While reworking with its strategy on Kashmir, the Centre is leaving no stone unturned to put Pakistan on the tenterhook

Pressure is mounting on Pakistan to act against terrorists who are still being used by the country as strategic assets against India and its interests.
Latest to join international chorus against Islamabad for its unabashed support to terrorism in Japan, the East Asian country which has in the past never called on Pakistan directly or indirectly for action against its homegrown terrorists and their deadly networks spread far and wide in the world.

The joint statement issued by New Delhi and Tokyo after the conclusion of their maiden two plus two minister-level talks on November 30, clearly shows that Japan like India is concerned about rising Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in the region.

The two strategic allies in their joint statement: “Underlined the need for all countries to ensure that all territory under their control is not used to launch terrorist attacks on other countries in any manner. They noted in this context the threat posed to regional security by terrorist networks operating out of Pakistan and called upon it to take resolute and irreversible action against them and fully comply with international commitments including to FATF.” This statement was issued at the time when the world is deep in shock to find that London Bridge attacker, Usman Khan whose stabbing spree led to the killings of two people and injuries to three others on November 29, had a connection with Pakistan and the ISIS.

According to The Telegraph, Khan, a British citizen, was 28-year-old youth of Pakistani-origin who had spent part of his teens in Pakistan where he nursed an ambition to set up a terrorist training camp in PoK. Yet it was not a standalone terror-related incident in the UK, nor was it alone occurrence with Pakistan-origin youth’s involvement in terrorism. In June 2017 too, London Bridge was the site of brutal terrorist attack. Three terrorists, of which one identified as Khuram Shahzad Butt, had killed eight people by running over them a van on London Bridge. Butt was a Pakistan-born British citizen. In fact, most of the terror attacks that hit Paris, Brussels and Germany since the mid-2000 had been carried out by those who had come from Pakistan to Europe in search of asylum.

The December 2, 2015, San Bernardino terrorist attack in which 14 people were killed, had also had a Pakistani connection as Tashfeen Malik, one of the two perpetrators of the attack, came to the US in July 2014 on a Pakistani passport. “Over the years, the footprints of many terrorist attacks in the West have been traced to Pakistan.

The US found Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden ensconced in Abbottabad. Other terrorist leaders captured since the September 11,2001, terrorist attacks in the US were also found living in Pakistan’s heartland,” Brahma Chellaney, one of the noted security and strategic experts, wrote in an article in an English daily.
Islamabad has not yet denied India’s First Secretary at the UN’s Permanent Mission, Vidisha Maitra’s September 28 charge over the presence of 130 UN-designated terrorists in Pakistan.

Exercising right to reply to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s highly vitriolic speech at the UN, Ministry of External Affairs’ official, Vidisha Maitra asked, “Can Pakistan deny that it is not a home to 130 UN-designated terrorists and 25 terror entities listed by the UN.” In Jammu and Kashmir alone, Pakistan sponsored terrorism is responsible for thousands of death in the last three decades. As per data, 41,866 persons have lost their lives in Jammu and Kashmir, now a Union Territory, since 1989, the year when Pakistan began to unleash terrorism against India under its nefarious ‘Bleed India with a Thousand Cut’ military doctrine.

But learning from its past mistakes, India has given a body blow to Pakistan Army’s villainous military doctrine by annulling Article 370 and 35A of the Constitution that helped Islamabad in fuelling secessionism. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) which has so far worked as a facilitator in linking homegrown terrorist outfits like Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Haqqani Network with Al Qaeda, seems to have in particular begun to Pressure is mounting on Pakistan to act against terrorists who are still being used by the country as strategic assets against India and its interests.

Latest to join international chorus against Islamabad for its unabashed support to terrorism is Japan, the East Asian country which has in the past never called on Pakistan directly or indirectly for action against its homegrown terrorists and their deadly networks spread far and wide in the world.

The joint statement issued by New Delhi and Tokyo after the conclusion of their maiden two plus two minister-level talks on November 30, clearly shows that Japan like India is concerned about rising Pakistan-sponsored terrorism in the region.

