Pakistan Allows Blood Suckers to Import Explosive

 اس گھر کو آگ لگ گئی، گھر کے چراغ سے

The above Urdu couplet tells us who to blame and who to not. Isn’t it ridiculous to blame American for our problems when our own people are bent upon destroying this country and its people? Our civil society, students, journalists and indeed some politician rightly expressed the real feeling of Pakistani society during the recent visit of Ms Clinton to Pakistan but who will educate our masses that our own people are letting blood suckers to suck the last drop of our blood? And after all they can do this as they enjoy the ‘mandate’ of majority of Pakistanis. It’s this stage where I unhappily say; “to hell with this democratic system where the illiterate majority defeats literate minority by electing the most corrupt, anti state leadership for steering the state affairs” But we still have to go along with this democratic system, as the military dictators have proved to be worst.

According to Online News Agency,  Gilani’s government has issued License to the US for importing of explosives, armed weapons by violating rules and regulations.

“Government has issued license to US embassy for the import of armed weapons and explosives by violating rules and regulation, the news reads.

According to documents available with Online the permission to import of large quantity of ammunition and explosive was granted by the Ministry of Interior while ignoring the rules and regulations.

According to a letter dated May 29, 2009 the U.S. embassy in Pakistan requested to Foreign Ministry for permission to import the ammunition, which was needed to train the Crisis Response Team. Foreign Affairs Ministry contacted ministry of interior for grant of No Objection Certificate. The ministry of interior asked the intelligence agencies for necessary security clearance but without waiting for the clearance permission to import the ammunition and explosive granted the NOC on June 29, 2009.  Former President Gen (Retd) Pervez Musharraf in 2003 had permitted the US embassy to set up a training center in Police Training College Sihala for the training of US embassy staff against terrorist activities but now a large area within the premises of college is in possession of U.S. trainers and restricted even for the College administration and Commandant.

For information of all concerned Pakistanis who use to raise their eyebrows after Americans being caught with arm are freed with a phone call from the ministry of interior, how can Pakistan take action against the Americans who have been allowed by our own government? Do you believe in the “statement” of Rehman Malik Dakait when he says that “No one is permitted to carry army” or the documents which permit them to violate the laws of Pakistan? This news also enlightens us that why didn’t our government take action against American for storing explosive in Sihala College, near KRL.

Marvi’s open letter to Ms Clinton

Ms. Memon declined an invitation by US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to meet her as part of her engagements with politicians and civil society representatives in Islamabad yesterday. Here she explains her reasons.

Dear Secretary Clinton,

Whilst the message from you and your government is that of peace and friendship, the Kerry Lugar Bill passed by your legislative branch has been one of the main stumbling blocks in this mission. The assumption that Pakistanis have misunderstood the bill is equally faulty. Pakistanis have read the bill and understood your intent to micromanage Pakistan, to curtail Pakistan’s nuclear expansion program and to direct the war against extremism in Pakistan from White House.
What follows below is an understanding of the bill, which needs to be amended if relations between US and patriotic Pakistanis have to be established. Your assertion that if we have issues with the bill we don’t need to take the money is ‘spot on’; patriotic Pakistanis have rejected your mere $1.5 billion. We will not negotiate on our country’s sovereignty and defence. And these are not mere slogans. They are based on facts, which we read out of your conditionalities, which do exist. And here are the facts Secretary Clinton:

1. The most controversial clause in the bill pertains to giving US ‘direct access to Pakistani nationals associated with such networks’. The explanation given in the note is equally unacceptable because it wants ‘cooperative efforts’ to combat proliferation to continue. This cooperation mentioned is intrusive since it demands ‘direct access’. Secretary Clinton, we have already handled our proliferators and believe in non-priliferation. This we consider a breach of our sovereignty.
2. The reference to Pakistan military and intelligence agencies being involved in giving support to terrorists in the past is equally offensive. This is a clause which enables the Indian lobby to target Pakistan and hold it responsible for all future terrorist acts in the region.
3. The other issue pertains to the fact that President Obama’s regional security strategy will include working with ‘relevant governments and organizations in the region and elsewhere.’ The strategy, which could include RAW and Mossad would be imposed on Pakistan for US national interest not Pakistan. And as such we cannot give the authority of making Pakistan’s security strategy to a US President.
4. There are references to expansion of Container Security Initiative at various Pakistani ports, which we consider a security hazard.
5. The term sanctuary for terrorism implies that Pakistan is a failed state as is included in intelligence reforms and Terrorism Prevention Act 2004.
6. Bill allows ‘irregular forces to be used for US combat operations in Pakistan’ as stated in the Ronald Reagan Act 2005. This in effect gives legal cover to the Dynocores and Blackwaters, which we Pakistanis have major issues with and consider a threat to our security.
7. The bill micromanages Pakistan’s important federal government agencies from education, madrassahs to trade, to judiciary, to natural resources. All aid given will be to NGOs and if more than $100,000 is given those NGO files will become classified. As such Pakistan will not have access to such operations. This we consider an attempt by US to create its own financial political power bases for future.
8. Approximately $860 million of the aid will go back to US in the form of administrative expenses etc. This truly reflects badly on the actual impact on an average Pakistani’s life.

Here were some of the issues with the bill. Now let’s examine what aggravates Pakistani sensitivities with regards to current US policies. And why you are not welcome in Pakistan by patriotic Pakistanis. This might help you understand why over 80% of Pakistanis have issues with your policies as per certain reliable surveys.

1.  Firstly, the US stance in the war against extremism is biased towards protecting Indian and Afghan interests. The TTP and Baloch terrorists have been using these two countries and their resources as bases for their operations inside Pakistan as is proven by Pak military evidence. Whilst you consider Pakistan to be sovereign our aid is linked to these two countries, which we find distasteful.
2.  Whilst Pakistan’s nuclear program is an issue for US, the Indian nuclear program (civil nuclear technology agreement) is being allowed to expand without any blockades.
3. Whilst you have personally complemented Pak military efforts in your recent visit, at the same time there are conditionalities in giving aid to Pakistan to strengthen its military against terrorists. Certainly these terrorists are linked to India and as such conditionalities are one sided. Moreover, if Pakistan military is being complemented why cant it be trusted with drone technology? Additionally US policy wishes to strengthen Pakistan’s parliament and yet it ignores the resolution passed by Pakistani parliament against drone attacks.
4. Whilst Pakistan is a frontline state which has paid dearly in terms of men lost in battle with terrorists, US considers India and Pakistan to be equals. Where is the advantage Pakistan should get for cooperating on terrorism? $1.5 billion is a joke compared to the billions spent in Afghanistan and Iraq, even in Turkey and Egypt. As well as the fact that no where with other allies has US imposed intrusive conditionalities. 
5.  Whilst Pakistan is blamed for terrorist sanctuaries how many infiltrators coming from India and Afghanistan specifically have you managed to stop?
6.  The commitment for ROZs looks like its dithering. Where is the actual support for the tribals who have suffered the most in the war being fought to destabilize Pakistan?
7. What effort has the US played in cutting drug money, which is destabilizing Pakistan and funding terrorism considering its source of entry is US backed Afghan territory. UN report confirms that after US entry into Afghanistan opium production has increased manifold. This is impacting Pakistan’s security since it’s ready financing for terrorism inside Pakistan. Secretary Clinton, if you wish to improve Pak-US bilaterals a more productive approach would have been to not justify the bill on arrival but rather to give an open ear to the criticisms with a commitment to amending it. Since there have been no such commitments it seems fruitless to meet with you. This is even more disturbing considering that you have been given plenty of evidence of Pakistani uproar on the bill before your arrival. It’s a pity that the bill was executed minus real Pakistani input. This has no doubt created a diplomatic fiasco for the US. Instead of underestimating the fiasco or considering it a result of Pakistani lack of comprehension, it would have been better to deal with it head on: amending the bill being the only viable option.

