Preview of Looming Democracy - Two Months of PPP in the Limelight

While I understand your pain, perhaps this will enlighten you on the REAL ROOTS of our troubles.

Love and peace.

Imran

Brig Tariq Jilani
Director, ISPR
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Fax +9251 9271603

Subject: Telecon / Meeting with General [R] Pervez Musharaf

Dear Brig Jilani

You and the ISPR are well aware of my efforts to save and grow Pakistan vide seminars held for MNAs and politicians in 2006 and publicly available online at www.ahappyworld.info

Background
My efforts to stop smuggling of cell phones in Pakistan have yielded the country USD 1 bn vide CBRs SRO 391 in June 2001 supported by Mr Shaukat Aziz (who happens to be from the same IBA that taught me one thing “DISCIPLINE”), Dr Atta Ur Rehman, General [R] Khalid Basheer and the former Chairmen of CBR, Mr Riaz Malik and Mr Riaz Naqvi. I never asked the Government for even an acknowledgment of my efforts, while it is true that my focus on “governmental” affairs from 1999-2001 did cost me my job as my boss gave a damn to what the Government of Pakistan gained, he didn’t gain much during this time anyway, I survived and am Alhamdolillah, after 7 years back to the level I deserved as Regional Director for a European multinational covering 20 countries in GCC/MENA. All this time I silently continued my efforts to change the country’s policies to enhance foreign investments and law and order.

Past communication with the President (General Musharaf)
Back in June 2001 I wrote a letter to General Musharaf, then CE of Pakistan. To my surprise not only was my communication acknowledged I was invited by a Colonel Kamran Dy MS to CE to visit the “CE” house, now the President house, behind the Secretariat, where we had an in depth discussion. The core idea I proposed was to involve the Army in re establishing law and order in Pakistan besides many other ideas that are on record at the President House. Col Kamran informed me that this idea was discussed by the Core Commanders and in view of foreign pressure (remember this is pre 9/11) we couldn’t do that, moreover the Army’s role is limited to:

1. Give an “injection” to civil institutions
2. Exit once they are “fixed”

I disagreed with Col Kamran on this strategy and openly told him that not only is this incorrect, it will never happen, and when your core commanders DO realize this is wrong CHANGE the strategy. I WISH I was wrong then though time has proved me right.

Current Situation

Law and order
7 years down the road, corruption is rampant in Pakistan-the law and order system is NON EXISTENT, the Judges we have, never gave justice to the poor, the police is an exploited arm of the politicians and administration. Bottom line our PRESIDENT himself does NOT trust this system, hence his demolition of the judiciary, Benazir died due this gap, the PEOPLE OF PAKISTAN ARE FED UP WITH THIS LAWLESS STATE THAT YOU CALL “PAKISTAN” they are dying or moving out of the country, they face inflation beyond logic and have to fight to survive at all levels. YET I SALUTE PAKISTANIS living in Pakistan for their persistence.

Foreign relations/Media
From Tasleema Naseem, Brig Cheema and so many other jokers who played havoc with our image, not to mention the obvious: THE INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IS DEAD AGAINST GENERAL MUSHARAF for their reasons (watch Syriana and JFK to get a better idea strategic and tactical actions in the region and priorities) – the recent press conference Gen Musharaf had, was he not able to grasp the animosity and bitterness in the questions? Who was funding GEO? Or the others, one must be stupid with a capital “S” to say “PPP or Nawaz” – there’s a lot more, and deeper into it as described above. Moreover, the TERRORISM card has been way too overplayed by Gen Musharaf and foreign powers have NO FAITH IN HIS ABILITY TO TACKLE THAT ISSUE. In my view they are partly correct in this regard as I will explain in the “WHAT MUST BE DONE” section later

