Mirwaiz Umar Farooq in a statement issued in Srinagar urged the people to observe complete shutdown on the day and convey a message to the world community that the people of Kashmir wanted right to self-determination.

He said that India was claiming to be democratic but was perpetuating undemocratic actions and was committing massive human rights violations in the occupied territory.

About the Pak-India peace process, he said; We believe that Pak-India peace needs a boost and participation of true Kashmiri leadership in any result-oriented dialogue process is a must.

He, however, said that before initiating talks, India should create conducive atmosphere by taking steps like demilitarisation, repeal of black laws, put an end to human rights violations in the occupied territory and release all illegally detained Hurriyet leaders and activists.

The APHC Chairman said that the international community had accepted that the Kashmir dispute was the main hurdle in cordial relations between New Delhi and Islamabad and its amicable settlement could bring peace in the region in particular and world in general.

Reports say, the people of Kashmir on both sides of the Line of Control and the world over will observe Republic Day of India on Tuesday as black day to remind to the international community that India has grossly usurped Kashmiris’ right to self-determination.

Call for the observance of the Day has been given by the Chairman of All Parties Hurriyet Conference, Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, senior Kashmiri Hurriyet leader Syed Ali Gilani, JKLF R and the Bar Association of occupied Kashmir. They have appealed to the people in Srinagar to observe complete shutdown on that day.

APHC leaders, including Shabbir Ahmad Shah, Nayeem Ahmad Khan, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza and Yasmeen Raja in their separate statements in Srinagar said, the international community knew that peace would continue to elude the world, in general, and South Asia, in particular, till Kashmir dispute remained unresolved. They maintained that liberation struggle would be taken to its logical conclusion, come what may.

The Bar Association said Kashmir is a disputed territory and the government of India should resume a purposeful and comprehensive dialogue process with Pakistan for resolution of Kashmir dispute by implementing UN resolutions. Bar Association General Secretary, Advocate G N Shaheen while appealing Kashmiri people to observe a general strike on 26th of January urged people to abstain from participating in Indian Republic Day functions.

Meanwhile, APHC leader and Acting Chairman of Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League, Mukhtar Ahmad Waza has said that the 63-year-old Kashmir dispute can be resolved through peaceful talks process between Pakistan, India and genuine Kashmiri leadership.

Addressing a gathering at Awantipora, Tral and Dadsaru in Pulwama, Waza, while urging India to create conducive atmosphere for talks process, said that it should demilitarise Kashmir, repeal black laws and release all illegally detained Hurriyet leaders and activists. Talks on Kashmir should be meaningful and result-oriented, he added.

He called upon the world human rights bodies to take serious note of continued human rights abuses committed by Indian troops in occupied Kashmir. Mirwaiz appeals people to observe Jan 26 as Black Day
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Pakistan’s Nuclear program has been Uranium based. The Chinese Nuclear program is Plutonium based. Pakistan‘s Uranium based program was based on enriching Uranium using Gas Centrifuges–cheaper technology which none of the other Atomic powers had used before. After perfecting the larger Uranium based devices, now Pakistan has begun to miniaturize its weapons using Plutonium based bombs.

Delhi is a bit jittery about Pakistan’s nuclear program that focuses on “low-yield, tactical nuclear weapons.” These Plutonium based weapons would be used to decimate Bharat’s “Cold Start” strategy that banks on rapid movement and deployment of Bharati forces.

Pakistan’s fourth reactor at the Khushab military facility is problematic for Bharat. This stops Delhi from invading Pakistan. Pakistan has the capability to add at least eight to 10 such weapons each year. Apparently the Pakistan are following the Chinese model of owning low-yield nuclear weapons. These tactical nukes are the “Cold Start” buster mechanism which will provide the Pakistani military a flexible response in case of an escalation with India and allow it to dominate.

Once Khushab is up to speed, Pakistan will be able to produce 35 Plutonium based tactical nuclear weapons per year. Pakistan is known to have a nuclear arsenal, however the quantity of the weapons has baffled Delhi.

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Bharat is jittery about Pakistan’s continuing veiled threats of using tactical nuclear missiles in the battlefield to deter Indian forces, holding that no one should be foolish enough to think of nuclear weapons as war-waging weapons.

Army chief General V K Singh, speaking on the sidelines of the 64th Army Day on Sunday seemed frustrated and handicapped “Let’s be quite clear on it… Nuclear weapons are not for war-fighting. They have got a strategic significance and that is where it should end.”

Amazingly Gen Singh said that “I and my Army are not bothered about who has nuclear weapons. We have our task cut out and we will progress along that.”

He continued to focus on what analysts call “Charge of the Light Brigade” tactic that deals with lquick strikes on Pakistan He described the “task” as  the “transform” the 1.13-million strong force into “an agile, lethal and networked force”, which can rapidly mobilize and then launch and sustain multiple armoured thrusts across the border, even as India maintains a credible minimum nuclear deterrent.

