Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Saudi Arabia’s ‘Diwali Gift’ to India, Chops-Off Gilgit-Baltistan & Kashmir From Pakistan’s Map
By Haider Abbas
When the UAE announced the formalisation of ties with Israel on 14 August 2020, it was a gift to Pakistan on its Independence Day, which also had ironically come, only ten days after the devastating Beirut Blast in Lebanon on August 4.
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) was the guiding force behind it as well as the deal of ‘normalisation’ of ties between Bahrain with Israel. It had been a foregone conclusion that KSA would also follow suit, as was indicated by Israel’s Mossad Chief Yossi Cohen in an interview with Channel 12 News on October 25.
Cohen said he believed KSA and Israel will soon open-up their embassies, after the November 2020 US elections conclude. It can now be anybody’s guess that all the 22 Arab states are likely to reciprocate their ‘embassy move’ with Israel, with the exception of Pakistan, Iran, and maybe Qatar.
The KSA-Israel normalisation process had been well on the cards but the issue which stems from the ‘hubris’ is its fallout, with particular reference to Pakistan. The KSA crown prince MBS had in a fit of rage after Pakistan critiqued Riyadh over the Kashmir issue. KSA also forced Islamabad to repay the one billion loan.
Pakistan promptly repaid the loan with China’s help. The country was also deprived of oil supply on deferred loans from the kingdom. The KSA added more humiliation to Pakistan after announcing the amount of 1 billion USD, which Pakistan had returned, was to be invested in Reliance Jio Fiber in India.
The Islamic Kingdom’s humiliation of Pakistan did not stop there since now the real portent of the love affair between KSA and Israel has been uncovered. On October 24, Saudi Arabia released a 20 Riyal banknote to commemorate its presidency of organising G-20 summit on 21-22 November 2020. The backside of the note is enough to leave Pakistan, KSA’s once most trusted ally, all aghast!
The world map displayed on the backside of the note does not show Gilgit-Baltistan (GB) and Kashmir as parts of Pakistan. The territory of Kashmir is disputed between India and Pakistan from the past 70 years.
A part of it is in Pakistan and another part is with India, and both the nations are on the boil since 5 August 2019, when India’s PM Narendra Modi removed Article 370 from J&K, which gave it special status, irking China too in the process.The decision led both China and Pakistan dragging the issue of Kashmir to the UNSC thrice in the past one year. China has staked its claim inside Ladakh and in Arunachal Pradesh, as well as in Himachal Pradesh inside India.Pakistan had signalled to form a new bloc with Turkey, Iran, Malaysia, China and Russia and has started looking for avenues outside the dictates of the US.Hence, according to the official KSA stand, Gilgit-Baltistan and Kashmir are now independent nations. This move by the Islamic Kingdom is a slap on Pakistan’s face which had released the country’s new political map on 5 August 2020 and, prompting New Delhi to call it ‘political absurdity.’Saudi Arabia’s priorities clearly lie with India, as the kingdom is slated to invest 15 billion USD in India’s Reliance Industries, as reported by Economic Times on 10 August, 2020. The same newspaper on 22 August announced that the Saudi Kingdom was looking forward to investing in a 60 billion USD oil refinery in India.
The country’s coming mega investments in India, while rejecting any financial aid to Pakistan, are surely nothing short of a ‘double-Diwali blast’, which India must have been waiting for ages.
If India was to portray the world map in this form, it may have been conceived as it is in conflict with Pakistan but is KSA also in conflict with Pakistan? Or else the agenda of Israel which is ‘too fixed’ to get Pakistan workforce and also its military involved in the KSA security apparatus, be evicted from inside KSA and later from the entire Gulf region, in order to starve Pakistan and bring it to its knees, is soon on the anvil too?
India is already quite ready to replace the vacuum with its workforce. Thus, KSA, Israel and India are likely to have a ‘springtime’ in the Gulf region in the days to come.
The KSA’s annihilation of Pakistan, it may be mentioned, is definitely targeted more on China, as it is China which is to carve its CPEC through GB and it was on China’s advice that Pakistan recently announced GB to be its fifth province, where elections are scheduled to be held on 15 November.
And, it may be known that when India had decided to put on air GB weather report on 8 May, 2020, it made China see red. China took a stringent note of this move and raised the temperatures on the border with India, as the communist nation construed the Indian move to be a spanner in its most coveted project, i.e. the CPEC.
