Oct 30, 2010

Options for Pakistan.

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The USA is a rabid Christian Fundamentalist country in the process of building a global empire at the expense of others. This process began from 1898, and has been picking up steam since. It has 800 military bases around the world, and is known as a "hyper-power". Its core rulers are 7--9 million Jews, the largest Jewish concentration in any country. New York is the largest Jewish City, and together with London is the headquarters for their financial empire.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan on the other hand was created by the parting British, through their agent Jinnah to weaken and divide India, a year before his demise. The British created the Muslim League in Dhaka in 1905, the vehicle for the creation of Pakistan.

Logically most rational people and even some adolescent children would come to the conclusion that a country as peculiar as the USA would be a dire national threat to a country such as the "Islamic Republic of Pakistan". Indeed, the USA through this long term trajectory is a threat to every nation; First World countries, and obviously vulnerable Third World nations alike.

AND lo on queue ever since Pakistan became friends with the USA, at the behest of the Pakistan military from 1954, the nations problems have multiplied. The Pakistan military (ISI) and the USA complement each other, as the coalition of mischief makers within Pakistan.

The USA created a dependency of Pakistan over American arms and then unceremoniously pulled the rug of military supplies at a very critical time, leaving the country vulnerable to invasion in 1965.
Destabilized and toppled the Ayub Khan regime, which would have consequences for the country 1965---1969.
During the East Pakistan insurgency gave the impression of supporting Pakistan fully, replete with aircraft carriers, but in reality gave India the Green light to invade East Pakistan.
Made threats against Pakistan's nuke bomb program. 1974---present.
Toppled a democratically elected government in 1977 through the military.
Introduced massive Afghan narcotics into Pakistani society, and trained the ISI to work with them to export it to the rest of the world. BCCI etc.
Killed the top brass of the Pakistan military.....on a pathological whim. General Zia was a pretty good American puppet.
Ordered Pakistan to create the "al-Qaeda" myth, to which to this day the Pakistan military dutifully upholds fighting nonsensical phantom wars, against its own people, skewering reason for executing such wars to the extreme. And of course the Taliban from 1994. Both these American ideas have had dangerous consequences for the country as can be clearly seen.
Since 2001, and GWOT, Pakistan economic losses has been anything between $43 billion to $70 billion as a result of its participation of the USA's unending imperial wars. The country is crumbling. The American aid of perhaps $25 billion does not meet these economic losses of the WHOLE OF PAKISTAN, BUT benefit sections of Pakistan society loyal to the USA. They take their American aid money and deposit it in Swiss bank accounts. American aid in fact destabilizes Pakistan society even further. It encourages big time crooks in Pakistan to be more crooked at Pakistan's expense, whilst honest hardworking Pakistanis are denied the opportunity to work and benefit Pakistan as a nation state.
The USA since 1954, has destabilized Pakistan society and prevented it from developing into a mature democracy. THE MAIN AGENT OF THIS DESTABILIZATION IS THE PAKISTAN MILITARY (ISI).........The relationship of the PAKISTAN military with the USA is a strange homosexual sado-masochistic one. They bitch and harm each other, especially the USA towards Pakistan, but later and very quickly KISS and make up...and then have illicit sex with each other in a quiet cheap motel room, out of every bodies sight.

"Oh Saab just give me one more chance to prove to you that I'm good for you!"

Of course its not all America's fault.

There are fundamental weaknesses in Pakistan's society. After all the British created Pakistan, and the ruling elite of Zamindari/Tamindari families (500) and Commercial families (30) are leftovers of colonial rule who look to foreign powers for "inspiration" especially the USA/UK. The Middle-class Pakistan military officer class, at the core of Pakistan's strategic problems are trained and indoctrinated in the USA.

Current Army Senior Command (from Wikipedia)

