PM Narendra Modi (File photo)
(i)- British Indian politicians from Gujarat and U.P disintegrated India in 1947 and now again may do the same
(ii)- Present India may pay the price of depending not on ‘Americanism’ but foolishly on ‘Americans’.
Kabul & entire Afghanistan has been taken over by Taliban as reported at https://www.news18.com/news/world/afghanistan-news-taliban-kabul-mazar-i-sharif-ashraf-ghani-india-us-herat-4087322.html which has not come as surprise. Though nobody expected such a quick victory for the Taliban because US-President Biden (either naively or misleadingly) assured the world that about three hundred thousand security forces (against merely about 70,000 Taliban) were in Afghanistan and in view of the huge amount of money, military arms & equipments, intelligence, training etc provided by the USA, the Afghan government would defeat the Taliban.
Of course ‘the USA was war fatigued and wanted to leave Afghanistan (a SAARC member) by any means’ can be understood but when the USA started talking to Taliban and started making deal with Taliban for the withdrawal of the forces of the USA and of its allies including NATO, India should have woken up and should have adopted a plan to ensure that Afghan government does not lose to Taliban. But the way India (which, despite being an economically humble country, dumped $ 3 billion of so-called aid in post 9/11 Afghanistan) behaved all along in Afghanistan should not come as a surprise given the history of the politics of Indian politicians (specially from British Indian region) which can be termed as humbug, to say the least.
The Indians who think (that the Taliban may come to power but can’t govern the country) do not understand that the Taliban need not do it. So far the Taliban were carrying out militant Jihad in Afghanistan and after coming to power in Afghanistan the Taliban will convert themselves into the Global Taliban and then will carry out global militant Jihad for achieving ‘one military for Muslims’ (OMM) with not merely Chinese help / approval but even with Chinese submission to the religious fury of the Global Taliban.
Because there are 4 major religious groups in this world namely Christians, Muslims, Chinese and Hindus. The 3 major religious groups have one military (Christian West through NATO and Chinese & Hindus due to their one country). Muslims believe that this ‘fragmented military power of the Muslims’ is the main reason that hundreds of millions of Muslims are bleeding and weeping profusely from Myanmar to NAME. Taliban in power (by roping-in militant Jihadis from all over the world) can easily achieve OMM by using China as mentioned at –
https://www.ansarpress.com/english/23540 or
https://politicstoday.in/if-china-uses-likely-taliban-govt-in-afghanistan-no-big-deal-but-if-global-taliban-uses-china-will-be-game-changer-catastrophic/ or
Because Kashmir is crucial for achieving OMM and Kashmir is the most easy issue for the Global Taliban to takeover nuclear Pakistan hence now after irresponsibly watching the takeover of Afghanistan by Taliban, India should be prepared (due its derelictions) to lose Kashmir (maybe even entire J&K) to Global Taliban through OMM after Pak take-over.
There is one more reason that India may suffer another dismemberment. Present India is not merely British India but about 565 princely States too. But before independence British Indian politicians from Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh (Gandhi, Jinnah Nehru, Patel etc) disintegrated India in 1947 and now again (Modi, Amit Shah and Raj Nath) from Gujarat and U.P. may do the same by way of losing Kashmir (even entire J&K including Jammu and Ladakh) to Global Taliban, who will be supported by international militant Jihadis for achieving OMM which will become very easy due to extremely emotive (like Palestine for Muslims all across the world) Kashmir issue.
Anybody who can not protect the territorial integrity of the country does not know even abcd of politics this is what we (who were born before 1947 in pre-independence princely State of India, namely Rajasthan) know from our childhood. Territory is extremely important also for the civilians who live on it that is why in Rajasthan the rulers never allowed others to directly rule in Rajasthan (they took Mansabdari from Mughals, suzerainty from Britishers and even paid ‘Chauth etc’ to Marathas but Rajasthan was always ruled directly by local rulers of Rajasthan). But now it seems that we are destined to suffer silently while these Gujaratis and UP-walas (Modi, Amit Shah and Rajnath etc) will again become national heroes (like Gandhi, Nehru, Patel, Jinnah etc) after dismembering their motherland.
India grossly underestimated Islam (especially the militant Jihadi Islam) and neglected the three important and crucial issues of (i)- ‘dual citizenship’ for about 160 million forcibly displaced Hindus, Sikhs and Muslims (and their children) during partition (ii)- Plebiscite in J&K (as mandated not merely by UN resolution but also by ‘Instrument of Accession’ the IoA of J&K to India) and of Balochistan, the IoA of which was taken by Pakistan through military pressure and (iii)- Secular democracy in Afghanistan,
These fatal derelictions of India have brought India to this unfortunate situation which is due to one more reason that India depended on ‘Americans’ and not on ‘Americanism’. Evidently British India has been following the values of post world war II Britain and not Americanism. Here is the fundamental difference. The USA believes that territory depends on military power. The USA not only increased its territory immensely after its war of independence of 1776 but President Lincoln allowed killing & injuring of practically every working age South American during the civil war in 1861 but did not allow territory of the USA to be partitioned. On the contrary there was a time when Lord Clive was given hero’s welcome in Britain because he started the process (by winning battle of Plassey in 1757) of bringing India to Britain but Lord Mountbatten was given hero’s welcome for dismantling in 1947 the British empire in India.
This naivety of Indian politicians (of British India and others who are now under debilitating influence of British Indians) is all the more surprising given the fact that whatever is happening in Afghanistan specially post 9/11 should have constrained the Indian ruling politicians to understand that peace can come to any country only when the State is strong. This is the reason that the first religion based on non-violence the Jainism was started by its founder ‘Tirthanakar’ (Prophet) who was a ruling King (Rishabh Dev, the Adinath) because in modern times also one can practice Jainism (or any other non-violent religion) by giving monopoly of violence to the apparatus of sanctioned physical coercion of the powerful State.
Now one can only pray that Indians (an overwhelming majority from British India and also from former princely States who are presently under poisonous influence of the ‘military related politics of pre-partition British Indians’) will not watch helplessly the disastrous price (another dismember of motherland) for this blunder, India is likely to pay.
Hem Raj Jain
(Writer is author of ‘Betrayal of Americanism’ and presently staying in Shakopee, MN, USA )
