Understanding Each Other, Diversity and Dissent

Atrocities in Pakistani Balochistan Continue while Old Women like Zulfiqar Magsi sheds crocodiles tears

2012-01-28T22:43:00.001-08:00

"I know that I am prejudiced on this matter, but I would be ashamed of myself if I were not."

Mark Twain

"A cynical, mercenary, demagogic press will produce in time a people as base as itself." - Joseph Pulitzer

ANALYSIS: Negligent dereliction of duty —Mir Mohammad Ali Talpur

These loyalists have not dissented since Ataullah Mengal's government, perceived as hostile, was summarily dismissed in Balochistan in 1973

The Balochistan government is plumbing new depths in misgovernance and it has prompted the unobtrusive and ineffective Balochistan Governor Zulfiqar Ali Magsi to express his dislike and discontent with the state of affairs there. Speaking to the media after the 10th Convocation of the Balochistan University, he expressed concern over the worsening law and order situation in the province, and said that it was the responsibility of the provincial government to improve security to the satisfaction of the people. He added, "As a governor I believe that the elected members of the provincial assembly are responsible for this worsening law and order situation since they are not playing a positive role in retaining durable peace. Merely expressing helplessness or inability is not a solution."
More importantly, when asked about the missing persons and the daily dumping of dead bodies of the Baloch, he said the issue had been taken up with the Chief of Army Staff (COAS) and categorically stated that it would not bode well for the country and its people. As the governor, he certainly must know who is behind all these crimes against the Baloch people. The army and the Frontier Corps (FC) deny any involvement in these killings but then when has anyone involved in atrocities ever accepted their responsibility? The apartheid regime denied the custodial killing of Steve Biko.
Zulfiqar Magsi blamed the stooge assembly and government, in which he as the Centre's representative is an integral part, of being indifferent and carefree. He cited the presence of only one member of the 65-member Balochistan Assembly at the Convocation as an example of their indifference. Nearly all Balochistan Assembly members are ministers and devotedly building empires for themselves. He accused influential people of involvement in kidnapping for ransom; certainly influential these days translates as those close to the Pakistani state.
The Pakistani state always tries to negate the Baloch national struggle with the claim that they have a representative assembly and cabinet to serve them. Zulfiqar Magsi's condemnation has exposed the level of commitment these representatives have for the welfare of the Baloch. These collaborators are assured of state support simply because they have given up on Baloch rights to look after their own material interests. They have sold their souls for a pittance to the tormentors of the Baloch people.
They can afford to be indifferent because there is no accountability; they mostly win elections with bogus votes. The police, the bureaucracy, the army and the judiciary actively abet in their corruption and loot as long as they make the right noises and keep aloof from Baloch rights.
The state mollycoddles them because they give them the desired face of Baloch representation. It is only when they move away from the agreed script of conniving to deprive the Baloch people of their resources, their land and their coast does the Centre and other institutions perceive them as a threat. These loyalists have not dissented since Ataullah Mengal's government, perceived as hostile, was summarily dismissed in Balochistan in 1973.
The practice of providing free rein to the state and the army to commit atrocities is common the world over. There were terrible excesses against the people in Latin America in the 50s, 60s, 70s and 80s of the last century with the connivance and consent of the US and except for a few prosecutions, nothing significant happened to the perpetrators. After three decades of delay the then Guatemala's military ruler Efrain Rios Montt is to be tried for genocide and crimes against humanity; in the civil war nearly 200,000 people died. The dice is heavily loaded in favour of the perpetrators.
A very recent example of a travesty of justice was seen in a judgement against the accused of the Haditha Massacre. In it, 24 unarmed Iraqis — among them seven children and a 76-year-old man in a wheelchair — were victims. Sergeant Frank Wuterich, the person who ordered this carnage with the instructions "shoot first, ask questions later", was the only person in the dock now as the other seven had charges dropped or dismissed. He pleaded guilty to the charge of 'negligent dereliction of duty' and will now go free.
The military judge Lieutenant-Colonel David Jones at Camp Pendleton, California, decided against his pay cut because he has three children to look after. Lieutenant-General Thomas Waldhauser, commander of the Marine Corps Forces Central Command, cannot increase the sentence but can reduce it. The American military first attempted to cover up the killings and a full inquiry was only launched after Tim McGirk, TIME magazine reporter, exposed them.
The judge has compassion for three American children but none for the Haditha Massacre's 24 dead Iraqis and their relatives. Some justice! But then the US is exceptionally skilful at such things: they invaded Iraq and hanged Saddam and killed around a million Iraqis for imaginary WMDs but they give 23 standing ovations to the murderers of the Palestinian people. For justice to be done and to be seen to be done, the Haditha people should have had had the right to try these murderers.
All the misdeeds and misdemeanours of the army here have gone unchallenged and mostly misreported or under-reported. One cannot expect bumbling civilian prime ministers who regularly eat crow after blurting out against the army to hold them to account. The judiciary dilly-dallies on missing persons and kill and dump issues because it has never been people-friendly. Atrocities and injustices are possible because people have become too docile and too obedient and have abdicated their right to protest.
Howard Zinn rightly said, "Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves...(and) the grand thieves are running the country. That is our problem."
As long as the people continue to accept injustices and atrocities being perpetrated against them or others, the 'grand thieves' will remain in power everywhere and atrocities will not cease. The plea of 'negligent dereliction of duty' will always come in handy to the perpetrators if those judging them are of their ilk. Only when people will give up their docility and obsequiousness will justice be done and be seen to be done. And therein lies the solution to the injustices and atrocities anywhere in the world.

The writer has an association with the Baloch rights movement going back to the early 1970s. He can be contacted at mmatalpur@gmail.com

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Phantom Warriors of 1971

2012-01-28T20:44:00.001-08:00

FROM MY DEAR FRIEND BRIGADIER AJAB KHAN

AGHA.H.AMIN

An interesting unknown or little known facet of 1971 war in East Pakistan.