General Khalid Shameem Wynne, Punjab — Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee (CJCSC), JSHQ, Chaklala. (Colonel-in-Chief of the Punjab Regiment). Due to retire on October 8, 2013.
General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani HI, Baloch — Chief of Army Staff (COAS), GHQ. (Colonel-in-Chief of the Baloch Regiment). Due to retire on November 28, 2013.^[1]
Lt Gen Sikander Afzal, AC^[2] — Force Commander, United Nations Mission in Liberia (UNMIL), Monrovia, Liberia. On extension, due to retire on March 2, 2011.^[3]
Lt Gen Javed Zia, Punjab^[4] — Commander, Southern Command, Quetta. Due to retire on September 21, 2011.
Lt Gen Shujaat Zamir Dar SBt, Punjab^[5] — Chairman, Pakistan Ordnance Factories (POF), Wah Cantonment. Due to retire on September 21, 2011.
Lt Gen Mohsin Kamal, Punjab^[6] — Military Secretary (MS), GHQ. (Colonel Commandant of the Northern Light Infantry Regiment). Due to retire on September 21, 2011.
Lt Gen Jamil Haider, Arty^[7] — Commander, Army Strategic Forces Command (Comd ASFC), Rawalpindi. Due to retire on September 21, 2011.
Lt Gen Nadeem Taj, Punjab^[8] — Adjutant General (AG), GHQ. Due to retire on April 28, 2011.
Lt Gen Muhammad Rehan Burney, AMC^[9] — Surgeon General/DG Medical Services (Inter-Services), GHQ. (Colonel Commandant of the Army Medical Corps). Due to retire on March 24, 2012.
Lt Gen Tahir Mahmood SBt, Punjab^[8] — Inspector General Arms (IGA), GHQ. Due to retire on September 29, 2011.
Lt Gen Tanvir Tahir, EME^[6] — Inspector General Communications and IT (IGC&IT), GHQ. On extension, due to retire in March 2011.^[10]
Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha, FF^[6] — DG Inter-Services Intelligence (DG ISI), ISI Dte, Islamabad. On extension, due to retire on March 18, 2011.^[11]
Lt Gen Ayyaz Salim Rana, AC^[6] — Chairman, Heavy Industries Taxila (HIT), Taxila. Due to retire on September 29, 2012.
Lt Gen Naeem Khalid Lodhi, Engrs^[12] — Commander, XXXI Corps, Bahawalpur. Due to retire on October 13, 2012.
Lt Gen Khalid Nawaz Khan, Baloch^[8] — Commander, X Corps, Rawalpindi. (Colonel Commandant of the Baloch Regiment). Due to retire on October 4, 2013.
Lt Gen Sardar Mahmood Ali Khan, Punjab^[12] — DG Joint Staff (DG JS), JSHQ, Chaklala. Due to retire on October 4, 2013.
Lt Gen Muhammad Alam Khattak TBt, FF^[12] — Chief of Logistics Staff (CLS), GHQ. Due to retire on October 4, 2013.
Lt Gen Shafqaat Ahmed, Punjab^[13] — Commander, II Corps, Multan. Due to retire on October 4, 2013.
Lt Gen Syed Muhammad Owais, AD^[14] — Commander, Army Air Defence Command (Comd AAD Comd), Rawalpindi. (Colonel Commandant of the Army Air Defence). Due to retire on March 31, 2014.
Lt Gen Asif Yasin Malik, Punjab^[14] — Commander, XI Corps, Peshawar. Due to retire on March 31, 2014.
Lt Gen Muhammad Haroon Aslam SBt, AK^[8] — Deputy Chairman, Earthquake Reconstruction & Rehabilitation Authority (ERRA), Islamabad. (Colonel Commandant of the Azad Kashmir Regiment). Due to retire on April 9, 2014.
Lt Gen Waheed Arshad TBt, AC^[7] — Chief of General Staff (CGS), GHQ. Due to retire on April 9, 2014.
Lt Gen Rashad Mahmood, Baloch^[4] — Commander, IV Corps, Lahore. Due to retire on April 9, 2014.
Lt Gen Raheel Sharif, FF^[7] — Commander, XXX Corps, Gujranwala. Due to retire on October 1, 2014.
Lt Gen Tariq Khan, AC^[7] — Commander, I Corps, Mangla. Due to retire on October 1, 2014.
Lt Gen Agha Muhammad Umer Farooq, Baloch^[7] — President, National Defence University (NDU), Islamabad. Due to retire on October 1, 2014.
Lt Gen Mohammad Zahirul Islam, Punjab^[7] — Commander, V Corps, Karachi. Due to retire on October 1, 2014.
Lt Gen Salim Nawaz SBt, Baloch^[15] — DG Infantry (DG Inf) at IGA Branch, GHQ. Due to retire on October 1, 2014.
Lt Gen Khalid Rabbani, Infantry^[15] — Commandant, Command and Staff College (Comdt C&SC), Quetta. Due to retire on October 1, 2014.
Lt Gen Muzammil Hussain, Baloch^[7] — Inspector General Training and Evaluation (IGT&E), GHQ. Due to retire on October 1, 2014.
Lt Gen Sajjad Ghani, Engrs^[7] — Quarter-Master General (QMG), GHQ. Due to retire on October 1, 2014.
Maj Gen Syed Guftar Shah, EME^[16] (superseded) — DG Defence Science and Technology Organization (DG DESTO), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Asif Ali, Engrs^[17] (superseded) — Acting Engineer-in-Chief (E-in-C), GHQ.
Maj Gen Muhammad Tahir Saeed, ASC^[18] (superseded) — Vice Chief of Logistics Staff (VCLS) at CLS Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Masood Hasan, Arty^[19] (superseded) — DG Personnel Services (DG PS) at MS Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Imtiaz Ahmed, Engrs^[20] (superseded) — Commandant, Military College of Engineering (Comdt MCE), Risalpur.
Maj Gen Muhammad Javed Khan, AMC^[21] (superseded) — DG Medical Services (Navy) at DMS Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Jamshed Riaz, EME^[22] (superseded) — DG Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (DG EME) at IGC&IT Branch, GHQ. (Colonel Commandant of the Corps of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering)
Maj Gen Waqar Ahmad Kingravi, Avn^[23] (superseded) — DG Defence Purchase (DG DP), Rawalpindi. (Colonel Commandant of the Army Aviation Corps)
Maj Gen Syed Taqi Naseer Rizvi, Avn (superseded) — DG Defence Security Guards (DG DSG) at AG Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Mian Nadeem Ijaz Ahmad, AC^[24] (superseded) — Commander, Logistics Area (Comd Log Area), Gujranwala.
Maj Gen Zawar Hussain Shah, Ord (superseded) — .
Maj Gen Iftikhar Ahmad Choudhry, Arty^[25] (superseded) — DG Artillery (DG Arty) at IGA Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Mukhtar Ahmed, AK (superseded) — .
Maj Gen Muhammad Naeem Khan, AMC^[26] — Adviser in Medicine/Professor and Dean Army Medical College (AMC), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Shahida Badsha, AMC^[27] — Principal, Army Medical College (AMC), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Najeeb Tariq, EME (superseded) — .
Maj Gen Muhammad Ali Khan, ASC^[28] (superseded) — DG Remount, Veterinary and Farms Corps (DG RVFC) at AG Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Muhammad Farooq SBt, Punjab (superseded) — .
Maj Gen Ahmed Bilal, Sigs (superseded) — Chairman, Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO), Karachi. (Colonel Commandant of the Corps of Signals).
Maj Gen Niaz Muhammad Khan Khattak, AK^[29] (superseded) — DG (Analysis) at ISI Dte, Islamabad. (Analysis and Foreign Relations wing)^[30]
Maj Gen Javed Iqbal, Engrs (superseded) — DG Defence Complex Islamabad (DCI) at E-in-C Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Taufiq Rafiq, Engrs (superseded) — Deputy Engineer-in-Chief at E-in-C Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Tahir Ali, AD (superseded) — .
Maj Gen Azhar Rashid, AMC^[21] — DG Surgery at DMS Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Muhammad Ovais Mustafa, EME^[31] (superseded) — DG Military Vehicles, Research and Development Establishment (DG MVRDE), Wah Cantonment.
Maj Gen Raja Muhammad Arif Nazir, Avn^[32] (superseded) — GOC Army Aviation Command, Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Zahid Mubashir Sheikh, Arty (superseded) — .
Maj Gen Nasir Mahmood, Avn^[33] (superseded) — Additional Secretary at Ministry of Defence Production, Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Muhammad Yaqub Khan, AK^[19] (superseded) — DG Rangers (Punjab), Lahore.
Maj Gen Hamid Mahmud, Sigs^[34] (superseded) — DG Special Communication Organization (DG SCO), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Syed Ithar Hussain Shah, Arty^[35] (superseded) — DG Military Lands and Cantonments (DG ML&C), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Farooq Ahmed Khan, AMC^[36] — Commandant, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Comdt AFIP), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Chaudhry Ahmad Khan, AMC^[26] — Adviser in Surgery/Professor Army Medical College (AMC), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Ulfat Hussain, ASC^[37] (superseded) — DG Supply and Transport (DG S&T) at CLS Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Syed Shakeel Hussain, Baloch^[38] (superseded) — DG Anti-Narcotics Force (DG ANF), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Ghulam Mustafa Kausar, AK^[39] (superseded) — DG Munitions Production (DG MP), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Noor Hussain SBt, Baloch^[40] (superseded) — DG Quartering and Lands (DG Q&L) at QMG Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Tariq Mahmood, Engrs^[41] (superseded) — DG Welfare and Rehabilitaion (DG W&R) at AG Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Athar Abbas, AC (superseded) — DG Inter-Services Public Relations (DG ISPR), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Wajahat Ali Muftee, Arty (superseded) — .
Maj Gen Waqar Ahmed, AMC^[21] — DG Medicine at DMS Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Sefvan Majed Janjua, AMC^[21] — Commandant, Armed Forces Post-Graduate Medical Institute (Comdt AFPGMI), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Sohail Shafkat, ASC^[42] (superseded) — Managing Director, Pakistan Agricultural Storage and Service Corp. (MD PASSCO), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Azhar Ali Shah, Punjab^[43] (superseded) — DG Institute of Strategic Studies, Research and Analysis (DG ISSRA) at NDU, Islamabad.
Maj Gen Munawar Ahmad Solehria, Engrs^[44] (superseded) — Surveyor General, Survey of Pakistan (SoP), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Rashad Javeed, Arty^[45] (superseded) — Commandant, School of Artillery (Comdt SoA), Nowshera.
Maj Gen Mumtaz Ahmad Bajwa, Baloch^[46] (superseded) — DG (Security) at ISI Dte, Islamabad. (External wing - handling relations with Mujahideen groups inside Kashmir and other similar groups)^[30]
