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Sardarji’s Question to a Modern Mulla

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GOOD GOVERNANCE FORUM: CHANGE NEVER COMES: IT IS MADE TO COME

CHANGE NEVER COMES: IT IS MADE TO COME

Nothing will come out of the Judicial Commission on Hamid Mir. Nothing ever came out of the judicial commissions in the past. So, let us not fool ourselves into believing that we will know the truth. It will never come out. Judiciary has all along been a part of the ruling class from the days of Chief Justice Munir who inflicted the curse of the ‘Doctrine of Necessity’ on the nascent democracy in 1954. That curse haunted us for the past half a century and may haunt us for the next half a century, with or without Article 6, UNLESS we stand up and say NO to it and also provide a sustainable alternate solution.

All state organs are dependent on public support for their survival. Unless the survival is ensured, it will be foolish to expect independence, integrity and honour and other attributes of the angels from the earthly souls.

Way back in 1977, I had a courtesy call on the Election Cell in the PM House. A top aide of the prime minister remarked in front of half a dozen persons that ‘yeh high court kay judges tu bechare apni choti choti mara’aat kay liye hamare aage beeche phirte rehte hain.‘ If I remember correctly, the remark was made in response to somebody’s comment over a probable writ petition in some high court over some issue. That was the level of respect being accorded to the members of the judiciary. That still continues. Only the shade and the shadow changed. The least said, the better. 

It is an irony (not necessarily of fate) that the media that is supposed to represent the public stooped so low as to attempt defaming one of the most respected institutions of the country for their own vested interests. I know the history of Jang Group from the day it was born. The least said, the better.

As far as the politicians are concerned, they have a love-and-hate relationship with the army. They worship the army when they embark on its shoulders and curse it when they are disembarked. The least said, the better.

Last but not least, where is the public? The mindset has changed but only in a part of the general public. That’s the youth of Pakistan. I remember how the LUMS students stood up when the Good Governance Forum launched the first ever online campaign against the removal of the then CJP by the former president Pervez Musharraf in 2007. That change has sustained and its effects geometrically progressed over the past seven years. It was the change that propelled the huge voter turnout in the last May elections in Pakistan, leaving aside the fact that the youth’s votes were stolen at many places. I repeatedly tell the youth that they must not be disheartened by the robbery. That is again a part of the process of change.

Pakistan has been undergoing the change over the past seven years, in particular. The outcry over the Geo’s onslaught on the army and the ISI manifested on social media is an undeniable reflection of the change. It is time to harness the change and lead the youth onto the ultimate destination. And the ultimate destination is good governance; the only solution to Pakistan’s woes.  Leading the youth is again our job: the job of the elders who are competent, courageous and committed. Where are those elders? I am still searching for those souls: couldn’t find even one hundred of them in last seven years. 

Prayers alone don’t work. Niyat, irada and koshish are mandatory. Only then, success is promised by the Almighty.

Mumtaz A. Piracha

Founder/Chairman

Good Governance Forum

Leading the Way to the Challenge of Change in Pakistan
Email:      [email protected]

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WHO ELSE CAN BE CALLED GHADDAR I WATTAN. THE  MIR JAFFAR OF PAKISTAN

How will they display these awards in their drawing rooms or lounge? What explanation will they give to their children or will they train them on their own lines, like their parents did.



GHADAAR-I-AZAM: BETRAYED HIS NATION TO THE ENEMY

 

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FRONTAL ASSAULT ON ISI & PAKISTAN: Jang Group Contacts Iftikhar Chaudhry & Pervaiz Rashid for Their help to save Geo TV from Ban

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Islamabad, April 23 (Pak Destiny) The Jang group has contacted former chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry for his help to rescue Geo News from getting off air.

