Pakistan: The War of Drones WHAT USA SEEKS TO DESTROY

Nation

21 June 2002

A.H Amin

The three cardinal attributes of today's geopolitics are
"globalisation", "non ideological international themes" and "emphasis on
economics" rather than "ideological conflict" as the key theme in
international relations. It is another thing that below the surface
"ideology remains a key issue", "the desire to enslave smaller or weaker
states by larger or stronger states" remains the key issue and
"globalisation" is but another name of capitalism practiced at a global
scale.

The so called unipolar system also has limitations and is being
repeatedly challenged, if not conventionally, then unconventionally as
proved by events of 9/11. The famous philosopher Toffler may have
re-defined power but human nature remains the same as it was 2,500 years
ago. US Think Tanks and so called experts may advance subtle theses but
the underlying conflict is the same i.e. a West which adopted Eastern
Christianity and refashioned it as per Barbarian ideals versus an East
with a different mindset and a different set of values.

The international capitalist order was challenged by French Revolution
and the Communist Revolution in Russia but the power of the
imperialistic exploiters could not be broken. Nonetheless without USSR
military aid the Arabs could not have survived Israeli hegemonism. This
is an irrefutable historical reality.

Long ago the West's present dilemma was summed up by one of its greatest
historian Gibbon in the following words "Yet this apparent security
should not tempt us to forget that new enemies and unknown dangers may
possibly arise from some obscure people, scarcely visible in the map of
the world". In the same paragraph Gibbon cited the example of the Arabs
who had "languished in poverty and contempt" till the advent of Islam
when in Gibbon's words Islam" breathed into those same bodies the soul
of enthusiasm".

When modern US thinkers with links with US State decision making and
analytical bodies state with confidence that "ideology is no longer
fashionable" and that "international terrorism" is the key issue who are
they fooling. If this line of thinking is to be followed, whenever any
White Man or a Jewish man dies it is terrorism while whenever any non
White or Muslim dies this is casualty inflicted in sheer self defence in
the war against terrorism. A stooge is a man who was protected by USSR
and a King or Emir or a president protected by US Forces or US aid is a
perfect patriot.

Take the "Firebombing of Tokyo" on the fateful night of 9/10 March 1945.
On that night the US Airforce in the proud words of an American writer
"conducted the most destructive air raid in history". Sixteen square
miles of Tokyo were destroyed and some 83,793 Japanese civilian were
killed mostly by third degree burns while some 40,918 were injured. A US
General proudly exclaimed "It made a lot of sense to kill skilled
workers". Compare this with US position on 9/11. If for a moment we
accept that 9/11 was a great outrage in which some 3,000 were killed not
all of them skilled, what was Tokyo Raid of March 1945?

There is a subtle motivation here. An ulterior geopolitical agenda. The
West still fears ideology which it abandoned after 1945 in favour of
shameless materialism. It fears men who cannot be bought, who have no
fear for the tomorrow, who cannot be stopped by a NATO or the wide
Atlantic or wider Pacific. USSR may have been a more synthetic state but
the men motivated to die without motivated by the CIA pumped dollar via
Silent Soldiers is a more dangerous specie. Enters the Asian and African
Collaborator Regimes. Liberal Presidents, subtle Emirs, Egalitarian
Kings, all mustered like Sepoy Jahan Khan in the First World War to
fight the War against Terror. The Soviets were more naïve if less
morally defective than the American decision makers. The Americans seek
to accomplish enslavement through more sophisticated methods. Thus one
of their intellectuals states in an article that "unlike centuries past,
when war was the great arbiter, today the most interesting type of power
do not come out of the barrel of the gun".

Today this man says "there is a much bigger pay off in getting others to
want what you want". And there is no shortage of collaborators,
ambitious men who usurped power whether it was after the downfall of
Ottoman Empire with British or French money or in Egypt or Pakistan or
in Indonesia.

Somewhere deep inside the US decision makers are at a loss to admit as
to how with a 30 Billion USD intelligence budget, 13 Federal
Organisations dealing with Intelligence and some 30,000 eavesdroppers
employed by USA's National Security Agency was the Al Qaeda able to
strike. Compare 30 Billion USD per year spent since two decades with may
be 4 Billion USD lost in 9/11. If the East or the Islamic World has any
edge over the West it is in willingness to sacrifice rather than
materialism and selfishness.

What the West and particularly the USA fears is not nuclear weapons but
men motivated by ideology. Men who cannot be bought like the so many
Emirs, Kings and Military Presidents from Morocco till Pakistan.

