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Top 10 reasons NOT to go to a PTI Rally

2011-12-24T14:45:00.002-05:00

10. To get high

9. To meet your're buddies for 20/20 cricket.

8. To find out who has joined this time.

7. To pick up chicks.

6. To piss off Altaf Hussain.

5. Because it's the cool thing to do.

4. Because you like Shehzad Roy's music.

3. Because Imran Khan has the greasy coool look.

2. Because you wanna see if a million people can fit in the middle of your're city.

1. And the number reason YOU SHOULD NOT ATTEND A PTI RALLY. FREE CHAIRS!

Thank you, Copywright@ Internationalinsights@blogspot

by Adnan Khan BA LLB

Amir Khan, idea's for a champion.

2011-12-11T14:05:00.003-05:00

Amir King Khan, lost his fight yesterday to the brave American warrior Lamont Peterson, First all credit to Lamont destiny smiled on him and he grabbed it with both hands. However the question arises, why does a superior fighter, with superior speed, and even power end up losing to a great journeyman the way Khan did? Why was Khan so horribly miss managed? I will line up what Khan can do better so that this never happens again.

1st. Amir Khan must train defence, his defensive lapses were enormous and Peterson landed too many punches against Khan on the ropes.

2nd. Amir Khan takes way too much punishment in his fights, after Maidana and this fight he has put allot of mileage on his body and brain. He needs to work on defence and not getting hit for career longevity.

3rd. I do not believe Freddie Roach is the man to teach Amir Defence, as Freddie was not a defensive fighter himself but rather walked through punches. Amir needs a third man on his team who is a defensive specialist.

4th. Amir Khan can no longer have a "British attitude toward boxing". In other words this is not a Rocky Movie you do not win for getting hit with the hardest shots or proving to bar bums that you can take a punch, you win by hitting the other guy and not getting hit. If anything Amir's chin is granite after the bombs he took from Maidana and Lamont.

5th. Amir Khan needs to stop trying to prove himself to people and win fights, the critics will always hate for whatever reasons they can think up. Floyd Mayweather the greatest fighter in a generation who destroys world champions as if they were built up journeyman has millions of haters. Khan should now only focus on winning fights and defence. No more about proving to people that he has a chin or any of that nonsense that smart American fighters never worry about.

6th. Amir Khan may have to look elsewhere as Freddie Roach is getting old, and does not bring that intensity to the ring anymore. Whereas Petersons coach was a vibrant big man screaming at Peterson Roach seemed old and sick. Roach has had too much success, how can World championship boxing main events on HBO excite him much when he's a mainstay on HBO PPV fights for millions of dollars.

7th. Khans team who allows Khan to do dumb unnecessary things like let the opponent pick the place of the fight or let the city choose the ref has to stop. Again boxing is a business where you’re health is involved you do not want to take a single extra punch you do not have to take. The money in boxing goes fast but the accumulated damaged to your mind, body and soul from boxing last forever. Khan needs to now brutally use his star power to gain every single advantage he can and be proud of it. If someone does not want to fight Khan he should never be over anxious and give the lesser opposition every single demand as he gave Peterson. Khan should fight someone willing to fight according to his terms. Mayweather always meets even elite fighters half way, except Oscar De La Hoya however that fight delivered Mayweather more than 10 Million. Floyd was not taking career ending bombs for a million or less. Get rid of Asif Vali and get someone who knows boxing and who can maximise all your star power. If the critics condemn you who care, this is about your health wealth and family. Plus eventually after winning many fights the super fights and major paydays will come.

8th. Finally Freddie Roach's ambush style is now readable by most fighters and almost everyone has a game plan on how to beat it. You need to adapt in the ring to what the other fighter are doing and have a plan A, B, and C. You need to utilise and see the other fighter’s weaknesses and adapt as all slick African American fighters do. Otherwise you will not get through Bradley.

9th. Also Amir Khan must learn to fight on the back foot. He has to do this now as he is still only 25. If he cannot do this, most fighters at this stage as Peterson and Maidana have already shown will exploit this glaring weakness of his.

10th. Last and certainly not least Amir Stop being so anxious about everything. So anxious to prove and fight anyone at anytime. You’re just hurting yourself and making the careers of less talented fighters off your name. Take a long break and don't fight Lamont again until you’re certain you have corrected at least 5 things on this list. Let your body and mind heal too for at least 8 months. Enjoy your wife and your money for now. Do not be anxious to fight Lamont again the fight will come.

I hope these ideas can get through, if you aggressively work on your defence and change up now at 25, you can have a long career ahead. Otherwise sadly if you do not I see a Paul Williams like future for you. An amazing talent wasted.

Selective Islam ~ An article by Imran Khan (1998)

2011-12-05T18:56:00.000-05:00

My Generation grew up at a time when colonial hang up was at its peak. Our older generation had been slaves and had a huge inferiority complex of the British. The school I went to was similar to all elite schools in Pakistan, despite becoming independent, they were, and still are, producing replicas of public school boys rather than Pakistanis. I read Shakespeare which was fine, but no Allama Iqbal.

The Islamic class was not considered to be serious, and when I left the school I was considered amongst the elite of the country because I could speak English and wore western clothes. Despite periodically shouting Pakistan Zindabad at school functions, I considered my own culture backward and Islam an outdated religion. Amongst our group if any one talked about religion, prayed or kept a beard he was immediately branded a Mullah. Because of the power of the Western media, all our heroes were western movie or pop stars. When I went to Oxford already burdened with this hang up from my school days, things didn’t get any easier. In University not just Islam but all religions were considered anachronism. Science had replaced religion and if something couldn’t be logically proved it did not exist. All supernatural stuff was confined to themovies. Philosophers like Darwin who with his half-baked theory of evolution was supposed to have disproved the creation of men and hence religion.

Moreover, the European history had an awful experience with religion, The horrors committed by the Christian clergy in the name of God during the Inquisition had left a powerful impact on the western mind.

To understand why the west is so keen on secularism, one should go to places like Cordoba in Spain and see torture apparatus used during Spanish Inquisition. Also the persecution of scientists as heretics by the clergy and convinced the Europeans that all religions are regressive. However, the biggest factor that drove people like me away from religion was the selective Islam practised by most of its preachers. In other words, there was a huge difference between what they practised and what they preached. Also, rather than explaining the philosophy behind the religion, there was an over emphasis on rituals. I feel that humans are different; to animals whereas the latter can be drilled, humans need to be intellectually convinced. That is why the Qur’an constantly appeals to reason. The worst of course, was the exploitation of Islam for political gains by various individuals or groups. Hence, it was a miracle I did not become an atheist.

The only reason why I did not was the powerful religious influence wielded by my mother on me since my childhood. It was not so much out of conviction but love for her that I stayed a Muslim. However, my Islam was selective, i.e. I accepted only parts of the religion that suited me. Prayers were restricted to Eid days and occasionally on Fridays, when my father insisted on taking me with him. If there was a God I was not sure about it and certainly felt that he did not interfere with my life. All in all I was smoothly moving to becoming a Pukka Brown Sahib. After all I had the right credentials in terms of the right school, university and above all, acceptability in the English aristocracy, something that our brown sahibs would give their lives for. So what led me to do a lota on the Brown Sahib culture and instead become a desi? Well it did not just happen overnight. Firstly, the inferiority complex that my generation had inherited, gradually went as I developed into a world class athlete. Secondly, I had the unique position of living between two cultures. I began to see the advantages and the disadvantages of both the societies. In western societies, institutions were strong while they were collapsing in our country. However, there was an area where we were and still are superior, and that is our family life. I used to notice the loneliness of the old-age pensioners at Hove Cricket ground (during my Sussex years). Imagine sending your parents to Old Peoples’ Homes! Even the children there never had the sort of love and warmth that we grew up with here. They completely miss out on the security blanket that a joint family system provides. However, began to realise that the biggest loss to the western society and that in trying to free itself from the oppression of the clergy, they had removed both God and religion from their lives. While science can answer a lot of questions, no matter how much it progresses, two questions it will never be able to answer: One, what is the purpose of the existence and two, what happens to us when we die? It is this vacuum that I felt created the materialistic and the hedonistic culture. If this is the only life then one must make hay while the sun shines and in order to do so one needs money. Such a culture is bound to cause psychological problems in a human being, as there is going to be an imbalance between the body and the soul. Consequently, in the USA, which has shown the greatest materialistic progress and also gives its citizens the greatest human rights, almost 60 per cent of the population consult psychiatrists. Yet, amazingly in modern psychology, there is no study of the human soul. Sweden and Switzerland, who provide the most welfare to their citizens, also have the highest suicide rates; hence, man is not necessarily content with material well being he needs something more. Since all morality has it roots in religion, once religion was removed, immorality has progressively escalated since the 70′s. The direct impact of it is on thefamily life. In UK, the divorce rate is 60 per cent, while it is estimated that there are over 35 per cent single mothers. The crime rate is rising in almost all western societies, but the most disturbing fact is the alarming increase in racism. While science always tries to prove the inequality of man (recent survey showing the American Black to be genetically less intelligent than whites) it is only religion which preaches the equality of man. Between ’91 and ’97, it was estimated that total immigration into Europe was around 520,000, and there were racially motivated attacks all over, especially in Britain, France and Germany. In Pakistan during the Afghan war, we had over four million refugees, and despite the people being so much poorer here and in the NWFP, they suffered a considerable loss in their standard of living as a result of the refugees yet, there was no racial tension, No wonder, last year in Britain, religious education was reintroduced into schools.

There was a sequence of events in the 80′s that moved me towards God. As the Quran says: “There are signs for people of understanding”. One of them was cricket. As I was a student of the game, the more I understood the game, the more I began to realize that what I considered to be chance was, in fact, the will of Allah, the pattern which became clearer with time. But it was not until Salman Rushdie’s Satanic Verses that my understanding of Islam began to develop. People like me who were living in the western world bore the brunt of anti-Islam prejudice that followed the Muslim reaction to the book. We were left with two choices: fight or flight. Since I felt strongly that the attacks on Islam were unfair, I decided to fight.

It was then I realised that I was not equipped to do so as my knowledge of Islam was inadequate. Hence I started my research and for me a period of my greatest enlightenment. I read scholars like Ali Shariati, Mohammad Asad, Iqbal, Gai Eaton, plus of course, a study of the Holy Quran.

I will try to explain as concisely as is possible, what “discovering the truth” meant for me. When the believers are addressed in the Quran, it always says, “Those who believe and do good deeds.”

In other words, a Muslim has dual function, one towards God and the other towards fellow human beings. The greatest impact of believing in God for me, meant that I lost all fear of human beings. The Quran liberates man from man when it says that life anddeath and respect and humiliation are God’s jurisdiction, so we do not have to bow before other human beings. As Iqbal puts it:

Wo aik Sajda jisay tu giran samajhta hai,

Hazaar sajdon say deta hai aadmi ko nijaat.

Moreover, since this is a transitory world where we prepare for the eternal one, I broke out of the self-imposed prisons, such as growing old (such a curse in the western world, as a result of which, plastic surgeons are having a field day), materialism, ego, what people say and so on. It is important to note that one does not eliminate the earthly desires, simply that instead of being controlled by them, one controls them.

By following the second part of believing in Islam, I have become a better human being. Rather than being self-centred and living for the self, I feel that because the Almighty gave so much to me, in turn I must use that blessing to help the less privileged. By following the fundamentals of Islam rather than becoming a Kalashnikov-wielding fanatic I have become a tolerant and a giving human being who feels compassion for the under-privileged.

Instead of attributing success to myself, I know it is because of God’s will, hence humility instead of arrogance. Also, instead of the snobbish Brown Sahib attitude towards our masses, I believe in egalitarianism and strongly feel against the injustice done to the weak in our society according to the Quran, “Oppression is worse than killing.” In fact only now do I understand the true meaning of Islam, if you submit to the will of Allah, you have inner peace. Through my faith, I have discovered strength within me that I never knew existed and that has released my potential in life: My educationprogramme that I intend to announce in March is far more ambitious than the cancer hospital project.

I feel that in Pakistan we have selective Islam. Just believing in God and going through the rituals is not enough one also has to be a good human being. I feel there are certain western countries with far more Islamic traits than us, especially in the way they protect the rights of their citizens, or for that matter their justice system. In fact some of the finest individuals I know live there. What I dislike about them is their double-standards in the way they protect the rights of their citizens and yet considercitizens of other countries as being somehow inferior to them as human being, e.g. dumping toxic waste in the Third World, advertising cigarettes that are not allowed in the west and selling drugs that are banned in the west. One of the problems facingPakistan is the polarisation of two reactionary groups. On the one side is the westernised group that looks upon Islam through western eyes and has inadequate knowledge about the subject. It reacts to any one trying to impose Islam in the society and wants only a selective part of the religion. On the other extreme is the group that reacts to this westernised elite and in trying to become a defender of the faith, takes up such intolerant and self-righteous attitudes that are repugnant to the spirit of Islam.

What needs to be done is to somehow start a dialogue between the two extremes. In order for this to happen, the group on whom the greatest proportion of our educational resources are spent in this country must study Islam properly. Whether they become practising Muslims or believe in God is entirely a ;personal choice; as the Quran tells us that there is “no compulsion in religion.” However, they must arm themselves with knowledge as a weapon to fight extremism. Turning up their noses at extremism is not going to solve the problem.

The Quran calls Muslims “the middle nation”, i.e. not of extremes. The Holy Prophet (PBUH) was told to simply give the message and not worry whether people converted or not, therefore, there is no question in Islam of forcing your opinions on any one else. Moreover, we are told to respect other religions, their places of worship and their prophets. It should be noted that no Muslim missionaries or armies never went to Malaysia or Indonesia. The people converted to Islam due to the high principles and impeccable character of the Muslim traders. At the moment, the worst advertisement for Islam are the Muslim countries with their selective Islam, especially where thereligion is used to deprive people of their rights. In fact, a society that obeys fundamentals of Islam has to be a liberal one.

If our westernised class started to study Islam, not only will it be able to help our society fight sectarianism and extremism, but it will also make them realise what a progressive religion Islam is. They will also be able to help the western world by articulating Islamic concepts. Last year, Prince Charles accepted that the western world can learn from Islam during his speech at the Oxford Union. But how can this happen if the group that is in to best position to project Islam gets its attitudes from the west and considers Islam backward? Islam is a universal religion and that is why our Prophet (PBUH) was called a mercy for all mankind.

The Veena Malik Psy Op, What should Pakistani's do?

2011-12-04T17:42:00.013-05:00

In a coordinated psychological operation the Indian version of the Western magazine FHM, has put Pakistani personality Veena Malik naked on the cover with the Tattoo ISI on her arm. Seems a psy op to demoralise and humiliate Pakistani's in general and specifically Pakistan's intelligence agency. Well what is Pakistan to make of this act? First of all, while emotions have run high I would not over blow this incident. We must give Veena Malik the benefit of the doubt she has filed a law suit against FHM, for using her likeness illegally. I can assume she did agree to the shoot but not to be naked, or to have ISI scribbled on her arm. While Veena does not seem to be too intelligent which makes her easy to manipulate we cannot blame it on her. After all numerous foolish men and women have been manipulated by those of higher intelligence for nefarious AIMS, and for Pakistan this should be expected. As there is a massive global psychological campaign directed toward Pakistan at the moment.

Now the first goal India wished to achieve with this psychological operation was to demoralise and humiliate the Pakistani nation. Now this is where Pakistani's should relax, after all one women exploited by them is not the end of the world. In fact here we can turn it on the Indians to reflect what truly did happen. Sleazy and dirty Indian publishers manipulated stupid albeit ambitious Veena into it. We must not and cannot fall into the trap where it's us pitted against Veena; this is what the Indian establishment wants. Pakistani vs. Pakistani, Man vs. Women, moderate Islam vs. Extreme Islam. We must hold the Hindu men who are responsible for humiliating Muslim women responsible. Indian, Bengali and Afghan Muslims must know that Veena is a Muslim woman first, and that sleazy and manipulative Indians took advantage of her. She may not be a pious Muslim or even a practicing one however she labels herself Muslim and according to the Quran you do not loose you’re Islam from disobeying Islam. Also we must not be divided and have this issue appear to be Pakistani vs. Pakistani this is a sleazy exploitative Indian vs. Muslim women and women in general. This is the angle that we must deal with the issue. As most effective to our advantage. After all Muslim women around the world will be offended at Hindu's disturbing their sensibilities of modesty. Thus this is the exploitative and perverted nature of the Indian male dominated media in exploiting Muslim women and all women around the world. We as Pakistani's are the protector's of modesty.

The Pakistani Media must find out the Hindu men at FHM working on behalf of the West and highlight their names and how they disrespect and treat Muslim women. Muslim women the world over, and Pakistani's in general should print their names and call them to account for the sleazy trickery involved in exploiting Veena Malik. Veena Malik is a dangerous dummy, and hopefully she has learned her lesson. However I believe with this ps op the Indian's have shot themselves in the foot.

Adnan Khan BA LLB.

Why choose Imran Khan? PART 2

2011-12-04T13:39:00.003-05:00

In the last piece why choose Imran Khan PART 1, we discussed some basic reason' and idea's on why we should choose Imran Khan as the next Prime Minister of Pakistan. Those related to his background and history. However their are current problems that Pakistan is facing that Imran Khan can address. Firstly after years of military operations in the tribal areas the brave and mighty Pashtuns are upset with Pakistan. While they are still Pakistani patriots we need someone who can guarantee to them that their interests will always be secure and represented in the nation of Pakistan. Who better to do this then Pashtun Imran Khan. As a Pashtun leader Imran will also make the Pashtuns in Afghanistan who are on friendly terms with Pakistan feel they now have a Prime Minister they can trust.

Another benefit of having Imran Khan as the Prime Minister of Pakistan is that it will distance us from India. Indeed trading with India and doing business with them is fine, however their is a relentless onslaught from the Indian media to convince Pakistanis that they are indeed Indian's. Imran Khan who looks nothing like you're typical Indian, and is a Pasthun by blood as the head of state will clearly show that Pakistanis do not look like Indian's and are not Indian's. He will re enforce the Pakistani identity as something different then India, and lean us more toward central Asia and the Middle East. This will definitely be a good thing because we need to reach out to our neighbours in the west and identify with them as much as we identify with the Indians.

Finally Imran Khans sincerity is the key factor. No government can work without a sincere government and the corrupt thugs in all the current political parties simply will not do. These corrupt thieves have sold the nation numerous times and cannot now or ever be trusted. Imran Khan by declaring his assets and forcing the change Pakistan needs is an obvious choice for Pakistan now. While Imran Khan is no angel he is clearly superior in Character and decency to the current criminals we call politicians, and Allah (SWT) has blessed with a man who will not complete the Pakistan revolution started by Illama Iqbal almost a century ago but a man who will surely take it closer to it's completion.

Written by Adnan Khan BA LLB.

Why choose Imran Khan?

2011-12-01T01:24:00.006-05:00

The current situation in Pakistan is a sad tale, it seems Pakistan is in disarray. Imran Khan, former Captain of the Pakistan cricket team, and world champion has come to the forefront in Pakistani politics with his November 25th Lahore Jalsa in which over 150,000 people, attended. Now some people have criticised Imran Khan for various reasons, lets take a closer examination of these criticisms and see if we can shed some light on them.

First of all it should be said, that Mr. Khan in his own right is at least a multi millionaire, he does not need Pakistani politics to be rich, in fact as the husband of a Billionaire, getting involved in Pakistani politics makes him run the risk of physical injury and even worse things like assassination. Espcailly since Mr. Khan is challenging the status Quo in a very corrupt system. Thus Imran Khan should be congratulated for taking this uncessary risk and forsaking a very comfortable life.

Another reason Mr. Khan should be praised is his persistance. He started the Pakistan Tehreek E insaf, in 1996, with very little succes. However defeat after defeat Mr. Khan continued to keep coming. While most people would have been demoralised, Imran continued his campaigns to garner support. The fact that Imran has been on the scene for so long should also nullify fears that he is an agent acting on behalf of any foreign power or agencies. In the last 10 years we have seen people come out of no where. Anne Hazare in India for one, a man not mentioned at all, with no significance comes out of no where to lead protesters against corruption? How can this be so. The entire Anne Hazare episode seems to me to be corroegraphed. After all how can the World's largest democracy be so corrupt while Pakistan "The eppicentre of terrorism" Successfully has a man organically rise from the polictical spectrum and so viruntly speak against the corrupt system like Imran Khan. Other's who came on the scene out of no where, like Barack Obama and the Libyan rebels also seem suspicious, to say the least. Thus Imran Khan, is a known figure, and has struggled to come out ontop, unlike Mr. Zadari who clearly is an agent of foreign nations.

Back to the topic of why Imran Khan? Some criticise Imran Khan for not mentioning suicide bombings, and other atrocities committed by certain groups. However alot can be said for this, first we do not really know if these are indeed suicide bombings. Since there are no court cases, and media outlets seem to label any exploision as a suicide bombing, we can never really know what is going on in Pakistan. To make matters more complicated Mr. Asif Zadari's PPP government has let in thosaunds of foreign agents into the country, and their activity may not be monitored at all times. Thus Imran Khan does not speak out against bombings, because he has no definitive proof of who or what organization is carrying out these bombings. As logic commands and the Holy Quran states, you can only condemn people with proof. Mr. Khan cannot take the Western news conglomerates seriously as they were the ones who lied about Iraqi weapens of mass destruction, the closing down of Guantanomo bay etc. These lies have critically damanged the credibility of Western news sources.

Is Imran Khan's anti Americanism justified? Well after 1 million Iraqi deaths in an illegal invasion, hundreds of thousands of Afghan deaths in an Endless war not to mention the death's of thousands of innocent Pakistani civilians it's miraculous Mr. Khan has shown so much restraint. The gross violation of Pakistan's sovereignty and all human rights norms, has been so egregious, it would seem like satire if it wasn't so sad, because of the massive loss of innocent life. Mr. Khan's anti Americanism certaintly seems justified.

With the coming elections it is imperative that the Pakistani people find a way to bring in the sincere leadership of Imran Khan's Pakistan Tehreek E Insaf, and permently dismantle the infrastructure of the corrupt imperial political mafia's who exploit Pakistan's land and people, without concern for their well being. Imran Khan being a sincere man, with a desire to improve the lives of the Pakistani people, is the right choice for Pakistan, in this crucial time, the most important election in Pakistan's short history. Imran Khan may be labelled anti American because he no longer wants Pakistan to be aa proteterate but rather stand on his own two feet, however this is a small price to pay, for him becaause he can improve the lives of tens of millions of People. May Allah (SWT) grant Imran Khan victory.

By Adnan Khan BA, LLB.

Analysis of a Music Video by Heavy D

2011-11-09T00:27:00.000-05:00

Floyd Mayweather the intelligence of greatness

2011-06-15T17:43:00.002-04:00

Floyd Mayweather is a genius in and out of the ring. His career has thus far been managed brilliantly and he's now fighting Victor Ortiz in a tune up I believe to face Manny Pacquiao. Why do i say Floyd Mayweather is a genius, well first of all he has 42 wins and 0 losses fighting some of the biggest names in boxing. He's beaten them all and barely has a scratch on him. Why else do I believe Floyd is a genius? Floyd Mayweather is his own boss, he does not let a middle man take his money or use him in the fight game. Floyd is worth 100's of millions. Also Floyd Mayweather is a genius because he let's his body recover from fights. It's true that when your under 30 ring rust can set in and you have to stay active, however Floyd Mayweather does stay active, while not on the radar he does not drink or smoke. He does not hurt himself by damaging his body, he lives a very clean life, however allows his body to recover from his fights. I would say Floyd's boxing age is 26, if you ad up all the punishment he has taken and his physical fitness Floyd is still young. As the great Bernard Hopkins has shown us your actual age and boxing age can be worlds apart. This is why I believe Floyd will beat Victor Ortiz, and even beat Manny Pacquiao later on.

Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Marquez III

2011-06-15T15:43:00.002-04:00

The biggest fight of the year is this hands down. I know Floyd is back and the heavyweights have a major upcoming bought. However this fight is a fight to answer many questions. The first two fights were inconclusive though many had Marquez winning. Now I believe Marquez is fighting an uphill battle, though some things may be on his side. Pacquiao has been in many wars and seemed to be declining against an old and washed up Sugar Shane Moseley. Pacquiao has been in many fights and he will be going down in weight. It's only two pounds in which he's going down however going down has had a tremendously negative impact on fighters such as Roy Jones as well as others so we will have to see. While rematches tend to favor counter punchers Pacquiao's speed and power at 145 is tremendous while JJM is unproven at this weight, only being destroyed by Floyd Mayweather Junior. I believe Pacquiao will win convincingly against the old warrior however a surprise is possible. Pacquiao will win a unanimous decision.

David Haye vs. Wladimir Klitschko

2011-06-15T10:18:00.001-04:00

This is the biggest heavyweight fight we have seen in a long time. David "Hayemaker" Haye vs. Wladimir Klitschko. Who wins and why? David Haye has promised to knock out Wladimir Klitschko and it seems Klitschko is thinking about doing the same. Klitchsko is now old he's over 34 and in boxing terms that's old. However with B-hop redefining all age limits you never know. I personally do not think it will affect Wladimir. Haye seems to be boxing out of his league. Haye is far to small and though he is fast, Wladimir seems to be always punching and always keeping his opponents busy. While I believe Haye may win some of the first rounds with blistering hand speed and a powerful jab Klitschko being a true heavyweight and far more powerful will prove devastating for Haye. Klitschko is no Valuev who had very little talent but simply had massive size. Klitschko is enormously powerful, and big, but is also fast and a brilliant ring general. I like David Haye and among the cruiser weights he truely is the best. The problem is their is no money in the cruiser weight division. I say Klitschko will win by knockout in the later rounds.

Floyd Mayweather v Victor Ortiz

2011-06-14T22:16:00.003-04:00

One of the major super fights coming up in the next few months is Floyd Mayweather vs. Victor Ortiz. Age vs. Youth and pedigree vs. Sheer punching power. Who will win this epic battle is the question and why? I for one think Floyd is a boxing genius and one of the greatest fighters of all time, while Victor Ortiz is an awesome young prospect with devastating power. Heck can I really call him a prospect when he's the welterweight champion of the world after beating Andre Berto? Ortiz is the real deal, he did indeed loose to Marcos Maidana who's ruthless punching power spares no one, however Ortiz was quite young and in experienced. Maybe is was too much too soon.

While normally the case when an up and coming gunner fights an aging veteran is that the fight is called a toss up, or in the case of Khan and Judah where Khan is the favorite. So sometimes the younger guy is the chosen one. In this case I don't believe that's true. Floyd's boxing age is no older then 26, he's never taken a beating and always rests his body properly after two major fights at most. When your younger that can lead to ring rust, but when your as good as Floyd fighting at the highest level is like riding a bike, you never forget. Floyd rests up, while not fighting but he always trains, watches fights and in mentally engaged in the fight game. Floyd is not controlled by money grubbing slick promoters who only have their interests at heart. He is controlled by his father and uncle, guys who while a bit quirky have managed Floyd's career with his best interests at heart. It is Victor Ortiz's career which is being mis-managed. This is way to much and way too soon, Floyd has not shown any signs of declining and he is just too good for Victor Ortiz. This fight will end badly for Victor Ortiz and may end his career. While Maidana may have made Ortiz wake up, Floyd is so good and devastating that he makes you doubt yourself forever. Your never the same when Floyd destroys you as Ricky Hatton and Diego Correles learned the hard way. I just hope Victor Ortiz's young career can recover from Floyd's Th round victory over Ortiz. Late 10th round knock out.

Amir Khan V Zab Judah

2011-06-14T21:34:00.005-04:00

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By Adnan Khan

The big upcoming fight between Amir "King" Khan and Zab "Super" Judah will be a sort of eye opener as to how far Amir Khan has progressed. Judah hits hard and has been in with the best. Despite that unlucky loss to Kostya Tszyu Judah may have been one of the elite greats of this era. However Khan as well has had a loss no less humiliating then the one Zab Judah had. However this clash between age and youth, Orthodox and a southpaw is going to be one of the most interesting fights of the year. Khan is super fast, and has reasonable power, yet can fade out in the end. However Judah too is super fast and can die out in the later rounds as well as he did against Floyd Mayweather. In my opinion this fight is a toss up at the beginning. I believe Judah will come out explosive and will surprise Khan and the fans. It will seem like the old Judah, while Khan too will be explosive and powerful. The fight will be even up-to six rounds and then Khan will start to take over, his pedigree and extreme level of skill and endurance will guide him through the later rounds and give him a unanimous decision.

Justin Bieber did not say Muslims are cool and Christians are lame.

2011-01-07T00:06:00.004-05:00

Today on CNN, the record was set straight about the rumor started on the internet that Justin Bieber said "Muslims are cool and Christians are lame". This statement was never said by Justin Bieber.

Michael Jackson was a Muslim

2011-01-06T23:59:00.002-05:00

It is true Michael Jackson when in Bahrain converted to Islam. His brother Jermaine Jackson helped him on his journey to Islam, Jermaine had been a practicing Muslim for many year. Michael Jackson also decided to build a Mosque in Bahrain as well as write songs in Praise of Allah. Only 1 song in Praise of Allah was ever completed.

By Adnan Khan

The fight, who's ducking who? Floyd Mayweather Junior vs. Manny Pacquiao

2011-01-06T18:23:00.010-05:00

January 6th 2011
By Adnan Khan

With regards to the Floyd Mayweather Jr. Manny Pacquiao fight, it seems many people have mixed opinions. However I have noticed people seem to support the notion that Floyd Mayweather is ducking Manny Pacquiao for fear that he may loose. As far as I am concerned I do not believe Floyd Mayweather would duck anyone, however I believe Floyd Mayweather has a reasonable belief that Manny Pacquiao needs to be drug tested. Manny Pacquiao the fighter has lost three times. He lost to Eric Morales not to long ago considering, Floyd Mayweather is undefeated. Manny Pacquiao has looked mortal many times, as recently as 2008 against the light weight Juan Manuel Marquez. Where we saw Pacquiao barely surviving. Even the victories against, Ricky Hatton and Oscar De La Hoya seem dubious because these fighters had already lost to Floyd Mayweather. In the case of Hatton, he was utterly destroyed as a fighter against Floyd. Oscar De La Hoya seemed weight drained and old when he fought Manny Pacquiao. No doubt it is a little odd that Manny Pacquiao who is a smaller fighter could rise up so fast and annihilate Middle Weights etc. Floyd absolutely has ever right to require Olympic Style drug testing and random testing all the way up to the fight. This does not benefit Floyd in any way as he is subjected to the same tests, and it actually benefits boxing because it would be great to be pretty sure the fight of the century is clean. So Kudos to the Mayweather's.

In 2011 we really hope Manny Pacquiao takes the test, and lets the fight happen. I believe Floyd Mayweather will knock out Manny Pacquiao in the 11th round. Manny Pacquiao's come forward style is exciting but its gold for a fighter like Floyd Mayweather. Also Manny Pacquiao's lack of defence would allow Floyd to pot shot him all night.

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Jordan Chandler Lied about Michael Jackson.

2011-01-06T15:14:00.001-05:00

In 1993, Chandler told a psychiatrist and police that he and Jackson had engaged in sexual acts that included oral sex, the boy gave detailed description of Jackson’s genitals. The case was settled out of court for a reported $22 million, but the strain led Jackson to begin taking painkillers.

”Now for the first time i can’t bare to lie anymore. Michael Jackson didn’t do anything to me, all was my father lies to escape from being poor.”

Source
http://current.com/news/90292625_jordan-chandler-admits-he-lied-about-michael-jackson.htm

Diego Maradonna is in Pakistan.

2010-07-05T16:16:00.004-04:00

Diego Maradonna has decided to coach the Pakistani Football team. He stated, it feels good to 'Coach a team where loosing four nothing is considered a victory".

Diego Maradonna has stated he will now Coach the Pakistani Football team. Insider sources believe this is a veiled attempt to get himself closer to pure Afghan Heroine.

Diego Maradonna has sung the famous song in Madonna's film on Eva Paron. Dont cry for me Argentina. Of course he sung it off key, and a German sung it better then him.

How William Burns Was Unanimously Censored By India’s Free Media

2009-08-03T19:53:00.003-04:00

This is why most Indians, and other international watchers, are unaware that the Indian government, one of the staunchest allies of the Bush-Cheney administration, has been caught red handed training and supporting terrorists inside Afghanistan to be used primarily against innocent civilians in Pakistan under the guise of Islamic terrorists.

By AHMED QURAISHI
Saturday, 25 July 2009.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—More than a month after the visit of US Under Secretary of State William Burns to New Delhi, I described in my column this week in Pakistan’s The News International [‘Forget AfPak, Resolve AfKash To Win In Afghanistan’] how no Indian official publicly contradicted Mr. Burns when he asked New Delhi to trim down or close some of its consulates in Afghanistan after they have been found involved in terrorism inside Pakistan.

I had no idea I was breaking news to a large segment of the Indian public opinion. It turns out very few people in India know this.

What Mr. Burns said is important because it paved the way four weeks later for Pakistan’s Prime Minister Gilani to have a frank talk with his Indian counterpart in Sharm el Sheikh in Egypt, where Mr. Gilani leveled with Mr. Manmohan Singh about India’s role in spreading terror in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. The Indians agreed to quietly look into the matter and consented to let Pakistan mention that the two sides discussed ‘threats in Balochistan’, which was a face saver for the Indians. The alternative would have been embarrassing. Islamabad planned to go public with the evidence on Indian terror links.

