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Ambadekarism is the antithesis of Gandhism.  Dr. Ambadekar was one of the greatest leaders of South Asia. He was a protege of Mohmmad Ali Jinnah who advised him to ask for Separate Electorates for the Dalits. He did, and under pressure from Jinnah, the British acquiesced to the demand. However Mr. Mohandas Gandhi was one of the biggest prponents of the caste system. He opposed Ambadekar tooth and nail, and even went on a hunger strike against the proposal to grant the Dalits–what would have amounted to liberation. Dr. Ambadekar was threatened from all quarters, and pressured into withdrawing his demand for separate electorate. Gandhi won, and the Dalits remain enslaved in Bharat. 450 million Dalits, untouchables and scheduled class residents of Bharat live in penury. According to the Hindu, Dr Ambadekar is the only national leader who does not have a memorial.

Dr. B.R. Ambedkar (1893-1956). Born and raised as an untouchable, Dr. Ambedkar received his masters and Ph.D. from Columbia University, which later on also conferred upon him the Doctor of Law. Dr. Ambedkar also received a D.Sc. degree from London School of Economics, and the Bar-at-Law from the Grays Inn, London. Suffice to say, Dr. Ambedkar’s sharp intellect has provided us an insight into Gandhi, some of which we will like to share with you all. We recommend the following:1. Nichols, Beverley. Verdict on India. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1944.

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The lack of the monument says a lot about the lack of respect for the Dalits in Bharat.

• Chandrakant Bhandhare, a government employee and Ambedkarite, who filed an RTI on February 23, 2011, had asked the Urban Development Ministry, the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), and the Ministry of Home Affairs for details on the policy of granting land for Rajghat and memorials of national leaders in New Delhi and other areas in the country.
• “Why is there no memorial 56 years after Dr. Ambedkar’s death? Isn’t he a national leader? When I asked for information, I got a list of 14 national leaders who have memorials. There is no mention of Babasaheb in that list,” Mr. Bhandhare told The Hindu.
• He asked if Dr. Ambedkar, who was posthumously conferred the Bharat Ratna in 1990, was considered a national leader and if the government had any plans of allocating land for a national memorial of the Rajghat type for him in New Delhi and Mumbai.
• The CPWD said that Dr. Ambedkar was a national leader, but did not say anything on building a memorial for him.
• In a reply dated April 5, 2011, it gave the names and location of memorials dedicated to 14 national leaders — Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Lal Bahadur Shastri, Indira Gandhi, Sanjay Gandhi, Rajiv Gandhi, Charan Singh, Zail Singh, Jagjivan Ram, Devi Lal, K.R. Narayanan, Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, the former Prime Minister, Chandra Shekhar and the former President, Shankar Dayal Sharma.

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A book we highly recommend. Beverley Nichols, a famous novelist, musician, playwright, essayist, reporter, and a journalist visited British India. During this visit, he met Dr. Ambedkar, who told him:

“Gandhi is the greatest enemy the untouchables have ever had in India.”

In 1922, Mr. Gandhi was a defender of the caste system. Pursuing the inquiry, one comes across a somewhat critical view of the caste system by Mr. Gandhi in the year 1925. This is what Mr. Gandhi said on 3rd February 1925:

I gave support to caste because it stands for restraint. But at present caste does not mean restraint, it means limitations. Restraint is glorious and helps to achieve freedom. But limitation is like chain. It binds. There is nothing commendable in castes as they exist to-day. They are contrary to the tenets of the Shastras. The number of castes is infinite and there is a bar against intermarriage. This is not a condition of elevation. It is a state of fall.

In reply to the question: What is the way out? Mr. Gandhi said:

The best remedy is that small castes should fuse themselves into one big caste. There should be four big castes so that we may reproduce the old system of four Varnas.

In short, in 1925 Mr. Gandhi became an upholder of the Varna system.

The old Varna system prevalent in ancient India had the society divided into four orders: (1) Brahmins,whose occupation was learning; (2) Kshatriyas, whose occupation was warfare; (3) Vaishyas, whose occupation was trade and (4) Shudras,whose occupation was service of the other classes. Is Mr. Gandhi’s Varna system the same as this old Varna system of the orthodox Hindus?

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Beverley Nichols says “In Gandhism, the common man has no hope. It treats man as an animal and no more. The ideas which go to make up Gandhism are just primitive. The economics of Gandhism are hopelessly fallacious. Gandhism may well be well suited to a society which does not accept democracy as its ideal. Gandhism insists upon class structure. It regards the class structure of society and also the income structure as sacrosanct with the consequent distinctions of rich and poor, high and low, owners and workers, as permanent parts of social organization. From the point of view of social consequences, nothing can be more pernicious…. It is not enough to say that Gandhism believes in a class structure. Gandhism stands for more than that. A class structure which is a faded, jejune, effete thing–a mere sentimentality, a mere skeleton is not what Gandhism wants. It wants class structure to function as a living faith. In this there is nothing to be surprised at. For, class structure in Gandhism is not a mere accident. It is its official doctrine. The idea of trusteeship, which Gandhism proposes as a panacea and by which the moneyed classes will hold their properties in trust for the poor, is the most ridiculous part of it.”

