Security forces recently foiled a major attempt by Pakistan to push sophisticated arms and ammunition into India in the biggest seizure this year from the border in the Uri sector of Jammu and Kashmir.
In an operation jointly carried out by the army and the police, advanced weapons like AK 74u, which is a short carbine variant of the AK 74 rifle, were recovered. The raid was carried out after security forces received information that Pakistani handlers were trying to push terrorists into the Valley.
Eight AK rifles and 12 pistols were seized, besides other arms and ammunition, police said.
Police said weapons were seized at Hathlanga village this morning. However, no arrests have been made so far.
Massive arms infiltrations by Lashkar-e-Taiba
Sources said security forces had specific information about massive arms smuggling linked to Lashkar-e-Taiba.
~Pakistan will not mend its ways against India~
The biggest problem with the Pakistani establishment is that it eats, sleeps, and dreams Kashmir while the country, its economy, and the aspirations of people go down the drain – a bitter truth that has been beautifully articulated by Pakistani columnist Ahsan Iqbal by quoting Marxist thinker Antonio Gramsci: “The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born.”
Pakistan’s current predicament is understandable – its ‘best friend’ Turkey wants to revive relations with Israel but there is a minor hiccup in the form of Palestine.
“If Israel comes one step, Turkey maybe can come two steps,” the Turkish presidential adviser on foreign affairs, Mesut Casin was quoted as saying by the media.
Pakistan’s biggest predicament – closest ally Turkey reviving relations with Israel
This has undoubtedly put Islamabad in a Catch-22 situation. No wonder Pakistan is still spewing venom against Israel as Imran Khan has already said that recognizing the Israeli occupation of Palestine would be akin to recognizing “what India has done in Kashmir”.
Pakistan has retained a military that it can’t afford
Pakistan has retained a military it can’t afford and backed proxies it can’t control while allowing its financial and administrative institutions to falter. With an anaemic tax regime, stagnant industrialization, a shrinking middle class, the biggest gender income gap in South Asia, and a falling education rate (with nearly half of 5-16-year-olds unenrolled in schools), Pakistan needs more than multilateral institutions and donors to come to its aid. It needs economic reforms and a security rethink.
Beijing used Pakistan against India – but the cost of supporting Pakistan is too high
No friend or ally has been able to convince the country to mend its ways. But of all its partners – and there aren’t many – China is the most likely to pick up the tab. Beijing has long seen Islamabad as a bulwark against their common rival, India, but the economic and diplomatic costs of supporting Pakistan, its “Iron Brother,” are mounting. The $65 billion China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, for example, is struggling because of Pakistan’s inability to deliver.
Pakistan remains one of the epicentres of the climate crisis, with unforgiving heat waves, melting glaciers, drying rivers, and some of the dirtiest air on the planet. This summer’s unprecedented rainfall and flooding in Balochistan, the country’s poorest province, as well as the country at large, has thrown into stark relief the scale of Pakistan’s challenges.
Infighting due to radical Islamism and Baloch separatism has rendered Pakistan bewildered
Politically, weak institutions and the military’s continued dominance and crowding out of “normal” politics, alongside the fusion of violent Islamism, street politics, and new media, severely threaten the country. On the security front, Pakistan faces deep and serious dangers from within (terrorism and insurgency from Islamists and Baloch separatists) and without (an increasingly assertive New Delhi).
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Pakistan is unable to provide basic amenities to the majority of its citizens
Pakistan remains a desperately poor country whose government fails to deliver basic services such as drinking water and electricity to a great many of its citizens. Almost half of Pakistan’s population is younger than 25. What does the future hold for them?
Structural reforms like reduced military dominance in politics is what the country requires
The game of musical chairs—from the army to the army’s opponents, to the army’s favoured sons, and so on—that typifies Pakistan’s political development does not serve the interests of the people or the country. Pakistan’s military guardians would do well to focus on their day job and leave the politics to the politicians.
Such a transition would not magically transform all of Pakistan’s structural problems; the economic malaise, for instance, is deeply intertwined with but not reducible to the military’s dominance of politics. But it would be the biggest and most serious step toward the structural reform that the country needs—and that its people deserve.
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