The Indian government did get into trouble over this with its critics back home. But it successfully kept the lid on an equally embarrassing situation when Mr. Burns visited New Delhi in the second week of June.

It turns out India’s free media practiced a near complete blackout on Mr. Burns’ demand for India to trim or shut down some of its ‘consulates’ in Afghanistan that have been found breeding terrorism on Afghan soil. A couple of Indian news outlets [TV, online] covered Mr. Burns surprising request but the next day almost none of the major Indian newspapers and television news channels mentioned it.

Mr. Burns was effectively censored and selectively presented by the Indian media. This highly unusual occurrence in the world’s largest democracy went unnoticed. A careful search on the Internet of how the Indian print and televised media reported Mr. Burns’ visit between 10-13 June will confirm this fact.

The result is that most Indian analysts and commentators are unaware of what their government and some of its spy outfits have been accused of. When The News published my column this week, I was inundated with emails from India questioning the veracity of the information on Mr. Burns’ trip. The commonest charge was that this is a Pakistani propaganda.

To set the record straight, it appears that while the Indian government could not do much about the embarrassing joint statement, it did a good job of hiding the embarrassing request Mr. Burns made during his stay in the Indian capital.

For the benefit of our angry and suspicious Indian friends, these are quick references that corroborate the story that the Indian media chose to unanimously ignore during Mr. Burns’ visit:

Bharat Prakashan (Delhi) Ltd., which owns and runs the Indian Web news magazine Organiser.com, reported the following in its edition for the week ending on July 26, written by Mr. M. V. Kamath:

“Shri [William] Burns was even more brash. He asked India to close down the Indian Consulate in Jalalabad in Afghanistan because of Pakistani complaint that India is “fomenting trouble” through that Consulate in the North West Frontier Province and Baluchistan? Can India ask the US to tell Pakistan to shift its capital from Islamabad to Karachi because Islamabad is causing trouble in Jammu & Kashmir? Who is Shri Burns to advise us where we should set up our Consulates?”

Similarly, under the colorful title, US to Delhi: Shut down Indian “Consulates” in Afghanistan– aftermath of RAW bombing of Peshawar hotel, the interactive Web news magazine Zimbio.com wrote this:

“Senior US diplomat William Burns gave Indian officials a terse and cryptic directive on Thursday. ”Shut down Indian Consulates in Afghanistan, reduce presence in Kabul and stop sending mercenaries across the Durand Line.” This message was supplemented with a letter from President Barack Obama to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.”

The Indian Embassy in Washington confirmed on its website that Mr. Burns “also handed over a letter from President Barack Obama to Prime Minister Singh” but did not elaborate on the contents beyond the diplomatic line that “The letter underscored President Obama’s “commitment to broadening and deepening relations with India.”

In another rare instance, a South Indian news website NewKerala.com reported on June 11 under the headline, ‘India being asked to close down or prune its Consulate in Jalalabad’:

“New Delhi, Jun 11 : The United States is asking India to 'close or prune down' its Consulate in Jalalabad in Afghanistan following allegations by Pakistan that it (Indian consulate) is 'creating trouble' in the border areas of NWFP and Balochistan, sources said here today.”

Most importantly, Pakistan’s Dawn newspaper, which is known as a strong advocate of closer ties with India even at the expense of putting Kashmir on the backburner, had this to say in an editorial on India’s now proven terror links:

“New Delhi for its part has insisted … that it be provided with concrete evidence of Indian involvement. This has now been done, with the reported handing over of a dossier detailing instances of Indian interference in Pakistan. The evidence apparently includes pictures of some senior Baloch separatist leaders conferring with Indian operatives as well as details of safe houses run by RAW in Afghanistan. Proof of India’s involvement in terror financing in Pakistan has also been provided, it is said, as have the names of Indian agents who crossed the border to link up with militants on this side of Wagah.”

Mr. Jawed Naqvi, a respected Indian journalist and a long time correspondent for Pakistan’s Dawn, reported on June 11 that the “United News of India quoted unnamed sources as saying that the US had asked India to “close or prune down” its consulate in Jalalabad in Afghanistan.”

And the list goes on. You will not, however, find any mainstream Indian news outlet covering this important aspect of Mr. Burns’ visit. And it is fair to say there was an undeclared moratorium on this issue that the Indian media faithfully enforced. The American and the British media were equally selective in covering this aspect that appeared to tarnish India’s carefully crafted image. In Pakistan’s case, the Am-Brit media has shown willingness to publish alarmist stories that lack credibility.

Why the free media in the world’s largest democracy practiced what appears to be government-inspired censorship?

For Pakistanis there is nothing new in this. The Indian mainstream media dares not veer off the official line on Kashmir when the Pakistani media in comparison has and continues to give space to views on Kashmir that sharply diverge from the official line.

Even the Track II diplomacy delegations coming from India over the past five years consisting of independent activists and professionals showed a strange synchronization in what they said when asked about key issues. The Pakistani delegations visiting India have always shown diversity in views and hardly any unanimity on vital matters.

The case of Mr. William Burns confirms the existence of a mechanism in India where the mainstream media does follow a uniform official code on some issues. When a senior Indian nuclear scientist was kidnapped and murdered in May, the Indian media slapped a blackout. Interestingly, despite the event’s nuclear security implications, even the Am-Brit media completely ignored it.

It is unusual that privately-held media in such established and self professed democracies such as the United States, Britain and India so faithfully mimics the national security priorities of their political-military establishments.

Even more stunning is how each one of them respects the security considerations of the other two. This the only logical explanation for how the Indian and the Am-Brit media, for example, covered the story of the Indian nuclear security breach.

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Making Sense Of Pak Politics: Musharraf, Zardari & Supreme Court

2009-08-03T19:46:00.002-04:00

Ikram Sehgal: If the Army can stomach Zardari, why should they mind Musharraf back as president one day? Musharraf’s fate is the same as those who close their ears to good advice and shoot messengers bringing bad news.

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Thursday, 23 July 2009.
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In his analysis published in today’s The News International, Mr. Ikram Sehgal provides an interesting assessment of the latest episode in the Pakistani political circus. The focus is on Pervez Musharraf’s legal problems, the real strength of President Zardari versus Nawaz Sharif/Prime Minister Gilani. And, most importantly, why the Supreme Court of Pakistan under the restored Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry is avoiding taking up the NRO, the law that whitewashed financial corruption at the highest levels in government. Finally, Mr. Sehgal makes some interesting observations about how the Pakistani military leadership could be viewing this mess.

Here are excerpts:

On Musharraf’s Fate:

Pervez Musharraf must be content in his London apartment, in less than a year Zardari has replaced him as the unpopular figure in Pakistan. Unlike Zardari, Musharraf always enjoyed a base of popularity. Given the present abysmal performance of the Zardari-Gilani government, this will force-multiply exponentially. If the Army can stomach Zardari, why should they mind Musharraf back as president one day? Even though Musharraf's Oct 12, 1999, takeover was illegal in all senses of the word, in all fairness it was popular in the streets with both the intelligentsia and the masses fed up with bad governance. No tears were shed for the Nawaz Sharif regime. Almost everyone welcomed, myself included, a military coup in the name of hope, or as hope is known in Pakistan, "the doctrine of necessity." That public faith in Pervez Musharraf eroded dramatically after the rigged 2002 elections was no surprise. That is the fate of all who close their ears to good advice and shoot messengers bringing bad news. As long as Asif Zardari does not meddle with the military, and until now he has shown no inclination for this rather fatal pastime, the military hierarchy seems more comfortable having him (Kayani was DG ISI before he became COAS, he cannot claim ignorance about all the Zardari controversies) around than Mian Sahib. One can understand the Army's lack of enthusiasm in repealing the 17th Amendment and Clause 58 (2) (b). Why shackle themselves for the next time around? It stands to reason they seem supportive (as does the US) of a strong president and an ineffectual prime minister.

On Whether Zardari Is Cornered:

Despite being under pressure lately, Zardari has made notable accomplishments. The success of sorts in Swat has been bought at a heavy price, the blood of our young men in uniform. Sufi Muhammad took a day as a sign of weakness the abject and shameful surrender by Pakistan's Parliament in its passage of a resolution for so-called peace in less than a day. The Taliban were not prepared for the outraged reaction of the Pakistani public. Their attempt to brutally take over Swat and adjacent districts was fully exploited by the Army. That most of the IDPs are returning is a clear measure of the military's success (and, it so happens, Zardari's). Complete success will only be possible when Maulana Fazlullah and his top aides are physically eliminated. Surviving March 15 virtually unscathed is a credit to Zardari's political craftsmanship, being reduced to a figurehead president is certainly not in keeping with his personality, or the shenanigans of his friends. A master of the art of playing for time, he has again consigned the 17th Amendment to the cold storage of a parliamentary committee. Yusuf Reza Gilani vacillated in the name of party unity when the opportunity arose to get back the prime minister's powers under the 1973 Constitution. By not maintaining the March 15 momentum he blew his chances. That the Supreme Court decision overturning Mian Sahib's conviction on the aircraft hijack case came the same day as Zardari's Raiwind visit is no coincidence. Zardari needed to head off Mian Nawaz Sharif running loose in the National Assembly with Gilani on constitutional issues.

On Double Standards Of Nawaz Sharif & THE RESTORED CHIEF JUSTICE:

While Mian Sahib must be congratulated for not becoming another political beneficiary of the infamous National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), nonetheless his "democratic" silence about this blackest of black laws is intriguing. Even though it seems they presently seem to lack enthusiasm, there seems to be method in the Supreme Court's benign ignorance of something that has disfigured Pakistan's politics and threatens our existence as a nation. At present all eyes are on the Supreme Court as they decide on the blatantly illegal Nov 3 action. The NRO will have to be addressed; his lordships cannot ignore it forever under "a doctrine of necessity." Ordinary mortals do expect that their lordships while suo moto-ing everything under the sun, will ultimately address this black hole in Pakistan's heart. The NRO provides for London being the first (and Dubai the second) home for our leaders. Our leaders alternate in giving us bad governance, collect their booty (and their gifts which seems to be their right by being president and/or prime minister), and go back to London (and Dubai), at least till all is forgotten and forgiven by our gullible masses, and their popularity returns.

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Michael Jacksons death overrides coverage of large U.S death in Afghanistan.

2009-07-10T17:04:00.004-04:00

Americans may have not noticed that seven U.S service members were killed in Afghanistan in one single day. The idea that the death of Michael Jackson over shadowed the news coverage of the seven dead soldiers is plausible. The death of Michael Jackson over shadowed what was potentially the biggest story of month. That is the Iranian election controversy. This was a potential world changing event of global significance that was overrode by Michael Jacksons passing. To be honest though I don't think even without the Jackson death the troops sacrifice would have been covered. Almost a year ago 9 U.S troops were killed in Afghanistan with minimal coverage. I guess people don't want to hear about troops dying due to its depressive nature. Or maybe the corporate media would rather not have us know about the toll the operations in Afghanistan are taking on the lives of young Americans. Interestingly enough its not just young Americans who are dying but rather young Canadians and Brits as well. These two groups have also suffered significant casualties during these times as well, with minimul coverage due to the Jackson death. I think we should all start thinking about bringing the troops home so no more lives have to be lost.

What makes a country "Happy"?

2009-07-10T16:08:00.003-04:00

New Economics Foundation has named Costa Rica the "Happiest place on Earth". This was also not a one off thing. In 2006 Costa Rica was at number 2 spot behind Pacific getaway of Vanuatu. Generally Western countries often looked at as the "developed" world did poorly in this survey. Funny how a little redefining of the measuring stick can create an earthquake in the status quo of nations.

Sociologist Andrea Fonseca said Costa Rica gives its citizens the "tools" to be happy. She added that the country's rise to the top of the Happy Planet Index "has a lot to do with social imagination." Costa Rica has a peaceful reputation because it does not have an army, and is also known for its protected ecological zones and national slogan "pure life," she said.

I like the words "social imagination" Few years ago a similar survey found the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan as the Happiest country in the world. Of course the uber trendy words like "small eco-footprint", "green" etc are being used to promote these countries. But what truly gives is a sense of respect for the basic elements of life itself...you know clean water, clean air, unadulterated earth and even a pristine fire. Not too much to ask, you may think, but it is in many ways. It indeed takes a lot of "social imagination" to protect these core elements of life from the encroachment of what we call "living the life".

Courtesy of Elements

Sustainable Finance

2009-07-10T16:06:00.003-04:00

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

So now even the Pope has weighed in after myriad of other religious leaders on the causes of the financial crisis. His papal enclyclical talks about some poignant issues. He debunks the myth that markets are value neutral physical reality kindda like the laws of nature. Markets after all are the creation of social actions based on social imagination of people. It is the collective product of myriad of independent decisions made by various actors within a society. Though at times it takes on a chaotic character, markets are hardly chaos. So things just don't "happen," there are human actions that lead to outcomes. Such causality does not work in linear ways like it does on physical processes but in an organic fashion, because we're after all are living beings. Our society is but a network of life with all its elemental sustaining processes.

Since the financial crisis, which has even been termed as the "crisis of capitalism" started, mainstream media have tried to blame it on the "credit crunch", sub-prime mortgage, greed, lack of regulation and various impersonal factors. Perhaps it is comforting or self-serving that way. Yet the root causes of the crisis are by no means "natural". Sub-optimal choices were made by various actors that lead to the debacle. Question then becomes who are these people and why did they make decisions that on hindsight looks asinine, to put it mildly. Pope blamed greed and materialism for blinding judgement and stressed on the need for ethics to guide us in economic decisions. Noble thoughts indeed. I agree whole-heartedly that during the the then "Age of Neo-liberal Capitalism" all forms of life became a tool of ever increasing economic production that benefited humanity in very uneven ways, often not at all. But the cause, as even the Pope agrees, is not the market mechanism itself.

Market mechanism is just a tool that evolved from thousands of years of human interactive behavior. The roots of the crisis, however, lies in purposefully designed meta-systems that are meant to control and manipulate market outcomes to the benefit of the few who designed these systems. What am I talking about? The Monetary system of course. At its heart the current crisis is a collapse of the debt based monetary system coupled with fractional reserve banking system. Not talking about this 800 lbs Gorilla seating in the room will not deny the reality of its existence. Such a system creates mal-investments by artificially reducing the interest rates for lending and thereby underpricing risk. But why? Because it benefits capital holders, bankers and lenders to expand the pool of debt [after all money itself has no seperate existence within this system outside of debt, therefore the system must remain permanently inflationary and debt continue to grow to keep sufficient "liquidity" in the system].

This fundamentally flawed structure can be preserved and nourished until a cyclical downturn exposes that while the liability side can compound exponentially the asset side of the economy cannot forever keep up with it in a world of limited resources. Futile attempts at keeping this equation balanced will cause suffering, poverty and environmental destruction, yet the outcome is certain. That is where sustainability comes in. To infuse ethics into our economic model what needs to change is its lifeblood, money and the system through which it is created.

There is absolutely nothing in the structure of the market mechanism itself that says economic development has to sacrifice equity or sustainability. In fact, a sustainable real economy will rely on its core elements: water, fire, air and earth and work to efficiently use them in a sustainable manner to increase the true quality of life for the largest number of people. Such a system will have positive externality, such a system will will have a positive network effect on the quality of human life because life will cease to be a sythetic construct aimed at subduing Nature and would become biological again. It will be an agent of harmony in nature.

It is only when we create a system which understands and respects the biological nature of life, respects the cylicality of the Nature which sustains it that we will find a harmonious system. Until then our attempts to disown the very nature of our existence as stewards of life and "the Living" on Earth will only lead to disappointment and misery. Elements of life are powerful, we can nurture them to sustain ourselves. Human failings will always be there. I am not asking for a utopia where such failings would not be present, but rather saying its about time we design a system that is fit for our imperfections and therefore can sustain life, in spite of us. That ultimately I hope is the lesson we take away from the current crisis.

Courtesy of Elements

Pakistan’s Battle Of The Generations

2009-07-10T13:50:00.000-04:00

The patriotism of the last and the presently phasing-out Pakistani generation has now been overtaken by the questioning mind of the younger generation that is far more educated. This new generation of Pakistanis has travelled a lot, has interacted with the world, in person and on the internet, and is far more informed than their ancestors could ever dream of. And they want change. It is now time for those who wield the reins of the destiny of this country to return to the drawing board and redraw the contours of the future of this great nation.

By MASOOD SHARIF KHAN KHATTAK
Friday, 10 July 2009.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Over the years the cementing factors binding the people of Pakistan have been losing their adhesiveness. Poor governance, absence of political reforms, inequitable progress, absence of justice, oppression of farmers and workers by the feudal lords and businessmen, absence of merit, non-provision of equal opportunities to each Pakistani and, above all, the denial of quality education to a vast majority of Pakistanis are only some of the reasons that come to mind as aspects responsible for the fractures that we see in our national structure.

At any given time there have been complaints of exploitation from one or another part of the country. If assessed dispassionately they have mostly been justified. Only seldom have they been meant to foment trouble of one kind or another. So what have we done, or are doing, to rid this great nation of reasons that bring about such cries of foul play? Nothing in concrete terms yet, although it is past the high water mark to take this aspect seriously.

Since our last generation and the one that is now phasing out had lived under a colonial power they were used to being governed as slaves, or a little better than that. The change of the color of the skin of the masters on 14 August 1947 did not make much difference to that generation and they accepted the new local masters with the same slavish mentality.

Just having an independent country and a flag that they could call their own was good enough to have the adrenaline going. Their unflinching loyalty and patriotism to Pakistan was admirable and enviable. It is not those generations but those of them that ruled the new country in their name that let Pakistan down and are responsible for the mess that we are in presently.

The blind faith, loyalty and patriotism of the last and the presently phasing out generation has now been overtaken by the questioning mind of the younger generation that is far more educated. This new generation of Pakistanis has travelled a lot, has interacted with the world, in person and on the internet, is far more informed and has access to mass communications that their ancestors could never dream of which has opened them to demand and expect for themselves and their country all the right things.

Things have changed and it is time to realize this and move with the currents of time. This new generation of Pakistanis and the ones that live abroad and yearn to return to Pakistan are our major resource that must be tapped.

It is now time for those who wield the reins of the destiny of this country to return to the drawing board and redraw the contours of the future of this hapless nation so that it starts getting counted as a progressive and civilized country that has released its brakes on development and is now on its way to achieving what it should have achieved decades ago.

There is no alternative to doing all this and there is also no time left to defer this action in terms of time. The permanent solution to terrorism and militancy also lies here more than in the actual battlefield.

A country in which there are daily demonstrations against the lack of such a basic modern-day amenity like electricity, a country where factories and even small businesses are being closed down due to the absence of electricity, a country in which the poorest of the poor has to travel for days and live in rented accommodation on borrowed money to try and obtain justice and so many other such well known adverse aspects can only bring about hopelessness in a nation. In fact the nationhood of such countries becomes threatened from within in the absence of a reasonable life for its citizens. This is exactly what Pakistan is experiencing today.

Isn’t it thought-provoking that someone like Barrack Obama can become the president of the world's most powerful nation? This is where the strength of the United States lies. A country that is tolerant enough to absorb as its citizens people from every culture and nationality of the world and then allow them to one day ascend to the mighty office of the president. We in Pakistan cannot even tolerate a man from the neighboring district within the country. What a pitiable situation. Wake up, Pakistan, before we become a nation divided into fiefdoms governed by local warlords. Strengthening Pakistan is the only guard against this from happening. Local governance is now inevitable to strengthen and cement Pakistan.

The writer is a former director-general of the Intelligence Bureau and former vice-president of the PPP Parliamentarians. This is an edited version of an original article published by The News. Email: masoodsharifkhattak@gmail.com

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The Meaning of Michael Jackson.

2009-06-26T11:02:00.003-04:00

Pop icon and musical legend Michael Jackson passed away yesterday at the age of 50 years old. I am now 27 so I grew up on the wave of Thriller and my first memories of Michael Jackson are from watching the Thriller video. Which is incredible because I gained a sub conscious sense of my environment and memory at the age of 4. Which would be 1985 and too think 3 years after Thrillers release as a very young child I felt its strong presence as the major musical factor in my family. Let me say the amazing things about Michael right away, he is the King of pop, no one has ever come close to him in dancing, musical ability video presence or even sales. You cant even compare Justin Timberlake, Usher or Chris Brown to this man they are not even close. True blue bonifide super stars like Madonna and Michael's younger sister Janet were clearly levels below. Michael Jackson was a truly international super star and in my opinion and many others, he was the greatest entertainer of all time. He has left enough work behind for us to give him this title. I honestly believe American civilization may not ever produce another Michael Jackson again. Makes you think about all those people who tried to put him down while he was alive. Michael Jackson was something and someone who people loved even in parts of the world that hated America. Now that those parts have exponentially increased in their importance to world affairs and in their hatred of America he was dutifully needed by America. However instead it seems America killed Michael Jackson, even though he has spent his recent years away he as I believed he would, die in America. I am sure whenever he was in America he was reminded of his painful past and harassed and mistreated. It was never for us to judge Michael Jackson the courts had made their decision and their was nothing more to it.

Anyways if America truly is declining, or if some other nation is rising it should be a note to Americans that demonising and destroying your own superstars may garner you massive profits from the corporate news, however you have to understand that it is the great artists that give depth and texture to a civilization and create inter civilization love. Michael Jackson was a bridge between civilizations and was seen as something redeemable about the U.S. A bonifide super talent, and amazing performer, loved by billions around the world. A man who was never political and whom anyone on any level could appreciate. Now that the King of Pop is gone his catalogue of music will live on forever he will be remembered as a great artist of Western civilization however I don't believe America will ever get another Michael Jackson ever again. Judging by the way they treated the first one I don't think they deserve it.

Analysis of Iran’s Presidential Elections

2009-06-23T23:42:00.001-04:00

Zafar Bangash on Iran’s Elections
Jun 17th, 2009

By Zafar Bangash [Well known Sunni Muslim journalist and Imam in Toronto]

Iran’s presidential elections held on June 12 in which the incumbent, President Mahmoud Ahmedinejad, retained his post with a wide margin over his nearest rival Mir Hussain Mousavi has provided the Muslim-hating West another opportunity to spout its anti-Islamic venom. Through its corporate-controlled mouthpieces, the media, they had already declared Mousavi the winner even before the people of Iran had had an opportunity to cast their vote. When the result turned out to be contrary to their expectations, it was immediately denounced as “rigged”. It seems even Mousavi had fallen for this propaganda because as soon as the polls closed, he told a press conference in Tehran that he had “won”. How he could make such a claim when no results had come in?

When the first results started to trickle in late on Friday June 12 and showed Ahmedinejad leading by a wide margin, the Western media, led by the BBC News World Service started to question their authenticity. Others followed suit. Soon there was a flood of accusations that there must have been massive rigging otherwise how could Ahmedinejad be ahead by such a wide margin. This was based on the Western media’s own wishful thinking of Mousavi’s victory. Part of the reason for their failure to accurately read the mood in Iran is due to the fact that Western journalists stay at Five-Star hotels—Isteqlal, Azadi and others—located in North Tehran. It is in this is part of the city that the taghutis and other parasites of Iranian society live. Physically, these people may live in their mansions in North Tehran but mentally they are in Europe or North America—destinations they visit frequently. Such people feed their prejudices to Western reporters who need little prodding, based on their equally jaundiced view of the Islamic Republic, to reflect the most negative stereotyped images of Iran.

Some examples may help explain the point. In the weeks leading to the June 12 election, the overriding theme in Western media reporting was that most people would “boycott” the polls because they have “no faith” in the system. As the election campaign generated excitement, especially with televised debates between candidates, the Western media’s tune changed; their coverage started to focus on the “huge crowds” Mousavi was attracting and deliberately ignored the even larger crowds attending Ahmedinejad’s rallies. Media outlets that bothered to report Ahmedinejad’s rallies dismissed them as “rented crowds”. The largely ignorant Western public did not know the difference; besides, they had little interest in Iran’s elections. Their knowledge of Iran is based on the drivel fed to them by their own media: it is “building” a nuclear bomb and Ahmedinejad has threatened to “wipe out Israel”. Such prejudices are reinforced by the Iranian expatriate community that is largely opposed to the Islamic revolution, hence their decision to live outside Iran. Supporters of the revolution went back to Iran to help the Islamic Republic.

Western media reports started to speculate that Mousavi would win. Besides, their hatred of Ahmedinejad, the plucky Iranian President who drew rings around them with his masterful interviews, did not allow them to see that he may have support among the Iranian masses. President Ahmedinejad has maintained a level of modesty and simplicity that has earned him respect not only among Iranians but also Muslims worldwide. They saw in him a truly Islamic leader. The more the West hated and ridiculed him, the more the ordinary people of Iran admired him. But his popularity was not merely based on sentiment; he had promised during his first presidential campaign in 2005 that he would put Iran’s oil wealth on the tables of the poor. And this is what he did. He delivered this wealth to the Iranian masses in the rural areas where the majority resides. This majority had been ignored and dismissed by the liberals, reformists and other Western-doting Iranians. But they made the mistake of being taken in by the hangers-on from within the taghuti crowd in Tehran. Regrettably, it appears even Mousavi’s campaign has been infiltrated by such people despite the fact that during his tenure as prime minister (1981-1989), Mousavi was liked by the people because of his modest demeanour and able handling of the economy. It must also be pointed out that Mousavi was never elected to public office; he was appointed prime minister by Imam Khomeini (at that time, there were two offices: that of president and prime minister. Only the president was elected who then appointed the prime minister). In a constitutional amendment in 1989, the prime minister’s post was abolished and all executive powers were united in the office of the president.

Mousavi’s supporters have questioned the wide margin of Ahmedinejad’s victory. They were expecting that there would be a run off election because no single candidate would garner the 50 percent plus one vote as required by the constitution. This was again based on wishful thinking and the fact that Mousavi drew huge crowds in Tehran. Two days before elections, Ahmedinejad cancelled an appearance at one of his campaign rallies in Tehran because the crowd was so massive that he feared people might get killed in a stampede. Few media outlets reported this nor did they report the huge victory rally Ahmedinejad held on June 14 in Tehran. Instead, the media focussed on Mousavi’s rally on June 15. This was preceded by rumours that he and his supporters had been arrested; when this turned out to be false, their tune changed: the authorities had refused to give permission for his rally, they alleged. When this, too, turned out to be untrue, then the media changed its tack again: they said Mousavi’s supporters had defied the ban and the authorities were forced to “retreat”.

There was no interference from the authorities to disrupt the rally despite people setting fire to buses, smashing store windows and causing damage to property. At the end of the rally, some people tried to storm the Basij offices in Tehran. It was at this stage that shooting occurred that resulted in seven deaths. By nightfall, calm had returned. Both camps announced rallies for June 16 but only one—that of Ahmedinejad supporters—was held as they arrived at the rally site ahead of the opposition group and seemed to take control. Also, the Guardian Council announced on June 16 that it would hold a recount of those polling stations where the opposition said irregularities had occurred. This was rejected by Mousavi’s supporters who demanded that the June 12 election results be annulled and fresh ones held, a demand unlikely to be met.

Amid all the hype about rigging, some basic facts must be kept in mind. President Ahmedinejad may be unpopular in the West because of his outspoken views but he enjoys widespread support in Iran. His support base includes the rural population, the urban poor as well as the religious. This constitutes the overwhelming majority of Iran’s population. The urban educated middle class is a minority and is generally confined to the northern parts of Tehran. Their children are able to go to university, they drive expensive cars and frequent five-star hotels. It is this group that has largely coalesced around Mousavi. It would be unfair, however, to accuse Mousavi of egging the rioters to indulge in violence but there is little doubt that there are agent provocateurs within his group that are bent on creating chaos in Iran.

Ahmedinejad’s supporters are largely poor; most do not speak English, hence their inability to convey their feelings to Western reporters who in any case are not interested in their point of view, but they are solidly behind the revolution and know where their interests lie. It is this class of people that made the greatest sacrifices in defence of the revolution during the brutal Iraqi-imposed war in 1980-1988. This is not mere conjecture. In an article jointly authored by Ken Ballen and Patrick Doherty and published in the Washington Post on June 15, 2009, the two writers revealed that Ahmedinejad’s 2 to 1 margin was actually confirmed by their own survey of public opinion conducted in Iran three weeks earlier. “While Western news reports from Tehran in the days leading up to the voting portrayed an Iranian public enthusiastic about Ahmadinejad’s principal opponent, Mir Hossein Mousavi, our scientific sampling from across all 30 of Iran’s provinces showed Ahmadinejad well ahead.

The poll undertaken by two US non-profit organizations—Terror Free Tomorrow: The Center for Public Opinion, and the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation—from May 11 to May 20 was the third in a series over the past two years. It was conducted by telephone from a neighbouring country (probably Dubai); field work was carried out in Farsi by a polling company whose work in the region for ABC News and the BBC has received an Emmy award. The polling was funded by the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and thus had nothing to do with the government of Iran or with Ahmedinejad.

In recent media coverage, much has been said about Iranian youth with the automatic assumption that they all oppose the Islamic government. This is not true, as the US-led survey found. The misconception has emerged because Western reporters only talk to north Tehran-based, university educated youth. These rich, spoiled youth do not represent the entire country. Nor is the Internet the harbinger of change, as made out by media reports. The poll by Ken Ballen and Patrick Doherty found “that only a third of Iranians even have access to the Internet, while 18-to-24-year-olds comprised the strongest voting bloc for Ahmadinejad of all age groups.”

There was an even more startling revelation made by the poll. Some reports have questioned how Ahmedinejad could win in the home province of Mousavi. Here is what the Ballen and Doherty survey found. “The breadth of Ahmadinejad’s support was apparent in our pre-election survey. During the campaign, for instance, Mousavi emphasized his identity as an Azeri, the second-largest ethnic group in Iran after Persians, to woo Azeri voters. Our survey indicated, though, that Azeris favoured Ahmadinejad by 2 to 1 over Mousavi.” It is not difficult to see why. Ahmedinejad had gone out of his way to help the poor and dispossessed in Iran. They in turn came out to vote with their feet. The survey also confirmed what we have said already: Mousavi’s “support came primarily from university students and graduates, and the highest-income Iranians.” These are people that are well-connected and are able to convey their thoughts and ideas to Western reporters, hence the kind of images of Iran created abroad.

There is one final point that needs to be made. Some people have argued that in Iran people make up their mind only in the last two weeks of elections. Again, this is true only for the urbanized elites; the rural population knows who their friend or supporter is. Besides, the vote can swing either way: both toward and against Ahmedinejad and it is inaccurate to assume that all the swing votes would have gone to Mousavi. Ballen and Doherty reported that when their survey was conducted, “almost a third of Iranians were also still undecided. Yet the baseline distributions we found then mirror the results reported by the Iranian authorities, indicating the possibility that the vote is not the product of widespread fraud.”

Finally, one must make a quick comparison with what happened in the June 7 elections in Lebanon. Tens of thousands of people of Lebanese origin were flown from abroad, all expenses paid by the Saudis, to vote for the March 14 group led by Saad Hariri. The Saudis also paid each person $500 for pocket money. Despite this massive fraud, Hariri’s group got 68 seats in parliament (two less than they had in the previous one) while the Hizbullah-backed alliance got 57 seats (one less than in the earlier one). There were three independents. Hizbullah Secretary General did not complain that the election was rigged. He told his supporters to accept the result and move on.

There was little or no mention in the Western media about Lebanese vote rigging; the only thing one heard was that Hizbullah had been “defeated”.

Ed Mcmahon comedy sidekick dies at 86 years old.

2009-06-23T11:02:00.002-04:00

Ed Mcmahon famous for being Johnny Carsons side kick on the Tonight Show has died. Mcmahon co-hosted the tonight show for over 2 and a half decades. He was surrounded by family at the UCLA Ronold Reagan medical centre.

Indian student from Hyderabad is the 15th and latest assault victim in Australia

2009-06-23T01:57:00.003-04:00

Mir Kazmi was waiting at a railway station when two Caucasian men walked up to him and started kicking and punching him for no reason. The root cause of Aussie hatred of India has been explained by the Indian elite in ridiculous ways. One such way is the Indian fantasy that its Australian jealously that is causing these assaults. Australians feel that Indians are inferior to them how could they be jealous? After the West went on a 8 year hyping spree with India, to pretend it was a counter weight to Islam and China, the West released Slumdog Millionaire which showed India as a filthy third world slum. The Western media's campaign of the "new" India had served its purpose and India failed the West in being its new slave soldier in South and Central Asia against Islamic liberation and China. The release of Slumdog to take India down a notch may have been too successful. After all one Aussie before pounding an Indian who asked for toilet paper said "why should they have it, not like they have it in their own country." The true reality of India, is that it is a desperately poor third world nation with hundreds of millions living in Sub-Saharan African style poverty. Its sad to see Indians or any people as victims of racism but Indians would have done better to listen to other communities who have been victims before. Its not how you are, its who you are. The racism is latent waiting to be expressed, and nothing brings out latent racism more then a minority confident in itself.

