A Fatal Act-Bad News for India Pakistan Relations a word of clarification , Amniat means security , like shah's SAVAK was also referred to as Amniat in Iran,Riasat means department , but Afghan ubtelligence has been upgradred to a ministry now and its chief amrullah saleh is a cabinet minister status.its still called amniat although it has same khad organisation having various riasats.

operatives are 90 % the same although some diehard khalqis and parchamis were removed by this present regime.some of these are my good friends.some old leading khalqis are in number two positions also like general hakeem nurzai.

in summing up afghan amniat is now under heavy US and NATO domination and short of funds while the old amniat headed by brilliant and great Najib Jan and General Farooq Yaqubi was far more effective.

A Fatal Act-Bad News for India Pakistan Relations Taliban murder seven civilian 'spies'

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Tuesday, 15 July 2008


Men dragged from their cars on a main highway and shot, police say

The Taliban have shot dead seven Afghan civilians for working with the government and other organisations, police said.

The men and women were dragged from cars, buses and taxis on the main road between Kabul and Kandahar in the southern province of Ghazni, said police.

The province is three hours drive from Kabul. The seven men were shot in the neighbouring province of Zabul.

A spokesman for the Taliban said militants had killed 15 "spies of the government" captured on the road in the alst three days.

The militants also shot dead two women on Sunday for running a prostitution racket for American troops in the area.

NATO strongly denied that its troops were paying for prostitutes in Ghazni.

President Hamid Karzai condemned the executions.

A Fatal Act-Bad News for India Pakistan Relations US abandons Afghan outpost where 9 troops died

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KABUL, Afghanistan - U.S. troops abandoned a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan where militants killed nine of their comrades this week, officials said Wednesday, in another sign of the struggle facing foreign and Afghan security forces strung out along the mountainous border.

Elsewhere in the frontier region, NATO launched artillery and helicopter strikes in Pakistan after coming under insurgent rocket fire, officials said.

The violence is another indication of the growing strength of the Taliban-led insurgency, especially in Afghanistan's east, where the outpost near the village of Wanat was breached by militants on Sunday. Nine Americans were killed in the deadliest incident for U.S. forces in three years.

On Tuesday, the insurgents drove out the handful of police left behind to defend government offices in the village, but 50 more officers were deployed Wednesday and soon regained control, senior provincial police official Ghoolam Farouq said.

The militants retreated into the mountains, and village elders negotiated a truce between the two sides, Farouq said.

Omar Sami, spokesman for the Nuristan provincial governor, said American and Afghan soldiers left the base Tuesday.

NATO confirmed that the post, which lies amid precipitous mountains close to the Pakistan border, had been vacated while insisting that international and Afghan troops will "retain a strong presence in that area with patrolling and other means."

In Washington, Pentagon leaders said Wednesday they are looking for ways to send additional troops to Afghanistan this year, signaling an acceleration in what had been plans to shift forces there no earlier than next year.

"I think that we are clearly working very hard to see if there are opportunities to send additional forces sooner rather than later," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told Pentagon reporters. But, he added that no final decisions or recommendations have been made.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who recently returned from meetings with commanders in Afghanistan, said they clearly want more troops.

"It's a tougher fight, it's a more complex fight, and they need more troops to have the long-term impact that we all want to have there," said Mullen, who also met last week with Pakistani leaders.

The Pentagon has been wrestling with how to provide what they say is a much needed military buildup in Afghanistan, while they still have 150,000 troops in Iraq.

The retreat from the eastern outpost will be considered a victory by the insurgents, and comes after a spate of security setbacks for President Hamid Karzai's government, including a spectacular Taliban jail break in the southern Kandahar province in June that freed about 900 inmates, and a spike in attacks alongside the border with Pakistan.

In response, Karzai has stepped up his rhetoric against neighboring Pakistan, whose lawless tribal areas adjacent to Afghanistan serve as sanctuaries for al-Qaida and other militants.

Karzai blames the attacks ? including suicide bombings and cross-border raids ? on Pakistan's intelligence service, alleging they are behind the insurgency in Afghanistan. Pakistan denies the charge saying Karzai is trying to create "an artificial crisis" to deflect attention from his own failings.

The accusations have pitched relations between these key U.S. allies to their lowest point since U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001.

In other violence reported Wednesday, the U.S.-led coalition said eight civilians were killed when it called in airstrikes after one of its patrols came under attack in the country's west. The issue of civilian casualties has caused friction between the Afghan government and U.S. and NATO troops, and has weakened the popularity of the Western-backed Karzai.

