Indian Defense Minister "Field Marshal" Fernandes says Pakistan will use Nuclear weapons
Washington, D.C., Wednesday, June 30, 1999 - Yesterday (June 29, 99) Le Figaro the leading French newspaper carried an interview of India’s Defense Minister ‘Field Marshal’ George Fernandes a doctored translation of which has been reproduced on the front page of most Indian newspaper including today’s HINDUSTAN TIMES – JUNE 30, 99.According to the Hindustan Times the loquacious civilian face of the huge Indian defense establishment publicly aired his fear – and covered the embarrassment where the world’s fourth largest Army (which he had ordered on May 8, 99 to clear the Kargil mountain in 48 hours) has been held at hay by a couple of hundred Kashmiri Freedom Fighters for the past fifty days so that; "Pakistan could be tempted to use nuclear weapons in the event of a full – blown conflict with India." He is reported to have added that; "Pakistan was not at all bluffing about using Nuclear weapons." One wonders how he came to know that Pakistan was not bluffing.
It seems that India’s Megalomaniac BJP coalition Brahmins have finally came down to earth and realized their Himalayan nuclear blunder as on May 1998 brought about by advice, given in British – accented Hindi, by idiot savants like Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh and other Hindu fundamentalist fascists like JagMohan. As the very cautious, and somewhat confused and divided, Pakistani leadership has made NO open nuclear threats – as they should have – perhaps the ground realities as pointed out in this column Khalistan Calling (Charhdi Kala Weekly’s issue of June 24 – 30, 99 headlined; "What Do the Pakistanis Think About Nuclear War") which was widely circulated in India has scared the South Asian chair – born warriors to air their fears through the mouth of "Field Marshal" George Fernandes and the pages of a prestigious French daily newspaper.
Mr. Fernandes has, however forgotten to mention in his Le Figaro interview what weekly news magazine Outlook India has said, in its latest July 3, 99 issue, that; "As feared, nuclear parity has negated the Indian armed forces superiority in conventional arms over Pakistan", and that, "A year ago (May 98) Home minister L. K. Advani proclaimed that the nuclear tests have, ‘brought about a qualitative new state in India – Pakistan relations, particularly in finding a lasting solution to the Kashmir problem and Islamabad is advised to realize the change in the geo – strategic situation in the region and the world. Islamabad realized it only too well." Indeed!
As if the above blunder was not enough the BJP fascists (according to last Sunday’s – June 27, 99 – Washington Post article by its star reporter Thomas W. Lippman) hinted to the United States that India was about to attack Pakistan. It is obvious the geographically illiterate Delhi rulers have not realized that any war CANNOT take place in South Asia in this missile age without the permission of the regional super power, the Middle Kingdom – China. Period!
Sikhs, particularly those who are captive in the Indian map, should oppose any such adventure as Indian Occupied Khalistan’s major population centers (Ludhiana, Jullundar, Chandigarh at al.) and military cantonments (Ambala, etc.) are a little over one hundred fifty miles from Chinese Tibet and will become the first target in any Indo-Chinese confrontation. An OPEN LETTER to Indian Prime Minister Pundit Atal Behari Vajpayee from the Kashmir Association, reproduced verbatim below, makes this amply clear to the illiterates in Delhi lest they overreach again a la the May 98 nuclear tests: -
Kashmir Association of North America
P. O. Box 14292
Washington, DC 20044 USA
OPEN LETTER TO INDIAN PRIME MINISTER PUNDIT VAJPAYEEJune 28, 1999
His Excellency Pundit Atal Bihari Vajpayee
Prime Minister of India’s
C/O Embassy of India,
2107 Massachusetts Ave. NW
Washington, DC 20008Ref: Yesterday’s Washington Post story; "India Hinted At Attack in Pakistan"
Respected Pundit Ji:
I hope Sir, you will pause before attacking Pakistan and think why India’s leach – like 700 Generals, Admirals and Air Marshals (as compared to the superb Israeli Defense Force’s 11 Major Generals and One Lt. General) are pushing India into a nuclear confrontation with Pakistan – which India CANNOT win for meteorgeographical reasons – over a barren Kargil Mountain?
But then Geography has never been the Indian Army’s forte since it was put under a taboo by the British Colonials who decided that the subject was too technical for the native. That legacy persists today in a reduced scale along with the Indian Army’s mercenary mindset and traditions including the toothbrush mustache etc. I am therefore enclosing an excellent article on the hot subject of Kargil and the South Asian nuclear situation which appeared in a Sikh Diaspora Canadian publication Charhdi Kala Weekly. The 700 Generals ought to read and learn! A map of South Asia is also enclosed showing where is what?
Kargil is high (16,000 feet attitude) ground. The brave Kashmiri Mujahideen perched on it will have to abandon it come September when winter sets in (as rightly pointed out to India’s top news magazine, the Frontline, by Lt. General Kishan Pal, the Indian Army Corps Commander of Kargil) unless of course the Freedom fighters want to ape the June 1984 Siachin glacier stupidity of the Indian Army when it lanced across the Kashmir Cease-fire Line to occupy high ground there. This Siachin misadventure, as you probably know, has been costing millions of dollars daily to an impoverished country like India where 450 million (yes over 450 million) people are in a scurrying rush every morning trying to find a bush or a culvert to hide their shame while answering the call of nature as there are hardly any private or public latrines. The amount of money spent in a year on maintain India’s Siachin ‘misadventure’ would provide a latrine for every Indian specially the 3 million shy women who are raped every night when they go out in the dark – unlike their menfolk – to perform the same function.
Maybe Mr. Prime Minister, US President Bill Clinton misunderstood the contents of your letter quoted by Washington Post star reporter Thomas W. Lippman in his report yesterday about India having hinted at an attack in Pakistan without seeking the Middle Kingdom’s permission. A No No!
Surely for a noble Indian like you (who has the financial integrity of Lal Bahadur Shastri and Quaid-a-Azam no doubt of that) providing latrines for the 450 million deprived Indian would have priority over an expensive war with Pakistan to regain what? A barren mountain, India captured in the 1971 war when Pakistan was ruled by a lush Brit/Indian/Pakistani mercenary, a General Yahya Khan who took pride in his toothbrush mustache and the quantity of Scotch Whiskey he could consume.
Yours sincerely
A. Sheikh