Sarkozy Says Islamic Burqa a ‘Symbol of Enslavement’

2009-06-22T13:36:00.002-04:00

French President Nicolas Sarkozy has stated the Burqa is a symbol of enslavement for French Muslim women. He has also stated its not mentioned in the Quran that the Burqa is mandatory dress. It is rather according to Sarkozy that the Burqa is a Afghanistan Pakistan traditional dress. It seems that the idea of freedom in the West is disappearing rapidly, however some would say it was all a propaganda ruse in the first place. I could imagine if Islam was never a presence in France, yet a group of rebellious white women decided to dawn Burqa's in defiance of the capitalistic mass exploitation of women they would be applauded as creative and independent thinking. They would no doubt form a tiny percentage of the French female population and would only be looked at as a cute nuisance. I have a feeling the banning of the Burqa has more to do with the colour of the skin underneath the Burqa then the Burqa itself. The problem is most Europeans view differences from other non white cultures as primitive and backward. When a European makes the exact same change, they are called creative and enlightened. It seems the message to minorities in France is the same as everywhere else. Your job is not to be creative or different, unless its in a way that whites have become comfortable with. Your job is to turn off your brain and assimilate when you have assimilated your job is over. Leave the creativity to the whites. Sad, racist but true unfortunately, no wonder certain minorities may fall behind in schools, whenever they show creativity or Independence its viewed as disobedience and threatening, however when white children display these attributes they are applauded for it. However I didn't expect much from neo Conservative Zionist Sarkozy. This is more of a political move anyways because a very tiny amount of Muslim women wear the Burqa.

Pakistan World Champions: Pakistan defeats Sri Lanka to become World Twenty 20 Champions.

2009-06-21T19:27:00.002-04:00

Pakistan today defeated Cricket Superpower Sri Lanka in the World twenty 20 cricket final. This was a much needed victory for Pakistan after much international negative media attention. However to make this victory all the more sweet super star Pakhtun player Shahid Afridi was the player of the match. Afridi shows that Pakhtuns are an integral part of Pakistan, espcailly in light of ongoing Pakistan army operations inside Pakistans tribal areas. The situation has caused much controversy in the country and this cricket victory was much needed.

Also another bigger story has transpired here. Only months ago did foreign intelligence agents attempt to murder the Sri Lankan cricket team on Pakistani soil. This was a blatant attempt to destroy cricket in Pakistan and eventually demoralise Pakistani cricket to oblivion. Seems the foreign terrorists have lost. We must applaud the resilience of the Pakistani nation.

Iran Election Results

2009-06-20T17:18:00.002-04:00

Recently, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad won elections in Iran by a margin of 2 to 1 over the opposition. Before the elections, two independant American pollsters showed results of 2 to 1 for Ahmadinejad largely because of the rural areas of Iran. Many pundits in the western media have indicated that these results are strange given the economy in Iran. It's even more strange that a country in which Goerge W Bush was elected president twice recently would question the election of any other leader. He is a hero in the rural areas of Iran despite being more unpopular among the younger more secular citizenship of the metropolitan areas. It's unbelievable how popular this story is within the western media. The protests are certainly newsworthy as they show the minority of a signficant power in the eastern hemisphere expressing their displeasure with the administration. However, spending entire days cover to cover on this story as is being done on CNN (for example) is surprising to say the least. Why so much interest?

There is little evidence of any wrongdoing purely from a counting votes perspective. The result is likely legitimate. The interesting part is the protest (albeit ever shrinking) being run by the minority. The boldness of the public in going against the supreme leader and Ahmadinejad. That's the only interesting part of this story.

The Extremists of Pakistan

2009-06-16T19:53:00.001-04:00

They have no tolerance. They speak, abusively if necessary, and desire little debate in return. They order and demand to be obeyed. They care not of another’s grievance or state of affairs, nor make any effort towards an understanding of such. They choose to remain ignorant of the world around and its realities that impact them. They wish their every whim to be met and every diktat to be followed by all. They are prepared to use violence - brutal, unrelenting and destructive violence – until they get their way.

Bearded, uneducated, warrior tribes from the North West reaches of Pakistan? No. The real extremists of Pakistan are the pseudo-intellectual, liberal elite dining away and making merry in the posh settings of Lahore, Karachi and Islamabad.

For it is at their insistence that the might of the Pakistan army has been hurled indiscriminately at an entire civil populace, resulting in its wake the displacement of over 3 million people and the death of thousands. This now stands as the largest unsettlement of humankind caused by man since the Rwandan massacres in Africa fifteen years ago and further bigger than the migration during the Indian partition itself. All because of the US backed lie that a few thousand rag tag group of fighters could capture the capital and hence overrun the country.

These extremists sitting at the helm of the country have swallowed every instruction and propaganda issued by the Americans and in doing so have taken Pakistan down a path of self obliteration. The entire army now stands pitted against a major ethnic race in Pakistan and this in turn bodes only one outcome for the country – civil war leading to state level disintegration akin to the loss of East Pakistan.

Such individuals have chosen to completely overlook the fact that a major foreign power has shifted its entire focus on the region after having just meted out the same policy on Iraq where it has succeeded in destabilising the entire state and engulfing the country with ethnic and sectarian flames. They have ignored the fact that the USA has a brutal and dark track record of using its intelligence agencies to ferment such turmoil in countries and that these very agencies have now settled in Pakistan and have been given a free reign to run amok. The CIA and FBI are openly known to have offices in every main city, airport and a thorough presence in the capital Islamabad.

Such extremists, falling into two overlapping camps, are both drawn from the sitting and opposition political leaders, bureaucrats, elements of the so called ‘civil society’ and serving and retired military leaders. The first group has continued to grip the reins of power in the country and all the perks that come with it; essentially the hundreds of millions of dollars in aid from the USA for the trough from which only their snouts will gorge out of. The second group is a fanatically secular band that will turn vile the moment the words Islam and society are mixed in the same sentence.

Together, they have managed to execute quite immaculately the American plan to turn the US’s War on Terror into Pakistan’s War on Terror, since the people of Pakistan have simply refused to back the former.

But perhaps the biggest shame is that the real intellectual element of our society has gone along with this, or at best is standing idle at the wayside as silent observers, for it has been very easy to accept the mistruths churned out by the extremists.

The real truth – a lot harder to swallow – is that the US wishes to achieve complete domination in the region. It has to ensure that the planned oil and gas pipelines from Central Asia running through Afghanistan, down to the ports of Pakistan, remain undisturbed. Further it must guarantee that the waterways near the coast of Pakistan are never threatened by any other power and that the control of this vital Middle-Eastern oil artery remains completely under its domain. In doing so the US has concluded that the only real way to implement this is to militarily occupy the region and eventually carve up Pakistan into smaller, weaker and hence more manageable states.

However, this is something which the Muslim community in the ‘AfPak’ region have declined to play ball with as they simply refuse to be a subjugated people; they demonstrated this with the British over a century ago, they demonstrated this with the Soviets twenty years ago and they are now making this clear to the Americans. As long as these fighters attack the US troops in Afghanistan, and continue to disrupt their main supply line which comes from Pakistan, the US will not be able to achieve its materialistic objectives in the region.

After repeated drone attacks the US simply cannot stamp out this resistance. Nor has it been able to send its own troops across the border to tackle these elements, partly due to the immense anti-American public opinion in Pakistan. But what the US has now succeeded in doing is to get the Pakistan army to fight its war.

But how long will the sincere elements of Pakistan stand by and watch the country being torn apart for a foreign objective under the whims of such extremists? How long will the sincere officers in the Pakistan army continue to act submissively under the orders of their traitor commanders and continue with this utter madness that has gripped the country? They must act now and listen to the voices of reason around them that call them to a new future for our Islamic nation. They must act now otherwise very soon it will be too late and America would have won.

By Asif Salahuddin
The writer is a Pakistani analyst who specialises in International Relations.

America’s ‘Pakistan Experts’ & Their Local Poodles

2009-05-06T13:40:00.001-04:00

America’s ‘Pakistan Experts’ & Their Local Poodles

Welcome to the world of self-styled ‘Pakistan experts’, groomed by U.S. think tanks to sit thousands of miles away from the target country to provide to the ‘international media’ [read ‘British and American media’] one-sided analysis that suits U.S. government’s interests. Recently, U.S. think tanks have also produced Pakistani ‘Pakistan experts’, who parrot the latest line in U.S. thinking. This is the only way these ‘experts’ can guarantee regular slots on the free American-international-global media.

By Ghalib Sultan
Wednesday, 6 May 2009.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—As television channels, newspapers and magazines have multiplied in Pakistan so has the number of 'analysts and experts'. Tune in to any channel and you can see them sounding off as if they are the fount of all knowledge and wisdom.

Most pathetic are the ageing retirees trying to grab a bit of limelight even at the cost of letting down their colleagues and institutions. Most of them have ended up as permanent laughing stocks with zero credibility.

Internationally, as Pakistan makes headlines, we have an army of writers, thinkers, experts, analysts and talk show guests scattered worldwide who seem to know Pakistan better than Pakistanis.

Most are comfortably ensconced in fully funded think tanks and their livelihood depends on the amount of 'wisdom' they can spout on Pakistan, Afghanistan, India or other regional hot spots. The flavor of the month is Pakistan. Their favorite topics are the Pakistan Army, the ISI, nuclear weapons, Taliban, Al Qaeda, the political government, aid to Pakistan and of course U.S.-Pakistan relations.

On Pakistan they have to tell a gullible American audience that Pakistan is about to implode, fragment or be overrun by the militant hordes of Taliban and Al Qaeda. They do not ever mention what percentage of the total land mass of Pakistan is actually controlled by the militants, how many there are and exactly how they are going to overrun Pakistan if it does not want to be run over.

On the Pakistan Army the refrain is Punjabi (pronounced Poonjabi) Pakistan Army and its lack of motivation in fighting those who threaten the state. And on ISI the constant in all utterances and writings is the linkage with Taliban and extremists. Conveniently ignored is the fact that it is NOT a Punjabi army—it is Pakistan's Army and its proudest sons have been and are Pashtuns, along with everyone else. Again if the Pakistan Army's 'morale is down' then pray tell us who is doing the fighting? If there is any truth in these wild unsubstantiated allegations by these so-called experts then why haven't all these baddies banded together with the Pashtuns and Taleban to turn the tide in Afghanistan? Surely not for the dollars that the U.S. dishes out with all sorts of conditions. They must also tell us how many of these dollars never make it out of Washington and how many find their way back there.

Some expert called Ralph Peters started the 'balkanization' scenario and produced his own maps to support it. Others have carried on from there. The latest is Selig Harrison with his 'State of the Federation of Pakistan' apparently funded by the Ploughshares Fund. In his doomsday writings he conjures up the old hat about 'Pashtunistan' and Baluchistan and of course the Poonjabi Army and the ISI and so on. Ploughshares should seriously consider if what they want is all this muck pulled out of the woodwork.

CENTCOM's resident expert adviser who predicted the implosion of Pakistan in six months has now targeted the Pakistan Army and ISI in his testimony to Congress. He wants U.S. dollars to go to the Police just like in Afghanistan. Does he want the same results? He apparently wants to create a gap between Pakistan’s military and civil institutions because right now no such disconnect exists. And then there is the nuclear proliferation genie that can always be trotted out and paraded to terrify Americans that hordes of Taliban after overrunning Pakistan will nuke them. Even high level officials who should know better mouth the same things over and over again.

These ‘experts’ might be doing a good job of scaring the dumb Americans. But in Pakistan, they have no buyers.

This is a slightly edited version of the original piece that was first published by Newsvine.com

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Beware Of The New Game In Swat, Tribal Belt

2009-05-06T13:35:00.000-04:00

The Americans and the pro-Indian Afghan security officials, in addition to the Indian intelligence outposts on Afghan soil, all have exploited Pakistani weaknesses in the area and pushed their own 'fake Islamists' inside to confuse the entire situation. Now when there is peace in Swat, this TTP comes into action to discredit the implementation of Shariah in the region.

By AHMED QURAISHI
Sunday, 5 April 2009.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Everyone knows that a public flogging like this one will create a stir. The fake Taliban who also call themselves 'Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan' [TTP] did this intentionally. And the Pakistani media played along, repeating the footage endlessly for ratings.

The problem is that this appears to be a deliberate attempt by these suspicious 'Pakistani Taliban' to derail the peace deal that has robbed them from the excuse to fight their own country and people by claiming that Shariah is not implemented.

This attempt is another indicator in the piles of circumstantial evidence collected over the past two years that proves that while most of the foot soldiers of the 'Pakistani Taliban' are our own misguided young Pakistanis, the real handlers behind this shadowy group are people with links to the border area with Afghanistan where, according to the latest statement by Interior Adviser Rehman Malik, some 4000 foreign fighters are present.

These foreign fighters are not the remnants of the jihad of the 1980s. These are professionally trained killers, experts in recruiting, organizing and unleashing 'death squads', and psyop experts. During President Musharraf's time, while he thought the Americans were his allies, CIA and Karzai's NDS and the Brits penetrated the Pakistani territory and established an elaborate network of their own operatives and spies on the ground. Tens of U.S. operatives fluent in Pashto and Uzbek and Chechen and other languages were released in the area and are still there. No one in Pakistan knows what they are exactly doing. When you see the strength of a fake Taliban like Baitullah Mehsud who has 25,000 fighters under his command, you wonder about his never-ending supply of money and modern weapons. He has never been chased by the Americans. CIA has started bombing some places under his command to convince the Pakistani military that the U.S. is not double crossing Pakistan.

The Americans and the pro-Indian Afghan security officials, in addition to the Indian intelligence outposts on Afghan soil, all have exploited Pakistani weaknesses in the area and pushed their own 'fake Islamists' inside to confuse the entire situation. Now when there is peace in Swat, this TTP comes into action to discredit the implementation of Shariah in the region. This Shariah has nothing to do with TTP. The deal was brokered and struck with genuine local known religious figures. The TTP is basically based in the tribal belt and is linked to Mehsud. Also remember that the Afghan Taliban in Afghanistan, who are the real Taliban, have ceased their links with this TTP long time back. In fact many Afghan Taliban have directly and indirectly conveyed to Pakistani authorities that they are busy in Afghanistan and have nothing to do with TTP which pays lip service to fighting the Americans and focuses on killing Pakistani citizens.

News editors in our TV channels need to understand this. They should not have given these criminals who are hiding behind the name of 'Taliban' the satisfaction of giving a successful media blow to the peace deal. It is also interesting to note that everything the TTP and Baitullah Mehsud does - from attacking Lahore on the day Obama was to release his new Afghan policy, to trying to sabotage the Swat deal which Washington opposes, not to mention attacking Pakistani targets and kidnapping the Chinese- all of this generally ends up supporting the American designs in Pakistan.

This column is based on Mr. Quraishi’s posting at The Lounge.
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Ahmed Quraishi nails it again

2009-05-06T13:30:00.000-04:00

The Editor’s Note: Reading this article reinforces my belief that we need a new way of refashioning the Pakistani state. Both the elected governments and the old fashioned military coups have failed. President Musharraf’s coup was probably the last chance to refashion the Pakistani State and this chance was wasted. The constitution needs an overhaul, political parties have become family ownerships, and politics have become monopolized. Feudalism needs to be eliminated by the force of law in Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan, more administrative[ and not language-based] provinces need to be created, ethnic- and/or language-based parties proscribed, politicians banned from direct contact with foreign governments, and the nation needs to focus for at least a decade on economic development and education without wasting energies on politics. All of this can only happen through a creative new arrangement where a group of strong, committed and learned Pakistanis are invited to lead a non-elected government, backed by a plan and by the force of the Pakistani military. Events are confirming that this may be the only option left if we want to create a stable system where real democracy can flourish and the military is not forced by circumstances to intervene again in the future. We will have to create this setup. We can’t wait for time resolve the problem.—Ahmed Quraishi.

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Fading India In Kashmir

2009-05-04T23:03:00.000-04:00

Tensions heightened when fanatic Hindu mobs imposed an economic blockade on the Jammu- Srinagar National Highway with Kashmiri Muslim truck drivers targeted. Indian Punjab, tellingly, followed suit, according to a BBC report, to once again expose the great myth of Indian secularism. Be part of the great developments taking place in Indian-occupied Kashmir in August 2008. India showed its ugly face to the world this month, when Indian settlers and outsiders tried to impose an economic blockade on Srinagar. While we are busy in Pakistan in our political instability created by the ruling coalition, Kashmir is in the middle of change. This is the time for Pakistanis to pay attention and support the Kashmiris against Indian brutality. Read this simple and fascinating story of the coming change.

By Abbas Jafari
Friday, 15 August 2008.
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SRINAGAR, Pakistan—It started end of May and has built steadily ever since: the resistance to the Indian occupation of Jammu & Kashmir.

The movement began when the state government agreed to grant 40 hectares of forest land to the Amarnath Cave Shrine Board as the rest and recuperation area for Hindu pilgrimage to the cave. What followed is a general strike and students' protests against the plan throughout the Muslim-majority state and persuaded the state government to take a stand, fearing this was another ploy by the Indian government to change the demography of the disputed state from Muslim to Hindu.

This prompted Hindu retribution and violent clashes were reported between Muslims, Hindus, police and the Hindu protestors in Jammu, with more troops having to be called in for a curfew to be imposed. Reports of assaults on Muslims poured in, along with Muslim homes being set ablaze.

Shutdowns followed across the entire Kashmir Valley called by a freedom leader, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, in an expression of solidarity with the Muslims in Jammu. Geelani noted that the administration had failed to protect the lives and properties of the Muslims in Jummu with Hindus on the rampage and matters began to spiral out of control.

Tensions heightened when fanatic Hindu mobs imposed an economic blockade on the Jummu- Srinagar National Highway with Kashmiri Muslim truck drivers targeted. Indian Punjab, tellingly, followed suit, according to a BBC report, to once again expose the great myth of Indian secularism.

Another BBC report from Srinagar had Muslim truck drivers refusing to travel on that road, fearful for their lives. The BBC Srinagar correspondent reported that fruit exports worth millions of dollars perished, as a consequence, with stocks of food grain, fuel and other needed supplies rapidly running out.

Just before retaliatory violence reached fever-pitch, a two-day International Kashmir Peace Conference in Washington (July ’08) is reported to have called for "the establishment of an independent and credible investigative commission to probe human rights abuses". This call was reinforced when Z.G. Muhammad, the acclaimed author of 'The Cindering Chinars' and 'Kashmir in War and Diplomacy’, quoted the venerated Mr. Yusuf Buch enunciating at the conference: "In Kashmir, campaigns of murderous cruelty have been sustained for decades; when the population gets tired of militant insurgency, the repression seems to subside but when an act of police or paramilitary savagery is protested, the orgy of murder and rape is re-enacted.”

Clearly aware of this, India's prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, turned to Hindu nationalist leader of the opposition L.K. Advani and called for an all-party conference to resolve the issue. But the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) represented by Mr. Advani, was said to have been much more inclined towards guarding the interests of the Amarnath Sangharsh Samati (ASS), the spear-head of the Jammu agitation. The ASS reportedly was not prepared to accept anything short of the allocation of the 40 acres of land to the Amarnath Shrine Board – which is based in New Delhi!

Subsequently, an 18-member cross-party parliamentary delegation was dispatched to Jammu and Srinagar for a solution to draw the major concession from some of the moderates in Kashmir's All Parties Huriayat Conference, of their having no objection to the Hindu demand for a separate state in contiguous areas where Hindus constituted the majority. These areas were identified as Jammu, Kathua, Samaba, Udhampur, and half of Resai, with the majority Muslim areas of Poonch, Rajouri, and Doda districts merged with the adjoining Muslim belt.

Simultaneously, the Conference endorsed the demand of the Kashmiri fruit farmers and traders to take their produce to across the Line of Control (LOC) to Muzzfarabad to draw in urgently needed supplies from across the border. On this India's electronic media asked India's home minister Shivraj Patil whether bifurcation or trifurcation (as Ladakh's Leh district is Bhuddist) of Kashmir could be a possible solution, to which question the home minister replied he was not competent to judge.

The upshot: an additional 10,000 troops deployed to disrupt the Muzaffarabad- bound march and more killings. With the government unable to stem the tide of unrest, the Huriyat Conference's Ali Shah Geelani and Mirwaiz Omer Farooq were quickly put under house arrest, while Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JFKL) leader, Mohammad Yasin Malik's fast-unto-death protest saw him hospitalized and in critical condition. If that was not enough, Indian security forces then shot dead an alleged resistance fighter along with two farmers and following that, an important Huryiat Conference leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, together with an unspecified number of others, as a reported 100,000 protestors began their march to Muzaffarabad.

Despite a curfew being imposed in all 10 districts of Indian-occupied Kashmir close to 250,000 gathered for the funeral prayers of the slain leader and thousands are reported to have stormed Geelani's home to free him. Farooq too was released soon after and the two called for peace as communal killings ravaged the Valley. But are peace and harmony possible in an area where the Muslim majority sees itself persecuted for its religious beliefs?

Zafar Choudhary, in his Countercurrent August 8 article 'Why is Jammu burning' underplays this. He writes, "What has shattered in the last 45 days is the myth that 'Jammu' and 'Kashmir' can behave like a common entity called 'Jammu and Kashmir' … In the early days of agitation, the popular slogans heard in Jammu were "we want the land returned … These slogans are no more audible. Now people are asking for an end to Kashmir's domination over Jammu. The problem is now no more between the government and the local people on a controversial decision. It has been now projected as Jammu versus Kashmir … When small spark has put the state on fire it has also demonstrated that efforts of dousing flames in one region may well prove as fuel in the other. It is high time that New Delhi's Kashmir policy is redrawn and sentiments beyond Kashmir are also taken care of."

That as it may, the sentiments evoked on the Jammu blockade have accentuated Muslim-Hindu differences in Kashmir and the front-page picture of the crowd gathered to pay homage to Sheikh Abdul Aziz published in Pakistan's Daily Times on Wednesday August 13, is indeed worth a thousand words.

Munir Akram Debunks Washington: Militants Not ‘Existential Threat’

2009-05-04T22:42:00.001-04:00

Pakistan’s former permanent envoy, who was removed by the Zardari government because of his strong nationalist credentials, says the solution has to be Pakistani, not American. He told the New York Times in response to an editorial that three-fourths of Indian military strength is deployed against Pakistan, so there is no question of removing troops from Indian

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NEW YORK, May 2 (APP): A former top Pakistani diplomat has said that the rising insurgency in Pakistan could only be reversed through a nationally endorsed strategy, not one “made in America.”

“The surge of militancy threatens Pakistan’s progressive aspirations, but it is not an existential threat,” Munir Akram, who served as Pakistan’s U.N. ambassador from 2002 to 2008, said in a letter published in “The New York Times” Saturday.

Akram was responding to an editorial earlier this week in which the leading American newspaper expressed concern over what it called was a lack of an adequate response to the Taliban advancing towards Islamabad.

“The onus for action against the insurgency cannot continue to be put on the Army, the former envoy said.

”Pakistan is now ruled by a civilian democratic government. Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani has declared that the army will carry out the government’s policies. The Swat deal, whatever its flaws, was negotiated by the elected Frontier provincial government and endorsed by the Pakistani Parliament”.

In conclusion, Akram said, “United States aerial strikes, dictation and coercion only strengthen support for the militants in the Frontier and reinforce the common perception that Pakistan is being forced to fight “America’s war.”

Pakistani concerns are further aroused by American demands that Pakistan move troops away from its eastern border even while India continues to deploy three‑fourths of its vast forces against Pakistan”.

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New Revelation: Bugti’s Shell Backfired

2009-05-04T22:33:00.004-04:00

By BRASSTACKS & AhmedQuraishi.com
Monday, 4 May 2009.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Akbar Bugti, a politician-turned-terrorist and a smalltime village thug who was taking India’s and Karzai’s help to raise a separatist insurgency inside Pakistan, was not killed by the Pakistani military. Instead he died when a rocket he fired went wrong, in what could also be suicide to evade capture, according to a close aide of Bugti who made this information public for the first time.

This revelation is a major breakthrough because the terror insurgency recruited young Pakistani Baloch men using a fake version of the story alleging that the Pakistani military killed the 80-year-old Bugti in cold blood.

Several news outlets, including BRASSTACKS, a Pakistani security analysis think tank, did explain the circumstances of Bugti’s death. But this is the first time that one of Bugti’s close aides has confirmed the real version.

Akbar Bugti, known as ‘little Saddam’ in his area of Dera Bugti, surprised all Pakistanis when, one fine morning in January 2005, he declared war against Pakistan after receiving guarantees from foreign powers based in Afghanistan that he will be given support to declare resource-rich Balochistan an independent country where he will be appointed an absolute ruler along the lines of the rich Gulf emirates. The federal Pakistani government discovered the plan and demanded Bugti’s surrender. His foreign backers and supporters failed to come to his rescue when security forces surrounded him in a mountain cave on Aug. 26, 2006, where Bugti apparently fired a shell at senior security officers who came to arrest him. As a result, the cave collapsed.

Wadera Muhammad Murad Bugti told a Pakistani TV news channel earlier this week, “When security forces entered the cave where (Bugti) was hiding, he attempted to fend them off by firing a shell. This caused a massive explosion, which resulted in the cave-in that led to the death of Bugti, one colonel, two majors and three commandoes.”

Another terrorist and associate of Akbar Bugti, Mir Balaach Marri, was killed on Nov. 20, 2007, inside Afghanistan as he tried to re-enter Pakistan after meeting his foreign supporters and backers.

Wadera Muhammad Bugti’s statement is a second major blow to the terrorists and their sponsors inside Afghanistan. In April this year, another plank of their propaganda fell apart when U.N. officials negotiating the release of a kidnapped U.N. official discovered that Bugti’s terror network based in Afghanistan was not only involved in the kidnapping but that its demand – the release of Pakistani Baloch women allegedly jailed for their political beliefs – was a hoax.

After the death of Bugti and Marri, Brahamdagh Bugti is now heading the terrorist insurgency and its only major group, the Balochsitan Liberation Army [BLA]. Brahamdagh is based in Kabul where he is sheltered in safe houses. BLA was the name that the former KGB and the Indian intelligence gave to Pakistani communist recruits who were paid to destabilize Pakistan during the 1960s, ‘70s and ‘80s, when the Soviet Union controlled Afghanistan. The BLA died with the end of the Cold War and the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan. Its revival under a U.S.-controlled Afghanistan is a surprise to Pakistanis.

The militant campaign for ‘Independent Balochistan’ appears to have at least tacit support from U.S. occupation forces in Afghanistan and is part of a wave of multiple insurgencies originating from Afghanistan and targeting the entire western Pakistani belt adjoining Afghanistan. All of these insurgencies did not exist before the year 2005, and certainly not before the U.S. occupation of Afghanistan in late 2001 and early 2002.

It is thought that elements in the U.S. intelligence community are cooperating with the Indians and Karzai’s intelligence to punish Pakistan for its refusal to give up interest in Afghanistan and Indian occupied Kashmir.

Washington is also trying to keep China, which has heavy investments in Balochistan, outside the region. Additionally, routes from Balochistan and Karachi all the way to Afghanistan need to be secured if U.S. is to maintain a long term military presence in Central Asia.

Brahamdagh Bugti and his supporters in Kabul and New Delhi have built an infrastructure of support for the anti-Pakistan terrorist movement that hides in the garb of a separatist movement seeking an independent Balochistan, carved out of Pakistani territories.

Indian experts in classic Urdu, Pakistan’s official language, help Brahamdagh’s people by writing high-standard Urdu-language press releases and emailing them en masse to Pakistani news outlets. One thrust of this propaganda was that Pakistani security agencies have arrested a large number of Pakistani women from Balochistan who are being abused in secret prisons for the crime of supporting Brahamdagh’s insurgency.

This lie was exposed when Brahamdagh and his so-called Balochistan Liberation Army kidnapped in February a U.N. official who happened to be a U.S. citizen. Brahamdagh demanded the release of the allegedly imprisoned women in exchange for the American’s release. Pakistani officials, U.N. officials, and FBI agents from the U.S. all checked Pakistan’s prisons and checked with all Pakistani security officials and it was ascertained beyond doubt that not a single Pakistani woman from Balochistan was incarcerated anywhere in the country nor were there any registered cases of such ‘missing’ women by their relatives.

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Obama Is Lying About Pakistan

2009-05-04T18:48:00.003-04:00

Published : May 1, 2009 | Author : Ahmed Quraishi

Mr. Obama used a domestic event to ‘accidentally’ declare war on Pakistan. Now his team is trying to encourage the Pakistani military to seize power. The Americans destroyed Pakistan’s stability through the Benazir-Musharraf deal in 2007. They are doing it again. Here is the easiest way of telling the Americans to: Lay off, stop lecturing us on India, stop supporting separatism, and mend your ways in Afghanistan.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—There is not a single towering personality in the Pakistani landscape today, with enough credibility, strong personality and effective communication skills, to stand up and tell U.S. President Barack Obama: You are a liar.

It is not difficult to respond to the entire American psy-ops on Pakistan, which are built on half-truths, disinformation and in some cases outright lies. This campaign is successful mainly because of the broad influence of the U.S. media in setting the world news agenda.

Before listing the exact points where Mr. Obama is lying, let me briefly sum up the existing situation.

AMERICA’S PLAYGROUND

In less than two years, the United States has successfully managed to drop from news headlines its failure to pacify Afghanistan. The focus of the Anglo-American media – American and British – has been locked on Pakistan. In order to justify this shift, multiple insurgencies and endless supply of money and weapons has trickled from U.S.-occupied Afghanistan into Pakistan to sustain a number of warlords inside Pakistan whom the American media calls ‘Taliban’ but they are actually nothing but hired mercenaries with sophisticated weapons who mostly did not even exist as recently as the year 2005.

No other nation in the world would have tolerated half the arrogance that the Americans are showing Pakistan. But thanks to a mistake by former President Musharraf – sometime in late 2006 when he consented to allow the U.S. to manipulate domestic politics through direct engagement with Benazir Bhutto and other players – Washington was given a free hand to deal directly with individual players inside Pakistan and recruit supporters and proxies.

Today, there are many parties inside Pakistan that are pushing the U.S. agenda and very few of those who would come out and condemn how the U.S. media and officials are single-handedly tarnishing Pakistan’s image worldwide to justify a military intervention.

This is precisely why senior Pakistani military officers are gradually coming out of their self-imposed ban on public activity to counter this nasty American psy-ops. Pakistanis need to watch this carefully.

On 24 April, Chief of Army Staff Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, in the words of an official press release, “condemned pronouncements by outside powers raising doubts on the future of the Country,” a veiled reference to a spate of official U.S. statements and planted media reports predicting the collapse of the Pakistani state.

On 25 April, Chief of Air Staff Air Chief Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman issued a statement saying that PAF “will continue to maintain its optimum operational readiness to undertake all types of missions against all internal and external threats … Pakistan Air Force is capable of providing instant support to Pak Army as and when directed by Government of Pakistan. To keep PAF at the highest state of Operational Readiness is my number one priority,” the Air Chief said in a public statement.

And on 1 May, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen. Tariq Majeed called a meeting of the military leadership and an official statement made sure to underscore that “the meeting took place against the backdrop of widespread propaganda unleashed by the western media about the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.”

The military statement was being nice. The propaganda was not unleashed by the ‘Western media’ but exclusively by the American media.

This unusual series of public statements by the Pakistani military leadership was an indirect repudiation of the sheepish attitude of the Pakistani politicians who failed to reflect the will of the Pakistani people. Amazingly, while U.S. media organizations and U.S. officials continued their propaganda about the imminent fall of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, in the hands of unknown terrorists, not a single official from the elected government came out to clarify the position from a Pakistani perspective. The world continued to feed on U.S. propaganda and psy-ops for several days until the public statements from the Pakistani military set the record straight. That is when a couple of government officials, like President’s Advisor Dr. Babar Awan, released statements contradicting the U.S. propaganda.

Interestingly, even Mr. Nawaz Sharif, supposedly the opposition leader, refrained from criticizing the U.S. aggressive posturing toward Pakistan. Mr. Sharif, more vengeful than statesmanlike, is hoping these days that Washington will support his bid to become the next all-powerful President after the Americans ditch a weakened President Zardari.

OBAMA’S LIES

Mr. Obama basically chose a domestic event – a press briefing on completing 100 days in office – to unveil what essentially amounts to a declaration of war against another country. The declaration was stage-managed to look accidental and not deliberate. Considering the serious nature of his pronouncements, there is no question these were well prepared in advance. This ‘accidental’ declaration of war should henceforth be taught in public relations classes as a classic lesson in how to deceive your public and voters and declare war without raising any alarm.

Mr. Obama first made an astonishing remark, that he is concerned about the fate of the elected Pakistani government because it cannot provide services to the people. Ironically, this was a swipe at the fake democracy that Washington itself helped erect a year ago with its direct intervention to bring Benazir Bhutto and later her husband Asif Zardari to power.

Now the U.S. President, no less, has taken it upon himself to criticize the ability of what he called the “civilian government”, as opposed to a military government, to provide for the people.

It seems Washington is trying to nudge the Pakistani military again to seize power. The Americans are doing it in subtle ways. One is Obama’s swipe. A second way is what Adm. Mike Mullen, the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, has done. He was allowed to join the panel of the U.S. Time magazine in choosing Gen. Kayani, the Pakistani army chief, to be among the top 2o most influential people in the world. To work up Gen. Kayani’s ego, Adm. Mullen wrote the following words:

“I don't remember all the details of my first meeting with General Ashfaq Kayani, the Pakistan army's Chief of Staff. But I do remember thinking, Here is a man with a plan, a leader who knows where he wants to go. He seemed to understand the nature of the extremist threat inside Pakistan, recognized that his army wasn't ready to meet that threat and had already started working up solutions.”

The Americans are obviously hoping they can have Gen. Kayani in their pockets and use him to achieve their goals in the region. That is why President Obama in his ‘accidental’ speech on Pakistan shed these crocodile tears: "I'm more concerned that the civilian government there right now is very fragile.”