Pakistan might have a government, which is beholden to you for its future longevity, but there are patriotic Pakistanis who will defend the soil before accepting your policies of creating a US fiefdom in Pakistan. As a young parliamentarian I would only welcome you to Pakistan once we have evidence of your shift in policy so that Pakistan is dealt with as a sovereign country.

 Courtesy: The Nation

Pakistani Journalists Vulnerable to US Mercenaries and Their Pakistan Agents Inside Islamabad

 It may be easily digested that why has Pakistan been dropped to 157 from 152 in REPORTERS Without Borders’ Press Freedom Index 2009 but it is difficult to believe that bringing back USA to top 20 in the list was on merit.

“Press freedom must be defended everywhere in the world with the same energy and the same insistence,” Reporters Without Borders secretary-general Jean-François Julliard said today as his organization issued its eighth annual world press freedom index.

One has the right to ask that who will defend Press Freedom when the powerful ones, being able to get promotion from your highness, trample it.

After openly giving threats to the Pakistani Media the United State’s terrorist Marines and Blackwater mercenaries are now after Peshawar based Journalist Syed Fawad Ali Shah who was the first one to report the Blackwater presence in Peshawar, Pakistan.

Syed Fawad Ali Shah has alleged that he has received life threats from Blackwater (BW) officials and if something happens to him or his family US Ambassador to Pakistan and Consular General of US Consulate in Peshawar will be responsible.

 He said that he carried out a report about activities of Black Water in Pakistan in his newspaper and after that he was constantly receiving threats from BW officials and some Pakistani officials, who were working for them.

Fawad alleged that US anti-terrorism experts were overseeing the BW activities in Pakistan. In this regard, he claimed, they have acquired services of several retired armed forces officials.

“They have also acquired some residential units in the posh areas of the city by giving huge amounts in advance,” he said. “They are also paying heavy packages to their local drivers. James Bill William, Copper, Steven Cash, Roderick Christopher and Alisha Cambel are looking after the activities of Black Water in Peshawar,” he claimed.

Earlier, Fawad Ali Shah held a press conference at National Press Club, Islamabad. He denied reports that by doing so he was trying to get a US visa. He appealed to the government and journalist community to provide protection to him and his family.

I don’t know whether the International Community especially UN Security Council which has passed Resolution 1738, protecting journalists, would take soft if not serious note of it or not? I’m not sure whether “our” interior Minister Rehman Malik whose job has remained just to make phone calls to Islamabad police after they arrest Blackwater terrorists red handedly, will take measures for the protection of Fawad Ali Shah. But I am sure that Fawad will certainly enjoy the support of all those not living in “the state of denial”.

Time for Action; 

Let’s come out and take action. Let’s write to Pakistan’s Interior Minister Rehman Malik at  ministry.interior@gmail.com and interior.complaintcell@gmail.com  and American ambassador in Islamabad, Annie W. Paterson at infoisb@state.gov telling them that we are with Fawad Ali Shah. It’s the duty of Rehman Malik to protect Fawad Ali Shah and other reporters exposing American Terrorism.

Who are Pakistani Taliban?

Dr Shireen M Mazari enlightens the readers about the present wave of terrorist activities in Pakistan by comparing it with those happened in 80s in Pakistan. She questions as why don’t Taliban attack the NATO and why the Pakistanis only? The timing of bomb blasts is also crucial. Would our policy makers like to know these facts and revise Pakistan’s relationship with American? The Army has the responsibility to do this as this was its Chief, who should have been a Tablachi instead of being Army chief, who made Pakistan a living hell for Pakistanis. We urge our political and military leadership to think at least once that would it be better to kill the Agents or those who will recruit more and more if the present vanish. The Americans and Indians are the real problem. To only kill the agents will bring no change.  

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By Shireen M Mazari

The bomb blast in Peshawar with its terrible loss of life has further destroyed any remaining semblance of normality in the provincial capital. Of course all fingers are pointing to the TTP. But what should also be seen now is the link the TTP has with India and the US. After all, the TTP has so far not targeted anyone other than Pakistanis despite their claims that they are fighting the US. It is the Afghan Taliban who are targeting the US/NATO forces occupying Afghanistan. And with the US/NATO having vacated their check posts on the Afghan side of the border with Pakistan, to allow for a freer flow of arms to the TTP in South Waziristan where the Pakistan Army is battling these militants, it requires little imagination to understand the underlying linkages – or what some would term, wheels within wheels.

Perhaps the most frightening aspect of the recent spate of terrorism, which has shifted from being primarily suicide blasts to the targeting of security personnel and installations by armed men, as well as car bombs in busy civilian centres is the terrible sense of dTja vu one has.

If we can recall the Pakistan of the eighties, when we were the frontline state in another US war – against the Soviets in Afghanistan and the socialist regime they had installed in Kabul – we will remember the pattern of terrorism that hit out country as the CIA funded, Pakistan supported Mujahideen made gains in Afghanistan. For example in July 1987 two car bombs went off in Karachi killing 72 people and wounding 250; just nine days earlier, three blasts had occurred in Lahore within a few minutes, killing seven people. Authorities at the time had blamed these on “agents of the Communist government in neighbouring Afghanistan”. The Karachi bombings happened in Saddar – a civilian commercial centre.

There were also acts of terror in Balochistan, where the secessionists suddenly emerged fully armed, and Quetta was also targeted. Peshawar, Rawalpindi and Islamabad also saw bomb blasts, all in civilian centres. All these acts of terror were attributed to the KGB, Khad (the Afghan secret service of the time) and RAW. India was one of the few countries across the globe that had not condemned the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and had thereby made great inroads into that country. So RAW with Khad became active inside Pakistan from the western border. The strategy of the Soviet Union was clear: destabilise Pakistan to counter the growing success of the Mujahideen. This was attempted through two tracks: aggravating ethnic divides in the rural areas of Pakistan, such as rural Sindh; and terrorising the densely populated urban areas through blasts in civilian centres.

Now, once again, what are we seeing in the recent acts of terrorism? A similar pattern repeated, with a major act of terror happening in Pakistan whenever there is a major attack against US/NATO forces in Kabul. The most recent one was the downing of the US helicopter in Afghanistan just before the latest Peshawar blast. This is not to deny the local menace of militants in the form of the TTP but who is linked to this local group? Where are the money and weapons coming from? Why did the US and NATO deliberately vacate their check posts just when the Pakistan Army began its operations in South Waziristan – after continuous prodding from the US to begin with? Why are so many US citizens being caught at odd hours of the day and night in and around the capital carrying weapons to and from their embassy? Who are they supplying with these weapons?

For those of us who lived through what were then the darkest days of our history in the eighties, only the faces have changed, the style of terrorism remains the same. The CIA has replaced the KGB and Khad, but India’s RAW remains a constant. And the local agents for these new forces are the TTP. Why are we destined to suffer the same cycles of terror in our history every time we become a frontline state for the US?

Interesting Protest against the War Criminal

I liked, really liked it. Being a harsh critic of the US policies, which have posed great threat to world peace, I have always been thinking of new ways to protest against the international war criminals and their local Pakistani agents [Pease read it Pakistani military and political establishment]. After my post regarding the Karachi University Shoe throwing incident one of the regular visitors of my blog, a researcher at the prestigious Qaid-e-Azam University, Islamabad, who is the great patriotic Pakistani , was of the view that the action damaged the fame of country and university as it wasn’t appropriate way to protest. I think the frustrated youth had no option except to throw his hoe at the American Journalist in order to show his anger over the US policies regarding Muslim world especially Iran. However this strange protest is the great one which has lesson for us, to more use your mind and less your hands and feet which usually damage yourself.  

The Bay Area Residents took nine minutes to be dragged out of the hall of Winston St. Francis Hotel in San Francisco where to them a war criminal, former Israeli Prime Minister was speaking. Instead of shouting all simultaneously, the activists very cleverly planned to stand one after another and consume as much time as they can.

