Noticias de Rupia | Nouvelles de Roupie | Rupiennachrichten | ??????? ????? | ????  | Roepienieuws | Rupi Nyheter | ???????  | Notizie di Rupia |  PAKISTAN LEDGER | ???????? ?????  | Moin Ansari | ???? ??????? | DefensebriefsIntellibriefs  Translate to:  | RUPEE NEWS  | September 22nd, 2008 | Moin Ansari |  ???? ??????? | ????? ????? | As exepected President Asif Zardari said all the right things in parliament. He always seems to guage the mood of the people and sya the right things. The problem arises in its impleme
ntation.

“I have a dream for Pakistan,” ..“My dream is to free this great country from the shackles of poverty, hunger, terrorism and disunity.” Mr. Zardari.

Zardari’s fakes chagrin: US wink-wink, nudge-nudge policy of bombing FATA to continue. The questions that arise are as follows:

• 1) When will be give up his powers under 58-2(b)
• 2) When will be reverse the 17th amendment?
• 3) When will be become a non-partisan president and not be the co-chairman of a political party?
• 4) Perfidious Treacherous Capitulation to the US. Will be continue to kowtow to the foreign powers? Delhi strategy to destroy Pakistan: Indian Defense Review ??? ??? ???? ??? ?? ??? ???? ?
• 5) Can he overcome his past? Assets of Mr. 10%. Properties of Mr. Asif Zardari
• 6) THE PAKISTANI RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF THREATS: Mountbatten, Nehru, Indira, Kruschev, Johnson, Carter, Kissinger (Nixon), Gobachov, Clinton, Armitage (Bush), Karzia (Bush and Vajpayee/Sing) have all threatened Pakistan: The Pakistanis are used to it…so what else is new?!! Pakistan’s Nuclear Program should be seen in the backdrop of these threats.
• Pakistan to USA: “We are unclear about your intentions and you must know if you do not trust us we trust you even less”
• Why is the West after Pakistani Nukes?
• Americans are from Mars. Pakistanis are from Venus
• Kissinger threatened Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto
• Selective amnesia of Americans. Pakistan is the most mistreated friend of America. The post Benazir era must be different 
• America has to rethink India policy
• US again offers peanuts in aid. Reject and negotiate up
• Halting the suicide bombers needs a holistic strategy and an immediate stopping of drones  

Renegotiating the US-Pakistani alliance and the correcting the price tag for services in the ”Global War on Terror” (GWOT) should be the highest priority of the new government. The deal in 2001 was signed “under the gun” with Armitage’s threats of “we will bomb you back to the stone ages” (source: Pervez Musharraf-”In the Line of Fire”). Each time Pakistan hears a “whine”, Pakistan should offer home grown cheese with an invoice. See article above (Pakistani Cheese for Western “whine”. Market Value real Invoices for services rendered.). Pakistan was given seven points. President Musharraf agreed to all seven. Now the Government of Pakistan should hand back seven points to the US government and its allies also.

Pakistan lost billions per annum because of war. Pakistan got 1.3 Billion Dollars during he Zia regime. That was pennies. Back dated invoices should be sent for the first Afghan war also. The world owes Pakistan a debt for destroying the USSR.

Mr. Jhagra also expressed disappointment that Mr. Zardari did not mention restoration of the Supreme Court judges dismissed by General Musharraf during emergency rule last October. Mr. Zardari’s refusal to reinstate the chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, led to the party’s pulling out of the coalition government.

Legislators also complained that his speech lacked specifics considering that his party has already been in government for six months and the country is facing a critical period with growing militancy and a sliding economy. “It was all generalities,” said Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, who served as interior minister under General Musharraf and has long advocated strong action against militants. “He had to spell out the government’s policies, he had to be very specific.”

The greatest challenge was the economy, Mr. Zardari said. He promised that his government would answer energy shortages by the end of next year, and invest in the agricultural sector to ensure food security. New York Times. September 20th, 2008

Pakistan’s Zardari to give up powers

ISLAMABAD (AFP) – Pakistan’s new President Asif Ali Zardari Saturday told parliament to abolish his wide-ranging powers and warned “we will not tolerate” sovereignty violations after a series of cross-border strikes.

In his début address to a joint session of parliament, Zardari called for an end to the president’s powers to dissolve the assembly and dismiss the government, and also pledged to tackle Pakistan’s economic problems.

He warned Pakistan would not put up with violations of its sovereignty and territory in the anti-terror fight, in reference to strikes in its tribal zone by the US-led coalition based in Afghanistan.

“We will not tolerate the violation of our sovereignty and territorial integrity by any power in the name of combating terrorism,” Zardari said, as lawmakers thumped their desks in agreement.

The widower of ex-premier Benazir Bhutto, who took the oath of office on September 9, called for a cross-party committee to “revisit” the presidency’s wide-ranging powers introduced by his predecessor, Pervez Musharraf.

“Never before in the history of this country has a president stood here and given away his powers,” Zardari said.

Zardari easily won a presidential poll among federal and state lawmakers this month, less than a year after Bhutto’s assassination during a campaign rally last December.

Military ruler Musharraf had resigned on August 19 after the coalition government threatened to impeach him over constitutional violations including his failure to address parliament annually.

Zardari now heads a frontline “war on terror” ally under intense pressure to quash militants launching attacks in neighbouring Afghanistan from its tribal regions.

Direct US missile strikes on Al-Qaeda linked militants, and an incursion by its soldiers into Pakistani tribal areas bordering Afghanistan, have raised tensions with Washington.

Zardari is due to meet US President George W. Bush for the first time on Tuesday on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York.

As the latest suicide blast killed six including two soldiers near the Afghan border, the president urged the government to ensure Pakistani soil is not used by extremists.

“I ask of the government that it should be firm in its resolve not to allow the use of its soil for carrying out terrorist activities against any foreign country,” he said.

Zardari said the government had a “three-pronged strategy” to deal with extremism in tribal areas, including dialogue with law-abiding tribes, a development plan for the area and the use of force only as “the last resort.”

He asked the government to hold a closed joint session for a national security briefing on the strategy.

“Let everyone have the opportunity to make an informed judgement about the risks to our beloved country and about how we should move forward with responsibility, clarity and vision,” he said.

Zardari also pledged to tackle an economy which is already dependent on foreign aid. Pakistan’s stock market has lost around 40 percent of its value since January, and inflation is running at a 30-year high.

“The greatest challenge this government faces is an economic one. No elected government can survive the prospects for its people going hungry,” he said.

Zardari’s presidency returns Pakistan to civilian rule after eight years under Musharraf. He has spent years in jail on corruption and murder charges — now dismissed — and previously earned the nickname “Mr. Ten Percent.”

•  BLA: A threat to International Peace. The BLA is a creation of Indian Intelligence agencies which are trying to create instability in the areas bordering Pakistan, Iran and Afghanistan
• This one discusses Mr. Shairf’s palusible deniability game
  http://rupeenews.com/2008/06/03/kargil-sharifs-policy-of-plausible-deniability/
• Some background on Kashmir and Gurdaspur
  http://rupeenews.com/2008/05/25/gurdaspur-was-the-key-to-the-fraud-in-kashmir-accession/
• The future problems: India’s Aqua bomb and the coming water wars in Kashmir
  http://rupeenews.com/2008/05/29/indian-aqua-bomb-the-coming-water-wars-in-kashmir/