Possibly the next leader of Pakistan.

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Nawaz Sharif sadly has remained silent in Pakistan without even a kittens mild squeak, never mind a roar in support of the massive opportunities that came his way in the wake of the mess in Pakistan.

Billionaire crook ex-con Zardari put into power by the USA/ISI in 2008 has made a royal mess of Pakistan......with power production actually declining from 93.6 billion Kwt in 2008 to about 89.3 billion kwt for 2011 (estimates)...exports at $22 billion in 2008 to $20 billion for 2011 (estimates of otherwise fiddled figures).....and a very poorly performing economy. ex-con Zardari makes the Pakistani military who control SECURITY and FOREIGN POLICY in the country look pretty appealing, even though in reality the Pakistan military is the number one problem in Pakistan.

Zardari the USA/ISI front has to go soon, and there after a better civilian leader has to come in .......maybe that leader is Imran Khan the Oxford educated former cricketer/playboy.

He obviously is following the right strategy, but even he must know that in order to avoid being a shambolic front and legitimating agent of military power he ultimately has to face down the all powerful Pakistani military, through which the JEWSA exercises power in Pakistan.

Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey has done so decisively with the arrest of 42 generals involved in an Israeli linked right wing plot against his government. This is after 9 years of solid successful rule, where the Turkish economy has been booming. Erdogan is a GOOD LEADER and has proven himself, thus far. Though the Jews within his country are trying to distract him from his real mission with suggested misadventures in the Caucasus, Libya and now Syria.

The question is does Imran Khan want to be a GOOD LEADER for his people, and country or a mere puppet front of the military who are in addition nauchniwali of the USA?.......where he is President in name only, with Kiyani in the GHQ in Pindi telling him everyday what to do, along with the USA ambassador......and extensive expensive tax-payer funded foreign trips to every country in the world except INDIA, meeting more puddies along the way, opening their legs for the bachelor President.



















































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Imran Khan is the most popular Pakistani politician: Survey

Sameer Arshad of The Times of India

Pakistan's cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan has crisscrossed the terror-scarred country, addressed rallies and led dharnas when the country's top politicians have confined themselves to their fortress-like houses in exclusive security zones.

(obviously 10 paratha per day Sharif isn't going to go very far holed up in his Haveli....he should be reaching out to the people in their hour of need)

The world cup-winning captain also did the unthinkable by leading a dharna under open sky in northwestern city of Peshawar that has seen near-daily Taliban attacks in the last few years.

Is the 1970s and 80s heartthrob a fool rushing where angles fear to tread? No, say his admirers who call him the next big thing in Pakistan's politics.

They assert that Imran would most likely emulate his exploits in the cricketing field in electoral politics in 2013 when Pakistan goes for the next general elections.

Latest surveys ranking Imran by far the most popular Pakistani politician must be music to their ears.

In a YouGov@Cambridge opinion poll in July, 77% respondents considered him the best-suited politician to lead the country.

Just 11% backed former PM Nawaz Sharif and 13% present incumbent Yousaf Raza Gilani.

Earlier, 86% respondents in a Newsweek Pakistan poll backed the cricketer-turned politician to lead the country while US-based PEW survey ranked him the most popular politician in the country with 78% people surveyed giving him thumbs up. He is often described as "clean", a word rarely used to describe Pakistani politicians.

It is this image that boosts his popularity in a country where 94% people, according to the Cambridge survey, consider corruption as Pakistan's biggest problem. His criticism of US policy in Pakistan where many have died in the American drone attacks has also boosted his stature. Many say Pakistan's all-powerful army also favors him, as they do not want inept and corrupt political and social elite to continue ruling the country.

"Deep State" is out of control in Failed State Pakistan.

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Its a sad state of affairs when China accuses Pakistan of funding and training terrorists.

China is the only solid reliable friend Pakistan has ever had for the last 50 years, helping the country with its nuclear weapons program, undertaking strategic projects in the country in a way the USA/UK never have in 63 years and never will..........and helping the Failed State basket weaving country with a mere 1.6 million tons of steel production, develop an advanced weapons production program which includes tanks, jet fighters, cruise missiles, long range ballistic missiles and much much more.

China smiles supportively, with unconditional affection and never criticizes Pakistan when the country's leadership and military climb into bed with the USA for long sessions of deep sex again again and again. China does not either subvert Pakistan's power structure by bribing government officials and hiring such people as foreign funded agents of interest.