The KSA’s step is nothing short of an attempt to disgrace Pakistan, which also seems to be adapting to its new bloc. In the new world order, the US is pitted against Pakistan, as is India, and KSA will help the US to finally contain China.
https://eurasiantimes.com/saudi-arabias-diwali-gift-to-india-chops-off-gilgit-baltistan-kashmir-from-pakistans-map/
جج کی جاسوسی کرنے والوں کا احتساب چاہتے ہیں، بلاول بھٹو
اسکردو میں جیو نیوز سے گفتگو میں بلاول بھٹو نے کہا کہ سپریم کورٹ کی طرف سے بہت بڑا فیصلہ آیا ہے، جس کے بعد حکومت کی نیت اور طریقہ کار بے نقاب ہوچکا ہے۔
انہوں نے کہا کہ وزیراعظم نے غلط طریقہ اپناکر صدر مملکت سے یہ کام کروایا، عمران خان، وزیر قانون سمیت جو لوگ بھی اس کام میں ملوث ہیں ان کے خلاف کارروائی ہونی چاہیے۔
پی پی چیئرمین نےمزید کہا کہ پی ٹی آئی نے جنوبی پنجاب کو 100 دن میں صوبہ بنانے کا اعلان کیا جو آج تک نہیں بنایا جاسکا۔
ان کا کہنا تھا کہ ہم نے 2018ء کے منشور میں گلگت بلتستان کو عبوری صوبہ بنانے کا کہا، پی ٹی آئی نے تو 2 ماہ قبل اعلان کیا۔
بلاول بھٹو نےامید ظاہر کی کہ پی ٹی آئی کی طرف سے گلگت بلتستان کو عبوری صوبہ بنانے کا اعلان لولی پاپ نہیں ہوگا۔
انہوں نے کہا کہ ہر جگہ جی بی کے عوام کا ریفرنڈم نظر آرہا ہے، 2018ء کے انتخابی منشور کے وعدے پورے کرکے دنیا کو دکھائیں گے۔
پی پی چیئرمین نے یہ بھی کہا کہ جی بی کے جمہوری اور آئینی حقوق کے لیے پی پی مسلسل جدوجہد کررہی ہے، الیکشن میں دھاندلی ہوئی تو یہاں کے عوام کے شانہ بشانہ کھڑا رہوں گا۔
ان کا کہنا تھا کہ یہ نہیں کہہ سکتا کہ جی بی میں مداخلت نہیں ہورہی ہے، کچھ آزاد امیدواروں اور سیاسی جماعتوں کے ذریعے راستہ روکنے کی کوشش کی جارہی ہے۔
بلاول بھٹو زرداری نے کہا کہ پی پی واحد جماعت ہے جو گلگت بلتستان کے مسائل حل کراتی رہی ہے، شہید ذوالفقار علی بھٹو نے ایف سی آر اور راج گیری کے ظلم کا خاتمہ کیا۔
انہوں نے کہا کہ شہید ذوالفقارعلی بھٹو نے جی بی کے عوام کو پٹرول اور گندم پر سبسٹڈی دی، پہلے لوگ ان علاقوں کو ناردرن ایریا کے نام سے جانتے تھے، آج ان کی اپنی اسمبلی ہے، اپنا وزیراعلیٰ ہے، یہ سب پی پی کی وجہ سے ہے۔
https://jang.com.pk/news/837357
Mehdi Shah is the “Baba-e-Rozgar” for Gilgit Baltistan, Chairman PPP Bilawal Bhutto Zardari
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari paying rich tributes to jiyalas who struggled for democracy and posperity with Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto said that former chief minister Mehdi Shah is the one who has been a jiyala since the time of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. He called Mehdi Shah “Baba-e-Rozgar” because he provided employment to 25 thousand youth of GB. He said that we will give similar rights to the people of GB which the people of the rest of the country are enjoying. Now this is the promise of the grandson of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and son of Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto that his first priority will be to provide jobs to the youth of GB. PPP always provides jobs and reinstate those who lose their jobs during fascist governments. Chairman PPP said that for getting employment and rights the people of GB will have to vote for the PPP. With your vote we will be able to save you from the destruction of PTI government, he said.
Chairman PPP said that he wants to establish free hospitals like he has in Sindh. He wants to give every laborer a Benazir Laborer card like Sindh. He wants to establish a power plant like he has established the Thar coal power plant in Sindh.
Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari said that today every section of the society from lady health workers to the government employees are protesting against PTI government. The puppet party (PTI) has pitched its puppet in this constituency but the people know them and will reject them. He said that people of GB need a brave representative and he is their representative so go door to door and deliver the message of the party and bring them out on the polling day to stamp the arrow on the ballot paper. He said that he wants to fulfill the mission of Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. He warned that if the votes of the people of GB are stolen then he will be in Islamabad with the people of GB protesting against this theft. He said that he will remain in GB till 15th November and will celebrate the victory in the elections with the people of GB.
Earlier the PPP Chairman met with the members of Peoples Lawyers’ Forum and a delegation of district Bar in Skardu. He also inaugurated party election offices at Satpara road, Haji Gam and Newranga. He inaugurated Peoples Youth office at Hassan colony chowk. He also addressed workers at the Peoples Youth office and said that the Peoples Youth was established by Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto. The youth of the country need a young leadership but the youth of the country were cheated by a player. The youth needs to tread the path of democracy which leads to prosperity. The biggest issue confronted by the youth is employment which only PPP can provide.
https://www.ppp.org.pk/pr/23992/
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