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Forget Islamabad and Concentrate on Balochistan

September 14, 2013, 1:40 am
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its time that Balochistan be given a multi billion rs package that is real.Let Islamabad be what it is a top nuclear attack target in war !

Pakistan Armys military chief engineer south states that Dr Allah Nazar wanted 10 billion development package but idea sabotaged by paki agencies


Agha H Amin

BLF ATTACKS PAKISTAN COAST GUARDS POST AT SUNTSAR NEAR IRAN BORDER





Baloch Groups to Unite Against Pakistan’-Dr Allah Nazar















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Q&A: 'BALOCH GROUPS TO UNITE AGAINST PAKISTAN'

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Karlos Zurutuza interviews ALLAH NAZAR, Balochistan Liberation Front commander.
Baloch fighters at a location in Pakistan. Credit: Karlos Zurutuza/IPS.
Baloch fighters at a location in Pakistan. Credit: Karlos Zurutuza/IPS.
SAN SEBASTIAN, Spain, Oct 26 2012 (IPS) - Fighters in the Balochistan province of Pakistan will soon set up a common front to take on the Pakistani military in their fight for Baloch independence, a senior commander of the Balochistan Liberation Front tells IPS in an interview.
"We are in full coordination with all Baloch resistance movements and we are soon to form a united command," Dr. Allah Nazar, a doctor turned guerrilla fighter tells IPS in the interview on the phone earlier this month.
Divided by the borders of Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan, Baloch have their own language, and live across a land the size of France they call "Balochistan." The rugged terrain under their feet boasts enormous reserves of gas, gold and copper, and untapped oil and uranium. But this is also the most underdeveloped region across these countries.
Baloch insurgents in Pakistan are fragmented into several groups, mainly the Baloch Liberation Army, the Baloch Republican Army, the Baloch Liberation Front and the Lashkar-e-Balochistan (Balochistan's army). Several analysts say this fragmentation reflects the tribal element among the Baloch. But the groups are all secular, and share a common agenda in seeking independence for Balochistan.
This IPS reporter interviewed Dr Nazar on the phone after extended visits earlier to the three parts of the region (Iran, Pakistan and Afghanistan) in 2009 and 2010. Excerpts from the interview:
How would you describe the group you lead?
In the Baloch Liberation Front there are people from all walks of life, from peasants to doctors. There are more than 6,000 fighters in our ranks and the number is growing by the day. The BLF is waging a guerrilla war inside East Balochistan which is under Pakistani control.
Do you coordinate with Jundullah ("Army of God") – the Baloch insurgent movement in neighbouring Iran?
We know the people fighting in Jundullah are also Baloch but we have no relation with them. Ours is a pure nationalist war, miles away from Jundullah´s religious extremism.
Islamabad has always claimed that the Baloch resistance is been backed by India.
That´s just fake propaganda from Pakistani state media in order to show the world that the Baloch are proxies. India is not supporting us.
Pakistan controlled Balochistan has a provincial government. Why have you taken up an armed struggle and not parliamentary politics?
We had been declared an independent state from Pakistan in August 1947, even before Pakistan came into existence. Seven months later, Pakistan occupied our land by force. From the first day the Baloch have not accepted the occupation of Pakistan, so our struggle is a continuation of the struggle of our forefathers. Parliament makes laws brutally against Baloch national identity, our culture and language. And the Supreme Court is legitimising the brutality of the State.
Some Baloch leaders speak of self-determination and not independence.
Leaders such as Akhtar Mengal – former chief minister of the province and leader of the Mengal clan and head of the Balochistan National Party are calling for "national self-determination", but that's still a vague term. Self-determination has a broad meaning and it can imply that we remain inside the state. But we have our own history, our own language, our own national identity and so we want our freedom.
What do you think of the Freedom Charter, a road map for Balochistan independence supported by leaders like Hyrbyair Marri, the London-based tribal and political leader?
The Freedom Charter is a very good step as taken by Hyrbyair Marri. All Baloch fighting for freedom should suport the Freedom Charter.
Islamabad claims that projects such as Gwadar's deep water harbour would boost the economy of Balochistan.
The Gwadar project has been planned in the interest of Punjabi and colonial powers and not for the welfare of Baloch people. It´s meant to bring demographic change in Balochistan; they want to bring in the Muhajirs –immigrants – and other people into Balochistan in order to unbalance demography. Gwadar is a death warrant for Baloch people.
The Baloch say the government in Islamabad is trying to Talibanise Balochistan in order to quell the Baloch nationalist movement.
That's true. Balochs are basically secular, by their culture, by their tradition, by their historical background, so the Pakistani regime is trying to Talibanise the Baloch society. Just where I am right now, the ISI – the Pakistani secret service – has set up two religious militant groups against the Baloch national struggle: one is Ansar-al-Islam and the other is Tahafuz-e-Hadoodullah (Protectors of God's Rule).
They have formed these groups in the name of Islam but their real aim is to crush the Baloch freedom movement. Pakistan is the cradle of the Taliban and the breeding ground of the Taliban. Pakistan is nourishing and funneling the Taliban and Al-Qaeda terrorists into Afghanistan, India, Saudi Arabia, Yemen… Pakistan is an irresponsible state that is putting the civilised world in danger. A free Baloch state would therefore be in the interest of the whole civilised world.
Washington is reconsidering a pullout from Afghanistan due for 2014. How will this affect the Af-Pak region?
If America and NATO pull out from Afghanistan, that will lead to turbulence and destabilisation. A weak Afghanistan will not only destabilise the region but it will be harmful for the whole civilised world.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/world-news/Pakistan/Eight-personnel-of-Pak-Coast-Guard-killed-in-attack/Article1-893273.aspx


Eight personnel of Pak Coast Guard killed in attack
PTI
Islamabad, July 21, 2012
First Published: 19:41 IST(21/7/2012)
Last Updated: 19:47 IST(21/7/2012)
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Eight Pakistani Coast Guard personnel were on Saturday killed and two others injured after gunmen stormed a security check post near the port city of Gwadar in the country's southhwest, officials said. The gunmen fired several rockets at the check post in Peshi Kan, 35 kms from Gawadar in
the insurgency-hit province
of Balochistan, and then fired at the personnel with automatic weapons, officials of the Coast Guards told the media.
Six Coast Guards personnel were killed instantly while two more died later in hospital. The attackers, believed to be about a dozen, escaped on motorcycles and a pick-up truck.
Soon after the attack, security forces cordoned off the spot and launched a search operation. No group claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Balochistan has witnessed numerous attacks on security forces by Baloch national groups that are waging a violent
campaign for greater autonomy and a share of profits from the natural resources of the region.
The province has also been wracked by widespread ethnic and sectarian violence, especially attacks on the minority
Hazara Shia community.
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Pakistan and Rape

September 14, 2013, 2:11 am
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Pakistan and Rape

Agha H Amin

pakistans unique beauty , excessive islam and excessive fucking

whole pakistani nation is being raped , 5 year old rape came up as Dunya TV wanted story , who will deal with pakistans rapists politicians

history of mankind is rape , what happened after armies won battles and sieges ? what was maal i ghaneemat ?

my publisher friend says that in pakistan only sex and religion sell in books

UN ISLAMIC REPUBLIC PAKISTAN IS PARADISE OF HYMENOPLASTY

5 YEAR AND 7 YEAR GIRLS GET RAPED IN PAKISTAN EVERY DAY . IT IS JUST THAT ONE TV CHANNEL REPORTED IT FOR THE PROFIT MOTIVE

pakistans foundation was rape sir , read Punjab Boundary Commission report and Punjabis are Phd in rape
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U.S. and Russia Reach Deal to Secure Syria’s Chemical Arms

September 14, 2013, 12:04 pm
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FROM MY DEAR FRIEND AMBASSADOR GAJENDRA SINGH FROM INDIA

At a few debates on TV channels , I participated in , there were some who said US will attack and Russia will do nothing .After all its GDP is about India's .Another said Putin had taken his eye of the Syria ball away in Siberia .He was personally looking at the corrective action unlike Bush who was casual about Katrina disaster ,while Condi Rice was shopping for fancy shoes then .

At one place I had even suggested that back channels were perhaps active between Moscow and Washington. Lavrov is a great diplomat, firm and in control .Cheers!  the warmongers have been stalled for the time being .

What will Moscow provide for Syria's security to replace its WMDs against hundreds of Israeli nukes ? 

I believe soon US might begin negotiations with Iran.Putin has agreed to supply M300 missiles to Tehran , on hold since 2006 or so . Tehran is needed in Afghanistan , where a free for all will be very dangerous for all in the region and beyond.
Insaallah .


U.S. and Russia Reach Deal to Secure Syria's Chemical Arms

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Secretary of State John Kerry and Sergey V. Lavrov, the Russian foreign minister, in Geneva on Saturday.
By MICHAEL R. GORDON and PETER BAKER
Published: September 14, 2013
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GENEVA — The United States and Russia have reached an agreement that calls for Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons to be removed or destroyed by the middle of 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday.
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Under a "framework" agreement, international inspectors must be on the ground in Syria by November, Mr. Kerry said, speaking at a news conference with the Russian Foreign Minister, Sergey V. Lavrov. In addition, Syria must submit a "comprehensive listing" of its chemical weapons stockpiles within a week.
American and Russian officials also reached a consensus on the size of Syria's stockpile, an essential prerequisite to any international plan to control and dismantle the weapons.
"If fully implemented," Mr. Kerry said, "this framework can provide greater protection and security to the world."
If President Bashar al-Assad of Syria fails to comply with the agreement, the issue will be referred to the United Nations Security Council.
Mr. Kerry said that any violations would then be taken up under Chapter 7 of the United Nations Charter, which authorizes punitive action. But Mr. Lavrov made clear that Russia, which wields a veto in the Security Council, had not withdrawn its objections to the use of force.
The joint announcement, which took place on the third day of intensive talks here, eased the United States' confrontation with Syria.
Arms control officials on both sides worked into the night, a process that recalled the treaty negotiations during the cold war.
The issue of removing Syria's chemical arms broke into the open on Monday when Mr. Kerry, in a news conference in London, posed the question as to whether Mr. Assad could rapidly be disarmed only to state that he did not see how it could be done.
"He could turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community in the next week. Turn it over, all of it, without delay, and allow a full and total accounting for that," Mr. Kerry said. "But he isn't about to do it, and it can't be done, obviously."
Now, however, what once seemed impossible has become the plan — one that will depend on Mr. Assad's cooperation and that will need to be put in place in the middle of a civil war.
Mr. Kerry and Mr. Lavrov had a series of meeting on Friday, including a session that ended at midnight. On Saturday morning, the two sides reconvened with their arms controls experts on the hotel pool deck, sitting under a white umbrella drinking coffee as they pored over the text of the agreement.
Before the news conference, Mr. Lavrov said that he had not spoken with Syrian officials while he was negotiating in Geneva. Obama administration officials say the Russia's role was critical since it has been a major backer of the Assad government.
Entitled "Framework For Elimination of Syrian Chemical Weapons," the agreement is four pages, including its technical annexes. The agreement, which outlines procedures for "expeditious destruction of the Syrian chemical weapons program and stringent verification," says that the United States and Russia will submit a plan in the next several days to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which oversees compliance with the chemical weapons accord.
Under the framework, the initial inspection of the chemical weapons sites that the Syrian government declares must be completed by November. Equipment for producing chemical weapons and filling munitions with poison gas must be destroyed by November.
The document also says that there is to be "complete elimination of all chemical weapons material and equipment in the first half of 2014."
The framework agreement and the annexes are to be incorporated in a United Nations Security Council resolution that is to be adopted New York. A senior administration official said the schedule outlined in the documents "is daunting, to say the least." The agreement notes that the United States and Russia have reached a "shared assessment" on the amount and the type of chemical weapons involved, "and are committed to the immediate international control over chemical weapons and their components in Syria."
An American official, who could not be identified under the diplomatic protocol established by the State Department, said that United States and Russia had agreed that Syria has 1,000 metric tons of chemical weapons, including Sarin and mustard gas.
The two sides, however, have not yet agreed on the number of chemical weapons sites.
The difference over the number the sites appears to reflect the larger disagreement as to who was responsible for the Aug. 21 attack that the United States says killed at least 1,400 civilians, many of them women and children.
If the Russians were to agree on the number of chemical weapons sites, the fact that, as American officials believe, the sites all in government control areas, that would suggest that the Assad government was culpable for the attack and not the rebel forces as the Russians have asserted.
The United States believe there are at least 45 chemical weapons sites in Syria. Nearly half of these had have "exploitable quantities" of chemical weapons, though the American official says that some of the agents may have been moved by the Assad government. The American official said there was no indication that any of Syria's chemical stocks had been moved to Iraq or Lebanon, as the Syrian opposition had charged.
"We believe they are under regime control," the American official said.
In his weekly address before the deal was announced, President Obama called the Russian peace initiative and subsequent discussions "positive developments" that could ultimately avert an American military strike in retaliation for a gas attack.
"If the current discussions produce a serious plan, I'm prepared to move forward with it," Mr. Obama said in his weekly radio and Internet address. "But we are not just going to take Russia and Assad's word for it. We need to see concrete actions to demonstrate that Assad is serious about giving up his chemical weapons." Just to be sure, he said he would keep American destroyers and other forces in the region for a possible punitive strike.
A report by United Nations inspectors set to be released in the coming days will be "overwhelming" in its conclusion that chemical weapons were used, Ban Ki-moon, the secretary general, said Friday.
Mr. Ban, in comments that he thought were private but that were inadvertently broadcast over an in-house United Nations television channel, said that Mr. Assad had "committed many crimes against humanity" during more than two years of civil war and that there would be a "process of accountability when everything is over." Mr. Ban said he was "troubled" that the Security Council had not adopted any response, calling it "failure by the United Nations."
Fighting raged across Syria on Friday as antigovernment activists reported shelling in or around nearly every major city. The death toll was reported by activists to be 22 by nightfall, small compared with that of many recent days. But artillery barrages and government warplane sorties went on all day, including clashes in Yarmouk Camp, a contested area home to many Palestinian refugees southeast of Damascus.
As deliberations continued in Geneva, Mr. Kerry's aides announced that he would travel to other capitals to consult with allies. On Sunday, he will fly to Jerusalem to meet with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister. Mr. Obama's decision to defer military action to pursue the Russian initiative has stirred concern in Israel about the credibility of American policy toward Iran and its nuclear program.
After Jerusalem, Mr. Kerry plans to meet on Monday in Paris with the foreign ministers of America's two principal allies on Syria, Laurent Fabius of France and William Hague of Britain.
After Russia this week proposed averting an American strike by having Syria give up its chemical weapons, Mr. Fabius proposed enforcing such a deal with a Security Council resolution invoking Chapter 7, a clause that allows United Nations members to use military action to enforce its provisions.
While in Paris, Mr. Kerry will also meet with Saud al-Faisal, the foreign minister of Saudi Arabia, which has been a strong supporter of the anti-Assad Syrian opposition and an advocate of taking tough action after the Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack.
Michael Gordon reported from Geneva and Peter Baker from Washington.




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Indian Armys use against European Armies and Overseas Expeditions

September 15, 2013, 12:58 am
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Hmmm. It is also interesting to observe some of the traditions of the British Army than the armies of India and Pakistan have chose to perpetuate. The author is right to try to separate the British Army generally from the Army in India -- they generally had different purposes.

The British regimental system was more of a 'modular' army with a weak general staff/logistical system, but not so weak as many think. Marlborough and Wellington both had highly efficient logistic systems supporting them and sometimes moved with a speed that argued a very efficient staff system supported them. Arguably in the bulk of the 19th Century, where most of their British experience was 'expedition/imperial' fixated, the history of this experience received less stress. The same process seems to have been at work in the Royal Navy.

In that same century, the Army in the Raj was not usually called on (aside from China and Ethiopia) to provide expeditions much beyond the Sub-Continent. Perhaps both because of the complexities of logistics in meeting Muslim and Hindu ration scales, the logistics of using these troops mitigated against the opportunities for more experience in expedition warfare.

Also, arguments against a weakness for combined arms in the British Army don't generally ring true. But, in the Raj, where garrison units might end up being used against each other (remember the experience of the Mutiny), the British were perhaps more likely to de-stress inter-regimental cooperation and keep combined-arms planning as a purely British speciality.
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The army of the English East India Company was used outside India well before the class system of regimental quotas was introduced.So the assertion that food affected expeditions is incorrect.Religious quotas for recruitment were introduced only after 1857 and there were no cook houses before 1857.Each man cooked with provisions purchased as he wished .Even Hindus and Muslims cooked together out of friendship and the system was discouraged by the British policy only after 1857.

Also your assertions that Indian Army was used only in Ethiopia and China is fallacious.

The Indian Army was used in the expeditions below.

1-The Anglo Nepalese War 1814-1816.

2-The First Burma War 1824-1826

3-The First Afghan War 1839-1842.

4- The Second Burma War 1852

5- Expedition to Malaca (Malaysia) 1791

6-First Egyptian Expedition 1801

7- Expedition to Macao 1808

8-Capture of Mauritins 1810

9- Expedition to Java 1811-13

Why Indian Army was not used in South Africa in Boer War ?

Nothing to do with Indian Army but use of Indian Army against White races went against the entire British policy of perpetuating white mans superiority. 

It was only when as per British historian Edmonds that the British were desperate that the Indians were used  in France against Germans .At this time Britian had no choice.

The same racist considerations dictated that Indian Army be used against the hated Germans and Italians but not in France ?

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    The combined arms failure is a consensus conclusion of various British historians including Liddell Hart , J.F.C Fuller , Correlli Barnett etc.

    http://www.defencejournal.com/2000/oct/handling.htm

    POOR GENERAL STAFF PROCEDURES AND PLANNING ABILITY AT HIGHER LEVELS

    This factor played a serious role in the Pakistani armoured division’s failure at Khem Karan in 1965. At the GHQ level the failure to appreciate that the armoured division must get out of the bottleneck between Rohi and Nikasu Nala was not appreciated. Nothing in the orders given to the 1st Armoured Division indicates that the planners understood this problem. Nikasu Nala was a pre-1947 landmark while Rohi Nala was no common pin to have missed the eyes of the planners. Poor general staff procedures at brigade and division level led to failure to concentrate all three armoured brigades across the Rohi Nala and thus was the principal reason for failure of the armoured division’s effort. The GHQ vacillation and indecision on 6th, 7th and 8th September when it issued contradictory orders to the 1st Armoured Division, sometimes to send one of its brigades to Lahore and sometimes to Sialkot117 also played a major role in adding to the imperial confusion in the armoured division.


