by Nan­di­ta Sen­gup­ta
TNN

NEW DELHI: Mum­bai’s 26/11 was actu­al­ly a plan hatched by “Hin­du Zion­ists” and “West­ern Zion­ists”, includ­ing the Mossad, said a self-styled Pak­istan secu­ri­ty expert on a Pak­istan news tele­vi­sion show, uploaded on www.hotklix.com.

” Inki shak­lein Hin­duon­wali hain, jis zabaan mein guf­ta­goo kar rahein hain, woh zabaan koi Pak­istani istemaal nahin kar­ta hai (They look like Hin­dus. No Pak­istani speaks the lan­guage they chat­ted in),” said Zaid Hamid while refer­ring to the ter­ror­ists on the show Mujhe Ikhti­laf Hai (I dif­fer) on Pak­istan’s News One chan­nel. The sen­sa­tion­al­ist chan­nel was launched in Novem­ber last year.

Hamid said that it was a “bad­ly planned” oper­a­tion that had gone hor­ri­bly wrong. “9/11 jo Amer­i­cans ne kiya tha usko bahut khoob­surat cam­ou­flage kiya tha. Unhone media mein per­cep­tion man­age­ment bahut acch­ha kiya . Indi­ans ne wahi game repeat karne ki koshish ki, lekin akal to hai nahin . In ahmakon ne com­plete dis­as­ter kiya isko han­dle karne mein . (The Amer­i­cans exe­cut­ed the 9/11 attack per­fect­ly. They man­aged the media very well. The Indi­ans tried to repeat the for­mu­la but goofed up. The idiots made a com­plete mess of it).

He said that the attack­ers wore saf­fron Hin­du Zion­ist bands, which no Mus­lim would tie. Hamid also said that with­in the first 5 min­utes of the attack, the three ATS police­men inves­ti­gat­ing the net­work of ter­ror with­in Indi­a’s secu­ri­ty agen­cies and rad­i­cal right were killed.

That ensured that those inves­ti­ga­tions reach a dead end. Anchor Qudsia Qadri added that with their killings, the inves­ti­ga­tions into the Samjhau­ta Express car­nage would be halt­ed. The killings also imme­di­ate­ly shift­ed atten­tion from Indi­a’s domes­tic ter­ror­ists to Pak­istan, said Hamid.

Mar­vi Mem­on, glam­orous Pak­istan Mus­lim League mem­ber, on the same pro­gramme, was appalled at the Pak­istan gov­ern­men­t’s expan­sion of the “India-appease­ment pack­age” by ini­tial­ly agree­ing to send ISI chief to India. “I just don’t get it,” she exclaimed in exas­per­a­tion.

She won­dered how can you send the ISI chief to a ” mulk jiske sath jang chal raha hai ...at a dif­fer­ent lev­el...,” men­tion­ing Kash­mir and accus­ing India of block­ing Pak­istan’s waters. Mem­on said, “They (Indi­ans) are quite obsessed with anti-Pak­istan speak and that unites them,” she said. Mem­on also spoke about Indi­a’s sep­a­ratist move­ments and believed that India was only reap­ing the bit­ter har­vest of the poi­so­nous seeds it had sowed.

Blog­ger daily.pk writes in pakalert.wordpress.com, “India has been relaps­ing into reli­gious extrem­ism and numer­ous sep­a­ratist move­ment have mush­roomed due to offi­cial patron­age ...I see the Mum­bai bomb­ings as the des­per­ate move of sep­a­ratists who want to blame every­thing on Mus­lims.”

It’s not only ran­dom voic­es rail­ing against fin­gers point­ing to Pak­istan. Blog­ger and jour­nal­ist Far­rukh Khan Pitafi is miffed. “For years I have been advo­cat­ing peace between India and Pak­istan,” he wrote. But he, too, says that India was out of its mind in nam­ing Pak­istan as the source of vio­lence with­out iden­ti­fi­ca­tion of the per­pe­tra­tors.

He wrote: “Dur­ing such a long cov­er­age of the mishap not a sin­gle out­let point­ed out that Hemant Karkare... was the same man whose dis­missal was Naren­dra Mod­i’s biggest demand. Or that he was the man on the verge of uncov­er­ing the home-grown ter­ror fran­chise of the Hin­du extrem­ists. No chan­nel men­tioned Colonel Puro­hit once dur­ing the live tele­cast, no not even CNN, BBC or CBS. It is sad.”