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Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 2nd, 2024
Brig(Retd)Asif Haroon Raja
A large cache of arms has been seized by the Coast Guards from Jimny near the Mekran Coast along Baluchistan. The arms were being smuggled from Iran to Pakistan. An important leader of Zainabun has been arrested.
The Panjgur incident and our reaction in Saravan in Iran are still fresh in our minds. Fence mending was done quickly and both sides assured to be prudent and promised to coexist as brotherly neighbours. The latest incident has blown apart our hopes of a peaceful and friendly southern border.
It is time for our policy makers to take a second look at the existing ground realities and the changed security paradigm, and accordingly frame our threat perception and security responses.
Internal Threats
Currently, Pakistan is internally facing the threat of resurgent terrorism in KP and Baluchistan, heightened political polarization and hatred, political instability, social divisions, economy at the edge of default, heavy burden of foreign and public debts and fifth generation war.
These negatives have bred insecurity and uncertainty, which hinders future attempts to improve the economy and to draw in foreign investments.
There are too many snakes in the grass chipping the foundations of the country and are helping the enemies to create a gulf between the army and the people with the ultimate aim of weakening the first and last line of defence. Never before has Pakistan suffered from so many crises at one time.
The coalition of six parties cobbled together are not natural allies and have so far shown little signs of placing national interests above their own selfish interests. They are more interested in getting plum portfolios than in pulling the sunk economy out of the quagmire, and to face the external threats collectively. The recent performance of PDM 1 during its 16 months rule, was deplorable and is one reason which deprived PML N from gaining simple majority in the Centre.
Balochistan Districts
The great majority of the elected MNAs and MPAs are big landlords, industrialists, businessmen and senior advocates and most are above fifty years old.
Since no reforms of the institutions have been carried out, little is expected from the old hats who have been bathing in the polluted tub for the last 25 years. All are deeply infected by feudal mindset and in corrupt practices.
Both the mainstream parties, PPP and PML N, failed to alleviate poverty, and to better the lives of the marginalized. Out of the two, the performance of PML N under NS was comparatively better and had some feathers in their cap but was far from idealism.
The 3rd party experiment was a disaster. The PTI leadership is refusing to accept the hard reality that it was owing to its poor performance, which helped the PDM to make their vote of no confidence successful. It is still resentful and revengeful.
The PTI is in no mood to change its negative tactics of defiance, confrontation, violence and is vying to make Pakistan bankrupt and to go to dogs merely to regain power.
For the icon, all those who abuse and make noise and resort to high handed tactics are his favourites. Peace lovers are sidelined. Chairman PTI Barrister Gohar who is less volatile and remains within the decent limits, survived by the skin of his teeth because of noise made by the media.
The anti-army and anti-state journalists and U-tubers sitting abroad and inside the country spewing venom are the ideals and favourites of the cult followers.
The ones bitten by cultish culture, have torn apart the social fabric of the society and made the youth violence prone and reckless. They are still living in the fools paradise of Haqiqi Azadi.
For the myopic cult leader and his mind cloned followers, breaking the coercive hold of the military over politics and the country is the only way out to make Pakistan independent and prosperous.
Instead of showing the mirror to the policy makers and pumping them to avenge the humiliating defeat of 1971, the tunnel visioned cult followers are politicising it to gain political mileage. They are again and again reminding the Army that Pakistan will suffer a similar debacle if PTI is deprived of the throne.
To shame the Pakistani leadership, they are glorifying fascist India and fascist Bangladesh and are turning a blind eye to the ruthless persecution and lynching of the Indian Muslims and other minorities in India and in IOK, and the ruthless crushing of all political parties in BD. In BD there is one party rule.
Who will save 24 crore Pakistanis from the wrath of Indian military forces if the centre of gravity resting in GHQ gets enfeebled?
Will the cult followers pick up arms against them for the defence of the motherland and to safeguard the honour of women? If they had so much jihadism in them, wouldn’t it have been better to show it by crossing the LoC and marching up to Sri Nagar to liberate IOK? 5 Aug 2019 was the right time to give a call of Jihad.
But we know what sort of response came from Pakistan. Those real jihadis who wanted to go across the LoC were forcibly restrained and told to register a protest by remaining silent on each Friday for 30 minutes.
The PTI has chalked out its future plans which will be based on battles inside and outside the parliament, together with legal and court battles and supplemented with media war with a view to paralyse the coalition govt and prevent it from undertaking reforms and development work. It started its campaign with charges of rigging, irregularities, Form 45, and airing fake figures of victories. It claimed 180 NA seats but filed petitions for only 35 seats. It is seeking help from the US , EU, UK, IMF and the Pak expats. Social media and foreign funding are the major tools in the arsenal of PTI. Probably the last card has been played by President Alvi by refusing to call the session of the NA. The outgoing Speaker has however decided to call the session.
External Challenges
India’s Unabated Hostility
Coming to the external threat perception, our Eastern border has been and will remain perpetually hostile. After annexing IOK and absorbing it fully into the Indian Union, fascist Modi and his hawkish team have repeatedly vowed to break Pakistan into four parts and have openly talked of a limited war in AJK and GB. Modi’s next ambition in his 4th term will be to annex the whole of J&K.
India has been using multiprong offensives in the form of hybrid war, proxy war, cultural war, water terrorism, coercion, economic terrorism, and to strategically encircle and isolate Pakistan.
India is eagerly looking forward to an opportunity to launch its Cold Start Doctrine to damage Pakistan. Owing to its strategic partnership with the US, NATO and Israel, its enhanced political, diplomatic, economic and military strengths, it is in a comfortable position to flex its military muscles to intimidate Pakistan and to unfold its military adventure. Indian media openly stated that IK was the best gift for India since he did what India couldn’t achieve in the last 75 years.
