Afghanistan's stability is the Pakistan"s survival

 Americans want constant chaos in Pakistan come what may for the last six decades. It’s due the fact that Americans want the area stretched between Bay of Bengal to Baltic Sea leading to Europe disconnected economically through anarchy in Pakistan. If the Americans don’t do it, they would ultimately lose the control over 3/4 of the world. Relaxation of trade between India and Iran and China and Iran in the US/UN sanctions on Iran is not without reason in this context. That’s exactly why President Asif Ali Zardari, who had foreseen this duplicity a long ago, had to move fast to get the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline started and completed by the exit of US-led NATO forces by the end of 2014 from Afghanistan. The President Asif Ali Zardari had already taken the regional powers into confidence in this regard and will work more on it. The president Zardari has to work most on TAPI gas pipeline project in which Afghanistan is the corridor as well. Pakistan’s economy has become precariously dependent on energy and the energy is the dire need of teeming poor Pakistanis at the moment.
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The pre-partition Pakistan is no different from the post-partition Pakistan as far as independence of its people is concerned. We won a territory, in 1947, from British and Hindu majority but not freedom. We, on the other hand, added internal colonizers after the external one.

Due to lack of resources, knowledge and industry, we had two choices. First, we could build ourselves socially, technologically and knowledge-wise by taking help of USSR. Second, we could keep pre-partition social and economic structures intact, and for day to day survival take financial help of USA, the emerged sole super power, after WWII.

Our indigenous tribal and feudal politicians and Muhajir leadership were never willing to share politics and power (democracy) with the poor people of Pakistan. Same was desired by the USA. So, our leadership chose the second option of USA to survive. For the first decade the leadership survived due to the bureaucracy and without any constitution of our own. Afterwards, army ruled the country with the help of civil bureaucracy for another decade. Hunger, homelessness, economic and social poverty and ignorance multiplied for common Punjabis, Pukhtoons, Sindhi, Balochs and Bengalis. These ethnicities would have been better off, had they been part of India where tribalism and feudalism was abolished and social democracy was the system of governance after independence.

Thus, we replaced British with Americans as external rulers and added civil-military bureaucracy as internal colonizers. Extreme poverty compelled the majority of people of East Pakistan, Bengalis, to win freedom from West Pakistan to form Bangladesh in 1971. To save the rest of Pakistan the ruling elite (civil-military bureaucracy and tribal/feudal lords) made the country’s first unanimous constitution in 1973. The constitution is the mixture of mutually exclusive systems: Islam, Socialism and democracy. The numeric strength of civil-military bureaucracy increased with the decrease in territory after the formation of Bangladesh. The involvement of Arabs was also increased in Punjab due to Islamic character of the constitution. USSR’s invasion of Afghanistan, 1979, increased the role of anti-communist Arabs and Americans more in our state and society for USA-backed Afghan Jehad.

Socially, we became more divided and poorer. Centuries old tribal moral clash, sectarianism, between Shia and Sunni surfaced due to the Sunni-Wahabi influence of Arabs. Economy went to the hands of mafias related to drugs, weapons and smuggling of other goods.

Military not only remained part of such economy but multiplied it forming cartels involving even basic industries related to sugar, wheat, cement etc. by the end of the rule of last military dictator Gen. Musharraf. Intermittent so-called democratic governments came and were sacked untimely in 1990’s but nothing changed for better as the governments had positions just, with power still rested with civil-military bureaucracy. 9/11 changed the world, so did the Pakistan. People got space for their power in governance. Gen. Musharraf failed to meet the interests of USA-led NATO forces engaged to eliminate Taliban from Afghanistan and bring stability there due to China and Russia’s pressures. So, Americans preferred democracy over dictatorship to meet its interests in Afghanistan. Elections of 2008 and NRO, after the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, must be seen in this context. This is exactly where the Arabs and American interests diverged as far as Afghanistan is concerned. Arabs involvement depends on the post 2014 situation of Afghanistan when NATO and majority of American troops would have gone from there.

The Americans are going to stay for a long time in Afghanistan even after the NATO and majority of their troops leave by 2014. The first phase of their stay has been for bringing about stability and building institutions and infrastructure, and the second phase will be to expand their economic and strategic interests in the region. In this regard Americans have taken into confidence Russia, the Central Asian States, China, India and even Iran except Pakistan. Americans have assured them that no kind of terror will be supported or tolerated anymore in the region.

Americans want constant chaos in Pakistan come what may for the last six decades. It’s due the fact that Americans want the area stretched between Bay of Bengal to Baltic Sea leading to Europe disconnected economically through anarchy in Pakistan. If the Americans don’t do it, they would ultimately lose the control over 3/4 of the world. Relaxation of trade between India and Iran and China and Iran in the US/UN sanctions on Iran is not without reason in this context. That’s exactly why President Asif Ali Zardari, who had foreseen this duplicity a long ago, had to move fast to get the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline started and completed by the exit of US-led NATO forces by the end of 2014 from Afghanistan. The President Asif Ali Zardari had already taken the regional powers into confidence in this regard and will work more on it. The president Zardari has to work most on TAPI gas pipeline project in which Afghanistan is the corridor as well. Pakistan’s economy has become precariously dependent on energy and the energy is the dire need of teeming poor Pakistanis at the moment.

