General Gul (r) quotes Bush Senior as “clip the wings of ISI”. Further talks about how in Pakistan, we do not have democracy, neither dictatorship nor even humanitarian-ship. Sheds some light on “modern day terrorism”, talks about his meeting with Osama Bin Laden, a report called “World at Risk” is given to Obama which concludes that all roads of terrorism and nucleus of weapons of mass destruction are from Pakistan. General Gul (r) says that Israeli belief, from Ben Gurion to Netanyahu, that Pakistan is the only threat and should be neutralized, and confirms that there are two Talibaans, one true and pro-Pakistan who are being missiled by US drones and the other American sponsored anti-Pakistani terrorists.
He also talks about General (r) Musharraf very frankly as his student and as a soldier and that he has suspicions on Americans for Ojri Camp incident.
He mentions that three points were given to him by Benazir and an American ambassador for Talibaans to be recognized as a Government and conveying these to Talibaans in Afghanistan were his biggest mistake in life.
Guest speakers:
Former Air Marshall Kaleem Sadaat,
Lt. General (R) Hamid Nawaz Khan, and
Akram Zaki.
Kaleem Sadaat mentions that in 2002 Pakistani Air Force shot down an Israeli made Indian drone, denies Drones take off from Pakistani land and puts forward certain technical aspects.
General (r) Hamid Nawaz Khan says ”stopping Drones attacks inside Pakistan is a test for current government”, specifies US aims for Baluchistan.
Akram Zaki mentions “elections in US and Pak were based on promises of “change” in fact, there is NO change at all in both countries”. Talks of the importance of Baluchistan and American lust for this resource-rich region of Pakistan, he further adds “Americans are prepared to make amphibious landing in Baluchistan”.
Speakers conclude that Baitullah Mehsud is CIA asset in Pakistan to create room for US strikes inside Pakistan.
Here’s something you won’t hear the American mainstream media talk about.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—The United States Central Intelligence Agency faces its toughest test yet to prove wrong the suspicions of many within the Pakistani strategic community that some of the terrorism exported from Afghan soil into Pakistan has direct or indirect support from Washington.
The immediate test centers on Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of the bandits who present themselves as Pakistani Taliban. The Americans have begun some cosmetic drone attacks on Baitullah’s territory and there are reports Washington has agreed to launch a joint operation with Pakistan against this bandit. The purpose is to assuage Pakistani concerns about the U.S. role. In July last year, Pakistan’s military leadership confronted senior CIA and U.S. military commanders with evidence showing Washington indirectly protecting anti-Pakistan terrorists on the ground. This newspaper broke that story on Aug. 5, 2008, with a front page headline, ‘US told not to back terrorism against Pakistan’.
At the time of writing this, too much has already been written, said and criticized about the alleged flogging of a teenage girl in a remote area of Swat (Pakistan) by a self-proclaimed Islamic group calling themselves representatives of “Talibaan Movement in Pakistan”.
This act has once again brought Islam and Shariah at the focal point for global media who are working overtime in portraying the punishment as Islamic and then as barbaric including an attempt to attach it with implementation of Shariah laws by radical Islamists.
Here we have attempted to raise some key points and questions to help readers in evaluating the case themselves and come up to their own conclusions:
President Obama has said that Al-Qaeda has strongholds in Tribal Areas of Pakistan and from there they are planning to attack US. He also mentioned that the US plans to expand its ‘war on terror’ inside Pakistan. This statement of Obama coincided with another statement and that, from terrorist number one. No it’s not Osama! Current terrorist number one is Baitullah Mehsud, based in Tribal areas of Pakistan.
We should criticize the Swat flogging [if it isn’t fake] without endorsing ‘Asma Jehangirism’. Understand the problem of these terrorists masquerading as ‘Pakistani Taliban’ and you’ll understand enemy from friend in our tribal region.
We had predicted in the immediate aftermath of the Mumbai attacks:
We can now expect an intense and sustained terrorism campaign in Pakistani cities in an attempt to destabilize the country along ethnic / sectarian lines – New Delhi’s time-tested method. On the diplomatic front India will be lobbying hard to have the ISI (and Pakistan Army) declared as terrorist organisations. We can also not rule out another false flag attack in the next few weeks.
Seeing his influence wane in recent days in face of Pakistan Army’s continued offensive against the TTP and fearing his capture, the US had tentatively struck, for the first time since his emergence, camps run by Baitullah Mehsud earlier this year. Taking heed of these warning shots, Agent Mehsud has sprung into action.
KARACHI: Two men have been arrested for photographing Karachi’s Saeedabad police training centre, SAMAA learnt Tuesday.
Security has been increased in the southern province of Sindh after a police training centre was attacked in the Punjab Monday in a devastating ambush.
