Extorting a Taliban Pay-Off and Calling It “Victory”

[What is the bottom dollar price for buying-off the Taliban?  This is what it has come down to.  The great obscenity of it all is that this pseudo-victory is not immediate, instead of waiting while more people die, as after another round of dickering takes place.  Without "the bulldozer" Holbrooke, that could take months, if not years.]

Conference on Afghanistan: how much to buy off the Taliban?

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On January 28, London will play host to a conference on Afghanistan, where representatives will try to organize an approach and funding for ensuring security in the Islamic Republic, integrating it into global civilized life, and integrating the Taliban into peaceful life in that country.

These goals are incredibly complicated and equally difficult to achieve. Afghanistan’s security cannot be guaranteed without the Taliban’s participation (the bulk of the political movement are ethnic Pushtuns, who make up 45% of the Afghan population), but it would be easier to start a new Afghan war than to integrate the Taliban into peaceful life in Afghanistan under the current U.S. strategy and the Hamid Karzai government.

So many unpleasant events took place in the run-up to the conference that it is now easy to predict its outcome. First it was announced that the parliamentary elections in Afghanistan would be postponed from May till September. After President Karzai’s fraudulent elections last year, the parliamentary elections would be the final blow to what’s left of his authority, which is limited to Kabul anyway. As a result, the United Nations froze its more than $50 million worth of aid to Kabul to carry out the elections.

Moreover, the day before the conference the New York Times published a cable by Karl Eikenberry, the U.S. ambassador in Kabul, who warned his superiors that Afghan President Hamid Karzai “is not an adequate strategic partner.”

Mr. Eikenberry repeatedly cautioned that deploying sizable American reinforcements would only deepen the dependence of the Afghan government on the United States. The British press also published a regular report from U.S. military intelligence on the Taliban’s growing horizontal and vertical influence.

Finally, Afghanistan’s donors rejected the plan for combating corruption that President Karzai set forth only a week ago. An American expert on Afghanistan said that Mr. Karzai’s cabinet is now even more corrupt than before the elections, which is why the Afghan parliament refused to endorse Mr. Karzai’s cabinet (11 out of 17 ministers’ positions are still vacant). Now the Afghan president will have to set forth a five-year plan for reorganizing and reintegrating Afghanistan at the forthcoming conference. Ouch…

Incidentally, the most realistic and specific proposal at the forum came from Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, when Moscow offered to restore all the industrial and economic facilities that it had built in Afghanistan long ago. The West would have to pay for this effort, since these facilities were destroyed by the weapons it supplied to Afghanistan, in particular, to the Taliban.

In general, the outcome of such conferences is easy to predict. They start with banquets (Prince Charles hosted the banquet leading up to this conference on January 27), are followed by speeches and communiques, and eventually put off the problem until a new crisis.

The conference will be attended by 77 governments, including all 43 members of the Afghan military expedition and all of Afghanistan’s neighbors. It would seem that the choice of venue should facilitate success. After all, London’s Lancaster House (where the Foreign Office now holds receptions and international conferences) has witnessed many settlements, primarily the agreements granting independence to Nigeria, Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) and Kenya.

Participants in the conference could learn from the British. They waged three wars in Afghanistan from the mid-19th century to the early 20th century, defeated the Afghans in the latter two wars, but then realized that defeat did not mean they could control these tribes. As a result, they left Afghanistan, which became independent in 1919.

Some participants are bound to attempt to bring up this British experience at the conference, at which there has already been a proposal to remove the names of a number of prominent Afghan politicians, who were either previously in the Taliban or actively opposed the regime, from the UN blacklist. It is clear that the goal of this proposal is to encourage them to take part in the settlement talks and thus bring other Taliban leaders into the reconciliation process. The UN first blacklisted these politicians for their alleged links to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban immediately after 9/11, in New York in 2001. They were declared outside the law and their foreign bank accounts frozen.

Needless to say, nobody is going to remove al-Qaeda’s die-hard terrorists from list, but its revision would be beneficial – pardon for the mistakes of the past is an invitation to talks and an incentive for others.

This would be good if all those “pardoned” have not already been cooperating with the Kabul regime for many years. Former Taliban Foreign Minister Wakil Mutavakil has lived in Kabul for four years now. Former Deputy Planning Minister Musa Hotak has been an MP and chairman of the Security Committee since 2007. Former Minister of Border Guards Abdul Hakim left the Taliban three years ago and is now the governor of the Uruzgan Province.

As for the Taliban’s reintegration into Afghan life, it amounts to funds for retraining the converts and providing them with housing and jobs. This is a euphemism for buying off the Taliban. When it comes to money, the East is no longer a “tricky matter” but instead a mercantile one. It is easier to buy loyalty in the East than to win it, but for how long?

Moreover, the price tag for the loyalty of the former Taliban is a meager $500 million. This money will go to an integration fund. One of the world’s biggest charities, British Oxfam, has calculated that one American soldier in Afghanistan costs $1 million per year. During the entire seven years of Afghanistan’s occupation, the country has received a mere $93 per capita for its economic development.

Does this mean that money is the solution and Mr. Karzai the main headache? But few will dare say: “Remove Karzai and Afghanistan will quickly recover.” And who would succeed him now? British Secretary of State David Miliband has said that the alternative to this “very, very difficult project” – Mr. Karzai and his cabinet — is even worse. Speaking strictly, nobody has seriously looked for an alternative, but Mr Miliband’s words recall Franklin Roosevelt’s blunt words about one Nicaraguan dictator: “Somoza may be a son-of-a-bitch, but he’s our son-of-a-bitch.”

MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti political correspondent Andrei Fedyashin)

The opinions expressed in this article are the author’s and do not necessarily represent those of RIA Novosti.

Russia alarmed by planned U.S. bases in Central Asia

[We will see if there is any truth to this report when the Defense Dept. puts-out bids for contractors.]

MOSCOW

(RIA Novosti)

A senior Russian military official expressed concern on Tuesday about what he said were U.S. plans to set up military bases in the former Soviet republics of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.

“American military bases are dotted throughout the world,” said Gen. Nikolai Makarov, chief of the General Staff of Russia’s Armed Forces. “The U.S. has opened bases in Romania and Bulgaria, and according to our information plans to establish them in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.”

