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Posted by admin in BANGLADESH GOVT BACKSTABBING, Uncategorized on August 27th, 2024
Change in Bangladesh Perplexes India
by
Brig Gen(Retd) Asif Haroon Raja
The student uprising against the quota system in Dhaka in July 2024 morphed into a countrywide protest movement within weeks and led to the departure of Hasina Wajid. Since the sudden regime change, the Indian political and military leaders, Indian media, academia and RAW are in a state of acute anxiety, bordering depression.
India has suffered two major strategic setbacks this year. The first was BJP’s loss of political power in the June 2024 elections. A bigger jolt came in August when the strongest and most trusted ally Bangladesh (BD) went out of India’s hands because of the sudden fall and exit of Hasina Wajid.
She had ruled BD with an iron hand from 2009 to the first week of Aug this year at a stretch and had established a One-party rule.
India under the Modi and Hasina regimes had forged strategic partnership and had also linked the two countries with two railway lines. Both worked on the anti-Pakistan agenda in unison.
When Pakistan came on the world map on 14 Aug 1947, the Indian leaders chortled that it will repent its decision and will not survive longer than six months and would beg for reunion. Some said it was a big mistake of Mr. Jinnah. Nothing of the sort happened.
India planned to avenge the vivisection of India by cutting Pakistan into two parts. To achieve this objective, East Pakistan was chosen because of its extreme vulnerability.
After the Indian victory in 1971, Indira Gandhi arrogantly stated that the Two-Nation theory was drowned in the Bay of Bengal. East Pakistan was separated through subversion, treachery, and by outnumbering and outgunning a small force of the Pak Army.
This disfigurement of Two-Nation theory survived for about 54 years, during which BD was made into a vassal state of India and the minds of the people of BD were further filled with hatred against Pakistan.
The myths, notions and fake narratives spread by India and BD against Pakistan , suddenly unravelled this month. BD under an interim regime headed by Dr. M. Yunis is in the saddle, which is anti-India, pro-Pakistan, and is pro-people. It is keen to carry out extensive reforms to refurbish electoral laws, judiciary, police and the civil administration. The govt has full backing of the army.
The current younger generation of BD has come out of the magic spell of India after coming to know that their elders were duped and betrayed by India. They view Sheikh Mujibur Rehman as a traitor and the 1971 insurgency followed by aggression by Indian forces as immoral acts.
They have realised that if the Awami League (AL) and the Mukti Bahini had not changed sides, the Indian military despite its huge superiority in men and material, could never have defeated the Pakistani forces and the Ansars.
All the fabricated stories of massacre and rapes of the Bengalis fanned after 1971, painting Pak Army soldiers as human eating monsters and rapists, and India as the benign helper, have fallen flat and evaporated in thin air. Lies have no feet to stand on and truth is the ultimate victor.
Hatred against India has been piling up among the younger generation due to excessive interference of RAW and Indian officials in the internal affairs of BD after 2014, Modi’s anti-Muslim and racist policies, the minorities specific Citizenship Law, gruesome atrocities against the Muslim Kashmiris, and Hasina’s cruelties against her political opponents at the behest of India, and her servitude to India.
Their level of anger can be gauged from destruction of all the monuments and pictorials of Sheikh Mujib, ransacking of 1971 memorials and surrender ceremony portraits, ransacking properties of AL parliamentarians, pro-govt judges and prosperous Hindu community, which had played a key role in subverting the minds of the students from 1947 to 1971 and post 1971 period.
This sort of fury was unleashed in Aug 1975 against the creator of BD Sheikh Mujib, and now in Aug 2024 against his daughter Sheikh Hasina. Both times the targets were AL and remnants of Mukti Bahni.
Piled up hatred for India can be judged from the emotions of the people, who are blaming India for flooding their country deliberately and causing big damages to the properties and crops, and loss of lives.
The majority of Bangladeshis and the interim regime are inclined towards Pakistan and are keen to reestablish the old bondage.
For all practical purposes, Hasina has met her Waterloo and she can never return to resume politics in BD. She was lucky to be rescued by the army. The AL will remain a pariah party for a long time.
The undercurrent trends in BD do not bode well for India. All its investments in billions since 1947 have gone to waste. It is incurring a loss of 18 million dollars in trade daily. It will face the refugee influx of Hindu Bengalis. If the Indian govt stops them, it will face the wrath of its people. In BD, they will lead an insecure life.
The Hindu Bengali community in BD, AL and grandchildren of 1971war veterans would face tough times. The persecuted Biharis, Jamaat Islami and BNP would enjoy greater freedom and liberty of action. The Rohingyas and the Biharis languishing in sordid camps would get some reprieve.
Interaction of BD with the freedom fighters of seven sisters in NE India is likely to increase covertly. Prior to the Draconian rule of Hasina, the two military rulers and BNP under Khaleda Zia were friendly towards Pakistan and the intelligence agencies of the two countries cooperated with each other.
BJP under Modi has been cut to size and it no longer wields absolute power. Its chief patron USA is itself in trouble. India’s chief rival China, is poised to become the leading economic power and the future super power.
For India, Hasina’s exit is a major strategic loss and it could jeopardise her strategic interests in South Asia. Both had forged deep-rooted economic, defence and security ties. Hasina’s regime had helped India in suppressing Insurgencies in northeastern states of India by refusing asylum to the ULFA leader Anup Chetia and deporting them to India. Water and land disputes had been resolved and India had a big hand in upturning the economic fortunes of BD.