Please watch this interesting video;

More than 22 activists were arrested after “disrupting” Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s speech to the World Affairs Council on Thursday, October 22, 2009 at the Westin St. Francis Hotel (Union Square).  Inside the auditorium, activists read the names of the children killed in Gaza last winter, publicly charging Olmert with killing innocent civilians, held up bloody hands, and displayed banners that read “Lift the Siege on Gaza” and “War Crimes are Not Free Expression!” The activists belonging to a dozen action groups manage to occupy the seats inside the hall, raised one after another, chanted slogans.

Findings of USHRC’s International Independent Fact-Finding Mission

Whereas, The International Independent Fact-Finding Mission authorized by the United Nations Human Rights Council (the Goldstone Report) found evidence that Israel is guilty of “war crimes” and “crimes against humanity” in its prosecution of “Operation Cast Lead;” and

Whereas, under Mr. Olmert’s personal direction, involvement, planning and knowledge, the crimes perpetrated during Operation Cast Lead in the Gaza Strip include, but are not limited to the following:

1. Crimes against peace (Article VI (a) of the Nuremberg Principles):
Planning, preparing, initiating and waging a war of aggression on a civilian population in which:

• 1400 Palestinians were killed, the majority of which were civilians and non-combatants including over four hundred children,
• 5300 Palestinians were injured, and
• The reckless and illegal use of white phosphorous caused untold suffering.

2. War crimes (Article VI (b) of the Nuremberg Principles):
Plunder of public and private property, wanton destruction of cities, towns, and villages, and devastation not justified by military necessity, in which:

• more than 400,000 Gazans were left without running water, and
• 4,000 homes were destroyed or badly damaged, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless, and
• More than 1000 buildings were bombed, including schools and mosques.

3. Crimes against humanity (Article VI (c) of the Nuremberg Principles):
Persecutions on political, racial or religious grounds, when such acts are done or such persecutions are carried on in execution of or in connection with any crime against peace or any war crime.

4. Violations of the requirements of the US Arms Export Control Act of 1976 as documented by Congressman Dennis Kucinich in January, 2009.

Whereas, six Norwegian lawyers have filed a lawsuit against Ehud Olmert and other Israeli officials over the Gaza war, citing “massive terrorist attacks” during the war which led to the killing of civilians; and

Whereas, Ehud Olmert, because he no longer has diplomatic immunity, can no longer travel to the UK, Norway, Spain, or Belgium, for fear of prosecution for war crimes via “universal jurisdiction”.

Ehud Olmert, as the Israeli Prime Minister during Operation Cast Lead, is charged with “war crimes” and possible “crimes against humanity” and is hereby authorized to be placed under arrest by and for citizens of the state of California, and for the international community in the name of justice.

Due to the above facts the Activists believed that “War criminal” should not be invited as a guest. They not only disrupted his speech but also managed to voice their opinion for nine minutes;

•  “You’re a war criminal you kill children, you kill families, and you deny them their lives. Shame on San Francisco to have a war criminal here as a guest” The first activist said
• “Shame on you world affairs council to have invited a war criminal here” another activists said.
• “This is not free speech. Council has no business doing this.”
• “Arrest that criminal” a lady shouted.
• “This is not free speech this is oppressive speech, he is war criminal”
• “You are disgusting. You are war criminal. You have been committing war crime” a teenager shouted. 

Groups calling for the action includes;

1.  Arab Resource & organizing Center (AROC)
2. Bay Area Campaign to End Israeli Apartheid (BACEIA)
3.  CODEPINK Women for Peace
4. Friends of Deiribzi’a
5. International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network (IJAN)
6.  North California International Solidarity Movement
7.  Middle East Children’s Alliance (MECA)
8.  South Bay Mobilization
9.  Stop AIPAC
10.  CAL Students for Justice in Palestine
11. US Palestine Communities Network (USPCN)
12. BAY Area Women in Black

 Protesting in Pakistan

While seeing this action in San Francisco, one wish we could do it with war criminals like Gen Musharraf & Co here in Pakistan or abroad where they fled. Unfortunately, the European and American Pakistanis seems to be impressed from the Proponents of Mir Jaffars. In Washington we have the persons like Haqqani and Dr. Nasim Ashraf who feel convenient with the Zionists and thus arrange speeches for Gen Musharraf to show the “soft image” of Islam.

Here in Pakistan, our civil society lead by Communists Turned Opportunist is much interested in making place in the Lists of 1000 NGOs nominated for the “distribution” of Kerry Lugar’s aid. They too seem to be convenient with the criminals. The most unfortunate is the fact the real opponents US policies are least interesting in becoming the audience of speeches by War Criminals and Its agents, they rather take to the streets. In such circumstances, the frustrated youth can just throw their shoes at the Agents of World Terrorism.

Both Civil and Military Establishment Responsible for deteriorated situation of Pakistan

While the Pakistani media is criticizing the present political setup for US’s meddling in Pakistan affairs and turning a deaf ear to all those concerns being raised by patriotic Pakistani officials and citizen, it is sparing the military establishment ignoring the fact that it was the military regime and Dictator Gen Musharraf who allow the entry of American Criminals into Pakistan. 

The irony is that the patriots Pakistanis like Ahmed Quraishi had been supporting Gen Pervez Musharraf and his anti Pakistani activities and turning the Peaceful Pakistan into a living hell.

While I don’t question his sincerity with Pakistan during the Musharraf’s regime in the past, I strongly endorse that Ahmed is currently doing a wonderful job sometime endangering his life by shooting the DynCorp and Blackwater centers inside Pakistan and reporting their nefarious and anti Pakistan activities continued under the very nose of our leadership in Islamabad.

One of the best stories he has broken is that of the American Militia Outpost in Islamabad, which according to the reliable sources is being used for training the ex-army officer by CIA for a future attacks on Pakistan’s security forces.

One of the horrifying news stories reported in our national press is that of the explosives inside the US base in the premises of Sihala Training college just nine Kilometer away from Pakistan’s nuclear installation in Kahuta.

 According to Online News Agency, Nasir Khan Durrani, Commandant of Police Training Collage Sihala wrote a letter to IG Punjab informing him about the high explosive material being stored in the American Base in the premises of Sihala College. Mr. Durrani also sought the intervention of interior ministry in this important matter. But not to my surprise the greatest defender of US interests, Mr. Rehman Malik, instead of seeking explanation from the US embassy warned Durrani of “facing the music”

According to “The Nation”,

 “The Interior Ministry is browbeating the Commandant Police Training College Sihala as to why he has written a letter to the Punjab, Inspector General of Police (IGP), expressing his concerns over the presence of US security officials in the premises of the institute. Sources privy to the developments said that the Ministry was annoyed with Nasir Khan Durrani, Commandant Police Training College Sihala as to why he had written a letter to IGP seeking clarification from the Interior Ministry and Foreign Office about the terms and conditions of US security officials’ presence as well as the duration of their stay in the college premises. The sources said that the Ministry had expressed its displeasure over the action of Commandant and in its reply to the IGP it was stated that the matter could have been discussed verbally and there was no need to write about it. According to Ministry sources, the Interior Minister, Rehman Malik in his harsh reply to the IGP made it clear that US security officials would not be relocated from the centre and directed him to hush up the matter and stop propagating against it, otherwise Durrani would have to face the music. It is pertinent to mention here that Kahuta Research Laboratories are only a few kilometers away from the Sihala College and it is suspected that Americans had installed sensitive monitoring equipments to monitor the activities of KRL.”

This story shows the ability of our interior minister in protecting [American] National interest. I agree that the present “democratic” regime has failed to protect the country due to the highest post being occupied by an infamous Zardari and the remaining by his friends. I also agree that they have auctioned Pakistan and the US is paying the installments for it which again goes to the pocket of corrupt politicians.

But my question is that is the present regime solely responsible for current deteriorated situation in Pakistan or this process was started some nine years ago by an anti Pakistan and morally corrupt Army General Pervez Musharraf. The following news story confirms that the real culprit is Gen Musharraf who not only allowed US’s meddling in Pakistan affairs but also paved way for the corrupt politician to hold powerful position Islamabad. Who has made the deal? And after all who has issued the NRO ordinance?

