
AZHAR VADI | PakNationalists.net
The story of US imprisoned Pakistani doctor, Aafia Siddiqui, is reaching the ears and hearts of the broader South African population. Her sister, Dr. Fowzia Siddiqui and human rights activist, Altaf Shakoor, are currently on a tour of the country to create awareness about the plight of Aafia who languishes in the Carswell Detention Centre in Texas, USA.
Dr. Fowzia has been the guest of satellite radio broadcaster, Channel Islam International (Cii), and received a thunderous welcome from South African Muslims over the last five days.The vibrancy of the community has spurred other media in the country to take notice of Dr. Fowzia’s presence and have repeatedly requested the opportunity to hear and transmit Aafia’s story.
On Tuesday, Dr. Fowzia appeared for a one hour talk show on SA FM, South Africa’s largest English medium public broadcasting radio station with a listenership of about 500 000.
Fowzia once again narrated the story of Dr. Aafia highlighting the injustice perpetrated against her and pointed out the complicity and role of politicians like former Pakistani president, Perves Musharraf and the United States.Callers to the radio station program expressed solidarity with Dr. Fowzia and her campaign and thanked her for bringing to the for information about US abuses against innocent people. For Full Story Click Here
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For the first time since 2001, Afghan Taliban, police, army, Shia, Pashtun, Uzbek and Turkmen are united against American occupation. What does this mean for us in Pakistan?
AHMED QURAISHI | PakNationalists.net
Pakistanis are too busy in their messy domestic politics to notice a major development in Afghanistan: the country might finally be slipping out of American hands. Until now the Afghan Taliban and other resistance groups were fighting American occupation. But now new segments of Afghan population join the fight: Afghan police, soldiers and ordinary Afghans whether Shia in Herat, Pashtun in the south and east, or Uzbek and Turkmen in the north.
Afghans are united for the first time since 2001.
Bagram, the largest American military base in Afghanistan, is under siege by angry Afghans for the past five days on the outskirts of Kabul. They are trying to storm the fortified complex to drag US commanders out. Smaller US bases elsewhere face a similar situation. This is the first time US bases across Afghanistan are besieged simultaneously.
The most stunning part is that US-trained Afghan army and police has joined the fight … against the Americans.
Just today morning, two US military officers were shot dead point blank inside Afghan Interior Ministry, the most heavily secured building in Kabul. The killer, an Afghan soldier, remains free. No Afghan army or police officer is ready to arrest the killer. This shows wide support for the murder.
More and more Afghan policemen and army soldiers are turning their guns against US soldiers who trained them in the first place. Yesterday, the Afghanistan Analysis Team at PakNationalists.com made an excellent observation. It said that NATO and US soldiers don’t know whether they will be killed by Afghan Taliban or Afghan police and army [See our team’s excellent report, NATO Soldiers Don’t Want To Work With Americans].
And it’s not just the Afghans turning against US soldiers. NATO’s other armies are doing the same. The French are incensed that French soldiers were killed by Afghan soldiers last month because American soldiers peed on dead Afghan bodies. Why should French or Spanish soldiers die for American actions? continue
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By Naveed Tajammal – Opinion-Maker
Now a days, the basic problem is that people are not aware of history, everyone goes by what the media feeds them and media is Zionist dominated. What the media is telling are what the Zionists want to achieve therefore they engineer the facts; in most cases the facts are removed or replaced by the people in between so that no linkages can be established.
Since past sometime, United States, the United Kingdom and one silent participant Australia are busy distorting the facts and presenting stories out of context. In this game, as admitted by Manmohan Singh, the Indian Prime Minister in a meeting with Yousaf Raza Gillani at Sharmal Shaikh that India has linkages with Baloch insurgency and dissidents. The role of Zionist Israel cannot be ruled out since it’s behind everything that’s happening in the world but more so in the Muslim World. In case of Pakistan Zino-Hindutwa axis are very strong.
