Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Pakistani Corrupt Politicians Robbed Peoples 140 Trillion Rupees

It was a very cold day that turned in a oven when i got interaction with a source of mine accompanying a Swiss bank director who told me disclosing that gentle man your politicians are so corrupt that they looted, robbed the innocent Pakistani's hard earned money and deposited very huge amount of tons of billion of Pak rupees there in a swiss bank, what he said that Pakistanis are poor but Pakistan is never been a poor country , that bank director disclosed that in our bank's account 140 Lac Crore Pakistan's money is deposited by fraudently robbed from Pakistan of which we know now when one of Pakistan's top most person been named as biggest corrupt person Pakistan,

he was of the view that

(1) that money can speaks loud to say shut-up to IMF & World Bank.

(2) far more enough and can be used for tax less budget for more than next 35 years.

(3) Can give six(6) Crore jobs to Pakistanis.

(4)Can provide , constructed four(4) Lane roads from any Village to Pakistani capital Islamabad.

(5) Can avail , provide forever free power supply to more then five hundred (500) industries , social projects.

(6)Through that money every Pakistani citizen can get monthly two thousand (2000) honorarium till sixty (60) years. (7)Pakistan never need to seek the help or loan from World Bank and IMF,,,,,,,,,,,,

He was to tell more and more but i was not in a position to face his more comments as he hanged my head down because of corrupt Politicians,

Think that how my, our,your every Pakistanis paid through tax money is been blocked out there in Swiss bank by

so called loyal rich Pakistani evil minded Politicians,

think and think seriously that should we in a position to let these Politicians to grabb Pakistan's innocent citizen more and more.

By Unbowed And Unafraid Investigative Journalist

Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Leadership of Nationalist Pushed back America

''America Retreating Everywhere, Except In Pakistan"

Russia under the leadership of a nationalist like Vladimir Putin has deftly pushed back America. The Americans are tied up in Iraq and Afghanistan and their threats have more bluster than bite. This does not mean we go to war with Washington, which is still a superpower. It means that Pakistan, too, can deftly handle the cowboys. For starters, U.S. drones entering Pakistan must be a fair game. So should be the Afghan army soldiers who participate in violating our border. Pakistan should not go a step beyond defending our border. The message should be clear. In this case, half the battle is psychological. This is a message to some of the defeatists in Pakistan, a minority, who are advocating surrender in advance.



Investigative Journalist
Monday, September 15 2008

Overseas Desk::---------------------------------------------------->



The U.S. Army's III Corps is in Iraq. The 4th Infantry Division is at Camp Victory. The 3rd Infantry Division is in Baghdad. The 1st Armored Division is in Tikrit. America's 1st, 2nd and 3rd Brigades have been fighting in Iraq. America's 25th Infantry Division and the 172nd Infantry Brigade have been engaged in Iraq. America's XVIII Airborne Corps, 1st Armored Division and the 4th Infantry Division have also been occupied in Iraq. The 10th Aerospace Expeditionary Forces (AEF) and the 386th Air Expeditionary Wing are also busy fighting. The U.S. Navy's aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt has been supporting air operations in the 5th Fleet Area of Responsibility (USS Theodore Roosevelt has since gone back to its homeport of Norfolk, Virginia). The carrier Strike Group USS Ronald Reagan is now in the northern Arabian Sea. While the war in Iraq goes on, the CIA's paramilitary teams, the U.S. Army Special Forces, Navy Seals and the U.S. Air Force's air commandos are all busy in Afghanistan. America's 173rd Airborne Brigade, 101st Airborne Division, 86th Combat Support Hospital, 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit and 101st Combat Aviation Brigade are all fighting the emboldened Taliban. To be certain, the Russian Federation, the largest country in the world that covers one-eighth of the world's land area, has been in hibernation since it splintered into Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan. Russia's 20-year hibernation made America the lone hegemonic global power. Over those 20 years, here's what America did to Russia: Three Soviet Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were inducted into NATO. Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, and Romania were also brought into NATO. In 1994, the former Soviet state of Georgia was coaxed into joining the NATO-run 'Partnership for Peace'. Israeli trainers, along with a hundred U.S. 'military advisers', began training the Georgian military. In 2003, the CIA displaced President Eduard Shevardnadze (in what is referred to as the 'Rose Revolution'). In 2004, the CIA financed the Orange Revolution in Ukraine. In 2008, at the Bucharest Summit, Georgia was invited to join NATO. At the Caucasus, a mere thousand miles from Moscow, America has been stitching a pro-America belt comprising Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Abkhazia, South Ossetia and Nagorno-Karabakh. To top it all, the Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan crude oil pipeline was built to capture Caspian Sea's oil wealth away from Russian influence. Imagine; eight of the fifteen former Soviet states are now part of NATO. On 8 August 2008, the carnivoran Russian bear came out of its 20-year hibernation. Ten thousand Russian troops, tanks, armored personnel carriers, towed artillery, truck-mounted rocket launchers of the 58th Army, 76th Air Assault Division, 98th Airborne Division, Russian Air Force's Sukhoi all-weather Su-24s, 25s, 27s, Tupolev Tu-22 supersonic bombers and the Russian Black Sea Fleet invaded Georgia in a lightning, efficiently executed campaign (Georgian army, navy and air force were completely destroyed)
The Baku-Tbilisi-Ceyhan crude oil pipeline is on fire. America, pinned down in Iraq and Afghanistan, is left with little to challenge a resurging Russia. The reality of a powerful, assertive Russia is dawning on Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The American foreign policy establishment has been caught napping. On September 1, Dmitry Medvedev, the 43-year old President of Russia, was at his presidential residence in the Black Sea resort of Sochi. President Medvedev told Russian television Channel One that "Russia will never yield to the world order where all decisions are taken by the United States exclusively; the world should be multicolor.What's next? Slovenia, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Romania or the Black Sea? On August 26, the destroyer USS McFaul, carrying humanitarian aid supplies, docked at the Georgian Black Sea port of Poti. With most of their boots in Iraq and Afghanistan, all that American destroyers can now do is deliver humanitarian aid. Imagine; in another direct blow to America's foreign policy establishment, Azerbaijan has now shipped 200,000 barrels of oil to Iran.
With $600 billion in reserves, Russia is 'resurging' and America is left with little to block that resurgence. On September 10, two Tupolev Tu-160s, Russia's supersonic, nuclear-capable, variable-geometry heavy bombers, landed in Venezuela, a mere thousand miles from Florida. In November, elements of Russia's Northern Fleet are going to be in the Caribbean. The American foreign policy establishment has been caught sleeping.
Postscript: Pakistan's foreign policy establishment was also shocked when the Indian army announced the completion of a road by virtue of which Afghanistan's Nimroz province now stands connected to the Iranian free-trade port of Charbahar. Landlocked Afghanistan will no longer be dependent on Pakistan..!!!

