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## [MESA] INDIA SWEEP 19 August 2011

Released on 2012-09-03 09:00 GMT

Email-ID | 1434782
Date | 2011-08-19 15:05:40
From | animesh.roul@stratfor.com
To | os@stratfor.com, mesa@stratfor.com
List-Name | mesa@stratfor.com

INDIA SWEEP 19 August 2011
=E2=80=A2 Inspired by anti-graft campaigner Anna Hazare, a Pakistani busine=
ssman says he will soon launch a =E2=80=9Cfast unto death=E2=80=9D against =
corruption in his country and militarisation of South Asia. Raja Jahangir A=
khtar, 68, said he is hoping that his protest will lead to the introduction=
of an anti-corruption Bill in Pakistan=E2=80=99s parliament on the lines o=
f the Lok Pal legislation sought by Mr. Hazare.
=E2=80=A2 Former Pak Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar told students of Interna=
tional Relations of National University of Modern Languages that India from=
Day One had never accepted the establishment of Pakistan ever since 14th A=
ugust 1947. Delivering his lecture on =E2=80=9CForeign Policy of Pakistan=
=E2=80=9D at NUML on Thursday, he said All India Congress, although passed =
a resolution in 1947 to accept the British Partition Plan of 3rd June but a=
t the same mentioned in the resolution that India would continue to cherish=
the desire of United India.=20
=E2=80=A2 Warning that LeT has the ability to "severely disrupt already del=
icate" regional relations, the US has said the Pakistan-based terror outfit=
responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks remained active in Kashmir and con=
tinued to target India along with groups like JeM and HuM. The US State Dep=
artment, in its annual report on terrorism, voiced concern over continued p=
resence of terrorist safe havens inside Pakistan.=20
=E2=80=A2 India is getting ready to reset its relations with Bangladesh. Bo=
th countries will sign a land boundary agreement and a water-sharing agreem=
ent when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh makes his first bilateral visit to D=
haka. "We will resolve all outstanding issues between our two countries," s=
aid Gowher Rizvi, close adviser to Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina.=20
=E2=80=A2 The shadow of Pak agent Ghulam Nabi Fai who has been charged by t=
he FBI stalks a two-day conference of MPs from India and Pakistan =E2=80=94=
the India-Pakistan Parliamentarians Dialogue =E2=80=94 that began at Vigya=
n Bhawan annexe today. The links to Fai lie silently buried in the list of =
the board of advisors to the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development =
and Transparency (PILDAT), the non-profit organisation facilitating this di=
alogue from the Pakistan side.=20
FULL TEXT
Inspired by Anna, Pak campaigner to launch protest=20
PTI=20
http://www.thehindu.com/news/article2373173.ece
Inspired by anti-graft campaigner Anna Hazare, a Pakistani businessman says=
he will soon launch a =E2=80=9Cfast unto death=E2=80=9D against corruption=
in his country and militarisation of South Asia.
Raja Jahangir Akhtar, 68, said he is hoping that his protest will lead to =
the introduction of an anti-corruption Bill in Pakistan=E2=80=99s parliamen=
t on the lines of the Lok Pal legislation sought by Mr. Hazare.
=E2=80=9CI had campaigned against corruption in the past but I surrendered=
. Seeing Anna Hazare and the people of India standing up against corruption=
has given me the courage to take up this cause again,=E2=80=9D Mr. Akhtar,=
owner of a shop in Islamabad, told PTI.
Mr. Akhtar will begin his fast on September 12, after the end of the Islam=
ic fasting month of Ramzan.
=E2=80=9CThe Leftists are supporting my protest. I am also banking on peop=
le to use the internet and social media to spread my message,=E2=80=9D he s=
aid.
The protest will mainly focus on ending corruption in Pakistan and counter=
ing the rapid militarisation in the region.
=E2=80=9CI see the people backing Anna Hazare and I want to create a simil=
ar situation here,=E2=80=9D he said.