Former Soviet republics in Central Asia have seen increased rivalry between Moscow and Washington of late.

The United States has recently stepped up ties with oil-rich Kazakhstan, which allowed U.S. planes to fly over its territory during the 2001 U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan and also contributed troops to Iraq.

Observers in Russia say that Washington will need more bases in countries neighboring Afghanistan due to president-elect Barack Obama’s plans to increase the U.S. military presence in the war-ravaged country by 20,000 troops.

The U.S. has run an airbase in Kyrgyzstan since the war in Afghanistan. Uzbekistan expelled U.S. troops from its airbase in 2005, but has recently sought closer ties with the U.S. and other Western powers.

General Makarov also blamed Washington for pushing Georgia and Ukraine toward NATO membership. He said Russia had been surrounded by the military alliance’s forces.

The statement came amid an ongoing dispute over Washington’s plans to place a missile base in Poland and a radar in the Czech Republic. Moscow opposes the plans as a threat to its national security. The U.S. says the missile defenses are needed to counter possible strikes from “rogue” states.

Consequences of a failed satellite launch to GPS Competitor Glonass

[Considering Iran's recent string of industrial failures due to sabotage, nagging questions must be arising about now in the Kremlin about a possible failure of the Russian Glonass system caused by failures of the Proton rocket delivery system.  We know that Iran's industrial failure is considered a legitimate form of "cyber-warfare," but does that underhanded form of covert warfare apply to Iran's supporters as well, and would Obama be that stupid?]

Consequences of a failed satellite launch Glonass

Space industry leaders punished for a bad start

© RIA Novosti. Mikhail Fomichev

MOSCOW, December 29 – RIA Novosti. Vice President, Chief Designer of launch vehicles, RSC Energia, Vyacheslav Filin and deputy head of Roskosmos Viktor Remishevsky removed from office for errors in the calculations for refueling Block DM-3, which led to failure in launch of three GLONASS satellites, the head of Russian Federal Space Agency Anatoly Perminov reprimanded, said the presidential press service of Russia.

Decision is made on the basis of a report submitted to President Dmitry Medvedev, Vice-Premier Sergei Ivanov.

As directed by the Head of State in Roskosmos will be taken further measures to strengthen executive discipline.

Mercator

Hawaiian Islands. Honolulu

Three satellites Glonass-M “were launched carrier rocket Proton-M on Dec. 5. These machines were supposed to complete the formation of the Russian global navigation system GLONASS. However, the satellite was put into orbit were not. The upper stage with the satellites fell into the Pacific Ocean in 1,5 thousand kilometers northwest of Honolulu.

Interdepartmental Commission of Inquiry pirichin falling satellites determined that the accident occurred due to the fact that the tanks Block DM-3 during refueling at Baikonur was erroneously filled by more than 1.5 tons of liquid oxygen (a component of fuel) than was required.

Because of the excess weight of the upper stage rocket deviated from its intended path, which led to the initial findings of the three satellites in orbit unplanned and their subsequent fall into the Pacific Ocean.

‘We are getting bodies of missing persons on a daily basis’

By Shahid Husain Karachi: The Vice Chairman of Voice for Baloch Missing People, Abdul Qadir Baloch, said here on Tuesday that it was not true that the non-Baloch people in the country’s largest province were being killed by Baloch people. They were being killed by the intelligence agencies in such a manner that blame was pinned on the Baloch people, he alleged. He was responding to a question at a news conference at the Karachi Press Club (KPC) on Tuesday afternoon. “The poor people are not exploiting the resources of Balochistan. Why will Baloch people kill the poor non-Baloch people?” he asked the questioner. He said the alienation in Balochistan was totally due to the atrocities against the Baloch people in the last 63 years, and despite the fact that the government of Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani had offered a package to Balochistan and that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Iftikhar Mohammad Choudhry, had been taking suo motu action on the “missing” people in Balochistan, “we were getting dead bodies of missing Baloch people on a daily basis in one part of the province or another”. He said during the last two months alone as many as 80 disfigured bodies of Baloch activists had been found in different parts of Balochistan, some of them beyond recognition. “Yesterday, four disfigured corpses of Baloch people were found in the jungles of Dagari Dasht and Mastung, who were identified as Shadi Khan Marri, Sohbat Khan Baloch, Zubair Sarpehra Baloch and Tariq Bangalzai Baloch while Balochistan National Party (BNP) leader, Latif Shahwani, was killed in Khuzdar in broad daylight,” he said. He said according to the list prepared by the “Voice for Baloch Missing People” as many as 1,330 people were “missing” in Balochistan. The chief minister and the governor of Balochistan themselves handed over a list of 992 “missing” people to the chief justice of the Supreme Court and to the home minister, he added. The “Judicial Inquiry Commission for Missing People” was constituted, but it neither bothered to visit the residence of any “missing” person nor provided any information about torture cells. Its report published a few days ago was biased and untrue and “we condemn it, and urge the Supreme Court to investigate how much money was spent on it from the exchequer”, he said. Baloch said two days ago in Killi Qambrani area of Quetta, the FC conducted an operation at night and forced women and children to stay outside in intense cold and arrested some 70 people. He said that the Constitution said that a person arrested must be produced before a magistrate within 24 hours after his arrest, but the law of the jungle prevailed in Balochistan. He said police were not ready to lodge an FIR against the FC on a “missing” person or a disfigured body. “After the order of the Supreme Court only two FIRs have been lodged, one about my son, Jalil Reki, who was arrested by the ISI and the Frontier Corps personnel on February 13, 2009, in my house in broad daylight and who is still missing. The other of Abdul Karim’s son, Sameer Baloch, who was arrested in Turbat on October 14, 2010,” he said. “Nobody knows about their whereabouts or whether they are alive or not,” he said. Baloch said “Voice for Baloch Missing Persons” had been organising hunger strike camps in Karachi, Islamabad and different cities of Balochistan for the last one year. In Karachi, he said, the camp was organised for the third time since December 19. He said the nationalist parties of Balochistan were protesting regarding “missing” Baloch people almost daily. Responding to a question he said it was wrong that Taliban leader Mullah Omer was hiding in Balochistan. To another question, he said it was also erroneous to say that the provincial government of Balochistan had been getting its due share from the Centre. The Balochistan chief minister had been in such a deplorable condition that he could not construct the Quetta-Mastung road for the last six years, he said. http://www.thenews.com.pk/TodaysPrint … 22728&Cat=4&dt=12/29/2010