Please see the news; US spying on Kahuta since 2003

“The Nation” reports;

“Despite the fact that Americans have been permanently housed near Pakistani nuclear installations at Kahuta since 2003 in the guise of imparting training at the Police College Sihala, neither the military nor the PPP regime has dared to dislodge them. According to reliable sources, the PPP government paid no attention at all to the hue and cry raised by senior police officials against the dubious movements and installation of the American trainers.”

This proves that both Political and Military leadership are responsible for making Pakistan a colony of the world terrorist no-1 USA. And after all it was Musharraf who gave the American an access to that sensitive area. And one asks that why the Military leadership, which gave strong message to the politician on Kerry Lugar bill, is not interfering in this issue? Because Army also don’t want to annoy our masters?

The people looking towards army for rescue shouldn’t forget that nothing can be changed until and unless the masses give a clear message to both civil and military leadership, “Anyone on the US side is the enemy of Pakistan, whether he belongs to the strong military establishment or he is part of the democratic regime”

I strongly disagree with Ahmed when he says: “There is not a single politician who has the courage to come out and rally the nation against the naked foreign intervention.”

There are politicians, although I leave it on common man to decide who they are, but even if I agree with Ahmed, I say let the people come out on street, let reject this theory that army will save Pakistan, let the common man come out of his home and become a nonviolent soldier of this nation, no need to pick the gun, let show the world that we will resist the naked intervention of US through nonviolent movement, the American will have no alternative but to escape from our lands.

The last but not least, my theory of leadership is different from others. In normal times it’s the leadership which makes the nation but in the situation like this; it’s the nation which makes the leadership.

The wrong target?

Editorial The News International

Tens of thousands of people who have fled South Waziristan tell terrifying tales of falling bombs and blocked roads, which placed them at enormous peril as they tried to reach safety. Others speak of houses being destroyed in the Mehsud areas of the tribal agency. The perception of these people is significant. Many IDPs have told the media in interviews that they simply do not believe the Taliban can be defeated through military action. They argue that the bombing raids most badly affect the civilian population rather than the militants. Many are fearful that the fighting in Waziristan could continue for weeks but serve very little real purpose. These people have after all seen similar war before – with the militants each time forcing troops out. They are convinced that this time too things will be the same. Civilians say also that they are caught badly between the two fighting forces and suffer at the hands of both. Amnesty International has expressed concern over the plight of non-combatants caught in a war that is not of their own making. Other international and local right watchdog bodies had also demanded more be done during the war in Swat to keep the civilian population safe. The same holds true in South Waziristan as well.

 Even in a condition of war, international humanitarian rules apply. The requirement that children, women and men be protected is the focal point. The fact that little heed has been paid to these clauses is sad, not only because it means the death of innocent people – such as the family of 12 who died after being hit by a bomb while trying to escape South Waziristan a few days ago; but also because it means the military fails to gain moral authority. It is already obvious the people of Waziristan equate it with the militants – and as a source of the suffering imposed on them. If the military campaign in Waziristan succeeds this time round, and the Taliban are genuinely defeated, the need will arise to win back the loyalty of these people. This will not be easy. Militants have held sway here for years. Alongside the secret negotiations with Mehsud tribesmen and the other efforts to break up backing for the TTP, ordinary people too need to be persuaded that state forces have respect for them and are willing to help them. This can play a key role in deciding which side they take – and their support will be a vital one in winning this war which will not end with the destruction of militant bases.

U.S. Spies Buy Stake in Firm That Monitors Blogs, Tweets

By Noah Shachtman

America’s spy agencies want to read your blog posts, keep track of your Twitter updates — even check out your book reviews on Amazon.

In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the CIA and the wider intelligence community, is putting cash into Visible Technologies, a software firm that specializes in monitoring social media. It’s part of a larger movement within the spy services to get better at using ”open source intelligence” — information that’s publicly available, but often hidden in the flood of TV shows, newspaper articles, blog posts, online videos and radio reports generated every day.

Visible crawls over half a million web 2.0 sites a day, scraping more than a million posts and conversations taking place on blogs, online forums, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter and Amazon. (It doesn’t touch closed social networks, like Facebook, at the moment.) Customers get customized, real-time feeds of what’s being said on these sites, based on a series of keywords.

“That’s kind of the basic step — get in and monitor,” says company senior vice president Blake Cahill.

Then Visible “scores” each post, labeling it as positive or negative, mixed or neutral. It examines how influential a conversation or an author is. (”Trying to determine who really matters,” as Cahill puts it.) Finally, Visible gives users a chance to tag posts, forward them to colleagues and allow them to response through a web interface.

In-Q-Tel says it wants Visible to keep track of foreign social media, and give spooks “early-warning detection on how issues are playing internationally,” spokesperson Donald Tighe tells Danger Room.

Of course, such a tool can also be pointed inward, at domestic bloggers or tweeters. Visible already keeps tabs on web 2.0 sites for Dell, AT&T and Verizon. For Microsoft, the company is monitoring the buzz on its Windows 7 rollout. For Spam-maker Hormel, Visible is tracking animal-right activists’ online campaigns against the company.

“Anything that is out in the open is fair game for collection,” says Steven Aftergood, who tracks intelligence issues at the Federation of American Scientists. But “even if information is openly gathered by intelligence agencies it would still be problematic if it were used for unauthorized domestic investigations or operations. Intelligence agencies or employees might be tempted to use the tools at their disposal to compile information on political figures, critics, journalists or others, and to exploit such information for political advantage. That is not permissible even if all of the information in question is technically ‘open source.’”

 Visible chief executive officer Dan Vetras says the CIA is now an “end customer,” thanks to the In-Q-Tel investment. And more government clients are now on the horizon. “We just got awarded another one in the last few days,” Vetras adds.

Tighe disputes this — sort of. “This contract, this deal, this investment has nothing to do with any agency of government and this company,” he says. But Tighe quickly notes that In-Q-Tel does have “an interested end customer” in the intelligence community for Visibile. And if all goes well, the company’s software will be used in pilot programs at that agency. “In pilots, we use real data. And during the adoption phase, we use it real missions.”

Neither party would disclose the size of In-Q-Tel’s investment in Visible, a 90-person company with expected revenues of about $20 million in 2010. But a source familiar with the deal says the In-Q-Tel cash will be used to boost Visible’s foreign languages capabilities, which already include Arabic, French, Spanish and nine other languages.

Visible has been trying for nearly a year to break into the government field. In late 2008, the company teamed up with the Washington, DC, consulting firm Concepts & Strategies, which has handled media monitoring and translation services for U.S. Strategic Command and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, among others. On its website, Concepts & Strategies is recruiting “social media engagement specialists” with Defense Department experience and a high proficiency in Arabic, Farsi, French, Urdu or Russian. The company is also looking for an “information system security engineer” who already has a “Top Secret SCI [Sensitive Compartmentalized Information] with NSA Full Scope Polygraph” security clearance.

The intelligence community has been interested in social media for years. In-Q-Tel has sunk money into companies like Attensity, which recently announced its own web 2.0-monitoring service. The agencies have their own, password-protected blogs and wikis — even a MySpace for spooks. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence maintains an Open Source Center, which combs publicly available information, including web 2.0 sites. Doug Naquin, the Center’s Director, told an audience of intelligence professionals in October 2007 that “we’re looking now at YouTube, which carries some unique and honest-to-goodness intelligence…. We have groups looking at what they call ‘citizens media’: people taking pictures with their cell phones and posting them on the internet. Then there’s social media, phenomena like MySpace and blogs.”

But, “the CIA specifically needs the help of innovative tech firms to keep up with the pace of innovation in social media. Experienced IC [intelligence community] analysts may not be the best at detecting the incessant shift in popularity of social-networking sites. They need help in following young international internet user-herds as they move their allegiance from one site to another,” Lewis Shepherd, the former senior technology officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency, says in an e-mail. “Facebook says that more than 70 percent of its users are outside the U.S., in more than 180 countries. There are more than 200 non-U.S., non-English-language microblogging Twitter-clone sites today. If the intelligence community ignored that tsunami of real-time information, we’d call them incompetent.”