    Correlli Barnett’s observations on the British Staffs of WW II fit well on the Pakistani Staff officers role in failure to handle armour. Barnett thus noted “The pace (referring to that of armoured operations) was too fast for the slow working staffs of lower formations (referringto corps/divisional/brigade staffs) ......(German staff work, because of greater experience and better training, was always faster and more lucid than British).....and detailed organisation for the offensive was poor and confused”.118 This observation fits well with the Military Operations Directorate of both sides and all staff officers down to armoured brigade level responsible for planning/executing the operations of both the Pakistani and the Indian 1st Armoured Divisions. The British perhaps were unlucky that their opponents were Germans and the Indians and Pakistanis were perhaps very lucky that their opponents were Pakistanis and Indians!
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    http://www.defencejournal.com/2000/oct/handling.htm

    TRADITION OF LEADING FROM THE REAR AT BRIGADE AND BEYOND

    One of the main reasons of slowness of British armour operations was the fact that brigade commanders with few exception like the great Jock Campbell, VC who was an artillery man, there was a tradition of leading from the rear and this certainly contributed to many failures in Grand Slam and in Khem Karan. Decision making was thus done at a snail’s pace. All sorts of false and exaggerated reports were accepted as the Gospel truth etc. The British tradition of leading from the rear had a deep connection with the level of esteem in which their staff officers were held by their field commanders. The layman reader may note that unlike the German General Staff the British never had a permanent cadre of general staff officers. In their army as in both the Indo-Pak armies attending the staff course was just a hole punching business and general staff was not a highly specialised corps in the British Army unlike the German Army where the staff officer with a crimson stripe on his uniform was a highly qualified man belonging to a corps d elite. Thus while German commanders of the rank of brigade, divisional and corps level could lead from the front staying close to the leading tank regiment, the British commanders could not do so, since they looked down on their staff officers as men who were incapable of manning their main headquarters. Thus the profound truth in Mellenthin’s observation that “the officers of the German General Staff were not mere clerks or mouthpieces of their higher commanders (Mellenthin hints without saying so that the British ones were!!!!), but were trained to accept responsibility to give grave decisions and were respected accordingly. In contrast the British fighting commanders tended to look down on the staff, and the British show a curious reluctance to appoint capable staff officers to operational commands”.115
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    http://www.defencejournal.com/oct99/barapind.htm


    FRONTAL ATTACK IN MILITARY HISTORY VERSUS IMAGINATIVE USE OF TANKS IN DEFENCE

    A frontal attack against an enemy who has not been neutralised by artillery fire or surprised by following a stratagem has rarely succeed. In 1815 at New Orleans when the British Army was one of the finest armies of the world; a similar frontal attack had led to one of the most disastrous repulses in British military annals! Thus the British suffered 2037 casualties including their commanding general killed while the US defenders suffered just 61 casualties47!

    It is interesting that to note that tank is such a versatile weapon system; that the worst possible tank in defence can play havoc with the best tank when it comes to firing at an advancing tank from a stationery defensive position. The Italians in North Africa had the technically speaking most pathetic tanks of WW Two. During the battle of 'Crusader' in November 1941 the British 22nd Armoured Brigade equipped with the technically overwhemingly superior 'Crusader' Tanks with 2 Pounder gun and 49mm frontal armour lost 40 out of 160 tanks when it gallantly but frontally charged the far inferior Italian Ariete Division equipped with M-13 tanks! Most of the tanks were destroyed by anti-tank guns which were closely integrated with Italian tanks! In July 1944 SS Obersturmfuehrer Michael Wittman was able to stop the British 7th Armoured Division with just four Tiger Tanks, annihilating their complete advance guard, knocking out 25 tanks, 14 carriers and 14 half tracks! Wittman did so without charging, but by conducting a highly imaginative defensive battle!48 n
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Jazb karti hi Naheen Khoon-e-Shaheedaan Ko Zameen- Bludgeoned and bloodied but unbowed — Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

September 15, 2013, 1:15 am
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                                                                 I hope all is well with you and your Respected Family.

I am sending my piece, "Bludgeoned and bloodied but unbowed" printed in today's Daily Times for your kind perusal. Your kind comments will be highly appreciated. Apologies the Previous one was sent without the piece. 
 

I am sharing Khalid Alig's poetry on the subject. It is as powerful and touching as 'Invictus'.

Jazb karti hi Naheen Khoon-e-Shaheedaan Ko Zameen.

Yeh issay Chehra-e-Qaatil pay Lagga deti Hai.

Aur phir Zulm kay Iss Daagh ko Qaaim Rakh Kar.

Maut kay Baad bhi Jeenay key Sazza deti Hai.

Ham nay Tareekh kay har Morr pay yeh Dekha hai.

Fikir ki Qoowat-e-Parwaaz nahin Rukk Sakti.

Tund-o-Pur Shor sahi Aatish-o-Aahan ka Mizzaaj.

Iss say Insaan key Aawaaz nahin Dabb Sakti.

Aik Martti hui Tehzeeb Jiyye gee Kabb Tak.

Maut Aa jaaye to Marnna to nahin Tall Sakta.

Laakh Deewaar Andhairoon ki Khari kar Leejiye.

Iss say Sooraj ka Ubharna to nahin Tall Sakta.

KHALID ALIG

  With Very Best Regards
  Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
 
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COMMENT : Bludgeoned and bloodied but unbowed — Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

Victor Jara, Sana Sangat, Jalil Reki, Zaman Marri, Faiz Marri, his brother Khudadad, Mohammad Khan Marri, his brother Mohammad Nabi, Ali Sher Kurd and hundreds of others have been killed here as were in Chile by the establishment

Víctor Lidio Jara Martínez was born in a poor peasant family near Santiago on September 28, 1932. Manuel Jara, his father, abandoned the family but his mother, Amanda Martínez, a self-taught folk musician, educated her children and endowed them with love for humanity. Jara's mother died when he was 15 and after dabbling with a few things ended up as an exemplary teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, political activist and member of the Communist Party of Chile. He supported the Unidad Popular ('Popular Unity') coalition candidate Salvador Allende for the Chilean presidency in 1970 and campaigned by volunteering for political work and free concerts. Allende won but his pro-people policies irked the United States, which went all out to oust him, and eventually its quisling, the Chilean army chief Augusto Pinochet, toppled Allende who did not surrender and died fighting.

Jara was among the first to be rounded up on September 12, 1973 along with thousands others and taken as a prisoner to the Chile Stadium. It was later renamed Estadio Víctor Jara Stadium, as the Pinochet regime knew the power that music had in Chile because of its long tradition of folklore and folk music, especially when its proponent Jara was a dedicated revolutionary who believed that "Song is like the water that washes the stones, the wind that cleans us, like the fire that joins us together and it lives within us to make us better people." There they were brutally beaten and tortured; Jara was singled out because of his beliefs and his influence. His hands were crushed and then he was tauntingly asked to play the guitar. He defiantly sang Venceremos ("We Will Win"). Beaten brutally again, he was then machine gunned and dumped in Santiago' outskirts; his body had 44 bullet wounds. In Balochistan, when the body of Sana Sangat Baloch was found after he was kidnapped by the Pakistani intelligence agencies, there were 28 bullets wounds on his body. Jalil Reki, son of Mama Qadeer, had three bullets in his heart.

Carmen Quintana, an18-year-old who opposed Pinochet's rule, on July 2, 1986 was part of a small group preparing a protest barricade when suddenly an army patrol swooped on them. Only she and Rodrigo Rojas DeNegri were caught. The soldiers commanded by Lieutenant Pedro Fernández Dittus poured kerosene on them. She thought they were trying to frighten them, but a soldier threw a Molotov cocktail near them and both were engulfed by flames; they desperately rolled on the ground to douse the flames. Before she lost consciousness someone rolled her up in a blanket and threw her in a truck. On regaining consciousness she found herself and DeNegri in a ditch on the highway. A police patrol saw them and took them to hospital. Denegri died but Quintana survived.

Shockingly, in January 1991, a military tribunal found Fernández Dittus guilty of negligence for failing to get medical help for DeNegri but cleared him of any responsibility for burning Quintana. Then in 1993 the Chilean Supreme Court sentenced Dittus to 600 days in prison for his responsibility for the death of DeNegri and causing serious burns to Quintana. Only 600 days for a crime of this magnitude. Establishments with unbridled power soon turn into criminal enterprises and their institutions into criminal gangs. Recently, the naval intelligence, the smallest and weakest in its class, was found involved in kidnapping for ransom in Karachi; it is terrifying to imagine what the most powerful ones would be up to.

Victor Jara, Sana Sangat, Jalil Reki, Zaman Khan Marri, Faiz Mohammad Marri, his brother Khudadad, Mohammad Khan Marri, his brother Mohammad Nabi, Ali Sher Kurd and hundreds of others have been killed here as were in Chile by the establishment. They paid the ultimate price but remained unbowed despite the horrendous brutality unleashed on them to break their resolve and make them accept the injustices and untruths that the army and establishment consider sacrosanct. The 44 bullets in Victor Jara, the 28 bullets in Sana Sangat, the three bullets in the heart of Jalil Reki and the tortured-beyond-recognition bodies of the Baloch activists are the irrefutable testimony of their brave and unflinching defiance of their adversaries and also the abject admission of their frustrated torturers that they failed to break the defiant spirit of these valiant souls.

William Ernest Henley's (1849-1903) poem Invictus vividly captures the defiant human spirit and I quote it again as a tribute to and as the voice of those brave souls who suffered and still suffer at the hands of their torturers at the behest of governments more concerned with the commercial benefits and profits of their cronies and conniving countries.

Out of the night that covers me/Black as the pit from pole to pole/I thank whatever gods may be/For my unconquerable soul/In the fell clutch of circumstance/I have not winced nor cried aloud/Under the bludgeonings of chance/My head is bloody, but unbowed/Beyond this place of wrath and tears/Looms but the Horror of the shade/And yet the menace of the years/Finds, and shall find, me unafraid/It matters not how strait the gate/How charged with punishments the scroll/I am the master of my fate/I am the captain of my soul.

It is this unconquerable spirit of the abducted and tortured prisoners that the torturers and their masters wish to subdue. Unable to break the resolve of these brave committed persons they resort to killing them brutally hoping to make them an example for the intimidation of others but find more and more people emulating their deceased comrades in spirit and actions and joining the fight for truth and justice. Victor Jara's last poem One Humanity is equally inspiring for all those who like him refuse to bow to injustices.

The dead have been mentioned, the missing should be remembered too. Zakir Majeed, Ali Khan Marri, Asghar Bangulzai, the doctors Din Mohammad, Akbar Marri and thousands of other missing Baloch presumably alive and still in the clutches of their tormentors who are capable of doing what they did to Jara, Sana and Jalil. When states become psychopathic in pursuit of their goals their functionaries strive to outdo them and therefore Carmen Quintanas are set on fire and Sanas have 28 bullets in their bodies. One day these heroic martyrs who defied the might and brutality of the state will be deservedly honoured by their people.

The writer has an association with the Baloch rights movement going back to the early 1970s. He tweets at mmatalpur and can be contacted at mmatalpur@gmail.com

 


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Ishfaque Bokhari Lyallpuri

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This week I again suspended my Indian visit stories to express my deep sorrow for the loss of life of an excellent human being and intellectual, Professor Ishfaque Bokhari. 

Best Regards,

Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed

Visiting Professor, LUMS, Pakistan; Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stockholm University; and Honorary Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Latest publications: Winner of the Best Non-Fiction Book award at the Karachi Literature Festival: The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed), Oxford, 2012; and, Pakistan: The Garrison State, Origins, Evolution, Consequences (1947-2011), Oxford, 2013.  He can be reached at: billumian@gmail.com

Daily Times, Sunday, September 15, 2013

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2013\09\15\story_15-9-2013_pg3_3

COMMENT : An obituary too soon: Ishfaque Bokhari Lyallpuri — Dr Ishtiaq Ahmed

Bokhari's family had moved from Rothak, from the eastern rim of the undivided Punjab in 1947, to Lyallpur. He never accepted the changing of the name Lyallpur to Faisalabad 

It happens sometimes that one gets to know a fellow human being who one feels has been a part of one's life forever. Professor Ishfaque Bokhari Lyallpuri was definitely one such person I had the privilege of getting in touch with roughly a year ago via the ubiquitous Internet. We never could meet as the cruel hand of death struck him down in Dubai a few days ago. He used to spend some months in Dubai with his son and then return to Lyallpur (Faisalabad). The poet Masood Qamar who lives in Stockholm but hails from Lyallpur and has known Bokhari Sahib for years, had helped us get in touch. He also informed me about his demise.

After Lahore, Faisalabad is perhaps intellectually the most vibrant urban centre in the Pakistani Punjab. Qamar has, along with Hussain Abid and the late Javed Anwar, recently gained considerable attention in literary circles for pioneering a new genre in Urdu poetry, of three poets together composing poems. Their book Qahqaha Insaan Ney Ijaad Kiya (Lahore: Bookhome, 2012), became a subject of discussion between me and Professor Bokhari just before I left for Lahore in mid-August. I asked him why Lyallpur had produced so many writers, poets and leftists. His explanation was that Lyallpur was a modern town where industrial development had started before the partition, but especially afterwards. It had created an industrial proletariat and a fairly large intelligentsia. Such class composition made Lyallpur an urban centre of progressive hopes and struggles. His explanation made a lot of sense.

Bokhari was a heart patient since a long time and had undergone surgery. He would tell me he had accepted his cruel fate. Nevertheless, he could laugh heartily, spontaneously and genuinely. As retirees we both had a lot of time to spare. For hours we would talk to each other on Skype. He retired as a professor and the head of the Urdu Language and Literature department of Government College University, Faisalabad. He and I shared many values, hopes and experiences. Both of us had been in the revolutionary left movement and in the same party, the Mazdoor-Kisan Party led by Major Ishaq Muhammad, but never met. While he continued to believe in a revolution that would overthrow capitalism and feudalism and usher in the liberation of humankind through socialism, I had stepped back and begun to consider other alternatives. For me an open society with pluralism and scope for both private initiative as well as a strong state to ensure justice and a fair distribution of wealth — social democracy — made more sense. He never minded my dissent from orthodox Communism.

Bokhari's family had moved from Rothak, from the eastern rim of the undivided Punjab (now part of Haryana) in 1947, to Lyallpur. He never accepted the changing of the name Lyallpur to Faisalabad. He was an extremely gifted chronicler of his city of birth. I consider his Urdu-language book Regal Chowk: Lyallpur (Lyallpur: Lyallpur Kahani Foundation, 2007), brilliant. It is a vivid portrayal of Regal Chowk (Regal Square) as the hub around which the cultural life of Lyallpur had evolved since the founding of that model city by the British when they developed the canal colonies.

Lyallpur Hindus and Sikhs were pioneers in the cultural field and built several cinemas and live theatre buildings in different part of Lyallpur, but the Regal Cinema became the most famous. It was more than just a venue for entertainment. The city's intellectuals would also congregate there and discuss art and politics. We learn that a vibrant anti-colonial revolutionary movement also existed. Originally it had been inspired by Bhagat Singh.

Famous qawwals Ustad Fateh Ali Khan and Mubarak Ali Khan, and later Ustad Nusrat Ali Khan were based at the nearby shrine of Lasuri Shah (nobody knows his origins). So, in addition to the cinema, the shrine was another great cultural centre. Then close by was a thriving bazaar where women would come to do shopping. The author brings forth many other dimensions of the life around Regal Chowk. Landmark buildings and monuments, wrestling akharas (rings), famous pehlwans (wrestlers) and drum beaters and so many other characters and activities had continued to take place around Regal Chowk. He recalls nostalgically his friends from the past who once were always together but not anymore. The decline of the vibrant cinema culture because of the rise of fundamentalism had meant the passing away of a way of life.

A most moving story in the book is told about the visit many years later in 2004 to Lyallpur of the Indian Air Force's Retired Air Marshal Iqbal Singh Chhabra, his wife and other members of the family who once lived in Lyallpur. Bokhari accompanied them as they went about trying to locate their old home. It was found and the new occupants welcomed them with open arms. Somehow, instinctively, the Punjabis have always understood that the partition insanity was an aberration. 

I wanted Bokhari to consider an English translation of Regal Chowk. I urged him to become the historian of his city of birth. Lyallpur was a gift of progressive British policy and, therefore, he would not have to dig deep into the past. He was greatly pleased and we were going to plan such a book. He had recently completed a book on Faiz Ahmed Faiz's father Chaudhry Sultan Muhammad's life in Kabul where he was close to the king. His book on the Chenab Club of Lyallpur is another work of historical importance. Alas, others will now have to continue from where he left off. His work should be an inspiration to those who love Lyallpur and want us to know more about it. 

The writer is a visiting professor, LUMS, Pakistan; Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stockholm University; and Honorary Senior Fellow, Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. Latest publications: Winner of the Best Non-Fiction Book award at the Karachi Literature Festival: The Punjab Bloodied, Partitioned and Cleansed, Oxford, 2012; and Pakistan: The Garrison State, Origins, Evolution, Consequences (1947-2011), Oxford, 2013. He can be reached at:billumian@gmail.com


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OBAMA-Freedom of speech, or dumb ass?

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FYI - from Mr. Talpur:
 Obama's Claps
Freedom of speech, or dumb ass?
 