As Defence ministry had filed a complaint in the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority for cancellation of Geo News license for maligning ISI on the issue of anchor Hamid Mir.
The Jang group has sent Ansar Abbasi to Iftikhar Chaudhry pleading him to speak to his friends in judiciary and stop the move to cancel Geo’s license.
Abbasi was an undeclared media spokesman of Iftikhar during his tenure as chief justice of the country.
Now Geo News is facing ban, it is using all its contacts in the government and outside the government.
Apart from Iftikhar, the Geo is largely banking on information minister Pervaiz Rashid who assured that he will go for all out help to save Geo from any ban. Rashid also said he had love for media (Geo).
It will be interesting to see how Iftikhar Chaudhry asks his friends in present judiciary to save its ‘five-year-old relationship with the group’. Iftikhar during his tenure openly patronized Jang group despite criticism from other media groups. – Pak Destiny

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Kalat Operation: Countering Anti-State Baloch Elements

                                  Kalat Operation: Countering Anti-State Baloch Elements

                                                               By Sajjad Shaukat

 

 

Shaheed-i-Pakistan

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Every patriotic Baloch knows that the Kalat search operation in the Balochistan province of Pakistan is against the foreign funded and foreign sponsored anti-state outfits like Baloch Liberation Army, United Baloch Army and Baloch Republican Army. These groups are involved in killing of innocent and poor Pakistanis in train bomb blasts, destruction of national assets like gas pipelines, railway lines etc. The aims of these suverisve acts are to weaken the state, public infrastructure, while coercing the economy to fulfill external agenda of the US, India and some western powers.

 

Farrari camps (Hideouts), located in far off mountains of Balochistan are sanctuaries for these terrorists where they have a lavish living. Sophisticated equipments and gadgets have been recovered from these areas including non detectable satellite phones, solar panels and state of the art weapons. Their defenses are well-planned and weapon system—sited in a deliberate well-organized manner. There is clear proof of external hands, because no indigenous movement or group can afford to have such high-technological weapons and sophisticated gadgets.

 

In the recent past, bomb blast in Jaffar Express resulted into killing of the innocent Pakistanis, especially the Baloch and Pakhtuns, while the poor were travelling in the cheapest mode of conveyance. The perpetrators were the Baloch sub-nationalists who have lost sense of morality and human compassion. Foreign secret agencies can easily buy their loyalties, as they sell themselves for petty gains and readily fulfill the objectives of their foreign masters.

 

It is notable that India, US and Israel have been internationalizing the Balochistan issue in accordance with their secret goals. In this respect, in connivance with the Baloch separatist leaders who have taken refuge in Switzerland, Sweden, US and London, these external entities use media, various NGOs and human rights organizations for false propaganda against Pakistan’s armed forces including other security agencies in relation to extrajudicial killings, mutilated bodies and the missing persons.

Editor’s Note: Switzerland,Sweden, US and UK, have a duplicitous policy, where they raise Cain over Pakistan hiding terrorists; while at the same time providing them safe havens in non-NATO but Christian countries like Switzerland and Sweden. NATO, itself is a Christian Alliance against Islamic nations(a throwback to Medieval Crusader Mentality.Crusades have not ended. The Nith and Tenth crusade are currently in progress with Muslim Nations like Yemen,Iraq, Iran, Algeria, Somalia, Pakistan and Afghanistan at the reciving end.) that is why Turkey, a secular but Muslim nation has NOT been admitted to NATO, as a full member. Religious Bigotry,Christian Fundamentalism, and outright Racism is thriving under an Invisible Cloak in the most Liberal, so-called Western (Christian Nations) Nations, who are prodded on by global Zionism( which fails to understand that the same bigotry against Muslims could turn on a dime against global Jewry. A clear proof of Anti-Semitism in West is the presence of thousands of Anti-Semitic websites located in Western nations from US, UK, to France, Sweden and Norway.

 

While, regarding aggravated situation of Balochistan and the missing persons, everyone knows that Balochistan Liberation Army and Baloch sub-nationalist including another group, Jundollah (God’s soldiers) which have been fighting for secession of the province gets logistic support from American CIA and Indian RAW—these militants kidnapped and killed many innocent people and thesecurity personnel in the province. They also massacred many persons through suicide attacks, bomb blasts, targeted killings and sectarian violence. Therefore, they are responsible for dumped bodies and extrajudicial killings in the province. On a number of occasions, these insurgent groups claimed responsibility for their subversive acts. A majority of the disappeared individuals are also in the detention centers which are being run by Baloch feudal lords (Sardars) who want to continue old system of feudalism in the province.