Mr. Akhtar, who has campaigned in the past on issues like rent control in t=
he Pakistani capital, contended that the country=E2=80=99s government and t=
he opposition had taken no steps to tackle graft and economic problems like=
inflation.
=E2=80=9CNo one has a policy to taken on these issues,=E2=80=9D he said.
The protest will try to build pressure on Pakistani politicians to introdu=
ce an anti-graft law and to ensure cuts in military spending.
India never accepted Pakistan=E2=80=99s establishment: Abdul Sattar
http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=3D109679
Islamabad=E2=80=94Former Foreign Minister Abdul Sattar told students of Int=
ernational Relations of National University of Modern Languages that India =
from Day One had never accepted the establishment of Pakistan ever since 14=
th August 1947.
Delivering his lecture on =E2=80=9CForeign Policy of Pakistan=E2=80=9D at N=
UML on Thursday, he said All India Congress, although passed a resolution i=
n 1947 to accept the British Partition Plan of 3rd June but at the same men=
tioned in the resolution that India would continue to cherish the desire of=
United India. He said that Mahatma Gandhi, on one occasion is reported to =
have said that India would finally re-unite. Another leader of India, the I=
nterior Minister at that time said that Pakistan is not economically viable=
and that it would wither away in a matter of six months. With this mindset=
, Pakistan=E2=80=99s former Foreign Minister said that India withheld seven=
teen and a half percent share of assets and did not transfer either cash or=
armament of Pakistan.=20
On Afghanistan, Ambassador Abdul Sattar revealed that on Pakistani Ambassad=
or Isphahani=E2=80=99s diplomacy, Afghanistan withdrew its negative vote in=
United Nations at the time of its admission, three weeks later. He said th=
e issues of Durrand line and Pashtoonistan were raised by Afghan leaders at=
the time of independence of Pakistan at the behest of Congress leaders.=E2=
=80=94
LeT continues to plot attacks against India: US
http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/politics/nation/let-continues-to-p=
lot-attacks-against-india-us/articleshow/9660777.cms
WASHINGTON: Warning that LeT has the ability to "severely disrupt already d=
elicate" regional relations, the US has said the Pakistan-based terror outf=
it responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks remained active in Kashmir and c=
ontinued to target India along with groups like JeM and HuM.=20
The US State Department, in its annual report on terrorism, voiced concern =
over continued presence of terrorist safe havens inside Pakistan.=20
"Despite international condemnation for its November 2008 attacks in Mumbai=
, Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) continued to plan regional operations from within P=
akistan. While the Government of Pakistan has banned LeT, the United States=
continued to urge further action against this group and its front organisa=
tions," the State Department said.=20
"The potential for WMD trafficking and proliferation remained of concern in=
Pakistan due to the porous borders and the difficult security situation. E=
xport Control and Related Border Security Assistance (EXBS) has enabled Pak=
istani officials to gain expertise in properly classifying items of prolife=
ration concern and learn about export licensing best practices," it said.=
=20
The report also said that several outlawed Pakistan-based terror groups rem=
ained active in Kashmir and continued to target India and plan attacks on i=
t.=20
Prominent among these terror groups are Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed (=
JeM) and Harkat ul-Mujahideen (HuM), which are having hundreds of armed sup=
porters in Kashmir.=20
LeT, designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation in 2001, is one of the =
largest and most proficient of the traditionally Kashmir-focused militant g=
roups. "It has the ability to severely disrupt already delicate regional re=
lation," the report said.=20
The actual size of LeT is unknown, but it has several thousand members in P=
akistan-occupied Kashmir, Pakistan's Punjab Pakistan and in India's souther=
n Jammu, Kashmir and Doda regions, the State Department report said.=20
"Most LeT members are Pakistanis or Afghans and/or veterans of the Afghan w=
ars. The group uses assault rifles, light and heavy machine guns, mortars, =
explosives, and rocket-propelled grenades," it said.=20
LeT maintains a number of facilities, including training camps, schools, an=
d medical clinics in Pakistan. It has global connections and a strong opera=
tional network throughout South Asia, the State Department said.=20
Based in Muzaffarabad, Rawalpindi, and several other cities in Pakistan, Ha=
rkat ul-Mujahideen (HuM) conducts insurgent and terrorist operations primar=
ily in Kashmir and Afghanistan. It trains its militants in Afghanistan and =
Pakistan.=20
On JeM, which designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organisation in 2001, the r=
eport said it has at least several hundred armed supporters - including a l=
arge cadre of former HuM members - located in Pakistan, India's southern Ka=
shmir and Doda regions and in the Valley.=20
The report said that despite efforts by Pakistani security forces, al-Qaeda=
terrorists, Afghan militants, foreign insurgents and Pakistani militants c=
ontinued to find safe haven in portions of Pakistan's Federally Administere=
d Tribal Areas (FATA), Khyber Paktunkhwa and Balochistan.=20
"Al-Qaeda and other groups such as the Haqqani Network used Pakistani safe =
havens to launch attacks in Afghanistan, plan operations worldwide, train, =
recruit, and disseminate propaganda," it said.