A new era has begun in which BD will be closer to China, Nepal, Myanmar, Maldives, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, and it will distance itself from overbearing India. If so, it will cause regional turbulence in South Asia.
India’s immediate concerns are the safety and security of the Hindu community in BD and RAW and Indian officials residing in BD. The other is how to offset the trade losses and how to get closer to the new interim regime. The other worry is the changed perceptions of the youth in BD about India and Pakistan and their affections for the latter.
The trend of leaning towards China, which had already begun during Hasina’s rule, is another cause of anxiety.
Security of insurgency prone seven states in the northeast and the highly vulnerable Siliguri corridor, which can be exploited by China through Sikkim will be the biggest security concern.
It is an established fact that India has excelled in the art of diplomacy and has been winning new friends including the friends of its arch rival Pakistan. It has been drawing huge material benefits from the western and eastern camps.
India has been able to cultivate the IEA regime in Afghanistan in spite of its deep animus spread over decades.
Indian leadership must have holistically calculated that the era of Hasina and AL is over and that it will have to reconcile with the new interim regime in its immediate neighborhood.
India must have already stepped up its efforts to win over the Yunis regime and to retain its influence in BD. It is a strategic compulsion for India to befriend BD. Major hindrance is the fascism of ruling BJP and India’s penchant for interfering in neighbouring countries.
Giving asylum to Hasina by India can become a bottleneck for restoration of friendly relationship with BD. Perforce, India will have to get rid of her.
Unless the Indian leadership ends its fascist, racist, militarist and megalomaniac policies, it could suffer more reverses in the coming future.
The changed environment in BD has given a window of opportunity to Pakistan to mend its ties and get closer to it. Pakistan’s diplomacy is now under test. PM Shahbaz Sharif was quick to extend his anguish to BD over the loss of lives and properties in the flash floods, and offered support. Letting the BD cricket team win the test match by ten wickets on home ground, home pitch and home crowd could be just a beginning.
The writer is Retd Brig, war veteran, defence, security & political analyst, author of five books, patron-in-chief CDS Think Tank, ex-Chairman TFP Think Tank, Director Measac Research Centre, Administrator Fact Check Think Tank, takes part in TV talk shows.
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on August 14th, 2024
Looking Beyond the Obvious Political Lens
The current Pakistani ruling elite (few Generals and Sharif-Zardari Families), have no credibility of any kind and are well known conspirators, extornists, thugs, killers and indicted criminals who should be tried in a court of law. Evil has its own power and institutions and consequently every inch of Pakistani socio-economic, intellectual and political life is infested with corruption, exploitation and irreversible moral decadence. The masses are the net victims of neo-colonial conspiracies to degenerate the nation by Five military coups since its inception in August,1947. The country after 77 years of so called national freedom is devoid of the basic notion of freedom to exercise its rights for political change. The Generals and their accomplice few landlord families are the crux of problems across the besieged nation floating without a legitimate system of political governance or authentic public institutions of law and order and accountability. Emerging political chaos, corruption and dishonesty to national interests is the new normal. History is a learning tool and medium but not to the neo-colonial agents dragging the nation to an uncertain future and lost sense of national identity and freedom.
Progressive nations are built by educated thinkers, people of new ideas and ideals belonging to new generations of informed and honest people. Deprivation of the new generation is a systematic process to keep the old bags and corrupt families in power with the alignment of a few Generals. Pakistan has lost more than 50 years of time and opportunities for a new beginning and nation-building. How do you cure evil when people cannot think of evil as a monster of history to disrupt and destroy the hope for a systematic political change. Could Pakistan survive for another decade under the authoritarianism and governance of a few indicted criminals?
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Imran Khan is a Hope for Political Change
Pakistan is no exception wherever military generals bring coups, they destroy the ideological, moral and intellectual foundation of the nation. Pakistan had more than Five coups stabbing its body and political foundation. The Generals and their accomplice viewed Imran Khan (Teherk-Insaf Pakistan – “Justice Party”), as a threat to their survival and wanted to eliminate him by all means – fair or foul. The arrest and illegal imprisonment of Imran Khan unfolds an unwarranted and fraudulent scheme of things orchestrated by Sharif brothers and a few Generals to have arranged fraudulent national elections in Feb 2024, and betray the nation. Some of the Generals view the new generation of educated and intelligent Pakistanis as a challenge to their authoritarianism and could drive the country to self-destruction. Imran Khan, a sportsman, well known personality worldwide appeared to carry a moral and intellectual profile unseen in previous leaders. His PTI party alleges American intervention in the political coup against him and removal from office. Strangely enough, often Imran Khan spoke of political changes but he lacked the capacity to dismantle the neocolonial systems of corruption and intrigues across the board. Few of the Generals and Sharif brothers feared the return of Imran Khan to power if fair elections were held, he could hold them responsible for corruption, looting of the treasury and egoistic political belligerency. If Imran Khan was conscientious and had reasoned advisory, he could have called an early election to undo the political conspiracy. Khan sounded more truthful and a man of moral and intellectual integrity to assume the new generation’s leadership and be part of urgently needed domestic harmony and future-making.
