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Posted by admin in Afghan -Taliban-India Axis, India on March 11th, 2013
US administration has a penchant for not listening to the advice of its own diplomats. They sent a brilliant diplomat to Pakistan, Ambassador Munter, who in a short time repaired the broken relationship between the two nations. He became one of the most popular US diplomat ever sent to Pakistan. Why? Because, Amb.Munter represented the heart and soul of what the US psyche is about and even the most hostile Pakistanis respected him. But, the US shooting in its own foot syndrome took over and Amb.Munter was removed as US Ambassador. He is fondly remembered by all Pakistanis as a friend, not a “Master.”
There was a time, when a US President would say to Pakistan, “JUMP,” and the Pakistan Government would respond, “HOW HIGH.” But, US has government under Mr. Obama’s Administration has mastered the art of shooting itself in the foot. It has a penchant to kicking its long time friends in the shins, while cavorting with their wily enemies, like in the case of India. One wonders whether the US government Foreign Policy is run by people with Ph.Ds. in Incompetence. The talking heads of Brookings and Stimson Centers are more interested in pushing their own Foreign Policy Agenda’s than the interests of the people of these United States. The key power group, which governs US Foreign Policy, is AIPAC, to which US interests are secondary as long as Zionists interests are being served. US Think Tanks, Academia, and the Zionists, who hurt US interests at the expense of their hidden agenda, heavily influence Press. Unfortunately, there is a tremendous blowback of this one point agenda, a manifestation of which is seen as the creation of an extremely hostile public reaction against the US in the Islamic world. US serve 20 million Jews, but neglects nearly 1.1 billion Muslims. Some Islamic countries have found other options to replace the benefits they received from US. In Pakistan, China has played a remarkable role in providing a shoulder to Pakistan, when, the US administration left it reeling under the chokehold of War on Terror. US Organizations blindly flailing away in a panic mode after 9/11 and making wrong decision and chasing shadows, until, t came to a point where the US paranoia amounted to building dungeons in air. Instead of searching for the root cause of this behemoth disaster, they became the judge, jury, and the investigators in fixing the blame, smack dab on whole of the Islamic World. This served as a bonanza to Zionists interests and the unleashed a tsunami of propaganda against the Islamic world on the organs of public opinion they controlled, such as TV (NBC, ABC, CBS, FOX), Newspapers like the New York Times a.k.a Jew York Times and its evil twin the Washington Post. Even local sources of news like TV news and Press started publishing the bylines written in the evil twins. Thus, Islam and Islamic Nations were demonized to the hilt. Every Jewish and Hindu Temple became a media hub and majority of news men and reporters in their congregation became news savant on the connection between Islam and 9/11.Everyone forgot, the attack on USS Liberty by Israelis to incite US to go to war against Egypt. BlackOPS are alive and well, but, ostrich like attitude of the only Global Power, cannot prevent them from happening over and over again. The lingering suspicions remain in the Islamic World that 9/11 was perpetrated to trigger a Crusade type War between the US, its Christian NATO Allies and the Islamic has proven true. Any person or organization when ventures to ask tough questions about 9/11 are mocked and made to appear as not credible by the same media and press, which serves the Zionists, instead of US interests. What is the outcome of such actions? Simply, that US is fast losing any friends it has in the Islamic world, except, a coterie of dictators, or “democratically,” elected leaders, like the corrupt Asif Zardari and Hamid Karzai. The latter keeps frightening the US government about the Bogeyman or Taliban, while under the covers rooting them on. Mubarak, Marcos, and Thieu of Vietnam have played this duplicitous game many times with the US. All this leads to the sacrifice of young American lives at the altar of arrogance and ignorance. Few, years, after such wars are over, US starts hobnobbing with the enemies, who killed their best and the brightest, case in point, Vietnam and Germany. When will US government learn not to shoots its own foot and differentiate between friends and enemies? Currently, India, which backstabbed US during the Soviet era is the darling of US Foreign Policy makers, however, little do they realize, that during times of stress or war for US,
India would bail out in a heartbeat. US Policy Makers should ask one question: How many Indians have died in US initiated Wars, including the War on Terror. The answer is ZERO. On the other hand Pakistan, the Non-NATO US Ally has lost 3000 soldiers and over 30,000 civilians in War on Terror. But, US continues to snuggle with the wily and conniving Indians, because they are too dumb to know that India is taking them to hell in a hand basket while laughing all the way to the bank. The NRI or Non-Resident Indians, even though they are US Citizens, break the Oath of US Citizenship, by calling themselves not US Citizens of Indian origin, but, they call themselves, Non Resident Indians or NRIs, so much for their loyalty to the US constitution. They steal US IT Programs, SAP, and Hardware designs and start competing companies in India. The call center denizens of Indian origin spy on US citizens credit reports and pass them on to unscrupulous fellow Indians to scam elderly US citizens. Thus US has lost its IF Radar, it cannot tell, a friend from foe and in doing so drives its steadfast friends like Pakistan to more reliable and trust worthy nations like China. In return Pakistan rewards its friend like China with access to its warm water ports like Gwader, Ormara, and Karachi. This access also connects the nations of the Middle East and Europe to a shorter sea cum land route to China via the all weather Karakoram Highway. As Shakespeare said in Julius Caesar:
There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat, And we must take the current when it serves. Or lose our ventures.
