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Over the decades, the steadfast, stubborn, and indefatigable resilience of the Pakistani nation has baffled the Russians, and the Indians.The Headlines about Pakistan in the media: Understanding the Rupert Murdock, Neocon & Hunduvata doomsayer machine which is running scared of defeat and retreat. The Americans have learned about this streak of Pakistani stubborness the the hard way. In their own way, the Pakistanis have thumbed their noses at Delhi, Moscow and Washington. The USSR threatened to target Peshawar with a nuclear missile after discovering that the US U2 planes had been taking off from Pakistan. Islamabad was not perturbed by the threats made by Kruschev.

When the Americans became too intrusive, Ayub Khan said he wanted”Friends Not Masters” and sent them packing. President Johnson was furious.The USSR wanted Pakistan to join the Asian security pact with India. Instead Islamabad formed SEATO and CENTO to thwart Soviet and Indian designs. To make matters worse for the Cold War allies Pakistan formed a bridge between China and America which has now blossomed into partnership and led to the phenomenal growth of Beijing. Many Chinese have not forgotten the bridge.

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When Brezhnev sent his tanks into Kabul, many Russian Generals wanted to taste the warm waters of the Arabian sea and send their goods down through Karachi.

Pakistan started harassing the Soviet two years before the Americans thought it wise to join the effort. Most Americans weaned on the spin on the Cold War think that Ronald Reagan rode on the white steed and led the USA to victory over the USSR. Few know that 2 million AfPakkids died in defeating the USSR and thus ensuring that they implode after their colossal defeat in Kabul. Pakistan faced bombs in her cities, bazaars, Imam Baras, and Mosques. The lethal Khad-Raw-KGB combination played havoc with the Pakistan way of life. 3.5 million Afghan refugees camped out in Pakistan, but the nation allowed them a hospitable welcome. Today more Afghans have been born in Pakistan than anywhere else. Millions simply melted into Pakistan society and call Pakistan their first home. Pakistan is home to the majority of the Pakhtuns, and the largest Pakhtun city in the world is Karachi.

During the 80s the Pakistanis defied all Western pressure to build a Nuclear War and endured a decade of sanctions but never succumbed to the US and Western pressure to abandon the program.It did not work.

Jason Burke of the UK  Observer and a plethora of journalists are now voicing the opinion which has been repeatedly articulated in Diplomatic language and military doublespeak over the past few months. When “they” talk about the defeat of US and NATO in Afghanistan they are simply repeating the rhetoric of the Russians. When they talk about “Pakistan being the most dangerous place on earth” they are actually saying that they are scared of the Pakistanis. When an ordinary persons says that the Cobra is very dangerous, they are voicing their fear of the Cobra.

For all their satellite technology, electronic equipment highly developed aircraft, neither NATO, nor the USA has been able to hold any substantial part of Afghanistan. Despite multiple drone attacks on Pakistani territory, ISAF has been unable to decimate the will of the Pakistani Pakhtuns, who give the West a good run for their enemy.

For all the tough talk out of Washington, the USA is disguising its real intentions in Afghanistan in a cloud of doublespeak. In actuality, Washington has clearly realized that all road lead to Islamabad. Unless and until Pakistan is satisfied, there can be no peace in Afghanistan.

First for the good news: Pakistan is not about to explode. The Islamic militants are not going to take power tomorrow; the nuclear weapons are not about to be trafficked to al-Qaida; the army is not about to send the Afghan Taliban to invade India; a civil war is unlikely.

The bad news is that Pakistan poses us questions that are much more profound than those we would face if this nation of 170m, the world’s second biggest Muslim state, were simply a failed state. If Pakistan collapsed, we would be faced by a serious security challenge. But the resilience of Pakistan and the nation’s continuing collective refusal to do what the west would like it to together pose questions with implications far beyond simple security concerns. They are about our ability to influence events in far-off places, our capacity to analyse and understand the behaviour and perceived interests of other nations and cultures, about our ability to deal with difference, about how we see the world.