Beverly dissects Gandhi’s inner thoughts with proof:

“The Shudra who only serves (the higher caste) as a matter of religious duty, and who will never own any property, who indeed has not even the ambition to own anything, is deserving of thousand obeisance…The very Gods will shower flowers on him.

Another illustration in support is the attitude of Gandhism towards the scavenger. The sacred law of the Hindus lays down that a scavenger’s progeny shall live by scavenging. Under Hinduism scavenging was not a matter of choice, it was a matter of force. What does Gandhism do? It seeks to perpetuate this system by praising scavenging as the noblest service to society! Let me quote Mr. Gandhi: As a President of a Conference of the Untouchables, Mr. Gandhi said:

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I do not want to attain Moksha. I do not want to be reborn. But if I have to be reborn, I should be born an untouchable, so that I may share their sorrows, sufferings and the affronts levelled at them, in order that I endeavor to free myself and them from that miserable condition. I, therefore prayed that if I should be born again, I should do so not as a Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya, or Shudra, but as an AtiShudra…. I love scavenging. In my ashram, an eighteen-years-old Brahmin lad is doing the scavenger’s work in order to teach the ashram scavenger cleanliness. The lad is no reformer. He was born and bred in orthodoxy…. But he felt that his accomplishments were incomplete until he had become also a perfect sweeper, and that, if he wanted the ashram sweeper to do his work well, he must do it himself and set an example. You should realize that you are cleaning Hindu Society.

Can there be a worse example of false propaganda than this attempt of Gandhism to perpetuate evils which have been deliberately imposed by one class over another? If Gandhism preached the rule of poverty for all and not merely for the Shudra the worst that could be said about it is that it is mistaken idea. But why preach it as good for one class only?”

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There is a reason why Bharat cannot allow a national momument to Dr. Ambadekar. He is a Dalit!

• The Urban Development Ministry gave a vague reply with only details of Rajghat to which 89 acres was allotted in 1978, and about some land allotted for Indira Gandhi‘s memorial. The Ministry of Home Affairs said it had no information on the matter.
• In 2002, the then Maharashtra Chief Minister, Vilasrao Deshmukh, headed a committee which decided on a four-phase development of a memorial for Dr. Ambedkar. But matters came to standstill after that.
• Republican Party of India (RPI) activists have been demanding a memorial for Dr. Ambedkar and last year things picked up momentum with the Congress and the Nationalist Congress Party trying to outdo each other with their fervour for a memorial.
• The demand became vociferous from all parties before elections to the local bodies got under way in December. In the winter session of the Legislature, both Houses, which witnessed a ruckus over this issue, decided that the entire Indu Mills land must be given up for the memorial.
• Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had promised the entire 12.5 acres of Indu Mills land for a memorial for Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar in Dadar. In December 2011, the Prime Minister approved in principle the demand. An all-party delegation led by Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan met him in this connection.
• The Indu Mills is located near Chaityabhoomi at Shivaji Park, where the Buddhist Society of India has dedicated a memorial to Dr. Ambedkar, visited by lakhs of his followers every year.
• A secretary-level committee will decide the formalities of the handover of the land, possessed by the National Textile Corporation. The land was to be handed over by January 31.

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Mr. Gandhi’s views on the caste system–which constitutes the main social problem in India–were fully elaborated by him in 1921-22 in a Gujrati journal called Nava-Jivan. The article is written in Gujrati. I give below an English translation of his views as near as possible in his own words. Says Mr. Gandhi:

1. I believe that if Hindu Society has been able to stand it is because it is founded on the caste system.
2. The seeds of swaraj are to be found in the caste system. Different castes are like different sections of miliary division. Each division is working for the good of the whole….
3. A community which can create the caste system must be said to possess unique power of organization.
4. Caste has a ready made means for spreading primary education. Each caste can take the responsibility for the education of the children of the caste. Caste has a political basis. It can work as an electorate for a representative body. Caste can perform judicial functions by electing persons to act as judges to decide disputes among members of the same caste. With castes it is easy to raise a defense force by requiring each caste to raise a brigade.
5. I believe that interdining or intermarriage are not necessary for promoting national unity. That dining together creates friendship is contrary to experience. If this was true there would have been no war in Europe…. Taking food is as dirty an act as answering the call of nature. The only difference is that after answering call of nature we get peace while after eating food we get discomfort. Just as we perform the act of answering the call of nature in seclusion so also the act of taking food must also be done in seclusion.
6. In India children of brothers do not intermarry. Do they cease to love because they do not intermarry? Among the Vaishnavas many women are so orthodox that they will not eat with members of the family nor will they drink water from a common water pot. Have they no love? The caste system cannot be said to be bad because it does not allow interdining or intermarriage between different castes.
7. Caste is another name for control. Caste puts a limit on enjoyment. Caste does not allow a person to transgress caste limits in pursuit of his enjoyment. That is the meaning of such caste restrictions as interdining and intermarriage.
8. To destroy caste system and adopt Western European social system means that Hindus must give up the principle of hereditary occupation which is the soul of the caste system. Hereditary principle is an eternal principle. To change it is to create disorder. I have no use for a Brahmin if I cannot call him a Brahmin for my life. It will be a chaos if every day a Brahmin is to be changed into a Shudra and a Shudra is to be changed into a Brahmin.
9. The caste system is a natural order of society. In India it has been given a religious coating. Other countries not having understood the utility of the caste system, it existed only in a loose condition and consequently those countries have not derived from caste system the same degree of advantage which India has derived. These being my views I am opposed to all those who are out to destroy the caste system.