The world has not changed from Gibbons' times. The New Barbarians as the
USA sees the Muslim radicals are more dangerous because they cannot be
bought. Because they have operational talent and strategic acumen.
Because they do not beg like Sadat for a Camp David but fight with their
limbs rather than Stingers. What the US seeks is destruction of ideology
which as per one theme presently floated in the so called prestigious
National Defence College at Islamabad is no longer fashionable.

This is the Clash of Civilisation and will continue till this world
exists or till the USA discovers a new planet where human beings can
survive and to which the Americans will migrate after all the mineral
resources of this world are exhausted and we are left to die without
water or fuel.

If this is so and if low intensity war is the only way in which the
conventionally weaker forces can defeat the conventionally stronger
forces then so be it. If extremism in thought or ideology is out of
fashion and out of favour with USA and its camp followers, so be it. If
we are in any case condemned to be sub humans in a world order dominated
by the G-7 and have no other recourse but to fight with bomb, dagger or
suicide explosive pack then so be it.

Jala kay Mashal-i-Jaan, Hum Junoon-Sifaat Chalay. Jo Ghar ko aag lagaay,
hamarey saath chalay.

Pakistan: The War of Drones When one force is out of proportion stronger than another attack by suicide bombing is a legitimate tactic of war.Our enemies are very peaceful as Carl Von Clausewitz said long ago.They want to conquer us without war.

These tactics were used for a long time in military history."Forlorn hopes were organised for frontal 100 % suicidal attacks by British Army in 18th century".The Japanese perfected Kamikaze suicide bombings which was staged on a strategic level on 9/11.The Palestenians did it against Israelis.These are not fanatics.These are warriors.As long as the targets are not non combatants this is a legitimate tactic of war.

The Nawaiwaqt Generation and the Power of No! "criticism for criticisms's sake , jugglery of words" this is the essence of many interacts on CHOWK.

The Nawaiwaqt Generation and the Power of No! Re: # 77 a normal infantry division has 2 to 3 brigades.some divisions in hilly area have more than 3 brigades also. a brigade has 2 to 3 battalions and a battalion has about 800 plus men of whom about 550 fight while others are the admin elements . So generally a paki infantry division has about 7,000 to 8,500 fighting men.Plus every division has a tank unit , an artillery brigade,signals,medical,supply and transport battalions.Every corps has average three divisions and pakistan has about 9 corps.

The Nawaiwaqt Generation and the Power of No! HP , the Punjabis are absolutely hopeless.The Karachi guys economic refugees from india now having a good time.

The USA needs this pathetic mercenary army .They will do anything for the greenback.

A Milestone on the Road to Anarchy

A.H Amin



General Musharraf the military usurper of Pakistan in an article in Washington Post has claimed all credit for holding free and faor elections ! The article appears to be a lobbying attempt with USA in order to get another extension as president of Pakistan for himself.

Not after months of turmoil , but after years of turmoil which have its origins in Pakistani military junta's unconditional collaboration with USA , elections were finally held in Pakistan in 2008.



It is essential that Pakistan should achieve democracy.It is so because a truly democratically elected government will not make the compromises with USA or any other external power like a general who usurped power through the backdoor.When Pakistan's military dictator General Musharraf states that "The government worked tirelessly to ensure that Monday's vote would be free, fair, transparent and peaceful. A broad range of new procedures were put in place -- such as the public counting of ballots at each polling station -- to make certain that this would be the fairest election ever held in Pakistan" this is an insult to Pakistani masses intelligence.A military dictator who usurped power thinks that he did a favour to Pakistan by holding free and fair elections ! What a jugglery of words designed to introduce a conflict of principle ! More so because Musharrafs head of ISI's political section General Zamir admitted in an interview that he rigged the elections of 2002 as Musharraf had ordered !

General Musharraf was fored to hold free and fair elections under severe pressure of USA and its western allies.No compliment to the self proclaimed sincerity of General Musharraf !

The election is historically significant because it has in principle increased political instability in Pakistan by producing a hung parliament.Ripe ground for Pakistani military junta's intelligence agencies to further divide all political forces and make the resultant coalition weak and thus the office of the president stronger.

