A note of caution to ISI and ISPR

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Abid Ullah Jan

Pakistan is as much in the line of fire as it is in the line of lies – not only the lies and deception by the Western propaganda machine which once focused its full attention on the Taliban government in Afghanistan but also the ISI-ISPR civilian wings, which are mixing truth with falsehood to an extent that it becomes hard for their audience to tell fact from fiction.

BrassTack, Ahmadqureshi.com, www.daily.pk/index.php are just a few prominent examples of these internal machines for mixing truth with falsehood. They would tell you that we now have a CIA sponsored democracy, but they would never tell that the road to this tyrannical, sold out regime is facilitated by no one other than General Musharraf and his chore commanders.

They would tell us that Zionists and neo-cons have set their eyes on Pakistan but they would never say that no one other than Pakistan army has served them to the best possible extent. They would lie that Musharraf destroyed the US foreign policy and he never agreed to the US conditions, but they would deliberately hide the fact that he had handlers in the CIA and Mossad, at least, since 80s.

The CIA’s manoeuvres vis-à-vis Pakistan were absolutely not against Musharraf as such. In fact, Musharraf was part of all those manoeuvres which first lead to a deal with Benazir Bhutto and then to her assassination with the full knowledge and participation of Musharraf (Musharraf and the Yellow Tape), Rehman Malik, et al. Even Bhutto’s husband said, al-ka-eeda didn’t do it. To him its was the Mush regime who did it. Those who could see beyond their nose saw it long ago that a thug, Zardari, was being shaped up to be the next king.

There is absolutely no resemblances to organised ‘people’s power’ the CIA unleashed during ‘colour revolutions’ and upheavals against Hugo Chavez. Hugo Chavez is a true patriot standing up to the tyrannical empire. It is misleading to compare the sold out general Musharraf with him.

When the CIA and other Musharraf handlers realized that it would be hard to sustain him in power as his term of service came to an end, they had no option but to think of a game plan to replace him with a favourable group of sold-outs who would continue his undermining Pakistan in the near future. It is not something like the Orange Revolution of Ukraine in 2004 and the Tulip Revolution of Kyrgystan in 2005 where pro-US rulers were established in power. In this case, Musharraf was part of the whole plan to bring about a kind of change that should minimally disrupt the process of undermining Pakistan.

Barbarism during Mush rule

Musharraf was part of the backroom manoeuvres by the US and British intelligence services to engineer panic about the security of Pakistan’s nuclear assets. He was the one confirming all the lies by the CIA by issuing statements that he didn’t believe that Abdul Qadeer Khan was involved in the alleged nuclear trade until he was shown blue prints of Pakistani nuclear assets, etc. by the CIA during his short stay in the US.

Musharraf did not refuse permission to interrogate Dr. AQ Khan. In fact, what Musharraf did was part of the plan. He effectively participated in the propaganda campaign. Accepted responsibility and implicated Pakistan in the mess. All actions and statements on the part of Musharraf confirmed all allegations against Pakistan and Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan. There was no point in interrogating Dr. Khan. Instead, Dr. Khan’s speaking and interrogation could expose Musharraf as a traitor and collaborator. So the best solution was to silence Dr. Khan, giving the impression that Musharraf is defending him as a patriot Pakistani.

For Musharraf’s handlers, it was absolutely impossible to imagine replacing him with another General without a transition to a different ruling mechanism. The only possibility for sustaining military rule was to assassinate General Musharraf and spread instability and chaos, which would pave the way for another General to continue the work for his CIA-Mossad and Neocons masters. However, that was also not a favourable option in the face of US tall claims for supporting democracy. Therefore, the US officially started pushing carefully worded articles in the corporate US media that Musharraf has done a great job but there is a need to make progress on the front of democracy.

Former State Department officials Richard L. Armitage and Kara L. Bue, signalled the shift in US policy with a joint article, outlining: ‘We believe General Musharraf…deserves our attention and support, no matter how frustrated we become at the pace of political change and the failure to eliminate Taliban fighters on the Afghan border.’ Translation: Musharraf has to go.

