Current Pakistan, USA, Terrorism, Neighbours and Positive Changes (2)

Few most recent developments:
There have been few vital developments which are of quite importance in context of Pakistan.

India and we: One more time, these two nations are feeling uncomfortable. Few of the significant aspects of the recent developments.

• Mumbai attacks: Few days ago, there happened attacks in Mumbai and nearly 180 people lost their lives, most of the civilians and innocents. This is a coward, cruel and inhuman attack, no matter who did it, there is no justification for that. It is common thing that both India and Pakistan blame each other for any such incidents. I feel it is not very logical and appropriate to blame blindly and defame each other. Political point scoring must not be done at the cost of the blood of innocent people, if sometime such incidents do happen then they must be solved with cooperation, intelligence and patience so that real culprits could be found and punished, otherwise such incidents could lead to the bigger losses!
  
• Pakistan based: It is being believed that some Pakistan based elements are involved into this attack, well it is not logical to point finger at anyone without deep, open, neutral and enough investigations; Pakistan is fully prepared to cooperate in context of free, fair and open investigations. We will not, however, like to be threatened or blackmailed using any incident as a pretext. Pakistan wants to live peacefully with all people but it requires cooperation and sincerity from all parties.

• Alleged Groups and Individuals: Whenever such incidents happen, there comes a long list of demands and people to be handed over or groups to be banned or action be taken against so called terrorist. Similar things happened at the time of 9/11 and many people, including Pakistanis, were arrested, tortured, handed over to other countries and killed. This is not the way to deal such things. First of all solid and in depth investigations should be made and then convincing proofs should be handed over to the country where criminal might be living! That country, in current case Pakistan, then arrests, interrogates and punishes the person according to own law. This is better and logical way to handle such issues. Every country should look into its own criminals than trying to become the international dictator and messing up everything here and there!

• Take blind actions: Pakistan is asked time and again to take the stern, in other words blind, action against those who are believed to be the fighters, Jihadis or likes. But here the questions arises why should we do so without giving anyone chance to defend him/her self legally and fairly? Law is law and it applies to all. Pakistan has been under threat from many internal and external enemies and like any other country we have been planning and replying them in different ways including physical fights. Like any other nation, we deserve the right to protect ourselves. It is very much possible that Pakistan at some points went beyond fairness but it happens naturally in tough and critical situations. In current situation, our attentions are almost fully concentrated upon the internal problems and we don’t want to intervene into the matters of other people but at the same time we don’t want that others poke their noses into our affairs. Pakistan has given so much blood and bore heavy losses in this war on terror just to make external powers happy although track record of many of those international powers tells clearly that they are interested more in destructions than peace.
• How to treat the so called terrorists: There are few important aspects in this context: First of all, it is right of every human being to be given chance to defend legally. Secondly, people have been involved in fights and in a need it is not a crime to fight against aggressors, these fighters have been fighting against only forces/armies and not against innocent people e.g. in Afghanistan and Kashmir. Right now, however, such fighters are well monitored and controlled so that they don’t get involved in any fights. Thirdly, now most of those people, who were fighters in past are living peacefully, and they cooperate with government of Pakistan then why should they be killed? Fourthly, invasion of Afghanistan and occupation of Kashmir have been big reason for the creation of fighters and these issues must not be seen narrowly and in one direction only. Fifthly, if any individual or group of Pakistan is involved in any killings of the innocent people anywhere then solid and convincing proofs need to be provided to Pakistan so that those criminals could be punished. It is our own responsibility to take action against such criminals because actions of those people are detrimental to both Pakistan and Islam. Sixthly, there should be fair, peaceful and quick solution of the conflicts in Afghanistan and Kashmir which is playing a major role in creation of more conflicts. Sixthly, Pakistan can’t allow the external pressures just to ignite more fire at home. We have been cooperating in fight against rogue elements within our land but every demand in the name of so called war on terror can’t be entertained; human rights of every person have to be protected. Seventhly, the best way to contain those elements is through love, dialogue and sincere friendship. They are not afraid of killing or being killed so they need to handled properly and peacefully through those people whom they trust e.g. religious scholars, fair politicians, educationists etc.

• Inside India: A lot of separation movements and extremist groups do exist in India too and they do blackmail and harm the peaceful majority of the country. Such groups have been found to be involved in many disturbances and killings! This aspect should not be ignored or taken lightly while observing the over all situation and causes of the incidents.

• Common People don’t want war or killings: The common people of both Pakistan and India want to live together peacefully but there are some minority groups which don’t like to see peace and understanding, such disturbing forces are both internal and external(international). Some national and international players are very smart but quite merciless they don’t really care about what common people pay. It is very encouraging sign that after attacks in Mumbai, general public of India has protested against such attacks, loopholes in security and carelessness of their politicians.
  

Few other aspects.

