Pakistan once again faces a critical situation of LIFE and Death for its survival.

General Asim Munir and Five of his colleagues, vengeful, paranoid and pursuing wrong thinking and wrong action to hold fraudulent national elections by depriving the PTI and its leadership. The Generals lack understanding of time and history and repeating the 1971 story of loss of East Pakistan.

1. The General’s insane ambitions and actions are outcome of the briefing and dictates by the US interest.

2. If bogus elections are held to bring the indicted criminals Nawaz Sharif family back to power as appears to be the case, there will be socioeconomic and political chaos, disruptions, street battles and bloodbath between the armed forces and common people.

3. America-India Strategic Alliance is in-waiting for such political chaos to emerge and to move-in under the guise of protecting the Pak nuclear arsenals and then demand surrender – the END OF PAKISTAN NATIONAL FREEDOM.

4. As a non-partisan, non-political scholar and a fellow Pakistani, I love my country and people and its present and future is of utmost importance to me. I ask you to PLEASE RISE UP to the challenge and help to save Pakistan from a catastrophic disaster in the making by few selfish and terribly naive and unprofessional Generals currently running the show and so called system of law and justice.

5. You have served the nation honorably and at this critical moment of our life, you can organize yourselves and make your VOICES heard to stop the stupid Generals from acts of insanity against the very people they claim to serve.

PLEASE ACT NOW.

Yours fellow Pakistani,

Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja



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Pakistan Confronts its Future under Betrayal of Generals

• Written by Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD

How We, the People got to Disdained Present?

The new, educated and proactive generations of Pakistanis wonder why the country and its systems of governance are dysfunctional, corrupt and self-destructive.  Why over 75 years we have been fighting with ourselves, the neocolonial systems of thinking and actions which remain in tact to the savagery of British colonialism. The national freedom movement was a political struggle over ages inspired by Allama Mohammad Iqbal – the poet and philosopher and led by Muslim League under the leadership of Mohammad Ali Jinnah-Qaid-e-Azam as our history narrates. There were no military generals fighting for the freedom of Pakistan. While the new generations were ignored and deprived of any practical role-play in nation-building – the essence of framework for nation-making, the generals were active to conspire military coups of their interests and produced inept and corrupt so-called politicians to govern the country against reasoned political governance. The Five military coups obliterated the moral, intellectual and political foundation of Pakistan bringing to a catastrophic ending of losing its eastern part and the state of Jammu and Kashmir to India. The Five military coups were a stab in the body of Pakistan.

The Generals embody naive and violent assumptions of freedom plagued with tyranny and corruption to  reassure the  foreign Masters continuing financial and military support to the Army, IMF loans, the Civil Service and systems of political governance for their allegiance to British imperialism now replaced by American political hegemony, US-AID and military domination. This institutionalized betrayal and deception is nothing new to the cause of national freedom. The Europeans subjugated the masses to “divide and rule” and  viewed the ‘subjects’ as unequal less than human beings at the ballot box or to stand beside the colonial Masters.The contemporary trajectory of politics spells out the unthinkable wave of chaos and mismanagement by few generals and corrupt judiciary, shaping a dark future for the present and future-making. Pakistan is fast becoming a dead-ended entity of moral, political and intellectual landscape. Truth telling is maligned and persecuted by the ruling elite. The British changed the sub-continent in 90 years, but Pakistan after 75 years has no viable system of political governance. Its home-grown enemies and traitors like ZA Bhutto, Ms. Bhutto, General Yahya Khan, Zardari, Sharifs and General Musharraf were more harmful than foreign enemies. These impostors are seen as scum floating on a torrent. Pakistan lives in limbo with a legitimate system of political governance and accountability and system of law and justice.

Nations cease to exist when educated people of new generations who could have replaced the old and redundant guards leave the country and never return to build the nation. Young educated generations embark on migrating to Europe or America and never come back. It is an irresistible necessity of time and truth that those in power must be warned and listen to voices of reason and political necessity for change and truth for restraint and civilized behavior.

When would we learn about our wrong thinking, wrong priorities and wrong actions? This current state of Pakistani affairs reflects a complete societal breakdown and march towards self-annihilation. Despite hollow claims of the generals, no moral and ethical behavior is seen in the sudden and inexplicable plunge to human wickedness highlighting the affairs of the besieged nation.

