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Will Pakistan be fragmented?
Now even outsiders are laughing at Pakistan's messed up 'democracy' and the
country's fake democrats.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Sandwiched between United States, European, Israeli and Indian designs and
Pakistani Quislings.
By Latheef Farook
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SriLankaGuardian.org
(November 02, Colombo, Sri Lanka Guardian) Will Pakistan, the only Muslim
nuclear country, be fragmented as it was done in Iraq? This is the common
fear among Pakistanis in view of the forces-United States, Europe and
Israel, which turned Iraq and Afghanistan into slaughterhouses, are
responsible for the deepening quagmire unfolding in Pakistan.
Pakistanis fear that the US led war on Islam and Muslims, under the guise of
fighting war on terrorism, AlQaeda and Taleban, is extended to Pakistan
.They are putting the Pakistani government of quislings against Pakistanis
threatening the very survival of Pakistan. India remains an active partner
in this US led conspiracy to destabilize yet another Muslim country.
President Barack Obama signed the 7.5 billion dollar aid package in mid
October 2009 demanding Pakistan to launch military strike against its
Pashtun tribes in wild South Waziristan. Pakistanis consider the numerous
conditions linked to the aid package as insult to their country and many
described the aid package as a Big Bribe that will go into the usual
pockets.
Within days President Asif Zardari obediently unleashed a ferocious ground
and air attack, using American-upgraded F-16s and helicopter gunships,
indiscriminately killing, among the others, innocent civilians and
destroying their shelters in the South Waziristan region amidst public
outrage accusing the government of betraying Pakistan's national interests
at home, in Afghanistan and in Kashmir.
Hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women, children and the aged were
made refugees overnight with no food, water or any other essential as it
happened in Swat Valley in April this year.
Under this mercenary military offensive on Washington's orders, the
Pakistani government also permitted US to secretly create a mercenary army
inside Pakistan pushing the military to the point of revolt.
United States, European and Israeli designs on Pakistan.
It appears that the American strategy in Pakistan is to Pakistani government
against Pakistanis, provoke a civil war and plunge the country into chaos to
neutralize its nuclear arsenal that has been US neoconservatives' urgent
priority. The Americans are not interested in Pakistan or its people. They
only wanted collaborators and quislings and they found a willing partner in
the Asif Zardari government.
Some accuse US of playing double game by financing the Taliban and demanding
the government to fight the Taleban . Justifying this fear Pakistani daily
"NEWS" stated that the US-led NATO forces vacated more than half a dozen
security check posts, together with some posts close to North Waziristan, on
the Afghan side of the border, just five days before the Pakistani military
offensive began.
This facilitated Afghan Taliban to cross over to Pakistan and support
fighters in striking back at the Pakistani security forces in the troubled
tribal area-raising many eyebrows in the government and military circles.
Shocked and intrigued by its timing the NWFP government and civilian and
military officials alerted Islamabad.
Pakistanis consider America to be the greatest threat, worse than the arch
rival India, to their sovereignty and independence .They are aware that
already a map showing a truncated Pakistan has been in circulation and the
ever growing collaborations among India, Afghanistan US, Europe and Israel.
Aggravating this fear, US plans to build the second largest embassy in the
world in Islamabad, after its embassy in Baghdad, and reportedly demanding
indirect veto power over promotions in Pakistan's armed forces and
intelligence agency-ISI. This crude attempt to exert more US influence over
Pakistan's 617,000-man military has enraged the armed forces and set off
alarm bells.
Dealing with the US-European, Israeli and Indian conspiracy to destabilize
Pakistan columnist Atif F Qureshi stated that;
* The 'surge' in American troops in Afghanistan accompanied a 'surge' in
terrorism in Pakistan. While the Afghan Taliban never threatened Pakistani
sovereignty, since 2001 thousands of innocents have been killed in a wave of
suicide bombings in Pakistan that 'coincidently', began only after the US
invasion and occupation of Afghanistan in 2001.
* The Afghan occupation is deliberately extended into Pakistan and both
countries are treated as a single 'battlefield' called AfPak .This is
laughable because one is war-torn and primitive while the other has a
sophisticated civic society .The purpose is to enable American forces to
strike into Pakistan.
