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Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 24th, 2024
America Supports Israeli War Beyond Gaza onto the Arab World
America and Israel Aligned to Challenge Global Humanity
Political cynicism is endemic and its shallowness defines the claim of liberal democracy. America again flunked the global consensus of 13 member states calling for an immediate ceasefire and vetoed the February 20, Security Council resolution to support Israeli continued onslaught on the innocent people across Gaza. Are global institutions fast becoming redundant in a crisis? And global humanity is captive of the US-Israel’s intransigence and plans never experienced in history. Why should the global community allow arbitrary terror of killing and expulsion of 2.5 million people of Gaza? Philip Giraldi (Global Research: 2/21/24), “The United States Vetoes Yet Another UN Humanitarian Ceasefire Over Gaza” …. several interesting developments relating to Israel’s ongoing destruction of Gaza and its people, but one might well question the motives of at least one of the principal players in the drama, namely Joe Biden’s United States Government.https://www.globalresearch.ca/united-states-vetoes-another-un-humanitarian-ceasefire-gaza/5850155:
America and Israel share a common strategic vision and plan to expand the Gaza war onto the Arab world and to control the oil-gas resources needed for futuristic advancements. America and Israel are engaged in ‘crimes against humanity’ but no global system is applicable to stop their cruelty and insanity. The tribulations, terror against civilians nowhere to go beyond Rafah, daily bloodbath, attacks on hospitals, no UN protection to the civilians in conflict zones; blocking of humanitarian aid and starvation; and 2.5 million people left to be massacred while discussions of international law and peace make no headways except lip service and paperwork.“If the nations of the world–particularly the United States and the Arab countries–wanted to stop Israel’s slaughter, torture and ethnic cleansing in Gaza”, explains Marcy Winograd (“How Nations Could End Israeli Genocide: Stop the Weapons, Stop the Oil, Stop the Tech.” Global Research: 2/21/24), they could do so tomorrow with suspension of oil, arms and technology imports and exports to Israel.”https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-nations-could-end-israeli-genocide-stop-weapons-stop-oil-stop-tech/5849677
Jews for Peace Challenge the US- Israel Belligerency
Wars are integral to American and Israeli formative history and now they are engaged in “genocidal acts of vengeance” against the civilians of Gaza, widely accused by NGOs and global humanity. Virtually inexhaustible daily bombing spares no life, no functional hospitals, no UNRWA schools and no respect for the International Humanitarian Law or the Geneva Conventions. Israeli PM Netanyahu , an egoistic person lacking moral and intellectual capacity, cares about his own political survival unleashing violent assumptions of hatred, animosities and killings of Palestinians – a nation no matter how normal claims to be, cannot function as normal beings to co-exist with their own self and make any positive contributions to societal normalcy. Many Jewish organizations (“Jews for Peace” and “Jews against Zionism”) and others across the US and Europe committed and stood for peace and global brotherhood. They are all calling for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. Dr. Ludwig Watzal, a journalist and editor in Bonn, explains:”How Modern is Israel? “Zionism has Little to do with Judaism” https://www.globalresearch.ca/how-modern-is-israel-zionism-has-little-to-do-with-judaism/5537626 and see Israel Shahak and Prof Michel Chossudovsky:“Greater Israel”: The Zionist Plan for the Middle East. ”https://www.globalresearch.ca/greater-israel-the-zionist-plan-for-the-middle-east/5324815
Those Bombing the God-given Earth are not Normal Human Beings
The Earth is a living entity and rotates itself at a speed of 1000 miles per hour at equator and orbits the Sun at an average speed of 67062 MPH. The Divine warning (Chapter 7: 56: The Qur’an), tells: Do no mischief on the Earth after it hath been set in order, but call on God with fear and longing in hearts; For the Mercy of God is always near to those who do good. Earth is a trust to humanity and trust includes accountability. The Earth sustains all forms of living things(known and unknown), the essential foundation of our very existence. Pathologically wicked leaders and nations claiming to be most powerful start acting like God to challenge the sanctity and limits of the Laws of God; historically, they become an object of unthinkable natural calamities- earthquakes, wildfires, floods, deaths and destruction. “Say! Travel through the earth; And see what was the end of those who rejected Truth.” spell out the annals of human history. Those bombing and causing catastrophic events to destroy the planet Earth and mankind and all of its treasures and enrichment are not normal human beings. The followers of Moses – the generations of Israelite 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 to this ye can bear witness…. It was not lawful for you to banish another party, then it is only a part of the Book that ye believe in…. 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 by God’s 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.’
Are there any Arab-Muslim Leaders to Defend Palestine Freedom?
