What Is Going On In Kargil Sector Of Kashmir?
Who blew up the huge ammunition dump in Kargil on May 09, 1999?
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 16, 1999 - Reports, in different publications last week ‘let the cat out of the bag’ and has confirmed a Kashmiri charge that the Indian occupation Army’s Operation "VIJAY" in Kargil in Indian occupied Kashmir is a phony Nurakushti and is being orchestrated as a huge warlike operation, by the propaganda machinery of India’s Hindu fundamentalist Brahmin-dominated BJP Caretaker Government.A "mole-hill is being made into a mountain" – a firefight is being called an invasion – in the absence of eye witness account of foreign journalists who are forbidden entry into the Kargil sector of Indian occupied Kashmir. Even the 45 member UN Observers group (UNMOGIP) which is permanently stationed in Srinagar in summer (and Rawalpindi in winter) to observe and report Cease-fire violations under Security Council Resolution No. 91, passed on March 30, 1951, has not been allowed by India to visit Kargil. The impartial UN Observers can easily defuse the volatile situation in Kashmir by telling the world who is guilty of what in Kargil!
As a result the media around the globe is slowly but surely realizing that a typical sham is going on in remote Kargil in Indian occupied Kashmir. The situation there is more of internal strife than external intrusion. According to the Washington Times (issue of Friday June 11, 99 full text printed elsewhere in this newspaper) star reporter Bill Gertz, who quoting pentagon intelligence sources, wrote that; "On May 9, 99, a group of militants attacked the Indian Army ammunition depot at Kargil. The attack destroyed 60,000 artillery rounds. The sabotage attack was not reported to Indian military headquarters until several days after the attack due to the apparent embarrassment of local officers who had to explain the loss."
Our sources in Indian occupied Kashmir confirm (there are 350,000 Kashmiri Sikhs living peacefully among the friendly Muslim majority in that disputed territory mostly engaged in the transportation business) an important news stated below. During the confusion caused by pinpoint Pakistani shelling of the Indian occupation Army’s 121 Brigade headquarters in Kargil there were indeed some Sikh truck drivers involved in two separate ‘accidents’ on the night of May 8/9 1999. This is said to have caused the blow up of a huge underground ammunition depot as well as a major fuel dump located nearby. Our sources further report that some Kashmiri Muslim partisans (which oppressed community is not allowed anywhere near the military establishments in Indian Occupied Kashmir for obvious reasons) on that fateful May 8/9 night left their ‘visiting card’ in the house of the sadistic District Superintendent of Police Mr. Deepak Kumar (who has attained notoriety for his torture techniques) by blowing it up into smithereens, Mr. Kumar was lucky however! Bill Gertz’s report (in the June 11 Washington Times) though is not complete, is basically correct and confirms the May 9 noisy events in Kargil which have been hidden from the public by the Indian print media under government censor or a false sense of nationalism.
The Indian game becomes obvious as sometimes after the above incidents Lt. General Kishan Pal, 15 Corps Commander with responsibility for Kargil, in an interview given in the later part of May (and carried in the text of the cover story of India’s best news magazine FRONT-LINE Issue of June 05-18, 99), argued that "the Kargil heights occupied by the ‘Pakistani’ irregulars and troops were of little strategic importance. If I don’t take notice of them it will make no difference, If they come off the heights in the summer, they will be slaughtered. And if they don’t leave them in the winter, they will freeze to death." For some reason despite what General Kishan Pal had said India’s strategic perception of the Kargil heights changed overnight after the May 25 first ever meeting of the high-powered Central Committee on Security which was held in Delhi presided over by Indian Prime Minister Pundit Atal Bihari Vajpayee. The decision to escalate the Kargil firefight by use of air power was made at this meeting of the CCS.
The confusion in Delhi over the Kargil firefight, later changed to a ‘(massive intrusion by Afghan mercenaries,)’ was best described by the correspondent of Japan’s prestigious daily newspaper Asahi Shimbun who wrote from Delhi that; "That daily press briefing (by the Indians) could do with a lot more explanatory statements. It does not help that the politician does not speak in the same voice as the bureaucracy which does not say the same thing as the army."
In light of the above there is great logic in the Kashmir Association of North America’s Open Letter to an Indophile US Congressman Gary Ackerman that, "India does not need 50 jet aircraft, 20 Helicopter Gunships, nine regiments of 155mm artillery and 60,000 infantry to flush two or three hundred Kashmiri partisans who, armed with a death wish, have broadcast their address (by giving up their biggest asset – mobility) and are holed up – hundreds of miles from nowhere – in caves on a barren mountainside in disputed Kashmir. Obviously India is exaggerating the Kargil flare-up where the flabby Indian Army was ‘circumcised’ on May 9, 1999 in a South Asian version of the "Boston tea party" organized by Kashmiri Sikh Freedom Fighters who blew up a huge ammunition dump in Kargil."
The Kashmir Association has charged that; "the Caretaker BJP Indian government has an agenda for Kashmir. It is magnifying a minor Kargil firefight not only to sway world opinion to accept the cease-fire line in Kashmir as an international border but also arouse Hinduvta nationalistic fervor (a la Hitler’s Nazis) to muster the illiterate electorate for the coming September general election being held in the world’s largest Castocracy. The main agendum however, is ethnic cleansing in Indian occupied Kashmir which has been delayed for fifty years under article 370 of the Indian constitution which clause was injected by India’s founding fathers and Shaikh Abdullah, to protect the Muslim majority in disputed Kashmir from disappearing under the flood of Hindu migrants. The influential BJP General Secretary, K.N. Govindacharya let the cat out of the bag (Times of India – June 10, 99) when he revealed his party’s intent to repeal that article." Incidentally Indian press reports confirm that the BJP is indeed organizing a KASHMIR DAY on June 23, 99 where repeal of Article 370 is the main agendum.
It is strange indeed that the Secretary General of the United Nations and President Bill Clinton and other world leaders while trying to defuse the Kargil situation have not said a word, about India deliberately flouting Security Council resolution No. 91 (1951) which called for UN Observer group in Kashmir (UNMOGIP) to; "observe and report, investigate complaints of cease-fire violations and submit its finding to each party and to the Secretary General." Forty five UN Observers are right there in Srinagar Kashmir – and India is not allowing them to do their work in Kargil – and the world is silent!! BRAVO!