Belarussian Journalists Held In KGB Detention Ward

[SEE: K G B Psychiatry]

IPI/SEEMO Concerned at Continued Investigation and Detention of Belarus Journalists Following Mass Arrests and Assault Earlier This Month

Mirjana Milosevic

Riot policemen scuffle with foreign journalists in front of the hotel they are staying in central Minsk December 19, 2010. Belarussian riot police on Sunday waded into crowds of demonstrators protesting over the certain re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko, beating people with batons, a Reuters reporter at the scene said. REUTERS/Gleb Garanich

Vienna, 29 December 2010 – The International Press Institute (IPI), and its affiliate organisation, the South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), are alarmed that dozens of journalists arrested in a brutal police crackdown on demonstrations that followed the re-election of President Alexander Lukashenko on 19 December remain in prison, some of them reportedly in KGB investigation wards.

According to the Belarusian Association of Journalists (BAJ), 24 journalists were arrested in the crackdown, and 21 were physically assaulted.

A number of the arrested journalists have already been sentenced to up to two weeks’ detention. Others remain “under investigation” – some of them in the “KGB ward” of a Belarus prison, according to sources.

Since the crackdown, there have also been raids on critical Belarusian media outlets and equipment has been confiscated, according to the independent website charter97.org.

Among those journalists arrested were Iryna Khalip, a correspondent for the Moscow-based newspaper Novaya Gazeta and a BAJ member. Earlier this month, Khalip received the CEI SEEMO Award for Outstanding Merits in Investigative Journalism.

According to the BAJ website, Khalip was being held in the “KGB investigation ward”. On 21 December, BAJ also reported that Khalip met her lawyer but her parents were not allowed to send her a parcel. The website said she was being treated as a suspect in a criminal case initiated under an article of the Criminal Code relating to “mass disturbances”.

The BAJ website also reported that Natalya Radzina, a BAJ member and editor of charter97.org, was beaten by police in Minsk’s Independence Square on the evening of 19 December and was later detained when police raided the offices of charter97.org. The website said Radzina was being held in the “investigative isolation ward of [the] KGB (State Security Committee)”, and, like Khalip, was being treated as a suspect under the Criminal Code article related to “mass disturbances.” The website reported today that Radzina is suffering from bleeding from her ears due to being beaten.

Oliver Vujovic, Secretary General of the South and East Europe Media Organisation (SEEMO), said: “We are alarmed at the arrests and jail sentences handed down to journalists. In particular, we are concerned that Natalya Radina, the editor of the website Charter 97, and Irina Khalip, correspondent for the Moscow-based newspaper Novaya Gazeta, remain in detention, at the Minsk detention facility of the Belarusian police. We would like to remind the Belarusian authorities that only a few weeks ago, on 2 December 2010, Iryna Khalip received our CEI SEEMO Investigative Journalism Award.”

Vujovic added: “We are disturbed by the fact that Khalip was forcibly taken by police while on the air with the radio station Echo Moskvy on 20 December 2010. Her husband, presidential candidate Andrei Sannikov, was also arrested. For us, it is important that in Belorussia journalists be able to work independently, professionally and freely, like in other countries.”

IPI Press Freedom Manager Anthony Mills said: “We urge the Belarusian authorities to immediately release all of the journalists and to transparently investigate assaults committed against them. Press freedom is a fundamental human right anywhere in the world, and journalists should be able to do their work without fear of arrest, assault and imprisonment.”

SEEMO Secretary General Oliver Vujovic and IPI Press Freedom Manager Anthony Mills are open to the possibility of visiting Minsk and of meeting with journalists and authorities in connection with the post-election developments.

Pakistan’s Best Terrorists Wait In Jail Cells, On Call

Qari Saifullah Akhtar, ISI’s most valued asset, resurfaces in Punjab

He was eventually put under house arrest in Chishtian, only to be released recently. Interestingly, his release orders coincide with the third death anniversary of Benazir who had named the Qari in her posthumous book, Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West, as a principal suspect in the attempt to kill her in Karachi, a few hours after her homecoming.

In her book, which was published in February 2008, Bhutto had narrated in detail the suicide attacks targeting her welcome procession as well as the involvement of Qari Saifullah Akhtar in the assassination bid.

She wrote: “I was informed of a meeting that had taken place in Lahore where the bomb blasts were planned… Three men belonging to a rival political faction were hired for half a million dollars…. However, a bomb maker was needed for the bombs. Enter Qari Saifullah Akhtar, a wanted terrorist who had tried to overthrow my second government. He had been extradited by the United Arab Emirates and was languishing in the Karachi central jail…. The officials in Lahore had turned to Akhtar for help. His liaison with elements in the government was a radical who was asked to make the bombs and he himself asked for a fatwa making it legitimate to oblige. He got one. The bomb blasts took place in the army cantonment area in Karachi.”

Subsequently, on February 26, 2008, the Qari was arrested by the Musharraf regime for the purpose of interrogation in the Bhutto murder, although there were many in establishment circles who believed that Qari Saifullah had actually been taken into protective custody by his spy masters.

Key witness of BB murder probe leaves country

DAWN.COM

Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, before assassination. – File photo

ISLAMABAD: A key witness of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination probe, Dr musadiq left for USA without the Government permission, sources told DawnNews on Monday.

Dr Musadiq was the principal of Rawalpindi Medical College, who examined the wound of Benazir Bhutto when brought to the general hospital on Decemeber 27, 2007.

Detained cops name ISI, MI officers in Benazir Bhutto assassination case

Islamabad, Dec 24 (ANI): The investigation into former Pakistan prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination is likely to be widened to unveil some faces who have so far been out of the picture, after two former police officers who were arrested for their alleged involvement in the murder case, told investigators that some intelligence officials were in contact with them on December 27, 2007.

