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After President Dwight D. Eisenhower announced “ATOMS FOR PEACE” program in 1953, and in that connection wanted to set up a Research Nuclear Reactor for Signatories of CENTO or Baghdad Pact Countries in Baghdad , Iraq , it sent shivers down the spines of the Zionists. Since that day they started working on two tracks: (1) threatening any Muslim nation to possess Nukes or even attempt to acquire nuclear knowledge, and (2) start a campaign to malign and kill scientists (many Iraqi scientists have been assassinated) , and at the same time scare people living in the West through Hollywood Movies , Books, and articles to make sure that no Muslim country is capable of acquiring these devices or knowledge. In that effort, the pace of such hate filled activity was hastened after the events of 2001, as indicated by the following publications as cited below
Barnes & Noble.com – Books: The Deception, by Adrian Levy, Hardcover
Levy being a Jewish author, has left no stone unturned to “name people” involved and nothing about Indian or Israeli Nuclear programs. I bought this book, and found it very damaging and surprising to find names of people who have provided damaging information to these two authors.
Following is one of the Book Review for the book “DECEPTION,” (described above), Publisher: Walker & Company, New York, Pub. Date: October 2007. (608 –pages) ISBN-13: 9780802715548
d.. Sales Rank: 52,196
a.. Synopsis
The shocking, three-decade story of A. Q. Khan and Pakistan’s nuclear program, and the complicity of the United States in the spread of nuclear weaponry.
On December 15, 1975, A. Q. Khan—a young Pakistani scientist working in Holland—stole top-secret blueprints for a revolutionary new process to arm a nuclear bomb. His original intention, and that of his government, was purely patriotic—to provide Pakistan a counter to India’s recently unveiled nuclear device. However, as Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark chillingly relate in their masterful investigation of Khan’s career over the past thirty years, over time that limited ambition mushroomed into the world’s largest clandestine network engaged in selling nuclear secrets—a mercenary and illicit program managed by the Pakistani military and made possible, in large part, by aid money from the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Libya, and by indiscriminate assistance from China.
Most unnerving, the authors reveal that the sales of nuclear weapons technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya, so much in the news today, were made with the clear knowledge of the American government, for whom Pakistan has been a crucial buffer state and ally—first against the Soviet Union, now in the “war against terror….” Every successive American presidency, from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush, has turned a blind eye to Pakistan’s nuclear activity—rewriting and destroying evidence provided by its intelligence agencies, lying to Congress and the American people about Pakistan’s intentions and capability, and facilitating, through shortsightedness andintent, the spread of the very weapons we vilify the “axis of evil” powers for having and fear terrorists will obtain. Deception puts our current standoffs with Iran and North Korea in a startling new perspective, and makes clear two things: that Pakistan, far from being an ally, is a rogue nation at the epicenter of world destabilization; and that the complicity of theUnited States has ushered in a new nuclear winter.
Based on hundreds of interviews in the United States, Pakistan, India, Israel, Europe, andSoutheast Asia, Deception is a masterwork of reportage and dramatic storytelling by two of the world’s most resourceful investigative journalists. Urgently important, it should stimulate debate and command a reexamination of our national priorities.
Publishers Weekly
Earlier this year, William Langewiesche’ s The Atomic Bazaar alerted readers to the blind eye the United States and other nations have turned toward Pakistan’s efforts to build a nuclear bomb and to sell that technology to other nations, including the entire “Axis of Evil.” Levy and Scott-Clark (The Amber Room) work on a larger canvas, shaping their in-depth reporting into a compelling and more detailed narrative. They have not truly improved upon Langewiesche’ s portrait of A.Q. Khan, the metallurgist who became “Pakistan’s biggest and most valuable personality” after smuggling atomic secrets out of the Netherlands.. But they do substantially support the idea that the nuclear program influenced Pakistan’s internal power struggles, and that American government officials led disinformation campaigns for 30 years in order to hang onto the nation as a dubious ally against first the Soviets and then al-Qaeda. The authors also hint at the possible involvement of Paul Wolfowitz and Scooter Libby in an attempt to discredit an intelligence analyst who spoke frankly of the Pakistani threat during the first Bush administration. Building on a decade’s worth of interviews, the husband-and- wife investigative term serve a stunning indictment of “the nuclear crime of all our lifetimes,” in which, the authors claim, the U.S. has been an active accessory. (Oct.)
