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Oct

Kayani Slams US; Rejects Kerry-Lugar Bill

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KARACHI: As anger mounts over the degrading language and observations in the Kerry-Lugar Bill on Pakistan’s military services and intelligence agencies, the Army conveyed its part of protest to the United States when Commander of International Forces in Afghanistan General Stanley McChrystal met Army chief General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani at the GHQ on Tuesday, informed officials said.

These officials said that General Kayani told General McChrystal that like the Pakistani people, the military and intelligence services were furious at the observations made on Pakistan’s security establishment in the Kerry-Lugar Bill. Kayani also protested over the controversial statements made by some US officials in recent days.

 

“General McChrystal returned from the GHQ with an unambiguous message that the terms set in the Kerry-Lugar Bill on the national security interests of Pakistan are insulting and are unacceptable in their present formulation,” according to an official familiar with the content of the meeting.

Informed official sources said that the Army’s strong reaction to the Kerry-Lugar Bill was shared in detail with the government when General Kayani met Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Sunday.

In a related development, also on Tuesday, Gilani asked Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi to convey Pakistan’s reservations in his meetings with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Obama’s Special Envoy for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke and key members of the US Congress.

While Tuesday’s meeting with General McChrystal provided General Kayani with an opportunity to convey the Army’s serious objection to the controversial sections of the bill in detail, he had lodged an initial protest during his meeting with General McChrystal in Kabul, where he had gone last week toattend the tripartite military conference.

The Kerry-Lugar Bill and its impact on national security interests of Pakistan will be a key subject of discussion when the corps commanders and principal staff officers of the Army meet under General Kayani on Wednesday.

While the nation’s response is currently focused at the controversial content of the Kerry-Lugar Bill, the government is also concerned about a growing unregulated arrival and stay of American citizens in Pakistan.

Concerns grew when Pakistanís security agencies recorded various cases of illegal acquisition of weapons by security firms connected with the US Embassy in Pakistan. Prime Minister Gilani, sources said, has already ordered a complete record with specific details and pre-clearance of US citizens entering Pakistan on US government business.

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6
Oct

Operation Blue Tulsi – Urdu Version

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5
Oct

CIA Threats to Pakistan – Kerry Lugar Bill – Video Lecture

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Syed Zaid Zaman Hamid brings another fresh episode of Brass Tacks.

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Added: October 4, 2009 
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5
Oct

Blackwater In Pakistan – Video Documentary

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4
Oct

CIA Mouthpieces Warn Gen. Kayani: US Strikes Will ‘Impact’ Pakistan’s Military

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 CIA’s mouthpieces in the US media and the Web have been activated to give maximum punch to US threats of bombing Quetta and convincing the international public opinion of the veracity of US intelligence on the presence of Mullah Omar and Osama bin Laden in Balochistan.  Separately, and as we predicted in our report A US Counteroffensive In Pakistan, the US embassy has decided to launch a ‘scare campaign’ inside Pakistan, discarding security concerns and opting to intensify television appearances on Pakistani channels in order to create public pressure against the government and especially against the military and the ISI.

 
One of the US intelligence mouthpieces has gone as far as warning Pakistan Army Chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani of the ‘impact’ that US strikes could have on the Pakistani military, claiming that this could lead to a ‘revolt’ within the army and the Pakistani intelligence community.
 
The Long War Journal, founded by Bill Roggio, a frequent lecturer at US Air Force’s Contemporary Counterinsurgency Warfare School, has warned that the "expansion of the US air campaign into Balochistan would likely lead to an internal revolt in the Pakistani military.  General Kiyani knows the impact a wide-reaching US air campaign would have on his military."
 
The Journal was established as a not-for-profit company registered in the US after 9/11 to promote the idea of an expanded war that would also serve as a vehicle to achieve US strategic goals.  The CIA has a long tradition of creating ‘nonprofit incorporated companies’ as multipurpose fronts.  Another nonprofit incorporated company called Creative Associates International is suspected of having acted as a front for private US military contractors operating in Peshawar’s University Town.  Mr. Broggio’s Journal was created by Public Multimedia Inc., which describes its mission as a ‘nonprofit media organization with a mission to provide original and accurate reporting and analysis of the Long War.’
 
The Pakistani military has used its own channels to convey its strong protest to US military leadership on the belligerent American statemetns. But with a weak response by the elected government, Pakistan risks failure in countering the multi-pronged US media outreach that seeks to discredit Pakistan’s soft denials on the issue of Afghan Taliban’s ‘Quetta Shura’.
 