Maj Gen Muhammad Ashraf Tabassum, Arty^[33] (superseded) — DG Joint Intelligence and Information Operations (DG JI&IO) at JSHQ, Chaklala.
Maj Gen Muhammad Farooq Iqbal, Ord (superseded) — DG Purchase (Army) at DG DP, Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Shahid Maqbool, Sigs^[47] (superseded) — Commandant, Military College of Signals (Comdt MCS), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Jahangir Anwar Khan, AMC^[21] — IG Hospital at DMS Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Abdul Qadir Khan Shahid, AD^[48] (superseded) — DG National Guards (DG NG), Karachi.
Maj Gen Jahangir Khan, Infantry (superseded) — .
Maj Gen Abdul Aziz Tariq, Infantry (superseded) — .
Maj Gen Muhammad Ijaz Hussain Awan, Infantry^[49] (superseded) — DG Defence Export Promotion Organization (DG DEPO), Islamabad.
Maj Gen Ausaf Ali, Engrs^[29] — DG Operations and Plans at Strategic Plans Division (SPD), Chaklala.
Maj Gen Tariq Rashid Khan, Arty — Chief of Staff (COS), Southern Command, Quetta.
Maj Gen Tahir Ashraf Khan, Infantry^[29] — DG Operations and Plans at JSHQ, Chaklala.
Maj Gen Khadim Hussain, Arty^[50] — Commander, Logistics Area (Comd Log Area), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Mohammad Ahsan Mahmood, Engrs — .
Maj Gen Muhammad Asif, Infantry^[51] — GOC 8th Infantry Division, Sialkot. (Colonel Commandant of the sindh Regiment)
Maj Gen Mohammad Shahid, EME^[46] — Commandant, College of Electrical and Mechanical Engineering (Comdt CEME), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Obaid Bin Zakria, EME^[52] — DG Inspectorate of Technical Development (DG ITD) at IGC&IT Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Niaz Kausar Sheikh, ASC^[53] — DG Pay, Pension and Accounts (DG PP&A) at AG Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Zahir Shah, Engrs^[54] — Pro-Rector Planning and Resources (P&R) at NUST, Islamabad.
Maj Gen Muhammad Khalid Rao, Sigs — DG (Technical) at ISI Dte, Islamabad.
Maj Gen Muhammad Khalid, Baloch — .
Maj Gen Kaleem Saber Taseer, Arty — .
Maj Gen Muhammad Mansha, Baloch — .
Maj Gen Ghulam Dastagir, Punjab^[40] — DG Human Resource Development (DG HRD) at MS Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Abid Pervaiz, AC — DG Logistics (DG Log) at CLS Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Javed Iqbal, FF^[55] — DG Military Operations (DG MO) at CGS Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Mohammad Saeed Aleem, FF^[4] — Deputy Quarter-Master General (DQMG) at QMG Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Azhar Mahmud Kayani, AMC^[56] — Commandant, Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology (Comdt AFIC)/Executive Director, National Institute of Heart Diseases (NIHD), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Rehan Bashir, EME^[57] — DG Project Management Organization (DG PMO), Khanpur.
Maj Gen Junaid Rehmat, Engrs^[58] — DG National Logistics Cell (DG NLC), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Waqar Ahmed, Sigs^[59] — Signal Officer-in-Chief (SO-in-C) at IGC&IT Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Ziauddin Najam, Arty^[60] — Commander, Logistics Area (Comd Log Area), Karachi.
Maj Gen Shahid Ahmed Hashmat, Punjab — .
Maj Gen Mohammad Tahir, Avn — DG (Security) at SPD, Chaklala.
Maj Gen Nasser Khan Janjua, Punjab^[32] — Deputy Chief of General Staff (DCGS) at CGS Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Tahir Habib Siddiqui, AC — .
Maj Gen Akhtar Iqbal, Arty^[61] — DG Organization and Methods (DG O&M) at IGT&E Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Muhammad Azeem Asif, Engrs^[62] — GOC 11th Infantry Division, Lahore.
Maj Gen Tariq Nadeem Gilani, Arty — .
Maj Gen Muhammad Rafiq Sabir, Engrs^[46] — DG Housing at E-in-C Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Muhammad Hamid Akram, AMC^[26] — Adviser in Radiology/Professor Army Medical College (AMC), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Mohammad Ijaz Chaudhry, Arty^[63] — DG Rangers (Sindh), Karachi. (Sindh Rangers conducted the 1992 Operation Clean-up in Sindh)
Maj Gen Javaid Iqbal Nasar, Arty — .
Maj Gen Wasim Sadiq, Infantry — .
Maj Gen Naweed Zaman, Infantry^[43] — Commandant, Armed Forces War College (Comdt AFWC) at NDU, Islamabad.
Maj Gen Muhammad Nawaz, Infantry — .
Maj Gen Raza Muhammad, Infantry — .
Maj Gen Khawar Hanif, Infantry — .
Maj Gen Maqsood Ahmad, Infantry — .
Maj Gen Tanveer Ullah Khan, Avn — .
Maj Gen Zia Ullah Khan, AMC — Commandant, Combined Military Hospital (Comdt CMH), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Asif Ali Khan, AMC — Head of Cardiac Surgery at AFIC/NIHD, Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Suhaib Ahmad, AMC^[64] — Deputy Commandant, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (Dy Comdt AFIP), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Syed Wajid Hussain, AC^[65] — GOC 26th Mechanised Division, Bahawalpur.
Maj Gen Changez Dil Khan, AC^[66] — GOC 6th Armoured Division, Kharian.
Maj Gen Isfandiyar Ali Khan Pataudi, AC^[67] — GOC 25th Mechanised Division, Karachi.
Maj Gen Zubair Mahmood Hayat, Arty^[19] — DG Staff Duties (DG SD) at CGS Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Noel Israel Khokhar, Arty^[68] — GOC 23rd Infantry Division, Jhelum. (One of the two divisions that conducted Operation Rah-e-Haq in upper Swat and Shangla districts from November 2007 to December 2008, but reverted back to original location in December 2008 after 2008 Mumbai attacks)^[69]
Maj Gen Shaukat Iqbal, Arty^[70] — GOC 18th Infantry Division, Hyderabad.
Maj Gen Mazhar Jamil, Arty^[71] — Commandant Pakistan Military Academy.
Maj Gen Tahir Mahmood, AD — GOC 3rd Air Defence Division, Sargodha.
Maj Gen Zamir Ul Hassan Shah TBt, AD^[72] — GOC 4th Air Defence Division, Karachi.
Maj Gen Najib Ullah Khan, Engrs^[73] — DG Frontier Works Organisation (DG FWO), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Khalid Asghar, Engrs^[74] — GOC 33rd Infantry Division, Quetta.
Maj Gen Farrukh Bashir, Infantry^[61] — GOC Special Service Group (GOC SSG), Cherat.
Maj Gen Muhammad Farrukh Rashid, Infantry^[68] — GOC 17th Infantry Division, Kharian. (One of the two divisions that conducted Operation Rah-e-Haq in Swat District from November 2007 to December 2008, but reverted back to original location in December 2008 after 2008 Mumbai attacks)^[69]
Maj Gen Ishfaq Nadeem Ahmad, Infantry^[75] — GOC 37th Infantry Division, Gujranwala. (One of the two divisions that conducted Operation Rah-e-Rast in lower Swat District in 2009. Currently based in Mingora, Swat)^[69]
Maj Gen Javed Iqbal, Infantry^[51] — GOC 19th Infantry Division, Mangla. (one of the two divisions that conducted Operation Rah-e-Rast in upper Swat and Shangla districts in 2009. Currently based in Shangla District)^[61]
Maj Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, Infantry^[76] — Commander, Force Command Gilgit-Baltistan (Comd FCGB), Gilgit. (Division conducted the 1999 Kargil War)
Maj Gen Mohammad Saad Khattak, Infantry^[77] — GOC 41st Infantry Division, Quetta.
Maj Gen Sajjad Ali Khan, Infantry — .
Maj Gen Khalid Mahmood, Infantry^[78] — GOC 15th Infantry Division, Sialkot.
Maj Gen Waqar Ahmad Khan, AMC^[79] — Commandant, Military Hospital (MH), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Zafarul Islam, AMC — .
Maj Gen Waqas Ahmed, AMC — .
Maj Gen Nadir Zeb, AC^[80] — GOC 1st Armoured Division, Multan.
Maj Gen Allah Ditta Khan, Arty^[51] — DG (Counter-Terrorism) at ISI Dte, Islamabad.
Maj Gen Obaid Ullah Khan, Arty — . IGFC Balochistan
Maj Gen Naveed Ahmed, Arty — .
Maj Gen Mian Muhammad Hilal Hussain, Arty^[81] — GOC 35th Infantry Division, Bahawalpur.
Maj Gen Muhammad Zahid Latif Mirza, AD — . GOC 41 Division, Quetta
Maj Gen Muhammad Imran Zafar, Engrs^[82] — DG Engineers (DG Engrs), GHQ/GOC 45th Engineers Division, Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Shahzad Sikander, Engrs — .
Maj Gen Asghar Nawaz, Engrs — .
Maj Gen Sohail Abbas Zaidi, Sigs — .
Maj Gen Abid Hasan, Infantry^[51] — GOC 14th Infantry Division, Okara. (One of the three divisions that conducted Operation Zalzala in South Waziristan from January 2008 to May 2008. Moved back to original location in December 2008 after 2008 Mumbai attacks, but was redeployed to Dera Ismail Khan for Operation Rah-e-Nijat (October 2009 — March 2010) in South Waziristan. Currently based in Dera Ismail Khan)^[61]
Maj Gen Ikram Ul Haq, Infantry — .
Maj Gen Nasrullah Tahir Dogar, Infantry^[4] — GOC 16th Infantry Division, Pano Aqil.
Maj Gen Agha Masood Akram, Infantry — .
Maj Gen Inam Ul Haq, Infantry — DG Foreign Military Cooperation (DG FMC) at JSHQ, Chaklala.
Maj Gen Sohail Ahmed Khan, Infantry — . GOC 12th Infantary Division Murree.
Maj Gen Naushad Ahmed Kayani, Infantry^[63] — DG Military Intelligence (DG MI) at CGS Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Rizwan Akhtar, Infantry^[51] — GOC 9th Infantry Division, Kohat. (One of the three divisions that conducted Operation Rah-e-Nijat in South Waziristan in 2009-2010. Before that conducted Operation Zalzala in South Waziristan in 2008 and Battle of Wana in 2004. Currently based in Wana, South Waziristan)^[61]
Maj Gen Tariq Javed, Infantry — .
Maj Gen Ghayur Mahmood TBt, FF^[51] — GOC 7th Infantry Division, Peshawar. (One of the three divisions that conducted Operation Rah-e-Nijat in 2009-2010 and the earlier Operation Zalzala in 2008 in South Waziristan. Currently based in Miranshah, North Waziristan)^[61]
Maj Gen Sajid Iqbal, ASC — .
Maj Gen Imtiaz Hussain Sherazi, ASC — .
Maj Gen Faiz Muhammad Khan Bangash, Ord — DG Ordnance Services (DG Ord) at QMG Branch, GHQ.
Maj Gen Tariq Jawaid, EME — .
Maj Gen Syed Jamal Shahid, EME — .
Maj Gen Adil Khan, AMC — .
Maj Gen Amjad Fahim, AMC — .
Maj Gen Hamid Shafique, AMC^[26] — Professor Army Medical College (AMC), Rawalpindi.
Maj Gen Abdul Khaliq Naveed, AMC^[26] — Adviser in Biochemistry/Dean and Professor Army Medical College (AMC), Rawalpindi.