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Biography
Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark are internationally renowned and award-winning investigative journalists who worked as staff writers and foreign correspondents for the Sunday Times of London for seven years before joining the Guardian as senior correspondents. They are the authors of two highly acclaimed books, The Amber Room: The Fate of the World’s Greatest Lost Treasure, and The Stone of Heaven: Unearthing the Secret History of Imperial Green Jade. They have reported from South Asia for more than a decade, and now live in London and in France.
On December 15, 1975, A. Q. Khan—a young Pakistani scientist working in Holland—stole top-secret blueprints for a revolutionary new process to arm a nuclear bomb. His original intention, and that of his government, was purely patriotic—to provide Pakistan a counter to India’s recently unveiled nuclear device. However, as Adrian Levy and Catherine Scott-Clark chillingly relate in their masterful investigation of Khan’s career over the past thirty years, over time that limited ambition mushroomed into the world’s largest clandestine network engaged in selling nuclear secrets—a mercenary and illicit program managed by the Pakistani military and made possible, in large part, by aid money from the United States, Saudi Arabia, and Libya, and by indiscriminate assistance from China.
Most unnerving, the authors reveal that the sales of nuclear weapons technology to Iran, North Korea, and Libya, so much in the news today, were made with the clear knowledge of the American government, for whom Pakistan has been a crucial buffer state and ally—first against the Soviet Union, now in the “war against terror…” Every successive American presidency, from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush, has turned a blind eye to Pakistan’s nuclear activity—rewriting and destroying evidence provided by its intelligence agencies, lying to Congress and the American people about Pakistan’s intentions and capability, and facilitating, through shortsightedness andintent, the spread of the very weapons we vilify the “axis of evil” powers for having and fear terrorists will obtain. Deception puts our current standoffs with Iran and North Korea in a startling new perspective, and makes clear two things: that Pakistan, far from being an ally, is a rogue nation at the epicenter of world destabilization; and that the complicity of theUnited States has ushered in a new nuclear winter.
Based on hundreds of interviews in the United States, Pakistan, India, Israel, Europe, andSoutheast Asia, Deception is a masterwork of reportage and dramatic storytelling by two of the world’s most resourceful investigative journalists. Urgently important, it should stimulate debate and command a reexamination of our national priorities.
Publishers Weekly
Earlier this year, William Langewiesche’ s The Atomic Bazaaralerted readers to the blind eye theUnited States and other nations have turned toward Pakistan’s efforts to build a nuclear bomb and to sell that technology to other nations, including the entire “Axis of Evil.” Levy and Scott-Clark (The Amber Room) work on a larger canvas, shaping their in-depth reporting into a compelling and more detailed narrative. They have not truly improved upon Langewiesche’ s portrait of A.Q. Khan, the metallurgist who became “Pakistan’s biggest and most valuable personality” after smuggling atomic secrets out of the Netherlands. But they do substantially support the idea that the nuclear program influenced Pakistan’s internal power struggles, and that American government officials led disinformation campaigns for 30 years in order to hang onto the nation as a dubious ally against first the Soviets and then al-Qaeda. The authors also hint at the possible involvement of Paul Wolfowitz and Scooter Libby in an attempt to discredit an intelligence analyst who spoke frankly of the Pakistani threat during the first Bush administration. Building on a decade’s worth of interviews, the husband-and- wife investigative term serve a stunning indictment of “the nuclear crime of all our lifetimes,” in which, the authors claim, the U.S. has been an active accessory. (Oct.)
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Kirkus Reviews
British journalists Levy and Scott-Clark (The Amber Room: The Fate of the World’s Greatest Lost Treasure, 2004, etc.) offer persuasive evidence that the United States looked the other way for years while Pakistan developed a nuclear bomb and exported weapons technology to Iran, North Korea and other enemies of the West. In the early 1970s, write the authors, Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan stole European centrifuge technology to enrich uranium and developed his secret research laboratory in Kahuta. Years later, the mercurial Khan would give a sham public confession to having run a black market in nuclear weapons on his own, when in fact he worked for Pakistan’s military government. The authors provide detailed accounts of Khan’s dealings with Western suppliers, his relations with a succession of his country’s leaders and his wooing of customers in “Axis of Evil” and other nations. Most alarming in this mind-boggling expose are the deliberate efforts by U.S.administrations from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush to conceal the fact that Pakistan even had a nuclear bomb. Needing the Pakistanis as allies against the Soviets in Afghanistan and later in the “war on terror,” the presidents lied to Congress that the Islamic nation had no nuclear weapons (making it possible to give Pakistan billions of dollars in aid, some of which Khan diverted to his nuclear program), helped Pakistan circumvent laws against procurement in the United States and destroyed documents that might shed light on the situation, all the while touting a non-proliferation policy. The silencing of former CIA and Pentagon analyst Richard Barlow, the leading in-house expert on Pakistan’s weapons program, who fought to bring thetruth to Congress, is one of many outrages recounted in this tale of expediency run amok. The authors also note that the “greatest nuclear scandal of our age” continues, with Pakistan still buying and selling nuclear technology, heightening American vulnerability to nuclear terrorism. Simultaneously astonishing, maddening and absolutely frightening.