Afghanistan’s Hostility
Our western border that has remained hostile from 1947 onwards, except for brief spells of harmony, has once again become turbulent because of TTA-TTP alliance and return of Indian influence in Afghanistan.
Action against the TTP, return of illegal Afghan refugees and strict border management have further angered the Kabul regime. So far, there is little hope for the betterment of our relationship. The worrisome aspect is TTP-PTI alignment duly backed by Afghanistan.
Iran’s Unfriendliness
Pakistan was aware that RAW was using the Iranian soil as an auxiliary base for cross border terrorism during the 20-year war on terror, but it remained quiet because of volatility on its eastern and western borders. We ignored the hard fact that India and Iran were strategic and defence partners and both had supported Afghan Northern Alliance.
We didn’t make noise even after arresting an Indian RAW agent Kalbushan in 2016 who had been operating from Chahbahar since 2003 and had spilled the beans.
We knew that the Baloch rebel groups were using Iranian Baluchistan as their base of operations against Baluchistan and Karachi and that IRGC was supervising their activities. We had to build a fence along our southern border like we did in the northwest. But terrorism and supply of arms through the border and from the Mekran coast is still continuing.
Pakistan Choked
It implies that our southern border is also hostile, which has left Pakistan with no breathing space. It is being choked from three directions while the internal enemies are giving full support to them to accomplish their objectives.
Efforts to Scuttle CPEC
From 2016 onwards, a wilful campaign was launched to undermine CPEC, which our enemies knew that it had the potential to make Pakistan economically self-reliant. China was equated with the East India Company. The drama of Chinese marrying Pakistani girls for sexual trade was enacted. China’s human rights in Xinjiang against the Chinese Muslims was drummed up. Political parties were taken on board to scuttle the project. Terrorist acts along the corridor were intensified.
Despite these vile efforts to disrupt CPEC and to spoil China-Pakistan relations, phase one projects were completed in record time of three years, but the detractors were eventually successful in freezing the game changing project in 2018. Phase 2 projects are still in limbo.
Duplicitous USA
The double dealing USA has never been a friend of Pakistan and it has always used Pakistan as a rentier state to accomplish its regional objectives.
The US has all along favoured India and undermined Pakistan’s core security concerns.
Policy of Appeasement
Well knowing the duality and insincerity of the US, our leaders, both civil and military, have remained subservient to its commands and have harmed national interests for the sake of dollars and to remain in power.
It was because of this factor of obedience to Washington that Pakistan has been following a policy of one-sided appeasement, even with our sworn enemies and refrained from building a counter narrative to expose the fake narratives of India and occupied Afghanistan that the two were victims of terrorism and that Pakistan was the nursery of terrorism.
Where We Went Wrong?
By now, we should have learnt lessons that our policy makers were poor in making the difference between friends and foes. It was a folly to put all our eggs into the basket of dual-faced USA and thus making Pakistan wholly dependent upon the domineering USA.
We all know that the gates of Pakistan were opened for the FBI and CIA in 2002 to chase Al Qaeda, which enabled the two to form a big intelligence network in Pakistan by 2008. This network has penetrated into each and every department and segments of Pakistan. Our vulnerabilities are being exploited by our enemies to further weaken us from within.
Our policy makers trusted the US to the extent that they asked Donald Trump to meditate and resolve the Kashmir dispute. CPEC was frozen to please the US and IMF, and put Pakistan’s ironclad relations with China in jeopardy.
The US in collaboration with India have been playing a game of snake and ladder and never allowed Pakistan to take off economically. Dr Danielle Marke revealed the hidden truth in his book ‘No Exit from Pakistan’, that way back in 1954, the US policy makers had decided to keep Pakistan engaged due to its geostrategic location, but to keep it controlled and managed. For the latter, India ensured that Pakistan was kept on the tenterhooks by keeping it politically unstable.
Apart from the three major wars and several conflicts and standoffs with India, and facing constant subversive threats from India in the three less developed provinces, coupled with the bellicosity of Afghanistan, the US used Pakistan as its rentier state for thirty years to fight its wars in Afghanistan.
Outwardly, Pakistan was the most allied ally, but in actuality it was the most sanctioned country. FATF and IMF are some of the tools to browbeat Pakistan.
The US has been cultivating Pakistani political leaders, bureaucrats, generals and the media to keep Pakistan under its thumb.
Our leaders must be clear that under no circumstances the US would annoy India to please Pakistan, but would happily undermine Pakistan’s core interests to benefit India.
Let us be clear that IK’s drama of Haqiqi Azadi was not from the US, but from the Pak Army. Similarly, Shabaz Sharif, Bilawal and Zardari are appeasers and pro USA.
Way Forward
Pakistan stands on a slippery slope and can no more afford to indulge in futile infighting, senseless tug of war, emotionalism, divisive politics, strained civil-military relations, blaming each other, propaganda war, believing in Messiahs or in miracles. Making Pakistan chaotic and anarchic is not the medicine to cure Pakistan afflicted with multiple diseases.
What is needed is to put aside our imagined or genuine grievances against each other, cool down our tempers, heal the youth and divert them towards constructive channels through better education, motivation, job opportunities, equitable social growth and justice system.
We should concentrate wholly towards reforming our decayed systems and institutions, carry forward the already prepared economic uplift program under SIFC established in GHQ whole heartedly and with total dedication, honesty and sincerity of purpose, bridle the poisonous media badmouthing Pakistan and Pak Army and to reform it, tackle the mischief makers and spoilers with an iron hand, shun lavishness and VIP culture, enforce austerity, reduce and possibly get rid of IMF.