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Dr. Ambedkar joined the Indian National Congress at the behest of Tilak and Jinnah. He was however unable to convince Mohandas Gandhi about abolishment of Untouchability. He wrote the Bharati consitution, but the best parts of it that granted the Dalits equality were taken out by Nehru. He died a broken man saying that his biggest blunder was giving in to Gandhi’s fake fast–Ambedkar retreated from his demand for separate electorate for the Dalits, even after the British had approved the measure. As a result of his blunder the 450 million Dalits, Untouchables, Scheduled classes, and Tribals today remain enslaved.

The BSP in 2010 slammed the Congress for omitting Bhimrao Ambedkar’s contribution in a booklet issued to commemorate its 125 years, saying the party’s “anti-dalit mentality” and “fake love” for the community have been exposed.

“There is no mention of the contributions made by Dr Ambedkar, dalit leader Babu Jagjeevan Ram and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad in the booklet released by Congress on completing 125 years of its foundation,” BSP state president Swami Prasad Maurya said in a statement issued here.

Even if the monument is ever built, it would be a rallying cry for the bigots of the BJP and the racists of the VHP and the BJP.

Keywords: B.R. Ambedkar, Ambedkar memorial, RTI plea, Maharashtra memorials

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According to an AP report, a senior European diplomat who held discussions with leaders of Pakistan has learned that it plans to attack any nation that launches a military operation against Iran.

The European diplomat quoted Pakistani officials saying “If Iran is attacked; we have no alternative but to launch a reprisal attack”. It remains to be soon, who the Pakistani official was, and what his ranking was. Pakistan over the years has taken steps not to antagonize Israal. While supporting the Palestianins, Islamabad has not antagonized Tel Aviv.

The Yeshiva World, an Israeli newspaper says “This latest threat adds to the many considerations that must be weighed in Yerushalayim as Iran continues forging ahead towards nuclear independence, significantly complicating the situation for decision makers in Yerushalayim.”

Nasir Naseer says “That policy of Pakistan (to retaliate any attack against Iran) is not new. A few years ago when there was a lot of hype of Israel attacking Iran, the former dictator Musharraf issued a similar threat to force Israelis desist from their evil plan. Israelis, on their part, have been building a deep strategic alliance with India against the Muslim world in general and Pakistanis in particular. While Pakistan cannot go and start cooperating with Israel’s Arab enemies (mostly because those Arab regimes are insincere dictators) to return Israeli mischief in the same coin, Pakistan would certainly not allow Israelis to destabilize this region by attacking Iran. They’ll pay a price dearly for any misadventure.”

If this news story is true–and it seems unlikely, this would be a major departure from the norm. The US is already embroiled in Afghanistan, and desperate to get out–another war would be difficult to fathom

Pakistan is the 5th largest Nuclear power in the world with a million man army, and reserves which number 250,000 trained soldiers. In addition it has access to about 5 million armed citizens that can make any army think again. It is obvious that an attack on Iran would be a prelude to an attack on Pakistan. Tehran supported the US in the seventies, and allowed the US to use its airspace when it was occupying Afghanistan. However Islamabad has taken a high road. According to an YWN the Pakistani official has made a statement which amounts to a threat. Such a dramatic change in Pakistani policy would be hard to imagine–even though Israel is Delhi’s best buddy has has made several moves to harm Pakistan.

YWN further adds “Another European diplomat on Sunday, 12 Shevat 5772 warned that if Israel or any country attacks Iran, it may lead to regional conflict, the daily HaMevaser reports. Such a reality would worsen the global economic crisis and may possible lead to the collapse of the EU and the euro.”

Iran’s Vice President for International Affairs Ali Seedlou.

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• We are now acquiring (ultra light) guns through FMS (Foreign Military Sales) route (from the US),’ Kapoor added

Bharat is now the world’s largest arms importer with plans to spend $100 billion on weapons over the next decade. However this colossal expenditure makes it no closer to self-sufficiency in any of the arms that it has purchased.

The Flying Coffin, the MiG-21 is still in use, a red flag about the painfully slow defense procurement procedures can come up with new hardware faster than old equipment is sent to the scrap heap. According to Bharati media, Russia delivered the nuclear submarine INS Chakra on a 10-year lease at the end of last month, eight years after India first asked for it.

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Cover of The Jefferson Bible

1. George Washington was nominally an Anglican but was really a Diest. He used Deistic terms–“supreme architect” He didn’t accept all Christian dogma, especially Trinity and Resurrection.“The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation,” wrote Washington. “All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship. It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the Government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection, should demean themselves as good citizens.”