When the USA allegedly raided Abbottabad, to kill the ghost of Tim Osman CHINA was the only country in the pura Dunyia which stood by Pakistan and stated that any future attack against Pakistan by the USA, would be seen as an attack on China.

So now coincidentally we have these allegations that the rebels in Sinkiang PROVINCE have had support and training in Pakistan. Thus obviously one may surmise that the vast "Deep State" of Pakistan which plays a prominent role within Pakistani society is out of control, and deeply flawed and very very stupid.

Of course this is pro forma for a nation which has funded Islamists of the extreme kind within Pakistan since the 1970's, and clings to supporting them as a proxy force of the military with child like conviction come what may. 500,000 have been trained thus far since the 1970's.....with numerous ever changing names.

Of course this is pro forma for a nation which has funded Islamists of the extreme kind in Afghanistan since the 1970's, and clings to supporting the Taliban with child like conviction come what may and future blowback.

Of course this is pro forma for a nation which has funded Islamists of the extreme kind in Indian Kashmir since the late 1980's, and clings to supporting them with child like conviction come what may and future blowback. I'm not convinced that this is the case with the rest of India......that may be a result of the problems of the "Deep State" which exists in India itself.

Of course this is pro forma for a nation which has funded Islamists of the extreme kind in Iran since the 2003, and clings to supporting Jundallah with child like conviction come what may. Maybe with Zardari's two visits to Tehran recently this is NOW changing.

Of course this is pro forma for a nation which has funded Islamists of the extreme kind in Bangladesh since the 1990's through the BNP, and clings to supporting them with child like conviction come what may. The BDR mutiny of 2009 may have linkages with Pakistan's ISI, and the need to scupper War crimes trials of JI collaborators of the Pakistani military. The blow back to this Pakistani policy has been a massive landslide victory for the left wing pro-India party the Awami League, which hopefully will foster greater DEEPER relations with India that is long lasting. CONGRESS India as usual has been very slow on the uptake of the full implications of an Awami League victory....but thats another story.

Clearly something is seriously wrong with the "Deep State" in Pakistan if it starts funding groups which are anti-China.

Strategically funding so many Islamist groups in so many neighboring countries is going to cause serious problems for Pakistan.

Strategically funding so many Islamist groups in so many neighboring countries, with the collaboration of the USA/UK/Israel is going to cause serious problems for Pakistan.

Which state entities in Pakistan were involved in training the Uighur rebels? What are the names of the Pakistani officers involved? What was the source of their funding? What locations were used for their training in Gilgit and Baltit?

Did Kiyani and Shuja Pasha know about this? If they did know about its existence why did they allow it to carry on? If they didn't know, why not? Clearly Zardari bhen couldn't have known about it.

What role did the USA/UK have in the training of the Uighars rebels?

What is the full list of ALL the rebels trained by the camps in Pakistan? How did they come to Pakistan, and how did they leave?

The above questions and issues need to be transparently shared with CHINA as quickly as possible, and the establishment of a joint investigative team between the two countries to deal with the problem. There after apologies from the COAS and Shuja Pasha and the Presidents office needs to be issued to China officially, ASAP.

It would help matters if Pakistan took complete stock of ALL its terrorist training bases, and their existence should be known to the COAS, ISI head and the President.

Failed State Pakistan might want to wind down its "Deep State" empire.

Failed State Pakistan might want to expel ALL USA/UK security advisers from Pakistan.

Failed State Pakistan looking for a crutch to lean on psychologically might want to import more Chinese security advisers into the country. I AM QUITE SURE THEY WON'T GET UP TO ANY MISCHIEF WHICH EMBARRASSES THE PAKISTANI GOVERNMENT.........and why not more Iranian security advisers in the country as well?

A lashkar for Sharif in Punjab.

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The Pashtun's have their Taliban backed by the Pak military and ISI, the Baluchis have their Jundullah backed by the Pak military and ISI, Sindhis have their own armed group as do the MQM for the Mohajirs.

In an era where the constitution is being wholly ignored in many significant parts of Pakistan, and might seems to be right these days, then perhaps the PML-N should SERIOUSLY think about setting up its own private militia, of about 300,000 filled and organized by the party with retired military officers within its ranks, who are clearly vetted.

Who can blame the PML-N for doing such a thing, if the army and police can't protect the nation from the rampant Taliban coming out of Swat and threatening key Punjabi cities like Wah, Rawalpindi and Islamabad. In light of the real situation in Pakistan, this might not be a bad idea in the circumstances. If the PML-N does not understand this fundamental current reality, but instead rely on mere peoples power and the Lawyers movement...............the PML-N will surely be the loser in the coming months and years. Unfortunately this is the present nature of Pakistani politics, and it is for the PML-N who must be totally realistic and face this fact about current Pakistani politics.