In a separate statement, the coalition said another airstrike killed several militants after they attacked a joint U.S. and Afghan patrol in Kandahar province's Shah Wali district on Tuesday.

The governor of Kandahar said eight militants were killed during an operation in the southern province's Khakrez district in the past two days. A regional Taliban commander, Mullah Mahmoud, who controlled about 250 fighters, was among those killed, a NATO statement said.

A Fatal Act-Bad News for India Pakistan Relations Re: # 60 correction not something unfair or unlawful as in strategy and war there is no morality . the pakistani establishments role in afghanistan is as vile or perhaps more vile and notorious than the soviets.just because a bastard child military regime led by a mean looking dubious general was in a crisis of legitimacy in 1977-88.and then the final beautiful end of that clown on the hindu shamshan ghat on bast lal kamal , well roasted in many hundred tons of aviation petrol.

A Fatal Act-Bad News for India Pakistan Relations pakistani peace keepers have also been penalised .but thats not a big deal.for info of those here who dont know an officer was dismissed for looting ACs from New Guinea in a peace keeping mission.just in 2001 or so a colonel was superseded from promotion for some minor lapse in buying some trophies prohibited by conservation laws.

HP , thanks for you detailed analysis.The essence of the matter is :---

1-The Khalqis and Parchamis are still a crucial element in afghan security forces like police army intelligence and will remain so for next ten to fifteen years.then they have their families and next generations brought up in that state of mind.The same is true for all afghan ministries specially foreign ministry,interior,intelligence,defence,planning etc.

2-In Afghanistan the divide is rural urban.All anti centre movements have come from rural areas like Habibullah Kalkani in 1929,like the tribal insurrections of 1950s,like the ISI & CIA hirelings on 1978 -1992 and the present talibs of 1994-to date.Now the danger is that the taliban factor is threatening to divide afghanistan on ethnic lines.

3-I agree that the leftists were also fallacious like all mean mortals.

4-Whoever has done the blast it will be a reason to make a case against pakistan and isi etc . This is not something unfair or awful.Lets not forget what the pakistani establishment , ironically for many years in league has been doing .yes i have a personal experience also.my dear girl friend was killed by a so called mujahid rocket fired in kabul .

A Fatal Act-Bad News for India Pakistan Relations frankly i have not blamed anyone for the blast . could be any one.

however below is a small piece i wrote a day before the blast .it just summarises my impressions and assessment.i had sent to chowk also the same day 6th June 2008:---

Pakistan Afghanistan Relationship-The Much Misunderstood Affair-

Agha Amin


Pakistan Afghanistan relationship is a story of a series of tragic misunderstandings and manipulations.In order to understand what really happened one has to understand the Afghan point of view as well as the manipulations and misunderstandings on both sides.

Afghanistan was an unnatural creation born out of the conflict of the Mughal and Saffavid Empires in the period 1707-1747 and consolidated in the period 1747-1830.Comprising the Mughal provinces of Kabul and Kandahar and Persian controlled Herat and Kandahar at various alternating times as well as Uzbek controlled territories north of Hindu Kush , independent Afghanistan in its present shape emerged as a buffer state in between British India and Czarist Central Asia and a hostile Persia in the west.

The British adopted the policy of having Afghanistan as a buffer state and assisted the cash starved country with subsidies thus ensuring that Czarist Russia did not annex Afghanistan like it annexed so many Central Asian kingdoms.Rhetoric apart Afghanistan owed its survival to British subsidies first by English East India Company and later by British Empire.In 1919 Afghanistan became really independent but its rulers discovered that they could not survive without external aid.Thus they courted Russia,Germany as well as Britain and managed to survive in a decent manner.Once partition took place the Afghan ruling family mistakenly assumed that they could resume territories first lost to Sikhs in the period 1817-1827 and later assumed by the British.Nevertheless 1953 was the crucial point when Sardar Daud the then strong man PM decided to become a Soviet ally.Around the same time Pakistan had become a US vassal by 1954.Both the countries acted out of spirit of self preservation.Thus the beginning of Soviet and US penetration respectively in Afghanistan and Pakistan.

The respective seeking of US and Soviet aid were the beginning of Afghan-Pakistan antagonism and rivalry.Both the country's acted as good watchdogs of their respective masters while using their disputes of Kashmir and Durand Line as cheap galvanising slogans to fool their respective masses .In the next 54 or 55 years from 1953-54 till 2008 both gained nothing .Ksshmir remains with India and Durand Line remains the de fact if not dejure Afghan Pakistan border.