People Won the National Freedom and the Generals Destroyed it

Most dreadful tragedies have infallibly resulted in victimizing the masses. Today, the nation is crippled with catastrophic events of insecurity, mismanagement and socioeconomic and political exploitation. The Pakistani ruling elite and the Generals are not open to reason and accountability. They are engaged in systematic subversion of national freedom, security and future-making.They cannot realize the imperatives of hopes and expectations of a new generation of educated and morally and intellectually competent people. Future belongs to the new generation of educated people, not to the naive and obsolete Generals. They view “power” and “Pakistan” as their own property. The authoritarian leaders played with its destiny and future without being questioned. They are the wrong people, with wrong thinking and doing the wrong things. If there was any fair system of accountability, some of the Generals and accomplice politicians could well have faced firing squads for their crimes against the nation. Are the Generals waiting for another mishap of formative history? Please see “British Colonialism and How India and Pakistan Lost Freedom.” Global Research and Uncommon Thought Journal: 1/01/22. In “Pakistan Leaders or Criminals”, you will discover how Bhuttos, Zardari, Sharifs and General Musharaf – these thugs stole billions and billions to own properties in the UK, France and Spain. The Thinking People of the New Generation view them as the most corrupt, crime riddled monsters who will never come to terms with reason and honesty to reflect on their own wrongdoings. They never imagined–how the present and future generations will remember them? Please see by this author:“Pakistan Imperatives of Political Change for a Progressive Nation”2019; “Pakistan where Politics and Corruption are the Same” 2014; “Pakistan in Search of Freedom and Security”, Uncommon Thought Journal and Global Research: 10/20/22, and “Pakistan, Planned Political Chaos: Imran Khan a Victim of Hope for the Future”, Global Research: 11/06/2022; “Pakistan in Search of Its Soul.” Uncommon Thought Journal: 8/06/23

Was Imran Khan a Victim of Political Vengeance?

The Generals and Sharif family wanted to dehumanize Khan and his PTI organization and for the last two years, they bent on destroying his political integrity under false charges of corruption. Pakistan’s failure to hold any credibility of the law and justice system is widely observed by all concerned. Although Imran Khan spoke of moral and intellectual values and nation-building, he did very little to support that agenda. He did not kill anybody nor robbed any banks and was keen to have legal accountability for the stolen wealth and killings by Sharif brothers, Bhuttos, and Zardari and others. But political governance was infested with corrupt figures of the past. Tyranny is always powerless and transitory. Often when sadistic politicians cannot solve one set of problems, they come up with other naïve ideas to create more critical problems to distract the masses. Khan has been imprisoned under false pretext of political vengeance and to pave the way for another opening for the crime riddled Sharif family. What is the solution to the morally and intellectually sickening political culture of Pakistani politics? It is hard to imagine that General Assam Munir and his few sadistic partners including the Sahrfi family would create an environment of free and fair elections. The law and justice system has already collapsed and Pakistan could fall into another conspiracy for its disintegration. They would hold fake elections and do their best to see the return of the Sharif family corresponding to the geopolitical agenda of the inept generals. If the Generals and Sharif have any sense of history, reasoning, and accountability, they should not be part of any conspiracy against the people of Pakistan.They could well face the same fate as all conspiratorial and traitors should do – court martial and firing squads to clean the floating scum.

History will judge the imposters by their actions, not by their claims to serve the nation.

Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs-global security, peace and conflict resolution with keen interests in Islamic-Western comparative cultures and civilizations, and author of several publications including the latest: One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution. Germany, 12/2019.

What Ails Pakistan?
Way Forward

by

Brig.Gen(Retd)Asif Haroon Raja

After the Partition in 1947, mishandling and mismanagement of Evacuee Properties laid the foundation of corruption in Pakistan. It created a class of upstarts who prospered during the decade of development of Ayub Khan in the 1960s.

Devaluation and nationalization by Bhutto pulverised the economy and industry. Jayala culture and promotion of secularism indisciplined the society and promoted liberalism.

Fighting someone else’s wars for thirty years militarized the society and infected it with extremism, intolerance, ethnicity, sectarianism, religious bigotry and divides, and the cultures of Kalashnikov, drugs and other social vices. The Junejo era gave birth to bank loans, Mafias and parallel economy.

The era of the 1990s saw Pakistan getting engulfed in the aftereffects of the Afghan war which nosedived our morals and values, and craze for making big money overnight intensified.

The political class, bureaucrats, the military and big tycoons got involved in power politics and political engineering to protect their selfish interests.