Many Punjabis, the dominant ethnic group in Pakistan are in fact of low cast Hindu background who converted to Islam through the soothing mystical prayers of Sufis and Pirs over the centuries. Whilst you can change your name and religion at the toss of a coin, you cannot change your race that easily.

A CHAMAR will always be a CHAMAR.

Race defines the wider mentality, society and history of a nation. What might ordinarily offend an Iranian, a Turk or a Russian may not offend a chamar. A chamar too readily prefers to be cruel to their own kind, and loyal to alien gora masters from the other side of the world, even if they overtly harms the nation. This is a typical chamar trait, and Pakistan's Achilles heel.

Everybody in Pakistan agrees that the USA is the main problem, with PAKISTAN'S cooperation with American policy, but not the Pakistan "strategic depth" military (ISI).

Pakistan has clear alternative options to save the nation:

(1) Comprehensive peace with India. Recognition of LoC as International boundary, and FTA with India.
(2) Greater reliance on China, over and above preferentially to that given to the USA.
(3) Exposure of the "al-Qaeda" myth. Expose the fact that OBL passed away in 2001.
(4) Cessation of hostilities against Fellow Pakistanis by the Pakistan military......and clear disengagement from American security policy.

The Americans will react with threats if Pakistan finally finds courage, and I imagine the $ is tempting for many of the Pakistani military officers, but they must find the character and courage to do what is right for Pakistan, the nation state, rather than lie and prosecute crime for the USA against fellow Pakistanis.

In the present trajectory Pakistan will not survive, but will inevitably be invaded in the future as was the dry run case recently by America, the "friend of Pakistan". Kiyani the chamar has a home in the USA near Washington, but not the rest of the 180 million Pakistanis. Pakistanis only have to look over the border to see what it means to be under American occupation, or in Iraq, but unlike the sorry Afghans, Pakistan with its 1.1 million men military machine and nuke weapons has leverage to chart a different course in its strategic security foreign policy. The longer Pakistan delays the weaker the state becomes. Thus transitory Zardari the crook/clown is not the main problem, it is the Punjabi military in Pakistan who see the present situation as wholly acceptable for the country.

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China: 'Pakistan is our Israel'
By IPS News service.

When a US delegate once confronted a Chinese diplomat about Beijing's uncompromising support for Pakistan, the Chinese reportedly responded with a heavily-loaded sarcastic remark: "Pakistan is our Israel".

But judging by China's unrelenting support for some of its allies, including North Korea, Burma, Zimbabwe and Sudan, its protective arm around these countries is no different from the US and Western political embrace of Israel - right or wrong.

While China is battling the West over exchange rates, import tariffs and its territorial claims in the South China Sea, Beijing is also lobbying furiously to stall a Western- inspired proposal for a Commission of Inquiry on possible war crimes by the military junta in Burma (Myanmar).

"Such a commission should not be seen as a way to punish the government, but to prevent impunity and help prevent further abuse," says the UN Special Rapporteur on Myanmar, Tomas Ojea Quintana.

But China, which in January 2007 exercised its veto, along with Russia, to prevent Security Council sanctions against Burma, has not shown any willingness to back the proposal - even for a watered-down commission.

"Clearly," says one Asian diplomat, "China is trying to reassert its political clout at the United Nations as a counterweight to its defensive stand on currency and trade issues."

The New York Times newspaper said on Tuesday that the US administration is facing a "confrontational relationship" with an assertive China and is trying to respond to "a surge of Chinese triumphalism" by strengthening Washington's relationship with Japan and South Korea.

US President Barack Obama is planning to visit four Asian countries next month -

1. Japan (American colony, where baseball is the national sport)

2. Indonesia(defacto-American colony since 1965, after the Americans over threw Sukarno. The Americans have run the country through the Indonesian military. All Islamic Fundamentalists groups in Indonesia are controlled and run by the Indonesian military, including JI)

3. India (trying to make it more pro-American through a package of gimmicks, empty platitudes, and actual strategic help..civilian nuclear deal)

4. South Korea (American colony, where baseball is the national sport, and through law from the 1950's, America controls the Korean military and intelligence apparatus)

------- while bypassing China.

Meanwhile, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who needs China's support in the Security Council if he decides to run for a second term next year, is currently on his fourth trip to China, having visited the country in May and July 2008, and in July 2009.

In recent months, China has prevented a Security Council resolution against North Korea over the sinking of a South Korean ship and also tried to suppress a UN report alleging the use of Chinese-made bullets in attacks on UN peacekeepers in Darfur, Sudan.

"China sees value in promoting its image as the Security Council member defending the rights of the developing world, and China sees value in relying on the UN to counter US power," said Linda Jakobson, director of the programme on China and Global Security at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).

Jakobson, an in-house China expert at SIPRI, points out that Beijing also sees value in participating in UN peacekeeping operations "both because this enhances the image of China as a responsible power but also because it gives Chinese military experience".

Still, China relented to US and Western pressure in supporting four Security Council resolutions imposing sanctions against Iran, one of Beijing's staunchest political, economic and military allies.

The fourth round of sanctions, all of them aimed primarily at Iran's nuclear programme, was imposed in June this year.

Justifying his country's support for the resolution, Chinese Ambassador Li Baodong was quoted as saying that Beijing wanted to make sure that sanctions would not affect the Iranian people or its normal overseas trade.

Jakobson said that China agreed to these sanctions after much deliberation and on the condition that the energy sector was excluded.

"This can be seen as a compromise solution on China's part," she said. "The exclusion of the energy sector was crucial."

Jakobson also pointed out that China wants to protect the massive investments by Chinese energy companies already in Iran or under negotiation with Tehran, and China wants to ensure that its long-term strategic plans for energy security are not threatened.

In a detailed policy paper released last month, and titled "New Foreign Policy Actors in China", SIPRI said the increasing sway of large state-owned energy companies have an increasing influence on foreign policy deliberations in China.

Jakobson, who co-authored the report with Dean Knox, said this is one example of that sway though it is noteworthy that there are other foreign policy actors who presumably were not inclined to advocate China's support of the resolution.

On the other hand, she said, there were presumably actors who advocated China's support for the resolution because China supports non-proliferation and does not want to see Iran go nuclear.

"If China had not supported the resolution, it would reflect badly on China's image and undermine its efforts to portray itself as a responsible global power," Jakobson said.

She said China attaches great importance to the United Nations and would like to see the role of the UN strengthened - though Beijing is wary of many proposals that want to expand Security Council membership and/or give power to members other than the present five permanent members, the United States, Britain, France, Russia and China.

The SIPRI report argues that actors outside the traditional power structure are increasingly shaping China's foreign policy.

Influential new actors on the margins include Chinese state- owned enterprises, especially energy companies, which, due to their widespread international outreach, affect China's bilateral relationships and diplomacy at large.

The others include local governments, especially in border and coastal provinces, which seek more lucrative trade and foreign investment opportunities.

At the same time, there is growing importance of researchers, who serve as advisors to officials and media, and netizens, who constitute a new pressure group that China's leaders at times feel compelled to take into account, not least during international crises.

The findings also point to a fracturing of authority in foreign policy formulation.