We should remember that the Bolsheviks in Imperial Russia in 1918 were not widely popular, and most Russians opposed them, since the majority of Russians were conservative and believed in 1. GOD 2. Mother Russia (strong nationalism) and 3. the Czar at the top of all that, unifying the whole nation. Atheist Jewish Communism, with its internationalist overtones was irrelevant to ordinary Russians naturally, after all why should ordinary Russians care about the welfare of workers around the world.

BUT through their strong party organization the Bolsheviks fanned out from their small traditional strong holds in the big cities of St. Petersburg and Moscow to slowly defeat their enemies, over a period of 3 years by 1921, through ruthless armed struggle mixed with simple populism with the manipulation of the abject poor.............promising and giving them land and property (this is what is happening with the Swat Taliban......but under obscurantist fundamentalist Islam...whilst the Pakistan military looks on).



This is also what happened in Iran in 1978-1982, where a coalition of different political groups from constitutional democrats, to left wing parties and of course Islamic parties overthrew the Shah with covert Western backing. The Iranian military though used initially against the protesters later became hapless bystanders as the Islamic revolution progressed; they were ordered by the Shah, and American officials not to intervene in the evolving revolution. Eventually what happened was that a lot of the key senior officers were subsequently executed, or exiled, with the mullahs creating the Revolutionary Guard and Basij to check the power of the conventional Iranian military. Then a few years later one by one with Western guidance the mullahs eliminated the non-Islamic groups in the coalition, so that they could run the country by themselves.


He is happy in the USA after he helped them establish the Islamic Revolution.

Logically speaking, the Taliban should not win in controlling most of Pakistan as most Pakistanis expressed in free and fair elections their desire against Islamic parties in the February 2008 elections.........this is fact. But we see from history how through clever manipulation small extremist minorities can sometimes usurp power over the majority, and it is from this threat that the PML-N in the absence of any strong guarantees by the traditional custodians and guardians of the state, who must prepare themselves for the coming struggle with the Taliban.

The Taliban offer nothing but utter abject misery and loss for the majority of the Pakistani people, as they propagate an ideology which is wholly unsuitable in relation to the serious challenges Pakistan as a nation state of 180 million now faces and will face in the coming years and decades.


In undertaking such a serious course the PML-N should formulate a MOU with the PML-Q, ANP, MQM and PPP, beyond Zardari. The Taliban poses a threat to all these parties, as they are religious purists who don't believe in sharing power, just like the Iranian mullahs and the Jewish Bolsheviks in Russia.

Fiddling whilst Pakistan burns

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I suppose this could apply to Zardari, fiddling the state accounts, whilst Pakistan collapses around him..................the man is a lost cause beyond redemption...........the sheer audacity and lack of propriety of a representative of a once proud nation going begging for $100 billion to "save" Pakistan from itself, and the sheer stupidity of him in thinking that the world community would give that kind of money to his corrupt regime to save Pakistan.

No, lets instead focus on Sharif. In one sense after recovering ALL his recent losses he is resting on his laurels, perhaps confident that in the 2013 elections he is certain to win. Four years is a long way off in Pakistani politics.......especially NOW with all the things happening.

I can confidently say with what is happening with the covert Army backed Swat Taliban, there will be no democratic elections in 2013.

I can further confidently say that Zardari won't finish his full term in office into 2013, hence his frantic last ditch efforts to scrounge and beg as much money from whoever and where ever.

I can confidently say that the Pakistani military might take power well before 2013, to "save" Pakistan from the Taliban.

If this is the case, what should Nawaz Sharif do to avoid the repetition of military rule, or a Taliban takeover of Pakistan. The Taliban aren't the sort who share power, they are purists who do not believe in elections, democracy, secular law, modernization and progressive secular education.

Peoples power, civil society and the Lawyers Movement won't save Pakistan from the Pakistan army backed Swat Taliban, or so it seems.........................if elements of the military through the ISI are backing them. Nawaz Sharif will have to find a more aggressive, different mode of fighting them than the tools he successfully used against the Zardari government.

So what will his new strategy be?

Does Sharif have serving military and ex-military around him who are linked to his party, and don't support a Taliban takeover of Pakistan. People who don't want to end up as refugees in India, or live in exile in the UAE, London or Washington?