Pakistan has very grave problems. In the last two years, I have reported on bloody ethnic and politicalriots, on violent demonstrations, from the front line of a vicious war against radicalIslamicinsurgents. I spent a day with BenazirBhuttoa week before she was assassinated and covered the series of murderous attacks committed at home and abroad by militant groups based in Pakistan withshadowy connections to its security services. There is an economic crisis and social problems – illiteracy, domestic violence, drug addiction – of grotesque proportions. Osama bin Laden is probably on Pakistani soil. The west can no longer afford to impose its values and notions of democracy on countries that neither want nor need them. Jason Burke The Observer, Sunday 15 March 2009

The Rupert Murdock run Western media has been unrelenting in its pursuit of justifying the wars. Demonising Pakistan is an essential part of the Orwellian directives to the paid writers posing as journalists who spew out their venom in The Australian,  The Guardian, and the Wall Street Journal. Justifying the Banality of Occupation in Iraq and Afghanistan: The Thinktanksattempt to complete the circle of complicity between a sycophantic press, and a non-inquisitive servile public. The nation is forced to accept the only argument that it is being repeatedly inundated with

For many developing nations, all this would signal the state’s total disintegration. This partly explains why Pakistan’s collapse is so often predicted. The nation’s meltdown was forecast when its eastern half seceded to become Bangladesh in 1971, during the violence that preceded General Zia ul-Haq’scoupin1977, when the Soviets invaded Afghanistan, when Zia was killed in 1988, during the horrific sectarian violence of the early Nineties, through sundry ethnic insurgencies, after 9/11, after the 2007 death of Bhutto and now after yet another political crisis. These predictions have been consistently proved wrong. The most recent will be too. Yesterday, tempers were already calming.

Some of the perpetual internationalhysteria is stoked by the Pakistanis themselves. Successive governments have perfected the art of negotiating by pointing a gun to their own heads. They know that their nation’s strategic importance guarantees the financial life support they need from the international community. More broadly, our understanding of Pakistan is skewed. This is in part due to centuries of historical baggage. Though few would quote Emile Zola on contemporary France, Winston Churchill, who as a young man fought on the North-West Frontier, is regularly cited to explain today’s insurgency. This legacy also includes stereotypes of “Mad Mullahs” running amok, an image fuelled by television footage that highlights ranting demonstrators from Pakistan’s Islamist parties though they have never won more than 14% in an election.

After 2001  the Pakistanis advised the American not to get embroiled in the quicksand of AfPak. The US propelled by the Neocons wanted to teach the world a lesson–and wanted to dispel the notion that America was a Paper Tiger. President Bush threatened Pakistan and told President Musharraf that if he did not join the war against the “Taliban” Pakistan would be bombed back to the stone ages.

Pakistan acquiesced, and tried to guide the Americans into talking to the moderate elements of the Taliban, but the sane advice fell on deaf ears. The Neocons listened to the Indians and tried to bulldoze an American agenda “Made in Delhi“.

That agenda was followed up with one of the most comprehensive campaigns of disinformation and demonization of Pakistan. Pakistan could do not good. Pakistan faced overt bombings and covert operations. The lethal network of RAW, CIA and Afghan agents wreaked havoc with the Pakistan population. Even Vice President Biden confirmed the covert operations against Pakistan by refusing to talk about them on Face the Nation. He said “I Can’t talk about and won’t talk about it”. That is pretty much an admission of the sabotage carried on in Pakistan by the CIA. India’s multiple Consulates, information centers, and sub offices work in tandem to rain destruction on Pakistani cities.

For many Britons, Pakistan represents “the other” – chaotic, distant, exotic, dirty, hot, fanatical and threatening. Yet at the same time, Pakistan seems very familiar. There is the English language, cricket, kebabs and curries and figures such as Imran Khan. There are a million-odd Britons of Pakistani-descent who over four decades have largely integrated far better in the UK than often suggested.

It is the tension between these two largely imaginary Pakistans that leads to such strong reactions in Britain. We see the country as plunged in a struggle between the frighteningly foreign and the familiar, between fanaticism and western democracy, values, our vision of the world and how it should be ordered. Yet while we are fretting about Pakistan’s imminent disintegration, we are blind to the really important change.

