Food for thought.....
Nation's Security Overlooked for Individual Gains!
By Lt Gen Prakash Katoch
Issue Net Edition | Date : 20 Jan , 2014
It is amazing how issues of national security are given the short
shrift in India. Whether it is by design or inadvertent can continue
to be guessed. That there is political interference is without doubt
but whether such interference is because of mere vote-bank politics,
mafia links or external pressures is the moot point, latter being the
most dangerous. Recently, a gentleman put his comments on Facebook
after meeting a CRPF soldier on leave from the Maoist insurgency area.
As per him, there are many instances where Maoists nabbed by CRPF have
to be let off because of political pressure. This would well be the
case where local politicians are ready to look askance to matters of
national security despite the Maoists insurgency being described as
the biggest threat to national security. But if the local politicians
look for the support of the Maoists to retain power, it does not stop
there. In fact it goes all the way up through the political spiral
right to the national apex.
While foreign links and massive funding of NGOs, politicians and
political parties in India may never be investigated including the
instant case of NGO Kabir because of calculative assessments to stay
in power&
That is the reason terrorism and insurgency thrives in India
undermining the blood and sacrifices of the security forces. That is
why political parties brush aside even statements by idiotic so called
political leaders that soldiers are meant to die. That is why a
fledgling political party now governing Delhi, while claiming to be
the most righteous in the country, does not even rebuke its members
for openly preaching secession against the Indian State much to the
glee of our enemies and those who want continued instability and a
weak government in India. While foreign links and massive funding of
NGOs, politicians and political parties in India may never be
investigated including the instant case of NGO Kabir because of
calculative assessments to stay in power any which way, we really
should heed Ashley Tellis of Carnegie Foundation saying, India being
subjected to terrorism suits many &&&. India is a sponge that absorbs
terror.
Take the recent case of Delhi Police claims to evidence that Pakistan
based terror group LeT is attempting to recruit operatives in the riot
hit district of Muzaffarnagar. As reported, the Delhi Police had even
arrested two persons in this connection; Mohammed Rashid and Mohammed
Shahid from Mewat in Haryana. The arrests were made after locals of
Muzaffarnagar had alleged that Rashid and Shahid had approached them
to discuss carrying out kidnappings and other nefarious activities. As
per media reports, the IB had been tracking the movement of these two,
who had already visited Muzaffarnagar six times since end of riots in
September last year at the behest of Abdul Subhan, a leader of LeT.
Then came news that MHA had capped the issue by saying there was not
enough evidence. This, by a small news item inserted in an
inconspicuous part of newspapers. Unfortunately in India, it is very
easy to switch viewer attention quickly from one event to the other. A
dispassionate analysis would tell you that the powers that be have
successfully used these tactics through a TRP hungry media an event
suddenly brushed aside and forgotten (read erased). Therefore, for
days on end, full media glare was shifted to Bollywood stars gyrating
in the Saifai festival, the deaths and status of the Muzaffarnagar
camps and the so-called multiple countries educational tours of some
jaundiced politicians, only silver lining being the lucky
correspondents who also got to visit the same countries covering the
exploits of the scoundrels.
So the import of the LeT, which is the covert arm of the ISI, making
inroads into Muzaffarnagar area got lost in all this, buried along
with the debate about the propriety or otherwise of an IB official
telling Rahul Gandhi that the ISI was trying to contact the
Muzaffarnagar riot victims. Incidentally, according to teachers and
schoolchildren who attended the 16th Rashtriya Katha Shibir (overall
12,000 children from many States of India including Nagaland, Meghalya
and Arunachal Pradesh), many who are flocking relief camps in
Muzaffarnagar are not even from the rioted area, have not suffered any
loss or damage (lives, houses or property) but are lured by the
declaration of Rs 5 Lakh compensation.
It is very apparent that Kerala is on the priority list of Dawood
Ibrahims D-Company.
