Thursday 23 February 2012
Tuesday 24 May 2011
The Good, the Bad and The Pakistan
Today Pakistani Govt. Pleads to the International Community that they must respect Pakistan's sovereignty but the question is; Is Pakistan truly a sovereign state at all?Once a beggar asked me to buy him some food rather giving him some money, I took him to a food stall and asked the waiter to fetch some mustard and a Bread for him with a cup of tea; the beggar did not question but obliged as i was giving money so he was under my decision making power. Same is the case with Pakistan, so much begging and so much request for aid in the name of war on terror. Can Pakistan be a sovereign state after taking so much aid and dictate its own terms? In my opinion, the answer is a big No.
According to Wiki Leaks, Senator John Kerry when told the US Senators that Pakistan has pressed upon the issue of its sovereignty, the US Senate Room was full of laughters and they mocked Pakistan by any mean they could. Well I would personally not blame them as they are the master and commander of Pakistan.
Once a colonial state of Great Britain, Pakistan now has become a new colonial state of USA. In one of the Wiki Leaks it was stated that US Ambassador to Pakistan, W. Anne Patterson told US that Mr. Yousaf Raza Gillani is the most corrupt person and he will be easily tackled so he should be preferred as Prime Minister and so later we see that Mr. Gillani became the PM of Pakistan.
Can he be the deliverer? Can he be the Moses of Pakistani Nation? Of course not. Imran Khan called him and President Zardari as "Mir Jaffer (The Traitor of Faith)" and "Mir Sadiq" respectively. And most of the nation believes that they truly are those characters. If i were to make a movie on any of those two characters of history, the best fit would be Zardari and Gilani (no joke intended).
USA has now become a crown-less king of the world and thinks that whatever they feel right is actually right. If some of the councilors told President of USA at Night that the shiny thing you call moon at night is actually planet Pluto, for guarantee The President of USA shall believe them and next day would announce that we had been wrong about WMD's, Saddam hid them over there.(still i am not joking).I guess for USA there was Osama in Afghanistan, WMD's in Iraq and Unsafe Nuclear Weapons may be found in Pakistan next. we all know now that Osama was in Pakistan and had USA trusted Pakistan in the first place and had used its proper resources without wasting money of common American People; they could have located Osama easily. In Iraq we all know USA soldiers were looking into shit holes to be exact for weapons of mass destruction which now is understood that they were never there. Coming to Pakistan, slowly USA is developing a stupid story just like Bin Laden and WMD's that Pakistan's nuclear assets are not safe.
Americans might be thinking that they can land in Pakistan, but the day they make this decision, their coming generations will weep. This a country which cannot be taken by force but i guess Americans already know it don't they. So they come up with a plan and develop mistrust among Pakistani nation and its Armed Forces. and so far so good but this is no time of Tipu Sultan and Saraj-ul-Dolla, It is time of information and Media.age of free will and freedom and trust me when i say, the streets of Pakistan are weeping blood but soon the tides will change. We hope and we believe.
Monday 23 May 2011
Pakistan retakes naval base after militant attack
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| Wreckage of destroyed Aircraft |
KARACHI: Pakistan on Monday regained control of a naval base in the country’s biggest city, 17 hours after heavily armed Taliban gunmen attacked, destroying two US-made surveillance planes and killing 10 personnel.
It was the worst assault on a military base since the army headquarters was besieged in October 2009, piling further embarrassment on the armed forces three weeks after Osama bin Laden was found living under their noses.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said four to six militants used ladders to climb into the naval air base in the teeming port city of Karachi under the cover of night late Sunday, triggering gunbattles and a series of explosions.
Officials said 11 Chinese and six American maintenance contractors were evacuated safely during the attack, but it took 17 hours before the navy confirmed that the attack on the PNS (Pakistan Naval Ship) Mehran was over.
“We have cleared the base. The operation has been completed and the base is now under our control,” Commodore Irfan ul Haq told AFP.
