When waging war “by way of deception,” the motto of Israel’s Mossad, well-timed crises play a critical agenda-setting role by displacing facts with what a target population can be deceived to believe. Thus the force-multiplier effect, when staged crises are reinforced with pre-staged intelligence. In combination, the two often prove persuasive.
Such agent provocateur operations typically include collateral incidents as pre-staging for the intended main event. Ongoing incidents suggest a follow-on operation is underway. Recent history suggests we’ll see an orgy of evidence that plausibly indicts a pre-staged Evil Doer. Though Iran is an obvious candidate, Pakistan is also a possibility where outside forces have been destabilising this nuclear Islamic nation with a series of violent incidents. Will it be coincidence if the next war—like the last—is consistent with the expansive goals of Jewish nationalists?
Musharraf proved excessively compliant from the beginning and this came as a shock even to the Bush Administration, but they realised his limitations in terms of compromises at the tactical level because of the military – which often put a spanner in the US agenda for Pakistan. Hence the constant critique of the Pakistan military and its intelligence outfits – especially once the CIA fell out with the ISI two years ago over whom to target in FATA.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—There is a dangerous pattern connecting the events happening in and around Pakistan today. Unless we can see this larger picture, we will be overwhelmed by the fallout and our detractors like the US will have fulfilled their agenda for this nuclear capable country.
The roots of this US agenda go back to Musharraf’s hasty embrace of the US “war on terror”. What was not realised at the time was the psychological trauma the US had undergone as a result of 9/11, which had led to the bolstering of the already suspicion-tinted view the US had of the Muslim world. Of course, some pliant Muslim leaders were reluctantly embraced as “allies”, but always on a tight leash, but by and large nationalist Muslim leaders and their nations were something the Americans never felt comfortable with. If these nations were also militarily or economically strong, the US felt even more uncomfortable. In this context, Mahathir’s Malaysia, Revolutionary Iran and nuclear Pakistan certainly stood out as irritants in one way or another. So when 9/11 happened, even though it was Saudi citizens who were responsible for the actions, Pakistan was brought centre-stage and the US saw this as the opportunity to cut the country down to size and finally gain control of its nuclear assets.
Zaid Hamid on the events before and after 9/11, the US Objectives and the global security situation since. This program was recorded in 2008 before the violence erupted in Pakistan’s NWFP and Balochistan regions.
Zaid Hamid will be doing an uncensored program on events since 9/11 and the current situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan – exclusively on Waqt News, on Sunday 13th September, at 4:00 pm. Don’t forget to tune in.
In 2007 Condi Rice, Richard Boucher and British diplomat Mark Lyall Grant (left) created a law called NRO to whitewash the illegal wealth of Benazir Bhutto, Asif Zardari and many other Pakistanis to help them come to power. Two years later, in 2009, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has indirectly declared the NRO as valid. The excuse for this move is to avoid ‘rocking the system’. Musharraf is gone but his NRO will survive. In a theatrical move, he was condemned but his illegal creation – and that of Condi, Boucher and Grant – was preserved. This could prove to be the biggest deception carried out in Pakistan in the name of democracy.
(LEFT) British diplomat Mark Lyall Grant, one of the godfathers of the secret BB-Musharraf deal that gave birth to NRO and to the incumbent Pakistani government, visited Pakistan recently.Mr. Grant’s mission was expanded in the last few months to include a new deal, this time bringing Mr. Nawaz Sharif and the PML-N on board.Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry basically protected this whole setup by sparing the NRO.
Kashif Abbasi, who was allowed by a ‘Dictator’ to speak his mind and criticize the then government in a media campaign which eventually saw the ‘Dictator’ resign, has been kicked off the airwaves by our ‘Democratic’ Government. Irony at its best. The free-wheeling liberal social democratic facade is starting to peel as the current government now resorts to tactics not even ‘Dictators’ indulge in.The stifling of contrary opinion is normally only done in one of two cases: a desperate measure to veil weaknesses, or to shore up strength and consensus. No prizes for guessing which applies here.