Special Public Prosecutor Chaudhry Zulfiqar Ali told reporters that the arrested duo- former Rawalpindi city police chief Saud Aziz and SP Khurram Shahzad- had informed the investigators that four officers of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Military Intelligence (MI) had been in contact with them.

Their names could not be disclosed as of now, as it was yet to be ascertained in what context they were in contact with the accused, he added.

However, if concrete evidence was found against the intelligence officers, they would be included in the investigation, the paper said.

Meanwhile, the Federal Investigation Agency obtained six days’ physical custody of the arrested officers to recover the cellphones they were using on the day Bhutto was murdered in a gun-and-bomb attack outside Rawalpindi’s Liaquat Bagh.

The FIA investigators said in the court that forensic tests of the cellphones were needed to ascertain who had been in contact with the two police officers on the day of Bhutto’s assassination.

Advocate Zulfiqar said that the phone data would help the investigators to know if other elements were also involved in the murder.

He said that the police officers had given divergent statements about the cell phones and the numbers used by them three years ago, initially saying that they had lost their phones and later claiming that their mobiles had broken up. (ANI)

Saud Aziz, Khurram Shahzad sent on 14-day remand

RAWALPINDI: An Anti-Terrorist Court in Rawalpindi on Wednesday denied the Federal Investigation Agency’s request to extend the physical remand of former police chief of Rawalpindi Saud Aziz and former Superintendent Police (SP) Rawal Town Khurram Shahzad in the Benazir Bhutto murder case.

The former police officials, who were arrested for alleged negligence of duty over the 2007 assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto, were produced before the court on Wednesday.

The FIA had requested the ATC to extend the physical remand of Aziz and Shahzad for nine more days. The court, however, turned down the request and sent the two accused to Adiyala prison on a 14-day-long judicial remand.

The court then adjourned the hearing till January 12 and ordered the FIA to present the accused in court on the said date.

Speaking to media representatives after the hearing, Aziz’s lawyer said the allegations levelled against his client were unfounded.

An Account of the Invaluable Services of the ISI

An account of invaluable services of the ISI to the nation –

by Muhammad Ali

ISI, the Inter Services Intelligence, an agency members of whom were found guilty of raping more than 35000 women in East Pakistan. 1386 members of the famous ISI were recommended to be trailed in the Hamood ur Rehman Commission’s report.

ISI, the Inter Services Intelligence, an agency which made millions of petro-dollars in the Afghan War. Tempering the myth of Jihad was an easy job on hand with lush green dollars. General Akhtar Abdul Rehman and Hameed Gull exported children of poor helpless mothers for the Jihad e Afghanistan when their own sons were studying in the United States.

ISI, the Inter Services Intelligence, an agency that sold Stinger Missiles received as an aid in the black market. Upon an inspection, the Ojhri Camp blasted out bringing the doom’s day for the citizens of Rawalpindi and Islamabad.

ISI, the Inter Services Intelligence, an agency which holds the prestige of looting the nation via Mehran Bank Scandal. Lt. Gen Asad Durrani the then DG ISI alone made 1.6 billion in the filthy trade.

ISI, the Inter Services Intelligence, an agency which took clothes off the Baloch Women. Zarina Marri, a Baloch school teacher was abducted by the ISI and gang-raped, she was further used as a humiliation tool for the Baloch Nationalists.

ISI, the Inter Services Intelligence, an agency which is involved in the human trade. General Pervez Musharraf exclusively explains in his books the norms of human trafficking. 500 U.S. dollars was the rate of each Pakistani citizen sold to the U.S. That included Dr Aafia Siddiqi and several others.

There is a lot more to say about the “Prestigious and Patriotic” role of he ISI but these facts might not ruin the show of our clowns in the blog-sphere.

“ISI is committed to defending our borders.”

ISI, the Inter Services of Intelligence, an agency which only holds political scandals on its credit sheet. ISI has on numerous occasions tried to subvert the elected governments. ISI is the name of a filthy political player.

ISI managed to create IJI, a right wing alliance to counter the Leftist Pakistan Peoples Party though an alliance of the Pakistan Muslim League and several religio-political parties including the Sipah-e-Sahaba, Jamaat-e-Islami and others. For this purpose, ISI used state money and resources to bring the fundamentalists on political front.

ISI tried to over-throw the elected government of Benazir Bhutto via Saudi riyals. ISI distributed huge sums of money in the right wing politicians to buy loyalties of pro-Benazir Bhutto parliamentarians.

ISI distributed millions in right wing politicians in order to ensure their victory against Benazir Bhutto.

ISI rigged the elections 2002 to ensure the victory of its divine master Pervez Musharraf. The ISI chief Lt. General Ehtashnm Zameer later confessed the fact in the Pakistani media.

A lot more can be written on what ISI’s real role is, but the clowns of the establishment in Pakistan’s mainstream and alternative media might find it hard to ruin their show.

I will just give a glimpse of what “ISI has done to protect the borders of Pakistan.”

ISI briefed the MO branch on the possible reaction of the Indian side on the Kargil Adventure. According to ISI India will at the most move forward with Special Operatives and try taking back the Tiger Hill. There are rare chances of application of artillery as India would try not to agitate Pakistan. Role of Air Force or Navy is beyond possibility grounds. India will never look forward to a full scale war. All these fables of ISI were flushed to gutter when India respond to Kargil drama with full might and Pakistan Army had to accept the bodies of it’s soldiers with humiliation.

Pakistan is under attack but by whom?  (read HERE)

“Year 2010 Review, Anti Taliban Resistance in Tribal Areas”

by Sajid Hussai

“Year 2010 has almost gone and we witnessed blasts and incident of Terrorisim throughout Pakistan especially in Fata & Kpk the latest in Bajur Agency even by female succider according to reports.Here we will Focus the Anti Taliban Resistance in Fata & Kpk which is role model for all who want to end terrorisim.”

 

“Year 2010 Review, Anti Taliban Reistance in Tribal Areas”

[CAPTIONS FOR ATTACHED PICTURES:-Along with Article two rare file Pictures are also attached,in first picture actually a newspaper report before the foundation of Pakistan when tribal delegation from Kurram fata meet Quaid e Azam in delihi ,While in second Picture Quaid-e-Azam is addressing Tribals].