Malik said the “terrorists” sneaked into the base from three points adjacent to residential areas in the city of 16 million people, whose port is a vital hub for Nato supplies bound for Afghanistan.
“It is not just an attack on a navy establishment, it is an attack on Pakistan,” Malik added, warning that those who sympathise with the Taliban and Al-Qaeda should instead “join hands with us to save our country”.
“There are believed to have been four to six terrorists. Four are confirmed dead. Two are suspected to have run away. We are still checking. Things will be clear by the evening,” he told reporters.
One of the attackers is believed to have blown himself up and three dead bodies were found, the minister said. He said the group had used two ladders, under the cover of darkness, to climb over the wall into the base late Sunday.
In a bizarre analogy, Malik compared the attackers to characters from a Star Wars film, dressed in Western clothes.
“They were wearing black clothes like in Star Wars movies, (one) with (a) suicide vest. They had small beards and two of them were between 20-22 years old while the third who blew himself up was about 25.”
A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, who have stepped up attacks to avenge the May 2 death of bin Laden, said they had dispatched 15 to 20 suicide bombers equipped to fight for a week.
“We had already warned after Osama’s martyrdom that we will carry out even bigger attacks,” Taliban spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location.
Bin Laden was killed by US commandos in a garrison town north of Islamabad, in a raid that humiliated Pakistan’s security establishment. The militants’ attack deep inside Karachi underlined the military’s vulnerability.
An AFP reporter heard blasts and intermittent barrages of gunfire on Monday, and helicopters flying overhead. Dozens of ambulances queued outside the base, which is about a few kilometres from Karachi’s international airport.
Malik said 10 security personnel were killed, including one navy officer, three navy firemen, three navy commandos, a sailor and two paramilitary soldiers, and 15 others wounded.
“They have destroyed two P-3C Orion aircraft,” said Navy spokesman Commander Salman Ali. The attack was also likely to raise further concerns about the safety of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons, which reportedly number more than 100.
The New York Times said that a mere 24 kilometres away from PNS Mehran, Pakistan was believed to keep a large depot for nuclear weapons that can be delivered from the air.
Malik refused to acknowledge any security lapse, saying the “rapid”response had prevented bigger losses and adding that a security alert had been ordered across the country in large cities to guard against future attacks.
Soon after the operation was over in Karachi a bomb blast damaged a bridge on the main highway linking the capital Islamabad to the northwestern city of Peshawar, but caused no casualties, police officer Quresh Khan told AFP.
In October 2009, Taliban militants besieged the army headquarters in the garrison city of Rawalpindi for two days, killing 22 people and raising serious questions over why it took the military so long to put down the assault.
Karachi is Pakistan’s financial capital and the assault was the fourth on the navy in a month. Three bombings in late April killed nine people.
Despite anger in Pakistan over bin Laden’s killing, US President Barack Obama told the BBC he was ready to order a similar mission if another high-value target was discovered in Pakistan, or anywhere else.
War and Peace
If we do not end war - war will end us. Everybody says that, millions of people believe it, and nobody does anything. ~H.G. Wells
Pakistan is in a state of war and everybody in Pakistan firmly believes it but nobody is doing anything related to it. Pakistan's own administration is lacking interest in stabilizing the country and its economy. While American Government is preying on its own vested interest in this region and having a great hand to destabilize Pakistan.
With the imposition of IMF conditions to raise up the tariffs of electricity and petroleum products, the common people are like cart donkeys upon which any sort of burden can be loaded. Pakistani administration is taking dictation from west and doing so accordingly ignoring the interest of Pakistani people.
The tragedy of May 22nd, 2011 has taken the country in the state of war where its Pakistan Naval Services Mehran (PNS Mehran) base was attacked by special services commandos trained in some other country and bred for the very reason to destroy Pakistan from within. Pakistani force lost its 10 good soldiers against 6 trained and professional killers.