Barack Obama, at a recent rural elementary school
assembly in South Carolina, asked the audience
for total quiet.
Then, in the silence, he started to slowly clap his
hands once every few seconds, holding the audience
in total silence.
Then he said into the microphone, 'Children, every
time I clap my hands together, a child in America dies
from gun violence.'
Then, little Darrell, with a proud South Carolina drawl,
pierced the quiet and said,
"Well, dumb ass, then stop clapping"
 



USA will come to Certain Strategic Grief


Agha H Amin


Obama is not a statesman , he is a con man who took good advantage of USAs decadent political system and became the president.


Obama lacks strategic vision and is not a man of war . He lacks that long term rapier vision which is necessary to lead a great power like the US into war.


In a 2003 November article titled Age of Strategic Anarchy I had predicted that at some stage the USA would be forced to attack Syria.



What are the implications of US invasion , aerial bombardment or actual attack on Syria :---


1- Will destabilise the whole Middle East starting from Pakistan in the east to Morroco in the west.


2- The US in attacking Syria would be leaving two unfinished wars in Afghanistan and a Pakistan sliding rapidly into chaos.


3- US attack on Iran will unite the ever disunited Muslim world and the backlash will fall on Israel , the favorite Muslim target.


4- US attack on Syria will be ideal testing ground for Russias new strategy of indirect defiance against USA.Russia sees US attack as phase one of a more lethal US ingress into Russia via Turkey and Caucasian soft under belly of Russia.


5-US attack will destabilise Turkey with its large Kurd minority and be a severe test for Turkey.


6-US attack will strengthen forces of extremism in Syria who in the first phase may appear grateful to the USA but will target western interests in the succeeding phases.


7- US attack may not even fully succeed at the strategic level and Obama is quite likely to have the strategic resolution to carry on the conflict in a situation where a US victory may be more strategically diasastorous than a defeat !


8-The US attack on Syria is an attack on Shia sect as a whole and Syria will not be alone in its battle against the US. All Shia Muslims at personal level will regard the US as an existential threat and retaliate as best as they can. At state level Iraq, Iran and Lebanon will support Syria.


9- The US attack will be seen by both China and Russia as a threat and both powers will combine to ensure that the US fails . Something that they did not do in Iraq wars of 1991, 2003 and in Afghanistan.


10- Even if the US wins a Pyhrric Victory in Syria it would be forced to attack Iran, possibly Iraq and even Pakistan at the last stage .


11- Saudi Arabia and the whole Gulf will be divided and polarised into Shia versus Sunni and the whole region will slide into long term chaos.


USA will be in a LOSE-LOSE situation thanks to an Uncle Tom who was elected to absolve US white elite of all the guilt they suffered for having enslaved the blacks !

The volatility of Gas, Geo-Politics and the Greater Middle East. An Interview with Major Agha H. Amin

The volatility of Gas, Geo-Politics and the Greater Middle East. An Interview with Major Agha H. Amin

Posted on February 1, 2013 by nsnbc

The volatility of Gas, Geo-Politics and the Greater Middle East. An Interview with Major Agha H. Amin

Mijn fotoMajor Agha H. Amin is a retired Pakistani military officer and the author of various books, including "Development of Taliban Factions in Afghanistan", "Taliban War in Afghanistan" and "History of Pakistan Army". He studied at the Forman Christian College and at the Pakistan Military Academy in Kalkul. Agha H. Amin has been working as Assistant Editor of Defense Journal, Executive Editor at the Globe, and as Editor of the Journal of Afghanistan Studies. He is an active member of the Think Tank ORBAT and the Alexandrian Defense Group and he is working as security management consultant. Agha H. Amin has been working as consultant on various oil, gas and energy projects in Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, including the TAPI pipeline, CASA 100, the Uzbekistan Afghanistan Pakistan line and the Turkmenistan Mazar Sharif line. He is an expert on national and regional security, energy security and geo-political issues. The following is the full text of an interview by Christof Lehmann with Major Agha H. Amin from 30 January 2013.

CL. Not long ago we were discussing the situation in Syria, and the fact that the root cause for the attempted subversion of Syria is the 10 billion USD PARS gas pipeline project from Iran, via Iraq and Syria to the Easter Mediterranean Coast, the most important factors being the political leverage Iran would acquire if it, together with Russia provided more than 40 % of the gas consumed in the EU over the coming 100 – 120 years, a US and a US and UK attempt to sabotage the further integration of the continental European and Russian national economies and energy sectors. Both high ranking members of the Workers Party Turkey and retired Turkish military officers accuse the AKP government of Prime Minister R. Tayyip Erdogan of being involved in the implementation of the Greater Middle East Project, developed by the RAND Corporation for the US Defense Department in 1996. This plan includes the "balkanization" of Turkey into smaller states. We discussed a possible plan to establish a NATO Corridor from Turkey to India. In our discussion you said: "I would like to add to them that the establishment of the Kurdistan part of the corridor would significantly change the security dynamics of the Russian South Stream gas pipeline which is part of the causes for the war on Syria." Could you please brief us on the most important factors with regard to the security dynamics of the Russian South Stream gas pipeline ?

AHA. The strategic idea of NATO, is aiming at securing the northern borders of Israel against Hezbollah and the southern borders against Hamas; to eliminate the Russian naval base in the eastern Mediterranean, Syrian city of Tartous. NATO is planning to create a western strategic corridor to maintain energy-security in the case that oil supplies through the Strait of Hormuz are disrupted because of a war with Iran or otherwise.

Kurdish+Syrian+Strat+ScenarioOne of the first steps toward the implementation of the long-term strategic plan, is the partition of Turkey by creating separate Kurdish areas, thereby providing NATO a direct access to Russia´s soft underbelly in the Caucasus.

This can ideally be used to dominate the Caucasian oil as well as support the Chechen against Russia in a low intensity conflict. Also, to create a viable independent Kurd state, it would need a windpipe access to the sea. This can be provided via the southern coast of Turkey and the Northern Coast of Syria. Whether a Syrian government soldier or a Syrian Islamist "Nut" dies in the process, "both are equally beneficial to the US/NATO".

The cardinal strategic idea is to internalize the war within the Islamic world so that Europe and the USA become safer while the enemies of western civilization destroy each other.

NATO is a club of wolves and Turkey is the odd wolf in NATO. Once the wolves have eaten Syria, they will eat the odd wolf Turkey. Yes, Turkey has been getting huge funds from Saudi Arabia, especially the clown Islamist Freedom and Justice Party. The clown Islamist Party is corrupting Turkey´s secularism. On the other side, Turkey is playing as NATO´s best chattel.

To use a historic comparison. When Hitler started eating the lambs of Europe like the Sudetenland, Czechoslovakia and Austria, the world tolerated it. The limit was reached in 1939. It is comparable with the NATO, led by the USA, eating the lambs since 1991. First Serbia was destroyed, then came Kosovo, then came Afghanistan, Iraq and Libya.

I think and hope that Syria would be the turning point. With Libya a most negative practice of using Islamist mad dogs and proxies started. Al Qaeda and other most rabid Islamist groups were used in Libya and now again in Syria. The NATO is unleashing the same savages that it claims to fight in Afghanistan on secular states like Libya and Syria.

If Russia had not asserted itself, the wolves would have attacked Syria by now. These wolves only fear Weapons of Mass Destruction, WMD´s, and any state not having WMD´s will be shred into bits and devoured by the wolves. Lets hope that Putin proves to be like a new Moses who challenges the wolves who have the souls of Pagans.

CL. Considering the volatility of the situation in Syria and that a conflict of that nature easily can develop a dynamic on its own, even a dynamic that was neither planned nor wanted by any of the stakeholders, and considering that the aggravation of the crisis into a regional war with the involvement of Iran, Iraq, Syria, Israel, Lebanon, Jordan, the Gulf Arab States, Turkey and NATO countries as well as Russia could have catastrophic consequences,- furthermore considering that the situation as it is seems so that non of the stakeholders can win, but all can loose, which diplomatic, political and economic initiatives would you consider necessary and feasible to solve the crisis ?

AHA. "We are moving toward a great global war and supreme strategic anarchy by remote pilot".

This happened, because the pilots who were supposed to man policy and regulate the tide of history did not have the talent to exercise their due role in history ! These pilots in reality wore the uniforms of pilots but had the caliber of air stewards and air pursers! This includes Obama, Yusuf Raza Gillani, Man Mohan Singh and the Saudi king. This brought us into a Sarajevo situation, where events started moving decision makers rather than decision makers moving events.

Till 2008 the USA was led by an impetuous pilot with a low IQ but a definite strategic decisiveness. A man with limited intellect, but one who could take strategic decisions. After 2008 the USA got a social climber who looked outwardly smart and bright but lacked statesmanship and had near zero strategic vision. Thus Afghanistan, after 2008, moved from relative calm into anarchy, as far as the South was concerned.

Pakistan was the worst case. It was led by an opportunist who attempted to please all parties, including the Americans, Islamists, Pakistani liberals and the Indians. As as result Pakistan developed such a fatal "confusion of principle" that the whole Pakistani society was fractured down into its deepest foundations. This military opportunist in turn, made peace with the corrupt politicians to prolong his rule. Subsequently, the whole political fabric of Pakistan was shattered.

The Pakistani military was attacked by Islamists, for allegedly being in league with the Christian powers. The Pakistani military lost its entire credibility when it emerged as the main party in the controversial NRO deal, which legitimized past corruption of Pakistan´s politicians, which the army had prosecuted with zeal from 1999 to 2002. Pakistan became engulfed in two major insurgencies. One with the Islamists and the other in Baluchistan. Both have the potential to destabilize and even to destroy Pakistan.

The USA has no strategy in Afghanistan and is in a catch 22, unless it decides on a strategy of decisive action. While the US policy makers saw Pakistan as a center of gravity of Islamists, including the Afghan Taliban, the US failed to frame a decisive strategy for dealing with Pakistan. Pakistan´s nuclear assets, Chinese support, and a growing Russian support are principal obstacles that the USA faces in formulating a strategy of decisive action against Pakistan. Both Iran and Pakistan remain two strategic thorn lands that the USA faces and which are being constantly watered by China and Russia.

The Osama Raid and the Salala incident forced Pakistan´s military and political elite to close the NATO supply line to Afghanistan. The memogate scandal also increased the civil military divide in Pakistan but this appears to be more of a US ploy to divide and weaken Pakistan.

The key strategic trends in this scenario are the following:

Any US withdrawal, in totality or partially, would strengthen the Islamists in Afghanistan who will see full or partial defeat of the US as a great victory for Islam. This would destabilize Pakistan and increase the chances of a war between India and Pakistan.

The US missile shield has permanently alienated Russia, and Russia will re-assert itself and take the lead in aiding all anti US forces. US failure to correctly deal with Iran and Pakistan will further destabilize the situation. Pakistan´s nuclear assets will deter the US from any grand adventure against Pakistan.

The US´s chances of an internal pro US coup in Pakistan by the PPP have become week after the Osama bin Laden incident and the Salala incident. The chances of a military coup in Pakistan will get stronger as the situation moves and if the Pakistani´s ISI´s (Inters Services Intelligence-service) plan to bring a national government led by Imran Khan fails.

India still perceives Pakistan as a grave strategic threat and remains apprehensive of Pakistan's strategic nukes. This will ensure that the Indians will continue with aiding the low intensity war in Pakistan. The US will try to follow a policy that reduces Pakistan to a smaller size and confines Pakistan´s nukes to Punjab.

In the case of Baluchistan, it will not be difficult for the USA to Balkanize Pakistan if the USA decides to support Baloch secessionists. Karachi remains a strategic US asset with the MQM and other elements who can paralyze Karachi at few hours notice.

US policy will be difficult to formulate and execute. No nuclear state was ever denuclearized by war. The policy that the US will follow will be to destabilize Pakistan and to present it as a danger to world peace, like the Democratic Peoples´ Republic North Korea. In the process, even a small incident can initiate a grand strategic earthquake. God help the USA, Pakistan, India and the world.

CL. The US-led war on Afghanistan has now lasted for more than ten years. After NATO´s 25th Summit in Chicago in 2012 it transpired that NATO will maintain a presence in Afghanistan until at least 2014, and most likely until 2025 and beyond. NATO and western mainstream media continue marketing the argument that the NATO presence is necessary for fighting "the Taliban" and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. Furthermore, the US Aggressions in Pakistan, predominantly in the form of drone attacks increase, and are also being marketed under the slogan of combating "the Taliban". Could you please help us deconstruct the tale of "the Taliban" and elicit who is meant with "the Taliban", which nuances should we should be aware of. It seems that the USA in many regards is fighting an enemy which it creates.

AHA. To answer your questions, let me refer to my 2008 assessment. "Note that Obama is just a clever social climber, a mixed breed who was kicked upwards, a President with no control over anything."

The objectives are not Al Qaeda, the Taliban or bin Laden. The objectives are to attack Iran, Russia´s soft Central Asian State and oil-rich belly, to destabilize China´s Sinkiang province with an Islamist insurrection, to denuclearize Pakistan and to consolidate the US – India base against China after Pakistan has been Balkanized.

The objectives on the ground are neither Al Qaeda, the Taliban or Bin Laden. The droning of random targets continues to convince public opinion and gives the rich friends in the defense industry more ammunition and equipment contracts. US troops consolidate the oil transmission route on the herat Kandahar road.

GRAND+LIES+1+jpgNo real offensive is launched against the Taliban. They are the good reason for why the USA is in Afghanistan, so why would the US/NATO want to eliminate "them". US policy is pressuring Pakistan by the means of drone attacks, forcing Pakistan to take military action in Fata is designed to destabilize Pakistan so that final grounds for the denuclearization of Pakistan are being set in place. The US tools in this exercise are US contractors in Pakistan and Afghanistan, US and British security companies in Pakistan, US or EX-US Bankers and Corporate Executives in Pakistan who are subverting civil and military brass. Through the 2008 elections the US has already achieved a political regime change in Pakistan, while the Pakistani military, who are safeguarding Pakistan´s nuclear assets are the next target.

The objective to attack Iran and Russia´s soft Central Asian State oil-rich belly has so far been a miserable failure, with US proxies being checked bu Central Asia, Iran and China. However, secret training of proxies is going on in US bases in Afghanistan. With regard to the objective to destabilize the Chinese Sinkiang province with an Islamist insurrection, it is a logical objective, but there is the independent will of the enemy, backed with WMDs. China is "not" Iraq.

The denuclearization of Pakistan is proceeding at a good pace, although no major success has been achieved. The Pakistani civilian government is fully on the US payroll while it may take 2 – 5 years for the Pakistani military to become a full-time US chattel. With regard to the objective of consolidating the US – India base after Pakistan is Balkanized, the program for Balkanization includes a Baloch State, a Pashtunistan, a City State of Karachi, Sindhu Desh. A denuclearized Pakistan will only be consisting of Punjab and northern areas controlled by China. This is to take five to ten years. With Pakistan Balkanized the US and India will have a complete, contiguous base against China and Russia.

The Analysis.

The present US strategic position is the silent registration of targets in Pakistan, Iran, Chinese Sinkiang and Russian dominated Central Asia. By trying to base logistics on Russian Ex Soviet Central Asian states, the USA is trying to bring economic benefits to Central Asia, so that the Russian hold can be weakened. However, Russia is convinced, that the US must fail in Afghanistan and it has made considerable efforts to aid anti US forces in Afghanistan through Iran and through Central Asian republics. US forces will not be able to control Afghanistan unless Pakistan is Balkanized and this would at least take 3 to 5 years.

The first state to secede with US support would be Baluchistan. This is so, because the Base of anti US forces in Afghanistan is Pakistani Baluchistan, and Russia, Iran, and China have a combined interest in making the USA bleed in Afghanistan through Pakistani proxies known as Taliban. When Pakistan aids the Taliban in Afghanistan it is actually defending Pakistan. The maneuver to fix the situation for the USA would be an US manipulated India Pakistan war that would be leaving Pakistan severely damaged and India less damaged, followed by a denuclearization of Pakistan.

China, Russia and Iran are the US opponents. They have the potential to throw a spanner in US plans. There is the unforeseen Factor X.

There appears to be a strong evolving consensus in the USA as well as its NATO allies that Pakistan is the center of gravity of the Islamists in the ongoing, so-called war on terror. The idea gained currency in various high US policy making circles as well as think tanks around 1987 – 89 and then assumed a solid shape in the decade 1990 – 2000. After it was adopted as policy and concrete albeit top-secret planning was started to deal with Pakistan, which at the ulterior level was seen as part of the problem rather than a solution.

Let me also refer a 2006 assessment that is still valid: A Brief Strategic Assessment of US Presence in Afghanistan Made in September 2005. By Agha Amin.

The distinction between Islamist and non Islamist is being fast transformed into US versus Anti US Forces. Afghanistan may prove to be an area of strategic convergence for Islamists, China, Russia and even Pakistan and Iran which are logically phase two US targets. It is naive to think that the USA came to Afghanistan to deal with Talibs.

The choices of the USA: The USA has several choices. It can deal with Afghanistan alone and consolidate. This would not be cost-effective for the USA. The investment it has made is too big. It could widen the front to Phase Two, Pakistan and Iran. Phase Three may be Chinese Sinkiang and Phase Four Central Asian Republics. The US can also chose to withdraw from Afghanistan while retaining a central position to strike at any target in the area. Possibly and independent Baloch State, carved out of Iran and Pakistan alone at first and Pakistani Baluchistan later.

China´s and Russia´s Choices: China and Russia can allow the USA an uncontested stay and risk a Muslim rising in Sinkiang within the next ten years and US domination of Central Asian Republics. They can aid anti US forces, using non state actors in Pakistan and state actors in other areas, and they can strengthen alliances with Iranian and Pakistani states.

Pakistan and Iran's choices: Pakistan and Iran can either accept US domination and scrap WMD programs, strengthen alliances with China and Russia, or aid anti US forces in Afghanistan with Chinese and Russian blessings.

The Major Actors: The anti US forces are divided in two parts , state and non state actors. The main bases of non state actors are in Pakistan,Iran and Middle East. The Pakistani and Iranian states are the forward states having direct borders with Afghanistan and are involved in the Afghan game via state and non state actors.