Pakistan and Iran can manage the required finance 7.5 billion US$ by bartering our rice with Iranian petroleum on which we spend more than 12 billion US$ annually. India is doing such with Iran already. Americans, in reaction, cannot give green signal to army to take over the country as Pakistan will not be united within a month and the regional fall out of that will never be tolerated by the regional powers- China, Russia and India. Americans cannot tolerate to lose their multi-billion US$ investment in Afghanistan. And this is what Americans know well and will not dare finance anymore military coup in Pakistan. Our devastating obsessions of ‘strategic depth’ instead of economic depth led us to extreme poverty, strategic death and extreme international isolation as no country likes to engage us economically except Iran which needs to sell its petroleum products to survive desperately, given the US backed UN sanctions.

The bureaucrats and generals with the help of judges have treated the teeming millions of poor Pakistanis in the absence of true politics and democracy pathetically. It’s pertinent to mention here that 85% of civil-military bureaucracy is Punjabi ethnically and they ruled 35 years directly and 25 years indirectly consuming almost all what poor people of Pakistan gave the state in the form of taxes. The required politics and political direction is now here very much here to go back never again. The upcoming general elections will be the decisive election between the democratic and dark forces of destruction. The people have always voted for politicians, not generals.

The futility of two referenda by Gen. Zia and Gen. Musharraf respectively are the enough of proof in our political history. The people, now, know that in these dictatorships the dark forces of destruction were developed and distributed within and without the country. 

The religious/sectarian politics of Arabs in Pakistan and American duplicity towards the development of Pakistan are over now.
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By Muhammad Shoaib Akif

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Politics As Usual And The Push For War With Syria

Using terrorism and manipulating the situation in Syria - politics as usual - proving beneficial to the incorrigible US political leadership, aided and abetted the criminal action of the United Nation whose action allow the US government to do what it does best.
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 After more than fifteen months of violent protests against the brutal regime of President Bashar el-Assad and the slaughter of more than 12,000 people -- including untold numbers of women and children -- hundreds of Syrians being imprisoned under inhumane conditions, and tens of thousands other Syrians fleeing to Lebanon and Jordan, the situation in Syria has turned dire (link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/02/whats-going-on-in-syria_n_1564906.html). As the violence intensifies, the U.S. has been deceptively edged closer to entering into yet another illegal war in the Middle East based on fallacious media reports and carefully planned deceptions designed to goad an unsuspecting public into supporting it. With all the misinformation about Syria being strewn around by unreliable, conflicting media reports, separating fact from fiction (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article30456.htm) can be cumbersome.

Using terrorism and manipulating the situation in Syria – politics as usual – is proving beneficial to the incorrigible U.S. political leadership, aided and abetted the criminal actions of the United Nations (UN), whose actions allow the U.S. government to do what it does best: use terrorism to instigate regime change and create enemies to subvert U.S. interests in the region. The UN brokered a Syrian peace plan and has monitors in the country to ease tensions, but those maneuvers have failed. The threat of a Syrian civil war is real as the country has become increasingly divided. A civil war in Syria would destabilize things in the entire region.

Like the fabricated crises in Yemen and Bahrain, the situation in Syria wouldn't happen without outside interference from the West and their allies. Like Syria, civilian deaths in Bahrain and Yemen, coupled with collusion between the U.S. and the existential enemies they create and manipulate -- think Al Qaeda and other Islamic extremists -- are systematically under-reported or ignored by the mainstream media.

What happens next in the Syrian quagmire? A few scenarios examined by the Huffington Post include (link: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/02/whats-going-on-in-syria_n_1564906.html) an ongoing stalemate which will continue increasing violence in the volatile Syrian region, action by the UN Security Council, international military intervention which could include air raids, the arming of opposition forces in Syria by the international community -- though Russia has already accused the U.S. of arming Syrian rebels (link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/syria/9329366/Russia-accuses-US-of-arming-Syrian-rebels.html) -- or striking a deal with Syrian President Bashar el-Assad allowing him to relinquish power while leaving his criminal regime intact. How it plays out remains to be seen.


Nothing Happening In Syria Is Accidental!

As noted by Jeremy Salt, outside governments have fastened on Syria's problems with the tenacity of leeches (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31766.htm) and there is nothing accidental or unwilled about what is happening in Syria, whose government in Damascus has been deliberately locked into a cycle of violence fed from the outside by self-styled "Friends of Syria." Both the Syrian government and their "friends" have been implicated in killing innocent civilians, yet mainstream media has fabricated tales blaming all the killings on the work of the Syrian army or the "regime loyalists" known as the Shabiha.