[edit] Notes
William J. Broad, David E. Sanger, and Raymond Bonner, “A Tale of
Nuclear Proliferation: How Pakistani Built His Network”, New York Times (12
February 2004): A1.
“Dr AQ Khan provided centrifuges to N. Korea”, Dawn , 25 August 2005
About Dr. Khan’s education, achievements and research
http://www.draqkhan.com.pk/about. htm
“AQ Khan relative held over attack”,BBC News, 12 August 2005
“CIA asked us to let nuclear spy go, Ruud Lubbers claims”, Expactica , 9
August 2005
Kahuta, Khan Research Laboratories, A.Q. Khan Laboratories, Engineering
Research Laboratories (ERL), Federation of American Scientists (FAS), accessed
July 3, 2007
A.Q. Khan’s responses to an article in the British Observer, quoted by
William Langewiesche in “The Wrath of Khan,” The Atlantic, November 2005
John Lancaster and Kamran Khan, Musharraf Named in Nuclear Probe: Senior
Pakistani Army Officers Were Aware of Technology Transfers, Scientist Says“,
Washington Post, February 3, 2004
David Rohde and David Sanger, “Key Pakistani is Said to Admit Atom
Transfers”, New York Times, 2 February 2004: A1.
Bill Powell and Tim McGirk, “The Man Who Sold the Bomb; How Pakistan‘s
A.Q. Khan outwitted Western intelligence to build a global nuclear-smuggling
ring that made the world a more dangerous place”, Time Magazine , 14 February
2005, p. 22.
Craig S. Smith, “Roots of PakistanAtomic Scandal Traced to Europe“, New
York Times , 19 February 2004, page A3
The transcript of the speech is available online at “President Announces New
Measures to Counter the Threat of WMD”,address by President George W. Bush at
the National Defense University, February 11, 2004
David E. Sanger, “Pakistan Leader Confirms Nuclear Exports,” New York Times,13 September 2005, p. A10
Ron Moreau and Zahid Hussain, “Chain of Command; The Military: Musharraf dodged a bullet, but could be heading for a showdown with his Army“, Newsweek, 16 February 2004, p. 20.
“A Q Khan did not act alone” says Hans Blix team
Shyam Bhatia, “Khan’s daughter leaves country with important documents”,
February 16, 2004
“Disgraced Pakistani scientist’s health poor”, Reuters, October 30, 2006
Munir Ahmad, “Pakistan Eases Curbs on A.Q. Khan”, Associated Press, July 2, 2007
[edit] External links & Articles
“The Wrath of Khan”, The Atlantic Monthly, November 2005.
“Unraveling the A. Q. Khan and Future Proliferation Networks”, The Washington
Quarterly, Spring 2005.
“Tracking the technology”, Nuclear Engineering International, 31 August 2004.
“BBC profile”, BBC.co.uk, 20 February 2004.
Full Text of Khan’s Apology aired February 4, 2004 on PTV.
“Pakistan‘s Nuclear Father, Master Spy”,MSNBC, October 24, 2003.
“Kahuta – Pakistan Special Weapons Facilities”, Federation of American
Scientists.
‘I seek your pardon’ http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/ Story/0,, 1141630,00. html
“U.S. Aides See Troubling Trend In China-Pakistan Nuclear Ties; Program’s
History Could Be A Factor as Sanctions Are Weighed”, Washington Post, April 1,
1996
Musharraf’s speech in Honour of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan. Pakistan Government
site.
Exclusive Interview with Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan (Urdu). UrduPoint Network.
Successful Pakistanis Around The World. Friends Korner.
Online Books
Islamic Atomic Bomb for sale in World Black Market, by RV Bhasin. R.V. Bhasin…
Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan and NuclearPakistan by Shahid Nazir Choudhry (Urdu).
Urdupoint.
The Debriefing of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan by Zahid Malik (Urdu). Millat.