Monday, September 1, 2008

5 INNOCENT WOMEN 'S UNHUMAN KILLING IN ...?

OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLES OF PAKISTAN AND



Dear Sir/Madam,


AOA ---GOOD MORNING ---------
''FEEL THE MOURNING OF 5s(Fivez)''


PAKISTAN: Please file a case against those who allegedly buried five females including three minors and start investigation
Names of victims;
1. Ms. Fatima wife of, Umeed Ali Umrani, 45 years old
2. Ms.Jannat Bibi wife of Qaiser Khan, 38 years old
3. Ms.Fauzia daughter of Ata Mohammad Umrani 18 years and two other girls, in between 16 to 18 years of age
(All are residents of village Mir Wah, Tehseel Tumboo, District Naseerabad, Balochistan province,
Pakistan)
Name of alleged perpetrators: Mr. Abdul Sattar Umrani, residing at Usta Mohammad city, Jaffarabad, District, Balochistan province-Pakistan and his six accomplices
Place of incident; Village Baba Kot police station, Jafferabad, District, Pakistan
I am shocked to know that five women, including three minors, were buried alive in the remote of the Balochistan on the charges of choosing their life partners on their free will and not obeying the tribal tradition in their free choice. It is also of very grave concern for me that still the parallel judicial process is continued in the Pakistan in the name of Jirga which was banned by the higher courts of the country. Due to the powerful persons involvement the police is avoiding to register the case of killing of five women since first week of the July 2008.
According to the information that I have received, all five women were at the house of Mr. Chandio at Baba Kot village and to leave for a civil court at Usta Mohammad, district Jafarabad, so that three of the girls could marry the men of their choice. Their decision to have marriage in court was the result of several days of discussions with the elders of the tribe who refused them permission to marry. The names of two younger girls were not ascertained because of strong control of tribal leaders in the area.
As the news of their plans leaked out, Mr. Abdul Sattar Umrani, a brother of the minister, came with more than six persons and abducted them at gun points. They were taken in a Land Cruiser jeep, bearing a registration number plate of the Balochistan government, to another remote area, Nau Abadi, in the vicinity of Baba Kot. After reaching the deserted area of Nau Abadi, Abdul Sattar Umrani and his six companions took the three younger women out of the jeep and beat them before allegedly opening fire with their guns. The girls were seriously injured but were still alive at that moment. Sattar Umrani and his accomplices hurled them into a wide ditch and covered them with earth and stones. The two older women were an aunt of Fauzia and the other, the mother of one of the 16 year- old-girls. When they protested and tried to stop the burial of the girls that were plainly alive the attackers were so angry that they also pushed the women into the ditch and buried them alive. After completing the burial they fired several shots into to the air so that no one would come close.
The girls were educated and were studying in classes from 10 to 12. They were punished for trying to decide about their marriages.
After one and a half months the police have still not registered the case and it is difficult to get more detailed information. The provincial minister is so powerful that police are reluctant to provide details on the murder. When human rights activists contacted Mr. Sadiq Umrani, provincial minister, he confirmed the incident by saying that only three women had been killed by unknown persons. He denied his or his brother's involvement. He went on to say that the police will not disclose any information about the case as to do so now would be implicated themselves. However, concerned officers of two different police stations have confirmed the incident and explained that no one is providing any information. Also as they could not find the graves of the victims it is difficult to register the case. The victim's family members have since left the place and their whereabouts are unknown.
It is disturbing for me that anyone could be so inhumanly cruel as to bury someone alive. Whether or not Mr. Sadiq Umrani, is involved it is an established fact that a vehicle of the provincial government was used in the incident and that is why no police officer has dared to file a case against the perpetrators.
I request you to please take immediate action in this case and investigate this case as a matter of primary so that those responsible are brought to justice.