America and Israel view all the Arab States as vulnerable to besiegement and political supremacy. Living in the fantasy of time and power, Arab-Muslim states have no armies or leaders to protect the national interest of Palestine. The PLO is devoid of intelligent leadership and Israeli forces have free hand to raid or kill Palestinians across the occupied territories. America and Israel have working plans to conquer more Arab lands -Jordan, Syria, Saudi Arabia and others to resettle the Palestinians and put a finished answer on Palestine as a future State. Would the Arab-Muslim leaders rethink outside the imperial box to plan for a navigational change in relationships with the US and its military hegemony? The time, history and future generations of conscientious people will curse the so-called tribal agents for their wickedness and greed to be kings and queens and princes and nothing else to make their presence in the global arena of emerging conflicts.
Please see more: “How Did Arab Leaders Betrayed Islam and Defied the Logic of Political Change, Peace and Security.” https://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2023/10/07/how-did-arab-leaders-betrayed-islam-and defied-the-logic-of-political-change-peace-and-security.php
War on Gaza is a stigma of political survival for PM Netanyahu and the war cabinet while several thousands of Israeli citizens demonstrate in Tel Aviv asking for peace with Palestinians and a safe return of 134 hostages still in Gaza. Engaged in deceit of triumphalism, Netanyahu Government is not listening to voices of reason and truth. While the Israeli Ultra Nationalist groups continuously violate the sanctity of Al-Aqsa Mosque, the Arab-Muslim leaders are simply the spectators watching the provocations.
Please see: “Al-Aqsa Mosque Waiting for the Arab Leaders.” http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/57491.htm Please see more: https://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2023/10/31/the-war-on-gaza-humanity-is-being-destroyed-by-the-madness-of-war-and-inept-leadership.php
While the Arab leaders making melodramatic and misleading claims of security and peace with Israel and the West, the region is a highly militarized and destabilized landscape of continuous conflicts. To subdue and humiliate the “camel jockeys” of the oil producing Arab world, now the US exports wars, weapons and poisonous thoughts to divide and conquer the Arabian Peninsula. Historically, diverse tribal Arabs were united as an “Ummah” – One Nation by Islam but European colonialists assigned sectarian identities to divide the geography and history of Arab civilization. To change the future, America and Israel needed a political challenge to stop the war on Gaza but it was nowhere to be seen on the Arabian leadership horizon. For too long, Arab leaders breathe oxygen in moral and intellectual decadence and a delusional fantasy of oil-run economic prosperity.
Intelligent people always heed to rational advice but American and Israeli warmongering and killings are contrary to the Nature of Things. The Gazan landscape is filled with deaths and destruction which could have been avoided if reason and honest policies were implied to the crisis. The time and opportunities call for rethinking and new ideas to reject violence and vengeance as contrary to the nature of humanity, peace and intellect. To avoid most dreadful tragedies in the making, we must reject the tyranny of war as a means to solve political problems and demand a return to persuasive communication and dialogue for conflict management and peace-making.
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: One Humanity and the Remaking of Global Peace, Security and Conflict Resolution (2019); and a forthcoming book is entitled: Global Humanity, Peace and Conflict Resolution beyond the Lens of Human Consciousness.
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on February 23rd, 2024
Pakistan: What Next after the Rigged National Elections?
Mahboob A. Khawaja, PhD.
The Nation Becomes Victim of Futile Elections
A nation already at the edge of socioeconomic and crises of moral and political integrity becomes victim of authoritarian tyranny, political sinisterism and enduring pains, horrors and global degradation because of the fallacy of national elections being rigged by those very officials supposed to be responsible for a fair and free ballot box exercises on February 8-9. Not so, the elections are alleged to be stolen from the rights of the masses and their constitutional exercise. 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 governed by a colonialist elite subservient to the Western world and the nation desperately needs a New Constitution, new systems of political governance and new-age educated, morally and intellectually visionary leadership to cope with the 21st century challenges of survival and progress. While the truth was evaporating, in a rare display of courage and professional honesty, Commissioner Liaqat Ali Chatta took the lead to be free from history and laws of proliferating disgust, delusion and irrational injustice to clarify to public the facts of rigged national elections.
Pakistani masses are outraged to learn of the rigging of February 8-9, national elections in major cities contended by leading political parties. At the February 17, press conference, Commissioner Liaqat Ali Chatta (Rawalpindi Division), location of the Armed Forces Headquarters admitted that: “We converted the losers into winners, reversing margins of 70,000 votes in 13 national assembly seats,” he told reporters, also implicating the head of the election commission and the country’s top judge. The public disclosures highlighted the role and fraudulent involvement of the Chief Justice Qazi Faiz Isa and CEC Sikander Sultan Raja to change the results of the ballot boxes.