This brief summing up is a result of countless discussions with Afghans of various ethnicity,class and political affiliations from 1975 to 2008 who I met in Moscow,USA,UK,Canada,Pakistan and Afghanistan.Long bearded so called Mujahids,hard drinking Khalqis,sophisticated and urbane Parchamis,rough Talibs,suave Afghan Americans and so on.

While Afghanistan did oppose Pakistan's entry into the United Nations although only for a few days and maintained a somewhat hostile posture towards Pakistan during the period 1947-63 and 1973-1976 the harm that Pakistan's ruling clique inflicted on Afghanistan during the period 1978-2001 far exceeds materially as well as morally what Afghanistan ever did to Pakistan.

This happened not because of any national reasons but because of narrow personal and class reasons.In 1978 Pakistan was ruled by an illegitimate military junta in grip of a serious crisis of legitimacy.The ruling dictator General Zia was no Muslim holy warrior but a petty government servant who had reached the highest corridors of military rank through expert application of the well known methods of flattery sycophancy and hypocrisy.Of humble background Zia was extremely ambitious and employed a religious cloak to hide his intense ambition and lust for power.The 1978 Afghan revolution or leftist coup presented an opportunity of a life time to Zia.

The USA at the same time having beebn forced to exit disgracefully from Vietnam found a good subsidiary vassal in the shape of the Pakistani military junta led by Zia.Right from 1978 the USA under Carter and Brezinski using Zia as a cheap policy tool started conspiring against the de facto leftist government of Afghanistan.The aim being to provoke th USSR and to destroy a progressive regime in Afghanistan.Ironically while the leftist regime in Kabul had an ideoloogy Zia had none except self interest.Propelled by ambition of the typically lower middle class origin man who has reached high positions Zia embarked on a dangerous sub contractor job with USA as a result of which Afghanistan's infra structure was destroyed and the country bled white in the next 30 years.All out of narrow personal reasons.

The USA using the Pakistani military junta as a cheap policy tool started deliberate efforts to sabotage and unseat Afghanistan's de facto government from 1978 and by 1979 these efforts bcame quite significant.The USSR decided to intervene because the matter was not Afghanistan versus Pakistan but USA using a cheap illegitimate tactical garbage collector to indirectly sabotage USSR via Afghanistan.

Now started a grand party of the illegitimte Pakistani military junta.Pakistan got massive transfusions of blood in shape of US Dollars while Afghanistan was bled white.Everything was attacked by paid gangs financed by USA using Pakistan's military junta and th ISI as cheap hirelings ! Bridges were destroyed,dams were attacked,power lines wee destroyed,fields and meadows were mined,orchards destroyed as a deliberate scorched earth policy,civilians attacked and rocketed while they had breakfasts in their apartments in Kabul,the whole country mined.In short everything that had been built in Afghanistan since ages was attacked.All for the narrow class interests of a few generals who bcame billionaires overnight.

There was a secret joy in Pakistan's non Pashtun ruling clique that the proud and upright Pashtuns of Afghanistan were now dislocated and degraded into third rate refugees.Women of Kabul were forced to resort to selling their bodies in Kabul . And above all billions of US Dollars were filling the coffers of the generals.All in name of Jihad.

The USSR on the other hand tried to seriously assist an ideological ally while USA was using mercenaries par excellence as cheap policy tools.Thousands of Afghans were sent for training to USSR and East Europe.Serious efforts made to arm and train the Afghan security forces.Kabul the heart of Afghanistan was destroyed .Many educated Afghans fled to Europe and USA thus causing a fatal brain drain from which Afghanistan never recovered.

The net result of this unholy and notorious US-Pakistani military junta was ensuring that anarchy became the established form of government in Afghanistan from April 1992 when the paid mercenaries of foreign countries entered Kabul in April 1992 after it was voluntarily abandomed by the leftists.The leftists were never exterminated.That is not the Afghan culture.They were accomodated.The Parchamis mostly joined the Jamiat of Masud while the Khalqis joined Hikmatyar 's Hizb e Islami or other more Pashtun dominated parties.During the Talib time also no major change occurred.All who remained in Talib controlled area simply grew beards and no one bohered them.

The manipulation of Afghanistan was ironically now adopted as a regular policy not only by Pakistan's military but by its politicians.In 1992 the then ruling PML in Pakistan gleefully claimed that it had destroyed Afghanistan's army and removed a threat from Pakistan's Western borders.Afghanistan was as a policy used as a cheap and discreet trainin area for Kashmiri Mujahids.Even the PPP regime adopted this ridiculous policy.

