Do you keep in mind Aamir Khan-starrer motion drama Sarfarosh launched in 1999? Written, produced and directed by John Matthew Matthan, Sarfarosh was a piece of fiction based mostly on info. The movie was critically and commercially profitable because it was an trustworthy and brave have a look at a few of the actual causes behind terrorism and insurgency in our land. And therefore it was one of many memorable Bollywood motion pictures. The film’s USP was its direct commentary on Pakistan-sponsored terrorism. The film confirmed how Gulfam Hassan, performed by Naseeruddin Shah, involves India as a Pakistani ghazal singer and acts as a spy and a key informer and the way along with his assist a few of the disgruntled components in India obtain provide of arms and ammunition from Pakistan’s intelligence outfit, ISI.
There was additionally pointed commentary on Gulfam Hassan’s ties with these within the authorities and within the administrative system in India and the way it was being misused by the ISI. The rationale to be reminded of Sarfarosh’s Gulfam Hassan is the accusation levelled by Pakistani journalist Nusrat Mirza in opposition to former Vice President of India Mohammad Hamid Ansari. Pakistani journalist Nusrat Mirza, in his current interview, acknowledged that he was invited to India almost 5 instances between 2005 and 2012 by former Vice President Mohammad Hamid Ansari. He had additionally knowledgeable that the confidential info supplied by Ansari was handed on by him to the ISI.
It could be recalled that the then ruling Congress get together was instrumental and eager on making Mohammad Hamid Ansari the Vice President of India. Throughout that point, i.e between 2004 and 2014, terrorism was rampant within the nation. Bomb blasts and terrorist assaults have been a standard phenomenon when Dr. Manmohan Singh-led authorities was in energy within the Centre. Since everyone seems to be privy to how a handful of Pakistani terrorists rampaged over the nation’s monetary capital on November 26, 2008, I cannot repeat its particulars.
What’s essential and desires consideration is how the Pakistani companies secretly function in India. The film additionally showcased how the federal government and the administration knowingly and at instances unknowingly assist Pakistani operatives to unfold terrorism within the nation. Now some will query why Nusrat Mirza revealed about his visits to India in his interview after so a few years. Even when we put aside why he will need to have revealed this info, what bothers Indians is his allegation in opposition to the previous Vice President of India who had, allegedly leaked confidential info to him. The Congress management ought to have rendered an evidence into the allegation made by Nusrat Mirza. Though Jairam Ramesh has clarified, nonetheless until the time I penned this text, the Congress excessive command has not proven the courtesy of clarifying the allegations made by Mirza. Nevertheless, the Pakistani administration and army officers have instantly dismissed Mirza’s allegations. In fact, the Pakistani ruling and army officers confirming Mirza’s allegations have been additionally not anticipated. As a result of in the event that they have been to simply accept it, it could have been as if they’re confirming their dangerous deeds.
In the course of the Congress-led United Progressive Alliance (UPA) authorities, Mohammad Hamid Ansari was probably the most favoured candidate of the leftists, the so-called secular, the progressive thinkers and the journalists of the nation. He had held the Vice President place for ten consecutive years. Mirza’s allegations casts doubts on the patriotism of an individual holding such a senior and probably the most revered constitutional place within the nation. Though, Ansari clarified that he had by no means invited Nusrat Mirza to attend any occasions within the nation, however nonetheless there is no such thing as a readability on the grave allegations.
Historical past has quite a few references to how Congress management has all the time had beneficial connections and thus had made a number of journeys to each China and Pakistan up to now. Even not too long ago, i.e two years in the past the nation witnessed how after China’s incursion into the Galwan valley, the Congress management, as a substitute of supporting the Indian Military and the central authorities, had taken a hostile tone. Additionally, when prime minister Narendra Modi had known as an all-party assembly to debate about China’s intrusion, the Congress management had made its anti-national agenda public. Even in the course of the invasion of Dokhlam in Bhutan in 2017, the Congress management, as a substitute of standing by the Central authorities, was spreading misinformation and making propaganda in opposition to the Modi authorities. The world has seen how 1000’s of sq. kilometers of our land have been invaded by China in the course of the tenures of each Dr. Manmohan Singh and Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s because the Prime Minister of the nation. Regardless of all this, the Congress management is now giving the Modi authorities classes in patriotism. It’s not stunning to see one of many senior Congress leaders like Jairam Ramesh making concerted efforts in assist of Dr. Ansari and claiming that the allegations levelled by the Pakistani journalist are baseless.
Dr. Ansari’s declare that inviting Nusrat Mirza for the seminar on Worldwide Terrorism and Human Rights held in December 2010 was the choice of the occasion’s organisers and that he had nothing to do with Mirza coming to India. However the occasion organiser and senior advocate Adhish Agarwal promptly refuted Dr. Ansari’s declare. Agarwal clarified that it was vp Dr. Ansari’s workplace that had despatched the invite to Nusrat Mirza asking him to attend the seminar. He additionally shared {a photograph} of Dr. Ansari and Mirza from an occasion held in 2009. The {photograph} confirmed that in 2009, at an occasion organised by the Jama Masjid United Entrance, Dr. Ansari and Mirza have been current on the identical dais. Dr. Ansari has not but clarified this {photograph}. Agarwal mentioned that he was knowledgeable via Dr. Ansari’s secretary that they wished to ask Nusrat Mirza for the programme. However since Mirza is a Pakistani journalist, the organisers had knowledgeable Dr. Ansari’s secretary that it could not be doable to ask him. When Dr. Ansari got here to know, he was upset on the organisers is what Ansari’s secretary Deewan had knowledgeable us, Agarwal had mentioned. The Congress management should make clear what conclusions the residents can draw from these revelations.
Additionally, the allegations leveled by a retired officer from RAW, NK Sood, are as critical as these made by Mirza’s exposé. Sood had alleged that when Dr. Ansari was the ambassador to Iran, he had disclosed details about RAW and had thus endangered the lives of RAW officers. This deepens suspicion round Ansari even additional.
What has been mentioned by Nusrat Mirza, solely brings to the fore the ties which have been shared by Pakistan’s intelligence companies with those that have been in energy on the Centre. The timid face of the sympathizers of Pakistan has been uncovered earlier as nicely – be it Mani Shankar Aiyar, who made seditious statements in Pakistan asking them to co-operate to dethrone the Modi authorities or be it Dr. Ansari for internet hosting Nusrat Mirza. It has as soon as once more develop into evident that greater than the menace from the ISI or different worldwide terrorist outfits, the nation is endangered by its residents like Mohammad Hamid Ansari.
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