Is this the beginning of the end of Asif Zardari? What impact will the fall of Punjab’s Government have? What is General Asfhaq Pervez Kiyani’s visit to the US all about and what can we expect in the coming days?
Zaid Hamid speaks in detail on various issues facing the nation today. The topics covered are:
1) What will we get out of Swat deal: A blessing or an evil?
2) Letter of Mullah Umar to Pakistani Talibans: A friend or a foe?
3) The fall of Punjab Government! What lies Ahead?
4) Gen Ashfaq Pervez Kyani in America: Why the Honor?
5) The Lawyers Movement: Does Zaid Hamid supports the restoration of Justice Iftikhar Muahmmad Chaudhry?
6) What about the Missing People: Who sold them to America or did they vanish on there own? and much more…
MUMBAI: Indian Mujahideen’s (IM) top operative Sadiq Sheikh’s confession on his alleged role in the July 11, 2006 serial Mumbai train blasts has come as a huge embarrassment to the Maharashtra anti-terrorism squad. Two years ago, the ATS had chargesheeted 13 people but Sadiq and other members of IM module were not named as conspirators.
The Indian authorities had then said that Sadiq’s claims were part of an al-Qaida ploy to mislead investigators. They had then claimed that the blasts were carried out by Simi activists and Pakistanis. [Link]
This comes after the massively embarassing ‘Noida Encounter’ episode which made them a laughing stock within their own media.
On January 25th, Indian and International Newspapers ran the headline ‘Pakistan Terrorists Shot Dead in Delhi’.
Police in Noida, Uttar Pradesh, just ten miles outside the capital, claimed to have intercepted the two suspects in a car following a tip off. A spokesman said the suspects refused to stop and opened fire, leading to the gun fight in which the two suspected militants were shot dead. They apparently ‘confessed’ to being Pakistani in their dying moments, and were also carrying their Pakistani passports, we were told.
Here’s a report in Times of India questioning the loopholes in the official story.
Meanwhile also have a look at a list of some notable fake encounters carried out by Indian security forces in recent times, courtesy of Google.
Humanity trapped & choked to death under the Rain of fire and blood. Gaza, Muslims will never forget!!!
Gaza serves as an Israeli open air prison for over one and a half million Palestinians which are every now and then butchered shamelessly under the label of War against Terror. These people can’t eat, move or live according to their free will as told by Yonoton Shapira, Former captain Israeli air force. He himself admits that the treatment with this Muslim population is worse than animals. Israeli Monsters made Innocent Muslims move to city centre for safety and then later bombed them with shells. They did not even spare 5 months old baby girl, crushed under Israeli tank and later eaten by Dogs. What terror did she impose to them? What terror did any of the innocent unarmed Muslim children impose to Israel, children whose parents were sliced open in front of their eyes?
Israelis are not just war criminals – they are murderous monsters, and we Muslims will never forget Gaza and its sacrifices. We will make the Israelis pay for ever single drop of blood spilled of our Muslim brothers, sisters and children InshAllah, Ameen.
Since the new US administration is in the process of reviewing the US policy on the so-called war of terrorism, it may be a good time to put forward a few points as a fuel for new thoughts aimed at having a constructive discussion and analyzing the tough situation starkly facing the world community. The proposed changes in our policy will hopefully not only help securing the US interests but also promote global stability in general and that of South and Central Asia in particular. Since America has been acting, and quite deservingly so, as a leader of the free and civilized world, American policies must reflect the values of civilized human life and truly respect the globally recognized human rights. Obama administration must shun the disgraced and disastrous policies of neocons that were aimed at enslaving other nations economically, occupying others lands, and grabbing others natural resources – all in the name of US national interest and security. That change ought to be a corner stone of the US foreign policy and its goals.
SMS CAMPAIGN OFFERS REWARD TO ‘HINDUS MARRYING MUSLIM GIRLS’
Rajesh Bidkar, a member of an Indore radical group (Indore is the largest city in Madhya Pradesh state in central India) on Tuesday issued a SMS ‘farmaan’ (edict) with a reward of Rs 5,000 ($120) for any Hindu boy who married a Muslim girl.
“He also and offered protection to Hindus who married Muslim girls.”