Interviews
WHO IS THE REAL FATHER OFPAKISTAN‘S NUCLEAR PROGRAM?Interview of Dr.Samar Mubarak-Head of PakistanMissile Program in WMDs & Missiles by Hamid Mir. Retrieved from http://en.wikipedia .org/wiki/ Abdul_Qadeer_ Khan
HOLLYWOOD also joined in this CRUSADE to demonize ISLAM and Pakistan. The first movie depicting the OBL’s footsoldiers carrying a suitcase bomb, who entered tyhe New York City was produced as Docu-drama, in which a U. S. Senator, Kay Baliey Hutchieson (R-TX) also acted out a part.
Everyone has heard the name of Jose Padilla who was locked under trumped up chasrges of using such a suit-case bomb. But thus far the public has not been shown a shred of evidence that he ever acquired or had in his posession any radio-active material, but he is still undergoing toture while incarverated. It has become so scary that even someone bringing a polished gem as a soveier, might contain some traces of radioactive material that might trigger the sensors at the airports accusing that person being a terrorist. We the scientists know that with scientific knowledge that we possess today, the abuse of this knowledge occurs for Covert operations, such as dropping Bio-logical agents to cause famine & disease, and creating artificial rain by Cloud seeding that can trigger floods, mudslides, etc. Simlarly, we know for a fact that when a nuclear test is made it creates an artificial earth-quake (just use google yo search for scientific information about bunker-buster nukes). We now have sophisticated Drones and even Satellite guided ma-less submarines to deliver such weapons as shown in Popular Mechancs Magazine of July, 2006 and others., boasting their capabilities to justify the defense spending to the American tax-payers.
The Earth-quake in December 1985, did not leave a signature that is typical of a natural disaster, but observed to be an artificial man-made event mostlikely created by a deep earth perntrating explosive device disturbing the known existing geological fault, creating this sesmic event of tremendous magnitude,.for obvious reasons most likely to kill two brids with one stone (1) the rebels hiding in the Northern States, wreaking havoc for NATO troops, and (2) per chance likelihood of damaging the nuclear reactor in Islamabad.
As Symour Hersh pointed out in New Yorker Magazine (October 29, 2001): “Israel and U.S. Plan Contingency to Steel Nuclear Weapons from Pakistan. According to Seymour Hersh a few days after 9/11 members of the elite Israeli counter-terrorism unit Sayaret Matkal arrived in the U.S. and began traing with U.S. Special Forces in a secret location. The two groups were developing contingency plans to attack Pakistan’s miitary bases and remove its nuclear weapons if the Pakistani government or the nuclear weapons of the Pakistani governent ever fell in the wrong hands.
A former Mossad agent, Victor Ostrovsky revealed a very bizarre plot in his book “THE OTHER SIDE OF DECEPTION,” (chapter 30), Harper Collins Publisher, New York 1994. On the back of the dust jacket of this book this what appeared in a brief paragraph: On the planned assassination of George Bush (Papa Bush). . . .
” In an effort to bring the right-wing government of Israel to the negotiating table, Bush had put a freeze on all loan gurantees. . . Upon making that decision, he was regarded as the greatest enemy of the stste of Israel. . . A certain right-wing clique in the Mossad picked the Madrid peace talks as its staging ground . . . Three Palestinian extremists were taken by a Kidon unit from their hiding place in Beirut. . . [My controller] called me on Tuesday, October 1. ‘They’re out to kill Bush,’ he said.” By alrting Congressman Pete McCloskey this plot was fouiled in advance as explained in Chapter 30.
NOTE: During Year 2007, the Covert Operations funded writers to publish at least six books (in addition to numerous articles) related to A. Q. Khan on the subject of Nuclear Proliferation, but none on Israel’s achievement to build more than 300 nukes with the tacit approval of Richard M. Nixon, under a super secretNational Security Study Memorandum “NSSM 40” Document, with the help of Henry Kissinger, when Golda Meir visited Washington, on September 9, 1969 (recently disclosed by Avner Chen and William Burr in an article “Israel Crosses the threshold,” published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, pp. 22-30, May/June 2006). Avner Cohen is the author of “ISRAEL AND THE BOMB,” published byColumbia University Press, New York 1998. ISBN0-231-10482- 0. American media has not once mentioned how Julius and Ethel Rosenbergs and their associates let the atomic cat out of the bag to deliver the secrets of Atomic Bomb to Soviet Russia as well as Israel, for which both husband and wife were sent to die in an electric chair in 1953. It is no longer a secret how Israel stole Plutonium from Kerr-McGee plant in Oklahoma City, OK, and enriched Uranium from NUMEC Corporation , in Apollo, PA.Israel also hijacked a German Freighter containing 200 tons of Uranium Oxide (ore) inMediterranean and took this freighter toCypress, where the Uranium ore was transferred to an Israeli vessel and taken toIsrael. This whole episode is also known as Plumbat Affair, or Operation Uranium Ship.One not well publicized event depicting Israeli Test was recorded by VELA Satellites, but it was hushed up by Presidential orders.
