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Mumbai carnage: world unity urged to punish culprits

Ahmar Mustikhan, Freelance Journalist | 28.11.2008 13:45 | Anti-militarism | History | Terror War | World

Pakistanis are openly acknowledging their country's rogue I.S.I. was responsible for the ayhem in Mumbia that left 120 people dead. The maverick Baluch ethnic group calls for world unity to defeat "the monster."

Jinnah's great grandson Ness Wadia with his wife actress Preity Zinta.
Jinnah's great grandson Ness Wadia with his wife actress Preity Zinta.


WASHINGTON DC: A Baluch group in the United States has condemned the terror attacks that have claimed nearly 200 lives in the commercial capital of India and has said it suspects that terror don Dawood Ebrahim and Pakistan's I.S.I. were responsible.

Even Pakistanis admit their country's ISI is responsible.

"If there was an intelligence agency whose fingerprints can be spotted all over the crime scene, it appears to be Islamic rogue elements from the Pakistan ISI, hell-bent on disrupting a marked improvement in India's relations with neighboring Pakistan. For two decades, the Pakistan Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has been the de facto government in Pakistan, toppling regimes, aiding the Taliban, giving cover to al-Qaida fugitives and running a business empire worth billions of dollars," A Pakistani intellectual Tarek Fateh wrote in the Ottawa Citizen.

 http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=e7a2a383-f713-48d8-aa82-d26c079167d0

Pakistan and India were always one country but were separated under the British divide-and-rule policy that started with the administrative division of Bengal. Interestingly, the only child and daughter of Pakistan founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah named Dina (Deenabai) Wadia is in Mumbai. She had married and divorced a Parsi industrialist named Neville Wadia, according to Kuwait Zorastrian Association--an organization representing the Parsis in Kuwait. The association published a picture of Jinnah's great grandson Ness Wadia (see herewith).

Pakistan's establishment, including the powerful I.S.I. tries to hide such common roots.

Twice premier Benazir Bhutto was assassinated last year and though the American C.I.A. blamed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan of the shadowy Baitullah Mehsud for her slaying, many Pakistanis suspect the I.S.I. was involved. Her spouse Asif Ali Zardari, who was himself tortured by the I.S.I. and his tongue was cut while he was in jail, has been trying to reach out to arch-foe India and has publicly condemned the mujahideen in Kashmir.

According to Fateh, speaking to an Indian TV audience via a satellite link Tuesday Zardari borrowed a quote from his late wife, who once said there's a "little bit of India in every Pakistani and a little bit of Pakistan" in every Indian. "I do not know whether it is the Indian or the Pakistani in me that is talking to you today," Zardari said, amid applause from his high-profile audience, which included diplomats, politicians and industrialists. The I.S.I. terrorist attacks were an apparent hint to Zardari he does not call the shots when it comes to Pakistan's policy vis-a-vis India.

Whatever the reasons, the Baluch who have been denied statehood for long believe the I.S.I. must be taken to task immediately before the wreak more havoc. One of the main terrorists I.S.I. has used is Dawood Ebrahim, a street thug from Mumbai, who rose to become a multimillionaire gold smuggler in Dubai and was accused of being a key player in the 1993 series bomb blasts in Mumbai that left 250 dead and more than 700 injured. Ebrahim found sanctuary in Pakistan and this writer saw him at a social event in Karachi in 1997 where the venue was cordoned off by plainclothesmen in a level of security that is provided only to foreign heads of government.

In a message sent Thursday to Indian Sports and Culture Minister Mani Shankar Aiyer and leader of the Opposition, L. K. Advani, American Friends of Baluchistan founder Ahmar Mustikhan called for world unity to defeat, what he called. "the monster that is I.S.I."

Following is the full text of Mustikhan's separate missives to Advani and Aiyer:

On behalf of myself and the Baluch Diaspora, I express my shock and grief over the Mumbai carnage.

It is clear this was not an act of random terror, but a professionally planned operation.

My heart goes out to the victims and the bereaved families.

In my humble view, the terrorists who carried out the dastardly acts are the same ones who are killing the Baluch in Dera Bugti and Kohlu.

Just recently another terrorist, Ayman Alzwahiri, who is also in Pakistan, uttered racial epithets against president-elect Barack Obama.

The killings in Mumbai appears to be a Daud Ebrahim-stye operation and I condemn Islamabad for continuing to shelter him. It is a shame that one of India's most wanted terrorists has found safe haven in Pakistan. I am hoping against hope the new government in Pakistan would hand him over to India.

The American Friends of Baluchistan is with the brotherly people of India in this hour of immense grief.

The tragedy is a stark reminder ISI will not end its criminal activities against humankind and the human race will have to act in unison to defeat the monster that is Pakistan's I.S.I.

Ahmar Mustikhan, Freelance Journalist
- e-mail: ahmar_reporter@yahoo.com

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