Courtesy: wired.com

On whose side is US anyway?

US vacates checkposts ahead of SWA operation

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By Qudssia Akhlaque

The US-led Nato forces vacated more than half a dozen key security checkposts on the Afghan side of the Pak-Afghan border just ahead of the major Pakistan Army ground offensive (code named: Rahe Nijaat) against Taliban-led militants in the volatile tribal area of South Waziristan, it is learnt.

It is feared that the American decision will facilitate Afghan Taliban in crossing over to Pakistan and support militants in striking back at the Pakistani security forces in the troubled tribal area.

Sources close to the NWFP government and military strategists involved in the planning of S Waziristan operation told The News over the weekend that the Americans vacated eight security checkposts on the Afghan side of the border just five days before the Army operation. Four of these close to South Waziristan including one each at Zambali and at Nurkha, and four in the north in the area of Nuristan where American forces recently came under violent attacks by the militants.

Latest reports indicate that the Americans have also removed some posts close to North Waziristan, which could encourage even more Afghan Taliban fighters to cross over to the Pakistan side. This has raised many eyebrows in government and military circles with points being made about “conflicting interests” and dubious American designs.

The NWFP government, civilian and military officials in the provincial capital have been astonished by this move and more so intrigued by its timing. Alarmed and concerned about its likely adverse affect on the military operation in S Waziristan where the Pakistani troops reportedly comprising 28,000 soldiers are expected to face fierce resistance from the heavily armed Taliban-led militants, the NWFP government recently alerted the relevant authorities in Islamabad about it.

Pakistan has now taken up this matter with the Americans and conveyed its serious concern about vacating the checkposts at this crucial juncture. Notably the security checkposts on the Afghan side of the border are already almost a third of what Pakistan has on its side.

Recent communication intercepts by Pakistani intelligence outfits have revealed that Taliban commander in Nuristan Qari Ziaur Rehman has invited TTP leader Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, former deputy of late Baitullah Mehsud, to come to Nuristan and operate from there if he finds space in Wazristan shrinking.

Experts believe the American move of vacating security checkposts on the Afghan side close to Pakistan’s border could undermine the military action by Pakistan Army. While on one hand it could offer an easy escape route to some militants, it is believed that this would facilitate movement of Afghan Taliban into Pakistan side to join hands with the al-Qaeda-backed local Taliban and other locals as well as foreign militant groups against the military action there.

Some observers see it as a tactical move by the US to ward off pressure from its own forces in Afghanistan that have been under severe attacks by the Afghan Taliban. Hence they want to provide them unhindered passage to Pakistan side, as it would help shift the main theatre of war from Afghanistan to inside Pakistan. Americans themselves have been saying that 70 per cent of area in Afghanistan is out of their control.

The Pakistani Tabiban in S Waziristan backed by al-Qaeda are joined by a large number of foreign militants including a battalion of Uzbeks, Tajiks, Chechens and Arab fighters. According to military sources the toughest resistance is expected from an estimated 1,500 battle-hardened Uzbek fighters, equipped with highly sophisticated weapons. “The Uzbek fighters face a do or die situation with the all-out army action in the hostile mountainous area,” a senior government representative maintained.

The uninterrupted flow of sophisticated arms and funding to the foreign militants in S Waziristan has also lured many criminals to join hands with them in challenging the writ of the state, defence experts say. The presence of various foreign and local militants in the rugged terrain of South Waziristan is estimated at between 15,000 and 20,000.

Officials in the military and civil bureaucracy are cautiously optimistic about the outcome of the operation. “Either these militants will run to Afghanistan, settled areas or stand and fight to the end,” is how one key NWFP government representative summed it up.

A seemingly more realistic view from a key office holder in Peshawar is: “We are half way in containing insurgency and hopefully by end of the year major military operations will be over and 2010 will be the year of consolidating the gains made in recovering the lost ground.”

Whatever the outcome, observers believe that operation in the Taliban stronghold of South Waziristan became inevitable. “It became imperative to go for a military operation in South Waziristan to regain the lost space that has been used as training ground for planning and executing attacks targeting key security installations of Pakistan including the GHQ,” the Army spokesman Major General Athar Abbas said earlier shortly after the launch of the operation.

Despite several attempts on Sunday The News was unable to get an official version from the Pakistan Army Spokesman Major-General Athar Abbas on this alarming development. However, when the US Embassy Spokesman Richard Snelsire was contacted by this correspondent and his attention was drawn to the question of vacated checkposts he remained non-committal. When a confirmation was sought and he was asked what had prompted this move, Snelsire said he had no clue about it. “I do not have information on that, and that is outside our purview,” he noted, adding that he had not seen any reporting on that.

Courtesy: The News International

Dr Usman Arrested In 2008; Why Didn’t Keep Under Surveillance After Release?

By: Taimur Ahmad

If one goes back a year or so and reads local papers, one will find that the alleged mastermind of the attack on GHQ, Aqeel alias Dr Usman, had in fact been arrested by the secretariat police in October last year, for suspected involvement in the attack on the Marriott hotel. Reports published in national newspapers on Oct 25, 2008, said that an anti-terrorist court (ATC) in Rawalpindi had been told that four people had been arrested by the police in connection with the attack on the hotel. The report said that investigation officer Altaf Khattak had informed ATC Number 2 that the Secretariat police had arrested Dr Usman, Rana Ilyas, Muhammad Hameed Afzal and Tehseenullah Khan.

This means that the police — otherwise much-maligned for not doing their job and generally having a very shoddy performance in such matters — were actually able to get hold of at least some people who were quite clearly terrorists. May I ask why Dr Usman, whose arrest in 2008 is part of the published record, was released? May I also ask that was, upon his release, any effort made by the authorities — civil and/or military — to keep him under surveillance? Quite clearly, had this been done, perhaps the GHQ attack could have been pre-empted.

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This was originally published in NewsPost, “The News International” on Wednesday, October 14, 2009

GHQ attack’s aftermath

The Nation

THE terrorist attack on GHQ turned out to be much graver than had been initially given out. That it was dealt with efficiently and with least amount of lives lost reflects on the professionalism and competency of the Pakistan military – from whom the US and NATO forces could learn a few lessons in asymmetric warfare, rather than the other way round. Nevertheless, there are some disturbing issues that arise, beginning with the issue of a security lapse. Clearly intelligence reports had pinpointed to such an event happening and a news item to this effect had even been printed in the media. So what went wrong to allow a security breach to occur?

The hostage crisis may have been resolved effectively, including the successful taking out of a potential suicide bomber, but the fact that the hostages were taken in the first place raises concerns about security surrounding such a sensitive area. Valuable lives of military men and some hostages were also lost in the process, including two officers which shows that the Pakistan army commands from the front. The links are not simply a straight line to Waziristan; rather there are too many interconnections and trails, especially in terms of weapons (which will provide the clearest clues regarding the actors involved), leading to foreign players. Therefore it is time the state of Pakistan put greater controls over all foreign entities and their activities. With too many foreign covert boots in and around Islamabad and its surrounding areas, the threat of such operatives accessing sensitive targets and the people in them has been multiplied.

Equally disturbing has been the absence of the Interior Minister from the scene of the attack. He remained in Lahore throughout Saturday and then departed for Singapore in the midst of the crisis. He may have needed to attend the Interpol Assembly’s annual Ministerial Meeting in Singapore on 12 October, but it could hardly be more relevant than being in Pakistan and on the scene? This has an eerie air of similarity to his disappearance at the time of Ms Bhutto’s murder. On the one hand, the government has been desperately seeking to bring the military under its total control – some would say even attempting to use the US for this purpose as reflected in the Haqqani-KLB drafting connection – but at a time when the civilian Interior Ministry should have been in the forefront of handling the GHQ terrorist attack and its fallout, including handling the media, its Minister decides not to cancel a foreign trip. How does this reflect on the priorities of the government?