And in another nudge for the Pakistani military, what President Obama’s top general for Pakistan and Afghanistan told an American television channel was even more damning. Fox News reported on Thursday that Commander U.S. Central Command Gen. David Petraeus has told U.S. officials the next two weeks were ‘critical to determining whether the Pakistani government will survive.’

But in what is sure to be one of the most hypocritical statements to ever come out from the mouth of the leader of the Free World, Mr. Obama said this: "We want to respect their sovereignty, but we also recognize that we have huge strategic interests -- huge national security interests -- in making sure that Pakistan is stable and that you don't end up having a nuclear-armed militant state."

If Mr. Husain Haqqani, the Pakistani ambassador in Washington who basically is the overseer of the Bhutto-Musharraf deal that brought the present ‘democracy’ to Pakistan, has any feelings for his country, he should call an important press conference and tell the American people the following truths that their media and politicians are hiding from them:

1. American Anti-Pakistanism: The most spectacular, anti-Pakistan media campaign ever against our country has been launched by the U.S. media and continues unabated, with the purpose of softening the international opinion for a possible military action against Pakistan. And there is no question that this campaign has some backing from official U.S. quarters as was the case in the propaganda that preceded the invasion of Iraq.

2. Stop Grooming & Training Separatists Inside Pakistan: With prodding from CIA, academic programs are being launched in the U.S. that advocate the breakup of Pakistan and the creation of smaller entities. This has to stop.

3. Terrorism Inside Pakistan Is Not The Main Story. The real story is America’s failure to bring peace to Afghanistan despite the passage of seven years on its direct occupation of the country. Terrorism in Pakistan is a result of the American failure in Afghanistan. We trusted the Americans. And what did they do? They let Osama bin Laden escape from Tora Bora, and then the Americans refused to listen to our advice and filled the puppet government in Kabul with the same people who helped Osama escape.

4. Don’t Lecture Us On India: The United States and its sidekick, Britain, have decided that India will be their slave-soldier in Asia in the 21st century. They want India to fight China and stabilize Afghanistan. They now want Pakistan to accept Indian military and intelligence presence in Afghanistan, forget about Kashmir and the water disputes, and turn the Pakistani military into a little more than a local police force tasked with killing anyone who doesn’t like America’s occupation of Afghanistan.

5. India IS Pakistan’s enemy until proven otherwise through actions and not words: Someone has to teach Mrs. Clinton, President Obama and their other team members some lessons in strategy. India continues to prove by actions that it is an enemy of Pakistan. This does not apply to the people of India but it certainly applies to their government and their intelligence services, their media, and their ‘non-state actors’. The world should know that India in 1972 launched a unilateral invasion of Pakistan exploiting a domestic political crisis and helped break up Pakistan. We have never done anything similar to India before that year. This naked aggression by India was never condemned by the so-called leaders of the free world and continues to be overlooked. India is portrayed as a responsible country despite having committed aggression against a smaller neighbor without provocation. Can the Americans guarantee India will not do this again?

6. The Afghan Taliban Are Not A Threat To America: The Afghan Taliban have never operated outside their country and are attacking American and other occupation forces inside Afghanistan as a result of the occupation. Washington should stop deliberately confusing the world about the difference between the Afghan Taliban and al Qaeda. The al Qaeda is a terrorist organization that should be eliminated, and has considerably been eliminated.

7. Eliminating Afghan Taliban Is Not Pakistan’s Responsibility: It is America’s responsibility to bring the Pashtun in Afghanistan into the power structure and defuse tensions.

8. So-called Pakistani Taliban Are No Threat To America: Although money and weapons for these militants are coming from U.S-controlled Afghanistan, many of the recruits and fighters are Pakistanis and we will deal with them any way we deem fit. It is not for Washington to decide how we do this.

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How to clear the mess?

2009-05-01T21:38:00.001-04:00

April 24th, 2009 | By Imran Khan

The reason why there is so much despondency in Pakistan is because there is no road map to get out of the so-called War on Terror - a nomenclature that even the Obama Administration has discarded as being a negative misnomer. To cure the patient the diagnosis has to be accurate, otherwise the wrong medicine can sometimes kill the patient. In order to find the cure, first six myths that have been spun around the US-led “Global War on Terror” (GWOT) have to be debunked.

Myth No. 1: This is Pakistan’s war

Since no Pakistani was involved in 9/11 and the CIA-trained Al Qaeda was based in Afghanistan, how does it concern us? It is only when General Musharraf buckled under US pressure and sent our troops into Waziristan in late 2003-early 2004 that Pakistan became a war zone. It took another three years of the Pakistan army following the same senseless tactics as used by the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan (aerial bombardment) plus the slaughter at Lal Masjid, for the creation of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). If our security forces are being targeted today by the Taliban and their suicide bombers, it is because they are perceived to be proxies of the US army. Iran is ideologically opposed to both Al Qaeda and the Taliban yet why are its security forces not attacked by terrorists? The answer is because their President does not pretend to be a bulwark against Islamic extremism in return for US dollars and support.

Michael Scheuer (ex-CIA officer and author of the book Imperial Hubris), writing in The Washington Post in April 2007, cited Musharraf’s loyalty to the US even when it went against Pakistan’s national interests by giving two examples: the first was Musharraf helping the US in removing a pro-Pakistan Afghan government and replacing it with a pro-Indian one; and, the second, for sending Pakistani troops into the tribal areas and turning the tribesmen against the Pakistan army. To fully understand Musharraf’s treachery against Pakistan, it is important to know that almost a 100,000 troops were sent into the tribal areas to target around 1000 suspected Al-Qaeda members - thus earning the enmity of at least 1.5 million armed local tribals in the 7 tribal agencies of Pakistan.

The most shameful aspect of the lie that this is our war is that the government keeps begging the US for more dollars stating that the war is costing the country more than the money it is receiving from the US. If it is our war, then fighting it should not be dependent on funds and material flowing from the US. If it is our war, why do we have no control over it? If it is our war, then why is the US government asking us to do more?

Myth No. 2: This is a war against Islamic extremists ó an ideological war against radical Islam

Was the meteoric rise of Taliban due to their religious ideology? Clearly not, because the Mujahideen were equally religious - Gulbadin Hekmatyar (supported by the ISI) was considered an Islamic fundamentalist. In fact, the reason the Taliban succeeded where the Mujahideen warlords failed, was because they established the rule of law - the Afghans had had enough of the power struggle between the warlord factions that had destroyed what remained of the country’s infrastructure and killed over 100,000 people.

If the Pushtuns of the tribal area wanted to adopt the Taliban religious ideology then surely they would have when the latter was in power in Afghanistan, between 1996 and 2001. Yet there was no Talibanisation in the tribal areas. Interestingly, the only part of Pakistan where the Taliban had an impact was in Swat where Sufi Mohammad started the Shariat Movement. The reason was that while there was rule of law (based on the traditional jirga system) in the tribal areas, the people of Swat had been deprived of easy access to justice ever since the traditional legal system premised on Qazi courts was replaced by Pakistani laws and judicial system, first introduced in 1974. The murder rate shot up from 10 per year in 1974 to almost 700 per year by 1977, when there was an uprising against the Pakistani justice system. The Taliban cashed in on this void of justice to rally the poorer sections of Swat society just as they had attracted the Afghans in a situation of political anarchy and lawlessness in Afghanistan. It is important to make this distinction because the strategy to bring peace must depend on knowing your enemy. Michael Bearden, CIA station chief in Pakistan from 1986 to 1989, wrote in Foreign Affairs magazine that the US is facing the same Pushtun insurgency that was faced by the Soviets in Afghanistan. According to him, as long as NATO is in Afghanistan, the Taliban will get a constant supply of men from the 15 million Pushtun population of Afghanistan and the 25 million Pushtuns of Pakistan. In other words, this Talibanisation is not so much religion-driven as politically-motivated. So the solution to the problem in the tribal belt today does not lie in religion and “moderate” Islam but in a political settlement.

Myth No. 3: If we keep fighting the US war, the super power will bail us out financially through aid packages.

Recently, the Government’s Adviser on Finance stated that the war on terror has cost Pakistan $35 billion while the country has received only $11 billion assistance from the US. I would go a step further and say that this aid is the biggest curse for the country. Not only is it “blood money” for our army killing our own people (there is no precedent for this) but also nothing has destroyed the self-esteem of this country as this one factor. Moreover, there is no end in sight as our cowardly and compromised leadership is ordered to “do more” for the payments made for their services. Above all, this aid and loans are like treating cancer with disprin. It enables the government to delay the much needed surgery of reforms (cutting expenditures and raising revenues); and meanwhile the cancer is spreading and might become terminal.

Myth No. 4: That the next terrorist attack on the US will come from the tribal areas.

First, there is an assumption, based purely on conjecture, that the Al Qaeda leadership is in the tribal areas. In fact, this leadership could well be in the 70 % of Afghan territory that the Taliban control. More importantly, given the growing radicalisation of the educated Muslim youth - in major part because of the continuing US partiality towards Israeli occupation of Palestinian land - why can it not follow that the next terrorist attack on the US could come either from the Middle East or from the marginalised and radicalised Muslims of Europe, motivated by perceived injustices to Islam and the Muslim World.

Myth No. 5: That the ISI is playing a double game and if Pakistan did more the war could be won.

If Talibanisation is growing in Pakistan because of the covert support of ISI in the tribal areas, then surely the growing Taliban control over Afghanistan (70 % of the territory) must be with NATO’s complicity? Surely a more rational understanding would be to see that the strategy being employed is creating hatred against the US and its collaborators. Aerial bombardment and its devastating collateral damage is the biggest gift the US has given to the Taliban. According to official reports, out of the 60 drone attacks conducted between 14 January 2006-April 8 2009, only 10 were on target, killing 14 alleged Al Qaeda. In the process almost 800 Pakistani civilians have been killed, while many lost their homes and limbs.

Despite its military surge effort, the US will eventually pack up and leave like the Soviets, but the “do more” mantra could end up destroying the Pakistan army - especially the ISI which is being targeted specifically for the mess created by the Bush Administration in Afghanistan.

Myth No. 6: That Pakistan could be Talibanised with their version of Islam.

Both Musharraf and Zardari have contributed to this myth in order to get US backing and dollars. Firstly there is no such precedent in the 15-hundred years of Islamic history of a theocracy like that of the Taliban, outside of the recent Taliban period of rule in Afghanistan. However, as mentioned earlier, the Taliban’s ascendancy in Afghanistan was not a result of their religious ideology but their ability to establish order and security in a war-devastated and anarchic Afghanistan.

In Swat, the present mess has arisen because of poor governance issues. Also, it was the manner in which the government handled the situation - simply sending in the army rather than providing better governance - that created space for the Taliban. Just as in Balochistan (under Musharraf) when the army was sent in rather than the Baloch being given their economic and provincial rights, similarly the army in Swat aggravated the situation and the present mess was created.

What Pakistan has to worry about is the chaos and anarchy that are going to stem from the radicalisation of our people because of the failure of successive governments to govern effectively and justly. Karen Armstrong, in her book The Battle for God, gives details of fundamentalist movements that turned militant when they were repressed. Ideas should be fought with counter ideas and dialogue, not guns. Allama Iqbal was able to deal with fundamentalism through his knowledge and intellect. The slaughter of the fundamentalists of Lal Masjid did more to fan extremism and fanaticism than any other single event.

Pakistan is staring down an abyss today and needs to come up with a sovereign nationalist policy to deal with the situation. If we keep on following dictation from Washington, we are doomed. There are many groups operating in the country under the label of “Taliban”. Apart from the small core of religious extremists, the bulk of the fighting men are Pushtun nationalists. Then there are the fighters from the old Jihadi groups. Moreover, the Taliban are also successfully exploiting the class tensions by appealing to the have-nots. But the most damaging for Pakistan are those groups who are being funded primarily from two external sources: first, by those who want to see Pakistan become a “failed state”; and, second, by those who wish to see the US bogged down in the Afghan quagmire.

What needs to be done: A two-pronged strategy is required - focusing on a revised relationship with the US and a cohesive national policy based on domestic compulsions and ground realities.

President Obama, unlike President Bush, is intelligent and has integrity. A select delegation of local experts on the tribal area and Afghanistan should make him understand that the current strategy is a disaster for both Pakistan and the US; that Pakistan can no longer commit suicide by carrying on this endless war against its own people; that we will hold dialogue and win over the Pushtuns of the tribal area and make them deal with the real terrorists while the Pakistan army is gradually pulled out.

At the same time, Pakistan has to move itself to ending drone attacks if the US is not prepared to do so. Closure of the drone base within Pakistan is a necessary beginning as is the need to create space between ourselves and the US, which will alter the ground environment in favour of the Pakistani state. It will immediately get rid of the fanaticism that creates suicide bombers as no longer will they be seen to be on the path to martyrdom by bombing US collaborators. Within this environment a consensual national policy to combat extremism and militancy needs to be evolved centring on dialogue, negotiation and assertion of the writ of the state. Where force is required the state must rely on the paramilitary forces, not the army. Concomitantly, Pakistan needs serious reforms. First and foremost we have to give our people access to justice at the grassroots level - that is, revive the village jury/Panchayat system. Only then will we rid ourselves of the oppressive “thana-kutchery” culture which compels the poor to seek adjudication by the feudals, tribal leaders, tumandars and now by the Taliban also - thereby perpetuating oppression of the dispossessed, especially women.

Second, unless we end the system of parallel education in the country where the rich access private schools and a different examination system while the poor at best only have access to a deprived public school system with its outmoded syllabus and no access to employment. That is why the marginalised future generations are condemned to go to madrassahs which provide them with food for survival and exploit their pent up social anger. We need to bring all our educational institutions into the mainstream with one form of education syllabus and examination system for all - with madrassahs also coming under the same system even while they retain their religious education specialisation.

Third, the level of governance needs to be raised through making appointments on merit in contrast to the worst type of cronyism that is currently on show. Alongside this, a cutting of expenditures is required with the leadership and the elite leading by example through adoption of an austere lifestyle. Also, instead of seeking aid and loans to finance the luxurious lifestyle of the elite, the leadership should pay taxes, declare its assets and bring into the country all money kept in foreign banks abroad. All “benami” transactions, assets and bank accounts should be declared illegal. I believe we will suddenly discover that we are actually quite a self-sufficient country.

Fourth, the state has to widen its direct taxation net and cut down on indirect taxation where the poor subsidise the rich. If corruption and ineptitude are removed, it will be possible for the state to collect income tax more effectively.

A crucial requirement for moving towards stability would be the disarming of all militant groups - which will a real challenge for the leadership but here again, the political elite can lead by example and dismantle their show of guards and private forces.

Finally, fundamentalism should be fought intellectually with sensitivity shown to the religious and heterogeneous roots of culture amongst the Pakistani masses. Solutions have to be evolved from within the nation through tolerance and understanding. Here, we must learn from the Shah of Iran’s attempts to enforce a pseudo-Western identity onto his people and its extreme backlash from Iranian society.

The threat of extremism is directly related to the performance of the state and its ability to deliver justice and welfare to its people.

IS Pakistan president Asif Zardari, an US/Indian agent ?

2009-04-29T15:47:00.000-04:00

By Usman Khalid

December 26, 2008 "Information Clearinghouse" -- The Pentagon has announced that the US would withdraw troops from Iraq to reinforce Afghanistan sending one brigade soon after the New Year and another three in spring 2009. This has the approval of President Elect Barack Obama. It is believed that the objective is a ‘surge’ in Afghanistan on the lines General Petreus had in Iraq. But President Hamid Karazai would like the additional troops to supplement the clandestine operations by RAW (India’a CIA) on Pakistan’s border. It now appears that President Zardari of Pakistan is just as eager for India and America to shift focus to his country. His reason: he wants the ISI and the Army to be tamed. It seems that Pakistan has the reincarnation of the Sheikh Mujib as a leader. And it was Mujibs’s treachery that precipitated the 1971 Indo-Pakistan war and Pakistan’s defeat.

The grim anniversary of the fall of Dhaka on 16 December 1971 is commemorated every year in Pakistan but this year it had more poignancy than ever before. Pakistan appears to be living through similar trauma all over again. The war clouds gather after ‘free and fair’ elections. In 1971, an indicted RAW Agent – Sheikh Mujib – secured the most seats in Pakistan’s parliament. Despite having contested the elections on the basis of Six Points that sought to make Pakistan a confederation, President Yahya Khan decided to honour the verdict of the people. He met Sheikh Mujib in Dhaka and asked him to assume the office of the Prime Minister. Sheikh Mujib accepted the offer and the press were briefed accordingly. Three days later, he informed the President that he had to decline the offer under pressure from his party colleagues. Now we know (from the chapter written by Dr Mu’min Chowdhury of Bangladesh in ‘Authentic Voices of South Asia’) why? Sheikh Mujib had asked for confirmation directly from India Prime Minster Indira Gandhi that India would invade East Pakistan if he made UDI – Unilateral Declaration of Independence. When he met President Yahya Khan, that confirmation had not been received. When he got the confirmation he declined the offer to become the Prime Minister and preferred to become a prisoner instead. That shows the dilemma of traitors. Once Sheikh Mujib agreed to work for RAW, he was a pawn; he had to do the bidding of his agent handlers. A maverick like him was more valuable in a Pakistani jail to give substance to the propaganda that Pakistanis would never transfer power to a Bengali as Prime Minister. The fact that most of the Prime Ministers of united Pakistan belonged to East Pakistan did not matter. Propaganda is more credible than the truth in the hands of the disciples of Kautaliya.

Pakistan had another elections on 18 February 2008 in the wake of the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. No one was surprised that her party won the most seats; sympathy vote was very substantial. But there had been disquiet over Asif Ali Zardari – her husband with dubious record who has been known as ‘Mr Ten Percent’ – assuming the leadership of her party on the basis of a ‘will’, which remains shrouded in secrecy. But the bold forthrightness showed by him in controlling the outrage on Benazir’s assassination and the riots, arson and plunder in Sindh that followed, he built a broad constituency of trust in himself. Everybody in Pakistan was pleasantly surprised when he set up a broad based coalition government with his archrival – Nawaz Sharif. He outmanoeuvred Pervez Musharraf and displayed impressive political skill in getting him to resign. However, his support has waned very fast because he went back on written undertaking to reinstate the Chief Justice Musharraf had removed. He is the victim of the Sheikh Mujib syndrome. Mujib could be prime minister of Pakistan but he chose to be a prisoner. He did become the President of Bangladesh only to be assassinated by his own soldiers who saw the truth – he was an Indian agent. Asif Zardari must be pinching himself every morning wondering if he was the President of Pakistan. But agent handlers are not known to be kind and merciful; their business is blackmail; they keep their agents on a tight leash. They want Asif Ali Zardari to deliver; the time is running out fast.

For some more time a debate will continue whether Asif Zardari is an Indian agent or not but the penny has dropped with the vote in the UN Sanctions Committee that declared some of the Pakistani NGOs to be the supporters of the Taliban or Al-Qaeda. It has now come out that he did ask the Pakistan’s representatives at the UN to get the ‘terrorist’ label put on some very respected names among Islamic NGOs. It has also come out that he did not consult Pakistan’s Foreign Office or use the diplomatic channels. He acted through co-conspirators – Hussain Haqqani and Hussain Haroon - Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US and the UN respectively. He has thus given a handle to India and America to interfere in the internal affairs of Pakistan. The USA and India would want progress reports and mobilise international support to condemn and isolate Pakistan as a ‘terrorist’ state and a ‘failed state’ to make the country an international pariah.

Asif Zardari (AZ) may be naive but he is no fool. He has help from India and the US to focus the ire of the international community on the ISI and the armed forces of Pakistan. America wants ‘full spectrum dominance’ over the world and Zardari (and co-conspirators) are telling them that the only institutions that stand in their way in South Asia are Pakistan’s intelligence and the armed forces. India and America are already working with him to make the armed power of the state of Pakistan to be directed against the Afghan and Kashmiri resistance. If they find the military leadership un-cooperative, AZ would turn on them. AZ tell his party that he seeks to end the military defying him on the pretext of ‘professional advice’ not because of Indian or American pressure, not because of lack of sympathy for the Kashmiri liberation struggle, but to establish the primacy of politicians for all times to come.

AZ wants to establish ‘full spectrum domination’ of his party over all the institutions of the state of Pakistan with the help of India and America under the cover of ‘war on terror’. He has already got his way over all the political parties, the judiciary and the civil service; the only resistance comes indirectly from those fighting the occupation in Kashmir and Afghanistan. India, America and Asif Zardari have a meeting of minds. They all see the resistance (in Afghanistan and Kashmir) as the enemy. If they could get the armed forces of Pakistan to fight the resistance in Kashmir and Afghanistan , both the challengers to ‘full spectrum domination’ (of America over the world and of AZ over Pakistan) would be mortally wounded in fighting each other. AZ hopes that the armed forces would have so little public adulation and support that they would never stand in the way of the political class whatever its wills, wants or does.

It appears that the narrative for AZ war against the ISI and the armed forces of Pakistan is being written by Hussain Haqqani with the help of his former colleagues in US think tanks. Haqqani is the author of ‘Military and the Mosque’. In that book he identifies both the Mosque and the Military as the scourge that destabilise the region and the world, meaning that they pose a challenge to Indo-US hegemony. He earned a professorship in the USA for that thesis and ambassadorship to the USA from AZ for the same. No wonder that the new direction of foreign policy in Pakistan has the signature of Hussain Haqqani all over. He is not hopeful that the military would take on the mosque; in his narrative of AZ’s war, Haqqani depends on India and America against the military and the mosque. Not since the Communist engineered the defeat of the Czarist Army in order to bring about the Bolshevik Revolution, has a national political party sought to engineer the defeat of its national army. But the Communist Party was not in power at that time. The AZ led PPP would be the first ruling political party any where in the world ever that enlisted the support of the enemy to weaken the foundation of its armed power – its nuclear deterrent as well as its intelligence and the armed forces.

All this would fit nicely into the scheme of President Elect Obama’a guru – Professor Brzezinski. He would love a war between the Armed Forces of Pakistan supporting secular-liberal parties (the PPP, ANP and MQM) against Resistance to Indo-US occupation of Afghanistan and Kashmir. That, in his view, would be a ‘good war’ that could yield a victory to the US at very little cost. The US ‘old guard’ and India want Zardari to use his armed forces relentlessly and ruthlessly to crush the ‘resistance’ in Afghanistan and Kashmir. AZ has already called the Kashmiri Mujahideen ‘terrorists’ in his Wall Street Journal interview. Now India and the USA want him to put his money where his mouth is and crush the Kashmiri and Afghan resistance. The Americans say they are already ‘helping’ with Predator attacks. But the attacks have been approved by President Zardari in defiance of the parliament, which forbids such attacks. Now India also wants to ‘help’ him by air assault on the ‘common enemy’. If the armed forces do not play ball, they would be the enemy as well. That is the position of India and Hussain Haqqani – the mullahs and the military are both the enemy. The Americans are less sure. They would like to give General Kiani more time. They tell him he has no other choice except to use Pakistani military to crush the ‘resistance’. The threat is barely veiled: otherwise they will crush the Pakistan’s armed power.

Even if the Army half-heartedly submitted to Indo-US threats, as it appears to be doing now, a civil war - like that in Algeria – in which the Army is fighting the majority, would quickly spread. That, the Americans hope, would create conditions for them to ‘lift’ the nuclear weapons of Pakistan to the US for ‘safe custody’. To preclude the Army saying ‘no’ to sustaining a civil war, the USA would like Asif Zardari to maintain a majority in the parliament by hook or crook. The lack of principles and ineptitude of the political class delivers that very easily. That is why Professor Brzezinski is convinced that Pakistan is the best place for making an ‘internecine war’ appear to be a ‘good war’. The Americans are pulling out of Iraq because no one supports American presence in that country. Those who do keep quiet otherwise they would be killed for being collaborators. The American stay in Afghanistan would not be too long because no Afghan would ever support Americans presence in Afghanistan. But in Pakistan, the ruling party is inviting not just America but also India to come and punish the country for supporting the Kashmiri and Afghan resistance. Kashmiris have suffered the longest occupation. Neither India nor America justifies occupation of Palestine, Iraq or Afghanistan. Yet, both of them regularly succeed in getting Kashmiri resistance to be declared illegitimate. That is because collaborators and traitors do not killed; they get crowned in Pakistan.

Pakistanis/Bangladeshis were deceived into electing a traitor as their leader in 1971. It was a few young Bangladeshi officers who killed him and brought his farcical presidency to an end in August 1975. Once again we have an Indian/American agent sitting in the President’s House. The anger in Pakistan is palpable. What happens next is anybody’s guess. The Pakistan Army is under great pressure to engage in operation against Afghan and Kashmiri resistance. If it submitted or even half submitted to that pressure, the war would be fought on the soil of Pakistan. As a nation we must persevere is asserting that resistance is legitimate occupation is not. We are proud and we must show pride in our stand against occupation everywhere in the world. The USA has already recognised the bankruptcy of its position and is withdrawing from Iraq and Afghanistan. The Indian position in Kashmir is even weaker but it is sustained in it obduracy by collaborators in our ranks who we put in position of leadership. Yet, I am hopeful that India will give us a chance to liberate Jammu and Kashmir sooner than any one expected or imagined.

The writer is Director of London Institute of South Asia.

Who’ll Do It In ISI’s Case?

2009-04-29T12:56:00.000-04:00

The U.S. President visited CIA headquarters and praised the agency despite its history of supporting proxy militias worldwide and its role in official torture of detainees. The U.S. President did this to underscore the crucial role of the agency in protecting America’s national security. In Pakistan, the ISI faces a dirty attack by CIA cohorts in the mainstream American media. But no one in Islamabad steps up to defend the national intelligence agencies. If anything, we have ambassadors in the Pakistan Foreign Office who think they represent Washington or London and who have been seen criticizing Pakistani spy organizations in important capitals [The Editor-AhmedQuraishi.com].

By Makhdoom Babar
Editor-in-Chief, The Daily Mail.

Wednesday, 29 April 2009.

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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—THE US President Barack Obama, while visiting the CIA Headquarters in Langley, Virginia, made a comprehensive speech the other day. In his speech, while addressing the personnel of the CIA, the US President appreciated their professionalism and working abilities. The US President further encouraged the CIA staff by giving them assurances that he will not only do everything to strengthen them but would also defend the Agency at every level and forum and against every criticism.

Such moves are very vital and of a very high importance to boost the morale of an intelligence agency, particularly, when it is engaged in a state of war. The wise leaders miss no opportunity to encourage and strengthen the secret agencies of their countries as they firmly believe that their top intelligence agencies are guarantors of the security and solidarity of their countries and thus it becomes necessary for the national leaders not only to make all out efforts to strengthen and encourage their intelligence organizations and their officials but also to defend them, especially in the face of unwarranted and malicious attacks launched by foreign powers with their own agendas.

Unfortunately, the opposite is happening in Pakistan. Apart from the tenure of former President Musharraf, no leader, during the last 15 to 20 years, has even attempted to do for country’s first defense line, the ISI, what leaders like Obama have been doing for years and years. To the contrary, many of our politicians/leaders have seen the ISI as a threat to their absolute rule during their respective tenures, perhaps because they always thought this agency was the only countercheck on their wrongdoings. Instead of strengthening and defending this top national security organization, these politicians/leaders opted to weaken and demoralize ISI and its fine officers, men and women. Sometime a civilian was made the head of this otherwise military organization, sometimes it was attempted to put it under the command of Ministry of Interior, sometimes attempts were made to control the funding of the agency and sometimes its chief was ordered to go and give explanation to the traditional enemy, India.

The Daily Mail asks: Can any sane leadership in any other country take such highly insane steps and that too against a national organization considered to be the first line of defense of the country? The Daily Mail argues whether any national leader contemplate such steps?

The Daily Mail here would like to urge upon the national leaders, both in government and opposition, that they should under the given circumstance come forward clearly and try to strengthen and defend this vital security agency with full trust, confidence and clear intentions. Instead of issuing textbook media statement in support of ISI, they must come up with clear heads and words. It is their responsibility to confront all the media and official criticism on ISI from the West and India and rather not to join them in the chorus. It is their primary responsibility to highlight the achievements of the ISI in anti-terror war, it is their basic obligation that they should underline the sacrifices that this agency’s personnel have made to ensure global and regional peace and it is their duty to seek respect and trust for this agency that, under the day, has emerged as the entire world’s first defense line.

Our leaders should keep in mind one factor very clearly that if they need to strengthen their democratic institution, they first need to strengthen the national institutions because if the national institutions are not strong, it is a clear indication that country’s solidarity is at stake and if the country’s solidarity is at stake, what talk of democracy and democratic institutions.

These leaders must remember that starting from CIA’s failures in Vietnam through the worst intelligence debacles of missing the Indian nuclear tests the and movement of Russian troops into Afghanistan, no US leader has ever gone against the CIA and instead they have always been defending their top national security agency with full heart and maximum force at every level and against every criticism.

The Daily Mail is the only Pakistani daily newspaper that publishes two editions simultaneously from Beijing and Islamabad. Mr. Babar can be reached at macbaburAThotmail.com

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A Five-Point Plan For Peace In Afghanistan

2009-04-29T12:53:00.002-04:00

The only way this is possible is for the U.S. military to let the Afghans freely choose their next president, order U.S. military to stand down, end combat operations, and ensure that no country establishes intelligence outposts in Afghanistan. This especially includes India. If this does not happen, the U.S. military will continue to destabilize the region for a long time to come. And India should expect a bloody conflict if it establishes a military presence in Pakistan’s backyard. Of all people, Indian officials know this is no walk in the park. Hence India’s reluctance to make its Afghan plans public.

By Masood Sharif Khan Khattak
Tuesday, 28 April 2009.
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan— A five-point plan to bring peace to Afghanistan and the region:

1. NATION BUILDING INSTEAD OF MILITARY FORCE:

A unilateral ceasefire should be announced by U.S. and NATO saying that military operations, henceforth, will only be undertaken in self-defense. Simultaneously, the offer of peace talks must be made to the Afghan Taliban.

A resolution must come forth from all the stakeholders—i.e., the USA, the UN Security Council, NATO, the UK, other major EU and NATO countries, and from Russia, China, Iraq, Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan and India—that they all resolve to bring ace to Southwest Asia by replacing military activity with developmental activity.

2. Military Stand Down

The United States must also announce unilaterally after the preliminary rounds of peace talks that it will relocate its forces to their prewar, non-combat posture as a prelude to an eventual and complete military evacuation within a reasonable time frame.

3. Free & Fair Presidential Elections in Afghanistan

The upcoming presidential elections in Afghanistan must be treated as a window of opportunity and they should be conducted by the Afghan people themselves, with the help of observers and expert teams from Islamic countries chosen by the Afghans, for the sake of neutrality. The U.S., although militarily present in Afghanistan, should voluntarily adopt the role of a non-interfering observer after having made it clear that violence will not be tolerated. The U.S. should let it be the fairest of elections. Let anyone who the people of Afghanistan genuinely want to elect win. The Afghan Taliban must be allowed to field their candidate(s) and let them all contest freely. Whatever government then comes into existence in Afghanistan must take up nation building activity of that war-ravaged nation in right earnest.

4. End Indian Presence On Afghan Soil

The US should order all Indian presence out of Afghanistan as this is seen by Pakistanis as an outright hostile act against Pakistan. It cannot be said in any other way because the US and NATO facilitation of the Indian intelligence agencies to operate against Pakistan's interests from outposts in Afghanistan can only be seen as detrimental to Pakistan's integrity. Ask anyone on the street anywhere in Pakistan's remotest corner and he or she will wonder why the government of Pakistan is not protesting to the US on this point. Being an ally in what is called by the Americans themselves "a common war" the US has no alternative but to put a stop to Indian activities in Afghanistan forthwith in order to win the friendship of the Pakistani nation. Let Afghanistan become sovereign again and then decide for itself how much Indian presence they would want in Afghanistan. The Indians should also know that if they accept any military role in Afghanistan they will get a taste of unconventional warfare that they will not be able to sustain for even a few weeks. Occupied Kashmir violence will be so dwarfed that the Indians will be wonderstruck if they ever choose to accept any military role in Afghanistan.

5. US must Stop the Demonization of Pakistan

Lastly, if it wants Pakistan to be on its side as an ally, the US should immediately stop demonizing the Pakistani military establishment. The allegations against the ISI and the Pakistani army are unwarranted. Who has suffered more casualties in hostilities at the hands of the Taliban: The Pakistani army or the US and NATO forces in Afghanistan?

CONCLUSION:

Pakistan has already done enough at the cost of its own national fabric being torn to shreds. It is now time for peace in Afghanistan, Pakistan and the entire region.

It is in the long-term interest of the United States itself to seek peace rather than continue to destabilize the region through a heavy military presence in a combat role.

It is also not going to be long before the cash starved US public starts calling for an end to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a call no US administration will be able to ignore. This region will then be lost to the USA for many decades to come.

The above exit strategy will have enormous dividends for all the stakeholders—i.e., the USA, Pakistan and Afghanistan. Contrarily, indefinite US military occupation of Afghanistan will create a devastating turmoil in the region. Resultantly, the US will lose its present foothold in Afghanistan and Pakistan just like it lost its foothold in post-1979 Iran.

The writer is former Director-general of the Intelligence Bureau and former vice-president of the PPP Parliamentarians. This is a reduced and edit version produced by AhmedQuraishi.com extracted from the original published by Pakistan’s The News International. Mr. Khattak can be reached at masoodsharifkhattakATgmail.com

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Why are Pakistani peace deals in Swat considered capitulation and US peace deals in Faluja & Kabul considered diplomacy?

