Now even outsiders are laughing at Pakistan's messed up 'democracy'
and the country's fake democrats.

Sandwiched between United States, European, Israeli and Indian designs
and Pakistani Quislings.

By Latheef Farook
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.

Published by Sri Lanka Guardian

Article Source : http://pak-nationalists.blogspot.com/2009/11/paknationalists-how-demo...