Truth
about Pulwama Attack & India’s Surgical Strikes Unmasked By
Sajjad Shaukat -JR169SS46
Indian Prime
Minister Nerendar Modi’s extremist party-Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) had got a
land sliding triumph in the Indian elections 2014 on the basis of anti-Muslim
and anti-Pakistan slogans. Therefore, since the Prime Minister Modi came to
power, he has been implementing anti-Muslim and anti-Pakistan agenda with the support
of fanatic coalition outfits.
By acting upon
the same strategy, Modi-led entities planned the terror attack in the Pulwama district
of the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IoK) on February 14, this year, where at least 44 Indian soldiers were
killed when
a suicide bomber rammed a car into a convoy of the Central Reserve Police Force
(CRPF).
Next
day, India’s Prime Minister Modi blamed Pakistan for the Pulwama terror attack
and warned of a strong response.
The banned
Islamist militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) claimed responsibility soon
after the assault.
Without any
investigation and evidence Indian high officials and media started accusing
Islamabad, saying that the attackers had come from Pakistan to stage the
assault.
Very tension
escalated rapidly between India and Pakistan when on February 27, this year, in
response to the Indian so-called pre-emptive air strike near the town of Balakot, close to the border with Pakistan’s sector of
Kashmir, Pakistan Air Force (PAF) shot down two Indian Air Force (IAF)
fighter jets and launched aerial strikes at six targets in the IoK.
Addressing a
press conference on the same day, Director General of Pakistan Army’s media wing, the Inter-Services
Public Relations (ISPR), Maj-Gen. Asif Ghafoor said that Pakistan Air
Force have conducted aerial strikes across the Line of Control (LoC) from
Pakistani airspace and shot down two Indian aircraft. One of the two Indian air force pilots was taken
into custody.
Regarding Indian surgical strike, Maj-Gen. Asif Ghafoor
explained: “There are only mud-brick homes. There is no madrassas.
There isn’t even a concrete house…Two of the dried mud structures were damaged
in the explosions…No one has been killed, no one has been seriously hurt…Indian
planes crossed into the Muzafarabad sector of Pakistani-side of
Kashmir…Pakistan scrambled its warplanes and the Indian jets released their
payload in haste near Balakot.”
Afterwards, journalists visited the targeted site of
Balakot and Islamabad also released a video which exposed the false statements
of New Delhi that IAF fighters targeted the camp of
Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM) and killed 350 militants.
In the aftermath
of the false flag terror attack at Pulwama, truth about India’s surgical
strikes unmasked, when India top civil and military leaders failed in providing
any evidence in this respect.
Besides foreign
media, Indian opposition parties and leaders of the Indian Held Kashmir (IHK),
including retired military officers criticized Prime Minister Modi in failing
to supply any proof that of
350 militants JeM) were killed.
Speaking to the
Indian media regarding Pulwama assault, former Chief Minister of the IHK,
Farooq Abdullah said: “I was saddened to hear about the deaths of the
soldiers…Don’t blame Pakistan because local people are joining Kashmiri fight”
[War of liberation].
Meanwhile,
Islamabad released the Indian captured Indian pilot Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman
as a gesture of peace. It resulted into diplomatic victory of Pakistan over New
Delhi. But, Prime Minister Modi has directed the
Indian security forces to accelerate atrocities in the IOK and shelling across
the LoC to target Pakistan’s security forces. Many innocent persons have so far
been martyred inside Pakistani side of Kashmir, while Pakistan Army is giving a
matching response. The main purpose of the Modi-led ruling party BJP is to
obtain various nefarious designs, especially to suppress the Kashmiris’ war of
liberation and to win the general elections 2019 at the cost of Pakistan. On
the other side, Western media and their high officials are insisting upon the
settlement of the Kashmir issue. Notably, the elections which will be held in 7
phases have started in India on April 11 this year and will continue till May.