PHANTOM WARRIORS OF 1971: UNSUNG TIBETAN GUERRILLAS
By Manas Paul
13 Dec 2010
Dapon Dhondup Gyatotsang (left) and Dapon Ratu Ngawang (right). (@ Amnye Machen Institute)
Forty years ago in 1971 on a cool and scary November 14 night in Chittagong a Pakistani sniper of Special Service Group perched silently on his hidden location near his camp felt he saw a 'phantom'. The days were then uncertain and nights were too risky. So, the Pakistani soldier did not take any chance and opened fire. And the shadowy creatures just melted away in the darkness. One among them was, however, dying. He was shot at fatally. The Pakistani soldier did not know that he had just killed one of the toughest and CIAtrained Tibetan guerrilla leaders- Dhondup Gyatotsang. As Gyatotsang- a 'Dapon' or Brigadier in Tibetan language- died his comrades, all armed simply with a Bulgarian AK 47 and their Tibetan knives, made radio contact with a turbaned Sikh some kilometres away and across the border. The Sikh barked at them the order : carry on with the task you are assigned to. As the order came the Tibetan guerrillas once again spread in the darkness and coiled up behind the Pakistani barracks and posts .They remained as shadow as long as they wanted and when the right time came they just struck with a lightning speed raiding the Pak positions. One after another Pakistani posts fell as the Tibetans, who by this gained the title 'Phantom of Chittagong', swept the hills and valleys of the hilly district of East Pakistan and restrained the Pakistani military movement to only small pockets. Weeks before the real War actually broke on December 3 the Tibetan guerrillas turned Chittagong virtually a free zone with pre-emptive strikes for Indian army movement. On December 16, 1971 when Pakistan army surrendered, the Tibetan commandos were only 40 kms from the Chittagong Port. By this time they had successfully accomplished their task that their chief-Inspector General- Maj. Gen
Sujan Singh Uban had assigned to them: The Operation Mountain Eagle. They had, however, lost 49 of their comrades and had 190 injured.
Ratu Ngawang (far left), former brigadier of Establishment 22, escorted the Dalai Lama (right) on his way to India in 1959. Seen here with Sujan Singh Uban (2nd from right), the first inspector-general of the regiment, in Chakrata, India, 1972. (© Hindustan Times)
'Operation Mountain Eagle' launched by RAW in East Pakistan during 1971 Indo-Pak War was, perhaps, till date the most closely guarded and top most secret operation of Indian authorities in the eastern flank of the war areas. Officially the operation could not be recognised as the Tibetan guerrilla force- known as Special Frontier Force (SFF) or Establishment-22 or simply called 'two-two'- does not officially exists. The name it got from the fact that their first commander ( at the rank of Inspector General) Maj. Gen Sujan Singh Uban had once commanded 22 Mountain brigade. Since their inception in November, 1962, the Establishment22's direct engagement in Indo-Pak war is also significant for the mere fact that it was not their 'war' at all. They were fighting for the cause of their host country and for liberation of another country- not for Tibet. But never their sacrifice was officially or publicly recognized- neither by India nor by Bangladesh till today.
Formation of top secret force, Two-Two:
At the end of the 1962 Indo-China war the then Intelligence Bureau chief Bholanath Mullick took the initiative to form a special guerrilla force from the Tibetan youths who had been sheltered in India. Some documents indicate that former Chief Minister of Orissa Biju Patnaik had first come up with the idea while he was closely working with the CIA at the behest of Indian authorities in setting up of air surveillance ARC in Charbatia in his home state. Patnaik, a daredevil pilot with vast experience in several covert operations, according to Kenneth Conboy who authored an authoritative book on CIA operations relating to Tibet, wanted to raise a resistance force by the Tibetans in Assam .However, the IB continued with the plan which ultimately materialized with the help of Chu Shi Gandruk, main organization of the Khampa rebels and CIA.
The Dalai Lama and Maj. Gen. Uban inspect the SFF at Chakrata, June 1972 (The CIA's Secret War in Tibet).
Following the green signal from the Cabinet secretariat the Special Frontier Force or Establishment 22 or was formed on November 14, 1962.
According to the plan the force would formed with the Khampa rebels from 'Chu Shi Gandruk' –and most of them would be brought from CIA run overflowing Mustang base in Nepal that housed as many as 2032 members. The force would be handled and trained by the IB at their Chakrata base near Dehra Dun. The CIA would provide all other supports for their training and related matters.
CIA had first trained the Khampa rebels in Saipan in 1957 March and then Camp Hale in Colorado for guerrilla warfare so that they could be dropped in Tibet for sabotage against the Chinese. The operation under the code name of 'ST Circus' was first headed by a US marine Roger McCarthy. They trained in several batches about 259 Tibetan guerrillas. The CIA had also dropped some of them inside Tibet for sabotage and intelligence gathering.
"A formation agreement was signed in 1962. The parties to this formation agreement were the Indian Intelligence Service, the CIA and Chushi Gangdruk. General Gonpo Tashi and Jago Namgyal Dorjee, signed this three-party joint formation agreement on behalf of Chushi Gangdruk. Our organization took main responsibility for recruiting, and an initial strength of 12,000 men, mostly Khampas, were recruited at Chakrata, Dehra-dun, UP. Chushi Gangdruk sent two of the commanders to this new outfit to be political leaders in the initial stage", said Dokham Chushi Gandruk, a Tibetan organization fighting for the Tibetan cause.
Gyalo Thondup, elder brother of the Dalai Lama met the Khampas in Mustang. Konboy said, 'Gyalo also sought four political leaders who could act as the force's indigenous officer cadre....an initial contingent of Tibetans, led by Jamba Kalden, was dispatched to the hill town of Dehra Dun'.
"Our organization took main responsibility for recruiting, and an initial strength of 12,000 men, mostly Khampas, were recruited at Chakrata, Dehra-dun, UP. Chushi Gangdruk sent two of the commanders to this new outfit to be political leaders in the initial stage. Established under the direct supervision of the prime minister, the unit was named the Special Frontier Force... the unit was meant to be air-dropped into Tibet in the event of another war in the Tibetan frontiers", wrote Dokham Chushi Gandruk.
Soon, the CIA, sent eight of its advisers on a six-month temporary duty assignment. The team was led by a veteran CIA operative in several covert and deadly campaigns Wayne Sanford who was recipient of two Purple Hearts. "He was acting undercover from US Embassy as special assistant to Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith", wrote Konboy.
The USA provided all the weaponry to them mostly M-1, M-2 and M-3 machine guns. As the covert guerrilla force was raised Maj General Sujan Singh Uban was assigned the task to command them as their Inspector General. The SFF ultimately came to be known as 'Establishment 22' or simply 'Two-two'. The name it got from the fact that Maj. Gen Uban had once commanded 22 Mountain brigade. Interestingly, the guerrilla forces cap insignia was designed as if it was '12th Gorkha' regiment-crossed khukri with '12' on top. This was a deception tactics as at that time there were only 11 Gorkha regiments, seven regiments were with Indian army and four with the British after independence. It was so decided to confuse common people, in case of meeting the guerrillas, with Gorkhas as the facial features were same.
Major General Sujan Singh Uban
For next several years both Indian army, MARCOS, IB and CIA trained the guerrillas with special focus on para-trooping and sabotage as well as intelligence collection it was kept in mind that in case of another war with China they would be pressed into service. Some of the Camp Hale trained Tibetans were also included in the Establishment 22 and they held senior positions. They ultimately became one of best ever guerrilla forces of the world efficient in both land and water campaigns. While the 'Establishment 22' was commanded by Maj. Gen Uban, the guerrillas had their own political representatives and 'Dapon'- a position equivalent to 'Brigadier'- mostly held by first generation Camp Hale trained guerrillas.
The Dalai Lama was aware of the formation of the guerrilla force since the beginning but He and his Dharamshala officials always maintained a distance from them neither supporting nor opposing the Indian initiative. But according to some, Jawhar Lal Nehru had once visited the guerrillas in Charkatha and was impressed by their training and discipline. The Dalai lama also had visited them once but it was much later.
Until late 1960 the CIA officials had kept relations with the Establishment 22 at various levels, but since 1968 their connections with the Tibetan guerrillas both in Mustang and Charkatha started thinning. CIA link with Charkatha completely died out in 1970s. The USA under Richard Nixon tilted towards Pakistan and also developed secret negotiations with China as Indo-Pakistan war seemed imminent.
Operation Mountain Eagle:
Since the RAW headed by R N Kau was created on 21 September, 1968 the responsibility of the Establishment 22 also went to the agency. But their chief Maj Gen Uban had been worried at the way the trained commandos -as many as 64 companies, divided into eight battalions having six companies each and including other support units- were gathering moss in their Charkatha camps. They were not used against China or Pakistan for any real armed combat and the IG was worried that inaction and absence of field operations might reduce the morale and capabilities.
SFF members during the Bangladesh campaign, 1971
It was at that time the East Pakistan went up in flames with Pakistan army resorting to large scale massacres and rape on March 25, 1971 as 'Operation Searchlight'. Two days later Major Zia Ur Rehman- a Bengali military officer with the Pakistan army announced 'independence' in Chittagong radio and attacked the Pakistani army cantonment. Within a day, many more military officers followed and millions of refugees poured into India to flee the Pakistani Army's massacres and rapes. India was playing the card well and Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was successful in garnering massive international support, barring USA and China of course, for the brutalized East Pakistani Bengali population. By this time Mukti Bahini was formed from the refugee youths sheltered in Indian states for launching guerrilla wars and intelligence collections inside East Pakistan against the Pakistani forces. The idea was to create a pre-emptive strike force before the Indian regular army moved in after the rainy season was over.
Incidentally, Maj Gen Uban was entrusted with the overall task for training of the Bengali forces like Mukti Bahini, Mujib Bahini.
Maj Gen Uban did not miss the chance and moved New Delhi to send his Tibetan forces to East Pakistan who, according to him were already better trained and itching for an operation. After initial hesitation Indira Gandhi was agreed to use the Tibetans for a third country cause, but sent the ball to the court of the Tibetans only.
Writes Tashi Dhundup, in article titled ' Not their own Wars', " Indira Gandhi in the lead-up to the SFF's deployment, Indira Gandhi wired a message to the Tibetan fighters, conveyed through their Indian commander: "We cannot compel you to fight a war for us," Gandhi wrote, "but the fact is that General A A K Niazi (the Pakistan Army commander in East Pakistan) is treating the people of East
Pakistan very badly. India has to do something about it. In a way, it is similar to the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans in Tibet, we are facing a similar situation. It would be appreciated if you could help us fight the war for liberating the people of Bangladesh."
Following the letter the senior commanders of the Establishment 22 guerrillas discussed and agreed to help the Bengalis of East Pakistan to achieve their new nation Bangladesh.
The Operation Mountain Eagle was launched in a second cool November night, apparently avoiding the Eastern Command directly by the RAW.
It was sometime in October third week of 1971 that one of the most top secret armed campaigns against the Pakistan army in East Pakistan the Operation Mountain Eagle was launched quietly launched. More than 3000 Tibetan commandos from Establishment- 22 were dropped at an obscure and extreme border village Demagiri in Mizoram. The Indian secret services used AN 12 plane from the ARC to bring the guerrillas by night sorties. Demagiri which was located across the river Karnafulli and Chittagong Hill Tracts in East Pakistan was by that time was crowded with refugees. The Tibetan stayed incognito with the refugees for sometimes and then began small hit-and-run raids in East Pakistan. They would cross the river and, strike a Pakistani force and return to Demagiri. In second week of November, 1971, the Tibetan guerrillas led by Dapon Dhondup Gyatotsang crossed the river using nine canoes went inside East Pakistan to launch a decisive guerrilla campaign. Since the Establishment 22 or SFF does not officially exist, Indian authorities to deny any complicity in any eventuality gave them Bulgarian AK 47s instead of Russian ones. On the very first night they ran over a Pakistani post. Within hours next morning they captured one more and they kept on sweeping and then stopped- for sometime- when their Dapon was shot dead. But again, they swung into action.
The task to Establishment 22 were clear: blow up Kaptai dam, damage the Pakistani military positions and kill as many as Pak soldiers- at that time popularly called as 'Khan Sena' possible, destroy the bridges, military infrastructures, and restrain the Pakistani military movement. Divided in three columns their hit and run modus operandi and the task specified were to create a situation that when the Indian army would move , they could march through the Chittagong hills and plains without much resistance from the Pakistanis.
According to the specialists on the subject the Establishment guerrillas were extremely successful in their campaign. It that time Pakistani 97th Independent Brigade and their 2nd commando battalion of SSG were positioned strategically in Chittagong. The guerrillas successfully restrained them in their respective positions and also cut off all the routes that the Pakistani soldiers thought of opening towards Burma. In fact the Pakistani soldiers were seeing ghosts in all the shadows and they were fighting against merciless ghosts who were always on the
prowl, would swoop down from nowhere and mercilessly eliminate the humans and destroy the posts and would immediately vanish for their next target. Within one month of their operations, the Tibetan guerrillas virtually cleaned up the Chittagong and when the Indian army moved in they did not face much resistance at all.
"About one-third of its full strength was developed adjacent to the Chittagong Hill Tracts as Mukti Bahini. They captured many towns and garrisons in the Chittagong Hill Tracts in continuous fighting of about one month", according to Dhokma Chushi Gangdruk.
In fact Maj Ge Uban and his guerrillas were keen to capture the Chittagong Port. They were very close and Pakistan army were not at all in a position to stop them. But Indian military and other authorities were not ready to assign them with the task as , though it would have been easier for the guerrillas to capture the Port, to keep it under their control they would have needed heavy artillery weapons-which they did not have with them.
According to a document, when the Chittagong Port was captured by Indian military, the guerrillas were then asked to sit quiet at about 40 kms away. However, on December 16 when Pakistan army surrendered in Dhaka, the Phantoms of Establishment -22 for the first time in their history, came out in the open on the Chittagong road rejoicing the victory of India over Pakistan. Not the common people were stunned by their sudden appearance -happy and rejoicing- virtually from nowhere, even many of the Indian soldiers who were also not aware of their presence in the vicinity were taken by surprise. But soon Maj Gen Uban was informed about the public appearance of the Tibetans on Chittagong roads and he just barked them back to shadows once again. They were never seen again. Their happy moment in the public was only for some hours.
Though the Tibetan guerrillas were arguably the main force that played key role in Chittagong in 1971 war,- sacrificed 49 ( according to Tibetans' estimate 56) including one of their top leader and 190 injured, they could not be Officially awarded.
"The Indian government gave awards to 580 members of the force for their active involvement and bravery in the battles. The contribution made by Establishment 22 in liberating East Pakistan was great and the price paid by the force was also high", said Dokham Chusi Gandruk, the New York based organization.
It then added: (The fight and sacrifice) would have been of great value had it been used against communist China, the intended enemy....The SFF never had a chance of being used in operations against its intended enemy, Red China, but it was used against East Pakistan with the consent of His Holiness the Dalai Lama in 1971".
It is, however, a different story that the Establishment 22 was later used in many Indian operations including in Operation Blue Star, Siachen, Kargil. They are also being used a main anti terrorist operators in many parts of the country. According to a report, in between Indira Gandhi's assassination and formation of SPG, it was these Establishment 22 commandos who were in charge of Gandhi family's close protection. But in all the cases down the decades they remained unsung heroes- the 'unknown' warriors from a different country who fought and sacrificed for others.
Post Script : PHATOM FIGHTERS OF 1971 : UNSUNG TIBETAN GUERRILLAS is virtually an untold story of a top secret mission. A very handful of people including some foreign journalists who were in touch with Tibetans are aware of the operations. Many of the military generals including Gen JFR Jacob or Maj gen SS Uban who commanded the force did not dwell extensively on them but obliquely referred. So it is virtually revisiting a mission that was intended to be kept Top secret. Picture is taken from internet.
Source: http://www.tibetsun.com/archive/2010/12/13/phantom-warriors-of-1971-unsung-tibetan-guerillas/

