Posted on 07/07/2009 12:34:38 PM PDT by MyTwoCopperCoins
ROME: Fresh evidence of continued collusion of Pakistan's official agencies with terrorist groups plotting attacks on India has cast a shadow on resumption of full-scale talks between the estranged neighbours.
According to sources, state actors in Pakistan were seeking to help terrorist groups using Thuraya satellite phones to plot attacks on India by camouflaging the location of the phones.
The deception game, spoofing in intelligence parlance, involves setting up transmitters near the terrorist bases to block the signals from Thuraya sets which can help pinpoint location of the users. The transmitters cannot be set up or remain hidden to Pakistan's own agencies.
The finding shows Pakistan has failed to meet the condition set by India — credible steps to punish those responsible for the Mumbai terror attack and to destroy terrorist infrastrucuture — for the resumption of the composite dialogue.
Thuraya phones are preferred by anti-India terror groups because they are not licenced to be sold in the country and, therefore, their logs cannot be readily accessed by its agencies.
During the investigation into the 26/11 attack, India got around the problem with US help to get details of satellite phones used by the perpetrators of the atrocities — LeT's Zakiur Rahman Lakhvi and others. The Americans had then used their leverage with UAE authorities to help India procure logs of the satellite phones, stored at Thuraya's Master Control Facility at Sharjah, to establish the presence of the terror masterminds on Pakistani soil.
The use of transmitters will, however, render a repeat of the success impossible, helping terrorists to mask their footprints, and Pakistan to profess innocence. The determination comes at a time when India faces the most serious threat in two years, and can set back prospects of the restoration of the composite dialogue process between India and Pakistan.
Pakistan has been pressing for resumption of full-fledged dialogue which was paused exactly one year ago after the attack on Indian embassy in Kabul.
It is likely to make a strong pitch for this when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh meets his Pakistani counterpart Yusuf Raza Gilani on July 16 on the sidelines of the NAM summit in Egypt.
India insists that Pakistan must bring the 26/11 plotters to justice and take credible steps to dismantle the infrastructure of terrorism on its soil as the pre-condition for the revival of the dialogue process. It refuses to discuss anything else with Pakistan till the latter complies. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh put across the bottomline dramatically and in public to Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari in Russia last month.
But the spoofing points to Pakistan’s continuing reluctance to proceed against terrorist groups targeting India from its soil.
Sources said that India will repeat its stance in no uncertain terms, without getting distracted by the fact that Pakistan is busy beating back the challenge from Taliban. Pakistan cannot be allowed to use its problem as an excuse for inaction against terrorism directed against India. Rather, it should demonstrate the same toughness against anti-India groups that it has lately shown against the Taliban, sources contended.
Yes, please bring India into the fight.....
Well, essentially, by recoupling America’s relationship to India in the context of “IndoPak”, Obama has reset the clock back to the PreDubya days, and in essence, given the Pakistani State, its elites, the Pak Army, the ISI and various jihadi groups the GREEN light to go and kill Indians. The raison d’etre for Pakistan, that frothy hatred of India has been resuscitated by the Obamawallahs.
As long as they stay away from killing Westerners, no one is gonna get upset.
Meanwhile, the Pakistani Army actively helps, assists and even plans attacks in which the Talibs kill American soldiers and civilians in Afghanistan.
Right now Kashmir is the currency with which Obama wants to pay Pakistan to get an EZ pass out of Afghanistan. Obama will want India make some sort of concession on Kashmir possibly have India concede some territory to Pakistan or maybe share control over certain areas. In addition to that Obama will reassure Pakistan that it will have more influence over Afghanistan provided they help get rid of Taliban from there. Thats is why you have this new Af-Pak policy where they see Afghanistan and Pakistan as one entity and not as separate countries. Obama also seems to have bought the idea that India got away with too many goodies from US under Bush and he wishes to set things straight again.
India ceding Kashmir will be political suicide for the ruling party and an event grave enough to force the military to overthrow the civilian government with the support of a popular revolt.
In other words, there is nothing that any foreign power can do, leave alone Obama, to force India to let go Kashmir, or even dilute the present stance. Nothing, other than nuking New Delhi and a couple of other cities, of course.
“India ceding Kashmir will be political suicide for the ruling party and an event grave enough to force the military to overthrow the civilian government with the support of a popular revolt.”
I disagree with the latter part of the statement. Indian Army has always been a professional army unlike the ragtag army of our neighbor. Even during the height of emergency, the army was not even suspected of a coup against the govt. Yes, it will be a suicide for the ruling party and there will be hell to pay for the govt if they concede on Kashmir but the Armed forces will always stand down and that’s the way it should be! We have seen what happens when military takes over the country. Quite a few nasty experiences in our neighborhood itself.
Even the US broke down when the question of slavery came up, and there was war between those for, and those against Abolition.
In India, there cannot be an elected government that will be able to hint of ceding Kashmir AND not expect to be lynched.
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