Bharat has faced serious challenges. The colossla fialure of Operation Parakram displayed serious holes in the Bharati plans. The forward troop mobilization along the western front shoed the Bharati Army that its could not mobilize quickly. Since then it has been trying to fix this failure. The harsh lessons can be categorized under poor Supply Chain. It took the Bharati  Army almost a month to amass strike formations at the borders. By then, Pakistan had fully mobilized and displayed its Nuclear teeth. The US and the world also had prevailed on the then NDA regime to back down.

Gen Singh said that “A lot has changed since the days of Op Parakram. If we did something in 15 days then, we can do it in seven days now. After two years, we may be able to do it in three days.” Most think that this is wishful thinking.

The Bharati Army has three “strike” corps:
1 Corps (Mathura),

2 Corps (Ambala) and

21 Corps (Bhopal)

Each of these have three to four self-contained, highly-mobile “battle groups” centered around T-90S and T-72 M1 tanks. Bharat hopes that these an now be ready at their border launch points within a week of the government directive.

According to press reports the Bharati Army is now working towards further cutting down this mobilization timeframe to 72 to 96 hours, even as its 10 “pivot corps” undergo “structural changes”, operational logistics are reorganized and “theatrisation of combat support” tested. Even at its best, the 72 hour window gives Pakistan ample time to mobilize its missile defense and plaster the assembled army to the ground, before it has a chance to enter Pakistani territory.

Bharat has traditinally denied that it has a “Cold Start Strategy”. In a stratling development Gen Singh now admits the Indian Army was fine-tuning its “Pro-Active Strategy”, (aka “Cold Start” doctrine_, to achieve desired politico-military results. According to the doctrine developed by Stephen Cohen, “te unstated aim is to punish Pakistan in a limited manner, not invade or occupy its territory”.

• The strategy to launch multiple blitzkrieg thrusts across the border, tested in two major exercises Vijayee Bhava and Sudarshan Shakti last year, has certainly got Pakistan worried.
• Having already boosted its nuclear arsenal to around 90-110 warheads, compared to India’s 80-100, Pakistan has also taken to projecting its 60-km Nasr (Hatf-IX) nuclear missile as a fitting riposte to thwart any such Indian move.
• But while India has a declared commitment of “no first-use”, its nuclear doctrine does hold that “nuclear retaliation to a first strike will be massive and designed to inflict unacceptable damage”. India even retains the option to retaliate with nuclear weapons if its forces “anywhere” are attacked with biological or chemical weapons.

Pakistan has not announced a “No First Use” doctrine, and if Bharat attempts to cross the border, Pakistan reserves the right to retaliate and save itself. Bharat is aware of this, and therefore “Cold Start” is a non-starter.

According to The Times of India, “the current focus on low-yield (tacital) weapons has India worried”. Bharati defense officials know that these weapons will be used by Pakistan “in case of an incursion made by Indian forces into Pakistani territory”. Delhi under domestic constraints has threatened Pakistan several times–the tactical nukes keep them at bay.

With the OBL incursion, Pakistan has been forced to consider other options. One of the options is to disperse the the older weapons deeper into Pakistan and diversify their locations. Another strategy is to miniaturize the weapons, so that they can be holed up in caves, and underground structures, away from praying satellite images. With CIA spies running rampant in Pakistan–the miniaturized weapons will deter a large scale attack either by Bharat or any other country.

Senator’s personal guarantee written in his blood not withstanding, Islamabad is not taking any chances. If it weren’t for Pakistani nukes and Islamabad’s ability to deliver them, Pakistan would have ended up like Iraq. This is not the only time that Abdali, Babur, and Hataf have saved the land of Pakistan from being carpet bombing. China is upgrading Pakistan’s radar system with something that is akin to the Soviet S-400 fully automated tracking, zoning and  targeting enemy aircraft. The incursion into Abbottabad has opened the eyes of the PAF–which is now also relying on human intel and plain old-fashioned monitoring in addition to electronic surveillance during peace time.

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According to the BBC “the present stand-off is a direct result of the divergence of views of the military and the civilian government on the memo issue.” After PM Gilani dismissed the Secretary of Defense, Brig. Naeem Khalid Lodhi, the Secretary general of the PPP rejected the rumors of the dismissal of General Kayani or General Pasha. The ISPR threatned of “very serious ramifications” because of the charges statements made by PM Gilani. The ISPR said that documents tendered to the Supreme Court were through the Ministry of Defense and as per the rules of business. The PPP is saying that the COAS will complete his tenure.

Nargis Sethi, the pro-American Najam Sethi‘s daughter is essentially the de-fecto prime minister of Pakistan. Sethi was the PMs Principal Secretary and Secretary Cabinet Division, has been given the charge of Defense Secretary. Nargis’s is the daughter of Jugno Mohsin who is a first cousin of Syeda Abida Hussain and Syed Fakhir Imam. Nargis is considered one of the most powerful women of today’s Pakistan. Some analysts say that if the COAS is fired, she would do it.

There are reports that Ahtizaz Ahsan will be writing a letter to the Swiss Authorities. The PPP has a six day deadline on this issue.

In an ominous sign the 111 Brigade Commander has been changed. Most observers think another one is unlikely at the moment. According to the Airforce Times “The Pentagon disclosed that Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, talked by phone on Tuesday with his Pakistani counterpart, Army Gen. Ashfaq Pervez Kayani. Dempsey’s office declined to provide details of the conversation but said it was their first contact since Dec. 21.”