Julius Caesar Act 4, scene 3, 218–224
For the US the ship has already left the port!
March 11, 2013 
The job market is another consideration. Pakistan’s main trading partner is still the European Union, but trade with China reached $12 billion last year, up 18 percent from the previous year. China is also Pakistan’s main arms supplier. Beijing built two nuclear power plants in Pakistan and is contracted to construct two more reactors. There are an estimated 10,000 Chinese living in Pakistan. Last month, it also took control of Pakistan’s strategic port of Gwadar, which through an expanded Karakoram Highway could connect China to the Arabian Seaand Strait of Hormuz, a gateway for a third of the world’s traded oil.Posted by admin in Pakistan-A Nation of Hope on March 11th, 2013
Straight Talk – A leader is born? (Part 1).
After wandering in the wilderness of Pakistan’s murky politics for the last fifteen years, Imran (Inkelab) Khan has finally emerged onto centre stage as a leader who can perhaps change the destiny of this nation which has been at the mercy of corrupt, ‘Self Above All’ leaders for the last six decades.
After the late, charismatic ZAB and BB, IK is the only leader who has been able to mobilize the youth and the masses of this country on a national basis, rather then on ethnic and religious grounds. Something that we had witnessed in the restoration of the CJ of Pakistan and the Go Musharraf Go campaign.
The thousands of citizens, who had participated in the julsa at Minare-e-Pakistan, were from all walks of life and all parts of Pakistan. They were young and old, sick and crippled, rich and poor, the educated and the privileged and the only reason for them to be there was, that they saw in Imran a ray of hope and a leader who could perhaps change the destiny of this fragmented and divided nation.
The Julsa was not just a huge success, but through the massive turn out, it sent a strong message to the world that, we Pakistani’s can also stand united as a nation, provided we have a leader who is honest and sincere and whose politics are not based on lies, deceit and ethnicity, but are for the nation.
As one young participant had put it: ‘For those few hours, I felt my ethnic, provincial, and even professional identity being subsumed by my national one. It felt good to be a Pakistani. There was a sea of people shouting, clapping, laughing, dancing and waving flags’.
‘They came in waves and kept on coming. Men, women, teenagers, children, a teeming multitude, that blended into one massive, pulsating mass of synchronized humanity’.
‘As the lights of Minto Park ignited, there was a deafening roar, thunderous drumbeats and booming motivational music. The air was infectious and the mood contagious, mesmerizing and electrifying’.
The size of the crowd stunned everyone, including Imran and his party workers and shocked our opposition leaders and put them on notice, that there is now a new kid in Pakistan’s politics, who could finally break the strangle hold that they have had on the nation for six decades.
The citizens have finally realized that our leaders are not honest and sincere and sing the mantra of democracy, only to have the freedom to amass wealth for themselves and loot and plunder the nation.
Our leaders and even the nation have forgotten the teachings of the Holy Quran that warns us that, ILLEGAL WEALTH IS A CURSE, AS IT DESTROYS THE SOULS OF ALL WHO — — USE IT. As such, the virus of corruption has also destroyed the soul and morals of the nation.
IK has taken on a mammoth task, as changing the mindset of a nation which lacks ethics and moral values, is not going to be easy. It will be a tough and up hill task for him to pull the nation out of the quicksand that has been sucking it into its dark depth for the last six decades.
As such, my humble suggestion to Imran Khan would be:
Your time has come, so use it wisely and with a positive mind set. Do not waste your energy in talking about bad governance, corruption, hidden assets, etc., of our leaders, as the entire nation, including the SCP is aware of it. Leave that now to the courts and the TV channels.
Do not join the Gold Rush like others, by demanding early elections, as you too will be accused of being a power hungry leader who derailed democracy. Leave it to the other parties and use the remaining months to consolidate your team and prepare PTI’s Manifesto.
It will not be easy to dislodge the ‘Professional Politicians’ and their jyalas, who have been running this country as their personal fiefdom and using the citizens as their dispensable pawns in their deadly chess game to retain a hold on power.