Our educationists and sociologists have failed to impart the education of history in its true perspective that is precisely the reason that today we are a lost nation. Everyone tends to believe what the West says and they go by it. Politicians are not aware of the history as most people in the assemblies consists of those who either are not aware of their own history or are in the process of taking new identities to delink from their past. With this sort of people in the parliaments, one can never expect anything good but what suits them the best. continue
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A security official while responding to the issue of Adiala jail detainees said that sympathizers of terrorists have forgotten the miseries of those 28 innocent families, who suffered the loss of their loved ones in Hamza Camp attack in which these 11 detainees were arrested.Media should reach out to those families of victims who embraced shahadat at the hands of these Adiala Jail detainees, the security official added.
He said the 11 suspects: Dr Niaz Ahmed Saqib, Mazhar ul Haq, Shafique ur Rehman, Abdul Basit, Abdul Saboor, Abdul Majid, Muhammad Amir Khan Khan, Muhammad Shafiq aka Maaz, Tehseen ullah, Saeed Arab aka Tariq Gul, Roze Khan aka Farman are hardcore terrorists, who were involved in planning, facilitating and executing suicide attacks on bus near Hamza Camp, on November 24 2007 and Kamra Air Base missile attack on January 15, 2008.
According to sources, on November 24, 2007 Rawalpindi experienced twin suicide attacks on security forces, which killed nearly 30 people and injured dozens more. The first vehicle-borne suicide attack took place at 0749 hours when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into a 72-seater bus parked in front of ISI’s Hamza Camp (Previously known as Ojhri Camp) on the Murree Road.
According to eyewitnesses, the bus which was carrying ISI officials to their work place was completely burnt. The 28 victims inside the 72-seat bus were burnt beyond recognition and only skeletons were left lying on the seats before any rescue operation could be started. continue
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A spokesman of ISPR said that the press release issued by HRW New York on January 30th, 2012 has been found to be extremely derogatory, biased and contradictory in terms. In one stroke Mr Brad Adams has discredited the Judicial Commission that investigated Saleem Shehzad’s alleged murder, demonized the ISI and castigated the Government of Pakistan, going on to suggest a darker destination of evidence if pursued again. It is unclear where Mr Adams forms opinions like these from but one thing is evident that his thought process and ability to logically analyze a given situation suffers from serious bias.
The spokesman added that the Judicial Commission in question was headed by a very honourable Judge of the same Supreme Court of Pakistan which is highly respected for its integrity and courage of conviction. It is not without reason that the Supreme Court of Pakistan is the guarantor of the rule of law and the architect of constitutional future of our country. To expect the Judicial Commission probing Saleem Shehzad’s alleged murder headed by Honourable Justice Saqib Nisar, to spare or shy away form the so called ‘culpable ISI’ is not only disrespectful but also out of character of the Honourable Court. HRW should visit the Supreme Court website to see what kind of historic and hitherto unheard of court actions have been initiated by the apex court regarding ISI / intelligence agencies and the unprecedented obedience / compliance they have readily commanded.
Spokesman further said that Brad Adams may have his head buried deep in sand and HRW may be choking under heaps of bias but it is quite apparent that such diatribe is exceptionally disparaging despite an ‘ extensive examination ——-‘ by the Commission, to quote HRW press release. It raises serious questions on the partisan nature of HRW and Brad Adam’s objectivity.
Spokesman said we would seriously urge HRW to read the Report of the Commission of Enquiry into the incident and see facts as they are. Some relevant reference can be found in the statement of Saleem Shehzad’s very close friend Mr Zafar Mehmood Sheikh (CW 12) on pages 30 to 35, Judicial Commission’s remarks about ISI’s compliance and detailed testimony on pages 58, 59 and 66 (Admiral Adnan Nazir’s, testimony before the Commission), regarding none of the witnesses / documents being able to ‘point a finger towards anyone’ on page 86 and about the unsubstantiated accusations of heavy handedness against journalists and the Commission’s remarks on page 89. continue
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Pakistan’s army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani has said that 18 percent of country’s total budget is allocated for armed forces while wrong facts and figures are quoted in TV talk shows in this regard. The figure often quoted in the media is around 60-70%, peddled by talk show hosts and journalists known for their anti-armed forces and extreme liberal views.
Speaking at the Shahbaz Airbase during a ceremony on Monday, the army chief said that out of 18 percent Pakistan Army actually recieves only 8 to 9 per cent budget.
