Downward diplomatic spiral and the upcoming implosion of Pakistani society-ANI

By Dr Amjad Ayub Mirza
Glasgow [UK], Aug 20 (ANI): Unable to rearrange a face-to-face assembly with Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Suleiman of Saudi Arabia, the high-powered delegation led by Pakistan Military chief Basic Qamar Bajwa and ISI chief has returned empty-handed to Islamabad.
Along with the humiliation attributable to failing to realize an viewers with the Crown Prince, the Saudi authorities additionally cancelled its determination to honour Basic Bajwa, a promise that was made by the Islamic Kingdom only a few months earlier.
The journey of the Pakistani generals to Saudi Arabia comes after Saudi Arabia cancelled a USD 3.2 billion oil credit score facility to Pakistan. In 2018, when Imran Khan ‘received’ the overall elections, Saudi Arabia gave Pakistan a mortgage of USD Three billion to assist the latter with its balanced of funds disaster and issued the above-mentioned oil credit score facility to Pakistan.
Saudi Arabia’s determination to cancel the oil credit score facility to its Muslim brother nation got here after Pakistani overseas minister Shah Mahmoud Qureshi issued a press release actually threatening the Saudi led Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to convene an emergency particular session on Kashmir or else he would name a gathering of like-minded Muslim ‘brother’ international locations. This tantamount to splitting the Saudi led alliance.
The assertion enraged the Saudis and in retaliation they cancelled the USD 3.2 billion oil credit score facility and made a requirement that Pakistan pays again USD 1 billion {dollars} that it already owes them. Pakistan needed to beg China to lend her the cash to be able to pay Saudi Arabia. For the reason that abrogation of Article 370 of the Indian Structure that gave the so-called particular standing to the previous state of Jammu and Kashmir, Pakistan has suffered an anti-India diplomatic knockout. Pakistan has remoted herself and the nation has solely itself guilty.
Defence analyst Main (R) Gaurav Arya says that in immediately’s international financial surroundings solely a pluralistic method would work. And rightly so. UAE and Israel establishing diplomatic and commerce relations brokered by Donald Trump’s administration is testimony to the truth of pluralism in a cutthroat aggressive international market. Regrouping of nation-states into new financial zones and partnerships requires new considering and daring management.
Sadly, Pakistan remains to be entrapped within the out of date political narrative of the Ottoman interval and has failed to provide and even adapt to new patterns of thought and provides beginning to daring management. Pakistan and its politics is rooted in envy, dishonesty and deception and has value her the belief of the worldwide group.
In the present day, Pakistan is understood for its hate of Hindus, being envious of a fast-developing India, for its corrupt and dishonest dealing with of overseas assist and its trickery and deception in dodging the worldwide group within the struggle to get rid of Taliban and different variants of Islamic Jihadist organisations similar to Lashkar-e-Tayyiba, Hizbul Mujahideen, Jaish-e-Mohammad or the not too long ago covert terrorist outfit The Resistance Entrance which Main (R) Gaurav Arya calls “secularisation of terrorism”.
The information concerning the institution of diplomatic relations between UAE and Israel coincided with one other vital improvement. 10,000 Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) stationed within the Kashmir Valley have been directed by the Residence Ministry to return to their bases in mainland India. This sends a robust
message to the worldwide group concerning the regulation and order enchancment within the ill-fated area of the Kashmir Valley.
For the reason that abrogation of Article 370, peace has been re-established within the Valley at a more-than-expected quick tempo. No massacre has taken place as beforehand predicted (learn threatened) by Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Scores of sleeping terrorist cells have been busted in Srinagar and plenty of jihadi infiltrators, in addition to home-grown particular person terrorists, have been eradicated in lethal encounters during which our jawans have additionally laid down their lives. And much more curiously, (however principally unreported in Indian media), individuals of Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) have been holding protests towards Pakistan virtually each single day.
Day by day protests are actually the brand new norm in PoK. The political and social content material of those protests vary from demonstrations towards lengthy durations of load shedding in Palandri for example, to calls for for justice raised in Nakyal for Ejaz Abbasi, a senior PoK journalist who was crushed up on the Press Info Division (PID) in Islamabad a few weeks in the past, to torch-bearing rallies in Muzafarabad towards the diversion of Neelum-Jhelum River for Azad Patan and Kohala Hydropower Initiatives, each of that are a part of the unlawful CPEC settlement between Pakistan (learn navy) and China (learn Communist Celebration-controlled companies).
The CPEC is prohibited as a result of PoK is Indian territory occupied by Pakistan and the later can’t enter into any defence or financial settlement that embrace GB or PoK till and until the territorial dispute between Pakistan and India is resolved and Pakistan withdraws its military from GB and PoK.
