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The Army, the Government, and the Chinese Corridor. by Saeed A.Malik

Posted by admin in China, CHINA -PAKISTAN FRIENDSHIP, CHINA PAKISTAN CORRIDOR-CPEC, CHINA SHINING, China- Global Security, China-Pakistan Economic Corridor, China-Pakistan Friendship & Brotherhood, CIA AGENT NAWAZ SHARIF, CIA SUBVERSION IN PAKISTAN, CPEC:Pakistan's Strategic Program & First Priority, CRUSHING OF PAK AWAM BY PML(N) & NAWAZ SHARIF, INDIA -US ENCIRCLEMENT OF CHINA, India -US Joint Export to Pakistan: Terrorism, India Backstabbing US, INDIA BEHIND BALOCH TERRORISM, India Destroying Quietly US Economy, INDIA EXPOSED, INDIA SPLITTING INTO 5 NATIONS, INDIA SPONSORED TERRORISM IN KARACHI, INDIA STATE SPONSORED TERRORISM IN PAKISTAN, INDIA TRAINED SUICIDE BOMBERS FROM AFGHANISTAN, India Training Suicide Bombers in FATA, INDIA'S ANTI-PAKISTAN TOXIC PROPAGANDA on January 19th, 2016

             

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Army, the Government, and the Chinese Corridor.

 

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Saeed A. Malik.

 
The main driver of Israeli foreign policy objectives in the region is the Oded Yinon Plan i.e to break into small principalities, all Arab states which have the potential of being a threat to Israel any time in the future. Because of the incredible influence which Israel exercises on U.S policies, the Yinon Plan was infused into U.S policy for this region. Thus whatever the U.S objectives in the region, the play of the Yinon Plan can plainly be seen behind the U.S destruction of Iraq, Libya, and Syria. Even a fool could have foreseen that the de-baathification of Iraq, and the dismemberment of its army would lead to the dismemberment of the state itself. Indeed Gen Shinseki advocated that the invasion force should be half a million U.S troops so that post-invasion stability of governance would be ensured, as did Colin Powell. The former was forcibly retired, while the latter was marginalized, and we see Iraq precisely in a state as Yinon had advocated. The same is true of Libya, and the same is the aim for Syria.
 
Israel tried its very best that Iran too should be destroyed and split into small principalities, but the sheer exhaustion visited on the U.S by the Iraqis who decided to fight back, foreclosed this option. This being the situation, how can Israel countenance a strong and thriving Pakistan, which not only has the bomb, but also varied delivery systems, and which Israel sees as an enemy? Logically therefore a failed Pakistan, which international powers would be obliged to de-nuclify would be much more in Israel’s interests–and by extension, those of the U.S as well.
 
Apart from the Israeli-U.S policy nexus vis a vis a Pakistan whose nuclear wings must be clipped, the U.S has other concerns about a strong Pakistan which is averse to taking dictation from the U.S. One of these concerns is that Pakistan is refusing subservience to the U.S Afghan policy objectives where such objectives are seen as undermining Pakistan’s perception of its own national interest. Another U.S concern is that whereas the U.S would like to see India built up as a credible counter-weight to China, Pakistan, by constantly snapping at India’s heels is a constant distraction in the way of the achievement of this U.S aim. And most importantly, Pakistan, by allowing China an opening onto the Arabian Sea, is directly undermining the most important driver of the U.S foreign policy i.e the containment of China, which it sees as the premier challenge to U.S hegemony around the world.
 
The third country which would like the CPEC initiative nipped in the bud is India, which sees Pakistan as a nuisance in the way of its becoming the unchallenged regional hegemon of the area; and this is quite apart from the ideological view that India’s independence from colonial rule cannot be considered complete till such time as it is ” akhund” [complete] again.
 
Pakistan should therefore have absolutely no doubt that these three countries [ plus their allies] will strain every sinew of their power towards sabotaging the CPEC.
 
And what are the tools they will employ to undermine Pakistan? These tools are already deployed and are in operation for all to see, except for those of us who are willfully blind:
–Aiding the terrorist onslaught against Pakistan. Dont we already know this,  and the names of countries involved?
–Burdening Pakistan with a volume of debt which it will never be able to repay. Why is it after all that IMF obliges Ishaq Dar each time he goes to them, begging bowl in hand? Does anyone, anywhere in the world, freely extend credit to a country or entity which is a bad credit risk? Cant we see through this easy credit? Cant we see that in less than 5 years we will have reached a debt ceiling which it will be beyond our capacity to repay? And what happens then? Is this not a road to default and sanctions, which will lead to Pakistan giving up its nuclear assets?
–And the most potent tool of all–key members of our national “leadership”, both here and in Dubai, willfully undermining the very foundations of the state by both hollowing out the country financially, and also selling it out to those bidding for its ultimate demise! Does anyone not see this happening already? Which one of our top leaders is not a billionaire? And which of these has made his billions through honest sweat? And will such people, who can sell their grandmothers for a pittance, not sell off their country when the time comes? The problem is that the time is already here and the sale is going on day and night.
 