2. John Adams was a confirmed Unitarian who also rejected Trinity and the refuted the divinity of Jesus which he found incomprehensible.

In February 1756, Adams wrote in his diary “…mystery is made a convenient cover for absurdity.” As president, Adams signed the famous Treaty of Tripoli, which boldly stated, “[T]he government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian Religion….”

3. Thomas Jefferson said “I am a sect by myself, as far as I know.” who observed to Adams, “And the day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter.”

Jefferson admired Jesus as a moral teacher and edited the New Testament, cutting away the stories of miracles and divinity and leaving behind a very human Jesus, whose teachings Jefferson found “sublime.” This “Jefferson Bible” is a remarkable document – and it would ensure his political defeat today. (Imagine the TV commercials the Religious Right would run: Thomas Jefferson hates Jesus! He mutilates Bibles!)

Jefferson was confident that a coolly rational form of religion would take root in the fertile intellectual soil of America. He once predicted that just about everyone would become Unitarian. (Despite his many talents, the man was no prophet.) The belief is very close to that of Islam Jefferson owned a copy of the Quran. When he lost it, he got another one sent to him from the Middle East. This was not a mundane or easy task in those day.

4. James Madison, Jefferson’s close ally was nominally Anglican, but many of his biographers believe, that he was really a Deist.

5. Thomas Paine. Paine never held elective office, his pamphlet “The American Crisis” be read aloud to the Continental Army as a morale booster on Dec. 23, 1776. “Common Sense” was similarly popular with the people. Paine was also a radical Deist whose later work, The Age of Reason, still infuriates fundamentalists. Paine attacked institutionalized religion and all of the major tenets of Christianity. He rejected prophecies and miracles and called on readers to embrace reason. The Bible, Paine asserted, can in no way be infallible. He called the god of the Old Testament “wicked” and the entire Bible “the pretended word of God.”

Many consider Deism very close to Islam. The concept of Unity of God, rejection of Trinity (shirk), and belief in Jesus as a man are basic tenants of Islam.

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American and Indian assets that were used to destabilise and cajole Pakistan into a confrontation with the real Taliban are being extinguished and the chase is on. There is no longer any co-ordination or steady flow of supplies since the NATO supply lines have been shut down for these terrorists known to the world as Tereek-e-Taliban, the TTP or deliberately coined by the Indians as Pakistani Taliban to make the association between Pakistan and Taliban. The concept was very simple to show the world the Taliban movement has backfired on Pakistan and Pakistan must be forced to take action against the Pakthun areas and hence leading to a bloody civil war. Pakistani Pakthuns have supported Pakistan army and offered armed resistance to extinguish this foreign threat hence why Pakistani Army has not engaged against its own citizens as was the Americana nd Indian intention.

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The TTP are a ruthless mercenary criminal outfit with escaped convicts and paid hired guns used to kill Pakistanis enlisted from within Afghanistan and as far as Tajikistan, Uzbekistan also. In their zenith in 2008, the Tereek-e-Taliban were very co-ordinated through blackwater / Xe and financed and funded by outside intelligence agencies operating from within Afghanistan. One of which was the Indian RAW that thought to recreate a Bangladesh model yet again inside Pakistan by inciting a civil war between different groups inside Pakistan against Punjabis with aims to dismember Pakistan’s Baloch and North Western Pakthun regions. Back then even American generals were discussing how Islamabad is at threat and the TTP were weeks away from entering Islamabad (they obviously had relevant inside information on TTP’s plans and agenda) but the rhetoric was far more venomous inside India.

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India was actually eulogising the TTP and the idea of a greater Pashtunistan and felt another 1971 style terror nest was about to give birth to a new Bangladesh model this time by dividing the Pakthuns and Balochis from Pakistan. As I and rupee news have said it was near impossible to infiltrate Pakthuns especially those in Pakistan by India especially if it was an anti Pakistan agenda unlike the 80,000 Hindu terrorists from Indian Bengal used to infiltrate East Pakistan between 1968 – 1971 to incite and create the unfortunate events leading to the division and creation of Bangladesh. The American NY times square bomber was also linked to the TTP a thankfully averted black ops led by nefarious intelligence agencies to discredit Pakistan and force them to engage in a conflict with Afghan Taliban who have never posed a threat to Pakistan. Blackwater ops led by the likes of Raymond Davis have since been rounded up and sent packing and a marked reduction in indiscriminate bombings has been witnessed inside Pakistan. Today the TTP no longer have safe havens inside Afghanistan as America grapples to stop the insurgency of Afghan National Resistance led by the Afghan Taliban – the real Taliban. A halt of NATO supply lines where weapons used to arm TTP has been devastating for the TTP and today they are very much on the run.