Key Strategic trends: A realization in Pakistan, that the Pakistani WMD apparatus is a future target of the USA which will have Afghanistan as its base. A realization in both China and Russia that the strategic salvation of both lies in aiding anti US groups , particularly those in Afghanistan. The development of Pakistan as the best base area of anti US groups operating in Afghanistan more because of non state actors. In order to deal with non state actors, the USA at some stage, will have to deal with both Pakistan and Iran. The USA seems strategically clueless and is playing a waiting game. Time is the key. Anti US forces can wait for ten years but every second, the USA is losing money. The USA has to achieve a tangible strategical objective. Both China and Russia will use the Islamic card, like the USA used it in Afghanistan from 1979 till 1989.

Militarily, an anti US war in Afghanistan aided by China and Russia can prove to be USA's Spanish ulcer. Anti US forces in Afghanistan Pakistan and Iran are intact and can change the strategic balance. The USAs hold in Afghanistan is confined to key cities only.

The drug mafia is a major US opponent and can sustain anti US forces in Afghanistan. Islamists have realized that they must have China and Russia as allies. The same realization is taking place in China and Russia. Thus, there arises the convergence of interest.

The strategic options of the USA are: To create an alternate drug mafia which is non Pashtun and create new states, which are US allies like Baluchistan,Kurdistan. Possibly the USA could also work toward a non Pashtun state in North Afghanistan.

CL. In one of our discussions you said that there was a significant discrepancy between the areas where the USA is deploying drones and where the so-called "Taliban" attacks US troops. You also stated that many of the drone attacks are carried out in areas where the Pakistani military controls and secures the Af-Pak border while very few, if any drone attacks are carried out in areas where it would actually make sense. Could you please describe this in some detail and elicit the most important strategic as well as political implications ?

AHA. Drone attacks are being carried out in the two agencies North and South Waziristan and 90 % are carried out in the Datta Khel Sub District. These are aimed at Haqqani Group which is regarded as an ISI asset by the USA.

PROXY+WAR+IN+AFGHANISTANA major aim with the drone attacks is also to benefit private contractors who are involved in these attacks at all levels from intelligence gathering down to munitions and drone suppliers. Another major idea is to demoralize the Pashtuns, so that any war against the USA would bring such a retribution that they will be unable to answer or match it with equal fire.

CL. You stated that Iran has a significant interest in South West Afghanistan. WE hear very little about this in western media and I have not been able to find any detailed analysis in Iranian media either. Could you please give us your position on which role Iran is playing in Afghanistan ?

AHA. Iran is active in West Afghanistan as well as Central Afghanistan. Iran is a most important supporter of the Northern Alliance after Russia and India . Iran views the Taliban as an existential threat. It regards non Pashtuns as well as moderate Pashtuns as its allies.

CL. There is little doubt among analysts that the USA and some NATO member states are attempting to "balkanize" Pakistan into smaller nations. We observe increased activities of often Soros-funded UN agencies and NGOs, especially in Northern Pakistan, indicating an attempt to play on ethnicity. It is a standard strategy which has been used by the West in Yugoslavia, especially in Bosnia-Herzegovina, the strategy is currently being implemented in Nepal, and it is being implemented in Myanmar, in an attempt to create so-called inter-communal violence in Myanmar´s Rakhine State. Could you give us your perspective about attempts to destruct the nation-state Pakistan ?

AHA. Let me also here refer to a previous assessment which I made in April 2009. Every movement in history has a direction, a quantum, a modus operandi. According to the father of the philosophy of war Carl Von Clausewitz everything in strategy moves slowly, imperceptibly, subtly, somewhat mysteriously and sometimes invisibly.

The greatness of a military commander or statesman lies in assessing these strategic movements. The USA inherited a historical situation in the shape of 9/11.At this point in time it was not making history if we agree that 9/11 was the work of Al Qaeda for which so far the USA has failed to furnish any solid evidence.

After 9/11 when the USA attacked Afghanistan ,US leaders and key military commanders were making history. They had a certain plan in mind. The stated objectives of these plan were the elimination of Al Qaeda. The unstated objective was the denuclearization of Pakistan. This scribe has continuously held this position, held consistently, in articles published in Nation from September 2001,all through 2002,2003,2004,2005 and till 2009.

The US strategic plan followed the following distinct phases

*An initial maneuver occupying Afghanistan in 2001.

*Establishing and consolidating US military bases near the Afghan Pakistan border. Most prominent being the Khost, Jalalabad, Sharan and Kunar US bases. Some military bases like Dasht I Margo in Nimroz and three other bases in Kandahar, Badakhshan and Logar were so secret that their construction was not even advertised. Even in the case of sensitive areas the contracts were awarded to the US Government owned Shaw Inc and the CIA proxy operated Dyncorps Corporation.

Patriotic Afghans trained in the USSR were removed from Afghan Intelligence because they would not agree to be a party to USA's dirty game in between 2001 and 2007. Similarly many patriotic Afghan officers trained in USSR were removed from the Afghan military establishment.

* Cultivating various tribes in ethnic groups on the Pakistan Afghan border by awarding them lucrative construction and logistic sub contracts.

* Forcing the Pakistani military to act against the FATA tribes thus destabilizing Pakistan's North West area close to the strategic heartland of Peshawar-Islamabad-Lahore where Pakistan's political and military nucleus is located.

* Creating a situation where mysterious insurgencies erupted in various parts of Pakistan including FATA, Swat and Baluchistan.

* Carrying forward urban terrorism into Punjab through various proxies. Now it appears that the strategic plan is entering its final stage of launching a strategic coup de grace to Pakistan.

These may be assessed as following

* A US military buildup in Afghanistan and the launching of an offensive against Taliban, with an aim of pushing them into Pakistan.

* Simultaneously pressuring the Pakistan Army into launching an operation in Waziristan. Thus Pakistan´s Army gets severely bogged down and hundreds of thousands of refugees enter Pakistan's NWFP and Baluchistan provinces. Infiltrators and fifth columnists being a heavy promiscuous mixture of this movement.

* Since 2001 the USA has spent a great fortune collecting information on Pakistan's strategic nuclear assets. It appears that in 2009 it has sufficient data to launch a covert operation. The covert nuclear operation could have a civilian and a military part. The civilian part may involve an attack on Pakistan's non-military nuclear reactors like Chashma and KANUPP. The military covert operation could involve an attack on any of Pakistan's strategic nuclear groups anywhere in Pakistan.

Once this type of attack is done the USA with its NATO lackeys like Britain, France and Germany would go the UN and maneuver an international resolution, demanding the denuclearization of Pakistan. The international opinion may be so strong that Pakistan's government may capitulate.

* Once Pakistan is denuclearized, the USA would encourage Pakistan's Balkanization into a Baloch US satellite, a city-state of MQM in Karachi, a Pashtunistan badly bombed and in tatters and a Punjab stripped of nuclear potential, kicked and bullied by India. A Northern Area republic which is an US lackey unless China decides to call the US bluff by occupying the Northern Area.

CL. At closing, I remember that you stated, that international law was irrelevant because nothing had changed since the time of Alexander the Great. I agree that for instance the International Criminal Court has more to do with victor's justice than with international law. We see over the last decade a serious explosion of international law at its very root. The Geneva Conventions are circumvented by creating artificial constructs such as unlawful combatant, enhanced interrogation methods, the use of "contractors", as if they were workers to build public schools and hospitals, being deployed to maintain military tasks. Extraordinary rendition, just to mention a few of the most obvious problems. As a man of military education, which risks do you see in the deterioration of international law ?

AHA. We are heading towards an international new order where the power of the state will be totally in hands of a corrupt mafia, who will usurp all human rights on pretext of controlling terrorism. This would result in grand strategic anarchy and even the US will Balkanize. The boomerang will come back and as they say the wheel turns !

Interview with Maj. Agha H. Amin by Christof Lehmann








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Another jolly little war
 
September 15, 2013
ERIC S. MARGOLIS
Let's face some hard facts about the vicious conflict in Syria. If the US directly attacks Syria, the real cause will not be the recent chemical attacks. What are 300 or so dead in a 2-year old war fuelled by the western powers that has so far killed over 100,000?
Chemical weapons are horrible. So are bullets, shells, bombs, cluster bombs, fuel-air explosive, white phosphorus, and napalm. All wars are crime writ large.
We don't yet know if the recent chemical massacre in Damascus was a real chemical attack using Sarin nerve gas, a rebel provocation, an industrial accident, or an attack by rogue Syrian army units? After Iraq, we can't trust western intelligence and so-called evidence.
This is not even the main issue at hand though it makes an excellent pretext for outside powers to intervene.
The Syrian conflict is a proxy war being waged against Iran by the United States, conservative Arab oil producers, and three former Mideast colonial powers, Britain, France and Turkey who are seeking to restore their domination in the region. Israel, hoping to isolate Hezbollah and cement its annexation of Syria's Golan Heights, cheers from the sidelines. Syria and Hezbollah are Iran's only Arab friends.
The US and allies ignited the anti-Assad uprising two years ago, using the underground Syrian Muslim Brotherhood and imported jihadis. But Assad's forces, with some limited help from Russia, Iran and Lebanon's Hezbollah, held on and are now beating the US-backed rebels.
Back in 1990, I was in Baghdad covering the lead-up to the first US war against Iraq. I found four British scientific technicians who told me – and showed documents – that they had been sent by Her Majesty's government to help Iraq's biowarfare programs.
The four scientists were stationed at Salman Pak laboratories to manufacture four types of germ weapons for Iraq for use against Iran, including anthrax and q-fever. The feeder stocks for the germ weapons came from a US lab in Maryland; their export was ok'd by Washington. I repeatedly reported on this grim discovery.
During the long, bloody Iran-Iraq War (1980-1988), the US, Britain, Italy and Germany exported chemical weapons plants and raw material to Iraq that produced Sarin nerve gas and burning mustard gas. Many thousands of Iranian soldiers were killed, horribly burned or blinded by these western-supplied weapons.
So a little less western moral outrage, please, particularly from the Brits whose own sainted Winston Churchill authorized the use of poison gas against rebellious Iraqi and Afghan tribesmen.
Let's also recall how North Vietnam was drenched with the toxic Agent Orange, how the resisting Iraq city of Falluja was showered by white phosphorous, how Iraq was permanently contaminated by radioactive depleted uranium. These foul weapons also kill babies.
At least many Americans seem to have learned caution from the campaign of neocon lies that led them into the 2003 Iraq invasion, one of the biggest disasters and shames in US history. Even some usually bellicose Republicans are urging the Nobel Peace prize winner in the White House and his entourage of bloodthirsty liberals to slow his rush to war and consult Congress.
More tellingly, Gen. Colin Powell, who disgraced himself before the world by parroting the Bush administration's lies about Iraq now also urges caution over Syria.
Powell is right. The US has lost its last two "crusades" in Afghanistan and Iraq. The US has no strategic interests in Syria beyond an obsession to overthrow Iran's disobedient government.
Washington's Syrian misadventure threatens to put the US on a very perilous collision course with Russia, Syria's close ally. So far, Russia has sought a diplomatic solution, but it's most unwise to push tough Vladimir Putin too hard. Syria is as close to Russia as northern Mexico is to the United States.
Courting even the remote threat of a possible nuclear confrontation with Russia just to overthrow President Assad, a former US ally, is the height of irresponsibility.

The writer is an award-winning, internationally syndicated columnist. His articles appear in the New York Times, International Herald Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Times of London, Gulf Times, Khaleej Times and other news sites in Asia. He is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post, Lew Rockwell and Big Eye. He appears as an expert on foreign affairs on CNN, BBC, France 2, France 24, Fox News, CTV and CBC.


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Dear Narendra Modi, please mind your foreign policy ;First Post

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FROM MY DEAR FRIEND AMBASSADOR GAJENDRA SINGH FROM INDIA



AGHA H AMIN

 
I sat through his complete bhasan( speech) at Rewari .Gen VK Singh present spoke too .Most military men are anti Pakistan aand anti China , understadably , since we had wars with them 

Modi gives his foreign policy perceptions .Have wars with all nieghbours and of course USA , which still denies him a visa is no friend either .
http://www.firstpost.com/politics/dear-narendra-modi-please-mind-your-foreign-policy-1111047.html

Dear Narendra Modi, please mind your foreign policy by Rajeev Sharma 

Nrendraa Modi has, of late, been talking a lot about foreign policy related issues, mainly on Pakistan, China and Bangladesh. But so far he has pursued a hackneyed approach, reflecting the done-to-death BJP stand on foreign policy issues. But Friday the 13th of September should change it all. Modi is now the BJP's prime ministerial candidate and a very strong contender for the country's top job. He has shown to his admirers and detractors alike what an astute politician he is. LK Advani, in the hearts of his heart, must be secretly conceding this point to his former protégé. Now, more and more visiting foreign dignitaries and ambassadors will be meeting him, and rightly so. Modi will have increased interaction with the Ministry of External Affairs at the officials' level, despite the fact that the MEA boss Salman Khurshid and Modi have no love lost for each other. Modi needs to revitalise the BJP's foreign policy cell and meet its members regularly. Modi now needs to be more cautious than ever before while speaking on international politics and India's relations with foreign countries, particularly the neighbours. He should be careful that he does not speak something about foreign policy now which may be held against him if he were to become the Prime Minister in a few months. Narendra Modi is seen in this photo after being announced as BJP's PM candidate. Reuters Also, Modi should be careful in hauling the UPA government over coals on foreign policy related issues just for the sake of scoring brownie points against the Congress. One, he needs to build good relations all around – domestic or abroad. Yes, he needs to send a terse message to problem-creating countries like Pakistan, as he rightly did in his Rewari rally in Haryana on Sunday, his first public address in front of a large gathering after his anointment as PM candidate. But he needs to be more substantive. Two, Modi needs to remember that when he is addressing international audience he should be aware that he should cut down on anti-government rhetoric and ensure that India does not become a laughing stock before the international community as the BJP and the Congress slug it out in the run up to the upcoming parliamentary elections. The UPA leadership also needs to observe a similar restraint whenever they are commenting on Modi or the Opposition from the foreign soil. Three, while commenting on intricate and long-pending border-related issues with countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and China, Modi will do well to come up with some out-of-the-box solutions. The nation's expectations from him are sky high and the people look upon him as a probable alternative and harbinger of a whiff of fresh air. Of course, these "solutions" need not be full-blown policy statements but in the form of teasers. The idea is to sow a seed of thought and move on. Let the targeted audience in the neighbouring country mull it over. Ad nauseam repetitions by Modi on Indian soldiers' killings along the Line of Control and criticising Manmohan Singh or AK Antony will neither help nor behove his rapidly rising stature. This is old and familiar strategy of the BJP which has been done to death by its frontline leaders. But now the BJP has dared to turn over a new leaf and brought a mass leader of a state to the national stage – perhaps for the first time in decades, if not first time ever. This change should be reflected in not just domestic political issues but also in foreign policy matters as foreign policy has acquired a new importance since the Kargil War. Modi will do well to be a good student of foreign policy and international relations, an area where he has no known expertise. He should not have any problem in getting this help from seasoned diplomats, serving or retired. States are increasingly becoming important in the federal structure of the country. There are increasing signs of the Indian states becoming more pro-active in cementing ties with foreign countries – whether near abroad like northeastern states are doing with Myanmar and Bangladesh or far abroad like Modi himself did way back in 2009 when he travelled to Russia. It is inevitable that more and more foreign ambassadors will be meeting him, particularly from European countries as they need his help in investments and trade. He will increasingly find his attention focused more and more on economic diplomacy. Much of Europe has already reconciled with the inevitability of doing business with Modi. The United States is the only sore thumb and Modi should not lower his dignity by applying for a US visa. If Modi becomes Prime Minister of India, it will be for the foreign governments, the US included, inviting him to visit their countries. If he doesn't, he will hardly miss anything if he cannot visit one country in the world. Either way, he doesn't really have to lose his sleep over it. There is one foreign policy issue which requires Modi's intervention urgently: the India-Bangladesh Land Boundary Agreement (LBA) that could not be introduced in the recently concluded monsoon session of parliament largely because of stiff opposition from the BJP and Trinamool Congress. When Bangladesh foreign minister Dipu Moni visited India recently, she made it a point to meet BJP leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley. But the BJP stuck to its guns and ensured that the LBA bill is not even introduced in parliament. Bangladesh is a crucial neighbour, sharing the longest land border with India (over 4100 kms). India's northeast is Bangladesh-locked. Most importantly, Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is a tried and trusted friend of India and needs Indian support on the LBA issue before she gets engaged in election battle by January next with her arch political adversary Begum Khaleda Zia. Moreover, the LBA bill serves long term Indian strategic interests as I have argued here. Modi needs to address this issue urgently. Bangladesh government will also do well to touch base with him. Foreign policy, particularly India's immediate neighbourhood, warrants bi-partisan approach and consensus in the larger national interest. Modi has demonstrated his mettle as a politician. But can he also step into the shoes of a statesman? The writer is a Firstpost columnist and a strategic analyst. He tweets @Kishkindha.


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Sikh Wars Source Book-Rise and Fall of the Khalsa-1799-1849-Historical Injustice of Journal of Military History USA in not publishing my Chillianwallah article in 1999 corrected

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Andrew Preziosi - Sep 19, 2013 2:50 pm (#7355 Total: 7357)  

Enough is enough, no more excuses. Stop Gun Violence...NOW!!! 
[Preziosi, Andrew]
Sikh War Source Book Update...Finally!

Excuse the delay, the Update pretty much explains all. 

The Sikh Wars Sourcebook Update

Gentlefolk, 

When last I wrote, I was on the verge of finishing my Sikh War opus and was about to turn it in to Patrick, which I did a few weeks later. I took some much needed down time, and pretty much collapsed. After all the time and effort that went into the book, I had other projects to on my desk, and I now had time to devote to them. 

As time passed though, Patrick, like any editor, began to ask me for assistance with tidying up the book, but I had "hit the wall." At the same time, Patrick himself had a number of crucial TVAG projects that came to a head. 

So communications slowed to a crawl, and preliminary publication goal dates were pushed back. 