( Yours sincerely,
Mr Sajid Hussain PhD
Investigative Journalist
Pakistan )

Inhumanly Cruel or Saveges Sardars..? 5 WOMEN BURRIED ALIVE IN PAKISTAN

OPEN LETTER TO THE PEOPLES OF PAKISTAN AND



Dear Sir/Madam,


AOA ---GOOD MORNING ---------
''FEEL THE MOURNING OF 5s(Fivez)''


Please file a case against those who allegedly buried five females including three minors and start investigation
Names of victims;
1. Ms. Fatima wife of, Umeed Ali Umrani, 45 years old
2. Ms.Jannat Bibi wife of Qaiser Khan, 38 years old
3. Ms.Fauzia daughter of Ata Mohammad Umrani 18 years and two other girls, in between 16 to 18 years of age
(All are residents of village Mir Wah, Tehseel Tumboo, District Naseerabad, Balochistan province,
Pakistan)
Name of alleged perpetrators: Mr. Abdul Sattar Umrani, residing at Usta Mohammad city, Jaffarabad, District, Balochistan province-Pakistan and his six accomplices
Place of incident; Village Baba Kot police station, Jafferabad, District, Pakistan
I am shocked to know that five women, including three minors, were buried alive in the remote of the Balochistan on the charges of choosing their life partners on their free will and not obeying the tribal tradition in their free choice. It is also of very grave concern for me that still the parallel judicial process is continued in the Pakistan in the name of Jirga which was banned by the higher courts of the country. Due to the powerful persons involvement the police is avoiding to register the case of killing of five women since first week of the July 2008.
According to the information that I have received, all five women were at the house of Mr. Chandio at Baba Kot village and to leave for a civil court at Usta Mohammad, district Jafarabad, so that three of the girls could marry the men of their choice. Their decision to have marriage in court was the result of several days of discussions with the elders of the tribe who refused them permission to marry. The names of two younger girls were not ascertained because of strong control of tribal leaders in the area.
As the news of their plans leaked out, Mr. Abdul Sattar Umrani, a brother of the minister, came with more than six persons and abducted them at gun points. They were taken in a Land Cruiser jeep, bearing a registration number plate of the Balochistan government, to another remote area, Nau Abadi, in the vicinity of Baba Kot. After reaching the deserted area of Nau Abadi, Abdul Sattar Umrani and his six companions took the three younger women out of the jeep and beat them before allegedly opening fire with their guns. The girls were seriously injured but were still alive at that moment. Sattar Umrani and his accomplices hurled them into a wide ditch and covered them with earth and stones. The two older women were an aunt of Fauzia and the other, the mother of one of the 16 year- old-girls. When they protested and tried to stop the burial of the girls that were plainly alive the attackers were so angry that they also pushed the women into the ditch and buried them alive. After completing the burial they fired several shots into to the air so that no one would come close.
The girls were educated and were studying in classes from 10 to 12. They were punished for trying to decide about their marriages.
After one and a half months the police have still not registered the case and it is difficult to get more detailed information. The provincial minister is so powerful that police are reluctant to provide details on the murder. When human rights activists contacted Mr. Sadiq Umrani, provincial minister, he confirmed the incident by saying that only three women had been killed by unknown persons. He denied his or his brother's involvement. He went on to say that the police will not disclose any information about the case as to do so now would be implicated themselves. However, concerned officers of two different police stations have confirmed the incident and explained that no one is providing any information. Also as they could not find the graves of the victims it is difficult to register the case. The victim's family members have since left the place and their whereabouts are unknown.
It is disturbing for me that anyone could be so inhumanly cruel as to bury someone alive. Whether or not Mr. Sadiq Umrani, is involved it is an established fact that a vehicle of the provincial government was used in the incident and that is why no police officer has dared to file a case against the perpetrators.
I request you to please take immediate action in this case and investigate this case as a matter of primary so that those responsible are brought to justice.


( Yours sincerely,
Mr Sajid Hussain PhD
Investigative Journalist
Pakistan )

Increase Of DIsappearing in Pakistan

FROM THE DESK OF AHRC, HONGKONG

INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALIST & WRITER ANAYLIST.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AHRC-STM-229-2008September 1, 2008..........