To Foster Political Change, Nation Needs New Generation of Educated and Proactive People, Not Sharifs and Not Few Generals
The dramatic political changes happening in Bangladesh and the removal of PM Sheik Hasina brings optimism to Pakistani masses striving for political change. Symbolic structure of Sheikh Mujib is dismantled at Dhakka as the masses in Pakistan could force to make Sharif brothers, Zardari and a few Generals to flee the country. Criminals always fear accountability and voices of reason and masses to question them. Pakistan is being stabbed by vengeful intrigues of political power and insanity of the few. Progressive nations produce and bring the best and intelligent ones to the role of leadership and responsibility. Rationally arguable was the coming of PM Imran Khan – a hope for the future crushed by political intrigues, conspiracies of the few Generals and Sharif brothers- the indicted criminals. Something evocative and hauntingly familiar about the current imagery of failed political governance emerging across Pakistan.
We, the People of Pakistanlost half of our country (East Pakistan), and India occupied Kashmir by force and we continued to lose more in socioeconomic and political domains because of the dishonesty and failed leadership of Bhuttos, Sharifs and the Generals. These thugs stole billions and billions to buy palaces in the UK, France, Dubai and elsewhere in Europe. Please see more by this author, “British Colonialism and How India and Pakistan Lost National Freedom.”https://www.globalresearch.ca/british-colonialism-how-india-pakistan-lost-freedom/5765810and https://ms-my.facebook.com/Uncommon-Thought-Journal-161860380533165/photos/4916004181785404/and “Pakistan, Planned Political Chaos: Imran Khan a Victim of Hope for the Future”, Global Research: 11/06/2022.
Few Generals made Pakistan a Dead-Ended Culture of Thinking but the Neo-Colonial Elite are Wrong
If Bangladesh students and masses could oust the politically corrupt Sheik Hasina, surely Pakistani masses could do much better to drive the monsters out and bring a democratic political change. At the edge of reason, cynicism about politicians and few Generals is endemic and it exposes the imagery of a dead-ended culture of moral, political and intellectual landscape. Those occupying the political powerhouse view Pakistan as their own property not a trust and play with its destiny. They consider themselves above the law and reject any criticism against corrupt governance. Pakistan lost its natural capacity for change, progress and nation-building under the military dictators and continuous martial laws. 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.You may find ideas and ideals in“How to Change Political Culture of Corruption and Rebuild the Future?” 2/16/2019: Pressenza, NY. (https://www.pressenza.com/2019/02/pakistan-how-to-change-political-culture-of-corruption-and-rebuild-the-future/).
Truth telling is maligned and persecuted by the ruling neocolonial elite. The British changed the sub-continent in 90 years, but Pakistan after 77 years has no viable system of political governance. The Five Generals under the current Chief of the Army Staff, the Chief Justice Qazi Esa, Raja, the Election Commissioner must be tried for their crimes – holding fraudulent elections and deceiving the nation of its legitimate rights to foster political change. Otherwise, Pakistan and its freedom could be lost forever.Please see more: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/17/senior-pakistan-official-admits-election-rigging-as-protests-grip-country“Pakistan: What Next after the Rigged National Elections?
The phony Five Pakistani Generals have no credibility or respect of the nation. There is nothing to celebrate Pakistan’s 77 independence day after the fraudulent national elections depriving the PTI and its leadership to form the next legitimate government. The Bangladesh masses and student movement discard the military and corrupt Awami League Party of Sheik Hasina and demand Dr. Mohammad Yunus – a Nobel Laureate to form the interim Government. There are many educated Pakistanis of global moral and intellectual integrity to plan political change and meanwhile prepare and govern the country for a legitimate national election in a few months. The Chief of the Staff, General Assem Munir and Five conspiratorial Generals must see the mirror and realize what went wrong with their thinking, professionalism and honesty as they took oath to serve the nation. They all betrayed the nation and must be punished. Pakistan is fast becoming a trajectory of crime riddle political culture and it signals not just decadence but a downfall of the nation.
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Dr. Mahboob A. Khawaja specializes in international affairs-global security, peace and conflict resolution and has spent several academic years across the Russian-Ukrainian and Central Asian regions knowing the people, diverse cultures of thinking and political governance and a keen interest 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, Dec 2019.
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This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 12 Aug 2024.
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on May 20th, 2024
» International Affairs » Palestine » Gaza » You’re currently reading “Israel Lost the War and America Betrayed Humanity in Gaza”
15 May 2024
[Photo: Gazans in the rubble, Sinistra In Europa, Nov. 21, 2023.]
By Mahboob Khawaja, PhD
Global Mankind vs. Political Wickedness
Rationality requires objective reasoning and it is not coming for an impending cataclysm of the Israeli onslaught on Rafah and the United States – the complicit friend in making genocide betrayed its history of civility, morality, responsible political governance, equality of human rights, freedom, and justice and a lot more that only future will unfold. Ferocious concepts of good and evil are being implied by the Israeli war agenda challenging the human consciousness of principles of truth, freedom, and honesty.
Mike Whitney (“Genocide in Gaza: King Bibi’s Land Grab” Global Research: 5/10/2024), is an independent reputable citizen journalist who captures the prevalent facts:
The assault on Rafah comes despite the acceptance by Hamas Monday of a proposal for a temporary cessation of hostilities in exchange for the release of hostages. But after spending weeks attempting to blame the Palestinians for the ongoing war, Israeli officials flatly rejected the proposal….The cynical and misleading phrase “Israel’s right to defend itself” has become synonymous with the premeditated mass-murder of civilians. Most people have never seen anything as horrific as Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza which explains why college campuses across the United States have become hotbeds of political activism almost overnight. America’s students now serve as the nation’s conscience by opposing a flagrantly immoral onslaught that deliberately targets defenseless women and children….If you’ve ever taken a lifesaving course, you know there’s a real possibility that a drowning person will drag you under and you’ll both die. It’s a lesson that should be kept in mind when discussing America’s relationship with Israel. (Adapted from @LarryBoorstein.