The present lot of horses and mules who manage our institutions, will also not allow you to bring in the reforms that are needed to improve the system of governance.
They will use every dirty trick in the book to malign, shame and embarrass you and your family. Even your party members will not be spared, as you are a threat to them, their illegal wealth and their survival. They will need just one corrupt person or a scandal in your team of advisors to destroy your credibility, for as they say, one bad apple can spoil the entire barrel.
Avoid the politics of confrontation, protests, dahrnas, strikes, etc., as they hurt the already crippled economy and each strike costs the nation Rs 30 billion a day. Avoid hollow slogans, false promises and playing to the galleries.
Instead, urge the nation to work hard to rebuild the country’s economy and urge the youth of the country to be good, honest, hard working, responsible and disciplined students and give their best.
Choose your team of wise men and women with extreme care. They must be chosen on the basis of honesty, merits and must be experienced and competent in their respective fields, with a proven track record.
Form your shadow government and concentrate on how you will establish good governance, the rule of law, transparent, impartial, across the board accountability and rebuild the nation’s destroyed institutions and collapsed infrastructure.
Ask your Council of Elders to prepare strong anti-corruption and accountability laws, with a zero tolerance policy, that will cleanse the termites that manage and run our ministries and institutions.
Let them work independently and tell them to draw up the nation’s major policies and on how to improve the quality of lives of the Forgotten People of Pakistan, the poor, uneducated and the underprivileged citizens, who are the real stake holders of this country.
Prepare policies on judicial and police reforms and those that will strengthen the pillars of good governance and democracy, so that by the time the date for the elections are announced, you have a manifesto to present to the nation.
There is already a ‘Get Imran’ campaign. However, some of the questions that are being raised are quite valid and shared by many citizens, including myself and need to be addressed, so get your act together.
But more on Questions to the Great Khan next week.
Hamid Maker. (Email: [email protected]).
Posted by admin in EXPATRIATE PAKISTANIS SPEAK-UP, Hypocrites in Islam, Looters and Scam Artists, Pakistan's Hall of Shame, Pakistan-A Nation of Hope on March 10th, 2013
LETTER TO EDITOR
March 9th, 2013
Rulers’ Spiritual Rulers
There must be some real compelling reason for the PM to make a dash to Ajmer, India to pay homage in person to the Sufi saint at a crucial transitory time when his presence was most warranted in the country. We hope it is his personal visit and not paid by the exchequer. Our president too had made the same pilgrimage and even donated a million dollars to the Dargah, whose Mutawali had to come to Islamabad to get the payment expedited which had been somewhat delayed! The late BB was also known to call on various Pirs for their blessings including one in Bangla Desh who allegedly patted her with his danda to administer the blessings. I don’t know why our rulers spend millions on visiting foreign Pirs when there is no dearth of home grown Pirs in our own beloved country, such as; the Nanga Pir, Damri Pir, Suhaba Pir, Baba Pir, Pir Chup Wardi Waly, Kawaan wali Sarkar, Kahu wali Sarkar, Chadar wali Sarkar, Saeen Saheili Sarkar, Gali Wala Ba ba, Pir Baba Zinda, etal, just to name a very very few from the hundreds that can be viewed onhttp://www.aulia-e-pakistan.
The kind of reverence shown by our rulers to their pirs is amazing. Late P.M. Janejo used to walk bare footed while presenting himself to the late Pir Pagaro and did not turn his back towards the Pir while tracing his steps back!
Incidentally, our Gujar Khan born and Sangarh bred PM has quite a few Pirs of his own – one being the Bokahris of Ahmed Pur Sharqia in whose presence he dare not sit on a chair !!
I sincerely request our rulers to ask their Pirs to bless them with some vision also to rule sagaciously and honestly and not bless them with the chairs only!
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
Col. Riaz Jafri (Retd)
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Rawalpindi 46000
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Posted by admin in Asif Zardari Crook Par Excellance, Corruption, Looters and Scam Artists, Pakistan's Hall of Shame on March 10th, 2013
Zardari in JerusalemZardari expands his circle of foreign countries and goes on a state visit to Israel. While on tour in Jerusalem, he suffers a heart attack and passes away.The undertaker tells the accompanying people, ‘You can have him shipped home for US$5,000,000, or you can bury him here, in the Holy Land, for just US$100.’
The Pakistanis go into a huddle and whisper to each other for a minute. They come back to the undertaker and tell him they want zardari shipped home. The undertaker is puzzled and asks, ‘Why would you spend $5,000,000 to ship him home, when it would be wonderful to be buried here and you would spend only $100? ‘With the money you save you could buy enough diesel for your generators, buy enough medicines to wipe out dengue fever, buy enough generators to never have blackouts again.’The Pakistanis replied, ‘Long ago a man named JESUS died here, was buried here, and three days later he rose from the dead. ‘We just can’t take that kind of a chance with this man.’