 Unfortunately, it is said to be extremely high  interestin loan facility from China i.e  @ $4.5 + Libor
 
It is not for nothing that as the Chinese unfolded their plans for the CPEC, they went to the Army Chief for guarantees of security. This was not just a comment on the power the Army enjoys, but more so a comment on the lack of trust which may credibly be imposed in our civilian leadership.
 
But with the politicians now haggling over the route of the CPEC, the Chinese have issued statements of concern which have been released to the press. This is not the way the Chinese function. They eschew press statements and use them only as a last resort. The level of Chinese concern should make it clear that the enemy sleeper cells among our national leadership have been activated to sabotage the project. This has been the standard operating procedure to undermine third world countries by the first world for decades.
 
If it is not the case already, the Army should wake up to what is happening. It should also include mega corruption, which has undermined the country and taken it to the very brink, as a national security imperative. If the Army refuses to see the writing on the wall, it must know that its days of glory and power cannot be extended to beyond five years, because then it may not have a country to defend. And then all the Generals will be like the rest of us. It is my bet that in five years or less the IMF will call in our debts, and we will not be able to repay. The Last Post will then be sounded.
 
Saeed A. Malik.

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Shahbaz Sharif’s Stupidity : Orange Train or Agent Orange:The Train From Hell

Posted by admin in Environmental Disaster on January 18th, 2016

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Orange Streak

The NATION: January 17, 2016
   
 
 
 
 
Lahore’s new train system is devouring the very streets it is being built to serve.
 
Civil society organizations, political leaders and workers being affected by the Orange Line Train Project, held a protest rally at GPO Chowk, showing unity among themselves and expressing resolve to fight tooth and nail against this Rs165 billion project. Campaigners are angry at the potential damage to historic buildings like the colonial-era General Post Office and several Christian churches.
 
The legality of the government putting their plans into action can be questioned.
 
The Government’s lawyers have confirmed that they had not been given any documentation or instruction on how they should defend the case and will not appear in court lest the project be halted.
“The project is illegal as public money is involved in it but the government couldn’t get it approved from assembly,” said a lawyer Azhar Siddique.
There have been allegations that the Metro has been re-routed to poorer areas to avoid destroying houses owned by wealthy and influential politicians. The 27-kilometer long route is now by far the government’s biggest project and has China’s investment. Its high cost has brought greater scrutiny of its impact on the city’s landscape and increasing opposition from campaigners dedicated to conserving Lahore’s rich architectural heritage.
It is clear that this project is not only destroying heritage, but also will shatter the lives of individuals living near, from school for disabled children to small businesses. The government has claimed that they would be allotting another place to the children’s institute in question, but given their track record, one should not count on it. The people who are being affected on its route are not given enough time to even look for a place. The government will throw them out of their homes.
The official Environment Impact Assessment for the project has also stated that the city planners must set up systems that “enable continuous traffic flux and avoid congestion”. But the traffic is subject to no rules near the excavation and piling work. The result is only mayhem, noise and fumes.
This is not urban development; this is just the sheer desire to make Lahore look like Shanghai. There has been no respect for Lahore’s landscape, or for the people who will be affected by the construction. This project should have been made with local communities assistance. It would have taken longer, and been more expensive, but it would have been the right thing to do. There are ways to cities to grow without people having to lose their livelihoods.

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A Letter from a Younger Brother to His Elder Brother and Mentor

Posted by admin in Nawaz Sharif & Kashmiri Biradari, Nawaz Sharif Dangerous Man, NAWAZ SHARIF DICTATOR, NAWAZ SHARIF FAMILY TURPITUDE, NAWAZ SHARIF LOAN SCAM, Nawaz Sharif Malcontent, Nawaz Sharif Massive Corruption, Nawaz Sharif's Petrol Hoarding Money Making Scam, Western Intelligence Agents-Nawaz Sharif & Pervez Rasheed on January 17th, 2016

 
 

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A Letter from a Younger Brother to His Elder Brother and Mentor

“As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

 Sure, For a proof, look at  Zardari and Nawaz Butt Saheban. All their beauty has stolen inward. Its deep down.