Salvation for Afghanistan although somewhat mixed only came in 2001 when the USA directl decided to enter Afghanistan rather than employ Pakistan's military junta, a dubious and unreliable tool , although cheap by western standards.Now the US Dollars came directly to Afghanistan.This was not accepted or digested by Pakistan's military junta.Thus the the new double policy followed by Pakistan's military junta since 2001.Nevertheless for the first time since 2001 US Dollars are now going into Afghanistan pockets ! Now houses are being built in Kabul instead of being rocketed or shelled.The USA is an occupying power but at least some prosperity is being introduced.

Seen with the above premise following are the key elements of the Afghan scene :---

1-The people who were Khalqis and Parchami leftists or who worked in various capacities in the period 1978-1992 , were trained in USSR or Eastern European instutions dominate all Afghan ministries, Afghan Police,Afghan National Army etc.These are the real backbone of Afghan society and Afghan State.All policies have to be made keeping their aspirations in view.Even the USA cannot do without them.

2-Afghanistan is now being built up as a long term US base and for many decades will remain so in case there is no extraordinarry changes in wrld geopolitical scenario.

3-The Russians are major players in Afganistan through old Khalqis and Parchamis in Afghan ministries and army as well as a strong ties with the Northen Alliance through old Parchamis who joined them after 1992.

4-India and Iran are also major balancing actors although not as significant as the first two i.e USA and Russia.

5-There can be no peace in Afghanistan or at least in South and East Afghanistan unless there is a major policy change forced in Pakistan through soft power or other means.

6-Afghanistan may be partitioned into North and South if Pakistani interference continues.That would neither be in Pakistani interest nor Afghan interest.This would further lead to Balkanisation of Pakistan in the long run.

7-In Pakistan the major players are its clique of generals and the intelligence agencies who regard themselves as guardians of Pakistan's ideology as long as their class intetests are threatened.They futher regard Pashtuns particularly as a cheap but useful tool in the ever continuing low intensity war against India.

Seen in the above context there can be no peace in the region unless there is a major change in Pakistan.This would be a complicated and bloody affair.It would require vision and far sightedness in US policy which is sadly lacking.If the situation is not controlled the whole region will be destabilised for many decades to come.

A Fatal Act-Bad News for India Pakistan Relations i have not made any allegations.

my point is that india pakistan relations will suffer .

indians will reciprocate and target will be in pakistan or a pakistani anywhere,most likely afghanistan.

the biggest beneficiary of india pakistan bad relations is usa in first priority

i think general kiani is the most unfortunate chief in pakistan's history and due to no fault of his.may Allah or God support him.

Anti-Americanism in Pakistan and the Taliban Menace RAVI RIKHYE ON ISLAMISATION IN PAKISTAN

More Headache Inducing News From Pakistan's NWFP This is one of those days when your editor feels he is living on Pluto for all that he knows what is happening on Earth, which seems to be about nil. We have often complained about the paucity of our sources. With the commercial part of Orbat.com on life support we have lost approximately 80 of our correspondents and almost all of our network. We had several people in Pakistan - five to be be precise - and now we have zero. It's sad that whereas we know how to get information but have no money, mainstream media which has money seldom knows how to get cost-effective news. For what a western media agency pays to keep one person in Pakistan, we could give you original, up-to-date news on about 60% of the world.

Anyway, enough self-pity. Media says Pakistan Frontier Corps has attacked Pakistan Taliban positions around Peshawar. According to International Herald Tribune the Frontier Corps commander says the operation was launched because people were demanding the government do something, and right there you can see how pathetic is the whole scene. Why do you have to wait till the public demands you do your job before you do your job? Has the Pakistan government really become that ineffective in Peshawar, which is a major Pakistan city and the capital of the NWFP?

Apparently the answer is "yes". We knew the Pakistani Taliban was closing in on Peshawar; we had no clue it has already closed in on Peshawar. We thought this development was two years away. So you can understand why your editor is weeping and moaning about not knowing a thing.

Background: there is a gent who in the last three years has built up a force of several thousand fighters and has taken over so much of Peshawar's surrounding areas that the government has ceased to function. He is allied with another gent, a foreigner, who has a force of unknown size composed of foreign fighters who keep busy attacking the US/partners. The other day the first gent raided the city itself, kidnapped 16 Christians, later released after negotiations. Read $$$$. so the city's inhabitants are understandably feeling insecure.