Year 2010 has almost gone and we witnessed blasts and incident of Terrorisim throughout Pakistan especially in Fata & Kpk the latest in Bajur Agency even by female succider according to reports.Here we will Focus the Anti Taliban Resistance in Fata & Kpk which is role model for all who want to end terrorisim.

Tribal People who are the soldiers without pay of western borders of Pakistan,their loyalty and love with founder of Pakistan Quaid e Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Pakistan is examplery.But unfournatuly now a days they are receiving the fruit of this loyality and patriotisim in form of militancy & Talibinization in the name of so called war against terrorisism.The curse of terrorism in strategic important tribal areas neighboring Afghanistan has also affected the overall country especially KhyberPakhtoonkhawa(KPK)adjacent to FATA. After

9/11 and invasion of Afghanistan by occupied forces the militancy started in this area in form of Talibinzation which is actually the fruit of seed sown by American CIA their partner arab countries wealth and implemented by a puppet dictator zia in the name of jihad in the decade of 80’s. In both the mentioned situation either before 9/11 or after those areas of KPK and FATA suffered a lot whose people welcomed and facilitated the influx of foreign fighters in the name of jihad and islam.While there are some exceptional cases and areas in FATA & KPK who did not allow this curse of militancy in the name of talibinzation,a brutal wahabi brand of jihad in form of succide attacks on public places, holy places  and even mosques as tool for defaming islam and muslims globally by world arrogant and evil forces.

It is the power of people or community of that area if they do not want militancy or talibinization then no one either International establishment or domestic even if want cannot do anything this shows that how people or masses are powerful. We have examples of areas in FATA like Salarzai area in Bajaur Agency,Landikotal in Khyber Agency,Turi Bangash tribes areas in Upper Kurram and surrounding as well as Lower part of Orakzai Agency where the people did not allowed talibinazation and even when it was tried to impose by force they Resisted this curse. Similarly the Swabi,Charsada,mardan,hazara region majority areas of KPK also opposed the talibinization that is why these areas are quite peaceful as compared to those areas of KPK & FATA who welcomed Taliban.While other parts of FATA and KPK whose people welcomed and facilitated the foreign terrorists for their wasted interests of getting money and even they set family relations by marrying their daughters and sisters to arab and uzbek nationals are suffering a lot from their own wrong decision. One aspect is clear that both either who give warm welcome to Taliban and those who resisted suffered from the militancy and curse of terrorisim with a difference that one type of sufferings are with shame & humiliation while other type with dignity and proud. It is also a fact that those who opposed talibinzation they suffered for one time by resisting the Taliban armed invasion and rule While those who welcome and facilitated these foreign and local militants Taliban,they are suffering daily and continuously.

In this entire Resistance against Talibinization one exceptional and rare case of Resistance which not mentioning will be a crime in opinion of any human friendly individual is the Resistance by the Turi and bangash tribes people living in Parachinar Upper Kurram and surrounding areas. They resisted the militants Taliban armed lashker and talibinzation by giving sacrifices of more than fourteen hundreds causalities and thousands other  injured by not allowing the curse of terrorism and Taliban in their areas.This is the role model for all,because even people can defeat the curse of talibinzation if they want.In other areas of FATA like Salarazi Bajaur Agency & FR Peshawar Mattani areas anti Taliban armed tribal lashkers were formed & supported by Govt even by supplying them weapons against Taliban.But in Parachinar Kurram Agency instead of helping anti Taliban turi and bangash tribes they received a prize in the form of inhuman crippling siege and economic blockade in the form of blocking main Thall Parachinar road the only route connecting it to rest of country by converting it into  Pakistan Gaza as Gaza in Plaestine.While Ironically this main Thall Parachinar Road is open for all even security forces FC political adminstartion except anti taliban Turi Bangash tribes of Parachinar and surrounding areas of Upper Kurram is a question marak.The tribals people are saying that If quaid-e-azam alive today then they will not face such a step mother treatement but it is now the Zaradari,Kiyanni and Gillani’s i cube Pakistan where they are facing such rewarad for loyalty and patriotisim.The Chief Justice of Pakistan who seems to be the person of quaid-e-azam vision by taking suo motive action even on minor issues as potriated by media But on Humantarian Crisis of Parachinar created by continous four year imposed Siege his(CJ Pakistan)silence is big question marak awaited for answer.The resistance of Turi & Bangash tribes of Upper kurram also raised a logical question on so called war against terror that when People can defeat the armed Taliban lashker by resisting,then why the security forces failed to do so who are engulfing the eighty percent of poor country Pakistan budget in the name of defense. Second question is that what is the crime of these patriotic Pakistani who are not only resisted talibinization but also protecting their mother land as well as Pakistan because Kurram touches four provinces of Afghanistan,latest example is the armed Taliban attack from Afghanistan side in September2010 on village Khevas Shalozan resisted by Turi & Banagsh tribes with braverly.Tribal people of FATA especially in Upper Kurram located on Pak Afghan border are soldiers without pay and they sacrificed for Pakistan even in struggle of Pakistan and after that in 1947,48,65,71 & Kargil war.This credit also goes to elders of Turi & Bangash tribes of Kurram Agency Parachinar that they sent a delegation to meet Quaid -e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah in Delhi by encouraging him and giving all support to him in making Pakistan,the news item with picture published in English daily at that time is  available in homes of those elders and even on internet as soft copy till now. That is Why after the foundation of Pakistan Quaid-e-Azam in his visit allowed the people of FATA to carry weapons and even initially they were provided weapons of that time by government for protecting the Pakistani terroitry.The Peak of oppression in the form of step mother treatment is committed with these patriotic and loyal tribals of Pakistan that instead of appreciating their pro Pakistan role they are receiving heavy weapons and gunship helicopters shelling by Security Forces FC murdering innocent children. When the Turi Bangash tribes in September2010 resisted the armed militants Taliban attack from Afghanistan on Pakistani terroritry of Khevas village Shalozan the security forces and FC instead of helping them against foreign militants started heavy weapons and gunships helicopters shelling on their own people how shameful act it is. But no one is there to take action against authorities concern for this blunder. Now the Turi Bangash tribals besides buying daily food stuff and medicines on two to three times more prices due to imposed siege and demand supply ratio,they are also purchasing weapons with their own money by selling cows and other livestocks for their own and motherland Pakistan pak-afghan border protection. It seems that the name of Quaid-e-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah is only restricted by placing his picture in offices and pasting on currency notes while his words and promises with all especially people of FATA has no value at all. The rulers sitting in Islamabad and Rawalpindi should think seriously on this point. While the Tribals are sufferings in so called war against terrorisim by millitry and militants Taliban. The famous thinker and scholar Allama iqbal mentioned in his Persian poetry that “The example of Asia is like a body and Afghankistan is the heart of this body,If heart is healthy and fit the whole body will be fit and healthy & vice versa” ,So the Peace in entire Asia especially afgh-pak region depends on Afghanistan stability. But this peace can be achieved if the People of afgh-pak region especially FATA & KPK will set examples of Resistance against talibinazation in their areas. Because from facts it is clear like a day light that talibinzation is actually the justification of foreign occupation,when people will not allow Taliban in your area by setting an example of resistance then no one can impose talibinzation in your locality or area. Otherwise all the people of entire Asia & even world will be suffering continuously.