Now is the time to seriously network with the silent majority, since for sure civil society of any type won't work against the Swat TALIBAN.


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Nawaz raises alarm over Taliban march

By Masood Haider of Dawn Newspaper.

Former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has expressed concern about a controversial peace deal Zardari government signed with militants and decried they (militants) are trying to export their particularly harsh version of sharia.

In an interview published in USA today Sharif asked rhetorically ‘how do we deal with the situation in Swat?’ Sharif observed ‘they are now threatening to get out of Swat and take other areas into their custody. So we've got to avoid that situation.’

Nawaz Sharif asserted ‘any deal with militants should include commitments that ‘democracy will not be allowed to deteriorate and the writ of the government will be honored,’ adding that women's schools and universities must be allowed to stay open.

The newspaper said Sharif who had called for a ‘revolution’ to topple the government backed off from criticising Zardari saying he wants to work with ruling coalition.

In the interview conducted in Lahore, Sharif downplayed fears that the nuclear-armed country could be taken over by Taliban militants, who are gaining strength both in Pakistan and in neighboring Afghanistan, where they are battling US and Nato troops.

Sharif stressed the insurgency in Swat and border areas could be defused in just two years if sufficient economic development took place.

USA today said Sharif, who served two terms as prime minister in the 1990s before he was ousted in a military coup, is in a strong political position once again after staring down his rival, President Asif Ali Zardari, last month in a confrontation over the independence of Pakistan's courts.

After talking of a ‘prelude to revolution,’ Sharif escaped house arrest to lead thousands of protesters on a march toward the capital of Islamabad. The public pressure forced Zardari on March 15 to back down and reinstate judges purged by the previous, military regime.

The newspaper said that Sharif sounded triumphant. ‘My eyes still can't believe what they saw on the 15th of March,’ he said.

‘For the first time in the 60-year history of this country, a day had arrived when the people actually demonstrated their strength, their power. This nation stood up for its rights — and succeeded.’

Sharif avoided criticising Zardari directly during the interview and insisted that he wants to work with the ruling coalition, led by the president's Pakistan Peoples Party.

Sharif still wants Zardari to give up some of his presidential powers but says the dispute should be resolved in parliament, not on the streets.

‘This country cannot afford any confrontation,’ Sharif said. ‘We're not going to put our country in jeopardy (because of desire for) power. Grabbing power at any cost is not our motto.

‘Our motto is to get the country back on the rails of democracy, strengthen institutions like the judiciary and media and take necessary steps to prevent anybody from abrogating or suspending the constitution.’

Sharif has never been a Washington favorite. In the 1990s, his government tested a nuclear bomb, earning economic sanctions from the Clinton administration.

Sharif said he had a good relationship with President Clinton — and is a fan of President Obama. ‘I have never met Obama, but I have a good impression about him,’ he said.

‘I think he's a good guy.’ Since Obama took office, he said, US diplomats have been reaching out to him and to other political leaders.

Democratic politicians returned to power in parliamentary elections last year, and President Pervez Musharraf resigned.

Now, Sharif said, politicians must set aside their quarrels and work together to find solutions to the Taliban insurgency and Pakistan's other pressing needs.

‘This country is facing huge, huge problems — internal, external,’ he said. ‘It's very important that democracy deliver.’

The newspaper pointed out Sharif, head of the conservative Pakistan Muslim League, said that he opposes attacks by airborne US drones on militant hide-outs as ‘counterproductive’ and wants to see dialogue with more moderate Islamist groups.

The Politics of utter failure.

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Contradictions point towards a crunch

By Mahir Ali




LAST week began with President Asif Zardari signing a bill that effectively legalises the hand-over of a portion of Pakistan to a branch of the Taliban.

It drew to a close with a bunch of countries pledging, at a meeting in Tokyo, to donate $5bn to the country. The president promised to devote the extra resources to combating the ‘tremendous challenge’ posed by Islamist extremism, and warned the nation’s benefactors: ‘If we lose, you lose, the world loses.’

The very same day, Maulana Abdul Aziz returned in triumph to his favourite haunt, Islamabad’s Lal Masjid, where he appeared to claim at least some of the credit for the outcome in Swat and promised that a similar fate lay in store for the country as a whole and for the rest of the world.

The instrument of surrender in Swat was more or less unanimously endorsed following a perfunctory parliamentary debate — and even that gesture appeared to spook the Awami National Party and its leader, Asfandyar Wali Khan, who threatened to pull the ANP out of its alliance with Zardari’s PPP in the event of the bill being presented for discussion to the National Assembly.