Namonay Key Khat o Kitabat By Zafar Iqbal (Dated: 13 January 2016)

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Bisma Baloch’s Killer:The Scoundrel Bilawal Zardari Who Blocked Roadway & Hospital Access

Posted by admin in Asif Zardari Crook Par Excellance, BILAWAL ZARDARI BAMBINO KINGS OF CORRUPTION, BILWAL & ASID ZARDARI SHAITANS OF PAKISTAN on January 17th, 2016

Bisma Baloch’s Killer:The Scoundrel Blocked Roadways & Hospital Access

 

 

Time to Ponder


 8 months old Bisma, died in the arms of her father running frantically from door to door to enter emergency room of civil hospital Karachi. 
Roads remained closed because of VVIP Movement.  
BISMA HATES, ROAD BLOCKS.
Faisal Baloch, the father of baby girl Bisma who died last Wednesday when Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari came to inaugurate the trauma centre at Civil Hospital, Karachi, complained on Tuesday that the Sindh government has yet to fulfil its promises despite assurances by PPP leaders.

“My daughter died because of the system [protocol],” said the father. Rejecting police inquiry into the matter, he said, “I don’t blame anyone for the demise of my girl but I feel her separation very badly.”

Infant dies as Bilawal’s security prevents family from entering hospital

The 10-month-old baby girl died on Wednesday when Bilawal was inaugurating the newly constructed trauma centre at the Civil Hospital Karachi. The father, who rushed his sick girl to the hospital, was allegedly denied entry into the hospital due to protocol.

Baloch said that Bilawal assured him that two jobs in the public sector would be given to him while his house will also be reconstructed. “Nothing has been provided to me as yet,” he said.

Explaining his financial condition, Faisal said that he was jobless for the last two months, saying it was a hard time for him and his family. “I am not an educated person but a technically sound one,” he said.

On the other hand, Bilawal’s political secretary and member of party’s central executive committee, Jamil Soomro, said, “All promises to Faisal Baloch will be fulfilled.” He said that the party chairperson visited Bisma’s family before leaving for Larkana, adding that he had reached Karachi on Tuesday.

Equal before the law: Citizens raise awareness against ‘VIP culture’

“The chairman also assured Faisal that he would himself see the investigation report and no one will be allowed any leniency,” said Soomro. Speaking to The Express Tribune, Soomro said that he will meet Faisal and will resolve his issues, including providing him a job at a suitable place.

Meanwhile, the residents of the area, Lyari, continue to meet the aggrieved father daily and ask him to stand by his word against protocol system that takes the life of innocent people. “Lyari’s youth supports Bisma’s family,” said Musawwar Ali, a resident living near Baloch’s home. “We’ll not leave him alone. If he goes against the system, the whole of Lyari will be with him.”

Published in The Express Tribune, December 30th, 2015.

 

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It is High Time for India to Discard the Pernicious Myth of its Medieval Muslim Rulers as ‘Villains’- By Audrey Truschke

Posted by admin in Hindutva India Bigotry, History, HISTORY OF PAKISTAN, India on January 16th, 2016

 
 
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

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The Great Emperor Aurangzeb Alamgir-Muslim History Distortions by Hindus in India

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
It is High Time for India to Discard the Pernicious Myth of its Medieval Muslim Rulers as ‘Villains’
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Audrey Truschke

 
Whatever happened in the past, religious-based violence is real in modern India, and Muslims are frequent targets. It is thus disingenuous to single out Indian Muslim rulers for condemnation without owning up to the modern valences of that focus.
 
The idea that medieval Muslim rulers wreaked havoc on Indian culture and society – deliberately and due to religious bigotry – is a ubiquitous notion in 21st century India. Few people seem to realise that the historical basis for such claims is shaky to non-existent. Fewer openly recognise the threat that such a misreading of the past poses for modern India.
 
Aurangzeb, the sixth Mughal Emperor (r. 1658-1707), is perhaps the most despised of India’s medieval Muslim rulers. People cite various alleged “facts” about Aurangzeb’s reign to support their contemporary condemnation, few of which are true. For instance, contrary to widespread belief, Aurangzeb did not destroy thousands of Hindu temples. He did not perpetrate anything approximating a genocide of Hindus. He did not instigate a large-scale conversion program that offered millions of Hindu the choice of Islam or the sword.
 
