British Prime Minister Gordon Brown

The Right Honorable Prime Minister of the United Kingdom made some silly statements about Osama Bin Laden and Pakistan. The false statements need to challenged with facts and refuted with the truth about the Hindu Kush. Either Mr. Brown was intoxicated when he was talking, or he has lost his senses. In either case he was pandering to the Indian lobby which had just hosted Premier Singh in London. Mr. Brown did not say much against Pakistan during the visit, so he used the next best opportunity to throw out some feelers.

Let us calmly look at the facts on the ground. Who has done more to fight the war on Terror. Can we count the number of British soldiers in Afghanistan. Compared to Pakistani casualties, the British casualties are negligible. Additionally British presence in Afghanistan means making deals with them so that they don’t attack those holding the Union Jack. The incompetence of NATO and ISAF is self-evident by the facts on the ground in Afghanistan–80% of the country is in the hands of the insurgents. Whose fault is that? With all the drones in the world, with the best technology on the planet, with aircraft, choppers, satellites, and no shortage of money–why is that the British hide in bunkers, and run to their bases every time the insurgents move forward.

The fathers of defeat and the sons of ineptitude have only one excuse to give to the taxpayers of British–they blame the terrain, the history, the dearth of manpower, and of course they blame Pakistan. In years gone by, they blamed Cambodia for their defeats in Vietnam. For their defeats in Korea they blamed China and even Russia. The blame game continues. July 2011

The sad thing about it is, that even after committing more than 50,000 soldiers (more soldiers than Britain), and even after losing 5000 soldiers in the battle (more than Britain), Mr. Gordon Brown chose this sensitive time to spew garbage out of his mouth and blame the Pakistanis for his own inadequacies.

The Pakistani Prime Minister is reaching London after his visit with Germany. He needs to rebut the charges. If Mr. Brown knows where Bin Laden is, why doesn’t he give the Pakistanis the coordinates of his whereabouts and then monitor the assault from the air. Forget the big names like Omar, why can’t Britain find the small guys. Why can’t Britain take back Afghanistan from the militants. Why can’t Britain hold any real amount of territory.

Refuting the British nonsense is easy and simple. The Prime Minister has an army of about 60 ministers in his cabinet. Some of the cabinet members are about to be dropped. One or more of the ministers can make outrageous and hard statements against Mr. Brown and the UK. Then the PM can take “retribution” against the ministers–who were about to be let go anyway.  The Peoples Party is a large party–there are hawks and doves in the party. Some of the hawks can be encouraged to rebut the Brown trope. Why did the government leave the responses to the Foreign Policy spokesman Mr. Basit.

The silence of PMLN is amazing. The most popular leader of Pakistan speaks only against Martial Law and dictatorships. Like Macbeth who constantly sees Banquo’s ghost haunting him, Mr. Sharif is still fighting the apparitions of Mr. Musharraf.  He should have a “Foreign Minister in waiting” who should be regularly refuting the Anti-Pakistan statements from within Pakistan and from abroad. He should have a “Defense Minister in waiting” who can discuss defense related issues with the foreigners when they visit Raiwind. But Mr. Sharif cannot or will not challenge the threats and the half-truths from aboard.

The people are watching the politicians who are quiet when foreign leaders threaten Pakistan.

The twitching of the Times, Guardian, the neurosis of the Washington Post and the hysterics of the Murdock media depict the depth of the UK delirium. Like an orchestra they, along with the Indians launched a  crazed campaign of comical panic at all frequencies of the audio and visual spectrum. The 5th column led by dawn.com chimed in. The ”Wage the war“ campaign steeped in a deep Pakistanphobic psychoneurosis was led by the vampires like Asma Jehangir, Ayaz Amir, Ikram Sehgal, Pervez Hoodbhoy and other character assassins of the creeping variety. Obituary of the Pakistani Media’s 5th column: Can the Anti-Pakistan dawn.com halt Dawn’s slide towards irrelevancy and catalepsy? Thirsty for blood, they created a scenario in which waging war was considered the only option. Peace with the TTP had to end. There could be no discussion with the “Taliban”.

