[Manufacturing ‘China threat’](Manufacturing ‘China threat’)
By Shahid R. Siddiqi
Sunday, 26 Sep, 2010
Mr Selig Harrison, a noted American scholar on South Asia, writing in The New York Times on August 26 under the caption: ‘China’s Discreet Hold on Pakistan’s Northern Borderlands’ observes: “A quiet geopolitical crisis is unfolding in the Himalayan borderlands of northern Pakistan, where Islamabad is handing over de facto control of the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region in the northwest corner of disputed Kashmir to China”.
Claiming that China had deployed 7,000-11,000 troops in the area, he further observes: “The entire Pakistan-occupied western portion of Kashmir stretching from Gilgit in the north to Azad (Free) Kashmir in the south is closed to the world, in contrast to the media access that India permits in the eastern part, where it is combating a Pakistan-backed insurgency.”
China has called the story “groundless,” saying it was being put out with “ulterior motives” to hurt Beijing’s ties with New Delhi and Islamabad.
That the Chinese would take over Pakistan’s Gilgit-Baltistan is a ridiculous thought. But nothing is ridiculous when it comes to a hot propaganda war, particularly where the Indians are set to…
My Comments:
India has been spending loads of dollars lately to buy these lobbyists in America for the ease of carrying out its organized dissemination of information to damage Sino-Pak relations.
What do you think?