Taliban In ISI Uniforms?–The Asinine Agency

Taliban kidnapped 11 persons from Adiala Jail in ISI uniform: ISI told Supreme Courts

International Professor

Yesterday the legal representative of ISI and MI (Inter Services Intelligence & Military Intelligence) told Supreme Courts that 11 missing persons are in the custody of ISI & MI, he also told courts that Taliban in the uniform of ISI kidnapped those persons earlier acquitted by courts and took them to Waziristan, where our brave army on the earth arrested them with 9 other persons. Moreover those are now under court martial of army trial courts.

If you did not laugh than try to laugh on the statement of our F.A. pass generals, laugh on ISI uniform and insight of Taliban.  What non-sense officials are sitting at GHQ, shame on Pakistan army and its criminality driven mentality. There are so many other absurdities committed by Raja Irshad, the council of army agencies and later admitted in TV program News Beat (Meher Bokhari) on Dec 10, 2010.

The Lahore High Court (LHC) had ordered the release of Dr Niaz Ahmed, Mazharul Haq, Shafiqur Rehman, Muhammad Aamir, Abdul Majid, Abdul Basit, Abdul Saboor, Shafique Ahmed, Said Arab, Gul Roze and Tehseenullah, but those were disappeared soon before release from the Jail.

All of above persons were indicted in four different cases and four different courts found them not guilty. And later all had been acquitted by an anti-terrorism court in April this year in four different cases, such as rocket firing on the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex, Kamra, rocket firing on a plane of former president, a suicide attack on the bus of personnel of an intelligence agency in Rawalpindi, and the suicide attack on the main entrance of the military headquarters.

Allegations against poor prosecutions are baseless because army agencies have the history of accusing citizens with the spectacle of war of terror, mostly innocent and poor persons are victim of sectarian and ethnic abhorrence of Pakistan army, and fake were ill prepared cases were not proved in civil courts. In all fabricated cases courts finally acquitted innocents. Now problem lies with army that it is a mercenary force and US is paying for their salaries, allowances, equipments, transportations, communications, messing and some peoples joke that condoms and Johnny Walker are also claimed by army finance departments in monthly invoice of costs for reimbursements on account of war of terror.

There are above 15000 thousand persons in the custody of army since many years and where about of those are not known, neither anyone is charged, however time to time mutilated dead bodies of citizens are found on road sides. In additions to that above 15000 are missing since many years and that are not included in above figure. And on the name of war on terror 20,000 to 35,000 persons have been killed with the help of heavy artillery, helicopters and air force jets. Almost above 100,000 persons either have been killed, kidnapped and kept under hidden prisons or sold to US for dollars.

Whole power of open vagabonds revolves around “Army Act”, whereas that is not part of constitution, and since yesterday army had the notion that Pakistan army was above constitution or any national law. So, whenever any courts ever summoned to secretary Defence, he refused to appear before the courts. Moreover in current case initially army crudely informed courts that it is above any law in Pakistan. Question is who is responsible for so called Army Act? Answer is dictators and politicians. All the three forces are equally involved in criminal activities and facilitating each other in hiding citizens in secreted prison cells, tortures and extra judicial killings.

Why US war of terror is unpopular in Pakistan and why above 95% population hates US agenda? Because everyone in Pakistan believes that Pakistan army and current Government are puppets of U.S. Exclusively untutored elite, ex Communists, prostitution gangs, alcoholics and thugs are pro-Americans in Pakistan; if anybody has doubt about this judgement then CIA has the capacity and resources to check moral character of their mercenaries, that is the reason so as to those are suspicious in the eyes of public.

Generally war of terror has no morals and principles, and cronies of US in Pakistan are most hated persons throughout country, mostly thugs, corrupt and criminals. US are depending on a few corrupt journalists and media groups or on army media cells, than those must remember that all of individuals have a mission to suck dollars since long and their families are residing in West.

Most trusted mercenaries of U.S. like Musharraf, Benazir, Zardari, Gaillani, Kiyani and Pasha have no credibility in general public. Their corruption and criminalities are loudly telling peoples about facts. Strategies like creation of Lashkars and hiring of Sufi Brelvi’s have also failed. Army did not disburse to private armies as those were promised, Washington was charged but money was reversed into pockets of generals. Brelvi and Sufi Mullahs proved to be corrupt, like greedy and hungry Mullah Tahir Qadri, “Hajj Pirate” Ahmad Saeed Kazmi and 350 million plot’s bribe to Mullah Fazal Karim are a few examples of Brelvi Sufi’s.

For the sake of U.S’s pleasure and to save U.S. air force base at Jacobabad, homes of thousands of peoples were drowned by breaching canals. Round about 3 million peoples were pushed out of homes without any planning from Swat, Malakand, FATA and other areas and those were ruined, their corpses were destroyed, cattle’s were died, homes were demolished or damaged and those are begging for survival.

