National/Regional/International Affairs
By N. P. Upadhyaya (Aryal)
Kathmandu: In its recently released report, Human Rights Watch noted that violence continued in the Kashmir Valley three years after the abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution.
“Minority Hindus and Sikh community in the Muslim majority Kashmir valley came under attack”.
The atrocities committed by the ruling Indian government in Kashmir could be taken as, some equate, equivalent to the appalling Nazi Concentration camps of the Second World War era. And yet India must be respected and honored by the civilized world. Never.
On January 12, The Scroll. in (@scroll_in) news posting the Scroll staff writes, “the Bharatiya Janta Party led-Union government continued systemic discrimination and stigmatization of religious and other minorities in India, particularly Muslims, the right group Human Rights Watch adds in its “World Report” released just the other day.
And the sitting Indian foreign minister Jay Shankar is a BJP cardholder who blames others for having kept India terrorized.
Human Rights Watch in its new report further writes, “the BJP supporters increasingly committed violent attacks against the targeted groups and that the government’s Hindu majoritarian ideology was reflected in bias in institutions, including the justice system and constitutional authorities like the National Human Rights Commission”.
Even the Indian judiciary remains not sacrosanct under the BJP rule. This is frightening indeed.
And he is the foreign minister, Jay Shankar, of India who makes tall claims on terrorism in neighboring countries against the real and factual backdrop of his own nation, Bharat Mata which takes the form of a violent terrorist State as regards the Muslims and the Dalits.
The Indian foreign minister has thus no rights whatsoever to shift the blame onto others when India in itself is a certified terrorist State that has recently been qualified by Human Rights Watch.
India must correct its attitudes and brutality first against its own minorities before hurling the accusations on others.
To come to the point:
India sheltered the Nepal Maoists leaders in Noida, Delhi for a decade or so given the fact that India herself had declared the Nepal Maoists as “terrorists” much ahead of Nepal declaring so.
And yet India is not a terrorist State? It is. A supporter of a terrorist outfit is a terrorist indeed.
India groomed several secessionists on its soil who wished to split Nepal into pieces and yet India is not a terrorist State? It is a proven terrorist State.
Even as of now, several divisive elements designed and manufactured by India were active in splitting sovereign Nepal and yet India is not a terrorist State? It is.
The 1950 Treaty of Peace and Friendship with India doesn’t talk of keeping the “border” open however, India deliberately has kept it open which is the prime “source” for the entrance of “criminal elements” from Indian soil who then regularly commit acts of kidnapping and ask ransom for the release of the kidnapped kids or adult persons of Nepali birth.
The keeping of the border open in many more ways than one has encouraged the “terrorists” from Indian soil to create rampage inside the Nepali territory and yet India should be taken as sacrosanct Jay Shankar, the highly conceited foreign minister of India?
He is the one whose longer stay as India’s foreign minister will cause immense damage to India.
Moreover, the 1950 treaty has neither worked for “peace” nor “Friendship” with India.
Has Shankar the courage to seal the border and prove his country to be innocent? No. Not.
Do it if you have the needed stamina. Will you?
India shall never seal the border simply because it can’t milk Nepal henceforth.
Sealing of the Nepal-India border will mean the loss of rupees 16 billion in remittances that enter India annually.
The open border phenomenon between Nepal and India has awarded immense advantages to India which sends illegal immigrants in thousands inside Nepal each day.
The Roti-Beti notion is a fake one…in that, it is this concept that has acted as a shield against Indian reluctance in sealing the open border.
And these illegal immigrants who enter Nepal in thousands later bribe the corrupt Nepali officials and get the “citizenship” certificates and contest the polls and enter the Nepali parliament.
Once they enter Parliament, these immigrants begin secessionists’ activities with a design to merge sovereign Nepal into the Indian Union, the former British colony.
Needless to say, the Indian regime encourages the immigrants to swell Nepal with a calculated blueprint to annex Nepal through the conduct of a referendum.
And yet India should be taken as an innocent country by Nepal and the neighbors that unfortunately border India?
Several Indian nationals with criminal mindsets/backgrounds residing in Indian towns print fake Nepali currency and bring them into use in Nepal and yet India and the Indian nationals must be honored by Nepal and the Nepali nationals?
Our own determined contention is, “Nepal will never develop and stand on its own unless the open border is sealed”.
The open border shall never allow Nepal to have an independent economy. Nepal can never be an industrialized country as long as the borders are kept open. The border has been kept open by India with a dangerous purpose so as not to allow Nepal to develop independently.
India encroaches upon Nepali landmass across the country in thousands and thousands of hectares and yet India blames China as an expansionist country.
The paid and posted Indian lobby in Kathmandu at times floats the news that “China” has gulped” an entire Nepali village bordering China’s Tibet.
This is all false and an Indian ploy to cover its encroachment bids across the length and breadth of Nepal.
The reverse is true and yet India propagates that Nepal and its authorities create problems for India under China’s instructions. The former arrogant and undisciplined Indian Army Chief M. Naravne in recent years (2020) made a false claim that Nepal under the instructions of China has been challenging India over road construction in West Nepal.
Late Bipin Rawat, CDS, too once alleged that China was encouraging Nepal to come heavily down against India. Late Rawat too has had a habit of talking nonsense.
The fact is that India encroached upon Nepali landmass in and around Kalapani and constructed a route to Mansarovar (Tibet) without consulting Nepal, the real landowner.
India’s brazen foolhardy act sensitized Nepal which then later encouraged Prime Minister K. P. Oli to issue an administrative and political map of Nepal that incorporated the entire landmass gulped by India into Nepali territory.
And the new map thus issued by the Nepal government enjoyed the complete support of the sitting Parliament.
