Just last year, Transparency International rated Pakistan as the 34th
most corrupt nation in the world. Corruption has spread like a wild fire
across the country consuming all public and private sectors. Recently, a
corruption case against Nawaz Sharif was dismissed where it was alleged
that he allotted land to his friends. Supreme Court asked Pakistan Railways
to report the names of people involved in selling scrap at throwaway prices
and buying overpriced bulbs to the National Accountability Bureau. Concerns
were voiced by the Chief Justice of Pakistan over non-transparency in the
rental power projects, which if proven true would signal the end of these
projects. FIA interrogated PM Gillani's son, Abdul Qadir, in a Haj
corruption case where the financing of a bullet proof jeep was dubious.
Defense Ministry allegedly found 88 armed officials involved in corruption
while the Public Accounts Committee declared three top army generals
responsible for the Rs1.8 billion losses in the National Logistics Cell
scam. Transparency International raised allegations about bribery involved
in the procurement of 2 aircrafts on lease for Haj operations. Federal
Bureau Revenue recovered Rs 7.39 billion from energy companies which were
concealing payable liability for the past few years. Chaudhry Nisar's
resignation from the Public Accounts Committee over the controversial
appointment of the new Attorney General of Pakistan made us realize that
even the agencies created to counter corruption were not free from this
disease. On the international front, 3 players from our national cricket
team were found guilty of spot-fixing during the Lord's Test between
England and Pakistan last August.

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Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 6:05 AM
Subject: DR. FAI'S STATEMENT

Why Kashmir is Important to Me?
Dr. Syed Ghulam Nabi Fai
 
Washington, D.C.

December 7, 2011

(The statement was issued at the Alexandria Court House, Virginia)
 
The Kashmir issue is simply this: the people of a large territory which is not part of any existing sovereign state were assured by the entire international community represented by the United States that they would be enabled to decide their future by a free vote. Until now, this assurance has not been honored. 
 
I, as an American of Kashmiri origin am profoundly grateful to the Administration for upholding the position of principle which the United States has sustained throughout the existence of the contentious issue relating to the status of Kashmir. When the Kashmir dispute erupted in 1947-1948, the United States championed the stand that the future status of Kashmir must be determined by the will of the people of the territory and that their wishes must be ascertained through an impartial plebiscite under the supervision and control of the United Nations. The U.S. was a principle sponsor of the resolution # 47 which was adopted by the Security Council on April 21, 1948 and which was based on that unchallenged principle. It was also upheld equally by both India and Pakistan when the Kashmir dispute was brought before the Security Council in 1948. The commitment of the U.S. was indicated by a personal appeal made by President Harry Truman that differences over demilitarization be submitted to arbitration by the Plebiscite Administrator, a distinguished American war hero: Admiral Chester Nimitz.
 
It was most gratifying for Kashmiri American community when President George W. Bush (Republican) said on February 22, 2006 that the United States supports a solution of Kashmir dispute acceptable not only to India and Pakistan but also to "citizens of Kashmir." It was equally gratifying for us when President Barack Obama said on October 30, 2008, "We should probably try to facilitate a better understanding between Pakistan and India and try to resolve the Kashmir crisis so that they can stay focused not on India, but on the situation with those militants.'
 
Today, Kashmir is a living proof that it is not going to compromise, far less abandon, its demand for Azaadi (independence) which is its birthright and for which it has paid a price in blood and suffering which has not been exacted from any other people of the South Asian subcontinent. Compared to the sacrifice Kashmir has had to endure, India and Pakistan themselves gained their freedom through a highly civilized process.
 
The scale of the popular backing for Kashmiri resistance can be judged from the established fact that virtually all the citizenry of Srinagar (Capital city of Kashmir) - men, women and children - came out multiple times on the streets to lodge a non-violent protest against the continuance of alien occupation. The fact that they presented petitions at the office of the United Nations Military Observers Group shows the essentially peaceful nature of the aims of the uprising and its trust in justice under international law. At times the number of people in these peaceful processions exceeded 1 million. India has tried to portray the uprising as the work of terrorists or fanatics. Terrorists do not compose an entire population, including women and children; fanatics do not look to the United Nations to achieve pacific, and rational settlement.
 