But given the state of affairs in the country, why crib about import
of the LeT making inroads in Muzaffarnagar getting lost. Look at the
Kerala headquartered Popular Front of India (PFI), formerly known as
NDF, whose cadres donned uniforms and have picked up weapons years
back. Media quoting both R&AW and IB sources have been reporting that
PFI has links with Al Qaeda and LeT, both these terrorist
organizations having made inroads in Kerala. In October 2008, security
forces killed four LeT recruits from Kerala in Kupwara (northern
Kashmir) in an encounter while they were trying to cross over to
Pakistan, obviously for advanced weapons and ideological training. A
raid on a PFI leaders house in Kerala during 2010 had unearthed
publicity material related to the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Counterfeit
Indian currency minted in Pakistan worth several crores have been
confiscated at Keralas international airports, much more possibly
comes through other avenues. It is very apparent that Kerala is on the
priority list of Dawood Ibrahims D-Company. The killing of four PFI
cadres in Kupwara was not, however, the first spotlight on what the
PFI is up to. As per media reports, ISI infiltration into Kerala first
emerged in 2006 post the arrest of Muhammad Fahd of Al Badr (Pakistani
national) with roots in Kerala, along with weapons and IEDs, possibly
linked to the two bombs that went off in Kozhikode on March 3, 2006.
More significantly, in 2010, raid on another PFI leaders house
revealed ISI plans to monitor preparedness of the Navys Southern
Command at Kochi. Seized documents also gave details of
counter-terrorism drills held by security forces, and about huge sums
of money being pumped into the PFI. Last April, 21 cadres of PFI were
arrested in Kannur district attending a terrorist training camp, along
with country made bombs and a human dummy. Kannur incidentally happens
to be just one terror centre of the many operating in the region.
Obviously, ISI and other ISI-linked terrorist organizations have been
operating in Kerala for years.
Despite all this, PFI does not figure in the MHA list of banned
organizations in India even as they run terrorist training camps, some
even in uniform and handling weapons. Both the State and the Centre
have gone soft on the organization. Very conveniently, there is no
laid down criteria for putting an organization on the banned list. All
is left to the whims and fancies of the political leadership. So why
has the PFI not been banned over the last decade? So is it only
because of votes, to keep the State coalition intact or Ministers from
Kerala including the current Defence Minister, or a combination of all
these factors? Whatever be the case, such precedence encourages others
to follow suit, latest example being the fledgling AAP, already
tolerating members issuing statements averse to the security of the
nation and the security forces, and even openly preaching secession.
These are dangerous precedents that any self respecting country can
hardly afford to overlook.
&politicians who have used Hawala for sneaking money out are under
ISI and LeT blackmail. This is logical assessment since Hawala is
being managed by Dawood Ibrahim who is intimately linked to the ISI.
Much more revealing is the article Corrupt netas LOOT India dated 6th
January 2014 on rediff.com that talks of Rs 73,00,00,00,00,00000
having been siphoned out of India by corrupt politicians. Though the
Jain Hawala racket of Maharashtra is mentioned, it is a fraction of
the overall amount given in the article. Veteran R&AW officers
appreciate that politicians who have used Hawala for sneaking money
out are under ISI and LeT blackmail. This is logical assessment since
Hawala is being managed by Dawood Ibrahim who is intimately linked to
the ISI. The assessment also gives this as the likely reason for India
going soft on terror. Obviously they comply for fear of exposure and
possible end of their political career. So that is the story of Indias
counter terrorism policy. Given the higher than the mountains, deeper
than the sky China-Pakistan relationship there is no reason that such
information is not being shared by the ISI with the ý¶‰hè (Chinese
Secret Service), so our soft stance in face of Chinese belligerence.
Chinese strategy always aims to target the minds of the political
leadership of adversaries. What better Gordian Knot then blackmail of
grave financial misdemeanors. To this end, the recent allegation by
the former Home Secretary of the current Home Minister favouring a
D-Company individual can hardly be brushed under the carpet
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