Cause: August 14, 1947 – The Partition of India
Effect: September 11, 2001 – WTC Terrorist Strikes and its aftermath
Yes, the root cause of terrorism in the name of islamic jehad which is affecting the entire world today can be traced back to the Partition of India.
The Blunder
In 1947 when the British were reluctant to grant independence to India, because of their weakened resources due to the World War II, because they had by then looted almost everything possible from India.. maintenance of troops and positions in India was proving to be more costly than ever..
At the same time they wanted to ensure that India never came out of its regional conflicts.. they very well knew that an India with no local issues would soon emerge as a global power…
At the same time muslim religious fanatics supported by the political ambitions of Jinnah and others wanted a muslim country carved out of India.. A religion which the secular Hindus had allowed to exist in their land now wanted to divide that own land and take a chunk of it. Not all muslims of India believed in this fanatic theory of creating an islamic country.. There are more muslims in India today than in Pakistan and Bangladesh which itself defeats the entire purpose of creation of an Islamic state out of India.
At the same time there were power greedy congress politicians who were ready to split the country than to share power.. if only Nehru had agreed to make Jinnah the first prime minister of India, India would not have been divided!
Just a month before Partition, Gandhiji had said that ‘Partition will take place only over my dead body’!
Yet, the biggest blunder of the modern history was allowed to be committed. India was divided into India and Pakistan, a secular India and a islamic pakistan, a pakistan that would in the next half century would become a terrorist breeding ground haunting the entire world and its own people.. The partition itself resulted in a huge massacre of scores of Hindus and Muslims.. The same people who had fought together for their independence now were again getting ready to fight against each other in the name of a line called ‘The Border’
Intermediate Effect
Initially Pakistan was created into two chunks on the west and east of India. The west of India was called West Pakistan (which is the current Pakistan) and the east of India was called the east Pakistan (currently Bangladesh)
The culture of Bengali muslims in the east pakistan was quite different from that of the muslims in west Pakistan. Bengalis were Bengalis first and Muslims next. This artificial unity of east pakistan and west pakistan was short lived for 25 years, the attrocities of west pakistanis (Current Pakistan) on the then east pakistanis led to a rebellion in 1971, millions of refugees from East Pakistan flooded into India and India decided to act. The result, a new country called Bangladesh was born.
The victory of India in 1971 is the most decisive victory in the history of wars till to date ever since world war II. 90,000 Pakistani troops surrendered to the Indian army. Through out the war the Bombay port on the Indian side had been kept open and was functioning normally, in the safeguards of the Indian navy, while the Pakistani Karachi port was bombarded left and right by the Indian forces.
The first logical end of the Partition had been reached with the creation of Bangladesh as a new country, and the west pakistan became today’s Pakistan.
The Cold War
The world headed for a new ideological battle between the USA lead western nations and the USSR lead Communist countries. The entire planet became a battle field. North Korea and South Korea, East Germany and West Germany, Cuba, Vietnam, Pakistan and Afghanistan.. everywhere the americans fought the russian forces..
India had formed the NAM or the Non Aligned Movement during the cold war saying that it wont be a part of the cold war, and will remain neutral.
Americans started funding the Pakistani fundamentalists by providing monetary and logistics support to ISI, the pakistani military etc to groom up islamic terrorists who can fight the atheist communist russians in Afghanistan. In other words, Americans were the first to fund terrorism! There is a saying in Kannada ‘Maadidunno Maharaya’, which means what you reap is what you sow!
Americans initially funded Osama and his fundamentalist allies against russians in the Afghanistan during the late 80s.. Osama later now turned to the very same americans and today we have this so called “Global war on terror”!
Terrorism in India
Pakistanis used the american funds to fight against India. America turned a blind eye to the Indian problem because of the close relations India had with USSR.
Pakistanis after the 1971 war very well knew that it was next to impossible to defeat India in a conventional war. Hence the then Pakistani military dictator Ziaul-haq came out with a plan called ‘Operation Topac’. The idea was to infiltrate terrorist elements into India who were brainwashed in the name of Islam and Jehad and cause economic and social disruption and large scale terrorist strikes in India and also to do an ethnic cleansing of Hindu Pandits in Kashmir.
And Pakistan has succeeded to a large extent in Kashmir. Pakistanis used the american and saudi funds to grow scores of terrorists in its land and use them against India in this ‘proxy war ‘ – a war which is not officially declared but is carried out silently in the form of terrorist attacks.
Over 20000 people have been killed in Kashmir alone in India, by the pakistani trained militants in the past two decades. The Hindu Kashmiri Pandits have been almost wiped out of Kashmir. India, a country where all the hue and cry is raised about other communal violence never talks about the fate of Kashmiri Pandits who are living as refugees in their own country!