There appears to be a relatively simple explanation for the ANP’s nervousness: it is very, very scared of the Taliban and their allies. Which says a lot about the state of affairs in the NWFP. If the once progressive party’s leading role in negotiating a highly reactionary deal in Swat is based on the assumption that a concession in Swat will allow the provincial government more breathing space elsewhere, then it clearly does not understand the Islamist mentality.

The vast majority of MNAs who spoke on the bill defended it on the basis that similar laws had been enacted in 1994 and 1999, although former information minister Sherry Rehman pointed out that ‘in those times the elected representative of the province had executive control over the area. There was no danger of people being subjected to privatised justice, to Taliban vigilantism and public brutality’.

The only party that refused to acquiesce in endorsing the bill was the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, whose parliamentary leader Farooq Sattar challenged the idea of allowing an armed ultra-radical group to establish its writ by force, and was subsequently quoted as saying that the move will ‘have far-reaching consequences for the idea of a moderate and liberal Pakistan’. I don’t often find myself in agreement with the MQM, particularly in the context of its stranglehold over Karachi, but in this case its stance seems unexceptionable.

One possible factor behind the refusal of other parties to acknowledge that the Swat deal sets an ominous precedent was elucidated by an intriguing analysis by Jane Perlez and Pir Zubair Shah, published last week in The New York Times, according to which the Taliban have advanced their cause by taking the side of landless peasants against landlords — sometimes by intimidating the latter into running away from their estates, and then sharing the spoils with the peasants, who in return are willing to serve as the shock troops of the extremists.

There are unlikely to be many countries in the world where feudalism is as deeply ingrained as in Pakistan, and landed interests dominate most of the larger parties (the MQM, for what it’s worth, is an exception). They are obviously keen to restrict the Swat phenomenon — described by an unnamed senior Pakistani official as ‘a bloody revolution’ that could sweep away the established order — to that region, so that their own latifundia are not similarly threatened. This, again, is a vain hope: there’s a considerably better chance that the Taliban will only be emboldened by their success in the Malakand area.

Although most of the peasants may not realise it, this is essentially a case of one form of exploitation being superseded by another variant that is equally toxic, albeit in a different way. Regardless of the circumstances, the discomfiture of the feudal elements does not render them any worthier of sympathy. The pity is that it was left to the Taliban to capitalise on the natural resentment of the rural proletariat: the political parties that could have done so chose instead to align themselves with, and to accommodate, the propertied opportunists.

In a recent interview with The Independent, Zardari suggested that he understood the nexus between poverty and militancy, saying: ‘We will never really succeed in containing and destroying the militants and fanatics if we do not address the social needs of our people.’ That is perfectly true — although it ought to be pointed out that unacceptable levels of poverty were taken for granted for decades before fundamentalism became a deadly force. What’s more, addressing the social needs of our people’ has never been a priority for any Pakistani government, and it does not follow from the presidential acknowledgment of this problem that the present administration will behave any differently.

Arguably, the best possible use for the bulk of the forthcoming $5bn would be to spend it on education, whose inadequacy is in all probability the largest single reason why the sowers of ignorance find such fertile soil — and the dominant feudal mentality again helps to explain why the idea of enlightening the masses has never quite caught on. Chances are the money will be put to more mundane uses, such as upgrading weaponry or servicing the international debt. A certain proportion may also end up in someone or the other’s pocket (20%---Zardari). Richard Holbrooke says the handout should have been multiplied by 10; Zardari, who at one point was keen on soliciting $100bn, would wholeheartedly agree.

Meanwhile, the inadequately explained bail for Maulana Abdul Aziz and his return to the scene of the crime, so to speak, is more or less guaranteed to enhance the sense of beleaguerment that has become second nature to the majority of Islamabad’s residents, accustomed as they are to sporadic blasts and massive security barriers.



‘The government,’ according to a report in The Guardian at the weekend, ‘is urging foreign embassies to move into a diplomatic enclave that may soon resemble Baghdad’s green zone.’ Almost everyone acknowledges, however, that adequate precautions against suicide bombers are hardly feasible. The vulnerabilities of Lahore and Karachi — to say nothing of Quetta and Peshawar — have already been demonstrated, while the likes of Baitullah Mehsud are free to hold press conferences, evidently with little fear of interception.