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Akbar.S. Ahmed - a poet of great vision

2012-01-28T20:34:00.001-08:00

I dont know Akbar.S.Ahmed but I knew his most talented brother Brigadier Sikandar Ahmed who I met in Kharian back in September 1984.

Attached is a small bionote on Brigadier Sikandar that I wrote last year--

Brigadier Sikandar.S.Ahmed

Agha.H.Amin

It is not necessary that we have to discuss Napoleons and Guderians here on military history forums.

We can discuss potential Napoleon also.

It was August or September 1984 when I met then Major Sikandar Ahmad , then serving in 1 FF. Sikandar was an exceptional man intellectually ! A rare find ! His sense of humour was also historic and most unorthodox ! When his brigade commander one Syed Tanvir Hussain Naqvi visited him in the combined military hospital Kharian camtonment Sikandar who had a foot in plaster (a basket ball injury) when asked by Naqvi " Oh you can walk " retorted , I can hop also !

It turned out that Major Sikandar Ahmad belonged to an extremely educated and outstanding family and younger brother of one Akbar.S.Ahmad a CSP who was then commissioner of Sibi .

Sikandar as all brilliant and outspken men was in clash with authority , having inspired jealousy of smaller men who had higher ranks ! But as they say it the habit of stray village dogs to bark at eminent men !

Although I was a history enthusiast Sikandar played a role in polishing it by his analysis of history from a high vantage point , seeing the larger picture and guiding me how to do it !

He taught me how to write redress of grievances against your military superiors as per instructions given in Army regulations 193 and 194 originally conceived by the British and one of their greatest contributions to the military law.

With Sikandars guidance I became an expert in writing redress of grievances and in military law and helped many juniour officers in fighting and sometimes playing hell with careers of their intellectually dishonest commanding officers !

It is sad that while the Indian Army gave their officers basic rights in pakistan the army has laws of stone age !

We met again in Multan in 1985-86.

In 1987 or 1988 Sikandar was miraculously promoted to be a colonel. Miraculously I say because men of his very high calibre have no place in armies which in reality are citadels of mediocrity !

Sikandar was a chronic bachelor but suddenly he got married in 1988 or so ! He was on his honey moon and stayed at my fathers annexe in cavalry ground Lahore.

Major General Hameed Gul who initially was not in favour of Sikandar realised that Sikandar was an exceptionally talented man and I believe Sikandar did extremely well in the ISI under Gul.

I managed to visit Sikandar many times in the desert in tamewali when he was commanding his parent 1 FF regiment.We sat next to fire lit in the open and chatted.

This was 1988 or so .

I last talked with him in 1993 or so when I was commanding an independent squadron at Okara and he commanding an infantry brigade at Pano Aqil.He had been selected for the war course but the lesser souls with lesser intellects again conspired against him ! Sikandar did not have that shameless obsequeousness which you find in most officers.

I last met him in 2000 when he had retired .I wanted to present him my book but a major general expressed immense interest in it and i gave it to him ! I thought that I would give Sikandar another copy ! But then we lost contact !

I dont know where he is now ! In retrospect I can say that more harm on the pakistani state and army has been inflicted by its third rate senior officials than any enemy could do !

It was with this background in mind that I thus wrote in my article published in the command and staff college Quettas Citadel Journal; " many military systems that this world saw were a conspiracy against originality and boldness" !

Daily Times, Sunday, January 29, 2012

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VIEW: Akbar Ahmed: a poet of great vision —Ishtiaq Ahmed

Surely the God Akbar Ahmed believes in is the God all good human beings would need to repair this world. Even rationalists, agnostics and atheists would not mind inventing such a God

