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.

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 The Pakistani military mindset

A.H Amin

2nd August 2003



While third world military figures , in power or retired make impressive speeches at various forums and think tanks , very few outside their countries understand their mindset and motivation , which by and large is driven by highly personalized and ulterior motives !



Keeping this premise in view it is important to understand the mindset and the personalities of the third world military juntas , most important in this case being the Pakistani military junta !



The British Indian Army which gave birth to Pakistan and Indian armies in 1947 was essentially a colonial army designed for internal security and limited defence of India against external threats .The British ensured that all Indians who came to this organization were from the politically most docile and loyal classes ! In order to keep the Indian officer corps slavish they kept a 50 % quota for Indian Army rankers in Indian Military Academy Dera Dun right from its foundation in 1930-32 .



Layman readers may note that the “ lower middle class” as well as the “ middle class” by and large are the politically most conservative classes ! Social climbers by orientation , intensely careeristic in outlook and extremely conscious of personal benefits , having none or little of the pride or spirit de corps that made the Prussian junker officer defy Hitler ! In the Russian Civil War many major reactionary White Army leaders including Denikin,Kornilov etc were from humble background ! Similarly all of Pakistan’s military rulers less Yahya Khan were from humble background and all brought with them the intense greed and ambitiousness of a man from humble origins with none of the ideological idealism that distinguishes a man of ideology from a social climber !



Now the mindset of the military junta :--



1- Personal motives having priority over all other motives :-- You would find no Manstein or Guderian in them but highly ambitious men who practiced sycophancy with their seniors , hole punchers in US terms , yes men ,masters of personal manouvre in order to get the right report from the right boss at the right time ! They pleased their seniors and they know how to handle balls of any benefactor may it be Bush or Reagan where aid is concerned ! They have no ideology less personal interest !

2- View Wars and International Geopolitics as a means of personal benefit:-- The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was a divine and phenomenal lottery for Pakistan’s military rulers ! Zia the son of a humble tailor , and many of his generals Akhtar etc siphoned millions of US dollars in private accounts , from the US aid meant for Afghanistan ! knowing the Americans well , they must have also earmarked good retainers for Zia and his ISI chief in any case ! Serious observers like Selig Harrison and Cordovez have concluded that the Pakistani military junta never wanted that the Soviets should withdraw from Afghanistan since that would have meant stoppage of US aid ! Similarly 9/11 is a heaven sent opportunity for General Musharraf since it enabled him to get US aid and the much needed US boost to stay in power !

3- Can be coerced and bought if the Bigger players know how to drive them:-- These leaders have price tags and can be manipulated to a significant extent without risking wars like the Iraq war ! This is so because their vision is personal , has none of Khomeini or Osama’s ideological agenda ! Thus if the USA sensibly deals with them with carrot and stick they can be made to conform to US policies !

4- Ulterior motives in prolonging conflicts to get aid :-- These leaders have an ulterior motive that their benefactor super power i.e USA is kept occupied in its war against terror , not because they have any love for Islam , but simply because this would bring them more aid , an important part of which is siphoned into private fortunes ! Thus at a certain covert level these leaders are interested in the terrorist’s cause also ! Thus the third world intelligence agencies have many irons in the fire whether it is initiating a terrorist outrage or encouraging one !

5- Increasing reliance on coercive power of state :-- Since these leaders have little or no contact with national aspirations of their masses , they increasingly rely on the coercive power of the state which leads either to a Shah of Iran like situation or strengthening of a Saddam like totalitarian regime ! In both cases it was the fault and mishandling of US policy makers !

6- Role of the Intelligence agencies :-- To buy judges , to blackmail politicians , to start wars of low intensity to get aid , to manipulate low intensity war players for specific ends to please or disturb their super power benefactors !



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 !

Pervez Musharraf and India Pakistan Rapproachment the musharraf clique will do anything to destabilise the new government.

the key generals still think :--

1-Musharraf is indispensable
2-Both PML N and PPP are a threat to the generals , and the generals think that they are the army - total BS in reality , so anyone who is anti generals is a threat to ideologu of Pakistan...hence has to be neutralised or removed.They area also propagating to their US masters that they are the best bet , the old loyal hound , that they are best for dog catching.
3-Two choices are in front of USA.If they want to further destabilise Pakistan they will help the generals or help democracy take its roots in Pakistan.That certainly is not the US choice.Contrary to all propaganda carried out by USA it fears democracy.Thus while it has Pakistan in its pocket because of collaborator generals it cannot manipulate India.....but MORE IMPORTANT because it has Pakistan under its control through the collaborator generals , through this it can influence Indian policy.

Its all a game of grand deception.A body guard of lies.

Pervez Musharraf and India Pakistan Rapproachment 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 !