{"id":118809,"date":"2021-10-02T15:52:53","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T22:52:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=118809"},"modified":"2021-10-02T15:52:53","modified_gmt":"2021-10-02T22:52:53","slug":"the-concocted-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2021\/10\/02\/the-concocted-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"The Concocted Threat"},"content":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n

The\nSunday Guardian Live published a \u2018story\u2019 on 21st<\/sup> August which\nclaimed that the New Zealand cricket team’s tour of Pakistan was under “a\nterror threat with an imminent possibility of the touring cricketers being\nattacked by one of the many terror groups active in the volatile region.” According\nto the reports, this Indian media outlet is owned by MJ Akbar who had served as\nMinister of State for External Affairs between July 2016 and October 2018 under\nNarendra Modi. He is still an active member of the ruling Bharatiya Janata\nParty. Unfortunately rather disappointingly the New Zealand cricket team called\noff its tour of Pakistan, just a few minutes before the first match was supposed\nto begin. The government of New Zealand said this cancellation of the tour was\nsimply because of the so-called \u2018security-threat\u2019. The honourable Prime\nMinister of Pakistan personally made a call to Jacinda Ardern, the Prime\nMinister of New Zealand and assured her that the reports regarding security\nthreats were baseless rather fake and that the security of the New Zealand team\nwas assigned to Pakistan Army and Pakistan\u2019s premier intelligence agency but to\nJacinda the report of Sunday Guardian Live was more trust-worthy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\nis no doubt a very important question how MJ Akbar had come to know of this\nterror threat and what was his source of information but one thing is very much\nclear that MJ Akbar has close linkage with the planners of that expected\n\u2018Terrorists\u2019 Attack\u2019. Unbelievably,  it\nis also something astonishing that Pakistan\u2019s premier intelligence agency the\nISI also could not smell the expected \u2018terror-attack\u2019 on the New Zealand team,\npointed out by MJ Akbar though the ISI is ranked among the world\u2019s top five\nbest intelligence agencies. It means that the Indian journalist was in\ncontinuous contact with the planners and they had complete confidence in him.\nWhatever be the reality, this incident has directly damaged the image of\nJacinda Ardern who had won a lot of true love from the Muslims all over the\nworld after the Christ Church incident. Certainly this non-professional\nbehavior of the New Zealand Cricket team organizers would damage the popularity\nof Jacinda Ardern which had reached its climax in Muslim countries after the\nChrist Church Massacre. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\nthe Christ Church massacre, as far as Jacinda\u2019s sympathetic and caring attitude\nwith the Muslims is concerned, that was simply a political gimmickry. As\ncountry\u2019s Prime Minister, it was her duty to pacify the situation and calm down\nthe people. Moreover she wanted to covey a soft image of her country to the\nworld around especially to the Muslim world. Some of the social media users are\nof the opinion that the New Zealand players were lacking talent and fitness and\nthey were frightened of their expected defeat at the hands of the Pakistani\nplayers; that is why this whole story was concocted. It is also very\nunfortunate that following the foot-marks of Jacinda Ardern, the England\nCricket team has also cancelled its expected tour to Pakistan though on the\nother hand England has removed the name of Pakistan from the Red-List of the\ncountries suffering badly from the Covid-19. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\nfact of the matter is that refusal of New Zealand and England regarding playing\nin Pakistan is not a personal or individual act of any of these countries; this\nall seems a part of a well organized and carefully managed move to defame and\nmalign Pakistan but facing such type of hostile moves is nothing new to\nPakistan. From the demand of \u2018Do More\u2019 to the allegation of \u2018Doing Nothing\u2019,\nthe tale of hurdles in Pakistan\u2019s way to progress and economic stability is\nvery long. The world around has always tried all the best to minimize the\nimportant role of Pakistan in world affairs particularly in affairs relevant to\nthe South Asia but Pakistan was always there and still there on the scene and\nbehind the scene.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After\nthe death of the great leader of the Illegally Indian Occupied Kashmir Syed Ali\nShah Geelani, a few weeks back, Masarat Alam Bhat was appointed the new chairman\nof All Parties Hurriyat Conference who  had already been leading the Hurriyat Conference\nduring the illness-days of Late Syed Ali Shah Geelani. His permanent\nappointment as the Chairman All Parties Hurriyat Conference was warmly welcomed\nby Kashmiris and their friends all over the world. But at the same time his\nappointment proved a thorn in the flesh for those who always dream of keeping\nthe Kashmiris chained down. Different Hindu extremist groups started a\nwell-organized media campaign against Masarat Alam Bhatt. It was propagated\nthat Masarat Alam Bhat was a candidate introduced and inducted by Pakistan\u2019s\nintelligence agencies. Though that defaming campaign could not last longer but\nthe Hindu extremists did try their best to create an air of distrust and\nconfusion and generate hatred against Pakistan. Same approach about Pakistan\nwas observed when the Taliban took charge of Afghanistan. The Indian and the US\nmedia tried to spread this baseless conception that Pakistan was the\nMaster-Mind of bringing Taliban into the government though Pakistan had nothing\nto do in Afghanistan\u2019s internal affairs. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Neither\nin the Indian Occupied Kashmir nor in Afghanistan has Pakistan ever interfered;\nPakistan has always desired for peace leading to prosperity in both the areas. Pakistan\u2019s\nonly concern has been the basic human rights of the people of Afghanistan and\nof Illegally Indian Occupied Kashmir and for this purpose Pakistan has always\nraised its voice at every platform. Obviously this desire and concern has added\na lot to the number of forces hostile to Pakistan. Recently Pakistan\u2019s visually\nimpaired diplomat Saima Saleem also pointed towards the same desire in her\nspeech at the United Nations General Assembly. She is the first lady diplomat\nwho presented her country’s point of view on Kashmir issue on such a sublime\nplatform by using Braille. She said, India remains in occupation of an\ninternationally recognized disputed territory whose final disposition needs to\nbe decided in accordance with the democratic principle of a free and impartial\nplebiscite under UN auspices, as provided for under numerous resolutions of the\nSecurity Council.\u201d  The fact of the\nmatter is that Pakistan has never been interested in doing any interference in\nformation of government in Illegally Indian Occupied Kashmir or in Afghanistan\nor in selection or elections of political parties\u2019 heads but at the same time\nPakistan would never compromise on peace and prosperity of Afghanistan and the\nIllegally Indian Occupied Jammu and Kashmir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ALI SUKHANVER The Sunday Guardian Live published a \u2018story\u2019 on 21st August which claimed that the New Zealand cricket team’s tour of Pakistan was under “a terror threat with an imminent possibility of the touring cricketers being attacked by one of the many terror groups active in the volatile region.” According to the reports, this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-118809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ali-sukhanver"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118809\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}