After Nixon assured Golda Meir that U.S. will look the other way (super-secret treaty NSSM 40 document, Israel had acquired close to 300 nukes, till a conscientious nuclear technician, Mordechai Vanunu, working at Dimona Bomb factory startled the world by handing over rolls of film to Sunday Times in London, UK. After having the pictures verified from British nuclear experts, Sunday Times published then on October 5, 1986. Israeli Mossad trapped Vanunu through a pretty woman to meet him for a rendezvous in Rome. And when he arrived atRome on Set. 30, 1986 via British Airways flight 504, Mossad agents were waiting for him. He was kidnapped like Adolph Eichman, and taken to Israel, where he lavished in high security Eshkelon prison for 20 years, and temporarily freed on April 21, 2004. After sometime when he wanted to leave Israel and met with foreign journalists, he was imprisoned again and is still there.
The most unfortunate part is that everyone in the West is protecting Israel that has permitted the Zionist state to acquire more than 300 nukes, (more than France), without realizing the ultimate consequences and that the actual nuclear proliferation began when the Rosenbergs and their associates disseminated Atomic secrets not only to Soviet Russia but also to Israel, and then Nixon (persuaded by Kissinger) to portray Islam as the Next Threat after Communism (Summer 1975). If the demonization of Islam continues, it has the potential to endanger the World Peace. PLEASE WORK FOR PEACE Not For WAR!
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Noam Chomsky: Under corrupt and regressive Nawaz Sharif, Pakistan has no future Professor Emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Noam Chomsky, is without doubt the most widely heard and read public intellectual alive today. Although trained in linguistics, he has written on and extensively critiqued a wide range of topics, including US foreign policy, mainstream media discourses and anarchist philosophy. Chomsky’s work in linguistics revolutionised the field and he has been described as the ‘father of modern linguistics‘. Professor Chomsky, along with other luminaries such as Howard Zinn and Dr Eqbal Ahmad, came into prominence during the anti-Vietnam War movement in the 1960s and has since spoken in support of national liberation movements (and against US imperialism) in countries such as Palestine, El Salvador and Nicaragua. In fact, his prolificacy in terms of academic and non-academic writing has earned him a spot among the ten most cited sources of all time (alongside Aristotle, Marx and Plato). Now in his mid-80s, Professor Chomsky shows no signs of slowing down and maintains an active lecturing and interview schedule. Here we caught up with him to get his views on upcoming Pakistani elections, American influence in the region and other issues. As a country which has spent almost half of its existence under some sort of direct military rule how do you see this first ever impending transition from one democratically-elected government to another? Noam Chomsky: Well, you know more about the internal situation of Pakistan than I do! I mean I think it’s good to see something like a democratic transition. Of course, there are plenty of qualifications to that but it is a big change from dictatorship. That’s a positive sign. And I think there is some potential for introducing badly needed changes. There are very serious problems to deal with internally and in the country’s international relations. So maybe, now some of them can be confronted. Coming to election issues, what do you think, sitting afar and as an observer, are the basic issues that need to be handled by whoever is voted into power? NC: Well, first of all, the internal issues. Pakistan is not a unified country. In large parts of the country, the state is regarded as a Punjabi state, not their (the people’s) state. In fact, I think the last serious effort to deal with this was probably in the 1970s, when during the Bhutto regime some sort of arrangement of federalism was instituted for devolving power so that people feel the government is responding to them and not just some special interests focused on a particular region and class. Now that’s a major problem. Another problem is the confrontation with India. Pakistan just cannot survive if it continues to do so (continue this confrontation). Pakistan will never be able to match the Indian militarily and the effort to do so is taking an immense toll on the society. It’s also extremely dangerous with all the weapons development. The two countries have already come close to nuclear confrontation twice and this could get worse. So dealing with the relationship with India is extremely important. And that of course focuses right away on Kashmir. Some kind of settlement in Kashmir is crucial for both countries. It’s also tearing India apart with horrible atrocities in the region which is controlled by Indian armed forces. This is feeding right back into society even in the domain of elementary civil rights. A good American friend of mine who has lived in India for many years, working as a journalist, was recently denied entry to the country because he wrote on Kashmir. This is a reflection of fractures within society. Pakistan, too, has to focus on the Lashkar [Lashkar-i-Taiba] and other similar groups and work towards some sort of sensible compromise on Kashmir. And of course this goes beyond. There is