RAW: An Instrument of Indian Imperialism

ISLAMABAD: Afghanistan has become the new ‘battlefield’ between India and Pakistan as Indian agents have taken ‘revenge’ in Kandahar on Thursday by killing five Pakistanis. The Indians had earlier accused Pakistani agents of killing 17 people, including nine Indians, in an attack on a Kabul guesthouse. Pakistan has refuted the Indian allegation.

The Afghan secret service, Riyast-e-Amaniyat-i-Milly (RAM), known for its anti-Pakistan disposition, is providing assistance to the Indian agents working on the soil of Afghanistan. The Pakistani authorities have credible information about the involvement of Indian agents in the Kandahar incident and the government would furnish evidence to important world capitals at an appropriate time. Pakistan has sought details of the Kandahar incident from the Afghan authorities and asked them to nab the real culprits before they flee to India.

The incident took place in the early hours of Thursday when the Pakistani workers were going to the construction site of a Japanese company, Saita. The road from Kandahar to Panjwai is under construction and the gory incident took place on the same road when two motorcyclists started firing indiscriminately on the bus in which the workers were travelling.

Sources told The Statesmen here that Indian Ambassador to Kabul Jain Pershad and some Indian diplomats had more than three meetings with RAM chief Amarullah Saleh since last week when the explosion took place in which some Indians were also killed. The Indian National Security Adviser (NSA), Shiv Shankar Menon, is in constant contact with the bosses of the secret service in Afghanistan and he is reaching Kabul today (Friday) to discuss the strategy to deal with Pakistan from the soil of Afghanistan. Some officials of RAW are also reaching Kabul with him.

The RAM spokesman Saeed Ansari told a western wire service early this week that there was evidence Urdu-speaking Pakistanis from the Lashkar-e-Taiba were involved in the attack and not the Afghan Taliban.

The Urdu language is widely spoken in India. According to the Indian officials, the RAM has established that the terrorists were indeed looking for the Indians and had specific information about who was present, including NGO women from SEWA and a senior diplomat on secondment to the Afghan interior ministry. She is working in the Afghan capital as an Indian under cover. For now, officials in New Delhi are guarded about involving Pakistan officially in the incident. They are trying to implicate “groups like the Haqqani network, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and LeT,” an Indian official said the other day in New Delhi on condition of anonymity.

The Afghan investigators have noted that last week’s terrorist attack was very different from the January 18 Taliban strike at the Faroshga mall in central Kabul. The gunmen had allowed Afghan shoppers to leave before training their guns on the security forces and destroying the building. In contrast, the Afghans guarding the Indian medical mission were the first to be shot dead by the terrorists who entered the compound following the huge explosion triggered outside. “The guards shouted: ‘don’t kill us, we’re Afghans’ but they were shot all the same,” an Indian official claimed. The claim itself establishes that the attackers were not looking for any particular national. They were terrorists and wanted to kill whosoever comes in their way, the sources added.