PM Netanyahu is not winning the camouflaged political battle and resorts to an extreme fractured mindset to annihilate the innocent people of Gaza and more so at Rafah. He looks like a despotic figure, not a leader, broken in moral, spiritual, and human integrity lacking distinction between virtue and vice, and using the logic of power as the source of controversial strategies violating the international civilized norms of human safety, conflict resolution, and peacemaking.
Across the US, new generations of thinking people demonstrate revulsion against the one-track established political perspective of the State of Israel and its war in Gaza on university campuses and question the rationality of catastrophic human sufferings, crimes against humanity, and the alleged genocide of Palestinians. Ironically, America and Israel appear to be ignoring the legally binding implications of the ICJ verdict demanding Israel to “prevent all acts of Genocide in Gaza.”
Western Colonialism and the Betrayal of Arab-Muslim Leaders
The static Arab-Muslom leadership lacking credibility hides under the OIC (The Organization of Islamic Conferences) – a dry-inked paper entity to propel its meaningless resolution for the ceasefire and peace in Palestine. Some of those signing the paper enjoin business relationships with Israel. They are being watched and cursed by the Arab masses for indifference and betrayal of the Islamic principles of helping the helpless victims of war. There are reportedly several thousand Western (German, French, the US, and British) mercenaries fighting alongside the Israeli forces in Gaza.
The Western mythologists view the oil-exporting Arab leaders as “camel jockeys” and brainless figures. They live in palaces protected by American and European mercenaries, while erecting high-rise buildings, organizing football matches, Olympic games, and COP28, while 2.5 million are being displaced and more than 34,547 are massacred across Gaza and some 14,700 innocent children killed. Israeli attacks on hospitals, places of worship, and the killing of civilians go unabatedly. The Arab-Muslim leaders have no sense of time or history and capacity to defend the interest of Islam as the Israeli Ultra Nationalists plan to dismantle the 3rd holiest site Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. Please see: “Al-Aqsa Mosque Waiting for the Arab Leaders” and “America-Israel War on Gaza a Prelude to Conquest of the ArabWorld ”https://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2024/01/05/america-israels-war-on-gaza-a-prelude-to-conquest-of-the-arab-world.php
Planet Earth is Living for All – Those Bombing it are Morally and Intellectually Sick People
Earth is living and sustains life and all that is needed by all living things and rotates itself at a speed of 1000 miles per hour at the equator and orbits the Sun at an average speed of 67062 MPH. Earth is a “trust” to humankind for its existence, sustenance of life, survival, progress, and future-making. Those who bomb the Earth and destroy human lives and habitats are not normal human beings and God will hold them accountable for the consequences of their crimes against mankind.“Fear God” and ‘do not violate the covenants of peace and trust on Earth’,remind the teachings of the Bible, Torah, and Quran to all mankind, otherwise God’s punishment to the transgressor will be severe. (Quran: 40: 21):
“Do they not travel through the Earth and see what was the End before them? They were even superior to them in strength; And in the traces (they have left) in the land: But God did call them to account for their sins; And none had they to defend them against God.”
Those who believe in and follow the Divine Judaism – the generations of Israelites are reminded by God (Quran 2: 84-85):
And remember, We took a Covenant from the Children of Israel (progeny of Jacob), Worship none but God; ….shed no blood amongst you, Nor displace people from homes: and Ye solemnly ratified…… And on the Day of Judgment they shall be consigned to the most grievous penalty, For God is not unmindful what ye do.
And killing of innocent people is prohibited in the Ten Commandments (Torah):
‘Thou shalt not kill’ (Exod. 20:13; also Deut. 5:17). Jewish law views the shedding of innocent blood very seriously, and lists murder as one of three sins (along with idolatry and sexual immorality), that fall under the category of yehareg ve’al ya’avor – meaning “One should let himself be killed rather than violate it.”According to Rabbi Judah Loew of Prague: ‘Jewish law forbids the killing of innocent people, even in the course of a legitimate military engagement.’
PM Netanyahu admits “ Israel stands alone.” Do the people of Israel feel confident of PM Netanyahu’s leadership towards peacemaking and global harmony? When egoistic transgressors challenge the sanctity and limits of the Laws of God, they become an object of punishment from God and that is how many powerful nations were destroyed in history.
Lessons of History are ignored and how America Has Lost Humanity
If the global institutions were not defunct, the 2.5 million civilians should have been protected by the UNO and leading powers as the Charter makes them obligated in conflict zones. Mass graves of medical professionals, and innocent civilians targeted at gunpoint are discovered from three hospitals in Gaza but Western intellect does not call for accountability of the aggressors. What if the Arab-Muslim world had armed forces and honest leaders to protect the people of Gaza?