In the message, Bidkar said he had no objection to Hindu girls marrying Muslims, provided they are not cheated in the name of a religion “which permits to keep more than one wife”.
Urging people to forward the SMS to at least 10 others “in the interest of Hindutva”, Bidkar said: “We are not against love,
but against innocent girls being exploited in name of religion”.
Forget about Shamsi airbase in Balochistan. The Americans are using that one for Iran. There is an altogether different base for the drones in Balochistan. It’s a Pakistani piece of land that no Pakistani knows what’s inside. In fact, Pakistani air defense personnel are stationed inside the U.S. Embassy compound in Islamabad, where they ensure that CIA drones fly safely to kill Pakistanis and return to the base unharmed.
Occupation of Afghanistan in the aftermath of 9/11 provided a godsend opportunity to India and Israel to give practical shape to its nefarious plan of disarming Pakistan. From 2002 onwards RAW, Mossad with the active collaboration of CIA and FBI have been undertaking subversive activities inside Pakistan from Kabul to weaken all the protective bunds around nuclear assets and hijack it at an opportune time without having to wage a war. The godfather USA helped its chief operators by winning over Gen Musharraf and opening up western border for undertaking clandestine operations in the selected regions. The trio then set about weakening Pakistan’s state institutions through a wilful and well orchestrated propaganda campaign.
India has always used propaganda warfare as an instrument to achieve its ends. The vilification campaign was intensified from 2005 onwards and it gained momentum in 2008 onwards. The targets chosen were the army and the ISI since the plotters knew that without sufficiently enfeebling these two institutions it would not be possible for them to achieve their objectives.
[Brasstacks] Finally, when the traitor terrorist Baitullah Mehsud is exposed, he is now trying to find space within Afghan Taliban who always rejected war against Pakistan. Here Mullah Umar again admonishes Baitullah for his crimes. If Baitullah does not behave, he will be eliminated by Afghan Taliban themselves.
“Mulla Omar first sent an envoy to the local Taliban and then wrote a letter to the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) admonishing these leaders and told the TTP that fighting Muslims could not be described as Jihad so they should immediately cease attacks on the Pakistani security forces…” [Link]
CIA is the world biggest drug cartel. Same was true for East India Company. Western civilization is built on human misery, sufferings and death.
“It is common knowledge that Afghanistan remains the primary source of the world’s supply of opium and heroin. A recent United Nations’s report claims that three quarters of the world’s heroin comes from the provinces of Helmand and Kandahar. But there is also recognition that poppies are grown in almost all of the country’s 34 provinces…”
Just because it is in Urdu doesn’t make it true! Just because it was broadcast by a Pakistani channel doesn’t make it right! Just because it shows the Pakistani flag doesn’t mean it is loyal to Pakistan or patriotic.
ISLAMABAD: The chief of naval staff (CNS) on Friday demolished the case and contention of the adviser on interior to the prime minister conceding that the main accused and his accomplices of the Mumbai incidents of November 26 last year belonged to Pakistan and they travelled from Karachi.
The CNS, Admiral Noman Bashir said on that no evidence has been provided that Ajmal Kasab had gone to Mumbai from Pakistan while Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik confessed last month that Ajmal Kasab and his nine accomplices travelled from Karachi to undertake the attacks in Mumbai. Interestingly, his statement was a confirmation of the position that India had taken about the case and Indians jubilantly termed it their great diplomatic achievement.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—News to the small group of ‘India-appeasers’ and ‘India-lovers’ in Pakistan, including those in power who never tire of professing their love for one Indian actress or another: India is amassing huge piles of weapons, even at the cost of its poor – the world’s largest concentration of poverty in once place – in order to crush Pakistan and be ready to play the role of an Anglo-American slave fighter in Asia, ready to take on China when ordered. Read Full Article | Ahmed Quraishi
In Afghanistan, U.S./NATO have put the blame on Taliban for poppy cultivation to finance their resistance to allied forces. Ironically, it was only in Taliban era when the world had seen a sharp decline in opium crop in Afghanistan. The Afghan Taliban had banned opium cultivation nationwide, probably for the first time in Afghan history. A more important question is how and when this business of drug production and trafficking started in region? CIA has been using drug money since long to generate money to support its operations all over the world. It did not start in Afghanistan it was brought here after experimenting somewhere else. This is something which is not a lead story in international media for obvious reasons despite the fact it is harming millions of lives around the globe.
