India's Wish List

Ahsan Waheed

India does not want to talk to Pakistan. What does it want? From the writings that come out of India especially from the RAW sponsored South Asia Analysis Group an Indian wish list is clearly discernible.

India wants Pakistan to be kept permanently in the dog house for a past proliferation episode and does not want anyone to believe that Pakistan has taken measures to achieve almost unassailable security and state of the art command and control measures. India wants the world to note and keep noting the extremist threat from Pakistan and Pakistan alone. It does not want anyone to ponder on the world wide extremism phenomenon. Nor does it want anyone to even think about the response by Islam to the threat it faces from extremism. And it certainly does not want a focus on the Hindoo extremism within India and the large segments of India's population and officialdom involved in this menace.

India wants Pakistan to be labeled the epicenter of terror. It does not want anyone to believe that Pakistan is the victim of terror and that it is fighting a successful counterinsurgency that has its roots in Afghanistan. It also does not want anyone to believe that Pakistan has cut the link between international terror and the extremists with domestic agendas and is now shoring up its internal security. India does not want the spotlight on its own activities to destabilize Pakistan by covert support to subversive elements in Baluchistan and insurgents in FATA. It is this policy by India that backfired and led to the bombing of its embassy in Kabul and the terrorist attacks in Bombay. India makes much of the dossier presented to Pakistan but it does not want anyone to investigate the domestic links to the attack. India is irked by the US-Pakistan relationship and wants the US, its media and its people to be fed anti Pakistan propaganda and it uses all its assets for that.

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