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By Allabaksh
Are there two governments in Pakistan? It seems so. While one is the show-window for the civilized world, the other is for conducting terror activities in the neighboring countries. The first is led by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and the other by his name sake, the Army Chief Gen. Raheel Sharif with able assistance from the ISI Chief Gen. Rizwan Akhtar.
In a democracy, the buck stops with the Prime Minister (or President), and he controls the army as well, but in Pakistan the two work independent of each other. Recent turn of events in the land of the pure are an ample testimony to the reality.
When Nawaz Sharif met Narendra Modi on the sidelines of a global meet in Ufa, and agreed on a road map for bilateral realtions, it ignited the hopes of a new thaw in the India-Pak relations. His Advisor on foreign affairs Sartaj Aziz, who is also the National Security Advisor, was present at the meeting, and in that sense he was privy to the Sharif- Modi discussions. But soon after returning to Islamabad, he threw literally the agreement to the dustbin.
While in Ufa, Aziz described the Sharif-Modi agreement as satisfying but once back home he saw no merit in it. “The agreement meant nothing since there was no reference to Kashmir (in it)”, he declared. All because of the pressure from the ‘second’ government at home!
In line with Ufa spirit, India has since proposed dates for the meeting of the National Security Advisors of the two countries but Pakistan government for the civilized world is yet to confirm the dates. All because of pressure from the government led by the Army and the ISI.
It is no use making Pakistan admit the existence of two governments in the country. It has been in the denial mode from day one and continues to behave as such on every issue. Its talk about non- state Pakistan to cover its tracks each time an attack is launched against India is just a charade. Nothing more, nothing less, as Pakistan’s former chief of federal investigating agency (FIA) Tariq Khosa revealed in ‘Dawn’ early August.
The Pakistani link to 28/11 mayhem on Mumbai was investigated by Khosa team. He retired four years ago. The fact that he has deemed it fit and fair to come clean shows the sense of unease among sections of Pakistan over the strangle-hold the Second Government has over matters civilian. Equally significant is the fact that his commentary appeared in Dawn, a daily founded by Muhammad Ali Jinnah, and not known for any love for India.
Ripping apart Pakistan’s denial mode, Tariq Khosa gave a quick rundown on how the 26/11 was planned, coordinated and launched from the Pakistani soil. He said the terrorists were trained at a camp near Thatta, Sindh. He wrote about the Ops room (in Karachi), gave an account of the recovery of the trawler used by the terrorists while on their way to Mumbai, and identified LeT Commander Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi and his deputies who had conducted the gruesome attack.
No wonder the Pakistani authorities have begun to disown Khosa as incredible. One would not be surprised if Pakistan turns around and says Khosa is not a Pakistani at all or that he never existed. Just as Kasab the lone militant nabbed by Mumbai was disowned.
For the record, Khosa became FIA chief in January 2009, two months after ten LeT terrorists sneaked into Mumbai and killed as many as 166 people. He was shunted out of FIA before the year was out. Reason: he unearthed a massive corruption scandal involving the high and mighty of the land.
The first post-Ufa terror attack took place in Gurdaspur killing seven Indians. The investigations have proved that they came from Pakistan. In the second such attack, near Simroli in Udhumpur on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway, one member of the terrorist squad was nabbed alive when he and his accomplice attacked the BSF convoy. He has since been spilling the beans to Pakistan’s dismay. His enterprise may not be in the Kasab class and may be limited in scope but it is a pointer to the new Pakistani terror campaign targeted at India and it is being orchestrated along with steady ceasefire violations along LoC and IB.
Clearly, while one government in Islamabad talks of peace, dialogue and normalizations of India-Pak relations, the other government from its perch in Rawalpindi, which looks like a law unto itself, is busy escalating ceasefire violations and organizing attacks on Indian interests. Some analysts aver that these two governments were not actually working at cross purposes and that they are two sides of the same coin each performing an assigned role. But that is not material to outside world since proxy war has been the time tested foreign policy tool for Pakistan.
It is sad, indeed, that the rulers of Pakistan whether they are civilian or military are unable to see beyond their short term pursuits which have harmed Pakistan more than its neighbours. They had planned to make India bleed with thousand cuts but these cuts have not stalled India’s march to become the much sought after scrip. What a contrast this is to the bleeding economy that the Sharif government is grappling with and is turning to doles from the IMF and the World Bank even for budgetary support. Compounding these miseries is sectarianism and militancy the country is facing from Balochistan to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Well, these are the trappings of a failed state.
It is time, therefore, for Pakistan to put its house in order by drawing appropriate lessons from its East Pakistan experience of the seventies. Inability to listen to sane voices and to let Sheikh Mujib-ur Rehman-led Awami League take over the reins of power after its landslide victory, had led to dismemberment of Pakistan and the emergence of an independent, sovereign Bangladesh. Like then, now also sane voices like Tariq Khosa are being muzzled. He is known for his integrity and impeccable character but in order to run him down, he is being dubbed as a non-entity and his 2009 report is trashed. Pakistan will have to accept each word of his report and face the truth, if at all it has its people’s interests in mind. However, Pakistan is Pakistan, which is too immune to anything right happen. Creditably Tariz Khosa has made a U-tur.
(The author is Kashmir based Freelance Journalist)
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