PAKISTAN Special - Pakistan

Surrendering sovereignty willingly?

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 20:20:00 +0400

Yet another brilliant article by Dr Mazari, highlighting how a compromise of Pakistan's sovereignity is being very brazenly facilitated by incompetent Pakistan governmet. How the new prime minister and his cabinet views these advancements and what is their aproach towards checking this dangerous trend is yet to be seen. Indicators are not very encouraging, though. It is obvious that these dwarfs are only busy killing their time in tackling the matters of a lesser importance and are incapable of objectively assessing the present threat to Pakistan's very existence.

BY: SHIREEN M MAZARI
While the nation continues to watch the "back…

Pakistanis Foil One Conspiracy, Time To Check Another One In Afghanistan

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:50:00 +0400

By GEN. (Retired)MIRZA ASLAM BAIG

The Pakistanis have foiled Washington’s plan for regime change in Islamabad . Now we have to move fast to foil a second conspiracy against Pakistan taking place in Afghanistan against our homeland. The Americans have established a huge intelligence network there to target Pakistan and a few other countries in the region. They have turned our northwestern neighbor into a free-for-all territory for smugglers, narcotic dealers, conspirators, intelligence agencies and NGOs, to operate with impunity. Pakistan has to destroy the anti-Pakistan base of operations in Afghanistan .

The people of Pakistan have succeeded in defeating…

Disconnected and Depoliticized in Pakistan: Elite Inaction in Emergency Times

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:50:45 +0400

This paper was written by Mahnoor Khan, a Karachi based educationist sometime back. Now that a lot has rapidly changed in the political arena in Pakistan, it's contents still remain a lot relevant for how the elected assembly tackle with the issues highlighted therein remains to be seen..

BY: MAHNOOR KHAN

Context: It has been frequently asserted in national and international media that the imposition of emergency by General Musharraf has been unanimously opposed in Pakistan . While there have been unprecedented protests from diverse groups, the outrage is by no means as widespread as one would expect. Here are…

The Destabilization of Pakistan

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Wed, 12 Mar 2008 17:05:00 +0400

BY: MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY

The assassination of Benazir Bhutto has created conditions which contribute to the ongoing destabilization and fragmentation of Pakistan as a nation. The process of U.S.-sponsored "regime change,“ which normally consists in the re-formation of a fresh proxy government under new leaders has been broken. Discredited in the eyes of Pakistani public opinion, General Pervez Musharaf cannot remain in the seat of political power, but at the same time, the fake elections ported by the "international community" scheduled for January 2008, even if they were to be carried out, would not be accepted as legitimate, thereby creating a…

India’s Experience of Covert Action and Need for Action against Pakistan

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 09:10:00 +0400

Following paper is a preamble to recommendations by DR BHASHAYAM KASTURI and PANKAJ MEHRA for Indian covert action against Pakistan, already published by PAKISTAN Special this month.

Readers can go through and link both articles in the light of present turmoil in Pakistan and draw their own conclusions. Your views and comments are welcomed.

Intelligence agencies have undertaken covert operations, independently and in cooperation with agencies of other countries. The Intelligence Bureau (IB), Research and Analysis Wing (R&AW) and Military Intelligence (MI) have undertaken operations covertly with certain objectives. These have been low grade and little has been achieved. In…

American Intelligence Activities in Pakistan

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Sun, 9 Mar 2008 20:50:00 +0400

Pakistan is burning, courtesy of repeated military rules and an inability to come up and perform to the expectations of the nation on part of it's politicians who by and large remain a horde of dwarfs as far as their stature is concerned.

However Pakistan's enemies have played a vital role in pushing this country into the abyss by actively carrying out clandestine and covert operations in all possible manners. CIA by far remains a key player in this context, who obviously has been operating in collusion with RAW of India, MI-16 and also Israeli and (now) Afghan intelligence agencies.…

Pakistan’s Mercenary Elite

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Sun, 9 Mar 2008 04:15:00 +0400

BY: M. SHAHID ALAM

In Pakistan today we encounter a paradox crying for an explanation; it is a paradox, moreover, whose exploration can bring some clarity to the predicament of the Islamicate today.

In January 2002, when President George Bush defined his near-term agenda for waging wars, he fixed his sights on Iraq, Iran and North Korea : the “axis of evil,” marked for regime change. These countries were targeted, we were told, because they were developing “weapons of mass destruction.” In the case of Iraq and Iran , this was only a cover. More likely, the two countries were…

Covert Operations Against Pakistan

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Sun, 9 Mar 2008 02:00:00 +0400

Following recommendations prepared by DR BHASHAYAM KASTURI and PANKAJ MEHRA, both Indian security affairs specialists date back to year 2000. Needless to point out that subject plan is well in advanced execution stage. Undoubtedly CIA, KHAD and Mosad remain natural and active supporters of RAW in achieving it's goals

India has limited experience of covert operations against its western neighbor. Clandestine electronic intelligence gathering and aerial reconnaissance gives it some part of the picture. Additionally, it has gained experience in exfiltrating agents into POK into the training camps and this has helped in keeping tabs on activity in the POK…

TIME TO TAKE STOCK OF US THREAT

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Wed, 5 Mar 2008 22:24:09 +0400

BY: SHIREEN MAZARI

What is with Pakistanis and the Americans? Despite over sixty-one years of independence; despite our successful struggle to acquire nuclear capability in the face of massive hurdles put in our way by these folk, despite the dismal record of our past military alliance with the US and its allies; despite the constant abuse being hurled at us Pakistanis in particular and Muslims in general, by them, post-9/11, we have continued to sustain the imperialists and neo imperialists in their misplaced assumption of the "White Man's Burden".

How else can we explain our continuing tolerance of the abuse…

HANDS OFF PAKISTAN

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Fri, 8 Feb 2008 00:05:00 +0400

BY: SHELDON RICHMAN

"The assassination of Benazir Bhutto was not an attack on this brave woman alone; it was an attack upon democracy, freedom and the United States ." This statement by Asa Hutchinson, former undersecretary of homeland security, was typical of the reaction of the American political and media establishments.

The claim that the assassination was an attack on democracy and freedom is dubious because Bhutto's two spells as prime minister of Pakistan were not notable for either one. Whether it was an attack on the United States depends on what that means. It certainly was not an attack…

US: THE MOST DANGEROUS NUCLEAR STATE

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:45:00 +0400

BY: SHIREEN M MAZARI

While much is being made of Pakistan's nuclear assets, facts on the ground reveal the US to be the most dangerous nuclear state in the world with a track record of failed command structures and failed safety systems for its reactors. Without making any value judgements, I want to simply present the data available from public international sources regarding the nuclear track record of the US.

First, and most recent, was the horrifying revelation that a US B52 bomber flew across the US carrying six nuclear-armed cruise missiles which led to a "Bent Spear" alert --…

BACK TO THE "STONE AGE"

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:25:00 +0400

BY: SHAMSHAD AHMAD

Whether or not Richard Armitage said it, we have already gone back to the 'stone age'. The US did not have to bomb us to make Tora Bora out of Pakistan. We have done it ourselves.

Like the ape-men of the Paleolithic and Neolithic periods of the 'stone age', we are also fighting among ourselves as enemies of each other, and our sole 'equipment' for solving our problems now is our 'instinct' devoid of any tolerance and rationality. Like the early primates, we are no longer living in an organised or civilised state, and have no taste…