Sources said that the men who were detained spoke Pashto and did not appear to understand Urdu. [Samaa]
In another development, five more persons, involved in the terror attack here in Manawan, were arrested from various areas of Lahore. Sources said that these arrests were made on pointing out by a terrorist Hijratullah, who was arrested from Manawan. [GEO]
Story of a brave FC soldier who was martyred fighting in Swat
Teri Bus Ik Pukaar Par Mein A Gaya Hun Chor Kar!
Azeem Se Azeem Kaam, Meray Watan Tujhay Salaam!
PESHAWAR: “I am dying, take my gun and deliver it to General sahib,” were the last words of Sepoy Gul Farosh as he lay critically injured near Manglawar village in Swat on October 28, 2007.
His surviving colleagues from the Frontier Corps conveyed his words and delivered his gun to their officers. Maj General Mohammad Alam Khattak, Inspector General of the Frontier Corps, was subsequently informed about Sepoy Gul Farosh’s dying words. In his meetings with FC soldiers and visitors, the general often mentions the brave Jawan as someone who fought till the end and didn’t lose control of his gun even after being fatally wounded.
“US-instigated mayhem in the tribal area has now seeped into the rest of the country as well. This is what the US wants to have a pretext to go in and take out Pakistan’s nuclear weapons before they “fall into the hands of the extremists”. This has been the US plan all along; only the naïve rulers of Pakistan have been unable, or unwilling, to see it.”
The US ambassador in Islamabad had requested the World Food Programme as well as USAID to prepare plans to cater for 800,000 refugees from SWAT – months before trouble even began in the region.
Fazlullah and Baitullah Mehsud are being supported and protected by the CIA. Why has Imam Dera, Fazlullah’s madrassa that sits across Fiza Ghat on the Indus River in Swat, has not been attacked while Jalaluddin Haq-qani’s compound in Waziristan has been repeatedly bombed?
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.
President Obama and his aides haven’t completed their policy review for Afghanistan — one of the most dangerous of the many foreign policy disasters George W. Bush so blithely left behind. But the situation is unraveling so quickly that aides say that the president decided that he had no choice but to send another 17,000 troops while commanders and diplomats try to come up with a strategy to stop the bloodletting and to try to block the Taliban from recapturing the country. There isn’t a lot of time.
The insurgents control more than 80% of Afghanistan. No other country understands Afghanistan better than Pakistan. After all there are more Pakhtuns in Pakistan than any other country–and Pakhtuns make up a huge portion of the Pakistan Army–disproportionate to their population. In fact the Pakhtuns of Islamabad understand everything about Kabul–certainly more than Hamid Karzai and certainly a lot more than Washington. Pakistan has always led the way in Afghanistan.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that Washington could accept a political agreement between the Afghan government and Taliban rebels along the lines of a truce in neighboring Pakistan.
Gates’ comments at the close of a NATO meeting contrasted with those of Richard Holbrooke, the new U.S. envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan, who said this week that he was worried that the peace deal was tantamount to surrender by Pakistan.
While the U.S. media has frequently reported on Pakistani ties to jihadi elements launching attacks in Afghanistan, it has less often mentioned that India supports insurgent forces attacking Pakistan, the former intelligence official said. “The Indians are up to their necks in supporting the Taliban against the Pakistani government in Afghanistan and Pakistan,” the former intelligence official who served in both countries said. “The same anti-Pakistani forces in Afghanistan also shooting at American soldiers are getting support from India. India should close its diplomatic establishments in Afghanistan and get the Christ out of there.”
“The Indians are almost certainly going to do something before [their] elections,” said AEI military analyst Thomas Donnelly. “They will strike camps in Pakistan. They are really pissed about the incompetence of the response to the [Mumbai] attacks. …. It doesn’t look like the Pakistanis are willing to or even can do anything that will satisfy the Indians. I would really be surprised if something doesn’t happen, unless that changes. They got an election coming up in March or April. It will be an interesting test for the United States.”
If this doesn’t convince you what Sherry Rehman is all about, nothing will.
Ms. Rehman came out to defend Indian Air Force’s incursion into Pakistani territory, citing a ‘technical error’ on behalf of the Indian Air Force pilots – when infact it was a squadron of Indian Aircraft that had crossed over in an attempt to bomb Muridke and Muzaffarabad, in the aftermath of the Mumbai drama.
American leaders and “al Qaeda” share common enemies, wherever the conflict rages. In Pakistan, the next battlefield now being prepared, both seek to destabilize the government, to undercut Chinese gains, to attack Iran and to provoke a conflict with India. Every country in the Caucasus region and the greater Middle East has an “Islamic” insurgency that is putting pressure on the government to submit to US “counter-insurgency” assistance, while the US is offering sweetheart deals on resource development packages. If the insurgencies suddenly ended, there would be no social pressure pushing the governments to invite the American “Dracula” into their living rooms.