Professor Akbar Ahmed is widely recognised as a proud Muslim and Pakistani, always willing to take up cudgels on behalf of his faith and country. While such concerns have remained constant for him, he has intellectually travelled a great distance in the correct direction: towards the recognition of common humankind.
Since many years now he has been on a personal spiritual and intellectual journey. That journey has helped him blossom as a Muslim, a humanist, a distinguished scholar and a talented poet. His fascination for Suleh-e-Qul (peace for all) now informs his writing as well as his social and cultural activism. That is a great asset in this world torn and traumatised by intolerance, extremism and war. Poetry is arguably a far more liberating medium to express feelings and emotions.
The poet Akbar Ahmed has shown great intellectual honesty and integrity by not editing or self-censoring the poems he shares with us in his Suspended: Somewhere Between (Washington DC: Busboys and Poets Press, 2011). It includes verses that could appeal to militant Islamists as well as verses that are in the best Sufi tradition of tolerance and embrace of others. Suspended: Somewhere Between is organised into five themes: Pakistan, Love, Islam, Echoes of History and Pensées.
The poems on Pakistan bring forth the profound emotions and pride the author felt when his family made the journey to Pakistan. Son of a civil servant — UP origin father of Arab extraction and Pukhtun mother — Akbar Ahmed arrived in Pakistan in a train from Delhi that luckily escaped an armed raid during the partition riots. The experiences in Pakistan have been multifaceted; deeply moving visits to Sufi shrines as well as exposure to the stark reality of the policeman's baton — something that Allama Iqbal failed to appreciate in his famous celebration of the master and slave becoming equals when standing together during prayers. He pays tribute to his mother, to the caliphs Umar (RA) and Ali (RA), to his friend Major Sabir Kamal who was witness to the blood dance that took place in Dhaka in March 1971. The social and cultural code of the Pakhtuns, Pakhtunwali, and the Khyber Pass are portrayed with tender insight. His poem "They are taking them away" on the 1971 civil war in the former East Pakistan is an outpouring of grief for all those who suffered: Bengali, Bihari; East Pakistani, West Pakistani. The last verse captures his agony pithily:
"there is no shame like the shame of
taking them away to the slaughter houses."
The poems grouped under Love include exquisite imagery fired by passion as well as homage to his mother and love for his wife and children. This section can be of great help to poets looking for inspiration to capture love in different contexts.
The third section of verses deals with the poet's love for Islam. Intellectually, this is the most daring section as he battles with the narratives about an Islam whose glory rests on conquest and expansion and the period of celebrated caliph Umar bin Khattab (RA) as well as the grandeur of God expressed through architecture, poetry and high culture created by distinguished men such as Jalaluddin Rumi, Ibn Khaldun, Omar Khayyam, Ghalib and others. He is elated by a visit to a mosque in Paris frequented by the Berbers — a North African group who converted to Islam at a very early stage. For him it proves that Islam appeals to all ethnicities and nationalities. His affiliation to Sunni Islam does not prejudice him towards the followers of other religions or sects. This is how he understands the message of the Quran and Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
In the Echoes of History, Akbar Ahmed provides us with glimpses of his understanding of civilisation. He raises a voice of protest against those intoxicated by the power and might at their disposal. While he condemns the 9/11 terrorist outrage, he pours out his heart-felt grievances over how the high and mighty in the US turned that into a war against Muslims. He cautions that all empires ultimately slip into oblivion. Some verses dwell on the Mughals who conquered and built a fabled empire. A poem deals with his father's legacy of serving the British while retaining a lively interest in Ghalib and Iqbal. All such influences have left an impression on him and impacted on his understanding of the world as a citizen of the world.
Pensées was a new term for me. I now know it means pithy 'thoughts' or aphorisms about what people understand as truth. Pensées was given posthumously as the title for a defence of the Christian religion by the 17th century French philosopher and mathematician, Blaise Pascal. Akbar Ahmed ascribes a wider and more interesting meaning to his Pensées. For him nature, the universe, God — are objects of wonderment and awe. They dazzle him, they make him ponder the ultimate existentialist question: what is life all about? I present the last poem entitled, "What is that I seek?" in his book:
"A force of such might
It sets me free
A light so bright
It blinds me
I heard it in the voice of the nightingale
I know it was in the hearts of the wise
I sensed it in the lover's tale
I saw it in your eyes
I saw it in Rumi's poetry
I know it was in Gandhi's gaze
I sensed it in Mandela's oratory
I saw it in Jesus' ways...
What is this riddle and what is its parts?
What is this enigma and mystery?
What can reveal the secrets of the heart?
What has the power to change me?
It is God's greatest gift
It raises us high above
It is the bridge over the rift
It is love, love, love
Give it in generous measure
Give it as if there's no tomorrow
Give to all you meet this treasure
Give it and banish sorrow."
Surely the God Akbar Ahmed believes in is the God all good human beings would need to repair this world. Even rationalists, agnostics and atheists would not mind inventing such a God. The problem is of course the God of history in whose name so much blood has been spilled down the ages. I hope one day he reflects on the dialectical movement in the history of God and proposes a way out of this dilemma.

The writer has a PhD from Stockholm University. He is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Stockholm University. He is also Honorary Senior Fellow of the Institute of South Asian Studies, National University of Singapore. He can be reached at billumian@gmail.com

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Shia Killings, Jundullah, Mossad & Iran-Pakistan Pipeline.

2012-01-28T01:02:00.001-08:00

FROM MR AAMIR MUGHAL A RETIRED INTELLIGENCE OFFICER AND A BRILLIANT ANALYST

Shia Killings, Jundullah, Mossad & Iran-Pakistan Pipeline.

http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2012/01/shia-killings-jundullah-mossad-iran.html

EVEN as concerns about Iran`s nuclear programme have led to tougher sanctions by the United States and the European Union, Pakistan seems determined to continue with the Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline. For this country there are two separate issues at hand. One is the question of Iran building nuclear weapons. As a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, Iran must not be enriching uranium to levels required for weapons and should remain under inspection. As such, one hopes Tehran is dec-laring the full scope of its nuclear activities to the International Atomic Energy Agency and is only, as it claims, using nuclear material for energy and other peaceful purposes. Also, from the perspective of geopolitical priorities, the presence of another nuclear-armed neighbour is not in Pakistan`s interests, regardless of the current nature of the relationship with Iran. At the same time, Pakistan`s energy emergency has now become a matter of both prosperity and security. The country needs to pursue any practical and affordable sources of energy it can acquire, especially those that can begin delivering sooner than others. Along with LNG imports, gas from Iran is one such option and execution could be completed in two years if started in earnest today. The Tapi pipeline is beset with challenges, not the least of which is the security situation in Afghanistan. Given Pakistan`s limited options, it is hard to argue that the Iran project should not be pursued, despite America`s discouragement and its contention that there are quicker ways that Pakistan could explore to resolve its energy problem. According to the Foreign Office, the pipeline would not violate United Nations sanctions. And regulations are still being finalised to implement the latest US sanctions which will make it harder for foreign financial institutions that transact with certain Iranian banks to conduct business in America. If sanctions are indeed applied, an exception should be granted for the pipeline on the grounds that Pakistan`s gas and power needs pose urgent economic, political and security risks. Nor should Coalition Support Funds or funding from international lending agencies be held back as a form of pressure. Iran can be asked for assurances that proceeds from the pipeline will in no way contribute to the development of nuclear weapons. Meanwhile, Pakistan will still have to do the tough work of improving efficiency in power and gas delivery, creating a sustainable pricing structure, developing indigenous resources and taking other steps to set its own house in order. The Iran-Pakistan pipeline should be pursued but it will not be a silver bullet. REFERENCE: Iran-Pakistan pipeline http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/iran-pakistan-pipeline.html

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QUETTA, Jan 26: The Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) urged the government on Thursday to take action against the elements involved in the killing of the people of Hazara community. Addressing a meeting organised to mark the third death anniversary of HDP president Hussain Ali Yousufi, they appealed to the international community to raise its voice against the targeted killing of the Hazaras. Khaliq Hazara, Ahmed Ali Kohzad, Mirza Hussain Hazara, Reza Wakil and Asmat Naiz paid homage to the late leader for his struggle for the rights of Hazaras and other communities. They said Mr Yousufi was a moderate, progressive and nationalist who believed in co-existence. They said extremists and terrorists were targeting the Hazaras with impunity and the government had failed to arrest the killers. They expressed concern over the killing of missing and kidnapped people in the province and throwing of their bodies. They said it was the government's responsibility to trace those behind these cruel acts. They said the Hazara Democratic Party was ready to launch a struggle in collaboration with other communities and democratic forces against the anti-people forces to protect the lives of innocent persons. REFERENCE: Non-stop killings on sectarian grounds Hazaras demand protection from government Amanullah Kasi http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/27/non-stop-killings-on-sectarian-grounds-hazaras-demand-protection-from-government.html

When the State of Israel was declared, David Ben-Gurion, Israel's first Prime Minister, expressed his views on the necessity of creating intelligence agencies to operate on behalf of the nascent state. On June 7, 1948, he held his first meeting on this matter with intelligence officials. On December 13, 1949, following detailed staff work, Ben-Gurion appointed foreign ministry special operations' adviser and former Jewish Agency state department official, Reuben Shiloah, to establish and head the 'Institute for Collating and Co-ordinating Intelligence Operations.' This date is considered the date the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations was established. On March 2, 1951, as a result of the experience gained in running State intelligence agencies, particularly in overseas' operations, Ben-Gurion ordered Reuben Shiloah to set up the 'Directorate,' within the Institute for Coordination, to take all overseas intelligence operations under its wing. The 'Directorate' was the initial incarnation of the main collection unit in the Institute for Intelligence and Special Operations. REFERENCE: The Mossadhttp://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Society_&_Culture/mossad.html

Mossad also gathers genuine passports of other countries from immigrants to Israel on the pretext of "saving the Jews". These genuine passports are studied to prepare fake passports. Ostrovski identifies four kinds of passports used by Mossad for their operations; "top quality, second quality, field operation and throwaway". The low quality throwaway kind is mostly stolen from others and put in use when "needed only to flash them". They are not used for identification, since it cannot withstand through scrutiny. The field operation kind is "used for quick work in a foreign country, but not used when crossing borders". The second quality passport is a perfect one, "without no real persons behind" the details provided in it. The top-quality passport is the perfect kind, "which could stand up completely to any official scrutiny, including a check by the country of origin". The motto of Mossad in such delicate forgery is that, "no operation should be bungled by a bad document". Other tit-bits offered by Ostrovsky relating to the operation of Mossad are quite interesting.

"Sympathy for the Tamils runs high in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu, where 40 Million Tamils live. Many Sri Lankan Tamils, escaping the bloodshed, have sought refuge there, and the Sri Lankan government has accused Indian officials of arming and training the Tamils. They should be cursing the Mossad." The Tamil were training at the commando naval base, learning penetration techniques, mining landings, communications, and how to sabotage ships similar to the Devora. There were about 28 men in each group, so it was decided that Yosy should take the Tamils to Haifa that night while I took the Sinhalese to Tel Aviv, thus avoiding any chance encounters. The real problem started about two weeks into the courses, when both the Tamils and Sinhalese – unknown to each, of course – were training at Kafr Sirkin. " Look, we have a problem," said Amy. "We have a group of 27 SWAT team guys from India coming in." " My God," I said, "What is this? We've got Sinhalese, Tamils, and Now Indians. Who's next?" Page 130.