Pakistan’s relationship with Afghanistan which will also be a very tricky issue in the coming years. Then there is a large part of Pakistan which is being torn apart from American drone attacks. The country is being invaded constantly by a terrorist superpower. Again, this is not a small problem. Historically, several policy domains, including that of foreign policy towards the US and India, budget allocations etc, have been controlled by the Pakistani military, and the civil-military divide can be said to be the most fundamental fracture in Pakistan’s body politic. Do you see this changing with recent elections, keeping in mind the military’s deep penetration into Pakistan’s political economy? NC: Yes, the military has a huge role in the economy with big stakes and, as you say, it has constantly intervened to make sure that it keeps its hold on policy making. Well, I hope, and there seem to be some signs, that the military is taking a backseat, not really in the economy, but in some of the policy issues. If that can continue, which perhaps it will, this will be a positive development. Maybe, something like what has happened recently in Turkey. In Turkey also, for a long time, the military was the decisive force but in the past 10 years they have backed off somewhat and the civilian government has gained more independence and autonomy even to shake up the military command. In fact, it even arrested several high-ranking officers [for interfering in governmental affairs]. Maybe Pakistan can move in a similar direction. Similar problems are arising in Egypt too. The question is whether the military will release its grip which has been extremely strong for the past 60 years. So this is happening all over the region and particularly strikingly in Pakistan. In the coming elections, all indications are that a coalition government will be formed. The party of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif is leading the polls with Imran Khan’s (relatively) newly-emerged party not far behind. Do you think an impending coalition government will be sufficiently equipped to handle the myriad problems facing the country that you have just pointed out, such as civil-military imbalance, drone attacks, extremist violence etc. NC: Well, we have a record for Nawaz Sharif but not the others. And judging by the record, it’s pretty hard to be optimistic. His [Sharif’s] previous governments were very corrupt and regressive in the policies pursued. But the very fact that there is popular participation can have impact. That’s what leads to change, as it has just recently in North Africa (in Tunisia and Egypt). As far as change goes, significant change does not come from above, it comes through popular activism. In the past month or so, statements from the US State Department and the American ambassador to Pakistan have indicated quite a few times that they have ‘no favourites’ in the upcoming elections. What is your take on that especially with the impending (formal) US withdrawal from Afghanistan? NC: That could well be true. I do not think that US government has any particular interest in one or another element of an internal political confrontation. But it does have very definite interests in what it wants Pakistan to be doing. For example, it wants Pakistan to continue to permit aggressive and violent American actions on Pakistani territory. It wants Pakistan to be supportive of US goals in Afghanistan. The US also deeply cares about Pakistan’s relationship with Iran. The US very much wants Pakistan to cut relations with Iran which they [Pakistan] are not doing. They are following a somewhat independent course in this regard, as are India, China and many other countries which are not strictly under the thumb of the US. That will be an important issue because Iran is such a major issue in American foreign policy. And this goes beyond as every year Pakistan has been providing military forces to protect dictatorships in the Gulf from their own populations (e.g. the Saudi Royal Guard and recently in Bahrain). That role has diminished but Pakistan is, and was considered to be, a part of the so-called ‘peripheral system’ which surrounded the Middle East oil dictatorships with non-Arab states such as Turkey, Iran (under the Shah) and Pakistan. Israel was admitted into the club in 1967. One of the main purposes of this was to constrain and limit secular nationalism in the region which was considered a threat to the oil dictatorships. As you might know, a nationalist insurgency has been going on in Balochistan for almost the past decade. How do you see it affected by the elections, especially as some nationalist parties have decided to take part in polls while others have decried those participating as having sold out to the military establishment? NC: Balochistan, and to some extent Sindh too, has a general feeling that they are not part of the decision-making process in Pakistan and are ruled by a Punjabi dictatorship. There is a lot of exploitation of the rich resources [in Balochistan] which the locals are not gaining from. As long as this goes on, it is going to keep providing grounds for serious uprisings and insurgencies. This brings us back to the first question which is about developing a constructive from of federalism which will actually ensure participation from the various [smaller] provinces and not just, as they see it, robbing them. It is now well-known that the Taliban’s creation was