The American-Israeli collaborative war on Gaza and its immediate consequences made the Western world and all of its institutions shamefully redundant in the 21st century global norms of civility, human rights, freedom, justice, and safety of civilians – whereas crimes against humanity are captured in obscure impulses and indecision and deliberate inaction by the UNO and the Security Council. Mike Whitney (“Genocide in Gaza: King Bibi’s Land Grab” Global Research: 5/10/2024), quotes author Lawrence Davidson to answer some of the critical questions by showing how the transplanting of mainly European Jews to Palestine created “cultural and ‘racial’ incubators for an ‘us (superior) vs. them (inferior)’” which is fairly common among settler populations. Here’s more:
The founders of modern Zionism were both Jews and Europeans and (as such) had acquired the West’s cultural sense of superiority in relation to non-Europeans…..This sense of superiority would play an important role when a deal (the Balfour Declaration) (in which), the British would… help create a “Jewish national home” in Palestine……in other European colonies, where large numbers of Europeans resided, the era following World War II saw their eventual evacuation as power shifted over to the natives….Unfortunately, in the case of Palestine, this process of de-colonization never occurred…..And, from the Zionist standpoint, this entire process has worked remarkably well. Today all but a handful of Israeli Jews dislike and fear the people they conquered and displaced. They wish they would go away. And, when their resistance gets just a bit too much to bear, they are now quite willing to see them put out of the way….
Like Israel, Palestine is a nation, a human culture, and its entire natural visibility is obliterated by Israeli war machines. The animals have no bombs, no guns, and bullets to kill each other and do not reflect on the imperatives of life. We, human beings, are supposed to be intelligent and responsible species on this Earth. At the edge of reason, the notion of evil leads to the realization that evil and the tyranny of war must be stopped by all means, and those responsible for bombing the innocents, genocide, and crimes against humanity must be held accountable to restore the vision of a sustainable moral and intellectual humanity.
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 is the author of several publications including the latest: One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution. Germany, 12/2019.
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The Nation Besieged by Few Generals and Political Monsters
Pakistan for over 76 years lost its essence of national freedom which was achieved by a people-oriented movement for independence from British imperialism. British colonialism indoctrinated the masses of the sub-continent with its own distinct culture of thinking and behavior, public institutions and everlasting imprints of planned subjugation to foreign myths and ethnic superiority. The military establishment is one of those institutions of foreign thinking and actions. While India under Hindu dominated culture evolved its own brand of nationalism and political institutions, Pakistan fell victim to five major military coups and lost its search for national identity and Islamic foundation of the movement for national freedom. Today political corruption, moral and intellectual decadence, inept military domination and embedded uncertainties about a sustainable future are the new normal which a conscientious new generation of educated and intelligent Pakistanis are enduring for a navigational change. Pakistan future is at stake as the Generals and allied political conspirators would see no ending unless held accountable and punished for their crimes.They are the wrong people – Generals do not build a nation, nor develop economy, agriculture, education, public institutions, moral and intellectual fabrics – they destroy all that was built by previous generations to pursue their own egoistic ends. Pakistan lost more than 50 years under corrupt politics. Pakistan does not need neo-colonial generals but Muslim thinking soldiers.
More so, the Feb 8, national elections displayed a highly corrupt systematic scheme of rigging the elections and favoring the most hated – most feared indicted criminals – Sharifs – Bhuttos family and a few corrupt Generals and depriving the new generation to imagine a navigational change to transform Pakistan into a progressive nation of the 21st century. The few Generals led by Assim Munir appear more conspirators to use the indicted criminals to their favor and oust them when they become a liability as it happened during several military coups in the past.
A paradox of unforgivable systematic infested political corruption complemented by the ego of few Generals aligned with higher court judges to a new threshold of emerging disunity, military intervention in public affairs and favorite perversion of evil mongering claiming to serve the 240 million conscientious Pakistanis. Few Generals lacking capacity to think right planned a fraudulent elections to reinstate Bhuttos, Sharfis and Zardari as they were produced by the Generals who stole more than 50 years of the national lifetime, wealth and opportunities for change to buy palaces in the UK, France and Spain and discredit the nation, its honor and standing in global affairs. None of them could return the precious time stolen from the lives of Pakistanis. Please see: “British Colonialism and How India and Pakistan Lost Nation Freedom.” (2022). https://www.globalresearch.ca/british-colonialism-how-india-pakistan-lost-freedom/5765810
Do intelligent people learn words of wisdom even from their enemies? General PNK Choudry (former Chief of Staff of the Indian Armed Forces), who fought wars against Pakistan, narrated that if Pakistan had honest and intelligent leaders, they could have averted the 1971 surrender and defeat at Dakka- East Pakistan. I asked him how? He disclosed that ZA Bhutto had asked Mrs. Indira Gandhi (PM India) to help him become the next president of Pakistan; whereas Sheikh Mujib Rehman ( the elected majority leader) was more a Bengali nationalist aspiring to become the next leader of Pakistan. If the Pakistani Generals had transferred the power to Sheikh Rehman, it would have been the right thing to do and he would not have survived more than a few months as all the official machinery was based in Islamabad. Mrs. Gandhi agreed to help Zalfikar Bhutto but the price was defeat and surrender of Pakistan, and Bhutto was a power maniac to become the unelected leader of Pakistan. Editor Altaf Qureshi (“Skoot-e Dhaka say Purdha Utha Hey” the Urdu Digest), narrated the historic facts: ‘General Yahya Khan stabbed the body of Pakistan and Bhutto did the same.’ Are we not seeing the same story being repeated again in Pakistan after more than 50 years?
