The U.S. administration’s reported move not to brand Pakistan a “terrorist State” appears to be the result of a mature assessment of the sub continental politics, the very idea smacked of total no appreciation of the ground realities, the presumption that the movements in Punjab, Kashmir and parts of India are “terrorist” is highly questionable. These movements have popular backing and represent political aspirations of ethnic and regional groups in India; It is in India’s interest to dub these “movements as terrorist. India has a powerful propaganda machine. It at “times even hypes the U.S. policymakers into a distorted vision. In the eyes of certain U.S: authorities, the Sikh or Muslim movements in India are not distinguishable from drug terror mafias operating in the west.
The public opinion in the west is genuinely concerned about terrorism of the drug mafias. But in the guise of fighting these terror mafias one should not range oneself against popular movements in India, It is altogether a secondary question whether Pakistan extends any material support to the underground movements in Kashmir and Punjab. The very propaganda
against Pakistan as a “terrorist state” is repugnant to the ethnic popular movements in India. By talking India’s language, the U.S. administration unwisely allowed India’s minorities to be alienated from the U.S, It is hoped that the administration will put an end to its misguided stance, evaluate the te nature of internal strife in India and evolve its own idiom to’ describe the strife, The administration should think twice before endorsing by implication India’s self-serving and fascist treatment of its ‘national freedom movements.
Article extracted from this publication >> July 30, 1993