There is an irony to this situation.

White man speaks with forked tongue.

While the UK and its acolytes in Islamabad were goading the Pakistan Army into taking out the TTP, the US itself was in deep negotiations with the Taliban. The negotiations were being held with Gulbaddin Hikmatyar and a plethora of other hard core Taliban who have been fighting the US occupation forces in Afghanistan.

Obviously what is good for the goose is not good for the gander.

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While negotiations with the TTP were considered Pakistani capitulation to the extremists, British peace deals with the Taliban were kept off the pages of the Guardian and even the Independent. While Fisk, Arnett, Morgolis and Leupp went hoarse describing the duplicity of London’s policy, the CNNs and Zakarias of the world took Pakistan to task for implementing the will of the people of Swat. it is mandatory for the Reapers to rain hellfire missiles on a demonized enemy in FATA,  but its OK to talk peace with the militants in Helmund and Khost.

Bomb them in Waziristan, America’s freedom depends on it. But talk to them in Zabul. Its OK!

So whats next in the saga of superpower incompetence, imperialistic hubris and UK exceptioanlism learning the limits of power? Like an alcoholic the US military machine cannot hear the cacophony of real voices about Afghanistan.

It is unable and unwilling to hear the facts of life in Afghanistan. Selective Amnesia of Americans: Pakistan is the most mistreated friend in the world. Like a cheating spouse the State Department keeps secrets which come back to bite them. Like a pathological liars the think tanks are unwilling to hear the truth about the Hindu Kush.

Like a drunker sailor in a catatonic stupor the Mr. Brown rushes from pillar to post making eloquent speeches which have no bearing to reality. Half the Indian Army is poised in Kashmir. Several armored and infantry division are arrayed along the Pakistan border. The IAF has squadrons of Migs and SUs at forward air bases in Ambala, Adampur, and Jamnagar. India occupied Siachin while Pakistanis was busy defeating the USSR in the 80s. In 2002 Bharat placed more than a million men on the Pakistani border threatening all out war. If Mr. Brown has selective amnesia, she may remember that in 2008 Bharat threatened war on Pakistan and brought out Steven Cohen’s Cold Start Strategy. It was Pakistani nukes that kept them at bay. Pakistani fears about Bharat are real and it will never leave its border exposed to the Saffron Brigades bent upon creating the ephemeral Akhand Bharat that extends from Kabul to Raj Kalhani (a mythical land East of Bali, Indonesia).

The think tanks have an agenda. That is apparent to all except the 5th column in their payroll.

“This is not our war”: Imran Khan on Prosaic delivers rare positive message & debunks Afghan war myths. Washington and London cannot hear the voices of sanity coming out of Islamabad. Pakistan told them in 2001 not to invade Kabul–that would only stir up the hornet’s nest. The Pakistani administration offered to station 5000 Marines who would raid Afghanistan and nab Osama Bin Laden.  The arrogance of power disallowed sanity to prevail. It is content in hiring the likes of Pervez  Hoodbhoy and Ikram Sehgal who make up history sitting in their living rooms.

They hire “historians” to write books on politics using authors from open admission universities in Pakistan. Ahmed Rashid, a darling of the West can only spell “Taliban”. His office in the Quaid e Azam University cannot even teach history to his own students. Today his book has been read by General Petraeus who is eager to read what supports his point of view.  Afghanistan fiasco: Cleaning up the Am-Brit failures in Kabul again. Instead of listening to Shireen Mazari and Imran Khan, they are listening to the Hoodbhoy trope. Instead of reading Roedad Khan, they are reading the claptrap of Asma Gilani. Instead of hearing the voices of the Jamat e Islami, they are tuned in to the US Ambassador’s favorite cherry picked NGOs. There is something wrong with this picture. “They” ignore the resolutions of the National Assembly and place their cards in the hands of “analysts” that they can purchase for a Pound and a day trip to London.