UN rebuffs Indian move

As the Kashmiris' heroic fight for freedom gained momentum in 2016, New Delhi responded with matching brutalization. Its troops killed 303 Kashmiri protestors, including 42 teenagers. Thousands more were injured, while hundreds lost their eyesight to the pellet shots fired by the troops. But New Delhi didn't want the world to look at that ghastly scene; it kept diverting world attention from the killing fields of Kashmir by raising the ante of so-called cross-border terrorism from Pakistan. One such move was made in the United Nations as it tried to secure a UN Security Council resolution to get Jaish-e-Mohammad chief Masood Azhar included in the list of UN Sanctions Committee. But the Indian move was put on hold by China because the said committee's authority is confined to the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda. Now that China has refused to withdraw its hold by the end of 2016, the Indian move stands time-barred. And thus New Delhi is put paid for its incessant wailing that it is a victim of terrorism from Pakistan - while the truth is that the shoe is on the other foot. It is India that is bankrolling terrorism in Pakistan. Pakistan believes the rejected Indian proposal was politically motivated, had no merit and was clearly aimed at "advancing its narrow national agenda". But neighbouring China saw through the canard and dumped it. In a statement issued by the Pakistan Foreign Office on Sunday, its spokesman said India has deployed terrorism as an "instrument of state policy" and is involved in "perpetrating, sponsoring, supporting and financing terrorism" in Pakistan. Obviously with such "duplicitous behaviour and blood on its hands" India stands bereft of any credibility on counterterrorism. And nothing brings it out like what RAW agent Kalbhushan Jadhav has confessed. In so many words, he has confessed involvement in terrorist activities aimed at destabilising Pakistan and killing Pakistani citizens.
Coincidently, the Pakistan's assertion about India's involvement in fomenting terrorism comes at a time when the United Nations gets its new Secretary General, and possibly a different man and an unvarnished mind. His predecessor Ban Ki-moon too would off and on comment on situation in Indian-held Kashmir, but as to what the United Nations should undertake as a follow-up of its own resolutions on Kashmiris' right to self-determination he would stay non-committal. Hopefully, his successor Antonio Guterres would live by his New Year message to international community that it should "take steps to put violence, bloodshed and war that raged in 2016 permanently in the past". Having wished so, one would hope he would like to help lift the spectre of violence from the people of Indian-held Kashmir, and as also reactive the UN observer mission on the Line of Control in Kashmir. As to India's role as abettor and promoter of terrorism Pakistan would be shortly presenting to the Secretary General Guterres and members of the Security Council a dossier containing in some detail the layout of India's terrorism network. There is a plenty of hard evidence of Indian involvement, through its sleeper cells and the so-called consulates in the bordering Afghanistan cities, in terrorist activities, particularly in Balochistan and Karachi.