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| RUPEE NEWS | November 27th, 2007 | Moin Ansari | معین آنصآرّی | اخبار روپیہ | Blaming Pakistan first for all evils on the plant is ruse to attack another country. Selective amnesia is a wonderful thing. There is no way that the CIA can be absolved for creating and training the Taliban. During the House Committee on Foreign Affairs discussion recently, Republican congressman Dana Rohrabacher named the Clinton administration, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia for creating the Taliban. “Let me repeat that: The Clinton administration, along with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, created the Taliban,”
Obama blows hot and cold on Pakistan again! . He was the first American politician to openly declare that he would send forces into Pakistan. Is Bush stealing Obama’s war on Pakistan? Partially prompted by the Obama rhetoric, President Bush actually sent forces into Pakistan
Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark’s teutonic bloviations regurgitated by Chuck Leddy and the punditocracy are an admixture of discredited Neocon assertions, unsubstantiated, or outright distortion, and pure unadulterated balderdash. His nauseating fixation upon and paranoid conspiratorial delusions about Pakistanis are a transparent attempt to justify the murderous rampage, carnage and barbarism faced by West Asia. The twaddle fails to illuminate the confusing deluge of eerily inept and counter-intuitive claptrap masquerading as fact in the clumsily stage-managed “global war on terror” environment. The author’s selective amnesia fails to consider the fact that more than 1000 Pakistanis have died fighting the so called “war on terror”, and Pakistan has been a US ally since 1947. Pakistanis say “we don’t want your favors or your hate”. Leave Pakistan and Pakistanis alone.
“I remember the atmosphere. It was: Well, here we are on top of the world, and we have arrived at this peak to stay there forever. There is, of course, a thing called history, but history is something unpleasant that happens to other people. We are comfortably outside all of that I am sure.” Arnold Toynbee, recounting his feelings at the age of eight when he was watching a parade celebrating the 60th anniversary of Queen Victoria’s ascension to the British throne:
The Pakistani people also have some questions for Congress. Pakistan paid $450 million for F-16s. She neither got the planes nor the money, and the planes were resold for additional Dollars to Pakistan. What kind of friendship is this?
More than 4000 Pakistani soldiers have died in the “war on terror”, but India got a Nuclear deal. What kind of friendship is this?
$40 Billion has been pldeged for Afghanistan. Pakistan got $5 billion!!! US aid: Pakistan gets less than 50% of actual amount spent on war Pakistan has been given pennies on the Dollar. Out of the aid given to Pakistan, half of it stays in the USA, and another 25% is spent on logistics. US again offers peanuts in aid. Pakistanis want to reject and negotiate up. Some Pakistani invoices from the Stone Age for America Pakistan’s 7 invoices from the stone agen (pun intended). New Pakistani government. New 150 Billion per annum bill for the USA. Old aid was signed under duress. The right aid for Pakistan:Renegotiating the US Pakistan alliance. Correcting the pirce tag. GWOT. Seven counterpoints to USA.
Pakistan has been an ally of the USA for more than 60 years, a cold war ally, a founding member of SEATO and CENTO and currently a Major Non-Nato Ally (MNNA). However Pakistan get lectures to “do more” while the USA is unable to crush her enemies in Afghanistan and the NATO soldiers are unable to provide security to the Mayor of Kabul, the incompetent Mr. Karzai. How about more democracy for the Pashtuns of Afghanistan.
Pakistan was instrumental in defeating the USSR, and liberating Afghanistan. As a reward Pakistan faced multi-faceted sanctions. What kind of friendship is this?
Israel got $30 billion in aid. Pakistan got peanuts for waging this war. What kind of friendship is this?
According to a report published in a US daily Pakistani officials said Pakistan received 1300 pairs of U.S.-made night-vision goggles that enable them to see and fight al-Qaeda and Taliban insurgents in the dark. The sophisticated goggles were supplied by the Bush administration at a cost of US $6.4 million.But every three months, the troops had to turn in their goggles for two weeks to be inventoried, because the U.S. military wanted to make sure none were stolen, U.S. and Pakistani officials said. Militants perceived a pattern and scurried into the open without fear during the two-week counts.
