Pakistan
sponsored terrorism in India pushed by Pakistan’s terror designs for India - it
may be one of the evergreen subjects to be discussed on media platforms but in
the prevailing geopolitical circumstances – with US President Barack Obama’s
scheduled visit later this month – and with recent surge in terror threats and
terror alerts – it has found a heightened relevance.
Pakistan
has always been frustrated with and thus irritated on India and Barack Obama’s
India visit as the chief guest of the Republic Day event on January 26 has
touched the nervous cords again.
Being
seen as a diplomatic coup by Narendra Modi, it only worsened the matters for
Pakistan when US declared that Obama would not be visiting Pakistan while
coming to South Asia, an unexpected letdown given the past precedents. And
Obama’s flat refusal to Pakistan’s prostrated demands of Obama’s Pakistan visit
only rubbed salt in the wound.
Further
humiliation came with the American demand that Pakistan needed to mend its
terror-infested courtyard decisively before ‘requesting’ a US presidential visit,
something that Pakistan simply cannot afford, even if it itself is a big victim
of insurgency with thousands killed in terror strikes each year, for state-sponsored
terrorism has become the most important tool to feed the anti-India psychosis
ruling the mindsets of the Pakistani elite.
Now,
even if US is placating Pakistan with aid for its ‘forced’ cooperation to act
against the ‘bad Taliban’ active in Afghanistan and AfPak region, the US
presidential visit to Pakistan is not going to happen in the near future, as
Pakistan is not going to take on ‘it’s good Taliban’. And as long as Pakistan
continues to follow this policy of audacious bonhomie with the ‘good terrorism’
that it mentors, Pakistanis cannot expect a ‘relatively’ terror free society.
After all, the ‘bad Taliban’ of today are the ‘good Taliban’ of yesterday.
Add
the psychological implications of Obama’s India visit to the perennial anti-India
hysteria of the Pakistani elite, and it makes for a perfect recipe for them to
push their anti-India agenda with renewed efforts, to vent their frustration,
to feed their false sense of becoming at par with India, to save their faces.
And
if they could destabilize India – when India has the world’s attention with
Obama’s upcoming India visit and Obama saying he means business with this visit
- perpetrating a big terror strike or a series of orchestrated terror attacks to
the extent that it could potentially threaten Obama’s visit or could even
cancel it – it will be a real coup for the Pakistani government and Pakistani
elite.
The
recent surge in terror related rumours, specific terror alerts, terror raids
and busts, arrests, low intensity and IED blasts, open threats by terrorist
groups like the one for January 26, or today’s news about December 31's incident off Gujarat coast where
a Pakistani boat was blown by the people manning it when was intercepted by the Indian
Coast Guard can be seen in the context of the anti-India mindset of the
Pakistani ruling elite.
The
satisfactory reflection on these developments so far, for India and Indians, has
been the fact that the synergy of the Indian Intelligence and the security
agencies has been able to thwart any major Pakistan-sponsored terror incident
on Indian soil so far (in the recent past obviously), including the big
achievement of ensuring peaceful elections in Jammu & Kashmir with highest
ever poll percentage.
But,
then, don’t we, the Indians, need to have this ‘synergy’ always working like
this?