Equally, in Pakistani-occupied GB, individuals are protesting towards cuts in wheat subsidies, unlawful land seize of inexperienced pastures in Nilter, land seize for a bus stand in Gilgit in addition to for the unlawful extension of Gilgit airport, lack of medical services in Hunza, Load shedding in Skardu, and so forth and so forth.
The USD 14 billion Diamer-Bhasha Dam Hydroelectric undertaking is one other problem that has generated nervousness among the many subjugated inhabitants of GB. The displaced individuals of the villages in and across the historic metropolis of Chillas are awaiting the deceitful promise made by the Pakistan and Chinese language firms to resettle them and pay compensation for lack of their ancestral dwelling.
For each 25 individuals in GB, there may be one Pakistani military personnel deployed. Solely final month, Imran Khan accepted of an extra 100 military platoons to be despatched to Diamer district to guard the development website of the dam.
Pakistan’s excessive handedness and vanity is manifest in the truth that she doesn’t even trouble to seek the advice of the true stakeholders of CPEC or so-called developmental undertaking which might be being initiated within the occupied territory of GB or PoK. Due to this fact, within the coming weeks and months, battle between PoK/GB and Pakistani institution appears inevitable. This grew to become evident when on August 5 this 12 months Imran Khan went to deal with the puppet legislative meeting in PoK.
Throughout his speech, a rebellious PoK Prime Minister Farooq Haider, demanded that Imran Khan and Pakistan grant PoK self-determination! He stated, “The world won’t hearken to you (Pakistan), nevertheless, if we (PoK) have been free and had autonomy then they themselves would take their case to the worldwide group!” This got here as a shock to the Pakistani institution.
Likewise, the outgoing chief minister of GB Hafiz Hafeez Ur Rehman, has been complaining about Pakistan’s excessive handedness in coping with urgent points associated to GB. Therefore, Pakistan has misplaced the goodwill and the belief of its ‘Muslim’ brothers residing beneath occupation in GB and PoK and so they now appear determined to discover a answer to finish their distress.
Alternatively, Pakistan is confronted with an insurgency in Balochistan that’s now turning right into a civil struggle between the oppressed Baloch individuals and the barbaric Pakistani military. Related, with the resurfacing of independence motion in Sindh reignited by peasant-based Sindhudesh Revolutionary Military; a beforehand non-violent nationalist, anti-feudal, anti-Pakistan sentiment is now steadily turning into an armed insurgency.
Whereas this motion has managed to catch the creativeness of the youth, extra importantly, it has been capable of appeal to the Sindhi city lower-middle and working-class since urban-based Muttahida Qaumi Motion (MQM) introduced that it might be part of the battle to free Sindh from Pakistani occupation.
In Khyber Pakhtunkhawa, Pashtun Tahafuz Motion (PTM) is changing into a focal for campaign towards the atrocities of Pakistan navy within the tribal areas. In Punjab, a witch-hunt towards those that oppose domination of civil society by navy and Islamic clergy is at present underway. Sackings of Professors Pervez Hoodbhoy and Ammar Ali Jaan of Quid-e-Azam College in Islamabad and FC Faculty in Lahore respectively are recent examples of state-sponsored repression in Punjab.
The brand new Tahafuz e Bunyaad e Islam (Safety of Fundamentals of Islam) invoice handed by the Punjab meeting final month is seen as a part of institutions’ makes an attempt to impose censorship on print and spoken phrase. 100 books have been banned instantly after the invoice grew to become an Act. Greater than 1,000 books are being scrutinised by the state to test in the event that they meet the Wahhabi narrative of Islam. Therefore cultural and mental genocide has begum in Punjab. Pupil and employees’ protesting and placing for higher pay and well being and security services are actually holding joint protest rallies in Lahore.
The current go to to Saudi Arabia by Pakistan Military chief Basic Bajwa and DG ISI that ended up in humiliation will add to the sensation of alienation and haplessness among the many widespread individuals in Punjab and PoK particularly and Pakistan on the whole. The failure of Imran Khan to supply 50 lakh homes and 10 million jobs, a GDP displaying destructive development of minus 0.38 per cent and the persecution of political opponents are all good substances of a recipe for riot.
Nevertheless, it’s the current go to of the Pakistan Military chief and DG ISI together with different high brass navy officers and Pakistan’s perpetual failure in harnessing diplomatic help that might show to be the final bale carrying the straw that may sink the ship.
The aftermath of the downward diplomatic spiral and the upcoming riot of Pakistani society will be summed up in Main (R) Gaurav Arya’s personal phrases “an implosion of the synthetically manufactured nation referred to as Pakistan is neigh.”
Disclaimer: The creator of this Opinion article is Dr Amjad Ayub Mirza, who’s a human rights activist from Mirpur in PoK. He at present lives in exile within the UK. (ANI)