According to General Musharraf the Pakistani nation faces "three main tasks: defeating terrorism and extremism; building a stable and effective democratic government; and creating a solid foundation for sustained economic growth." He thinks that he can accomplish them and is ready to work with the newly elected Parliament to achieve these objectives.A chronic job seeker , here we have a man who destroyed democracy and now claims credit for restoring it and now wants to work with political parties whose leaders according to him some years deserved to be kicked.In 1999 he created a military organ called NAB and used it to blackmail the vast majority of these politicians.Later the same politicians were blackmailed into joining the kings party called PML Q.

General Musharraf thinks that great challenges are there but also great opportunities exist.He thinks that he is the most suitable man to defeat the challenges and to harness the opportunities.A claim far from reality when in Waziristan the commanding general cannot travel 45 kilometres in jeep by road from Miranshah to Bannu.When Balochistan has been subjected to a massive genocide by military action.When 5 divisions of Pakistan army are struck in tribal areas of Pakistan !

General Musharraf thinks that he is the best bet of USA to fight terrorism.Thus writing an article in Washington Post was part of a strategy to gain extension from USA .

As the Pakistani experience in Bangladesh,Balochistan and Tribal Areas has shown, military force alone is not sufficient. A successful counterinsurgency requires a multi-pronged approach -- military, political and economic.General Musharraf's strategy was to catch some Al Qaeda leaders and sell them to USA as he confessed in his biography.This he did in his own words because Armitage threatened that he will bomb Pakistan to stone age !

He wants the continued support of the United States for Pakistan but above all for himself . He has asked Americans to remember that building democracy is difficult in the best of conditions; doing so in a complex country such as Pakistan -- with its uneasy political history, with its centuries-old regional and feudal cleavages, and with violent extremists dedicated to the defeat of democracy -- is even more challenging. He wants the USA to understand that General Musharraf (Retired) is indispensableif , a peaceful transition to democracy has to be achieved . Although the people of Pakistan clearly demonstrated by their voting that they dont President Musharraf, Musharraf still thinks that he is indispensable.Like Hitler in the last days of power in his bunker thought that some miracle would lead to his triumph or at least survival.General Musharraf thinks that he is indispensable for Pakistan and above all for USA.If USA still believes this theory expounded by Musharraf then the scene is set for diasaster.

General Musharraf is all set to make sure that the parliament elected by Pakistanis in 2008 does not survive for more than an year or two.The horse trading and buying and selling has already commenced.Pakistan is condemned to remain unstable because USA has more faith in Pakistan's generals and its mercenary army which is doing the job of USA's tactical garbage collector than the people of Pakistan.A sad conclusion to the elections of 2008.Pakistan is condemned to greater civil strife and continued instability.That appears to be part of USA's long term strategy !

Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa Agha on Pakistan Military ideally what ayesha is saying is correct.but who will bell the cat.nawaz sharif the elected PM was removed by Peja Wehshi and there was not a single demonstration in punjab .the only demo was in saddar karachi.The Paki military is a british creation.first mercenary to brits and now to americans . i dont think that the americans would bet on the paki politicians.the paki army has proved a faithful dog catcher.especially the punjabis from areas north of chenab and jhelum.they did not hesitate to fire on the kaaba and fought loyally against muslims under brit masters from 1857 to 1947.

Pakistan is an army with a state not a state with an army.

Idealism is good but when it comes to the hard facts there is no doubt that the USA needs Pakistan's mercenary army.India is too big to be manipulated.

Student Politics in Pakistan: A Profile HP Sahib, I have not disputed the year .But you are right because this happened in ayub's martial law regime.

Student Politics in Pakistan: A Profile Hassan Nasir was definitely murdered by the dubious and notorious law enforcement agencies of pakistan.this incident is discussed in Tariq Ali's famous book Pakistan-Peoples Rule or Military Power-1970

I am not sure about the year though.

Student Politics in Pakistan: A Profile well researhed article .

I must add a tribute to my college mate in FC College Lahore Aminullah Khan Khakwani from a very well to do landlord family of Vihari in 1977-79.He was the Union President if my memory goes well at the FC College.He was murdered in the FC College Hostel in 1978.It has been said by eye witnesses that many leading Islami Jamiat i Tulaba leaders including salman butt were involved in it.the murder was instigated by the martial law authorities of the tinpot clown zia.

Interestingly the Union Secretary of that time Adeel Kazi again from PSF or Progressive block , my school mate at Saint Marys Lalazar Rawalpindi and at FC College later joined the army.I dont know where he is now.The last I met him was at Karachi in 2003.

Pervez Musharraf and India Pakistan Rapproachment zeemax sahib.Looters and Plunderers was also written in ealy 2003.It was published by Shaheen Sehbai in his US based web journal.It was later also put on the PPP website.