Land boundary agreement to top PM's agenda during Dhaka trip
Indrani BagchiIndrani Bagchi, TNN | Aug 19, 2011, 01.16AM IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Land-boundary-agreement-to-top-PMs=
-agenda-during-Dhaka-trip/articleshow/9653919.cms
NEW DELHI: India is getting ready to reset its relations with Bangladesh. B=
oth countries will sign a land boundary agreement and a water-sharing agree=
ment when Prime Minister Manmohan Singh makes his first bilateral visit to =
Dhaka. "We will resolve all outstanding issues between our two countries," =
said Gowher Rizvi, close adviser to Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina.=20
But, beyond repairing bilateral ties, India and Bangladesh are preparing to=
spearhead a South Asian Golden Quadrilateral, a sub-regional grouping with=
Nepal and Bhutan which will look forward to long-term cooperation and shar=
ing of water resources, power and connectivity, said Masiur Rehman, Hasina'=
s economic adviser.=20
The two top functionaries of the Bangladesh government are in India to fina=
lize details for the PM's trip, meeting national security adviser Shivshank=
ar Menon, finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and home minister P Chidambaram=
. "We're picking up from where we left off in the Indira-Mujib pact of 1974=
," said Rizvi.=20
The land boundary agreement will not only change the map of India, it will =
be the first resolved boundary that India has with any of its neighbours. T=
he agreement will essentially formalize the status quo on enclaves and area=
s under adverse possession -- that is, there will be no transfer of territo=
ry or people. The 53,000 people residing in the enclaves, who have just bee=
n counted in the first ever census there, will get the citizenship of the c=
ountry they reside it, said Rizvi. If they want to change later, they would=
have to go by normal channels.=20
On economic cooperation, Bangladesh and India have identified over 17 proje=
cts that will be implemented by the $1 billion line of credit from India. B=
angladesh has asked for 61 items to be removed from the negative list, but =
India is still wondering whether this could be a precedent that would have =
to be followed for other countries as well.=20
Meanwhile, the return of ULFA leader Anup Chetia to India before the PM's t=
rip is all but certain. The Bangladesh home minister has said there was no =
objection to it, but certain procedures have to be followed. After Chidamba=
ram's visit, his counterpart, Sahara Khatun was quoted saying, "I don't thi=
nk there is any obstacle in handing him (Chetia) over to India ... but defi=
nitely, there are procedures in extraditing someone who is in jail." Bangla=
deshi security forces on Thursday also arrested the chief of the banned mil=
itant outfit Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami (Huji), Moulana Yahiya, along with h=
is two accomplices from central Kishorganj district.=20
On economic ties with India, Rizvi and Rehman said Bangladesh was keen to a=
ttract Indian investment in all sectors. "Let not the experience of Tata in=
fluence other investments." The Tata group had to pull out from a proposed =
investment in the steel sector in Bangladesh during the previous BNP regime=
, which was openly hostile to India.=20
That, ultimately is the challenge for both countries -- to ensure that a ch=
ange of government in Dhaka does not put the brakes on bilateral cooperatio=
n.