Pakistani officials say that strict U.S. control over equipment and a failure to provide other equipment, such as spare parts, has impeded their ability to hunt down Taliban and al-Qaeda sympathizers, the report said. In addition to goggles, the U.S.-made attack helicopters are grounded for weeks because of parts shortages.
”India simply must, as a long term consideration, matter more for us than Pakistan,” James Clad, the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defence for South and Southeast Asia, was quoted by The News as telling a group of journalists in a conference call from Pentagon. In a country where friendship is sometimes more important than kinship, Pakistanis remember statements like this.
President Ayub Khan said it best in his book: We need “Friends Not Masters”.
Pakistan was the only state dismembered after 2nd word war. Pakistanis pledged “never again”. A.Q Khan and Pakistan’s clandestine nuclear program in the face of world sanctions was an achievement which prevents the enemies from crossing Pakistan’s borders ever again. Other countries like India, Korea, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Israel also ran similar secret programs banking on the under-word trade of arms and part. To blame Pakistan for all evils is ridiculous.
The spurious charges against A.Q. Khan were never proven and the Dutch court threw out the case. Pakistan has more than 30,000 scientists working on the programs. In other words Pakistan has 30,000 Khans. An entire University is dedicated to produce metallurgists every year. This was not a one man effort. Khan was Openheimer and Einstein combined for Pakistan’s “Manhattan Project”.
The book has many “old wives tales”, Neocon propaganda, and urban myths pawned off as “fact”.
Pakistanis refuse to take foster parentage of the morass of foreign policy failures that perpetuate this cycle of blowback and violence. Empire building and Imperial hubris has repercussions.The powers to be have to think of the consequences of creating evil. The Frankenstein monster like Rabbi Eliyahu of Chelm’s mythical “Golen” came after it’s maker. How many remember the lessons from the broomstick in The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.
We want to anathematize this mantra of “holding Pakistan responsible” for the actions of the scum that was nurtured in the augean stables of national corruption (CIA’s drug trade, First Afghan war against the USSR, Iran-Contra etc), trained as anti-communists in xenophobic camps during the 80s, and used as human cannon fodder against the USSR by the likes of the hedonistic Charlie Wilson who were luxuriating in leafy complexes on the Potomic.
Risk of another war: How many more American Crusades?
Few political scientists have fully identified the inherent risks of direct US action in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan. Not only will this generate a tsunami of anti-Americanism, and anti-British feelings, this action will also push the miscreants to the urban areas of Pakistan destabilizing the country. Al-Qaeda will thrive in chaos and threaten the government and the people of Pakistan.The push theory (pushing miscreants out of one area) does not work. When the Police raids a street gang on a street, they simply move over to the next street.
The solution is a comprehensive plan to interdict drugs and create alternative employment for the youth. Similarly fighting terror is a two pronged strategy. An unstable Pakistan is bad for the entire planet. The solution is a massive “Marshall Plan” for Pakistan, which creates incentives for the people to earn a proper living. To start with, the US should abolish the quotas and subsidies on textiles. This will enhance Pakistani exports and provide jobs to the youth.
Action in Afghanistan pushed many people into the tribal areas of Pakistan. Pushing them out of FATA will push them deep into Pakistan. When an anti-Pakistan government was installed in Kabul, surely Pakistanis were not happy. The geo-strategic interests of Pakistan have to be taken into account. Neither the government, nor the people of Pakistan have signed up for indentured servitude to carry on the follies of a broken foreign policy that supports an incompetent and corrupt non-representative non-Pushton, minority “government” (actually institutionalized narco-warlordism) in Kabul.
The NATO troops are teetering on annihilation by the anti-occupation insurgent (wrongly labeled as “Talibaan”). All of Afghanistan is in revolt against the “occupiers”. All this has created immense problems for Pakistan, and Pakistanis are not too happy fighting Pakistanis……neither Musharraf nor anyone else supports Pakistanis fighting Pakistanis. The Tribal areas are “tribal”. They joined Pakistan under treaty obligations that allowed them total autonomy…that was the deal for joining the Federation. They have helped Pakistan for the past 60 years. The articles of the confederation of the constitution of Pakistan cannot be changed because of failed US policies in Afghanistan. NATO and America needs to build peace by wining the hearts and minds of Afghans not by cluster bombs and missiles.