According to Pakistan’s Dawn News, Commissioner Liaqat Ali Chatta admitted he was “deeply involved in serious crime like mega election rigging 2024” and said that “stabbing the country in its back” does not allow him sleep. “I should be punished for the injustice I have done and others who were involved in this injustice should also be punished,” The Commissioner showed solidarity with the cause of people and justice and resigned from his executive position.
Several thousands of public supporters of the PTI Party and independent activists demonstrated in major cities across Pakistan against the rigging of the elections and to undermine the present and future course of a fair and free national election. According to global news media, “People are coming from all walks of life. Women, children and entire families … have converged at the Press Club in Islamabad. They say their mandate has been stolen and the government is trying to put an illegitimate government into power which lost the election.” Many observers point out multi layers of a planned scheme of rigging the elections. Saeed Malik, a Pakistani commentator (“Commissioner Chatha’s Gift……..February 18, 24), cited the confession of a bold and honest Commissioner:
that the C.J Qazi Faez Isa, and the CEC Sikander Sultan Raja, were complicit with him in the perpetration of this act of unprecedented national fraud…….He confessed that it was on his instructions that his subordinates had rigged ALL the seats so massively that candidates winning by as many as 70000 votes, lost out to the ones trailing them; that his conscience could not bear the thought that this could eventually become a spiral which would unravel Pakistan; that first he thought of committing suicide in an act of contrition, but then decided that instead of this sinful death, it would be better that he exposed what happened to the public, and be hung by the gallows instead.
One wonders, what was the precarious reason to hold the national elections when the Generals and few Judges of the Supreme Court wanted the corrupt and morally and politically disgraced Sharfi brothers back to political power? The Generals produced Bhuttos, Sharifs, Zardari and Musharaf 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. They all escaped the eventuality of their crimes against the nation through infested corruption and unfair systems of legal justice. It is widely believed that the top brand of military were directly involved in organizing a fraudulent election and keeping Imran Khan, the former popular PM and his PTI party out of the reach to win the elections or to form any future civilian government in Pakistan. It is highly likely that twisted logic and erroneous tactics of false accusations and charges have been implied to imprison Imran Khan and some 20k of his party affiliates locked up arbitrarily to ensure a favorable outcome for the indicted criminal and previously twice dismissed Nawaz Sharif or his brother to form the next central government. please see: “Pakistan: A Quagmire of Strange Democracy at Work.” https://www.uncommonthought.com/mtblog/archives/2024/02/18/pakistan-a-quagmire-of-strange-democracy-at-work.php
The Ruling Elite Planned a Scheme of Rigged Elections
Pakistan media reports cite Moulana Fazal ul Rehman – an affiliate of the PPP and Sharif’s party affirmed that the April 2022 ousting of elected PM Imran Khan was a conspiracy engineered by the former Chief of the Army Staff General Javaid Bajawa. Now to deprive the PTI from participation and under false and politically orchestrated impulses, Imran Khan has been sentenced to 10 -14 years in jail on multiple fake legal cases. 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. It seems that few generals under the Chief of the Staff Assem Munir have no sense of time and history as they are playing with the destiny of the Nation for which they have no moral or intellectual capacity, no right or legal mandate to do so. 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. They never imagined–how the present and future generations will identify 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 andGlobal 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 https://www.transcend.org/tms/2023/08/pakistan-striving-for-its-soul/
Is there a cure to cruelty of the colonial systems of political governance? What is the answer to the twisted logic of fair elections, perversity of time, loss of national credibility and tortuous circumstances for the nation to imagine a dark future? Pakistan needs an urgent systematic navigational change but few Generals and judges are part of the problem. If honesty and accountability has any truthful meanings, the conscientious Pakistani masses would demand that the Chief of the Army Staff General Asim Munir, the Chief Justice Qazi Faez Esa, the Corrupt Chief Election Commissioner Sikandar Raja and others involved in the fraudulent scheme of elections should resign on their own if they have any sense of professional integrity to serve the nation. If they fail to respond to the call of professional consciousness, they are not above the law and should be held accountable in a public court of justice. Would they ever realize and learn what went wrong with their professional thinking and to cause pains, horrors of injustice and systematic defamation to the credibility and honor of Pakistan? The Election Comission must take immediate remedial actions to restore trust, honesty and legtimacy to the outcomes of the elections and declare rightful candidates to be the elected members of the Assemblies. Otherwise, Pakistan could lose its time and history as a progressive 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.
Posted by admin in Pakistan Fights Terrorism, Uncategorized on December 23rd, 2012
Malala Yousafzai: Lets Unite against Militancy
PTT Archives
The National Peace Award winner, Malala Yousafzai, who was attacked in Swat, is currently under treatment in CMH Peshawar. Later, Malala were taken to Peshawar via helicopter and admitted in CMH Peshawar. It is important to mention that Malala had been receiving threats to her life, after which she was provided with a special car and unarmed security personnel. According to the electronic media reports, Taliban (TTP) has accepted the responsibilities.
