Afzal Guru’s
Execution to Invigorate Struggle for Liberation of J&K By President, Usman
Khalid, Rifah Party of Islamic Republic of Pakistan
India is the last surviving imperial power which is unique as its desire for regional hegemony is underpinned by internal hegemony by high castes.
Not
many people know that Hindus are a minority in India. The number of those
within the fold of chaturvarna i.e. four castes (Brahmin, Kashatri, Vesh and
Shudara) are no more than 15% of the population of India – the same as the
Muslims. The original inhabitants of India are treated as ‘untouchables’ like
the shudras but their number is 65% of the population. They are outside the
caste system and were considered ‘outcastes’ until the British included them in
the caste hierarchy. The indigenous outcastes, under the influence of Aryan
settlers in the sub-continent, developed a caste system of their own but they
did not practise Untouchability. The indigenous outcastes are really the only
real nation in India. However, the British, who had defeated the Muslim rulers
to conquer the sub-continent, decided to unify the four castes with outcastes
into one people. They classified the native people into three groups –
Scheduled Castes (SC) 20%, Scheduled Tribes (ST) 10%, and Other Backward Castes
(OBCs) 35%. Those who converted to Islam, Christianity, and the Sikh faith were
called religious minorities under British rule. Over time, however, the
converts also embraced a caste system of sorts. The Sikhs and Christians have
separate gurudwaras and churches for lower castes. It is only the Muslims who
have spurned the practice of untouchability and the caste hierarchy.
The
foreign policy of a country is the projection of its internal policy. Since the
partition in 1947, the Muslims in India, who were more prosperous and socially
advanced than Hindus, have fallen even below the Scheduled Castes. That is no
accident; it is the result of the Muslims being treated as Untouchables and
excluded from all spheres of life except the lowest. The resentment against the
high caste Hindu rulers exists not only among the Muslims but among ALL
Untouchables. That would have been a potent force if sovereign Muslim states
and erstwhile rulers of the sub-continent united against Hindu repression. To repress
Muslims with impunity and to demonise Pakistan is the main plank of India’s
policy. On occasions, in consequence of sustained subversion, collaborators of
Hindus have been installed in power in every neighboring country. When such
rulers submit to the fiat of India, repression inside India becomes more
severe; when they do not, India begins to talk up military threats. Over the
last five years India had its collaborators ruling in Pakistan as well as
Bangladesh. Bangladesh succumbed to Indian pressure and committed three grave
crimes:
1) execution of officers who carried out a coup d’état
on 15 August 1975 to save Bangladesh from being absorbed into India;
2)
stalling on proper inquiry into Peelkhana massacre of February 2009 in which 53
senior officers of BDR were killed in a RAW sponsored clandestine
operation,
3) to cover its being complicit in the massacre Hasina
Administration started trial of Jamaat i Islami leaders who assisted the
Pakistan Army in fighting Indian invasion in 1971.
Pakistan
led by Asif Zardari kept quiet and acquiesced. The four party ruling coalitions
of Zardari League, MQM, ANP and JUI have interfaces for guidance and support in
India. A propaganda offensive under the title of ‘aman ki aasha’ has been going
on to delegitimize the Kashmiri struggle for freedom as ‘terrorism’. Zardari
Administration has signed agreements to give India access to Afghanistan and
Central Asia over its land compromising long held declared policy of not giving
India MFN status or access to its roads until the people of J&K got their
right of self determination. But when it came to protecting Pakistan’s
interests in Afghanistan, the military was in the driving seat and it did not
allow Indian stratagem to succeed. Indian forces crossed the LoC in Kashmir to
express its anger. The propaganda in the media was so shrill that another
Indo-Pakistan War appeared imminent. But the nuclear deterrent of Pakistan is
credible. Getting no encouragement from the USA, India backed off. But then it
hanged Afzal Guru on February 9, 2013. His is a case of diabolical injustice.
The
background of the case of Afzal Guru is very interesting. It was soon after
9/11 when Pakistan had a military ruler – General Musharraf – that India worked
itself into frenzy with twin motives – liberating Pakistan from military rule
and teaching the Pakistan Army a lesson. It needed evidence of ‘affront’ to
work up a public frenzy. It decided that an attack on the Indian parliament
would be ‘adequate affront’. Several Pakistani prisoners which are plentiful in
Indian jails were dressed in police uniform, driven to the lawns of the
parliament building where they started shooting. Within five minutes the drama
came to an end; all five ‘raiders’ were shot dead making oral evidence impossible.
On the pretext of this ‘false flag’ operation, India moved the bulk of its
armed forces to the border with Pakistan. The deployment lasted nearly a year
but then senior generals of the Indian Army advised the Vajpayee Administration
that no decisive or quick victory was possible.