2009-04-27T15:42:00.002-04:00

Posted on April 24, 2009 by Moin Ansari
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Why are Pakistani peace deals in Swat considered capitulation and US peace deals in Faluja & Kabul considered diplomacy? Why are American discussions with the Taliban advertised as statesmanship and Pakistani contacts with them eyed with suspicion? Why is it that Britain can talk to the insurgents in lands that it occupies and Pakistanis cannot talk peace within its own borders? Why does the Washington Post make the peace deal in Faluja as one of the triumphs of General Patraeus, but perpetually harangues Pakistan on peace. Why is it that Dawn mimics the stories in the Wall Street Journal constantly attacking the Pakistani state? Truth not Orwellian propaganda: Best article on Afghanistan anywhere.

In the early 1900s, a crusty British general, Andrew Skeen, wrote a guide to military operations in the Pashtun tribal belt, in what is now Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province. His first piece of advice: “When planning a military expedition into Pashtun tribal areas, the first thing you must plan is your retreat. All expeditions into this area sooner or later end in retreat under fire.”

The Western media is doing what it does best, use every opportunity to destroy the legitimacy of those who it considers its enemies. It blatantly calls for the destruction of nation states that do not fit into its neat little corners. China is too big, Russia is to dangerous to mess with. Bharat is a lackey bought for a nuclear deal, and a song and a dance. Tariq Ali puts it more eloquently than most.

Pakistan is in the flight path of American power.

Reversing Anti-Americanism in South Asia: Building bridges with Pakistan. The dribble coming out the mouths of Admiral Mullen, Mr. Holbrooke, General Patraeus proves that this cabal doesn’t have a clue on how to deal with the stubborn Pakistanis. Hillary Clinton’s brouhaha about Swat and Buner last week confirms it. the veiled threats and the not so veiled ultimatums from Washington display their utter discomfiture. Their frustration can be judged by their obscene communication and disgusting acts in Iraq and Afghanistan. All the kings horses and all the kings men have not been able to fix Pakistan. Their abominable concoctions like Af-Pak insult the intelligence of sane analysts. Placing Pakistan in the same category as Afghanistan is a hostile act of disparagement that will never be tolerated by Pakistanis. Rehman Malik’s epiphany on Baluchistan

Rupert Murdock is using his media empire to constantly churn out Anti-Pakistan articles. But they also need local talent to fill the gaps, local boys and girls who can give their nefarious designs an ethnic angle. Plus these local handymen now the topography a bit better. US Pakistan relations: Temporary Tiff or Permanent Rift?

Columnists and writers used to live in dilapidated quarters and congested slums. Now they occupy ostentatious palaces complete with chauffeurs, servants and a fleet of cars. It is appalling to see the workers of Satan sell out their country for a few pennies. Why are the local bridesmaids of those who occupy, deport and murder by remote control silent about Gitmo Abu Graib, Dalits, and Sati. Driving while Pakistani (DWP) in London: Deported while studying.

The language of “Do More” and “Existential threat” have been noted by the Pakistani people. In recent polls the US shows up at the bottom of the ladder of countries in Pakistan.

Keep it up Mr. Holbrooke and surely Anti-Americanism will increase. Every threat takes it a notch up.

The history of the Khyber is not always in teleological progression. Some try to portray history as the fault of Pakistan. With the rise of the TTP, the old decrepit drawing-room “Surkhas” (Reds), allied with the in pseudo Liberal WOGs (Westernized Oriental Gentlemen) have come out of the woodwork to blame Pakistan, its policies and its people. The 5th column of Nietzschean nihilists comprising of the Ayaz Mirs, Sehgals, Imtaz Alams, Pervez Hoodboys, Asma Gilanis and their acolytes belong to the “Blame Pakistan First” Club. These paid character assassins of the Pakistani identity who use any and all excuses to try to destroy the image of Pakistan and and denigrate Islam. Obituary of the Pakistani Media’s 5th column: Can the Anti-Pakistan dawn.com halt Dawn’s slide towards irrelevancy and catalepsy?

This cotary of paid mercenaries are constantly attacking the very genesis of Pakistan and trying to siphon Sulphuric Acid into the bedrock of the nation. Their allegiance is to the antithesis of what the Pakistan people want. These servants of Teutonic Knights are on the payroll of the White Man’s burden trying to ram down a philosophy that dictates to Pakistan and Pakistanis; who its friends are; who its enemies are; what is good for Pakistan; and what is bad for Islamabad.

Husain Haqqani the Pakistani Ambassador to the USA has been part of this cabal that has been working against Pakistani interests. He has recently changed his colors, eating up his own words. His current interviews are diametrically opposed to his earlier writings. This writer has been communicating with him for years. He was opposed to aid to Pakistan and has written and said anything and everything possible against the Pakistan Army and Intelligence services.

Pakistan’s Dawn (dawn.com) is their torch. It picks those that are not patriotic. It then serves as a beacon to the ingrates and the ungrateful. Their consanguinity is with the land and the people of Pakistan, but their allegiance is to capitals around the world.

* Ambassador to US says Swat peace deal aimed at isolating extremists

WASHINGTON: Pakistan needs support and assistance in rolling back the Taliban insurgency, not just homilies on the virtues of fighting extremists, Pakistan’s Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani said on Friday.

Haqqani asked the Western powers to stop criticising the state institutions that were bearing the brunt of the fight against terrorists as he hit back at critics of Islamabad’s anti-terrorism policy.

Writing in USA Today, Haqqani said by engaging with the local people in Swat, Pakistan was striving to wean the reconcilable elements away from violent extremists, something the US had already tried successfully in Iraq and was attempting in Afghanistan.

“There is a very big difference between dialogue and capitulation. The US succeeded in Fallujah, Iraq, through a careful and methodical programme that separated the indigenous populations from radical terrorists, thereby turning the tide of the insurgency.”

Isolation: “The US is pursuing the same strategy today in Afghanistan as it attempts to pursue dialogue with reconcilable elements in an effort to isolate the violent terrorist elements,” he pointed out. He said the Pakistani government was doing the same thing in Swat, where parliament last week mandated a traditional judicial system based on Islam.

“We are trying to persuade elements of the civilian population who are aligned with, but who are not part of, the extremist Taliban to accept the writ of government, to put down their arms and to reject violence.” “There is no abdication of responsibility towards Pakistan’s people or the international community.”

If the hopes of restoring peace through dialogue fail, the Pakistan Army was willing and able to confront the Taliban on the battlefield, as had been demonstrated in FATA, Haqqani said.

During the News Hour of the Public Broadcasting Service, Haqqani said the critics should not blow Taliban threats in Pakistan out of proportions. “There is a difference, you need to be alarmed and concerned but need not feel as if Pakistan or Islamabad is about to fall tomorrow. I think there has to be a sense of realism,” he said. app. The Daily Times. Pakistan needs support, not lectures:
Haqqani is now hearing his own words.

Obituary of the Pakistani Media’s 5th column: Can the Anti-Pakistan dawn.com halt Dawn’s slide towards irrelevancy and catalepsy?

2009-04-27T14:57:00.002-04:00

Posted on April 18, 2009 by Moin Ansari
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This is an obituary for abominable newspapers and despicable propaganda sheets like the duplicitous Dawn which pander to their Demi-Gods beyond the shores of the Crescent and Star. Those who read these subversive Anti-Pakistan indoctrination papers, are aware of their seditious content. Hit by a devastating credibility gap, Dawn type of news outlets have been hit hard by a dilapidating recession, a drastic fall in circulation, and a landslide drop in readership. It is no wonder that these Pakistanphobic agitprops like Dawn are being ignored by Pakistanis and those who want to learn about Pakistan. Many browse sites, like those offered by the crafty and crooked Dawn, to sift enemy balderdash from fact, and then verifiy its veracity from other sources. Why are Pakistani peace deals in Swat considered capitulation and US peace deals in Faluja & Kabul considered diplomacy?

Why would anyone read the perfidious Dawn when AP, Reuters, and News.Google.com give readers a wide variety of news sources. Dawn of course does not do a good job of covering Pakistan or presenting diverse views. It has an agenda dictated by Dollars.

It is disgusting and most find it reprehensible to see the oafish Dawn print incorrect information about Pakistan and publish outright lies disguised as news. A few weeks ago the false-principled Dawn incorrectly reported that the US Congress would not consider the package of aid for Pakistan. It then wrongly commented that Saudi Arabia would not support the Donors Conference. The reporting from Anwar Iqbal was actually a regurgitation of the story from the Wall Street Journal (WSJ)–a conservative paper that espouses the Islamphobic and Anti-Pakistan Neocon point of view. Mr. Iqbal however left the juicy parts out. Saudi Arabia provides $5 million per day to Pakistan. The $5 million per day subsidy to Pakistan was mentioned in the original WSJ article. Why did Mr. Iqbal not mention these important facts when copying the original from the WSJ article? Iqbal and the WSJ were wrong. During the donors conference Saudi Arabia has pledged $700 million. What does this make Mr. Iqbal and Dawn, Liars and cheats? So we have seen the double-tongued Dawn lie about actual news on the occasions mentioned above. Why would the recreant Dawn lie? Why does Dawn call US drone strikes as “suspected”, and those killed as terrorists. Why is Dawn not sure that the missile came from a drone, but is very sure that all the kids and women which were targeted are terrorists. This may be a discussion in semantics, if it did not represent official US policy. The CIA does not admit and confirm the drone strikes, and always advertises the fact that it has been successful in eliminating “terrorists”. Truth not Orwellian propaganda: Best article on Afghanistan anywhere

It is not hard to imagine that various newspapers lie based on their agenda. The New York Times lied about the WMDs in Iraq, and then has repeatedly lied about the atrocities in the West Bank and Gaza.

While Bharati newspapers are adept at twisting any story to the Bharati advantage, Dawn continues to publish Murdock’s Anti-Pakistan news stories verbatim without any editing. The CIA spin doctors help put together the story and Dawn buys it hook line and sinker. We have yet to see the correct map of Pakistan published by the shifty Dawn or its sister publication Herald. They routinely publish the Delhi version of maps. This may be a small insignificant matter in some minds, but the technique is insidious and marinates the young generation for ultimate conversion to the likes of Indian agents like Asma Gilani and Pervez Hoodboy.

This article is unique in its content, because the omnipotent media in Pakistan is almost never criticised. Rupee News has published many articles and critical reviews of Pakistan and other world newspapers. This is part of the continuing series of articles which will analyze the Pakistani and wold media.

The sad part is that a few faces in Pakistan are up for sale. Geo TV parades the likes of Asma Gilani, Imtiaz Alam,Pervez Hoodboy, Sehgal, Ayaz Mir, and other defeatist “Blame Pakistan First” 5th columnists. Geo does it every chance it gets. Geo now also directly and publicly accepts US Dollars by airing VOA views and news. Of course the VOA was created to present the American point of view. As long as one knows that this is the US point of view one can judge the accuracy of the reports by adding or substracting the correct weight to it. However when VOA begins airing Anti-China views on Geo, then there is a huge issue which has to be tackled at the state level. Why is PEMRA asleep?

Dawn propagates the hate Pakistan propaganda through rented columnists like Irfan Husein and other paid assassins who depricate the Pakistani character and who will leave no stone unturned to portray Pakistan like Rupert Murdock wants it portrayed. Dawn has become a mirror site for the conservative, bigoted & Islamphobic papers like the Wall Street Journal which lambastes Pakistan every chance it gets. The WSJ is a good source of financial news. We have a problem with its editorials and columns. Dawn’s Anwar Iqbal transcribes every anti-Pakistan story that is published anywhere and he specializes in transcribing Pakistanphobic stories from the Wall Street Journal. Neither Dawn, not Iqbal give credit to the WSJ when reporting WSJ stories. The recent false story about lack of Saudi support for Pakistan is CIA classic “psyop”s and pure unadulterated nonsense. Saudi Arabia pays about $5 million per day in fuel costs to Pakistan and also supports the Pakistani government in many ways. It doesn’t like the FODP forum which is a US creation. Saudi Arabia helps Pakistan on a bilateral basis.

This media warfare against Pakistan is not good for America and not good for the West. It is not good for India either. It creates resentment which translates into hatred. The bigots win.

It is really sad that a newspaper founded by Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah before the August 14th, 1947 has continued to deteriorate— hurtlng towards irrelevancy in the panorama of Pakistani politics or international relations. Quaid e Azam fully realized the importance of the media and the press and knew that the established British and Hindu run newspapers of Hindustan would never propagate the voices of the Muslims masses and their leaders. So Quaid e Azam established a string of “Pakistani” newspapers which would put forward the Pakistani ideology and the Pakistani point of view. Dawn was part of that strategy. The Pakistan Times was another important pillar that portrayed the point of view of the Muslims of the Subcontinent and Quaid e Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah.

Dawn played its part in the Pakistan movement and it was a bright day for the Muslims of South Asia on August 14th 1947 when the 7000 year old Indus Valley Civilization was resurrected once again in the land of the Indus–this time as a Muslim state.

Dawn today is run by a motley crew who stubbornly represent the point of view of a certain segment of the population. There is nothing “mass” or “popular” or “populist” about the newspaper in its present form. Dawn represents the point of view of segments of Pakistani society. Rehman Malik’s epiphany on Baluchistan

Vice President Jospeh Biden recently said he “won’t talk about the CIA covert operations inside Pakistan”. What kind of operations is the CIA conducting. This report gives us a clue.

As part of the classified effort, American military and intelligence personnel are working to jam the unlicensed radio stations in Pakistan’s lawless regions on the Afghanistan border that Taliban fighters use to broadcast threats and decrees, according to US influential daily WSJ.

US personnel are also trying to block the Pakistani chatrooms and websites that are part of the country’s burgeoning extremist underground. The websites frequently contain videos of attacks and inflammatory religious material that attempts to justify acts of violence.

The push takes the administration deeper into “psychological operations,” which attempt to influence how people see the US, its allies and its enemies. Officials involved with the new programme argue that psychological operations are a necessary part of reversing the deterioration of stability in both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The Taliban and other armed groups have carried out a wave of attacks in the two countries. US officials believe the Taliban enjoy an advantage by being able to freely communicate threats and decrees.

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In Pakistan, Taliban leaders use unlicensed FM stations to recite the names of local Pakistani government officials, police officers and other figures who have been marked for death by the group. Hundreds of people named in the broadcasts have later been killed, according to US and Pakistani officials.

“The Taliban aren’t just winning the information war - we’re not even putting up that much of a fight,” said a senior US official in Afghanistan. “We need to make it harder for them to keep telling the population that they’re in control and can strike at any time.”

The new efforts were described by an array of US officials, several with firsthand knowledge of the technologies and tactics used to block the radio stations and websites. The Pentagon, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Central Intelligence Agency declined to comment.

Psychological operations have long been a part of war, famously in World War II when “Tokyo Rose” broadcast English-language propaganda to Allied troops. More recently, some militaries have used high-tech methods. During the December-January war in Gaza, Israeli forces sent cellphone text messages to alert Palestinian civilians to impending strikes and encourage them to turn against the Hamas. The News on CIA psyops in Pakistan and Afghanistan. http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=21606 US to jam Taliban websites, radio links, Sunday, April 19, 2009

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So which constituency does Dawn represent? Who reads Dawn. Out of a city of 17 million, Dawn’s diminishing circulation is clear proof that it is not a popular paper. It is read by has beens and those who are on the way to becoming “has beens”. There is not a single columnist who would be considered a super patriot on the Dawn site. Here is a hint of those who read Dawn.

1) The Wannabe elite who pretend to be part of the English speaking audience.

2) The Western Oriental Gentlemen (WOGs–a cadres of “potatoes“–brown on the outside, and white on the inside) a creed of Convent bred snobs manufactured by the Mission schools who want to act and think like the colonial masters and look like their clones in Karachi and Lahore. In American lingo would be be called PBCD (Pakistani born confused desis). These WOGs have no clue about Pakistani history or the Pakistani ideology. They grew up on the pop culture thrown in by Z-TV and MTV. This generation of wannabee goras have no clue about the rest of Pakistan.

3) Foreign forces who want to undermine the Pakistani ideology and the history of Pakistan with an alien Hindu Mahasabah type of thinking.

The double-dealing Dawn assembles and perpetuates the point of view of a motley crew of dissatisfied, pessimistic pseudo-liberals, non-religious fanatics, Anti-Pakistan Indians, and those which has eloquently propagate “his master’s voice” out of a list of world capitals who want to bend Pakistan to its wishes.

Let us look at the motley crew assembled by the duplicitous Dawn to influence its readers.

1) There is the capricious Ayesha Siddqa hellbent on undermining state institutions. It is amazing that a woman who worked for the Pakistani Department of Defense in the accounts department was able to steal the inner budgets of the Pakistani Army, move to Delhi, transfer her information to the Indians and them publish part of her findings from Delhi. Imagine an American taking the US budget to Moscow or Beijing and then publishing an Anti-American book from Pyongyang North Korea or Havana Cuba. Such an American author would be put away so deep into Guantanamo that they would make Aafia Siddiqui look like a girl scout on a Sunday picnic. One is amazed that the “liberal” (read Anti-Pakistan” media gives this traitor space on the front page of the newspaper called Dawn). As if that act of treason was not enough. Ms. Siddqa prances around world capitals and continues her insidious and blatant attacks on the state of Pakistan. Please note that her commentary is not against the government of Pakistan (that is totally acceptable behaviour which should be encouraged). Ms. Siddqa’s diatribes are blatant and not so blatant opposition to the Pakistani state. Her claptrap divides the Pakistan patriots (who may be religious) into the dustbin of “conservative” and places the liberals on the pedestal of enlightenment. Let us take a line from her current column. This is exactly epitomises what Ayesha Siddqa is all about. “we have a state that does not have any clue about where it wants to be in this century.” Rupee News wants to respond to this Siddqa amphogory in a manner which cannot be printed. Ms. Siddqa, “the state is very clear in its direction“. It is the Pakistaniphobes who continue to try to undermine the state with their mushy dribble and stinking bosh. That direction was clearly championed by Chaudhry Rehmat Ali, Aalam Iqbal and Qauide Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah. That direction was enshrined by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in the 1973 constitution. Scottish propagandists like Siddqa cannot obfuscate the truth or attempt to deviate us from the “prime directive”. No amount of Dollar funded character assassination will be able to change the fact that “Pakistan manzil nahin nishan e manzil hai“. No Ms. Siddqa no amount of false argumentum ad baculum will force us to drop the “Islamic” in the “Islamic Republic of Pakistan”. Forget about it.

2) Then there is a shwishly pugnacious Ardersher Cowasjee. In his younger days he was amusing and funny. His stories were a breath of fresh air. His criticism was fair honest and objective. In his greying years the crustic old man is funny, once in a blue moon, almost always on the brink. The doddering antediluvian perpetually gravitates into the pit of senile pessimism. While he is an encyclopedia of knowledge, his trumpery is matched only by his superannuated despondence and suicidal despair. An embarrassment to his hosts, TV compares have stopped inviting him. Certainly he has outlived his writing days which used to be inspirational and a joy to read. No thank you, Mr. Cowasjee, you can keep your cryptic despondancy to your self. No need to infect our youth with your version of the future. While we yearn for the old patriotic Cowasjee of yesteryear, we cannot stand this dullard tope who signs his name to the Ardersher columns.

3) Another one of Dawn’s perennials of the creeping variety is the the Indian writer Kuldip Nayyer. He is the epitome of the old adage “haathi keh dant khanay keh aur, aur dikhnay keh aur“. He acts like an Indian liberal but absolutely reflects the “Akhan Bharat” thinking. Even though he has been to Pakistan many many times, his doltish pig-headed infatuation with Delhi’s hegemonistic designs are a clear indication that you can take a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. This wolf in sheep’s clothing captures the essence of the Hinduvata thinking, with a veneer of nuanced liberal Hindu thought. Scratch the surface and you will find A combination of Modi and Adhvani–though Kuldipcanhid it well with his eloquence and prolific writing. His greased machinery gives him access to the crud of Pakistan–the “surkahs”, the “Pseudo-Liberals“, and the disenchanted. A rejected tricolored “wannabe elitist” talking to the Green and White ”wannabe secularist“. Both believe in the stratified society, both clamoring to define themselves as different, both part and parcel of the land of the Indus and the land of the Ganges. Kuldip Nayyar’s articles are simply a narrative reminding us on how bad Pakistan and Pakistanis are and how good India and Indians are. This Bharati propoganda should not have a mouthpiece on a major Pakistani newspaper. Its like having Zaid Hamids column in the Hindustan Times. Would the Jerusalem Post print a weekly column from Ahmedinijad. Neither would the Tehran Times print a weekly column written by the Israel foreign Minister Lieberman. It is amazing the while no Indian paper publishes columns from xenophobic Pakistan, Dawn takes the cake in publishing not one but multiple Indian columnists.

4) The Neocon’s Neocon Irfan Husein can’t make up his mind whether to live in Canada and trumpet his brand of “Curry Neoconism” from Toronto or to simply xerox American Neocon thoughts as his own from Pakistan. The worst part is to see Mr. Husein’s doltish paralogism published in the newspaper of Islam’s biggest city in the world. It is a sad commentary on the Haroon family that allows this moonshine gibber to sully the pages of Dawn. Mr. Husein is one of the leaders of the “Blame Pakistan first” crowd that sees malaise and protozoan disease everywhere. He cannot see the hypocrisy of the North American hysteron proteron and will always trumpet the enemies point of view in the enemies langauge. Mr. Husein has no links with the masses. He is now an island by himself writing for those who yearn for the timid ways of the 60s when everyone was in awe of the American point of view its Kennedyesque freshness. Today the stale and decrpid thinking out of Washington is as horrid as the vacuity of ideas which make their way out of the Mr. Irfan Husein’s word processor. One does not have to cross many borders to read the original script. Bharat and Washington both call it the same. Without reading Mr. Husein’s article one can get the gist from the New York Times, The Washington Post or the Hindustan Times. I pulled this line from Mr. Husein’s recent column, because I know it would be there…”infamous instrument of surrender known as the Nizam-i-Adl“. Without reading the article it took me about five seconds to find the Neocon nonsense transcribed by Mr. Husein “This resounding defeat is the cumulative result of years”. The same lines can be read in the writings of Admiral Mullen, Mr. Richard Holbrooke and Ralph Peters. In many email conversations with Mr. Husein over the years, I found him a Non-religious extremist who is proud of his whisky chugging ways, his assasanine dispiritedness more dangerous than the teetotalism of the duncical Talibs. Mr. Irfan Husein’s dangerous petitio principii is as unbending and fundamentalist as that of Mulla Omar. Why would anyone want to read Mr Irfan Huseins “Rogan Josh Neoconism“, a photocopied transcription of Steve Emersen and Daniel Pipes when one can read the original in Foreign Policy Magazine? The question that comes to mind, is why does Dawn publish such faustian gabble?

5) Mr. Patel also writes for the newspaper Dawn. His dribble is reminiscent of the fiddle-faddle published by the worst Indian newspaper. No Indian newspaper publishes multiple Pakistani columnists. Dawn has taken upon itself to inundate Pakistan and Pakistanis with the Delhi hooey and hokum. Dawn has hubris and arrogance on its side. It thinks that CIA Dollars will save it from the irrelevancy that it is headed towards.

The Obama administration’s recently released strategy for Afghanistan and Pakistan calls for sending 4,000 US military trainers to Afghanistan and sharply expanding economic aid to Pakistan. The US may also provide radio-jamming equipment to the Pakistani government, according to officials familiar with the plans.

The new push reflects the influence of Gen David Petraeus, who runs the military’s Central Command and has long been a major proponent of using psychological operations to reduce popular support for militant groups.

Another supporter, Richard Holbrooke, the administration’s special envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan, publicly alluded to the new program late last month. He told reporters there were 150 illegal FM radio stations in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, which allowed militants to go “around every night broadcasting the names of people they’re going to behead or they’ve beheaded.”

Holbrooke likened the Taliban radio stations to Rwanda’s Radio Mille Collines, a virulently sectarian broadcaster widely believed to have helped fuel the Rwandan genocide. The US considered jamming the station in the 1990s, but ultimately chose not to.

“Nothing has been done so far” about impeding the Taliban communications, Holbrooke said. “We have identified the information issue … as a major, major gap to be filled.”

Psychological operations can be controversial. In Iraq, the Pentagon at one point ran a programme that paid Iraqi journalists to run articles and opinion pieces supportive of US war aims and the Iraqi central government. Critics called it government-funded propaganda, while the Bush administration defended the effort.

Henry A. Crumpton, a former State Department counterterrorism chief who led the CIA’s Afghanistan campaign in 2001 and 2002, warned against relying too heavily on high-tech solutions such as disrupting militant radio broadcasts. “Those can be very effective, but they’re - underscore - short-term tactics,” he said.

Still, many military officials believe that stabilising Afghanistan and Pakistan requires gradually diminishing the Taliban’s public standing while simultaneously building popular support for more moderate local political and religious institutions allied with the US.

“It’s not an issue of trying to persuade your average Pakistani farmer to love the US,” a US official said. “The idea, frankly, is to muddy the water a bit.”

As part of this push, the US has started US-funded radio stations in many rural parts of Afghanistan. In one example, Army Special Forces teams in eastern Paktia, a restive Afghan province that abuts the Pakistani frontier, put on air a radio station late last year called “the Voice of Chamkani,” referring to the village where the US base is located, and distributed hundreds of radio receivers.

According to an account in the current issue of “Special Warfare Magazine,” an Army publication on special operations, the US-run radio station has worked to build support for the Afghan national government by highlighting local development projects that were approved by Kabul. The News on CIA psyops in Pakistan and Afghanistan. http://thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=21606 US to jam Taliban websites, radio links, Sunday, April 19, 2009

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The traitorous Dawn has carved a niche for itself. It has become the magnet for discontented and pessimistic skeptical people who have an an axe to grind. It has become the safe haven for Islamphobic and Anti-Pakistan elements who are paid assassins of Pakistan.

The litany of complaints against the insidious Dawn is long. The treacherous Dawn cannot change. A cat cannot get rid of its stripes. A Zebra cannot become single colored. The hypocritical Dawn cannot transform itself. It cannot be Jinnahs newspaper. It has ceased to the clarion call for the Muslims of South Asia. The treasonable Dawn does not represent Pakistan and Pakistanis anymore. It is worried about the number of clicks it gets from Bharat. Those clicks give it advertising revenues. It is beholden to the Indian and foreign interests.

We and others will continue to monitor the unfaithful Dawn’s slide towards oblivion—actually it is fun to watch. “”We told you Sos” are so sweet to watch. The two-faced Dawn already has attained moral banktupcy. Keep up your march towards total and absolute nahilism and catalepsy. May God Bless you.

Tipu Sultan: Lessons for Today

2009-04-23T15:20:00.003-04:00

The 1989 Sanjay Khan, TV serial on Tipu Sultan was excellently written. There are many messages that apply today in the speeches of Tipu in the serial which in their context accurately display what Tipu was thinking at the time. Its an old habit of the British to make Indians fight eachother. That should be a glaring message to the Pakistanis of today. Anyways please enjoy this uplifting speech and comment on how you think it applies today. Remember how important knowing history is because lessons for us all are in our history. Please feel free to share how this speech might apply to Pakistan today.

Drone attacks, the death of Pakistan and Demoralisation.

2009-04-20T12:43:00.012-04:00

By Adnan Khan

The American campaign to use drone attacks against so called terrorist targets within the sovereign nation of Pakistan has caused a major stir. However the question arises, why do we tolerate a foreign power murdering our civilians? and why do we take their word for it that they are killing terrorists. Also the numbers have come in and only very few militants have been killed, while over 700 innocent Pakistanis have been murdered. Why does a country of 180 Million allow and accept this? Why do we allow and accept our U.S installed Prime Minister to beg other nations for money humiliating us and demoralising us. To make matters worse why does he beg for only 1 billion or 5 billion. The United States spends over 2.5 Billion a week in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Executives of one of America's collapsing corporations received bonuses of 165 Million dollars. This is roughly the price the U.S has paid to rent the Pakistan army to murder its own people and freedom fighters resisting U.S occupation of their country? So basically 120,000 of our army men, and thousands of lives of our tribals are worth the same to America, as a bonus to about 12 corrupt executives. Why do we have such a low self esteem and low self respect? How come the Iranians, a non nuclear power with a much inferior armed forces to us, only send a mid level bureaucrat to talk with Hillary Clinton, while in Pakistan our Prime minister will come like a servant to a meaningless Ambassador. Why does Nawaz Sharif run like a British East India company soldier when summoned to Anne Patterson? How come this excessive colonial and defeatist mentality. How come both of these men Nawaz and Zardari are billionaires, yet their money is everywhere except Pakistan? How come they don't even talk about investing in Pakistan and how come we don't hold them to task? Do we have a low self esteem, are we ignorant of what is going on and accept this as what we deserve?

When Hamid Mir, a man accused of being a CIA agent, can say the drone attacks are counter productive why cant the nation act to stop them? Hamid Mir says the Drone attacks create more militants and create hatred towards the Pakistan army. Does anyone in our countries leadership have the intelligence, will and fortitude to realise that this is the name of the game. These are childlike divide and conquer strategies that the British have used for centuries. Should not we have learned about this before. Its obvious the U.S cannot break up Pakistan unless the army and ISI are cut down to size. It's also obvious the U.S cannot afford a full war against a great power like Pakistan. So the U.S decides to use tried and tested divide and conquer strategies, and we are too idiotic to see this in plain site. This is because our colonially appointed stooges we call politicians are too enamoured at drinking nice champagne with the blue eyed masters to see any evil. There is still a generation of Pakistanis who see any white person as a benevolent all knowing, all wise and all powerful master who if we slavishly obey, will cause everything to be okay miraculously. When the masters wrath is upon us, this generation thinks total subservience and begging will free us. The game has changed and the Anglos are dead set on breaking our country, if we only knew.

There is still a massive element of our society who are waiting for Fatima Bhutto or Biliwal Bhutto to rule us. The fact is neither of these two are Pakistani and never will be. They are British, that's what they are, being British is in their blood, they will only make problems in Pakistan worse, as they will come bearing Rudyard Kiplings white mans burden, to civilize the savages for the Queen. They already hate their own language, they hate their own traditional dress, they are not Muslims regardless of if you see them at mosques. Yet millions still want these Brown Sahibs to rule us. When you ask the average Pakistani about anything historical they have no idea about it, why this lack of Wisdom? We can go to foreign and Western run universities and memorise all the books of the Westerners like a Madrassah student in the Tribal area's memorises the Quran. We do not question the almighty gora, and memorise his books as if Allah had written them himself. We brag and boast about degrees awarded to us, for being the best student like some 1800's colonial officer memorising the script of God save the Queen. Thankfully their are still millions of decent and honest people, or the country would already be history. The enemies of Pakistan don't sleep at night, thinking of ways to do damage to this great nation. The neighbours imagine they have suffered centuries of humiliation at the hands of our ancestors, and not a day goes buy when they don't dream of retribution. We should not sleep in thinking of ways to make Pakistan stronger, and a better place to live for its citizens, and the first thing to do would be leaving this "Colonial resources war" known as the "war on terror". If the Canadians and the Dutch can openly say they are leaving it in 2011 why cant we. It reminds me of what Malcolm X said of some African Americans. He said some slaves loved the master more then the master loved himself. Some people in Pakistan love the master more then even the master loves himself, do you know who I am talking about Mr. Zardari? Its one of the saddest things for me, when I see and hear decent and thoughtful Westerners arguing that the drone attacks must stop, and that this war on terror is a fraud. Yet simultaneously millions of colonial minded, or absolutely ignorant Pakistanis who show total apathy to the whole situation, or even worse are okay with it.

In closing we don't deserve any of this. Some would argue it is stupid for Pakistan to stand up for itself because we risk annihilation. However the opposite is now true, by being spineless we are now approaching the brink of annihilation. The last nine years of begging, and pleading, and slavishly following the orders of our American masters has failed us. The masters are not listening, the masters are dead set on cutting Pakistan down to size, only brave and strong leaders will stop it. The time for begging, pleading, and taking orders is over. It is either independence or annihilation, a slow and gradual one at that.

Saddam Hussein suffered annihilation because his country was simply too small and weak to resist, he did not have decent missiles or technology, for Saddam resistance was not bravery it was stupidity. Saddam was isolated, and the U.S had the bases and the means in the region to destroy him. Pakistan is not isolated, it has one of the most powerful nations on earth as its friend (China). A nation of 180 Million with nuclear weapons and a very powerful army should be independent if we don't resist and put our nations interests first we are cowards. The days of being treated like a protectorate should come to an end very soon. The West has so much faith in its propaganda machine it believes it no longer has to deal with reality. It simply has to declare any nation a failed state, and it becomes a failed state. Pakistan may become the first nation in history defeated by excessive propaganda. It does not help matters that colonial rags we call newspapers like Dawn aid and abet this process. The West and its subordinates in the neighbourhood work tirelessly to demoralise us, and we may simply accept defeat because it says we are defeated in the New York Times. We cannot and will not let this happen, it is up to the millions of decent and honest Pakistanis to remind this nation of what it was and what it can be, if we strip off this disease called colonial mentality, and claim our rightful place among nations.

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Important things to know about "the war on terror".

2009-04-18T16:43:00.005-04:00

Hello all, these days people are confused about what is going on in Pakistan. While no one can ever really know everything it is best to share ideas in order to create a logical conclusion of what is going on. Webster Tarpley helps us understand the Anglo American mentality. This is key if we are too understand what is going on. Please watch this video, and it will become clear how it relates to what is happening in Pakistan today. If you already know this or have seen this video my apologies.