Okay, so lets put all that aside and go behind the scenes. Point The First: The last three years happens to coincide with the period the Taliban have rebuilt themselves and taken over large parts of Afghanistan. It also coincides with the period Taliban has openly taken over much of NWFP.

Point The Second The garrison city of Peshawar is home to HQ XI Corps, which controls about 60-70,000 troops in the NWFP. We do not know the exact position right now, but when the Pakistan government was supposed to be fighting the insurgents, the Corps had 14 brigades - its own and from other Pakistani corps. Now some of those brigades are in the process of going back to their cantonments because of the peace deal.

Is it not a bit odd that the Taliban now have a choke hold on Peshawar, which is hardly short of troops? What have the troops been doing all this time? And why are they STILL not taking the offensive against Taliban, if for no other reason than which army wants ~5 divisions worth of troops rendered ineffective in their home province?

Pakistan Frontier Corps has been repeatedly defeated in battle by Pakistan Taliban. Please understand this is not a case where the FC has fought and been defeated. The FC has refused to fight. It is officered by regulars from the Pakistan Army, who happen to be overwhelmingly Punjabi. We are willing to bet that when the FC has fought, it is because the men have not dared defy their officers. So understandably, it has made of a show than a real fight. FC doesnt want to fight because it does not see what wrong the Taliban are committing. The Talibs are their brothers - this is not a figure of speech - and the Taliban simply represent majority thinking in the very conservative NWFP. The NWFP folk like neither the Pakistan Government, nor modernization, and they absolutely, completely, utterly hate America. So why should FC fight america's war, especially when the high professional Pakistan Army is increasingly refusing to fight America's war.

Point The Third IHT quotes a state ruling party member (the party is moderate) as saying he believes the Taliban group around Peshawar has been created by Pakistan ISI.

You can take it that any Pakistan group fighting in Afghanistan is ISI. The original Taliban were ISI and so are the new Taliban.

Now we come to Point 4 and this is the part that is seriously disturbing us - but not surprising us. We want you to hold on to your chair because you are going to fall off. Before you hold on to your chair, we'd like to explain something. US likes to pretend that ISI is some kind of independent power in Pakistan and that parts of it are rogue. Please understand that the the ISI is no independent power. It 100% represents the Pakistan Army and to a lesser extent the other services. There are NO rogue elements worth mention in the ISI: almost everything it does is sanctioned by the army's commanders.

This does not mean there are no factions jockeying to advance the power of this general or that general. These are internal disagreements and of no relevance to outsiders. With that in mind:

On information received very recently by your editor (okay, so he is not totally out of it): The Pakistan Army has decided the Islamization of Pakistan will proceed.

Pakistan is already a theocratic state, but it has generally been fairly moderate compared to our Best Friends Forever the Saudis, fairly live and let live. We know our Pakistan readers are going to scoff and say "the Islamization of Pakistan has been going on for 40 years, so what do you mean by "fairly moderate". But a trend can start at one time and take decades to become overwhelming.

But now the Pakistan military has decided its time to go the whole hog. If we go into why, we'll never get this article done. Suffice to say that (a) Pakistan as a nation was a traumatized at the outcome of Partition in 1947-48 (b) it had a breakdown after losing East Pakistan in 1971; and (c) the American intervention in Afghanistan/Pakistan has completed the process. In brief, the Pakistanis are saying clear and loud "we will not be pushed around any more, least of by the US". For a variety of complicated reasons, they see neccessary to redefine their identity, this time as Islamists.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! will say our friends on State's Pakistan desk. You are jumping the gun: trends are there but by no means is what you are saying inevitable. You are wildly exaggerating.

Okay, first lets admit we no longer have any friends in any American government body. We are lying about friends at State, we have no friends anywhere, of any kind.

Second, lets go back to what we say many a time. US to this day talks to those Pakistanis who they can talk to. These are not authentic Pakistanis, they represent an intelligent, widely-read and traveled semi-secular, and humanistic lot who are a tiny, tiny minority in Pakistan. We are not blaming the US, there are all sorts of reasons 99% of countries get things wrong.

We cant go into details, but "our" Pakistani are authentic and you can believe us or not, but we can assure you that the balance between Islamists and non-Islamists in the Pakistan Army has decisively, perhaps irrevocably tipped in favor of the Islamists. (Yes, yes, we know the balance has been tipped for a long time, but unless our readers stop intervening in this debate for now, we'll never get done.) What we are trying to say that what was previously kept hidden in the last eight years for fear of America is gradually coming into the open, though the Pakistanis are still scared of America.

