<So when are the Pakistani police and the FBI going to raid Peshewar? That's the hornets nest.>
Peshawar is more famous for qisa khamwani bazaar and namka mandi where people will kill themselves eating lamb meat most deliciously prepared in the later and listening to 1000 Arabian nights in the former. It is under strict supervision if this OBL guy shows up as I have said he will be sold not for 25m $ for nothing, he well be afraid from his shadow and you rest assure that every listening post on the western border listens for any signs of the two most wanted the O&O.
<Americans fear those elements in your country have, or will have, the upper hand. I hope for the better.>
I don't think that these elements are history; they are a potent threat but a waning one too. ISI has been a creation of need of the time where 'Islamic Jihad' was preferred over 'Leninism' and taking out of Reagan’s evil empire that is USSR was need of the time like taking out of axis of evil right now.
It would be rather unfair for our mutual understanding to forget the origins of every evil that crops up, the bigger evil USSR could have wiped the slate cleaned but some thought that bringing these OBL kind of fundos from closets (William Casey… Brezenziski books can be helpful to understand what went behind the scenes) could help eliminate that communist evil, however once that communist evil was eliminated and the politburo revolt that ensured the passing out of USSR overnight oblivion, these organisations were left untouched. Now every action has a reaction, world in my opinion is far more safer than it was under Andropov politburo, the lesser evils had a go at remaining pockets left where they did enjoyed total freedom to plan devastating attacks on free world. Ethoses of Pakistan Army are not understood. I doubt that now post 11th Sept, any 5th columnist works within ISI now they have been cleaned and will be cleansed, the government operatives want to shed this huge burden of extremism once for all, much I condemn the extremist streak of my country I do understand the root causes well too, I have reasons to believe that present US engagement will see Pakistan through this very important crisis of our small very ordinary and 'sometime' shameful history. I have no big ego to accept the faults that lie within me and my nation but does anyone else have the same magnanimity, I find myself little waiting on that one more often than not. People tend to fix faults only on other forgetting their own involvements.
A Pakistan infested with ISI lechers and louts could not have raided the hornet’s nest in Faisalabad, the hornets nest for your kind information is the 'Saudi sponsored Wahabi belt of central Punjab’ that include Jhung and this is where the attack was launched. I pray to God 50 times a day for having a strong man like Musharraf on the helm, his outlook his vision his bold steps have taken Pakistan into a new frame of mind that of constructive engagements with the world, I am very positive and I am seeing the ground realities.
Lets not assume and think of things lets see what is actually happening, has Arafat allowed joint Israeli operation to root out fundos from Palestine, he protects them and calls a truce, we allow the commandoes to go in and get them, we put our man in subordination of your armed forces on our sovereign land disregarding self respect, sovereignty and you pay us by telling us that Pakistan is still not co-operating enough that is the contradiction and yellow journalism I try to point out, we are doing more than our share and we are proud of it. We have 600,00 soldiers on our eastern border ready to punish us for the sins of these extremists, we face them with valour that they dare not move. We are no pushovers, I assure you have never been one in our history and the number of contradictions I have posted today presented in your newspapers just depicts how badly our efforts are being presented, just because our enemies have bigger lobbies and our foolish alignment with these Arabs does not help either as the others who control the media also want to have a go at us for our foolish Arab support of Palestine.
We made sure that Evil Empire did not exist beyond 1990 we will make sure that we don’t become a part of your new coinage ‘axis of evil’ we will rather be star of enlightenment than anything else. In political analysis and strategic affairs it is important to have memory of a elephant the causes and affects are so very important and one looks like a political orphan if he only quotes from the last 24 hours of history, we analyse based on cotemporary and past history where thousand of years of disputes and confrontations are involved the sensitivities are naturally higher and our propensity to discern need to be very sharp.
I have seen it on the front lines and they shall not dare move, on the other hand where we think it is right to go for the surgical operation we have even allowed intrusions in our heart land that is what brave people do, that is what brave nations do and that is what I call a changed nation post 11th Sept ready to accept the responsibilities once again to root out the evil, the previous evil empire was not our coinage we were told to get on with the act and these very dangerous Arabs were imported not by us but by those operatives who thought Russians can be only handled by this dangerous strain of Islam, the mutations led to miscalculation, now I am not going to lie low and accept the whole burden of wrong doings, we had our Allies we did their job, we were than thrown like a used toilet paper with all these created evil to remove the Evil Empire amongst us, it was not a bigger evil of 11/09 that made our allies once more realised that it was a mistake to leave Pakistan in the hands of dog.
I tell you honestly on this side of the Crescent of instability that spreads from Morocco to Pakistan, we are the mainstay; our instability will be the most nightmarish problem for 2.5 billion people who live on the confluence of the sub-continent. Lets give the credit where it is due; we were not sitting in the laps of USSR from 1970- 88 like our next-door neighbour and we did not take that false pride of sovereignty every time US demanded any thing form us. |