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On Wednesday 1st February 2012, The strikes targeted four compounds run by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan in Orakzai district.The past week has seen an upsurge in clashes – with at least 80 people dead – as the spring fighting season draws near. Warplanes and helicopter gunships were involved in the latest round of fighting according to a senior military official in the north-western city of Peshawar. “The Pakistan Air Force engaged four targets in Sheikhan and Samana Bazar at midnight,” he said. “More than 20 militants were killed. ”He added that a senior local commander, Moin ud Din, may have been killed in the bombing. America has also recently announced it seeks to end the conflict in Afghanistan which will also come as a blow to the mercenaries of TTP that are paid to incite and commit terror inside Pakistan and so I predict a truth in the horizon minus one Hakimullah Mehsud who is beyond any reconciliation for any Pakistani.

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On hearing the news what is left of the Indian consulates that were scattered along the Pakistan – Afghan border will be packing up to leave in a hurry because who better knows history of the regions then the sons of Somnath when faced by the sons of Adbdali and Ghauri. It is understandable why Obama made the decision, the war was dead locked, the real Taliban under the Afghan National Resistance want no reconciliation without a real tangible promise that The USA will leave in 2014. I will be surprised if America get their way and are allowed to maintain 4 US military bases in Afghanistan post 2014 date. The Indian agenda as eloquently pushed by the likes of Mr Cohen and Mr Blackwill has been seen for what it is. Afghans and Pakthuns especially have lived up to their legendary reputation but at a cost and rightly deserve repatriations from the NATO states who are now signalling China and Arab states to clean up their mess. India cringes, NATO wipes the sweat on her forehead and American GI’s are sighing relief and Israel will be sulking but the world is hopeful and the region real stakeholders are jubilant.

After hearing the manner of horrifying massacres and executions by the ISAF forces in Afghanistan – The Afghans are happy to greet the Taliban back. The PNAC has failed abismally but the region is in tatters to the benefit of Israel, India, Europe and USA. Tatters not beyond return and I sincerely hope the pieces are picked up and the regional real key stakeholders can come together as the road will be long and tough. Remember America has signalled her direct involvement in conflict is over it does not mean she will not be in the shadows pulling strings and it certainly does not mean the conflict is over. Scores will be settled, Afghanistan will need to be purged of the political assassins and their militias. India will find it hard to arm and finance the Tajiks, Uzbeks and re-engage the criminal Northern Alliance because such designs should not be welcomed by Russia, Tajikistan, Iran. Let us pray Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, China, Iran, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia work to unite the brave Afghans and help bring this once vastly beautiful nation back to her feet. It may take another decade but as long as these nations work under a common cause that will benefit all and help make Central Asia a viable, strategic, economic, progressive block –  I hope a decade from 2014 we can once more travel and explore the beautiful breath taking scenery across Afghanistan but also north west Pakistan.

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The foundation stone is built by the Gomal University in the honor of Zulfi Bhutto of Pakistan.. Image via Wikipedia

General Hamid Gul said that the first line of defense of Pakistan is the ISI. He said that the politicians are out to destroy the first line of defense. General Gul Hasan was arrested by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. General Tikka Khan took over and began to assert himself. General Hamid Gul said the the feudal mindset wants to own the army. He said that it was not possible. Mr. Sharif was the progeny of General Iqbal. General Hamid Gul said that he has never visited the ISI office and he has not been in contact with the DGISI.

General Hamid Gul said that he will not allow the NATO forces to use Pakistani roads. He said that in the end game the army will not take over the government. However it will not allow the “compromise”. He said that the Supreme Court has been a real let down. He said that the Supreme Court has been compromised.

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Special Ops trooper on a clearing operation in Chak district, Wardak province, Afghanistan (Photo credit: AN HONORABLE GERMAN)

Afghan on the verge of defeating another Superpower. More Special Ops, fewer troops in

Afghanistan. The artificially designed state called “Afghanistan” was organized to separate major powers in 1893. Today it is a battleground between US intentions to sequester China, contain Pakistan,  attack Iran, and control the energy resources of Central Asia. Imperial Hubris, and continental overeach, a bankrupt economy and a $4 Trillion bill has brought the “Plan for a New American Century” to face the “Graveyard of Empire.”

Brahma Challaney writing for the Japan Times calls it “surge, bribe and run.” He correclty identifies the stage of the war  “The U.S.-led military mission has now entered the ‘run’ part, or what euphemistically is being called the ‘transition to 2014′ — the year Obama arbitrarily chose as the deadline to wind down all NATO combat operations.”

As the US plans it s retreat another 22,000 troops are expected to leave by this fall. Surely, for those of us who watch the scenery carefully– this does not come as “breaking news”

Mark Thompson writing for CBS news concurs “But the bottom line is clear: the U.S. is eyeing the exits and accelerating the process to depart. This should come as scant surprise.”

According to reports emanating from sites that usually quote US military sources the Special Ops (JSOC, Green Berets etc.) the US plans to keep the Special Ops forces could remain in the country well after the NATO mission ends in late 2014. If wishes had wings and horses would fly!

The authors of a recently published Nato report says “Afghan civilians frequently prefer Taliban governance over Giroa [Government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan] usually as a result of government corruption, ethnic bias and lack of connection with local religious and tribal leaders.”