Afghanistan and Border: As usual this border is a real source of test, heat and pain for the Pakistanis. It is believed that three international countries are quite active in Afghanistan: USA, India and Israel, and there are some other players too. Those all sacred International powers are using Afghanistan as base camp against Pakistan and some of other neighbouring countries! Why? There are many different reasons. This camp is believed to be a multipurpose one; there one finds execution of a big variety of plans like physical war and attacks on Pakistan, help of anti-Pakistan elements, brainwashing of people, propaganda cooking, smuggling, drugs business etc.
It is regularly claimed that Taliban in Afghanistan are getting support from Pakistan but in reality Taliban and other fighters in Afghanistan are themselves warriors and trained for guerrilla wars. One should not forget history of Afghanistan that Afghanis have been a source of defeat for the invaders. They know very well how to make enemy tired and weak because this is their land and also they are experienced to the wars! So resistance in Afghanistan is internal one and even if there comes any unnoticed external support from Pakistani Taliban, it is not any big one although people are made to believe other way round!!
Another aspect of this story is that western media and states give very little importance to the killings of the local, mostly civilian Afghan and Pakistani people, but they cry very loudly at casualties of their own army and people. Is blood of Afghans and Pakistanis cheaper than westerners or any other nation? What are the reasons? I want to know those reasons! Even if there are any reasons for that then how is it justified killing innocent people? At the same time, we also don't feel happy at the casualties and losses of westerner soldiers and people as they are our human fellows. In fact these dirty wars are based upon a lot of lies, cheatings and hates and most of those who are fighting, belonging to all sides, are unaware of those conspiracies and hates of hidden behind! In any case western media and people should be equally aware of neutral and all-sided picture of happenings, to get fair feelings.

Increased attacks on Pakistan: In last few weeks there have been frequent attacks inside Pakistan mostly on the bordering areas along Afghanistan. Reasons are old excuses and suppositions that Taliban and Al-Qaida are quite active there. After every attack it is stated that a notorious Taliban and Al-Qaida leader was killed along many civilians, and very strangely there are people in Pakistan who hurry up to confirm that this most probable lie is in fact a truth. The fact is that there are Pakistanis who are purchased one, i don't know whether they are paid in dollars or in any other currency! Such people provide a good excuse for the illegitimate attacks on our soil and of course media also transmits the news mostly without confirming truth!
There are few important aspects in this regard. First of all what are the proofs that some Al-Qiada or other terrorists is hidden there? In reality generally there are no proofs, it is just a supposition. Secondly even if there are some extremists then why don't they(USA and Co.) inform Pakistani authorities? Thirdly why a so called extremist should be killed in such a brutal way, without giving him/her chance to defend legally and openly? Such blind killings indeed open way for unfairness and lawlessness. Fourthly, what about those innocents who are killed in such attacks? Who is responsible for their blood? Fifthly, who has given authority to USA or to any one else to cross border and attack another land? Under which laws they do so? They say that they have authority to do so and there are such laws which allow attacks! By the way, it is not difficult to make laws but not all laws are fair, logical and justified ones. Any nation can create laws for invasions, murders and lawlessness but such laws take, sooner or later, to the ditch! Mr. XYZ can issue a law anytime in the name of national security but Mr. XYZ should be aware that there are other nations too on this planet. Sixthly, world has seen time and again how much USA and Co. follow the rules and regulations and what those rules and regulations are! As far as UN is concerned, it is no secret that it is quite crippled, slave and biased!

I think after reading these points some people will feel heat and can order more attacks on us but it will not bring any good rather every new attack is opening the way to chaos for all involved in those games. Don’t test our patience or compulsions or wish of cooperation or whatever!

The ISI (Inter-services intelligence): These days, a huge hue and cry is being made against the intelligence agencies of Pakistan especially against ISI. Some people are trying to present it as the source of all problems, but in reality there are many misconceptions and theories. It is true that ISI has been involved in many different, hard and complicated tasks but this is how an intelligence agency functions. There has been many challenges faced by it and it is natural that there might have been some mistakes too.

If one will look at ISI from the perspective of those forces against which it has been fighting then one will definitely say that ISI was almost always wrong and unfair; those opposing forces have to make such propaganda; they want that their intelligence agencies should be given free hand to plot all (good and bad) plans they like and no one should stop them! By the way, which agency has got clean hands? Pakistan was almost unable to remain neutral in Afghanistan because of situation, circumstances and implications there. Many forces, national and international, have been operating in Afghanistan and it is a difficult and complex place. Right now, it is Afghanistan that is being used a place to destabilize and pressurize Pakistan. Still, Pakistan is not showing aggression against people sitting there and making plots against us. Our Intelligence agencies and all other similar forces are almost inactive in Afghanistan and Kashmir but still people are high at blames. Actually, they want this war to enter into Pakistan now. Different strategies are being applied to weaken Pakistan and highest one is the use of so called terrorism along with economic and political traps.

People do forget that the excuses used for the invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan are so dubious and weak, but people are made to believe that base for all these invasions and destructions is justified; so no one should question their authority to make destructions. Currently they are admitting that there were no solid proofs for the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we did wrong to invade it. But is it enough? Who is going to be punished for that failure and killings of so many innocents? Who has really gone to the depth of the happening on 9/11? Theories, speculations and false allegations!

Actually this is a tactic that keep people focused at the narrow aspects, and repeat the false allegations so much that people are not able to think broadly and correctly, they don’t question the authenticity of the basis of actions, they see only selective aspects of the conflicts, they are made to believe in specific directions, facts are twisted in such a way that forged stories look real and so on. What about that failure of CIA and FBI in case of Iraq? CIA was fully involved in training and support of fighters in Afghanistan!

Now both in Afghanistan and Kashmir are the local people who are fighting for their causes. Pakistan does not need to support them with weapons etc, although moral and political support should remain firm; they themselves are in position to take those fights to the logical ends. Afghanistan has been almost undefeatable in history and they are proving it right now too. There is no use of putting the blame on Pakistan for failures there. This is a fact that technology and weapons can only make destruction to some extent but they can’t win a war. To fight for Afghanis is normal thing, they are so used to it and they know very well how to trap enemy in their land!