Nawaz Sharif’s reason for supporting Iftikhar Chaudhry one year ago was to get back at Musharraf, a glorified version of kindergarten revenge. Nothing more. Today, Mr. Sharif’s purpose is to grab the federal government. He believes his right to rule Pakistan was snatched away from him in 1999 and he wants it back. Aitzaz Ahsan is building a new career. And Iftikhar Chaudhry is just a pawn. Zardari and Nawaz used him against Musharraf. Today, Nawaz will use him to capture Islamabad.
Concerned by “religion inspired violence”, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad has shot off a letter to 13 Muslim organizations requesting them to issue a fatwa declaring India as a friend of Islam, ‘Dar-Ul-Amn’, against which ‘jihad’ should not be waged.
The dual linkage of young Indian officers with both military and Hindu fascist organizations has caused a cancer to the military establishment in India. It has brought elements into Indian military who have their own goals which do not conform well with military discipline. An army with irrepressible elements is as dangerous to any country as its real enemy’s army can be or even more. Officers like Gen (R) Premnath Hoon joined Indian army decades ago and served at different posts all the way to rank of General before he retired. What is revealing that he was one of the founding fathers of military wing of Shiv Sena. This also proves that either before joining or during his service in military he established links with Shiv Sena but what is more important is that he was not alone in this venture but there was active support from Indian military through his contacts he made during service like Colonel Jayant Chitale who was also in charge in military selection center at Pune for many years.
It seems Baitullah Mehsud has outlived his shelf-life and is of no further use to his American and Indian masters.
After receiving a kicking in Bajaur and the implementation of Sharia in Swat, he has now been cornered into South Waziristan with his area of influence having been greatly reduced in recent days. In what seemed like a sign of desperation, he hit out at Kashmiri jihadi groups last week, threatening to eliminate their leaders if they did not join him in fighting the Pakistan army.
Accusing them of ‘only fighting external enemies such as the US and India’, Baitullah Mehsud’s ‘Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan’ (TTP) justified attacking members of these Jihadi outfits by pointing out that these outfits ‘do not fight the Pakistan Army’ and commit mass murder of innocent Pakistani citizens like the TTP has been doing for a some time now.
It is also interesting to note that the Afghan Taleban’s Supreme Commander Mullah Mohammad Omar had issued a statement over a year ago distancing himself and the Afghan Taleban from the TTP and its chief Baitullah Mehsud. He had also condemned Baitullah Mehsud in strong words for fighting against the Pakistan Army instead of with the NATO forces.
It is unclear why the Obama administration decided to carry out the attacks, which American and Pakistani officials said occurred last Saturday and again on Monday, hitting camps run by Mr. Mehsud’s network. The Saturday strike was aimed specifically at Mr. Mehsud, but he was not killed, according to Pakistani and American officials.
For months, Pakistani military and intelligence officials have complained about Washington’s refusal to strike at Baitullah Mehsud, even while C.I.A. drones struck at Qaeda figures and leaders of the network run by Jalaluddin Haqqani, a militant leader believed responsible for a campaign of violence against American troops in Afghanistan.
According to one senior Pakistani official, Pakistan’s intelligence service on two occasions in recent months gave the United States detailed intelligence about Mr. Mehsud’s whereabouts, but said the United States had not acted on the information. Bush administration officials had charged that it was the Pakistanis who were reluctant to take on Mr. Mehsud and his network.
It now increasingly looks like Baitullah Mehsud is living on borrowed time. It would be interesting to see who gets to him first, the Pakistanis or the Americans. Pakistani Army would be well advised to attempt to capture him alive, something that the Americans and Indians would try and ensure does not happen.
India is involved in Swat and Pakistan is being destablized by forigen powers, says former interior minister General Hamid Nawaz. In this Editor’s Show of PakistanFirst we try to understand Pakistan’s security situation, Swat Deal and Drone attacks in Pakistan. We also discussed Pakistani airports being used for US drone attacks. General Hamid Nawaz confirms to us India’s involvement in Swat. Above all we try to figure what is the solution of Pakistan’s security Problem.