facilitated by the CIA and the ISI as part of the 1980s anti-Soviet war. But the dynamics of the Taliban now appear to be very different and complex, in both Afghanistan and Pakistan, as they attack governments and mainstream parties. Some people say that foreign intelligence agencies are still behind the Taliban, while others consider this a denial of home-grown problems of extremism and intolerance. How do you view the Taliban in the context of Pakistan? NC: I can understand the idea that there is a conspiracy. In fact, in much of the world there is a sense of an ultra-powerful CIA manipulating everything that happens, such as running the Arab Spring, running the Pakistani Taliban, etc. That is just nonsense. They [CIA] created a monster and now they are appalled by it. It has its roots in internal Pakistani affairs. It’s a horrible development and phenomenon which goes back to radical Islamisation under Zia and taking away the long standing rights of people in the tribal areas (who were left largely alone). The Pashtuns in particular are kind of trapped. They’ve never accepted the Durand Line nor has any Afghan government historically accepted it. Travel from what is called Pakistan to Afghanistan has been made increasingly difficult and people are often labelled terrorists, even those who might be just visiting families. It is a border which makes absolutely no sense. It was imposed by the needs of British imperialism and all of these things are festering sores which have to be dealt with internally. These are not CIA manipulations. Actually, US government policies are continuing to do exactly the same thing [produce terrorism]. Two days after the Boston marathon bombings, there was a drone strike in Yemen attacking a peaceful village, which killed a target who could very easily have been apprehended. But of course it is just easier to terrorise people. The drones are a terrorist weapon, they not only kill targets but also terrorise other people. That is what happens constantly in Waziristan. There happened to be a testimony in the Senate a week later by a young man who was living in the US but was originally from that village [in Yemen which was bombed]. And he testified that for years the ‘jihadi’ groups in Yemen had been trying to turn the villagers against the Americans and had failed. The villagers admired America. But this one terrorist strike has turned them into radical anti-Americans, which will only serve as a breeding ground for more terrorists. There was a striking example of this in Pakistan when the US sent in Special Forces, to be honest, to kill Osama Bin Laden. He could easily have been apprehended and caught but their orders were to kill him. If you remember the way they did it, the way they tried to identify his [Osama’s] position was through a fake vaccination campaign set up by the CIA in the city. It started in a poor area and then when they decided that Osama was in a different area, they cut it off in the middle and shifted [the vaccination campaign] to a richer area. Now, that is a violation of principles which go as far back as the Hippocratic Oath. Well, in the end they did kill their target but meanwhile it aroused fears all over Pakistan and even as far as Nigeria about what these Westerners are doing when they come in and start sticking needles in their arms. These are understandable fears but were exacerbated. Very soon, health workers were being abducted and several were murdered (in Pakistan). The UN even had to take out its whole anti-polio team. Pakistan is one of the last places in the world where polio still exists and the disease could have been totally wiped out from this planet like smallpox. But now, it means that, according to current estimates, there will be thousands of children in Pakistan at risk of contracting polio. As a health scientist at Columbia University, Les Roberts, pointed out, sooner or later people are going to be looking at a child in a wheelchair suffering from polio and will say ‘the Americans did that to him’. So they continue policies which have similar effects i.e. organising the Taliban. This will come back to them too.
“In a war situation, the civilian govt. has to play much more important roles. Our civilian leadership was absolutely incompetent. The military generals did not estimate the incompetence of the civilian leadership. That was their blunder. Nawaz Shariffwas not an intelligent civilian leader like ZA Bhutto.”
Posted by admin in Nawaz Sharif :Abbaji Da Nikama Puttur." on January 3rd, 2015
Who is Nawaz Sharif A short biography
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His father Mian Muhammad Sharif started him in the business which proved a disaster. As a second option Mian Muhammad Sharif set him up with Pakistani actor Rangeela to get him into acting (something which Nawaz Sharif wanted). A few days later Rangeela sent his regrets to Mian Muhammad Sharif saying that his son was too dumb for acting and movie industry. Mian Muhammad Sharif then hired cricket coaches to train his son for cricket, but his physical fitness was too low for the sport. It is rumored that by mid-day on his first day at training Nawaz Sharif threw the bat down and left the stadium
As a last resort he paid General Ghulam Jilani Khan a considerable sum of money to introduce Nawaz Sharif to General Zia-ul-Haq recommending him for a political post, who in turn made Nawaz Sharif the Finance Minister of Punjab.