This figure, taking into consideration the security situation in Pakistan as well as in its neighbourhood and the ongoing operations and military actions, is the bare minimum required to keep the armed forces functioning as a competent force.
Kayani also said that the army had not yet received Rs 1.5 billion owed to it in account of Coalition Support Fund which has been stopped for some time. Additionally, the Army has provided funds and support to the Frontier Constabulary (FC) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa from its own coffers after the local administration’s refusal.
It is understood that the Pakistani military’s welfare foundations run various businesses worth tens of billions of dollars, ranging from street-corner petrol pumps to sprawling industrial plants. The shortfall of funds in army’s undisclosed budget is met by the profit these businesses turn over.
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NOTES FROM A SOCIAL SCIENTIST
By Dr. Haider Mehdi
“Two wrongs do not make a right.” An old proverb
In my article “Re-inventing the Role” ( The Nation December 12, 2007), I advocated a new strategic-management doctrine for civil-military relations in a democratic Pakistan. At the time, it was hailed by many prominent progressive political personalities as the most important policy-orientated document on the subject. The overall explicit dimension in this piece, based on ten major points, was advice to the incumbent COAS to take unilateral conceptual and operational initiatives to make sure that Pakistan does not slide into another military rule: “The incumbent COAS has to reinvent his role… to give new direction to the armed force’s place in the future democratic structure of the nation.”
In summary, the eleven-point proposal was as follows:1) A fixed term of office for three years for the COAS.
2) Each new COAS appointment to be confirmed by a parliamentary committee subject to an oath by the designated officer to uphold the elected democratic administration of the state.
3) The President or the Prime Minister will not have the power to nominate any candidate other than the senior-most officer as the COAS – the parliamentary committee may or may not confirm such an appointment.
4) There will be no future role of retired generals and other armed forces personnel in political governance of the country.
5) Pakistan’s armed forces will not take part in any military operation in which citizens of Pakistan or the civilian population is targeted.
6) Pakistan’s armed forces will be a purely defensive force.
7) Pakistan’s defenses will be strengthened by political means and on the deterrence doctrine of its nuclear capability. There will be a strengthening of military relations with China and Russia and the armed forces will fully support the civilian administration’s decisions on defense pacts and diplomatic initiatives.
There will be absolute restrictions on the army’s intelligence agencies from conducting intelligence and political activities within the country.
9) Military intelligence agencies will be completely and strictly barred from arresting, interrogating, or handing over a Pakistani citizen to any foreign country.
10) Armed forces officers will not be eligible for ambassadorial and top corporate sector appointments.
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By Humayun Gauhar – Opinion Maker
First: “Who is supposed to rule Pakistan?” Answer: “The people are the true rulers of Pakistan, or should be, because they are the vicegerents of God. They are His vicegerents or Khalifa because they are the greatest of His creations, ashraf ul Makhlooqat. He has, therefore, given them free will and devolved on them that quantum of His sovereignty, as they need to run their affairs according to His tenets. It is a conditional and limited devolution, for the moment they lose sight of His tenets they lose His devolved sovereignty. God enjoins us in the Holy Quran that in times of distress, “Hold on to the rope of God and the rope of the People” – hablum min Allah wa hablum min an naas. The ‘rope’ symbolizes Man’s Covenant with God and the people. It is not literally a rope that God is talking about. Rope is just symbolic, akin to an umbilical cord that attaches us to our Creator and humanity. ‘The People’ is not a horde or mob but humanity in all God’s glory, humankind, Mankind – naas.
One of God’s most important tenets is:
Choose your leaders, which implies a democratic choice.
Choose from amongst yourselves, and;
Choose from amongst the best. continue
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Afghanistan continues to be an overt or proxy ‘playing ground’ for diverse outside powers, both near (Russia) and far (US, West). The decade old US meddling after the failure of Russian invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 has yielded more familiar results i.e. exacerbated ethnic and cultural tensions, warlordism, drug-trafficking and rampant corruption. It is not that these traits did not exist in the Afghan society before US invaded Afghanistan but US invasion provided a surge in these attributes.