A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Government should release all disappeared persons incustody of police and intelligence servicesThe forced disappearances of political opponents by the stateintelligence services continues in spite of newly electedgovernment's claims that the issue will be solved when the coalitionpartners come into power. However, since the formation of the mewgovernment no serious moves have been initiated to address the issue.on the contrary, the state intelligence agencies are operating freelywith the knowledge of government. Since the formation of the newgovernment about 31 persons are missing after their arrests, mostly,from the southern province of Balochistan where military operationscontinue. Some religious groups claim that more than 23 persons,mostly the young and students are missing after arrest. The 'War on Terror' after the attack on the World Trade Centre inAmerica has given the Pakistani military authorities a free hand toarrest opponents of the government and religious activists, torturethem and keep them incommunicado for several months in order toobtain confessional statements. This terrible injustice is beingcontinued even after the formation of the newly elected government asthe Pakistan army is refusing them access to their domain. The advisor to the prime minister and minister in charge of interioraffairs has said, in his recent visit to the Balochistan province, onAugust 27, 2008, that 1102 persons are still missing from Balochistanand the government will try to locate them. His acceptance of thestatistics that more than 1000 persons are missing is itself anindication that government has no control over the law enforcementauthorities and furthermore, has no intention to initiate any probein the affairs of state intelligence agencies particularly the I.S.I.The former interior minister in the cabinet of ex-president Musharraftold the national assembly in December 2005 that 4000 persons havebeen arrested in Balochistan province. However, nationalists andhuman rights organizations of the province claim that not more than100 persons have been produced before any court. This is nothing lessthan a gross violation of human rights by the state that allows itsauthorities to place its people at the mercy of the intelligenceagencies. The people, who were released after several months incommunicadotestified before the courts and media that they were arrested by thepolice and were handed over to intelligence agencies who kept them inmilitary torture cells and tortured them to obtain confessionalstatements that they were involved in the anti state activities.Please see the links, UA-171-2006, UP-001-2007, UA-413-2006,http://www.ahrchk.net/ua/mainfile.php/2006/2012/. The two persons,Dr. Safdar Sarki, the nationalist leader of the Sindh province andMr. Muneer Mengal, managing editor of a television channel, werereleased during the first quarter of this year after they had beenmissing for more than a year. They were dumped by the intelligenceagencies on the roadside with torture injuries. Amazingly,immediately after they were thrown on the roadside the police cameand arrested them on several criminal charges. The minister in charge has not given any indication of the fate of atleast 1102 persons which are according to him, are missing. He was shyto point out that the missing persons are in the custody of lawenforcement agencies. He knows the fact that if he works for therecovery of the missing persons he may be removed as minister andwould face the same fate as the deposed Chief Justice Mr. IftekharChoudry. The chief justice during 2006 and 2007 started taking thecases of missing persons and because of his strong efforts about 110persons were released from the captivity of intelligence agencies whodumped the missing persons on the street in remote areas. 52 torture centres: The Asian Human Rights Commission, in its report AHRC-STM-158-2008,dated June 5, 2008, has mentioned that Pakistan army is running is atleast 52 torture and detention centres through out the country wherethe people are kept in incommunicado for several months and tortureseverely and so many killed or disabled for life. The authoritieshave done nothing to investigate these cells. Every cantonment areahas at least one torture cell which is directly run by the stateintelligence agency. The government must demand that the illegaldetention and torture centres be shut down and instigate enquiries. Dr. Afia Siddiqui case: Dr. Afia Siddiqui, a Pakistani female scientist, was kept almost 5years in incommunicado by the Pakistani and US authorities indifferent torture cells of Pakistan and Afghanistan. The case becamevery high profile when the AHRC pointed out that 'prisoner 650' inBagram prison of Afghanistan is the Dr. Afia who is being torturedseverely and not has been provided privacy. She became publicdiscourse for the entire world when the US authorities in New Yorkcame out with the statement that she was arrested on July 18, 2008. This is the ample proof of how Pakistani authorities arrest peopleand disappear them so easily. It has been established that she wasarrested on March 30, 2003 and was officially declared arrested onJuly 2008. If she was arrested by the Afghani police on the chargesof attacking American officers then why was she produced before theNew York court? The whole story is about a covert operation under thename of the 'war on terror'. The whereabouts of her 2 children remainunknown Northern parts of the country: Since the war on terror the disappearances after the arrests arecommon in North Western Frontier Province (NWFP) where NATO andPakistani forces are engaged in their fight but the ordinary peopleparticularly religious ones are the main target of disappearances.Both the forces, Pakistani and militant fundamentalists are arrestingpeople and taking them to secret places after that the whereabouts ofthe victims are unknown. Militants are generally killing them butPakistani authorities are engaged in keeping in incommunicado.Pakistani authorities can not overpower the kidnap and abduction bythe militants as they are themselves involved in the same practices.When any missing persons is released by the Pakistani law enforcementagencies he joins the militants and start the same method what hefaced during illegal detention. In the NWFP more than 2000 personsare missing including some officers from Pakistani army. The Asian Human Rights Commission urges upon the government that, atleast, gets the release of 1102 missing people from Balochistanprovince about whom the Advisor of prime minister on Interior affairshas himself pointed out during his recently visit to the province.This the duty of the government when it knows about the fact thatpeople in hundreds of numbers are missing than it should make thearrangement of their release as it is well known fact the most of thepeople in Balochistan are abducted by the state intelligence agenciesand are kept in incommunicado in the military's torture cells, all inthe cantonment areas of the country. The government should also makeit sure about their safety and pay the compensation to them.The government should also immediately work to ensure the safety ofthe lives and the release of Dr. Afia's two sons who have beenmissing since March 2003. The third nine years old child of Dr. AfiaSiddiqui who is in prison in Afghanistan prison must be returned toPakistan. It should not be necessary to point out that the arrest anddetention of a nine-year-old is an abomination and those responsiblemust be dealt with to the fullest extent of the law. # # # About AHRC: The Asian Human Rights Commission is a regionalnon-governmental organisation monitoring and lobbying human rightsissues in Asia. The Hong Kong-based group was founded in 1984.