GHQ Attack; who is behind and what should be done

 Who has attacked Pakistan’s Defence Headquarter, GHQ? Who is the beneficiary? Is it just the work of Punjabi Taliban or they have committed it for someone else as mercenary? Has Blackwater done it with assistance from Punjabi Taliban? Is it a reaction against opposition by Pakistan Army to Kerry Lugar bill? Has the US gave message to army, don’t stop us meddling in affairs of Pakistani state, don’t become hurdle in Kerry Lugar bill, Let Zardari sell this country to Americans? Do the Waziristan operation fast and don’t hesitate to kill your own Pukhtoon Pakistani?

 All these questions compose a hypothesis for a research on the topic of HGQ attack in the much relevant context of US meddling in Pakistan. A younger commenter Moin without digging the already present circumstantial evidences has suggested five good suggestions. I will past that at the end but before that let me share some news stories with you which should not be taken as evidences to give final verdict rather questions to do more fruitful research on the topic.

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 First Category

 Waziristan operation imminent: Malik

 Army chief given mandate for Waziristan operation

‘Good number’ of militants in Waziristan

SINGAPORE: A long-planned operation to flush out the Taliban and Al Qaeda from South Waziristan is imminent, said the government on Sunday, and blamed Al Qaeda-backed militants for the attack on the military’s General Headquarters (GHQ).

“It has been decided, the civilian leadership has decided … the operation is imminent,” Interior Minister Rehman Malik told Reuters in an interview in Singapore.

Hours earlier, Pakistani commandos rescued 39 people taken hostage in an attack on GHQ.

Malik said members of the Pakistani Taliban and Al Qaeda were suspected to be behind Saturday’s attack, which ended a week when suicide bombers struck in Islamabad and Peshawar, killing more than 55 people.

“The man who has been arrested, his name is Osman. He is a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan guy, but we have some indications he’s also from Al Qaeda,” said Malik, who was in Singapore for an Interpol conference.

A security official in Punjab earlier said he believed Osman was from the Lashkar-e-Jhanghvi, and another security official said some of the men involved in the attack spoke Punjabi.

But Malik said it was too early to conclude that Punjab-based groups were involved in the attack.

The men who planned the Rawalpindi attack had hired a house for the last two months, where they had been living.

Malik said the planned offensive in South Waziristan was no longer a matter of choice. “It is not an issue of commitment, it is becoming a compulsion because there was an appeal from the local tribes that we should conduct an operation,” he said.

“The army chief has already been given the mandate to conduct an operation at an appropriate time … it is not going to be late, it will be as early as possible,” said Malik.

“We have information there are a good number of terrorists there,” he said.

Malik said he could not determine the timeframe for the operation.

  Please also read this news published in Jang today.

  Waziristan operation a must to avoid GHQ-like incidents: Iftikhar

 PESHAWAR: The NWFP Information Minister, Mian Iftikhar Hussain, has said that Friday’s suicide blast at the Soekarno Square, Khyber Bazaar, could have been the work of anti-state forces.

Addressing a press conference here on Saturday, the information minister said the Peshawar blast could have been carried out in the wake of the Kabul blast outside the Indian Embassy.

 He said that the attack on the GHQ was a symbolic warning on behalf of the militants to the government and the people that they had the ability and resources to hit any part of the country.

“It is time to take this threat seriously before it is too late. The much- awaited military operation should be launched in Waziristan Agency at the earliest so as to frustrate the nefarious designs of extremist elements,” the minister said. He said that the network of terrorists was inter-connected globally

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 Second Category

 Work on GHQ Complex in capital may start soon

 Monday, October 12, 2009

By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir

 ISLAMABAD: The security of the GHQ situated in the thickly-populated area of Rawalpindi stood exposed yet another time in the wake of the Saturday’s terrorist attack on it.

Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani halted the construction of the new GHQ in the federal capital last year when the federal government declined to provide assistance for the building of the complex in Islamabad under the pretext of economic meltdown. The armed forces and the federal government would review the decision to shelve the GHQ construction next month so that its construction might be restarted without any further delay.

The Army has decided not to burden the national exchequer for the construction since it intends to dispose of its precious lands and some other assets. The income that would be generated through a transparent system would be spent on the construction of the GHQ in Islamabad. In addition, the Army will contribute 25 per cent of the expenditures to the federal government for development purposes.

Well-placed defence sources revealed to The News that the GHQ’s compound is part of the capital’s master plan and about two thousand acres of land was earmarked for the purpose in Sectors E-10 and E-11. Former President General Pervez Musharraf laid the foundation stone of the GHQ in 2004 but no work could be started till 2006 but later it was shelved.

The existing GHQ does not fulfill the requirements of base needed for war planning and its execution. The planned GHQ in Islamabad would fulfill the criteria’s of the new and secure GHQ, the sources said

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Third Category

 Attack a reaction against opposition to Kerry Lugar Bill, Ex Service Man

 

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Forth Category

If militants can hit Pakistan’s military HQ, what’s next?

 “The devastating terrorist assault on Pakistan’s military headquarters that ended Sunday after nearly 24 hours exposed the threat of extremist groups operating in the heart of the country and the vulnerability of its most sensitive sites, raising concerns over the security of its nuclear arsenal.”

[The international media is bent upon proving that if Pakistan can’t secure its Army’s Headquarter how can be its nuclear arsenals called safe? Read the news above and also the one uploaded as picture below which states that the US media has started propaganda against Pakistan Army]

Read the News story   here

 

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What should be done?

Now the question arises is that what should be done. I am pasting here Aquib Moin’s write-up with thanks to Ahmed Quraishi.  The words in brackets are mine.

Aquib Moin writes [GHQ Attack: Time to End Foreign Meddling in Pakistan] On October 10, 2009, we witnessed a deadly attack on the Pakistan Army GHQ in Rawalpindi.  We take this as a direct assault on the national security, sovereignty, integrity and dignity of the State of Pakistan.  We suggest and recommend that the following measures should at least be taken to respond to this serious attempt to sabotage Pakistan’s national security:

1. President Zardari and at least his erstwhile Interior Minister Rehman Malik should be thrown out of the avenues of power immediately and must be interrogated regarding granting mass-scale permissions for suspicious US personnel to enter Pakistan in recent months, allowing foreign ‘diplomats’ to carry illegal weapons in the Federal capital and permitting the suspicious activities of foreign security agencies like Inter-Risk, DynCorp, etc. and their possible link with today’s attack. [Gen Pervez Musharraf, who had better been a Meerasi instead of Army Chief, should also be trialed as this was he who had opened the door of US meddling and American terrorism]
2. All US and NATO supplies through Pakistan must be totally suspended until such time the US authorities cooperate with the investigations into the weapons and support to terrorists in the tribal belt coming from the Afghan soil.  Washington should also ensure that there will not be any American intervention in any internal affair and that there will not be any American attempt/involvement/design that threatens Pakistan’s integrity, sovereignty and security.
3. Unnecessary expansion of the US embassy and the arrival of US personnel should be immediately suspended.  We don’t need them to run our affairs.  Suspicious security firms contracted by the US embassy and US military should be shut down with immediate effect. There should be tight check on the hire and purchase of property by foreign elements in Pakistan.
4. Strict scrutiny of the equipment coming into Pakistan, foreigners residing in Pakistan under the guise of NATO or US operations in Afghanistan.
5. A loud, clear and unanimous message should come from the entire media, politicians, Pak Army and all the four corners of Pakistan that those among us cooperating with foreign powers against Pakistani interest will not be tolerated. [In order to make this last step effective we would have say goodbye to our master America first, once we have kicked US the whole nation will fight the Pakistani Taliban militants]

I personally think it’s the work of Blackwater who might be assisted by Punjabi Taliban both paid by the US. The aim of attack is to give a message to Pakistan Army to not to come in its way, don’t become a hurdle in American expansionism in Pakistan. Don’t take action against crusader mercenary, Blackwater and not to oppose Kerry Lugar Bill. 