Interestingly, some India-bent political parties too have had to approve the “measure” for fear of being exposed as India-run and funded political paraphernalia. It was more or less a “victory” of the Nepal government to have regained the lost landmass at least on paper. The map has the Nepali landmass recovered but the land in effect is yet to be owned.
The fun was that some “India” born and bent leaders of Nepal began criticizing then PM Oli that he must not have “provoked” India over the issue.
Shame on these India-bent leaders with Nepali souls. Shame on the Nepali Lendhup Dorjes who wish to merge Nepal into the Indian Union. Shame, shame, shame….
It is the issuing of the new administrative map that has prompted India to deny the “air route” as demanded by Nepal for the Pokhara and the Bhairahawa International Airport. This Indian denial does testify to our contention that India is unwilling to see a developed Nepal. India fears that the new air route if provided shall promote Nepal’s tourism sector which India can’t tolerate. India’s Himalayan jealousy. This does tell how small the heart of elephantine India is.
Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf once told an Indian TV anchor that the “Indian heart doesn’t match its elephantine size”.
Pakistan’s top leaders understood India and Indian leaders better than they ever contested India since the very next day of the grand partition. With all these shortcomings yet India and its foreign minister Shankar are sacrosanct? No. Not. Never. India is not what it looks like.
The bigheaded India’s Foreign Minister Shankar made some harsh comments, on January 04 obliquely aimed at China.
He says, “No region will be stable if it is dominated by a single power. The essence of international relations is for states to get along and find a balance”. However, what the minister said about China applies first and foremost to India itself.
South Asia continues to have been dominated by a single erratic power and that is India born in 1947.
As regards the stability of the region, South Asia and beyond shall remain ever unstable as long as the Indian “inferiority complex” lingers. In addition, India’s hegemonic presence in South Asia shall never allow “balance” to prevail as wished by the Indian minister referring to China.
Before hitting China, India must peep into its own erratic conduct that has disturbed peace and stability in the region and areas adjoining this expanse. It is India but not China that has disturbed the “balance” that India talks about. India is the problem, not China. The day India realizes this fact; the entire region will have peace and stability.
Indian FM’s tirade against Pakistan:
The highly haughty and belligerent foreign minister of India, S. Jayshankar in an oblique manner has hit once again the neighboring rival Pakistan and said, among others, that “threats to international peace and security that are posed by terrorism, including its cross-border practices, violent extremism, radicalization and fundamentalism.”
The minister made these jagged observations while being in Austria and talking to Austria’s ZIB2 podcast, a daily news magazine of ORF television.
Though he preferred not to name Pakistan, intelligent political commentators could guess that as usual, the Indian minister made a veiled attack on neighboring Pakistan. India has the habit of accusing Pakistan every now and then so commentators award no attention to such concocted accusations.
Minister Shankar who was on a visit to Austria in early January this year held discussions with the Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg. Upon meeting the Austrian minister, the Indian minister said, “We spoke at length on the threats to international peace and security that are posed by terrorism, including its cross-border practices, violent extremism, radicalisation and fundamentalism.”
The Indian minister reiterated in Austria that India is the victim of cross-border terrorism, however, the experiences of the smaller nations bordering India too have their own conclusions.
The smaller nations in South Asia emphatically claim that India is the biggest threat to their existence and that India’s interference and penetration in their internal affairs is of the Himalayan dimension.
Nepal has had the bitter experience of India harboring Nepali terrorists on its soil for along ten years or so. Nepali understanding has been that India is the “epicenter of terrorism”. This is Nepal’s understanding gained over decades and decades of our bilateral relations, say Nepali academics and political commentators.
The outburst of the Indian foreign minister made in Austria thus stands redundant in that it is India’s continued interventions that have disturbed the prevalence of peace and regional stability in this part of the world.
India is learnt to have even pumping funds to a section of the Pakistani media. This speaks of Indian penetration in rival Pakistan as well.
The Pakistani rebuttal:
The Foreign Office of Pakistan on January 04 instantly rejected the outrageous remarks made by Indian Minister of External Affairs S. Jaishankar in Austria in which he had in an implied manner referred to Pakistan as the “epicentre” of terrorism.
In a statement issued on January 04, the Pakistani Foreign Office rejected the “baseless and frivolous accusations” made by Jaishankar and termed it as his “latest tirade […] a reflection of growing frustration over India’s failure to malign and isolate Pakistan”.
The rebuttal statement made by Islamabad has demanded that the “malicious campaign” to mislead the international community through a fictitious narrative of victimhood and vile anti-Pakistan propaganda […] must stop“.
The Foreign Office in Islamabad further states, “India should itself end its involvement in terrorism, subversion and espionage against Pakistan”, citing the dossier released in December 2022, which contained “irrefutable evidence” of India’s involvement in the 2021 Lahore terrorist attack, the Dawn Daily reports on January 04.
A fresh news carried by the Voice of America (VOA) on January 14 states, “A top foreign ministry official said in Islamabad, January 11 that Pakistan has traced “undeniable” and “indisputable” links between India and acts of terrorism on Pakistani soil, and that the evidence is being formally shared with the United Nations.
Hina Rabbani Khar, the deputy foreign minister, told a news conference in Islamabad recently that the “dossier” being shared contains “details and evidence” of New Delhi’s role in a deadly 2021 car bombing in the Pakistani city of Lahore, among other incidents of terrorism.
“We waited until we had strong, hard evidence to be making the case we are making today,” Khar said. Deputy minister Hina Rabbani further said, “We have shared, or are in the process of sharing, the copies of the dossier with the members of the U.N. Security Council and with the U.N. secretary-general”.
The fact is that New Delhi has long accused Islamabad of harboring and funding militant groups blamed for terrorist attacks on Indian soil, however, Pakistan forcefully denies the Indian allegations. That’s all.
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