STATUS QUO: What is going to happen STEP BY STEP
1. IF General Musharaf survives assassination, he is 95% sure, by my book, to be deposed as President in a timeframe of within 180 days from now.
2. Interim government will hold polls in 90 days. Nawaz Sharif will be allowed to contest.
3. Elected “LOOTERS” from any party will take office, PPP or PML (N)
4. Phase “x” of corruption, lawlessness and malpractices will re-start in Pakistan, that was “controlled” to some extent in Musharaf era
5. The country will slide to oblivion
6. NO OTHER ARMY GENERAL WILL HAVE THE GUTS TO ENTER POLITICS ONCE MUSHARAF EXITS BY FORCE OR BY CHOICE.
7. The fate of the people of Pakistan (except “party” workers) will be sealed: SIMPLE, LEAVE PAKISTAN IF YOU WANT TO SURVIVE

WHAT MUST BE DONE IMMEDIATELY BY GENERAL MUSHARAF

Put law and order on track
1. Realize and accept that the Army has TWO ROLES:
a. External defense: that you already excel in
b. Internal defense: that is currently with the “police” and “judiciary”
i. As the QURAN says Al RASHI WAL MURTASHI FI NARE JAHANAM i.e. Bribe giver and taker goes to HELL. YOU CANNOT CHANGE OR REFORM THEM (your judges and policemen). PERIOD. You triple their salaries they will STILL be corrupt and abuse powers.
ii. We need a SHORT TERM ALTERNATE SYSTEM during which time we refresh the force and judiciary
iii. This task can ONLY be done by either enforcing APC (Army Penal Code) via serving or RETIRED army personnel
iv. The benefits are obvious, the ARMY is the ONLY institution in the country which follows its CHAIN OF COMMAND DITTO, and there is LEAST corruption in the army compared to the rest (excluding supplies and all, that too at senior levels)
v. Look at the retired sepoys from the Army, they work as private sector SECURITY GUARDS for Rs 3200 per month WITHOUT CORRUPTION, their tummies are intact, they come to duty in ironed uniform ON TIME, they do NOT abuse authority, they FOLLOW their management.
vi. Reality is 80% of EX ARMY PERSONNEL ARE MIS FITS IN PAKISTAN, they don’t belong in this corrupt environment from the disciplined environment they came from. LET THEM ENFORCE LAW AND ORDER IN THE SHORT RUN LATER RECRUIT PEOPLE FROM CIVIL LIFE ON THE SAME PATTERN AS ARMY DOES
vii. Get army judges, QUICKLY modify APC to adjust to LAW NEEDS OF TODAY, REMEMBER our lawyers and judges are following antiquated systems and processes that the BRITISH used to RULE OVER SLAVES (Contract Act of 1872 and Companies Ordinance of 1935 renamed o 1984). Our intellectual think tanks can study models of excellence in Dubai and elsewhere and change laws to deliver SPEEDY JUSTICE
viii. Free the innocent inmates in jail cells, picked up for personal animosity or plainly a woman raped and held for Hudood! Raped further by policemen, poor serfs of landlords and mafia rotting away for no crime, even CHILDREN!
ix. DIVIDE ARMY INTO TWO PARTS, EXTERNAL AND INTERNAL, both report to COAS as of now.
x. General Musharaf: YOU CANNOT SHOW YOUR FACE IN THE OTHER WORLD IF YOU DENY YOUR PEOPLE WHO TRUSTED YOU FOR 9 YEARS NOT EVEN THE BASIC RIGHT OF LAW AND JUSTICE AS OUTLINED ABOVE