If the U.S. loses Syria, its empire will quickly unravel (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31781.htm). If the Baath government can be toppled, the strategic alliance between Iran, Syria and Hizbullah will collapse and because of all the unrest, Syria would not be able to respond if Iran is attacked. If civil war breaks out in Syria, Israel will be able to commit their infamous war crimes in both Iran and Syria without fear of resistance from either country.

Turkey, for their part, is helping edge its U.S. ally into another illegal war which cannot be won. Recently, after violating Syrian air space, a Turkish Air Force jet was shot down. The Syrian government says the plane was shot down while over Syrian air space, but the Turkish government claims its plane had already left Syrian air space and was hit in international air space (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31766.htm). There seems to be more confusion as to what the Turkish Air Force was jet was doing in Syria to begin with.

If you recall, Turkey, whose initial response to the "Arab Spring" was extremely slow, played a major role in bombing Libya when Muammar Gaddafi, its U.S.-appointed dictator was forcibly ousted by the U.S.-controlled UN. Turkey's government established the "Syrian National Council" (SNC) and the "Free Syrian Army" (FSA), and for the first time in its “democratic” history, has committed itself to regime change in a neighboring country and sponsored an armed group operating across its borders to kill the citizens of a neighboring country. Like most U.S. allies, Turkey has a long history of other governments meddling in its affairs.

The Premeditated Terrorism Campaign And  Regime Change In Syria!

While the U.S. and its European partners threaten sanctions against Syria, a fractured and frustrated Syrian opposition is reported seeking military action instead (link: http://rt.com/usa/news/us-military-intervention-syria-045/). The U.S. is busily planning ground assaults on Syria but some in Washington favor endorsing Syrian rebels and getting weapons to them without the direct involvement of the United States, which is actually already heavily involved.

But recently the unhinged Syrian rhetoric reached a new level of absurdity when U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reportedly called on Western nations and their Arab proxies to "make it clear that Russia and China will pay a price because they are holding up progress" (link: http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/07/06/us-syria-crisis-idUSBRE8610SH20120706) in regards to the U.S. government's premeditated campaign of terrorism and violent regime change in Syria (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31781.htm).

Since March of 2007, thanks to the key reporting of Seymour Hersh (link: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/03/05/070305fa_fact_hersh?currentPage=all), we've known that the U.S., Israel, Saudi Arabia and others were gathering, funding, arming, and deploying groups -- some with ties to the CIA's Al Qaeda -- of violent extremists to intentionally undermine, destabilize and eventually overthrow the governments of Lebanon, Syria, and Iran, offering yet more evidence that the "War on Terror" is nothing but a major fraud. Because of the West's manipulation of terrorism and the terrorist groups it creates, attempts to sway public opinion over Syria's "rebels" are met with extreme skepticism, doubt, of often indignation by the public, which allows nations like Russia and China the opportunity to defy Clinton's absurdity.

The global hegemony of Wall Street and London that manipulates Washington's puppet strings is panicking because its empire is imploding from its fraudulent actions and because the U.S. and their allies have lost virtually all credibility. If the U.S. fails to overthrow Syria's government, future empirical endeavors will be even more difficult to pull off. Trying to blame China and Russia for "holding up progress" in overthrowing Syria's government is laughable, especially when you look at the U.S. government's actions since the "terrorist" attacks of 9/11.

Wikileaks Publishing The Syrian Files!

Adding more fuel to the absurdity of Clinton's onerous bloviating is the fact that recently WikiLeaks began publishing the "Syrian Files" (link: http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2012/07/05-1) so we will soon have access to almost two and a half million emails, including 400,000 in Arabic and 68,000 in Russian, that will help shed light on the ongoing conflict in Syria with revelations about the Assad regime, Syrian opposition forces, and western influence in the ongoing Syrian crisis. These emails, which are dated from August 2006 to March 2012, include those from Syrian political figures, ministries and associated companies.

WikiLeaks claims the email data derives from 680 Syria-related entities or domain names, including those of the Ministries of Presidential Affairs, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Information, Transport and Culture and will shine a light on the inner workings of the Syrian government and economy, and reveal how the West and Western companies say one thing and do another (link: http://www.frontlineclub.com/blogs/theforum/2012/07/wikileaks-press-conference-on-release-of-the-syria-files.html).

After decades of militarizing the U.S., Washington still hasn't learned any lessons from its failures (link: http://www.tomdispatch.com/dialogs/print/?id=175564). As the National Security Complex has continued growing stronger -- albeit with illegal search, seizure and surveillance -- the U.S. and her citizens have continued growing weaker and less safe. To gain a better understanding of what is going on in Syria, all one needs to do is look at how the illegal wars in Iraq and Afghanistan were concocted -- with lies and deceptions (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31791.htm) -- and how they began under false pretenses. More than a decade later, the only change has been for the worse.

Civilian slaughter in the Middle East by the U.S. and its allies under the guise of fighting terrorism is nothing new. It's Neocon politics as usual. The truth about the Syrian crisis remains to be seen, but based on the duplicitous actions of the U.S. and its allies in pushing for war with Syria, the consequences of such actions will be disastrous and there will be hell to pay (link: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31805.htm).

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