Posted by admin in China, Joint Defense Developments, Our Heroes, Pakistan-A Nation of Hope, SHINING CHINA on March 8th, 2013
Courtesy: Dr. Rashid Ahmad Khan, China.org.cn
The leaderships of Pakistan and China realize the need to provide a solid base to already strong Pakistan-China friendship that goes beyond bilateral trade and economic cooperation and promotes cultural relations and people-to-people contacts.
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The leaderships of Pakistan and China realize the need to provide a solid base to already strong Pakistan-China friendship that goes beyond bilateral trade and economic cooperation and promotes cultural relations and people-to-people contacts. Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani’s recent visit to China and his address at Taihu World Cultural Forum are clear pointers in this direction.
Pakistan was the first Muslim, and the third non-communist, country to accord diplomatic recognition to China in 1951. Since then, bilateral relations between Pakistan and China have continued to grow, encompassing defence, security, trade, economic cooperation, energy, infrastructure, water management, mining, agriculture, education, transport, communications, science and technology.
With Chinese help, Pakistan has built two nuclear reactors at Chashma, and during President Zardari’s first visit in 2008, China pledged to help Pakistan construct two new nuclear reactors at Chashma. The two nuclear power plants will generate 640 megawatts of power and will help overcome the critical energy crisis in Pakistan. The project is a part of Government of Pakistan’s Vision 2030, which includes plans for generating 8000 megawatts of power from nuclear plants.
Pakistan and China share a rare unanimity of views on regional and international issues and the two countries enjoy a robust relationship in the defence, political and diplomatic fields. However, the extent of relationship in these areas is not reflected in economic and commercial ties.
Realizing the need to expand trade and economic relations, the two countries have taken initiatives to promote cooperation through investment and joint projects. As a result, economic cooperation between Pakistan and China has shown spectacular progress during the last 10-15 years. Between 2000 and 2010 the volume of bilateral trade grew sevenfold. The two sides plan to increase trade to $10 billion within five years. But that is still far below the potential figure. Currently Chinese companies are working on 250 projects in Pakistan. Some of these are mega projects jointly undertaken by Pakistan and China, including the Thar coal project, the Bhasha Dam, the widening of Karakoram Highway, the Gwader deep sea port and the Saindak gold and copper project.
During Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s recent visit to Pakistan, he was accompanied by 260 Chinese business executives. During the visit the two sides concluded deals worth $35 billion. The agreements covered the energy sector, bilateral trade, exploration of natural resources and development of the agriculture, livestock, finance and banking sectors. An important achievement of Premier Wen’s visit was the signing of a MoU between China’s Three Gorges Corporation and Pakistan’s Alternative Energy Development Board for a joint venture on wind power and solar energy projects. The Joint Statement issued at the end of Premier Wen’s visit talked of the determination to “enhance their strategic coordination, advance pragmatic cooperation and work together to meet challenges in pursuit of common development.”
One of the most significant signals of long term strategic partnership is the Gwader deep sea port built with Chinese technical and financial help. Gwader lies at the mouth of the Persian Gulf – the source of 40 percent of the world’s oil. The port will allow China to secure oil and gas supplies from the Persian Gulf and project its power in the Indian Ocean. China has financed 80 percent of the $300 million cost, and is also funding the construction of a rail-road network connecting China with the port through Central Asia and Pakistan, turning Pakistan into an energy and trade corridor for China. The oil and gas supply line through Pakistan is a safer, shorter and cheaper alternative route to the Malacca Straits, which is vulnerable to attacks by pirates and passes through a region dominated by the United States. The importance of Gwader for China can be gauged from the fact that China is the largest consumer of oil after the United States. Its consumption is expected to double by 2025 with 70 percent coming from the Middle East and the Persian Gulf. Gwader offers the closest access point to these regions for China. Gwader will provide an overland energy corridor to the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, shortening the journey by 12000 miles. The route will also bring substantial benefits to Pakistan, making it one of the region’s largest energy players. According to one estimate, Pakistan will be earning $60 billion a year in transit fees in 20 years time.
There is vast potential for deepening the Pakistan-China strategic partnership. The current trends in relations show a greater focus on promoting cultural exchanges, people-to-people contacts, and expanding trade and investment ties and economic cooperation. This will, in turn, further strengthen the security and defence links between the two countries, which are a firm guarantee for peace and security in the region.
Dr. Rashid Ahmad Khan is a professor and chairman of the Department of International Relations/Political Science and also dean, Faculty of Arts, Social Sciences and Law, University of Sargodha-Pakistan.
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