This was followed by a number of articles and reports from the US think tanks which started complaining and identifying short comings in the Mush’s war on Pakistan, called Pakistan’s own war by the new regime in Islamabad.  On the one hand, plans were chalked out with Musharraf for the kind of successor regime which will not prosecute him for war crimes and the crime against constitution and his nation, and on the other senior US State Department officials repeatedly accused Musharraf of ‘not doing enough’ to combat Islamists within Pakistan and prevent their infiltration across the Durand Line into southern Afghanistan. This double game gave the impression as if his masters are not satisfied with his life-long services. The same perception was pushed by the ISI through its mouth-pieces in Pakistani media, such as A

hmed Qureshi and his new lackey ZZ Hamid. Here we were witnessing an attempt to giving Musharraf a hero status; presenting him a victim of the US intervention as well as “destroyer of the US foreign policy” rather than a criminal who must be charged and punished for treason.

Benazir was the first and favourite pick by the warlords in Washington. She was contacted and subsequently she started issuing statements that if she were to become Prime Minister, she would gladly do their bidding. She underscored her enthusiasm to serve and ensured her party was fully responsive to the nihilists’ “war on terror,” a war on the alleged nuclear proliferation by Pakistan and a war for consolidating occupation Behind the door the future course of action was chalked out both with Benazir and Musharraf. Both of them even met a few times in secret. In public meetings were organized with the PPP thieves in exile.

Partners in crime: Same masters, different slaves

The US Democratic Party’s National Democratic Institute (NDI) played a role in keeping the PPP top criminals on board. They had a briefing in Dubai on June 9, 2007 about the possible elections in Pakistan. On the other hand, Hussain Haqqani and Rehamn malik were groomed who had to take the charge after Musharraf departure and had to sustain the policies and war on Pakistan.

Although Benazir promised to offer the International Atomic Energy Agency access to Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan but this is not something on which Musharraf dragged his feet. This flies in the face of the reality on the ground. In fact, Musharraf had committed so many crimes against the nation that there he could not afford the proverbial last straw on the back of his sick and overloaded camel. His masters had realized that as well.

Similarly, Benazir promised to allow the occupation forces in Afghanistan to operate inside north-western Pakistan. But this was not something new. Mush had agreed to it long before her. The only difference is that he could not publicly say so. Instead he chose to shoulder the crime of the US occupation soldiers. He accepted responsibility for the US butchery in which 80 student were killed in Bajaur in 2006, whereas the evidence suggested the US carried out the attack. Musharraf taking the blame for this terrorist strike was in a way serving agenda of the US warlords as well because people were turning against the army as it was accepting responsibility for the US crimes against humanity.

So, the colonial warlords in the US and UK planned Benazir’s return from exile in full support and agreement of the most-favoured-slave, General Musharraf. At home, the ISI mouth pieces would tell the nation that this was done by arm-twisting Musharraf to promulgate the National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO). Instead of undermining the Supreme Court, booting out 60 judges and making a mockery of the Constitution, Mush could step aside and provide a fair election to take place. Instead, the retired general granted amnesty to the criminals and those whom he called as fascists in his book. He effectively wiped the slate clean of corruption, murder, drug running and other charges for Benazir, her husband Asif Zardari and all the thieves who were thriving under them.

There are factors which could go against the neo-colonialist plan for Pakistan in the case of Benazir’s victory and coming to joint power with Musharraf. It would not have been as easy to dislodge Benazir if she had come to power. Also she knew more about the way the fiction of al-Qaeda was being pushed around by the CIA and Musharraf. On the other hand pressure on Musharraf intensified to resign. To make the job easy for a more subservient regime and to give chaos and instability a further chance, Benazir was eliminated according to a plan that Mush and Rehman Malik knew about for sure. The evidence available in public domain confirms this collusion.

Haqqani-Mush, same masters, same approach, same lies, same agenda

There was no ploy to lull Musharraf into believing it would not remove him and install Benazir in his place. Mush was part and parcel of the plan. He was only interested in avoiding treason charged and trial in the Supreme Court. The crime he committed against Pakistan can hardly deserve mercy or pardon. He had to let other criminals take his place, so that they could let him live in peace after. That is exactly what we see today. Removing of an independent supreme court favours both Zardari and his mafia, as it helps Mush and his accomplices in crimes against the nation. That’s why Musharraf’s attitude towards Nawaz Sharif was totally different than the way he was welcoming Benazir and her criminal gang. Nawaz Sharif was sent back to Saudi Arabia when he tried to return. Later on he was allowed to return so that his party’s participation could to add some legitimacy to the sham election process which 38 parties refused to participate. Nawaz’s participation provided that much needed legitimacy to the final act on the plan to replace Musharraf with a pro-Mush and pro-US puppet regime.