Pervez Musharraf and India Pakistan Rapproachment Pakistan's Looters and Plunderers: Politicians or Generals?
By Major A.H. Amin

IN AN answer to a question General Musharraf stated that Nawaz Sharif and Benazir Bhutto were plunderers and thus have no right to rule Pakistan. If this line of supreme piety and catholic chastity is to be followed no one can rule Pakistan whether it is Nawaz, Benazir or any soldier unconstitutional president including Musharraf.

Musharraf could have given one credit to the alleged plunderer Nawaz Sharif , which is that he promoted Musharraf out of turn, and over the heads of many competent officers, to head the Army. Musharraf is a beneficiary of Nawaz’s corrupt acts.

A dispassionate glance at Pakistan’s history proves that this country has been looted or plundered by both soldiers and civilians. It is another thing that soldiers got away with the crime because they had guns in hand while politicians were penalized because they did not have coercive military power or because they committed the crime of appointing army chiefs who overthrew them.

The vast bulk of corruption in this country was committed in the Ayub and Zia eras because it was in these two periods when phenomenal doses of foreign aid came to this country. Thus the 21 families of the Ayub era. This is a reference to the families who, thanks to President Ayub’s patronage, rose from little or nothing to become among the richest in Pakistan. These included sons and grandsons of Risaldar Majors of Hodsons Horse and sons and grandsons of Assistant Political Agents (In both cases, the ranks are humble). I know many sons and grandsons of Risaldar Majors but none became a billionaire unless he was one part of the Ayub regime.

Take Afghanistan in 1980s. As per a respectable estimate only 15 to 25 % of the cross border Afghan aid ever reached the Afghans, the rest was skimmed off by Pakistani and some Afghan middleman from the ISI and other agencies. Thus so many beverage and textile factories belong to the sons of generals, including the present minister of commerce.

The Americans gave 250 Stinger launchers and about 1,000 Stinger Missiles to Pakistan’s ISI under the silent soldier whose son is a silent industrialist. These were state of the art weapons against Soviet gun ships and air power. All evidence now proves that these Stingers had limited impact on the war in Afghanistan but a decisive role on Pakistani military juntas generals.

That these missiles were sold by the silent arms merchants was proved once one of these very Stingers sent to Pakistan missed a US Helicopter in the Persian Gulf on 8th October 1987. This led to a US probe into finding crooks and plunderers who sold these Stingers and it failed because the crooks and plunderers blew the Ojhri Camp Depot in 1988, in what was surely one of the greatest ammunition depot explosions in history. Another casualty of these crooks and plunderers was Pakistani Premier Junejo who had reduced generals to Suzuki cars [an economy compact, quite a step down compared to the Mercedes’ favored by the South Asian elite] and wanted to sack the silent soldier General Akhtar Abdur Rehman.

The list is endless. Who sold the Intercontinental Hotel to Hashwani for next to nothing, less than a simple house? Who was that general who bought Mercedes Trucks for NLC? Or was Saeed Qadir a blackguard civil servant like Salman Faruqui?

Volume wise the greatest scams of Pakistan were committed in defense deals. Only one man was taken to task i.e. naval chief Mansur, but this man too was dismissed by Nawaz Sharif long before Musharraf came to power. Another major defence scam was the Ukrainian tank deal involving ex army chief Karamat but this was conveniently ignored by Musharraf as the general is from the generals trade union !

Now to the present regime. Although it is too early to finalize any conclusions but there is no doubt that many scams would be known when this regime too is assigned to the dustbin of history. In 1999 in an open bidding for Coastal Highway a Pakistani civilian firm SK & B got the contract since it was the lowest bidder. The military firm FWO was the seventh highest bidder and was nowhere near SK & B. As soon as this military government came into power it cancelled SK & B’s contract and gave the contract to FWO asking it to itself change the design and lower its rates. The FWO failed to complete the project in time and has sub-contracted Ormara-Pasni Section at lower rates than it is being paid, to two civilian firms. ! Why couldn’t civilians be given the contract in the first place.



Who allowed MacDonald’s to occupy billion dollar land reclaimed by DHA initially for commercial bidding? Who allowed MacDonald’s to make a restaurant in the parking lot in Karachi? These are only the tip of the iceberg.

