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[Pak-Media] Whistleblower Who Linked Taliban Leader To US Intelligence Is Assassinated

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http://www.infowars.com/whistleblower-who-linked-taliban-leader-to-us-intelligence-is-assassinated/

 

Steve Watson
Infowars.net
Tuesday, June 23, 2009


A whistleblower who defected from the Pakistani Taliban has been assassinated just days after he claimed that the group was working with US intelligence to destabilize the country.

Qari Zainuddin, a tribal leader of the South Waziristan region in Pakistan was shot dead on Tuesday by a gunman said to be loyal to Pakistani Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud.

Analysts said that Mr Zainuddin’s murder was a serious blow to the military campaign against the militants, as support of his faction was considered crucial, reports the London Times. “[It] is a warning to other pro government tribal commanders,” said Mahmood Shah, a retired brigadier who had served as top official in the tribal region.

Zainuddin had rejected Mehsud’s Taliban tribe, and shifted his allegiance to the Pakistani government, following a string of suicide bombings targeting mosques and civilians.

The Pakistani government also claims that Mehsud was responsible for the 2007 assassination of former Pakistani Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto.

One of Qari Zainuddin’s aides, who was also injured in the attack that killed the tribal leader, told the media that a lone gunman was able to enter Zainuddin’s office and open fire, before escaping uninjured.

“It was definitely Baitullah’s man who infiltrated our ranks, and he has done his job,” Baz Mohammad told the Associated Press news agency.

Zainuddin had recently hit out at Mehsud in an interview with the AP.

“Whatever Baitullah Mehsud and his associates are doing in the name of Islam is not a jihad, and in fact it is rioting and terrorism,” Zainuddin said.

 
Though the BBC and other mainstream sources highlighted this interview with Zainuddin, they neglected to cover the fact that Zainuddin also reportedly denounced Mehsud as “an American agent”.

Both Iranian and Pakistani media independently covered his remarks, adding that Zainuddin also described Baitullah Mehsud as having strong links with both Indian and Israeli intelligence.

In an interview with local media the defector said that Mehsud had established strong links with Israeli intelligence services, which were destabilizing the nuclear armed country, reports the Iranian news service Press TV.

“These people (Mehsud and his men) are working against Islam.” the report quotes Zainuddin as having said.

Meanwhile, Pakistan’s largest daily newspaper, The News, carried a report last Sunday that highlighted the remarks:

“In interviews to various media organisations on Thursday, Qari Zainuddin and his deputy Haji Turkistan had alleged that Baitullah was an American and Indian agent, he had killed Benazir Bhutto and that the real Jihad was going on in Afghanistan, not in Pakistan.” the report stated.

“Many diplomats contacted Foreign Office and Interior Ministry officials as well as media persons, seeking answers to their questions. Some Western diplomats were particularly confused over the claim that Baitullah was an American agent and that he had killed Benazir Bhutto. These diplomats were asking a question that if Baitullah was involved in the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, does that mean that the American authorities were also involved in the conspiracy.” the report continued.

Of course, whether you put faith in the Iranian and Pakistani media on these reports, is another question, however, there have been suspicions for some time amongst some Pakistanis that Baitullah Mehsud is on the CIA payroll and is being protected by the intelligence apparatus.

According to retired brigadier and former vice president and founder of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute, Shaukat Qadir, the Pakistani military has requested US help to kill Baitullah Mehsud on several occasions and provided the US with accurate information of his location. Despite this, he claims, Mehsud was never targeted.

Other analysts hold suspicions that Indian and US intelligence are funneling weapons, financial aid and even fighters to the Pakistani Taliban.

The history of the Taliban in Afghanistan, as we have previously reported, is replete with connections to western controlled intelligence agencies.

These facts were also recently highlighted by Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari, who admitted that the CIA and his country’s ISI together  created the Taliban.

The Taliban’s spread into Pakistan has also been connected to intelligence driven plots to Balkanize the middle East.

 


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Subject: Mehsud Tribesman Zainuddin is preparing to march against mercenaries/terrorists
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2009 16:46:02 +0000

I think Zainuddin will have a tough time as Baitullah Mehsud is supported by CIA/MI6/RAW/Mossad. That’s why the Pakistan Army has such a tough time eliminating Mehsud. The Drones usually target anti-Mehsud tribesmen. In a recent Lahore bombing, an anti-Mehsud cleric was targeted. Note the article below before Musharraf was ousted for exposing the US Elites' double-game.

 

US accused of backing terrorism in Pakistan- Hindustan Times

Pakistan has accused the US of backing militancy within the country, saying this goes against the grain of the Washington-led global war against terror.
www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/StoryPage.aspx?sectionName=&id=95c61181-205b-4c33...US+accused...terrorism... - Cached - Similar

 

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Subject: An Interesting Development

 