Diversification outside China's official decision making apparatus - along with changes within it - means that foreigners can no longer expect to only deal with one government agency or Party organ but must take into account multiple actors that have both a stake and say in the decision-making processes.

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A version of this article first appeared on the Inter Press Service News Agency.

Oct 24, 2010

Revolting France.

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France is the most popular country for tourists in the world. The country with its interesting mix of Latin, Celtic and Germanic people (and now Arab) is world famous for its leisurely pace of life, "Joies de ia vie".

Unfortunately it is experiencing a fundamental clash, as with many other nations between the Internationalist globalists banker class represented by Sarkozy (Mossad agent, put into power by the USA on a rabid anti-immigrant ticket) VERSES ordinary French people, and the fundamental way of doing things the French way. The issues being fought for is thus not just about retirement, and the little matter of 2 years more, but go far more deeper.

France was buffeted from the global recession partly because the government plays such a significant part in the national economy. 50% of the economy is taken up by the government, and there are 5 million state employees. Such state control protects the economy from the whims, crimes and fraud of the International bankers, which have afflicted other nations such as the USA.

However it must be equally said that the International bankers are as keen to see their agenda imposed in France, the cultural power house of the West and a not inconsiderable economy, as they are else where from Haiti, Chile or Russia. To this end Mossad Sarkozy will do their bidding, and implement their programs, which of course ordinary Frenchmen will not like.

The crimes and fraud of the International Bankers centers around "The City" London and New York. These are two cities and countries where the "clever" financial schemes were deliberately cooked up and sold to the rest of the world, which has had such an adverse affect for the rest of us.

For the crimes of the International bankers in the UK especially and also the USA, the ordinary public must pay, jobs must be lost, benefits must be cut, 'Phantom" wars must be prosecuted in foreign countries, and the Bankers must be given their Kleenex to wipe away their debts and tears, together with "PUBLIC BAILOUT" money. The Bankers control the governments in London and Washington, so no questions will be asked about the massive crime of fraud, instead the medicine will be presented to the people as fait a compli. We must tighten our belt.

But in France? Do the Bankers control the government, and through force can the government control the French people?

Through a show of force as Interior minister on an anti-Arab ticket, and water cannons Mossad Sarkozy came to power. Can he now win through using the same tactics against the whole of France? The cynical Gypsy ploy may work in bringing in Le Pen and his ilk, but to be fair to the Romany Gypsies, if ever the case goes to the highest European Courts, they as a collective race have existed in France/Europe for 800 years, after they traveled from India.

Bulgarians traveled from North Afghanistan (Bactria) via Russia to Bulgaria 1,200 years ago. Finally Slavs traveled from Siberia (IN ASIA) to Eastern Europe 1,200 years ago. They are no less European, and entitled to be called as such. Jews originally from Libya (Gadafiland---North Africa) traveled to Europe 2,000 years ago, especially after the Romans sacked Jerusalem in AD 70, after a rebellion against Rome.

The Jew, much source of concern, anxiety and conspiracy within Europe to the point of being expelled 109 times from various countries as a collective race/religion......a feat unmatched by any other race. Probably responsible for WWI and WWII, and the current banking crisis which afflicts much of Europe and the rest of the world.

It is thus supremely Ironical that a Mossad agent Sarkozy wants to expell Gypsies from France, for being a mere nuisance. Lets face it France's fundamental problems imagined by Sarkozy and thus defined by his policies whether real or imagined on behalf of the International Bankers aren't going to be solved by mere expulsions of a few Gypsies are they? This is more International Jewish vaudeville staged to bolster their agenda's, as with the Ground Zero Mosque, Mohammed Cartoon saga, Arab riots in France, 7/7 London, "al-Qaeda" and 9/11.

The fundamental problem is in fact the Jew, who conjured up multi-multiculturalism across Western countries and then flooded them with illiterate Third World people from the villages. BUT PLEASE NO MULTICULTURALISM IN ISRAEL....Obviously flooding sophisticated First world nations with backward Third World people is going to cause a few social and political problems. But its the height of chutzpah of neo-liberal/neocon Jews to point this fact out now. It is the Jew who flooded France with 6 million Arabs as cheap labor and as political whipping boys.

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Vive La Resistance!

Thank God for France

By MIKE WHITNEY

Thank God for France. While American liberals tremble at the idea of sending an angry e mail to congress for fear that their name will appear on the State Department's list of terrorists, French workers are on the front lines choking on tear gas and fending off billyclubs in hand-to-hand combat with Sarkozy's Gendarmerie. That's because the French haven't forgotten their class roots. When the government gets too big for its britches, people pour out onto to the streets and Paris becomes a warzone replete with overturned Mercedes Benzs, smashed storefront windows, and stacks of smoldering tires issuing pillars of black smoke. This is what democracy looks like when it hasn't been emasculated by decades of propaganda and consumerism. Here's a blurp from the trenches:

Headline:

"French Energy Sector Crippled by Nationwide Strike... French energy facilities are close to total disruption in the wake of nationwide strike against the raise of the retirement age.....France has been hit by numerous protests across the country against a controversial pension reform that would rise the retirement age to 62 from 60....On October 22 morning 80 protesters blockaded Grandpuits oil refinery outside Paris, key supplier for Charles de Gaulle and Orly international airport." (The Financial)

Shut 'em down.

Take note, Tea Party crybabies who moan about restoring "our freedoms" while stuffing the backyard bunker with seed corn and ammo. Glenn Beck won't save you from the "mean old" gov'mint. Liberty isn't free anymore. If you want it, get out of the barko-lounger and organize. The amount of freedom that any nation enjoys is directly proportionate to the amount of blood its people spilled fighting the state. No more, no less. The man who is willing to accept the blunt force of a cop's truncheon on his back is infinitely more praiseworthy than the leftist/rightist scribe crooning from the bleachers. The state isn't moved by lyrical editorials or prosaic manifestos. It responds to force alone, which is why it takes people who are willing to "throw themselves on the gears" of the apparatus and stop it from moving forward. Unfortunately, most of those people appear to live in France.

The resistance is steadily building in France. The budding rebellion is cropping up everywhere---"secondary schools, train stations, refineries and highways have been blockaded, there have been occupations of public buildings, workplaces, commercial centers, directed cuts of electricity, and ransacking of electoral institutions and town halls..." And the big unions are calling for more strikes, more agitation, more ferment.

For more than a week, transportation has been blocked across the France due to the protests by students and workers. Sarkozy's popularity has plummeted. 65% of people surveyed don't like the way the French president is handling the strikes. 79% of the people would like to see Sarkozy negotiate with the Union on terms and conditions, but he won't budge. Thus, the cauldron continues to boil while the prospect of violence rises.

"STRIKE, BLOCKADE, SABOTAGE"

This is from an anonymous striker:

"In each city, these actions are intensifying the power struggle and demonstrate that many are no longer satisfied with the order imposed by the union leadership. In the Paris region, amongst the blockades of train stations and secondary schools, the strikes in the primary schools, the workers pickets in front of the factories, people create inter-professional meetings and collectives of struggle are founded to destroy categorical isolation and separation. Their starting point: self-organization to meet the need to take ownership over our struggles without the mediation of those who claim to speak for workers.

We decided Saturday to occupy the Opera Bastille. This was to disturb a presentation that was live on radio, to play the trouble makers in a place where the cultural merchandise circulates and to organize an assembly there. So we met with more than a thousand people at the “place de la nation”, with banners stating “the bosses understand only one language: Strike, blockade, sabotage." (end of communique)

The action was met with predictable police violence and mass arrests.

The pension turmoil is not limited to France either. US pension funds are underfunded by nearly $3 trillion. Will US workers be as willing as their French counterparts to face the beatings (to defend "what's theirs") or will they throw up their hands and appeal to Obama for help?

There's no question that Washington elites have joined with Wall Street to offload the massive debts from the financial meltdown onto workers and retirees. Nor is their any doubt that they will invoke (what Slavoj Zizek calls) a "permanent state of economic emergency" to justify their actions. That will allow them to move ahead with so-called "austerity measures" that are designed to impoverish workers and strip popular government programs of their funding. The trend towards "belt-tightening" merely masks the ongoing class war which is aimed at restoring a feudal system of royalty and serfs.