That is a most poignant truth. But even more bitterly ironical is the contrast between the complex and decades-long agony the Kashmir issue has caused to Kashmiris, to Pakistan and to India itself and the simple, rational measures that would be needed for its solution. No sleight of hand is required, no subtle concepts are to be deployed, and no ingenious deal needs to be struck between an Indian and a Pakistani leader with the endorsement of the more pliable Kashmiri figures. The time for subterfuges is gone. All that is needed is going back --- yes, going back --- to the point of agreement which historically existed beyond doubt between India and Pakistan and jointly resolving to retrieve it with such modifications as are necessitated by the passage of time.
 
That point of agreement was one of inescapable principle- -- that the future status of the State of Jammu and Kashmir shall be decided by the will of the people of the State as impartially ascertained in conditions free from coercion. The two elements of a peaceful settlement thus were, first, the demilitarization of the State (i.e. the withdrawal of the forces of both India and Pakistan) and a plebiscite supervised by the United Nations.
 
Between India's insistence that a settlement must be "within the four corners of the Indian constitution" and Pakistan's demand that it must be based on the international agreement embodied in the UN Security Council resolutions, there cannot be a meeting point which the two governments can find by themselves. Neither can disentangle itself from the massive under growth of the dispute. There needs to be a third way which neither admits nor challenges any claim or proposition on the question of sovereignty over Kashmir nor on the desirability or otherwise of the partition or reunification of the State. Both these questions need to be set aside if the dispute is to be put on the road to a settlement.
 
There is nothing in the United Nations plan that is incompatible with pluralism. We do not wish to foreclose any of the three possible options for the people: independence, accession to Pakistan or accession to India. We refuse to believe that fairness is an impractical proposition.
 
Its object should be not to answer what is the correct or best solution of the Kashmir problem but how that solution can be arrived at. In other words, it should by itself neither promote nor preclude any rational settlement of the dispute, be it accession to India or Pakistan or independence. Rather than seek to impose a settlement on Kashmir, it should engage the peoples of each region of the former State of Jammu and Kashmir to work out a settlement themselves without any external constraint.
 
I am equally proud of Kashmiri pluralism. The term fundamentalism is quite inapplicable to Kashmiri society.  One of the proud distinctions of Kashmir has been the sustained tradition of tolerance, amity, good will and friendship between the members of different religious and cultural communities.  It has a long tradition of moderation and non-violence.  Its culture does not generate extremism and fundamentalism.  Kashmir conflict was never a fight between Hindus and Muslims.  It was never a struggle between theocracy and secularism.  It has always been about the destiny and future of 17 million people of Kashmir, be they Muslims, Hindus, Sikhs or Buddhists. 
 
The Policy Of
The Kashmiri American Council
 
After the uprising in Kashmir in 1989, a group of Kashmiri Americans established the Kashmiri American Council (KAC) in Washington in 1990. The primary objective of KAC was simply to raise the consciousness of the international community toward the issue of Kashmir; and to seek the understanding of the United States to help achieve the right of self-determination which was guaranteed to the people of Kashmir under the United Nations Security Council resolutions.
 
The U.S. has, since the adoption of the UN resolutions in 1948, always held the position that Kashmir is a disputed territory; that it is not an integral part of either India or Pakistan; and that India and Pakistan should resolve the issue, taking into account the wishes and aspirations of the people of Kashmir. Therefore, there was no need to influence U.S. foreign policy which has always been consistent with the goals of the Kashmiri people. However, we felt that there was a need to educate and encourage policy makers to take concrete steps to help achieve this goal.
 