 

It is because of these reasons that during the missing persons’ case, nothing was proved in the Supreme Court of Pakistan against the armed forces and other security agencies. There are only a few anti-state Baloch separatists and Sardars, who are exploiting the situation in their own favour. In fact, these anti-Pakistan elements are creating hype on the issue of missing persons in order to distort the image of the country, all the Baloch and Pak Army at national and international level so as to obtain their own vested interest. Giving undue importance to the missing persons’ case by these few hostile entities is a diversionary tactics to downplay the actual issues of Balochistan, affecting the common Baloch populace. Thus, they have not only been misguing the loyal Baloch, but are also diverting the attention of the majority of the people from the construtive and progressive works, conducted by the government and the Army in Balochistan.

 

In this context, Government of Pakistan and the Army have sincere desire to address all the issues of the angry Baloch, who are being misguided by the anti-state outfits.

 

As a result of the general elections 2013, the government led by the nationalist leader Chief Minister Balochistan Dr Abdul Malik Baloch was established in Balochistan, while on December 7, 2013; local bodies elections were largely held in a peaceful manner in the province. However, these elections proved that majority of the Baloch are loyal to the federation, and do not favour separation of the Balachistan, as they have rejected the case of separatists, being projected by anti-Pakistan powers.

 

It is mentionable that a Gallup survey of the UK official body, DFID, conducted on July 20, 212, had disclosed that the vast majority of the Baloch people oppose the idea of an independent Balochistan. This survey has also proved that some external elements have been conducting acts of sabotage in the province by backing the minority groups.

 

Nevertheless, projects relating to the socio-economic uplift has been top priority of Government of Pakistan. In 2013, Rs. 43.19 billions on account of Development Fund were given to the elected Baloch leadership of the provincial assembly. But, benefits of the second development programme funds, issued to MNAs and MPAs of Balochistan are not trickling down to common Baloch. No doubt, a huge amount has been provided to the Baloch political leadership, but no significant development project has been initiated in Balochistan. It is entirely up to the concerned Baloch Sardars or Nawabs to ensure that a common Baloch reaps the benefits of development. They should implement the development project as per plan.

 

As regards the positive role of Army, in 2011, I had visited Balochistan along with other journalists. I saw a number of institutes, set up by army, and these were providing education, especially technical training to thousands of Balochis. Besides other developments works, Pak Army was also imparting army training to the Baloch youth. So, the purpose of army is to uplift the Baloch people with creation of jobs and to bring them in the mainstream of the country. However, I had also a trip to far-flung areas of the province and witnessed various mega projects and mineral sites, protected by the armed forces. People also told me that subversive events are being arranged by the minority separatist elements so as to create chaotic situation in the province.

 

Pakistan’s armed forces and law-enforcing agencies are ready to sacrifice their lives to save their Balochi brethren from foreign sponsored anti-state Baloch sub-nationalists. In this respect, Pakistan Army’s relief efforts in Awaraan Earthquake is testimony of their resolve to sacrifice everything for helping Baloch brothers in distress, agony and grief.  

Now, it is the duty of our Baloch brothers to identify these anti-state elements which are sponsoring terrorism in Balochistan and get secluded from them. The armed sub-nationalist elements are defaming patriotic Baloch by committing heinous crimes. Honorable Baloch brethren should get united and put up a collective response to counter these elements by undermining their nefarious designs, aimed at destabilizing the state of Pakistan and tarnishing its image including that of the armed foces. The loyalist Balochis must know that separatist entities of the province are bringing bad name to the noble people of Balochistan, and therefore must be condemned assertively.  

 

Undoubtedly, the Baloch are patriotic Pakistanis, but they must not be indoctrinated by the anti-state elements’ propaganda by becoming reluctant, having reservations over priorities set by the federal and provincial governments for their benefits.

 

Nonetheless, it is the duty of every Pakistani, and in particular every Balochi including members of the civil society and the media persons to give a matching response to the hostile entities of Balochistan. In this connection, by countering anti-state Baloch elements, they must draw a clear picture of the province regarding Kalat operation and other efforts, made by the civil and military authorities for the benefits of Balochistan.

 

Sajjad Shaukat writes on international affairs and is author of the book: US vs Islamic Militants, Invisible Balance of Power: Dangerous Shift in International Relations

Email: [email protected]

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