This is from an article by economist Mark Weisbrot:

"If the French want to keep the retirement age as is, there are plenty of ways to finance future pension costs without necessarily raising the retirement age. One of them, which has support among the French left – and which Sarkozy claims to support at the international level -- would be a tax on financial transactions. Such a “speculation tax” could raise billions of dollars of revenue – as it currently does in the U.K. – while simultaneously discouraging speculative trading in financial assets and derivatives. The French unions and protesters are demanding that the government consider some of these more progressive alternatives."

But the retirement age is not really the issue at all. This is about union busting and "putting people in their place." It's about "who will call-the-shots" and in whose interests will society be run.

The French are fighting back against this "oligarchy of racketeers" and the ripoff system they represent, while, namby-pamby Americans are neutralized by signing their umpteenth petition or venting their spleen at a Palin rally.

Vive la France. Vive la Résistance.

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Mike Whitney lives in Washington state and can be reached at fergiewhitney@msn.com

Wikilies

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The previous wikilies "Leaks" seemed to have targeted PAKISTAN, and specifically the ISI.

In addition it bolstered and attempted to sell the lie that OBL the American agent was still alive, and active in that part of the world as a real threat to the world via his non-existent organisation.

Yes the ISI is bad (I was born in Bangladesh and was a witness to Pakistani military operations in that country in the Liberation war), and the Pakistani military does manage the Taliban who then go on to kill occupation soldiers in Afghanistan.

But that is only the partial narrative.

The ISI is controlled by the USA; it bankrolls it. The Taliban is an organization created by Pakistan at the behest or "orders" of the USA from 1994.

OBL passed away in December 2001, and was to the last an American agent of possibly crypto-Jew origin from Yemen/Saudi Arabia. David Headley the American agent who directed 26/11 is Jewish on his mothers side.

The primary objective of the USA military in Afghanistan is the harvesting of heroin, whose profits are then laundered in "The City" in London and NY high street banks.(East India Company/Opium wars redux). The USA military's primary MO and activity is narcotics, and arms sales....that has been the case since the 1960's.

It is NOT a noble institution filled with "warriors" who adhere to codes of honor.

Wikilies in the process of "Leaking" substantively nothing we did not already know, is reinforcing propaganda for the Pentagon. Which subsequently encouraged them to attack Pakistan more recently, in the long process of destabilizing that failed state run by the USA.

Wikilies very recent, with MUCH TOO MUCH HYPED "Leaks" about Iraq seems to be targeting IRAN. Few cogent points highlighted by Gordan Duff at Veterans Today:

Iraq is already awash with arms from Tanks downwards which can be very cheaply brought in the black market (Saddam stockpiles/Pentagon "oops I've misplaced" surplus). Iraqi insurgency, short of jet fighters and aircraft carriers don't need arms imports from Iran.
As the Americans have found out Iraqis are pretty good at fighting at an insurgency level, given the sheer number of men who went through extensive military training, and hard fighting experience. They wouldn't need Iranians to come into Iraq to show them how.
More logical and feasible for Iraqis to go into Iran for top up training and then come back with their new skills.
Given the level of ordnance experience by ordinary Iraqis (remember country alleged to be developing nuke, biological and other smart weapons) they wouldn't require Iranian experts to come into their country and show them how to build basic rudimentary improvised weapons.
Iraq is precisely at the juncture where Iran wants it exactly, dominated by Iran Loving Shia's. A country that has been dominated by Sunni Muslims for 1300 years. A historical milestone for Shia's the world over and their control of a very important Muslim country. IRAN WILL NOT be rocking the boat with a few silly random attacks on occupation troops. Iran is secretly pleased with America's efforts in Iraq....and in 2003 via Switzerland, just after invasion offered an across the board reconciliation package to the USA including recognition of Israel, efforts for Middle East peace; cessaton of funding for Hezbollah and other resistance groups and full cooperation with the USA in Iraq and Afghanistan. The USA on a MASTBATORY ROLL for war for Israel said no. Rather Iranian strategy in Iraq is this.......stability, de-Baathification, Shia consolidation.....and a farewell to American occupation eventually. Israel on the other hand........
Massive theft of oil from Iraq unreported by Western media, mainly via Turkey.
The role of Israel in destabilizing Iraq, and its peoples actions against occupation forces, including and especially American forces.
Genocide and war crimes in Iraq, UNDER AMERICAN OCCUPATION 2003---2010, which presumably have been documented. 1.3 million civilians killed, and 4.5 million made homeless.
The Iraq war was a total fabrication, carried out at Israel's behest.....with America as the junkyard Dog.
Saddam was an American agent recruited by the USA in the 1950's (Miles Copeland/Adel Darwish). Sent to Lebanon for training, and then to Cairo for his own safety, then back to Iraq into the corridors of power. America FOR ISRAEL (junkyard Dog) replaced and toppled one of its own long nurtured agents from the 1950's from a vital Middle Country in the pursuit of essentially Israeli objectives (smash Iraq into 3 ethnic blocks).

By highlighting such points we do not say the mullahs of Iran are all goodness and light deserving our support, far from it. But given the nature of the "situation", and the stakes involved we must be wary of sly Israeli tricks to sucker and corner America into yet another war of a very nasty kind in the Greater Middle East.

Revelations by Wikileaks mean very little if they are not actioned upon (Both International and in America), which also includes fundamental changes in American policy in the Greater Middle East. The most adverse description of such leaks would be that they tend to desensitise Americans to the real crimes of war, and a belief that such crimes are part of the natural order, and to be expected in the prosecution of war in the Greater Middle East for the long term American good.

How do you demonize Iran for Israel, so that the USA attacks the country? The traditional tools of demonizing used against Iraq are warily treated so you use alternative "cool" vehicles which pose as anti-establishment persecuted entities such as Wikilies.

Gordan Duff believes Wikilies to be an Israeli front.

Sep 30, 2010

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'Azadi for us means an end to repressive military rule in Valley'

By Subodh Varma of The Times of India.

A cross section of Delhi's civil society and women activists listened in stunned silence as Parweena Ahangar, a middle-aged Kashmiri woman, narrated the torment of a mother whose son "disappeared" 20 years ago. It's believed that he was killed by security forces. Parweena mentioned her son only once. After that she wept for dozens of others, naming them and describing the circumstances of their disappearance. Parweena is in Delhi with a group of Kashmiri women to narrate the horrors of a society at war, and to make another attempt to seek justice. It's a diverse group including university and school teachers, a hospital worker, a journalist and some housewives. They have been invited here by Women's Initiative for Peace in South Asia (WISPA).

Hameedah Nayeem, a professor at Srinagar University, in a counterpoint to Parweena's choking grief, provides the context in staccato objectivity. She says that the current protests that started four months ago are peaceful. ''Protesters throw stones only after police firing or if a woman's modesty is attacked, like security men forcibly snatching away the head-dress, as often happens,'' she says.

Explaining what ''azadi'' — a slogan voiced routinely in the Valley — means, Nayeem says it means getting rid of the armed forces and their repression, and also, the establishment of democracy.

''In Delhi, you can't understand what it means to live with the military for 20 years. They have taken over all the public space — schools, roads, hospitals, cinemas, everything. They can hold up anyone, enter anyone's house do anything that they feel like,'' she says. According to Nayeem, the military has taken over one million ''kanals'' of land legally and another 2 million illegally in the Valley. ''This has destroyed the normal vocations of thousands of people,'' she says.

The women from Kashmir silently weep as Parweena recounts the chilling story of 8-year old Samir Khan who was going to his uncle's house one afternoon and disappeared. His mutilated body was found the next day in the river. Investigations showed that his frail body had been crushed by boots and a metal rod inserted into his mouth. ''Why is the government honouring policemen who are responsible for killing thousands in Kashmir?'' she asks.

Parweena formed the Association of Parents of Disappeared Persons (APDP) to fight for investigation of all cases of what she calls ''enforced disappearance''. According to her, over 8,000 cases of such disappearance are recorded. In many cases investigations have been done and guilty persons from security forces identified. ''But, we have to run from pillar to post trying to get somebody to hear our sorrow,'' she says. The delegation presented a set of demands to home secretary G K Pillai, which included getting women involved in the peace process, demilitarization, withdrawal of AFSPA and PSA, release of imprisoned youth, prosecution of errant security personnel etc.

Whether it is the agony of Parweena Ahangar or the cold objectivity of Hameedah Nayeem, the message from the women of Kashmir is loud and clear — they will continue the struggle for justice and peace, and for end of what they call military rule in Kashmir. ''It's an oath we have taken in the name of Allah. We will not give up,'' says Parweena softly.