If the centre cannot hold, things will inevitably fall apart. Every now and then the odd flicker of hope can be glimpsed, but chances of redemption are fading fast. Once India concludes its drawn-out electoral process, it might be well-advised to make contingency arrangements for a wave of refugees driven by Islamist anarchy.




















Of course Busharaf the Deobandi Mohajir from India won't be going to India as a refugee again, but will most probably settle in the USA, like many Iraqi generals who took the $ in 2003.

The Pakistan army backed Swat Taliban take over more areas.

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So much for the "Peace deal" between the Swat Taliban and the Islamabad government. If this is peace, what good is it to the central government and the people of Pakistan?

All Islamic fundamentalist states have been attacked viciously and consequently invaded.........by the USA and UK.......Taliban Afghanistan 2001, after being blamed for 9/11, and Somalia 2006......by neighbor Ethiopia with USA assistance. Iran is being threatened with attack and invasion 2003----2009, CONSTANTLY. Hamas controlled Gaza has been savagely attacked by Israel just a few months ago IN 2009. Hezbollah run Lebanon got the same treatment in 2006.

These are the hard facts that, and unless ordinary Pakistanis, and their pitiful "political leaders" and "military officers" have a serious craving and need to be attacked by the like of the USA, UK and Israel, with carpet bombing, drone attacks, cluster bombs, phosphorous bombs, daisy cutters, they had better organize themselves quickly to prevent the Taliban taking control of more Pakistan territory................................deal with the military leaders who are aiding the Swat Taliban.

Busharaf, Kiyani, Suja Pasha, Hamid Gul ALL after all have secured second homes provided secretly in London and Washington, but the rest of Pakistan's 180 million population must face this threat from the Taliban, and there after behind them, the "Liberation" forces of the USA and UK, waiting in Afghanistan. 100,000 Occupation Forces this year in Afghanistan, and the Afghan security forces will be boosted to 400,000 in the near future, and additional USA trainers are being sent for this task.

10-20 million Pakistani refugees in India, and many millions killed in a vicious civil war inside Pakistan, under foreign occupation.


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Buner falls into the hands of Swat Taliban

By Dawn Newspaper.

BUNER: Taliban militants from Swat took control of Buner on Tuesday and started patrolling bazaars, villages and towns in the district. The militants, who had sneaked into Gokand valley of Buner on April 4, were reported to have been on a looting spree for the past five days.

They have robbed government and NGO offices of vehicles, computers, printers, generators, edible oil containers, and food and nutrition packets.Sources said that leading political figures, businessmen, NGO officials and Khawaneen, who had played a role in setting up a Lashkar to stop the Taliban from entering Buner, had been forced to move to other areas.

The Taliban have extended their control to almost all tehsils of the district and law-enforcement personnel remained confined to police stations and camps.

The Taliban, equipped with advanced weapons, were reported to be advancing towards border areas of Swabi,Malakand and Mardan, the hometown of NWFP Chief Minister Amir Haider Khan Hoti.

According to reports reaching here, the militants have set up checkposts and camp bases in Kangar Gali village, along the Malakand border; Naway Dhand village, along the Mardan border; and Tootalai village, along the Swabi border.

The sources said officials of the FC camp in Jorh had asked people to vacate their homes in view of threats of an attack.

The militants have started digging trenches and setting up bunkers on heights in strategic towns of Gadezi, Salarzai, Osherai and other tehsils.After occupying the Buner district and setting up their headquarters in the bungalow of businessman Syed Ahmed Khan (alias Fateh Khan) in Sultanwas, the militants started patrolling the streets and roads with no signs of law-enforcement personnel.

Led by Fateh Mohammad, the militants were asking local people, particularly youngsters, to join them in their campaign to enforce Sharia.

They have established checkposts on roads and are searching all passing vehicles. They have virtually established their writ in Buner region, once a stronghold of the Awami National Party.

A Taliban commander said they would set up strict Islamic sharia courts in Buner as they have already done in Swat, but would not interfere with police work.

‘The Taliban who have arrived from Swat have increased patrolling, banned music in public transport and rampaged (through the) offices of NGOs and taken their vehicles,’ local government official Rashid Khan said.

‘Taliban militants armed with rocket launchers were manning the checkpoints and operating from local mosques,’ he said, adding that a report had been filed at the local police station against ‘unknown militants.’

‘We will soon establish our radio station. Our Qazis (Islamic judges) will also start holding courts in Buner soon,’ Taliban commander Mohammad Khalil told AFP.

‘We will not interfere in the police work, they can continue their job,’ he said, adding their purpose was to end a ‘sense of deprivation’ and to provide speedy justice.

