Saturday, September 30, 2023

Can't claim credit.

"India has told Canada that if it had anything 'specific and relevant', New Delhi will be open to looking at it, external affairs minister S Jaishankar said in his first comments about Canada's allegations linking 'agents' of the Indian government with a killing in Canada. India, Jaishankar said, has also told Canada that this is not government of India policy." HT. Really? In 2017, "Addressing the Indian diaspora in Virginia," "Prime Minister Narendra Modi brought up cross-border terrorism and the surgical-strikes carried out by India across the Line of Control last year as he addressed Indian Americans... a day before his first meeting with US President Donald Trump." HT. "Days after PM Modi's advisory to his ministerial colleagues and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leaders that they refrain from chest-thumping about India army's surgical strikes on terrorists in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir," "During BJP's meetings in Agra and Lucknow, according to the Indian Express, partymen celebrated the surgical strikes and issued threats that India could hit Pakistan with nuclear weapons, too." BS. Canada beware. "The killing of Maulana Ziaur Rahman, a cleric, at a park in Karachi's Gulistan-e-Jauhar," "by two motorcycle-borne unidentified gunmen who pumped multiple bullets into their target when he was on his daily evening stroll" has worried Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI). TOI. Rahman "was a Lashkar operative and his killing almost mimicked another asset of theirs - Paramjit Singh Panwar, chief of Khalistan Commando Force." "Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, also known as Army of the Righteous, is one of the largest and most proficient of the Kashmir-focused militant groups." dni.gov. "The Indian Government has charged LT with committing the 26-29 November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, in which gunmen using automatic weapons and grenades attacked several sites, killing more than 160 people." "On March 1, Mistry Zahoor Ibrahim, and IC-814 Indian Airlines hijacker was shot dead in Karachi." Indian Airlines flight IC-814 was hijacked by five masked Pakistani militants of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen and flown to Kandahar in Afghanistan on 24 December 1999. wikipedia. The hijack ended after 7 days in utter humiliation for India when it had to release 3 Islamist militants in Indian prisons. In November 2020, "Pakistan's foreign minister and military said that India's Research & Analysis Wing (RAW) intelligence agency was operating a network of agents and training camps through its diplomatic missions in Afghanistan," and "said they had obtained documents that showed New Delhi had met with funded members of the Pakistani Taliban, as well as Baloch insurgent groups from the southern province of Balochistan who have claimed responsibility for attacks on Chinese interests as part of an effort to sabotage China's $65 billion Belt and Road investment plan in Pakistan." Reuters. Surgical strikes on both Pakistan and China, hailed as "Iron Brothers" by President Xi Jinping (CGTN)? Canada's allegations have made it impossible to claim credit. General election before May 2024. wikipedia. Absolutely infuriating.  

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