Sep 29, 2010

Permanent Seat for India in UN security Council; Number three nuclear/conventional power according to American sources.

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Comparisons between China and India are informative sometimes, in some areas, though both are very different countries.

China got the Permanent Seat in the UNSC in the 1960's, in the Middle of the Wonderful Cultural Revolution, ongoing threats and disputes with Taiwan, no guarantees to the USA that China would not help the North Vietnamese fight the Americans, and hostile posturing against ALL in-sundry including the USA and Soviet Union.

The Soviet Union were so alarmed by Chairman Mao and his antics within and without his country that by the late 1960's they were contemplating a full scale conventional/nuclear attack against China, concentrated in the Manchurian area.

However the USSR was dissuaded from that idea eventually, through concerted American pressure.

China though a significant Third World power, had great limitations in the 1960's. The average Chinese were desperately poor, with millions starving due to Mao's economic policies.

There is however a historical linkage between the USA and China which has been missing between India and the USA, all of which affect relations between nations, great and small alike.

China is a natural country to admire given its ancient civilization, and its sheer size.

Napoleon Bonaparte once said of China, "Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world."?

With the USA this was reinforced by American missionaries further romanticizing the nation, in a Dudley do-right WASP kind of way. I have come across a few of them all glazed eyed.

British Raj rule initially blocked out the USA from India along with British Fabian Socialism until 1991. American perceptions of India were thus not very clear, and heavily influenced by Anglophiles within the USA elite structure (the bald short nasty guy is a metaphor for Mahatma Gandhi.)

Since the 1960's and the "Flower Power era" Americans have become more familiar with India, especially now with 2 million Indians residing in the country. Since 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union along with India's reforms has moved the country further closer to the USA. Economic, cultural and security cooperation is increasing between the two nations. Indian students account for the largest foreign element in American universities. All good, both nations can fundamentally and mutually benefit.

I happen to think a permanent seat on the UNSC is India's natural right, nothing to strive for but a mere formality to be carried through, led and initiated by the USA within a few weeks or even months, just as the USA did with China in the 1960's. Rabid hard line Communist China.

I think putting Sisyphean conditionality's on what is India's natural right is biased and racist. The two are separate issues.

The Kashmir problem on-going for 63 years will take a couple more years to solve.

It is the height of impertinence for the USA to create benchmarks for India over an issue that has seen very little success lately, AND not for any want on India's part for making honest sincere efforts, consistently over many years. Such a peculiar benchmark suggests India hasn't tried hard enough, as per any cliche school masters reports to the parents. It absurdly even suggests that the USA cares more about India/Pakistan peace than India does and realizes.

The USA controls Pakistan. Zardari visits the American embassy, next door to his Presidential Palace every day to consult with his real master who through rigged elections put him in power in 2008.

The USA controls the ISI, which the USA bankrolls and manages most of its operations within Pakistan, if not without. The USA controls the Pakistan army, funding it, and training its top brass in the USA. The USA controls and has exclusive rights to military bases in Pakistan. The USA has the right to kill Pakistani civilians, within sovereign Pakistan territory in the pursuit of utter nonsense, with the aid of the Pakistani military. The USA has marshaled $25 billion over several years via USA direct aid civilian/military for Pakistan, and the IMF and WB, which are essential annexes to American power based in Washington to further reinforce the USA's control of the hapless failed state number 10.

It is the USA which could easily tomorrow order the Pakistani military to sign on any peace declaration with India over Kashmir, and the Pakistani generals would do so.

Certainly one hopes the Obama visit to India in November will produce productive agreements between the two nations which will substantively enhance relations between the two great nations and civilizations. Certainly the Pro-American lobby in India, significant as it is will be hoping for this.

At a minimum the Obama visit in November should not be a repetition of the Clinton visit of 2000 to India, at the very end of his second term. In that 5 day visit there was much fanfare, but NOTHING in the way of significantly upgrading of relations between the two countries....especially in the area of trade and commerce. For Clinton it was more of a State holiday and just another opportunity playing the world statesman role. Empty hollow platitudes, playing India for a sucker whereon much was anticipated in India, and certainly hinted before the visit, but in the end nothing realized.

Trade between China and the USA is worth $400 billion, but heavily in China's favor due to American government action solely ....(MFNs, tax breaks, tariffs, customs checks etc). China exports $340 billion to the USA, and the USA $60 billion to China. Although China is catching up and improving through experience and open competition, but still a lot of the Chinese goods are not of good quality. Astoundingly the USA is buying into Chinese debt at a rate of $300 billion a year, so that now China is the defacto banker to the USA, and American officials such as Geitner et al crawl and grovel to them to increase the currency value of the yuan to a more realistic level, which in turn gives American industry a level playing field.

I can understand the Dudley Do Rights in America and their rather childish puppy love for another nation, which may be subject to change given enough rational nuanced persuasion for the sake of self preservation.

Obviously what India needs is a massive bolstering of trade between the two nations (one tenth of China's....$40 billion India/USA trade 2010) India isn't looking for "free trade" of the USA/China type, but rather one that is more equitable. Mutually beneficial for both nations people, and businesses. It is suggested Obama marshal a small army of trade & commerce experts from the American Chamber of Commerce; India/American PAC and so forth to do a shortlist of the areas where there can be a MASSIVE BOLSTERING of trade between the two nations to say $300 billion by 2015. $150 billion Indian exports to the USA, AND $150 billion USA exports to India.

In between the usual serving of platitudes, pulpit African American style sermonizing and visits to the Taj Mahal blah blah blah....... Obama needs to sign serious significant trade agreements between the two nations which PERMANENTLY jacks up trade, and thus increases the transnational interdependence between the two nations which fundamentally brings them closer in the real sense. We can still love China, it is not at the cost of going against China.
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Obama's pitch: Fix Kashmir for UN Security Council seat

By Chidanand Rajghatta of the Times of India.

Go for a Kashmir solution and help bring stability to the region for a ticket to UN Security Council membership and fulfilling your big power aspirations. That's the broad message President Barack Obama will be bringing to New Delhi during his upcoming November visit to India, preparation for which are in full swing in Washington DC.

The Kashmir settlement-for-seat at high table idea (euphemism for UNSC membership) is being discussed animatedly in the highest levels of the US administration, according to a various sources. President Obama himself has decided to revive the process of a US push in this direction, albeit discreetly, because of New Delhi's sensitivities.

Key administration officials are confirming that the UNSC issue will be on Obama's agenda when he visits New Delhi. The US President is expected to announce an incremental American support to India's candidature during his address to the joint session of India's parliament, depending on New Delhi's receptiveness to resolving the Kashmir tangle.

"[UNSC reforms] is something that is under discussion as we prepare for the President's important visit," US Assistant Secretary of State Robert Blake confirmed on Monday during a read-out of the meeting between Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and her Indian counterpart S.M.Krishna, saying the two had agreed the "President's visit will be a defining moment in the history of our bilateral relations."

The clearest insight into Obama's thinking on the matter comes from Bob Woodward's latest book "Obama's War" in which top US policy makers are shown mulling on defusing the Kashmir situation as part of an exit strategy for US from the AfPak theater.

"Why can't we have straightforward talks with India on why a stable Pakistan is crucial?" Obama is reported as musing at one meeting. "India is moving toward a higher place in its global posture. A stable Pakistan would help." Implicit in the rumination is the idea that settling Kashmir would mollify Pakistan, where, US officials say, hardliners are using the unresolved issue as an excuse to breed an army of terrorists aimed at bleeding India.

But that is easier said than done, according to Bruce Riedel, author of the Obama administration's Af-Pak strategy, who has canvassed the centrality of the Kashmir issue to peace and stability in the region. The spoiler to any settlement is the hardline Pakistani military and its jihadist proxies for whom attrition and confrontation with India is an article of faith.

In fact, the solution Washington has in mind (also proposed by Riedel) is likely more palatable to New Delhi than to Islamabad. It's on the same lines of what Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Pakistan's deposed military leader Pervez Musharraf broadly agreed on before the latter was turfed out of office: The Line of Control would become the international border, but it would be a soft, permeable border, allowing Kashmiris on both sides to move back and forth. The rest – safeguards, procedures etc – is a matter of detail.