‘People in their dozens have come to invite us’ to extend sharia.

Muslim Khan, a Taliban spokesman, told AFP from Swat that ‘the government writ is not being challenged in Buner and Taliban are not creating any hurdle in the administration's work.’

‘The Taliban will leave Buner after enforcement of Islamic justice system,’ he said.

However, several residents said they felt ‘scared’ and planned to leave the Buner area, fearing similar violence to that in Swat.On Tuesday, armed groups entered the Rural Health Centre at Jure in Salarzai area and took away a Land-Cruiser being used by the Expanded Programme of Immunisation (EPI), Buner.

On April 17, they raided a basic health unit in tehsil Chamla and looted 480 cans of edible oil. They took away from the house of a lady health visitor a large number of food and nutrition packets supplied by USAID and sewing machines from an Action Aid-sponsored vocational centre in the Korea village of tehsil Chamla.

On April 18, they looted a huge quantity of medicine from a health facility at the Afghan refugee camp in Koga in the same tehsil and 640 cans of edible oil from a godown of the World Food Programme in Nawagai.On April 19, armed men took away a Suzuki Potohar Jeep from a rural health centre in Nagrai. A group of 20 militants took away a Suzuki Ravi car and 400 cans of edible oil from a basic health unit in Garga.

Another armed group snatched an ambulance, a pick-up provided by Gavi for EPI cell, a Suzuki Ravi from a health centre in Swari.They also broke into the offices of Paiman (Save the Children) EPI, Jica offices and took away several computers, printers, two generators, fax machines, UPS and other appliances.The armed men stopped near Ambela a double-cabin vehicle of Paiman going to Buner from Peshawar and took it along with the driver to a nearby camp. Later, they released the driver and escaped with the vehicle.

They have also occupied the main office of Rahbar in Swari.

A dangerous traitorous game by the Pakistan military for their Western Masters.

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Could Pakistan be taken over by hardline Islamic fundamentalists (Deobandi), and then get control of Pakistan's nuclear bomb's there after? Whilst the current Pakistan civilian/military authorities understand to a certain extent the norms of international law, the hardline Islamic fundamentalists are not constrained by such niceties.

This is the basic narrative of certain sections of the American security community; Certain sections of Israeli security community, and some Pakistani commentators............Finally some Indian commentators have also joined in line with this argument. They ALL have different reasons for arriving at this conclusion:

(i) The American security commentators usually anonymously sourced through the New York Times and Washington Post, state such things because they want to expand the stale static war on terror into a new arena, because if the American military are bogged down in Iraq, and Afghanistan their original narrative formulated in the PNAC 2000 loses momentum. By attacking Pakistan, and later invading the country that fake narrative is deemed to be "energized".....a perception is created that "progress" is being made, and the military are being put to good use. For their Israeli masters the Americans can then also secure the Pakistani nukes, and bring under control yet another Muslim country, and "liberate it".



(ii) For the Pakistanis there are multiple confusing contradictory reasons for pushing the Islamic fundamentalist agenda in Pakistan. For one major group of the all powerful military currently in power (Kiyani, Suja Pasha), by giving space to Islamic fundamentalists (800,000 Pakistan military backed by 300,000 paramilitary surrendering to 3,000 lightly armed Taliban in Swat, on all the Taliban terms and some more....), this is an avenue through which the Pakistan military can destabilize the civilian government and for them a ticket back into power.




For a smaller group of the Pakistani military centered around Busharaf and Hamid Gul, the Islamic fundamentalists ascendancy is a natural ideological development of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan inherited from Zia ul Haq, where Sharia law is enforced in the entire country, and irregular Jihad is waged mainly against India (apparently both these ultra hardball Deobandi Islamic nationalist generals have absolutely no problems with America/Israel ............if you can source all the photo ops of them saluting the two countries, hugging, shaking hands, kissing and saluting of course.....into 2009).

The final group in Pakistan which is propagating the Islamic ascendancy myth is the present Pakistani government under Zardari. It is probable that Zardari in power for only a few months so far has little or no say over security matters in Pakistan and therefore his main focus would be to make as much money as he could whilst the going was good (HE OFFERS ABSOLUTELY NO POLITICAL AGENDAS FOR RUNNING PAKISTAN......NO programs, nothing, no real governance). His primary motivation is himself and to make serious money and then put it in foreign tax haven accounts, the standard practice of much of South Asia's corrupt elite so lets not be too harsh on the man. In order to get more cash inflows he is milking the threat of Islamic ascendancy in Pakistan to gain more aid money. “Help us to help yourselves”. He did suggest an American financed Marshal plan for saving Pakistan amounting to $30 billion but probably the Americans understand precisely what type of SAVINGS Zardari was talking about, as they do with the $7.6 billion American economic aid and the $5.28 billion international pledge. Lets see if Zardari has progressed to Mr. 20%, he has already made $2.5 billion from the above aid pledges.....