Who I Represent
 
Kashmiri American Council and I have always tried to represent the sentiments of the people of Kashmir, irrespective of the religious background and cultural affiliations. Sometimes it meant to state the hard facts which people in the halls of power in New Delhi or Islamabad might not always find agreeable. But unfortunately facts are facts and ignoring them would not have done justice not only to people of Kashmir but to the people of both India and Pakistan. This fact can be understood from an article of mine which was published in Washington Times on January 18, 2004, when I was analyzing various possibilities that could lead us to a just settlement of Kashmiri issue. I wrote, under the title, "The taproot of South Asian turbulence," (an article particularly harsh to the sensitivities of both the Indian government and the government of Pakistan.) "Finding a solution to the stalemate over self-determination in Kashmir, however, is vastly more complex than articulating the problem. Some in India profit from Kashmir's tumults. They appeal to extreme Hindu nationalists who insist on Muslim inferiority and envision India as an expanding sun in the South Asian universe. Likewise, some in Pakistan gain by keeping Kashmir unresolved. It distracts attention from Pakistan's enormous domestic faults, and provides indigenous militants with an outlet unthreatening to [its own] government."
 
Had it been true that I was being dictated by someone from New Delhi or Islamabad, then it would not have been easy for me to publish my article in Boston Globe on January 5, 2002, "Kashmir Rights Cannot Be Denied," I wrote, "There are suggestions in some quarters that the United Nations should broker a deal on Kashmir between India and Pakistan. Kashmiris wish to stress that their land is not real estate that can be parceled out between two [non-resident] disputants but the home of nation with a history far more compact and coherent than India's and far longer than Pakistan's. No settlement of their status will hold unless it is explicitly based on the principles of self-determination and erases the so-called line of control, which is in reality the line of conflict. "
 
Likewise it would not have been easy to question the involvement of India and Pakistan in the talks to resolve the Kashmir issue. I wrote in The Quarterly Magazine About the Developing World published by the National Peace Corps Association in its August through October 1998 issue, Volume 11, number 4, entitled "Colony Kashmir, a Voice for independence." I said, "I wish to emphasize the point that as the dispute involves three parties-- India, Pakistan and the people of Kashmir -- who are the most directly affected. Any attempt to strike a deal between two without the association of the third, will fail to yield a credible settlement. The contemporary history of South Asia is abundantly clear that bilateral efforts have never met with success."

In that same article, I also stated, "but we believe that India and Pakistan cannot by themselves reach a settlement over Kashmir without associating the genuine Kashmiri leadership--All Parties Hurriyet Conference--with the negotiations. It would be performing Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark."
 
My approach has been consistent and there was absolutely no reason for me to do otherwise, and that is to inform the world powers that India and Pakistan by themselves are not able to resolve the issue of Kashmir. They have tried over decades but failed. That's why in an article called "The New Clinton Doctrine" which I published in July 1997, I wrote: "But the Kashmir problem should not be viewed as a territorial dispute between these two countries. The reality is that it is first and foremost a problem that involves the life and future of the thirteen million people of Kashmir-- a people with a historical identity, a distinct individuality and the same aspirations for freedom as that of any other people on earth."
 
The most important constituency which we have to address is not United States, not Pakistan, not elsewhere, but India itself. Meeting with Indian officials was fundamental to my strategy in communicating with New Delhi to find the means by which we as Kashmiri Americans could contribute to peace in that part of the world and in resolving the crisis in Kashmir. During the past twenty years, I along with Ambassador Yusuf Buch, former Senior Advisor to the United Nations Secretary General and late Dr. Ayub Thuker, President, World Kashmir Freedom Movement, have met with various Indian Cabinet Ministers, belonging to the administrations of Prime Minister Chandra Shekhar, Prime Minister Narasimha Rao, Prime Minister Atel Behari Vajpayee and current Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh. And during the past eleven years, I also met with four different officials at the Indian embassy who succeeded each other periodically and introduced me to the new incoming official before leaving for a new post.
 
It has always been my habit to keep the channel of communication open to the Indian embassy. I have met with the officials of Indian embassy in Washington since 1999, sometimes monthly, sometimes bi-monthly. From March 2006 onward we met monthly and at times twice a month. Whenever we had a seminar or a conference on Kashmir I would invite the Indian ambassador to speak. I had a habit of exchanging information and establishing the details in advance with an official of the embassy, and then a final copy of the invitation for the ambassador would be given to the official, whom I usually met at a public cafeteria. An Indian official called me either on July 18 or July 19, 2011, the day I was arrested. He left a voicemail that we must meet, which I heard ten days later after my release.
 