Pakistan army and air force are single largest mercenaries of U.S. on the earth, from Korean War to current war of terror, no any army is so obedient than Pakistan army in do as you are told U.S. orders, and set siding national interests. 50% part of the country was lost and it is still squeezing. Generals became billionaire but their appetite is unending. 25,000 are working to protect U.S. interests as peace keepers, same army is helping U.S. to kill its own citizens through drones, and every operation is happening for the sake of free dollars. US $ 18 billion have been gone into pockets of corrupt generals.

If U.S. administration is fool than we cannot help, however if there is one percent desire of friendship on national level between two countries than U.S. must stop breeding corrupt generals and politicians unilaterally. Pakistan army has long experience in making fool to Americans and tactfully putting hand into pockets for dollars, why U.S. is protecting looted wealth of Pakistan being kept at overseas? Or hidden in Western banks and billions properties on their soil by Zardari and mafia.

Abolish “Army act” immediately:

Chief Justice of Pakistan we are proud of you that finally our honest judges have exposed criminals and it is time to move forward to trample head of the snake once for all. MI is nothing to do with civilians and ISI is enjoying undue advantage of national security, whether it is not criminality to use MI against civilians.

Corrupt ruling elite has extended tenures of Kiyani, Shuja Pasha and other generals that is mafia and Kiyani has imposed known political minded generals on the key posts. It is now known as “Jhelum-Gujar Khan syndicate” ruling on GHQ, boy friends of Kiyani, roommates, golf mates, class mates and Ghakkars have been posted on top posts of army, usually unfit to work as generals. Usually relatives of Kiyani are sucking Pakistan as appointed on top posts, such as DG, MI Gen. Kiyani, Raja Pervez Ashraf Minister of Power, Farzana Raja Minister of Benazir Loot Program, Babar Awan Minister of Law and if you draw a circle of 100 KM, pointing from Gujar Khan, than 70% corpse commanders and leading generals are either childhood or boyhood friends of Kiyani.

Athar Ali, secretary defence says that he is also boy friend of Kiyani since boyhood. It is a mafia and don’t have wisdom to think about human rights, citizen rights, national security or constitutional powers of generals, it is might is right brigade, chiefly cowards, hypocrites and cruel.

Ethnic and sectarian problem:

Current top creed at GHQ is mentally limited to TC mafia (flatterers) who have superseded the professional soldiers of Pakistan army by obeying illegal orders of Mush and Kiyani type superiors. The extensions have been given to exclusively flatterer mafia. Peoples still remember Gen. Waheed Arshad, current GOC and other DG, ISPR’s, none have been retired and have superseded professional soldiers or appointed on civilian posts.

It was Corpse Commander Mangla who bowed his head in the feet of Ms. Pattersen at Swat, he was reappointed next day to his retirement. Gen. Tariq ex DG FC and Gen. Aslam ex Corpse Commander Peshawar have been exposed by Wiki Leaks. Former is promoted as Corpse Commander Mangla and later was granted extension. There are dozens of examples how Mush and Kiyani have ruined Pak army and top post are being filled with the political generals.

Since Athar Ali, secretary defence is patron of armed wing of “Mahdi Army”, and Zardari is heading political wing of “Mahdi Army”, so Gen. Kiyani in real terms is believer and implementer of “Shia Crescent”. Their connections with Northern Alliance are well known and their exclusive efforts revolves around elimination of Pakhtoon of Pakistan, and any sect that is hurdle in Shia Crescent is liable of elimination. Last week Gaillani has signed a secret accord with Ustad Mohaqiq at Kabul and rise of sectarian killings in the Hungo, Para Chinar, and Kurram agency areas shows that foreign terrorists are crossing in to Pakistan daringly to help army’s proxy warriors branded as Lashkars.

According to doctrine of ISI, MI and FIA, the Pushtoon, Deobandi, Ahle Hadis, Salfi and Wahabi’s are exclusively under tyranny of agencies, majority of missing persons, convicted in falls terrorism charges, bullet riddled bodies dumped on road sides and propaganda of Lashkar e Jhangvi has same significance. Not only Pak army that is working as tool of corrupt politicians but Shaitan Malik, Minister of Interior and Zulfiqar Mirza, Min of Interior Sindh have openly created criminal gangs that are involved in sectarian killings. Since last 7-8 months with a new strategy Shaitan Malik with the help of Gen. Athar Abbas lead media within hours of occurrence of any incidence of terrorism announces the names of Lashkar e Jhangvi, Jindullah or blame any seminary connected to above sectarian groups.

We don’t know is it desires of CIA or agencies are making fool to U.S. administration for making money. There is no doubt that War of Terror has no moral grounds and it is a matter of personal ego problem for U.S. politicians.

Same as it is also an ego problem of Pak army generals to kidnap peoples, torture them or kill them secretly. Does ISI have any uniform? No ISI person commits crime in army uniform, those are cowards and their operations against civilians are being conducted like thieves. ISI has no moral courage to produce those kidnapped persons in any civil court of law.

It is first time in the history that Supreme Courts have used anti-constipation pills against ISI and as a result those have committed kidnapping of 20 persons. It is a myth that ISI is working for national security, its targets are political motivated and openly against local poor and helpless peoples. Wiki Leaks has disclosed that Gen. Kiyani was begging for back channel talks with India. Shuja Pasha was spying for MOSAD and for the security of Israel. Political and army elite have sold air force bases to NATO, where from drones are flying and killing citizens. We pray that Chief Justice may use another dose so 15000 missing persons may reach back to their love ones, and may be forced to produce 15000-30000 peoples under detention since two years as well.

Nation must patiently think to kick all extension holder generals and cronies of Musharraf out of Pak army immediately. Our struggle against dictatorship has been lost because we never thought that our friends in PPP would change the sides and a new kind of dictatorship would emerge from the ashes of previous dictator. ISI and MI is a criminal gang against poor peoples of Pakistan and our politicians must think patiently to bring them under state laws. PPP is their victim since long and PML N is also victim of vicious activities, media has observed barbarity of ISI, then what are you thinking how to control criminality of agencies?