1) "The Mossad's main computer contained more than 1.5 million names in memory.

2) The London station of Mossad "owns more than 100 safe houses and rents another 50".

3) "In London alone, there are about 2,000 active sayanim (Jewish volunteer helpers) who are active, and another 5,000 on the list".

4) Margaret Thatcher was always called inside the Mossad as "the bitch", because "they had her tagged as anti-Semite".

5) For a long time since 1977, Mossad has hired "Durak Kasim, (Yasser) Arafat's driver and personal bodyguard" as their agent, and "he was reporting to them almost daily, sending messages through a burst radio communications system, receiving $2,000 a report. He also telephoned information and mailed it periodically..." REFERENCE: BY WAY OF DECEPTION An Insider's Devastating Expose of The Mossad by Claire Hoy & Victor Ostrovsky {Arrow Books 1988} http://www.amazon.com/Way-Deception-Making-Mossad-officer/dp/0971759502

Buried deep in the archives of America's intelligence services are a series of memos, written during the last years of President George W. Bush's administration, that describe how Israeli Mossad officers recruited operatives belonging to the terrorist group Jundallah by passing themselves off as American agents. According to two U.S. intelligence officials, the Israelis, flush with American dollars and toting U.S. passports, posed as CIA officers in recruiting Jundallah operatives -- what is commonly referred to as a "false flag" operation. The memos, as described by the sources, one of whom has read them and another who is intimately familiar with the case, investigated and debunked reports from 2007 and 2008 accusing the CIA, at the direction of the White House, of covertly supporting Jundallah -- a Pakistan-based Sunni extremist organization. Jundallah, according to the U.S. government and published reports, is responsible for assassinating Iranian government officials and killing Iranian women and children. But while the memos show that the United States had barred even the most incidental contact with Jundallah, according to both intelligence officers, the same was not true for Israel's Mossad. The memos also detail CIA field reports saying that Israel's recruiting activities occurred under the nose of U.S. intelligence officers, most notably in London, the capital of one of Israel's ostensible allies, where Mossad officers posing as CIA operatives met with Jundallah officials. REFERENCE: False Flag A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran. BY MARK PERRY JANUARY 13, 2012 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag?page=0,0

Seymour Hersh- US is funding Al-Qaeda to counter Iran - 1

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnUWcjXvdlo

The officials did not know whether the Israeli program to recruit and use Jundallah is ongoing. Nevertheless, they were stunned by the brazenness of the Mossad's efforts. "It's amazing what the Israelis thought they could get away with," the intelligence officer said. "Their recruitment activities were nearly in the open. They apparently didn't give a damn what we thought." Interviews with six currently serving or recently retired intelligence officers over the last 18 months have helped to fill in the blanks of the Israeli false-flag operation. In addition to the two currently serving U.S. intelligence officers, the existence of the Israeli false-flag operation was confirmed to me by four retired intelligence officers who have served in the CIA or have monitored Israeli intelligence operations from senior positions inside the U.S. government. The CIA and the White House were both asked for comment on this story. By the time this story went to press, they had not responded. The Israeli intelligence services -- the Mossad -- were also contacted, in writing and by telephone, but failed to respond. As a policy, Israel does not confirm or deny its involvement in intelligence operations. There is no denying that there is a covert, bloody, and ongoing campaign aimed at stopping Iran's nuclear program, though no evidence has emerged connecting recent acts of sabotage and killings inside Iran to Jundallah. Many reports have cited Israel as the architect of this covert campaign, which claimed its latest victim on Jan. 11 when a motorcyclist in Tehran slipped a magnetic explosive device under the car of Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a young Iranian nuclear scientist. The explosion killed Roshan, making him the fourth scientist assassinated in the past two years. The United States adamantly denies it is behind these killings. REFERENCE: False Flag A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran. BY MARK PERRY JANUARY 13, 2012 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag?page=0,0

Seymour Hersh- US is funding Al-Qaeda to counter Iran - 2

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmk9FbGZC7U&feature=related

According to one retired CIA officer, information about the false-flag operation was reported up the U.S. intelligence chain of command. It reached CIA Director of Operations Stephen Kappes, his deputy Michael Sulick, and the head of the Counterintelligence Center. All three of these officials are now retired. The Counterintelligence Center, according to its website, is tasked with investigating "threats posed by foreign intelligence services." The report then made its way to the White House, according to the currently serving U.S. intelligence officer. The officer said that Bush "went absolutely ballistic" when briefed on its contents. "The report sparked White House concerns that Israel's program was putting Americans at risk," the intelligence officer told me. "There's no question that the U.S. has cooperated with Israel in intelligence-gathering operations against the Iranians, but this was different. No matter what anyone thinks, we're not in the business of assassinating Iranian officials or killing Iranian civilians." Israel's relationship with Jundallah continued to roil the Bush administration until the day it left office, this same intelligence officer noted. Israel's activities jeopardized the administration's fragile relationship with Pakistan, which was coming under intense pressure from Iran to crack down on Jundallah. It also undermined U.S. claims that it would never fight terror with terror, and invited attacks in kind on U.S. personnel. "It's easy to understand why Bush was so angry," a former intelligence officer said. "After all, it's hard to engage with a foreign government if they're convinced you're killing their people. Once you start doing that, they feel they can do the same." REFERENCE: False Flag A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran. BY MARK PERRY JANUARY 13, 2012 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag?page=0,0

Seymour Hersh- US is funding Al-Qaeda to counter Iran - 3

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nD6pyqtV9lc&feature=related

A senior administration official vowed to "take the gloves off" with Israel, according to a U.S. intelligence officer. But the United States did nothing -- a result that the officer attributed to "political and bureaucratic inertia." "In the end," the officer noted, "it was just easier to do nothing than to, you know, rock the boat." Even so, at least for a short time, this same officer noted, the Mossad operation sparked a divisive debate among Bush's national security team, pitting those who wondered "just whose side these guys [in Israel] are on" against those who argued that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." The debate over Jundallah was resolved only after Bush left office when, within his first weeks as president, Barack Obama drastically scaled back joint U.S.-Israel intelligence programs targeting Iran, according to multiple serving and retired officers. The decision was controversial inside the CIA, where officials were forced to shut down "some key intelligence-gathering operations," a recently retired CIA officer confirmed. This action was followed in November 2010 by the State Department's addition of Jundallah to its list of foreign terrorist organizations -- a decision that one former CIA officer called "an absolute no-brainer." Since Obama's initial order, U.S. intelligence services have received clearance to cooperate with Israel on a number of classified intelligence-gathering operations focused on Iran's nuclear program, according to a currently serving officer. These operations are highly technical in nature and do not involve covert actions targeting Iran's infrastructure or political or military leadership. REFERENCE: False Flag A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran. BY MARK PERRY JANUARY 13, 2012 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag?page=0,0

Seymour Hersh- US is funding Al-Qaeda to counter Iran - 4

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwkrsenuEl0&feature=related

"We don't do bang and boom," a recently retired intelligence officer said. "And we don't do political assassinations." Israel regularly proposes conducting covert operations targeting Iranians, but is just as regularly shut down, according to retired and current intelligence officers. "They come into the room and spread out their plans, and we just shake our heads," one highly placed intelligence source said, "and we say to them -- 'Don't even go there. The answer is no.'" Unlike the Mujahedin-e Khalq, the controversial exiled Iranian terrorist group that seeks the overthrow of the Tehran regime and is supported by former leading U.S. policymakers, Jundallah is relatively unknown -- but just as violent. In May 2009, a Jundallah suicide bomber blew himself up inside a mosque in Zahedan, the capital of Iran's southeastern Sistan-Baluchistan province bordering Pakistan, during a Shiite religious festival. The bombing killed 25 Iranians and wounded scores of others. The attack enraged Tehran, which traced the perpetrators to a cell operating in Pakistan. The Iranian government notified the Pakistanis of the Jundallah threat and urged them to break up the movement's bases along the Iranian-Pakistani border. The Pakistanis reacted sluggishly in the border areas, feeding Tehran's suspicions that Jundallah was protected by Pakistan's intelligence services. The 2009 attack was just one in a long line of terrorist attacks attributed to the organization. In August 2007, Jundallah kidnapped 21 Iranian truck drivers. In December 2008, it captured and executed 16 Iranian border guards -- the gruesome killings were filmed, in a stark echo of the decapitation of American businessman Nick Berg in Iraq at the hands of al Qaeda's Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. In July 2010, Jundallah conducted a twin suicide bombing in Zahedan outside a mosque, killing dozens of people, including members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. REFERENCE: False Flag A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran. BY MARK PERRY JANUARY 13, 2012 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag?page=0,0