We should stop taking dictations from Washington, lean towards China and Russia that are pro-peace and believe in the concept of shared development, and the Arab Gulf States that have promised heavy foreign investments. All out efforts must be made to complete the phase 2 of CPEC.
Education must be given higher priority to improve literacy and to refurbish school curriculum to improve our values, ethics and moral turpitude that have hit rock bottom.
These steps are not unachievable, but are very much achievable if there is complete understanding between the rulers, army and the people.
Above all, there should be across the board accountability under apolitical accountability mechanism and the justice system should be overhauled. The rule of law must be strictly enforced.
While we can doubt the ability and capacity of the PDM 2 coalition to sail Pakistan out of choppy waters towards the shores of stability and prosperity, however, we can say that Gen Asim Munir is not a toady and boot licker of the US. He could be our only hope to rid Pakistan of its slavish dependence upon the USA.
So let us pray for his wellbeing and his commitment, and make our contributions in helping him to defeat the nefarious designs of enemies of Pakistan at home and abroad. It is he who has the dexterity and willpower to push the cart of wobbly PDM 2, and to overcome all the hurdles and to make Pakistan strong and self-sufficient.
The writer is retd Brig Gen, war veteran, defence, security and political analyst, international columnist, author of five books, ex chairman Thinkers Forum Pakistan, takes part in TV talk shows . asifharoonraja@gmail.com
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 24th, 2024
America Supports Israeli War Beyond Gaza onto the Arab World
America and Israel Aligned to Challenge Global Humanity
Political cynicism is endemic and its shallowness defines the claim of liberal democracy. America again flunked the global consensus of 13 member states calling for an immediate ceasefire and vetoed the February 20, Security Council resolution to support Israeli continued onslaught on the innocent people across Gaza. Are global institutions fast becoming redundant in a crisis? And global humanity is captive of the US-Israel’s intransigence and plans never experienced in history. Why should the global community allow arbitrary terror of killing and expulsion of 2.5 million people of Gaza? Philip Giraldi (Global Research: 2/21/24), “The United States Vetoes Yet Another UN Humanitarian Ceasefire Over Gaza” …. several interesting developments relating to Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza and its people, but one might well question the motives of at least one of the principal players in the drama, namely Joe Biden’s United States Government.https://www.globalresearch.ca/united-states-vetoes-another-un-humanitarian-ceasefire-gaza/5850155:
America and Israel share a common strategic vision and plan to expand the Gaza war onto the Arab world and to control the oil-gas resources needed for futuristic advancements. America and Israel are engaged in ‘crimes against humanity’ but no global system is applicable to stop their cruelty and insanity. The tribulations, terror against civilians nowhere to go beyond Rafah, daily bloodbath, attacks on hospitals, no UN protection to the civilians in conflict zones; blocking of humanitarian aid and starvation; and 2.5 million people left to be massacred while discussions of international law and peace make no headways except lip service and paperwork.“If the nations of the world–particularly the United States and the Arab countries–wanted to stop Israel’s slaughter, torture and ethnic cleansing in Gaza”, explains Marcy Winograd (“How Nations Could End Israeli Genocide: Stop the Weapons, Stop the Oil, Stop the Tech.” Global Research: 2/21/24), they could do so tomorrow with suspension of oil, arms and technology imports and exports to Israel.”https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-nations-could-end-israeli-genocide-stop-weapons-stop-oil-stop-tech/5849677
Jews for Peace Challenge the US- Israel Belligerency
Wars are integral to American and Israeli formative history and now they are engaged in “genocidal acts of vengeance” against the civilians of Gaza, widely accused by NGOs and global humanity. Virtually inexhaustible daily bombing spares no life, no functional hospitals, no UNRWA schools and no respect for the International Humanitarian Law or the Geneva Conventions. Israeli PM Netanyahu , an egoistic person lacking moral and intellectual capacity, cares about his own political survival unleashing violent assumptions of hatred, animosities and killings of Palestinians – a nation no matter how normal claims to be, cannot function as normal beings to co-exist with their own self and make any positive contributions to societal normalcy. Many Jewish organizations (“Jews for Peace” and “Jews against Zionism”) and others across the US and Europe committed and stood for peace and global brotherhood. They are all calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Dr. Ludwig Watzal, a journalist and editor in Bonn, explains:”How Modern is Israel? “Zionism has Little to do with Judaism” https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-modern-is-israel-zionism-has-little-to-do-with-judaism/5537626 and see Israel Shahak and Prof Michel Chossudovsky:“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. ”https://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815
Those Bombing the God-given Earth are not Normal Human Beings
The Earth is a living entity and rotates itself at a speed of 1000 miles per hour at equator and orbits the Sun at an average speed of 67062 MPH. The Divine warning (Chapter 7: 56: The Qur’an), tells: Do no mischief on the Earth after it hath been set in order, but call on God with fear and longing in hearts; For the Mercy of God is always near to those who do good. Earth is a trust to humanity and trust includes accountability. The Earth sustains all forms of living things(known and unknown), the essential foundation of our very existence. Pathologically wicked leaders and nations claiming to be most powerful start acting like God to challenge the sanctity and limits of the Laws of God; historically, they become an object of unthinkable natural calamities- earthquakes, wildfires, floods, deaths and destruction. “Say! Travel through the earth; And see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.” spell out the annals of human history. Those bombing and causing catastrophic events to destroy the planet Earth and mankind and all of its treasures and enrichment are not normal human beings. The followers of Moses – the generations of Israelite are reminded by God (Quran 2: 84-85 ): And remember, We took a Covenant from the Children of Israel (progeny of Jacob), Worship none but God…shed no blood amongst you, Nor displace people from homes: and Ye solemnly ratified, And to this ye can bear witness…. It was not lawful for you to banish another party, then it is only a part of the Book that ye believe in…. And on the Day of Judgment they shall be consigned to the most grievous penalty,For God is not unmindful what ye do.