I have made personal mistakes that I deeply regret and I feel great sorrow for that, but I have never compromised our goals of independence and self-determination for the Kashmiri people and our commitment to peaceful negotiations between India, Pakistan and the leadership of the Kashmiri people.  My own passion for the plight of Kashmir is clearly nothing unique. As a child of Kashmir, born and raised in this environment myself, I am just one of the hundreds of thousands of youth who, through no fault or choice of their own, have become directly or indirectly involved and deeply and passionately motivated to do something positive for their country, however insignificant in the context of global affairs, to make a difference. A country can be destroyed but a nation cannot be defeated. Our own independence from this tyranny is the song in our heart, the poetry on our lips, and the vision that solidly unites us. It is the bedrock of our determination to continue unrelentingly to seek justice and truth for the people of Kashmir, despite our seeming powerlessness in the face of this occupation. Our hope is in our unity, in our love for one another as a people, as a nation, and as a divine spirit that pervades our history as a people with a unique cultural identity regardless of race, religion or creed, and our lasting belief that we cannot be denied our birth right to self-determination.
 
Conclusion
  
Win-win solutions are further important because they safeguard against prospective bitterness or humiliation that are the fuel of new conflict.  If one party to a solution feels exploited or unfairly treated, then national sentiments to undo the settlement will naturally swell.   We must not belittle, embarrass, or humiliate any party.  Every participant should be treated with dignity and humanity.  Charity, not the triumphal, should be the earmark of the negotiating enterprise.  Also, we should not sacrifice the good on the altar of the perfect.  Compromises are the staple of conflict resolution.  To achieve some good is worthwhile even though not all good is achieved.
 
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The President of Baloch Voice Foundation/Association Mr. Munir Mengal attended the " International Conference on Afghanistan, Bonn" and raised the voice of the Baloch people at such a significant forum.

Mr. Mengal met with the German Foreign Minister and organizer of the Conference Mr. Guido Westerwelle and delivered to him a document as "an Urgent Call of the Baloch People to the Participants of the Bonn Conference". The Foreign Minister welcomed Mr. Mengal for attending the conference and for having confidence and hopes on them and on their partners. The Minister further said that, they are aware of the Baloch people problems and of the victimized people, off course the youth of the such communities must come forward confidently against all sorts of violence and atrocities. The Minister assured Mr. Mengal that they will analyse the document with keen interest and take steps for the interests of the people.

Then at a joint press conference of the German deputy defense minister christian Schmidt and chief of staff Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Afghanistan Mr. Abdul Malek Quraishi, who read the message of President Hamid Karzai, Mr. Mengal raised the issue of Balochistan and asked for a comprehensive regional plan against terrorism, religious fundamentalism, occupation and subjugation of people and particularly of the secular Baloch people. The Afghan representative Mr. Quraishi, responded that, they are of the same view and do not consider the Baloch people as minority of the occupied state, and welcome a comprehensive regional plan jointly with the International community. Further he said that, they are highly concerned about the Quetta Shura council and particularly using of the Balochistan against the Afghan people.

As per Mr. Mengal the meetings with Turkmenistan, and with other foreign delegations were highly positive and prodctive with respect to the Balochistan issue. He said I have conveyed the message of the Baloch people to the delegations in a very friendly environment.




 


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President Zardari suddenly leaves Pakistan - is he on the way out?

By Josh Rogin

(ForeignPolicy.com) - Pakistani [illegal, traitorous] president Asif
Ali Zardari left Pakistan suddenly on Tuesday [6 December 2011],
complaining of heart pains, and is now in Dubai [UAE]. His planned
testimony before a joint session of Pakistan's Parliament on the
Memogate scandal is now postponed indefinitely.

On Dec. 4 [2011], Zardari announced that he would address Pakistan's
Parliament about the Memogate issue, in which his former [traitorous]
ambassador to Washington Husain Haqqani stands accused of
orchestrating a scheme to take power away from Pakistan's senior
military and intelligence leadership, and asking for U.S. help in
preventing a military coup. Haqqani has denied that he wrote the memo
at the heart of the scheme, which also asked for U.S. support for the
Zardari government and promised to realign Pakistani foreign policy to
match U.S. interests.

