"The struggle over #Kashmir — and who will control it — has certainly provoked much terrorism over the decades. Yet how did any of the parties involved in the dispute over Kashmir benefit from the slaughter of #Sikhs in #Afghanistan?" #AfghanPeaceProcess
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Indian establishment commentators are now declaring the attack was part of a nefarious Pakistani strategy to thwart Indian interests in Afghanistan, a region which is increasingly viewed as a second front and a new battleground in India’s war to thwart Pakistan.
Shishir Gupta, executive editor of the The Hindustan Times, insists the killings were “ordered” by the Taliban “at the behest of Pakistani deep state with the larger motive of driving out India from Afghanistan.”
Yet researchers indicate ISIS is at war w/both the Taliban & Pakistan. Meanwhile, Pakistan — long accused, sometimes correctly, of sponsoring cross-border terrorism against Indian interests — has, in recent years, openly acknowledged that & pledged a complete reversal of course.
Elements affiliated with India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), on the other hand, are known for not only sponsoring pogroms of minorities but also staging terrorist attacks used to frame Muslims.
Hostile relations with Pakistan — fueled by raging Islamophobia — has always been not so much a policy position as a raison d’être for the BJP. “Our fight for independence can be deemed to have come to a successful close only when we liberate all those areas now under enemy...
... occupation,” said MS Golwalkar. The chief of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), the fascist paramilitary that birthed the BJP, Golwalkar called for “the hoisting of our flag in Lahore and other parts of Pakistan.”
Golwalkar’s ideological forerunner, VD Savarkar, laid...
Golwalkar’s ideological forerunner, VD Savarkar, laid...
... the mosaic floor in the RSS/BJP’s temple of hate. In 1938, calling Muslims “dangerous to our Hindu nation” and saying they should be watched “with the greatest distrust possible,” he threatened, “If we Hindus in India grow stronger, in time these Muslims… will have to...
... play the part of German Jews.” Meanwhile, Nazi Germany staged Kristallnacht, the first pogrom against German Jews, thus laying the foundations for the Holocaust.
Savarkar — who articulated “Hindutva” as a religious nationalist political ideology — insisted that the entire...
Savarkar — who articulated “Hindutva” as a religious nationalist political ideology — insisted that the entire...
... Indian subcontinent was “not only a fatherland but a holy land” for Hindus. “The only geographical limits of Hindutva are the limits of our earth,” he declared. Golwalkar also presented an “expansive image of our motherland” that stretched from Iran to Singapore and as far...
... south as Sri Lanka — and absolutely included Afghanistan.
Lal Har Dayal, another foundational Hindu nationalist ideologue, insisted that “the future of the Hindu race” required the conquest and conversion of “Afghanistan and the Frontiers.” He wrote: “Afghanistan and the...
Lal Har Dayal, another foundational Hindu nationalist ideologue, insisted that “the future of the Hindu race” required the conquest and conversion of “Afghanistan and the Frontiers.” He wrote: “Afghanistan and the...
... hilly regions of the frontier were formerly part of India, but are at present under the domination of Islam… Just as there is Hindu religion in Nepal, so there must be Hindu institutions in Afghanistan and the frontier territory; otherwise it is useless to win...
... Swaraj [Independence]…. If Hindus want to protect themselves, they must conquer Afghanistan and the frontiers and convert all the mountain tribes.”