The various political parties do not want a clash. The PPP partners are jittery. They want to diffuse the internal situation. Kamil Agha of the PMLQ said that his party does not support differences between the executive, the judiciary and the army etc. If the PPP persists, the PMLQ may quit the government. He said that dialogue is the solution. The PPP government will not survive a vote of confidence without the PLMQ and the MQM.

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Former PM Nawaz Sharif has called for immediate polls. He asked the PPP “not play with the fate of this country any more,” the former premier said Pakistan cannot allow to lose the hard-earned gains made by democracy…The only way to pull the country out of this crisis situation is to hold polls as soon as possible.”

There is much discussion with the JUI chief Maulana Fazlul Rehman, a key negotiator between the protagonists. Maulana Rehman was conciliatory. Mr. Sharif and Mr. Rehman are also talking and discuss issues with Chaudhry Nisar. There maybe a consensus building on a parliamentary action. If the PLMN resigns from the government, the PPP government will have to call elections.

There are external factors affecting the situation in Pakistan. Christina Flair is predicting a cold war between Washington and Islamabad. In a polemic published in the Atlantic, she asks the poignant question “Could There Be a U.S.-Pakistan Cold War?” In the article, she paints Pakistan as a bad country.

• After ten years of precarious military, intelligence and other security cooperation between Pakistan and the United States, the two countries could not loathe each other more. Worse, as much as they despise each other, they each know that their security depends in varying degrees upon the other.
• It has been difficult for the United States to grasp the limits of its national power and accept that it cannot transform Pakistan.

Flair goes on to say that the US must limits its overreach and deal with the Pakistanis in a manner in which it does not push it into isolation and says that “Under the prevailing circumstances, the Cold War may offer important lessons for U.S. policy makers restructuring U.S. relations with Pakistan”. :

• The time has come for the United States to adopt a more modest and sustainable relationship with the country aimed at managing it as a security risk rather than embracing absurd transformational goals. At the most fundamental level, the United States has one overarching goal: work to ensure that Pakistan does not become an Islamist variation of North Korea.
• That is, the United States should work with the international community to prevent Pakistan from becoming an inward-focused, hostile and aggressive nuclear-armed rogue state that turns to other threatening states in the international system as its sole source of sustenance and support. This requires sustainable and practical engagement rather than isolation.
• This will require the U.S. Congress to resist its understandable urge to simply cut Pakistan off. While this path is no doubt tempting in an election year and during a period of economic austerity, such instincts should be rebuffed.

Flair gives the US advice on how to deal with US-Pakistan Cold War:

• First, during the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union maintained diplomatic missions and contacts at all levels.
• Second, they continued ordinary contacts with military and intelligence liaisons. However, these engagements were with the obvious lucidity that the two states were competitors, not partners. The two states understood that their strategic interests were divergent and that they would operate against each other even if there were opportunities elsewhere to cooperate.
• Third, the United States invested in civil society where it could and with the modest hope that one day that system would change. Finally, when the Soviet Union collapsed, the world learned that it could manage the numerous problems stemming from the Soviet Union’s vast nuclear and missile arsenal. The world did not end when the Soviet Union collapsed.

In related news Pakistan’s new ambassador to Washington, Sherry Rehman, met Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. The US State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland talked about “getting our relationship back on track in all of its elements in the new year.”

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Pakistan has decided to blow Up Bin Laden‘s Compound With A Flurry Of Rocket Propelled Grenades. Major General Athar Abbas said that “It will be a big event,” according to the New York Post.

The Army will invite the U.S. and European officials when the compound will be brought down by rocket propelled grenades and then bulldozed.

The Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that “We will hit it like an enemy fort. But first we must erase everything related to bin Laden from our country.”

We recommend that Pakistan change the name of Abbott to Islampur, Mohammadabad, Fatah-e-Islam, Liaqatabad or Jinnahabad, Hazara Shehar, Hazarapur, Hazarabad, or Hazara City. Pakistan should not be associated with the colonial name of Abbot. Abbottabad is situated in the Orash Valley the Hazara region of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The city was named after Major James Abbott who founded the town and district in January 1853 after the annexation of Punjab. He was the Deputy Commissioner of the Hazara district from 1849 until April 1853.

The remaining vestiges of colonialism should be elimiated. Abbotabad and Jacobabad should be changed to Pakistani names

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The PM is not honest: Supreme Court

The Political parties give their analysis. Mr. Imran Khan said that he stands with the Chief Justice and the Supreme Court. He said that the entire country was waiting for this decision. He said the poor people were incarcerated while the big fish were not subject to justice. Mr Khan said that the PPP will react to the verdict. Mr. Khan said that if the PPP defied the Supreme Court the PTI would stand in their way. Mr. Khan said the PTI will come out on the roads, and will not tolerate the destruction of the judiciary.