For further reading:

Pakistan Army Commandos of Zarar battalion deserves Noble Peace Prize

http://makepakistanbetter.com/why_how_what_forum.asp?GroupID=5&Group_title=Pakistan&ArticleID=10444

Reincarnation of Gen. Zia ul Haq, incest of C.I.A and Johnnie Walker whisky

http://www.makepakistanbetter.com/why_how_what_forum.asp?GroupID=5&Group_title=Pakistan&ArticleID=9406

Dismiss General Kiyani to save Pakistan

http://www.makepakistanbetter.com/why_how_what_forum.asp?GroupID=5&Group_title=Pakistan&ArticleID=8384

Uranium Deposits In Kurram War Zone

Radioactive Ore in Kurram Agency

By Dr Ghayur Ayub

I wrote on the religio-political situation in Kurram Agency in my previous articles titled “Is Islamabad losing Parachinar to Kabul?” and “Parachinar is burning”. Today, I am writing on another aspect of this troubled region which has been ignored by Islamabad. It pertains to the mineral deposits. According to the ‘Mineral Wing’ of Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation PMDC) Kurram Agency has large mineral deposits including coal, copper, zinc, soapstone etc. With exception to soapstone the other minerals have remained unexplored. In recent months, vast amount of mineral in Baluchistan and FATA region have been highlighted both in the local and foreign media but I am not going to talk about that.

Instead, I want to write on a mineral which has been concealed from media for decades and relates to thermonuclear. A research project was carried out by Dr Zahid Ayub at Peshawar University in the mid 1970s on the subject titled “The Potential Role of Nuclear Power in Pakistan and Prospects of Selecting a Suitable Site for a Nuclear Power Plant in NWFP”. Chapter Five and its subsection “Uranium and Thorium Deposits” dealt with Deposits of Nuclear Materials in Kurram Agency. The reason he selected Kurram was two folds. He belonged to the area and so could move freely at will but most importantly, Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission (PAEC) had started a project called Minnupp under which handsome deposits of uranium were discovered in the Khyber region. The Minnupp project was a success, resulting in making indigenous fuel rods for the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant (KANUPP) that requires natural uranium. Since Kurram is part of the same mountain range he was hopeful to find the same there too. According to him “My preliminary physical prospecting of the region revealed unusually high radioactivity all along Spin Ghar (White Mountain) and Wacha Dara area.”

He undertook a survey and although he could not cover the entire Spin Ghar range but he managed to survey the adjacent Raju Mela mountains and Wacha Dara area. In those areas he monitored high level of radioactivity which was orders of magnitude beyond what is called background activity. The results of the study were presented to the PAEC officials. No action was taken. Thus the government lost an opportunity to explore indigenous uranium and Kurram Agency remained neglected in this field as other regions of FATA. This is one aspect of nuclear ore in Kurram Agency.

There is a negative aspect too. In nature such deposits have little harmful effects since they are in balance with nature. It only emits what is called the background radiation which is safe. The story does not stop here. After 9/11 things have changed as the region has turned into a battle zone exposing these ores to foreign bombardments. A typical example is visible across the Spin Ghar in Tora Bora region in Afghanistan. Those mountains are known for having enormous amount of radioactive ore. When US carried out deep carpet bombing in that area, they disturbed the ore strata by generating temperatures in access of 1000C. At that temperature the chemical reactions take place and the ore becomes poisonous.

A Canadian group called “Uranium Medical Research Centre, http://www.umrc.net/collected data in the Nangarhar province and found higher doses of radioactivity amongst the population. This was the first study of its kind. According to Dr. Asaf Durakovic of the study group, “the purpose of the study was to determine the concentrations and precise isotopic compositions of four uranium isotopes (234U, 235U, 236U, and 238U) in urine specimens from the civilian population of Afghanistan after Allied Forces Operation Enduring Freedom. Eight male civilians from Nangarhar-Jalalabad region who presented with symptoms of fatigue, fever, musculo-skeletal and neurological alterations, headaches, and respiratory impairment after inhalation of dust during bombing raids in June 2002 had urine samples collected under controlled conditions and analysed. The mean concentration of uranium in eight samples was found to be considerably greater than what is regarded as a reference range. Our results demonstrate that contamination in Afghanistan with a source consistent with natural uranium has resulted in total uranium concentrations up to 100 times higher than normal range for various geographic and environmental areas throughout the world.”

Many scientists including Dr. Ayub believe that population in Kurram Agency is equally exposed to this radiation. The reason they give is that the Tora Bora bombing spilled nuclear dust on this side of Spin Ghar too. They call it the ‘Uranium Tailing’ effect. All it means is that when uranium is extracted from the ground, the rock is dug up and crushed leaving behind finely pulverized material like flour. A century ago, Marie Curie observed that 85 percent of the radioactivity in the ore remains behind in the crushed rock. According to nuclear scientists the effective half-life of such radioactivity is 80,000 years; meaning that in 80,000 years there will be half as much radioactivity in these tailings. Here comes the crunch. As the tailings are left on the ground after crushing of rocks as seen in Tora Bora bombing, they are blown by the wind and are washed away by the rain into the water systems helping in its spread. In addition these tailings continually generate radon gas which being eight times heavier than air, stays close to the ground. A light breeze can take it away for one thousand miles in any direction. During its spread, it deposits on the vegetation as the radioactive by-products including polonium. To make the situation worse, the by-products which are also called the radon daughters are deposited in animals, fish and plants. The ill effects of such a spread are immense and enumerable.

Kurram Agency is a stone-throw away from Tora Bora. When the deep penetration bombs in tens of thousands of tons came pouring down those mountains it created a burning mine-like scenario. This has been a major concern for those who know about the ill effects of turning natural uranium into radioactive dust and its fall out on this side of Spin Ghar in Kurram Agency. As opposed to the limited study carried out on the other side of the border in Nangarhar province, none has been carried out on this side. Some cynic religious leaders from Upper Kurram blame government of Pakistan for deliberately turning blind eye to this problem as it did during the brutal onslaught of Taliban. “Why should these Taliban sympathisers help us?” Asked one disgruntled religious leader. Irrespective of his cynic ignorance there is no doubt that such radioactivity is a slow killer and most of the people in Kurrram Agency do not have access to medical facilities and they will die unnoticed from radioactive poisoning. It is pity that, so far, no study has been carried out to see how many locals have been exposed to radioactive dust? This is besides the benefits the government can get by exploring the supposedly enormous reservoir of nuclear ore deposits.

Dr Ghayur Ayub