And killing of innocent people is prohibited by God’s Ten Commandments (Torah): ‘Thou shalt not kill‘ (Exod. 20:13; also Deut. 5:17). Jewish law views the shedding of innocent blood very seriously, and lists murder as one of three sins (along with idolatry and sexual immorality), that fall under the category of yehareg ve’al ya’avor – meaning “One should let himself be killed rather than violate it.”According to Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague: ‘Jewish law forbids the killing of innocent people, even in the course of a legitimate military engagement.’
Are there any Arab-Muslim Leaders to Defend Palestine Freedom?
America and Israel view all the Arab States as vulnerable to besiegement and political supremacy. Living in the fantasy of time and power, Arab-Muslim states have no armies or leaders to protect the national interest of Palestine. The PLO is devoid of intelligent leadership and Israeli forces have free hand to raid or kill Palestinians across the occupied territories. America and Israel have working plans to conquer more Arab lands -Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and others to resettle the Palestinians and put a finished answer on Palestine as a future State. Would the Arab-Muslim leaders rethink outside the imperial box to plan for a navigational change in relationships with the US and its military hegemony? The time, history and future generations of conscientious people will curse the so-called tribal agents for their wickedness and greed to be kings and queens and princes and nothing else to make their presence in the global arena of emerging conflicts.
Please see more: “How Did Arab Leaders Betrayed Islam and Defied the Logic of Political Change, Peace and Security.” https://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2023/10/07/how-did-arab-leaders-betrayed-islam-and defied-the-logic-of-political-change-peace-and-security.php
War on Gaza is a stigma of political survival for PM Netanyahu and the war cabinet while several thousands of Israeli citizens demonstrate in Tel Aviv asking for peace with Palestinians and a safe return of 134 hostages still in Gaza. Engaged in deceit of triumphalism, Netanyahu Government is not listening to voices of reason and truth. While the Israeli Ultra Nationalist groups continuously violate the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Arab-Muslim leaders are simply the spectators watching the provocations.
Please see: “Al-Aqsa Mosque Waiting for the Arab Leaders.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57491.htm Please see more: https://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2023/10/31/the-war-on-gaza-humanity-is-being-destroyed-by-the-madness-of-war-and-inept-leadership.php
While the Arab leaders making melodramatic and misleading claims of security and peace with Israel and the West, the region is a highly militarized and destabilized landscape of continuous conflicts. To subdue and humiliate the “camel jockeys” of the oil producing Arab world, now the US exports wars, weapons and poisonous thoughts to divide and conquer the Arabian Peninsula. Historically, diverse tribal Arabs were united as an “Ummah” – One Nation by Islam but European colonialists assigned sectarian identities to divide the geography and history of Arab civilization. To change the future, America and Israel needed a political challenge to stop the war on Gaza but it was nowhere to be seen on the Arabian leadership horizon. For too long, Arab leaders breathe oxygen in moral and intellectual decadence and a delusional fantasy of oil-run economic prosperity.
Intelligent people always heed to rational advice but American and Israeli warmongering and killings are contrary to the Nature of Things. The Gazan landscape is filled with deaths and destruction which could have been avoided if reason and honest policies were implied to the crisis. The time and opportunities call for rethinking and new ideas to reject violence and vengeance as contrary to the nature of humanity, peace and intellect. To avoid most dreadful tragedies in the making, we must reject the tyranny of war as a means to solve political problems and demand a return to persuasive communication and dialogue for conflict management and peace-making.
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs-global security, peace and conflict resolution with keen interests in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications: One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution (2019); and a forthcoming book is entitled: Global Humanity, Peace and Conflict Resolution beyond the Lens of Human Consciousness.
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 23rd, 2024
Pakistan: What Next after the Rigged National Elections?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
The Nation Becomes Victim of Futile Elections
A nation already at the edge of socioeconomic and crises of moral and political integrity becomes victim of authoritarian tyranny, political sinisterism and enduring pains, horrors and global degradation because of the fallacy of national elections being rigged by those very officials supposed to be responsible for a fair and free ballot box exercises on February 8-9. Not so, the elections are alleged to be stolen from the rights of the masses and their constitutional exercise. The contemporary trajectory of politics spells out the unthinkable wave of chaos and mismanagement by few generals and corrupt judiciary shaping a dark future for the present and future-making. Pakistan is governed by a colonialist elite subservient to the Western world and the nation desperately needs a New Constitution, new systems of political governance and new-age educated, morally and intellectually visionary leadership to cope with the 21st century challenges of survival and progress. While the truth was evaporating, in a rare display of courage and professional honesty, Commissioner Liaqat Ali Chatta took the lead to be free from history and laws of proliferating disgust, delusion and irrational injustice to clarify to public the facts of rigged national elections.
Pakistani masses are outraged to learn of the rigging of February 8-9, national elections in major cities contended by leading political parties. At the February 17, press conference, Commissioner Liaqat Ali Chatta (Rawalpindi Division), location of the Armed Forces Headquarters admitted that: “We converted the losers into winners, reversing margins of 70,000 votes in 13 national assembly seats,” he told reporters, also implicating the head of the election commission and the country’s top judge. The public disclosures highlighted the role and fraudulent involvement of the Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Isa and CEC Sikander Sultan Raja to change the results of the ballot boxes.