* Wave after wave of callous and imprecise drone attacks murdering innocent
civilians and riling up the Pakistani public who despair at their feckless
government for being complicit in continual violations of the nation's
sovereignty and dignity.
* The never-ending American pressure for Pakistan to "DO MORE!" Though no
nation has done or sacrificed more to combat terrorism in its own
self-interest. The number of soldiers martyred, wealth spent and tears of
widows and orphans shed remain testimony to the truth that those who claim
that Pakistan is half-hearted in this effort are liars.
* The CIA-sponsored democratic farce whereby American engineered its puppets
to seize the reigns in Pakistan's recent elections. For those who still deny
that the Pakistani elections were engineered, think for a moment how is it
possible that the most corrupt and despised man in Pakistan's entire
history, Asif Zardari would become the president of Pakistan if the
elections were truly and fairly democratic?
* Even though our 'popularly elected' politicians are in the pocket of the
Americans, they remain frustrated that certain institutions in Pakistan
remain out of their reach. The black propaganda targeting Pakistan's
patriotic armed forces, intelligence services and nuclear weapons arsenal
reveals their obvious intent. Well aware that these are the only
institutions that truly have Pakistan's interests at heart, the public do
not appreciate the Am-Brit campaign to malign them.
* The exposure of blatant double-standards is evident as America turns on
the weapons tap for India, whom it wishes to turn into its 21st century
'slave soldier' in order to counter China, while Pakistani officials are
left dangling and must debase and humiliate themselves in order to ensure
the delivery of a trifling number of F-16's and helicopters to fight the
same enemies that America is sponsoring.
* The CIA shield, protect and nurture anti-Pakistan insurgent groups on
Pakistani soil. The so-called 'Baluchistan Liberation Army and
'Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan' are only a few of many of these groups base
their insidious operations from inside US occupied Afghanistan.
The pockets of resistance demonstrate the existence of an honorable people
who are not prepared to compromise on their dignity. The recent polling is
cause for great hope. It proves what was never in doubt - the Pakistani
population will not stand for these US violations of Pakistan's sovereignty
and national interest for much longer.
We know that we fear Allah more than we fear America, but the nation must
now realize another profound truth - salvation does not lie in continued
cooperation and debasement in front of America, but only in faith in Allah
and is His Messenger (SAW). It is time for this nation to throw off its
shackles and re-declare its independence.
Recently, in the officer's mess in Bajaur, the northern tribal region where
the Pakistani Army is tied down fighting the militants, one officer told a
visiting journalist that" Osama bin Laden does not exist".
Explaining the American involvement in Swat Valley in last April columnist
Bill Van Auken wrote in the website WSW on 16 September that;
There is mounting evidence that the Pentagon and the CIA are engaged in a
war against the population of the region involving death squads,
disappearances and torture. Swat Valley, near Afghanistan's eastern border,
provides a gruesome indication of the kind of war that the Pentagon and its
local allies are waging.
The Pakistani army offensive in Swat Valley, carried out on the direct and
highly public insistence of US envoy Richard Holbrooke, and senior American
military officers, unleashed a humanitarian catastrophe. In what amounted to
a massive exercise in collective punishment, many civilians were killed or
wounded and some 2.5 million people were driven from their homes.
Now, the Pakistani military continues to occupy the area, carrying out a
reign of terror in which individuals identified as opponents of the
government and the US occupation across the border are being picked up and
tortured to death.
New York Times stated on 15 September 2009 that with the military occupation
of the Swat Valley "a new campaign of fear has taken hold, with scores,
perhaps hundreds, of bodies dumped on the streets in what human rights
advocates and local residents say is the work of the military."
In addition to bearing marks of brutal torture, many of the bodies are
discovered with their hands tied behind their backs and with a bullet in the
back of the neck. In some cases, corpses have been beheaded. American
officials have praised the Pakistani military for its campaign in the Swat
Valley, with US Ambassador Anne Patterson visiting Mingora, Swat's largest
town, to congratulate the army.
