“Gen Bipin Rawat’s tirade is also illustrative of the RSS-BJP mindset" : Pakistan FO

[MenInG]

ISLAMABAD: The Foreign Office on Friday warned that Indian military was increasingly getting radicalised, a worrisome scenario that could potentially have serious implications for regional peace and security.

In a rejoinder to Indian Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen Bipin Rawat’s comments, the FO said his “irresponsible and gratuitous” statement shows his ignorance about ground realities in Pakistan and his politicised view.

“His tirade is also illustrative of the RSS-BJP mindset — a dangerous mix of extremist ‘Hindutva’ ideology and expansionist ‘Akhand Bharat’ designs,” it said.

“It is a sad fact that this mindset has permeated the state institutions of India, including the armed forces,” it added.

At a seminar at India’s National Defence College, Gen Rawat had said that “increased collusion” between Pakistan and China posed an “omnipresent danger” for India.

He referred to Pakistan as “incorrigible neighbour”.

The FO asked Gen Rawat to focus on his professional domain, rather than continuing to make a career out of anti-Pakistan rhetoric.

“The Indian CDS’s diatribe against Pakistan cannot divert attention from India’s myriad internal and external wrongdoings,” it maintained.

It recalled that religious places in India are regularly desecrated, mob lynchings take place with state complicity and persecution of minorities and disadvantaged segments was growing by the day because of the BJP government’s ‘Hindutva’ policies.

The FO said that state terrorism against innocent Kashmiris in occupied Kashmir is pursued by India as an instrument of state policy.

Published in Dawn, November 7th, 2020

 

[MenInG]

So extremist elements in the Indian Army or the General just playing along party lines?

 

[Robbie]

What does hindutva have to do with whatever General said?

 

[MenInG]

What does hindutva have to do with whatever General said?

Seems to be repeating lines of his masters?

 

[Robbie]

Seems to be repeating lines of his masters?

What was he supposed to say..Pakistan is a responsible neighbour??
In that sense pakistani Generals too are taking a cue from RSS don't you think?

 

[Robbie]

Seems to be repeating lines of his masters?

Why not?? Army is supposed to follow the govt not the other way around.
Must be strange for Pakistani people where they are accustomed of seeing Imran towing the line of the Army

 

[CanadianG00se]

Seems to be repeating lines of his masters?

Summed up Imran khan in one line.

 

[Itachi]

In India, army implements the policy set by gov.

In Pakistan, gov sets policy according to what army demands.

It may be hard to grasp the concept for Pakistanis but unlike institution of Pakistan, in rest of the world, army is actually a part of the system and NOT THE SYSTEM.

 

[MenInG]

The fact that an extremist hindutva type is now incharge of Indian Army plays nicely into PM Imran Khan's Indian Nazi connection narrative.

 

[Madplayer]

I cannot believe that Indians are still denying that RSS has infiltrated the army ranks and the generals are increasingly making political statements now.

 

[Mesozoic]

The fact that an extremist hindutva type is now incharge of Indian Army plays nicely into PM Imran Khan's Indian Nazi connection narrative.

Come on mig don't be desperate now..

He just said the China and Pakistan collusion is a threat (to India) and he's not wrong and you know it too. Where does Hindutva/RSS/Nazi even come into this?

And no one is buying or will buy Imran's "narrative" no matter how hard he tries.

 

[Itachi]

The fact that an extremist hindutva type is now incharge of Indian Army plays nicely into PM Imran Khan's Indian Nazi connection narrative.

People interpret words on their own ways where hidden insecurities may come in to play. It's basic human psychology.

If a person is miser, he will be afraid to be guest at another person's house because he may be afraid that he will have to invite them back. While the person who invited the miser had no intention in that regard.

Our insecurities creates a picture in front of our eyes and it is driven by fear. More we fear, more the picture skewed towards the circumstances that we are afraid of. That's the basic premise of paranoia on extreme level of fear in combination with insecurities.

 

[MenInG]

Come on mig don't be desperate now..

He just said the China and Pakistan collusion is a threat (to India) and he's not wrong and you know it too. Where does Hindutva/RSS/Nazi even come into this?

And no one is buying or will buy Imran's "narrative" no matter how hard he tries.

I am totally buying it and am sure many others are also, especially those who are suffering

 

[Giannis]

Summed up Imran khan in one line.

The shillers are back on here

 

[MenInG]

Pakistan has laid out an action plan before the United Nations Security Council to tackle nationalist groups including Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) — the parent group of India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party(BJP) — that "pose a clear [..] danger to regional and international peace and security".

Pakistan's Ambassador to the UN Munir Akram on Tuesday told the 15-member Security Council that "violent extremist supremacist groups" should be outlawed like other terrorist outfits.

“Such violent racist and extremist terrorism will inevitably breed counter-violence and validate the dystopian narrative of terrorist organisations such as ISIS/Daesh and Al-Qaeda," Akram said at the UNSC.

He also cautioned that the Hindutva ideology which is followed by the BJP, a Hindu nationalist party, threatened India's Muslim population.

The Pakistani envoy called for immediate steps to curb the rise of violent nationalism and proposed the following measures:

calling on states to designate acts of violent nationalist groups, including white supremacists and other racially and ethnically motivated groups, as terrorism, just as the world has done in case of Al-Qaeda/ISIS and their affiliated groups

initiating immediate domestic actions to prevent the propagation of their violent ideologies, recruitment to and financing of these groups

requesting the secretary general to present a plan of action to confront and defeat nationalist groups' extremist ideologies and actions

expanding the mandate of the 1267 Sanctions Committee to include nationalist terrorist groups like the RSS

Akram also called upon the body to "address certain neglected manifestations of terrorism, one of which is the phenomenon of ‘state terrorism’", citing the situation in occupied Kashmir where Indian forces "are perpetrating war crimes, crimes against humanity, and against the occupied peoples in order to terrorise them into submission".

As new threats to global peace and security arise, Akram said, the world needs to expand and adjust its counter-terror strategy to "defeat terrorism in all forms and manifestations".

This is not the first time Pakistan has highlighted the threat posed by nationalist groups, particularly the BJP and RSS. Prime Minister Imran Khan has repeatedly urged the world to take note of BJP's "racist" ideology, which, according to the premier, is inspired by the Nazis. The incumbent government has highlighted the Indian government's moves that critics say discriminate against minorities, especially Muslims.

In its years in power, the BJP government stripped occupied Kashmir of its special status, a move which ignited a diplomatic rift between India and Pakistan. The abrogation of Article 370 of the Constitution followed a strict clampdown that confined residents to their homes for months. Kashmiris as well as critics believe the move is an attempt to dilute the demographics of Muslim-majority Kashmir with Hindu settlers.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's administration also introduced the contentious Citizenship (Amendment) Act, which grants citizenship to non-Muslims who migrated to India from neighbouring countries. The passage of the law — which critics say is discriminatory against Muslims — followed the first National Register of Citizens (NRC), published in August 2019, which left almost two million people — mostly Muslims — stateless. Most of those who were left out of the register had migrated from then East Pakistan in 1971.