Hillary, Zardari & One Iranian Bureaucrat

2009-04-17T23:25:00.001-04:00

I am stunned, pleased and ashamed. In a few minutes from now, there’s a chance that the foreign minister of the biggest power on earth will meet … who? Not the President of Iran, or Iran’s army chief or any of the seniors, but the Deputy foreign minister of Iran, not a very powerful position within the Iranian system, and that too if the Iranians didn’t decide in the last minute that they don’t want to meet the Americans. Richard Holbrooke, who has a dubious position as the U.S. special envoy for ‘Af-Pak’ has already met the deputy Iranian foreign minister, and that’s the highest the Iranians are willing to go in giving respect to Mr. Hoolbrooke, unlike the Zardaris, the Gilanis and the Qureshis and the rest of them who fall all over each other to get an opportunity to shake hands with this U.S. bureaucrat. So desperate is the United States at The Hague to meet the Iranians that they begged everyone they know to convince the Iranians to attend this conference on Afghanistan where Washington hopes to get help getting out of the mess it has created in that country. And just like typical stooges, our President Zardari and Foreign Minister Mehmood Qureshi rushed to Tehran recently on behalf of the Americans to plead with the Iranians to attend this U.S.-sponsored conference, not knowing that dragging Iran into Afghanistan is actually part of the U.S. plan to ditch Pakistan in the gutter and trample on Pakistani interests by uniting the world against our country. I mean how stupid can you be, Mr. President Zardari and Mr. Foreign Minister Qureshi? Last week our President traveled secretly to Dubai to meet, not the U.S. president or vice president, not even the U.S. foreign minister, but some bureaucrat with a questionable title called ‘Af-Pak special envoy’. Imagine: the head of the 6th nuclear power, the 5th or the 6th largest standing army in the world, a nation with considerable strategic, political and economic position, flying off like some third-level government officer to meet a third-rate American civil servant in Dubai. And here are the Iranians being begged by the Americans to meet them. And for what? So that Iran could permit NATO and the U.S. military to use its ports to transport fuel, food and equipment to Afghanistan. The objective is to rob Pakistan of any advantage in negotiations with the United States. Iran is of course dying to replace Pakistan as an equal partner of the U.S. and they will get that status on their terms, not like us in Pakistan where our ex-President Musharraf unfortunately gave the Americans so much access and now the puppet government of Zardari-Gilani has gone much farther than its predecessor [at least President Musharraf had certain red lines drawn for the Americans, which is why they destabilized his government]. President Zardari and the rest of the puppets in his government, especially Ambassador Husain Haqqani and Interior Advisor Rehman Malik [thank God Mehmood Ali Durrani is out] should be ashamed of themselves when Hillary Clinton begs a deputy minister in Iran for a meeting. In our case, any low-level officer in her office can call the President of Pakistan and he’d rush to meet not her but that low-level officer, and that too anywhere the low-level officer wishes, like Dubai for example. Ambassador Haqqani is doing a great job for the Americans in this case. He arranged that secret meeting in Dubai so that no one in Pakistan can know what Mr. Zardari is cooking with the Americans. Not a single officer in the Presidency, in the PPP, in the media, the intelligence community or the diplomatic community knows what our President discussed with a U.S. government officer in secret in Dubai. Does Ambassador Haqqani not know that he is doing something wrong by arranging this kind of a meeting? Or is it okay as long as it serves American interests? Holbrook is coming to Pakistan sometime next week after visiting India. Just wait and see how this political elite of ours will be begging the U.S. Embassy here for an invitation to his tea reception and a photo opportunity. I hope to see the day when these politicians are disqualified from holding public office for the next 20 or 30 years and their little fieldoms, also known as political parties, are destroyed to pave the way for honest Pakistani leaders to emerge. It can happen in Russia (Putin), it can happen in Venezuela (Chavez), it can happen in Turkey (Erdogan), it can happen in Malaysia (Mahatir), it can happen in Iran (Nejad), it can happen in China (Hu Jintao). It certainly can happen in Pakistan.

Women's rights: Islam and the West.

2009-04-15T13:10:00.008-04:00

All of us have heard by now of the Flogging incident allegedly done by the Taliban of a 17year old girl in SWAT valley Pakistan. In fact this is one story in the massive pre-planned body of fake propaganda stories created by the Western corporate media. These stories serve a single purpose for them. Demonizing the religion and ideology of Islam in order to justify the colonial resource confiscation wars in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq and central Asia. Whether that actual flogging incident was real, or CIA staged we will never know. However do Islam and Muslims have a monopoly on the exploitation of women and abuse of women's rights, its patently obvious the answer is no. The West has brilliantly used the idea that Islam is harmful to women as a propaganda tool in order to rally women on board for the colonial resource confiscation wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. Old school propaganda never focused on manipulating woman's views of the reality of the world because women only a few decades ago had relatively little power in major organizations and corporations. That however has all changed, and women are significantly found more often in positions of power, and the idea of women's rights has greatly influenced women worldwide.

Its ironic to say the least, that the West can always criticize 1.8 billion Muslims about women's rights by taking 8 second sound bites of certain extreme events in the Muslim world. It’s even sadder that the Western audience has been so dumed down, that they accept these CIA staged pre planned sound bytes, as conclusive proof that the 1400 year old religion of Islam is somehow anti women. The equivalent from a Muslim prospective would be that Western civilization is totally worthless and anti women because Some Austrian Maniac chained his daughter to the basement for 22 years and had multiple kids with her. The only difference is the Austrian story is most likely true, while the stories that demonize Muslims are usually false. Of course judging Western Liberal secularism on one Austrian psychopath is absurd. However it baffles my mind when otherwise intelligent westerners think they can judge Islam by these 8 second stories on CNN and Sky news. However in their defense they have been pre programmed to be that way, after 9/11 the global corporate media, was on a war footing against Islam, if a Muslim so much as raised his voice, it was a clear and present danger, and an example of how Islam is a violent religion.

Thankfully there are millions of thoughtful and intelligent people in the World of Islam and the West who know better. I can say in the West a nude women or semi nude women is used to sell anything and everything. In the West we are forced to believe a bunch of ditsy tarts in mini skirts represent girl power in the form of the Spice girls. Also barbaric industries such as the pornographic film industry and other mass exploiters of women show, that the West is all to ready to toss Woman's rights into the wind for their religion. What religion is that you say? Secular Capitalism, where profits are the prophets. Porn and the sex industry are far too lucrative to end, even though they violate woman's rights on mass. Some would say the women willfully choose to be porn actresses and have total freedom of choice. Of course this is more B.S to aid and abet a very profitable industry; most porn actresses have been heavily abused, and are addicted to drugs. They suffer from deep psychological problems and instead of being further exploited and abused on the holy alter of capitalism, the capitalist fundamentalists need to allow these women to be free from the Porn industry and get much needed psychological help they deserve. May God have mercy in the deregulated Nation state brothels, such as Thailand of the 3rd world. The nation is essentially a brothel for outsourced Western perverts. The over sexualization of things in the West has led to a whole generation of Male degenerates, and the West has been having massive trouble dealing with them, and hiding this epidemic. In Western Europe the perverts are outsourced to Eastern Europe where in these deregulated markets they can do all the perverted and illegal things they want for cheap. In North America and Japan its South East Asia, where the most extreme Secular capitalist Perv's are outsourced. My home and native land Canada has a huge problem with child pornography and the Canadian government has dealt with it by outsourcing these perv's to places where they can get away with it. God have mercy on the poor third world nations that have to deal with them. However let’s get back to women's rights in the West and the world of Islam.

Now I am not apart of the five or ten super capitalists who control the worlds media. I cannot use satellites to beam the propaganda flogging image to the world instantly. However when we hear what the Porn stars themselves say about this viscous industry it becomes clear their is mass exploitation. It is clear the so called civilized West Aids and abets this exploitation, by full media blackout. Attempts have even been made to introduce porn stars into the mainstream. It seems that the West is not concerned with woman's rights any more then it is concerned with spreading democracy in the Muslim world, but rather when and where it can profit off Women's rights. Islam just isn't good for business and must be targeted for destruction.

Finally, some may downplay the affects of pornography, they may state that porn actresses are few and far between. However I would say these people are either liars or ignorant. Hundreds of Millions of young men and women watch porn and are greatly influenced by it. Rapes and sexual assaults numbering in the millions are an epidemic in the West, newer phenomenon like date rapes are on the rise. Porn has created a generation of man who are unable to communicate with women on any level outside of sex. Thousands of porn stars have been used, abused, degraded and discarded in the holy name of profits. The disingenuous media blackout has shown ever more clearly that the media is a slave to the corporations, and cannot speak against holy profits. This piece is made to remind us that a global propaganda war is being fought against Islam 24/7 by some of the most powerful people in the World, these people will not rest until the great religion is demonized and isolated. We as Muslims and decent non Muslims must see beyond this evil propaganda, and move forward ever vigilantly.

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Blackmail In Balochistan

2009-04-15T12:57:00.003-04:00

Published : April 14, 2009 | Author : Ahmed Quraishi

Blackmail In Balochistan

The truth is that the three murdered Pakistani Baloch politicians had become a political liability and a security risk for Brahamdagh Bugti and a threat to his entire infrastructure of terror inside Pakistan. The three had developed a good working relationship with Pakistani security officials during hostage negotiations. Brahamdagh and his handlers knew that the three were in direct contact with Pakistani security officials and could compromise the security of the terrorist activity and the routes of secret funding from across the border and the terrorist hideouts inside Pakistan. The inside story of five days that changed Balochistan, a story of deception, intrigue and espionage.

By AHMED QURAISHI
Tuesday, 14 April 2009.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Two distinct sketches are emerging of what happened in Pakistan’s largest province –Balochistan— over the past ten days.

The three murdered Pakistani Baloch political activists were in contact with Pakistani security and intelligence officials during the negotiations to release John Solecki, an American citizen and U.N. official. The three were also in contact with U.S. diplomats, U.N. officials, and with the kidnappers. In fact, the three politicians were considered to be part of the political front of the terrorist-insurgent movement that has its logistical, financial, and military bases in Afghanistan, built with generous funding over the past five years after the American occupation of that country.

So there is no question that Pakistan’s security agencies were in direct contact with the three politicians. Before their murder, the terrorists-separatists did not dare publicize their presence and actions and relied on sporadic violence to spread terror and create media impact. The triple murder changed everything. It gave these separatist and terrorist elements an opportunity for the first time to publicly display their anti-Pakistan activities. In a tribal society like that of the Pakistani Baloch, controlled by a handful of tribal bosses through intimidation, brutality and economic control, the majority succumbed to the terror.

But who murdered the three local politicians?

The following report is based on firsthand information of what transpired between April 4 and April 9, five days that give the clearest insight yet into the wider battle in and around Pakistan.

THE CAPTORS

What is beyond doubt is that Mr. Solecki was kidnapped by terrorists trained and financed by Brahamdagh Bugti, a grandson of the late politician-turned-terrorist Akbar Bugti. [Mr. Bugti was a smalltime village thug who murdered his cousins and relatives, stole their lands and exiled them to other parts of Pakistan. He got lucky when huge reservoirs of natural gas were found in the lands under his forced control. Mr. Bugti received a fortune every year from the federal government as ‘royalty’ for selling the gas. For three decades, his village lived in abject poverty as Mr. Bugti refused to allow the government to build schools or allow the poor villagers to improve their lifestyles. Mr. Bugti spent the money on building and maintaining a small army, a chain of underground prisons and on defending himself against his numerous enemies. After the occupation of Afghanistan, it is believed that the Indians and the Americans sold him on the idea that he could launch a war for an independent country. He apparently received strong guarantees that he will be supported and protected by the United States and India in case of an angry Pakistani reaction, which encouraged him to go to extremes. An advanced insurgency infrastructure complete with printed material in Urdu and English, audio and video tapes and propaganda in local dialects was prepared inside Afghanistan and smuggled to Pakistan. Mr. Bugti launched the war in January 2005, with massive supply of weapons and money. He died almost two years later when his own cousins backed by the Pakistani government stormed into his stronghold and seized their lands and forced him to flee to the mountains.]

Brahamdagh was last sighted in Kabul. Indian intelligence agents posing as diplomats in the Afghan capital are some of his most frequent visitors. The Indian diplomacy and intelligence have been keen since 2002 on finding ways to drive a wedge between Washington and Islamabad. India’s diplomatic actions in this regard are well known but the British and the American media have been silent on growing evidence of Indian covert activities in Afghanistan under an American nod.

One of the earliest Indian actions in Afghanistan after 2002 included acting as a spoiler, poisoning the minds of U.S. military commanders on the ground regarding Pakistan. One of the most common tactics has been to identify and penetrate groups of Afghan resistance fighters and then indirectly goad them into attacking the Americans and leaving behind evidence pointing the finger at Pakistan. Similarly, there have been attacks inside Pakistan where evidence was left behind implicating U.S. intelligence operatives to mislead Pakistani investigators.

BRAHAMDAGH’S FRIENDS

One line of thinking in the current Pakistani investigation into the murder of the three politicians is that there is a high probability that the Indians initially encouraged Brahamdagh to kidnap Solecki to add new tensions to the frail Pak-American relationship. That was the original plan. The U.S. media would jump on the story as another example of anti-Americanism in Pakistan and embarrass the Pakistani government and military. The upshot for Brahamdagh would be more international news coverage.

That was apparently the original plan. What Brahamdagh and his handlers did not expect is that the kidnapping would backfire and blow the cover of the terrorists and their links all the way inside Afghanistan.

Immediately after Solecki’s kidnap, the Pakistani authorities wasted no time in reminding the Americans of the information that Pakistan shared at the highest levels with the United States in July 2008 about Indian activities inside Afghanistan. Adm. Mullen and Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency Stephen R. Kappes were shown irrefutable evidence on how the Indians were using Brahamdagh right under the nose of the U.S. military in Afghanistan.

In February 2009, after kidnapping Solecki, Brahamdagh’s men and his backers tried to create the impression that there are many separatist groups backing his cause. The first demand made by the kidnappers was to release Pakistani Baloch women detained by security forces. This turned out to be an outright lie. Prisons in the entire province and other parts of Pakistan were checked and it was confirmed there was not a single Pakistani Baloch woman in jail or detention. No one had registered any case of missing Pakistani Baloch women as the separatist propaganda from Afghanistan alleged. The elected provincial government of Balochistan, which is considered to be sympathetic to the separatist tribal chiefs including Brahamdagh, was allowed access to all parts of the Pakistani security establishment – civilian and military – to ascertain this fact. This proved a blessing in disguise. One of the most lethal propaganda tools exploited by Brahamdagh Bugti and his backers was proven false.

In the initial days after Solecki’s kidnapping, some of the Baloch tribal chieftains sympathetic to Brahamdagh and his grandfather [and equally corrupt and tyrannical like him] tried to mislead Washington and the U.N. against Pakistan by suggesting that Pakistani intelligence agencies were behind the kidnapping of Solecki.

But the Pakistani government moved quickly to turn the tables on the terrorists and their Afghan-based masters.

On Feb. 27, 2009, Frontier Corps Chief Maj. Gen. Saleem Nawaz told reporters in Quetta that all the four major separatist groups that release statements to the media don’t even exist. “Organizations like the Balochistan Liberation United Front, the Baloch Liberation Army, the Baloch Republican Party, and the Baloch Republican Army are one and the same. Brahamdagh Bugti is behind these organizations,” he said. “Brahamdagh is involved in a series of kidnappings, targeted killings, sabotage and attacks on forces and installations in different parts of the province.”

None of these groups existed before the Americans came to Afghanistan in 2001.

So the writing was clear on the wall for the Pakistanis, the United Nations and the United States that the Indians at some level were involved in kidnapping Mr. Solecki through Brahamdagh Bugti and their recruits inside Pakistan and that individuals based in U.S.-run Afghanistan issued the orders for the kidnap.

But did Pakistani intelligence agencies kill the three politicians who helped release Solecki?

Why The Three Were Killed

The timeline here is very important:

4 April 2009: Mr. Solecki is released by the terrorists after receiving a huge payment worth several million dollars.

6-7 April 2009: Mr. Richard Holbrooke receives the biggest cold shoulder any senior U.S. official has received on Pakistani soil since 9/11.

9 April 2009: The mutilated bodies of the three politicians are found dumped in a public area.

Pakistani police, security and intelligence organizations are not beginners in their fields. Even if any one of them were to kill the three activists, no one would have dumped the bodies in full public view and certainly never after a high profile hostage negotiation involving the three murdered activists where they also interacted with U.N. and U.S. officials.

The truth is that the three murdered Pakistani Baloch politicians had become a political liability and a security risk for Brahamdagh Bugti and a threat to his entire infrastructure of terror inside Pakistan. The three had developed a good working relationship with Pakistani security officials during hostage negotiations. Brahamdagh and his handlers knew that the three were in direct contact with Pakistani security officials and could compromise the security of the terrorist activity and the routes of secret funding from across the border and the terrorist hideouts inside Pakistan.

Mounting evidence indicates that Brahamdagh or his handlers in Afghanistan ordered the elimination of the three Baloch politicians. The triple murder has clearly served the interest of the separatists-terrorists and their backers. The Pakistani state has been a net loser.

THE AMERICAN CONNECTION

After Mr. Holbrooke’s failed visit to Pakistan on April 6 and 7, three things happened in fast succession.

One, Britain discovered a “very big” terrorist plot, as a British police officer described it, involving 12 Pakistani students. The British Prime Minister immediately telephoned President Zardari and threw his usual line about Pakistan needing to do more in the war against terror. The interesting part is that the Brits failed to offer any evidence to support the existence of the “very big” terrorist plot. Knowing that the charge won’t stick in the courts, London announced it was arbitrarily deporting the students.

At the same time, Indian prime minister made the startling announcement that the Afghan Taliban, who have never operated outside their country, were planning to bomb Indian elections. Again, no evidence whatsoever.

Pakistani officials smelled a rat in both of these statements coming from two close allies of the United States.

These statements, and the dramatic terrorism in Pakistan’s Balochistan province, came immediately after the dressing down that Mr. Holbrooke received in Pakistan.

Could there be an American connection to the disturbances in Balochistan in addition to the Indian connection? The answer, in my view, is yes. Balochistan has U.S. military bases dating back to 2001. Washington has been opposed to China constructing the Gwadar sea port in the province overlooking the Gulf oil supply lines. And CIA is using Pakistani Balochistan to infiltrate the Iranian province of Sistan-Balochistan and ignite a Sunni rebellion there against Iran’s religious Shia regime.

Within hours of the news that the bodies of the three Pakistani politicians were found near the Iran border, and while separatists and terrorists exploited the story to ignite violence and destroy public property, the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad released a press statement that appeared to pour fuel on fire and give the impression that Pakistan was somehow responsible for killing its own three politicians. The statement was also a blatant interference in an internal Pakistani issue where the U.S. diplomats had no business sticking their noses.

Encouraged by this unexpected support from the U.S. Embassy, some of the opportunist tribal chiefs in Balochistan who are supporting terrorism were emboldened to demand a U.N. probe, scoring a cheap point against Pakistan and implying that the state was involved in the murders.

WHAT PAKISTAN SHOULD DO

Feudal chiefs in Pakistan, whether in Balochistan or Punjab, Sindh, and NWFP, have traditionally been protégés of the British colonial rule. While there are bright exceptions of Pakistani nationalism by some of the feudal gentry, the majority damaged the interests of Pakistan over the longer run and has generally shown little commitment or a sense of nationalism and destiny with regards to the homeland.

For the short term, Pakistan needs to register murder cases against Brahamdagh Bugti and other terrorists. They should be charged of murdering the poor Pakistani Baloch driver who accompanied Mr. John Solecki’s. The driver was killed in cold blood by Brahamdagh’s terrorists.

The issue of Balochistan is part of a wider problem facing a failed Pakistani political system led by failed feudal politicians. This system needs to be changed and de-politicized to focus on economic development and providing opportunities to Pakistani citizens.

Ethnic-based provinces need to be abolished and existing districts converted into provinces with their own directly elected governors and local parliaments and development budgets. This way Pakistani politics will be localized and prevented from becoming a source of constant headache and destabilization for the state.

This change cannot come through democracy and requires a period of technocratic government backed by the military in the background and tasked with strictly executing a list of urgent political and administrative reforms.

The U.S. is clearly working against Pakistan’s vital security and economic interests in the region. Islamabad should declare Washington’s occupation of Afghanistan as illegal and advise the U.S. to desist from using Afghan soil to destabilize neighboring countries. Pakistan needs to immediately distance itself from the messy American agenda in Afghanistan that is fast turning Pakistan into a war zone. Islamabad should also confront the Americans and the Indians with the evidence that both are exporting terrorism into Pakistan and fostering insurgencies using the Afghan soil. Let the world know what the Americans and their Anglo-Indian poodles are doing in the region.

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Musharraf To China: Play A More Proactive Role

2009-04-10T21:30:00.002-04:00

Pakistan’s Friends Roll Out The Red Carpet For A Pakistani Nationalist Statesman

Throughout his trip in China, former President Musharraf was accorded head of state protocol and extensive security. In-between lectures, he was invited to several banquets by various provincial governors and senior Chinese Communist Party officials. He continues to be very popular among the Chinese younger generation.

o Says Obama’s Af-Pak policy is incomplete without resolving Kashmir dispute

o Calls for linking Pakistan with China through fiber optic, rail, oil, gas pipelines; through Karakoram Highway

o Floats the idea of a Iran-Pakistan-China (IPC) pipeline

A AhmedQuraishi.com REPORT
Saturday, 11 April 2009.

Beijing, China—Former President of Pakistan, Gen. (R) Pervez Musharraf continued his international lecture tour with several engagements in key Chinese cities. [If pictures don’t appear, click Pic1, Pic2, Pic3]

For this tour in China, the former President was invited by the government of China, through the Chinese People’s Institute of Foreign Affairs (CPIFA).

His first lecture was in Beijing to CPIFA, attended by many Chinese Ambassadors, experts on South Asia, and graduate students. The former President’s lecture focused on the deep relationship between Pakistan and China, and an in-depth analysis of regional issues including Afghanistan, India, terrorism and extremism. The former President stressed the need for closer global cooperation to defeat terrorism and extremism, and a more proactive role for China.

His next lecture was in Shanghai, with the prestigious Shanghai Institute for International Studies. The President addressed Chinese experts on South Asia, Asia Pacific, and the United States. This exclusive lecture was to the top intellectuals and think tank strategists from China. The discussion following the lecture focused on Pak-China relationship, terrorism and extremism, and the potential to increase the Sino-Pak economic cooperation. In the question and answer session, the Chinese intellectuals were keen to know the former President’s view on the new American ‘AfPak’ strategy. The President broadly endorsed the strategy, as it is the continuation of the past. However, he said this new strategy remains incomplete without India, and the resolution of the Kashmir dispute. India was excluded by President Obama from this new strategy after heavy lobbying from the Indian-American community.

The former President’s final stop was at Sichuan University in Chengdu where he addressed several hundred students and faculty. His speech was an overview of the historic relationship between Pakistan and China, an overview of the Pakistan-Afghanistan region, and the impact of the global economic crisis on the developing world. After the speech there was an exciting interaction between the students and the former President. To one student’s question on deepening the Pakistan-China relationship, the former President spoke of his vision to expand the Karakorum Highway (KKH) to include rail links, oil and gas pipelines, and a new fiber optic cable link. He suggested that not only should Pakistan do the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline (IPI), but also an ‘IPC’, Iran-Pakistan-China pipeline for gas and oil.

The students were also very interested to learn from the President his insights into developing moral character and leadership skills.

Throughout his trip in China, former President Musharraf was accorded head of state protocol and extensive security. In-between lectures, he was invited to several banquets by various provincial governors and senior Chinese Communist Party officials. At each venue the former President expressed his appreciation for the warm reception, and the sense of admiration shown by all strata of Chinese, whether it was in meetings at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, or in the streets of Shanghai.

The former President has a relatively full schedule of speaking engagements for the rest of the year, most likely taking him to Europe and North America in the coming months.

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An Empty Tribal Belt? Pakistan Is Betraying Its Proud Tribesmen

2009-04-10T21:17:00.001-04:00

An empty buffer zone is slowly emerging, separating Afghanistan and Pakistan’s populated areas. A half-million Pakistanis are in tents, homeless and no one is bothered. Is it an American conspiracy and a Pakistani complacency? The Pakistani media and politicians are criminally ignorant and busy in their own power games while a major strategic change is taking place inside and around their country.

By Ahmed Quraishi
Friday, 28 March 2009.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—This picture saddened me no end. The proud tribesmen of Pakistan, those who beat the English and the Russians and fought their way to liberate half of the Indian occupied Kashmir are now facing an American conspiracy and a Pakistani complacency.

America’s Afghan blunders have resulted in expelling the proud Pakistani tribesmen from their homes and turned almost half a million of them into refugees in their own country.

If this wasn’t enough, here comes Pakistan to treat them as animals in the ‘tent cities’ built for them near Peshawar. And then come the Americans and the Indians to spread literature encouraging the Pashtun to demand a separate homeland called Pashtunistan.

For a year and a half, we at AhmedQuraishi.com and PakNationalists Group have been explaining to Pakistanis, with original reporting and informed analysis, how Pakistan’s tribal belt was peaceful until 2005, and how ‘non-state actors’ in Washington DC have used the Afghan soil to create, arm and sustain insurgencies inside Pakistan that run from the Chinese-built Gwadar port in the south to the Chinese border in the north. The suicide bombings, the attacks and the destabilization is punishment for Pakistan for supporting the Afghan Taliban in Afghanistan and for insisting to stick to Kashmir against the wishes of India, Washington’s new regional slave-soldier.

The anti-Pakistan insurgencies hide behind the covered faces of the so-called Pakistani Taliban who receive money and weapons from Afghanistan.

Now the Americans want to expand the process of more and more Pakistani tribesmen leaving their homes and escaping deeper inside Pakistan. The suspicion is that Washington wants to create a buffer zone between the U.S.-occupied Afghanistan and Pakistan, a zone inhabited by no one. All Pakistani tribes pushed out. The strategy is working. The number of these Pakistanis who have become refugees inside their own country is nearing half a million.

Pakistani media and journalists are playing an unfortunate role in helping the Americans by focusing on failed Pakistani politicians and their power games that are diverting the attention of the Pakistani public opinion from the important issue of the plight of these brave Pakistani tribesmen and how our government is silently abetting the Americans in humiliating them.

I wrote recently in The News that Pakistan needs a Putin, a Pakistani nationalist who loves his homeland and his people and who is ruthless enough to do what’s right for all of us and for the homeland and liberate it from the clutches of the stooges of the Americans and the Brits. I hope he comes before it’s too late.

Originally posted at Ahmed Quraishi’s The Lounge. Click and check his recent article on the possibility of putting former President Musharraf on trial.

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The ‘Am-Brit’ Mess

2009-04-10T21:07:00.001-04:00

Forget ‘Af-Pak’. Let’s talk about the ‘Am-Brit’ mess in Afghanistan. The Anglo-American media won’t cover this. But we will. If America occupies Afghanistan and uses that country as a base for covert operations against neighbors, that’s not meddling. But if Pakistan, a next door neighbor, tries to protect its legitimate interests, Washington calls it meddling. We have no problem with Afghan Taliban. And we don’t want to see Hoolbrooke or any other ‘Special Af-Pak envoy’ stepping on Pakistani soil again. Pakistani government and military should shut down CIA stations in the country. Pakistanis don’t want an alliance with a country that is stabbing us in the back and supporting terrorists against us.

By Ahmed Quraishi
Tuesday, 31 March 2009.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—You have to give it to the American propaganda machine. U.S. officials and America’s long list of self-styled ‘Pakistan experts’ are advising Islamabad to stop meddling in Afghanistan. But it is kosher for the U.S. military to travel half the world to occupy Afghanistan and that’s not meddling. Well guess what, Pakistan has more pressing interests as a next door neighbor of Afghanistan and it will protect its interests. Who says CIA’s interests in Afghanistan are more sacred than ISI’s?

Regardless of what many of his Pakistani cheerleaders say, President Obama’s new ‘Af-Pak’ policy is a lot of mumbo jumbo that conceals two basic threads: expanding the war inside Pakistan and using the pretext of a ‘regional approach’ to bring India into Afghanistan as Washington and London’s new slave-soldier, especially when Nato members won’t deliver. Surely Washington is not thinking about empowering the Chinese or the Iranians in Afghanistan as part of its newfound regionalism.

The best part is the expanded aid package for Pakistan. It comes with so many ifs that we might as well voluntarily dismantle the ISI, declare defeat, forget about Kashmir and dedicate the rest of the 21st century to carrying America’s burden in Central Asia. To make the package believable, U.S. officials have leaked information through the usual suspects – NYT and WSJ – about a possible ‘exit strategy’, as in America running away from Afghanistan. But America is still in Iraq despite all the hype to the contrary by the Anglo-American media. And it is definitely staying in Afghanistan for as long as possible. We appreciate the American concerns about all the anti-America conspiracies being hatched in the caves of Tora Bora, but surely America also has an eye or two on the vast strategic benefits of controlling Afghanistan.

Some Pakistani officials see Mr. Obama’s new policy as a win for Pakistan because,they claim, Washington is now planning to do what Islamabad has been advocating since 2001, namely negotiating with the Afghan Taliban and giving Pakistan all the weapons it needs to fight Al Qaeda. If this is the case, there certainly isn’t anything in the public statements of U.S. officials that leads to this optimism, unless there is a secret side to this new policy that only a few in Islamabad know about. So far it looks more like Pakistani officials misleading their people about the extent of the Zardari-Gilani government’s capitulation before the Americans. Otherwise, how to explain that the government welcomed Obama’s policy within minutes of the speech, only to be followed by the most intensive verbal attacks by senior U.S. military officials against Pakistan’s military intelligence community, as if the Afghan blunders are entirely of our making?

The danger of complete Pakistani surrender to an imposed war is heightened because of signs that Washington is using Pakistan’s flawed democracy as a tool to meddle and to keep Pakistan politically unstable. In the past week, our politics sunk to a new low when our President was reported to have secretly met a senior American bureaucrat in Dubai without the knowledge of any Pakistani except his American mediator, our ambassador in Washington. Have we turned into a banana republic? I am posing this question because not all of us accept it and we never signed up for this.

If our government is honest with Pakistanis and has not just sold us for a few billion dollars, someone in this government should have the courage to declare that Washington does not have the right to equate Pakistan with a failed state like the U.S.-occupied and administered Afghanistan. Someone should also have the courage to say that we will henceforth not entertain any ‘Af-Pak special coordinators’. Additionally, we in Pakistan must keep an equal distance from all players inside Afghanistan. But at the same time we should say it without embarrassment that we have no strategic conflict of interest with one of the key Afghan parties – the Afghan Taliban – just because America and its puppet regime in Kabul have problems with them. Why should we pick up a fight that is not ours? Sure, Al Qaeda are our enemies and we have killed so many important ones among them that our intentions here cannot be questioned. But it is not Pakistan’s responsibility to eliminate the Afghan Taliban. The Americans must bring them on board in Kabul

Washington and its list of ‘Af-Pak’ experts should stop treating our region as a laboratory for their strategic experiments. Instead of toying with silly ideas like backing ‘secular Pashtuns’ against the Taliban, the Americans can diffuse the entire tension in our region by sharing power with the Pashtuns in Kabul instead of the motley crew of Karzai, the drug lords and the assortment of former communist officials who sit in key offices today.

This American-British mess – the ‘Am-Brit’ – is the reason why Pakistan’s entire western regions are disturbed today. And Pakistan has conclusive evidence that confirms that someone is busy ‘convincing’ us that the ‘Am-Brit’ scheme of things is the best option for us. The wave of terrorism in Pakistan, including yesterday’s attack in Lahore, should be viewed as part of the subtle attempts to ‘convince’ Pakistan. The question is: Whose side our government is on?

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Cut CIA’s Footprint In Pakistan

2009-04-10T21:00:00.001-04:00

Here’s something you won’t hear the American mainstream media talk about.

By Ahmed Quraishi
Thursday, 9 April 2009.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—The United States Central Intelligence Agency faces its toughest test yet to prove wrong the suspicions of many within the Pakistani strategic community that some of the terrorism exported from Afghan soil into Pakistan has direct or indirect support from Washington.

The immediate test centers on Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the bandits who present themselves as Pakistani Taliban. The Americans have begun some cosmetic drone attacks on Baitullah’s territory and there are reports Washington has agreed to launch a joint operation with Pakistan against this bandit. The purpose is to assuage Pakistani concerns about the U.S. role. In July last year, Pakistan’s military leadership confronted senior CIA and U.S. military commanders with evidence showing Washington indirectly protecting anti-Pakistan terrorists on the ground. This newspaper broke that story on Aug. 5, 2008, with a front page headline, ‘US told not to back terrorism against Pakistan’.

For quite some time now, some Pakistani officials have reason to believe that not everything the Americans have been and continue to do in our region is shared with or has the consent of Pakistan, their supposed ally in this war.

Mehsud is a good example.