The State officially announced that those were terrorists and a well know Taliban association, Tehreek-e-Taliban TTP; accepted the responsibility (in most cases its just a concept that they are behind the attacks just to provide cover to original culprits). TTP is just being blamed and through a conspiracy they are claiming the responsibility but even a fool know that they might have AK47s and much more but they do not possess extreme combat, assault and re-con tactics.
So the 22nd May situation leaves me thinking like many others, that some other influences were behind the attacks as they specifically targeted two of the three planes which were anti sub-marine and Mari-time tactical fighter plane. This situation has left Pakistan Navy much vulnerable in Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. So why someone like India or America would want this?
It is now understood that as the situation in Pakistan is heating up and Anti-American sentiments are boiling up the veins of Pakistani Nation, NATO will soon be cut out from the main supply route, which it is using currently. This will be a great set back for the America which is very unlikely acceptable to the American Govt. So America needs Gawadar Port which can lead them through Balochistan into Afghanistan without much difficulty.
To gain access to Gawadar, it should be proved to Pakistan that its Gawadar's only defense force which is Pakistan Navy; is incapable of defending it and Americans must help Pakistan, they can easily land up their forces in to the country and well another lost front for Pakistan.
It is just one small part of the great game but the people who are suffering collateral damages, does anyone think about them. After all it is blood which is spilled on either side of the border. After all it is human blood we spill, whether the skin is black or white the blood is red and hot but it seems that its turning white and cold now.
Pakistan is in a state of war and everybody in Pakistan firmly believes it but nobody is doing anything related to it. Pakistan's own administration is lacking interest in stabilizing the country and its economy. While American Government is preying on its own vested interest in this region and having a great hand to destabilize Pakistan.
With the imposition of IMF conditions to raise up the tariffs of electricity and petroleum products, the common people are like cart donkeys upon which any sort of burden can be loaded. Pakistani administration is taking dictation from west and doing so accordingly ignoring the interest of Pakistani people.
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| Lieutenant Yasir Abbas Shaheed Killed in PNS Mehran Attack |
The tragedy of May 22nd, 2011 has taken the country in the state of war where its Pakistan Naval Services Mehran (PNS Mehran) base was attacked by special services commandos trained in some other country and bred for the very reason to destroy Pakistan from within. Pakistani force lost its 10 good soldiers against 6 trained and professional killers.
The State officially announced that those were terrorists and a well know Taliban association, Tehreek-e-Taliban TTP; accepted the responsibility (in most cases its just a concept that they are behind the attacks just to provide cover to original culprits). TTP is just being blamed and through a conspiracy they are claiming the responsibility but even a fool know that they might have AK47s and much more but they do not possess extreme combat, assault and re-con tactics.
So the 22nd May situation leaves me thinking like many others, that some other influences were behind the attacks as they specifically targeted two of the three planes which were anti sub-marine and Mari-time tactical fighter plane. This situation has left Pakistan Navy much vulnerable in Indian Ocean and Arabian Sea. So why someone like India or America would want this?
It is now understood that as the situation in Pakistan is heating up and Anti-American sentiments are boiling up the veins of Pakistani Nation, NATO will soon be cut out from the main supply route, which it is using currently. This will be a great set back for the America which is very unlikely acceptable to the American Govt. So America needs Gawadar Port which can lead them through Balochistan into Afghanistan without much difficulty.
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| Lieutenant Yasir Abbas Shaheed Killed in PNS Mehran Attack |
It is just one small part of the great game but the people who are suffering collateral damages, does anyone think about them. After all it is blood which is spilled on either side of the border. After all it is human blood we spill, whether the skin is black or white the blood is red and hot but it seems that its turning white and cold now.
Wikileaks reveals Kayani’s views on Osama
Wikileaks has revealed that the chief of army staff General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani told an American senator that it was unjust to criticise Pakistan for not locating Osama Bin Laden and al-Zawahiri and that he would place Pakistan’s track record in pursuing and capturing al-Qaida operatives up against any other country.