In short, Aurangzeb was not the Hindu-hating, Islamist tyrant that many today imagine him to have been. And yet the myth of malevolent Aurangzeb is seemingly irresistible and has captured politicians, everyday people, and even scholars in its net. The damage that this idea has done is significant. It is time to break this mythologized caricature of the past wide open and lay bare the modern biases, politics, and interests that have fuelled such a misguided interpretation of India’s Islamic history.
 
A recent article on this website cites a series of inflammatory claims about Indo-Muslim kings destroying premodern India’s Hindu culture and population. The article admits that “these figures are drawn from the air” and historians give them no credence. After acknowledging that the relevant “facts” are false, however, the article nonetheless posits that precolonial India was populated by “religious chauvinists,” like Aurangzeb, who perpetrated religiously-motivated violence and thus instigated “historical injustices” to which Hindus can rightly object today. This illogical leap from a confessed lack of reliable information to maligning specific rulers is the antithesis of proper history, which is based on facts and analysis rather than unfounded assumptions about the endemic, unchanging nature of a society.
 
A core aspect of the historian’s craft is precisely that we cannot assume things about the past. Historians aim to recover the past and to understand historical figures and events on their own terms, as products of their time and place. That does not mean that historians sanitize prior events. Rather we refrain from judging the past by the standards of the present, at least long enough to allow ourselves to glimpse the logic and dynamics of a historical period that may be radically different from our own.
 
Going back more than a millennium earlier, Hindu rulers were the first to come up with the idea of sacking one another’s temples, before Muslims even entered the Indian subcontinent. But one hears little about these “historical wrongs”
 
In the case of Indian Muslim history, a core notion that is hard for modern people to wrap our heads around is as follows: It was not all about religion.
 
Aurangzeb, for instance, acted in ways that are rarely adequately explained by religious bigotry. For example, he ordered the destruction of select Hindu temples (perhaps a few dozen, at most, over his 49-year reign) but not because he despised Hindus. Rather, Aurangzeb generally ordered temples demolished in the aftermath of political rebellions or to forestall future uprisings. Highlighting this causality does not serve to vindicate Aurangzeb or justify his actions but rather to explain why he targeted select temples while leaving most untouched. Moreover, Aurangzeb also issued numerous orders protecting Hindu temples and communities from harassment, and he incorporated more Hindus into his imperial administration than any Mughal ruler before him by a fair margin. These actions collectively make sense if we understand Aurangzeb’s actions within the context of state interests, rather than by ascribing suspiciously modern-sounding religious biases to him.
 
Regardless of the historical motivations for events such as premodern temple destructions, a certain percentage of modern Indians nonetheless feel wronged by their Islamic past. What is problematic, they ask, about recognising historical injustices enacted by Muslim figures? In this regard, the contemporaneity of debates over Indian history is crucial to understanding why the Indo-Islamic past is singled out.
 
For many people, condemnations of Aurangzeb and other medieval Indian rulers stem not from a serious assessment of the past but rather from anxieties over India’s present and future, especially vis-à-vis its Muslim minority population. After all, one might ask: If we are recognising injustices in Indian history, why are we not also talking about Hindu rulers? When judged according to modern standards, medieval rulers the world over measure up poorly, and Hindu kings are no exception. Medieval Hindu political leaders destroyed mosques periodically, for instance, including in Aurangzeb’s India. Going back more than a millennium earlier, Hindu rulers were the first to come up with the idea of sacking one another’s temples, before Muslims even entered the Indian subcontinent. But one hears little about these “historical wrongs” for one reason: They were perpetrated by Hindus rather than Muslims.
 
Religious bigotry may not have been an overarching problem in India’s medieval past, but it is a crucial dynamic in India’s present. Religious-based violence is real in modern India, and Muslims are frequent targets. Non-lethal forms of discrimination and harassment are common. Fear is part of everyday life for many Indian Muslims.  Thus, when scholars compare medieval Islamic rulers like Aurangzeb to South Africa’s twentieth-century apartheid leaders, for example, they not only display a surprising lack of commitment to the historical method but also provide fodder for modern communal fires.
 
It is high time we discarded the pernicious myth of India’s medieval Muslim villains. This poisonous notion imperils the tolerant foundations of modern India by erroneously positing religious-based conflict and Islamic extremism as constant features of life on the subcontinent. Moreover, it is simply bad history. India has a complicated and messy past, and we do it and ourselves no justice by flattening its nuances to reflect the religious tensions of the present.
 

Audrey Truschke is a historian at Stanford University and Rutgers University-Newark. Her first book, Culture of Encounters: Sanskrit at the Mughal Court will be published by Columbia University Press and Penguin India in 2016. She is currently working on a book on Aurangzeb that will published by Juggernaut Books.

 

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