The game is bigger than just impeachment. It’s stunning to see some of Pakistan’s well known journalists and commentators consumed by an animalistic urge for revenge in a kindergarten game played on a national stage.
This is a battle between an American-backed and supported government against the Pakistani military.
President Musharraf did give the Americans some space. That was a mistake. But he did not hand over Dr. A. Q. Khan to Washington, he didn’t send our troops to Iraq, he didn’t agree to American plans for Iran and China. Had he said yes to just giving Americans access to Dr. Khan, they wouldn’t have mobilized their international media and intelligence machinery to destabilize Pakistan and bring his downfall.
If he resigns today, that is fine. But the problem is, patriotic and nationalist Pakistanis should know we cannot accept these sellouts as a replacement. Today a fog of deception is being created through political turmoil so that Pakistanis don’t see the larger drama being played out to turn Pakistan into an Indian vassal state, with a limited military and no nuclear or strategic capabilities. Unfortunately, President Musharraf trusted the Americans too much. Today, it is evident they are fully backing the destabilization of Pakistan, domestically and regionally.
The Zardari government, in a move unprecedented in Pakistan’s modern history, continues to keep Beijing without a Pakistani Ambassador. The move comes under the advice of Husain Haqqani, a pro-U.S. Pakistani ambassador. The purpose is to wean Pakistan off China and firmly place Islamabad in an Indo-American orbit.
At a crucial time for our Chinese allies, when they are observing the most important event of their modern history, no major Pakistani leader was in Beijing except a puppet prime minister and a 19-year-old PPP leader whose first major engagement there was meeting Sonia Gandhi even before meeting any Chinese official! This government has tried to sabotage the Pakistani support for Beijing Olympics twice this year. PM Gilani refused to attend the Torch Relay ceremony in Islamabad in March, for which China ignored the international Olympic committee’s recommendation not to include the Pakistani capital in the torch relay route. And now this government deliberately timed their impeachment decision to scuttle Pakistan’s presidential visit to Beijing to attend the opening. They could have delayed the event for a couple of days out of respect for the Sino-Pakistani relationship. But for this puppet regime, ties with U.S. are more important.
This government has effectively joined the Karzai-India-Washington campaign against ISI and Pak military. When Karzai and New Delhi accused the ISI, this puppet regime wasted no time and promptly moved to turn our main spy agency into another domestic crime fighting department.
This government has reportedly cut funding for Strategic Plans Division (SPD), ensuring that SPD can’t spend on research & development for our strategic programs or hire topnotch Pakistani engineers from the market. Obviously, the move is not meant to boost Pakistan’s defense capabilities.
Now Mr. Zardari has told London’s Sunday Times that he wants to investigate where President Musharraf spent U.S. $ 700 million paid to Pakistan and that he thinks the money was paid to ISI. What a joke. Should the President had paid this money to India’s RAW maybe? Or maybe to thieves like he and Rehman Malik? Where would a patriotic Pakistani president spend that money if not on our own defense? And we are free to spend our money the way we deem appropriate. Who is Mr. Zardari or his masters in Washington to dictate how we spend our money? The problem, again, is ISI. The PPP government is clearly implementing a foreign agenda that is directly in conflict with Pakistan’s interests.
The main characters in this government are heavily indebted to Washington and London, including Zardari, Rehman Malik, Husain Haqqani, and Durrani. The NRO was an American and British creation first and foremost.
At a time when Pakistani security officials have confirmed that most weapons seized from terrorists in northern and western Pakistan are Indian-made, the Zardari government decides to pick up a dirty fight with the Pakistani military on American prodding. This government is also not appreciating the findings of Pakistani security officials that U.S. itself has been supporting terrorism inside Pakistan to destabilize the country. U.S. Army chief Mike Mullen has been clear told so by Pakistani president and military leadership.
By supporting this shady, U.S.-imposed government, Nawaz Sharif is committing the second biggest blunder of his career, after the first blunder of trying to hijack a Pakistani army chief and deliver him to India.
This government is creating a fog of deception to waste Pakistani energies and stop us from paying attention to the larger American plan.
imranjaff Bhai, I think Pakistani establishment itself is responsible for what it is facing today by harbouring Taleban and Al-Qaueda in the hope of making as much out of war on terror as possible and retaining strategic balance in the region. You cannot extort 15 billion dollars from America without paying the cost............the bigger chunk of which definitely ended in the pockets of those at the helm of the affairs. I think their greed and short-sighted without keeping long-run consequences in mind got them entrapped.
And what are they doing to NWFP, FATA, and Baluchistan...just considering these areas as Pakistan's backyard to the inhabitants of which the state has no responsibility. That is why citizens of these areas are fast loosing confidence in Pakistan and its security institutions. Today, in Buner, NWFP, a cluster of villages decided to patrol their areas themselves along with police in plain clothes and not let Army in their areas because they don't trust it.
I think from this point onward Pakistan has two options; either get transformed according to the geopolitical and geostrategic needs of the global powers or face destablization. I don't think Pakistan has the capacity to sustain the pressure for long. The more it resists, the more dire would be the consequences. And believe me, no power, including Arabs and Chinese, are going to come to Pakistan's help.
I am feeling sorry for my areas. NWFP, FATA, and most probably Karachi will have to suffer the consequences.