According to Pakistan’s Dawn News, Commissioner Liaqat Ali Chatta admitted he was “deeply involved in serious crime like mega election rigging 2024” and said that “stabbing the country in its back” does not allow him sleep. “I should be punished for the injustice I have done and others who were involved in this injustice should also be punished,” The Commissioner showed solidarity with the cause of people and justice and resigned from his executive position.
Several thousands of public supporters of the PTI Party and independent activists demonstrated in major cities across Pakistan against the rigging of the elections and to undermine the present and future course of a fair and free national election. According to global news media, “People are coming from all walks of life. Women, children and entire families … have converged at the Press Club in Islamabad. They say their mandate has been stolen and the government is trying to put an illegitimate government into power which lost the election.” Many observers point out multi layers of a planned scheme of rigging the elections. Saeed Malik, a Pakistani commentator (“Commissioner Chatha’s Gift……..February 18, 24), cited the confession of a bold and honest Commissioner:
that the C.J Qazi Faez Isa, and the CEC Sikander Sultan Raja, were complicit with him in the perpetration of this act of unprecedented national fraud…….He confessed that it was on his instructions that his subordinates had rigged ALL the seats so massively that candidates winning by as many as 70000 votes, lost out to the ones trailing them; that his conscience could not bear the thought that this could eventually become a spiral which would unravel Pakistan; that first he thought of committing suicide in an act of contrition, but then decided that instead of this sinful death, it would be better that he exposed what happened to the public, and be hung by the gallows instead.
One wonders, what was the precarious reason to hold the national elections when the Generals and few Judges of the Supreme Court wanted the corrupt and morally and politically disgraced Sharfi brothers back to political power? The Generals produced Bhuttos, Sharifs, Zardari and Musharaf who stole more than 50 years of the national lifetime, wealth and opportunities for change to buy palaces in the UK, France and Spain and discredit the nation, its honor and standing in global affairs. They all escaped the eventuality of their crimes against the nation through infested corruption and unfair systems of legal justice. It is widely believed that the top brand of military were directly involved in organizing a fraudulent election and keeping Imran Khan, the former popular PM and his PTI party out of the reach to win the elections or to form any future civilian government in Pakistan. It is highly likely that twisted logic and erroneous tactics of false accusations and charges have been implied to imprison Imran Khan and some 20k of his party affiliates locked up arbitrarily to ensure a favorable outcome for the indicted criminal and previously twice dismissed Nawaz Sharif or his brother to form the next central government. please see: “Pakistan: A Quagmire of Strange Democracy at Work.” https://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2024/02/18/pakistan-a-quagmire-of-strange-democracy-at-work.php
The Ruling Elite Planned a Scheme of Rigged Elections
Pakistan media reports cite Moulana Fazal ul Rehman – an affiliate of the PPP and Sharif’s party affirmed that the April 2022 ousting of elected PM Imran Khan was a conspiracy engineered by the former Chief of the Army Staff General Javaid Bajawa. Now to deprive the PTI from participation and under false and politically orchestrated impulses, Imran Khan has been sentenced to 10 -14 years in jail on multiple fake legal cases. Vengeful and paranoid Generals wanted to keep Khan and PTI out of power so nobody could question their wrong thinking and deceitful actions against the nation. It seems that few generals under the Chief of the Staff Assem Munir have no sense of time and history as they are playing with the destiny of the Nation for which they have no moral or intellectual capacity, no right or legal mandate to do so. Most dreadful tragedies have infallibly resulted in victimizing the masses. Today, the nation is crippled with catastrophic events of insecurity, mismanagement and socioeconomic and political exploitation. They never imagined–how the present and future generations will identify them? Please see by this author:“Pakistan Imperatives of Political Change for a Progressive Nation”2019; “Pakistan where Politics and Corruption are the Same” 2014; “Pakistan in Search of Freedom and Security”, Uncommon Thought Journal andGlobal Research: 10/20/22, and “Pakistan, Planned Political Chaos: Imran Khan a Victim of Hope for the Future”, Global Research: 11/06/2022; “Pakistan Striving for Its Soul.” 8/23 https://www.transcend.org/tms/2023/08/pakistan-striving-for-its-soul/
Is there a cure to cruelty of the colonial systems of political governance? What is the answer to the twisted logic of fair elections, perversity of time, loss of national credibility and tortuous circumstances for the nation to imagine a dark future? Pakistan needs an urgent systematic navigational change but few Generals and judges are part of the problem. If honesty and accountability has any truthful meanings, the conscientious Pakistani masses would demand that the Chief of the Army Staff General Asim Munir, the Chief Justice Qazi Faez Esa, the Corrupt Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Raja and others involved in the fraudulent scheme of elections should resign on their own if they have any sense of professional integrity to serve the nation. If they fail to respond to the call of professional consciousness, they are not above the law and should be held accountable in a public court of justice. Would they ever realize and learn what went wrong with their professional thinking and to cause pains, horrors of injustice and systematic defamation to the credibility and honor of Pakistan? The Election Comission must take immediate remedial actions to restore trust, honesty and legtimacy to the outcomes of the elections and declare rightful candidates to be the elected members of the Assemblies. Otherwise, Pakistan could lose its time and history as a progressive nation.
Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs-global security, peace and conflict resolution with keen interests in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications including the latest: One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution. Germany, 12/2019.