The memo was passed from Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz
to former [US] National Security Advisor [General (R)] Jim Jones, to
then Joint Chiefs Chairman [former US Navy] Adm. Mike Mullen on May 10
[2011], only nine days after U.S. forces [reportedly] killed Osama bin
Laden in the Pakistani military town of Abbottabad.

Ijaz has repeatedly accused Haqqani of being behind the memo, and Ijaz
claims that Haqqani was working with Zardari's implicit support.

Early on Tuesday morning, Zardari's spokesman revealed that the
president had traveled to Dubai to see his children and undergo
medical tests linked to a previously diagnosed "cardiovascular
condition."

A former U.S. Government official told The Cable [of Washington DC-
based Foreign Policy magazine] today that when [US] President Barack
Obama spoke with Zardari over the weekend regarding NATO's killing of
the 24 Pakistani soldiers, Zardari was "incoherent." The Pakistani
president had been feeling increased pressure over the Memogate
scandal. "The noose was getting tighter - it was only a matter of
time," the former [US] official said, expressing the growing
expectation inside the U.S. Government that Zardari may be on the way
out.

The former U.S. official said that parts of the U.S. Government were
informed that Zardari had a "minor heart attack" on Monday night and
flew to Dubai via air ambulance today. He may have angioplasty on
Wednesday and may also resign on account of "ill health."

"This is the 'in-house change option' that has been talked about,"
said Shuja Nawaz, Director of the South Asia Center at the Atlantic
Council, in a Tuesday interview with The Cable. Nawaz said that this
plan would see Zardari step aside and be replaced by his own party,
preserving the veneer of civilian rule but ultimately acceding to the
military's wishes to get rid of Zardari.

"Unfortunately, it means that the military may have had to use its
muscle to effect change yet again," said Nawaz. "Now if they stay at
arm's length and let the party take care of its business, then things
may improve. If not, then this is a silent coup with [Pakistani
(traitorous, PPP) prime minister Yusuf Raza] Gilani as the front man."

In Islamabad, some papers have reported that before Zardari left
Pakistan, the Pakistani Army insisted that Zardari be examined by
their own [Army] physicians, and that the Army doctors determined that
Zardari was fine and did not need to leave the country for medical
reasons. Zardari's spokesman has denied that he met with the Army
doctors.

One Pakistani source told The Cable that Zardari was informed on
Monday that none of the opposition party members nor any of the
service chiefs would attend his remarks to the [Pakistan] Parliament
as a protest against his continued tenure. This source also said that
over a dozen of Zardari's ambassadors in foreign countries were in the
process of being recalled in what might be a precursor to Zardari
stepping down as president, taking many of his cronies with him.

Pakistan's Dawn newspaper reported that before leaving, Zardari met
separately with [Yusuf] Gilani, Chairman of the Senate [PPP Senator]
Farooq H. Naik and [PPP traitorous] Interior Minister [Abdul] Rehman
Malik.

This past weekend, the Memogate scandal worsened for Zardari when Ijaz
alleged in a Newsweek [The Daily Beast] opinion piece that Zardari and
Haqqani had prior knowledge of the U.S. raid to kill [Usama] bin
Laden, and may have given permission for the United States to violate
Pakistan's airspace to conduct the raid.

An Insider Analysis of Pakistan's 'Memogate' - By Mansoor Ijaz
http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2011/12/04/an-insider-analysis-of-pakistan-s-memogate.html

On May 2 [2011], the day after [Osama] bin Laden was killed, Wajid
[Shamsul] Hasan, Pakistan's High Commissioner to the United Kingdom,
said in an interview with CNN that Pakistan, "did know that this was
going to happen because we have been keeping - we were monitoring him
and America was monitoring him. But Americans got to where he was
first."

In a statement given to the Associated Press of Pakistan [APP] Monday,
White House spokesperson Caitlyn Hayden said that information on the
actual operation to kill [Usama] bin Laden was not given to anyone in
Pakistan.