Seymour hersh and Scott Ritter on Iran 1-3

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17pghiRDcms

The State Department aggressively denies that the U.S. government had or has any ties to Jundallah. "We have repeatedly stated, and reiterate again that the United States has not provided support to Jundallah," a spokesman wrote in an email to the Wall Street Journal, following Jundallah's designation as a terrorist organization. "The United States does not sponsor any form of terrorism. We will continue to work with the international community to curtail support for terrorist organizations and prevent violence against innocent civilians. We have also encouraged other governments to take comparable actions against Jundallah." A spate of stories in 2007 and 2008, including a report by ABC News and a New Yorker article, suggested that the United States was offering covert support to Jundallah. The issue has now returned to the spotlight with the string of assassinations of Iranian nuclear scientists and has outraged serving and retired intelligence officers who fear that Israeli operations are endangering American lives. "This certainly isn't the first time this has happened, though it's the worst case I've heard of," former Centcom chief and retired Gen. Joe Hoar said of the Israeli operation upon being informed of it. "But while false-flag operations are hardly new, they're extremely dangerous. You're basically using your friendship with an ally for your own purposes. Israel is playing with fire. It gets us involved in their covert war, whether we want to be involved or not." REFERENCE: False Flag A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran. BY MARK PERRY JANUARY 13, 2012 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag?page=0,0

Seymour hersh and Scott Ritter on Iran 2-3

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMnadXCMBfo&feature=related

The Israeli operation left a number of recently retired CIA officers sputtering in frustration. "It's going to be pretty hard for the U.S. to distance itself from an Israeli attack on Iran with this kind of thing going on," one of them told me. Jundallah head Abdolmalek Rigi was captured by Iran in February 2010. Although initial reports claimed that he was captured by the Iranians after taking a flight from Dubai to Kyrgyzstan, a retired intelligence officer with knowledge of the incident told me that Rigi was detained by Pakistani intelligence officers in Pakistan. The officer said that Rigi was turned over to the Iranians after the Pakistani government informed the United States that it planned to do so. The United States, this officer said, did not raise objections to the Pakistani decision. Iran, meanwhile, has consistently claimed that Rigi was snatched from under the eyes of the CIA, which it alleges supported him. "It doesn't matter," the former intelligence officer said of Iran's charges. "It doesn't matter what they say. They know the truth." REFERENCE: False Flag A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran. BY MARK PERRY JANUARY 13, 2012 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag?page=0,0

Seymour hersh and Scott Ritter on Iran 3-3

URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gntZXoA46aM&feature=related

Rigi was interrogated, tried, and convicted by the Iranians and hanged on June 20, 2010. Prior to his execution, Rigi claimed in an interview with Iranian media -- which has to be assumed was under duress -- that he had doubts about U.S. sponsorship of Jundallah. He recounted an alleged meeting with "NATO officials" in Morocco in 2007 that raised his suspicions. "When we thought about it we came to the conclusion that they are either Americans acting under NATO cover or Israelis," he said. While many of the details of Israel's involvement with Jundallah are now known, many others still remain a mystery -- and are likely to remain so. The CIA memos of the incident have been "blue bordered," meaning that they were circulated to senior levels of the broader U.S. intelligence community as well as senior State Department officials. What has become crystal clear, however, is the level of anger among senior intelligence officials about Israel's actions. "This was stupid and dangerous," the intelligence official who first told me about the operation said. "Israel is supposed to be working with us, not against us. If they want to shed blood, it would help a lot if it was their blood and not ours. You know, they're supposed to be a strategic asset. Well, guess what? There are a lot of people now, important people, who just don't think that's true." REFERENCE: False Flag A series of CIA memos describes how Israeli Mossad agents posed as American spies to recruit members of the terrorist organization Jundallah to fight their covert war against Iran. BY MARK PERRY JANUARY 13, 2012 http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/01/13/false_flag?page=0,0

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1. (S/NF) Summary: In a wide-ranging discussion with visiting SCA Assistant Secretary Boucher, President Zardari expressed complete satisfaction with his just concluded visit to China, reviewed planning for the Friends of Pakistan, and reiterated his determination to press the fight against extremism and the militancy in the tribal areas. He linked his ability to sustain the counter-insurgency fight to progress on addressing Pakistan,s economic woes, however, and chastised the IMF for only wanting to &take away8 in its negotiations. Zardari alerted Boucher to Iran's offer of concessional oil for Pakistan, an offer he did not believe he could refuse. Boucher reminded him of the Deputy Secretary's recent caution not to allow Iran to gain a toehold in Pakistan. End Summary.

2. (SBU) Visiting Assistant Secretary for South and Central Asian Affairs Richard Boucher called on President Zardari at the Aiwan-e-Sadr, October 18. He was accompanied by the Ambassador, DCM (notetaker), and SCA Senior Advisor Hayden. Minister of Information Sherry Rehman joined Zardari.

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3. (S/NF) Zardari told Boucher his visit to China was

&great.8 He confirmed that the Chinese had committed to building two additional nuclear power plants for Pakistan ) Chashma 3 and 4. He noted, however, that construction would not start until the completion of the Chashma 2 reactor, which he anticipated would require an additional five years. Commenting that the Chinese were providing only old technology, Zardari said that Pakistan had no choice but to accept &junk.8 Boucher told Zardari we would examine the implications of the new nuclear deal vis–vis the International Atomic Energy Agency and let the Pakistanis know if we anticipated any problems with the deal.

4. (S/NF) Zardari also told Boucher that the Chinese had committed to providing assistance to Pakistan,s security forces. Arguing that China was Pakistan,s only affordable option for needed security items, Zardari said the government plans to acquire armored vehicles, body armor, and small arms from China. The Chinese also plan to provide large scanners to Pakistan to help check the contents of trucks. Boucher and the Ambassador reminded Zardari that the U.S. is working with the Frontier Corps on a comprehensive train and equip program. (Comment: Embassy is preparing a letter to Zardari reviewing the details of the U.S. government's extensive support to the Frontier Corps. End Comment)

5. (C) Although silent on the question of possible Chinese balance of payments support to Pakistan, Zardari lauded Chinese &out-of-box8 thinking about business investment in Pakistan. As an example, he described a project to build a dam that would irrigate land that Zardari would then grant to women, who would grow flowers on the land for export to the Emirates. The Chinese will manage the marketing for the

project.

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6. (C) Zardari confirmed that he wants to formally change the name of the group to Friends of Democratic Pakistan. In response to Boucher's question about the Saudi position, he provided Boucher with a convoluted description of his discussions with Prince Turki bin Abdullah, who requested Zardari,s participation in the Interfaith Dialogue that the King is organizing in New York. In exchange, Zardari expects that the Saudis will be full participants in the Friends group (see septel).

7. (C) As for other possible additions to the Friends group, Boucher suggested that Spain and the Scandinavians might be ISLAMABAD 00003339 002 OF 003 good additions. Zardari assented, and asked Boucher if the U.S. would support Libya's inclusion, to which Boucher agreed. Zardari suggested to Boucher that he would like China added to the steering group. Boucher was open to the idea but noted that the steering committee needed to remain small.

8. (C) Boucher reminded Zardari that the Friends group is not a &checkbook8 organization. He noted that we need to sit with the steering group and consider issues like membership and the role of the UN. We are hoping that the UN will help drive the process by providing a secretariat function. After the next meeting in Abu Dhabi, the U.S. vision would be to launch a series of experts meeting that would consider Pakistani policies and initiatives in a sector-by-sector review.

9. (S/NF) In an aside, Zardari mentioned that Iran has offered to provide Pakistan with concessional oil. How could he go to the National Assembly and tell them Iran had offered the assistance and Pakistan had turned it down, he asked rhetorically. Boucher reminded him of Ambassador Haqqani,s recent conversation on this issue with Deputy Secretary Negroponte in which the Deputy cautioned against providing Iran with a toehold in Pakistan.

Counter-Insurgency

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10. (S) Zardari stressed repeatedly his determination to carry through with the fight against extremism and militancy. &I don't believe in talking to the Taliban,8 he said. &We won't do it on our side of the border.8 He noted that he has built a good relationship with the military and praised the leadership of Chief of Army Staff Kayani, ISI Director General Pasha, and Frontier Corps General Tariq Khan. To challenge the fundamentalists, however, Zardari needs to gain the confidence of the Army, the National Assembly, and the people. To do that, he believes he must address the economic situation and demonstrate that he can deliver on his economic promises. Zardari chastised the IMF for just wanting to &take away8 from Pakistan in the negotiations over a bailout package.

11. (C) In response to Boucher,s question about the National Assembly debate on Pakistan,s counter-insurgency strategy, Zardari expressed confidence that he would succeed in winning from the Assembly a consensus resolution on the government,s policy. (N.B.: A day earlier, both National Security Advisor Durrani and Information Minister Rehman expressed skepticism that an acceptable consensus resolution was achievable.) Nawaz Sharif,s Pakistan Muslim League is offering no help on Pakistan,s counter-terrorism policy, Zardari opined. Rehman added that Nawaz and Chaudhry Nisar have a &good cop/bad cop8 routine. Nawaz says good things about his party's commitment to cooperation, but Nisar does the opposite in the Assembly.

12. (C) Describing his legislative strategy going forward, Zardari said that proposed revisions to the Frontier Crimes Regulations (FCR) are nearly ready to bring to the Assembly. He anticipates that the extension of the Political Parties Act to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (permitting political parties to organize and campaign in the tribal areas under the same regulations as apply to the rest of the country) would be introduced within three months. Zardari also described a de-radicalization program he plans on introducing in the Assembly. Zardari will propose a criminal regime for &small fries8 that would sentence them to seven years in a &special prison8 to be constructed for handling reforming militants. While in the prison, the militants would receive job training and would receive lenient treatment, including conjugal rights. &I won't stop pressing,8 Zardari declared, &either he (the militant) dies or he takes the option.8 Anyone caught a second time after going through the reform program will be sent to prison for ISLAMABAD 00003339 003 OF 003 life, Zardari declared.

