INDIAN INTERFERENCE IN PAKISTANI INTERNAL AFFAIRS.

           "Pakistan's security setup has compiled evidence showing Raw's footprints

           in Pakistan and soon the real face of India will be exposed before the world"

                                                     ( The Express Tribune, quoted from a source)

Pakistan’s decision to raise the question of Indian involvement within Pakistan at the UN Security Council and the Human Rights Commission seems to have been fueled by the recent statement made by the former MQM leader Tariq Mir to the London Metropolitan police.  Many questions have been raised after the statement surfaced through a BBC story that accused the MQM of getting funds from India.The main question being, to what extent is India really involved in Pakistani affairs?

It was stated that two of MQM’s senior leaders based in London had made a confession to receiving funds from India. According to the statement, MQM chief Altaf Hussain and other leading party members were also aware of this.Mir claimed that a meeting with Indian officials was held in Rome and the officials were said to be RAW agents. He also mentioned that one of the officials they dealt with had direct links to the Indian Prime minister. Following the meeting in Rome, MQM workers were sent to India  where hundreds of MQM militants were trained in explosives, weapons and sabotage in camps in North and North East India. From 1994 the party was receiving 800,000 British Pound Sterling per year in funding from India. At the same time MQM workers that went for the training reported that the Indian officials often discussed matters regarding Pakistani politics, including Afghanistan and the Taliban and more specifically issues regarding Karachi.

Pakistan’s biggest asset in the fight against terrorism within the country, the Pakistani army is seeing a constant strain in terms of finances and lives of officers and soldiers lost due to the military operations against the triple threat in Pakistani civil matters. The first most recent being the Pakistani Taliban, also reported to be funded by India and trained by RAW. Secondly, Insurgency in Baluchistan, in which ex Indian Army Chief Kumar Singh admitted that India sponsored bomb blasts and funded the separatist movements in Baluchistan and thirdly the complicated mix of urban crime, ethnic, linguistic, religious, sectarian and political rivalries in Karachi, mostly concerning the MQM, that we have come to know also has Indian support.

India’s constant meddling in Pakistani affairs in a bid to destabilize the country and preoccupy the Pakistani Army with unnecessary civil unrest is indication of the strengthening of the Pakistani position against them, especially now at a time when the Pakistan Army is emerging as the chief guarantor of peace in Afghanistan in partnership with China. The Pakistani military is committed to its internal affairs and may find it difficult to address this issue.  Failure to deliver this proposed peace by Pakistan will alienate the Pakistani ally, Afghan president Ashraf Ghani and strengthen pro India forces in Kabul, a very desirable outcome for India. Jim O’Neill, a British economist’s prediction that Pakistan will be the 18^th largest economy by 2050 gives a rough idea of Pakistan's rising economy and the latest involvement and investment from China into Pakistan including the plan for the China Pakistan Economic Corridor is reason enough to worry the neighbouring country into promoting destabilization within Pakistan. The Chinese involvement within Pakistan cannot be wavered no matter what tactics India uses as they have a vested interest in Pakistan to sustain their own national economy and global repute.

At present the Pakistani military are absorbing the full brunt of the terrorism and insurgency but they also have the potential to use this very threat against India in their internal affairs. The numerous fault lines within India are fertile breeding grounds for Pakistani intelligence to get successfully involved in. Khalistan is one such example in which Pakistan previously played an active role in by supporting the Sikh insurgency. This was until Benazir Bhutto’s resolution in December 1988 to withdraw Pakistani support in this area in return for a withdrawal of troops from Siachen. It suffices to say that the Pakistani side of the agreement was fulfilled, contrary to the Indian side of the bargain that has yet to see the light. Backing for the Khalistani cause can be resumed very easily. Support and funding for Kashmir and Pakistani interference in the numerous insurgencies in India can also be initiated with ease. India needs to be aware that their continuous provocation will be met with much greater involvement from Pakistani intelligence forces in similar attempts to destabilize them. 

The issue of Indian involvement in Pakistan in subversive activities across the country will be officially raised at the United Nations with solid proof of Indian intelligence agencies assisting terrorism and insurgency in Pakistan. This will be presented by the Pakistani Ambassador to the UN, Maleeha Lodhi at the UN Security Council and the Human Rights Commission with the hope that the international community will address the matter accordingly. At the very least this will raise awareness of India's role in terrorist activities on an international level.

Indian influence on a higher governmental level can also been witnessed through the pro India stance of the current prime minister of Pakistan, Nawaz Sharif and his family. This includes their personal and business dealings within India. Despite cordial relations between the people, India has never sincerely accepted the formation of Pakistan throughout the countries few short years and has continuously tried to destabilize the nation by their consistent sponsoring of terror in Pakistan at all levels. The evidence of India’s involvement is paving a way for Pakistani intelligence agencies to get involved within India’s many fault lines. This interference is causing much unnecessary violence and deaths with Pakistan having to endure the indoctrination of its largely illiterate population by Indian influences. India needs to, however begrudgingly, accept that Pakistan is a separate nation with great potential to prosper independently and to stop causing problems for them..

Sixty eight years after gaining independence and becoming a separate state, created in the name of Islam, it is becoming increasingly obvious that the very foundation of Islam and Muslim brotherhood the country was so proudly based on is the same tool being used by India to assist terrorism and insurgency in Pakistan. Despite her massive potential and the huge opportunities being given to her, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan at this present time at least mentally has not yet fully managed to gain independence from the carefully crafted and planted  Indian “invasion”.