Recently, the US media reports Chuck Schumer (the US majority senate leader) is quoted telling the Pakistani Generals: ‘not to subdue or kill Imran Khan for political ambitions.’ Imran Khan (PTI imprisoned leader), in many ways represents the new hopes and aspirations of young generations of Pakistanis for political change. Vengeful and paranoid Generals wanted to keep Khan and PTI out of power so nobody could question their wrong thinking and deceitful actions against the nation. 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 few Pakistani Generals view “power” and “Pakistan” as their own property. All Five coups were a stabbing to the body of the nation and ended up in loss of East Pakistan. Please see “ Pakistan Confronts its future under betrayal of Generals.” 01/24https://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2024/01/15/pakistan-confronts-its-future-under-betrayal-of-generals.php
Nation-building is Intricately linked to the Genius of New Generations of Educated and Intelligent People, Not to Indicted Criminals
It is the role and responsibility of a nation to produce intelligent and honest leaders for future-making.Ironically, Pakistani neo-colonial systems have kept old and obsolete to run the country. After 50 years of corrupt history, Pakistan is back to most hated and indicted criminals – the known traitors as leaders with the help of a few Generals. 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.
Wherever Generals bring coups, nations opt to conflicts, deaths and ultimate destruction of civility. Generals and Judges do not develop nations or civilizations but educated, thinking hubs and people of knowledge and vision. Today, the nation is crippled with catastrophic events of insecurity, non-productivity, mismanagement and socioeconomic and political exploitation. They view “power” and “Pakistan” as their own property. They are the wrong people, with wrong thinking and doing the wrong things.
Imran Khan inherited a highly corrupt infested culture of political governance. Although Khan spoke of moral and intellectual values and nation-building, he did very little to support that agenda. Khan could have arranged evidence-based legal prosecution of Sharif brothers, Zardari and others for corruption, killings and stolen wealth but failed to do so. He did not kill anybody nor robbed any banks and political governance was infested with corrupt figures of the past. Please see by this author: “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 Striving for Its Soul.” 8/23
Tyranny is Powerless and Nation Needs Legal Justice and New Systems of Political Governance
The besieged and morally inept few Generals using Sharif brothers will curb any open investigation into their alleged crimes and dismantle public institutions of accountability for a fair and just national election. The few Generals and Sharif brothers are egomaniacs with an overwhelming pathological urge for political power to distort and reject the will and aspirations of the people of Pakistan striving for political change. Tyranny is always powerless and transitory. Imran Khan and some 20,000 of his party supporters have been imprisoned under false pretext of political vengeance and to pave the way for another opening to the crime riddled Sharif family. Is there a hope for justice to the cause of the masses? A reconstruction and overhaul of the law and justice system and non-intervention by the Generals into politics and transfer of political power to the majority elected leader and party. It is a long way to build a working democracy in Pakistan. To safeguard the future of national freedom, the few Generals and top Judges should be tried for violations of the Constitution, human rights, arrests of innocent masses and fake cases against Khan at the ICJ and ICC, the Hague? The possibility is there for public legal accountability including a firing squad to cleanse the stinking garbage.
Pakistan needs an urgent navigational change but few Generals and judges are part of the problem.The current state of Pakistani affairs reflects a complete societal breakdown and march towards self-annihilation. Despite the hollow claims of a few Generals, no moral and ethical behavior is seen in the sudden and inexplicable plunge to human wickedness highlighting the affairs of the besieged nation. They would claim democracy at work when the majority winning party (PTI) is being blocked to form the next legitimate government and masses are outraged and oppose the Generals and Judges lacking respect, professional integrity and impartiality to serve the nation. The new generations of conscientious Pakistani will curse a few Generals and the Chief Justice for their alleged conspiracy to dehumanize the Islamic culture of rights and obligations of the masses. All they could get in return from the US covert operation is dry milk, used clothes and perhaps green cards to migrate to the US and keep their identities secret for reasons of pending justice and futuristic legal accountability. Have they not learned what happened to Saddam Hussein, Khadafi, Musharaf and the Shah of Iran?
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, 2019; and his upcoming book is entitled: Global Humanity and the Remaking of Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution beyond the Lens of Human Consciousness.
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on March 2nd, 2024
Brig(Retd)Asif Haroon Raja
A large cache of arms has been seized by the Coast Guards from Jimny near the Mekran Coast along Baluchistan. The arms were being smuggled from Iran to Pakistan. An important leader of Zainabun has been arrested.
The Panjgur incident and our reaction in Saravan in Iran are still fresh in our minds. Fence mending was done quickly and both sides assured to be prudent and promised to coexist as brotherly neighbours. The latest incident has blown apart our hopes of a peaceful and friendly southern border.
It is time for our policy makers to take a second look at the existing ground realities and the changed security paradigm, and accordingly frame our threat perception and security responses.
Internal Threats
Currently, Pakistan is internally facing the threat of resurgent terrorism in KP and Baluchistan, heightened political polarization and hatred, political instability, social divisions, economy at the edge of default, heavy burden of foreign and public debts and fifth generation war.
These negatives have bred insecurity and uncertainty, which hinders future attempts to improve the economy and to draw in foreign investments.
There are too many snakes in the grass chipping the foundations of the country and are helping the enemies to create a gulf between the army and the people with the ultimate aim of weakening the first and last line of defence. Never before has Pakistan suffered from so many crises at one time.
The coalition of six parties cobbled together are not natural allies and have so far shown little signs of placing national interests above their own selfish interests. They are more interested in getting plum portfolios than in pulling the sunk economy out of the quagmire, and to face the external threats collectively. The recent performance of PDM 1 during its 16 months rule, was deplorable and is one reason which deprived PML N from gaining simple majority in the Centre.
Balochistan Districts
The great majority of the elected MNAs and MPAs are big landlords, industrialists, businessmen and senior advocates and most are above fifty years old.