We told you about signals we are picking up that Pakistan is preparing to take its new war against India to the next level; it has already done that in Afghanistan. You can disbelieve us, but you cant disbelieve what your own government is telling you about Pakistan's new intervention in Afghanistan. Talk to any Indian intelligence officer and he will say what we are about Pakistan and India. The war has been on for some years, we have been talking about the next level, this really is not a topic that causes much disagreement in India.

Similarly, you can say that we are exaggerating about the big wave of Islamization that is going to hit Pakistan. But remember: when it hits, we told you first.

Anti-Americanism in Pakistan and the Taliban Menace it is a figment of someones imagination that peshawar was under any threat . it was a case of pleasing the americans to get aid.a white wash.pakistanb is a haven of crooks and all the biggest crooks are in pakistan's tiop echelons both military and civil so what is this operation against.

Anti-Americanism in Pakistan and the Taliban Menace the muslim elite for getting job quotas and political mileage mis-used islam and islamic slogans right from 1858 to date and re now in t____k s___t and will remain so !

7 July 2003

Pakistan’s Islamic Factor

A.H Amin

History proves that religion has been repeatedly used by various classes to secure their personal or class aims and objectives ! Religion as a political factor to unite Indians against the British was introduced in politics by Gandhi ! Gandhi represented the Hindu middle and professional classes funded by the business classes who were western educated , outwardly secular in outlook but relied on Hindu religious symbols to achieve their political ends ! When Gandhi sidelined Mr Jinnah from main congress leadership after 1921-22 Mr Jinnah also abandoned his initial ideology of Indian nationalism based on constitutionalism and adopted Islam as his slogan ! In most of his political speeches Mr Jinnah stressed on the fact that the Indian Muslims were a separate nation and their unique religious and social practices entitled them to have a separate country ! This slogan was convenient and politically expedient to unite the pre 1947 Indo Pak Muslims against the Hindu dominated congress ! In 1947 while addressing the constituent assembly of Pakistan Mr Jinnah clarified that his idea of Pakistan was a secular state where Muslims and non Muslims would politically speaking only be Pakistanis and religion would be a private matter !
Mr Jinnah’s line of reasoning was not immediately questioned by the religious right since Jinnah was an indisputed leader but the question whether Pakistan was a secular state or an Islamic state was hotly debated in the constituent assembly of Pakistan from 1948 till 1956 ! The Muslim League and most other parties of this time were dominated by the professional middle classes or landlords who had merely viewed religion as a slogan to galvanise the masses and never wanted a theological state ! The landlords wanted to get rid of a Hindu money lending class and a land reform threatening congress party while the middle classes enthusiastically supported Pakistan because they viewed the new state as one with greater opportunities of advancement for their class since the Hindus who were more educationally advanced were eliminated from the competition !
The religious parties which had initially opposed Pakistan’s creation based on the idea that partition would only divide Indian Muslims now turned the table on the Muslim League by demanding that since the Muslim League itself declared that the Indo Pak Muslims needed a separate country to practice Islam , the new country must be based on the Islamic Sharia ! The non religious feudal and middle class Muslim Leaguers led by Liaquat Ali Khan initially outmanoeuvred the Islamists by moving the Objectives Resolution which paid lip service to Islam while preserving Pakistan’s initially envisaged secular ethos ! The Islamists however were not pacified and the 1953 Anti Qadiani riots proved that the Islamists were a force to be reckoned with ! However massive US aid from 1954 to 1965 marginalised the Islamists and strengthened the secular forces under the military dictator Ayub Khan ! In 1970 the Islamists were again unable to gain much except in NWFP and Baluchistan and the neo-socialist PPP and the nationalistic Awami League swept West and East Pakistan !
Islamists parties were strengthened in between 1971-77 because of the 1971 defeat and because of some of Mr Bhuttos policies ! In 1977 the religious right gained a new benefactor in shape of USA who viewed the Islamist dominated anti Bhutto Pakistan National Alliance as a safer bet than an anti US charismatic leader like Bhutto ! Thus the 1977 agitation and the Zia military coup of 1977 which toppled Mr Bhutto !
Pakistan’s military dictator decided keeping in view the immense political strength of the anti Zia PPP that his best bet to survive was use of Islam as a political slogan ! Thus Zia’s Islamisation measures and the various stunts and ploys employed by the military junta to demonstrate that Zia was a true soldier of Islam !
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan further strengthened Islamist forces not only in Pakistan but at an international level ! Out of the Afghan War of 1979-88 emerged a promiscuous alliance of convenience like a Mutah marriage ! Financed by the CIA and the Saudis , with Islam as slogan , and Jihad as the modus operandi ! The Islamists because of sheer expediency became the darlings of Pakistan’s ISI and USA’s CIA ! Many billions were pumped to support the anti Soviet Jihad ! Islamist forces were able to consolidate themselves with lavish funds,advanced weaponry and elaborate organizational networks !
All changed after the Soviet withdrawal from Afganistan ! The islamists now became a liability for USA and the Pakistani elite ! The dirty war was over ! The Islamists had done their job ! Now they must not be allowed to reap the harvest ! Thus a reversal of policies !
