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Prime Minister of Pakistan Imran Khan has once again warned the international community about the possible false flag operation by India, saying, "as India's internal problems are increasing, such as economic woes, farmers' protests, corona, the Modi government may launch a false flag operation against Pakistan to divert attention from these issues.
Operation false flag is part of a war strategy and refers to a terrorist attack that a country or agency carries out against its own people or territory so that the enemy can blame the country or agency for the attack --- carving out an excuse for aggression against a particular country.
The Indian political and security establishment is notorious since 1971 for designing bizarre false flag operation to deceive the world, defame Pakistan and disguise the actual source of responsibility, though each time New Delhi tried to cover up its intelligence failures and faulty policies, its internal investigative reports mocked all such claims.
The Pulwama terror incident is not the first time the Indians resorted to the use of a false flag operation to hide the reality and accomplish their ulterior motives. In September 2016, a day before the then Pakistani Premier was to address the United Nations General Assembly and apprise the world of Indian atrocities in Indian Occupied Kashmir, it yet again accused Pakistan of a military camp there sans any substantial proof.
On January 2, 2016, after an alleged attack on Pathankot Air Base in Indian Punjab by militants, a banned outfit Jaish-e-Muhammad was promptly blamed which later proved untrue as Chief of India’s investigative agency said there was no evidence to indicate the direct complicity of the Pakistan or its agency in the attack.
History reveals that as early as January 1971, the Indian spy agency RAW had conducted a false flag operation by making its operatives hijack a Fokker Ganga from India to Lahore.
The events that followed showed that the purpose behind this false flag operation was to cut off east-west air flights of Pakistan so as to give free hand to Mujibur Rehman and his cronies to speed up their secession plan and create Bangladesh.
From 2001 till 2008, Pakistan was held responsible but India failed to substantiate these allegations for most acts of terror taking place on Indian soil that include Samjhota Express train blasts killing over 50 Pakistanis, the bombing in Makkah Mosque of Hyderabad Deccan and a 2008 blast in a Malegaon (Maharashtra State) Mosque.
The November 26, 2008, Mumbai attack is yet another candid example of Indian false flag operation aimed at deflecting the attention of the world from the unabated genocide in Indian Occupied Kashmir and create a stir to pressure Pakistan.
The world is still trying to comprehend how 10 gunmen effectively challenged the highly trained Indian commandoes for three days while chief suspect Ajmal Kasab’s identity and issuance of his domicile certificate by Uttar Pradesh is shrouded in mystery.
Prime Minister Imran Khan has been insisting that India can carry out such a false flag operation against Pakistan.The first one came in August 2019 after India revoked the special constitutional status of Jammu and Kashmir in view of possible attempt to divert attention from alleged human rights abuses in Kashmir under its administration.
In May and June this year, when tensions between China and India continued at the Galwan Valley, Prime Minister Imran Khan issued yet another warning, this time citing rising India’s border tensions with China and Nepal to launch false flag operation against Pakistan. The latest being in the backdrop of farmers' protest, the deteriorating economic situation as well as corona havoc.
However, Hepimon Jacob, founder of India's think tank Council for Defense and Strategic Research, says, "It is true that India is facing a number of problems at the moment. At a time when India's border relations with China are strained, India cannot afford to start a new conflict with Pakistan.
Professor Jacob says that in the current security situation, a possible attack on Pakistan was a topic of discussion in the media, the public and analysts, so this option was also considered by the top leadership of India.
Pakistan's National Security Adviser Moeed Yousaf says Pakistan has been constantly warning the world against India's impending false flag operation.
"Pakistan has also received reports from other countries that India is thinking of doing so and India has discussed the matter with these countries. It is only after these reports that Pakistan has this time warned the world about India's alleged False Flag operation.”
Moeed Yousaf said that in case of such an action by India, Pakistan has only two options: one is to inform the world about it after such an offensive operation or before any such action takes place. So that India can be prevented from doing so and that is what we are doing at the moment.
Pakistan has valid reasons and history is witness to such Indian tactic like false flag operations while its aggressive posture against almost all its neighbors including repeated LOC violations stem this fact what the Prime Minister Imran Khan, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, Pakistan National Security Adviser Moeed Yousaf and Pakistan Army’s spokesman Major General Babar Iftikhar have been highlighting for the world to take notice before it’s too late.
(ASIA PACIFIC DAILY)
