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Kathmandu,Tuesday February 01, 2000 Magh 18th, 2056.
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India cannot deny this
India is trying to establish the presence of Pakistani secret agents,
including its terrorists and, by extension of the same logic also the terrorists from
Kashmir in Nepal. In the light of the fact of the presence of these elements in Nepal as
well as a Pakistani embassy official’s involvement in the fake Indian currency deal,
it is simply to be admitted that something serious is going on in this country. It is
natural that India should express its apprehensions about such developments. And we in
Nepal can understand India’s perception of the security threat it faces from the
activities run here by Pakistani agents.
However, there is also another angle that cannot be ignored, if we are at all
to take our own national security concerns into consideration. It’s an open fact that
India has remained inconsiderate to Nepal’s own perceptions of open threat to its own
security from the Indian side. Apart from our demand for the withdrawal of Indian security
personnel from a strategically vital territorial part of the north west tip of Kalapani,
India has kept encroaching upon, at least, sixty two points, inside Nepali land.
Till last year, almost all sectors of our print media as well as political
parties of all ideological hues demanded that India vacate all of those areas. But New
Delhi has all through been turning a deaf year to such calls. Doesn’t this constitute
an invasion of Nepali territory? India’s encroachment upon these parts of Nepal is
something that is worse than a nation’s security threat, to say the least.
Worse yet, India wants to kill its security threat from Nepal by working from
within Nepal itself. This in itself constitutes an intention to carry out what a sovereign
country can permit in no circumstances. Yet, can our government deny that India’s
high powered intelligence agency, the Research and Analysis wing (RAW), is operating in
this country. We don’t want Pakistani secret agents and agencies, including the ISI (
Inter Services Intelligence), to function from within our country nor for that matter do
we have to be friendly and hospitable to the RAW.
Meanwhile, India cannot deny that various of their own agencies have not
lagged behind in roping in people from various sectors to work in their interest. They
include politicians, members of big business, poor scribes from our gutter press and
cultural activists. That is an established fact.
Yadav Khanal
Tripureshwor |