The Growth of terrorism beyond India
Soon, the terrorist elements who had been brain washed in the thousands of madrasas of Pakistan went out of control. Now neither the Pakistani administration, nor the CIA were able to control it. ISI and the pak military continued to train the militants and continued to arm them and fund them and send into India. Even today the counterfeit notes of Indian currency printed by the Pakistani military establishment are smuggled into India in an effort to destabilize the Indian economy and to fund the terrorist activities!
The Indian appeal to the international community during the peak of terrorism in Kashmir in the early 90s was never heard in any forum! Repeated requests by India to US and other countries to take actions against Pakistani based militant organizations fell on to deaf ears. It is unfortunate that the Indians DID NOT ACT the way Israel reacted after the Munich massacre.
When the americans were attacked, suddenly the whole word became aware of this problem and a ‘Global War on terrorism’ was declared! The Bush Administration made it clear to all other countries saying ‘You are either with us or against us’, there was no other option, and Pakistan was warned by Richard Armitage that if it refused to cooperate with the Americans then it would be bombed back to Stone Age !
The ‘U’ Turn
Musharaff had to act and support US in the war on terrorism. He had no other option, Pakistan obviously cant fight the US! So the alliance against terrorism was formed. NATO forces bombed Afghanistan to throw out Al Qaeda and Taliban and also occasionally bombed the Pakistani territory in the Baluchistan province where even today most of the world’s terrorist root exists, probably including Osama. Mush decided to play ‘hunting with the hounds and running with the hares’!
Look at the funny part of it. US was the one which initially funded Osama and his group, Pakistan was the one which trained all these terrrorists in its land, and finally they both were the front runners in fighting the menace of terrorism! Reason? US got 9/11, Pakistan recently had the Lal Masjid incident added to its list! Even for the British, if only the British had not divided India before they left, the London tube blasts and Glasgow bombings would not have taken place!
Things have to finally come in one complete circle.. The water we pour on our head finally reaches our own feet!
The Current Scenario
Today Pakistan exists as a fanatic society full of fundamental elements, who dont even leave earth quake victims, scores of madrasas, brainwashed youth loaded with bombs all over ready to explode anywhere anytime… a nuclear arsenal waiting for the hands of a fanatic dictator to be laid on it.. again a tragedy that Indians could not prevent Pakistan going nuclear, unlike how Israel prevented Iraq from becoming a nuclear power
Today just because of the existence of a neighbour called Pakistan
- India has over 1 million troops deployed in Kashmir making it the civilian area with the largest military presence in the world
- Kashmiri Pandits are living as refugees in their own country
- Over 5 crore rupees spent every day to maintain troops at Sia chin by India, making it the highest battle field on the planet
- Frequent terror strikes inside India
- Increased military spending by India on buying more F-16s and to develop more missiles
- The Paradise on Earth – Kashmir, has become a hell
Just because of the existence of a country called Pakistan, the world saw and continues to see
- 9/11 strikes
- London bombings
- Global war on terror
- Terror threats all over the world
- Chemical, Nuclear, Biological warfare threat from the terrorists for the civilized world
A worried America now has even warned of air strikes deep inside the pakistani territory to ’smoke out’ osama and co. The one time ally of the global war on terrorism is no longer needed for US. “This is bloody international politics buddy”, Bush was heard saying to Mush 
The Most Important Effect: The most important effect of the existence of Pakistan is that an entire religion – Islam is being looked upon as a terrorist ideology all over the world today!
The Solution:
Only three alternatives exist
- Divide Pakistan OR
- Unite it back with India OR
- Create a secular society in Pakistan
For every Pakistani who is reading this article, my sincere suggestion is to concentrate on the third alternative suggested above i.e to create a secular society in Pakistan, free of ISI, military and militancy
Else things are going to get only more worse for Pakistan..
Already there is another lal masjid coming up
Hope common sense prevails…
Tamaso Ma Jyotirgamaya
August 1, 2007 at 12:33 pm |
This article is an absloute nonsense. These is nothing new in the analysis and the events leading to the partition of India. The author seems to be highly obsessed with the Nehruvian thought. The congress has always defended itself for comming the sin of accepting rather accelerating the partition of India by saying that all muslims are not fanatics and India has more muslims then Pakistan and bangladesh.
Untill and unless there is clear separation between religion and politics in Muslim/Islamic states the bloodshed in the name of Islam and related issues can never the stopped. The problemm is neither the Islam nor the muslims but a small minority of musmils Deobandis in south Asia and Wahabi in Arab world. The Deobandis-fake muslims a shame onm Islam and on rest of the civilised world. Even the government of Saudi Arab, the fountain head of the most radical islam i.e Wahabism , is a victim of the Jehadi Islam. So instead of commenting on Islam and giving ridiculous judgements like are muslims are not fanatics, if you are serious for peace to prevail in muslim nations, then try to identify the root cause of the problem–the political islam pursused by the Deobandis/Wahabis in all the muslim countries facing strife and instability.