Afghanistan is a fault line where many outside powers are jostling for both influence and position. Some of this jostling remains overt, as in the case of US and its allies, and some of it is not, as in the case of Indian proxy war on Pakistan through Afghanistan. The Indian activities in Balochistan and Fata got a boost when US homed on to it for replicating its mandate in Afghanistan and preserve its interests post withdrawal. After intense interaction between the respective national security advisors, India agreed to fit into American boots. By doing so India would be benefited on two counts one; by safeguarding US interests in Afghanistan it can accrue more American favors ranging from military to nuclear technology and two; it will expand its anti-Pakistan network in Afghanistan and continue sponsoring terrorist activities across borders into Pakistan. As a first step to place India in Afghanistan, US helped India sign an accord with Karzai titled ‘Strategic Partnership Agreement’ that would allow India exploit its provisions to cement its involvement in Afghan military and civil affairs. continue
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The case of the missing persons in Pakistan has become a sensitive one, which needs to be resolved at an early date. The angst of the relatives of the missing persons is evident from their agitation in the federal and provincial capitals. The Supreme Court has taken cognizance of their mental anguish and sought redress. The Apex Court has observed that Article 9 of the constitution is being violated in the missing persons’ cases and the law enforcement agencies including the ISI have been named. Unfortunately, there is more to it than meets the eye and these cases have more twists and turns than a John le Carré spy novel.
By S. M. Hali
Pakistan has been involved in the war against terror since October 2001, when the US-led alliance struck Afghanistan in retaliation to the 9/11 attacks on US. What the world has remained oblivious to is the fact that Pakistan has suffered the most along with the people of Afghanistan in being subjected to terror attacks. According to the South Asia Terrorism Portal and Institute for Conflict Management’s findings and compiled up to 29 January 2012, Pakistan has lost 39, 209 lives due to terror attacks out of which the toll for security forces losing their lives is over 5,000. The harbingers of death, doom and gloom in the shape of terror mongers have struck Pakistan by attacking its security installations, schools, colleges, shopping centers, hospitals, mosques and religious congregations. Even highly secure places like the GHQ, Naval Headquarters, PN Base Mehran and Pakistan Aeronautical Complex Kamra have been targeted.
A sizable number of civilians and military personnel had been killed as a result of the attacks. The security forces managed to detain suspects involved in these brazen and heinous attacks. Eleven suspects were apprehended and after their involvement in these atrocious acts was established, they were produced before the court of law. The security agencies also managed to recover a large cache of weapons, mines and other destructive material from their possession and handed over the same to the police as evidence for prosecution. Unfortunately justice is blind and the suspects got acquitted from the anti terrorism courts despite sufficient evidence. However, they continued to be detained under Section 16 of the MPO.
On 28 May 2010, the Rawalpindi Bench of the Lahore High Court declared their detention illegal and ordered their release. As soon as they left the premises of the jail, the collaborators of the terrorists, disguised as intelligence agencies, got hold of them and transported them to their safe havens in FATA. Fooled by the ploy, the families of the accused submitted a writ petition to the Supreme Court of Pakistan, declaring them to be “missing persons” and blaming the intelligence agencies for their abduction.
Under direction of the Supreme Court, intelligence agencies and Law Enforcement Agencies worked relentlessly to trace the suspects and apprehended 20 suspects including the former 11 and on 9 December 2010, the Supreme Court was apprised of their detention. continue
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Whistleblower challenges Pentagon’s official reports of peacekeeping mission in Taliban territory.
Hear it from the US Defence Department or the White House, and the war in Afghanistan is a success story allowing America to cease combat operations there a year early. Listen, however, to Lieutenant-Colonel Daniel Davis, veteran of two tours on the Afghan frontlines, and the 11-year conflict is a failure bordering a disaster that those in power have deliberately concealed from Congress and the American people.
For the past month, Lt-Col Davis has been conducting an unusual one-man whistleblowing campaign, complete with two reports – one classified – to his superiors at the Pentagon and private briefings for lawmakers.