Fai=E2=80=99s shadow stalks India-Pak MPs conference
http://www.indianexpress.com/news/fais-shadow-stalks-indiapak-mps-conferenc=
e/834096/0
The shadow of Pak agent Ghulam Nabi Fai who has been charged by the FBI sta=
lks a two-day conference of MPs from India and Pakistan =E2=80=94 the India=
-Pakistan Parliamentarians Dialogue =E2=80=94 that began at Vigyan Bhawan a=
nnexe today.
The links to Fai lie silently buried in the list of the board of advisors t=
o the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency (PILDA=
T), the non-profit organisation facilitating this dialogue from the Pakista=
n side.=20
As per PILDAT, nearly 40 Indian MPs are expected to attend, including Mani =
Shankar Aiyar, Jaswant Singh and Shashi Tharoor. Some 20 MPs have come from=
Pakistan, including Mir Jan Muhammad Khan Jamali, deputy chairman of the P=
akistan Senate.=20
PILDAT=E2=80=99s advisors include Lord Nazir Ahmed who heads the UK Parliam=
entary Group on Kashmir, and is believed to have close connections with the=
Kashmir Centre in London run by a Fai affiliate, the Justice Foundation.
This London centre is mentioned in the FBI chargesheet against Fai. =E2=80=
=9CThe KAC (Kashmir American Council) was founded in 1990 and goes by the n=
ame Kashmir Centre. It is one of the three Kashmir Centres that this invest=
igation revealed are run by elements of the Government of Pakistan. The oth=
ers are Justice Foundation/Kashmir Centre located in London, England, run b=
y Nazir Ahmad Shawl and the Kashmir Centre =E2=80=94 European Union, locate=
d in Brussels, Belgium, run by Abdul Majeed Tramboo. The director of KAC is=
Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai, who often works out of his home in Fairfax, Virginia=
.=E2=80=9D=20
According to Ahmed=E2=80=99s disclosure in the UK Parliament=E2=80=99s Regi=
ster of Interests, he enjoyed the hospitality of the Justice Foundation in =
February. This direct involvement of the UK Parliamentary Group on Kashmir =
with the Justice Foundation and its Kashmir Centre in London is also a subj=
ect of an official protest by the Indian High Commission in London. Ahmed h=
as been in the forefront of the campaign in UK for the Kashmiri right to se=
lf-determination. He originally belongs to Mirpur in PoK.=20
Another member of the board of PILDAT=E2=80=99s advisors is Mohammed Sarwar=
, a British Labour Party politician and a former MP from Glasgow Central. T=
he seat is now represented by his son Anas Sarwar, who is also a member of =
the UK Parliamentary Group on Kashmir. In 2006, the Justice Foundation orga=
nised a two-day International Kashmir Peace Conference in the House of Comm=
ons, where Mohammed Sarwar called for the UN to appoint a special envoy for=
Kashmir. That session of the seminar was chaired by Fai himself.
Another British MP Khalid Mahmood had in the same conference, which even ca=
me out with a London Declaration, called for internationally monitored elec=
tions in J&K. Now, Mahmood makes up for the third Pak-origin British politi=
cian in PILDAT=E2=80=99s board of advisors.
=20
The Indian co-chair for the event is former Finance and External Affairs Mi=
nister Yashwant Sinha. When contacted, Sinha told The Indian Express: =E2=
=80=9CPILDAT is facilitating the Pakistani delegation for the dialogue. Thi=
s is a completely private effort but we have informed Parliament and also t=
he Ministry of External Affairs. We have not gone into such detail but nobo=
dy has ever objected. I had earlier traveled to Islamabad in January for th=
is dialogue.=E2=80=9D In January, the MEA had raised a red flag on PILDAT a=
nd the British origins of its funding. As reported by The Indian Express on=
January 5, the Lok Sabha Secretariat had informed the MPs then that if the=
y participate, they should not accept foreign funding. The matter was somew=
hat resolved with PILDAT giving an assurance that it will not use the funds=
obtained from British sources for this purpose.
--=20
Animesh