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To: JPR who wrote (12049)	6/1/2002 8:08:05 AM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

The Straw man and the Scarecrow: the Eagle builds a nest Musharaff, the Straw man and the Scarecrow, scares only the crows and not the eagle. The Eagle of the US has a built a nest on the scarecrow's head, that is the FATA: NO, it is not some kind of cheese; it is the Federally Administered Tribal Areas in pakistan. The distinction this area enjoyed as the place of indomitable people from the time Alexander the Cretin to the present is already compromised and will come under civilized control. What could not be done for millennia is being done by the Coalition Forces. Godspeed and more power to them. The culture dominated by guns, narcotics and terrorism, and glamorized by madrasah fundamentalism,will come to an end, because anything otherwise is inimical to the West, the US, India and the world. As far as Musharaff is concerned, it is apparent that brawn rules over the brains of Musharaff, that is if anything is left after years of thumping on his feet.. No amount of legitimization will render the brawn brainy capable of good judgment. He seems to be enjoying all the attention he is getting from the West and esp the US, talking the tough talk of befitting nuclear reply to India, extracting a ransom from the West, the US and Japan and at the same time speaking with a forked tongue. He must be immensely pleased to find out that Bush who once had no idea who this straw man was, is chanting his name as a mantra on a daily basis. -JPR Dawn.com Opinion Section A fixation for legitimacy By Kuldip Nayar Military dictators have a strange fixation for legitimacy. They arrange fictitious election or hold rigged referendum to don the clothes of a democrat. It is popular support they seek and it is the lack of that support which makes them go over the make-believe exercises of acceptability. But instead of telling what he had done to check terrorism, he said that there was no infiltration. Can you believe it? Only concrete evidence on the ground can give him credibility. But then his style is that of bluff and bluster from the days of the coup after the Kargil war he had orchestrated.

To: JPR who wrote (12049)	6/2/2002 10:49:34 AM
From: JPR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

Silent majority, the flasher and the voyeuristic projection of missiles This voyeuristic demonstration and firing of missiles at the time of crisis demonstrate the impotence of a Govt and the trade mark of a flasher-JPR Extract from Dawn.com Dawn.com Opinion page Winning a war without fighting By Kunwar Idris The disability that the Constitution imposes on some classes of citizens on grounds of religion or the penal laws like the one which provides for stoning to death of an adulteress (who, in fact, may be a victim of rape), or the judicial verdicts like the one which has outlawed the modern banking system create an impression worldwide that Pakistan's laws and institutions are both archaic and harsh. Ironically, these innovations in the system hurt many but hardly benefit any. The people at large remain unaffected or unconcerned. In practice the discrimination against the minorities in secular India may be severer than in Islamic Pakistan but the world judges the two countries by the fact that a Muslim or a Dalit can be, and has been, the president of India but a Hindu or a Christian simply cannot be in Pakistan. Thus, even with the alleged cross-border support, it is an uneven contest and its economic misery is borne by the people alone Even President Bush in whose war on terrorism Pakistan is a key player had to warn Musharraf to stop raids rather than fire missiles. The silence of the Muslim countries is deafening. Whether it is the Indians or Pakistanis who fire across the Line of Control only the Muslims get killed and displaced. In the desperation of their unending agony, they might reconcile to live under Indian domination rather than continue to fight for accession to Pakistan