Honorable Supreme Court of Pakistan has declared all measures taken by former President Pervez Musharraf on November the 3rd as “extra-judicial, illegal and unconstitutional”. The news made breaking headline at many news channels.
The judgment came after the 14-judge larger bench headed by Chief Justice of Pakistan Justice Iftikhar Muhammed Chaudhry completed the hearing of constitutional petitions regarding PCO judges, appointments of judges of higher judiciary and November 3, 2007 steps which declared illegal and uncontitutional following acts:
Sacking of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry and the other higher judiciary.
Appointments of judges on and after November 3, 2007 under PCO were unconstitutional.
It is, indeed, a positive sign but still it does not address one bigger issue that haunts entire Pakistani nation and no doubt could be termed as “darkest ordinance” in our history, i.e. National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO), 2007.
Is it political revenge against former President by people in power? or a first step towards repealing of NRO? In any case, Honorable Supreme Court is requested not to forget action against this draconian ordinance which has handedover Pakistan to a team full of agents working for foreign masters.
We will have to wait to witness whether this verdict was a milestone or just another stone in the face of Pakistani nation.
BRIEF TIMELINE
2007
Oct 6: Pervez Musharraf wins a one-sided presidential election.
Nov 3: Musharraf declares a State of Emergency and holds the Constitution in abeyance.
Nov 3: Musharraf promulgates the Provisional Constitutional Order (PCO) No. 1 of 2007.
Nov 3: On the same day, Oath of Office (Judges) Order, 2007 is promulgated – judges who refuse to take oath under the PCO or were not offered to take the oath would cease to hold office. The senior most Abdul Hameed Dogar is sworn in as the new chief justice. Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry and 11 other permanent judges refuse to take oath. They were put under house arrest. Five judges took oath under the PCO.
Exclusive: How ISI Kept CIA At Bay As Recounted By Hamid Gul
In the third episode of PKKH’s own production in association with AhmedQuraishi.com, (Loud & Clear from Islamabad – Pakistan’s first and only Web-TV show) – Former ISI Chief Gen. Hamid Gul details how he once prevented the US ambassador from traveling to Peshawar without permission and how subsequent Pakistani rulers changed the practice, why he believes Pakistani nationalist officers within the military won’t let the outsiders and their Pakistani collaborators get their hands on our nuclear weapons. Watch him also reveal the details of a meeting he says former President Musharraf held with American emissaries five days after the coup where he gave the first of many concessions to America.
Also includes a fascinating message from Gen. Hamid Gul to the Pakistani Youth. MUST WATCH.
This report, first published in August 2008, is reproduced here to provide context to the determined Pakistani military operation against terrorists coming from Afghanistan. Pakistan’s largest English-language daily, The News, ran this on its front page, written by Kamran Khan, an investigative reporter who has worked for The Washington Post.
Two senior U.S. military officials who secretly visited Pakistan in July 2008 faced tense moments when former President Musharraf, Army Chief Gen. Kayani and the ISI chief at the time confronted them with evidence that portrayed a pattern of American support for separatist, sectarian and religious terrorism inside Pakistan with help from Indian intelligence operatives based in major Afghan cities.
The two embarrassed Americans, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. Mike Mullen and CIA Deputy Director Stephen R. Kappes, came to lecture Pakistanis on what role ISI should play but ended up receiving an earful. It is a rare inside story of how Islamabad confronted Washington about what appears to be a clear case of betrayal, where Washington conspired with Karzai and the Indians against its own staunch ally.
A MUST WATCH Interview of former President General Pervez Musharraf. Its a pity our current government, parliamentarians and other democracy-monkeys don’t have the balls to come out speak out against American failures in Afghanistan that are the reason behind Pakistan’s current problems.
Pakistan owned 24-acre Kart-i-Parwan estate is considered to be one of the most prestigious assets in the Afghan capital.
It housed Pakistan’s embassy till 1995 until it was moved to a rented property in another part of the city because of security reasons.
British Government has repeatedly requested to buy this land from Pakistan in the last few years, offering $25m in 2006.
Former President Musharraf repeatedly turned the British offers down, on the premise that the prestigious estate would be an asset when security situation improved and it would save nearly $1 million annually in rent.