Since no reforms of the institutions have been carried out, little is expected from the old hats who have been bathing in the polluted tub for the last 25 years. All are deeply infected by feudal mindset and in corrupt practices.
Both the mainstream parties, PPP and PML N, failed to alleviate poverty, and to better the lives of the marginalized. Out of the two, the performance of PML N under NS was comparatively better and had some feathers in their cap but was far from idealism.
The 3rd party experiment was a disaster. The PTI leadership is refusing to accept the hard reality that it was owing to its poor performance, which helped the PDM to make their vote of no confidence successful. It is still resentful and revengeful.
The PTI is in no mood to change its negative tactics of defiance, confrontation, violence and is vying to make Pakistan bankrupt and to go to dogs merely to regain power.
For the icon, all those who abuse and make noise and resort to high handed tactics are his favourites. Peace lovers are sidelined. Chairman PTI Barrister Gohar who is less volatile and remains within the decent limits, survived by the skin of his teeth because of noise made by the media.
The anti-army and anti-state journalists and U-tubers sitting abroad and inside the country spewing venom are the ideals and favourites of the cult followers.
The ones bitten by cultish culture, have torn apart the social fabric of the society and made the youth violence prone and reckless. They are still living in the fools paradise of Haqiqi Azadi.
For the myopic cult leader and his mind cloned followers, breaking the coercive hold of the military over politics and the country is the only way out to make Pakistan independent and prosperous.
Instead of showing the mirror to the policy makers and pumping them to avenge the humiliating defeat of 1971, the tunnel visioned cult followers are politicising it to gain political mileage. They are again and again reminding the Army that Pakistan will suffer a similar debacle if PTI is deprived of the throne.
To shame the Pakistani leadership, they are glorifying fascist India and fascist Bangladesh and are turning a blind eye to the ruthless persecution and lynching of the Indian Muslims and other minorities in India and in IOK, and the ruthless crushing of all political parties in BD. In BD there is one party rule.
Who will save 24 crore Pakistanis from the wrath of Indian military forces if the centre of gravity resting in GHQ gets enfeebled?
Will the cult followers pick up arms against them for the defence of the motherland and to safeguard the honour of women? If they had so much jihadism in them, wouldn’t it have been better to show it by crossing the LoC and marching up to Sri Nagar to liberate IOK? 5 Aug 2019 was the right time to give a call of Jihad.
But we know what sort of response came from Pakistan. Those real jihadis who wanted to go across the LoC were forcibly restrained and told to register a protest by remaining silent on each Friday for 30 minutes.
The PTI has chalked out its future plans which will be based on battles inside and outside the parliament, together with legal and court battles and supplemented with media war with a view to paralyse the coalition govt and prevent it from undertaking reforms and development work. It started its campaign with charges of rigging, irregularities, Form 45, and airing fake figures of victories. It claimed 180 NA seats but filed petitions for only 35 seats. It is seeking help from the US , EU, UK, IMF and the Pak expats. Social media and foreign funding are the major tools in the arsenal of PTI. Probably the last card has been played by President Alvi by refusing to call the session of the NA. The outgoing Speaker has however decided to call the session.
External Challenges
India’s Unabated Hostility
Coming to the external threat perception, our Eastern border has been and will remain perpetually hostile. After annexing IOK and absorbing it fully into the Indian Union, fascist Modi and his hawkish team have repeatedly vowed to break Pakistan into four parts and have openly talked of a limited war in AJK and GB. Modi’s next ambition in his 4th term will be to annex the whole of J&K.
India has been using multiprong offensives in the form of hybrid war, proxy war, cultural war, water terrorism, coercion, economic terrorism, and to strategically encircle and isolate Pakistan.
India is eagerly looking forward to an opportunity to launch its Cold Start Doctrine to damage Pakistan. Owing to its strategic partnership with the US, NATO and Israel, its enhanced political, diplomatic, economic and military strengths, it is in a comfortable position to flex its military muscles to intimidate Pakistan and to unfold its military adventure. Indian media openly stated that IK was the best gift for India since he did what India couldn’t achieve in the last 75 years.
Afghanistan’s Hostility
Our western border that has remained hostile from 1947 onwards, except for brief spells of harmony, has once again become turbulent because of TTA-TTP alliance and return of Indian influence in Afghanistan.
Action against the TTP, return of illegal Afghan refugees and strict border management have further angered the Kabul regime. So far, there is little hope for the betterment of our relationship. The worrisome aspect is TTP-PTI alignment duly backed by Afghanistan.
Iran’s Unfriendliness
Pakistan was aware that RAW was using the Iranian soil as an auxiliary base for cross border terrorism during the 20-year war on terror, but it remained quiet because of volatility on its eastern and western borders. We ignored the hard fact that India and Iran were strategic and defence partners and both had supported Afghan Northern Alliance.
We didn’t make noise even after arresting an Indian RAW agent Kalbushan in 2016 who had been operating from Chahbahar since 2003 and had spilled the beans.
We knew that the Baloch rebel groups were using Iranian Baluchistan as their base of operations against Baluchistan and Karachi and that IRGC was supervising their activities. We had to build a fence along our southern border like we did in the northwest. But terrorism and supply of arms through the border and from the Mekran coast is still continuing.
Pakistan Choked
It implies that our southern border is also hostile, which has left Pakistan with no breathing space. It is being choked from three directions while the internal enemies are giving full support to them to accomplish their objectives.