At the beginning last month, Tom Cundiff, of Old Soldiers Magazine E-zine, contacted me with his wish to include an "info-mercial" for the Sikh Wars Sourcebook in his next issue, including an update and the working cover to accompany a previously submitted article. However, it was all for naught as Tom himself was hit by work and family issues delaying publication to a later issue. 

Some "Good News" is that the 1st and 2nd Sikh War narratives were sent out several months ago to Gentlemen Scholars Dennis McKinney (USA) and Mike Embree (UK) to edit and proof-read, and now both sets of documents have arrived. They will need some formatting and insertion of missing details, but they are tremendous aids to the overall edit of the work, making the material more comprehensive and accessible than before. 

So, for the next three to six weeks, I'm going to be helping Patrick in order to make this book worthy of all the effort put into it during my researches and writing. It won't be fun or easy, it will all be worth it. 

Meanwhile, the positive comments from so many supporters of this long and difficult project, whether here on TMP, CSW or Yahoo! Newsgroups have been very much appreciated. It's a great encouragement to see how many of you are so eagerly awaiting publication, and your input and drum beating are definitely encouraged. 

Thanks again, and I will post updates every few weeks as we aim for a Christmas/New Year's publication date. 

Andrew Preziosi, September, 2013 

Your comments, ideas and queries are also most welcome. 

BTW "Fraying at the Edges" is the chapter that bridges the Mooltan Campaign and Siege Chapters with the 2nd Sikh War Suite, which includes: 

My 2nd Sikh War Narrative 

Colin Campbell's Memorandum on the Battle of Chillianwalla 

Major Agha Amin's Account of the Battle of Chillianwalla


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BRIGADIER ZAREEN KHATTAK WAS MY INSTRUCTOR AT THE JOL IN INFANTRY SCHOOL QUETTA IN OCTOBER-NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1983 .








HE WAS AN OUTSTANDING OFFICER AND A MAN .


HE WAS ONE OF THE FEW WHO STOOD BY US WHEN THE FINAL EXERCISE OF INFANTRY SCHOOL WAS RE-HELD IN GHAZABAND BECAUSE OF THE DEBRIEFING THAT I GAVE , FOLLOWED BY THAT OF ASIF KHATTAK AT SIBI WHERE THE PLANNED FINAL EXERCISE WAS HELD .


SOMEHOW MANY IN THOSE DAYS WERE FAR SUPERIOR TO THE LATER LOT .WE HAD THE INDOMITABLE BRIGADIER ARIF BANGASH WHO WAS SO INTELLECTUALLY HONEST AFTER HEARING OUR DEBRIEFING THAT HE RE-ORDERED THE EXERCISE AS A PUNISHMENT FOR HAVING BEEN A HOAX EXERCISE AT SIBI IN GHAZABAND AGAIN . A DIFFERENT MAN .




NO DOUBT KOHAT HAD A SUPERIOR ENVIRONMENT THAN MORE DECADENT PLACES LIKE HINDKO SPEAKING PESHAWAR WHICH WOULD CORRUPT EVEN THE FINEST PASHTUNS FROM MEHSUD AND AFRIDI TRIBES !




THIS LETTER THAT HE WROTE TO ME BELOW HAS HISTORIC VALUE AND MAY BE READ BY ALL WHO WANT TO UNDERSTAND MANY ASPECTS OF LIFE IN THE MILITARY:--





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Manas Fuel Supply Contract Stinks

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"Allegations" that top Kyrgyz government officials, their families and mysterious connections enriched themselves by pocketing money from jet fuel contracts at Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan can no more be called allegations. Back in April 2010 I wrote about this subject here on my blog (Oil Money Fuels Corruption in Kyrgyzstan). Now, let's see what happened since then.

In April 2010, National Security and Foreign Affairs Subcommittee initiated an investigation into allegations of corruption in connection with the U.S. contract to supply fuel to the Manas Transit Center in Kyrgyzstan and held a hearing on 22 April 2010. The Subcommittee will be issuing a report with the full results of its investigation soon.

On 3 November 2010 the Defense Logistics Agency awarded a $315 million one-year contract with a one-year option to Mina Corp. Ltd. to supply 96 million gallons of jet fuel to the U.S. Transit Center in Manas, Kyrgyzstan. (more precisely the contract says "a maximum $315,180,960 fixed price with economic price adjustment, requirements-type contract for jet fuel." This makes $3.28 per gallon). I don't know what else that price includes but when the contract was awarded the average jet fuel price in Europe and CIS was $2.27 per gallon. The Department of Defense is in ongoing negotiations with the Kyrgyz government to award a second contract to a Kyrgyz state-owned fuel supplier. 


On 3 November 2010 Subcommittee released a Statement in response to the DOD's Manas Transit Center Fuel Contract to Mina Corporation. John F. Tierney, Chairman of the Subcommittee, stated that "Although our investigation has not uncovered any underlying corruption in the Manas fuel contract, we did find that the Pentagon and State Department had ignored widespread Kyrgyz public perceptions of contract corruption engendered by a fundamental lack of transparency in the contracting process and Mina Corporation's operations.  Supplying vast quantities of fuel in support of U.S. operations in Afghanistan is an extremely sensitive endeavor with significant political, diplomatic, and geopolitical ramifications; it is not logistics-as-usual.  The lesson going forward is that this critical fuel supply contract must have top-level oversight at every step of the way."

In an interview shortly before meeting with President Obama in September 2010, new Kyrgyz president demanded the Pentagon stop using private contractors and work through a state-run Kyrgyz venture instead. Well, the US government wants to make the Kyrgyz government also happy. The contract, awarded to Mina Corp covers only 80 percent of the overall projected jet fuel needs over the next year at Manas. The other 20 percent appears destined for a Kyrgyz government-run entity.

Washington Post ran a good piece about this on 1 November 2010 (Kyrgyz contracts fly under the radar). The article presents how legitimate are the Mina and Red Star companies and makes you wonder why the hell is the need for a long chain of intermediaries who buy the fuel and deliver it to the base. In essence "Mina and Red Star have little of the visible infrastructure usually associated with an enterprise handling billions of dollars of business. At an address in Gibraltar used by both Red Star and Mina is a law firm that specializes in virtual office services. Mina's London office consists of a small glassed-in cubicle. An address in Toronto that Red Star used to win its first Pentagon contract turns out to be a business center in a high-rise tower," documents the Post.

Will the Kyrgyz government allow Mina Corporation to operate on its territory? If they still believe what they were saying before, they should not. But money is sweet.

On 5 November 2010, the Kyrgyz Foreign Ministry issued a statement urging the US government to "suspend its cooperation" with Mina Corp until the completion of an investigation by state prosecutors.

According to Scott Horton, the Kyrgyz admire "American rhetoric about transparency, democracy and human rights. But they see an increasingly large gap between U.S. rhetoric and U.S. action."

It is true, apparently the Pentagon asked for details of who owns Mina Corp. and Red Star Enterprises only a week ago. Why? Because, DOD contracting regulations do not require that contractors reveal their ownership. Read the Washington Post article by Andrew Higgins (Controversial defense contractors Mina and Red Star reveal owners, 6 November 2010) to know more about the comedy. Good Morning Pentagon!

According to Derek Mitchell, the principal deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific security affairs, DoD recognizes "the importance of a fuel contract process that is publicly transparent and fully in compliance with U.S. and Kyrgyz laws and regulations." The key word here is "process." This is what DOD cares apparently.

The companies reportedly have denied wrongdoing and stated they are the victims of misinformation spread by rivals. BUT the more you dig, the murkier the two companies' corporate structures and affiliations get. There is an abundance of evidence that suggests Red Star is a thread in a vast web of business operations that extends across Afghanistan.

Ray Mabus, Secretary of the Navy, said in October 2010 that "We have to change the way we operate. We have to change the way we produce and we use energy." Yes, but they have to change the way they procure energy too.

As one of the readers of my blog stated, this story and the its main actors are looking more and more like a "shadow" business used to fund other activities in the region. Good point. Really, can anyone guarantee that this shadow does not extend to Al-Qaida, Taliban or Iran?


PS. see the full process of the cotract at FBO.
The problem is that last year's contract was given to the company without a competitive bidding to avoid unspecified "reasons of national security". The November 2010 contract however followed a review of rival offers by different firms. The ugly part of the contracting is that regulations do not require that companies detail their ownership. This is the best example of how transparent the DOD is.



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http://www.scribd.com/doc/21693873/Indo-Pak-Wars-1947-71-A-STRATEGIC-AND-OPERATIONAL-ANALYSIS-BY-A-H-AMIN

Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."  --
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The Dark Side of America's Friendship with South Africa

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Molyneaux Global Res Nov 12 2010 The Dark Side of America's Friendship with South Africa Precipitating chaos and misery for the African people

 

The Dark Side of America's "Friendship" with South Africa

Precipitating chaos and misery for the African people

 

by M. J. Molyneaux

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=21889

Global Research, November 12, 2010

 

The hidden agenda behind the humanitarian aid programs and interventions carried out by the United States in troubled parts of the world has been insightfully exposed by Dr Paul Craig Roberts:

"Most Americans believe that their government is the best on earth, that it is morally motivated to help others and to do good, that it rushes aid to countries where there is famine and natural catastrophes……The persistence of these delusions is extraordinary in the face of daily headlines that report US government bullying of, and interference with, virtually every country on earth." [1]

One of the most significant examples of this buying off and overthrowing, is the relentless interference of the governments of the US and Great Britain in the Republic of South Africa to recover control over the vast reserves of the world's strategic minerals in that country. [2]

Rick Rozoff explains: "An April 2009 report to Congress by the National Defence Stockpile Center made clear that ensuring access to mineral markets around the world is of vital interest to national security." [3]

British and American imperialism has been around for centuries but the recent re-colonization of South Africa is a classic case and still one of the best kept secrets, generally unrecognized by the world's journalists and political analysts because it requires an extraordinary amount of investigation and perceptive analysis to identify and track the shadowy characters, financiers and their agents and "bought" political players in South Africa. Some of them feature in Frederick Van Zyl Slabbert's book "The Other Side of History." [4] The secret motive behind Anglo-American sponsorship of Nelson Mandela and his ANC party's dramatic rise to power in South Africa was the expected payback in terms of bolstering US hegemony over strategic minerals on a global scale. [5]

Like India, Brazil, Great Britain and others, the social and economic inequalities of the class system in South Africa were very real. But in South Africa these were made more obvious by the way it was racially delineated. That made South Africa an easy target for criticism and bullying. While other more oppressive police states were ignored by the international community, corporate interests in the US and Great Britain mobilized sanctions against South Africa, supported terrorist action and whipped up internal strike actions, riots and economic chaos, driving the country to its knees. [5]

The new puppet ANC government ushered into power from 1991 to 1994 has been far more cooperative with the US and Great Britain than the previous white government but far more devastating than the old government in its mismanagement of justice, law and order and the social and economic problems in the country. [6] [7] As R. W. Johnson has documented, the only things propping up the chaotic rule of the incompetent and corrupt ANC government are the vast amounts of foreign aid that has been pouring into South Africa and the lucrative income it receives in taxation of diamond and precious metal sales. Nearly three quarters of the world's known strategic mineral reserves are found in South Africa , [8] [9] [10] [11] And the mines are owned by?.....mainly Anglo-American corporations!

The United States is the largest bilateral donor to South Africa in terms of Development Assistance donating $98 million in 2003-03, $160 million in 2004 and $185 million in 2005. Since the ANC assumed power, the US has become the second largest source of foreign direct investment in South Africa after the United Kingdom. [12] [13] These two countries in particular had been systematically side-lined by the previous government; exactly the same way that Saddam Hussein had side-lined the British and US sponsors of his early political career and party. Many US companies in South Africa are now members of the American Chamber of Commerce.

No surprise – approximately 28 United States agencies manage cooperative programs in South Africa including the Department of Defence and precious metals and stones account for over 30% of total imports to the US from South Africa. (12) Hillary Clinton described as "extremely helpful" a recent meeting in Durban with South African president Jacob Zuma. The president said: "The two countries have always had good relations and we are taking that relationship higher." [14] At what price?

Foreign interference in South Africa has produced token freedom and empowerment to indigenous black people previously exploited by the system of Apartheid, but precipitated a state of permanent chaos and dependence in the country with unemployment, illegal drugs and arms trade, poverty, disease, social misery and unrest now among the highest in the world. [6]

Nearly one million South Africans are estimated to have died as a result of political violence that evolved into a horrific crime culture since the start of foreign intervention in the 70's and an equal number have left the country due to the intolerable conditions that resulted [6] - Thanks to United States and British aid and intervention. Without realizing it, Nelson Mandela had helped the United States achieve its unrivalled position in the world today. The extent to which his organization bowed to its international patrons can be seen from the fact that his was the only government ever to voluntarily dismantle a nuclear weapons program; something established [possibly with help from Israel] as a guarantee of self-preservation by the independent-minded government of the Afrikaner legacy. His ANC party has become the key hired agency in Africa that enables the USA to totally eclipse even Great Britain, the world's previous superpower, and become the only unchallenged international bully today.

For the United States, the so-called "good relations" means that the US now achieves unfettered [but covert] control over the vast reserves of the world's strategic minerals in Africa – a position absolutely essential to US global dominance. This piece of the puzzle is still missing from the archives of research centres and deserves special attention because it shows how clever, complex and well camouflaged the imperialist strategy has been.

Notes

1. The War on Terror, Paul Craig Roberts, October 16 2010 ,Global Research

2. South Africa : When Liberation Means Enslavement, Finnian Cunningham March 3, 2010 Global Research

3. New Colonialism, Rick Rozoff, May 5, 2010 , Global Research

4. The Other Side of History, F.Van Zyl Slabbert, [ 2006] Jonathan Ball Publisher

5. Hidden Agenda behind Nelson Mandela's ANC rise to power, M. J. Molyneaux, 2010 www.uncensored.co.nz

6. Neo-liberalism in South Africa : Dead in the Water. Patrick Bond, October 6 2010 Global Research

7. South Africa 's Brave New World; R. W. Johnson, Penguin Books 2009

8. National Economies Encyclopaedia, 2005

9. SOURCE: Lisa Corathers, the Manganese Commodity Specialist for the U.S. Geological Survey, 2005

10. Ferrochrome Facts 2007 Elsevier Engineering Information. Source: Financial Times Limited. 06/29/2007

11. Kermas South Africa (Pty) Ltd and Samancor Ltd (22/LM/Mar05) [2005] ZACT 41 ( 14 June 2005 )

12. Diplomatic Mission of the United States in South Africa [website August 6, 2007]

13 British Foreign & Commonwealth Office [website May 21 2007 ],

14. The Guardian, 9 August 2009 .

 Global Research Articles by M. J. Molyneaux



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Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."  --

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LAND REFORMS OR TAX REFORMS IN CROOKS PARADISE

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Keeping the pakistani legislators background in mind the bill OF TAX REFORM OR LAND REFORM has no chance of succeeding

Pakistan essentially is a cartel run by feudals , civil servants , industraialists and business man who combine to provide each other mutual protections , enfilade fire !

The PPP essentially represents the landed interests while the PML N the business interests .

The bureaucrats mostly ambitious lower middle class stuff with high ambition to become rich by entering the FBR or DMG or PSP in a few years are the central actors in serving business and feudal interests.

The army gets its pound of flesh in the size and volume that it wishes without questions being asked !
It also runs the biggest businrss group in the country !


Thus tax as part of GDP is just 9 % .In India the concentration is on direct taxes targetting the rich which stand at more than half of Indian revenue.


In Pakistan the aim to suck the common mans blood by every drop by indirect taxes on electric , gas , fuels .


Change in Pakistan can only be bought by the bullet .Remedies like NAB, EBDO and PRODA have failed .

 

The only remedy of Pakistans elite is physical elimination ! Only a revolution or a coup can do it !

 

If this does not happen then the country will disintegrate by civil war and external war or a combination of both !

 

Historically a country with so much lack of justice has no right to exist !


The MQM with an urban vote has picked up the theme of TAX and LAND REFORM but the MQM is a compromised MQM which like PML N or the PPP consults the military before every move .


In short nothing will come out of this bill.


New houses belonging to young FBR , DMG ,PSP , military officers mushroom up faster than mushrooms in posh localities.Black money s made by bribes and extortions in many billions every day ! .Aqeel Kareem Dedhi buys arab palaces .


The party continues with stocks , agriculture and property not being taxed or being taxed nominally !


Pakistans so called Muslim elite have exceeded any excess committed by non muslims on Muslims in history.


As an ex soldier I feel that Pakistans greatest enemy is its elite ! Not the Hindus , Not the Jews , Not the Christians !


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Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."  --

Albert Einstein !!!




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Baloch populace flees Awaran out of FEAR

November 15, 2013, 1:12 am
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Daily Times loses courage to publish Mir Mohammad Ali Talpurs articles finally ! Personally I found Daily Times always spineless. They refused to publish my articles on army etc . Finally Daily Times lost courage to publish M. M Talpurs articles from the last sunday , 03 November 2013. Poor newspaper with circulation of 2,000 has to survive . What a pity . Owner was gunned down despite being cautious in not publishing anti army articles.




"Daily Times Exercising caution" with Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur




07 July, 2010

Pakistan-The State with Dual Controls

Understanding Pakistan's Strategic Chaos

UNDERSTANDING WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AFTER 5TH JULY 1977

AGHA H AMIN

5TH JULY 2010


This article written with great conviction was sent to all major Pakistani newspapers ! But afraid of the army no one published it ! Even the so called liberal Salman Taseer who also played a policy of playing safe ! Yet this could not save that clever man from being gunned down !


There is no doubt that Pakistan will be destroyed ! It only a question of how many more years !


Also below this article is a strategic analysis carried out later but now its part two.


It was 4th July 1977, Lieutenant General Iqbal Khan told his headquarters staff that at last Mr Z.A. Bhutto and the opposition alliance PNA had reached an amicable peace settlement. My father, a newly promoted brigadier, was one of his staff.

On 5th July 1977 General Zia, the army chief, handpicked by PM Z.A. Bhutto (against the very advice of the Military Secretary's Branch) delivered the fatal blow; not only to democracy but to Pakistan's future. Martial Law was imposed on 5th July 1977.

