RAW and ISI -Two Sides of the Same Coin

RAW cannot carry out terrorism without internal help, says Jabbar

PROUT Editor's Note: The news article below concerns a recent terrorist act carried out in Pakistan. The majority of Pakistanis believe that the RAW (Research Analysis Wing of the Indian government) is behind all the terrorist incidents in Pakistan. Similarly, the majority of the Indian people believe that the ISI is behind all terrorist attacks in India. Both countries suffer not merely from outside terrorism but from dysfunctional mindset. Both countries are caught in the grip of fundamentalist paranoia. Both countries believe that they are in imminent danger of being annihilated by the other. What is the way out of this madness? Long ago, Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar commented about how two villages in British India that had close ties, with families from one village marrying members of families in the other village, one day were told that from now on this must all come to an end. One village must regard the other village as the enemy and as Pakistanis. Similarly, the other village was now told by its new government that it must hate its former close friends because they are now Indians. This is what the disease of religious nationalism has done to South Asia. If India and Pakistan and Banglaadesh can overcome these religious pathologies, South Asia can once again be a dynamic force, just as Europe by uniting has become a united force after the Berlin Wall. However, if the present religious fundamentalism prevails in both countries, then both will face further disintegration and splintering along with endless violence, from whom priests, mullahs and politicians alone will derive any benefit. The people of South Asia must take their future into their own hands, and not allow themselves to be sacrificed at the altar of the megalomania of fundamentalist politicians.

HYDERABAD, Pakistan, Feb 7 (APP): Advisor to Chief Executive on National Affairs, Information and Media Development, Javed Jabbar has said that besides foreign hand, some domestic elements were also involved in acts of terrorism in various parts of the country. “Indian agency RAW cannot achieve its nefarious designs without help of some local elements,” he pointed out while talking to the editors of newspapers and senior journalists at Hyderabad circuit house on Feb. 6. Javed Jabbar expressed deep grief and sorrow on behalf of Chief Executive, General Pervaz Musharraf and the Federal Cabinet on the tragic death and injuries to people in the on Feb. 5’s train blast in Hyderabad. He said airport security system in the country was according to world standards and the international organisations have recognised the safety measures adopted at the airports. He, however, said there was a need to further improve the security measures at airport, in the public transport and Railways to curb terrorism. He said that public education campaign has already been launched in electronic media in order to create awareness among the people about terrorist activities. He said the Hyderabad blast took place on the day when the people were observing the Kashmir Solidarity Day. Besides Kashmir, the Indian state terrorism is also active in Pakistan, he said and added that neighboring country was making all out efforts to declare Pakistan as a terrorist state at International Forum, while true fact was that Pakistan was victim of terrorism.