Posted by admin in Pakistan Fights Terrorism, Uncategorized on December 23rd, 2012
Malala Yousafzai: Lets Unite against Militancy
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The National Peace Award winner, Malala Yousafzai, who was attacked in Swat, is currently under treatment in CMH Peshawar. Later, Malala were taken to Peshawar via helicopter and admitted in CMH Peshawar. It is important to mention that Malala had been receiving threats to her life, after which she was provided with a special car and unarmed security personnel. According to the electronic media reports, Taliban (TTP) has accepted the responsibilities.
Malala Yousaf zai is one of the best-known schoolgirls in the country and the world. Young as she is, she has dared to do what many others do not – publicly criticise the Taliban. According to BBC, Malala’s confident, articulate campaign for girls’ education has won her admirers – and recognition – at home and abroad. She has appeared on national and international television, and spoken of her dream of a future Pakistan where education would prevail. Even by the standards of blood-soaked Pakistan, there has been shock at the shooting. It has been condemned by Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf, who sent a helicopter to transfer Malala to hospital in Peshawar. The head of Pakistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission, Zohra Yusuf, said “this tragic attack on this courageous child” sends a very disturbing message to all those working for women and girls.
All segments of society are praying for her health and are condemning activists, those desire to enforce their own agenda against the will of general public.
There could be the possibility that firing on courageous Malala has been carried out by Afghanistan sponsored anti Pakistan Taliban. CIA and her allied agencies quite notorious in using dirty tricks for completion of their own designed agenda against Pakistan and in other countries. Earlier, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit of Islamabad in 2011, agreed with Pakistan’s stance, saying, “Now US is realising that launching new military operation in North Waziristan does not suit Pakistan’s situation.” Replying to a question that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was involved an assault on the US embassy in Kabul on September 13, 2011, she categorically pointed out, “We have no evidence.” She also requested for Pakistan’s help to “encourage Taliban to enter negotiations in good faith” including the Haqqani fighters. Pakistan’s top civil and military officials have repeatedly disclosed that training camps are presence in Afghanistan, and supply of arms and ammunition to the Baloch separatists and Pakistani Taliban keeps on going by the external elements as part of a conspiracy against Pakistan.
The internal dynamics of Pakistan, however, dictate that a detailed and comprehensive strategy be formulated to cleanse areas infected by terrorism through shrewd corrective measures and judicious action with least collateral damage. Such strategy has to be indigenous one with blend of native society.
In short, we must get united to support security forces in elimination of all type of militancy whether foreign or locally sponsored. We must take the example of Sri Lanka where people fought for 30 years with a single aim of defeating terrorism since they believed that terrorist “foreign or own”, remains terrorist. At the same time we must also condemn U.S. and her allies India and Israel those justify their state terrorism in Islamic countries.
We must salute to courageous daughter of Pakistan “Malala Yousaf Zai” and pray for her health, safety and unite ourselves for continuation of her innocent but beautiful dreams regarding girls’ education and rooting out of terrorism from our motherland.
The writer can be approached through zameer36@gmail.com
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 21st, 2012
US AID HAS BEEN SQUANDERED BY ASIF ZARDARI AND HIS CORRUPT PEOPLE’S PARTY CRONIES. THEY HAVE BUILT A MINI-PAKISTAN IN DUBAI TO ESCAPE TO, WHEN THE AXE FALLS ,AND PEOPLE OF PAKISTAN, COME ON THE STREETS. THIS CORRUPTION HAS LED TO A PROPORTIONAL INCREASE IN TERRORIST VIOLENCE. WHILE THE SOCALLED “DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT,” LOOTS AND PLUNDERS PAKISTAN AND ZARDARI, BILAWAL, BAKHTAWAR, AND THE WELL KNOWN RENTAL POWER SCAMMER, RAJA RENTAL PERVAIZ ASHRAF, AND HIS CRONIES FILL THEIR COFFERS, AVERAGE PAKISTANIS HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO ABJECT POVERTY AND HUNGER. IN ALL THIS ENDEAVOR, PAKISTAN ARMY’S LEADER GENERAL KAYANI IS CULPABLE FOR REMAINING SILENT.
EVEN PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE US GOVERNMENT ARE LOOKING THE OTHER WAY,INSTEAD OF USING THEIR IMMENSE LEVERAGE AND BULLY PULPIT TO TELL ZARDARI’S CORRUPTION MACHINE, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! OR DO THE 180 MILLION PAKISTANIS DO NOT MATTER TO US, WHEN IT HAS TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM AND CROOKS LIKE ZARDARI AND RAJA RENTAL.
A Pakistani woman administered polio vaccine to an infant on Wednesday in the slums of Islamabad. Militants have killed nine polio workers this week.
THE BACKDRAFT OF THIS SITUATION IS AN EXPONENTIAL BIRTH OF TERRORIST BORN IN THE WOMB OF ABJECT POVERTY, ILLITERACY, AND RELIGIOUS IGNORANCE. NOT ONLY THAT, THE GLOBAL HEALTH IS BEING THREATENED BY TERRORISTS, WHEN THEY KILL NURSES AND DOCTORS ADMINISTERING POLIO DROPS TO PAKISTANI CHILDREN. POLIO IS A VIRUS. A VIRUS PASSES THROUGH ALL MAN MADE FILTERS. THIS POLIO EPIDEMIC IS A THREAT TO CHILDREN ALL OVER THE GLOBE.
WE PAKISTANIS WHO CARE ABOUT THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY; WANT IT TO SPEAK-UP AGAINST THE ZARDARI GOVERNMENT AND STOP US SUPPORT TO CORRUPTION, WHEN IT THREATENS THE HEALTH OF CHILDREN AROUND THE GLOBE.
CORRUPTION AND TERRORISM ARE TIED TOGETHER, ONE FOLLOWS THE OTHER. IS ANBODY IN THE WORLD LISTENING?
