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Inborn Foes of PakistanHosh Ruba ([email protected]) April 8,
2009
We are strange people. We are foes of ourselves. We live in
interesting times. Our
mainstream leaders have sold us out. Society has slipped the
moorings of truth and is
steered by megalomaniacs. As Aristotle first of all said, "Those
nations who ignore history
are doomed to repeat its tragedies."
It is not trivial to understand the current situation of
Pakistan. Lahore and Manawan attacks,
chaos in Swat and tribal agencies of our north-west frontier and
all kind of instability in
other parts of Pakistan are a few examples that can make things
more complicated. I shall
give you a view from history back in 1969 - which explains who
are the planners direct
or indirect - behind generating this chaos in Pakistan.
A famous and honest Pakistani bureaucrat, Qudratullah Shahab,
wrote the following in his
autobiography, SHAHAB NAMA, in page 778. I have translated this
from Urdu to English:
In 1969, when I was a member of the executive board of UNESCO,
one of
my friends from Poland was angry that Russia is influencing
Poland against
the will of polish people. The Poles were against the Soviet
bloc and they
didn't like the Soviet influence in Poland. But the Polish
government was a
client of the Soviet Union. My polish friend was one of the
senior andexperienced foreign affairs officers of his country.
One day during a chat and discussion he said, Although Russia
and
America are enemies but on some issues they become friends.
I was surprised and asked, For example?
He said, For example, PAKISTAN.
I was stunned. I requested him to explain.
On my request he explained, It is a reality not hidden from the
whole
world that the Pakistani military is one of the highly
disciplined and
professional militaries in the World. And that REALITY is not
acceptable to
both countries, I mean RUSSIA and AMERCIA.
1. RUSSIANS are looking towards AFGHANISTAN2. RUSSIANS are
looking towards ARABIAN SEA3. RUSSIANS favor India and want to
support that country
But the Pakistani military is the main obstruction in the path
of all these
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three RUSSIAN objectives. And
1. AMERICA's real and original faith is with ISRAEL2. AMERICA
wants friendship and alliance with INDIA
America is a friend of Pakistan in name only. And the Americans
know very
well that only the Pakistani military and Pakistani nation can
confront
American designs. And that the Pakistani army and nation have
the passionto fight as well if attacked. So the PAKISTANI MILITARY
is the main
OBSTRUCTION in the path of American objectives.
INDIA also does not like the Pakistani military.
In this way, the decimation and destruction of the Pakistani
military is the
main objective of RUSSIA, AMERICA and INDIA.
Thats why they all want to weaken the Pakistani military and the
Pakistani
nation, destroy it and to make it useless.
But how will they achieve this combined goal? I asked.
He laughed and then said, They shall engage Pakistani army in
civil
and government matters as much as they can for a long period
by
pushing them to take over governments.
Then Qudratullah Shahab comments:
This conversation took place in 1969. At that time neither the
Soviet Union
had invaded Afghanistan nor was Bangladesh movement started. Out
of 17
years of independence, 13 years have gone to MARTIAL LAW. And I
am in
fear may be those American, Russian and Indian objectives are
about to
complete...
We can understand very well from above excerpts. In 1969 after
that discussion and chat of
Qudratullah Shahab with his Polish foreign secretary, we had
martial law of 1974 by General
Yahiya, martial law of 1977 by General Zia and martial law of
1999 by General Pervez and
now Americans are demanding Pakistan Army to do more and do
more. Thank God, General
Ashfaq Pervez Kiyani and current Corps Commanders are resisting.
The following wasreported by Bronwen Maddox in daily The Times
London edition on March 28, 2009:
Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Kiyani creates new set of
problems;
any strategy to tackle the Afghan-Pakistani border will depend
on the
willingness of the Pakistani Army to hold its side of the
line.
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When we read all the news headlines coming from Washington and
its allies the Af-Pak
policy continuously developing pressure on Pakistani Army and
ISI - suicide attacks in
mosques and imam baras, suicide attacks on security forces,
current security situation in
NWFP, efforts to deteriorate peace deals in Swat and Bajaur,
promotion and activities of TTP
against Pakistan, intelligent use of Pakistani media to
propagate engineered ideas to our
people - then everything becomes clear that who want instability
in Pakistan.
Facts reinforce my belief that we need a new way of
re-engineering the Pakistani State. Both
the elected governments and the old fashioned military coups
have failed. General
Musharrafs coup was probably the last chance to re-engineer the
Pakistani State and this
chance was wasted. The constitution needs an overhaul, political
parties have become familyownerships, and politics have become
monopolized. Feudalism needs to be eliminated by
the force of law in Punjab, Sindh and Balochistan, more
administrative - NOT linguistic
based - provinces need to be created, ethnic and/or linguistic
based parties proscribed,
politicians banned from direct contact with foreign governments,
and the nation needs to
focus for at least a decade on economic development and
education without wasting
energies on politics. All of this can only happen through a
creative new arrangement where a
group of strong, committed and learned Pakistanis are invited to
lead a non-elected
government, backed by a plan and by the force of the Pakistani
military. Events are
confirming that this may be the only option left if we want to
create a stable politico-socio-
economic system in Pakistan where real democracy can flourish
and the military is not
forced by circumstances to intervene in the civilian setup again
in the future. We will have to
create this setup. We cant wait for time to resolve the
problem.
