The Pakistan Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa today visited the Line of Control (LoC). Like has been the tradition, he used the occasion to spew venom against India. He termed India terror sponsor of the region and said that the Pakistan Army is fully geared up to protect Pakistan. Seeing a pattern in the alleged cease fire violations (CFVs) by India, he repeated Pakistan's favourite Kashmir rant vowing to save people of Kashmir, that Pakistan calls Azad Kashmir and that is in illegal occupation of Pakistan, from the Indian aggression and assured Pakistan's continued solidarity with people of Jammu and Kashmir, the remaining bigger part of the state that is an integral part of India.
Maj Gen Asif Ghafoor,
spokesperson of the Pakistan Armed Forces, tweeted a video of Gen Bajwa's LoC
visit.
Maj Gen Asif GhafoorVerified
account
@OfficialDGISPR
#COAS visited LOC.Aware of
Indian design, her sp to terrorism in Pak/region. #Kulbhushan an evidence. His
case ll be taken to logical concl.
6:41 PM - 21 Feb 2017
Pakistan is blamed for
perpetrating terror in Pak-occupied-Kashmir and running it through a puppet
government and pushing terrorists and promoting terrorism and unrest in Jammu
and Kashmir. The world recognizes its propaganda and no major power stands with
Pakistan when it comes to its absurd claims on Kashmir.
In fact, there has been a
growing global consensus that Pakistan is the new terror backyard of the world,
harbouring and sheltering terrorists who threaten the global peace, be it
Taliban and its factions or Al Qaeda or the Haqqani Network or LeT or JeM or
countless others. The recent move to ban Lashkar-e-Taiba's (LeT) front Jamaat-ud-Dawa
(JuD) and its chief Hafiz Saeed is most probably a drama that tells the world
community how shameless Pakistan has become on this front. People say the sham
crackdown on Hafiz Saeed is under the US pressure but we should not forget that
the US bounty of $10 million on Saeed is in place since 2012. And then, Osama
bin Laden was also hunted down and killed in Pakistan.
But continuing the tradition
of Pak doublespeak on Kashmir, Gen Bajwa blamed CFVs by India as 'efforts to
divert the world attention from the so-called Indian atrocities against the Kashmiris'.
India and Pakistan
consistently blame each-other for CFVs and summon each other's High Commissions
officials regularly to lodge their official protests. Pakistan's Inter Services
Public Relations (ISPR) says India committed at least 178 CFVs last year in
which 19 civilians lost their lives. Hansraj Ahir, MoS Home, India stated in a
written reply in the Lok Sabha that Pakistan violated cease fire some 450 times
last year, with around 300 of them after India's successful surgical strike in
Pak-occupied-Kashmir in September 2016 to eliminate terror camps. According to
the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), 28 people including 13 security forces
personnel in Jammu and Kashmir lost their lives in CFVs by Pakistan in 2016.
Another part of Gen Bajwa's
rhetoric today was about Kulbhushan Yadav, the alleged Indian spy in Pakistan's
custody. He said that Kulbhushan Yadav is the 'evidence of Indian designs to
support terror in Pakistan and the region'. But ever since Yadav's arrest in
March 2016, that Indian intelligence agencies say was an act of abduction,
Pakistan's has denied every Indian request to provide consular access to him.
Instead, Pakistan has been using every sort of propaganda, including Yadav's coerced
confessional video statement, to shed crocodile tears that it is a victim of
Indian sponsored terror in Pakistan.
India has very clearly said
that Kulbhushan Yadav was indeed an Indian Navy officer but after his
retirement, the Indian government had no connection with him but Pakistan is
hell-bent on proving him a serving Indian Navy officer. But in spite of all its
grandstanding before the world, no one in the world community has bought the
Pakistani claims. Pakistan's propaganda in this case becomes clear from the
fact that even its own Foreign Affairs Advisor, Sartaj Aziz, has accepted that
there is no enough proof to convict Yadav and additional evidence needs to be
collected.
©SantoshChaubey