Now the Pakistani government replicates this bloody campaign in South
Waziristan. A similar offensive is already underway in the Khyber Agency,
site of the Khyber Pass, a key route for supplies to the US occupation force
in Afghanistan.UN officials report that 100,000 people have been displaced
by the attack.
There is every reason to suspect that the wave of disappearances, torture
and death squad assassinations in Pakistan are also "made in the USA". US
Special Forces "trainers" are operating on Pakistani soil, instructing
Pakistani forces in the kind of tactics that yield the bound and battered
bodies dumped in the streets of Swat.
Indian design to destabilize and, perhaps, further divide Pakistan
It is common knowledge that India wanted to destabilize and partition
Pakistan from the day it came into being in 1947. India played a crucial
role in breaking up Pakistan and creating Bangladesh in its eastern wing
facilitated by the blunders of the Pakistani's ruling elite.
India, hand in glove with American installed Hamid Karzai's puppet regime,
has 14 consulates in Afghanistan from which RAW operates and the US has
turned a blind eye. Pakistan has stockpiles of evidence against Indian
consulates in Afghanistan used to fund terrorism in Pakistan through
Baitullah Mehsud's TTP as well as Brahamdagh Bugti and his Baluch Liberation
Army-BLA.
According to DAWN, a dossier containing proof of India's involvement in
"subversive activities" in Pakistan was handed over by Prime Minister Yousuf
Raza Gilani to his Indian counterpart Manmohan Singh during their meeting at
Sharm el-Sheikh in July 2009.The dossier, broadly covering the Indian
connection in terror financing in Pakistan, is also said to list the safe
houses being run by RAW in Afghanistan where terrorists are trained and
launched for missions in Pakistan.
The dossier also mentions an India-funded training camp in Kandahar where
Baluch insurgents, particularly those from Bugti clan, were being trained
and provided arms and ammunition for sabotage activities in the Pakistani
province. Although the information given to India is being kept highly
secret, broad outlines of the dossier available with Dawn reveal details of
Indian contacts with those involved in attacks on the Sri Lankan cricket
team and the Manawan police station," the newspaper said.
"Operatives of RAW who remained in touch with the perpetrators of the
attacks have been identified and proof of their interaction has been
attached," it added.
A description of Indian arms and explosives used in the attack on the Sri
Lankan team has been made part of the dossier, besides which the names and
particulars of the perpetrators, who illegally entered Pakistan from India
and joined their accomplices who had reached Lahore from Waziristan, have
been mentioned, the report said.
Here is what Christine Fair of RAND Corporation had to say about what the
Indian consulates are up to in Afghanistan and Iran:
"I think it would be a mistake to completely disregard Pakistan's regional
perceptions due to doubts about Indian competence in executing covert
operations. That misses the point entirely. In addition, I think it is
unfair to dismiss the notion that Pakistan's apprehensions about Afghanistan
stem in part from its security competition with India. Having visited the
Indian mission in Zahedan, Iran, I can assure you they are not issuing visas
as the main activity! Moreover, India has run operations from its mission in
Mazar (through which it supported the Northern Alliance) and is likely doing
so from the other consulates it has reopened in Jalalabad and Qandahar along
the border. Indian officials have told me privately that they are pumping
money into Baluchistan. Kabul has encouraged India to engage in provocative
activities such as using the Border Roads Organization to build sensitive
parts of the Ring Road and use the Indo-Tibetan police force for security.
It is also building schools on a sensitive part of the border in
Kunar-across from Bajaur. Kabul's motivations for encouraging these
activities are as obvious as India's interest in engaging in them. Even if
by some act of miraculous diplomacy the territorial issues were to be
resolved, Pakistan would remain an insecure state. Given the realities of
the subcontinent (e.g., India's rise and its more effective foreign
relations with all of Pakistan's near and far neighbors), these fears are
bound to grow, not lessen. This suggests that without some means of
compelling Pakistan to abandon its reliance upon militancy, it will become
ever more interested in using it - and the militants will likely continue to
proliferate beyond Pakistan's control."
Confirming the Indian support to TTP in Pakistan The Foreign Policy magazine
said: "The Indians are up to their necks in supporting the Taliban against
the Pakistani government in Afghanistan and Pakistan," a former intelligence
official who served in both countries said.