Look into history and one will find that Intelligence agencies of the so called super powers have blood of millions of people in their names! And today they are trying to present themselves as if they are the only saviors of the world and securing people from all kind of threats! What a deception!

How much cooperation and why? We have been cooperating in almost every aspect. Pakistan not only (wrongly) accepted the invasion in Afghanistan but also provided the intelligence and other support for war in Afghanistan, and against those people who were trained and supported by the Pakistan and USA i.e. Jihadis! Not only that, the basic needs of the Army in Afghanistan are going through Pakistan; not only that we have sustained heavy losses: human, social and financial because of that war. What is expected more?

Make suicide or we kill you! It is normal statement that Pakistan is not doing enough against the so called terrorists. Hundreds of humans have been killed by our Army in recent months to show to the world that we doing enough and good against so called terrorists. It is like a person comes and says hey you have to take one choice out of two: either you do suicide(in this case by killing so called terrorists as after that Pakistanis will kill each other) or I(USA and co.) kill you(through attacks from Afghanistan). But beside so many killings of those fighters by our army without any solid proofs and without any trials of them, attacks from USA and Co. are not stopping! So in simple words we are not only doing suicide but also are being killed!

If Taliban etc are convinced to stop their fight at some point then comes the missile or Drone from Afghanistan to ignite their emotions again. They ask Army and our government that why USA is attacking Pakistan beside all efforts of Pakistan to have peace; and there is no answer except anger and frustration!

These are just one or two percent: It is a normal statement that there are only one or two percent Muslims who are not peaceful. This is a very complex statement and it makes in reality 100% Muslims as doubtful, and that one or two percent is projected so much that rest of the majority is ignored. This one percent statement has been used to arrest, humiliate and kill thousands of Muslims and it seems that 99% peaceful Muslims would be destroyed but that one percent will still survive. Actually this statement is used to keep people doubtful, afraid and suspicious towards Muslims, and to torture Muslims at the same time!

Possible Intentions behind: Actually it is not about war on terror rather it is more war on Pakistan and even if we kill all the Taliban and likes then they will forge new excuses to attack and blackmail us. Actually they want destruction of Pakistan especially our nuclear weapons tease them day and night!

Those countries who are involved in the mass murders in the name of democracy, world peace or whatever, they tell a lot of stories to their own people so that people stay confused, afraid and biased. Eye of the media is kept at others especially those who disagree to their policies.

Economic Situation: Pakistan is not a rich and developed country; it is rather among the poor countries if compared in context of economy and progress. We have to pay back a lot of money, billions of dollars, to the International banks which are controlled by the big powers. In reality we have been paying back the interest on the credit we took, leave alone the real amounts. The situation even got worse when loans taken by the international banks were not used properly. There has not been any clear strategy to get out of this situation and every government has been taking more loans just to pass the time and difficult situation.
I don't see a solid solution to the current economic problems of Pakistan except that we plan something solid and work hard to get out of it. Actually, these big economic powers and banks use such situations of poor countries to dictate their policies and conditions. They ask for increase in prices of goods, increase in taxes etc. which sometimes makes the life of common people even difficult. It is strange that International powers, instead of giving relief to the common man, make life difficult for them.
Currently, life for the poor people is so miserable that they are even not able to buy the basic needs of life like bread, electricity, medicine etc. They have limited and fixed income but prices of basic commodities/needs are increasing regularly and speedily.
On the other hand those people who are already strong financially they are not affected much by those conditions dictated by the International banks/institutions! It is strange that most of the leaders in our country are very rich and it is strange that ruler his/herself has so much money, luxuries and facilities but his/her nation does not even have enough to eat. A true ruler is the one who eats at the end when all his people eat and he has facilities equal to the poor people, then he/she will be able to understand the problems and situations of common man.
This is not the only thing; those leaders spent most of their time away from the common man among their luxurious homes, offices and palaces and main excuse is security! A ruler must live within common people.
Most of those International loans go to the pockets of the corrupt and higher class people and very little reaches to the common man; it is the common man who bears most of the effects due to interest on loans, conditions attached to it and corruption of the authorities; what a wonderful situation. Such international supports/loans become counter productive instead of bringing positive.
May be it is part of International System that make rich more rich and poor more poor. They use these rich elite/rich class then to control the big majority of poor people and most of these rich class people are selfish, addicted to luxuries, stupid and greedy; i think much money and its love makes the heart of a person hard and unsympathetic.
The difference between the economic status of poor and rich is quite big in our country and that is an international situation too. If rich people will sit on their money like snakes and will keep on increasing their money, as they have contacts and influences, then how can money and other resources reach the lower class?

Law and Order: This is no secret that law and order situation is quite unsatisfactory within Pakistan. Financial crises get double folded by the suicide bombings and other crimes. People feel insecure at public places and there is state of fear and disappointment. Current Judicial system is a crippled and corrupt one, and most of judges sitting there are the slave of the rulers, they are not able to do justice in its true sense.

Coward leaders or coward nation? After every new attack of USA and Co. on the soil of Pakistan, there come the coward and rubbish statements from our leaders like we don’t have enough technology to stop the attacks, or we have to pay a lot of loan of USA, we can’t fight against USA and Co, or we should bear this bloodshed until Obama takes charge etc. I wonder if this is the opinion of leaders or of the nation in general but it reflects the psychological slavery and defeat. Human blood is extremely precious; thousands times more precious than money etc and it can’t be allowed to shed in this way!