The PMLN Khawaja Asif, the representative said that the PM has been saying with straight face that the government has implemented the verdict of the court. Shaikh Rashid called it stubbornness of the PPP which is not good. He said that they will not get “shahadat”, it will get “halakat”. Rashid emphasized that the fact that memogate will be brought to its logical conclusion.

Abdul Ghafoor Haidery of the JUI said that the institutions are in conflict. He said that the system is being destroyed. The JUI chief has already stated that Mr. Zardari can be convinced to resign. Syed Munawwar Has, the Amir of the Jamaat e Islami said that the PPP had not served the people. He said that the PPP wants to short cut, use the Sindh Card, create a Law and Order situation. Syed Munawwar said that the the PPP wants to attack the judiciary and the army. He said that this agenda has been written Washington and he said that this “movie” will not work. Chaudhry Shujaat has said a negotiated settlement has to be found. The ANP representative Mr. Zahid Khan said that his party is looking at the options. Mr. Babar Awan said that this reminds him of the “Agartalla Conspiracy” and East Pakistan.

Mr. Gilani’s recent statement in China against th army and the ISI raises eyebrows in the lands. It is very poignant that he made the statement to a Chinese news agency while General Kayani was in China. Mr. Hasan Askari Rizvi, an analyst said that the statements will not put pressure on the army. Mr  Rizvi spoke up against brinkmanship. Mr. Rasool Bukhash Raees said that the government has decided that they will not accept the courts decision, and they want to take the clash to the people. Mr. Raees said that the PPP is going to defend itself and thinks that its constituency is very strong.

Will the MQM and the ANP take a stand with the PPP, or will they abandon the coalition. Ms. Fauzia Wahab of the PPP said that the PM has described the facts, and these issues have to be resolved. Lt. Gene Talat Masood said that the PMs statement will harm the morale of the army. Mr. Masood usually a staunch defender of the PPP severely criticized the Prime Minister and said his statements will not be a positive thing.

Post NRO decision Musharraf’s Interview. Mr. Musharraf who used to stand up ramrod straight and commanded fear among his enemies, is a much somber man. His voice and demeanor does not show the same level of confidence that he used to exude. Abandoned by his allies and “fair weather friends”, Mr. Musharraf now wants to build his party on district nazims and unknown names.

Mr. Musharraf seems ready to face jail in Landi. The courts may award him bail, and declare his house a sub-jail. It would all depend on Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, the man humiliated by General Musharraf.

Mr. Musharraf wants to remind the people of Pakistan that during his reign the people had extraordinary prosperity and enjoyed a high level of standard of living. He wants to run on his track record. Generally speaking, people have short memories, and may or may not remember the fact that the country was growing at an 8% growth rate. His message of past performance may get lost in the polluted politics of Pakistan. Mr. Musharrf may be naive, very brave, or may be headed on a foolhardy mission. His comments did display his liking for Imran Khan, who has spurned him twice, once when Mr. Musharraf was in power, and then again, now, when the Khan is riding a crest of popularity and Mr. Musharraf is alone with little support from his former protégées and acolytes.

Mr. Zardari, in an excellent game of chess snatched up the PMLQ, the possible source of Mr. Musharraf’s support. Watching the game, many disgruntled members of the PPP and the PMLN joined the PTI. Thus the potential space that Mr. Musharraf was to occupy has been taken up by the PTI. Can Mr Musharraf convince the voters that he is a better alternative to Mr. Imran Khan. The establishment is supporting Mr. Khan. The elite is turning towards Imran, and an overwhelming body of overseas Pakistanis seem to be rooting for the PTI. Mr. Musharraf’s Enlightened Moderation will have to compete with the right of center politics of Mr. Musharraf.

Hamid Mir‘s Geo and News are avid opponents of Mr. Musharraf. On the eve of his return The News has published a listing of accounts which shows that Mr. Musharraf has more than a Billion Dollars stashed away in various Middle Eastern banks. Where and how the News got its information is a subject of debate. As expected Mr. Musharraf denied that he had a billion Dollars, but admitted that he was making up to .5 million per lecture when he was on the circuit and he said that he made several dozen such engagements. Analysts would agree that it would take a lot of lectures to make a billion Dollars, assuming that he has that much.

He announced that he would run in elections from Gilgit Baltistan. While Imran Khan’s tsunami is riding the crest of Anti-Americanism, Mr. Musharraf seemed to be reaching out to America’s chief ally in the Middle East. He also announced that he would run from Karachi. He said that Pakistan should normalize its relations with Israel. He said that many Arab countries had recognized Isarael, so Pakistan should also recognize the reality and not create headaches for itself. He made the astounding statement that he “admired” the military accomplishments of General Arial Sharon, one of the most brutal Israeli generals who also poisoned Yasser Arafat. Amazingly Mr. Musharraf also did not think that Iran faced an external threat and therefore he did not think that Tehran needed Atomic weapons.

It is clear from his very recent moves, that Mr. Musharraf is following the tactics of Ms. Benazir Bhutto, who met President Shimon Perez before her return to Pakistan, and made strange statements about Pakistan’s Nuclear program.

