PAKISTAN Special

A Human Rights Crime

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Thu, 8 May 2008 22:57:19 +0400

The world must stop standing idle while the people of Gaza are treated with such cruelty

BY: JIMMY CARTER

The world is witnessing a terrible human rights crime in Gaza, where a million and a half human beings are being imprisoned with almost no access to the outside world. An entire population is being brutally punished. This gross mistreatment of the Palestinians in Gaza was escalated dramatically by Israel, with United States backing, after political candidates representing Hamas won a majority of seats in the Palestinian Authority parliament in 2006. The election was unanimously judged to be honest and fair…

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…

What the Iraq war is about

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 19:55:58 +0400

BY: PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS
The Bush Regime has quagmired America into a sixth year of war in Afghanistan and Iraq with no end in sight. The cost of these wars of aggression is horrendous. Official US combat casualties stand at 4,538 dead. Officially, 29,780 US troops have been wounded in Iraq. Experts have argued that these numbers are understatements. Regardless, these numbers are only the tip of the iceberg.

On April 17, 2008, AP News reported that a new study released by the RAND Corporation concludes that “some 300,000 U.S. troops are suffering from major depression or post traumatic stress…

Nuclear War Against Iran

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 22:50:00 +0400

BY: MICHEL CHOSSUDOVSKY

The launching of an outright war using nuclear warheads against Iran is now in the final planning stages. Coalition partners, which include the US, Israel and Turkey are in "an advanced stage of readiness".

Various military exercises have been conducted, starting in early 2005. In turn, the Iranian Armed Forces have also conducted large scale military maneuvers in the Persian Gulf in December in anticipation of a US sponsored attack.

Since early 2005, there has been intense shuttle diplomacy between Washington, Tel Aviv, Ankara and NATO headquarters in Brussels .

In recent developments, CIA Director Porter Goss…

"Not You! You!!!"

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Sun, 6 Apr 2008 23:35:00 +0400

BY: URI AVNERY

"Hey! Take your hands off me! Not you! You!!!" - the voice of a young woman in the darkened cinema, an old joke.

"Hey! Take your hands off Tibet!" the international chorus is crying out, "But not from Chechnya ! Not from the Basque homeland! And certainly not from Palestine !" And that is not a joke.

LIKE EVERYBODY else, I support the right of the Tibetan people to independence, or at least autonomy. Like everybody else, I condemn the actions of the Chinese government there. But unlike everybody else, I am not ready to join in…

I Want You(r Oil)

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 22:22:24 +0400

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…

5 Years of Iraq War

noreply@blogspirit.com (PakistanSpecial) — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 00:15:00 +0400

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…