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By N. P. Upadhyaya

Kathmandu: Sushil Koirala, an old-young boy at 75 (but yet second generation) was the Prime Minister of Nepal five years ago when Nepal promulgated country’s national Charter which later created Himalayan problems for the nation. 

One fine morning Nepal PM Koirala received a letter in his office addressed to the Executive Head of Nepal from India signed by PM Modi reiterating, “the Indian government is pleased to announce that the Indian defense ministry would like to donate one Helicopter to Nepal Army at an appropriate time”.

The letter also hinted that some high profile ministers from the Indian government will land in Nepal to witness the handover ceremony of the Indian chopper to the Nepal Army.

That was indeed good news and as per the declaration, one lady minister was sent to Kathmandu to donate the Indian gift to the ancient military institution of Nepal.

Nepal Military institution is oldest in South Asia, for the record. 

Observers recall that the lady minister was Sushma Swaraj, the polished but cruel/brutal foreign minister of India who was as good as Lady Macbeth of the Shakespearean drama.

The ceremony ended with the donation and the very next day the newspapers having excessive India bend had the headlines with all praise for the Indian establishment as if India had ever helped Nepal for free and that Nepal had its existence only because of India in the South with the borders open for calculatedly allowing the exodus of the poor and poverty-stricken Indian nationals, excluding beggars, into Nepal.

However, some intelligent brains and high placed sources who have been watching India’s fraudulent dramas of the donations that are attached with iron strings were smelling rat on this Indian largesse. 

India extorts much than gifts to Nepal,

But yet no clue as such was available to these knowledgeable personalities as to why the Indian administration had been kind enough to donate military hardware such as the helicopter to the Nepal Army and that too free?

Frankly speaking, India has never given any commodity for free but instead extracts/extracted Himalayan benefits time permitting, political and financial both, as and when a gift as such is being awarded to this India beleaguered nation since the next day of the Indian independence 1947.

India drains more than $ 5 billion annually. This is India’s coercive diplomacy par excellence.

Yes! India’s money under the table is being pocketed by some double-cross agents who are said to have been registered in the Indian embassy’s payroll.

Informed sources claim that those Nepali nationals enjoying monthly perks from the Indian mission reportedly have approached to the tune of some forty thousands.

This numerical strength of the paid agents (rumored) definitely includes some Nepali media men who dance to the tune of Indian dictates coming to them from secret sources.

It is this set of Nepal’s brilliant and honoured nationals, visibly tilted, who even came to the Kathmandu streets in the year 2015 denouncing the sitting Nepal Prime Minister K. P. Oli that the stringent Indian Economic Blockade imposed on Nepal as to have been the wrong deeds of the Prime Minister himself. This they did after the announcement of the new Charter.

This set even marched to the Nepal-India border in Birganj and observed a sit-in session for all along several weeks that further blocked the supply of the essential consumer goods from across the porous border.

This sit-in by Nepali nationals allowed the horrible and sadistic Indian government led by fake thug PM Modi to sound to the world through his howling and barking unapologetically nationalist media that “it is the Nepali nationals who have been not allowing the essential commodities to enter into the Nepali territory by blocking the passage at the border point in Southern Nepal”.

Later when the Indian government restored the status quo ante, the Nepali nationals media included, who had been working day in day out for India at the border were the ones to lament at the Indian stance in reverting the economic blockade.

These suspicious activities exhibited by our own nationals at the time of the Indian blockade suggested that one single rotten egg can destabilize the country and if several eggs are rotten then the nation is already a failed state.

Nepal went with its Constitution promulgation scheme and as the date approached for the announcement, the foreign secretary with split personality S. Jaishankar landed in Kathmandu uninvited whose presence was not at all warranted in the country.

The multiple disorder political personality Jaishankar warned the Nepali leaders to “listen to the plea of the Nepalese Madheshi’s grievances and incorporate their aspirations in the new Constitution” and ‘halt’ the announcement of the national document for an indefinite period.