The End Note; Pak Army has proved  by successfully completing the operation that its the word’s professional army having the capability to fight any force whether they are Blackwater or their assistants Punjabi Taliban. Congratulate Pak Army, despite your controversial role in the war of terror and operation against own people, the citizens of Pakistan stand by you. Once you say goodbye to US war the whole nation will be part of the Pakistan Army.

KU student Hurled Shoe At Representative of Aggression

Another frustrated but conscientious youth tried to hit an American with

Clifford D. May

shoe. Luckily or unluckily, the shoe hurled at Clifford D. May , the President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a conservative think tank chalking out policy plans for the US administration regarding the so-called war on terror, missed the target.  According the news published today “A Karachi University (KU) student on Thursday threw a shoe at a visiting American journalist, Clifford May, who was to deliver a lecture at the varsity. Clifford escaped the attack when a student, Muhammad Hussain of Imamia Students Organization (ISO), hurled the shoe at him. The incident occurred during the question-answer session of the lecture on “Pakistan’s Role in Countering Terrorism” at the Department of International Relations (IR).

“The Nation” reports that the said programme was organized without the permission of the varsity administration and most of the concerned staffers of the said department had expressed their concerns and did not participate in the programme in protest.

Another largely circulated English daily The News reports that the incident is “the first of its kind in Pakistan”

Journalist May who is a Republican and was said to be an active member of the party during George W. Bush’s administration, was speaking at the Department of International Relations (IR) on the topic ‘Pakistan’s Role in Countering the Challenge of Terrorism’ when a student of the department threw a shoe on the journalist.

Talking to Aaj news channel Muhammad Hussain told, “He just couldn’t control when the journalist humiliated Pakistanis. “It was the attitude of American Scholar which compel me to hurl shoe at him” Muhammad Hussain told the media and said that when the scholar called Muslims extremist and opted for a humiliating attitude when the students started asking questions regarding Iran” Hussain told that his life has become endanger and the angry American may kill him”

The student is inspired from Muntazer al-Zaidi who threw his 10 no shoe at George W. Bush, the leader of Clifford D. May.  The Muslim youth in Islamic world seems to be inspired from the pioneer of Show throwing, the least which Muslim youth can do when their whole leadership has sold out and is bent upon selling the whole Ummah to the nation which consider it their religious duty to subjugate the Muslims in order to take their revenge of crusades. [ May reference may be cited if demanded]

Who is Clifford?

Clifford D. May is the President of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, a policy institute focusing on terrorism created immediately following the 9/11 attacks on the United States.

He is also the Chairman of the Policy Committee of the Committee on the Present Danger (CPD), an international, non-partisan organization based in Washington D.C. comprised of leading members of the national security community. In 2008, The Daily Telegraph (U.K) named May one the “100 most influential conservatives in America.” That’s means he is responsible for what the American have done with Muslims and Muslim world for the last 10 years.

In 2006 he was appointed an advisor to the Iraq Study Group (Baker-Hamilton Commission) of the United States Institute of Peace, an independent nonpartisan national institution established and funded by Congress. [No need to tell what American did in Iraq]

The significance of Show Throwing

A Turkish student who threw a shoe at International Monetary Fund Managing Director Dominique Strauss-Kahn has explained it one sentence. He said ‘He (Strauss-Kahn) is the representative of global capitalism. I tried to raise my views by protesting against him.”  Similarly George W. Bush, Chadam Baram and Clifford D. May all are the representatives of aggression against free states and are thus devils who have made this world a living hell. The least Muslim youth can do is to tell them you’re not liked here. Thanks to Boston group like intellectuals [don’t forget infamous Hussain Haqqani] who assure the USA that you’re liked or even loved for your actions in Muslim States. Muhammad Hussain Has rightly said that the nation which has destroyed Afghanistan and Iraq and is responsible for killing of Women and children in Gaza and Lebanon has no right to teach us. May be some on like Hussain Haqqani come up with “argument” that it’s difficult to change others but it’s easy to change yourself. Dr Aamir has answer to this Question of Mir Jaffar known as Hussain Haqqani. Pls click here to watch this also.  This article, Why I threw the shoe by Muntazer al-Zaidi defending his action may also be helpful in clearing in the misconception of those who are asking to say yes to every US order.

Red Alert: Frequent US Military Aircraft traffic at Islamabad Airport

Islamabad – The planes in the picture have been spotted frequently flying out of Benazir International Airport, Islamabad (BIAI). These are star lifters, heavy lift aircraft of the US army and air force. The question is why are they flying in and out of Islamabad on a regular basis? What are they transporting? Normally these planes are used for large troop movements and heavy equipment lift. When contacted the CAA was unable to respond and the military was unavailable. Is any one keeping a check on what exactly the US is up to in the environs of the Capital and GHQ?

 

Coutesy: The Nation

What is the US-Dutch arms connection?

Dutch diplomats released on US embassy intervention!

ISLAMABAD: One of the Dutch diplomas sitting in the vehicle, the second picture shows the recovered luggage is being checked while the third one is the image of a US official who got the Dutch diplomats released from police custody-Photos by The Nation

City police on Tuesday held two diplomats of Netherlands’ Embassy and recovered unlicensed arms and ammunition from their vehicle.

The diplomats were later released, besides their weapons, on the intervention of top diplomatic officials from Netherlands and the US Embassy, sources told The Nation.
According to details, Police officials deputed at Police picket near Secretariat Chowk intercepted a Dark Blue BMW (4191) at 11.30 am. The car did not have diplomatic number plates.

On search, police recovered sophisticated weapons including four hand grenades including two smoke equipments and two flash bombs, two handguns, four magazines and six bullet-proof vests from their vehicle.  This arms and ammunition reportedly belonged to the US embassy and was being transported to the US Embassy by the Dutch, the sources said.

The detained diplomats could not provide any justification and relevant documents for keeping such sophisticated weapons to the police, the sources added. “They had only a letter issued by the Dutch Embassy on which Ministry of Interior was requested to issue licence,” the sources said.

Police sources told the TheNation, “There was another vehicle bearing registration (IDL-266) which was allegedly backing up the Dutch diplomats BMW.”
“When we intercepted the Dutch vehicle the driver of a car behind them, identified himself as US Embassy employee named Sunny Christopher, having US Embassy’s official card (16570),” the sources said.

Christopher interfered in the police matter, but after an exchange of harsh words the police sent him on his way. But before he left he had harassed the police to the extent that they were forced to make a misstatement in the report to the effect that he came after the release of the two Dutch men. The fact, as this scribe witnessed himself, later corroborated by the SHO, was that Christopher was present throughout the process of search and arrest.

Secretariat police also mentioned intervention by Christopher in the report of the case. The report said the person who identified himself as US Embassy official namely Sunny Christopher interfered in police matter. (See copy of report)

After the intervention of top diplomatic officials including those from the US, the arrested diplomats were allowed to leave with their belongings under cover of diplomatic immunity.
The arrested Dutch were identified as Tom Smith and Williem Uen.

When contacted, Spokesman of American Embassy, Rick Snelsire, he said, “Honestly saying I heard today’s incident but I have no more information regarding the alleged involvement of US Embassy.”

When asked, who is Sunny Christopher? He said, “I don’t know about Sunny.” When this correspondent told him about Sunny’s Embassy card number (16570), he said, “There are hundreds of US embassy employees and it would be difficult for me to identify them all by the card number,” he added.

Given the tension over Dyncorp and Inter-Risk and un-licensed arms being exchanged between Pakistani Security companies and US embassy, some serious questions arise from this latest incident: One, Why were Dutch diplomats carrying unlicensed arms for the US embassy? Two, why was a Pakistani employee of US embassy escorting these diplomats from behind?
Three, why were the Dutch diplomats not in a car with a diplomatic number plate?
Four, were these two gentlemen really Dutch diplomats to begin with?