Zardari had been trying to push deal through for some time but the Foreign Office had serious reservations.
Sale of the land has now been agreed for an undisclosed price between Zardari and the British High Comissioner.
The United States engineered – with President Musharraf’s consent – the ‘BB-Musharraf’ deal that turned Pakistani politics upside down. Now the Americans are planning another disaster that could add to the instability. To Pakistani politicians and military: Let’s push for redefining the game instead of repeating mistakes.
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—The signs are not good. Peter Lyall Grant, a senior British diplomat, was seen in Washington a coupe of weeks ago. He landed quietly in the American capital, coming to see Hillary Clinton and Richard Holbrooke.
Grant, or Sir Grant in Britain, is one of the godfathers of the Benazir-Musharraf deal in 2007 that produced the current political setup in Pakistan. While in Washington he must have also quietly met Husain Haqqani, the Pakistani ambassador to Washington and one of the ‘handlers’ entrusted by Washington to ensure that Mr. Zardari is keeping his end of the deal that brought him to power.
Akbar Bugti, known as ‘little Saddam’ in his area of Dera Bugti, surprised all Pakistanis when, one fine morning in January 2005, he declared war against Pakistan after receiving guarantees from foreign powers based in Afghanistan that he will be given support to declare resource-rich Balochistan an independent country where he will be appointed an absolute ruler along the lines of the rich Gulf emirates. The federal Pakistani government discovered the plan and demanded Bugti’s surrender. His foreign backers and supporters failed to come to his rescue when security forces surrounded him in a mountain cave on Aug. 26, 2006, where Bugti apparently fired a shell at senior security officers who came to arrest him. As a result, the cave collapsed.
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.
Pakistan’s Friends Roll Out The Red Carpet For A Pakistani Nationalist Statesman
Throughout his trip in China, former President Musharraf was accorded head of state protocol and extensive security. In-between lectures, he was invited to several banquets by various provincial governors and senior Chinese Communist Party officials. He continues to be very popular among the Chinese younger generation.
Says Obama’s Af-Pak policy is incomplete without resolving Kashmir dispute
Calls for linking Pakistan with China through fiber optic, rail, oil, gas pipelines; through Karakoram Highway
Floats the idea of a Iran-Pakistan-China (IPC) pipeline
Read Ahmed Quraishi’s ExclusiveReport on the former President’s visit to China
Should we start a civil war because some liberal extremists in our elite are upset about the alleged flogging video?
Some occasions are not meant for settling scores. But a minority in our elite that has an ideological problem with religion is at it again. They are not even willing to stop and consider a range of possibilities, including the possibility of foul play. Now we have a statement from the girl named in the video confirming this is not her. She still lives in the village supposedly cited in the video and no one there has seen this flogging take place.
Pakistan’s enemies are preparing to deliver a decisive blow. Pakistan has suffered grievously on all counts and its very foundations have been jolted in the seven years of America’s occupation of Afghanistan. It is most unfortunate that in this gory plan, some of the political parties friendly to India, western sponsored NGOs, intellectuals and writers have also contributed towards disinformation campaign and bringing bad name to Pakistan.
Finally, news is trickling in about a deal that sealed the fate of the incomplete Long March on Mar. 16. The new information suggests that Mr. Nawaz Sharif, Mr. Aitzaz Ahsan and the Zardari government ensured that Ali Ahmed Kurd, the supposed leader of the lawyers’ movement, was prevented from reaching Lahore or Islamabad so that the Nawaz-Aitzaz-Zardari deal on the lawyers’ movement can be sealed. The new deal calls for burying the NRO issue for good and diverting people’s attention by legally pursuing Mr. Musharraf on charges of leading a military coup. Welcome again to Pakistan’s dirty politics. We told you this failed political system does not deserve to be rescued. The political wolves have eaten the lawyer hens.
From day one, I had no doubt that Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was no hero. Only the images of his harassment by the police under Musharraf’s orders turned this close friend of a dictator into a champion of democracy. This is Pakistan, where crooks are perfectly matched with a fake democracy designed to fool the masses and deliver nothing except crises and destruction.