Malala Yousaf zai is one of the best-known schoolgirls in the country and the world. Young as she is, she has dared to do what many others do not – publicly criticise the Taliban. According to BBC, Malala’s confident, articulate campaign for girls’ education has won her admirers – and recognition – at home and abroad. She has appeared on national and international television, and spoken of her dream of a future Pakistan where education would prevail. Even by the standards of blood-soaked Pakistan, there has been shock at the shooting. It has been condemned by Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Raja Pervez Ashraf, who sent a helicopter to transfer Malala to hospital in Peshawar. The head of Pakistan’s Independent Human Rights Commission, Zohra Yusuf, said “this tragic attack on this courageous child” sends a very disturbing message to all those working for women and girls.
All segments of society are praying for her health and are condemning activists, those desire to enforce their own agenda against the will of general public.
There could be the possibility that firing on courageous Malala has been carried out by Afghanistan sponsored anti Pakistan Taliban. CIA and her allied agencies quite notorious in using dirty tricks for completion of their own designed agenda against Pakistan and in other countries. 
Earlier, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton during her visit of Islamabad in 2011, agreed with Pakistan’s stance, saying, “Now US is realising that launching new military operation in North Waziristan does not suit Pakistan’s situation.” Replying to a question that the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was involved an assault on the US embassy in Kabul on September 13, 2011, she categorically pointed out, “We have no evidence.” She also requested for Pakistan’s help to “encourage Taliban to enter negotiations in good faith” including the Haqqani fighters. Pakistan’s top civil and military officials have repeatedly disclosed that training camps are presence in Afghanistan, and supply of arms and ammunition to the Baloch separatists and Pakistani Taliban keeps on going by the external elements as part of a conspiracy against Pakistan.
The internal dynamics of Pakistan, however, dictate that a detailed and comprehensive strategy be formulated to cleanse areas infected by terrorism through shrewd corrective measures and judicious action with least collateral damage. Such strategy has to be indigenous one with blend of native society.
In short, we must get united to support security forces in elimination of all type of militancy whether foreign or locally sponsored. We must take the example of Sri Lanka where people fought for 30 years with a single aim of defeating terrorism since they believed that terrorist “foreign or own”, remains terrorist. At the same time we must also condemn U.S. and her allies India and Israel those justify their state terrorism in Islamic countries.
We must salute to courageous daughter of Pakistan “Malala Yousaf Zai” and pray for her health, safety and unite ourselves for continuation of her innocent but beautiful dreams regarding girls’ education and rooting out of terrorism from our motherland.
The writer can be approached through [email protected]
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 21st, 2012
US AID HAS BEEN SQUANDERED BY ASIF ZARDARI AND HIS CORRUPT PEOPLE’S PARTY CRONIES. THEY HAVE BUILT A MINI-PAKISTAN IN DUBAI TO ESCAPE TO, WHEN THE AXE FALLS ,AND PEOPLE OF PAKISTAN, COME ON THE STREETS. THIS CORRUPTION HAS LED TO A PROPORTIONAL INCREASE IN TERRORIST VIOLENCE. WHILE THE SOCALLED “DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT,” LOOTS AND PLUNDERS PAKISTAN AND ZARDARI, BILAWAL, BAKHTAWAR, AND THE WELL KNOWN RENTAL POWER SCAMMER, RAJA RENTAL PERVAIZ ASHRAF, AND HIS CRONIES FILL THEIR COFFERS, AVERAGE PAKISTANIS HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO ABJECT POVERTY AND HUNGER. IN ALL THIS ENDEAVOR, PAKISTAN ARMY’S LEADER GENERAL KAYANI IS CULPABLE FOR REMAINING SILENT.
EVEN PRESIDENT OBAMA AND THE US GOVERNMENT ARE LOOKING THE OTHER WAY,INSTEAD OF USING THEIR IMMENSE LEVERAGE AND BULLY PULPIT TO TELL ZARDARI’S CORRUPTION MACHINE, ENOUGH IS ENOUGH! OR DO THE 180 MILLION PAKISTANIS DO NOT MATTER TO US, WHEN IT HAS TO CHOOSE BETWEEN THEM AND CROOKS LIKE ZARDARI AND RAJA RENTAL.
A Pakistani woman administered polio vaccine to an infant on Wednesday in the slums of Islamabad. Militants have killed nine polio workers this week.
