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Some Question For Mrs. Clinton And Mr. Qureshi
The GHQ attack effectively derailed the parliamentary debate over
Kerry-Lugar bill and gave a breathing space to the isolated pro-US
government in Islamabad. It allowed Shah Mahmood Qureshi to do his
Munich-style appeasement and sell out the Pakistani nation to Washington.
Without the GHQ attack, the government could never have scuttled the
expected Parliament resolution against the US aid conditions. The
subsequent attacks on Pakistani military personnel were not the usual
Taliban-style terrorism.
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By DR. SHIREEN MAZARI
Wednesday, 28 October 2009.
The Nation
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—There are certain questions that are beginning to come
to one’s mind the more one sees targeted attacks against the military in
Islamabad.
While soldiers and officials have been targeted by the “Taliban” - which has
now become such an all-encompassing category that it defies explanation and
allows so many elements to exploit the label for their own ends - primarily
in the areas of the ongoing military operations, there is a new pattern that
needs to be identified and discerned.
To begin with, is it simply a coincidence that the GHQ was targeted in the
immediate aftermath of the army’s press release expressing concerns over the
then Kerry Lugar Bill (now Act)?
That attack effectively derailed the debate going on in Parliament and
allowed Shah Mahmood Qureshi to do his Munich-style appeasement and sell out
the Pakistani nation to Washington. The opposition got diverted and the
formulation of a strong resolution got lost somewhere in the terrorism
cloud. Soon after the GHQ attack, we saw Brigadier Moin’s targeted killing
in Islamabad and on Tuesday (27th October) another Brigadier was targeted
outside his home. Now both these attacks were not the usual Taliban-style
terrorism and the young motorbike riders did not “look” like the typical
Taliban either according to eye witnesses. Then there is the question of how
they managed to disappear and remain hidden, even though the police managed
to get their pen sketches made.
Linked to these questions is the claim made by the TTP that they had carried
out the GHQ attack. This is interesting because the TTP is the only
terrorist outfit that is not identified by name in the Kerry Lugar Act. We
also know that the TTP’s weapons are coming from Afghanistan and to top it
all off, the Pakistani nation and military have been shocked at the US/NATO
withdrawal from their check posts along the Afghan side of the border with
Pakistan immediately when the Pakistan army began its full-scale action in
South Waziristan. Given how the US had been pressuring Pakistan into
commencing this action, why would they then decide to vacate their check
posts and thereby create an enabling environment for arms flows to the TTP?
These are questions that when linked up pinpoint to a questionable US design
vis a vis the Pakistan military. The reasons behind this have been
elaborated in earlier columns.
However, there is also anther link that needs to be highlighted. That is the
shenanigans, in Islamabad, of US diplomats and covert operatives - be they
linked to Blackwater, Dyncorps or Inter-Risk. On Tuesday, early morning,
four US diplomats were caught with weapons in the vicinity of Margalla
police station in sector F-8 - but as always the police were helpless in the
face of US pressure and had to let the men go. This is the sixth known case
in recent times of US diplomats and undercover operatives being caught with
weapons and/or harassing local citizens. One such incident also involved
Dutch diplomats. But the question is: what are these diplomats doing
carrying weapons to and from their embassy? Whom are they delivering these
weapons to and who are they taking these weapons from? When linked to the
illicit weapons caches’ of Inter Risk and arms licenses being given to the
US embassy without following proper procedures, there is a very real issue
about US involvement in questionable covert actions in the Capital and
beyond.
This becomes even more tenable when one goes back to the Inter Risk
company’s training of at least 200 ex-servicemen for the US, whom the US
refused to hand over for questioning to the Pakistani authorities and
instead tucked them away in “safe houses. These trained guards were also
supposed to have been given some of the illicit weapons.
Finally, returning to the attack on GHQ, the attackers were not random
militants but well-trained men also adept in deception, especially their
leader, Aqeel alias Dr Usman, who almost got away by mingling with the crowd
after the siege had ended - but for a guard who recognised him and hit him
from behind.
Given the serious concerns that are only growing over what exactly the US is
up to, especially with some journalists like S. F. A. Shah from Peshawar
facing life threats from US operatives in that city, it is time the state
sought to re-examine the multidimensional terrorist threats emanating from
different sources. Only when we are clear about whom we are contending with
on different fronts, can we formulate effective policies to fight the
threats. It is a dangerous reductionism to simply lay every act of violence
and terror at the doorstep of the “Taliban” and Al-Qaeda. Even here, which
Taliban group are we talking about? The US has mesmerized the Pakistani
state into simplifying everything and thereby glossing over the American
game plan in this region, especially vis a vis Pakistan. For this naiveté we
are continuing to pay a heavy price, not only in lives lost but in
institutions undermined.
Dr. Mazari is the Resident Editor of daily The Nation. She can be reached at
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