Author: M V Kamath
Publication: Sify News
Date:
URL: http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14207196
So Nepal is going to be a democracy and the
king has 'surrendered.' Parliament has been resurrected and hopefully, things
will work out and real peace restored in the only 'Hindu' nation on earth.
The Government of India has been charged with not doing enough to restore
normalcy in Nepal which is professedly `Hindu,' but in past years has had
a love-hate relationship with India.
Delhi has to tread carefully in its treatment
of its northern neighbour. It is all very well to be `Big Brother' but should
know from experience that it is not an easy role to play. It can and often
does invite resentment, which can prove to be destructive. But then we cannot
ignore Nepal either.
Nepal's susceptibility in recent years has
been fully exploited by our western neighbour, Pakistan, which has been seen
actively to pursue its own strategy to drive a wedge between India and Nepal.
Till recently it was China that supposedly was playing games in Nepal, especially
after the protectorate of Sikkim merged with India. But China has now publicly
accepted the merger. And now it is Pakistan that needs to be handled, considering
that since 1980, ISI operatives have been functioning freely to disturb peace
in India, using Pakistan's diplomatic missions in Dhaka, Colombo and even
Delhi, as their bases of operation.
Kathmandu, according to reports, has been
turned into an ISI centre with active help from the Muslim population on either
side of the 1,664 kms long Indo-Nepal border, a fact that the media has to
date rarely taken note of. Of the 1,664-km border, as many as 821 km lie in
Uttar Pradesh, and of these, 391 km are spread across Poorvanchal's five districts
with a total of 252 villages, of which 60 are Muslim-dominated.
The Indo-Nepal border being entirely porous,
Pakistan intelligence agencies are reportedly having a grand time encouraging
and supporting criminals, smugglers, saboteurs, fugitives and intelligence
agents in their anti-national activities. Few policy-makers in India have
taken meaningful note of this hard fact. According to Indian intelligence
sources, there has been a phenomenal rise in Muslim population in Indian districts
bordering Nepal. Thus, the percentage rise in Muslim population in Indian
districts bordering Nepal. Thus, the percentage rise of Muslim population
between 1981 and 1991 in Uttar Kashi has been of the magnitude of 196.44,
in Chamoli 109.74, in Pithorgarh 43.45 and in Nainital 59.70.
Along with the growth of Muslim population,
there has been a significant growth in the number of madrassas in these districts.
According to Maloy Krishna Dhar, former joint director, Intelligence Bureau,
India, in his book Fulcrum of Evil: ISI-CIA-A1 Qauda Nexus, these madrasssas
are being used to teach anti-India hatred and Muslim separatism, in order
to prevent the growing Muslim population from getting emotionally integrated
with the rest of the Hindu population. At the same time, according to Dhar,
the ISI of Pakistan has been active through its two subsidiaries the Joint
Intelligence Miscellaneous (JIM) and Joint Intelligence X (JINX) to carry
out systematic exploitation of Nepal's Muslim population.