VIP culture and cultures of commissions, kickbacks, graft intensified. Merit was discarded and was replaced by nepotism and loyalists. Pakistan’s economic hub Karachi was mercilessly plundered by MQM and PPP.

The elite class controlling the wealth, and with all the levers of power, got detached from the commoners. They neither made any effort to integrate the nation, or to reform the state institutions. The accountability was in name only. The IPP deal was the worst which is one of the key factors of our debt burden. Agriculture being the backbone was neglected.

These factors bolstered black economy and strengthened the Mafias.

The post 9/11 era saw Pakistanis getting bloodied and traumatized in the US imposed war on terror. Enlightened moderation was promoted to show the soft face of Pakistan, but it heightened the secular-Islamic divide and promoted obscenity and immorality. The 20-year war destabilised the country, divided the nation, and impoverished the economy.

The war didn’t make any difference to the rich class which continued to live an ostentatious and pompous life, and detested simplicity. To upkeep their high lifestyle, they got more loans which were pilfered.

The spending was much more than the income which enlarged deficits. Population explosion further complicated economics. Debt burden kept mounting. More debts were taken for debt servicing.

The 3rd political experiment made by the military establishment to improve economics and to maintain its control over power politics proved devastating for the country. Pakistan is still suffering from its consequences and is still clueless how to get out of the self-created mess.

With so many internal shortcomings and vulnerabilities, it was easy for our adversaries to keep sprinkling oil on our weak areas and keeping Pakistan perpetually politically destabilised, socially divided and economically weak and dependent.

The tool of media was used to mind clone the educated urbanites. The hirelings and the misled added to Pakistan’s troubles. They picked up arms against the State and their Army and unwittingly promoted the dangerous agenda of enemies of Pakistan.

The deplorable conduct of the rulers and the elites have depressed Pakistani youth who see no future for them. The youth bulge is going to waste, and the educated younger generation prefers to go abroad.

It is because of the misconduct of the civil and military leaders and the bureaucrats that Pakistan today finds itself gripped in multiple crises which include political, economic, constitutional, judicial and moral crises. Political polarization has scaled new heights of hatred.

With so many failings, and without having carried out crucial reforms, to what good will be the elections on Feb 8?

Several political parties are expressing doubts and are demanding level playing fields and fair and transparent elections’.

The losers will not accept the results, the winners would be of the same stock. A tug of war between the govt and the opposition would restart, the spoilers would hatch new conspiracies to derail the so-called democracy, the snakes in the grass would keep hissing and stinging the federation, and our enemies would happily keep fishing in our dirty waters.

Steps Required

The steps that are urgently needed to be taken by the future govt are:

1. Continuation of reforms of the Judiciary, Police Bureaucracy, FBR, and other State institutions that are politicized and corrupt.

2. Continuation of economic uplift programs with the same zeal.

3. Attracting foreign investment by the SIFC.

4. Continuation of chalked out development of Mining, IT, Agriculture, Energy and Defense Production Sectors under monitoring and implementation teams.

5. Continuation of crackdown against the smugglers, hoarders, money exchangers and other culprits involved in mega corruption and crimes.

6. Deportation of all the illegal immigrants and making the border management and immigration laws more stringent.

7. Dealing with the foreign paid and equipped terrorists sternly.

8. Banning sit-ins, and political gatherings inciting violence and hatred.

9. Establishment of rule of law and making the accountability effective.

10. Improving governance and work ethics in all the departments.

11. Getting rid of the sick public sector enterprises that have become white elephants through privatisation.

12. Geo-economics is given higher priority over geo-politics.

13. Effective measures taken to offset negative effects of Indo-US-Israel controlled social media and of the hybrid war.

14. Measures should be taken to make our economy self-reliant by getting rid of the dependency syndrome.

15. At the same time, efforts should be made to gel the society and unify the home front.

United Home Front

The united and strong home front will be possible, if: –

Our elite class mend their ways.

The policy of one-sided appeasement is shunned.

Foreign, economic and defence policies are balanced, serving our national interests.

Political stability and harmony between the power centres are achieved.

The confidence of the youth is rebuilt and they are put on constructive channels.

The yawning gap between the rich and the poor is narrowed.

Poverty is alleviated.

Equitable dispensation of justice is ensured.

Moral turpitude improved and national character strengthened.

The above looks impossible, but where there is a will there is a way. Sincerity and honesty of purpose, combined with total dedication and commitment, and faith in Allah, can remove all hurdles howsoever insurmountable.

Asif Haroon Raja