(iii) The Indian's want to propagate the Islamic ascendancy in Pakistan because for some of them it is chance to get closer to America............."I like you, you like me, we friends yaar"; to be clearly accepted as the regional power in South Asia by America, and by a few possibly to get even with Pakistan through joint ops against Pakistan.

The Pakistan military are thus playing a dangerous brinkmanship game, creating such negative narratives against Pakistan whilst fully cooperating with the USA's covert agenda's which in the long run harm Pakistan clearly. It is Pakistan which can lose a lot in such a scenario eventually. As a neighbor India can also lose.

The imperialist tool and pattern.

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Those who are sufficiently informed about South Asian history should know that it is the British who created the Muslim League in 1905, using their favored puppets in the Bengal Muslim aristocracy, to challenge the Congress Party in India (The same reason why Pakistan was created as a state by the British....using their agent Jinnah). Also one should know that the British backed the Wahabi House of Saud into power, against the interests of the much more moderate Hashemites. If we keep these two clear facts in mind, then we should have no problems in understanding why the British created the Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt in the early part of the last century, the grand daddy of al-Qaeda, and of many other real and imaginary Islamic movements in the Greater Middle East and the world.



With Islamic fundamentalists Western powers with imperialist pretensions, like the UK can use them to:

1) Destabilize Muslim countries.
2) Have simple minded uneducated idiots running a country, and therefore more easily manipulated, and thus destroy any development and modernization programs within that country.
3) Provide the rational for attacking a Muslim country (ALL MUSLIM COUNTRIES UNDER FUNDAMENTALIST RULE HAVE EITHER BEEN INVADED {Somalia, Afghanistan}, OR ARE BEING THREATENED WITH INVASION{Iran, Hamas Gaza, and to a lessor extent Hezbollah Lebanon}.....................so a simple lesson to learn for all Muslim countries which wish to avoid Western neo-colonial intervention, then must fight the Islamic fundamentalism within your country if they want to avoid Western neo-colonial "liberation" by the likes of the USA, and UK.



Iraq is after all run by Islamic parties under American "liberation". Before the invasion it was run by secular Socialists. So we know what type of governments they prefer, under occupation.

What other uses do Islamic fundamentalists have besides their colorful appearance and rhetoric for the Western neo-colonialists? In the case of Egypt, and the Islamic Brotherhood as in the case with India and the British creation of the Muslim League, the British used the Islamic Brotherhood to challenge the secular modernist NATIONALIST movement in Egypt which wanted complete independence from Britain and its domination of the country. So the British very generously funded the building of the first Mosque to be run by the Islamic Brotherhood.....and they went into their religious rants, attracting mainly poor misguided young men.........and you shout Sharia law, and sharia law and sharia law...with Islamic Kalifaat, Kalifaat and Kalifaat..........but this is all illusionary nonsense, to divert from the real task of nation building under a nationalist modernist secular banner. There is no such thing as modern progressive Islamic republic, the two are contradiction in terms. The Kalifaat dream is illusionary, since it can never be achieved in the real world. Pragmatically the best policy to really improve your country is nationalism under a modernist banner.


And so we have in Swat a puppet of Western Intelligence coming out with the usual nonsense of Sharia law for the whole of Pakistan.........and a call for Qalifaat( Taliban want Sharia in all Pakistan)..........written by Western intelligence, and guided by their Pakistani military minders.



Busharaf the Deobandi is off to Saudi, and then London to thank them. And the rest of Pakistan which in free fair elections in 2008 voted for non-Fundamentalist parties overwhelmingly MUST get ready for invasion and occupation by the British and USA "Liberation forces". The Pakistan military have sold the nation out again in the process of flying the Pakistani flag and portraying themselves as solid nationalists.
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The Fall of the Shah

Londonistan

The ISI

The fifth column of Islamic fundamentalism

Hamas Son of Israel

al-Qaeda, the global Renamo

Fake al-Qaeda

GWOT over 100 years

al-Qaeda tool of the West

Bernard Lewis and Samuel Huntington

The Great Game

Bernard Lewis