While Ayub Khan, although a usurper, had separated the military from politics, Zia's system of things imposed the military over politics. That system unfortunately carries on until today.

Zia's worst action was turning Pakistan into a US-Saudi military base against the USSR.

This he did not because the USSR was a threat to Pakistan but because Zia's military dictatorship was under threat from Pakistan's masses and political forces.

The use of non state actors as state proxies was firmly adopted by Zia as a cheap tool of foreign policy and this policy was reversed by no one, including the so-called very secular Benazir or the not so liberal Nawaz Sharif.

Foreign policy - at least the India and Afghanistan policy - became an exclusive affair of Pakistan's military establishment. No civilian has reversed this policy to date.

The political fabric of the country was deeply and fatally infiltrated, and all politicians became tools of blackmail by the state security apparatus.

Benazir Bhutto, although a popular leader, was compromised in such a way that when she came into power in 1988 and 1993 she dared not interfere with the military establishment regarding Pakistan's India or Afghanistan policies.

A military relationship with the USA and Saudi Arabia was established which bypassed Pakistan's political organs as well as the US Congress or Senate and the Department of Defense. CIA and State Department bureaucrats established a direct hotline with Pakistan's military establishment. This relationship survived despite Clinton and remains to this day.

Sectarian and ethnic divisions were encouraged, thus the creation of Sipah I Sahaba, MQM, the baradari culture in Punjab thanks to the 1985 non party elections etc.

The judiciary was successfully coerced into submission and dissenting judges removed by blackmail and persecution. This has remained a fact despite the Iftikhar Chaudhry phenomena - which was a case of a clash of egos rather than a clash of principles - as the valiant judge took a stand when pushed against the wall over a matter of personal survival, having earlier supported the same dictator in distorting Pakistan's constitution.

Religious intolerance was fine tuned and Ahmadis and Shias targeted. A strict bar on promotion of Ahmadi officers beyond colonel level was imposed in the military which continued from 1977 to 1992.

Hadood laws were introduced and done in words of a direct participant IG Ch Sardar Ali so that Saudis could be pleased and milked into giving Pakistan financial aid.

The sad part is that most of Zia's actions were not reversed.

Benazir came into power in 1988 and 1993 under a secret agreement and abdicated control over a major part of Pakistan's foreign and security policy to the Pakistani military establishment. In 2008 also the PPP was allowed into power by NRO under a shady secret deal and, to date, the PPP has no control over Pakistan's foreign or security policy despite being the de jure ruling party of Pakistan.

Nawaz Sharif came near ZAB in being a strong political leader when he sacked a naval and a military chief, but was chastised with years in exile and a compromised return to Pakistan under a secret protocol. The new Nawaz Sharif is a weaker Nawaz Sharif represented by a more pragmatic Shahbaz Sharif in power, whose first rule of business is to ask the military before doing anything.

Thus while Zia's mortal remains were burnt over the Hindu Shamshan Ghat over Basti Lal Kamal on that historic 17th August 1988, his system remains in force with a Pakistan ruled by politicians in name and a foreign and security policy firmly in the hands of Pakistan's military establishment. This ideally suits the USA, the Saudis and Pakistan's military establishment.

The gist of the problem is that Pakistan's civilian political leadership has no clue or control over what Pakistan is doing in Afghanistan, Kashmir, Baluchistan, or the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). This explains why the USA has secret agreements with Pakistan's military establishment. It's safe, it's practical and it's a one window operation!

The weak link in this whole chain is the misuse of Islam by Pakistan's civil and military elite since 1947. The bluff was called in 2001 and Pakistan is now in the grip of a civil war (since 2003) with no end in sight. A war which has the potential of destroying Pakistan unless good captains can deal successfully with the immensely adverse wind and waves.

The fatal question is can such an anachronistic arrangement last despite being supported by so called demi-gods like the USA and Saudi Arabia? The answer is no, as proven by Pakistan's ongoing civil war in the killing fields of Afghanistan, FATA,the GHQ attack etc !


Pakistans generals and their apologists can give a million excuses but the hard fact is that Pakistan Army is a master in destroying Pakistan as they brilliantly did under Ayub in East Pakistan and under Musharraf in Balochistan !




5 July 2010




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Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."  --

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http://www.scribd.com/doc/22151765/History-of-Pakistan-Army-from-1757-to-1971


http://www.scribd.com/doc/21693873/Indo-Pak-Wars-1947-71-A-STRATEGIC-AND-OPERATIONAL-ANALYSIS-BY-A-H-AMIN


http://www.scribd.com/doc/21686885/TALIBAN-WAR-IN-AFGHANISTAN


http://www.scribd.com/doc/22455178/Letters-to-Command-and-Staff-College-Quetta-Citadel-Journal


http://www.scribd.com/doc/23150027/Pakistan-Army-through-eyes-of-Pakistani-Generals


http://www.scribd.com/doc/23701412/War-of-Independence-of-1857


http://www.scribd.com/doc/22457862/Pakistan-Army-Journal-The-Citadel


http://www.scribd.com/doc/21952758/1971-India-Pakistan-War


http://www.scribd.com/doc/25171703/BOOK-REVIEWS-BY-AGHA-H-AMIN


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PART TWO:--


Pakistans Strategic Mess is USAs Strategic Mess too


1978 Revolution ,Pakistan and Strategic Anarchy--Pakistans uncertain future


Agha H Amin



The April 1978 Saur Revolution was a historic event in modern history.




While the revolution merits a whole book or many volumes , we will just very briefly discuss its salient parts.


Afghanistan status as a buffer state was irrevocably transformed into a state where super powers fought proxy wars.Thus some 98 years of Afghan history of being a buffer state was changed.


 

Power shifted in Afghanistan from a Durrani-Persianised feudal elite into a more broad based multi ethnic state.The new leftist regime had Tajiks ,Hazaras and Uzbeks previously regarded as second and third rate citizens !


Although the coups major leaders were Pashtuns from Paktia and Khost like the indomitable Aslam Watanjar the PDPA was essentially a mix of Persian speaking urbanised intellectuals organised as Parchamis and a more radiacal Pashtun section from Paghman Khost and Paktia known as Parchamis.The Khalqis were rash , bold , impetuous and radiacal , while the Parchamis were more moderate.


The Saur revolution proved a gold mine for Pakistans illegitimate military junta of Zia which till April 1978 was politically an illegitimate bastard child regime.This regime used the Afghan revolution as a pretext to get dollars from USA and Saudi Arabia.Power shifted in Pakistan from a more progressive PPP regime to a more Punjabised regime dominated by refugees from Jullundhur and Batala etc .




Since this new clique was fatherless and illegitimate it used religion as well as caste as a political tool.Thus it outlawed political parties and Pakistani politics became more ethnic andsub ethnic with Punjab divided into castes as political forces and Sindh divided into urban and rural ! The division of Sindh into urban and rural was a planned reaction by the Pakistani illegal military regime as a counter to the MRD Movement of 1983 which had its roots in rural Sindh !


Pashtuns were used as cannon fodder by the military junta as proxies in Afghan war and thus the seeds of religious extremism were planted in Pakistan .


Foreign policy and all security and defence matters in Pakistan became the preserve of Pakistani military which continues till to date !



All civilian governments which came into power after 1988 elections in Pakistan were remote controlled by the Pakistani military and when Nawaz Sharif tried to assert civilian control in 1997-99 he was removed by a military coup.


It would not be wrong to call Pakistan an army with a country and not a country with an army since 5th July 1977, with a short stint of full civilian control by the second PML N Government from February 1997 to October 1999 !



There is no doubt that Pakistan is a state with dual controls since 5th July 1977 with a civilian co pilot who in reality is a flight steward and a hidden real piolt who controls major financial and security issues !


The imbalance in this situation are three new factors i.e (1) religious extremism which is now on a reverse boomerang course against the Pakistani elite (2) regional centrifugal forces in Balochistan (3) an increased foreign interest in Pakistan where foreign powers led by USA see Pakistan as an anachroninistic and adventurist state .



Five cardinal fact stand out in this scenario , (1) The USA severely lacks long term strategic insight and US policy is run on short term objectives which is well proven from how it behaved after USSR withdrew from Afghanistan and till 9/11 (2) Pakistan alone will not be able to restore strategic stability in Afghanistan or even Pakistan itself .Its military which controls major part of Pakistans financial and security policy is not intellectually capable of understanding the immense complexity of strategy andgeopolitics (3) The Pakistani state will not be able to control Islamic extremism (4) The multiplicity of state and non state actors can lead to severe strategic stability culminating in an India Pakistan nuclear stand off.



The Islamists are far more powerful than they seem ! The Pakistani military is not as clever as it thinks it is ! The Americans are strategically pathetic ! Thus the issue will be decided by random and unforeseeable forces !


Certainly what mean mortals who are in charge of affairs in this whole complex drama want may not happen ! Thus the relative less visible forces will take over !


The scene is thus set for strategic anarchy ! The real danger is that Pakistan cannot afford it but it is heading straight into a diasaster course because it has no able navigator at the highest level !




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THE FUTURE STRATEGIC OPTIONS 



Saif al-Adel-An Unorthodox and Unconventional Leader


By


Agha.H.Amin




Saif al-Adel is an experienced low intensity conflict man who has seen his apprenticeship in the Soviet Afghan War.

He had a stint with the US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.


He is known to be a master of the unorthodox and appears to have read Sun Tzu as well as Sun Pin and Ho Chi Minh.His favourite method of attack are explosives. He left Egypt shortly after the assasination of Sadaat a man most despised by Egyptians in 1981 .


After 9/11 he fled to Iran also .And after eating iranian caviar and palao al qaeda and many other sunni extremist groups have discovered that the shias are not as bad as brought out in the much paid by Saudi Arabian propaganda.The way Iran as a state received many Al Qaeda and Afghan commanders after 9/11 has improved the Iranian perception,while prevalent propaganda mostly saudi sponsored and financed was deadly anti shia.similarly the way in which the pakistani state abandoned them for US dollars significantly diminished the respect for pakistani state in al qaeda eyes (although non state actors wholeheartedly supported and sheltered al qaeda after 9/11 in Pakistan).The post 9/11 Al Qaeda is thus more anti Pakistan and anti Saudi and both states are their logical targets.Any one of these go down (as is the aimed AQ strategy) and all US efforts and money wasted in GWOT can be straight multiplied by zero.

He is regarded as close to Iranians as he was in Iran for a long time after 9/11 enjoying official Iranian patronage , a good safe house with ample stocks of Iranian caviar  and tuna fish.this makes him more anti saudi and more any anti state.he may bring an ovopen change in al qaeda strategy and intensify the attacks on saudi installations as well as pakistani installations.a younger man who is more into technology and known to have some most unorthodox and unconventional ideas about the ongoing great low intensity war.he will give the corporation a new technical dmension. Demise of Bin Laden has actually given Al Qaeda a new life with a new leader who has no qualms or reservations about attacking Saudi Arabia as well as the Pakistani states.With both states now on the sharp path to decline and both viewed as most despicable and dubious by their own masses , Al Qaeda may now resurge as never before.

They have already redeployed in force in Nuristan,Laghman,Kunnar and Kapisa provinces.

So we are all set for grand strategic anarchy !

HA HA HA

All this was not inevitable but has many links with US faux pas and the most inefficient Saudi and Pakistani states both of which are deeply divided in the war against Al Qaeda.

I have had nothing to do with conventional religion all my life but I can say with conviction that both Pakistani and Saudi states are not just equipped or have the capability to fight Al Qaeda ! The question is not whether it will happen or not but only how many more years they will take in collapsing !

My fear is that Pakistan will not be able to turn around and the same is Saudi Arabias fate ! Pakistan is actually almost a suicide bombers factory with ten thousand potential suicide bombers being produced every day , just because of sheer disgust with exorbitant official corruption ,unemployment , inflation and hunger !

The key stone in any war against extremists has to be good governance in countries which are the major areas of operations.This is seriously missing in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan where some 2 % own 80 percent of the wealth and pay just 15 to 20 % of all taxes !


The issue why extremism is growing is not Islam but poverty and lack of equal opportunity !

The reason thus is simply mega corruption and total moral breakdown in both states ! This includes the Pakistani and Saudi armies , intelligence , politicians ,police,para military forces as well as the civil services.






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"I know that I am prejudiced on this matter, but I would be ashamed of myself if I were not."
Mark Twain
 

"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer

    "Organized religion is like organized crime, it preys on people's weaknesses, generates huge profits for its operators and is almost impossible to eradicate" Mike Hermann

Awaran residents flee fearing army plans to turn the town into cantonment

Thursday, 14 November 2013 19:49by Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur |

They prefer to live in poverty elsewhere rather than live like slaves subject to whims of army and Frontier Corps (FC)

I am convinced that if promises were bombs there wouldn't be a soul left alive here. Promises come cheap and are the handiest tool to bamboozle people into believing fantasies they would otherwise reject as garbage. Here even the solemn but empty promises of courts recovering Baloch missing persons, of trying Musharraf for treason, of running vehicles on water and of no support for the good Talibans are unqualifiedly believed.
The people are gullible and promise makers deviously astute who rely on the extremely short memory disease which afflicts the people here and always get away with unfulfilled promises. This I suppose has got much to do with the in-built fatalism which is part of psyche in this region's people and has a lot to do with religion and of course the effects of prolonged colonialism not to mention the overwhelming influence of 'state narrative' through education and media; a narrative which has promoted and encouraged the evils of fundamentalism, passivity and acquiescence to prosper here.
Eschatology too is responsible for the attitude of passivity and unnecessary forbearance. Religions never remain the same in spirit over time because the vested interests and narrative of the elite shape religions according to their needs and not vice versa. It was for this reason that Marx said, 'Religion is the opium of the people'. By the way this Marx quote is in this context, "Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of a spiritless situation. It is the opium of the people." The Baloch society's secular ethos is an anathema for Pakistan as it encourages struggle and this runs counter to its narrative. Little wonder that army is the staunchest advocate of and provider of education in Balochistan; there is relentless effort to change the existing ethos of Baloch society to ensure acquiescence.
During the recent visit to Awaran Nawaz Sharif promised its miraculous rehabilitation; he couldn't have been serious because it is eight years since Balakot earthquake and rehabilitation has not even been half completed there yet. In 2012 on 7th anniversary of that devastating quake, a newspaper reported, the locals announced staging protest both in Balakot and in front of the Parliament House in Islamabad to remind the world that even after seven years they are still running from pillar to post for rehabilitation.
A new Balakot was to be built at Bakriyal, 20 kilometres south of old city but that project too came to a halt. A dispute arose over the demand of payment to local land owners there. Till 2012 over 60 per cent of government buildings, including schools and hospitals, had not been completed there. Many residents of old Balakot city have been living in prefabricated houses donated by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). This was because of the complicated design and high cost of ERRA's technical architectural plan. If this is the fate of people of Balakot for whom they got hundreds of millions of dollars from outside world what will Awaran's peoples' fate be?
Because Nawaz Sharif had nothing else to offer he left making a clutch of promises to the so called elders of Awaran; naturally people could not be trusted in close proximity to him. This gaggle of supposed elder who he assured of help are a new phenomenon because before the earthquake there seemed to be no elder in existence there; the army must have manufactured them since it went there in strength under the excuse of helping in relief work. One of these elder surely must have been Qudoos Bizenjo the deputy speaker of the Balochistan Assembly, yes the one who won his seat in Awaran PB 41 with 544 votes but was rewarded with deputy speakership for services rendered.

The rest of the elders along with the handpicked chief minister were no more than thanks givers nodding at every word to ensure largesse kept pouring in. These elders, all men of straw, without establishment's support are but ciphers and fear the people they claim to be elders of. Regarding rejection of international aid Sharif said his government has refused foreign help for the rehabilitation because. "We don't need help from outside. Balochistan government is mine. It's our shared responsibility." Sharif least bothered about miseries of people massaged his ego by reiterating that, "Balochistan government is mine."
Sharif went on promises spree and announced Rs 5 lakh for the families of the dead and Rs 1.5 lakh compensation for the quake injured. He must have surprised even himself when he said, "The government will electrify Awaran with solar power to ensure 24 hours uninterrupted supplies, and build dams to meet the need of water and irrigate the area. My government will make Awaran a 'model district' at par with Karachi, Islamabad and Lahore." Isn't it surprising that an establishment which has not been able to provide electricity to cities whose lifeblood is electricity promises a paradise with 24/7 non-stop electricity for Awaran. Bringing Awaran at par with Karachi would also mean killing off a dozen people daily to bring it close to Karachi's killing fields. The establishment which for decades has oppressed and exploited Baloch suddenly becomes a benefactor and promises a virtual heaven. If this isn't black humour than what is?
What I suppose everyone missed in the fanfare of Nawaz Sharif's visit and his promises is what his man Dr. Malik while thanking his benefactor said: "I appeal to the people of Awaran to not leave the district where their ancestors are buried. The government will provide jobs and other facilities." This simply confirmed the fact that the people are leaving the area because of the increased army presence there, a total of six battalions and eight helicopters have been deployed ostensibly for relief and rehabilitation, and because of absolute lack of trust in Pakistani government. The fact is that there isn't any plan for a model town; the army is preparing to build a cantonment to control the area. A cantonment is a cantonment even if the label is changed. The people fully understand the intentions and the expected treatment and are therefore moving away. They do not want to live in a cantonment which the government wants to make out of Awaran. They prefer to live in poverty elsewhere rather than live like slaves subject to whims of army and Frontier Corps (FC) in Awaran.