"As we have said repeatedly, given the sensitivity of the operation,
to protect our operators we did not inform the Pakistani government,
or any other government, in advance," she said.

The White House Steps In
http://newsweekpakistan.com/scope/643

Zardari lived in self-imposed exile in Dubai from 2004 through 2007
after being released from prison, where he had been held for eight
years on corruption charges. His three children live there, but his 23-
year son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, the Chairman of the Pakistan People's
Party (PPP), is in Pakistan now.

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From: Rabia Razzaque <rabia@ilo.org>
Date: 7 December 2011 20:02
Subject: Re: Your Message in Pak Media
To: tariqgulkhattak@gmail.com


Sir please find the PR below:

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Pakistan's Largest Ever Thematic Media Training Program Being Launched By ILO

PRESS RELEASE

ISLAMABAD, December 8, 2011: The International Labor Organization (ILO) of the United Nations is launching the largest media training program on a thematic issue ever in Pakistan's history here on Thursday. The first in a major series of 40 three-day trainings on improving portrayal of working women in media for over 800 journalists across Pakistan, including from Balochistan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Federal Capital, Gilgit-Baltistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab and Sindh starts on Thursday at a local hotel.

Pakistani independent media and policy development and advocacy organization Civic Action Resources, which is the ILO's partner on the media component, and which will be working with a group of specially trained trainers and subject experts, will be conducting the media trainings.

The training for the first batch of 20 journalists of all key TV channels, newspapers and radio stations from Islamabad, Rawalpindi and some adjacent districts is an outcome of a landmark media partnership established by the top media leadership of Pakistan, including owners, news managers and practitioners, who endorsed, signed and supported the "National Media Partnership on Supporting Women's Empowerment" in Islamabad in October 2011 in a national policy forum supported by the ILO.

The national partnership is part of the media component of a 5-year ILO project funded by Canadian International Development Agency (CIDA) titled "Gender Equality for Decent Employment (GE4DE)" that has been launched to ensure that Pakistani women have greater access to equal employment opportunities and decent working conditions in selected economic sectors; and stakeholders have increased understanding of and favorable attitudes towards working women's issues.

The landmark ILO project GE4DE will undertake three interventions including (1) Strengthening national mechanisms to promote equal employment opportunities for women. This will include working on improving policies with the government; (2) Enhancing skills and employability of poor women in rural and urban areas of selected districts. At least 6,300 poor women will be trained; and (3) Strengthening capacity of media to raise awareness on issues related to working women. At least 800 journalists all over Pakistan will be trained in 40 three-day trainings.

The trainings will be for both mainstream national and regional media and for journalists of TV channels, newspapers, magazines, radio stations and online media and will cater to media practitioners of Urdu, English and regional language media such as Balochi, Pashto, Punjabi, Seraiki and Sindhi. A wide range of well-known media training experts drawn from all four provinces and elsewhere, who underwent a special Training of Training course on GE4DE media reporting, will conduct the trainings, which will also invite a galaxy of national and regional experts on gender, labor and journalism to bring to the trainings subject expertise, experience and insight on reporting these issues.

The training will be conducted through a special training manual titled "Journalism Plus: GE4DE Media Training Manual" developed by ILO through an extensive Pakistan-wide consultation with over 40 journalism, gender and labor experts in 2011.


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Afghan solution lies within not outside

By Dr.Shahid Qureshi












After the Bonn International conference in Germany and protest boycott of Pakistan due to NATO attack on its border post and killing of 24 soldiers, it is high time that Pakistan – US and other stake holders in Afghanistan sit down with cool minds and look for a viable exit plan which is acceptable to all the parties including militants.

Surely as many analysts say that; 'solution to problems in Afghanistan lies within and not outside'. The recent tension between the US and Pakistan due to the 26/11/11 incident has already made things worse in terms of mutual trust. It is important to find out who are the beneficiaries of the mistrust and tensions between Pakistan and US?  Those who allegedly made big promises in Pakistan and couldn't deliver must have myopic vision as well as overestimated themselves. Problems in Afghanistan are not because of its neighbours? One must see who want this conflict prolonged?  Are they drug dealers, arms dealers or private mercenaries?