THE BACKDRAFT OF THIS SITUATION IS AN EXPONENTIAL BIRTH OF TERRORIST BORN IN THE WOMB OF ABJECT POVERTY, ILLITERACY, AND RELIGIOUS IGNORANCE. NOT ONLY THAT, THE GLOBAL HEALTH IS BEING THREATENED BY TERRORISTS, WHEN THEY KILL NURSES AND DOCTORS ADMINISTERING POLIO DROPS TO PAKISTANI CHILDREN. POLIO IS A VIRUS. A VIRUS PASSES THROUGH ALL MAN MADE FILTERS. THIS POLIO EPIDEMIC IS A THREAT TO CHILDREN ALL OVER THE GLOBE.
WE PAKISTANIS WHO CARE ABOUT THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY; WANT IT TO SPEAK-UP AGAINST THE ZARDARI GOVERNMENT AND STOP US SUPPORT TO CORRUPTION, WHEN IT THREATENS THE HEALTH OF CHILDREN AROUND THE GLOBE.
CORRUPTION AND TERRORISM ARE TIED TOGETHER, ONE FOLLOWS THE OTHER. IS ANBODY IN THE WORLD LISTENING?
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
|
2003 |
140
|
24
|
25
|
189
|
|
2004 |
435
|
184
|
244
|
863
|
|
2005 |
430
|
81
|
137
|
648
|
|
2006 |
608
|
325
|
538
|
1471
|
|
2007 |
1522
|
597
|
1479
|
3598
|
|
2008 |
2155
|
654
|
3906
|
6715
|
|
2009 |
2324
|
991
|
8389
|
11704
|
|
2010 |
1796
|
469
|
5170
|
7435
|
|
2011 |
2738
|
765
|
2800
|
6303
|
|
2012 |
2851
|
681
|
2430
|
5962
|
|
Total* |
14999
|
4771
|
25118
|
44888
|
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
| January |
177
|
117
|
234
|
528
|
| February |
208
|
59
|
193
|
460
|
| March |
207
|
72
|
454
|
733
|
| April |
239
|
36
|
124
|
399
|
| May |
247
|
76
|
193
|
516
|
| June |
303
|
64
|
289
|
656
|
| July |
303
|
60
|
207
|
570
|
| August |
258
|
70
|
304
|
632
|
| September |
278
|
22
|
164
|
464
|
| October |
252
|
40
|
166
|
458
|
| November |
288
|
31
|
69
|
388
|
| December |
91
|
34
|
33
|
158
|
|
Total
|
2851
|
681
|
2430
|
5962
|
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
| January |
204
|
38
|
255
|
497
|
|
February |
107
|
68
|
160
|
335
|
|
March
|
432
|
48
|
148
|
628
|
| April |
263
|
57
|
254
|
574
|
| May |
161
|
140
|
220
|
521
|
| June |
209
|
80
|
354
|
643
|
| July |
423
|
51
|
337
|
811
|
| August |
430
|
77
|
183
|
690
|
| September |
186
|
39
|
130
|
355
|
| October |
119
|
32
|
172
|
323
|
| November |
91
|
92
|
333
|
516
|
| December |
113
|
43
|
254
|
410
|
|
Total
|
2738
|
765
|
2800
|
6303
|
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
| January |
182
|
33
|
387
|
602
|
|
February |
92
|
68
|
340
|
500
|
|
March
|
168
|
36
|
502
|
706
|
| April |
182
|
50
|
558
|
790
|
| May |
156
|
38
|
833
|
1027
|
| June |
72
|
44
|
598
|
714
|
| July |
220
|
36
|
618
|
874
|
| August |
113
|
30
|
177
|
320
|
| September |
216
|
27
|
305
|
548
|
| October |
72
|
31
|
296
|
399
|
| November |
141
|
34
|
274
|
449
|
| December |
182
|
42
|
282
|
506
|
|
Total
|
1796
|
469
|
5170
|
7435
|
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
| January |
250
|
69
|
245
|
564
|
|
February |
216
|
31
|
430
|
677
|
|
March
|
168
|
67
|
171
|
406
|
| April |
132
|
89
|
297
|
518
|
| May |
279
|
155
|
1590
|
2024
|
| June |
200
|
157
|
1397
|
1754
|
| July |
156
|
58
|
768
|
982
|
| August |
155
|
34
|
531
|
720
|
| September |
111
|
77
|
662
|
850
|
| October |
255
|
118
|
1001
|
1374
|
| November |
175
|
93
|
792
|
1060
|
| December |
227
|
43
|
505
|
775
|
|
Total
|
2324
|
991
|
8389
|
11704
|
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
| January |
88
|
111
|
455
|
654
|
|
February |
182
|
33
|
30
|
245
|
|
March |
137
|
26
|
41
|
204
|
| April |
80
|
25
|
16
|
121
|
| May |
61
|
30
|
37
|
128
|
| June |
149
|
31
|
38
|
