RAW involvement in East Pakistan: Pakistan Daily

David Miller Smith

US report details direct RAW involvement in East Pakistan secession

A sensational American report has confirmed the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW), India’s most powerful intelligence agency, was directly involved in the secession of East Pakistan into Bangladesh, and is currently engaged in similar activities. RAW has a long history of activity in Bangladesh supporting both secular forces and the area’s Hindu minority, masterminding the break up of Pakistan in 1971,

says the report made available The report has been prepared by the innocent sounding Federation of American Scientists (FAS), a group which is however engaged in analysis and advocacy on science, technology and public policy concerning global security, especially about countries which have nuclear capability.

It is a privately funded non-profit policy organisation, whose Board of Sponsors includes 55 American Nobel laureates. FAS was originally founded as the Federation of Atomic Scientists in 1945 by members of the Manhattan Project, who produced the first atomic bomb. RAW is extensively engaged in disinformation campaigns, espionage, sabotage and terrorism against Pakistan and other neighboring countries, reveals the sensational secret report. It also gives details of the truly alarming involvement of RAW in terrorist activities in Pakistan. The report reveals the involvement of RAW in Bangladesh dating from the 1960s, when it promoted dissatisfaction against Pakistan in the then East Pakistan, including funding Mujibur Rahman’s general election in 1970 and providing training and arming to the Mukti Bahini. The report claims an estimated 35,000 RAW agents have entered Pakistan at various times between 1983-99, with 12,000 having worked in the past or working presently in Sindh, 10,000 in Punjab 8,000 in North West Frontier Province and 5,000 in Balochistan. “As many as 40 terrorist camps are currently operating at Rajasthan, East Punjab, [occupied] Kashmir, Uttar Pradesh and other parts of India and are run by RAW’s Special Service Bureau [SSB],” the report reveals. The report further confirms that throughout the Afghan War, RAW was responsible for the planning and execution of terrorist activities in Pakistan to deter Islamabad from supporting the Afghan liberation movement against India’s ally, the Soviet Union.

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Israel, India, US nexus plans to break-up Pakistan: Pakistan Daily

Faisal Muqadam

“It is essential that we strike and crush Pakistanis, enemies of Jews and Zionism, by all disguised and secret plans,” – David Ben Gurion, the first prime minister of the Zionist entity.

“The Indian spy agency RAW and the Israeli spy agency MOSSAD have created four new agencies to infiltrate Pakistan to target important religious and military personalities, journalists, judges, lawyers, and bureaucrats. In addition, bombs would be exploded in trains, railway stations, bridges, bus stations, cimemas, hotels and mosques of rival Islamic sects to incite sectarianism,” – Jane Information reported in July 2001.

Israeli scholar, professor Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, in his controversial book, The Israeli Connection, wrote about Zionists’ hatred toward the Muslim World and their support for anti-Muslim insugencies and covert military and intelligence operations to destablize Muslim countries, especially which don’t recognize Jewish settler colonization of Arab lands. Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi cites Israeli involvement in Iran-Contra affair, helping French colonists during Algerian War of Independence, aiding Idi Amin’s military coup in Uganda, aiding Kurdish and Shia rebellions against Saddam Hussein regime, support for Marcos’ fascism against Moro Muslim resistance, support for Burmese and Chinese genocide of Muslim minorities, and many others.

In 1968, Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi gave birth to country’s first foreign ’espionage and terrorist’ organization known as the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). Indira Gandhi adised RAW’s chief, R.N. Kao, to establish freindly relations with its Israeli counter-part, MOSSAD.

Charles Ferndale in his February 2009 article, titled The Great Game revisited, wrote: “In order to maintain its dominence in the region, Israel has for years set about destablising any Muslim country that poses threat to its dominance. Pakistan is the only Muslim country with nuclear weapons and Israel is within range. So Pakistan must be weakened to the point at which it ceases to operate militarily as a nation. Pakistan is supposed to be West’s foremost ally to fight against Islamic militancy, so Israel cannot attack Pakistan directly, and, if Israel did, she certaily would be defeated. So what to do? Well, two stages come to mind; one use America to attack Pakistan for you; and two, train and send into the border regions of Pakistan gangs of thugs willing to commit atrocities that then will be blamed on ‘barbaric Muslim militants’ – suggesting that Pakistan has lost control of its territory to dangerous extremists and so may lose control of its nuclear weapons.” The insurgency in Swat being the latest example of that Israeli strategy.

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Imran Khan sees 'foreign element' in cricket attack: AFP

ISLAMABAD (AFP) — Former Pakistan captain Imran Khan believes a "foreign element" could be involved in this week's attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team, according to an interview published Saturday.

"It could be India, Afghanistan, the Tamil Tigers," Khan was quoted as saying in an interview published online by The Times of London.

"The motive is to damage the state of Pakistan and end cricket here. The shocking thing is that there was so little security for the players," Khan said.

Khan said that he now feared that Pakistan would be treated as a pariah by the rest of the world and that it was already being described as a "failed state" and a breeding ground for terrorists.

"This attack was guaranteed front-page news everywhere in the world," Khan said.

"The perpetrators wanted to portray Pakistan as a chaotic state in the Dark Ages. Yesterday, the stock market took a nosedive. Pakistan is a resilient country but we have gone from crisis to crisis."