Musharraf was and remains a lynch pin in the US totalitarian designs for the region in which occupying, pacifying, denuclearizing and blakanizing Pakistan is the top most priority. Musharraf is not an equivalent of Sukarno of Indonesia, Mosaddeq of Iran or Allende of Chille. He is the first commander in chief of Pakistan who acted like Ahmed Chalabi of Iraq, Najeebullah and Karzai of Afghanistan. Musharraf is the first Qadiani king of Pakistan. His association with Qadianis, his wife being a Qadiani, the Qadianis around him and Qadianis hatred for Pakistan and their unflinching determination to undermine the very existence of Pakistan are open secrets. Rehman Malik is another Qadiani put in place to serve the enemies of Pakistan. Musharraf was not a national leader which the ISI and ISPR puppets like ZZ Hamid and Ahmed Qureshi never stop promoting him as such. When gullible Pakistani listen to their passionate criticism of Zionist and the CIA plans for Pakistan, they fail to identify the pro-Mush and pro-mercenary-Generals-lies which they mix up with the facts.

Of course, Pakistan was not acceptable to India from one and the CIA used it for its strategic interests since 60s in particular. The Zionist designs are a fact which intensified since Pakistan’s embarking on the course to become a nuclear power. The military generals intensified Zionist influence in Pakistan. General Musharraf broke all previous records.

The colonial designs for the region are centuries old and even the creation of Pakistan was a strategic withdrawal rather than genuine independence. However, the point is, who is facilitating de facto colonization? Coming on talk shows and putting Zionists and the CIA on the chopping black every week is not a solution. The solution lies in identifying the black sheep within Pakistan. But these puppets of the ISI would never say a single word about the crime of IS such as handing over and selling hundreds of Pakistani, Afghans and other Muslims to the torture centres in Afghanistan and Cuba. They won’t talk about the army’s mercenary role and it’s destroying towns after towns in the US war of terrorism. They would criticise Zardari’s regime but they won’t say who started working on this agenda, facilitated it all along and why.

Instead they would prefer to lie to the nation and present Musharraf as a victim who stood up to Washington like Hugo Chavez. This is not correct and goes in the face of facts before our eyes. They follow the same propaganda of the warlords when they justify Pakistan army’s mercenary role. How else would one justify the massacre upon massacre of innocent Pakistanis unless they borrow themes from the corporate media that justifies these crimes by the Pakistani army. ZZ Hamid was leading the pack of those two-penny pen-pushers who gave Musharraf a hero status after his bloody drama in the heart of Islamabad.

The main theme of the ISPR mouth-pieces in their defence of Musharraf and Pakistan army is criticism of those who challenge Musharraf’s policies and the army’s mercenary role, which has caused Pakistan to lose far more soldiers than the occupiers in Afghanistan. Their criticism spread to include human rights and civil liberties organisations, journalists, analysts, lawyers and assorted professionals, who point out the crimes of Musharraf regime, from selling Pakistanis to the mysterious disappearances, invasion and occupation of parts of Pakistan, staging fake terrorist attacks and other bloody dramas to justify their importance and all other human rights violations.  The only argument they have is that general public is incapable to comprehend the geo-strategic context in which Musharraf manoeuvred to defend Pakistan’s interest. This means people are blind. They don’t see or understand the facts they live on daily basis.

So they slandered them an ‘American puppets’, working for neocons and Zionists. These baseless allegations cannot turn their fiction about the glory or Musharraf and greatness of Pakistan army into reality. Contrary to claims made of BrasTack and other outfits, Musharraf did not remove one excuse for the Bush Administration to ‘bomb Pakistan into stone age.’ With years-long effective participation in propaganda of creeping Talibanization and regurgitating the myths about the CIA-bogey-man al-ka-eeda, Musharraf, in fact, paved the way for what Obama now claims the US needs to invade. Armymen will attack the dictator. Army men will be charged and hanged for that attack. Yet Mush and his team will propagate the lie that al-Qaeda is in action and wants to take out the strongest ally of the US in the ‘war on terrorism.” All these lies and deceptions to keep himself a valuable ally, led to the toughest time Pakistan has yet to endure.

The puppets of ISI claim that the US got upset with Musharraf’s regime when he dodged committing Pakistani troops to prop up the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq. In fact, even if Musharraf wanted to do so, he simply could not. Turkey had refused to join the US in such a war before Pakistan. We have mentioned all the relevant facts in this regard in another article that you can see here. This is what Musharraf could not do despite his earnest desire to make himself an even more committed slave. No credit is due to Musharraf for that.