Or else, warned the Indian minister with a riven character that India will be forced to impose an economic blockade on Nepal.

Nepali leaders went with their announcement plan as scheduled and Jaishankar’s warning came into existence that is India imposed an eight months long economic blockade.

What was most horrifying of it all was before the blockade, Nepal was hit by a deadly 7.9 magnitude on the Richter scale earthquake on 25 April 2015. Interestingly, India came to the rescue of the quake-hit Kathmandu denizens. This rescue effort largely contributed to the excessive hatred for Modi and his lapdog(s) in the media in Nepal. 

Pure RAW agents in the guise of media men from Delhi flooded Kathmandu and almost captured the International Airport and then intentionally flew the Indian choppers in the north of Kathmandu that touched the Tibetan border, China, which was intended on spying on China’s Tibet. 

China became alert and sent PLA troops in the adjoining Tibetan border.

A sort of chaos was created by India’s nonsense media who began howling and barking that India has come to the salvage of the “completely devastated Nepal”.

One idiot Indian media man, Rahul Kanwal, an anchor in one of the Indian TV channels simply created an ugly scene in Kathmandu and the nationalists in Kathmandu began their slogan with “Go Back Modi…Go Back Indian Media!”.

The Indian blockade had brought immense problems for Nepal for eight months plus.

It was this blockade which practically distanced Nepal from India in an unprecedented way. The drift in Nepal-India ties since then appears remote to come to its original position which is very good news for Nepal.

And it was this blockade which allowed China to enter Nepal through a big bang. China’s grand entry was almost lauded by Nepal’s nationalist media.

PM KP Oli left for Beijing as the blockade stretched for long.

The Chinese response was more than favourable and since then Nepal has surely found China a great and reliable partner though China is definitely not. Yet, she is comparatively very Nepal-friendly. 

Interestingly, the Indian blockade encouraged some Nepali leaders in Tarai to press Nepal government with the Indian backing though the Tarai leaders rebuke it. However, the fact is that India imposed the blockade to impress the Nepali population in Tarai to signal that they “were in the good book” of the Indian establishment.

Their illusion came to an end when India suddenly lifted the blockade when Nepal inched very close to China. This had an inner meaning.

Now let’s come again to the helicopter story that was an Indian farcical donation primarily.

Prime Minister Sushil Koirala almost fainted in his Singh Durbar office when some of the PM’s secretariat officials handed over a letter addressed to Nepal Prime Minister by the Indian government.

Koirala opened the envelope and began reading the terrifying contents of the letter.

Reports that trickled out from the PM’s Secretariat was that PM Koirala first fainted and when he came to senses, he ordered drinking water with ice cubes.

The letter read, ‘Mr. Prime Minister, we at the Indian defense ministry have been advised by the Indian Prime Minister’s Office to write to Nepal government for the urgent payment of the helicopter which Nepal bought from India some months back”.

Thus the donation of the chopper ended with a very bad note which for sure exposed the Indian trickery associated with thuggery par excellence.

India much the same way must have cheated other smaller neighbours as well. The Maldives is the target now.

Fraudulent India’s notoriety:

Bangladeshi Muslims are “termites” for the Indian establishment. The Sri Lankans fear that the Indian regime may resurrect the Tamil Tigers phenomenon. Bhutani King remains ever terrified fearing that his throne may have the fate of the Nepal King Gyanendra.

The Maldives also fears the forced landing of the Indian peacekeeping forces, IPKF, if and when President Soleh decides to distance with India.

Horrified Maldivian Foreign Minister has begun talking and delivering his official speech in Hindi. This speaks of the Indian terror in Male.

Fresh reports state that India is all set to revive its old warm ties with its angered neighbours. The damage control is likely to start in a few days.

It is only Pakistan which has the power and the guts to face India with a matching strength and it is this power of Pakistan that Nepal would like to take the SA neighbour a matching political and nuclear deterrent in this region which can push India back.

In a way, India is the regional monster which has almost killed the SAARC and may eat up one fine morning even the BIMSTEC, the Bay of Bengal Initiative.

