India trying to ignite civil-military rift in Pakistan on Pathankot

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s intelligence sources insist that after failing to create rift between country’s civilian and military leadership on the issue of Pathankot incident, India is now preparing to directly point finger on ISI and Pakistan Army to present them as the major impediment in the normalization of relationship between the two countries.

These sources said that India is working on the agenda of getting Pakistan isolated but failing to do so is maddening New Delhi whose Defence Minister has now threatened Pakistan that that the world will see ‘results’ within a year.

Issuing veiled threats, Indian Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar said on last Saturday that India’s patience has exhausted, adding that the world will see ‘results’ within a year.

In a statement quoted by the Indian media, Parrikar had also said Pakistani investigation team would not be allowed inside the Pathankot airbase. Reportedly, the Indian officials are taking the approach of aggression in response to Pakistan’s offer to help catch the culprits behind the Pathankot airbase attack.

The Indian minister had claimed that Pakistan did not take any action after the Mumbai attack, adding that the scale of patience is exhausted after the Pathankot attack. 

After the Pathankot incident, Pakistan’s civilian and military leadership unanimously decided to extent full cooperation to India to get to the perpetrators of the latest attack in India. Pakistan not only made certain arrests on the basis of information share by India but also constituted a high level investigation team to probe the matter. Still the Indian defence minister came up with a threatening statement against Islamabad.

Pakistani intelligence sources believe that India continues to pursue the agenda of weakening Pakistan by fueling internal conflicts regarding which Islamabad has already shared dossiers of Indian involvement with UN and US.

According to intelligence sources, Indians would soon be asking for access to Pakistan’s Intl agencies to investigate Pathankot. 

These sources believe that China Pakistan Economic Corridor and successes of outcome of Zarb-e-Azb in checking terrorism and extremism in the country are simply annoying for India. Ops Zarb-e-Azb, it is said has left a positive impact on the overall law & order situation in the country besides shrinking space for Indian TTP proxies in Pakistan.

These sources added that against the Indian designs and efforts, Balochistan is much stable now. Similarly life in Karachi is returning to normalcy and those seeking Indian and RAW assistance in the past have been marginalized. It is said that India has also failed to accentuate a sectarian divide to their advantage.

“Above all, the Indians failed to create a civil-military divide in the post-Pathankot incident,” a source said, adding that this is a serious jolt to Indian design.