''ashmiri Huriyat Shakes Ondi''

''Kashmiri Huriyt Shakes India''

A sea of people flooding the streets in a massive show of force carrying the Green and Crescent of Pakistan. How can we Pakistanis not be moved? Who says Kashmir issue is over and all that we Pakistanis can do is ‘peace talks’? See what the New York Times says. Four million Kashmiris have turned the Indian cliché of a rising economy into a joke. Human rights abuses make Iraq’s Abu Ghraib scandal look like a picnic. Indian nightmare turns into reality – the Pakistani flag is raised at the funeral of Kashmiri leader Sheikh Aziz, a peace activist killed in cold blood by Indian occupation soldiers during a peaceful public rally. On 15 August, the Indian independence day, Pakistani flags proudly fluttered all over Indian controlled Kashmir. This is a security, political and diplomatic nightmare for India and just when Indians had thought that they have fully and comprehensibly contained Kashmir resistance and encircled Pakistan from Afghan side as well by supporting multiple insurgencies in Pakistan, the valley seems slipping from their hand..............


By Sajid Hussain PhD
Investigative Journalist
Friday, 29 August 2008...

Overseas Desk::..................


.........................................................................................Something stunning is happening in Indian controlled Kashmir. World media is not giving it projection, Indians are hiding it and Pakistani media is too busy focusing on political turmoil within. The fact is that the Indian federation has been shaken to the core over the developments in Indian held Kashmir in the last few weeks. The freedom movement, raging since 1987, had sparked off once again in a massive inferno, after a lull of a few years. Indians had thought that they had brought the situation under control. Pakistani policymakers had also written the resistance off under a "peace" initiative called CBMs, or confidence building measures, with India. But the events of the last couple of weeks have caught all – Pakistanis, Indians and the international analysts - by surprise.
'' This is how a commentator at NYTimes.com described the impressive change in Kahsmir ''

