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Isn't India a terrorist state?

ISLAMABAD: "India is one of the leading practitioners of terrorism in the world, but it gets away with it by cloaking it under a mask of democracy."

According to Kashmir Media Service, this has been stated in a report circulated in Washington giving facts and figures to prove that India is a terrorist state.

The report says, India practices terrorism internally against its minorities and externally against its neighbours.

The report identifies 838 victims of India's mass cremation policy, giving their names and addresses. These young Sikhs were abducted by the police, tortured and murdered and then the police disposed off their bodies. This policy amounted to nothing less than terrorism against the Sikhs of Punjab.

The report says in November, 1994, it was reported that the Indian government paid Surendra Nath, the late governor of Indian Punjab one and a half billion dollars to foment terrorism in Indian Punjab and in Kashmir, it poses the question can any one deny that country which would do this is a terrorist state?

The report records massive murder of minorities in India where it says over 250,000 Sikhs since 1984, over 2000 Christians in Nagaland since 1947, more than 650,000 Kashmiri Muslims since 1948 and tens of thousands of Assamese, Manipuris, Tamils, Dalits and other have been murdered by the Indian government.

The State Department of the United States reported in 1994 that the Indian government paid more than 41,000 cash bounties to police officers for murdering Sikhs.

Hindu militants allied with the government have burnt down Christian Churches and prayers halls, murdered priests and raped nuns. The report calls that Mandeep Pal Singh Sodhi, a 27-year-old Sikh youth, burnt himself to death in front of the Uttar Preadesh Legislative Assembly building. He was protesting police brutality against his family. His self-immolation should serve as a wake up a call to the Indian people to make their rulers stop brutality on minorities. It must also hold a free and fare internationally-supervised plebiscites on the issues of Khalistan, Kashmir, Nagaland and in all those areas within India where the people were struggling for their basic human rights.-APP