Another fake feather that the ISI-outfits are trying to fit in Musharraf’s hat is their claim that he refused to isolate Iran. What a joke. None of the US closest allies have isolated Iran so far as such. They are all the biggest importers of Iranian oil. What is Pakistan’s leverage to isolating Iran. The energy cooperation with Iran is as much in the benefit of Pakistan as Iran and India.  It would have proven Musharraf totally insane if he had refused to move ahead on building the Iran-Pakistan-India gas pipeline. Since India was part of the deal, there is no way we can say there was stiff American opposition to it.

Moreover, the US was hardly moved by the Pakistan’s historical relationship with China. Musharraf didn’t do anything unusual in deepening Pakistan-China bilateral relations or forging nuclear cooperation. Did we get anything on the civil nuclear front from china which India got from the US. Of course, not.  Musharraf did make any special move to offer Beijing naval facilities at the Gwadar port on Balochistan’s Arabian Sea coast overlooking the entrance to the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic chokepoint through which passes approximately 30 per cent of world’s energy supplies. Musharraf has opened all Pakistani facilities, both military and non-military, both on shore and off-shore and on the ground are wide open to use and abuse by the US and NATO forces. The mere “offer” to China to use Gwadar port is yet another joke on the part of ISI-puppets to propagate is as a rebellion against his masters in the US. Gawadar port is as open to China as to any other country for the sake of legitimate transportation. This cannot even be compared with allowing  the use of Pakistan as a launching pad for aggression in the region and renting the whole army to be used as a mercenary force.

Yet another fake reason for promoting and defending Musharraf is Pakistan’s status as a mere observer in the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Russia and China are spearheading the SCO, which includes four other countries: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Iran and India are also Observers. So what if Pakistan became a third one. Of course, the SCO is widely perceived as a rising eastern counterweight to western security and economic groupings. However, those who had Musharraf as well as Pakistan’s strings in their hands were hardly concerned with and Islamabad sitting as an observer at the SCO. This is a non-issue.

The lies go on and on. It is also being propagated that angered Washington the most when he took actions to wind down the ‘war on terror’ within Pakistan. Where is the evidence for this? Instead he intensified military operations in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) bordering Afghanistan. Musharraf did not allow the mediation and negotiation process with the tribal leaders to take roots. Pakistan army would violate the peace treaties and the US would attack tribal areas as soon as there is an agreement in sight. Moreover, some treaties with the tribal elders were part of the divide and rule approach. Most of the dollars from the US were spent in widening these divisions. There is a consistent pattern of violations on the part of Pakistani army and terrorist strikes from outside in full understanding with Musharraf regime. The ISI went to the extent of killing journalists (Hayatullah Khan) when they would expose the terrorist attacks by the US forces.

To further support the divisions among Muslims on the larger scale, Musharraf promoted the mantra of ‘enlightened moderation’, which was nothing but a show of benighted opportunism and serving colonial masters. He took stabs at the very soul of Pakistan with attempts to promote Mustafa Kemal Ataturk’s legacy. He proudly held up Ataturk as his role model. He planned to ‘wean away’ the people from the original concept and two nation theory of Pakistan. He in fact undermined the raison d’être of Pakistan and the cause of Kashimis struggle of independence.  Towards this end, he introduced educational reforms and re-wrote school history text books; enacted laws and diluted Islamic identity of Pakistan. This is exactly the same approach that other Zionist agents, such as Hussain Haqqani have under taken. At times it seemed as if people like Haqqani and Musharraf were in competition to prove as to who is the best slave in promoting divisions among Muslims and intensifying a ‘war within Islam.”

It is absolutely impossible that Musharraf would be skilfully combining military operations against “Islamists” with a political front promoting secularism to ideologically disarm them, and still the US administration would see read. The warlords in the US knew that secularising Pakistani society is not something that is possible in one Musharraf tenure in power. In fact, he had two stints in power with his eight years rule. It is not the thought that Musharraf would de-fang the ‘Islamic threat’ within Pakistan and extricate the country out of the contrived orbit of ‘war on terror’ which led to the removal of Musharraf from power. It is the simple fact that Musharraf simply could not continue as an army chief and he could not survive the growing opposition to his rule. He simple could not make more progress on the agenda on which he worked with so much commitment for years. The thing to treasure and save was not Musharraf. It was continuation of the agenda on which he was working. Musharraf had done his job. He outlived his utility in the sense that people were totally fed up and he simple could not survive with brutal force forever to come.