(Gen. Gilani was not offered money, in fact he had been presented a ‘White Palace’ made on a 4-kanal corner plot in Lahore Cant and it was worth Rs. 4 crores then, as said. It was just beautiful with Victorian style round porch with a running fountain in the center. But Mian Sharif, being business man, recovered many ‘4 crores’ out of the son’s post of Finance Minister of Punjab, and it was sure that Nawaz Sharif would not be able to write his designation with correct spellings )
However, this was the day when the street thugs of Mohni Road had stepped on to becoming the national thugs of Pakistan.
The day Nawaz Sharif had become Finance Minister, the entire family’s earnings were few million rupees and had only one re-rolling mill. From there they went on to: Ittefaq Sugar Mills was set up in 1982, Brothers steel in 1983, Brother’s Textile Mills in 1986, Brothers Sugar Mills Ltd in 1986, Ittefaq Textile units in 2-3 in 1987, Khalid Siraj Textile Mills in 1988, Ramzan Buksh Textiles in 1987, Farooq Barkat (pvt) Ltd in 1985. (All on loans from the government as Ziaul Haq used to approve all of his loans requests and also request of writing off loans. That is why when PPP Govt.took-over and the written off loans were calculated by the first Public Accounts Committee, there were two persons at the top i.e. Choudhy brothers, 22 billions, and Mian Sharif 21 billion, all written off by Ziaul Haq. It is still on record in PAC Report of 1989.) By the time of Zia ul Haq’s fateful plane crashed, Mian Muhammad Sharif’s family was earning a net profit of US$ 3 million, up from a few million rupees. By the end of the decade their net assets were worth more than 6 billion rupees, according to their own admission, nearly US$ 350 million at the time. But this turned out to be small-change when Nawaz Sharif became the Prime Minister.
When Nawaz Sharif became prime minister, the group took a decision to secure project loans from the foreign banks and only working capital was taken from the nationalized commercial banks. The project financing from foreign banks was ostensibly secured against the foreign currency deposits, a number of which were held in benamee accounts, as repeatedly claimed by Interior Minister Naseer Ullah Babar at his press conferences. In 1992 Salman Taseer released an account of Nawaz Sharif’s corruption stating that the family had taken loans of up to 12 billion rupees, which were never paid back. On March 2, 1994, Khalid Siraj, a cousin of Nawaz Sharif claimed that the assets of the seven brothers were valued at Rs 21 billion.The project financing from foreign banks was ostensibly secured against the foreign currency deposits, a number of which were held in benamee accounts.
These were the accounts of profits and companies which were openly known to public. However, the family kept their side business going all the while – the gambling dens and heroin control in Lahore – and along with their industry the side business also mushroomed.
Sohail Zia Butt Drug Baron Mirza Iqbal Beg
During the Afghan-Soviet War Nawaz Sharif’s cousin and brother-in-law, Sohail Zia Butt started working under the drug baron Mirza Iqbal Beg, then Pakistan’s second biggest drug lord after Ayub Afridi. Mian Muhammad Sharif and his sons had a permanent share in his gambling and heroin business. In 1990 Suhail Butt won a seat on the Islami Jamhoori Ittehad ticket in the Punjab Assembly. It was through Sohail Butt’s association that Nawaz Sharif became a close associate of Mirza Iqbal Beg. It was through him that Nawaz Sharif became benami owner of many of the privatized government entities, such as Muslim Commercial Bank. Sohail Zia Butt other than getting involved in the drug business made billions in the co-operative societies’ collapse, mainly through the National Industrial Credit and Finance Corporation. It was Nawaz Sharif’s share in his cousin’s drug business which he used to buy off the generals thereby delaying the inevitable dismissal of his government.
In 1995 when Mirza Iqbal Beg was imprisoned, Sohail Zia Butt took over his drug empire. It was at this time that he became one of the biggest drug and crime bosses in Pakistan and was nicknamed the “King of Heera Mandi” and at one time all six underworld gangs of Lahore were working under him.
By 1995 family’s declared annual profits from industrial units had increased 1500% from US$ 30 million to staggering US$ 400 million.
This is the short version of how in mere 15 years small street thugs running gambling dens became leaders of a country running narcotics, underworld and smuggling empires, untouched by everyone.
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Posted by admin in Pakistan-A Polaris of Earth on January 2nd, 2015
Pakistan Enemies: Internal & External Are fighting Tooth & Nail To Stop Military Courts
Nawaz Sharif’s Foot Dragging Deliberate
Tools of Pakistan’s Western Enemies
1.Amnesty International
2.Human Rights Watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuSNC7qZwi0
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