Blaming someone else for the Neocon inspired foreign policy failures is a favorite pastime of losers in the USA. Blame China for the problems in North Korea, blame Libya for the issues in Chad, Blame Cuba for the anti-Americanism in Venezuela, blame Iran for the fiasco in Iraq, blame the Palestinians for the war in Israel, and blame Pakistan for the incompetence of the puppet Vichi like Karzai war lordism misnamed a “government” and the failures of NATO in Afghanistan. You can fool some of the people all the time, all the people some of the time, but not all the people all the time. The American people see thorough the smoke screen of demonizing all Muslims everywhere. America and world recognizes that the failed Neocon policies will not get better by blaming others.
Already all the roads to Kabul are in Talib control. America made a critical mistake in imposing a non-Pashtun Northern Alliance anti-Pakistan Karzai government in Kabul. Pakistan and Pashtuns will never tolerate a Northern Alliance government in Kabul. The worst thing America can do right now, is to invade the FATA areas. This will unite the Talibs as never before, and the fall of Kabul will be expedited.American policy makers are blind to all this. Just like they never found WMDs in Iraq, they will never find OBL in Pakistan.
Pakistani cooperation is crucial in this part of the world. They are destabilizing a country of 150 million people which will have long term consequences for India, China, the Central Asian republics and Iran. If attempts to destabilization continue, the “Plan for a new American Century” (PNAC) will be further discredited as Pakistan will join revolutionary Iran and create a nexus with the economic powerhouse China or even a resurgent Russia.
We need to develop a “Pull theory” which would pull the insurgents into more productive endeavors like employment and economic prosperity. The only solution is a “Marshall Plan for Pakistan and Afghanistan”. Build bridges, don’t blow them up.
That time hasn’t come, has it? KARACHI (January 29 2008): The following is an unconfirmed and unverified account of a person who wishes to remain anonymous. The account is the narration of experiences of a senior foreign ministry official who, according to the writer, was privy to ZA Bhutto-Henry Kissinger talk and later witness to General Ziaul Haq’s outburst of anger against US in front of its ambassador.
He locked his eyes on Bhutto’s and spewed out deliberately, “Then we will make a horrible example of you!” Bhutto’s face flushed. He stood up, extended his hand towards Kissinger and said, “Pakistan can live without the US President. Now your people will have to find some other ally in this region.” Bhutto then turned and went out.
This story was related to me by a senior foreign ministry official, who became quite friendly with General Ziaul Haq after Bhutto, and gradually rose in rank to join the General’s elite close circle. In 1987 Russian forces started evacuating Afghanistan, and President General Ziaul Haq was left isolated all of a sudden.
It was a great blow to his ego, and he started berating the CIA officers and US Embassy officials present in Pakistan at the time. Once, during that time, the President accidentally came face to face with the US Ambassador in a function, and in the presence of dozens of other people, admonished the Ambassador.
The General addressing him directly told him, “You people think that we cannot live without your help. Remember that Pakistan is a strong and powerful country, and if we can make Russia run away from Afghanistan, then we can also cope with USA.” The US Ambassador kept silent. General Ziaul Haq caught the ambassador by the chin, and pushing his face up, said, “Tell your government that you have no option except our friendship.”
The Ambassador shook his head left and right. The Foreign Ministry official who narrated the story, was personally present at that function, and was an eye-witness to this incident.
This officer went to see General Ziaul Haq the next day, and pleaded with him very humbly, “Sir, ten or eleven years ago I was working with Mr Bhutto. Sir, I saw and heard the dialogue between Henry Kissinger and Mr Zulfikar Ali Bhutto myself personally. Mr Bhutto looked very confident after this conversation, but Kissinger looked grim. Mr Bhutto had later started challenging the USA even in his public utterances.
However, Sir, a time came when you dethroned Bhutto and delivered him to the Judiciary. The courts sentenced him to gallows, and thus Mr Bhutto really became an example of retribution for the world!” General Ziaul Haq looked at him furiously. The official was flustered, but continued, “Sir, when you were berating the US Ambassador publicly, to me he looked very much like Henry Kissinger at the time.
