The deceit of Kartarpur corridor

It all started with the hug between Navjyot Singh Sidhu and Pakistan Army Chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa at the swearing-in ceremony of Imran Khan as Pakistan's PM.This incident was later condemned by Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh.Though Sidhu later defended his hugging-diplomacy by stating that Gen Bajwa said to him that they will open Kartarpur border on Guru Nanak Dev's 550th Prakash Parv.Also Sidhu was made to sit beside Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir President, Masood Khan.Clearly Pakistanis had tricked Sidhu.

Though Sidhu may today proclaim that his bonhomie with Imran Khan has beared fruits as not only Pakistan policy makers have started the process of kartapur corridor but also Modi government has made U-turn on it's tough stance with Pakistan by inaugurating its own facilities for building the corridor in Dera Baba Nanak in Punjab, right up to the international border on the 10th anniversary of the Mumbai attacks.Pakistan has cleverly tricked India again by making the first move on declaring their intention of creating Kartarpur corridor which will allow pilgrims from India to visit Gurdwara Darbar Sahib without a visa throughout the year.Pakistanis knew India had to follow suit for political compulsion.Though this is a emotive issue for Sikh's as Gurdwara Darbar Sahib, Kartarpur in Pakistan is one of the holiest of shrines for Sikh community but the fact is Pakistan is creating this corridor for only 1 clear purpose.To incite and evoke passions of the visiting Indian Sikh pilgrims with the intention to revive the old Khalistani movement.Pakistan sole  intention is to create trouble for India through Kashmir and through the Khalistani movement keeping the Referendum 2020 (motion to secede Punjab) in mind.Pakistani'shave played this mischief in Nankana Sahib where the billboards of Khalistan 2020 were prominently displayed.

                                         [The pro-Khalistan banners put up in Nankana Sahib]

This exposes duplicity" of Pakistan policy makers,"While on the one side Pak is trying to show its human face by allowing Indian pilgrims, on the other side it is promoting secessionist tendencies in India.

India’s most wanted Khalistan terrorist lives in plush militarystyle quarters, adjoining Lahore’s Allama Iqbal International Airport.Wadhawa Singh Babbar,the head of the deadliest Khalistani terror group, Babbar Khalsa International (BKI), along with his ISI minders, remains engaged in trying to revive the long-defeated Khalistan movement in Punjab.

Pakistan policy makers have mastered the art of deception and have always succedded in tricking India.At the Kartarpur Sahib inauguration, Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan spoke at length of imrpoving ties with India.But at the same event, presence of Khalistani terrorist Gopal Chawla stood as testimony to Pakistan's sympathy for extremist forces active against India.

                       [pakistan-Army-chief-Gen-Bajwa-greeting Khalistan activist Gopal Chawla]

Today all the Aman Ki Asha propogators who will be linking the developments of Kartarpur corridor with bringing down of Berlin wall need to be reminded that in Berlin people belonged to same ethnicity,same religion,same language.Indians and Pakistanis can never reconcile because of the wounds of Partition which the British cleverly executed because of existence of primordial religious emotions.Time and again Pakistanis have bitten us and like every time we have never learned our mistakes and went on repeating this mistake.Let's not forget our 56 soldiers are languishing in Pakistan jails since 1971 despite India releasing 93000+ soldiers of surrendered Pakistan Army soldiers.Every Pakistan Army officer before getting commissioned in Army is made to take a vow that they will avenge the humilation of surrender at Dhaka.

                                                       [Lt Col Shahid Mehmood Malhi]

Lt Col Shahid Mehmood Malhi,head of ISI’s Lahore detachment, which sponsors Punjab-specific activities is the brain behind “Referendum 2020” — a movement started in Canada and some European countries by rights groups to ask for Khalistan.It proposes the date for launching Referendum 2020 as “6 Jun 2020”,the 36th anniversary of Operation Bluestar.That's the real intention of Pakistan's move of opening up Kartarpur Corridor to bleed India again in Punjab.

Shooting own foot

On 17-May-2018,Home Minister Rajnath Singh announced on Twitter that the Center has declared unilateral & conditional ceasefire in J&K.This move is reminiscent of of the ceasefire announced by the 'Atal Bihari Vajpayee' government in 2000-2001.Home Minister Rajnath Singh went on to tweet that this initiative is to help the Muslim brothers & sisters to observe Ramadan peacefully and without any difficulties.When terrorist kill innocent Hindu Pilgrims travelling to Amarnath shrine then why is government announcing ceasefire during Ramadan?This is nothing but appeasement politics!What has Ramadan got to do with fighting the enemies of the country?The terrorist sympathizers who want peace for terrorist during Ramadan remain mute when terrorist happily kill and slaughter innocent people around the world.