Put “Extremism” back on track

I do NOT blame the “WEST” Uncle “Bush” and Uncle “Brown/Blair” for their mistaken policies to handle terrorism, they DON’T UNDERSTAND ISLAM or how this WAR is working internally, YOU DO AT LEAST, why don’t you educate them that:
1. This is an IDEOLOGICAL war waged on the free world by Al Qaeda etc you CANNOT defeat it with cannons, for every 1 person you shoot, 10 more will be born, and INCREASINGLY from the educated class, not just the “Taliban”. CASE IN POINT, London bombing was done by INDIAN DOCTORS that UK cannot reconcile with until now (how come people born and bred and working in UK became “terrorists”?).
2. TO FIGHT THIS WAR, download and read my action plan on www.ahappyworld.info
3. Simply stated:
a. WE MUST IMMEDIATELY STOP THE FIGHT BY FORCE
b. We must get IMAM E KAABA and relevant religious icons to VISIT these areas and go live on air spreading REAL message of Islam of love and peace, General Musharaf doing it is not credible or enough we need role models these people believe in
c. Tell America and Europe straight “WAR ON TERROR IS A WAR ON IDEOLOGY OF MISUNDERSTOOD ISLAM, IT CANNOT BE FOUGHT OR WON BY FORCE AS OF RIGHT NOW” at they same time tell the Western media to START HIGHLIGHTING GOOD THINGS AND PRACTICES IN ISLAM that will soothe the pain on BOTH sides.
4. General Musharaf: You need to get HANDS ON to solve these problems, saying “GOVT IS DOING THIS AND THAT FOR A REASON” WITHOUT GOING INTO DEPTH AND SOLVING IT (like you told foreign journalists when they asked why they cant go to rural areas AFTER you INSTRUCTED them to “GO TO RURAL AREAS TO FIND WHAT PAKISTANIS THINK”, Sir! YOU MUST INVOLVE YOURSELF IN INTERNAL AFFAIRS BEYOND THE OBVIOUS.
5. Islam’s message is of peace and love, OPEN PAKISTAN’S BORDERS to EVERYONE, just charge a HEFTY VISA FEE
a. USD 1000 to visit Pakistan
b. USD 50000 to become a permanent resident of Pakistan
6. ACCEPT ISRAEL, all the Muslim TALK Pakistanis talk about is CRAP. Give visas to Jews and Christians. THAT IS THE WAY TO FIGHT INTERNAL TERRORISM tell your people loud and clear that Islam propagates the message of love, we are LUCKY to be born Muslims hence our SYMPATHIES with NON MUSLIMS who DON’T KNOW THE REAL MESSAGE and through our CONDUCT, LOVE and GOOD BEHAVIOUR alone can we influence them.

I hope to have an audience with the President on phone or in person to apprise him of the situation and the actions he must take immediately.

Pakistan Zindabad!

Regards


Imran Owais Kazmi
Chief Thinking Officer, Strategy2Action

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I wanted to end this board with a positive thought.

PAKIS ARE NOT A CURSED NATION.

{"As a nation and society we are hypocrites and opportunists. May be it does not sound pleasing to many of you but just give it a thought. At the start of the New Year let us at least promise to do some thing if not everything for the betterment of ourselves. Let us not let the world think that we are a cursed nation."}

Zafar Sahib,
I can appreciate your frustrations and even understand the hopelessness of the moment. Like you, I too was dejected by the untimely demise of BB. But, what I saw in the last few days following her murder made me even more depressed and angry. As someone said every night is followed by the morn and it's darkest just before daylight.

Please don't be sad forever and certainly don't throw in the towel. We need just a few motivated, honest, patriotic, and dedicated individuals from each community and each province who really love Pakistan. Excuse me for being a doubting Thomas, but I don't think that such people can be found in the likes of Mushy, Zardari, Sharif, the Chaudhrys, or Altaf Bhai. Like BB, all of these people have too much baggage and the fish n their bags, that they brought to feed us, is beginning to rot and smell. We need to dispense with the traditional, useless alliances of party, province, sect, language, and religion. We need to discard these useless pirs, politicians, feudal lords, mullahs, and army generals.

The students and educated youth of Pakistan need to take matters into their own hands. They need to forcefully tell their elders and their so-called movers and shakers to grow up and get out of the way. The youth have the most to lose from the pending doom. The fratricidal leaders and their childish games that even Machiavelli would scoff at have no meaning in this modern world. They cannot keep destroying this country every 10 years or so without serious consequences.

The young people of Pakistan have to resolve that they will make their country work. Not because of the less than Azam Quaid or the rascals posing as "Shaheed," or the bearded 7th century transplants calling themselves Maulana and Alim, and certainly not the "Ghazis" whose only victory has been routing Moola Fadloola in Swat. The youth of Pakistan needs to retire the old school and take over the country.