The list of scams is indeed long. Where does the buying of Boeing 777 fit in? With Hidayatullah Khaishgi a close relative of Musharraf on PIA's board of directors, is there no dead rat in this 5 Billion USD purchase? Look at the contradictions. Back in 1980s an army captain was dismissed from service on false allegations for taking a government issue bulb home and all is clean in a multi billion dollar deal!

What about sudden inflating of land rates at Gwadar with a known land mafia man Shiekhani developing schemes? With Gwadar land bought by senior military officials for 30,000/- a Kanal where a Kanal now is selling for 2 Million! [A Kanal is an eighth of an acre, so land sold to the public for $250,000 an acre was sold to the military for $4000 an acre.] We don’t know whether Gwadar would ever become a Dubai or not but it sure is a Dubai for all military men who own lands on the coastal Highway and in the Sanghar Housing Scheme.

The list is long and time is on the side of the hypocrites. It is alarming to see men who spend their lives in sycophancy with military seniors to get good Annual Confidential Reports finally picking up the mantle of cleaning Pakistan. Those who were just four years ago pleasing Shahbaz Sharif or Mr X on Farmhouse " X " now are persecuting their benefactors and not allowing them to live in this country.

They have made life a never ending self deception, an ironic play which would even make Shakespeare turn in his grave.

Pervez Musharraf and India Pakistan Rapproachment Conclusion

The USA is dealing with sharp social climber third world leaders who know how to please and how to practice sophisticated ball lifting ! These men have no ideology and can withstand tremendous amount of kicking as they did while pleasing seniors in their military careers ! It is simpler to deal with these tinpot dictators than Osama or Mullah Omar ! If policy makers in the USA understand this fact their task would be simpler !

I WROTE THIS ARTICLE IN 2003.

NOW I AM INCLINED TO THINK THAT USA'S BELIEF THAT THE COLLABORATOR DOG CATCHER ARMY GENERALS ARE ITS BEST BET IN PAKISTAN AND AGAINST ISLAMISTS IN GENERAL HAS BEEN REINFORCED.

THEY ARE CONSPIRING TO IMPOSE SOME KIND OF SETTLEMENT IN PAKISTAN I.E DEMOCRACY INCLUDING MUSHARRAF.

IF THIS DOES NOT HAPPEN THEY WILL FIND ANOTHER MUSHARRAF IN THE ARMY WHO IS THEIR GOOD SON AND GOOD OLD HOUND FOR DOG CATCHING !

THE CONCLUSION IS THAT USA WILL CONTINUE TO RELY ON PAKISTAN'S COLLABORATOR GENERALS WHETHER ITS GENERAL X Y OR Z.THIS SYSTEM WONT CHANGE .IDEALISM WILL COME TO GRIEF.PAKISTAN IS A REALLY HOPELESS STATE.AN UNDOUBTED FAILURE.

Pervez Musharraf and India Pakistan Rapproachment India was too lrage to be manipulated although the USA did find moles cultivated by CIA like Mooraji Desai.

Pakistan was easier to manipulate through its military junta.So the USA favoured Pakistan's military junta.It always found democratic leaders like ZAB and NS as a threat .

What is happening is that USA is using paki generals against Islamists.This in turn is creating a backlash and when this backlash is created India feels threatened.So India has to talk to USA.

Pervez Musharraf and India Pakistan Rapproachment India was too lrage to be manipulated although the USA did find moles cultivated by CIA like Mooraji Desai.

Pakistan was easier to manipulate through its military junta.So the USA favoured Pakistan's military junta.It always found democratic leaders like ZAB and NS as a threat .

What is happening is that USA is using paki generals against Islamists.This in turn is creating a backlash and when this backlash is created India feels threatened.So India has to talk to USA.

Pervez Musharraf and India Pakistan Rapproachment India was too lrage to be manipulated although the USA did find moles cultivated by CIA like Mooraji Desai.

Pakistan was easier to manipulate through its military junta.So the USA favoured Pakistan's military junta.It always found democratic leaders like ZAB and NS as a threat .

What is happening is that USA is using paki generals against Islamists.This in turn is creating a backlash and when this backlash is created India feels threatened.So India has to talk to USA.

Pervez Musharraf and India Pakistan Rapproachment India was too lrage to be manipulated although the USA did find moles cultivated by CIA like Mooraji Desai.

Pakistan was easier to manipulate through its military junta.So the USA favoured Pakistan's military junta.It always found democratic leaders like ZAB and NS as a threat .

What is happening is that USA is using paki generals against Islamists.This in turn is creating a backlash and when this backlash is created India feels threatened.So India has to talk to USA.