Mr. Musharraf, if he survives the onslaught of cases against him will probably be able to win a couple of seats in the parliament. He can then be the conscience of the nation, and be a political pundit who escaped the application of Article Six of the constitution. Never in the history of Pakistan, has a dictator returned to Pakistan to face charges and then try to get elected to the highest office of the land.

It will be interesting to see what the future holds for Mr. Musharraf.

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Imran Khan’s spirituality comes from Iqbal via Prof. Ahmad Rafique Akhtar. His web site describes him as follows:

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Imran Khan’s spirituality comes from Iqbal via Prof. Ahmad Rafique Akhtar:

• c is a distinguished Muslim scholar of Modern Era. The enlightment of his thoughts has heralded the dawn of a new age in the present world. Due to his acquaintance with books, intricate queries in his wits; he studied literature, philosophy, Mythologies and all contemporary subjects during his student life. His tendency of intensive study led him to think profoundly about God. This inquisitiveness of mind continued its progress towards the logical end. He was gifted with a philosophical approach which is not satisfied without scrutinizing the process of intellectual capacity, objectively according to scientific principles. At the stage of his career choice, his exuberance and intelligence reached its pinnacle when he was faced with the most problematical query of its nature,” Does God exist or Does he not ”, “Am I free or to be accountable in front of an unseen divine force.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nLw2tTM2TJM&feature=related

(26 minutes). Imran Khan in the company of Dr. Rafique and Haroon Rashid in October 2006. Imran Khan talks about his spirituality.

Haroon Rasheed talks about Imran Khan (5 minutes). Dr. Rafique talks about Turkey.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6ybvXYbf9s&feature=related

• Like Imran Khan, Rafique started the journey of his mental investigation from doubt and denial. The center of attention and the direction of his study and meditation took eight years of his life; he dedicated all his investigation and struggle to find a reason to deny the existence of God. His thesis was very simple, if a man commits thousands of mistakes he still remains a human being, but if we find even one mistake of God, He can not be a God. Thus he declared the criterion to find God; he had to uncover only one error in God’s words,” The Quran”. All his explorations, scientific investigations and academic researches and findings were rendered futile when he found that his efforts lead him to the confirmation of the Quran and existence of God. Consequently he made God his first and foremost priority. He was already a teacher but the focus of his teaching had now diverted to his findings about God. He believes that God has to be the top priority of every single intellectual curiosity.

Discussing Leadership: Imran Khan and  Professor Ahmad Rafique Akhtar         https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gMH3UGc29cs&feature=related

In a discussion with a TV interviewer Imran discussed the charge that his party is the “donor party”: Mr. Imran Khan defended his policy on political fund raising. He was asked the same question again–how can you bring about change with tried and tested workers of the PTI who were part of the Musharraf or PPP and PMLN team. He was asked, how he could bring about a new revolution in 90 days. He said, justice, education, health and employment were the things that were the responsibility of the state.

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The Khan said that the Islamic, Welfare state is Pakistan’s destiny. Imran Khan defended that stake. He said that Professor Rafique was not his “peshwa”. He did admit that he discussed things with Professor Rafique, the same man who also influences General Kayani.

Here is some information on Professor Rafique for those who wish to investigate the mind of Imran Khan. A deep analysis of Iqbal will reveal the facts that most Pakistanis, especially those from Sialkot are totally devoted to the master plan for Muslims and for Pakistan.

Professor Rafique discusses Iqbal’s passion for “millat”. Iqbal described the destiny of the Muslims. He discussed the English, French, and Russian literature and declared that English was the worst language for literature. He said that the main thrust of European knowledge is to deny God–and remove religion from all spheres of life. Rafique said that Iqbal denied these trends in European history and philosophy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMaR6b0SvvQ&feature=related

(12  minutes of a 42 minute eulogy of Iqbal)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE0Dii_oDnU&feature=player_embedded#

(12 inutes out of 42 minute eulogy of Iqbal defined by Prof. Akhtar)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GuECTOSXp-w&feature=related

Imran Khan also discusses Shahbaz Sharif and Nawaz Sharif. He said that both parties are speaking up against Imran Khan.

Discussing the next elections. Early elections may not favor Imran Khan, however he wants them.

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State Councillor Dai Bingguo, who is China’s most important official when it comes to foreign policy, arrived in the Pakistani capital on Friday. He arives at t time amid huge tensions with the US. Pakistan has rejected the NATO report that does not accept responsibility for the attack.

China has emerged as the major voice in the international community to strongly back the Pakistani government in the aftermath of the Abbotabad attack. Russia and all Arab and Muslim countries voiced support for Pakistan.

China expressed “shock” at last month’s NATO raid on Pakistani post. Beijing said it expressed “strong concerns” at the violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty and territorial integrity.

Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told his Pakistani counterpart Hina Rabbani Khar in a phone call last month that China would “consistently support Pakistan’s efforts in safeguarding national independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

The Chinese Foreign Minister also called for “a thorough investigation”.

According to the Xinhua news agency the China FM said that China “was deeply shocked by the incident, noting that all countries and international organisations should earnestly respect Pakistan’s independence, sovereignty and territorial integrity.”

