Pakistan and the US operation

Pakistan and the US operation
The Jakarta Post 9th May 2011
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/05/09/letter-pakistan-and-us-operation.html

One must admire the skill of Waqar Malik (The Jakarta Post, May 4) in highlighting unimportant things like the distance between Osama bin Laden’s hideout and Islamabad, its real estate worth, etc. But he fails to mention more important facts like that the hideout was less than 1 kilometer from the Pakistan Military Academy (PMA), and that it had high walls etc.
He also missed that the Pakistani President has stressed again and again that his administration neither knew anything of this mission nor took part in its execution. Wasn’t that because Americans were sure about the mission going awry if they had informed Pakistan?
The Navy SEALS, meanwhile, violated the sovereignty of Pakistan (words of Gen. Musharraf himself), slipped inside the country and after spending some 40 “quality” minutes in Bin Laden’s hideout, left with some dead bodies, computers, hard disks and flash disks, documents, etc. The Pakistani air-defense system seems to have gaps through which these choppers slipped in and out unnoticed. Huge Pakistani human losses are occurring because Pakistan chose, for whatever reason, to join the “war on terror” and although Pakistan was the first country to recognize Afghanistan under the Taliban, it abandoned it immediately after Armitage’s “persuasive talk” with then ISI chief, as quoted by Gen. Musharraf in “in the line of fire”.
After this decision, Pakistan turned around to fight against the Taliban. Was it because they were choosing the winning side? I still remember Gen. Musharraf repeatedly saying, “Ground realities had changed”, to justify his actions!
In regards to the grave mistrust between the US and Pakistan intelligence agencies, this has been the case since the mid 60s when the late Z A Bhutto, Pakistan’s then foreign minister, made some secret deals with China that the US didn’t like. In regards to drone attacks, permission for them was given by Gen. Musharraf when he aligned Pakistan with the US.
American media is abuzz with interviews of important personalities in US Congress and military and one common point is Pakistan’s untrustworthiness (Ralf Peters of Fox News repeatedly called Pakistan “treacherous”). Many members of the US Congress have openly recommended cutting off aid to Pakistan. US Representative Rohrabacher, a senior member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations and a staffer in Reagan’s White House, openly recommended that aid to Pakistan should be cut and the US should seek friendship with India.
Both major parties of the UK have expressed similar opinions about Pakistan-PM Cameron at Bangalore and ex-Foreign Secretary Miliband in Washington. Since about a year, ISI has been ranked as the No. 1 spy agency in the world, replacing Israel’s Mossad. (Please see the “net version” of this letter for links.) When the best Intelligence Agency says it didn’t know what happened within 1 km of PMA, can anybody believe them? No!
In an article in The Express Tribune, “The curious case of Osama bin Laden”, author Hoodbhoy writes some scathing remarks such as “An American official pointedly declared that the information leading to Bin Laden’s killing was shared “with no other country” and General Kayani had declared on April 23 at PMA that “the terrorist’s backbone’s has been broken and insyaallah we will soon prevail”.
In the newspaper The Independent Imran Khan writes about a “national depression at the loss of national dignity and self-esteem as well as sovereignty.” He has hit the bull’s eye!
K B Kale, Jakarta
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K B Kale, Jakarta | Tue, 10/05/2011 - 09:05am
Some additional links worth reading:
"The Emperors’ Clothes" A must-read article by Cyril Almeida in DAWN dt. 6th May 2011
http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/06/the-emperors-clothes.html
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"Abbottabad Raid-Pakistan upset about being kept in the dark" (by Kamran Yousaf-Express Tribune-4th May 2011)
http://tribune.com.pk/story/161452/abbottabad-raid-pakistan-upset-about-being-kept-in-the-dark/
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"Pakistan’s military and elite are holding it back: US analyst" -The Express Tribune
http://tribune.com.pk/story/34519/pakistans-military-and-elite-are-holding-it-back-us-analyst/
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"The best intelligence agency in the world ISI" (Siasi Pakistan-4 Aug 2010)
http://siyasipakistan.wordpress.com/2010/08/04/the-best-intelligence-agency-in-the-world-isi/
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DAWN editorial "Osama bin Laden" 3rd May 2011
http://www.dawn.com/2011/05/03/osama-bin-laden.html
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Khan Ahmad Khan (II), Germany | Tue, 10/05/2011 - 01:05am
Small correction: Prof. Noam Chomsky has told in his lectures in India and Pakistan that the United States is a Terrorist Country. He has been there (I think) several times. For more details on Prof. Chomsky see www.Goole.com
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Khan Ahmad Khan , Germany | Mon, 09/05/2011 - 20:05pm
Dear Mark Ulyseas, Denpasar , You are telling the readers that Pakistan is a terrorist state (Prof. Noam Chomsky). The reality is, however, quite different. It is the United States which is a Terrorist state. Pakistan has done enough for the US. See for example: (This is just one example).
The Badaber Air base is located near Peshawar (North Pakistan). The former Chief Marshal of Pakistan Air Force wrote in a book: "Badaber gained prominence when a U2 plane which had staged through Peshawar on 1. May 1960 was brought down over the Soviet Union and Nikita Khrushchev in a foreign embassy reception in Moscow, told the Pakistan Ambassador that he had put a circle around Peshawar. U2 aircraft used by the CIA, were fitted with monitoring equipments and powerful cameras and has a abnormally long range as well a very high ceiling." (Source: Asghar Khan: Generals in Politics, Pakistan, 1958 - 1982, Vikas Publishing House, Dehli, 1983, p.204f.)