Swat is exactly what the demonization of Afghan Taliban and the creation of a fake ‘Pakistani Taliban’ is all about. Pakistan has supported Afghan Taliban, so create these monsters inside Pakistan, call them ‘Taliban’, make them kill ordinary Pakistanis mercilessly, and when anger builds up, point the finger at Pakistani military. What the Pakistani media is not noticing is how that everything that the so-called Pakistani Taliban does ends up supporting the U.S. government and military’s argument for boosting troops in Afghanistan and advocating U.S. military intervention in Pakistan. Swat peace deal is good for Pakistan; has nothing to do with America, is none of Europe’s business. There is no way to eliminate the insurgency in Afghanistan without political reconciliation inside Afghanistan itself. Drone attacks and peace deals in Pakistan are irrelevant.
Just outside the Nawab Masjid mosque in Bhindi Bazaar, in Mumbai, worshippers have laid long strips of blue plastic as temporary prayer mats. Among the faithful is Gulzar Azmi, who spends much of his time defending some of the terrorism-case suspects who he says have been framed by the police. And he insists the system is still biased against Muslims.
“When a Muslim sets off a firework, even then they say it’s a bomb,” Mr Azmi complains.
“The government says one thing and does another… they pretty much treat Indian Muslims like second-class citizens. When a Hindu commits a crime they get charged with lesser offences. It’s the opposite for Muslims,” he says.
“It was only in September last year that the government finally accepted that Hindus are also responsible for bomb attacks,” he concludes. “Before that they’d never acknowledged that it could happen.”
Report by Washington-based think tank says US must acknowledge Pakistan’s security concerns have worsened after it joined hands with Washington
WASHINGTON: The United States should dedicate robust economic assistance for uplift of the Pakistani people along its Afghan border and also help resolve Pakistan’s security concerns by engaging Islamabad and New Delhi as part of a regional solution to the Afghan conflict, a new study by a Washington think tank said Tuesday.
The research released by the US Institute of Peace acknowledged that Pakistan “has legitimate security interests in its region and it has few conventional political, military, or diplomatic tools to achieve its interests”.
Hamid said he is simply a man on a mission to save Pakistan. Hamid claims the United States is out to denuclearise Pakistan.
“It is applying what I call the Yugoslavia Solution,” he said.
“The ultimate game plan is to ultimately take out Pakistan’s nuclear and missile programme. To achieve that, the US needs to do certain steps. Everything is heading to that direction.
“But the Americans don’t want to make a false move. Because, that can backfire very severely. So, there are multiple ways by which they are trying to achieve this. Number one is by imposing a politically corrupt government, which will implode Pakistan from within. Create an environment of mismanagement and financial corruption to the extent Pakistan becomes a dysfunctional and failed state. That was the most fundamental component of the Yugoslavia strategy,” he said.
Critical of the US policy orientation, Zaid Hamid warned that the restive mood among the Pakistan army officials shows anger and mistrust and he suspected that in the likelihood of the Pakistan government’s further ceding to US diktat it would not be able to withstand the public outrage and opposition that will be generated.
Holbrook’s appointment as the special envoy to southwest Asia is viewed by Hamid as implementing the Yugoslaviaimprint on Pakistan. “There is a bigger plan that aims at the dismemberment of the state and eventual control of its nuclear programme under the justification that as a “failed dysfunctional state” Pakistan is unable to control its strategic assets from falling in the hands of rogue elements,” said Hamid.
Though this might contain the ingredients of a far-fetched conspiracy theory, it was only last year that a map of a greatly reduced Pakistan with redrawn border was created and circulated in the US military circles.
SMS CAMPAIGN OFFERS REWARD TO ‘HINDUS MARRYING MUSLIM GIRLS’
Just because it is in Urdu doesn’t make it true! Just because it was broadcast by a Pakistani channel doesn’t make it right! Just because it shows the Pakistani flag doesn’t mean it is loyal to Pakistan or patriotic.
Zaid Hamid’s message to Pakistanis all over the world on the occasion of Pakistan Day, March 23rd 2009. 
