Cpt. Rishwat
T20I Captain
- Joined
- May 8, 2010
- Runs
- 43,855
I can't absolve India of all blame for supporting groups in Balochistan and your frontier areas with Afghanistan but surely even you must realise it's absurd to believe that everything there is driven by India like the Pakistan army claims.
India's spy agencies have to be incredibly masterful to achieve so much chaos
- No direct land border to allow shipment of weapons/aid etc.
- There's a natural mistrust...I'd go so far to call it hate for India and Hindus among these groups
- Indian spies would stand out like sore thumbs in these remote tribal areas filled with religious fanatics
- India's unwilling to come out and publicly support these groups so they can't rely on political support either
I would say India can at best fund through some roundabout method and help arms shipments if really needed.
I don't believe the "foreign hand" story behind all of India's insurgent movements but the situation is quite clearly different in places like Kashmir
- Direct land border
- Natural trust and affinity. There are some Kashmiris who would rather be part of an Islamic state like Pakistan
- Pakistani spies could blend in pretty easily - language and appearance-wise
- Pakistan provides open, public and political support for these groups
India was supporting the Northern Alliance against the Taliban before 9/11. They have interests there which are counter to Pakistan. What the interests were, or are, I have no idea. I am not saying that India is definitely funding terror groups, but since they don't share a border with Afghanistan, their activity there does look very suspicious. Same could be said of Balochistan, if I'm not mistaken, India has often hosted leaders who are agitating against the Pakistan state.
India stepped into an internal dispute during the civil war which led to the creation of Bangladesh. Since a hardline hindutva govt took power in India, they have used sport as a political and financial weapon to try to choke Pakistan. Just read some of the hate filled diatribes from Indians on social media, including sites like this and the hostility is palpable. These all paint a picture of what drives Indian policy re Pakistan.