China’s is voicing strong support, in addition to significantly boosting financial and military support to Islamabad. In a seminal development China was considering setting up a naval base in the port of Gwadar, which China has helped build. Today Beijing is connecting Gwader to the major freeways.

China had provided “invaluable” support, such as civilian nuclear cooperation.The State-run China National Nuclear Corporation (CNNC) is in talks with the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission over setting up two 1,000 MW plants at the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant, Kanupp-2 and Kanupp-3.

Both Chinese and Pakistani officials have recently indicated the two countries will go ahead with nuclear cooperation despite international concerns, pointing out that all agreements were under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards. CNNC has already signed deals to set up at least four reactors in Pakistan at Chasnupp.

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Within Bharat itself, the brutal emergency consolidated the stranglehold of the Nehru dynasty–which brought untold misery on South Asia. Nehru’s attempt to impose Bharat on 560 states manifests itself into the desire of 50 new states to lean away from Delhi in varying degrees of independence from the Central Authority. Assam and kashmir want nothing to do with “India”. Maharashtra wants to the Hindu Republic. Gujarat wants to impost Ram Rajha. The restless Tamils have blackmailed Dlehi into disproportional representation in the Center–hence Talangana and other such movements. Bharat has aggravated the Chinese, the Bengalis, the Pakistanis, the Lankans, the Nepalese, the Bhutanese, the Sikkimese and the Maldivians. All neighbors are pissed off. Bharat has tried to impose itself on all peoples. Internally Bharat has alienated the 450 million Dalits and Scheduled classes and Untouchables, the 150 million Muslims–else all of us would be rooting for Bharat.

Imagine a world where Bharat is supported by all her neighbors? Bharat can only get that if it fundamentally reinvents itself–instead of imposing itself and its ideals on other nations. Neither Bharati secularism nor Bharat’s version of democracy have provided Bharati citizens a good life. The Koreans, The Taiwanese, the Malysians, and the Dubaiits, and the Chinese have. That is the right model. Bharati penury stricken caste infested, corruption system is for the birds.

Bharat cannot impress its neighbors by buying trinkets that turn to rust

Bharat is incapable of introspection. Meager success in the past decade has given the Bharatis a swollen head. This has to be brought back to size, either through pinata action or through Exedrin–we don’t know. However the self image is distorted–and does not reflect reality. If the self image is too far off from how others perceive you, then it is a sign of insanity–on a national level it is a pathological illness which manifests itself in the kind of failures and isolation that Bharat faces today.

The military surrender was a different blow—devastating and beyond imagination. The manner in which it took place, without a full fight given to the enemy, and the senior military commanders laying down their arms with no sign of remorse, compounded the disgrace. The humiliation and the anger felt by the masses, and more so by the fighting men, who were cheated by their top commanders, lingers in their minds.

The political chaos in 1971 and the India-Pakistan War culminating in secession of Pakistan’s Eastern Wing was the product of a deeply planned plot executed by a joint axis of United States, Israel, Britain, India and former Soviet Union. Its mastermind was the Zionist International Jewry (Zinjry) that controls the power centers in these countries through its entrenched lobbies. The plot could not have succeeded without the active participation of a treacherous gang of civil and military leaders within Pakistan.

Books and articles have been published in Bangladesh on how the East Pakistanis were made the victims of a vast scheme to give up a part of their own country. Same lament was expressed earlier in books such as Subversion in East Pakistan, by AMK Maswani,Second Thoughts on Bangladesh, narrated by a repentant rebel, and Bangladesh Today—Indictment and a Lament, by the distinguished East Pakistani intellectual Matiur Rahman.

East Pakistan, now Bangladesh, may still one day rejoin with the parent country. People in both the Wings are ready to forgive and forget. No one doubts that they were made the victims of an international conspiracy that included the services of several local agents. The Muslim people of Bangladesh are now conscious that they were deceived by their own ‘native’ leaders, into giving up the larger part of their own country, thus depriving themselves of the land and all its resources. They have also realized that they were misled by design into looking upon Indians as their friends and West Pakistanis as enemies. They have learnt the truth was exactly the opposite; Hindu India was their real enemy, and it will remain so.

But the military surrender was a different blow. It was devastating. It was totally unexpected, and beyond imagination. The manner in which it took place—without a full fight given to the enemy, and the senior army and navy commanders laying down their arms with no sign of remorse—compounded the disgrace. The pain of humiliation and the anger felt by the masses, and much more so by the fighting men, who had been cheated by their top commanders, lingers in their minds.

There is plenty of literature on the 1971 Crisis and the India-Pakistan War, but several devious and decisive schemes and maneuvers that nurtured the crisis and shaped its outcome are still to be exposed. Amongst these is the story of the shameful surrender inflicted on Pakistan. What forced the sudden and humiliating surrender on 16 December1971, in just three and a half weeks of fighting, after India’s full-scale launching of the war by attackingsimultaneously as many as 23 salients along the border in East Pakistan on the night 20/21 November?