Max Boot, a right wing military analyst who sits on the board at the CFR (Council on Foreign Relations)–a right wing Think Tank states the obvious “Only in some alternative universe is this a winning strategy…in the world we actually inhabit it is a recipe for a slow-motion—or maybe not so slow—catastrophe.”

It is very hard for the US military to accept defeat and withdraw from the graveyard of empires. President Barack Obama has to approves what the army wants. In the past he has acquiesced to whatever the generals have asked for. In fact the Afghan and Pakistan policy is run by the Pentagon, not the State Department. The last time Mr. Obama accepted the military’s demands was when he sent in 32,000 more troops to wage an intensive, costly, and according to most, a futile counterinsurgency effort.

Patrick Cockburn, who usually writes for his own website “Counterpunch” describes the US dilemma An American success in Afghanistan was impossible once the Pakistan army had decided to give full backing to a return of the Taliban. The US faced the same strategic weakness as the Soviet army during its Afghan campaign..”

In an interested article written by Rob of Reuters “A secret NATO report showing the strength of confidence among the Afghan Taliban is raising concerns from Kabul to Washington that the militant group might overrun the country again when foreign combat forces finally leave.”   It is thus inevitable that the Talibs will take over the Afghan territory. The Green Beret’s can murder Afghan leaders, but this will not affect the tide of the Talibs.

According to the Pentagon’s wishes:

• The U.S. conventional forces will withdraw first from Afghanistan.
• Thousands of U.S. Special Operations forces will remain–their number may even grow.
• President Hamid Karzai and his acolytes want the US to continue what they call “counter-terrorism missions and training”. The extent of Mr. Karzai’s control of events in 2014 is much in doubt.

This should be of special concern to Pakistan because many of these operations conducted by elite commando teams within Special Operations forces conduct their raids to capture or militants near or across the border.

Challaney says “The central aim is to cut a deal with the Taliban — even if Afghanistan and the region pay a heavy price — so that the United States and its NATO partners exit the “Graveyard of Empires” without losing face. This effort to withdraw as part of a political settlement without admitting defeat is being dressed up as a ‘reconciliation’ process, with Qatar, Germany and Britain getting lead roles to help facilitate a U.S.-Taliban deal.”

The US estimates that the Talibs number 25,000, and the intelligence services base their strategy based on that number. For those who are familiar with the terrain, understand that the real strength of the Talibs are the Afghans who get their training in the ANR and then work with the Talibs at night. The 250,000 ANR is a pipe-dream which has yet to materialize. Very few analysts believe that the Anti-Talib war can be outsourced to the ANR. The ANR budget is $150 million which dwarfs to the $500 billion spent on US forces in Afghanistan.

Patrick Cockburn writing for the Independent says “Coming after the French decision to go early, the US move looks like part of a panicky rush for the exit. More important, Afghans like to bet on winners, and the US action will convince many that these are increasingly likely to be the Taliban and Pakistan rather than the Afghan government. No wonder Nato officials looked so anxious as they pretended that the US action had not come as a nasty surprise.”

Unable to hold villages or large areas, the regular forces will leave the Hindu Kush. As expected the US defense secretary, Leon Panetta, last week announced that U.S. forces would step end combat missions by mid-2013. The transfer of these operations to the so called Afghan National Army (ANR) is a fig leaf to hide the fact that neither Washington, nor Brussels can hold Afghan territory.

The US has about 92,000 troops in the artificial state called “Afghanistan”, after the withdrawal of 22,000 by September,  the 68,000 will face a dramatic reduction by the summer of 2013.

While Pentagon officials are tight lipped about the rates of withdrawal–the ANR attacks on NATO forces are surely having an affect on the allies. France is chagrined that its soliders are killed by ANR guys in uniform–who apparently are Talibs-by-night.

Cockburn is right when he says that “The US has failed in Afghanistan and the Taliban will become stronger. “ Sandy Gall in his book “War Against the Taliban” describes the Anglo-US defeat in detail.

Qatar, that city emirate that attempts to masquerade as a real country, is being used as a fulcrum to insulate the Taliban negotiators from Pakistani and Saudi pressures. Challaney points to some real facts “Qatar’s financial contributions to regime change in Libya and its current involvement in fomenting a Sunni insurrection in Alawite-ruled Syria, the last remaining beacon of secularism in an increasingly Islamist-oriented Arab world”.

There is some over-reach here. Doha can host the headquarters of Al-Jazeera, but Doha cannot control events in Afghanistan. If Qatar pushes its luck, the backlash may put the Emirs in planes where they might not want to be. American attempts to bypass Pakistan in the peace negotiations have been a colossal and comical failure. They have been unable to find the real Talibs, and were caught discussing details with importers who were in it for the money. This has happened about three times in the past few months.

The US retreat from the Hindu Kush is welcome news for a resurgent Moscow, a weary Beijing, and frightened Tehran, and a increasingly belligerent Pakistan. Mr. Obama’s horrid policies have antagonized all major players in Central Asia. His drone bombings have transformed a pro-American ally into an Anti-American wave.

“Afghan defeated one Superpower, and by the grace of God will defeat another”: General Hamid Gul.