 


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" The important thing is to have a commanding officer who can write a citation , with sufficient gift of persuasion to attract serious attention from higher authority "

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WHY PAKISTANI STATE IS LOSING WAR ON ALL FRONTS-A JOKE CALLED PAKISTAN

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Why Pakistani state is losing the war on all fronts

Parochial , Garain Baaz,Party Baaz , PAKISTAN LOSING THE MEDIA AND PSY WAR IN BALOCHISTAN AND AFGHANISTAN

A JOKE CALLED PAKISTAN

Agha H Amin

THE SITUATION


  1. PAKISTANI STATE IS BEING SEEN BY THE WORLD AS CENTRAL PART OF THE PROBLEM RATHER THAN A SOLUTION.
  2. PAKISTANS NATIONAL STRATEGY AND ITS ARMY IS BEING BRANDED AS A CHEAP US COLLABORATOR BY A BUNCH OF DIRTY BEARDED PRIESTS.
  3. PAKISTANI MEDIA AND POLITICIANS ARE PAINTING THE FALSE PICTURE THAT PAKISTANS ECONOMY WAS DESTROYED IN WAR ON TERROR ! THE REAL REASON WHY PAKISTANS ECONOMY WAS DESTROYED WAS BECAUSE OF MASSIVE TAX EVASION AND BECAUSE OF A NON EXISTENT ENERGY POLICY OF PAKISTANI STATE SINCE 1977.
  4. PAKISTAN IS BEING SEEN AS A STATE THAT EXPORTS TERRORISM , HAS AN UNSAFE NUCLEAR ARSENAL AND NEEDS TO BE DISMANTLED.
  5. PAKISTANS ARMY IS AT RISK OF FRAGMENTATION BECAUSE OF INDECISION AT HIGHEST LEVEL AND BECAUSE PAKISTANS LEADERS LACK THE RESOLUTION TO DESTROY EXTREMSM.

FEW EXAMPLES OF FAVOURITISM


  • It started from pre partition.In one of round table conferences a leading politician from Punjab demanded that his son be inducted in the prestigious ICS (Indian Civil Services) without examination.
  • British understood that Muslim elite were worse than greedy stray dogs ,thus between 1911 to 1940s some 58 out of 87 Muslims who joined ICS were political nominees sans exams or political nominee best failures.
  • In 1940s British inducted Indian political appointees in foreign and civil service and other ministries.These included Sultan Khan inducted as he was son in law of a princely state ruler and Ghayur Khan inducted in Ministry of Defence as he was brother of Muslim League politician Nishtar.The list is long.
  • F.R Khan a leading structural engineer applied for a small job in KDA and was rejected as he was Bengali.He went to US and became a top director of a top 100 US company, probably Bethelem Steel.
  • 90 % of nominees of army quota to prestigious services like DMG, Foreign service or Police are generals sons or son in laws or relatives.
  • Brigadier Nisar who saved Pakistan at Gadgor in 1965 retired as a brigadier while many with no war record became three star and chiefs.
  • Political and military appointments were 90 % on parochial , ethnic and personal basis and the result was total diasaster.
  • As per Pakistan Armys top historian Major General Fazal Muqeem more than 40 generals left the army between 1950 and 1966 as promotions were made on favouritism and disregard of merit.
  • Poor people were punished and committed for bank loan defaults of as low as 100 USD but those who took bank loans of billions and just ate them between 1958 and to date are Pakistans top civil and military elite.


ACTUAL FACTS OF HISTORY

A SOLDIER OF MY REGIMENT ABSENTED WITHOUT LEAVE , WENT TO LIBYA FOR ALMOST OVER 1O YEARS OR SO , CAME BACK AND REJOINED DUTY , LEFT OFF WITH JUST 28 DAYS IN REGIMENT QUARTER GUARD AND BECAME THE COMMANDING OFFICERS DRIVER JUST BECAUSE OF HIS ETHNICITY AND SECT.Another JCO (like warrant officer or petty officer) belonging to another ethnicity was placed on adverse report for being absent from duty for a day as the concerned officers wanted to specifically gun him down career wise) 

AN ELECTED PRIME MINISTER IS HANGED FOR A FABRICATED CASE WITHOUT SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE IN 1979. AT THE SAME TIME A STUDENT UNION LEADER AMINULLAH KHAKWANI IS MURDERED BECAUSE HE WAS DIE HARD PRO BHUTTO  IN FRONT OF VARIOUS WITNESSES. HIS MURDERER GOES SCOT FREE AND GETS HIGH POSITIONS DURING MARTIAL LAW REGIME. HIS MURDERS WITNESSES IN FC COLLEGE ARE HARASSED BY MARTIAL LAW AUTHORITIES AND CASE HUSHED UP.

MY DEAR FRIEND MAJOR MOHSIN KAIM KHANI SON OF COLONEL YASIN FROM PAVO CAVALRY NARRATED THE FOLLOWING INCIDENT--HE STATED THAT BRIGADIER KHURSHID AN OUTSTADING OFFICER WAS SHOCKED THAT DURING THE PNA MOVEMENT OF 1977 OVER 200 DEMONSTRATORS KILLED BY LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES IN SINDH DID NOT MOVE THE ARMY BUT WHEN A PUNY 3 OR 5 DEMONSTRATORS WERE KILLED IN LAHORE TWO ARMY BRIGADIERS ASKED FOR RETIREMENT AND THE GENERALS SUDDENLY BECAME VERY UNHAPPY WITH ZA BHUTTO ! 

PAKISTANS SUPREME COURT FINDS REMOVAL OF A SINDHI PRIME MINISTER OK BUT FINDS REMOVAL OF A PUNJABI PRIME MINISTER INCORRECT IN NASEEM HASSAN SHAH CASE.

WHEN PAKISTAN WAS UNITED PAKISTANS WEST WING LEGISLATORS WANTED DIVISION OF FUNDS NOT TO BE BASED ON POPULATION AS BENGALIS FROM EAST PAKISTAN WERE PAKISTANS 56 % MAJORITY . BUT WHEN PAKISTAN WAS CONFINED TO WEST PAKISTAN AFTER 1971 PAKISTANS WEST WING LEGISLATORS WANTED DIVISION OF FUNDS ON POPULATION BASIS !

IN 1950S A LAHORE NEWSPAPER NAWAI WAQT ADVOCATED PROVINCIAL AUTONOMY BASED ON SOMETHING LIKE SHEIKH MUJEEBS SIX POINTS IF BENGALIS WERE GIVEN REPRESENTATION IN PAKISTANS PARLIAMENT ACCORDING TO THEIR ACTUAL POPULATION. HOWEVER THE SAME WEST PAKISTANI ESTABLISHMENT LATER DISMISSED MUJEEBS SIX POINTS AS TREASON !

IN EARLY 1990S PAKISTANS  NATIONAL SWIMMING COACH DID NOT KNOW HOW TO SWIM ACCORDING TO MY DEAR FRIEND AND PAKISTANS SWIMMING CHAMPION NABEEL ISHTIAQ

DEFENCE SOCIETY CLUBS WANT OFFICERS CLEARANCE FROM AG BRANCH WHEN AN OFFICER APPLIES FOR MEMBER SHIP BUT MANY OFFICERS DISMISSED FROM SERVICE DUE TO FAULT DUE TO GRAVE CRIMES GET COMPLIMENTARY MEMBERSHIP OF DEFENCE CLUBS

APPOINTMENTS IN LAND ACQUISITION BRANCHES OF VARIOUS LUCRATIVE HOUSING SOCIETIES DONE BASED ON LIKES OF TOP APPOINTMENT HOLDERS RELATIVES

MINISTERS SELECTED BECAUSE THEY BELONG TO THE TRIANGLE LAHORE PINDI FAISALABAD

MOST NOMINATED FEMALE MEMBERS   OF PAKISTANS NATIONAL AND PUNJAB ASSEMBLY FROM LAHORE

PUNJABS OVERWHELMING FUNDS SPENT ON LAHORE CITY ALONE

NLC THE ONLY CONTRACTOR BLACKLISTED FOR COLLAPSE OF A MAJOR BRIDGE IN PAKISTANS HISTORY GETS MORE THAN ONE  PLUS 8 BILLION RUPEES PROJECT WITHOUT BIDDING AT 35 % HIGHER THAN CONSULTANT RATES.IT SUB CONTRACTS THE SAME AT 20 % LOWER RATES TO VARIOUS CIVILIANS WITHOUT BIDDING !

LAHORE ISLAMABAD MOTORWAY AWARDED BEFORE LAST DATE OF BID AS PUBLISHED IN FINANCIAL TIMES LONDON SUPPLEMENT BY GOVERNMENT OF PAKISTAN IN 1991



EXAMPLE RELEVANT TO MR TALPURS POST BELOW

Pakistan has always LOST  the media war because Pakistani society is entirely based on self interest and worst kinds of parochialism , sectarianism and favouritism.

MINISTER ALPHA-- Thinking in his heart :-- I am minister because I am a Kashmiri Dar or a relative of Nawaz Sharif

GENERAL ALPHA:-- Thinking in his heart -  I was selected for the highest position because I was from Lahore or Pindi and because the kadoo ( a vegetable) thought that I had no balls .

EDITOR OF A LEADING KARACHI PAPER-- 

Thinking in his heart --- I was selected because I belonged to XXXX Sect and because I was from this part of UP or Bihar 

SUBEDAR JAHAN KHAN--- 

Thinking in his heart - so what if my commanding officer is unhappy , the General Officer Commanding  the division is my garain so no issue !  Based on narration of my friend colonel Ashraf who confronted this character in his artillery regiment 46 Field in Okara Cantonment in 1990-91 or so

THUS YOU FIND MOST MINISTERS OF NAWAZ SHARIF FROM LAHORE AND GUJRANWALA AND SIALKOT AND PINDI

THUS YOU FIND PEOPLE FROM CHAKWAL PINDI AND JHELUM DOMINATING THE ARMY-but in these also the crafty and the sycophants dominate

THE MEDIA HAS OTHER SELECT  MAFIAS MOSTLY PUNJABIS FROM CENTRAL PUNJAB OR SHIAS OR A VERY MOHAJIR BIHAR OR SOME OTHER GROUP

All appointments are made based on ethnicity , sect , bloodrelation etc.

THATS WHY PAKISTAN IS LOSING THE MEDIA WAR . 

ISPR IS A TOTAL FAILURE

THE ISSUE IS NOT THAT AN EVENT HAPPENED OR NOT ?

THE ISSUE IS THAT BEACUSE OF LACK OF MERIT EVERYTHING LOSES ITS VALUE.

PAKISTAN HAS A MILITARY INTELLIGENCE THAT CANNOT FIND THE RIGHT PICTURE AND THATS WHY ITS LEADERS ARE BLIND ? BEACUSE ALTHOUGH THE STATE PROVIDES FUNDS AND RESOURCES , THE HANDLERS ARE GUIDED BY PAROCHIALISM , ETHNICITY , LIKES AND FAVOURITISM.

THE SAME IS TRUE FOR POLITICIANS , MEDIA , ALL ASPECTS OF LIFE.

ALL IS SHARED BETWEEN TEN THOUSAND OR SO  FAMILIES OF CROOKS CALLING SHOTS IN ALL SPHERES OF LIFE.

A BALOCH LEGISLATOR IS ELECTED WITH MASSIVE   RIGGING BECAUSE HIS WIFE IS A PASHTUN AND BEST FRIEND OF A KEY DECISION MAKERS WIFE !

PAKISTANS NATIONAL SWIMMING COACH IS SELECTED DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE DOES NOT KNOW SWIMMING.

90 % OF FEMALE PARLIAMENTARIANS NOMINATED FOR INDIRECT SEATS ARE SELECTED BECAUSE THEY BELONG TO LAHORE !  ITS REAL BULL SHIT GOING ON ?

PAKISTANI STATE TV AND MEDIA IS A TOTAL FAILURE

PAKISTANI PRIVATE MEDIA WITH A PROFIT MEDIA IS A TOTAL FAILURE.

PAKISTAN HAS NO NATIONAL STRATEGY BECAUSE THE ONLY NARROW TACTICAL AGENDA OF ITS POLITICIANS , GENERALS AND TOP CIVIL SERVANTS IS TO MAKE MONEY.

ITS A SAD STORY OF GARAIN BAAZI , PARTY BAAZI , FAVOURITISM

AN UNJUST STATE WHERE MINISTERS ARE MADE BECAUSE THEY ARE FROM THIS OR THAT PLACE OR ARMY CHIEF SELECTED BECAUSE HE IS SPINELESS AND NAUKRI BAAZ IS DOOMED.

THATS WHY PAKISTAN IS DOOMED.

AGHA H AMIN




POSTING MAY NOT NECESSARILY BE ENDORSEMENT BUT THE ASSERTIONS MADE IN THE POST BELOW ARE QUITE CLOSE TO REALITY.

THE THIRD WORLD STATE SPECIALLY IS A CONSPIRACY AGAINST ANY MAN OF SUBSTANCE.

IN THE  PROCESS EXCESSES ARE COMMITTEED AND 90 % LOW LEVEL PAWNS OR INNCOCENTS ARE KILLED.

AGHA H AMIN

Daily Times loses courage to publish Mir Mohammad Ali Talpurs articles finally ! Personally I found Daily Times always spineless. They refused to publish my articles on army etc . Finally Daily Times lost courage to publish M. M Talpurs articles from the last sunday , 03 November 2013. Poor newspaper with circulation of 2,000 has to survive . What a pity . Owner was gunned down despite being cautious in not publishing anti army articles.




"Daily Times Exercising caution" with Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur







Respected Friends,
                               This is a true life movie of Nasir Dagarzai who wasn't lucky the second time around. He was killed by frontier Corps in Balochistan on July 17th 2011 after being abducted the second time.
   Do kindly see it it though it is quite difficult to watch but this and a lot more happens to the abducted Baloch and it is these people that the relatives have undertaken the 750 kilometre walk from Quetta to Karachi under aegis of Voice of Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP)
    Nasir Dagarzahi, along with three other friends, was first abducted during a midnight raid at his house on January 24, 2010 from Tasp area of Panjgur. On 27 January Abid Rasool Bux Baloch, a 17 year old Baloch student, and Nasir Dagarzai Baloch were shot and dumped in Gwargo area of Panjgour. Abid Rasool had died instantly but Nasir Dagarzahi survived miraculously despite being shot in his neck and legs. The other two friends of Mr. Dagarzahi, Abid Saleem Baloch and Mehrab Umer Baloch, were killed under custody and dumped in a deserted area in near Turbat on May 23, 2011.
Nursed back to health he was going with his brother Mohammad Gul Dagarzahi Baloch when Van has been reached at Sona Khan Police and FC check point both brothers were abducted by Pakistan security agencies in-front of several passengers and taken away on May 23, 2011.  The bullet riddled body of Nasir Dagarzahi was found from district Kharan on July 17th 2011.
  With Very Best Regards
  Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur
"I know that I am prejudiced on this matter, but I would be ashamed of myself if I were not."
Mark Twain


"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer
    "Organized religion is like organized crime, it preys on people's weaknesses, generates huge profits for its operators and is almost impossible to eradicate" Mike Hermann










07 July, 2010

Pakistan-The State with Dual Controls

Understanding Pakistan's Strategic Chaos
UNDERSTANDING WHAT REALLY HAPPENED AFTER 5TH JULY 1977
AGHA H AMIN
5TH JULY 2010

This article written with great conviction was sent to all major Pakistani newspapers ! But afraid of the army no one published it ! Even the so called liberal Salman Taseer who also played a policy of playing safe ! Yet this could not save that clever man from being gunned down !

There is no doubt that Pakistan will be destroyed ! It only a question of how many more years !

Also below this article is a strategic analysis carried out later but now its part two.

It was 4th July 1977, Lieutenant General Iqbal Khan told his headquarters staff that at last Mr Z.A. Bhutto and the opposition alliance PNA had reached an amicable peace settlement. My father, a newly promoted brigadier, was one of his staff.
On 5th July 1977 General Zia, the army chief, handpicked by PM Z.A. Bhutto (against the very advice of the Military Secretary's Branch) delivered the fatal blow; not only to democracy but to Pakistan's future. Martial Law was imposed on 5th July 1977.
While Ayub Khan, although a usurper, had separated the military from politics, Zia's system of things imposed the military over politics. That system unfortunately carries on until today.
Zia's worst action was turning Pakistan into a US-Saudi military base against the USSR.
This he did not because the USSR was a threat to Pakistan but because Zia's military dictatorship was under threat from Pakistan's masses and political forces.
The use of non state actors as state proxies was firmly adopted by Zia as a cheap tool of foreign policy and this policy was reversed by no one, including the so-called very secular Benazir or the not so liberal Nawaz Sharif.
Foreign policy - at least the India and Afghanistan policy - became an exclusive affair of Pakistan's military establishment. No civilian has reversed this policy to date.
The political fabric of the country was deeply and fatally infiltrated, and all politicians became tools of blackmail by the state security apparatus.
Benazir Bhutto, although a popular leader, was compromised in such a way that when she came into power in 1988 and 1993 she dared not interfere with the military establishment regarding Pakistan's India or Afghanistan policies.
A military relationship with the USA and Saudi Arabia was established which bypassed Pakistan's political organs as well as the US Congress or Senate and the Department of Defense. CIA and State Department bureaucrats established a direct hotline with Pakistan's military establishment. This relationship survived despite Clinton and remains to this day.
Sectarian and ethnic divisions were encouraged, thus the creation of Sipah I Sahaba, MQM, the baradari culture in Punjab thanks to the 1985 non party elections etc.
The judiciary was successfully coerced into submission and dissenting judges removed by blackmail and persecution. This has remained a fact despite the Iftikhar Chaudhry phenomena - which was a case of a clash of egos rather than a clash of principles - as the valiant judge took a stand when pushed against the wall over a matter of personal survival, having earlier supported the same dictator in distorting Pakistan's constitution.
Religious intolerance was fine tuned and Ahmadis and Shias targeted. A strict bar on promotion of Ahmadi officers beyond colonel level was imposed in the military which continued from 1977 to 1992.
Hadood laws were introduced and done in words of a direct participant IG Ch Sardar Ali so that Saudis could be pleased and milked into giving Pakistan financial aid.
The sad part is that most of Zia's actions were not reversed.
Benazir came into power in 1988 and 1993 under a secret agreement and abdicated control over a major part of Pakistan's foreign and security policy to the Pakistani military establishment. In 2008 also the PPP was allowed into power by NRO under a shady secret deal and, to date, the PPP has no control over Pakistan's foreign or security policy despite being the de jure ruling party of Pakistan.
Nawaz Sharif came near ZAB in being a strong political leader when he sacked a naval and a military chief, but was chastised with years in exile and a compromised return to Pakistan under a secret protocol. The new Nawaz Sharif is a weaker Nawaz Sharif represented by a more pragmatic Shahbaz Sharif in power, whose first rule of business is to ask the military before doing anything.
Thus while Zia's mortal remains were burnt over the Hindu Shamshan Ghat over Basti Lal Kamal on that historic 17th August 1988, his system remains in force with a Pakistan ruled by politicians in name and a foreign and security policy firmly in the hands of Pakistan's military establishment. This ideally suits the USA, the Saudis and Pakistan's military establishment.
The gist of the problem is that Pakistan's civilian political leadership has no clue or control over what Pakistan is doing in Afghanistan, Kashmir, Baluchistan, or the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). This explains why the USA has secret agreements with Pakistan's military establishment. It's safe, it's practical and it's a one window operation!
The weak link in this whole chain is the misuse of Islam by Pakistan's civil and military elite since 1947. The bluff was called in 2001 and Pakistan is now in the grip of a civil war (since 2003) with no end in sight. A war which has the potential of destroying Pakistan unless good captains can deal successfully with the immensely adverse wind and waves.
The fatal question is can such an anachronistic arrangement last despite being supported by so called demi-gods like the USA and Saudi Arabia? The answer is no, as proven by Pakistan's ongoing civil war in the killing fields of Afghanistan, FATA,the GHQ attack etc !