The two strategic allies in their joint statement: “Underlined the need for all countries to ensure that all territory under their control is not used to launch terrorist attacks on other countries in any manner. They noted in this context the threat posed to regional security by terrorist networks operating out of Pakistan and called upon it to take resolute and irreversible action against them and fully comply with international commitments including to FATF.”

This statement was issued at the time when the world is deep in shock to find that London Bridge attacker, Usman Khan whose stabbing spree led to the killings of two people and injuries to three others on November 29, had a connection with Pakistan and the ISIS.

According to The Telegraph, Khan, a British citizen, was 28-year-old youth of Pakistani-origin who had spent part of his teens in Pakistan where he nursed an ambition to set up a terrorist training camp in PoK. Yet it was not a standalone terror-related incident in the UK, nor was it alone occurrence with Pakistan-origin youth’s involvement in terrorism.

In June 2017 too, London Bridge was the site of brutal terrorist attack. Three terrorists, of which one identified as Khuram Shahzad Butt, had killed eight people by running over them a van on London Bridge. Butt was a Pakistan-born British citizen. In fact, most of the terror attacks that hit Paris, Brussels and Germany since the mid-2000 had been carried out by those who had come from Pakistan to Europe in search of asylum.

The December 2, 2015, San Bernardino terrorist attack in which 14 people were killed, had also had a Pakistani connection as Tashfeen Malik, one of the two perpetrators of the attack, came to the US in July 2014 on a Pakistani passport. Over the years, the footprints of many terrorist attacks in the West have been traced to Pakistan. The US found Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden ensconced in Abbottabad. Other terrorist leaders captured since the September 11,2001, terrorist attacks in the US were also found living in Pakistan’s heartland, Brahma Chellaney, one of the noted security and strategic experts, wrote in an article in an English daily.

Islamabad has not yet denied India’s First Secretary at the UN’s Permanent Mission, Vidisha Maitra’s September 28 charge over the presence of 130 UN-designated terrorists in Pakistan. Exercising right to reply to Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan’s highly vitriolic speech at the UN, Ministry of External Affairs’ official, Vidisha Maitra asked, “Can Pakistan deny that it is not a home to 130 UN-designated terrorists and 25 terror entities listed by the UN.”In Jammu and Kashmir alone, Pakistan sponsored terrorism is responsible for thousands of death in the last three decades. As per data, 41,866 persons have lost their lives in Jammu and Kashmir, now a Union Territory, since 1989, the year when Pakistan began to unleash terrorism against India under its nefarious ‘Bleed India with a Thousand Cut’ military doctrine.

But learning from its past mistakes, India has given a body blow to Pakistan Army’s villainous military doctrine by annulling Article 370 and 35A of the Constitution that helped Islamabad in fuelling secessionism. Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) which has so far worked as a facilitator in linking homegrown terrorist outfits like Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Haqqani Network with Al Qaeda, seems to have in particular begun to feel the heat of Indian security agencies’ consistent and forceful hammering against Pakistani deep state.

Over the past three months, Kashmir has witnessed a steep decline in the incidents of terrorism, while the menace of stone-pelting has almost waned. Since August 5, 2019, to November 15, 2019, 765 people have been arrested in 190 cases registered relating to stone-pelting. Fro January 1, 2019, to August 4, 2019, 361 number of such cases were registered,” Union Minister of State for Home G Kishan Reddy said in reply to a question in the Lok Sabha on November 19. Also, there has been a decline in local recruitment into militancy.

All this speaks volumes of a turnaround in Kashmir’s situation which has, as per a Home Ministry data, attracted a total of 3,410,219 tourists, including 12,934 foreigners in the past six months. Contradicting opposition’s claim, normalcy has begun to descend on the streets of the Valley where the administration is now mulling over restoration of broadband internet services after restoring mobile postpaid services. Schools, colleges have opened, while office goers have started attending their work in the Valley. If local authorities are to be believed, in a few months, the UT will begin to buzz with normal human activity like what is seen in other states of the country. While reworking with its strategy on Kashmir, the Centre is leaving no stone unturned to put Pakistan on the tenterhook.

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