This is one of the tactics of the USA and Co. that they like to keep people psychologically under pressure and if someone starts accepting this pressure then they increase it continually, but if they are replied strongly and boldly then they start realising their limits and their own selves! When we ask them to stop attacks on our land then they say yes we will not do that again but then go to their office, laugh at us for sometime and then comes a new attack and then they smile at us once more! These laughs and smiles are not new; many people gave such satanic smiles for sometime in human history! No nation stays at top forever, and especially those who commit injustice and oppression, sink very quickly!

Best way, Pakistan can stop all this, is through strong and brave stance. We must talk to them in strong and clear way and ask what actually they want? Why are they not stopping attacks after so many requests and warnings? Drones entering into Pakistani areas must be targeted and if Pakistan does not have enough technology, although we do have, then they should be warned that we will hit those Drones inside Afghanistan too and even if after that it does not stop then there should be an appropriate and exact reply. They see and get happy every day that their technology and weapons can win them war, which is just an illusion! We know how much have they won in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan! They used full strength in Afghanistan against fighters there but still today could not win against them!

It is good sign that Pakistani people have started to question things happening around them, especially the doings of the rulers.

War should not happen: In worst case if a war happens between Pakistan and India or other nation then it will be a very destructive one. Few aspects in this regard; first, Pakistan is a nuclear power, equipped with strong weapons and has strong army, people ready for any sacrifice for self defense so a battle will be a very complicated one. Second, people do underestimate Pakistan and Pakistanis, but actually we are very well prepared and strong in case of a war. Third, no fear of death!!! Fourth, everyone is ready to defend Pakistan including Taliban and other Jihadi/fighter groups and it will be a nightmare for the world! Fifthly, this war will spread out especially till those countries which will be directly or indirectly involved against Pakistan; if our land and peace will be attacked then we have every right to retaliate against aggressors except civilians and innocents as innocents can't be harmed even in war. Sixthly, if someone thinks that weapons or technology can win a war or protect someone then it is an illusion. If human beings decide to retaliate then they can reach anywhere and break all barriers!!

War is not our wish: Pakistani people don’t want to have war with any other country including India. There are a quite a few aspects in this context. First of all, Islam does encourage preference to the peaceful means to settle issues and asks to live peacefully and with understanding. Secondly, Pakistani people want to have friendship and cooperation with all the people of this planet although this desire of ours is being misused. Thirdly, Pakistan does not have intentions to attack and conquer other countries; we want to see other nations as happy and prosperous including India. Fourthly, common people especially the young generations of almost all countries are quite friendly to each other. They are not hostile to each other like previous generations; they understand that wars are not solutions. Fifthly, both countries are nuclear powers and a war in such situation will be extremely destructive for everyone. Sixthly, we don’t want to see innocent people of the world in trouble. Already, so many people especially civilians have been thrown into fire of wars. Seventhly, we know that people of many countries don’t get the real picture of happenings and plans; they don’t know the real facts and hidden intentions! Eighthly, we know that more than 90% people of this planet want to have peace then it is total rubbish to let small rogue minority create war and problems for such a big majority.

Diplomacy but how much? Every nation and individual has to show some diplomacy at some stage of life but if it leads to closing of eyes at the killings of innocents and injustice then it is no more diplomacy rather it is cowardliness. Nations do have their vested interests but interests should not come in the way of justice and fairness.

West must prosper and have freedom: Muslims and Pakistanis are very happy that people of west make a lot of progress, they have all the facilities of life, they stay happy and as free people. Why should we be against the progress of the world and West? We don’t have jealousy; we don’t want to snatch freedom of anyone. We hope and wish that new president of USA does a lot of good things for his people and his time results as a peace and happiness of the world. Pakistan feels happy at progress of the world; we are very contended what we have. Our religion asks us to be involved in friendly and objective dialogue with all people including Jew and Christian fellows and all other religious and no-religious groups/individuals, and as Muslims and Pakistani we are ready for the dialogue with everyone.

It is ok but: Pakistan is under a lot of internal and external pressures and threats but it has got great potential to come out of difficult situations. It has got everything to stand strongly on its feet as there are so many positives and potentials in this nation; the things that we need are stronger faith, self confidence, planning, sincere international understanding/cooperation and positive efforts. Our desire for peace and cooperation must not be misused because if we left that frame of mind then it would get too late and complicated!! Peace is our preference.

More comes…

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Recent Pakistan, USA, Terrorism, Neighbours and Positive Changes (1)

Right from the start, Pakistan has been living under a lot of challenges ;) Thousands of people migrated to reach the lands they wanted to live in i.e. India and Pakistan at the time of separation in 1947 and thousands were killed in this process. We got Pakistan with a specific goal and that was the Muslims could live in a separate land as they do differ in context of philosophy and life style to Hindus. We could have been living together with our Hindu fellows but I personally think that it was a right decision since it was better to live in separate land instead of fighting over petty issues. One can bring two good reasons against this idea: firstly there are still millions of Muslims who are living in India then why some Muslims did prefer a separate state? Secondly Pakistan could not reach the goal it was created for. Both of these reasons are strong and logical ones.