The writings of Americans on the 1971 episode are a rich (though for us Pakistanis sorrowful) source of revelations about many of the otherwise less known occurrences. Henry Kissinger’s voluminous work, The White House Years, is one example. When the relevant written material is placed beside the events that took place before, during and after the war, the analysis exposes the US hand in fomenting rebellion by the Awami League against the State, assisting India in raising, arming and deploying the Mukti Bahni terrorists in East Pakistan, then provoking the war and devising a quick defeat for Pakistan.

The most revealing, and depressing, tale is to find how the top leaders in East and West Pakistan were duped into yielding to the idea of military surrender. The Indians had not expected even in their wildest estimates that the Pakistan forces in the Eastern Wing would surrender in just three weeks of fighting. Even reaching Dacca was not in their war plan.  Indian army officer, Major General Sukhwant Singh, who was on active duty in 1971 and later authored a book on the war, after pointing out the “formidable obstacles” that prevented an advance to Dacca, writes; “Because of these limitations the higher command, in assigning tasks to Eastern Command, did not spell out the capture of Dacca but left it to be considered during the conduct of operations as and when opportunity offered itself.”¹

Indeed, in spite of the serious handicaps (which anyway are a part of warfare) the Pakistan forces in the Eastern Wing could have fought on for several more weeks. Pointing out the quantum of troops, weapons and supplies at the time of ceasefire in the Northwestern Sector in East Pakistan, Sukhwant Singh observes: “It showed that most of the Pakistani units were up to operational strength and had a considerable potential to continue the war, if General Niazi had not accepted such an early ceasefire.”²

Military surrender is actually alien to the psychological make-up as well as the combat spirit and discipline of the Pakistani soldier. What caused the surrender?

It was obvious from the known circumstances surrounding the surrender that the Indians had no part in bringing it about. They joined in the scheme only at the later stages; and the reward, of course, was reaped by them. The surrender was brought about by the US with masterful machinations, involving disinformation, secret diplomacy, bands of spies and local agents in Pakistan and India and manipulation of the pliant persons who had been selectively placed in key positions in Islamabad and Dacca. The master stroke was the highly deceptive dispatch of the US naval forces to the Bay of Bengal.

The dramatic deployment of the US warships performed the pivotal role in the grand maneuver of deception and psychological warfare targeting the Pakistani leaders. Admiral Elmo R. Zumwalt, Chief of Naval Operations of the US Navy in 197I is the best narrator of this drama, though he was not privy to the secret treacherous aim behind it, which only Kissinger and the other Zionist schemers knew. In On Watch: A Memoir, Zumwalt writes:

“On 10 December, a Presidential order, that was not discussed with the Navy in advance, created Task Group (TG) 74, consisting of the nuclear carrier Enterprise and appropriate escorts, and sent it steaming from the Gulf of Tonkin to Singapore. The order did not specify what TG 74’s mission was, nor could anyone, including the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, tell me.

The ships were held off Singapore for two days. On 12 December they were ordered through the Straits of Malacca into the Indian Ocean. Within an hour that order was rescinded! Next day it was reissued, with the additional proviso that as much of the passage through the Straits as possible be in daylight, in other words, in full view of the world. At the same time ‘sources’ in Washington let it be known that the object of the exercise was covering the evacuation of American civilians from Dacca.

This clearly was a cover story since that evacuation, after having been impeded by the fighting for a week, was successfully completed two days before TG 74 entered the Indian Ocean. (After entering the Indian Ocean) the Task Group was sent south of Ceylon (where it kept cruising leisurely). Then, on 8 January, TG 74 was ordered out of the Indian Ocean as mysteriously as it had been ordered in.”³

Admiral Zumwalt complains: “I still do not know exactly what to think of the TG 74 episode. Obviously it could not have been intended to influence the course of the war in East Bengal. On the contrary, the Group was not formed until the outcome in East Bengal was perfectly clear.”

Zumwalt is right about finding no one who knew of TG 74′s mission. Not even President Nixon knew it. Nixon in fact has given just one casual sentence to this entire episode in his memoirs, and says; “Later that afternoon (on 9 December) I authorized Admiral Moorer (Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff) to dispatch a task force of 8 ships including the aircraft carrier Enterprise from Vietnam to the Bay of Bengal.”⁴

The mission of the Task Group was a Zionist secret known only to Henry Kissinger and a handful of Zionist schemers from the CIA and the Israeli Mossad, who together were conducting the operations for dismemberment of United Pakistan. The Task Group was directly controlled (as also indicated by Zumwalt) from the White House, in other words by Kissinger, who was the National Security Advisor in the White House.

The Naval Task Force was used as a lethal instrument for a psychological purpose. It wasto act as a flash signal of support to the dispirited leaders in Pakistan, who were facing a desperate situation in the war, so as to boost their morale with the hope that US military help had arrived after all; and then after a couple of days, to cancel the signal abruptly, causing in Pakistan’s military leaders a sudden and complete collapse of morale rendering them incapable of resistance to the offer of ceasefire with surrender.