13. (S) Turning to the fighting in Bajaur, Zardari asserted that the government needs a mechanism to get compensation into the hands of the victims of the fighting, suggesting that he thought one billion U.S. dollars might be sufficient. Responding that we anticipate the financial requirement would be less than that, Boucher and the Ambassador assured Zardari we are looking for ways that we can help. Zardari asked if the Friends of Democratic Pakistan might be of help, but Boucher reiterated that such assistance would likely fall outside the mandate of the group. Zardari then suggested that the Saudis could provide the necessary funds, noting that &the problem leads back to them.8 Rehman interjected that the National Assembly members were asking how the militants were getting their funds and raised the flow of funds from the Gulf to extremists in Pakistan. (DCM observed that efforts to stop funding terrorist groups were not helped by Pakistan,s obstruction of work in the UN 1267 Committee, mentioning specifically the hold on Katrina. Zardari expressed surprise that Pakistan was playing such a role, and Rehman made note of the issue.)

14. (S) As for the Pakistan-Afghanistan mini-jirga scheduled for Islamabad in a week's time, Zardari expressed the hope that it will re-occupy political space in the tribal areas. He expressed the hope that the jirga could re-consolidate the government,s position among the majority of the tribes, noting that the government,s greatest challenge in rooting out the extremists is when they are able to shelter among the population in the area. As for leadership of the Pakistani delegation to the jirga, Sherry Rehman noted that Asfandyar Wali Khan, who had been proposed as the senior Pakistani, will not be back in Pakistan in time for the meeting. She suggested that Asfandyar is in &bad shape8 following the terrorist attack on his home near Charsadda. Zardari indicated separately that he is helping Asfandyar relocate his family to Dubai and would provide him with an armored vehicle when he returns to Pakistan.

Friends: the U.S. and the UK

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15. (C) Zardari mused about the need to reach out to the new U.S. Administration after the elections and suggested that he would like to organize a &road show8 to visit the U.S. and explain Pakistan,s situation. Boucher suggested that such an effort could emphasize U.S.-Pakistani cooperation on the border coordination centers, the Joint Military Operations Coordination Center, and the Frontier Corps train and equip program.

16. (S/NF) As for the UK, Zardari expressed some concern that their support was getting wobbly. He believes that their views reflect their conviction that Zardari would fail and would be replaced by Nawaz Sharif. Boucher thought that the concerns are more a reflection of attitude than policy. If Zardari achieves results, he asserted, then the British will come around.

Comment

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17. (S/NF) Zardari was clearly buoyed by his visit to China and in good spirits as he looks ahead to the serious challenges that confront him and the country. He ran through numerous ideas for new initiatives to deal with the political, economic, and security problems, nearly all of which come with high price tags. In that regard, Zardari continues to express considerable optimism that, ultimately, his friends will ride to his rescue despite little evidence to support that view.

PATTERSON

2008: Do not to allow Iran toehold in Pakistan: US

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Carve out Balochistan from Pakistan to beat Taliban-Louie Gohmert’s

2012-01-28T00:09:00.001-08:00

This was discussed in five articles of mine published in 2001-2005 and in our book development of TALIBAN FACTIONS in Afghanistan and Pakistan

Agha H Amin

http://low-intensity-conflict-review.blogspot.com/2011/08/ethnic-strategic-damper-best-strategy.html

04 August, 2011

The Ethnic Strategic Damper-The Best Strategy against Extremism

The Ethnic Strategic Damper-The Best Strategy against Extremism

A.H Amin

01 August 2011

A monotheist believer in God may state that states are created when God wants it !

Assessments cannot divine divine designs but assessments by mean mortals can assess designs of mortals !

While states are key players in state creation they do it when there is a indigenous element involved in the particular case !

This means that states can act as midwives to create a new state apart from divine design.

This has happened in India after 1940 when the Brits decided to divide India.The idea was first propounded by a British civil servant Sir Michael O Dwyer in late 1930s.

Bangladesh similarly was created with major Soviet and Indian role and the US also wanted to limit communist influence in East Bengal and saw Awami league as a alternative.

A de facto Kurdish state has already been created in Iraq but only with US help.

Bosnia and Kosovo were created with active US support.

Pakistan was created by British policy to punish the All India Congress which was refusing to be part of the British war effort and later of British strategic policy in Asia !

Thus the idea of Pakistan was given as a theme to Mr Jinnah by the British Governor General in September 1939 in order to counter the anti British Indian National Congress.

Pakistan was visualised as a British base against the USSR ! A cheap unstable state which could be manipulated with ease by the Brits ! In 1954 the Brits handed over Pakistan to the Americans !

The crux of the problem is that when the US with Saudi advice and Pakistani mercenary tradition started using Islam as a tool of strategy against the USSR the whole scheme went out of spin by 1999 !

It is clear now that the US is losing the war ecnomically and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia can be severely destabilised by extremist and even overwhelmed !

This is not the time to compose a funeral march but to find a median solution which leads to some counter check !

Seen in the above context if Pakistan was created by Imperialist design why cannot new states be created in the region now to counter extremism ?

The primer of this article was a conversation with a very senior Pakistani military official.

Having studied in Balochistan for many years and having served in the Pakistani military I have the unique opportunity of knowing the key players on both sides !

This includes the paranoid Pakistani intelligence officials whose paranoia in suspecting all even including their wives extends as far as their grandmothers!

In Balochistan what I am seeing is a new kind of Baloch nationalism in which even the Baloch Tribal Chief known as Sardar is becoming irrelevant.

Yes foreign hands are involved. But we must remember that foreign hands succeed only if there is an indigenous genuine insurgency inside a country. The same was true for Bangladesh, and now for Indian occupied Kashmir and Balochistan.

All is not inevitable .this is a failure of Pakistani policy and above all Pakistan Army.

This article may never be published in a Pakistani newspaper ?

This is so because in Pakistan everything is ethnic and ulterior because it is an imperfect , anachronistic state significantly manipulated by the military , by the military intelligence and by classes who have a very unfair advantage in this unstable and volatile state.

It is worth adding some background information for the foreign layman reader here.

How is it that Pakistans political and military establishment which now acts as judge jury and executioner , all three combined in one class became the masters of destiny of Pakistans lesser races ? The Bengalis before 1971 who were regarded a s inferior Dravidian race by this establishment ? The Baloch and Sindhis who this establishment still regards as an inferior race till to date !

The elite which collaborated with british was the Punjabi muslim , settled area Pashtuns and Urdu speaking who gained a position of unfair advantage after partition of India by eliminating the Hindu from competition exams as well as business and agriculture.

The above classes gained a position of unfair advantage in the pre 1947 British Indian Army not because they were more martial but because they collaborated with the British in killing Indians , both Muslim and non Muslim from 1857 till 1947 !

The idea of pakistan in reality was to gain a position of unfair advantage for the above elite by eliminating the Hindu and Sikh who held superiority in business , agriculture and civil service.

An eminent British scholar Francis Robinson has brilliantly explored this ulterior theme in his masterpiece book Muslim Separatism in India.

Jinnah , Pakistans founder represented the Bombay Gujrati business and this is why Adamjee the Bombay business tycoon gave him a blank cheque as support to Jinnahs Muslim Leagues quest for Pakistan.

The whole of jinnahs policy was dual standards.In a united India he wanted weak centre and strong provinces so that Hindu majority army could not chastise the above mentioned Muslim classes that the Muslim League represented. Once Pakistan was created Jinnah wanted strong centre and weak provinces and used army to chastise provinces the first time in Balochistan in 1948.

Kalat states accession to Pakistan was as dubious as accession of Kashmir to India.However this also happened because of Jinnahs self imposed faux pas !

This was when Jinnah rejected the British Viceroy Lord Mountbatten's most just proposal that Muslim majorirty princely states join Pakistan as a formula and vice versa for Hindu and Sikh majority states joining India .

Based on this Pakistan has no case on Kashmir as it joined India by a legal formula? Nehru committed a faux pas when he agreed to include the UN in the dispute and agreed to prospective plebiscite in Kashmir in order to decide whether the Kashmiris wanted to join India or Pakistan.

Based on same formula Pakistani military action in Kalat in 1948 is more illegal than indian military intervention in kashmir which was perfectly legal.

Even kashmir is an ethnic issue as linguistically kashmiris and punjabis are almost the same.

As stated earlier the above Pakistani ethnic cum class elite regarded the Bengalis , Baloch and even Sindhis as inferior and right from 1947 introduced an unfair monopoly in Pakistan.

When Bengalis were in majority in population this elite wanted distribution of funds not on basis of population , but when punjabis became majority this elite wanted distribution of funds on basis of population.

Religion was used by the above elite to further their monopoly. Punjab and parts of NWFP regarded as heart of Pakistan and others regarded as semi traitors or full traitors.

Even the defense strategy as taught at the Pakistani staff college and national defense college regarded north Punjab as centre of Pakistan's gravity and the main idea of the army was to defend north Punjab , specifically spelt as the triangle Lahore Rawalpindi Faisalabad.

