India is taking time to build international consensus that Pakistan is the source of all attacks. It has invested heavily in its PR machine to get most of the world behind disarming Pakistan's nuclear capability in the back drop of Pakistani territory being allegedly used by the likes of LeT for attacks in Mumbai and elsewhere. Millions of dollars have been put into PR initiatives by India indirectly -- not to mention the millions of Amar Singh, the Samajwadi Party leader. He donated a huge chunk of his assets anywhere between Rs 4.6 crore and Rs 23 crore to the Clinton Foundation.
"I have nothing to say. I won't deny anything." He, however, was quoted in The Times of India, that the "payment could have been made by someone else on his behalf". So who would be that generous?
Clinton Foundation has had other Indian nationals, institutions, trade bodies and Indians abroad who generously donated to it. For what purpose? Decidedly, they saw a future in Hillary Clinton and they bet heavy on it. She could either have got the her party's ticket and be the next US President or, in the worst case scenario, she would still be a powerful voice in the senate. Now that she got the top job of the Secretary of State, it seeems like Indian investment paid off handsomely.
There is a whole strategy at work. India is planning a military offensive and much thinking is going into it. It has all but won the PR war and the hearts and minds of people who have already decided on Islam being aggresive, Muslims being terrorists and 'all roads leading to Pakistan' for acts of terror committed anywhere in the world.
The last time India attacked, the excuse was and I am quoting Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto from his speech at the Security Council of December 15, 1971, "This has been the worst form of aggression, of naked aggression. Even Poland was not invaded by Germany in this fashion. Even in that case there were some pretences, some excuses that were made. Here the [Indian] excuse was, 'We have refugees [from East Pakistan], so we must invade another country'."
Pakistan was prepared to take back the refugees but, according to this famous Bhutto speech, 'My Country Becons Me', to the UN Security Council, "India pre-empted it all because the refugee problem was used as a pretext to dismember my country. The regfuee problem was used as a pretext, an ugly, crude pretext, a shameful pretext to invade my country, to invade East Pakistan."
Is India back to the same old trick? Time will tell.
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