"For more than a week now, hundreds of thousands of Muslims have filled the streets of Srinagar, the capital of Indian-ruled Kashmir, shouting "azadi" (freedom) and raising the green flag of Islam. These demonstrations, the largest in nearly two decades, remind many of us why in 2000 President Bill Clinton described Kashmir, the Himalayan region claimed by both India and Pakistan, as "the most dangerous place on earth.’ India is usually tagged as a "rising superpower" or "capitalist success story" — clichés so pervasive that they persuaded even so shrewd an observer as Fareed Zakaria to claim in his new book "The Post-American World" that India since 1997 has been "stable, peaceful and prosperous." It is true that India’s relations with Pakistan have improved lately. But more than half a million Indian soldiers still pursue a few thousand insurgents in Kashmir. While periodically holding bilateral talks with Pakistan, India has taken for granted those most affected by the so-called Kashmir dispute: the four million Kashmiri Muslims who suffer every day the misery and degradation of a full-fledged military occupation. The Indian government’s insistence that peace is spreading in Kashmir is at odds with a report by Human Rights Watch in 2006 that described a steady pattern of arbitrary arrest, torture and extrajudicial execution by Indian security forces — excesses that make the events at Abu Ghraib seem like a case of high spirits. A new generation of politicized Kashmiris has now risen; the world is again likely to ignore them — until some of them turn into terrorists with Qaeda links. It is up to the Indian government to reckon honestly with Kashmiri aspirations for a life without constant fear and humiliation. Some first steps are obvious: to severely cut the numbers of troops in Kashmir; to lift the economic blockade on the Kashmir Valley; and to allow Kashmiris to trade freely across the line of control with Pakistan."
Indian nightmare turns into reality - Pakistani flag flutters at the funeral of Kashmiri leader Sheikh Aziz in Indian controlled Kashmir. On 15 August, the Indian independence day, Pakistani flags proudly fluttered all over Indian controlled Kashmir.
This is a security, political and diplomatic nightmare for India and just when Indians had thought that they have fully and comprehensibly contained Kashmir resistance and encircled Pakistan from Afghan side as well by supporting multiple insurgencies in Pakistan, the valley seems slipping from their hand.
The frictions inside the valley almost always result in clashes along the Line of Control between Pakistani and Indian forces. Both countries know that the situation is serious and any spark can lead to a limited border war. With serious internal pressures from the local population, Indians are obviously reluctant to start a border war and for the first time have gone on serious defensive posture.
We shall cap this argument this week with extracts from a fascinating, truthful and stunning article by world famous Indian HR activist Arundhati Roy which appeared in The Guardian which indeed does justice to the severity of the crisis India faces. There is a reason why the Indian media is downplaying the inferno which is now burning at high intensity in Indian controlled Kashmir.
Kashmir Needs Azadi From India
By Arundhati Roy in The Guardian, August 22
Kashmir is in crisis: the region's Muslims are mounting huge non-violent protests against the Indian government's rule. But, asks Arundhati Roy, what would independence for the territory mean for its people?
For the past 60 days or so, since about the end of June, the people of Kashmir have been free. Free in the most profound sense. They have shrugged off the terror of living their lives in the gun-sights of half a million heavily armed soldiers, in the most densely militarized zone in the world.
After 18 years of administering a military occupation, the Indian government's worst nightmare has come true. Having declared that the militant movement has been crushed, it is now faced with a non-violent mass protest, but not the kind it knows how to manage. This one is nourished by people's memory of years of repression in which tens of thousands have been killed, thousands have been "disappeared", hundreds of thousands tortured, injured, and humiliated. That kind of rage, once it finds utterance, cannot easily be tamed, rebottled and sent back to where it came from.
A sudden twist of fate, an ill-conceived move over the transfer of 100 acres of state forest land to the Amarnath Shrine Board (which manages the annual Hindu pilgrimage to a cave deep in the Kashmir Himalayas) suddenly became the equivalent of tossing a lit match into a barrel of petrol. Until 1989 the Amarnath pilgrimage used to attract about 20,000 people who travelled to the Amarnath cave over a period of about two weeks.
In 1990, when the overtly Islamist militant uprising in the valley coincided with the spread of virulent Hindu nationalism (Hindutva) in the Indian plains, the number of pilgrims began to increase exponentially. By 2008 more than 500,000 pilgrims visited the Amarnath cave, in large groups, their passage often sponsored by Indian business houses. To many people in the valley this dramatic increase in numbers was seen as an aggressive political statement by an increasingly Hindu-fundamentalist Indian state. Rightly or wrongly, the land transfer was viewed as the thin edge of the wedge. It triggered an apprehension that it was the beginning of an elaborate plan to build Israeli-style settlements, and change the demography of the valley.
Days of massive protest forced the valley to shut down completely. Within hours the protests spread from the cities to villages. Young stone pelters took to the streets and faced armed police who fired straight at them, killing several. For people as well as the government, it resurrected memories of the uprising in the early 90s. Throughout the weeks of protest, hartal (strikes) and police firing, while the Hindutva publicity machine charged Kashmiris with committing every kind of communal excess, the 500,000 Amarnath pilgrims completed their pilgrimage, not just unhurt, but touched by the hospitality they had been shown by local people.
Eventually, taken completely by surprise at the ferocity of the response, the government revoked the land transfer. But by then the land-transfer had become what Syed Ali Shah Geelani, the most senior and also the most overtly Islamist separatist leader, called a "non-issue".
Massive protests against the revocation erupted in Jammu. There, too, the issue snowballed into something much bigger. Hindus began to raise issues of neglect and discrimination by the Indian state. (For some odd reason they blamed Kashmiris for that neglect.) The protests led to the blockading of the Jammu-Srinagar highway, the only functional road-link between Kashmir and India. Truckloads of perishable fresh fruit and valley produce began to rot.
The blockade demonstrated in no uncertain terms to people in Kashmir that they lived on sufferance and that if they didn't behave themselves they could be put under siege, starved, and deprived of essential commodities and medical supplies. (Like the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank)
To expect matters to end there was of course absurd. Hadn't anybody noticed that in Kashmir even minor protests about civic issues like water and electricity inevitably turned into demands for azadi, freedom? To threaten them with mass starvation amounted to committing political suicide.
Not surprisingly, the voice that the government of India has tried so hard to silence in Kashmir has massed into a deafening roar. Raised in a playground of army camps, checkpoints, and bunkers, with screams from torture chambers for a soundtrack, the young generation has suddenly discovered the power of mass protest, and above all, the dignity of being able to straighten their shoulders and speak for themselves, represent themselves. For them it is nothing short of an epiphany. Not even the fear of death seems to hold them back. And once that fear has gone, of what use is the largest or second largest army in the world?
There have been mass rallies in the past, but none in recent memory that have been so sustained and widespread. The mainstream political parties of Kashmir - National Conference and People's Democratic party - appear dutifully for debates in New Delhi's TV studios, but can't muster the courage to appear on the streets of Kashmir. The armed militants who, through the worst years of repression were seen as the only ones carrying the torch of azadi forward, if they are around at all, seem content to take a back seat and let people do the fighting for a change.