"The same anti-Pakistani forces in Afghanistan also shooting at American
soldiers are getting support from India. India should close its diplomatic
establishments in Afghanistan and get the Christ out of there."
Afghan officials have also confirmed that India is using Afghanistan to stir
trouble in Pakistan."India is using Afghan soil to destabilize Pakistan and
Afghan security agencies are unable to stop Indian intervention due to
absence of centralized government mechanism", said Afghan Government's
Advisor, Ehsanullah Aryanzai on sidelines of Pak-Afgan Parliamentary Jirga
at a local hotel on April 2, 2009.
Pakistani Taleban using American, Nato, Indian and German weapons
An Islamabad datelined report by Akhtar Jamal Wednesday, 21 October 2009
stated that: Reports reaching here confirm that hundreds of militants from
Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), and other associated groups are equipped
with most sophisticated American, Indian and German weapons.
According to a survey the weapons in the possession of these militants
included U.S. made M249 automatic machine guns, U.S.-made Glock pistols,
Indian hand guns, FN Browning GP35 9mmx19mm, Indian automatic machine
pistols GLOCK 17 9mmx19mm, Indian machine guns Heckler & Koch MP5A3
9mmx19mm, Indian made Sterling L2A1 sub machine guns, Israeli licensed
Indian made UZI 9mmx19mm sub machine guns and German Walther-P1 pistols.
During Swat operation, a number of the Indian army used Vickers-Berthier
(VB) light machine guns were also recovered. The recoveries of Indian
designed weapons were not astonishing for Pakistan. However, what was more
surprising is that the U.S. and German weapons were recently introduced in
the Waziristan area.
Ruling Elite
Pakistan's ruling elite comprising the armed forces, bureaucracy, feudal
landlords and capitalists never learnt any lesson. In fact, within a quarter
century after Pakistan was created they created the conditions, exploited by
India and other hostile forces, to create Bangladesh.
Columnist Ahmed Quraishi pointed out that " fake democrats produce a fake
democracy. This is what our westernized Pakistani elite and some of the
self-styled 'liberals' in our media don't understand. A Parliament filled
with feudal lords who rape the women of the peasants on their lands and
operate secret prisons, and then come to the Parliament in expensive shiny
cars and jewelry thanks to political parties where another set of feudal run
them as family grocery shops - this is no democracy.
Accusing main political parties and their leaderships of undermining the
existence of Pakistan Dr. Hasan, co-founder of the Pakistan People's Party
with Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in 1967 said:" over the years, they have failed to
understand that the state of Pakistan is unraveling. The administrative
structure of the state is no longer capable of ensuring the performance of
the basic duties of the state, mainly the protection of life, property and
dignity of the people, dispensation of justice to all citizens as equals,
semblance of equitability in the distribution of wealth and assuring a sense
of belonging to the Balochs, Pashtuns, Sindhis and Punjabis that the
Government at Islamabad is their Government.
The gulf between the rich and the poor has widened enormously. Ninety-eight
per cent of the population is in a state of despair and frustration and has
lost hope. The wealthy 2 per cent, armed with foreign passports and visas
with huge wealth stashed abroad, are ready to leave the country any time.
The old grievances among the provinces of Sindh, Punjab, Balochistan and
NWFP have reached all time high. Cooperation at the federal level has
disappeared; complaints and prejudices have taken the place of patriotic
fervor.
What had begun in the early years of Pakistan as grievances and complaints
between East and West Pakistan, between the Bengalis and Punjabis, has now
been replaced by tensions between Punjabis, Sindhis and Mohajirs and between
independence-seeking Balochs and Pashtuns.The absence of cooperation between
the provinces has snowballed, making Pakistan a fragile state.
It was under this unfortunate circumstance Asif Zardari was elected as
President showing the depth to which the state assemblies had descended.
Zardari is neither a politician nor a professional. He was known as the
husband of assassinated prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, twice elected as
prime minister and dismissed on both times on corruption charges. Zardari,
better known as Mr. 10 Percent, has been accused of corruption, fraud,
underworld links and even murder. Even after elected president, he was
implicated in several scandals including an alleged submarine deal for
Pakistan navy.