This bandit and his former leader and associate, Abdullah Mehsud, pioneered the attacks on Chinese interests in Pakistan, which was the first thing Abdullah did after being released from Gitmo in 2003. Interestingly, he was not handed back to Pakistan despite being a Pakistani citizen but was released to Afghanistan where he went back into the custody of U.S. military and the Karzai government. Abdullah was killed not on his home turf but when Pakistani security forces caught him sneaking back into Balochistan from a secret visit to Afghanistan, where he most probably was meeting his handlers. How he financed, armed and sustained a 25,000-strong militia remains beyond explanation. This militia continues to have quality arms and generous funding. Until now CIA drones have never targeted Abdullah or Baitullah or any other militia that is committed to attacking Pakistan. During the operations in Bajaur, our soldiers were reportedly stunned at one point to see close to 600 well armed terrorists come in from Afghanistan, fight the Pakistani military and then escape across the border. CIA never attacks such ‘terrorists’. There has been a meteoric rise in the number of anti-Pakistan militias and fighters within our tribal belt since 2004 and onwards, complete with religious brainwashing justifying the killing of Pakistanis as a first priority. This has coincided with the launch of terrorism in Balochistan and northern Pakistan, engulfing the area between Gwadar port and the Chinese border.

There are reasons to believe that, in order to punish the real or imaginary Pakistani tolerance for ‘Afghan Taliban’ – the real Taliban, I must add – someone who wields power in Afghanistan decided to make Pakistan pay by grooming their own Islamic fighters who’d solely focus on fighting Pakistan, as compared to the Afghan Taliban who focus on fighting the Americans inside Afghanistan. The idea is simple: pushing fake Islamists – professional killers trained in the art of recruiting and organizing death squads, Islam-focused propaganda experts tasked with brainwashing and mind twisting, fluent in Pashto, Uzbek, Arabic and possibly Chechen, and develop conduits for money and arms supplies from Afghanistan into Pakistan – and let them exploit to the hilt Pakistan’s multiple ethnic and religious fault lines.

We know that Indian spymasters and the intelligence service of the U.S. client government in Kabul are aiding terrorism inside Pakistan. The question is: how much of this has Washington’s covert or overt approval?

It’s also quite interesting to note how the U.S. uses India to ratchet up the heat on Pakistan whenever there is a hiccup in the relationship. These days the Indian climbdown coincides with renewed signs that Pakistan’s political and military leaderships are cooperating with Washington.

This is not the Cold War era. The role of CIA outposts in Pakistan is becoming disputable now in many areas. While there is no question that both countries need to maintain close intelligence cooperation, the conflicting visions of America’s and Pakistan’s respective national security interests in Afghanistan and the region means that we need to reduce the level of unbridled CIA presence here and roll back some of the concessions that were necessitated by 9/11. In 2002, the Americans were allowed to establish bases in Balochistan and CIA was given the right to recruit Pakistanis in the tribal belt. These two areas of Pakistan are the most disturbed parts of our country seven years later. And now our territory is being used to attack the interests of Iran and China. We don’t have problems with these two nations but the U.S. does. It is also quite clear that Washington is creating conditions across our western belt that would make it impossible for China to pursue trade and energy corridors through Pakistan. The U.S. media alone has created and is sustaining an undeclared war against Pakistan whose intensity varies with the fluctuations of the U.S.-Pakistani ties.

Hopefully Mr. Richard Holbrooke heard this week in Islamabad that we don’t accept American diktat over Afghanistan where we have our own interests to watch like everyone else. While diplomats can handle the political side, it is the intelligence cooperation, and the CIA role specifically that is problematic from the Pakistani viewpoint.

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Pakistani Nukes: My message is: Don’t mess with us

2009-04-10T20:54:00.001-04:00

The ‘real’ Pakistani officials in charge of the nation’s vast nuclear and strategic arsenal have spent the past few months quietly laughing at the doomsday scenarios that American politicians and media organizations have been spinning for months now. These Pakistani officials say they are calm because of their confidence in their capabilities. However, this Pakistani calm should not be mistaken for weakness. “My message is: Don’t mess with us,” says Air Commodore Khalid Banuri, with pride.

By AHMED QURAISHI
Sunday, 13 January 2008.

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Last November, The New York Times published what many analysts in Islamabad described as a misleading story, claiming that the United States had spent up to $ 100 million over the past five years to help Pakistan secure its nuclear weapons.

The story coincided with reports alleging that elite U.S. troops already had access to Pakistan’s vast arsenal of nuclear and other strategic weapons.

Pakistani officials preferred to ignore these reports, confident about their capabilities and a little curious about where these bogus stories were coming from. These officials were also content with assurances from the Bush administration it had nothing to do with these reports.

But over the following weeks, Pakistani analysts carefully watched how the U.S. media campaign portraying Pakistan as a nuclear power incapable of securing its weapons grew bigger and was joined by prominent American academics and politicians.

The quality of the ‘media reports’ about Pakistani nukes also changed. Now the American media was talking about actual ‘war games’ conducted by American military institutions and think tanks as a prelude to sending in elite troops to ‘grab’ Pakistani nuclear weapons in case of instability in Pakistan on the pattern of typical Hollywood movie scripts.

The propaganda reached its zenith in January when Mrs. Hillary Clinton, the U.S. presidential hopeful, proposed joint American and British ‘supervision’ of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.

But there is a reason why Pakistani responses to these reports remained mostly calm and calculated. It is because the women and men in charge of the Pakistani strategic arsenal were quietly making fun of the American allegations and at first did not even take them seriously.

“It’s laughable,” said Air Commodore Khalid Banuri, a director at the Strategic Plans Division, or the S.P.D., which is the Secretariat of the National Command Authority that controls the Pakistani strategic assets. “We did make the bomb, didn’t we? The world thought we couldn’t do it.”

Nevertheless, one of the founding members of the team that created Pakistan’s National Command Authority, retired Brigadier Naeem Salik, who is currently teaching at Washington’s Johns Hopkins University as a visiting scholar, is advising caution while dismissing the American reports.

“We can’t dismiss it as a media campaign. There is a background to it,” he told me last week during a visit to Islamabad.

I have argued that this U.S. media trial of Pakistan’s nuclear capabilities is not natural. It’s not like a few American journalists suddenly found themselves out of stories and thought, “what the heck, let’s talk about Pakistani nukes.”

This campaign must be seen in the context of a deliberate U.S. strategy to destabilize Pakistan. This strategy includes the war on terror, the American exploitation of late Mrs. Benazir Bhutto, and the situation in Afghanistan.

By early December, 2007, Pakistani officials started watching this American campaign closely.

On 11 December, the chairman of Pakistan's Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Tariq Majid, blasted reports by “vested and hostile elements in the international media” about the security of its nuclear weapons, an army statement said.

"Suggestions have been made that our assets could either be neutralized or taken away towards safer places to prevent them from falling into wrong hands," the statement quoted Majid as saying after witnessing the launch of the Pakistani-developed Babur-Hatf-7 cruise missile.

"Though no responsible state in the world can contemplate such an impossible operation, yet if someone did create such a scenario, Pakistan would meet the challenge strongly," the statement said.

"Pakistan's nuclear assets are very safe and secure, and the nation needs not to worry on that account. There is a very strong security system in place, which can ward off all threats, internal as well as external."

Back at the S.P.D., I interviewed Air Commodore Banuri, on camera, and asked him about all the possibilities, including what Pakistan would do if its strategic installations came under attack.

His answer was simple: “My message is: Don’t mess with us.”

Here are excerpts from the interview. The entire television version is posted on the homepage of this website. A link is also provided below.

THE INTERVIEW

Ahmed Quraishi: Do we have a logistical problem in handling or managing our strategic assets?

Air Commodore Khalid Banuri: It is laughable. We did make the bomb, didn’t we? The world thought we couldn’t do it. We, too, were always concerned about how to protect it. Since 1998, when South Asia went overtly nuclear … this is 2007, we have consistently augmented our systems, a point that many people forget or overlook.

Ahmed Quraishi: Who holds the authority to push the nuclear button in Pakistan?

Khalid Banuri: The short answer is very easy: Not an individual but the National Command Authority, comprised of all the senior decision makers of the country, [they] would look at all the issues including the deployment, if it ever comes to that.

AQ: Is it possible there could be a scientist on the inside, an extremist with links to terrorists, maybe Osama bin Laden, who could steal a Pakistani weapon …

KB: In a Tom Clancy fiction that could be a possibility. We are very sure of what our systems are.

AQ: What about the reports before 9/11 that mentioned the links between some of the scientists in our strategic programs, names, who met terrorists in Afghanistan?

KB: Those names, when you actually go into the details, had nothing to do with the classified side of our programs,[they might have been] some people from the system who perhaps were power plant engineers who had some sympathies and were doing some charity work.

The key thing here is that Pakistan investigated those situations and now we have a system that takes care of all aspects, even for our very respected scientists who retire. There is a system where they will be occupied in various ways and we will know what they are doing.

AQ: Let’s say there is a violent change of government in Islamabad. Someone hiding in the foothills of Islamabad breaks into one of your facilities, kills 5 or 6 guards, goes inside, picks up one of those nuclear weapons held in a very elaborate security parameter, takes it out, comes out of the building, puts it in the back of a truck or van and speeds away. How possible is this scenario?

KB: Absolutely not possible. But it is a fair question. We have several layers—a multitude of systems of security and technical solutions for security, some of which are non-intrusive and invisible. There are no exceptions for anyone from the outside going into a facility. There are various levels of access. Then there is the issue of insider threat. Not possible. We look at each individual who works within the system very closely. We look at them from various angles, something that the West knows at ‘persona reliability’, the human factor. We look into everything, background checks, medical records, police records, any history of possible impulsive behavior. And if there is anyone who doesn’t have a smooth graph of behavior, they are not put into any sensitive jobs. Even if there is someone in personal distress, for example because of a death in the family, there is a way for relieving them for a few days from sensitive responsibility.

AQ: So the cinematic perception of a Pakistani equivalent of a suitcase carried at all times by the President or the Prime Minister, containing the button for a nuclear missile or something, is not correct?

KB: The decision making about nuclear assets is very carefully thought out. It’s not a hair trigger situation. We all have seen many Cold War movies and many of these idea come from them.

AQ: Well said. Where are we keeping our nuclear bombs?

KB: The response to this question is in two words: Strategic Ambiguity. If anyone even claims he knows where our weapons are, they are wrong. And if they think they do, they are in for a rude shock. Even within the system, if someone doesn’t need to know about sensitive sites, they don’t have that information. So very few in Pakistan would know where they are. And I’m not going to tell you [smiling].

AQ: Really, I was kind of hoping for a hint. Okay, are the safeguards in the United States, Britain, France, Russia, China, Israel and India any better than the Pakistani nuclear safeguards?

KB: Even if I sound arrogant, ours are better. We have the advantage of hindsight. We have worked hard, we have trained hard, and we are very sure of what we have. We have learned from the best international practices. We don’t have aircrafts flying around with unauthorized nuclear missiles and we have a short nuclear history compared to some of the countries you mentioned.

AQ: Media reports have suggested that the Americans have helped Pakistan secure its nuclear assets, which implies that the Americans have access to Pakistani nukes?

KB: Ensuring nuclear security is our own interest. We made the bomb, we have the means to protect it, and we’re confident of that security. But we do not mind exposure to education and awareness, but in a completely non-intrusive way.

AQ: So you’re saying you have exchanged ideas with the Americans but not given them any access?

KB: Absolutely. That’s out of the question. That’s the red line that was defined even before we got into this exchange of ideas. We do have some rudimentary equipment and some training [from the U.S.]. And the kinds of figures you have seen in the media [about U.S. financial aid to secure Pakistani nuclear assets] are highly exaggerated.

AQ: The figure quoted was in the tens of millions …

KB: A $100 million was quoted in one report [New York Times, Nov. 2007]. Nowhere in that range.

AQ: Really?

KB: Nowhere.

AQ: Some Pakistanis are concerned and are asking what if the rudimentary equipment handed over to you contained a transmitter that could send out signals to a satellite or something exposing where our installations are?

KB: You have responded to the question yourself. Anyone concerned in Pakistan would have thought about this. The Pakistani nuclear establishment is always concerned about even the remotest of possibilities. We have this responsibility on behalf of this whole nation. It’s a sacred responsibility.

AQ: So let me put this to rest once and for all: you have not given access to the Americans as part of accepting their ‘help’?

KB: No access whatsoever. There are no foreigners who have any access to any Pakistani assets and they will never have. There are very few Pakistanis, even within our policy circle, who have all the information.

AQ: Does everyone concerned inside and outside the region understand there will be consequences if Pakistan’s strategic assets are attacked?

KB: Let me say it in plain words: Those who have hostile intent would know that any endeavor to attack Pakistan in any way will not be successful and it will be disastrous. Our weapons are meant for deterrence and not for [aggression]. But we have the capability to deal with any threat.

AQ: So we will respond if we are attacked?

KB: My message is: Don’t mess with us.

AQ: Late Mrs. Benazir Bhutto had publicly warned a few weeks before her tragic death that extremists could descend on the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, and take control of the nearby nuclear installations at Kahuta. Is this true?

KB: I don’t want to get into the politics of this statement. But I’d like to make two points. One, Pakistan’s nuclear assets are safe and secure. I say this with a lot of confidence. And, Two, I’d request all Pakistanis, wherever they are, that they should not mix politics with nuclear security.

Fundamentals of Fundamentalism: An alternative viewpoint.

2009-04-09T18:45:00.003-04:00

An Alternative viewpoint:
Fundamentals of Fundamentalism
From Mushir Anwar: mushir.anwar@gmail.com
For awareness please pass on to as many people as you can print media or any language, it’s a must convey message

FUNDAMENTALISM is a political movement to capture power and acquire control over national resources in the name of religion. Its apparent aim is to establish a theocracy based on a literal interpretation of religious laws by rejecting and outlawing all social, political and intellectual developments that have been evolved over the centuries and returning society to that ancient age which in the fundamentalist view was pure and uncorrupted by developments of any kind. The fundamentalist group wants to impose absolute, total and unchallenged rule of religious leaders in the state and society through enforcement of a selected set of religious edicts and commands.
In an excellent essay appearing in the latest (45th) issue of Irtiqa that goes in to the real aims and objectives of the so called fundamentalism, Wajahat Masood discusses the nature of the movement in as much as it has nothing to do with religion per se or observance of its higher principles, spiritual values of compassion, truth and justice. Therefore, he argues, opposing fundamentalist does not mean opposing religion as such.
Fundamentalist groups exist in all major religions of the world and in their political inclinations they are not vary different from each other. Wajahat Masood discusses how fundamentalism rose in the wake of the renaissance that weakened the power of the clergy in European society, and in Asia and Africa on the arrival of the colonialist turning local religion authorities against modern thought and its liberating influence on society. Then the industrial revolution with its concomitant social and economic complexities drove people to yearnings for the lost simplicity of rural life. The fundamentalist stance derived much strength when at the end of colonial rule new representative national structures failed to bring about the promised betterment in the life of the people. The concept itself grew among a group of Christian sects in America that felt threatened by the force of modern knowledge and related social developments.
Masood explains that the fundamentalist movement is basically a revivalist, reactionary and fascist programme with vary little scope for changes in society that may come about through human efforts or initiative. Human society develops with the evolution of an integral structure of institutions, laws and values and civilizes human nature while on the other hand fundamentalism seeks to reverse the direction of change and feeds society on fascist ideals of power, war and conquest and ultimately towards a return to the raw human instincts. A fundamentalist rule necessitates an insecure world.
The most interesting and illuminating part of Masood,s exposition is the definition of the 24 basic constituents of the fundamentalist’s agenda. I will briefly mention them:

1. The fundamentalist interpret religious commands, beliefs and principles literally and consider knowledge to be complete and final with no scope for discovery and change.

2. Fundamentalist does not believe in human equality. Those who do not share their belief system are inferior and deserve different treatment.

3. Fundamentalism does not trust human intellect and wisdom. It, therefore admires compliance and conformity and discourages critical thoughts.

4. Fundamentalism prefers the group over the individual and holds ends sacrosanct over the means. To keep its supremacy and control it considers free to take itself even those measures that may clash with the basic tenets of their belief system. An example is the resort to suicide bombings which is repugnant to Islam.

5. Fundamentalism is basically misogynic. It restricts females to roles with in defined boundaries under men’s control.

6. Fundamentalism denies to man his endowed possibilities and constant accountability kills human initiative and drive for progress.

7. Fundamentalism establishes the rule of a minority group over majority.

8. Fundamentalist leadership is imposed from above.

9. Fundamentalist decision making is not transparent and there is no clear procedure for transfer of power. Things are done in the interest of the state.

10. Fundamentalist claim the right to interfere and have the last word in all matters.

11. Fundamentalist rule cannot give equal rights to unequal citizens.

12. Fundamentalist governance is undemocratic, does not seek consensus and rules by decree.

13. Fundamentalist rule out freedom like speech, writing, assembly and organization.

14. Fundamentalism lacks the flexibility needed for political survival and the system ultimately collapses. (This is the GOOD news.)

15. Fundamentalist regime permits torture, accountability and sectarian disharmony as state policy and governance principle.

16. Fundamentalist rule thrives on fabricated anti state conspiracies.

17. Fundamentalist regime keep looking for super human characters: A character in a Brecht play says, “unfortunate are nations who do not breed heroes; another remark’s, Unfortunate is a nation who is always in need of a Hero.”

18. Fundamentalist society uses secrecy and lies in place of transparent dialogue.

19. Fundamentalist rely on casuistry facts when face with embarrassing facts.

20. Fundamentalist fan sectarian, racial, linguistic and cultural animosities.

21. Fundamentalist exploit cheap slogans and promote negative thinking.

22. Fundamentalist governments soon get packed with sycophants and mountebanks of all varieties.

23. Fundamentalists adopt isolationist policies instead of joining the world community.

24. Fundamentalist’s regime is a threat to regional and international peace.

Masood has not simply made a list of the abovementioned characteristics but discuss them in great detail which makes his essay a must reading for any one who suffers from any redeeming doubts about the anti human nature of such regimes, particularly those elite thinkers who secretly nurtures the dreams of Pakistan’s Talibanisation.

What Pakistan must do to secure itself for the 21st century.

2009-04-08T19:26:00.014-04:00

We must keep in mind what the Pakistani nation is today. It has 180 million people, nuclear weapons with sophisticated delivery systems and an army larger then the U.S army.

1. We must end this disastrous war on terror. It has pitted our army against a faceless enemy and has resulted in thousands of Pakistani civilian deaths. The vast majority of Pakistanis hate it and view it as America's war, which it is. Also humiliating drone strikes massacre our civilians and supposedly kill Al Qaeda members, however what is an Al Qaeda member? will the U.S permanently fly killing drones in our nation killing anyone who they claim is Al-Qaeda? We must declare that the war on terror is over forever. Why can nations like Canada decide to leave Afghanistan, and the war on terror and we cant? The truth is the war on terror is breaking the integrity of the nation, and is turning Pakistani against fellow Pakistani. Let us sum up what steps would be taken to end the war in point form.
-Close down all CIA bases in NWFP and elsewhere within the nation.
-Stop the fighting in our NWFP's and elsewhere and make peace with the pashtun people there. If they continue to resist in Afghanistan that is between Afghanistan and its occupiers and all Pakistan can do is try to reason with them.
-Stop the mass murdering drone strikes. They are murdering hundreds of innocent civilians and we have no way of confirming who or what the U.S is killing.
-Give our Pashtun citizens a bright future and massive payouts. Apologise for the corrupt and foolish policies of the past and start to develop the NWFP's however without the gun but rather with peaceful incentives.

2. We must shore up the power of the Pakistani ISI, and armed forces. The Pakistani ISI and armed forces are very powerful already and they function extremely well. They are Pakistan's first line of defense. You can spot a traitor to Pakistan very easily, as soon as they talk of shrinking the army, or getting rid of the ISI. Yes both these organizations can be criticised, however once someone states they should be weakened in any way even by 1% or that their power levels should not increase they are a traitor to our glorious nation.

4. We need to usher in a new ideology that combines things we like from the West and things we love about Islam. Our political spectrum must accept Islamists, if they are Pakistani citizens. It must also accept people who wish to lead secular lives and non Muslims. Both groups must be accommodated somehow, many countries of the world are struggling with this issue as is Pakistan. However our political framework must accept Islamists as part of our society and Islamists must accept secularists as part of the society and we must work as one. We must not repress Islamism or secularism but rather have both sides and moderates (people who are moderately Islamic) duke it out in the market place of ideas. The Pakistani people must become masters of their own destinies.

Things that both Islamists and Secular nationalists have in common.

-Unshakable belief in the territorial integrity of the nation.
-Belief in the power of the ISI and Pakistan's armed forces.
-Use of the language Urdu, and Arabic.
-That Islam is and will always play a significant role in Pakistan.
-That the nation should continue to grow and expand in science, business and commerce.
-The nation should continue to improve upon its infrastructure.
-Increased engagement and cooperation with the Islamic world.

These and many other things unite us all!

5. Join the Shanghai cooperation organization and start working with Iran, China and Russia on new projects and sharing technology. Our previous partnerships have been with nations that have utter contempt for us, and see our nation as an auxiliary military base and our army as a colonial wing of their own armies. We must embrace the future superpower of the world China, and move ahead aggressively with projects like the Gwador port and the Iran-Pakistan-China pipeline. Old friends like Saudi Arabia and the United States must be balanced with friends such as China and Iran. Before Pakistanis was forced to pick sides, this must end, and we must always place Pakistan first.

6. We must aggressively usher in a new generation and culture that borrows from the Quran about honest work, and decency. We must crush the disease called corruption in our society, and corrupt wealth obsessed leaders. New laws that Pakistani PM's must have spent at least 30 years in the country will help. We do not need the West exporting their corrupt puppets to be our country as ready to go leaders. Biliwal Bhutto for example is comfortable in Britain right now, and Britain expects to send him back when he is ready and his chair is waiting for him. It must be made clear he will not and cannot ever be the PM of Pakistan, because he is not Pakistani but rather British.

7. The upgrading of our armed forces must include aggressive asymmetrical abilities as well as conventional. Air power will prove decisive in the 21st century hence we are on the right tract with the JF-17 thunder and the J-10. Our Asymmetrical abilities must also be increased greatly, we must look at tactics developed by the Iranian revolutionary guards and their stunning success against the IDF through Lebanese Hezbollah in 2006 Lebanon. Also our missile systems must also greatly increase in strength and power. Eventually we need our own SLV (Satellite Launch Vehicle).

8. We must shore up friendship with people in the region, we must help our Afghan brothers rebuild and greatly invest time and energy in aiding that nation rebuild with Pakistani experts. Bangladesh must also be aided by Pakistan, we should take our brothers and put them under our wings. We must also engage India and look to a solution of the Kashmir issue which is in its entirety apart of Pakistan.

9. Feudalism must come to an end. We must begin the Quranic practice which was later imitated by the West to absolute success. We must make things based on merit, we cannot let feudal lords dictate to us their plans for the nation and horrifically mis manage the nations economy. This is non negotiable and must end for the good of the nation. Luckily even some of the children of these feudal lords agree with this point and believe for the good of the nation, the very system they have benefited from and continue to benefit from must end.

10. Finally we must use Urdu more and phase out English. English was the primary vehicle the British empire used to enslave the minds of its subjects. When a subject spoke English he started to absorb English ideas about himself and his country. English has led to Washington and London controlling the pretext of all goings on in Pakistan. Punjabi's and Pashtuns must also have their languages recognized however Persianized variant of Urdu must become the official language. This will also phase out the influence our neighbour has on us to the East. Mandarin and Cantonese being the most popular languages on earth should also be taught as a second language. As well as Arabic so our Mullahs and Imams are highly educated and knowledgeable of the holy Quran. The Persianized variant of Urdu will build us bridges to the Central Asian states as well as Iran and Afghanistan.

In Conclusion, our future is not in being a nuclear armed colony of the United States. Phase one for Pakistan was getting rid of direct British rule. Phase two must now be switching from U.S protectorate into full fledged independent nation. While small countries like Iraq were unable to resist Western hegemony, Iran has shown that a non nuclear country of 80 Million does not have to surrender to Western interests. It is time Pakistan become an independent nation and no longer a protectorate. We have 180 million people, a steadily growing economy, and a true identity taking shape. While our old feudal lords still bicker about whose interests to represent, a new young very patriotic and proudly Muslim generation has been born! who are anxious to take our country to true independence! The number one interest these youth wish to consider is the interests of Pakistanis!

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Hip Hop and homosexuality

2009-04-07T01:43:00.008-04:00

We have all heard and seen it before, while flicking through the channels on TV, ultra masculine gangster rappers bragging about how tough they are. Talking about the "street life" and how they had to dodge bullets when they were on they're way to the grocery store. We have also seen these rappers in designer clothes from head to toe, and shining jewelery known as "bling" "bling". The rappers are ferocious on the mic and use absolutely vulgar and filthy language to describe their enemies their friends and women. They are the epitome of masculinity to our young impressionable males. However when further looked at the Ultra masculinity of rap and hip-hop is really thinly veiled homosexuality. Now I am not saying all rappers are homosexuals no doubt some of our favourite ones are closeted homosexuals however we can never really know whom. What I am doing is drawing parallels between the rapper ethos and lifestyle with the homosexual ethos and lifestyle. How both lifestyles are very similar and how the definition of manhood that rappers try to convey is really classic homosexuality and is very far from what the actual strong heterosexual man should be.

One obvious parallel with hip hop and homosexuality is the obsession with designer clothes. Rappers like homosexuals are unusually fashion conscious. Many of the top fashion designers are homosexual males, and one of the major industries rappers get involved with outside of hip hop is fashion. This taste for fashion is also something females tend to obsess about more then males. Being a "fashionista" is a feminine quality where males tend to focus on the cleanliness and utility of clothing. Also an obvious parallel is jewelery, diamonds are a girls best friend after all, and apparently they are also a gangsta rappers best friend. Obsessing over jewelery and wearing rings, earrings and necklaces is feminine, in no circumstance is this a masculine trait. A ring here or a necklace there does not mean a male is a homosexual or even feminine however obsessing over "bling" and being decked out from head to toe in diamonds and other forms of Jewelery is feminine not masculine real men do not wear obscene amounts of Jewelery. Next is the dancing in hip hop. In dance culture homosexuality is not taboo because it is so common amongst dancers. Dancing is also something that is unisex. Its not necessarily something which is feminine as there are male dancers who are perfectly masculine. However it certainly isn't something as masculine as say being a soldier or a boxer which has very little femininity involved. Rappers are also very promiscuous and obsessed with sex.

Believe it or not real men are not sex obsessed, their sexual instincts are not perverted, they enjoy sex with their wives or girlfriends, regular heterosexual monogamous intercourse is enough to keep them satisfied. They do not need over 100 sexual partners a month, they do not engage in alternative sexual practices outside of heterosexual monogamous sex. Maybe during their college days they had a handful of partners. Outside of that they are focused at earning respect from accomplishments and being good workers and fathers. The sexual promiscuity of rappers is not even a feminine characteristic as most women like real men are sexually satisfied with one fulfilling partner so long as their instincts have not been perverted by years or decades of media brainwashing. It is homosexuals who are the most promiscuous of all sexual types. Thus when the male rapper is hyper promiscuous he is imitating the homosexual lifestyle, the same way Samantha does in Sex and the city. With Samantha she is a heterosexual female engaged in sex with heterosexual males. With rappers they are heterosexual males engaged in sex with heterosexual females. However they are imitating the homosexual lifestyle with in their heterosexuality. The lifestyle which consists of multiple partners, orgies and excessive promiscuity. Even the one night stand is a trait the homosexual indulges in often having numerous random partners. When one keeps pushing the limits of sexual experience inevitably homosexuality starts seeming normal and acceptable.

Rappers are a talkative and very emotional lot. Have you ever heard of a battle rap, its a real life hissy-fit, or cat fight, except its between males with deep voices. Ignore the big bodies and husky male voices and what you have is essentially two schoolyard females engaged in "dissing" one another hair style and clothing. These PMS yelling contests are extremely feminine. Whatever happened to the strong silent type. Or a man of few words, since when does incessant bitching and mocking ones appearance or attire equal masculinity, again this is a feminine trait wrapped up in hyper masculinity. There is usually a thin line between extremes. Like homosexuals rappers are also much more likely to be from single parent homes. Rappers do not have a positive male influence in their lives and usually only see their mother playing both roles. Finally the excessive misogyny and abuse of women in rap indicates hatred of women. Sometimes it seems the sexual abuse the women endure is not because the male rappers are sexually attracted to them, but rather because these rappers hate women. After all as homosexuals women are really not necessary. This hatred of black women usually has more to do with race then sexuality. Black men hurl the abusive language white males used to hurl at black women during slavery and the pre civil rights era. After all hip hop is also really about black males living out their fantasies of being rich white males. That is why you see degrading sexual abuse of black females, and obsession with wealth and products that are associated with European decent aristocrats. Black men driving Bentley's and Rolls Royce's. These vehicles that epitomized the rich white aristocrat.

Thus it can be argued that the Hyper masculinity in rap music is really disguised homosexuality. I am sure the people who make the most money off hip-hop music are patently aware of this because their is allot of hip hop music out there. Allot of it is does not involve hyper masculine misogynistic gangsta rap. Beats are beats, good beats and good rhymes will sell a million records, there is no need for hip hop to be filthy, in fact the greatest selling songs of all time did not need any such overt vulgarity. So why do the elites choose only the filthiest and most hyper masculine rappers, could it be they are pushing a homosexual agenda through gangster rap amongst many other agenda's?

Obama: U.S not at war with Islam.

2009-04-06T22:19:00.003-04:00

Well that remains to be seen, currently he is still massacreing people in Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine and in prison and torture chambers worldwide. Mr. Obama has to do more then talk about it he must be about it.

When did Canada turn into America?

2009-04-01T12:10:00.006-04:00

Nowadays it seems Canada my home and native land is on a slippery slope to becoming one of the hated countries of the world, A la the U.S and Britain. Why and how did this happen? First the Neo Conservative hijacking of our major media. Whether intentionally done to get in line with U.S policy or through covert means our media started blasting out neo Conservative lies and drivel since 2003. This did not represent Canada's interests at all, but rather a small clique of imperialists who had a die hard affinity for the state of Israel. Canada at the time had one of the highest living standards in the world, and an impeccable reputation as a non imperial power and world peace maker. While its massive neighbour was hated as the worlds number one imperialist and war making nation on earth. The 24/7 U.S propaganda machine of lies made the U.S look like a noble nation defending freedom. Americans confused and lied to really believed this absurdity and walked around foreign nations where they were already loathed as arrogant triumphalists. It only expounded the hatred.

Back to Canada, why did we go to Afghanistan, supposedly to find Osama's terrorists, however this was accomplished 5 years ago. The major question is why the heck are we still there? Bush is out of office and his hated policies should have died with his presidency. However we are still there, in what seems more and more like an imperial mission day by day. It doesn't help matters that our base is exactly on the oil pipeline route that Western multinationals dream of running a pipeline through. The election of Stephen Harper our mini Bush has done this damage to our reputation. Since Canada has successfully survived the economic meltdown thus far, one wonders why we are tarnishing our reputation needlessly in imperial wars of aggression. The last straw was the banning of George Galloway, why was an MP of the British parliament banned from Canada for saying things our government and some special interest groups didnt like. Even when the hated George Bush can come here anytime he likes. If we want to regain our status as a loved nation and a bastion of freedom, first pull our troops out of Afghanistan, second get rid of the neo con influence on our society and finally, don't do asinine things that contradict our own values like banning George Galloway from this great nation to speak.

Quantifying intelligence: myths and realities

2009-03-22T01:52:00.022-04:00

What is intelligence and why do certain groups lag behind in intelligence tests. These are fundamental questions posed for societies these days, especially multi- racial, multi-ethnic societies within the Western world. We have also heard of the construct of the model minority, symbolizing a minority who effortlessly assimilates into the mainstream culture. More questions arise like why do these model minorities seem to effortlessly assimilate when Native and African Americans/Canadians or Australians Aborigines or other indigenous people lag. It doesn't make any sense as sometimes the indigenous people have been immersed in the Western style culture for centuries. Is it simply a matter of I.Q as eugenicists and modern racists claim. Is it that certain Asian groups are genetically more intelligent then certain African groups. What about the lack of success of Muslims, are they simply less intelligent then others. Simple conclusions about race are scientifically incorrect and seek to simplify something that is very difficult to quantify. However among deeper examination we will see how the idea that race determines intelligence is most likely bogus. Their are deep philosophical questions and ideas that need to be addressed in order to answer these questions. Lets first look at similar populations and their vast differences in success according the the Anglo American model.

This is one of the key idea's we must address. Our mainstream publications and books themselves are a product of the Anglo American model, logically they will always judge success of nations, peoples and cultures on their ability to imitate the Anglo American definition of success. This shows either the Anglo Americans are quite adept at propaganda or that they have a deep seated authentic belief in the superiority of their civilization over all others or a bit of both.

Let me first address the racist argument that certain races are simply more genetically gifted then others. That say Koreans on the whole are more intelligent then say Africans. Firstly this idea can be dented by comparing North Korea to South Korea. Nobody could deny that Korea has some of the most homogeneous populations in the world. However we see the stunning success story of South Korea over North Korea according to the Anglo Saxon capitalistic idea of what success is. Which is high GDP per person, long life, and shiny sky scrapers in your Urban centres. Their are many other indicators but I will just describe these three from example. How could it be, two almost exact groups of people, one which is in utter destitute poverty and the other a shining capitalist success story. Well this is not a mystery. Simply put the ideology forced onto the South Koreans was Anglo Capitalism, the ideology of the North Koreans is communism. Since the end of the Cold war effective power of the communist states has deteriorated. North Korea being a small country, ensued with an authoritative dictatorship no longer had the massive U.S.S.R to trade with. The U.S.S.R was essentially the great power which sustained the communist empire. The remaining North Korean dictatorship displeased the victorious Anglo American powers after the Cold war. Brutal sanctions were placed on North Koreans and their arrogant and ineffective dictator continued to behave in ways that would jeopardize the average North Koreans well being. Such as proliferation of dangerous weapons to enemy states of the Anglo-American power elite. Added to the fact that a global super power like the U.S.S.R was no longer there to protect North Korean interests. The South Koreans however remained on great terms with the capitalist empire led by the United States. Since the U.S has 37,000 troops in Korea it can be said that the two nations have a very close relationship.