Pakistan is expected to join the SCO in the next few weeks. This is start the transformation of the entire area into an inhospitable arena for US interests. Only Mr. Obama and his bad policies are to blame for the fiasco in Afghanistan. The Afghan defeat will always be remembered as one which happened under the watch of one called Barack Obama.

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"Importance of Being Hafiz Saeed" (Photo credit: Truthout.org)

A new phenomenon emerging in Pakistan is the metamorphosis of most of militant organizations into a unified activist force which may become political. General Hamid Gul seems to be the instigator of this new organization called the Defense of Pakistan Council (DFC).

The organization is opposed to the NATO supply lines and promises to defend Pakistan. The DFC

Discussion of th religious parties.

Interview of Hafiz Saeed defends his case for his party and said that Hindus and Christians attended the rally.

In Bharat fringe organizations like the RSS and the BJP transformed themselves into political parties and then actually went to win the elections in several Bharati states and also the center. At one point the BJP had a majority in parliament. The same type of “big tent” policy of the Indian National Congress moved the INC to the right. With the inclusion of hawks like Patel there was no place for moderates like Jinnah or Tilak in the party.

This new phenomenon will change Pakistani politics. Right now the media is totally owned by those who call themselves “leftist” (even though they are actually rightists, are aligned with the USA and are not aligned with Moscow or Beijing). The right is not aligned with the USA.

This new force may cut into the vote bank of Mr. Imran Khan, even though he himself support the DFC.

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I agree credit needs to go to rupee news, the team at rupee news have eloquently reported much related to this horrible war. A war that will soon be no longer be part of our present but our past. I hope that history recognise it for its futility but also horrors. Absolutely right on the mark by http://www.rupeenews.com many envisaged a quick retreat to the barracks and onto the choppers – Vietnam style. Many indicated this but rupee news I believe were the ones who said 2013 will be when America ends the war and by 2014 the napak feranghees would have all but gone bar those left as a show piece to glorify their success. I doubt the Talibs have agreed to reconciliation with Americans and who can blame them for not trusting them. The Talibs must have asked for something tangible that the foreign invaders will leave in 2014 for any movement. If Talibs did not agree to reconciliation of some sort the American boots based on the bravado and nonsensical statements of Bush, Rumsfeld and Co still echoing in our ears – America could not leave Afghanistan for another decade. A growing sense of American economic demise, a lack of resources, lack of support, no regional support for sustained presence bar The Injuns and absolute zero troop morale. Faced with a high morale amongst the Afghan National Resistance would have been a guerrilla war no superpower wants especially for another decade.

American presence in the vicinity of the Persian and Arabian Gulf was only emboldening the loony squad in Tel Aviv to extend the war into Iran, Pakistan, Syria. Americans with a brain know just how much power these lobbies yield in the corridors of Capitol Hill. China’s surprise response against any attack on Pakistan was an attack on China rattled a few crazed gung ho cowboy generals. The Russians very assertive over any attack on Syria and Iran for that matter and the rising influence of the SCO with Pakistan and Iran as signatories had the makings of a call of duty – world at war video game saga. Americans placed a poor third world nation on a pedestal, they and Europe marketed, increased trade and in return this pauper promised Pakistan’s head on a spear and China on its knees but that pauper turned prince failed to deliver on so many levels. Israel felt it had the green light and which it did under the Neocons to expand its reign of terror. The Neocons supporting the Zionists massacred Palestinians that will forever lingering the minds of all who witnessed this for a long time. Israel thought long and hard over expanding its war into Lebanon with this megalomaniac and archaic policy of destroying Syria, Iran and monopolising across this whole block from Gaza to Pakistan.

In the end it was a colossal failure of the Project for the New American Century and they have come about turn. Israel feels more alone, isolated and threatened than ever. Egypt’s tyrannical pro American dictators struggle to hold back the people who seek real governance and their Islamic identity represented. Libya in time will see a massive change once the pro-European cohorts are distinguished.

Pakistan has survived every threat possible, misinformation wars, co-ordinated organised terror manufactured from outside, secured its borders and increased its stature from Russia to Iran / Middle East but also Asia Pacific. The Taliban too are coming back and the rats are running or holding white flags to greet them and we sincerely hope the Taliban can be progressive with real regional support this time around. So the Universe is balancing out, chaos theory brought by the Bush crusade is cancelling out and while the road is difficult peace and hope can once more be a reality in the old world. I would like to leave this final word, it began in Kabul and it will end in Qabul – why so many great historians and leaders have described Qabul to Qandahar the centre of the world.

But what a full circle with The Taliban coming back and in the end “supposedly” say it was Osama bin Laden it poignant to write in the end he was killed in a seek and capture or kill mission. Such a mission could have easily been done 10 years ago even if it took a decade without the wanton destruction and massacre in Afghanistan and extension into Iraq under a pretext a blatant lie. So Central Asia is back where it was 10 years ago, the pipelistan of networks have been agreed, contracts signed and deals made. Russia wishes a more responsible role in Central Asia, China is dragon that has now taken flight. Pakistan remains the building block of an integrated and stable West, North and Central Asia which can be extended to South Asia should the large South Asian neighbour become more responsible, genuine and stop Occupying the (north) the Himalayas. Iran has once more become an important member in reconstructing central Asia which we recognise as Khorasan.