By 1991 however the Pakistani elite realized that USA no longer needed them and as a result Islamist forces once again received a boost ! Both Nawaz and Benazir governments made many efforts to endear themselves to the USA but the USA snubbed both ! Islamist forces as a result re-organised ! In 1994-96 Pakistan’s government once again used religion as a slogan once the Afghan Talibans were cultivated ! For some time the Americans also saw the taliban as a safe bet for oil pipelines ! However by 1998 the Americans realized that the Talibans were not good enough puppets and must be removed ! During all this time Pakistan’s economy rapidly weakened because of US embargoes and economic policies ! The politicians and the military and intelligence bosses once again fell back on Islamist forces which were used to fight the bloody undeclared wars in Kashmir ! The Kargil adventure of 1999 was the highpoint in this drama once regular Pakistan Army volunteers were employed in the name of Islam with diasastorous consequences !
By October 1999 once Musharraf usurped power Pakistan was a sidelined state till the 9/11 incident which proved a heaven sent opportunity for Pakistan’s military junta just like the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan had done for Zia the junta !
Pakistan’s military junta now made a U turn and collaborated with the USA in fighting a war against Islamists ! In 1979-89 the same military junta was with the Islamists because it meant US aid ! Now the same military junta viewed the Islamists as persona non gratas simply because it meant getting US aid ! The same state continues till to date !
The chain of historic events above mentioned demand analysis ! From 1937 till 1947 the pre 1947 Muslim elite employed “Islam” as a slogan to galvanise the Muslim masses based on the emotional Pakistan slogan based on Islam ! Once Pakistan was achieved the same elite immediately made a U turn and declared that Pakistan was a secular state without justifying why 1 million Muslims were sacrificed to create a Muslim state where religion would be a personal matter ! Thus HAFEEZ Jullundhri noted with sarcasm ‘ Qaafle lut gaiy barbad ho gayay to kia hooa , Mutmain hain Qaafla Salaar apnay Kaam Say !
Between 1947 and 1976 religion was ditched as US aid came and the middle classes and the higher classes enjoyed great prosperity partly because of international aid and more because of elimination of the rich Hindus by mass genocide and control of evacuee property !
In 1977 religion was employed as a slogan because the middle and higher classes united with the Islamists simply because Mr Bhutto’s policies were a threat for the urban classes in Karachi ,Multan and Lahore because of a variety of reasons including nationalization,quota system,liberal outlook etc ! The USA financed the Islamists against Bhutto because they thought that the Islamists were asafer bet than Bhutto !
Between 1977 and 1989 Pakistan’s military junta used Islam as a tool because it suited their political and economic ends i.e because of the PPP as a political threat and the US military and economic aid in Afghan War !
Between 1989 and 1999 the Islamists once again received a boost because US stopped their aid and the civil and military elite once again picked up the slogan of Islam in danger !
Between 2001 and to date Pakistan’s military junta once again made a U turn and adopted an anti Islamist policy simply because it meant US economic and military aid !
The elections of 2002 strengthened Islamists forces thanks to the U turn of Pakistan’s military government after 9/11 ! The resultant sense of betrayal strengthened the Islamists morally ! The Islamists for the first time emerged as a strong constitutional force which challenged Pakistan’s military junta in Pakistan’s parliament ! Thus the MMA stand on LFO and against Musharraf’s US appeasing policies !
There is no doubt that a storm is gathering in Pakistan Iran Afghanistan and the Arab world which this time will not subside ! This storm is gathering because the Muslim elite has repeatedly used Islam as a convenient slogan , picked up at will to get aid from USA and abandoned at whim once it meant not getting US Dollars !
The Islamists are on a strong footing today ! This the start of a drama that would carry on in many acts ! Since religion was used as a cheap slogan by the elite , now it appears that the elite would have a harder time in manipulating the common man !
Inflation , rising population , unemployment is strengthening the Islamists forces in Pakistan and Afghanistan by leaps and bounds ! The US invasion of Iraq ahs further strengthened the Islamist forces since it has proved to be a spur for forces of resistance led by Islamists!
One Million dead in 1947 to create a country of Muslims !Two million dead in Afghanistan from 1978 till 2003 ! 100,000 dead in Kashmir from 1989 till to date ! 500 dead in Kargil ! The many thousands dead in Palestine,Algeria,Egypt , Iraq , all in the name of Islam ! To make the Islamic world a safer place for miltary dictators who order military volunteers in the name of Islam but pose as liberals to get US aid ! Kings and princes who gamble in Monaco and womanise in Paris but stage behaedings of small time drug dealers to give cheap thrills to the common man !
The day when the Muslim common man would question military dictators or kings about what they did to the aid money they got or the oil money they wasted in gambling or enjoying is not very far away ! Inshallah I hope !
In the next ten years a long bloody war would be fought between the Islamists and the opportunist forces in Muslim world which have agaian and again used Islam as a cheap tool to drug the masses ! Now the Muslim common man cannot be fooled or amused by cheap slogans or beheadings of petty criminals ! Now they want the heads of their rulers who have used Islam in the most Machiavellian manner for achieving their cheap personal and dynastic ends ! This the decade of the decisive war between Islamists and anti Islamists ! This war will not be won by superior weaponry or cheap slogans ! This war will be fought in the shadows , covertly and more motivated forces would finally carry the day ! Many Roman Empires and many great dynasties would be destroyed in the process ! When the common man fearlessly snipes at the US soldiers in Baghdad or when the common man defies Rangers and so many other military entities and goes on with suicide bombings , wars can no longer be won by conventional forces with better weapons bu t weaker hearts ! The human heart is the most decisive weapon and the USA alienated it after 9/11 !