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
2003 |
140
|
24
|
25
|
189
|
2004 |
435
|
184
|
244
|
863
|
2005 |
430
|
81
|
137
|
648
|
2006 |
608
|
325
|
538
|
1471
|
2007 |
1522
|
597
|
1479
|
3598
|
2008 |
2155
|
654
|
3906
|
6715
|
2009 |
2324
|
991
|
8389
|
11704
|
2010 |
1796
|
469
|
5170
|
7435
|
2011 |
2738
|
765
|
2800
|
6303
|
2012 |
2851
|
681
|
2430
|
5962
|
Total* |
14999
|
4771
|
25118
|
44888
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
January |
177
|
117
|
234
|
528
|
February |
208
|
59
|
193
|
460
|
March |
207
|
72
|
454
|
733
|
April |
239
|
36
|
124
|
399
|
May |
247
|
76
|
193
|
516
|
June |
303
|
64
|
289
|
656
|
July |
303
|
60
|
207
|
570
|
August |
258
|
70
|
304
|
632
|
September |
278
|
22
|
164
|
464
|
October |
252
|
40
|
166
|
458
|
November |
288
|
31
|
69
|
388
|
December |
91
|
34
|
33
|
158
|
Total
|
2851
|
681
|
2430
|
5962
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
January |
204
|
38
|
255
|
497
|
February |
107
|
68
|
160
|
335
|
March
|
432
|
48
|
148
|
628
|
April |
263
|
57
|
254
|
574
|
May |
161
|
140
|
220
|
521
|
June |
209
|
80
|
354
|
643
|
July |
423
|
51
|
337
|
811
|
August |
430
|
77
|
183
|
690
|
September |
186
|
39
|
130
|
355
|
October |
119
|
32
|
172
|
323
|
November |
91
|
92
|
333
|
516
|
December |
113
|
43
|
254
|
410
|
Total
|
2738
|
765
|
2800
|
6303
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
January |
182
|
33
|
387
|
602
|
February |
92
|
68
|
340
|
500
|
March
|
168
|
36
|
502
|
706
|
April |
182
|
50
|
558
|
790
|
May |
156
|
38
|
833
|
1027
|
June |
72
|
44
|
598
|
714
|
July |
220
|
36
|
618
|
874
|
August |
113
|
30
|
177
|
320
|
September |
216
|
27
|
305
|
548
|
October |
72
|
31
|
296
|
399
|
November |
141
|
34
|
274
|
449
|
December |
182
|
42
|
282
|
506
|
Total
|
1796
|
469
|
5170
|
7435
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
January |
250
|
69
|
245
|
564
|
February |
216
|
31
|
430
|
677
|
March
|
168
|
67
|
171
|
406
|
April |
132
|
89
|
297
|
518
|
May |
279
|
155
|
1590
|
2024
|
June |
200
|
157
|
1397
|
1754
|
July |
156
|
58
|
768
|
982
|
August |
155
|
34
|
531
|
720
|
September |
111
|
77
|
662
|
850
|
October |
255
|
118
|
1001
|
1374
|
November |
175
|
93
|
792
|
1060
|
December |
227
|
43
|
505
|
775
|
Total
|
2324
|
991
|
8389
|
11704
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
January |
88
|
111
|
455
|
654
|
February |
182
|
33
|
30
|
245
|
March |
137
|
26
|
41
|
204
|
April |
80
|
25
|
16
|
121
|
May |
61
|
30
|
37
|
128
|
June |
149
|
31
|
38
|
218
|
July |
82
|
71
|
250
|
403
|
August |
339
|
124
|
784
|
1247
|
September |
272
|
67
|
876
|
1215
|
October |
262
|
60
|
735
|
1057
|
November |
225
|
50
|
482
|
757
|
December |
278
|
26
|
162
|
466
|
Total |
2155
|
654
|
3906
|
6715
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
January |
26
|
16
|
29
|
71
|
February |
35
|
4
|
8
|
47
|
March |
28
|
21
|
261
|
310
|
April |
176
|
18
|
83
|
277
|
May |
57
|
10
|
14
|
81
|
June |
31
|
12
|
40
|
83
|
July |
144
|
143
|
191
|
478
|
August |
56
|
63
|
117
|
236
|
September |
101
|
67
|
144
|
312
|
October |
282
|
101
|
154
|
537
|
November |
293
|
94
|
341
|
728
|
December |
293
|
48
|
97
|
438
|
Total |
1522
|
597
|
1479
|
3598
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists
|
Total
|
January |
114
|
29
|
22
|
165
|
February |
88
|
16
|
2
|
106
|
March |
91
|
19
|
221
|
331
|
April |
96
|
44
|
53
|
193
|
May |
43
|
39
|
5
|
87
|
June |
26
|
29
|
47
|
102
|
July |
12
|
52
|
49
|
113
|
August |
22
|
43
|
44
|
109
|
September |
22
|
0
|
2
|
24
|
October |
42
|
7
|
83
|
132
|
November |
42
|
45
|
9
|
96
|
December |
10
|
2
|
1
|
13
|
Total |
608
|
325
|
538
|
1471
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists
|
Total
|
January |
30
|
7
|
2
|
39
|
February |
11
|
0
|
6
|
17
|
March |
77
|
15
|
3
|
95
|
April |
6
|
2
|
2
|
10
|
May |
63
|
5
|
2
|
70
|
June |
8
|
1
|
0
|
9
|
July |
29
|
2
|
43
|
74
|
August |
14
|
10
|
1
|
25
|
September |
32
|
17
|
40
|
89
|
October |
27
|
15
|
16
|
58
|
November |
13
|
0
|
12
|
25
|
December |
120
|
7
|
10
|
137
|
Total |
430
|
81
|
137
|
648
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists
|
Total
|
January |
0
|
4
|
0
|
4
|
February |
2
|
0
|
1
|
3
|
March |
47
|
45
|
25
|
117
|
April |
6
|
5
|
1
|
12
|
May |
45
|
0
|
0
|
45
|
June |
60
|
37
|
24
|
121
|
July |
28
|
6
|
19
|
53
|
August |
42
|
17
|
4
|
63
|
September |
70
|
36
|
70
|
176
|
October |
114
|
11
|
28
|
153
|
November |
5
|
19
|
72
|
96
|
December |
16
|
4
|
0
|
20
|
Total |
435
|
184
|
244
|
863
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists
|
Total
|
January |
7
|
0
|
0
|
7
|
February |
18
|
3
|
1
|
22
|
March |
0
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
April |
1
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
May |
6
|
0
|
1
|
7
|
June |
5
|
13
|
0
|
18
|
July |
61
|
2
|
0
|
63
|
August |
4
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
September |
10
|
0
|
0
|
10
|
October |
8
|
5
|
18
|
31
|
November |
0
|
0
|
2
|
2
|
December |
20
|
1
|
2
|
23
|
Total |
140
|
24
|
25
|
189
|
Note: A large number of target killings, which many believe are carried out by the terrorists, backed by warring political parties, in Sindh were inadvertently left. Now that fatalities in such incidents have been included for the years 2011 and 2012, the data has been changed accordingly.