The Wikileaks cable sent on 11-01-2008 by the US embassy in Pakistan talks of a meeting of Ambassador and Senator Joseph Lieberman with COAS General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani January 9, 2008. “Lieberman then asked about the status of the search for Osama bin Laden and al-Zawahiri. It was unjust to criticise Pakistan for not locating these men, asserted Kayani, and he would place Pakistan’s track record in pursuing and capturing al-Qaida operatives up against any other country’s”, the cable reveals the discussion of General Kayani with US Senator.
Another Wikileaks cable, sent on 19-2-2009 ahead of Kayani’s visit to USA, and released on May 4, 2011 reveals the mindset of Americans regarding dealing with Pakistan’s military. The cable says, “But we need to lay down a clear marker that Pakistan’s Army/ISI must stop overt or tacit support for militant proxies (Haqqani network, Commander Nazir, Lashkar-e-Taiba). We should preface that conversation with an agreement to open a new page in relations; Kayani, who was ISI chief from 2004-2007, does not want a reckoning with the past. Given the GOP surrender of Swat to local Taliban, we need to press Kayani to commit his now reluctant Army to retake the area after the “peace deal” inevitably fails.”
“The military and ISI have not yet made that leap; they still view India as their principal threat and Afghanistan as strategic depth in a possible conflict with India. They continue to provide overt or tacit support for proxy forces (including the Haqqani group, Commander Nazir, Gulbaddin Hekmatyar, and Lashkar-e-Taiba) as a foreign policy tool.”
US ambassador wrote: “Kayani will want to hear that the US has turned the page on past ISI operations (he was ISI chief from 2004-2007). We should ask for his views on what political end state in Afghanistan would convince him to end proxy support for militants and probe for what would be required by India to allow him to re-deploy forces from the Indian border for the fight in FATA. The reality is that, without a redeployment, he does not have the forces (however poorly trained) to combat the insurgency in FATA.”
The Wikileaks cable sent on 11-01-2008 by the US embassy in Pakistan talks of a meeting of Ambassador and Senator Joseph Lieberman with COAS General Ashfaq Pervaiz Kayani January 9, 2008. “Lieberman then asked about the status of the search for Osama bin Laden and al-Zawahiri. It was unjust to criticise Pakistan for not locating these men, asserted Kayani, and he would place Pakistan’s track record in pursuing and capturing al-Qaida operatives up against any other country’s”, the cable reveals the discussion of General Kayani with US Senator.
Another Wikileaks cable, sent on 19-2-2009 ahead of Kayani’s visit to USA, and released on May 4, 2011 reveals the mindset of Americans regarding dealing with Pakistan’s military. The cable says, “But we need to lay down a clear marker that Pakistan’s Army/ISI must stop overt or tacit support for militant proxies (Haqqani network, Commander Nazir, Lashkar-e-Taiba). We should preface that conversation with an agreement to open a new page in relations; Kayani, who was ISI chief from 2004-2007, does not want a reckoning with the past. Given the GOP surrender of Swat to local Taliban, we need to press Kayani to commit his now reluctant Army to retake the area after the “peace deal” inevitably fails.”
“The military and ISI have not yet made that leap; they still view India as their principal threat and Afghanistan as strategic depth in a possible conflict with India. They continue to provide overt or tacit support for proxy forces (including the Haqqani group, Commander Nazir, Gulbaddin Hekmatyar, and Lashkar-e-Taiba) as a foreign policy tool.”
US ambassador wrote: “Kayani will want to hear that the US has turned the page on past ISI operations (he was ISI chief from 2004-2007). We should ask for his views on what political end state in Afghanistan would convince him to end proxy support for militants and probe for what would be required by India to allow him to re-deploy forces from the Indian border for the fight in FATA. The reality is that, without a redeployment, he does not have the forces (however poorly trained) to combat the insurgency in FATA.”
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