Recent years have seen the consolidation of a new Pakistani identity between these two extremes. It is nationalist, conservative in religious and socialtermsandmuch more aggressive in asserting what are seen, rightly or wrongly, as local “Pakistani” interests. It is a mix of patriotic chauvinism and moderate Islamism that is currently heavily informed by a distorted view of the world sadly all too familiar across the entire Muslim world. This means that for many Pakistanis, the west is rapacious and hostile. Admiration for the British and desire for holidays in London have been replaced by a view of the UK as “America’s poodle” and dreams of Dubai or Malaysia. The 9/11 attacks are seen, even by senior army officers, as a put-up job by Mossad, the CIA or both. The Indians, the old enemy, are seen as running riot in Afghanistan where the Taliban are “freedom fighters”. AQKhan, the nuclear scientist seen as a bomb-selling criminal by the West, is a hero. Democracy is seen as the best system, but only if democracy results in governments that take decisions that reflect the sentiments of most Pakistanis, not just those of the Anglophone, westernised elite among whom western policy-makers, politicians and journalists tend to chose their interlocutors. The west can no longer afford to impose its values and notions of democracy on countries that neither want nor need them. Jason Burke The Observer, Sunday 15 March 2009 Article history

India has been unable to comprehend or appreciate Pakistani resilience either. In her mad rush towards “world power” status, it only sees Pakistan as an impediment to its growth beyond its borders. In its quest for hegemony in South Asia, it perpetuates the myth of failed states around her neighborhood. Thus Sikkim, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Maldives are all considered Failed States in the minds of the Indian media, think tanks and the temples. In Delhi speak this simply means that all the neighboring states should join “India” per the Hinduvata. This irridentist revanchist imperialism has been dubbed Hindu Ziionism.

Hindu Zionism has been defined in many different ways. It is the perpetual quest of the Hinduvata to acquire all lands from the Oxus (Amy Darya ) to the Brahmaputra and from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean. It does not end there–many have plans to take Akhand Bharat East of Bali to a mythical land called Raj Kalhani. Another facet of the Hindu Zionists to to bring about a U-Turn in Delhi’s foreign policy, abandon the Palestinians and support the religious claims of the Zionists of all lands from The Nile to the Euphrates. Narendra Modi, Adhvani, and others adhere and openly propagate the tirades of the Hinduvata which include both strains of the Hindu Zionists.Pakistan: Here we go again: Another prophecy of doom: The first one came in 1946

This view of the world is most common among the new, urban middle classes in Pakistan, much larger after a decade of fast and uneven economic growth. It is this class that provides the bulk of the country’s military officers and bureaucrats. This in part explains the Pakistani security establishment’s dogged support for elements within the Taliban. The infamous ISI spy agency is largely staffed by soldiers and the army is a reflection of society. For the ISI, as for many Pakistanis, supporting certain insurgent factions in Afghanistan is seen as the rational choice. If this trend continues, it poses us problems rather different from those posed by a failed state. Instead, you have a nuclear armed nation withalargepopulation that is increasingly vocal and which sees the world very differently from us.

We face a related problem in Afghanistan where we are still hoping to build the state we want the Afghans to want, rather than the state that they actually want. Ask many Afghans which state they hope their own will resemble in a few decades and the answer is “Iran”. Dozens of interviews with senior western generals, diplomats and officials in Kabul last week have shown me how deeply the years of conflict and “nation-building” have dented confidence in our ability to transplant western values. Our interest in Afghanistan has been reduced to preventing it from becoming a platform for threats to the west. In Afghanistan, as in Iraq, the west has glimpsed the limits to its power and to the supposedly universal attraction of its values.

The west’s dreams of a comfortable post-Cold War era have been rudely shaken. We have been forced reluctantly to accept the independence and influence of China and Russia. These are countries that we recognise as difficult international actors pursuing agendas popular with substantial proportions of their citizens. Other countries, particularly those less troubled than Pakistan or Afghanistan, are likely soon to join that list.

This poses a critical challenge in foreign policy. Worrying about the imminent collapse of Pakistan is not going to help us find answers to the really difficult questions that Pakistan poses. Our skewed world view won’t let us see the real Pakistan. The west can no longer afford to impose its values and notions of democracy on countries that neither want nor need them. Jason Burke The Observer, Sunday 15 March 2009

 Pakistani resilience is tried and tested. It cannot be defeated. The sooner the West realises this the sooner there will be peace in South Asia