Source: South Asian Terrorism Portal
Note: The following Article below Leaves Out Almost Five Years of Incompetence and Corruption of Asif Zardari’s Civilian Dictatorship and the Autocracy of Pakistan People’s Party Machine. Dubai is the hub of illegal spending and night clubbing by Asif Zardari, Nawaz Shariff and PPPand PML(N) stalwart
By
Center for American Progress
SOURCE: AP/Emilio Morenatti
A Pakistani family eats dinner next to their hut on the outskirts of Islamabad. Only half of the country’s population can secure an adequate nutritional intake.
The history of U.S. assistance to Pakistan follows a predictable script: aid is tied to security imperatives that come and go, while the country’s political and economic well-being is effectively ignored. As an early ally in the cold war, Pakistan received nearly $2 billion from 1953 to 1961, a quarter of which was military assistance. The United States then suspended assistance during the Indo-Pakistan wars and following Pakistan’s construction of a uranium enrichment facility in 1979. Pakistan remerged as an ally in the 1980s during the Soviet Union’s occupation of Afghanistan and was again the recipient of aid. But following the withdrawal of Soviet troops in the late 1980s, assistance to Pakistan took another nosedive.
Following 9/11, Pakistan became a U.S. ally once more, and unsurprisingly, almost all of the aid provided since has gone to military operations. By failing to commit to the long-term health of the Pakistani state, successive generations of U.S. policymakers have convinced many in Pakistan, both in and out of government, that we are a demanding power with little interest in their own security, rather than a genuine partner. Increasing political and economic instability and the failure of a military-centric approach to check growing violence demonstrate that the Pakistani people need more than military assistance to improve stability in their country.
$7.89 billion: The amount of U.S. military assistance to Pakistan since 9/11, the majority of which has been from “coalition support funds” intended as reimbursement for Pakistani assistance in the war on terror.
$3.1 billion: The amount allocated to economic and development assistance, including food aid, during the same period.
189: The number of deaths from terrorist violence in Pakistan in 2003.
648: The number of deaths from terrorist violence in Pakistan in 2005.
3,599: The number of deaths from terrorist violence in Pakistan in 2007.
63 percent: The percentage of Pakistanis surveyed in June 2008 who felt less secure than they did just one year ago.
86 percent: The percentage of Pakistanis surveyed who believed their country was headed in the wrong direction.
72 percent: The percentage of Pakistanis surveyed who believed their personal economic situation had worsened in the past year.
77 million: The number of Pakistanis—half the country’s population—that are unable to secure an adequate nutritional intake.
50 percent: The percentage of the Pakistani population that is literate. Only one-third of Pakistani women can read and write.
2 percent: The percentage of total U.S. aid packages since 2001 directed toward education. This amounts to an average of less than $2 per Pakistani child per year.
$5.8 billion: Amount of U.S. aid to Pakistan spent in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas from 2002 through 2007.
96 percent: The percentage of those funds that were directed toward military operations.
1 percent: The percentage of those founds directed toward development.
Increased assistance is particularly needed in the ungoverned Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a region along the northwest border with Afghanistan that has been a key front in the war on terrorism. Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, has noted that for nearly three decades now the only opportunities in this region have been “a service economy serving the industry of jihad”; low literacy rates (17 percent overall and 3 percent for women) and inadequate medical care (1 doctor for every 6,762 people) reflect the area’s long history of political marginalization. In this space, militant groups are able to organize and establish parallel state structures, endangering Pakistan and its neighbors.
Instead of focusing so heavily on military aid to Pakistan, the United States should dedicate more of its funding to enhancing security and earning the support of the Pakistani people through increased economic and development assistance. By working with a new civilian government to address Pakistan’s basic needs—improving literacy rates, boosting energy and agricultural production, providing more access to health care, and more—the United States can strengthen Pakistani society and institutions against militant subversion. In doing so we also clearly demonstrate a respect for Pakistan’s own needs, moving the partnership beyond short-term cyclical engagement that neglects the underlying causes of the country’s instability.
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