The contention that a judge who stands up to a ruler and refuses to resign is washed of all his sins is as lame as a three-legged horse. All PCO judges are the same. Chaudhry Iftikhar can’t be absolved of PCO just because he said no to a dictator when his job was on the line. If he really had a reawakening, why didn’t he say no earlier while taking oath on PCO? Clearly, Kayani is the most powerful Pakistani. Most embarrassingly clear is that it is America that really runs Pakistan. Its clear too that its agents and stooges have delivered and delivered admirably by getting rid of Musharraf who had drawn a line in the sand which he would not allow America to cross. That line has now been obliterated.
Musharraf exemplifies a further quality Indian politicians would do well to emulate. He’s prepared to face up to his critics, take their hostile questions and spend hours defending his position whilst attempting to change theirs.
I have to admit, I’ve never come across someone like Pervez Musharraf. This is not necessarily a compliment. It’s simply a statement of fact.
Contrary to media hype, both Mr. Zardari and Mr. Sharif have been cut down to size. Zardari has been snubbed, and Nawaz can’t use the judge card anymore. The military effectively ended politicians from exploiting the problem for political gain. Aitzaz is busy trying to return to his party by – believe it or not – hijacking the reinstatement of the judge in favor of PPPP. The two, Zardari and Nawaz, still have to account for shamelessly leading Pakistan to civil war. One blocked Pakistan’s exports by impounding all cargo containers and the other had no problem if his activists snatched and torched cars and public property as long as it served ‘public interest.’ Then there’s the role of Balochistan, a positive note in concluding this report.
Pakistan is at war with itself, with blackouts, corruption and terror attacks. Now there are calls for the return of the reviled Musharraf
Fatima Bhutto
Pakistan has become a very unusual place. In Lahore, the heart of Pakistani cricket, the Sri Lankan cricket team was attacked in broad daylight by masked gunmen carrying guns and rocket launchers, because you never know when a rocket launcher will come in handy during an urban attack. The government had been warned of a potential terror threat but, true to form, ignored it. After killing eight people, mostly policemen, and wounding several others including the foreign cricketers, the gunmen ambled leisurely away. They were caught on CCTV camera calmly mounting their motorcycles and surveying the scene before deciding they had other places to be.
The past week was by all accounts a momentous one, as no less a person than former Pakistani President and former Chief of the Army Staff, Gen (Ret’d) Pervez Musharraf, assertively disclosed what has been a ‘no-go’ area for India’s mainstream media and the otherwise hyper-ventilating broadcast media thus far: that India’s Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA) has, since 2002, waged a highly successful covert war against Pakistan by actively rendering all kinds of financial assistance to Balochistan-based separatists.
But mind you, such covert warfare has not been waged by the Research & Analysis Wing (RAW), but by the tri-services DIA and Afghanistan’s Riyast-i-Amniyat-i-Milli, and in addition to his routine assignment as India’s Defence Adviser at the Embassy in Kabul, Brigadier Ravi Datt Mehta was officially dolling out huge financial assistance–as ordered by the DIA–to the Baloch separatists as and when required.
Musharraf – in response to a question about alleged terrorist camps in Pakistan: “I am aware of what the Indian embassy is doing in Jalalabad and Kandahar. A terrorist from Kabul has been received by Indian intelligence agencies in India and looked after. I have documents to show this. Let us stop the blame game. India is a big country. You try to do damage to us, we will do damage to you. We should address the trust deficit between the two countries.”
In 2007 Condi Rice, Richard Boucher and British diplomat Mark Lyall Grant (left) created a law called NRO to whitewash the illegal wealth of Benazir Bhutto, Asif Zardari and many other Pakistanis to help them come to power. Two years later, in 2009, the Supreme Court of Pakistan has indirectly declared the NRO as valid. The excuse for this move is to avoid ‘rocking the system’. Musharraf is gone but his NRO will survive. In a theatrical move, he was condemned but his illegal creation – and that of Condi, Boucher and Grant – was preserved. This could prove to be the biggest deception carried out in Pakistan in the name of democracy.
Pakistan’s Friends Roll Out The Red Carpet For A Pakistani Nationalist Statesman