The young Pakistanis need to take an oath against using ethnic, religious, provincial, sectarian, linguistic, class, or racial excuses to tear each other apart. They need to restore or build our institutions of education, government, healthcare, and legitimate defense. In short, Pakistan needs an educated population that believes in genuine democracy with secularism, freedom, tolerance, and universal prosperity as its cornerstones.

It's not easy to accomplish, but it's not impossible. It was much harder to obtain Pakistan - it should be much easier to maintain and enhance it. Good Luck.

Salim Ahmed Chauhan

#95, PM Sahib,
All's well that ends well. :) Thank you for connecting the dots. Madani sahib is a genius (kinda like the legendary Sehgal - no rehearsal necessary, thank you.) That is why I admire this bastion of truth - he gives it to us fresh from his mind to our ears - very little Madison Ave. with this peddler of facts. :)

tvarad #97 {"PM Bhai, ... Unlike in Pakistan, the Indian army has never interfered in it's politics and, except for a few of the smaller states, the ones that are politically influential like UP, Bihar, Maharashtra etc. are not at each other's throat.

And I would hazard a guess that the politico-religious slaughter in Pakistan last year alone would be more than those killed in all the riots that you mentioned above. "}

TV Bhai,
I agree with you about the Indian Army's restraint and the point about Indian provinces behaving as civilized entities. I disagree about your hazardous guess about the numbers killed in Pakistan vs. Gujarat 2002. You see, we Pakis are like annoying magpies, constantly picking at violence every other day. Meanwhile, thanks to the big guns of people like Modi and Advani, Injuns manage to score numerous centuries when it comes to killing minorities - '02 (Gujarat), '84 (Delhi), '60s (Ahmedabad, Jabalpur), '47 (East Punjab, Delhi, Calcutta, Bihar) were very big scores. :(

Please join the struggle for liberating Pakistan from Military and Feudal Lords by signing up the following site. This is about time when Pakistani youth should take control of the country before they loose this precious land into the hands of tyrants.

http://www.moveforjustice.org/

PM:

"....Surely, Indians with their own history of such $hit (Oh wait, you do agree that thousands were killed in riots in '83, '91, '92 and '02, don't you?) even when in a democratic set-up should be wary of such simplistic explanations, should they not?"

PM bhai,
Even the most cynical India-hater would not state that India's political problems are in the same league as Pakistan's. And your analogy is wrong. Unlike in Pakistan, the Indian army has never interfered in it's politics and, except for a few of the smaller states, the ones that are politically influential like UP, Bihar, Maharashtra etc. are not at each other's throat.

And I would hazard a guess that the politico-religious slaughter in Pakistan last year alone would be more than those killed in all the riots that you mentioned above.

tvarad:

re. "So can you give me YOUR explanation as to why Pakistan is in this s**thole?"

My explanation, were I to attempt one, would be many-faceted and run into several pages, rather than the half-assed attempt to lay all blame at the door of Dictatorship. Surely, Indians with their own history of such $hit (Oh wait, you do agree that thousands were killed in riots in '83, '91, '92 and '02, don't you?) even when in a democratic set-up should be wary of such simplistic explanations, should they not?

haan bhai Salim, I connected the dots (as well as inserted and killed a few when needed) :-) The problem was with the connection, I feel. saaTh saal peheley ki baateiN ko kaal ke waaquei se compare karana kuchH ajeeb nahiN hai? A lot of water has passed under the pull since.

P.S. Can you forgive me for thinking, earlier that he was referring to '71 when he mentioned the rumpage? :-)

PM #92 {"when liquit khan was killed hindustani muslims did not went on rumpage. while feudals sindis just went on burning , like mad men and that was for saddist fun. really they wanted to blame mqm but there was no smoking gun. central leadership of mqm was afraid to stop violence due to possible pouring gas on fire and giving reason for sindhis to make riot"}

PM bhai,
Obviously you are not that big a fan of ahmed madani. :) His style connects various events, timeframes and even topics and he is very frugal with dots - unlike his less intelligent understudy, Hamidumdum Sahib. :)

My point is that ahmed madani is talking about THESE riots in December 2007 after mentioning the fact that Mojos did not riot in 1951. You just have to follow the master's express train as he dispenses accurate opinions. :) Please pay attention to the full stop between "rumpage" and "while" in the 2nd line that I have copied above.