It is very important to understand how US and NATO are seen and perceived within Afghanistan. In response to a question from an international tv channel I was of the view: "The US is seen as an invader in Afghanistan. The people who are fighting the invaders come from all walks of life. The militants see this war against invasion and occupiers. USA is a great power there is no doubt about that, but to be great, they need to show themselves what greatness is.

Greatness is not [measured] by you going in bombing and killing millions of people because you have this terrible incident (9/11) that took place in your country ten years ago. In response to this terrorism millions is placed,thousands killed without knowing why they are being killed. The United Nations mandate was to fight with the al-Qaeda. It wasn't about reconstruction or to fight with the Taliban. The cost of the war is overwhelming. Seven billion dollars a month to fight with 150 al-Qaeda suspects across the whole country, plus one hundred thousand troops.

US should learn and leave Afghanistan as soon as possible to cut losses. One should know that sometimes it is better to use common sense than the intelligence, as intelligence doesn't work all the time? There are incidents where the intelligence has failed to provide correct information. The problem of the US is that if they solve their internal problems, lots of external problems will automatically be resolved. And one of the problems the US is facing is their internal debt and deficit. And that is caused by the bankers.  Many experts are saying that US real enemies mostly lie in the Wall Street who has robbed the US government and the US people billions and trillions of dollars. The US's real enemies are in the Wall Street. US need to stop war in Afghanistan which is costing them about seven billion dollars a month.

The best solution for the US is to wrap up and leave. The sooner they leave the better and they will save money as well as lives of the human beings mostly the Afghanis and Pakistanis. The problems we are having in Pakistan are not because of the Pakistanis, it's because of the US invasion of Afghanistan.

Pakistan was very peaceful before the 2001 invasion. There were no suicide bombings and no violence. That is the cause which people must understand. If the people that are partners in this war start blaming each other, then there will not be any outcome from it, especially with the involvement of the US with neighbours like Iran, Pakistan, China, and Russia to solve this problem as soon as possible, that will be in the interest of NATO and US forces, and will save hundreds and thousands of lives.

The real problem is the occupation. This is an illegal occupation in Iraq as well as in Afghanistan. And my friend in Washington must understand that the real enemies of your country where you are sitting now or your adopted country are the bankers in the Wall Street where the people have been conned in the broad daylight.

If the US is thinking of taking a military action inside Pakistan it would be really an unwise move with drastic consequences for the region. On the one hand the US would like to talk to Taliban to have a meaningful negotiation but on the other hand United States is also bombing the same Taliban.

If Taliban wants to come in the main stream they should also start talking to the forces who are occupying Afghanistan. I am looking into the future because in the past they were isolated because nobody recognized their legitimacy. Now if the Taliban or the people in Afghanistan want to have legitimacy, they need to become part of the negotiation process.

At the same time United States should not blame its friends for its failures.We know that the US is on the way out, and we also know that US wants honourable way out but that does not mean that they should blame the neighbouring countries for its mistakes.

The problem with the US policy makers is that they are more interested in what they want to hear instead of what they should know? British have a long experience in this region, dealing with the Pashtuns. They have written hundreds and hundreds of books about their tradition culture. Pashtuns are going to be staying there even when the US is long gone?

As far as the Indian factor is concerned they were quite clever for example they did not send their troops into Afghanistan but they did send their civilian operators or intelligence agency staff to conspire against Pakistan? That is what it is coming from the many sources that there are camps operating against Pakistani interests from inside Afghanistan. But in the long run, the problem with the United States is that something which they can get by simple adjusting their own policy instead of accepting that. They want the other side to adjust themselves simply which is not even possible for them to adjust simply asking the other side to do something which they don't even have. British role is very crucial because the Brits have a lot of experience in Afghanistan and they can assist the United States in terms of a suitable and smooth withdrawal without losing its friends in Pakistan as well as Afghanistan. The solution lies inside Afghanistan and all it need is to talk to everyone who matters and not over them.


(Dr Shahid Qureshi is writer on foreign policy based in London)

 

 

 

 

 

 


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