along the LoC to infiltrate into the valley. With the onset of summer, they will try to push into this side of LoC. ISI is goading them into a major strike in the valley. In the course of this subversive plan, the ISI has revived its old game of disinformation campaign by way of supplementing the process of disruption and turmoil in Kashmir.
The art of disinformation has a long history. By inciting the masses to something sacrilegious or something that scratches deep-set traditions would work as matchstick to a keg of gunpowder. This is facilitated by powerful electronic and print media that has over-reached almost all aspects of life in modern times. People have little time to sit down and introspect on what is being fed by the media forgetting that there could be fake radio stations, fake news or tele broadcasts, fake announcers and fake data. All this falls under the category of disinformation. Events are blown out of proportion to create sensation or suppressed to maximum levels to keep the public opinion guessing.
An example of this is the message to the local handlers of LeT to spread the canard that Maulana Showkat was killed by a conspiracy hatched by the security forces. The purpose, as indicated, was to creat turmoil in Kashmir. and thus add one more achievement to their long list of sabotages. Disinformation campaign of the ISI is integral to armed insurgency ever since turmoil began in 1990. For example, a canard of the then governor Jagmohan asking the valley Hindus to leave Kashmir so that he could take punitive actions against the remaining masses in the valley was so strongly and so intensively spread that even today the canard has many buyers in Kashmir. Likewise, the falsehood of Molavi Muhammad Farooq and Abdul Ghani Lone being eliminated by the security forces is still making rounds among militant circles’ nobody has any doubt that the assassins are the armed insurgents receiving directions from across the LoC. The question arises what have the masses of people responded to by observing the wholesale strike? The call had come from the separatists to observe a state-wide strike that has affected life throughout the valley, the towns and villages? Against whom is this protest strike? Obviously, as it is against the militants and their dastardly acts of liquidating Kashmir leadership, why shouldn't millions of people come out in a large protest rally and demanded the militants lay down their arms and call a day to armed insurgency? Why did not the separatists and nationalists go in big processions to the headquarters of the UN and demand UN take some meaningful action to prevent Kashmir related jihadis from acts of murder, mayhem and subversion.
Why does not an Anna Hazare spring from the masses of Kashmir valley who would sit down on hunger strike before the UN and American and other big western embassies in New Delhi to demand immediate closure of terrorist training camps in PoK and Pakistan and surrender of their leaders to Indian authorities? Why did the mainstream political leadership confine themselves to just few words of condolence but did not mobilize their party workers to demand the world body especially the US that Pakistan shut down terrorist camps on its territory? True reverence to and appreciation of the sacrifice of precious life made by Maulana Showkat Shah, mean adhering to and propagating vigorously the truth for which he stood all his life. The widespread ban in Srinagar was actually a protest by the protestors against their own self-deception and their willing suspension of disbelief.
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