While the above elite were king makers they came in open after 1977.The same elite conspired to launch the army in Balochistan in 1948,58,1960,1973.

Anyone who is outside the above elite is branded as traitor.

Religion and use of proxies was adopted in October 1947 as a policy, discarded temporarily after 1948 , re-picked with force after 1969 and fully enforced after 1977.

The battle in Pakistan is essentially over resources. Oil and gas being the centre of it. Even a kilogram of LPG quota can be allotted only by this elite in Pakistan.Needless to state most of the Oil and Gas industry is dominated by this elite.

War with India and Indian threat is used by this elite to justify its unfair monopoly.

Having given a background to the conflict lets discuss the present war on terror .

The Afghan mess was created by the above mentioned Pakistani elite when in order to perpetuate the illegitimate usurper military regime of General Zia this elite collaborated with the USA in the Soviet Afghan War.In the process the USA eliminated a much smaller strategic threat and replaced it with a much larger threat !

The Islamists ! Thus while the Soviet economy could not bear the strain of Afghan war the US economy is shattered thanks to the present ongoing war on terror.

How to kill the dragons that the USA created ! Only dragons can kill the dragons ! The best strategy to defeat terrorism may be to confront the terrorists ideological card with the ethnic card !

What is the threat from the dragons that the US created in the West Asian region from 1979 to 2001 ! The dragons can destabilise the whole region irrevocably and there potential to destroy and destabilise may only be rivalled by Armageddon !

While it is theoretically neat and cosmetically nice to advance the view point that the USA should withdraw from Afghanistan. The idea is far complicated at the strategic and operational level.

While it is true that the Pakistan and US sponsored so called Mujahideen did not follow the USSR into Russia,their successors the Taliban were allied with parties with a Pan Islamist outlook. Parties which wanted to carry Jihad into Europe,America and Africa.

The USSR withdrawal from Afghanistan was not a military defeat but a political act of withdrawal covered by the creation of the Northern Alliance which was half leftist and pro Russian.

The fact of the matter remains that USSR withdrawal was fallaciously interpreted as a great victory of Islam, while actually it was not so. This interpretation led to creation of many dreams of glory and carrying on of the Islamic Jihad into India, Bosnia, Chechniya etc.

Any US withdrawal from Afghanistan would create another delusion.While 9/11 was a traumatic event , what follows the US withdrawal would be traumatic par excellence !

A false conclusion that Islam has won and USA lost. It would boost morale in the Islamists and would lead to far greater chaos and confusion than ever witnessed before in modern history.

In brief the implications of a US withdrawal would be :-- (1) Collapse of the moderate Afghan regime created after billions of dollars of US and European/G 8 aid within a matter of months. (2) Creation of an unemployed and uncommitted reserve of Islamic extremists who are well trained in military art and would represent a greater threat to the Pakistani state as well as the region and the world than it presently exists . (3) A renewed civil war in Afghanistan with Taliban backed by Pakistan and Saudi Arabia and the Northern Alliance backed by Russia, Iran, Central Asian Republics and possibly USA and China.

The key to the present disorder lies in Afghanistans neighbours and not in Afghanistan itself :--

(1) Pakistan and Saudi Arabian states regard Afghanistan as a battle ground in between Iran/Indian/Russian backed Northern Alliance and a Sunni puritan Talibans.

(2) Russia ,India,Central Asian Republics and G 8 in general regard Taliban as a threat to their countries and to the region.

A possible solution may be in the following :--

(1) Continued US presence retaining key military bases in North Afghanistan and in Baloch majority Nimroz as sword of Damocles for the Taliban. Withdrawal of US forces from South Afghanistan while retaining the Kabul Torkham Corridor which is safe in any case. The non Pashtuns and moderate Pashtuns regard the US as their saviour from Pakistan sponsored Taliban and will welcome US presence , failing which Afghanistan will plunge into another bloody civil war !

(2) Integrating Russia,India and Pakistan in a regional solution while creating an Independent North Afghanistan which is Non Pashtun majority, South Afghanistan which is Pashtun majority, and a Baloch Autonomous Region in the south west Afghanistan.

(3) Initiation of dialogue with the Taliban offering them South Afghanistan while withdrawing US/NATO forces north of the line Dilaram-Uruzgan-Ghazni-Paktiya-Paktika while retaining Baloch majority Nimroz.

Nothing in history is inevitable.Afghanistan was a province of Mughal,Saffavid and the Bokharan Uzbeks till 1747.It was controlled by a subsidy of 13 lakh per month by British from 1857 to 1919 and it was a neutral country with no threat to world peace from 1919 to 1978.

It is a misconception that Taliban control 90 % of Afghanistan or all population of Afghanistan is with Taliban unless you believe the Pakistani or Saudi establishment.The Saudi establishment fears the Shias and Iran far more than USA or Israel. Thus the deep Saudi interest in a Taliban dominated Afghanistan.

The fact is that Taliban control some 50 % of Afghanistan while some 60 % of Afghanistans population is against them.

If the USA withdraws what will happen to the 60 % who are against the Taliban ? These include Tajiks, Uzbeks, Turkmens, Hazaras and many educated Pashtuns .This would be a great political and strategic failure of USA and NATO ? The main winners in this case would be Russia,India and Iran in Afghamistans north and Pakistans generals and Saudis in the south.

A solution of war on terror and the Afghan war must be based on a combination of B-52 bombers, US Dollars, Divide and Rule and regional guarantees.

A non Pashtun state in Afghanistans north and extreme west will act as a strategic damper to the extremists in the North and will have Russian ,Iranian and Indian support.

A Baloch semi autonomous state at with confederal ties with Pakistan at some stage will be an invaluable strategic damper to the Taliban in the south of Afghanistan as well as against Iran.

The secular Baloch are the best strategic bet in this scenario.The Pakistani fears about losing its oil and gas can be removed by declaring Balochistan as a neutral zone and an oil and gas agreement guaranteed by international organizations like the Indus Basin Treaty of 1960s.

The above mentioned neutral Baloch zone Combined with the Baloch autonomous region in west Afghanistan in Nimroz province , western parts of Farah and Herat provinces in Afghanistan is a neat solution to the strategic and geopolitical dilemmas of regional stability as well access to oil and gas !

Through this corridor donors can gain access to Central Asian oil and gas without getting involved with the blackmailing Taliban. Irans designs to support perpetual disorder in South Afghanistan will also be defeated when this neat strategic corridor from Arabian Sea and Indian Ocean is in place.

A neutralised Balochistan with a border fenced with Talibanistan can also severely reduce Taliban export potential of hard drugs to the Arabian Sea.

The present international crisis requires great statesmanship in USA and the key actor states. The Ethnic Strategic Damper may be the best strategy in this situation.

But who will impose this strategy ! The myopic Americans who have everything but strategic vision ! Perhaps they should seek guidance from their far more talented English former masters !

Policy makers must remember that the Roman Empire was not built on military might or hardware alone but on Divide and Impera ! Even then when Rome relied extensively on military force it was overwhelmed by barbarians.

Edward Gibbon the greatest western historian in his magnum bonum Decline and Fall of Roman Empire has left a prophetic warning about the greatest threat to the Western civilization ? Islam !

There is nothing inevitable in history and in order to be effective a statesman must be agnostic in matters of policy ! Fear made men believe in the worst ! But in this case the fears expressed in this article are genuine to the best of this scribes convictions !

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2012\01\28\story_28-1-2012_pg1_5

Louie Gohmert's Afghan strategy

Carve out Balochistan from Pakistan to beat Taliban

LAHORE: Arguing that US President Barack Obama is losing the war in Afghanistan to the Taliban, US Republican Louie Gohmert proposed one way to win: create a new, friendly state within the borders of neighbouring Pakistan, The Huffington Post reported. The Texas Republican took issue with Obama's assertion that "the Taliban's momentum has been broken". He told the newspaper he had just visited Afghanistan and came away with a very different sense from talking to members of the Northern Alliance, a multiethnic confederation of warlords, and other forces who led the US-backed ouster of the Taliban in 2001. Gohmert argued that, far from being broken, the Taliban are feeling powerful enough to demand that members of the Northern Alliance apologise before the United States leaves in 2013. "If you look at the objective facts ... they're not on the run," Gohmert said. His solution was first to supply more arms to the Northern Alliance. But then, he said, the Afghan border with Pakistan needs to be shored up. "Let's talk about creating a Balochistan in the southern part of Pakistan," Gohmert told The Huffington Post. "They love us. They'll stop the IEDs [improvised explosive devices] and all the weaponry coming into Afghanistan, and we got a shot to win over there," said Gohmert, who accused Obama's national security advisers of giving the president bad intelligence on Afghanistan. "His strategy of working from ignorance and thinking we have them on the run is no way to go through life, son," Gohmert said, adding, "I'm about to borrow from an 'Animal House' line, but anyway, that's no way to go through life when you're that ignorant of what's really going on." The White House did not answer the newspaper's request for comment, and Gohmert's office did not elaborate on how the United States could even discuss carving off Balochistan from Pakistan. The United States recently has been talking about a truce with the Taliban. Gohmert, a member of the US House Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism and Homeland Security, characterised such efforts as begging, backed by an offer to "let all these Taliban murderers" go free, The Huffington Post said. daily times monitor