Pakistans generals and their apologists can give a million excuses but the hard fact is that Pakistan Army is a master in destroying Pakistan as they brilliantly did under Ayub in East Pakistan and under Musharraf in Balochistan !



5 July 2010



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Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." --
Albert Einstein !!!










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PART TWO:--

Pakistans Strategic Mess is USAs Strategic Mess too

1978 Revolution ,Pakistan and Strategic Anarchy--Pakistans uncertain future

Agha H Amin


The April 1978 Saur Revolution was a historic event in modern history.



While the revolution merits a whole book or many volumes , we will just very briefly discuss its salient parts.

Afghanistan status as a buffer state was irrevocably transformed into a state where super powers fought proxy wars.Thus some 98 years of Afghan history of being a buffer state was changed.

 
Power shifted in Afghanistan from a Durrani-Persianised feudal elite into a more broad based multi ethnic state.The new leftist regime had Tajiks ,Hazaras and Uzbeks previously regarded as second and third rate citizens !

Although the coups major leaders were Pashtuns from Paktia and Khost like the indomitable Aslam Watanjar the PDPA was essentially a mix of Persian speaking urbanised intellectuals organised as Parchamis and a more radiacal Pashtun section from Paghman Khost and Paktia known as Parchamis.The Khalqis were rash , bold , impetuous and radiacal , while the Parchamis were more moderate.

The Saur revolution proved a gold mine for Pakistans illegitimate military junta of Zia which till April 1978 was politically an illegitimate bastard child regime.This regime used the Afghan revolution as a pretext to get dollars from USA and Saudi Arabia.Power shifted in Pakistan from a more progressive PPP regime to a more Punjabised regime dominated by refugees from Jullundhur and Batala etc .



Since this new clique was fatherless and illegitimate it used religion as well as caste as a political tool.Thus it outlawed political parties and Pakistani politics became more ethnic andsub ethnic with Punjab divided into castes as political forces and Sindh divided into urban and rural ! The division of Sindh into urban and rural was a planned reaction by the Pakistani illegal military regime as a counter to the MRD Movement of 1983 which had its roots in rural Sindh !

Pashtuns were used as cannon fodder by the military junta as proxies in Afghan war and thus the seeds of religious extremism were planted in Pakistan .

Foreign policy and all security and defence matters in Pakistan became the preserve of Pakistani military which continues till to date !


All civilian governments which came into power after 1988 elections in Pakistan were remote controlled by the Pakistani military and when Nawaz Sharif tried to assert civilian control in 1997-99 he was removed by a military coup.

It would not be wrong to call Pakistan an army with a country and not a country with an army since 5th July 1977, with a short stint of full civilian control by the second PML N Government from February 1997 to October 1999 !


There is no doubt that Pakistan is a state with dual controls since 5th July 1977 with a civilian co pilot who in reality is a flight steward and a hidden real piolt who controls major financial and security issues !

The imbalance in this situation are three new factors i.e (1) religious extremism which is now on a reverse boomerang course against the Pakistani elite (2) regional centrifugal forces in Balochistan (3) an increased foreign interest in Pakistan where foreign powers led by USA see Pakistan as an anachroninistic and adventurist state .


Five cardinal fact stand out in this scenario , (1) The USA severely lacks long term strategic insight and US policy is run on short term objectives which is well proven from how it behaved after USSR withdrew from Afghanistan and till 9/11 (2) Pakistan alone will not be able to restore strategic stability in Afghanistan or even Pakistan itself .Its military which controls major part of Pakistans financial and security policy is not intellectually capable of understanding the immense complexity of strategy andgeopolitics (3) The Pakistani state will not be able to control Islamic extremism (4) The multiplicity of state and non state actors can lead to severe strategic stability culminating in an India Pakistan nuclear stand off.


The Islamists are far more powerful than they seem ! The Pakistani military is not as clever as it thinks it is ! The Americans are strategically pathetic ! Thus the issue will be decided by random and unforeseeable forces !

Certainly what mean mortals who are in charge of affairs in this whole complex drama want may not happen ! Thus the relative less visible forces will take over !

The scene is thus set for strategic anarchy ! The real danger is that Pakistan cannot afford it but it is heading straight into a diasaster course because it has no able navigator at the highest level !



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THE FUTURE STRATEGIC OPTIONS 


Saif al-Adel-An Unorthodox and Unconventional Leader

By

Agha.H.Amin



Saif al-Adel is an experienced low intensity conflict man who has seen his apprenticeship in the Soviet Afghan War.
He had a stint with the US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

He is known to be a master of the unorthodox and appears to have read Sun Tzu as well as Sun Pin and Ho Chi Minh.His favourite method of attack are explosives. He left Egypt shortly after the assasination of Sadaat a man most despised by Egyptians in 1981 .

After 9/11 he fled to Iran also .And after eating iranian caviar and palao al qaeda and many other sunni extremist groups have discovered that the shias are not as bad as brought out in the much paid by Saudi Arabian propaganda.The way Iran as a state received many Al Qaeda and Afghan commanders after 9/11 has improved the Iranian perception,while prevalent propaganda mostly saudi sponsored and financed was deadly anti shia.similarly the way in which the pakistani state abandoned them for US dollars significantly diminished the respect for pakistani state in al qaeda eyes (although non state actors wholeheartedly supported and sheltered al qaeda after 9/11 in Pakistan).The post 9/11 Al Qaeda is thus more anti Pakistan and anti Saudi and both states are their logical targets.Any one of these go down (as is the aimed AQ strategy) and all US efforts and money wasted in GWOT can be straight multiplied by zero.
He is regarded as close to Iranians as he was in Iran for a long time after 9/11 enjoying official Iranian patronage , a good safe house with ample stocks of Iranian caviar  and tuna fish.this makes him more anti saudi and more any anti state.he may bring an ovopen change in al qaeda strategy and intensify the attacks on saudi installations as well as pakistani installations.a younger man who is more into technology and known to have some most unorthodox and unconventional ideas about the ongoing great low intensity war.he will give the corporation a new technical dmension. Demise of Bin Laden has actually given Al Qaeda a new life with a new leader who has no qualms or reservations about attacking Saudi Arabia as well as the Pakistani states.With both states now on the sharp path to decline and both viewed as most despicable and dubious by their own masses , Al Qaeda may now resurge as never before.
They have already redeployed in force in Nuristan,Laghman,Kunnar and Kapisa provinces.
So we are all set for grand strategic anarchy !
HA HA HA
All this was not inevitable but has many links with US faux pas and the most inefficient Saudi and Pakistani states both of which are deeply divided in the war against Al Qaeda.
I have had nothing to do with conventional religion all my life but I can say with conviction that both Pakistani and Saudi states are not just equipped or have the capability to fight Al Qaeda ! The question is not whether it will happen or not but only how many more years they will take in collapsing !
My fear is that Pakistan will not be able to turn around and the same is Saudi Arabias fate ! Pakistan is actually almost a suicide bombers factory with ten thousand potential suicide bombers being produced every day , just because of sheer disgust with exorbitant official corruption ,unemployment , inflation and hunger !
The key stone in any war against extremists has to be good governance in countries which are the major areas of operations.This is seriously missing in Saudi Arabia and Pakistan where some 2 % own 80 percent of the wealth and pay just 15 to 20 % of all taxes !

The issue why extremism is growing is not Islam but poverty and lack of equal opportunity !
The reason thus is simply mega corruption and total moral breakdown in both states ! This includes the Pakistani and Saudi armies , intelligence , politicians ,police,para military forces as well as the civil services.





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DRONES GOOD FOR WILD PIGS (BOARS) AS WELL AS ALL KINDS OF MAD DOGS

November 17, 2013, 5:59 am
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'DEHOGAFLIER' DRONE BEING USED TO HUNT, KILL FERAL PIGS

Nov. 7, 2013 11:00pm 

Related:

Several states across the country have a problem with a growing population of free-running, feral pigs, but none know the issue so well as Texas.

The state has the largest population of the wild hogs in the country, with some towns experiencing issues like torn up yards and even having fears about children's safety.

But farmers bothered by the hogs in the state might consider a bit of military technology to tackle their 1.5 million-plus hog problem.

WFAA-TV's Jim Douglas went to Louisiana to check out a hog-hunting drone being commissioned by farmers there.

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The Dehogaflier is operated by a two-man hog-hunting team in Louisiana. They hope to someday put their technology to use in other states experiencing problems with feral pig populations. (Image source: Louisiana Hog Hunters/Facebook)

The "Dehogaflier," as it's called by its creators, is not armed like some military drones (although its creators do contract with the Defense Department on other projects), but more simply is equipped with a thermal camera that is used to direct a shotgun-wielding hunter to his target.

The Dehogaflier has slowly made headlines within the last few years. Earlier this year, Modern Farmer did a write-up on the technology and its creators, engineers Cy Brown and James Palmer:

Every weekend, Brown and Palmer send their drone buzzing around a piece of farm property. When they spot a pig on the live video feed, Palmer — a crack shot — uses a rifle with a night vision scope to kill it clean. It's sleek, fast, reliable – and not what you'd call sporting.

But killing pigs is no sport, if you ask Brown. It's extermination, plain and simple. "There's no concept of fair chase when it comes to pigs, no sense of conservation," he said.

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"If you've got roaches in your house, you don't leave the eggs behind because they're poor innocent eggs," said Brown. "You kill them all."

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The remotely operated drone is equipped with a thermal camera to spot the hogs even in tall vegetation. (Image source: Louisiana Hog Hunters/Facebook)

WFAA reported that the Dehogaflier duo is paid by farmers in Louisiana to kill the crop-eating pigs. Brown helped pay for college with income from hog hunting.

This video shows hog-hunting highlights with the Dehogaflier from 2012:

Brown and Palmer work for Raven Research Development by day, where they put their electrical engineering and inventing skills to further use.

Palmer told the WFAA they want to be at the forefront of commercial drone use when the Federal Aviation Administration changes its regulations in the coming years.

Watch the WFAA's report about the potential for using the drone to track down feral pigs:

Wed Nov 06 20:55:50 PST 2013

USING DRONES TO BATTLE FERAL HOGS

Texas has the most feral hogs in the nation, a number that's only growing. But a new drone –– the same technology used by the U.S. military –– could help hunters wipe out the pests. News 8's Jim Douglas reports.view full article

The FAA was slated grant drones widespread access by September 2015, but just this week announced it would need to push back that schedule.

The agency has missed several deadlines for steps necessary to make that happen.

Among the concerns are whether remotely controlled drones will be able to detect and avoid other aircraft as well as do planes with pilots on board. There are also security concerns, including whether drones' navigation controls can be hacked or disrupted.

"Government and industry face significant challenges as unmanned aircraft move into the aviation mainstream," Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said in a statement.

The roadmap has one big gap: privacy, one of the most widespread concerns associated with drones. It addresses only the use of drones at six initial test sites, which have not yet been selected. Test site operators must have a publicly available privacy plan and abide by state and federal privacy laws. The plan must be reviewed annually with opportunity for public comment.

Beyond that, the agency said, privacy isn't within its purview. "The FAA's mission does not extend to regulating privacy, but we have taken steps to address privacy as it relates to the six … test sites," the agency said in response to questions from The Associated Press.

"The FAA is also actively engaged in interagency efforts to develop privacy safeguards as (drones) are integrated into the national airspace," the statement said.

FAA officials have long contended that, as a safety agency steeped in technology, they have little expertise on addressing broad public privacy worries.

The FAA estimates that within five years of being granted widespread access, roughly 7,500 commercial drones, many of them smaller than a backpack, will be buzzing across U.S. skies.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Debate on Shia Sunni Conflict and Pindi Affair

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(SPN) Re: Lessons from Pindi episode

Masud Alam <masudalam@yahoo.com>
Nov 17 (3 days ago)
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A few things to remember about Pindi before we let our xynophobia get the better of us. The city is a traditional flashpoint during Ashura and has seen curfew-like situation last year as well. The mosque cum seminary from where the reported hate speech was broadcast, is associated with the worst kind of anti-shia violence since its construction in Zia's time. And it was past juma time when the procession reached the mosque, which delayed its khutba and namaz, to have a standoff with the procession.
Blaming it on Parachinaris is too convenient, and actually helps those who are spinning and spreading dreadful rumours to fuel the situation. I have heard from a shia friend that three shias were found with their heads chopped off, most likely by the sunni parachinaris. A sunni friend told me he's heard from someone well placed that shia parachinaris raided the said mosque and killed nearly 150 kids from the seminary. All lies. We need to be careful not to become a vehicle for rumours.
If there is a lesson to be learnt, it is how the state can teach the hate mongering cleric of this mosque a lesson all others of his ilk will remember for a long time.
 
Masud Alam
Islamabad, Pakistan

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Masud sb! How strangely u have tried to justify the burning of market, mosque and massarce of innocents!!! There are hundred of thousands of anti-shia mosques, namazis and mullahs. Is it right to burn them all??? Our reaction should be of condemnation of violence, hatred and secterianism, instead of justifying it.... 


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A few things to remember about Pindi before we let our xynophobia get the better of us. The city is a traditional flashpoint during Ashura and has seen curfew-like situation last year as well. The mosque cum seminary from where the reported hate speech was broadcast, is associated with the worst kind of anti-shia violence since its construction in Zia's time. And it was past juma time when the procession reached the mosque, which delayed its khutba and namaz, to have a standoff with the procession.
Blaming it on Parachinaris is too convenient, and actually helps those who are spinning and spreading dreadful rumours to fuel the situation. I have heard from a shia friend that three shias were found with their heads chopped off, most likely by the sunni parachinaris. A sunni friend told me he's heard from someone well placed that shia parachinaris raided the said mosque and killed nearly 150 kids from the seminary. All lies. We need to be careful not to become a vehicle for rumours.
If there is a lesson to be learnt, it is how the state can teach the hate mongering cleric of this mosque a lesson all others of his ilk will remember for a long time.
 
Masud Alam
Islamabad, Pakistan

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Syed Masud ul Hassan
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Rawalpindi has been a peaceful city with no history of sectarian trouble.
The mosque was not built during Zia's time. It was there in forties also. 

Masud


On Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:02 AM, "imran.shafique@hotmail.com" <imran.shafique@hotmail.com> wrote:
 
Masud sb! How strangely u have tried to justify the burning of market, mosque and massarce of innocents!!! There are hundred of thousands of anti-shia mosques, namazis and mullahs. Is it right to burn them all??? Our reaction should be of condemnation of violence, hatred and secterianism, instead of justifying it.... 


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A few things to remember about Pindi before we let our xynophobia get the better of us. The city is a traditional flashpoint during Ashura and has seen curfew-like situation last year as well. The mosque cum seminary from where the reported hate speech was broadcast, is associated with the worst kind of anti-shia violence since its construction in Zia's time. And it was past juma time when the procession reached the mosque, which delayed its khutba and namaz, to have a standoff with the procession.
Blaming it on Parachinaris is too convenient, and actually helps those who are spinning and spreading dreadful rumours to fuel the situation. I have heard from a shia friend that three shias were found with their heads chopped off, most likely by the sunni parachinaris. A sunni friend told me he's heard from someone well placed that shia parachinaris raided the said mosque and killed nearly 150 kids from the seminary. All lies. We need to be careful not to become a vehicle for rumours.
If there is a lesson to be learnt, it is how the state can teach the hate mongering cleric of this mosque a lesson all others of his ilk will remember for a long time.
 
Masud Alam
Islamabad, Pakistan


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Completely agree. 

The government will however have to move to take action on 3 front-administration, provocateurs and killers.

Also this tragedy will have very far reaching impact, v negative ofocourse, unless this tragedy is used to fix much that is terribly wrong,

Regards.

Nasim Zehra


On Sun, Nov 17, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Masud Alam <masudalam@yahoo.com> wrote:
 

A few things to remember about Pindi before we let our xynophobia get the better of us. The city is a traditional flashpoint during Ashura and has seen curfew-like situation last year as well. The mosque cum seminary from where the reported hate speech was broadcast, is associated with the worst kind of anti-shia violence since its construction in Zia's time. And it was past juma time when the procession reached the mosque, which delayed its khutba and namaz, to have a standoff with the procession.
Blaming it on Parachinaris is too convenient, and actually helps those who are spinning and spreading dreadful rumours to fuel the situation. I have heard from a shia friend that three shias were found with their heads chopped off, most likely by the sunni parachinaris. A sunni friend told me he's heard from someone well placed that shia parachinaris raided the said mosque and killed nearly 150 kids from the seminary. All lies. We need to be careful not to become a vehicle for rumours.
If there is a lesson to be learnt, it is how the state can teach the hate mongering cleric of this mosque a lesson all others of his ilk will remember for a long time.
 
Masud Alam
Islamabad, Pakistan




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