218
|
| July |
82
|
71
|
250
|
403
|
| August |
339
|
124
|
784
|
1247
|
| September |
272
|
67
|
876
|
1215
|
| October |
262
|
60
|
735
|
1057
|
| November |
225
|
50
|
482
|
757
|
| December |
278
|
26
|
162
|
466
|
| Total |
2155
|
654
|
3906
|
6715
|
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists/Insurgents
|
Total
|
|
January |
26
|
16
|
29
|
71
|
|
February |
35
|
4
|
8
|
47
|
| March |
28
|
21
|
261
|
310
|
| April |
176
|
18
|
83
|
277
|
| May |
57
|
10
|
14
|
81
|
| June |
31
|
12
|
40
|
83
|
| July |
144
|
143
|
191
|
478
|
| August |
56
|
63
|
117
|
236
|
| September |
101
|
67
|
144
|
312
|
| October |
282
|
101
|
154
|
537
|
| November |
293
|
94
|
341
|
728
|
| December |
293
|
48
|
97
|
438
|
| Total |
1522
|
597
|
1479
|
3598
|
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists
|
Total
|
|
January |
114
|
29
|
22
|
165
|
| February |
88
|
16
|
2
|
106
|
| March |
91
|
19
|
221
|
331
|
| April |
96
|
44
|
53
|
193
|
| May |
43
|
39
|
5
|
87
|
| June |
26
|
29
|
47
|
102
|
| July |
12
|
52
|
49
|
113
|
| August |
22
|
43
|
44
|
109
|
| September |
22
|
0
|
2
|
24
|
| October |
42
|
7
|
83
|
132
|
| November |
42
|
45
|
9
|
96
|
| December |
10
|
2
|
1
|
13
|
| Total |
608
|
325
|
538
|
1471
|
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists
|
Total
|
|
January |
30
|
7
|
2
|
39
|
|
February |
11
|
0
|
6
|
17
|
|
March |
77
|
15
|
3
|
95
|
|
April |
6
|
2
|
2
|
10
|
|
May |
63
|
5
|
2
|
70
|
|
June |
8
|
1
|
0
|
9
|
|
July |
29
|
2
|
43
|
74
|
|
August |
14
|
10
|
1
|
25
|
| September |
32
|
17
|
40
|
89
|
| October |
27
|
15
|
16
|
58
|
| November |
13
|
0
|
12
|
25
|
| December |
120
|
7
|
10
|
137
|
| Total |
430
|
81
|
137
|
648
|
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists
|
Total
|
|
January |
0
|
4
|
0
|
4
|
|
February |
2
|
0
|
1
|
3
|
|
March |
47
|
45
|
25
|
117
|
|
April |
6
|
5
|
1
|
12
|
|
May |
45
|
0
|
0
|
45
|
|
June |
60
|
37
|
24
|
121
|
|
July |
28
|
6
|
19
|
53
|
|
August |
42
|
17
|
4
|
63
|
| September |
70
|
36
|
70
|
176
|
| October |
114
|
11
|
28
|
153
|
| November |
5
|
19
|
72
|
96
|
| December |
16
|
4
|
0
|
20
|
| Total |
435
|
184
|
244
|
863
|
|
|
Civilians
|
Security Force Personnel
|
Terrorists
|
Total
|
|
January |
7
|
0
|
0
|
7
|
|
February |
18
|
3
|
1
|
22
|
|
March |
0
|
0
|
1
|
1
|
|
April |
1
|
0
|
0
|
1
|
|
May |
6
|
0
|
1
|
7
|
|
June |
5
|
13
|
0
|
18
|
|
July |
61
|
2
|
0
|
63
|
|
August |
4
|
0
|
0
|
4
|
| September |
10
|
0
|
0
|
10
|
| October |
8
|
5
|
18
|
31
|
| November |
0
|
0
|
2
|
2
|
| December |
20
|
1
|
2
|
23
|
| Total |
140
|
24
|
25
|
189
|
Note: A large number of target killings, which many believe are carried out by the terrorists, backed by warring political parties, in Sindh were inadvertently left. Now that fatalities in such incidents have been included for the years 2011 and 2012, the data has been changed accordingly.
Source: South Asian Terrorism Portal
Note: The following Article below Leaves Out Almost Five Years of Incompetence and Corruption of Asif Zardari’s Civilian Dictatorship and the Autocracy of Pakistan People’s Party Machine. Dubai is the hub of illegal spending and night clubbing by Asif Zardari, Nawaz Shariff and PPPand PML(N) stalwart
By
Center for American Progress
SOURCE: AP/Emilio Morenatti
A Pakistani family eats dinner next to their hut on the outskirts of Islamabad. Only half of the country’s population can secure an adequate nutritional intake.