PM

"Oh puhleeze!! Not the freakin Lack-of-Democracy-Leads-to-this-$hit argument that we've heard from TAhmed, Tariq Ali and others here. That's all too convenient a connection. But not an established one."

So can you give me YOUR explanation as to why Pakistan is in this s**thole? Is it because it's citizens are just not listening to army orders to march in lock-step while it takes care of such important things as creating strategic depth, being allies in the war on terror, bleeding India through a thousand cuts etc???

Salim bhai, with all due respect, though I also admire madanisahib's often unique perspective, I think his bringing up events, and reactions to those events, of 1951 is a little odd. We all know how much a people can change in a generation. More so in two.

--which is not, of course, to say that I think that the "hinudstani Muslims" are culpubale here; just pointing out false rationales in their defense.

PM,
I just read ahmedmadani's post on the Bina Shah article where he exposes the rumor about MQM doing any burning or looting. Please read - I am a great fan of ahmedmadani who writes things as he sees them. He is my weathervane for Pakistani opinion. :)

{"#9 Posted by ahmedmadani on December 30, 2007 2:14:37 pm

romair you have described correctly social situation . country has become stagnant pool of feudals. one person can not clean this mess,they go to other clean pond, usa , west, middle east etc. every body who can leaves, these are good ambitious people , cream of pakistan. ...before g we were lucky as many hindustani ambitious muslims left for freign country, pakistan. that kept feudal backward minded peoples country alive by addition of hindustony muslims which brought up social iq. then they started leaving and more calamity started even more backward like jungli tribals of afghanis poured and changed b stan and nwfp. now these jungli tribals influence everthing. it is like weed invading normal crops...when liquit khan was killed hindustani muslims did not went on rumpage. while feudals sindis just went on burning , like mad men and that was for saddist fun. really they wanted to blame mqm but there was no smoking gun. central leadership of mqm was afraid to stop violence due to possible pouring gas on fire and giving reason for sindhis to make riot. anyway now we have god bilawal, praise bilawal."}

#88 PM {"And Salim, let's not start to gloat, man. Word on the street is that other cadre of other pol parties (won't take names here) took advantage of the law and order situation here, looting banks and businesses. It's not at all a an implausible scenario. "}

PM friend,
If that is indeed true and if that other group turns out to be the one you suspect and I am guessing, then instead of gloating I should be holding my head in shame. If that party in fact joined the party of orgy and looting, then it's time to invite Modi and his gang to teach us all a lesson. I am just hoping and praying that you are wrong about this - but somehow I suspect that where there is smoke, there is an arsonist. :(

#84 {"Zensufi Sahib,
Good observation. Exactly, my point"}

Zensufi Sahiba,
My apologies for calling you a Sahib - please consider that a generic salutation of respect. Actually, a very kind angel alerted me about my mistake. Why should we take it for granted that any intelligent point will be made only by Sahibs? :) Actually, most of my intellectual role models are female. :)

re #86 Posted by tvarad

"Did it every occur to you that Mushy and his fauji counterparts have sabotaged legitimate political activity so thoroughly that it is causing people to take the law into their own hands?"

Oh puhleeze!! Not the freakin Lack-of-Democracy-Leads-to-this-$hit argument that we've heard from TAhmed, Tariq Ali and others here. That's all too convenient a connection. But not an established one.

And Salim, let's not start to gloat, man. Word on the street is that other cadre of other pol parties (won't take names here) took advantage of the law and order situation here, looting banks and businesses. It's not at all a an implausible scenario.

Tvarad #86,
Good point. Let's go after both the PPP and the Army - if they could collaborate to lose East Pakistan, they can work together to rebuild the damage they have caused to West Pakistan.