     The non-initiation of combat operations (NICO) undertaken in 2000-2001 failed to achieve any concrete results and instead led to a surge in violence levels.On the contrary,terror outfits also regrouped and planned future strikes like the ones on the J&K legislative assembly on October 1 and Parliament on December 13, 2001.Don't be surprised if History repeats again.Don't be surprised if there is an attack like URI attacks during this ceasefire

    Pakistan is very smart and lucky because their declared enemy-India is foolish,doesn't learn from History and almost every time shoots at own foot.

The Centre deservingly got a slap on it's face when Lashkar-e-Taiba  rejected the Indian government’s call for ceasefire claiming it would be ‘treachery with the martyrs’ and they shall continue the armed struggle until and unless Jammu & Kashmir is freed from Indian Occupation.

When the terrorist organisation is not asking for ceasefire why did Centre went out of way to declare one when the Indian Army was having edge in counter-insurgency operations.In recent months many top-level militants were killed??Since when one won a battle by declaring unilateral & conditional ceasefire.No wonder we have been victims of Pakistan unconventional war.Time and again we have surrendered our military gains on negotiation table and we committed this folly when we had edge & when we were in stronger position.We are a country of fools.A sad fact.

This Ceasefire is an insult to our security forces and their families who fight to save lives in J&K.

The ARMY Chief should have taken a strong stance and refused to obey this politically motivated order of the government.We will pay a heavy price in coming Days.At that time Don't blame Pakistan blame Centre.

To Tackle China-We need an alliance on the lines of NATO With ASEAN

India hosted the 25th ASEAN-India Commemorative Summit on the eve of Republic Day 2018. The very presence of leaders from the 10-member Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN)which includes Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos, and Brunei was a message to a rising and belligerent China that India will not shy away from being a pro-active player in the ASEAN region which has a huge strategic value as over 80 percent of China's oil imports transits straits of Malacca which  is a gateway to South China Sea where 50% of India’s trade flows.

Among the ASEAN Countries Myanmar in recent years has been in China's sphere of influence,Myanmar has allowed China to construct new pipelines to transport gas and oil overland.It will be quite interesting to see how India brings Myanmar back into it's fold.

China enjoys unmatched riparian dominance it has 110 transnational rivers and lakes flowing into 18 downstream countries.Recently China cut off the flow of a tributary of the Brahmaputra River to build a dam as part of a major hydroelectric project in Tibet.China has also built six mega-dams on the Mekong River-the longest river in Southeast Asia.Mekong rises in southeastern Qinghai province, China, it flows through the eastern part of the Tibet Autonomous Region and Yunnan province, after which it forms part of the international border between Myanmar (Burma) and Laos, as well as between Laos and Thailand. The river then flows through Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam before draining into the South China Sea south of Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon).

China proclaims South China Sea belongs to China at the same time it also declares Indian Ocean doesn't belong to India.In recent years China has got into high-tempered disputes with Vietnam, Philippines and Laos over disputed islands on the South China Sea.

The recent political crisis in Maldives where the incumbent President Abdulla Yameen who is known for his pro-China policies has imposed emergency and has arrested Chief Justice of Supreme Court.If we allow the situation to slip away we will be losing perhaps the last golden opportunity to keep chinese away.

We should use this differences to build an alliance on the Lines of NATO(In which if any one of these nations was attacked, the others were bound to help defend it.) with ASEAN countries & USA  because neither India or any of ASEAN countries has the Military might to face China alone.

Recently,Defense Minister Nirmala Sitharaman in a press conferance confessed China after agreeing to disengage from Doklam stand-off has built helipads,sentry posts and trenches for its army personnel in close vicinity.China will keep us on tenterhooks and keep us engaged on multiple fronts.Time and again we have gone extra mile to improve ties with our neighbours be it Pakistan or China only to be backstabbed again.Biggest example of our foolishness is recognizing Tibet as a part of China in 2003 when China has been fomenting terrorism, insurgencies, and separatism in North-East India since 1960s.China has always supported Pakistan by military aid inorder to keep India engaged in fighting Insurgency.Using it's veto power China has even gone to the extent of repeatedly blocking India’s move to designate Masood Azhar a terrorist under the Al-Qaeda Sanctions Committee.Ironically it was India which passed on the veto power which it was offered to it and suggested China for the same.Today China supplies 63% of Islamabad’s arms need.Chinese like Pakistanis have been playing dirty game with us.

Recently Indian Army COAS General Bipin Rawat said ISI & China have purposely formented Bangladesh immigrants problem inorder to change North Eastern states demographics.Many ASEAN countries have shown intrest in purchasing BRAHMOS Supersonic Cruise missile and AKASH Surface To Air Missile.A Militarily strongh ASEAN will be in our nation interest.Recently our government in a strategic movie signed an agreement with Singapore for using their Naval base for refuelling,re-arming.Also there are reports of India being allowed to build Naval Base in Oman and Seychelles.In order to tame China an Alliance with ASEAN Countries alongwith USA on the lines of NATO is the only way.Our survival whenever war breaks out will depend in how much measure USA will support us.It all depends on USA.