The history of U.S. assistance to Pakistan follows a predictable script: aid is tied to security imperatives that come and go, while the country’s political and economic well-being is effectively ignored. As an early ally in the cold war, Pakistan received nearly $2 billion from 1953 to 1961, a quarter of which was military assistance. The United States then suspended assistance during the Indo-Pakistan wars and following Pakistan’s construction of a uranium enrichment facility in 1979. Pakistan remerged as an ally in the 1980s during the Soviet Union’s occupation of Afghanistan and was again the recipient of aid. But following the withdrawal of Soviet troops in the late 1980s, assistance to Pakistan took another nosedive.
Following 9/11, Pakistan became a U.S. ally once more, and unsurprisingly, almost all of the aid provided since has gone to military operations. By failing to commit to the long-term health of the Pakistani state, successive generations of U.S. policymakers have convinced many in Pakistan, both in and out of government, that we are a demanding power with little interest in their own security, rather than a genuine partner. Increasing political and economic instability and the failure of a military-centric approach to check growing violence demonstrate that the Pakistani people need more than military assistance to improve stability in their country.
$7.89 billion: The amount of U.S. military assistance to Pakistan since 9/11, the majority of which has been from “coalition support funds” intended as reimbursement for Pakistani assistance in the war on terror.
$3.1 billion: The amount allocated to economic and development assistance, including food aid, during the same period.
189: The number of deaths from terrorist violence in Pakistan in 2003.
648: The number of deaths from terrorist violence in Pakistan in 2005.
3,599: The number of deaths from terrorist violence in Pakistan in 2007.
63 percent: The percentage of Pakistanis surveyed in June 2008 who felt less secure than they did just one year ago.
86 percent: The percentage of Pakistanis surveyed who believed their country was headed in the wrong direction.
72 percent: The percentage of Pakistanis surveyed who believed their personal economic situation had worsened in the past year.
77 million: The number of Pakistanis—half the country’s population—that are unable to secure an adequate nutritional intake.
50 percent: The percentage of the Pakistani population that is literate. Only one-third of Pakistani women can read and write.
2 percent: The percentage of total U.S. aid packages since 2001 directed toward education. This amounts to an average of less than $2 per Pakistani child per year.
$5.8 billion: Amount of U.S. aid to Pakistan spent in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas from 2002 through 2007.
96 percent: The percentage of those funds that were directed toward military operations.
1 percent: The percentage of those founds directed toward development.
Increased assistance is particularly needed in the ungoverned Federally Administered Tribal Areas, a region along the northwest border with Afghanistan that has been a key front in the war on terrorism. Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, has noted that for nearly three decades now the only opportunities in this region have been “a service economy serving the industry of jihad”; low literacy rates (17 percent overall and 3 percent for women) and inadequate medical care (1 doctor for every 6,762 people) reflect the area’s long history of political marginalization. In this space, militant groups are able to organize and establish parallel state structures, endangering Pakistan and its neighbors.
Instead of focusing so heavily on military aid to Pakistan, the United States should dedicate more of its funding to enhancing security and earning the support of the Pakistani people through increased economic and development assistance. By working with a new civilian government to address Pakistan’s basic needs—improving literacy rates, boosting energy and agricultural production, providing more access to health care, and more—the United States can strengthen Pakistani society and institutions against militant subversion. In doing so we also clearly demonstrate a respect for Pakistan’s own needs, moving the partnership beyond short-term cyclical engagement that neglects the underlying causes of the country’s instability.
Reference
Posted by admin in Uncategorized on December 19th, 2012
Published on Monday, December 17, 2012 by The Guardian
Several weeks ago, I wrote about the steps taken by the US government to pressure large corporations to choke off the finances and other means of support for WikiLeaks in retaliation for the group’s exposure of substantial government deceit, wrongdoing and illegality. Because WikiLeaks has never been charged with, let alone convicted of, any crime, I wrote: “that the US government largely succeeded in using extra-legal and extra-judicial means to cripple an adverse journalistic outlet is a truly consequential episode.” At the end of that column, I disclosed that I had been involved in discussions “regarding the formation of a new organization designed to support independent journalists and groups such as WikiLeaks under attack by the US and other governments.”
(Photograph: Alamy)
That group has now been formed and, this morning, was formally launched. Its name is Freedom of the Press Foundation. Its website is here and its Twitter account, which will be quite active, is @FreedomOfPress.