Well, as far as first point is concerned, I feel it is almost impossible to bring a solid result that what could have been better i.e. one land or two lands? At the time of Movement for the separate land i.e. Pakistan, Muslims were of both opinions, there were those who were in favour of separate land and they had their strong reasons and there were those who were not in favour of separate land. I am personally in favour of the separate land although it was a difficult choice and it took a lot of sacrifices; choice of a united land was also fine but I don’t feel good at it. Today, Muslims of India are living fine but I think Indian society was not that open and liberal at that time (i.e. around 1947) so things were more complicated and harder on that stage.

Second question is that why Pakistan could not reach its goal of being a strong and prosperous Islamic state? Well, it is also a hard question, I feel that there have been some natural reasons for that failure and there also have been some reasons due to fault of Pakistani nation. We have been up against both internal and external challenges. Internal challenges have been struggle for a system of state, we have been following a system which is mixture of Islamic rules and other ones and people have been divided over the choice of a system; I think this one has been our biggest problem till today. In addition to that there have been problems like instable political system, weak economy, weak educational system, class system, weak judiciary, corruption, unfair division of resources among provinces etc. Our external challenges have been wars with India, Kashmir issue, wars in Afghanistan and of course our marriage with USA and engagement with UK ;). Some of our international enemies like friends have been fantastic and we will never forget their wonderful contributions towards Pakistan ;)

Anyway, we somehow survived many difficult times, conspiracies and illnesses during last sixty years. I would like focus now upon the last decade of the Pakistan and current situation of it. I feel that last ten years have been of special importance for us since this is the period when we really started to change.

Last 10 years

A coup

Pakistan has been living under Army rule during much part of its life and one commando named Gen. Pervez Musharraf came on the scene like a Hollywood hero and he took the control of Pakistan in end of last century. He gave his own reasons for this brave coup and in reality there has been no neutral and open investigation that what actually happened: stories and fairytales are spread here and there. People of Pakistan felt happy that they have got a new saviour who will do magic for them e.g. he will make all the mountains of Pakistan of gold and all people will be happy and rich, in reality it was start of new fun!

Actually Mr. Musharraf is a very cunning guy since his childhood ;). I don’t know whether he was sincere towards Pakistan or was something else; as no one can read the heart of anyone. It has been hard to exactly judge him and his goals as he has been under different pressures and situations but I personally feel that he got two big problems first he tells lies shamelessly; lies sink a person and his credibility and secondly at times he has been too much diplomatic to the extent of cowardliness. In addition to that Mr. Musharraf has been living among friends who are very corrupt and cunning so he had been misused and misguided. One more thing is that Mr. Musharraf is kind of person who can lose their sanity if flattered; he starts thinking that he is very special, intelligent and brave person to the extent of exaggeration which is the problem with many people. In addition to that he has been trying to do all alone and how much a person can do alone? One has to depend upon others too and his colleagues made a lot of corruption. He did not try to take his nation into confidence at important issues and it is so hard to survive if own people are not backing up! He must have been clear that International Powers in general withstand as long as they have their interests and then they scrap anyone mercilessly. Anyhow, Mr. Commando himself is not free of fault.

Our nation is so simple and they could be cheated so easily and this coup was start of new deception.

September 11

After few years, when Mr. Musharraf was the sole power in Pakistan, happened the big bang i.e. September 11 incident!

USA has been riding on our necks rather on the necks of whole world. They made a lot of hue and cry that we have been cheated and destroyed by the Al-Qaida. Ok, whoever this Al-Qaida is and what ever they did, it was extremely wrong, no one must be allowed to kill the innocents and civilians and no one must attack other countries but those dear American fellows went too far in their hunts. They took this incident as a ground to justify all what they did, right or wrong and world was like a scared goat! No one really asked them to make a real open investigation and bring the real solid proofs so that one could look for the exact and real criminals and punish them instead of running and killing people madly. This is in no way justified to invade countries, detain people, kill them and label them as criminals without clear and solid proofs and without fair and open trial. Even the worst enemy must not be punished without solid proofs, open and fair trial.

Anyhow, Mr. Musharraf also joined the group of scared goats and did not question the doings of blind elephant and this was a start for the fun for us. People of Pakistan were detained, tortured and killed in Pakistan on the basis of allegations/assumptions of so called terrorism and handed over to the USA for further treatment/fun. They were hospitalised in X-ray camp and likes and they had a lot of fun there and world became a better place now: king and queen are happy. I don’t know how many more terrorists are there in this world? May be USA knows better and it is also possible that God is also not aware of it as only USA knows better; may be my name is also there in the list ;) If really my name is there then they don’t need to forge any story against me, come to me simply and I will go with you. Don’t put pressure on your precious minds for more plans.

Here, let me make it clear that I hate Al-Qaida, if there is any such group as it is more a virtual/media and mysterious group, and those Muslims who think that Al-Qaida helped the Muslims or Islam are wrong. First of all what they (Al-Qaida) did (if they did it) is not Islamic as Islam does not support such brutal and unjust acts; this is not Jihad it is sickness, secondly they don’t have right to be self claimed saviours of Muslims/Islam, did they took Muslims especially the scholars into confidence? No, they did not. Thirdly they provided excuses to USA for the invasions, killings and detention of Muslims! What was contribution of those innocents who were killed in this dirty war? Fourthly, it is strange if people like Usama bin Laden are not arrested beside so much advancement in technology and intelligence; but they will say it was fault of Pakistan; it is easy way to end the story and people nod their heads in affirmation like stupids and say yes yes it is fault of Pakistan without finding real factors! Fifthly, it is responsibility of the Muslims themselves and not of USA or others to detain Al-Qaida and likes and punish them for their wrong acts. Reality is that this Al-Qaida thing has proven too costly, painful and source of shame for the Muslims.