The separatist leaders who do appear and speak at the rallies are not leaders so much as followers, being guided by the phenomenal spontaneous energy of a caged, enraged people that has exploded on Kashmir's streets. Day after day, hundreds of thousands of people swarm around places that hold terrible memories for them. They demolish bunkers, break through cordons of concertina wire and stare straight down the barrels of soldiers' machine guns, saying what very few in India want to hear. Hum Kya Chahtey? Azadi! (We want freedom.) And, it has to be said, in equal numbers and with equal intensity: Jeevey jeevey Pakistan. (Long live Pakistan.)
That sound reverberates through the valley like the drumbeat of steady rain on a tin roof, like the roll of thunder during an electric storm.
On August 15, India's independence day, Lal Chowk, the nerve centre of Srinagar, was taken over by thousands of people who hoisted the Pakistani flag and wished each other "happy belated independence day" (Pakistan celebrates independence on August 14) and "happy slavery day". Humour obviously, has survived India's many torture centres and Abu Ghraibs in Kashmir.
On August 16 more than 300,000 people marched to Pampore, to the village of the Hurriyat leader, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, who was shot down in cold blood five days earlier.
On the night of August 17 the police sealed the city. Streets were barricaded, thousands of armed police manned the barriers. The roads leading into Srinagar were blocked. On the morning of August 18, people began pouring into Srinagar from villages and towns across the valley. In trucks, tempos, jeeps, buses and on foot. Once again, barriers were broken and people reclaimed their city. The police were faced with a choice of either stepping aside or executing a massacre. They stepped aside. Not a single bullet was fired.
The city floated on a sea of smiles. There was ecstasy in the air. Everyone had a banner; houseboat owners, traders, students, lawyers, doctors. One said: "We are all prisoners, set us free." Another said: "Democracy without freedom is demon-crazy." Demon-crazy. That was a good one. Perhaps he was referring to the insanity that permits the world's largest democracy to administer the world's largest military occupation and continue to call itself a democracy.
There was a green flag on every lamp post, every roof, every bus stop and on the top of chinar trees. A big one fluttered outside the All India Radio building. Road signs were painted over. Rawalpindi they said. Or simply Pakistan. It would be a mistake to assume that the public expression of affection for Pakistan automatically translates into a desire to accede to Pakistan. Some of it has to do with gratitude for the support - cynical or otherwise - for what Kashmiris see as their freedom struggle, and the Indian state sees as a terrorist campaign. It also has to do with mischief. With saying and doing what galls India most of all. (It's easy to scoff at the idea of a "freedom struggle" that wishes to distance itself from a country that is supposed to be a democracy and align itself with another that has, for the most part been ruled by military dictators. A country that is even now being torn apart by its own ethnic war. These are important questions, but right now perhaps it's more useful to wonder what this so-called democracy did in Kashmir to make people hate it so?)
Everywhere there were Pakistani flags, everywhere the cry Pakistan se rishta kya? La illaha illallah. (What is our bond with Pakistan? There is no god but Allah.) Azadi ka matlab kya? La illaha illallah. (What does freedom mean? There is no god but Allah.)
For somebody like myself, who is not Muslim, that interpretation of freedom is hard - if not impossible - to understand. I asked a young woman whether freedom for Kashmir would not mean less freedom for her, as a woman. She shrugged and said "What kind of freedom do we have now? The freedom to be raped by Indian soldiers?" Her reply silenced me.
Surrounded by a sea of green flags, it was impossible to doubt or ignore the deeply Islamic fervour of the uprising taking place around me. It was equally impossible to label it a vicious, terrorist jihad. For Kashmiris it was a catharsis. A historical moment in a long and complicated struggle for freedom with all the imperfections, cruelties and confusions that freedom struggles have. This one cannot by any means call itself pristine, and will always be stigmatised by, and will some day, I hope, have to account for, among other things, the brutal killings of Kashmiri Pandits in the early years of the uprising, culminating in the exodus of almost the entire Hindu community from the Kashmir valley.
As the crowd continued to swell I listened carefully to the slogans, because rhetoric often holds the key to all kinds of understanding. There were plenty of insults and humiliation for India: Ay jabiron ay zalimon, Kashmir hamara chhod do (Oh oppressors, Oh wicked ones, Get out of our Kashmir.) The slogan that cut through me like a knife and clean broke my heart was this one: Nanga bhookha Hindustan, jaan se pyaara Pakistan. (Naked, starving India, More precious than life itself - Pakistan.)
Why was it so galling, so painful to listen to this? I tried to work it out and settled on three reasons. First,because we all know that the first part of the slogan is the embarrassing and unadorned truth about India, the emerging superpower. Second,because all Indians who are not nanga or bhooka are and have been complicit in complex and historical ways with the elaborate cultural and economic systems that make Indian society so cruel, so vulgarly unequal. And third, because it was painful to listen to people who have suffered so much themselves mock others who suffer, in different ways, but no less intensely, under the same oppressor. In that slogan I saw the seeds of how easily victims can become perpetrators.
Syed Ali Shah Geelani began his address with a recitation from the Qur'an. He then said what he has said before, on hundreds of occasions. The only way for the struggle to succeed, he said, was to turn to the Qur'an for guidance. He said Islam would guide the struggle and that it was a complete social and moral code that would govern the people of a free Kashmir. He said Pakistan had been created as the home of Islam, and that that goal should never be subverted. He said just as Pakistan belonged to Kashmir, belonged to Pakistan. He said minority communities would have full rights and their places of worship would be safe. Each point he made was applauded.
I imagined myself standing in the heart of a Hindu nationalist rally being addressed by the Bharatiya Janata party's (BJP) LK Advani. Replace the word Islam with the word Hindutva, replace the word Pakistan with Hindustan, replace the green flags with saffron ones and we would have the BJP's nightmare vision of an ideal India.
At a crucial time like this, few things are more important than dreams. A lazy utopia and a flawed sense of justice will have consequences that do not bear thinking about. This is not the time for intellectual sloth or a reluctance to assess a situation clearly and honestly.
Already the spectre of partition has reared its head. Hindutva networks are alive with rumours about Hindus in the valley being attacked and forced to flee. In response, phone calls from Jammu reported that an armed Hindu militia was threatening a massacre and that Muslims from the two Hindu majority districts were preparing to flee. Memories of the bloodbath that ensued and claimed the lives of more than a million people when India and Pakistan were partitioned have come flooding back. That nightmare will haunt all of us forever.
However, none of these fears of what the future holds can justify the continued military occupation of a nation and a people. No more than the old colonial argument about how the natives were not ready for freedom justified the colonial project.
Of course there are many ways for the Indian state to continue to hold on to Kashmir. It could do what it does best. Wait. And hope the people's energy will dissipate in the absence of a concrete plan. It could try and fracture the fragile coalition that is emerging. It could extinguish this non-violent uprising and re-invite armed militancy. It could increase the number of troops from half a million to a whole million. A few strategic massacres, a couple of targeted assassinations, some disappearances and a massive round of arrests should do the trick for a few more years.
The unimaginable sums of public money that are needed to keep the military occupation of Kashmir going is money that ought by right to be spent on schools and hospitals and food for an impoverished, malnutritioned population in India. What kind of government can possibly believe that it has the right to spend it on more weapons, more concertina wire and more prisons in Kashmir?
The Indian military occupation of Kashmir makes monsters of us all. It allows Hindu chauvinists to target and victimise Muslims in India by holding them hostage to the freedom struggle being waged by Muslims in Kashmir..