Eric S. Margolis, a contributing editor to the Toronto Sun chain of
newspapers, said in an article that;
"Zardari has been dogged for decades by corruption charges. Washington seems
unaware of the fury its crude, counter-productive policies have whipped up
in Pakistan. The Obama administration listens to Washington-based pro-Israel
neo-conservatives, military hawks, and "experts" who tell it what it wants
to hear, not the facts. Pakistan's military, the nation's premier
institution, is being pushed to the point of revolt. Against the backdrop of
bombings and shootings, come rumors the heads of Pakistan's armed forces and
intelligence may be replaced. Pakistanis are calling for the removal of the
Zardari regime's strongman, Interior Minister Rehman Malik. The possibility
of a military coup against the Zardari regime grows. However, Pakistan is
dependent on US money, and fears India. Can its generals afford to break
with patron Washington?
It was in this context one should view Zardari's military onslaught on his
own people to please President Obama who began drone attacks, almost
immediately after he assumed office, violating Pakistan's sovereignty,
killing hundreds of innocent civilians in the footsteps of his predecessor
George Bush.
In fact in a report presented to the UN General Assembly on Tuesday 26
October 2009 ,UN Special Rapporteur on Extrajudicial Executions Philip
Alston described US drone strikes against suspected terrorists in
Afghanistan and Pakistan may well violate international humanitarian law and
international human rights law.
" My concern is that these attacks in Afghanistan and northwestern Pakistan
have often resulted in civilian deaths and drawn bitter criticism from local
populations. Since August 2008, around 70 strikes by unmanned aircraft have
killed close to 600 people in northwestern Pakistan," said Philip Alston.
Meanwhile after Pakistan launched its military strike there were several
deadly bomb explosions including the one on the International Islamic
University in Islamabad and the market place in Peshawar.
Taleban denied responsibility. However, analysts were quick to accuse the
notorious US security firm Blackwater, known for its heinous crimes - rape,
torture and bombings - in Iraq and Afghanistan, perhaps aimed at putting the
government and the so-called Taleban against each other.
Erik Prince, the founder and the boss of Blackwater ,world's most powerful
mercenary army, accused in court papers of seeking to wipe out Muslims,
views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and
the Islamic faith from the planet, according to a former employee. These
Blackwater mercenaries are in Pakistan and the question is why did the
Pakistani government allow them into the country?
In the midst, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Pakistan on a
stormy three days visit on Wednesday 28 October 2009 to convey the Obama
administration's support, praise the Pakistani government for its military
offensive, and tackle rising anti-US feelings among the Pakistani people.
She was greeted with a sophisticated bomb in busy Meena Bazar market in
Peshawar killing more than 107 people- most of them innocent women and
children. Taleban denied. So the question is who planted such a
sophisticated bomb?
She faced sharp rebukes from Pakistani citizens and journalist on the third
day of her visit when a woman who chastised the US stating, "Using aerial
drones to target terrorists amounted to "executions without trial." while
another journalist said "we've been fighting your war".
US appeared to be trying to push the government go beyond South Waziristan
when she warned," after South Waziristan, the Pakistanis will have to go on
to root out other terrorist groups". She never spoke a word about the
devastating impact on the entire civilian population in South Waziristan
forced to flee for their lives as villages and towns were literally being
bombed into rubble.
The question is what next? Will Pakistan be next Iraq? How far the Pakistani
government could go in killing its own people to please US?
It appears a poem by Khalil Gibran written in 1934, and now in circulation
in e-mails, suit Pakistan's current dilemma?
Pity the nation that raises not its voice
save when it walks in a funeral,
boasts not except among its ruins,
and will rebel not save when its neck is laid
between the sword and the block.
Pity the nation whose statesman is a fox,
whose philosopher is a juggler,
and whose art is the art of patching and mimicking.
Pity the nation that welcomes its new ruler with trumpeting,
and farewells him with hooting,
only to welcome another with trumpeting again.
Pity the nation whose sages are dumb with years
and whose strong men are yet in the cradle.
Pity the nation divided into fragments,
each fragment deeming itself a nation.
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