Army intervention and control of the state

Anyhow, we lived under Army rule for almost 7-8 years during last decade and it was lead by the hero of the world and champion of lies Mr. Musharraf. He used the resources of the country in the way he liked and we had to obey him. There were no chances to investigate freely what he has been doing; his main song was we are fighting against terrorism that he sung day and night; even while he slept. What does it mean the fight against terrorism? Does it mean to do all what a person likes! He received a lot of money and support in the name of this war and also got total free hand to do all what he liked: humane or inhumane. Pakistanis were not safe even in their own land as anyone could be anytime labelled as terrorist, detained and handed over to masters. We received heavy support from the USA against terrorism but we did not realise that we were actually being fed with poison!!

International pressure for the cooperation in so called war on terror

There has been immense pressure to cooperate in the war against terrorism; it was like the highest sin if a person even dares to question the things being done in the name of war on terror. Anyone who dares something against it is labelled as terrorist, fundamentalist, Taliban etc. As it was supposed that enemy of USA was mainly sitting both in Afghanistan and Pakistan so Pakistan has to cooperate in this sacred mission against terrorists. Pakistan has to shed the blood of those people who were once trained and supported by the USA and Pakistan along with blood of a lot of innocents. Those children, women and other civilians who even did not know where USA is were killed using the latest weapons. Yes, it is best use of the latest technology to kill civilians; it is nothing against human rights if people are killed by advance technology as billions have been spent to make the latest weapons! The whole war mainly has been based upon assumptions and statements. People of the world and especially Americans were taught day and night that we are fighting for your security and our enemy is very brutal and strong; and people believed everything blindly as if angel Gabriel was telling them the message of God! It was thought that every missile and bullet of USA only kills the enemies or potential enemies!

Internal divide of the people over the issue of fight along USA

Well, the Pakistani nation got divided over the extent of cooperation to the USA in this war. There have been four groups: first one was of the opinion that we should totally/blindly cooperate with USA and even fight against so called terrorists; second group was in the favour of realistic and measured cooperation; the third group was in favour of no cooperation at all and last group was of the opinion that as Afghanistan has been invaded so we should fight along with them against invaders i.e. USA. Well, every group had its own reasons and views. Some people even went to Afghanistan for the war against USA and Co. In any case, there appeared different poles at every level and in every institution. It has been a tough phase for the people. There occurred many casualties in this process to contain different groups. Some groups who thought that government was favouring the oppression and unjust of USA so they even went to the extent of suicide bombings against own people. There has been opinion that it is allowed to kill own people and it was not based upon the opinion of scholars of Islam. It has always been problem that the scholars were not consulted in the difficult issues as they are the people who can judge the situation in broadest possible context. It is opinion of majority of the scholars that suicides are forbidden and it gets even greater sin if committed against innocents/civilians. Personally I feel that first and fourth group, who were in favour of blind cooperation and fight respectively, have not been the right in their approach.

Difficult border along with Afghanistan and complex nature of the relationships of both people and countries

The border along Afghanistan is a difficult one. On both sides of this border are living those people who are historically and ethnically connected strongly. They share the faith, tribes, languages, history and ethnicities so it is very hard to keep them unconnected and unconcerned from each other. There are those people who even want to fight against the invaders in Afghanistan as they feel that its occupation is unjustified one. Pakistan Army and other security forces have been fighting to contain them and there have been efforts through the dialogue too. It increases the irritation and anger of the people in Pakistan especially of the people along the border after occasional attacks in Pakistan from Afghanistan and regular flights of spying planes of USA/NATO on the borders of Pakistan. Such acts of the USA and Co. are extremely irritating and sometimes they are clear invitation for all out war but we have been trying to be patient and I wish that war does not happen otherwise it will be very costly one for everyone. They know very well how much they are winning in Afghanistan and like to put blame of failures on Pakistan. The oil is added to the fire by the regular allegations by the USA and puppet sitting in Afghanistan that Pakistan is not doing enough against terrorists and that much support is coming for the fighters and bombers from Pakistan. Even Indian fellows also sometimes join the song of allegations which are more allegations and theories and of course there is no limit of allegations. Anyone can come for the press conference and say a lot of words!

These days new theories are coming that terrorists are threatening bigger cities of the Pakistan so they in other words want to follow and attack the invisible electric mouse of Al-Qaida and terrorists in Pakistan. These are the same forces which were used as an excuse to destroy the Iraq and Afghanistan. They say that Iraq is doing fine now! the reasons is that mission there is accomplished as it has been destroyed; Afghanistan is now current destruction point and then they are looking to destroy Pakistan. Wherever they go they leave the destruction and fires behind!!!

Here I would like to mention that Pakistan does not need to support people fighting in Afghanistan. We had been interfering there in past and many others also did so but it is almost zero now. Pakistan wants to see Afghanistan standing on its own feet as both countries have paid a lot in the wars. There are still thousands of Afghan refugees in Pakistan although thousands went back and it has been a huge challenge for the Pakistan.

Situation in Afghanistan itself is not satisfactory. There are many internal and external powers which are still operating there and it is really hard to get a clear picture of the happenings and involvements. Occasional attacks from the Afghanistan side are also a source of worry! Who does it; Afghanistan, USA, NATO or someone else? Opium is big business in Afghanistan and many hands are involved in this business; who are those who are earning millions out of it?

