Is India going to divide again

Afshain Afzal

India is in a grip of separatist movements. The Muslims, Tamils, Sikhs, Naxals, Bodos, Buddhists and many others are hostile to Indian union, waiting for an opportunity to acquire independence. India is suspicious of its immediate neighbour, Pakistan, for patronizing separatist movements in India. In fact India could not come out of the trauma of its division in August 1947. The fear of small Pakistan like states emerging from Indian union, has forced New Delhi to adopt aggressive policies towards Pakistan. Unfortunately Pakistan demand for Kashmir has been construed in India that Pakistan wants further division of India. India is forgetting that Pakistan wants to develop good friendly relations with all neighbours including India while its desire to deal with Kashmir on the basis of Indian Independence Act is part of Pakistan scheme and nothing new. Had the Indian leadership, after the death of Karam Chand Ghandhi, not looked towards Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah with suspicion and cooperated, he could have saved India from plunging into a situation like today. After the partition, Quaid-e-Azam very clearly and repeatedly instructed Muslim of India to remain loyal with Indian government, which is evident from his speeches and writings. But, today Hindu dominated Indian government and Indian intelligence is suspecting its own Muslim nationals only because they are Muslims like people of Pakistan. US, Britain, Italy and Israel in tune with their own vested interests have an agenda not to let Pakistan and India to come closer. In the same regard, a CIA's conspiracy against Indian union is in full swing nowadays in which Pakistan, Bangladesh and Afghanistan have been shown as party. Mughalistan or Greater Pakistan is the name of an independent homeland proposed for the Muslims of India. This Muslim state in the Indian subcontinent will include all of North India and Eastern India, and will be formed by merging Pakistan and Bangladesh through a large corridor of land running across the Indo-Gangetic plain, the heartland of India. This Mughalistan corridor will comprise Muslim-majority areas of Northern India and eastern India that will be partitioned for the second time in history. It will run through Jammu, Mewat, Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal and Assam. The comprehensive plan for a second partition of India after being prepared by CIA was floated through the Mughalistan Research Institute (MRI) of Jahangir Nagar University, Bangladesh. The Mughalistan Research Institute has even released a map where a Muslim corridor named "Mughalistan" connects Pakistan and Bangladesh via India. The CIA's carefully crafted scandalous conspiracy of "Mughalistan" was intentionally leaked to Indian Intelligence so that a hate-hate relation between India and Pakistan, which was being successfully neutralized by Confidence Building Measures, should remain unhindered. Confidence Building Measures started from a positive note and after the passage of each year, relations between the two countries improved and resulted in a number of breakthroughs till it was sabotaged by Mumbai attacks of November 2008. CIA also dragged Al-Qaida and Taliban in Mughalistan plot to liberate the Muslims of India from the Hindus. Other prominent names included in the plot are Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI), Bangladesh's Director General of Forces Intelligence, (DGFI), Mumbai underworld led by Dawood Ibrahim, Jamaat-e-Islami, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammad and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen. In this struggle the Students Islamic Movement of India (SIMI) and Indian Mujahideen (IM) have also been shown engaged in waging Jihad against the Hindus of India. CIA through manipulation of websites is projecting that Muslims have announced "holy war" against India, in which the Lashkar-e-Taiba has openly declared Hindus to be the enemies of Islam who should all be converted or killed. Quotes from the journals of Lashkar-e-Taiba that its main aim is to wage Jihad against Hindus to liberate Kashmir is being misreported as if they want to occupy whole India and want to hoist the Islamic flag on the historic Red Fort. The Indian reaction over Mumbai attacks proves that CIA and its other partners have been successful in sabotaging the Confidence Building Measures between India and Pakistan. India must understand that Pakistan is an independent sovereign state which is neither interested in increasing its boundaries nor is interfering in the India's internal affairs. Pakistan is neither sponsoring indigenous movements like SIMI nor has any intention to do the same in the future. However, Pakistan will always be concerned about the Muslims living in any part of the world. As regard to Indian Muslims, Pakistan would like India to deal with them on the basis of "Protection of Minorities" agreements already concluded between both the states in 1948. If still India has any doubts, it must resume the bilateral talks and resolve the issue once for all. We have the speeches and writing of our founder of the nation, Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, which need to be taken as policy statement to resolve all issues between India and Pakistan. I am sure that if we adopt the tracks of our leader immediately before and after the partition, all the bottlenecks in the path of good relations between India and Pakistan would be amicably removed and resolved.