After
having blamed Pakistan for the raid on the parliament, it was necessary to coin
a new story in which Kashmiri freedom fighters were blamed. Afzal Guru, a
former militant who had surrendered and was being ‘rehabilitated’ was indicted
for being the ‘master mind’ of the attack on the parliament. The charge was
absurd because he was overtly under watch. He was in Srinagar at the time and
he named the police officer who took him from Srinagar to Delhi. That officer
was never questioned by the investigators or the courts. This would have been a
perfect alibi in any other country but it was never even considered. The
conviction of Afzal Guru was the subject of an appeal in the high court and the
Supreme Court of India. At no stage, the cast iron defence of Afzal Guru was
given proper hearing. He made mercy appeals to two Presidents – one Muslim, one
Hindu – but his appeal was rejected. He remained on death row for eight years
after his last appeal ton the Supreme Court was rejected in 2005. But his
execution was delayed because it was thought that death sentence after so
obviously a flawed trial would draw serious reaction in Jammu and Kashmir
(J&K). Clearly, India has chosen to hang Afzal Guru because its intent has
changed. India no longer relies on collaborators to achieve its objectives; it
seeks to use pressure and blackmail in order to “teach everyone a lesson”.
India is
back on course of using ‘internal repression’ as a tool of ‘regional hegemony’.
India is one country in the world which does not seek friendly relations with
its neighbours but seeks to use the abject poverty of Kashmiris, Muslims and
its outcasts with kins in neighboring countries to establish and
maintain its regional hegemony. Its foreign policy is the extension of the
‘internal hegemony’ on which the Hindu caste system is based. New Delhi is
afraid that friendly neighbours and foreign policy based on ‘sovereign
equality’ of nations would exert such powerful influence within India that
‘equality’ between members of different faiths and castes would inevitably
prevail. That is why arbitrary exercise of power – social as well as state
power – and continuous repression are the hallmark of the Indian society. The
Hindu high castes ‘condition’ the lower castes to habitual acceptance of abuse,
cruelty and excess. When there is protest or resistance, the Hindu elite
resorts to what they call ‘teaching them a lesson’. This is reflected in the
language of political discourse – in the press, on TV screens, in parliamentary
debate, and generally in all employer-employee relations. The over-dog is
forever engaged in ‘teaching the underdog a lesson’.
Since
‘teaching a lesson’ requires evidence of affront, its absence calls for
Channakian techniques of distortion, outright lies and vicious propaganda. All
organs of the state including the police and the judiciary see it their duty to
create evidence of affront. The heavy losses in 1965 War so soon after the
defeat at the hands of China in 1962, was affront enough for 1971 invasion of
East Pakistan and 1973 explosion of nuclear devices. Pakistan has responded
well on the battlefield but has been no match for India in the use of soft
power for propaganda and subversion. The raids across the LoC by Indian forces,
the execution of Afzal Guru, mal-treatment Pakistani prisoners in Indian jails,
the systematic impoverishment of Muslims in India, and the colonisation of
Bangladesh continue without any serious challenge from Pakistan. India sees the
military of Pakistan as the power centre that stands in the way of
Bangladeshization of Pakistan. That is also the line of the PPP as well as
PML(N) but they call it ‘resentment and resistance’ of civil control. The
people of Pakistan know the truth and repeatedly express their loyalty and love
for the armed forces that have stood up to India when even their own leaders
were ready to compromise and acquiesce.
India
miscalculated in 1971 when it pronounced that the Two Nation Theory has been
sunk in the Bay of Bengal. It miscalculated in 1973 when it thought that its
nuclear bomb would give it regional hegemony in perpetuity. It tried to take
advantage of outright western support over Kargil War and was overjoyed when
the USA invaded Afghanistan in the wake of 9/11. After the installation of
collaborators in power in Bangladesh and Pakistan, India thought that its
domination over the sub-continent would be unchallenged. But it got challenged
well before it was established. India would continue to draw comfort from its
collaborators in politics and the media. But it should learn a lesson from its
campaign ‘aman ki aasha’ which unexpectedly created an environment of trust between
the Untouchable majority and the Muslims. India appears to have decided to opt
for the stick instead of the carrot. The execution of Afzal Guru is yet another
miscalculation. It is not going to suppress the Kashmiri struggle for freedom;
it marks the beginning of another very different phase in Kashmiri fight for
freedom. Henceforth, it would resemble the struggle of Afghans first against
Soviet occupation and then against American occupation. No one has said it
wants to teach India a lesson. But if India is to avoid a prolonged war of
liberation in J&K it would follow the example of Great Britain, France and
more recently of the Soviet Union and pack its bags in Kashmir before the cost
of occupation became too high.++http://www.rifah.org/
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Dr
Awatar Singh Sekhon (Machaki) Comments:
1.
A beautifully analysis of the psyche of the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins
Rats' Demoncracy/democracy by President Usman Khalid, Rifah Party of the
Republic of Pakistan.
2.
Article explains very well the Brahmins-Hindus-turbaned Brahmins Rats' psyche
on "Teach a Lesson to the Sikhs, Muslims of the IDA:JK, Assamese and its
7-sister and other non-Brahmins-Hindus minorities.
3.
Wake up the Sikhs of the "Robbed" PUNJAB of the 15th August,
1947". And branding the Sikhs "A Lawless and criminal Tribe Dangerous
to the law-abiding Brahmins-Hindus on 10th October, 1947. The First victim of
the Congressional Leaders' policy of 15th August, 1947 India: Sirdar Kapur
Singh, ICS, MP, MLA, and National Professor of Sikhism. Sirdar Kapur
Singh was the one of the Sikh members of parliament, who "REJECTED"
the Indian Constitution in its 'Draft and Final forms’.
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