Curtsey: The Nation

Pakistani Bloggers “Expel Blackwater & US marines from Pakistan” & “Contain USA to Save Pakistan”

While major political parties were busy in striking deals with the then president Gen (R)Pervez Musharraf, it was the civil society which along with some political parties was running a historic movement for the restoration of Judiciary. The result was remarkable and the message very positive, when you do effort, you make the difference. Now when recently the USCIS included the name of Baluchistan in the country of citizenship column, it was the society media, especially collective efforts through Union of Patriotic Bloggers for Sovereign Pakistan (UPBSP) which compelled the US to remove the name from its form whereas not a single word was expressed by any political party or government official. Keep in mind I am not undermining political parties but emphasizing the role which the society media, comprise of youth mostly, can play to bring a change.

These precedents were cited to show that our efforts yields results, and  we, the society media, as a union has the potential, the vision and commitment and in fact the resources to aware the masses and initiate a mass movement against the world’s worst mercenary force black water, now Xe and kick them out of Pakistan.

Proof of Blackwater’s presence in Pakistan

Let’s throw some light on the Blackwater presence in Pakistan, the claim which the government is bent upon proving “wrong”.  Although there is a complete state of [official] denial of Blackwater threat, a recent development is ample proof for its presence in Pakistan. Blackwater is reportedly recruiting agents fluent in Urdu & Punjabi for Pakistan. Where will be the agents being fluent in URDU and PUNJABI posted if not Pakistan?  Surely Pakistan, the Punjab and remaining Pakistan expect NWFP for which it has already hired Pashto speaking agents.

In a new development Blackwater has reached Karachi and got 11 Bungalows on rent in the posh areas of DHA (7) and Gulshan-e-Iqbal (4). In order to start its work in Karachi, Blackwater has hired two dozen Pakistanis; most of them retired officials of Law enforcing agencies. One of the 11 bungalows situated in Khayaban-e-Shamsheer area of Defence is believed to be its Headquarter.

 

“Ambassador in US”

As result of continuous awareness through blogs and newspaper articles especially those of

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he burned, mutilated corpses of two Blackwater contractors hang from a bridge outside Fallujah while Iraqi civilians celebrate. [Source: NoGW.com

Dr Mazari, our intelligence agencies has put Americans under surveillance but thanks to our Ambassador [Please read US ambassador] who should have acted otherwise is reportedly pressurizing our own government to let Blackwater in to Pakistan. Please note that Ambassador Husain Haqqani’s latest game to protect Blackwater mercenaries was highlighted by society media. In circumstances when our own government is not ready admit the arrival of these worst mercenaries in Pakistan, it is high time for Society media to unite to face this challenge and save Pakistan from converting into Iraq where these bloody US mercenaries have been raping Iraqi girls. This is the least negative aspect; otherwise their main objective is to create chaos and anarchy to pave ways for US occupation of Pakistan.

Following things can be done as part of this campaign “Expel Blackwater & US marines from Pakistan” which should be part of our larger movement of “Containment of USA” 

•  To create awareness you are requested to make as many communities as you can. The best example is that of Abdullah Raza, owner of group “EXPEL Blackwaters & US marines from Pakistan!!!” at facebook.
• Again his suggestion sounds reasonable that all college/school/university students should put up a small notice on the notice board for students to read.
• To write emails to both the US embassy in Islamabad and Pakistani Embassy in Washington. Please also send emails to other embassies to aware them of what the “Champaign of democracy” is doing in Pakistan.
• Write emails to the politicians, both ruling and position parties as well as parties out side parliament.
• Write emails to the members of national assembly, senate and provincial as well as judges of high courts and supreme courts and other important social and intellectual figures including academicians, TV anchors , columnist and political analysts, .
• Please post at least one awareness banner in the locality you’re living in.
• At least aware 100 people of your locality who doesn’t have access to internet.

These are some of the suggestions. The list will be update after the feedback of other Blogger friends. I hope that the contribution & leading role by Teeth Maestro will be crucial.  Please send us your suggestins at upbspakistan@gmail.com

Breaking News: Proofs of Blackwater’s (Xe Services) Presence in Karachi

A report published in Urdu daily, Jasarat has claimed country’s intelligence agencies have submitted their report regarding Xe (Blackwater) to the federal interior ministry. The report includes proofs of XE Services (also Blackwater) presence in Karachi besides shocking story of their nexus with the political party dominating the city. The report also contains details of houses and hotels being used by Blackwater as its operational centre and lodging.  Quoting highly reliable sources, the investigation cell of one of the large circulated dailies from Karachi has claimed………. Please for details read my Urdu blog. Click here.

Dot summary of the details from Urdu blog plus a chat with the concerned reporter by Talkhaba are given blow.  

• Blackwater’s activities are at the peak.

• The notorious mercenary forces are enjoying the support of the most powerful party in the city.

• Office bearers of the two major political parties are providing [not known whether in their individual capacity or with party lines] to Blackwater besides helping them in getting houses.

• Nearly half dozen of the houses are provided by a federal minister who is also helping them in clearing the shipments [weapons and hummer] at Port Qasim.

• Black water has acquired dozens of houses while its strength has reached to 60, 32 out of which are retired officers of Pakistani Law enforcement agencies. No need to mention that the owner of disband Inter Risk is also a retired Captain of Pakistan Army.

• Blackwater has also acquired the seventh floor of five stars Hotel in the Karachi which is believed to be the new operational Headquarter. Previously a Bungalow in the Khyaban-e-Shamshir area of DHA was used as operational centre.

• The American School in KDA scheme one has 8 housing units. One house is used by a senior American diplomat while the remaining seven houses are given to Xe Services (Blackwater) for their lodging.

• Blackwater has got seven houses near the houses of Gen (R) Pervez Musharraf and Gen Moinuddin Hayder in the General colony, near Zamzama DHA. Some Japanese and Koreans are hired and accommodated there to doge Pakistani agencies.

• Another house is acquired in Karsaz Area which is situated near the Muslim League House. The street has been blocked.

• Two Vehicles of BB and BD numbers are used by Blackwater in Karachi, the numbers which are assigned to the MNAs and MPAs only. No one will be able to stop them.

• According to Ummat, the plot reserved for children park in China ground [Kashmir Road] is also given to Xe Services (Blackwater)

Branded terrorism by Brand dictators

You may define it your way. But to me dictatorship means a system where one or group of powerful persons usurp the power of many and deprived them of their basic right to choose. 

Hence, the right of choice, guaranteed under any law, is occupied for which, sometimes, the person is terrorized in order to shut his month. If you agree with definition of dictatorship and terrorism, you will certainly agree that we all are the victim of brand terrorism.

Not so shocking, the huge media empires get their “feed” from the brands’ advertising budget which consumes a large amount on publicity compromising on the quality of product and consequently resort to means tactics.

Instead of improving their quality some known brands, especially the beverages companies, opt to deprive the consumer of right of choice by making deal with hotels and restaurants that only their brand should be sold out.

 Recently, we five office colleagues went to a restaurant “Food Centre” at burns road. Interestingly, all five persons had different choices, with no rooms for compromise on his/her choice. But the waiter literally terrorized us by informing that we have no alternative except to have Coca Cola brands beverages. When asked to bring Pepsi and Dev from the adjacent shop, the waiter refused and bluntly inform us of Bush/US type of rules followed in the restaurant, no “outsider” brand is allow to enter the premises of Hotel, no outsider food. What can one do in such circumstances except to nod his/her head as we do it when listen to any Diktat from our master US. Hence “No outside food and drink allowed” The food being served, many had no choice but rely on all time and all people’s drink, water.  

Similarly in another restaurant we were let to know that asking for COCA brand is liable to ousting from the restaurant without having our lunch.

Interesting these dictator brands are of multinational owned by west, the champion of democracy, freedom for right of expression and freedom of choice.

Isn’t it brand dictatorship and brand terrorism? I hope that all those supporting of right of choice would voice against this type of dictatorship.