Indian notoriety is of the world-class. India’s proximity with the US is its strength, however, it is this tie that has practically distanced India with smaller neighbours and from the Arab world by its intense Islamophobic attitude. The Arabs hate India. Just both the Arabs and India have the commercial ties. Intense hatred for India is deep inside.  

The Muslim countries in and around Gulf/Middle East have slowly begun to feel the heat of the hatred of Islam in India.

The February 23-29 New Delhi’s violent riot that selectively targeted the Indian Muslims reminded the world people and the leaders of the Godhara Muslim massacre that was an event very close to the cruelty that Adolph Hitler had tried on the Jewish and the Slavs mostly the Poles in concentration camps.

Fresh news from Sri Lanka claims that a Samagi Jana Balawegaya, SJB, Member of Parliament Mujibur Rehman has appealed the Sri Lankan government to seek India’s support to get the Lankan women called “Sara” deported from that country (India) as she is directly involved in the Easter Sunday attack, writes the Daily Mirror September 19, 2020. 

Rehman told the Daily Mirror that it will be possible to uncover vital information on Easter Sunday attacks if ‘Sara’ is brought down from India and is questioned on the Church attack.

This means that the wanted criminals find safe haven in India and so they flee to India for State protection even.

Much the same way, Nepali Maoist leaders Prachanda and BR Bhattari too were secretly kept safe by the Indian establishment to use them to damage Nepal to which they obeyed.

Prachanda is still taken as India’s close yesman.

Another hair raising report authentically claimed that India has begun threatening the peace prospects in Afghanistan.

A Pakistani official Akbar Hussain Durrani freshly claimed in a seminar that India was making every attempt to destroy peace in the region, even inside Pakistan, by directly sponsoring terrorism, writes Islamuddin Sajid for the Anadolu Agency on September 17, 2020.

Durrani is secretary for information in the information ministry.

Durrani says India is playing the role of a “spoiler” to derail the peace process in Afghanistan.

Meanwhile, Syed Ali Zia Jaffery writes for the Diplomat on September 21, 2020, that developments in the Afghan peace process have always had a direct bearing on the trajectory of Washington’s ties with Islamabad and that relations between the two countries have improved owing to Pakistan’s positive role in helping the United States and the Afghan Taliban strike a deal. The commencement of the Intra-Afghan dialogue in Doha, Qatar, coupled with US acknowledgement of Pakistan’s go-between efforts, is good for Pakistan-US relations”.

Apart from thwarting peace in Afghanistan, India’s RAW is creating troubles in every South Asian country — the thrust of the RAW is in Nepal, Pakistan, and Bangladesh as well.

In the process, Nepal stands now very much infested by the RAW men in Kathmandu, similarly, Pakistan is also flooded with the RAW secret moles.

The extent of RAW‘s involvement in Karachi, Baluchistan, KPK, and ever urban centres of Punjab and Sindh may not be fully known, however, the intelligence collected from dreaded Indian commander Kul Bhushan Yadav has uncovered some of the strategic directives given to him by the factory of the RAW that is the South Block and the National Security Advisor Ajit Kumar Doval, writes Audeela Naureen and Umar Waqar for the News International last weekend.

Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, veteran Afghan Mujaheddin leader and head of the Hezb-e-Islami party talking on the role of the regional countries more so of India says that India, due to its rivalry with Pakistan, was dissatisfied with the peace push (ongoing) and had started supporting local militias to act as spoilers.

“China and Pakistan have a common and coordinated position on Afghanistan, not only do they support the peace process, rather they see it as beneficial to their regional interests, especially if it leads to a reduction in India’s presence in Afghanistan,” Hekmatyar said, according to Shadi Khan Saif of the Anadolu Agency on September 19, 2020. 

India’s next step will be to woo ‘angered’ smaller neighbours. The smaller neighbours must understand the new Indian design and thwart any arm twisting in the days ahead. India definitely is a threat to South Asian peace, obviously, Afghanistan included.

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