Thus in North Korea and South Korea we can see that there are deeper more logical reasons for economic disparity between nations that has nothing to do with genetics but rather current and historical Geo-political circumstances. Since the Korea situation is recent history there can be no question to this example about the racial similarities between North and South Koreans. I hope this simplistic yet effective example can prove that their can be stunning differences in success according to the Anglo American capitalistic model with mostly all controlled variables the same. As in the Korea's where they are linguistically, geographically and racially almost identical. In fact the South Korean economy is 40 times larger then the economy of North Korea. This is an absolutely massive difference in wealth. Not to mention South Korea was at a subsistence level in the 1950's, after the Korean war American influence increased greatly there. In the comparative economic analysis of South Korea with North Korea we can see that many other factors besides race and genetic inheritance can cause drastic economic disparities between nations. Another major point to notice is that we are comparing success within the narrow confines of the Anglo American definition of what is a successful society. Obviously North Korea cannot compete as it is a communist society. Its leaders are not trying to emulate a model they most likely consider to be evil. However South Korean leaders are dead set on imitating this model which they believe is the best way to organize a society. It is realised now that the definition of what success is for the state is extremely important because it determines whether it is senseless to use Anglo American capitalistic standards of success for that state. This is also true when trying to quantify individual students success as well, with regards to the idea of whether what that student and the system find to be academic success correlate with one another. The system cannot bludgeon and propagandize the students to agree to the terms of what success is. This is because these students are often getting an entirely different idea from TV movies and their parents. Many of these ideas are ancient and have a greater standing within the students mind then what the educational institution tells the student to strive for.

With that said, lets begin to compare individuals within the same society. As we stated earlier about the model minorities out performing minority groups immersed within the native society, it becomes more obvious as to the reasons for this. First of all, immigrants would not immigrate to a society unless they viewed that societies beliefs to be congruent with their own. Now this is not always the case however for most successful immigrants it usually is. Thus these immigrants define success exactly the same way the society they have immigrated too. The people within that society cannot wait to facilitate that immigrant to the path of success because both the facilitator and the immigrant have the same ideology and belief system. They are like kindred spirits. An analogy would be a deeply devout Christian or deeply devout Muslim meeting a like minded person within a religiously organized society, those people would love to see their equally devout brother or sister succeed because it validates their own belief system and makes it more powerful. Now lets look at the native minority, unfortunately these people usually have had a foreign power hoist their belief and ideology on them. Such is the case with African Americans, who dint really define success the same way as maybe White Anglo Americans and immigrant groups. After all for centuries in order to achieve the Anglo American definition of success blacks were used as slaves. The same can be said of Native Americans and Australian Aborigines who were ethnically cleansed. However why would Muslim students fail when they are the product of relatively ambitious immigrants who seek to make a new life in the Western world. The Muslim question is answered by stating a simple maxim. Whether a native minority, an immigrant or even the majority populous, if your ideological belief does not reflect the society in which you live in, functioning in that society as a success is all the more difficult. This is because their is a contradiction in what you want and what society requests of you.

Lets give a strong example of this. Imagine a question on an exam is asked to four students in Britain. One white British child, one East Indian child, one Muslim Child and one Black child. The question is a multiple choice question. The question asks what is one major thing that Sir Winston Churchill accomplished during his tenure as Prime Minsiter of Great Britain? The White child easily knows this as his parents regularily talk of Churchill and he takes a keen interest in the man. Most likely because he sees himself in Churchill and gets a very good feeling knowing about his British identity. He easily answers the question correctly that Churchill helped win World war 2 for Britain, which is one of the choices on the multiple choice test. Next is the Indian child, he does not really care for Churchill but in his desperate attempt to assimilate he has route learned the entire book which had the assigned reading for the class. His parents facilitate in his studies and have demanded he read the book 3 hours a night. This child does not really care about Churchill at all, however his parents have placed a massive emphasis on good grades. The White English child absorbs the depth and texture of the ideas behind Churchill because he has a natural affinity for a man like Churchill due to numerous cultural similarities. The Indian Child has route learned the entire book, he has no interest in the subject however he gets the answer right and does the best in the class out of the four students, he has not absorbed the depth and texture of this complex question which has been reduced to simple multiple choice question and answer. Nor does the East Indian student care, what he is most focussed on is his grade, not the learning process. He mindlessly indoctrinates himself with whatever is required so long as he achieves the grade expected from him parents. The Pakistani child has learned that Churchill was a racist tyrant he loathes the man and finds it hard to ascribe anything great to Churchill. Since the Pakistani was raised a Muslim who chooses not to contradict his strong belief and ascribe a great quality on a man he believes to be a tyrant he still may get the question correct, knowing what is expected of him. However multily many questions of this nature and the young student realises a massive dissonence between him and his society. His heroes are their demons, their demons are his heroes. This contradiction demoralises the poor student and makes learning an exruciating process where he must wilfully indoctrinate himself in knowledge he finds repulsive. Where his mind is colonial task master to his being. A wretched situation for anyone to be in. Thus while with the British male and the Muslim male the depth and texture of the ideas have been absorbed. Sadly both are right, Churchill most likely was a great leader who looked after the interests of the White British child's ancestors or at least was a good enough actor to give up that appearence. Simultaneously Churchill was a vicious racist tyrant who probably exploited the Pakistani students ancestors. Sadly though the system will reward the white Child and Indian child with the right answers, the Pakistani child will be told he is wrong and must study more or if right, he himself will realise the system is literally stacked against him. In reality the Pakistani was focused on the deeper meaning of the question while the Indian simply route learned and memorised. The Pakistani student had his own critical analysis of Churchill, a character most Britain's are brainwashed to admire and adore. This critical thinking and deep analysis is worthy of a reward however the child would be rewarded with a wrong answer on a stupid question to begin with.

How can you decide upon the character of a man like Winston Churchill and his contributions in a stupid short multiple choice question and answer test. These tests are perfect for route learners who are more concerned with grades then actual learning and analysis. The travesty here is that the Pakistani or Muslim student would be punished for his deep analysis and rejection of this stupid question. I.Q testers and people who analysed scores would wonder why Indians succeed where Pakistanis don't when they are relatively so similar. Educated idiots and scientists would say most Pakistanis are rural people who immigrate while Indians are from the higher classes. Implying that a low I.Q segment of the Pakistani population has immigrated to Britain and a highly intelligent Indian portion has also come to Britain. Where their are right, is that if true, the rural Urban divide would certainly explain alot. It would not explain the idiotic idea that somehow these groups have different genetic ability, rather it would explain why the Indian kids are more comfortable with being indoctrinated with state propaganda in the form of education. Most Indian Urban centres have already been indoctrinated with British state propaganda for centuries and it would be no strange leap for an Indian kid to have a simalar experience once in British schools. However many rural parts of Pakistan never noticed or even experienced British rule. This logical and philisophical idea is patently the reason for the difference rather then race difference. The racists and eugenicists are dangerous not only because they are idiots who believe in their own intelligence while not actually being smart. They are dangerous because they make broad assumptions and generalizations which people act on, and can be detrimental to otherwise intelligent children. The Black British child would too reject the question as idiotic, he too would find Churchill to be a racist imperialist. At the very least he would feel no affinity for this man and would have no interest in route learning a boring textbook about people who persecuted his ancestors. You may think this is too sophisticated a thought process for youngsters however children as young as 10 are patently aware of race differences amongst themselves. Native white British students become aware of their false superiority and authenticity as white English very early. Black and Brown students are aware their is something amiss about their standing in society. They are not quite like the people they look up to in movies and television, or in books like Winston Churchill. They make these connections on a conscious or sub-conscious level.

The Muslim child may survive to University based on good math and science scores which do not run against his grain as much as other courses. However the Black child is instantly a victim of society after a certain age. As stated before, not only does the Black child become aware he is somehow different then the other kids he realises they are different then him even though they truly are not. TV, and Movies continue to subtly hint at the idea of black inferiority. Though this is a total myth the idea is still propagated by the media. The black child is not only labelled intellectually inferior he is told he is also a criminal. From that very young age he is stared at by store keepers as if he is a thief. Guilty until proven innocent is a fact of life for him. He has to deal with rejection solely based on his race, however he is accustomed to rejection from whites. The painful rejection comes from minority kids who also have been so thoroughly brainwashed by movies and TV, they too view the Black child as inferior. This cumulative effect of rejection based on the myth surrounding the identity of blacks is devastating to their Psyche and their faith in their own academic performance. We can see after this analysis that there are deeper philosophical and societal reasons for differences in academic and life success that make much more sense then idiotic racist arguments. While the Churchill analogy may be simplistic it illustrates how otherwise normal intelligent students can be told they are wrong and even have failing grades. Which leads to low self-esteem and societal rejection.

Finally one must wonder, are not Western governments or for that matter all governments aware that the educational system serves to indoctrinate passive learning among students and there is no real aggressive pursuit of independent learning. Of course they know this, the purpose of education is indoctrination not wisdom. Wisdom is the search for truth that one goes on to become enlightened. Wisdom is totally independent of an institution or even a state. It is a path pursued because you so desire to choose that specific path. Education is state funded indoctrination, on values and ideas that are good for the state and the ruling elite. You learn how to fit into the ruling elites superstructure as a useful citizen for them. Not even necessarily in your own interests. Thus people its time to seek wisdom for our kids and not look at education as an unqualified good. I will write further articles on education vs. Wisdom.

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The Mughal emporer the richest most powerful man in the world.

2009-03-21T19:50:00.002-04:00

The last Mughal emporer was the richest most powerful man on earth. However as with many Empires at their Zenith, things began to collapse. However mainly because of covert wars supported by the British. Here, is through British eyes a very short summary of the most formidable threat to British rule according to the British themselves. After almost a century of divide and conquer the legendary ruler of Mysore, the Shia Muslim Tipu Sultan, faced off with the British.

Please watch the Link!

What the Iran drone shoot down means for Pakistan.

2009-03-18T03:44:00.000-04:00

Well it seems the U.S isn't too keen on having a drone fly over one of their colonies. Even recognisance drones which are non violent. Its interesting the double standard here and it displays in full view the cravenness, and cowardice of the appointed Pakistani leadership. Some have always wondered what the depth and texture of their servitude was to their American masters. This drone shoot down makes it clear. Absolute obedience, to the point of willful slavery. It seems that a simple recognisance drone is totally unacceptable for the U.S even when its over one of their colonies yet alone their own country. The fact that they have threatened to bomb and attack Iran for 8 years still doesn't justify Iranian fears. The fact that the U.S didn't beg for every country in the world to support them also speaks volumes. They simply mounted aircraft and destroyed the drone no questions asked to anyone. The drones were not even violent.

Comparing this to Pakistan shows the utter slavery the country faces. Not only do U.S drones murder Pakistani citizens on mass. The Pakistani government Aids and abets the U.S mass killer robots in murdering Pakistani citizens. The army does not even think for a second to shoot these down, heck they allow it. Shameful indeed. It seems our leaders believe Pakistanis are the perfect targets for the U.S to try out their fancy new killing machines on.

U.S Jet shoots down Iranian recongisance drone.

2009-03-18T03:40:00.000-04:00

Reports have surfaced that a U.S jet has shot down an Iranian reconsance drone. The Iranians have made a number of unmaned drone aircraft and have been aiding Iraqi fighters against the U.S occupation. It is reported the U.S and Iran have made a deal, that the U.S must stay away from Irans nuke program in order for the violence to stop in Iraq against U.S forces.

Islamic rule in India, the good the bad, and the ugly.

2009-03-17T17:38:00.000-04:00

Often debates between Hindus and Muslims come to the idea of Islamic rule in India. This 1,000 year period from the time of Bin Qasim conquering Sindh and Balochistan to the overthrow of the final Muslim emperor of India Bahadur Shah Zafar. Some would even say Pakistan is occupying Indian land and is a continuance of the Mughal empire. Anyways its always interesting to share perspective with Muslim, Hindu and Sikh brothers alike. Lets keep it clean and fair!

Zardari: Taliban have deeply penetrated Pakistan.

2009-02-17T00:38:00.000-05:00

Pakistan has finally made a deal with the Pashtuns, to the sadness of its western oriented leaders. Indians are dismayed as well, and are angered that the Pakistan army has not rooted out, certain militants and doesn't continue to kill themselves. The whole premise of this is laughable. How can Pakistani citizens be rooted all over Pakistan? Since most of the people the Pakistani government are killing are Pak citizens, dont they have a right to penetrate their own country? Secondly so what if they are Islamists. London has thousands of Islamists, so does India. Does anyone tell the British army, to leave Iraq, and Afghanistan and focus on policing London. It seems the problem with the Taliban is that they practice Islamism under know ones rule. Whereas Indian Muslims and British Muslims are ultimately allowed, to practice Islam in a certain way by their governments. The Pakistan army, is no longer a colonial army, it is an army made to kill people or nations who threaten Pakistan, not kill Pakistanis who threaten foreign nations and the puppet rulers of the state. The Pakistan army is made to protect Pakistan and if need be leave Pakistan and go to foreign countries to kill enemies of Pakistan. Not continuously conquer Pakistan, on behalf of foreign countries. The Pakistan army should not increase efforts to combat militants rather, it should increase its power projection, and its ability to fight foreign conventional armies, including shooting down drones.

Pakistan must allow Islamism to be an acceptable fringe of its political movement. The key word here is acceptable, as the Indians and U.K have allowed. Also Pakistanis who are secular should say, we want a battle of idea's, and that the Islamists must allow secular Pakistanis to live the way they choose. There is no other way for Pakistan, unless it wants to be divided and conquered, by its enemies.

This in fact should be increased

India and Pakistan: Friendship at all costs.

2009-02-16T21:52:00.001-05:00

Some would say that India and Pakistan friendship seems, far away. Also they would say it is no longer in India's interest to be friendly with Pakistan, as it is a breeding ground for terrorism. However I want to make the case that even with Mumbai, it is still massively in India's national interest to have peace with Pakistan and to have it as a stable, strong state, who is economically interlinked with India. Putting the Kashmir issue aside for a moment, why do I say this. First of all, if Pakistan is destroyed in a likely scenario, either the Taliban conquer the country or, the U.S conquer the country, it is almost entirely likely that Pakistan would be used as a base for direct destabilization of India, by its enemies. Some would say, the U.S conquest would be a good thing, however I believe this would be India's worst nightmare. Whereas if Pakistan sponsors terror in India, India can directly hurt Pakistan, as Pakistan, is India's neighbour. If the U.S was to use Jehadis against India, India couldn't do much, except take America's word for it, that the Jehadis wernt sponsored by the U.S colonial government in Pakistan.

However of course the U.S would be sponsoring it. Now some Indians are under the impression the U.S is their alley, however the Maratha's and the Sikhs also believed that Britain was their ally as well. In reality the U.S and Britain, are in ruthless pursuit of their own self interests. India being a strong capitalist success story is definitely not in their interests, as India would challenge those great powers for resources. Its okay for tiny inconsequential place like Dubai or small places like Singapore to become true authentic capitalist success stories because, even when fully developed these countries are no threat to established great powers, as they are too small. India's development is an entirely different thing. Their are numerous historical examples of the U.S and Britain working with future enemies to destroy current ones. I.E working with communists, to defeat Nazi's. Islamists to defeat communists, and now Hindu's and Indians to defeat Islamists. Sure enough they would seek to destroy India, after the Islamist threat has abated. With a Pakistani base, and millions of Pak-Afghan Jehadi's at their disposal tearing India to pieces would be made significantly easier, then having a relatively speaking secular stable Pakistani state, that occasionally sponsors groups with tacit support of Western intelligence.

So what is India to do. Accept being smacked by the ISI, and its western sponsors every now and then? No, it must aggressively engage Pakistan. It must continue its economic rise, and continue to excel in science and technology. Only then can it penetrate Pakistan. It shouldn't seek to penetrate Pakistan with RAW, and its intelligence. Rather it should seek to Make Pakistan, its Canada to India's America. As Iran seeks to do with Iraq. Where Pakistan is fully independent and yet naturally within India's sphere of influence, because of business inter-dependence and shared cultural identity. In order to do this, India must avoid falling victim to all Anglo American divide and conquer strategies. Continue to ferociously develope, and try its best to block terrorism coming from its North West. It must try to get the ISI, to stop being used as a conduit for destabilization in India. Using money, and payoffs if necessary.

Why is India a major threat. India, is a threat in the real sense of the word, because its massive with 1.2 billion people. It has some exceptionally bright and intelligent people, and it has much more powerful soft power then the Communists, Islamists or other civilizational threats Anglo America has faced. The reason size is so important is because their are simply not enough resources in the world for the Western lifestyle to continue if India and China are to rise. Since China is by many factors stronger then India at this point, that Anglo American strategy is to divide and conquer, eventually gain control of India in a generation or two, and use South Asia as a bulwark against China. Currently the ISI is still the CIA, franchise in South and Central Asia, being used to destabilize the region. Crushing the ISI with the U.S and NATO in Afghanistan would spell the end of India. The U.S was not to pleased with the Chandrayaan moon mission, as the U.S stated AIM is total space dominance, and India's soft power among other things greatly concerns them as well.

If the U.S were to gain a foothold in Pakistan, terrorism in India would increase 10,000%, no doubt Jehadi's from Pakistan's occupied territories would be harassing the Indian army daily. The U.S would try to play the Indian army off the Islamists, in order to exhaust both forces. This potential of an endless war against terrorism would bankrupt India, making it even weaker, and the possible annexation of Punjab and Kashmir into a new U.S empire more likely. However this is the generational plan and the Anglo Americans will take their time.

Thus India must befriend Pakistan, and use all facets of its intelligence, agencies, military power, and economic might, to get the ISI to play a more constructive roll in South Asia. India must ween the ISI away from being a CIA franchise in South and central Asia, and get it to, at least stop terrorism in India, and eventually in a generation or so, become and ally with India. With the Kashmir situation this may be quite difficult, however its the only hope, for India.

Ultimately an India and Pakistan war would benifit everyone except India and Pakistan. Anglo Americans would be the greatest benificieries, as they would continue to sell weapens to both sides as they do today. They would also have an excuse to occupy greatest parts of Pakistan. India's rise would be over, and the U.S and Britain would be able to destabalize India anytime they wanted, eventually dissolving it to counter China. The last part may seem far fetched, but just picture when Mughal emporer Jehangir was talking to two British officers in the 1600's. If one was to say those Brits, would be the rulers of his empire both the officers and Jehangir would have had a laugh. However, nothing was funny a century later.

Using Pakistan to kill Pakistanis.

2009-02-16T02:33:00.001-05:00

Now that it is confirmed that CIA death drones, are flying out of Pakistani bases to kill Pakistanis, the absurdity of the situation in Pakistan has come to full view. Pakistani leaders may have no choice but do do something, even though defying their beloved paymasters is something unfathomable. Lets hope the people of Pakistan, and the decent, patriots in the government and military, make it impossible for this corrupt government to allow these drone attacks to continue.

The Indian and Pakistani experience under British rule was not the same.

2009-02-15T11:48:00.000-05:00

People would react strongly to this statement, however it needs some clarifying. Pakistan has been in the news recently and a friend of mine at my office recently asked me, why were Pakistanis protesting with signs in English and not in Arabic. I thought this amusing because the Major language in Pakistan is Urdu not Arabic, and English has an official status. On hearing this an Indian friend jumped up and said Pakistan was a British colony and apart of India. I decided to research Pakistan being a British colony and to see if it was accurate what my friend said, and to see if like India we were all one big colony under Britain like my Indian friend had suggested. After much research I learned he was totally wrong.

In fact the historical experience of British colonialism on Pakistanis is radically different then it was on Indians. In fact like two different countries. It is a total fallacy to talk about British colonialism, as British India, including Pakistan within that. Now why do I say this. Pakistan's North West Frontier Provinces, including FATA, and its Western province Baluchistan, were never conquered by the British and penetrated, for exploited labour for centuries like many parts of India were. In fact Balochistan was taken officially by the British in the mid 1840's while places, like Bombay (Mumbai) Calcutta, and Madras had been under British rule for over a century by the 1800's. Not only that but the western provinces of Pakistan, were never conquered as they have not been conquered today. Every puppet installed British leader was killed within a few years. The British army, never spread English in those area's, never built exploitation factories where the Pashtuns were cheap labour and never set up colonial schools either. This is a major difference to India proper, where the British set up the schools, controlled the industry, and printed the Newspapers. In fact the difference was so much so, by 1840, 100,000 British men controlled 200 million Indians. However 50,000 British soldiers could not control the tiny sparesley populated North West Frontiers of Pakistan.

So we can officially say half of Pakistans landmass, including its over 55 Milliom Pashtun and Baloch today were never conquered by Britain. This clearly shows, today as these people are still authentic. Some would say the Pashtuns are an Afghan race, and the Baloch Persian. Nonetheless today they are counted as Pakistani citezins.

Secondly the Punjab was only conquered after the defeat of Maharaja Ranjit Singh in 1844. Again Pakistani Punjabi's didn't even feel the colonial yoke until the last Mughal emperor was sent out of Delhi in 1865. That is historically when it dawned on Pakistanis or the people of West Punjab and the Muslims of the North West, the Islamic rule in India was over. Now Independence happened in 1947 thanks to the Valiant efforts of Gandhi Ji. However, that's 82 years of British servitude for half of Pakistan. Not only that, but while the British did indeed, control the leaders of the Punjab again British idea's and ways never deeply penetrated the area. Whereas Mumbai by 1865 had been under British control for almost two centuries, same with Bengal. Not to mention most of India proper.

This is reflected in the different view points of the people's. To an Indian call centre worker today in a U.S call centre based in Mumbai, he is on the cusp of the new economy. He speaks fluent English, loves his Western clothes, swears by the Times of India, and dismisses his own heritage, completely. The Pashtun would view what the Indian deems as progress, as the ultimate humiliation. He would rather be dead then speak some foreigners language, he would rather, wear his own authentic dress, and live his own way. Too the Indian this sounds absurd, because he views the Pashtun as being backward. However the idea of being "backward" itself is a British English idea, and would further reinforce the Pashtun's idea that the Indian, is not only physically subservient to the West, but most importantly mentally. The Pashtun and I would argue this mental sub servience to the West, is what makes the physical sub servience possible. I would also argue, that this sub servience has nothing to do with an enlightened disposition of the Indians, and more to do with the British sergeants boot, and being beaten in submission by Britain, and remade in its own image insomuch as to serve as cheap labour and natural resources for Britain.

Thus in conclusion, Pakistan and India's colonial experience under Great Britain are entirely different. Only half of Pakistan was ever colonized, and the other half was only under control for 80 plus years. In India, many major Indian cities were under British control for centuries. The British had built up vast factories and its Indian population had totally submitted to being cheap colonial labour. Indian's began to embrace British idea's as their own.

The Pakistani colonial experience truly starts in 1865, centuries after the Indian one. This can be seen, as to the Indian sub continent today, where British idea's have totally penetrated India, to the point where its own idealogy Hinduism has been discarded for the British one, whereas many parts of Pakistan still live the way they did before colonialism. Whether you deem this as backward or not may depend on your point of view, or more importantly how long your ancestors lived under the British. It can be noted, that many Indians would cite instability in pakistan, and its armies role in controlling the country as a sign of its subservience to the West. They are right to a certain extent. However this is again because the people of Pakistan were never penetrated by the British ideology, so it is of utmost importance to keep Western orientated leaders in power, and this is what causes the instabilty in the country.

Whereas India is modelled off Britain, the colonial process has been completed in India. The state itself perpetuates British idea's on the people. Whereas it has not been so in Pakistan. The title of this article may have been an exageration, indeed significant parts of Pakistan, were under British control for decades. However the major point was that Pakistan's colonial experience is entirely different then Indias and they cannot be talked about togather as one large British Indian experience.

U.S and Britain, divide and conquer in Pakistan.

2009-02-14T12:18:00.000-05:00

In the war on terror a lot of new words and phrases have been created. The war on terror is one of them itself. We have also heard the phrases good guys, and bad guys used, among others. Well it seems many have gotten carried away in the wordings, and are unable to see the bigger picture. The Pakistani government being one of the most corrupt, cheap and blind governments in the world, has itself got caught up in the entire thing. Pakistani leaders are actually naive enough to believe that the U.S and U.K. want Pakistan to be powerful so long as it is a democracy and ideologically akin to the U.S. This is laughable as the U.S plainly wants no one even close to them in power, no matter what ideologies are followed.

Also the Pakistani army is dumb enough to think they are somehow the "good guys" fighting as Anglo American colonial warriors, against the Pashtun "bad guys". To the Anglo Americans its just Muslims killing Muslims. Its a huge victory to them, because you got a whole lot of Muslims killing each other who are not focused on bothering the NATO colonial troops. Same can be said with the Turks and the Kurds. Some Pakistanis think America would be disappointed if the Taliban conquer Pakistan. This is laughable, it would give the U.S a permanent reason to occupy Pakistan, and would destroy a potential future power, they would celebrate a Taliban victory. Americans don't really care about Pakistan, its another small desperately poor nation, whom serves as a loyal servant in the great game played between Iran, Russia and China. However Pakistani's are to naive to realise this obvious fact.

Another U.S drone attack kills 32 in Pakistan.

2009-02-14T11:44:00.001-05:00

It seems another drone fired from Pakistani soil, has killed more Pakistani's. 32 people to be exact and undoubtedbly many civilians. It seems Asif Zardari has sold the country, and for pennies on the dollar.

Islam, the greatest force ever in history?

2009-02-09T15:53:00.000-05:00

Islam seems to be on the minds of everyone these days. Whether your a devout follower of this glorious religion or a bitter critic, the power of Islam cannot be ignored. Its power since it's advent and the power and sway it holds over its followers, and even its enemies cannot be ignored. It holds power over its enemies because many are obsessed with it. It can be said, the best victory over something is achieved by not even being concerned with its existence, if this is the case, the world is now focused on Islam, which is a victory in itself for the Muslims. Now how can I even say Islam is the most powerful force ever when it seems, Western rationalism, pragmatism, Capitalism and secular ideals seem to have prevailed, or as Francis Fukayama put it, the end of history has occurred. Where mankind has come to a consensus on the values that will lead us forward. Those values being rational secular French or English law, Human rights, and other such charters. While these idea's some of which are only 50 years old have very powerful sway, Islam has been incredibly powerful for over 1300 years. The last Caliph of Turkey was only exiled 80 plus years ago.

As Michael Heart stated that Muhammad was the most influential person who ever walked the face of the earth. Not only did he start a major ideology, and religion, he was unbelievably successful in his secular life. Uniting the tribes of Arabia which eventually led to the defeat of the Persian and Roman empires. However the dominance of Islam doesn't stop there, in fact it only begins. Islam conquers large swathes of Europe, really the only other civilization to defeat Europeans consistently outside of Central Asians, who crushed European armies as the Mongols, Amir Timur, (who was Muslim) and the Huns. The Muslims have for centuries delivered victory over European people's. Not only that but the legacy of Islamic math Science, carried the world through the 1,000 year long European period called the dark ages. Islamic science and mathematics made Spain the best part of Europe, and many from all over came to Europe to learn from the Muslims.

The Many empires the Muslims started in India, also were magnificent in architecture, and civility. The great Moguls who built the Taj Mahel one of the greatest architectural achievements known to man among other things, were also demonized by critics. Certain groups will say the Moguls were brutal and tolerated no defiance. However this flies in the face of certain facts. One that the Hindu's of India were virtually defenseless against Muslim rulers. So much so, that when the first Mughal King, Babur invaded Delhi he faced a fellow Muslim, in the Afghan Ibraham Lodhi. It is certain if Lodhi and Babur just were on a mission to spread Islam at all costs they could have slaughtered all Hindu's, yes Indeed insurgents like the legendary Shivji, and other Kings did cause problems for the Mughals, however these paled in comparisons, to the Mughal wars against, the Persians, the Portuguese and the English and other world conquerors.

Certain English historians claim Islam committed a Holocaust in India. However again, it was in British vested interests to divide and conquer the people of the Sub Continent, and what better way then to exaggerate the former rulers brutality. There is no doubt that the Mughals used brutal tactics, on those who resisted in India. However it can be said, that the previous Hindu rulers before Islam entered India had the punishment of death, for breathing the same air, as the as themselves, if you were of a low caste. Compared to this standard even the most religiously devout Mughal seems tame. Aurangzeb would not kill a Hindu for breathing the same air as himself. Thus in proper and fair context while the Mughals were brutal and did indeed commit certain atrocities, compared to that standard at the time, and compared to the previous Brahmin rulers and British rulers, were quite tame. The fact that India still has 1 Billion Hindu's is a testament to this. Abu Fazl Akbar's biographer discussed with Akbar himself what to do about the vast Multitude of crores of Hindu's who were illiterate and poor. How they should be converted to Islam, Akbar retorted to leave them alone, as they do not get in the way of our business. This policy remained more or less till Aurangzeb who tried many tactics to convert Hindu's and was no doubt more brutal.

Outside the Mughals there were other Iranian and Turkish dynasties as well, which were world powers, and were prosperous civilizations.

This in and of itself is not why Islam could be considered the greatest force ever in the history of mankind. We must look at current times. The recent Islamic revival which started in the 20th century was a testament to the resilience of Islam. While the Hindu's of India's adopted a secular state, and by default accepted British secularism's superiority over Hinduism. The Muslims in Muslim states did not accept British secularism as superior to Islam. Rather the Western installed puppets did indeed view things this way, yet not the masses. Whereas in British India, places like Mumbai, and Kolkatta and Goa were deeply penetrated by British idea's all the way too the street level. Pakistan, which was the last and most difficult part of India to conquer was held by hand picked colonial rulers, the people of Pakistan, were never really penetrated by British idea's. This would make sense as half of Pakistan was never conquered by the Brits, and the half that was, was only held for 80 years. Whereas parts of India, such as Calcutta, Madras, and Mumbai were held for over 2 centuries. This explains why Indian's are zealously proud of being cheap indentured servents for American companies, and why Pakistanis even in Britain are in perpetual rebellion.

On to the Persians, with the Iranian revolution, and the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, it seemed Islam was back, and the ideology was gaining steam. To put this in perspective western ideologies such as Nazism, and Communism, barely lasted a few decades or century at best. Even Capitalism is loosing its steam fast as we speak. However Islamism is 1400 years old. The ideology was arguably the greatest power on earth for 1,000 years. Muslims used people with blond hair and blue eyes as slaves. Millions of them, and possible tens of Millions of them. As the Padshah of Persia once stated, we have more golden haired slaves in our nation, then the number of golden haired people within their own countries.
Islam had wealth, science architecture, and was only superseded by the Chinese.

Now the question arises, well what has Islam done for us lately. Many Euro centric writers in the West, and their colonial offspring in the East will say, this in an arrogant matter. Which may be justified in the West, however one is mesmerized how some of the people's who were colonial subjects of the west could have adopted their masters arrogance. I really don't find working as a call centre agent, something to be classified as a great success?

Anyways, Islam's achievements lately have been nothing short of incredible for a civilization in the process of revival. The fact that Hezbollah, held off the Israeli army with a totally authentic Islamic way of war crafted in Iran, will probably be remembered as one of the biggest shifts in military power in the 21st century. Love him or hate him, Sheik Hassan Nasrallah deserved a medal and a prize for doing this incredible feat. Basically staving off a high tech Western army. The second amazing feat was the Pakistani nuclear bombs. Pakistan, which was being crushed by sanctions from all ends, etc, managed to build nuclear weapons. While India did the same, it was much easier for India, as India is much larger then Pakistan, and posed no real ideological threat to the west. Other amazing feats are yet to come, if the Muslims can keep the momentum on their revival. Pakistan is about to build ICBM;s and the Persians are keen to send a man into space within the next 20 Years.

In conclusion whether you are a devout Muslim, or someone who loathes this religion, it can be said that Islam is quite possibly the greatest force to ever exist on planet earth. With many new converts, and millions disillusioned with capatalism, Islam is rising. Judging by the way things look, it will continue to be so.

Pakistani court releases Nuclear scientist A.Q Khan.

2009-02-06T18:51:00.000-05:00

Controversial Nuclear scientist A.Q. Khan has been released from Pakistani house arrest. He has been charged by Western governments of nuclear proliferation, and in aiding the Iranian, and North Korean nuke programs. None of these accusations have ever been proven in an agreed upon court of law. Khan is a National hero in his home country Pakistan, and is credited with helping Pakistan become the first Islamic nation to have a nuclear weapons capability.

Kyrgyzstan decision is final on U.S base.

2009-02-06T01:10:00.000-05:00

Kyrgyzstan today decided to finalize its decision to close a U.S base in the country. Its been a disastrous week for the U.S mission in Afghanistan with militants blowing up an important bridge for U.S and NATO supplies in the Khyber pass in Pakistan, as well as the Kyrg government closing the U.S base. Time will tell the depth and texture of the reinforcements president Obama will send to Afghanistan if any. Many believe the decision of the Kyrgyzstan government was influenced by Moscow.