Efforts to Scuttle CPEC
From 2016 onwards, a wilful campaign was launched to undermine CPEC, which our enemies knew that it had the potential to make Pakistan economically self-reliant. China was equated with the East India Company. The drama of Chinese marrying Pakistani girls for sexual trade was enacted. China’s human rights in Xinjiang against the Chinese Muslims was drummed up. Political parties were taken on board to scuttle the project. Terrorist acts along the corridor were intensified.
Despite these vile efforts to disrupt CPEC and to spoil China-Pakistan relations, phase one projects were completed in record time of three years, but the detractors were eventually successful in freezing the game changing project in 2018. Phase 2 projects are still in limbo.
Duplicitous USA
The double dealing USA has never been a friend of Pakistan and it has always used Pakistan as a rentier state to accomplish its regional objectives.
The US has all along favoured India and undermined Pakistan’s core security concerns.
Policy of Appeasement
Well knowing the duality and insincerity of the US, our leaders, both civil and military, have remained subservient to its commands and have harmed national interests for the sake of dollars and to remain in power.
It was because of this factor of obedience to Washington that Pakistan has been following a policy of one-sided appeasement, even with our sworn enemies and refrained from building a counter narrative to expose the fake narratives of India and occupied Afghanistan that the two were victims of terrorism and that Pakistan was the nursery of terrorism.
Where We Went Wrong?
By now, we should have learnt lessons that our policy makers were poor in making the difference between friends and foes. It was a folly to put all our eggs into the basket of dual-faced USA and thus making Pakistan wholly dependent upon the domineering USA.
We all know that the gates of Pakistan were opened for the FBI and CIA in 2002 to chase Al Qaeda, which enabled the two to form a big intelligence network in Pakistan by 2008. This network has penetrated into each and every department and segments of Pakistan. Our vulnerabilities are being exploited by our enemies to further weaken us from within.
Our policy makers trusted the US to the extent that they asked Donald Trump to meditate and resolve the Kashmir dispute. CPEC was frozen to please the US and IMF, and put Pakistan’s ironclad relations with China in jeopardy.
The US in collaboration with India have been playing a game of snake and ladder and never allowed Pakistan to take off economically. Dr Danielle Marke revealed the hidden truth in his book ‘No Exit from Pakistan’, that way back in 1954, the US policy makers had decided to keep Pakistan engaged due to its geostrategic location, but to keep it controlled and managed. For the latter, India ensured that Pakistan was kept on the tenterhooks by keeping it politically unstable.
Apart from the three major wars and several conflicts and standoffs with India, and facing constant subversive threats from India in the three less developed provinces, coupled with the bellicosity of Afghanistan, the US used Pakistan as its rentier state for thirty years to fight its wars in Afghanistan.
Outwardly, Pakistan was the most allied ally, but in actuality it was the most sanctioned country. FATF and IMF are some of the tools to browbeat Pakistan.
The US has been cultivating Pakistani political leaders, bureaucrats, generals and the media to keep Pakistan under its thumb.
Our leaders must be clear that under no circumstances the US would annoy India to please Pakistan, but would happily undermine Pakistan’s core interests to benefit India.
Let us be clear that IK’s drama of Haqiqi Azadi was not from the US, but from the Pak Army. Similarly, Shabaz Sharif, Bilawal and Zardari are appeasers and pro USA.
Way Forward
Pakistan stands on a slippery slope and can no more afford to indulge in futile infighting, senseless tug of war, emotionalism, divisive politics, strained civil-military relations, blaming each other, propaganda war, believing in Messiahs or in miracles. Making Pakistan chaotic and anarchic is not the medicine to cure Pakistan afflicted with multiple diseases.
What is needed is to put aside our imagined or genuine grievances against each other, cool down our tempers, heal the youth and divert them towards constructive channels through better education, motivation, job opportunities, equitable social growth and justice system.
We should concentrate wholly towards reforming our decayed systems and institutions, carry forward the already prepared economic uplift program under SIFC established in GHQ whole heartedly and with total dedication, honesty and sincerity of purpose, bridle the poisonous media badmouthing Pakistan and Pak Army and to reform it, tackle the mischief makers and spoilers with an iron hand, shun lavishness and VIP culture, enforce austerity, reduce and possibly get rid of IMF.
We should stop taking dictations from Washington, lean towards China and Russia that are pro-peace and believe in the concept of shared development, and the Arab Gulf States that have promised heavy foreign investments. All out efforts must be made to complete the phase 2 of CPEC.
Education must be given higher priority to improve literacy and to refurbish school curriculum to improve our values, ethics and moral turpitude that have hit rock bottom.
These steps are not unachievable, but are very much achievable if there is complete understanding between the rulers, army and the people.
Above all, there should be across the board accountability under apolitical accountability mechanism and the justice system should be overhauled. The rule of law must be strictly enforced.
While we can doubt the ability and capacity of the PDM 2 coalition to sail Pakistan out of choppy waters towards the shores of stability and prosperity, however, we can say that Gen Asim Munir is not a toady and boot licker of the US. He could be our only hope to rid Pakistan of its slavish dependence upon the USA.
So let us pray for his wellbeing and his commitment, and make our contributions in helping him to defeat the nefarious designs of enemies of Pakistan at home and abroad. It is he who has the dexterity and willpower to push the cart of wobbly PDM 2, and to overcome all the hurdles and to make Pakistan strong and self-sufficient.
The writer is retd Brig Gen, war veteran, defence, security and political analyst, international columnist, author of five books, ex chairman Thinkers Forum Pakistan, takes part in TV talk shows . [email protected]
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