Sir, based on my experience, I know that a time comes during friendship with America, when it becomes difficult for US friends to maintain that friendship, and the amity pinches like a thorn in the shoe”. The general kept quite. The official persisted “Sir, during our return in the car I had tried to advise Mr Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto also, but he stopped the car and had asked me to get out. Mr Bhutto believed that he knew the Americans better than the Americans knew themselves.
Sir, I know that you also will not be pleased with what I have to say, and perhaps this time also I may meet the same treatment, but Sir, in this delicate hour, I consider it my duty to advise you. Please don’t get entangled with the Americans at this time.
They are a generation of ‘disposable’ culture. In their view, faithfulness and constancy are meaningless words.” General Ziaul Haq lost his patience. He stood up and extended his hand (in dismissal). That official also rose and immediately left the General’s office, and for a long time thereafter, did not re-enter that room.
I met that officer countless times, and whenever the talk turned to Mr Bhutto and General Ziaul Haq, he would say, “Both of my bosses did not accept my advise; therefore both of them met a tragic end.” I asked him what was the reason for that. He had this stock reply: “This is American nature. In reality, they cannot maintain companionship with any one for a long time. Only if you have a love/hate relationship with the US, you can keep their company for a long period.
Like Europeans, Australians and Latin Americans, you should listen to them occasionally, and defy them some other time, then you will have good time. We can also give here an example of Japan and China. Both these countries are friends and foes at the same time. They trade with the USA, but also confront them, so Americans have no issue with them.
On the contrary, we are always obedient to the US and go out of our way in our love for USA, to the extent of altering our own constitution and laws even. After that, we start getting demands from USA to “do more”, and then a time comes when it becomes impossible for Pakistan’s authorities to accept American demands.
When a Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto or a General Ziaul Haq explains to the Americans his legal or constitutional constraints, they do not believe him. Americans think that every thing is ‘possible’ in Pakistan, and that their “friend” is now deceiving them.
Therefore, the Americans change their attitude, after which the Pakistani ruler reminds them of all the services rendered by Pakistan to the USA. He recalls, with big gusto, all his acts of good faith performed in the service of the USA but the Americans shrug their shoulders and reply, “In return we had given you the opportunity to govern Pakistan.”
Answering them the Pakistani ruler starts to threaten the US government, and then, whether it is Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto or General Ziaul Haq, Both of them meet a dreadful, exemplary end.” The official then became silent.
For the last two days, I am sensing changes in President Musharraf and US relations. President Pervez Musharraf granted an interview on January 11 to the Singapore daily “Straits Times’, and in that interview challenged America, “If US forces intruded into our tribal territory, we will deem it as an invasion of Pakistan, which will be an affront to our sovereignty, and I challenge USA to dare come to our hills.
They will rue the day.” The President also gave an interview to the French daily, ‘Figaro’, and in that interview also he announced “if Americans do not help us in the war against terror, then they should search for some other ally for themselves”.
I don’t know why, ever since I read reports of both these interviews of the President, I keep remembering that old diplomat, and I think again and again, that God forbid, if the time has not come once again in Pak-American relations who Condi comes to Pakistan and sitting in our Chamber of authority announces, “you have no other option”.
My spirit shivers when I think of this. Translated by Rais Ahmad Khan from Urdu into English.
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Laden's secure mountain hideout?
Indian scum is around here too :P
May be you should wait for the time when we set these talibs onto you.
I suggest you need a history lesson to remind you what these people have already done to you.
We’re the descendents of Ghouri.
Tell your kids that you were warned on this very day, may be they will get to see that day again
Poor Pakistan has no choice but to continue slavery of US.
Terrorist country Pakistan who funded talibans and made Afghanistan slave of brutal Taliban for their own political purpuse, switched side overnight the same day of 9/11 and went against Talibans even before US could reach Pakistan about Taliban or AlQqeda.
Today Pakistan is getting the fruits of the tree of terrorism that it planed for Afghanistan and India.
FATA and NWFP are totally cout of control of Paki Govt.
Talibans are close to capture Islamabad.