Turkey can be said it has come home and we hope to roost, back to its roots. So Eurasia looks magnificent, it can become the future with Central Asia as its hub but unfortunately for Zbigniew Brzezinski we hope minus USA and certainly not the archaic form delivered by PNAC (The Project For The New American Century think tank) executed by the Neocons. But this geopolitics and the world is a small neighbourhood with lots of crooks on its corner we wait impatiently the outcome of the American presidential election but also The Russian commitment to peace and stability. I also wish to see the SCO become a counter to NATO with the genuine interest of Central and wider Asia at heart. Off course there are always winners and losers but as long as they are without gun slinging cowboys there is a chance for peace.

The prescient predictions of Rupee News have come to fruition. We have been saying for years that NATO, ISAF and the US will be leaving Afghanistan before 2014. Leon Panetta‘s statement may be a bombshell for some who have been wearing rose colored glasses. However our sources have accurately informed our readers that the war in Afghanistan is not going well for the US.

This map describes the current plans

The anatomy of defeat. The Cut and Run schedule

The exit of US forces is preceded by the withdrawal of the more than 100,000 mercenaries who have left Afghanistan in droves. The reduction of the US footprint leaves a vacuum–which is filled by the Talibs. The Afghan National Army (ANR) is an American ally by day, and a US enemy at night.

Defeated & dejected in a Helmund dust storm

ISAF is simply biding their time–listening to Rudyard Kipling.

If your officer’s dead and the sergeants look white,
Remember it’s ruin to run from a fight:
So take open order, lie down, and sit tight,
And wait for supports like a soldier.
Wait, wait, wait like a soldier . . .

The elections in the US, China, Russia and Pakistan will decide the new policies in Afghanistan. One major tectonic shift in Pakistan is being ignored by the liberal media in Pakistan. While everyone is talking about the third force, many are ignoring the brewing storm. The largest rally in the history of Karachi was led an organization unknown to the Western media. The colossal rallies held in Rawalpindi and various other cities of Pakistan are creating headaches for the PPP, and the PMLN. If Imran Khan can claim to be the leading politician in Pakistan, based on the size of the crowds that have shown up in his rallies–then the Difah e Pakistan Committee (DFC) can also claim a sizable following. Its not so simple. Mr. Khan, and folks like Mr. Shaikh Rashid also support the DFC. Sixty parties support the DFC. The US withdrawal are pushing the militant groups into mainstream Pakistani politics. The components of the DFC will dramatically impact the Pakistani elections, thus changing the course of events in the Hindu Kush.

In Russia the Putin forces will continue to coalesce against US threats. In China, those who have been saying “shut and walk with a big stick”, will be replaced with a more assertive assembly. The Tajik and Uzbek governments are under serious threat from the IMU and other related organizations. These governments will either surrender to Russia, or China and turn into fiefdoms of the Talibs. The new government in Pakistan will be vigilant and will not acquiesce to US demands. Islamabad will be allied more closely with Beijing and Moscow than with Washington. Bharat will try to build its relations with the remnants of the Northern Alliance who are already scurrying for cover. Those Uzbeks and Tajiks who are not allied with the Talibs will lose their constituencies or their heads. Any and every building in Afghanistan with Bharati names will be razed to the ground–in typical tradition of the progeny of the Mahmud of Ghazni and Naidir Shah.

UK Defeat in Afghanistan: Battle of Maiwand

The recent Intelligence report discusses the inevitable Talib takeover of Afghanistan which according to the Times (of London) are backed by the Pakistani intelligence services. Pakistan has vehemently denied this. Mr. Karzai is running scared as are his deputies who had thought that Uncle Sam‘s gravy train for last for ever. The members of the Northern Alliance are contacting the real estate agents in Mumbai–where their ilk will be spending the rest of their lives in exile–those who escape the hangings on Kabul lampposts that is!

They should have saved the money and read Kipling.

This is how the Pakistanis and Afghans massacred occupying forces. This particular scene is from the British defeat at Maiwand inflicted by Ayub Khan. Even today first born's in Pakistan and Afghanistan are named after him. Pakistan president Ayub Khan was named after the famous Pakhutn leader who destroyed the British Army and forced Lord Curzon to retreat back to the Indus

When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
Go, go, go like a soldier,
So-oldier ~of~ the Queen!

In 2014, the Talibs will begin to more and more daring attacks on Kabul, and the defeated American generals will continue to blame Pakistan. The drones will be shot down by the Talibs which will further frustrate those who fly them. Iran and Pakistan already have agreed on the future of Pakistan. This consensus on a NATO-free Afghanistan, is shared by China, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.

As Pakistan joins the SCO, the topography of the region will change.

In 2014, the Talibs will begin a slow march towards Kabul. The ANR will dissolve and all attempts by Bharat to put it together will fail.

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