Al-Qaida factor and Mujahidin

Al-Qaida factor and Mujahidin (religious fighters) have been two big problems for the Pakistan. These people were bred during the fight against Russia by the USA and Pakistan; as I said our marriage with USA has been an old and interesting one but the problem is that they knew us more than we knew them. We have been the people who could be easily played with in the name of friendship, cooperation and help and that habit of ours brought us a lot of miseries and difficulties. The fact is that the international powers only care about their vested/greedy interests and all other things like peace, human rights, cooperation etc are generally of secondary importance to them. They show one hand and attack with other one; they give statements in the favour of peace but don’t forget to attack from back if got chance; they give support but never enough that others could be strong enough to stand on their own feet.

Anyhow, we had to give a lot of sacrifices and blood to contain those people who were created for the war against Russia; that was a holy mission at that time of war but now it has become terrorism; this is USA and their masters and not God who have right to define what is holy and when!!. The problem is that USA and others don’t want that we make any talks with those fighters; they want that we remain busy in this endless war so that our wonderful Army is destroyed and divides among Pakistanis bring Pakistan to the ashes; in this way their mission is accomplished but this mission is almost impossible to be accomplished!

In any case if peace comes through the peace talks then we will first go for this option no matter what others say but if this does not work then we will definitely use force against those in Pakistan who challenge the peace; we have been doing it and we will do it in future too. We can’t allow the Taliban, Al-Qaida or any other person to dictate us for their version of Islam; Islam is Islam and it can’t be in the way Taliban, Mujahidin, Al-Qaida or Liberals want it to be; it can only be in the way God told. These are the scholars of Islam and Muslims who qualify to decide in this context and not any other group (like Taliban, Mujahidin, Al-Qaida or Liberals etc) can dictate us that what we have to do! One of the best ways to contain these fighters especially Taliban is to show them the broader picture of the Islam through the scholars so that they could know the real factors!

These so called Mujhideen are sometimes stupid people who in the name of religion are easily misused. They get ready easily to make suicide attacks and even don’t try to confirm what the real commandments of the Islam are and even don’t try to judge the person who incites them. They think everyone who has long beard and talks about Jihad is right and all other are wrong. It is also very much possible that person who incites for Jihad is playing in the hands of enemies; intentionally or unintentionally.

These so called Jihadis always keep the weapons along with them and their minds are so volatile and their blood is so hot. They bring weapons so quickly even at the minor disagreement. This is not the way a person should behave; peace comes first and not war but they see things other way around.

Red mosque issue

This was one of the big incidents which happened in the recent past of Pakistan. It was one indication of the fight between two groups who posses the hard stances. Both parties showed the rigid behaviour and who paid at the end? The innocent children, women and others who did not had to do anything to the terrorism. Both parties who fought are till today defending their act but there had been no neutral inquiry into this matter and this is a pity. This incident was a big shake up for Pakistanis and Army had to pay a big price for this brutal and ruthless operation. I think both fighting parties played in the invisible hands but they didn’t realise that.

Issue of nuclear weapons and their spread

Pakistan has been alleged to be an active player in the spread of the nuclear weapons. It is hard to know the real facts in this regard as things happened at different levels and in many different circumstances. It is however clear that if something like that happened then many people was involved into it. It is also very much possible that many international forces are involved in such spreads as it is no secret that international powers do sell the weapons and earn a lot through it. There are big players in the international market who do many things which common people don’t know. People think as if all atomic weapons around the world are spread by the Pakistan; which is just a supposition and no reality. Those people who cry day and night of their innocence are in no way angels!

We had to make our defence strong as we had been under threats most of the time. India did the Atomic test first and we had to do it; not because we want war rather because we did not want to be blackmailed and threatened. It is also fear of the people that Atomic bombs of Pakistan might go into the wrong hands but this is more a fear than reality. We have extremely strong protection system for that but there is no limit of assumptions that what can happen in future; there can be thousands of theories about possibilities. It is also no secret that Atomic and other weapons were mostly used by someone whose all acts are justified! Big brother ;) and also their Masters!

Political inability and corruption

It is true that our political system has been quite bad. There is a lot of corruption and even the party system is not democratic. Those people who are influential are the heads of the parties and power is the main criteria to sustain in the politics. In last ten years; Mr. Musharraf supported those politicians who could be easily bought with money; who are with everyone who has power; they don’t care about principles and to tell lies and to cheat is as easy for them as brushing the teeth; in simple words people without feet and faces. So they used their training of grabbing the resources and filled their pockets. Money in the name of war on terror came like flood in Pakistan and Mr. Musharraf distributed it among his companions (thugs) like a king. What did get the common man from that money which was obtained by selling and killing people like animals? Very little and they are lucky that they did not get share from that poison!

Unfortunately there are few people in Pakistan who sell their faiths and loyalties for few coins and this is natural for every society. These corrupt agents can do anything for the sake of money, power and other benefits! They are however being defeated as the common man is awakening and positive forces are getting stronger.

Judicial issue

Actually some people in the judiciary started to challenge the doings of the Mr. Musharraf and his companions. Mr. Musharraf and Co. had just started to enjoy their comforts, luxuries and non-stop corruption. No one was challenging their authorities but all of a sudden Chief Justice of Supreme Court Iftikhar Muhammad Chauhdary started to disturb their enjoyments. He started to give verdicts against the corrupt and uncontrolled companions of Mr. Musharraf. In addition to that he started to ask about those who were missing and were illegally abducted by the security agencies in the name of war on terror. That was a difficult, new and unacceptable reality for the fake commando and his masters. So he ordered to the Chief Justice of Pakistan to resign by calling him at his Army headquarter. Luckily Chief Justice got the courage to deny his orders.