Since 1954 Pakistan was always on the side of the United States. Now they do not need Pakistan. Hence they would invade this country and destroy it. (Obama is a most dangerous president of America.) The Americans always supported the military in Pakistan and terrorists organisations. Since December 1979 (Afghanistan- Russia war) Pakistan is suffering and our country has paid a very high price, but the Americans are unthankful. Now, the Americans should leave Pakistan. They are not reliable partners.
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K B Kale, Jakarta | Mon, 09/05/2011 - 15:05pm
The best sentence of my letter was not published by JP through oversight. It reads, "I hope Pakistan does some introspection rather than trying to justify the unjustifiable!"
The curious case of Osama bin Laden, by Parvez Hoodbhoy, Express Tribune 3rd May 2011
http://tinyurl.com/6zrwq2b
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Pakistan has lost its dignity and self-esteem by Imran Khan "The Independent" 3rd May 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3ghxu8g
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Ten Best Intelligent Agencies in the World
http://www.smashinglists.com/10-best-intelligence-agencies-in-the-world/
http://www.pakalertpress.com/2010/07/31/10-best-intelligence-agencies-in-the-world/
http://www.dirjournal.com/info/the-worlds-best-intelligence-agencies/
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David Cameron in Bangalore 28th July 2010
http://tinyurl.com/3yvtzq6
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David Miliband in Washington DC 30th April 2011
http://tinyurl.com/3d5gj4u
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More tomorrow
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Mark Ulyseas, Denpasar | Mon, 09/05/2011 - 12:05pm
Pakistan is a Terrorist State with WMD
It is now confirmed beyond any doubt that Pakistan is a safe haven and breeding ground for terrorists, their organizations, launch base for terror attacks in USA, Europe, Middle East (Israel), Russia, Afghanistan, India, China, Indonesia, etc.
Pakistan’s half million strong army is a support group for supply of arms, bombs and logistics for terror attacks in other countries. It’s intelligence agency, ISID aka murder incorporated specializes in murdering innocent unarmed civilians in many countries; basically an agency of thugs and assassins.
Pakistan is a nuclear State that ‘often reminds’ the USA of its arsenal. A bluff that usually has the desired effect – more dollars to ‘fight’ terrorism. These dollars are shared between corrupt Pak Army officers, ISID, Corrupt Pak Govt. officials and ‘donated’ to terrorist outfits, some of whom wage with India.
The bogey of India at its border has historically been used in domestic politics and Pak Army machinations to get cash handouts/arms from USA and China.
The field data collected and collated by : US Forces, RAW/Indian Army, KGB, Chinese Intelligence Agencies, Israel/ Mossad, Indonesian Intelligence Agency, etc.; And the killing of Osama Bin Laden in the heart of Pakistan has confirmed what the world suspected – Pakistan is a Terrorist State with weapons of mass destruction - a country that has exported WMD to North Korea, Iran and supplied a "dirty nuclear bomb" to Al Qaeda.
It is time to put an end to the butchering of innocent unarmed civilians and mindless acts of terrorism. It is time to call out the dogs of war to settle this problem once and for all.
Terrorist organisations working/operating international with bases in Pakistan
Lashkar-e-Omar (LeO), Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), Tehreek-e-Jaferia Pakistan (TJP),Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi, Lashkar-eJhangvi (LeJ), Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP), Jamaat-ul-Fuqra, Nadeem Commando, Popular Front for Armed Resistance , Muslim United Army, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-alami(HuMA), Trans-national Organisations, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM), Harkat-ul-Ansar (HuA, presently known as Harkat-ul Mujahideen), Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT), Jaish-e-Mohammad Mujahideen E-Tanzeem (JeM), Harkat-ul Mujahideen (HuM, previously known as Harkat-ul-Ansar),Al BadrJamait-ul-Mujahideen (JuM), Lashkar-e-Jabbar (LeJ),Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami(HUJI),Muttahida Jehad Council (MJC),Al Barq,Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen, Al Jehad, Jammu & Kashir National Liberation Army, People’s League, Muslim Janbaz Force, Kashmir Jehad Force, Al Jehad Force (combines Muslim Janbaz Force and Kashmir Jehad Force), Al Umar Mujahideen, Mahaz-e-Azadi, Islami Jamaat-e-Tulba, Jammu & Kashmir Students Liberation Front, Ikhwan-ul-Mujahideen, Islamic Students League, Tehrik-e-Hurriat-e-Kashmir, Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqar Jafaria, Al Mustafa Liberation Fighters, Tehrik-e-Jehad-e-Islami, Muslim Mujahideen, Al Mujahid Force, Tehrik-e-Jehad, Islami Inquilabi Mahaz, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, Al-Rashid Trust, Al-Akhtar Trust, Rabita Trust, Ummah Tamir-e-Nau, East Turkistan Islamic Movement, etc.
Terrorists working/operating internationally from the sanctuary of Pakistan
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Zarrar Shah , Nasr Javed , Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, his commanders Zakir-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, Zarar Shah, Abu Al Qama, Abu Qahafa, Sajid Mir and Yusuf Muzammil and HuJI commander Ilyas Kashmiri, Mullah Mohammed Omar, Dawood Ibrahim, Ayman al Zawahiri, AQAP (al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula) members of 36 groups including al-Qaida, Hamas, Hezbollah, Taliban, Al-Fatah and Iranian intelligence, etc.
Will the USA continue to supply money and arms to Pakistan?
Will China look the other way while attacks by East Turkestan' terror forces continue on its territory?
Will Indonesia continue to remain silent as Right Wing Forces grow violent ?
And will India continue to voice its concern without taking any military action?
The equation has changed as of May 1, 2011.
It is time to put an end to the butchering of innocent unarmed civilians and mindless acts of terrorism. It is time to call out the dogs of war to settle this problem once and for all.
Is anyone listening?
Remember - 9/11 New York, 7/7 London, 26/11 Mumbai,12/10 Bali
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