"President Obama's strategy for dealing with Afghanistan and Pakistan always needed a Kashmir component to succeed; that need is becoming more urgent and obvious now. His trip to India in November will be a key to addressing it," Riedel said in a commentary this week.

"India cannot become a global power with a prosperous economy if its neighbor is a constant source of terror armed with the bomb. A sick Pakistan is not a good neighbor," he added, echoing Obama's words (Woodward's book also suggests he influenced Obama's thinking).

Virtually setting the agenda for Obama's India visit, Riedel says Obama's challenge is to quietly help Islamabad and New Delhi work behind the scenes to get back to the deal Musharraf and Singh negotiated. "He will have a chance to work this subtly when he visits India in November," he writes.

But Riedel and other US policy makers portrayed in Woodward's book also recognize that the biggest hurdle to a settlement is a hardline Pakistani military. While the civilian leadership in Pakistan would like to embrace the deal "it is unclear if the army chief, General Kayani, is on board."

Woodward's book shows that most top US officials, save Admiral Mike Mullen, believe Kayani to be a closet jihadi and a two-faced "liar" intent on perpetuating war with India. "I'll be the first to admit it, I'm India-centric," Kayani is quoted as telling US officials in one exchange.

Although three top cabinet principals from India -- S.M.Krishna, A.K.Antony, and Pranab Mukherjee -- are in the US this week and next, exchanges on the UNSC and Kashmir are said to be taking place directly between President Obama and Prime Minister Singh through trusted interlocutors such as National Security Advisor Shiv Shankar Menon, who is also in Washington DC this week.

Sep 26, 2010

"Shining India" "Rising India"

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We are the world's biggest Banana Republic

By Shoban Saxena of the Times of India

A couple of days ago, a Scottish delegate got a shock of his life when he saw a dog shitting on a bed inside a 'swanky' apartment at the Commonwealth Games village in Delhi. (metaphorically the best place) The Scotsman clicked a photo of the dog, and now the picture is part of the evidence submitted by the Scottish delegation to the Organising Committee to prove that the multi-million dollar village is not "fit for human habitation". In the past few days, foreign TV crews and photographers have been busy chasing and clicking photos of dogs – peeing and shitting in the apartments, running on practice tracks, jumping into swimming pools and sleeping under the police cars and other vehicles parked at Games sites and venues. The foreigners are horrified – and scared to death – by the sight of street dogs running wild in the "sanitized areas". For them, it's a sign that India is not ready for the Games and the infrastructure here is not "world class".

Now, there is no doubt that India's carefully created, and airbrushed, image of an 'emerging superpower' (heavily promoted by the USA no less) and the 'second-fastest growing economy' in the world rots in the piles of rubbish.(I've never understood why cows are allowed to shit and roam freely in modern Indian cities) The myth of 'India Shining' (BJP's slogan) and 'India Rising' (the Congress' slogan) has been busted. We have proved to the world – and to ourselves as well – that we are a third world banana republic which is sinking into a bottomless pit.

(Third world definitely, but across the board banana republic, NO.....aspects of the Indian justice is not bad{SC}.......and the Indian military is an example of a fine institution for a Third World nation......The Indian media isn't that bad, and Indian rags are probably more liberated then the concentrated ownership wise high street broadsheets of the USA.....India is moving up, and forward, but obviously and glaringly its not all even)

I am not worried about the mismanagement at the Games sites. We shouldn't have organized the Games at all. The country which in 63 years of independence hasn't been able to provide proper living houses, clean drinking water, uninterrupted electricity, fulltime jobs, healthy food, clean air and free education to all its citizens despite spending trillions of dollars, how did you expect the same country to pull off an international sporting event without it sinking into the slime and grime of corruption and bad governance.

I am not justifying corruption, but it's a fact that graft is part and parcel of capitalism, though the level differs from country to country. (Corruption and mismanagement has been worse in some Communist countries-----Soviet Union, 60 million dead, and China 50-60 million died; 43 million in just two years of the "Great Leap Forward" experiment 1958--61) This has been proved by western politicians and Wall Street bankers in the past couple of years. In the US, the bankers and financial giants robbed the American people, mostly the middle and working-class, clean and then declared themselves bankrupt, and they were bailed out by the American government with public money. This was the world's biggest daylight robbery. And no one, except Michael Moore, raised the red flag.(The USA is a MAFIA POLICE state run by Jews)

(Corruption is every where, the issue is who is better at hiding it and selling it.....hey at least India doesn't invade countries and kill millions of people based on shoddy tongue in cheek lies, or make certain Third World nations poverty stricken people grow heroin, and then sell the finished product to their own country, and then launder the money in the biggest High street banks in your country........I mean could you imagine RAW, or the Indian military doing such things!!!!!!!)

In the US, this brazen act of corruption made thousands of houses go under water and millions became jobless, but in India something more sinister and dark has been happening in the garb of the Games. In the past two years or so, the governments of this country and this city have launched a full-scale war on the poor. Millions of poor people from the country's dustbowls have been brought here to work at the Games' construction sites. They have been slogging day and night at the venues and living like animals under plastic sheets, sleeping on wet ground and eating filthy food. That food is just about enough to keep their body and soul together so that they can build the glass and chrome buildings and showcase India Shining to the world.

(Are we talking slave labor here?)

In 21st century India, the street dogs are luckier than the poor. The dogs make news for shitting on expensive beds and the poor workers go to snake-infested swamps to take a leak at night, get bitten and die and not a soul is stirred.

On one hand the government has brought these people from poverty-ravaged villages to work on its corruption-tainted buildings, and on the other hand lakhs of hard-working but poor people have been thrown out of the city so that the foreigners coming here for the Games do not see the ugly, dirty side of India. Thousands of people living in Yamuna Pushta area were plucked from their houses and dumped on a wasteland in Haryana. Beggars were packed off earlier. Now, the police are scanning the slums of Delhi and Gurgaon and people are being forced to board trains back to their villages. These people have been living and working here for years and suddenly they have been asked to leave. The government doesn't want any filth in the city during the Games. It's putting bamboo screens in front of the slums.

But, now the filth is out in the open. The mismanagement and corruption has been exposed by the photos of dirty, filthy and unhygienic apartments at the Games village. And guess who gets blamed for it. Not the politicians or babus or contractors but the poor workers at the site. And when 27 workers got injured on Wednesday, when the footbridge near the JL Nehru stadium collapsed, they were herded like animals into private vehicles and dumped at a sarkari hospital. No ambulance for them, no post-recovery package for them. Just Rs 50,000 in damages for broken legs, cracked heads and damaged spinal chords.

(They need a good lawyer and class action suit)

And, to hide the accident near the Nehru stadium, the area was cordoned off and cops in full riot gear were stationed so that ordinary people and media and foreigners can't get anywhere near the site and see one more horrendous accident. Suddenly, the government has one solution for every problem across the country: post heavily-armed police and paramilitary men at the scene of a "disturbance" and give them license to shoot at will. It happens everyday in Srinagar. It's happening everyday in the jungles of Chhattisgarh. It's happening in the villages of West Bengal. It's happening in the villages of UP. Now, with Ayodhya verdict round the corner, the temple town is being turned into a fortress with men in khaki swarming over it.

These are symptoms of a failed state. We are catching up with Pakistan. We make tall claims about growth, but we treat out poor worse than animals. We aspire to be world power, but we can't even provide drinking water to all our citizens. We claim to be world's biggest democracy, but we 'solve' all our social and political problems with loaded guns in hand. It's time we accepted that we are a banana republic and we are going to the dogs.

(NO, Pakistan is way down the road to failing......unless a miracle power or entity suddenly appears and destroys and dismantles the ISI with the Pakistan military.

In India there is no such "Sword of Damocles" hanging over India which the Indian people must overcome and rise up against. Instead what you have are a handful of Macauley Brown Sahib corrupted politicians educated in the West, some possibly working for foreign powers (Sonia, ManMohan Singh certainly as previously implied) and with them, to complement them, equally corrupt Babus....lacking imagination....national zeal......self respect.....national pride. Nothing wrong in being a chauvinist PIG a tad bit and channeling in the RIGHT manner.

Smelly filthy Jews are an extreme example of ethnic chauvanism, the sin of which they chide and chastise everybody else about....observing Israeli society closely.....they look after themselves. That is what Indians need to do, without becoming like Jews, heaven forbid.)