This lead to difficult time for the Chief Justice; he was humiliated by the security forces, was put under house arrest along with his family; even his children were not allowed to attend their schools. A new chief justice was appointed at his position; what a great work by the fake commando; is it not? That lead to the some anger among the dieing nation of Pakistan and people started to feel a bit humiliated and they started to protest against this act.

That protest was joined by the Lawyers of the Pakistan; it was like a change in the way of Pakistan. Protest became so successful and intense that dismissed Chief Justice got reinstated but as he again started to do his brave job the fake commando again got up in problems. Now authority and position of the commando as president was also challenged there in the court. At that point he felt that verdict of the court will be against him; he dismissed more than fifty judges and imposed state of emergency in Pakistan. That was not the only thing; he also put many judges under a kind of house arrest but actually his ship had got irreparable damage; now he had to sink in any case. Anyhow, this forced Mr. Musharraf to leave his position as Army Chief and he was left with one authority of being a President only which he got because there were no neutral and brave judiciary and parliament otherwise it also could not have been possible.

Unrest in the provinces

In some provinces of Pakistan people are not quite happy towards the government of Pakistan and Army. Their aggression and dissatisfaction is natural and justified as they did not get the rights they deserved. There was no clear definition of the rights of the provinces and also if some rights were defined they were not given to the deserving people. The problem has been that top authorities were corrupt and they did not care about the people in different areas. This suffering did not confine to any particular province; almost everyone got affected by it. At times when people started showing the resistance; they were also crushed by the security forces which further increased the aggression. This divide and unrest was also fuelled by some external fellows of Pakistan who are from the very first day unhappy with Pakistan!

Indian factor

Our relations with India have been tricky from the very start. Pakistan and India were born like twins but we are quite different and our goals are not similar. We also have fought quite a few wars with each other. Anyhow, luckily during last ten years we did not had any big war. There was not any major conflict recently between two countries but the issue of Kashmir remains unsolved and that issue could be a flash point at any time. Quite recently things are happening quite awkwardly in Kashmir!

There has been intervention by the both countries in each others country and matters but recently Pakistan has reduced it almost to none. It has, however, become a fashion to blame Pakistan for many things what happens in India e.g. explosions and violence. They always try to prove themselves as the angels! And sometimes I feel as if the whole world is full of angels except Pakistan. Some of our Indian fellows day and night try to prove to the world that Pakistan is a problematic and rogue land and they themselves are the sacred cows! We, however, know very well that how sacred they are! ;) Yes, we know that they (Indians) never tell lies, they never cheat, they always think sincerely for the world and all other positive what a person can think of is present in India. On the other hand Pakistan and Pakistanis are the most brutal, stupid, unethical, terrorist, liars and all other negative what a person can think of is in Pakistan. People of the world are free to believe them; we don’t have any objection to that as people are free! ;)

As far as people of Kashmir are concerned; they are free to take any way they like for themselves. They can live independent or can side with India or if like can come with Pakistan. We respect and support their right of any choice they like.

I would like to mention it that no matter what happened in the past wars; who was right or wrong but this time if India did mistake of attacking Pakistan then they will know what it does mean because this time we are ready to reply. Yes, we want to have peace with India and all others but it does not mean that we will tolerate their aggression and propaganda.

American intervention

It has been impression that America has been quite active and influential into the internal matters of Pakistan. They supported some special political and other forces which could safeguard their special interests. They have been against the restoration of Chief Justice as they have been afraid that it will open up many hidden acts of theirs if he started to investigate the people who went missing during so called war on terror. They have been till recent Past supporters of the undemocratic authority and dictator i.e. Pervez Musharraf although people of Pakistan in general hated him. They also have been active to buy people among our army and there have been other hidden activities too although statements from the American administration have been different and very beautiful ones most of the time. It is also quite interesting that whenever there are elections in USA some Al-Qaida dirty frogs appear in some part of the World!!

Sometimes USA and Co. talk about the plans of the Al-Qaida and terrorists in such a way as if they do lunch together with them! By the way, USA uses the pretext of Al-Qaida to attack other lands what if others also start thinking in the same way against USA? why not?

Suicide killings

Pakistan has been big victim of suicide bombings although people think that these people just kill non-Muslims but if one would analyse who were the victims of these suicides then it will be clear that they are mostly Muslims. We have been shattered by these acts of suicides. Our people don’t feel secure even in their own country. So one thinks that who are committing such brutal acts? There quite a few factors as already mentioned which are playing role e.g. Army action against Militants, attacks from Afghanistan, Pakistan’s support of USA in Afghanistan, brainwashing and misuse of Jihad with possibility of external hands etc.

Here I would like to mention one more point: Islam is against the suicidal attacks especially against civilians but it should also be kept in mind that if a person goes for such an extreme act where he/she even kills own self then there should be some big reasons behind it. There are the circumstances like injustice, anger and feelings of total helplessness which might lead a person to such an extreme action; so circumstances are also big reasons along brainwashing, ignorance and misguidance which cause suicide attacks! In any case such acts must be fully condemned as they generally take blood of civilians and lead to chaos.

My personal views and every one is free to agree or to disagree.

In next post i will present some positive changes which have been happeing in Pakistan.