Hurriyat Chairman Mirwaiz Umar Farooqs decision to visit Saudi Arabia and urge that country to mediate between India and Pakistan to resolve the Kashmir dispute has expectedly created consternation in RSS circles. The lead editorial in the latest issue of RSS mouthpiece Organiser wants to know whether the Hurriyat chief has the backing of the Manmohan Singh government in his endeavour.
The reason for the distress is that Mirwaiz has linked his trip to the prime ministers recent visit to Saudi Arabia. He had said that Riyadh has shown keeness to play a role in resolution of disputes between India and Pakistan and the situation is conducive because of Singhs visit to Saudi Arabia. Has he been inducted as a special emissary of the UPA government?,Organiser asks in the piece titled UPA is a strange arrangement. It is too cosy with traitors.
Wily Pakistan
An article titled The ISI plot to depict India unsafe by M.D. Nalapat,says the Pakistani intelligence agency has been extremely effective in using the CIA and other foreign intelligence agencies to spread global panic about India. By their uncritical reliance on ISI inputs about India,the CIA and its allied agencies are acting according to the ISIs game plan,he argues and points out that the overwhelming majority of CIA and other US assets in Pakistan are double agents,with their primary loyalty being to the ISI.
Unless the US understands that the military in Pakistan is part of the problem,and begins to support moderates in civil society and in the administration,Pakistan will soon evolve into what Taliban Afghanistan was,a haven for those seeking to attack the worlds biggest economy. Rather than play the ISI game of painting India as unsafe,what Washington needs to do is to understand that the distinction between the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistan Taliban is illusory and that the two together have fused into a machine that endangers the globe, he says. Nalapats contention was that the recent terror advisories issued by the US about India were all based on information supplied by the ISI. He concludes that former US President George Bush had made a historic blunder in 2001 when he took the advise of the CIA and the Pentagon and chose Pakistan as his principal regional ally against the terrorists. Sadly,Obama is making the same mistake now by embracing an enemy while ignoring a friend.
Dalit card
Dwelling on the corruption charges against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati,an article in the Organiser claims that the BSP chief has been getting away because she has been playing the Dalit card. The so-called upper caste Hindu suffers from an enormous guilt complex vis-a-vis Dalits,for treating them for centuries as untouchables… That is why,one suspects the chief minister of UP in her fourth term can get away with anything. Mayawati is a Dalit and she has been exploiting the guilt complex effectively, it says. The article goes on to list the assets of Mayawati quoting from her biography entitled Behenji,the affidavits filed by her and the documents furnished by the CBI in court. How did she manage to accumulate that much wealth? Will the CBI kindly elaborate? It asks.
Compiled by Manoj C.G.