In
this context, without
bothering for nuclear war, in the aftermath of the terror attack in Pulwama, by
creating jingoism in India, Indian extremist government of the BJP has been
deliberately increasing war hysteria against Pakistan by continuing threatening
diplomacy against Islamabad as part of the election- stunt.
However, the myth of Indian surgical strike was further
exposed, when DG of ISPR General Asif Ghaffor, while referring to the statement
of Indian India’s
External Affairs Minister Sushma Swaraj who admitted on April 18, this year
that no Pakistani soldier or citizen died in the air strike carried out by IAF
across the border in Balakot, stated on
April 19, 2019: “After
India finally admitted that their so-called air strike carried on February
26 in Balakot caused no deaths and casualties…Hopefully, so will be about other
false Indian claims [such as] surgical strike of 2016, denial of shooting down
of two Indian Air Force [IAF] jets by Pakistan Air Force and claims about
F16…Better late than never.”
It is notable
that continuing false flag operations, on Setember18, 2016, India staged the
drama of the terror attack in the Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) at a military
base in Uri, close to the LoC with Pakistan.
After the Uri
episode, without any investigation, India’s top civil and military officials,
including their media started propaganda against Pakistan by accusing that the
militants who targeted the Uri base came from Pakistan’s side of Azad Kashmir
and the banned Lashkar-e-Taiba controlled by Pakistan’s Inter-Services
Intelligence (ISI) were involved in it. Under the mask of the Uri base attack,
India created war-hysteria against Pakistan and started mobilization of troops
near the LoC, while claiming surgical strikes on the Azad Kashmir.
But, the myth of
Indian surgical strikes of 2016 was exposed, when in a statement, the then DG
of ISPR Lt. Gen, Asim Saleem Bajwa said, “The notion of surgical strike linked
to alleged terrorists bases is an illusion being deliberately generated by
India to create false effects. This quest by Indian establishment to create
media hype by rebranding cross border fire as surgical strike is a fabrication
of truth.” He repeatedly stated that Pakistani troops have been giving equal
response to Indian unprovoked firing across the LoC.
Differences also
arose between the Indian civil and military leadership—as to how cover the
falsehood. In this connection, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and
country’s Army Chief Gen. Dalbir Singh had decided to prepare a ‘fake video’ of
surgical strikes so as to pacify the Indian public, media and the opposition
parties. However, New Delhi could not prove any proof in that regard.
It is
mentionable that Former Mizoram Governor Aziz Qureshi also pointed out on April 14, this year that Pulwama attack was planned
by Modi to win elections. H elaborated: “Over 40 soldiers were killed in the deadly suicide attack
on a CRPF convoy in Pulwama that came barely two months
before the elections…You planned the
attack to get another chance. But people understand this. If Modi Ji wanted to put crown
on his head by killing 42 soldiers, people of the country won’t allow that. Following the
attack, India conducted an air strike on Jaish-e-Mohammed terror camps inside
Pakistani territory. The strike, that came days ahead of the Lok Sabha
elections, became a political issue with the prime minister asking first time
voters to dedicate their vote to the martyrs of Pulwama attack and soldiers who
carried out the attack…Pakistan failed
to divide India on the religious lines in the last 70 years. But it is being
made possible in the last five years because of Modi and BJP chief Amit
Shah duo who have filled poison in the minds of the people”.
Nevertheless,
taking cognizance of Indian war-mongering diplomacy, Pakistan’s armed forces
are still on high alert especially along the LoC and are prepared to deal with
any Indian aggression.
Nonetheless,
despite the fact that truth about Pulwama attack and India’s surgical strikes
has been unmasked, but, to divert the attention of the international community
from the Indian security forces’ state terrorism which has been accelerated on
the innocent Kashmiris and to avoid the settlement of Kashmir issue with
Pakistan, during the ongoing elections, the fanatic P.M. Modi can take the risk
of conventional war with Pakistan, which could be culminated into nuclear war.
Sajjad Shaukat
writes on international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants,
Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations
Email:
sajjad_logic@yahoo.com