Khan's belief that foreigners may be involved in the cricket attack echoes Pakistan's interior minister Rehman Malik, who told reporters Friday that, "I cannot rule out (involvement of a) foreign hand in the incident."

Khan said that almost all the terrorism taking place in Pakistan since 2004, when its army was sent into the tribal areas, had been suicide attacks.

He said that last year there were over 100 suicide attacks "but they have a pattern. They are always in retaliation."

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Umps urged to cool criticism of Pakistani forces: The Age

INTERNATIONAL Cricket Council boss Haroon Lorgat claims Australian umpires Simon Taufel and Steve Davis need time "to be more rational" about the Lahore terrorist attack.

Taufel, Davis and English match referee Chris Broad have all been scathing of the Pakistani security forces after feeling they were left for dead in last Tuesday's ambush by heavily armed gunmen.

They felt deserted by the security escort as they lay stranded on the floor of their van with their driver shot dead and a colleague wounded as the Sri Lankan team bus ahead in their convoy drove away.

But ICC chief executive Lorgat, their boss, said they needed time to calm down and consider what had happened.

"I am mindful of the experience they have gone through and I think it is a difficult time for them," Lorgat said at a press conference in Sydney yesterday.

"I guess if you or I had gone through something we might have reacted in a similar fashion. We must just allow them to settle down and be more rational in their assessment of what has transpired."

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ICC chief defends security in Lahore: The Australian

INTERNATIONAL Cricket Council chief executive Haroon Lorgat was satisfied with the security plan for the umpires and match officials who escaped being killed during a terrorist attack in Lahore last Tuesday.

Match referee Chris Broad claimed they were "sitting ducks" during the attack and his anger was matched by Australian umpires Steve Davis and Simon Taufel, who claimed "we were promised nine (out of 10 security) and got two out of 10".

"We were satisfied with the plan," Lorgat told The Australian yesterday. "I'm waiting for reports from that incident which will either substantiate what Chris Broad is saying or perhaps give us a different view on what has transpired.

"Initially, we had interchanged with the Pakistan Cricket Board on that plan. We shared it with the match officials.

"They had provided some input into it and we had signed off on the plan."

Six policemen and the match officials' bus driver were killed while five Sri Lankan players, an assistant coach and a reserve umpire were injured when a dozen heavily armed gunmen hijacked the convoy on its way to Gaddafi stadium.

Lorgat was speaking at picturesque North Sydney Oval yesterday while watching the women's World Cup match between Australia and New Zealand, which was a world away from the rising tide of terrorism across the subcontinent.

Before the match, he stood on the field with both teams and the match officials for a minute's silence to acknowledge those who suffered in the attack.

Lorgat is waiting on a report from the ICC's anti-corruption and security unit about the incident, which will be discussed at the ICC's next board meeting on April 16.

Broad may be invited to the meeting to give his account of the issue, along with security experts.

Not surprisingly, the ICC will review its security measures for match officials in future.

"It's certainly something we're going to have to look at very carefully," Lorgat said. "It might even include ensuring we've got close protection officers with match officials in certain if not all locations. We will have to change the way we deliver the security arrangements."

He would not comment on the outrageous attack that PCB president Ijaz Butt made on Broad last week, when Butt called Broad a liar over the failure of Pakistani security.

"I don't want to be emotional about it," Lorgat said. "At a time like this, it's a very difficult period for all those who are faced with it.

"We have to be cool, we have to be correct about what we say and I'd rather wait for that report to come through to see exactly what happened on that fateful morning."

Remarkably, he defended the ICC's attempt to try to play the Champions Trophy in Pakistan last year.

Despite five countries, including Australia, refusing to attend on independent security advice, the ICC refused to move the event, which has now been postponed until later this year.

Lorgat claimed the ICC's security advice only changed early this year after the defeat of the Musharraf government at the general elections.

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Indian intelligence 'linked' to attack on Sri Lankan team: adnkronos

Lahore, 3 March (AKI) - By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Indian intelligence services are behind Tuesday's attack against the Sri Lankan cricket team in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore, according to Pakistani analysts. At least five policemen died in the ambush by 12 masked gunmen, and six cricketers and their assistant coach were injured.

Some analysts said India's Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) was behind the attack against the team bus outside Lahore's Ghaddafi Stadium, in which a Pakistani test umpire was critically injured.

“The event was crafted on the pattern of Mumbai attacks of November, 2008 and its aims and objectives are apparently to damage Pakistan’s interests," a defence expert retired major general Jamshed Ayaz told Adnkronos International (AKI).

He was referring to the deadly assault against tourist targets in the Indian financial capital of Mumbai, which killed at least 170 people. India blamed outlawed militant Kashmiri separaratist group Laskar-e-Toiba for the Mumbai attacks.

"This job could only have been done by forces allied with Pakistan’s enemy country,” Ayaz claimed.

The test match has been called off and the Sri Lankan cricket team has flown home, reportedly badly shaken by the attack.

“It is not my place to comment on who was behind the incident but obviously Pakistanis are cricket lovers and they would never do that," former Pakistan Test Cricketer Zaheer Abbas told AKI.

"There is a possibility of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam being behind the event,” said Abbas.

But a spokesperson of the Sri Lankan Embassy in Islamabad denied that the militants from the LTTE were behind the attack. The spokesperson said however that the police motorcade escorting the Sri Lankan cricket team had been the target and that the cricketers were just caught in the crossfire.

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