The warlords in Washington, Tel Aviv and London realized that with Musharraf in power, they would not be in a position to effectively soften up Pakistan before the final onslaught. Musharraf stay would greatly diminish Washington’s leverage to intervene in the country, to further weaken its armed forces, to sow chaos and civil war and to finally neutralize its nuclear power and Balkanize the country to end the perceived threat of Islamic revival forever.

This realization pushed the colonial warlords into planning a regime change that would sustain the gains Musharraf had secured for them. Despite being part of the planning process to sustain his gain through another puppet regime after him, Musharraf did try his best to prolong his rule but all his late illegal and criminal actions back fired. His supporters at BrassTack and Ahmedqureshi.com are trying their best to show that the CIA showered dollars on the media, NGOs, lawyers and students to mobilize agitations against Musharraf. However, these claims are hardly supported by any evidence. And this is rather an insult to the millions who participated in the struggle and still try to achieve their objectives because removal of Musharraf is not the end in itself. It was perceived to facilitate restoration of independent judiciary and establishment of a rule of law which will further ensure the release of all the disappeared people and an end ot the mercenary armies butchery of its own people. Fake promises of Zardari and hope upon hope are still holding the tides that swept Musharraf, but the tides won’t be contained for long. That will be the time when the self-proclaimed security analysts and would see that the resistance to illegal and illegitimate ruler is not because of the CIA dollars but an indigenous resistance to tyranny and abuse of power.

Of course, the new mercenary Chief Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani travelled to Kabul to meet NATO and Afghan commanders on August the 19th and about 10 days later Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen informed a Pentagon news conference on August the 28th that Kayani and his lieutenants held a ’secret meeting’ with their US counterparts on a US aircraft carrier. However, this has nothing to do with something that would never have happened if Musharraf was in power. Who brought Kayani to the fore-front in the first place? Who ran Musharraf secret detentions and selling of Pakistanis as the chief of ISI? It was no one but Kayani.

Kayani’s meeting with the US officials after the departure of Musharraf has nothing to prove that Mush was loyal to Pakistan and Kiyani is not. Both are buddies in crime. When Negroponte visited Pakistan the year before Musharraf’s resignation, he met Kayani twice in three days. So there is nothing new about Kiyani’s subservience or Musharraf’s departure. It is quite logical that the warlords had to put things in order through close and frequent meetings as things were evolving after Musharraf. Those meetings are not an indication that Musharraf was not on a tight leash or didn’t stab the soul of Pakistan.

For the recent progress in the war of terrorism, credit goes to Musharraf’s years long service and particularly his commitment to promoting the neocons-zionist cause over the past eight years. The aggressors’ frog-marching Pakistan into the US-created Afghan quagmire to further destabilise the country and justify intervention would not have been possible if Mush had not sold himself too early. If he had led to an impartial transition of government at the top and not allowed the criminal thugs to take cover of the NRO and a PCO supreme court, the nation wouldn’t be standing where it is today.

Musharraf facilitated what we face today. He rejected US demands that the Pakistani army assist NATO forces in Afghanistan because he knew his own troops will rebel against him. He could not afford sending Pashtun soldiers lead the war of terror in Pakistan, let alone sending them to facilitate occupation of Afghanistan. He had to remove the core-commander in Peshawar and governor in NWFP because of their criticism of the approach Mush was dictating to them. Of course, this is what the US wanted but Musharraf knew this would be suicidal. For that reason, even Zardari and Kayani would not accept such demands. Instead, Mush and his successors are fighting the most important fight on Pakistani soil, which is dividing the nation, draining on its resources, creating more and more “terrorists” and ultimately softening up the high value target. To Mush’s masters this war is more important than participation in the occupation of Afghanistan, where they love to see the pot boiling rather than the opposition totally pacified that will take the ruse for sustaining the brutal occupation.

It would be better for the ISI and ISPR to stop regurgitating the lies and deceptions and promoting Mush as the saviour of the nation through its mouth pieces, and condemning all those who expose his crimes against the people, the constitution and the polity of Pakistan.  This is time to get united against all culprits and traitors, whether they existed before and with Musharraf or those who are thriving today with the blessing of NRO and other unconstitutional measures of the tyrant. It is time to bring Mush. Zardari Rehman Malik, Haqqani and their cronies to justice. If we failed to do justice today, nature will settle the scores but that will take the nation through a lot of turmoil, civil war and a bloody revolution which is already in progress. The ISI sponsored lies are hardly able to make a dent when the facts are overwhelmingly aligned against them.