I’m very excited to have participated in its formation and will serve as an unpaid member of the Board of Directors, along with the heroic whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg, 2012 McArthur-fellowship-receipient and Oscar-nominated documentarian Laura Poitras, co-founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation John Perry Barlow, the actor and civil liberties advocate John Cusack, BoingBoing co-founder Xeni Jardin, and several other passionate free press and transparency activists. Numerous articles have been written today about its launch, including from the New York Times’ media reporter David Carr, theGuardian’s Dan Gillmor, Forbes’ Andy Greenberg, Huffington Post’s media reporter Michael Calderone, FDL’s Kevin Gosztola, and board member Josh Stearns.
The primary impetus for the formation of this group was to block the US government from ever again being able to attack and suffocate an independent journalistic enterprise the way it did with WikiLeaks. Government pressure and the eager compliance of large financial corporations (such as Visa, Master Card, Bank of America, etc.) has – by design – made it extremely difficult for anyone to donate to WikiLeaks, while many people are simply afraid to directly support the group (for reasons I explained here).
We intend to raise funds ourselves and then distribute it to the beneficiaries we name. The first group of beneficiaries includes WikiLeaks. We can circumvent those extra-legal, totally inappropriate blocks that have been imposed on the group. We can enable people to support WikiLeaks without donating directly to it by donating to this new organization that will then support a group of deserving independent journalism outlets, one of which is WikiLeaks. In sum, we will render impotent the government’s efforts to use its coercive pressure over corporations to suffocate not only WikiLeaks but any other group it may similarly target in the future.
The second purpose is to ensure that truly independent journalistic outlets – devoted to holding the US government and other powerful factions accountable with transparency and real adversarial journalism – are supported to the fullest extent possible. Along those lines, we have selected three other organizations along with WikiLeaks as our initial beneficiaries:
Muckrock News, a truly innovative group devoted to enabling any citizen easily and quickly to file Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) or public records requests with the government, and then “guides the requests through the system so the government does not disregard” them. They also act as a news organization by analyzing and publicizing any newsworthy information they and their users uncover. Currently, “they are conducting a Drone Census of the United States, filing public records requests around the country that ask police agencies if they plan on buying domestic drones for surveillance purposes.”
The UpTake, a Minnesota-based group that uses truly innovative means to break “down walls of power to expose the raw truth by pushing for transparency and access to information.” They use citizen journalism, crowd-sourcing and cutting-edge technology to film and document the bad acts of government agents. I worked next to them when I covered the incredibly excessive federal and local police actions and brutality against protesters at the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, and was truly impressed with them then, as I watched all sorts of young activists and older ones use hand-held video cameras and phones to comprehensively cover all sorts of police abuses being ignored by most large journalistic outlets, which were comfortably ensconced inside the convention hall. They’ve expanded their operations substantially since then, have a long list of achievements to tout, and – most excitingly to me – can serve as a template for how to engage in real journalism across the country using citizens and the power of technology.
The National Security Archive, a group founded “by journalists and scholars to check rising government secrecy” and which “combines a unique range of functions: investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents.” It also “serves as an advocacy organization to defend and expand citizen access to government information”, as exemplified by its having “filed over 40,000 targeted Freedom of Information and declassification requests to more than 200 offices and agencies of the United States.” Anyone who writes about or works on transparency and civil liberties issues (including me) depends on it; due to its efforts, “more than 10 million pages of previously secret U.S. government documents have been made public.”
Each of these groups is innovating real, adversarial journalism. They deserve the support of anyone who believes that rampant government secrecy and a supine establishment media are serious problems. And our new organization needs the support of everyone who finds the ability of the US government to shut off the funding of journalistic groups it dislikes to be threatening and wrong.
By clicking here, you can donate to all four of these groups at once or to any combination of them in whatever amounts you specify. Every two months, we will release a new bundle of deserving groups or individuals devoted to these values of independent, adversarial journalism and in need. You can also donate directly to the Freedom of Press Foundation, which will distribute the funds to the beneficiaries in accordance with our published criteria. All of the details of the group’s operation, mission, and goals are here. Those who lack the resources to donate can help in other ways, listed here.
Secrecy is the linchpin of abuse of power. Few priorities are more important, in my view, than supporting and enabling any efforts to subvert the ability of the US government and other factions to operate in the dark. It’s particularly vital to undercut the US government’s ability to punish and kill groups that succeed in these transparency efforts. Those are the goals to which this new press freedom foundation are devoted, and I hope that anyone who believes these goals are important will find ways to support this effort.
Glenn Greenwald is a columnist on civil liberties and US national security issues for the Guardian. A former constitutional lawyer, he was until 2012 a contributing writer at Salon. His most recent book is, With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. His other books include: Great American Hypocrites: Toppling the Big Myths of Republican Politics, A Tragic Legacy: How a Good vs. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency, and How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok. He is the recipient of the first annual I.F. Stone Award for Independent Journalism.
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