Forgotten President & Shape of Things to Come? the present government and that includes army politicians , all was brought under a secret protocol with usa that it would launch an offensive in tribal area.denying freedom of manoeuvre to al qaeda , thus reducing pressure on us forces in afghanistan.above all to help the republicans win in 2008 elections.F 16s have been despatched fo the punjabi airforce against pashtuns

militarily the action will fail that is beyond doubt

A Meeting with Che Guevara an uncle of mine was from last batch of ICS exam and first batch of pakistani foreign service.he was also in algeria in the embassy of pakistan.later he became blind and i used to read the newspaper for him.he was a classfellow of famous historian Ganda Singh.He also told me that he saw Che Guevera and there was a very strange and inexplicable charm in im.something he thought was a very strong and supernatural charm and energy.

The Puppet Speaks pakistan is a s much a US puppet as Afghanistan's Karzai.The army is dog catcher of USA and so are the politicians.After all who told mush to do the NRO .Pakistan has been doing business in name of Afghanistan as dog catcher of USA since 1979.That is the hard fact.Frankly what is the difference between karzai and gillani or musharraf ? Nil ! They are the same breed who can stand any amount of kicking .All are playing double games and its all about money .

Aitzaz’s Monumental Blunder if martial law pakistan's situation would worsen and its balkanisation accelerated.the army will then be confined to punjab only doing USA's dog catching jobs while other provinces would be controlled by regional warlords.as it appears now that day is not far off with Inshallah or without Inshallah.The fate of Pakistan's por man is the same whether its a lean kiani or a hindu dhoti parshad.

Aitzaz’s Monumental Blunder i dont know if this is an eulogy of rahman malik or a qaseeda in rehman malik's honour.

the fact remains that iftikhar chaudhry that punjabi soldified by baloch and pashtun values of uprightness defied musharraf and the army as well as its int agencies.the moral authority of musharraf was eroded.the islamists and al qaeda by brillianly assaulting the army also eroded its value like the indomitable baloch in 1960s and 197os and the mukti bahini in 1971.all these are facts.the pakistani politicians have been thoroughly discredited by the NRO however.pakistan is condemned to be looted to the brim till balkanised and balkanised it shall be with all these clowns civil and military.politically as well as militarily pakistan is a third rate tactical garbage collector and vassal of USA and aits all a hoax .whats going to happen is that the PPP and PML will make ammends to being out of power for many years,make billions and stash them and the mad looting party will continue,that mad looting party which was the raison d etre of pakistan.

Attack in Mohmand we have very distorted perceptions here on the chowk.recent research has proved that aurangzeb ennobled more hindus and more marathas than any muslim king in india. with all the education we remain very narrow and tribal.its hypocrisy when a low caste hindu does well and is promoted to be a high caste one as happened with sivaji.