August 1, 2007 at 4:05 pm |
Mr Virendra Nath Bhatt,
Your comment is nonsense, not the post..
Read your comment once before submitting it to make sure it makes any sense. You said “Untill and unless there is clear separation between religion and politics in Muslim/Islamic states”
How on earth can there be a separation between politics and religion in a Muslim/Islamic state, the very basis of the poiltics of an Islamic state is its religion, all the laws are based on religious texts like Quran…
Simply dont blabber here.. The author is actually making a lot of sense in this post.. Pakistan is the only real terrorist breeding ground today, there might be few terrorists in other countries too, but the final breeding ground is pakistan.. they get funded, trained and armed there…
First update your history and politics mate..
August 1, 2007 at 8:14 pm |
virendra Nath Bhatt
Thanks for your certification that this is not any new analysis, at least you agree that this school of thought already existed
But your comments doesnt make any sense to me either.. How can you make such blanket statements about all Deobandis?
Now let me elaborate.
First of all, I am no Nehru supporter nor a Congress supporter.
Nehru and Congress screwed up the country right from day one, starting from the partition to the delaying of sending the troops to Kashmir to taking the Kashmir matter to UN. Nehru screwed up the country with his Hindi-Chini bhai bhai slogan..
Secondly, you mean to say there are no other muslims in terrrorist attacks other than Deobandis and Wahabbis? Have you done a statistical analysis?
There are fanatics everywhere, a bit more in Wahabbis.. The issue here being discussed is not that..
The issue is how this fanaticism has got a mouth piece in the form of Pakistan.. There are fanatics in other countries too.. but how many of them are as armed or as funded or as trained as in Pakistan.. if terrorists can’t get access to the bombs and guns, how does it matter how fanatic they are? There are even worse fanatics in Somalia too, who cares?
Wahabbis existed long before the partition of India ever since 13th century.. But the terrorism surfaced only after Pakistan entered the scenes.. why?
Deobandi School of thought was born in India in 1867 to fight the british.. Deoband is a town about hundred miles north of Delhi..
there were no terrorist attacks in pre independence India by Deobandis, they fought with Hindus against the British… there are a lot of Deobandis in India even today.. still terrorists hail from Pakistan, not from India, why?
The Deobandi movement originally founded to fight British rule in India later hardened in Pakistan into a fundamentalist sect… This did not happen in India! It was Benazir Bhutto who in an alliance with the Pakistani Deoband Party supported Taliban initially when she was the PM of Pakistan..
So what is the reason then? Pakistan or Deobandism? Do you know that Musharaff himself is a Deobandi who was born in the same Deoband area of Delhi? What are the Deobandis in Delhi doing today and what is Musharraff doing?
Darul Uloom in Deoband (the deobandis you are referring to), in Delhi is India’s largest madrasa.. it has forbidden its students from taking up the arms or joining the taliban.. Adil Siddiqi, Darul Uloom’s public relations officer openly condemns terrorist strikes and terrorism..
You should know things properly before you make blanket statements like “The Deobandis-fake muslims a shame onm Islam and on rest of the civilised world”
Read the article in the link below and you will come to know how what really matters is Pakistan and not Wahabbism or Deobandism… It all started with the American funding of these people to fight USSR in afghanistan..
http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htterr/articles/20060818.aspx
fanatic people will always be there.. what matters is the support such people would receive.. and Pakistan has been providing required support to these people… and that is the root cause..
August 2, 2007 at 11:47 am |
Hi gurudev,
Nice article . lot of new information in the article for
ME atleast if not for somebody else … looking forward to related articles ……
August 2, 2007 at 5:45 pm |
Hi Rajesh
Nice to hear that your knowledge increased by reading the article. I am happy that I am succeeding at least a bit in my attempt to keep all Indians informed about the things that I feel all Indians should know
Cheers
Guru
December 16, 2007 at 10:49 pm |
great article,
I really feel Pak should focus on option 2: namely the reunification with India. That applies to Bangladesh too, since most of their ppl are in India illegally, the least we can do is take our territory back. lol.
I agree with you on nehru, congress. The ‘Mahatma’ was also a sell out. Check theses links out (read without prejudice- i could detect slight hostility towards muslims but i put that in the context of the time it was written):
http://godsenathuram.rediffblogs.com/
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Congress/1800/play.htm
btw just for the record im not a saffron nationalist….im a secular nationalist….and from my knowledge of the Quran partition was unIslamic, Pak was about satisfying the ego of Jinnah, the greed of Nehru and Sardar Patel, the muslim feudal elites, the British, and the distortion of the true meaning of ‘Ahmisa’ in the Congress which made India an easy target for the divisionists.