Further eroding Pakistan’s credibility is the alarming phenomenon of US diplomats indirectly threatening war against their host country.  Aside from US Ambassador Anne W. Patterson’s recent undiplomatic statements, a junior US diplomat – Deputy Head of Mission Gerald Feierstein – has made the unusual move of making a masked threat of war against his host country on Oct. 1.
 
Yesterday, Mr. Feierstein is reported to have called another group of Pakistani journalists and briefed them about what he terms as the insincerity of Pakistan’s military and intelligence in helping America manage its Afghan quagmire.  The US diplomat has reportedly taped an interview yesterday with a Pakistani news channel expected to be aired today.  Sources confirm that US diplomats in the Pakistani capital are planning a round of television interviews and press briefings in the coming days as part of a media offensive to counter the growing concern among Pakistanis on the activities of private US security firms in the country and the large number of US citizens that have entered Pakistan in recent months without proper security clearance.  The Nation published a detailed report on Sept. 26 on US embassy’s decision to launch this campaign.  Not since the days immediately after 9/11 have US diplomats in Pakistan hit the Pakistani television circuit like this.  On Sept. 19, Ambassador Patterson chose a polite Pakistani talk show host to use his platform for an interrupted projection of US policy positions.
 
The statements of Ms. Patterson and Mr. Feierstein create a rare precedent.  It is not often that an ambassador dares to threaten war against a host government.  If Ms. Patterson has stretched the terms of her stay in Pakistan to the limits, the junior diplomat has gone a step further. And in Mr. Feierstein’s case, this is an insult to Pakistan that a junior foreign diplomat has the audacity to call a press conference and threaten war against the host country.  Ambassador Haqqani, Pakistan’s envoy to Washington, dares not make half as strong statements even when he should.
 
What the Pakistani media and public opinion needs to consider is that Mr. Feierstein expressed confidence in the intelligence information provided by Karzai and the Indians on the presence of Mullah Omar in Quetta, the capital of Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan.  And he added Osama bin Laden to the list, discovering all of a sudden that bin Laden was definitely in Pakistan and possibly in the same place as Mullah Omar.
 
Never mind that Karzai sent Pakistan the same information back in 2006, along with a list of several other Afghan Taliban leaders allegedly living in Pakistan.  The Pakistani response, unlike the American-Karzai-Indian rehash, was backed by credible information, proving that the intelligence given to Pakistan was faulty and inaccurate.
 
In the absence of an effective Pakistani response, it will be easy for the Americans to mislead the world on concocted and often deliberately false information, as they did in the days preceding the invasion of Iraq.
 
A Pakistani analyst who has experience working closely with the US government but does not want to identify himself had this take on the latest American posturing: "They have launched a media campaign to prepare the public mind and the message to Pakistan is this: Take action in Waziristan. If not then we will bomb Quetta."
 
Thanks to Gen. Musharraf’s strategic blunder of allowing Washington to dictate the terms of domestic Pakistani politics in the name of fighting terror, and now the Zardari-Gilani government’s unwarranted appeasement, Pakistan has lost a lot in terms of peace, stability and respect.  Time to cut our losses.
 
The Pakistani government should declare US ambassador Anne W. Patterson and her Deputy Chief of Mission Gerald Feierstein as unwanted persons on Pakistani soil and ask them to leave the country.  Failing to do so, we should be ready to see more junior diplomats from other countries doing the same.
 
This report was published by Pakistan’s The Nation today.

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1
Oct

Lashkar-e-Taiba & ISI Responsible For Cricket Debacle: India

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 CENTURION – Within minutes of Pakistan’s last ball defeat at the hands of Australia at the Centurion ground in South Africa, Indian Minister for Extrenal Affairs S M Krishna has sensationally pointed the finger at Kashmir-based militant group ‘Lashkar-e-Tayba’ which it alleges is supported by Pakistan’s InterServices Intelligence Agency (ISI).

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‘We know there is no way Pakistan would have lost to Australia after being in a winning position towards the end. We have intercepted calls from Lashkar-e-Tayba masterminds made to the Pakistan dressing room in those last few minutes of the game. You can see why Misbah-ul-Haq went down and asked the physio came out with the message that they have to lose the game.’ He remarked.

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1
Oct

The Hidden Reality – A Must Watch

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 A series exploring the hidden reality that pulls the strings to influence daily life and examination of our basic human structure,compiling clips of other documentary’s into the ultimate mash up of info. Special Thanks to the creators of the Arrivals series and others who helped inspire this and make it possible.

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