KABUL – According to the Ariana News Afghanistan, dated 19 December 2017,an official letter from the Afghan Ministry of Interior (MoI) has leaked onsocial media suggesting that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI)Directorate has opened a dairy factory to export poisoned products toAfghanistan. According to the letter, this factory is producing milk andcream under the brand of two well-known Pakistani dairy companies. In theletter, the office of the MoI Deputy Minister of Security allegedlyinformed all of its departments that Pakistan’s ISI is mixing a poison intotheir dairy products and then they are exporting those to Afghanistan.
Officials in the ministry of the interior have not made a comment about theletter while military experts are calling on the government not to sendthem Pakistani milk and cream and instead they should provide items fromother sources.
The narrative in the letter against the ISI seems to be motivated as noevidence has been cited in the Afghan MoI letter.
The story is just a propaganda ploy on the part of the hostile forces inAfghanistan, which are being misguided by Pakistan’s enemies havinginfluence in Afghanistan.
This story seems to have been cooked and fed to the Afghan ministry ofinterior by Indian RAW’s expert propaganda machinery and manoeuvred itsleakage to the social media through Afghan officials, having personalfriendly relations with RAW officials. India is doing such an inhumanpolitics to create a permanent enmity between Afghanistan and Pakistan toadvance its long term objectives.
Otherwise, Pakistan just cannot think of indulging in such a sin with ourAfghan brethren, having historic ethno-cultural links.
In the above context, in the post 9/11 environment, India has got anopportunity of creating its extensive politico-economic, intelligence andmilitary influence in Afghanistan, to the detriment of Pakistan.
In this context, India’s main objective is to undermine Pakistan’slegitimate economic and security interests in Afghanistan.
As noted above, using its US supported presence in Afghanistan, India isattempting to poison Afghan people against Pakistan by carrying outnegative propaganda and actions to sever Pakistan’s age old socioeconomicand trade related links with Afghanistan and impede Pakistan’s trade withCentral Asia.
India is also alleging Pakistan for supporting terrorism in Afghanistan tomake place for extending its military influence there with a view toencircle Pakistan.
In fact, India is attempting to exploit the Afghan situation to itsadvantage. By feeding the motivated intelligence to the US and its alliesin Afghanistan, India is trying to mislead them about Pakistan’s sincerityin fighting the war on terror related to Afghanistan. In this context,India is hell bent to sever Pakistan-US relations to damage Pakistan’sinterests in the region.
Moreover, India’s is doing it to equate terrorism with the freedom strugglein Jammu and Kashmir.
India blames Pakistan for terrorist events occurring in Afghanistan tobuild a case that the freedom struggle in Jammu and Kashmir is also beingbacked by Pakistan.
India’s objective in doing so is to denude the people of Jammu and Kashmirfrom the political and moral support of Pakistan, the US and other majorwestern states.
In other words, by exploiting terrorism issue relating to Afgha-nistan,India wants to fail the freedom struggle of the people of Jammu and Kashmir.
India is keeping its this nefarious plan in ambiguity by blaming Pakistanfor supporting terrorism in Afghanistan and proving itself as a good boy byoffering economic aid to Afghanistan.
By this clever politics India is also hiding the reality that in fact it isitself a terrorist state which has unleashed tools of state terrorism inJammu and Kashmir and is using Afghan soil to destabilize Balochistan toslow down the growth of the CPEC.
Due to its need to get economic aid from wherever it is available, Afghan’sare obliged to India for its assistance, but in this process, they areneglecting to see the negative politics, which India is playing by impedingthe growth of Afghanistan’s relations with Pakistan, creating hurdles inthe construction of CPEC and pulling Afghanistan away from joining theCPEC, which holds the potential to transform Afghanistan’s economy as wellin the long term.
In this context, Afghans need to understand that under the cover ofproviding some economic benefits, no country like India should be allowedto harm long term interests of Afghanistan by spoiling its relations with aclose neighbour like Pakistan and keeping it away from becoming a part ofthe CPEC project.
In view of the above, there is a need for Pakistan to counter Indian fedanti Paki-stan propaganda in Afghani-stan by making friendly constituenciesamong the Afghan people and by befriending its government officials.
In this regard, Pakistan should also devise and implement policies toenhance its trade with Afghanistan under all circumstances by giving traderelated concessions.
In this context, Pakistan should also work on having a free trade agreementwith Afghanistan, since, unlike India, Afghanistan’s trade interests arestrongly linked with Pakistan due to having common borders.
By: Colonel (R) Hanif