This was exactly what happened. Disinformation about the mission of TG 74 was conveyed through various ‘reliable‘ sources to the top brass in Islamabad: General Yahya, General Hamid, Lieutenant General Gul Hassan – and through the latter to Lieut General Niazi in Dacca. Gul Hassan, then Chief of the General Staff, described the episode in an interview in 1984:

“A couple of days before the fall of’ Dacca, while we still had telephone contact with the East Wing, I passed a message to Niazi, which I had received from General Hamid who had apparently got it from General Yahya, that the United States and China are coming to help us.”⁵

In his autobiography, published in 1993, he confirms it and says he passed the message to Niazi “on the evening of 12 December 1971.”⁶ In his own memoirs, Niazi refers to the message with bitterness, which is understandable.⁷

The message immediately perked up the spirits of the generals, especially that of the beleaguered General Niazi. Just after the message had sunk in the minds of the recipients and their sagging spirits had lifted, the Americans flashed a new message to them: that the impression that any US help was on the way was misplaced and that the US Task Group had no such mission! This shattering piece of news acted as the last blow to the fragile will of Pakistan’s spineless military and civil leaders, whose nerves were already frayed by the enemy’s other tactics of psychological warfare; and they ceased to resist the pressure for surrender.

The writer is an analyst of the global plot of world control.

Email: dilbedar@yahoo.com

Notes:

1. Sukhwant Singh, India’s Wars Since Independence, Vol 1, The Liberation of

Bangladesh, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi, 1980, p. 91.

2.   Ibid, p. 177.

3.   Elmo R. Zumwalt, On Watch: A Memoir, The New York Times Book Co, Inc,

New York, 1976, p. 367.

4. Richard Nixon, RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon, Crosset and Dunlap

Publishers, New York, 1978, p. 525.

5. Ahmad Munir, Almiya Mashriqi Pakistan: Panch Kirdar, (Urdu), Atish Fashan

Publications, Lahore, 1984, p. 107.

6. Gul Hassan Khan, Memoirs of Lt. Gen. Gul Hassan Khan, Oxford University

Press, Karachi, 1993, p. 328

7. Lt. Gen. (R) A. A. K. Niazi, The Betrayal of East Pakistan, Oxford University

Press, Karachi, p. 186.

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Dimpsey's rhetoric analyzed. Image via Wikipedia

The chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff Gen Martin Dempsey has sharply increased the rhetoric by saying
“In Pakistan, the sanctuary for these militants persists. We have to work hard to end its influence on our Afghan mission.”

General Dimpsey also said “We can adjust and we can get it done. It will be more expensive. It will be time-consuming but we have the time to do it…The real problem for me is not the cost. What is troubling me is that they would close the route. What it says about the (US-Pakistan) relationship is troubling for us.”

These sentences confirm the growing level of frustration of the US Army in Afghanistan and shows a huge schism between the US State Department that wants tempers to cool down and the Pentagon that seems to continue its line of antagonizing Pakistan.

Mr Dimpsey needs to learn the history of the Hindu Kush. 3 million Afghans still live in Pakistan. 3-5 million Afghans were born in Pakistan. Most Pakhtuns live in Pakistan. Pakistan has an open border with Pakistan with over 50,000 people crossing the border without any travel documents. The Pakhtuns are in the Pakistani Army in disproportionate numbers with respect to their population.  The Pathans are very powerful in the Pakistani Army.  There is a large propendrance of Paktuns in the Frontier Corp and the Frontier Constabulary. The major portion of every tribe in Afghanistan lives in Pakistan, with the approx ratio of 1:4–so would Mr. Dimpsey explain with which majic wand with he be able to reduce the Pakistani influence in Afghanistan and how he would do it.

The fact of the matter is that NATO is hurting very badly because of the supply line halting. The fact remains that the US cannot run Afghanistan through the Northern Alliance. They have tried to do it for the past decade and have failed miserably. The current rhetoric is a sign of the increasing level of frustration.

There are one million armed men in FATA. Only five or ten thousand belong to organizations. Less than that number belong to organizations that the US thinks are “hostiles”. The US has more than 130,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, and probably about 100,000 mercenaries under their control. Most of Afghanistan is under the control of the Talibs. Some surveys have said that more than thre fourths of Afghanistan is not in the control of ISAF/NATO/US and the regions that are under the control of NATO–are only minimally under the control of NATO.

So will the general defeated in Afghanistan explain how he can diminish the influence of Pakistan in Afghanistan.

It is also a matter of fact that Pakistan is totally aligned with China. It is also a fact that Russia and Iran have supported the Pakistani stance that the US presence should end in Afghanistan. All four major powers in the region do not want US bases in Afghanistan. Would Gen. Dimpsey explain the new geo-political situation where Pakistan is a member of the SCO, and doesn’t want US aid. Would Gen Dimpsey qualify his statement in light of the fact that while the US is reducing about 40,000 soldiers in Afghanistan next year, and the Afghan National Army (ANA) has no significance in Afghanistan today, how will Gen Dimpsey change the scenario–something he has not been able to do in a decade.

As the US loses its footprint in Pakistan, and has fewer soldiers in Afghanistan, how will he have more strength in Afghanistan and how will he be able to reduce Pakistan’s influence in Afghanistan.

We predict that the US will leave Afghanistan before 2014, and that attempts to keep bases in Afghanistan wil fail and they will be overrun by many factions in Afghanistan.