India needs azadi from Kashmir just as much as - if not more than - Kashmir needs azadi from India..!!!

Monday, August 18, 2008

WELCOME TO CIA SPONSORED DEMOCRACY

Welcome To CIA-Sponsored Democracy


President Musharraf leaves office alone, besieged and abandoned. He is not leaving the country into strong hands. In fact, in the hands of the most the corrupt, unscrupulous and dangerous criminals this country ever produced. The regime-change game which CIA had initiated about one year ago finally succeeds. Musharraf’s removal is only a milestone in the larger CIA game of taking over Pakistan's premier intelligence service, the ISI. Now another battle will begin for the control of power centers in Islamabad. Judges will not be restored and governance will not improve. Fasten your seat belts for some very bumpy ride in the coming days. The present leadership is not just incompetent; they are outright dangerous for the country. Now they cannot blame Musharraf for their failures and treasons and army would be watching their moves carefully..................


By Mr Sajid Hussain PhD
Investigative Journalist
Monday, 18 August 2008...................

Overseas Desk:..............
President Musharraf finally resigns; ill advised, surrounded and abandoned; he chose to take the path of least resistance. He tried to be dignified in defeat and recounted his victories and achievements but the sorry state is that his legacy is Zardari, NRO and a corrupt weak government in Islamabad with a country literally gone to dogs!
He is not leaving the country into strong hands, in fact in the hands of most corrupt, unscrupulous and dangerous criminals this country has ever produced. The regime change game which CIA had initiated about one year ago finally succeeds though his resignation remains only a milestone in the larger CIA game of taking over Pakistan's premier intelligence service ISI....................................


The CIA sponsored, PPP executed, U.S. backed attempted coup against ISI had begun to unfold a few weeks back with a new ruthless cut throat political strategy and a new target designation. This plan has the following landmarks to be achieved in rapid succession:
Removal of President Musharraf.
Appointment of Mr. Zardari or his man as President.
Bringing ISI again under Ministry of Interior.
Complete take over of Pakistan’s security establishment by CIA.
There is no doubt that both U.S. and Britain are closely monitoring the moves of the army as the Army Chief is also a major hurdle in U.S. plans to bring ISI under MoI. With all the political parties in U.S. pocket, the army and the ISI are the next targets once the President has been annihilated.
Mr. Musharraf could have done better when he had decided to leave. He could have restored the judges to make life miserable for Zardari. He could have revoked the NRO to prevent Zardari from becoming the most powerful man in the country. He did neither and now Zardari is ecstatic and already planning to place his man, women or himself in the President house.
It is scavenging to the core by the political vultures and hyenas and now another battle will begin for the control of power centers in Islamabad. Judges will not be restored and governance will not improve. Fasten your seat belts for some very bumpy ride in the coming days. The present leadership is not just incompetent; they are outright dangerous for the country. Now they cannot blame Musharraf for their failures and treasons and army would be watching their moves carefully.
Welcome to CIA sponsored democracy........................