Now he has gone public, first in an article for a respected independent journal on military affairs, and then yesterday in an interview with The New York Times. It comes barely a week after Leon Panetta, the Defence Secretary, revealed plans for the last US combat troops to be out of Afghanistan by late 2013, compared with President Barack Obama’s previous target of 2014. continue
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By Air Commodore (R) Khalid Iqbal
The narrative and counter narrative about Ex-Adiala eleven is turning rather mysterious. They certainly were not the members of a squad that had won some sports world cup for Pakistan They were hardened terrorists playing ‘catch me if you can’ with our judicial system.’ They were involved in high profile terrorist act like attacks on General Headquarters (GHQ), Hamza Camp, Minhas air base etc. They were undergoing a court martial under the Army Act on the charges of attacking the military establishments.
Bringing even ordinary criminals to justice is an uphill task in our country; systems and structures are inclined to support the criminal. Under these circumstances, convicting and sentencing an indicted terrorist is an almost impossible task. Contributory reasons are many; some of these are lack of appropriately equipped forensic laboratories, unsatisfactory protection for prosecution witnesses and judges and the prevalent corrupt culture in our investigating agencies. Prosecution often fails to make a worthwhile case against the accused.
Even under these circumstances, extra-judicial killing is not an option nor would any sane person support that. Supreme Court has done a commendable job by taking notice of the four deaths. Hence, for the time being, it is not logical to presume that the four criminals did not die of natural causes. Hopefully, a judicial probe would ascertain the facts. Probably, the four dead bodies would be exhumed for forensic focused autopsies. Therefore, frenzy of extra judicial killing is premature and uncalled for.
Though charges of extrajudicial killings levelled by the heirs of dead terrorists while they were undergoing a trial appear grave on the face of it, a deeper scrutiny indicates that those who want to make the process of trial controversial to save the remaining terrorists from punishment have fabricated the story. continue
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Amid domestic political turmoil, PakMilitary keeps a region-wide watch.
SPECIAL REPORT | PakNationalists.com
In the never-ending theatrics of Pakistani politics, a key point is easily overlooked: that the country’s military has an eye on domestic stability while simultaneously dealing with United States and India on the western and eastern borders, respectively. In fact, this is a big story. Pakistan’s military – Army, Navy and Air Force — are busy maneuvering to improve the country’s geo-strategic position, which deteriorated considerably ever since Islamabad joined the US-led coalition that occupies Afghanistan since 2001.
In this view, Pakistani military is coping and adapting to tremendous pressures.
India is a major concern. It invaded Pakistan unprovoked in 1971, exploiting chaos after a Pakistani election. Recent confessions by collaborators of the invading Indian army indicate a high degree of malice in Indian intentions. So this is a real threat that cannot be overlooked. The country’s Armed Forces continue to quietly focus on military preparedness despite an unstable domestic political situation that often pulls the military into the mess even when the institution is least interested.
So on Tuesday, Jan. 31, while news headlines from Pakistan focused on the treasonous anti-Pakistan memo and the escape of its author from the country, few paid attention to formation-level military exercises on India’s border. The exercise was focused on the part of Indian border where Indian army invaded the country in 1965 and 1971. continue
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We released a traitor back in 1969 despite strong evidence. Two years later he led an insurgency in support of an Indian invasion of Pakistan. Today we have released another traitor with a proven track record of working to blackmail Pakistan. I'd like every patriotic Pakistani to remember three things:
AHMED QURAISHI | The Insider Column
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1. How our political parties, politicians and judiciary have worked together, passively, to protect and free a traitor. It’s as if the country’s security is the concern of ISI or the military and not the collective responsibility of politicians and others.
2. How the US worked overtime to get Husain Haqqani released, an American asset beyond a shadow of doubt. The way the US government issued a statement welcoming his escape from Pakistan is a telltale sign.
3. How a sitting Member of Parliament, Farahnaz Isphahani, and Haqqani’s spouse, landed in Washington to lobby against Pakistan, its military and its intelligence community. She privately told a British newspaper she escaped Pakistan because she was afraid the country’s military would kidnap her. Bad for her, the British journalist published this off-the-record comment, forcing her to issue a clarification. The statement shows deep malice against the country’s national security institutions. It proves how Haqqani and his boss, President Zardari, is every bit guilty of the contents of The Memo. [If you haven’t seen this brief, point-by-point reading into The Memo, please do. It is not every day that one sees a first-class evidence of what treason looks like. For Urdu version, click here.] continue
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