Pakistan Taliban leader faces threat from fellow tribesman

By Saeed Shah | McClatchy Newspapers

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan — A new Islamic militia leader has emerged in Pakistan to openly challenge al Qaida-affiliated warlord Baitullah Mehsud for the first time from within his own tribe, marking the start of a bloody confrontation in the wild Waziristan region that could have profound consequences for both Pakistan and the West.
In his first interview with Western news reporters, Qari Zainuddin vowed this week to wipe out Mehsud and rescue Pakistan from a reign of terror that has pushed the nuclear-armed U.S. ally toward collapse.
Zainuddin charged that Mehsud, who is the leader of the Pakistani Taliban, had betrayed both his Muslim religion and the Mehsud tribe of his native South Waziristan, which borders Afghanistan.
"To fight our own country is wrong," said Zainuddin, in an interview given in a hideout on the edge of South Waziristan, surrounded by masked Kalashnikov-totting followers. "Islam doesn't give permission to fight against a Muslim country. This is where we differ. What we're seeing these days, these bombings in mosques, in markets, in hospitals; these are not allowed in Islam. We don't agree with them."
But victory will not mean any lessening of efforts to expel Westerners from neighboring Afghanistan, Zainuddin said. He pledged to send his forces into Afghanistan once Mehsud is vanquished.
"The whole Muslim world should come together because all infidels have come together against Islam. Whether it is Iraq, Afghanistan, Palestine, Chechnya, Muslims must protect ourselves," said Zainuddin, who has the title of "Qari" or someone who has memorized the entire Koran. "The problem is that we cannot go to Afghanistan these days because we have had to deal with Baitullah."
Zainuddin, who described himself as "real" Taliban , reportedly has gathered as many as 3,000 armed followers and is being secretly backed by the Pakistan state against Mehsud's, who has a $5 million U.S. bounty on his head as a "key al Qaida facilitator." Osama bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman al Zawahiri, are thought likely to be hiding in the South Waziristan region controlled by the Mehsud tribe.
A cult of throat-slitting and suicide bombing marks Mehsud's grim rule. His group has staged spectacular terrorist attacks across Pakistan and has an extremist network that spans the tribal borderland that runs along the Afghan border and reaches deep into the country.
On Saturday, Mehsud's commanders claimed responsibility for last week's devastating bombing of a luxury hotel in the north west city of Peshawar and the assassination of a prominent anti-Taliban cleric in the eastern city of Lahore.
Many believe that Mehsud can be defeated only by a member of his own clan. Zainuddin is a Mehsud and also he used to be part of Mehsud's network, giving him an intimate knowledge of its working and its members, a knowledge that the Pakistan army lacks.
Around a dozen Mehsud tribal chiefs, in separate meetings, told McClatchy that they supported Zainuddin but were afraid to speak publicly. Their fears were compounded by a deep suspicion of the Pakistani state and especially the army, which has made clandestine deals with Mehsud in the past.
"Not since the time of Alexander the Great have the Mehsud people suffered such slavery," said one tribal chief who asked not to be identified to protect himself. "We want to stand with Zainuddin but we don't trust the government. Three times in the past, they have made deals with Baitullah Mehsud. Generals have gone and eaten dinner with him. We are scared that the generals will make up with him again."
Zainuddin's private militia includes relatives of Mehsud's victims as well of some of Mehsud's own men who, Zainuddin said, are deserting. A powerful armed faction, known as the Turkistan group, which lives on the edge of South Waziristan around the town of Jandola, has already backed Zainuddin and currently provides much of his muscle, according to local tribesmen.
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A tribal "jirga" or meeting of Mehsud triable chiefs has been called for the coming week to decide whether to back Zainuddin.
"Now people's hearts have come alive," said Zainuddin, who sports a trim beard and speaks softly but with confidence. "Before, no one was willing to speak up against this brutality, these wrong things. Now people are willing to say that Baitullah Mehsud is a beast. God willing, the people are with us."
A vicious round of blood-letting between Zainuddin's fighters and Mehsud's men has already begun, with beheading the favorite mode of execution.
In a significant victory, Zainuddin's militia chased Mehsud's men out of the two major towns that lie close to South Waziristan, Dera Ismail Khan and Tank. Residents of the towns said that they felt liberated from a life of ever-present dread.
Mehsud, the de facto ruler of Waziristan, appears genuinely shaken by Zainuddin's challenge, according to Mehsud tribesmen, and has offered to carve out a separate territory for Zainuddin if he drops the fight.
But Zainuddin has a personal score to settle. His uncle and brother were murdered by Mehsud's men, who also looted and destroyed his family home in South Waziristan.
The Pakistan army is widely believed to be preparing to launch a military offensive against to follow the current operation against a branch of Mehsud's Taliban movement in the Swat valley. Long convoys of army vehicles were visible passing through Dera Ismail Khan and Tank towards South Waziristan on Friday and Saturday, while Makeen in South Waziristan, a village known as a Mehsud stronghold, was pounded by Pakistani jet fighters late on Friday.
Zainuddin would be key to any army offensive in South Waziristan, both to weaken Mehsud — he's beaten Pakistan's vast military three times — and to help track down Mehsud's supporters if his 10,000 heavily armed men melt into the local population.
Zainuddin said he hoped a fight could be avoided if the Mehsud tribe would "throw out" Baitullah Mehsud.
"We work differently to an army. They will do much damage and homes of ordinary people will do destroyed," said Zainuddin. "It is better that we Mehsuds take care of this."

 

 

 

 

 

 

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[Pak-Media] CRSS Forum on Balochistan: Beyond Government Claims

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Balochistan:

Beyond Government Claims

Islamabad (August 6, 2012): The situation in Balochistan is
hopelessly bleak primarily because of the absence of political will.
The federal government has failed in addressing some of the most
pressing issues of Balochistan. A free and fair election in the
volatile province is the only hope. This was the general understanding
among the participants at a Discussion Forum organized by the Center
for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) on Balochistan: Beyond
Government Claims in Islamabad Club on August 6, 2012. A number of
prominent persons - ex-military men, former ambassadors, academicians
and journalists were part of the Forum, chaired by the distinguished
analyst Lt. Gen. (Retd.) Talat Masood.

Mr. Masood, in his opening remarks, said from the coercive diplomacy
and threat of use of force against the state of Khan of Kalat in 1948
to enforced accession of the Kalat state into Pakistan, to the current
insurgency in Balochistan; the government of Pakistan has not taken
any serious step to tackle the Baloch problem. He added that the
government blames the foreign actors for fuelling the insurgency, but
it is obvious that foreign powers will play hand if they are provided
with an opportunity because these are the rules of the game in world
politics. Moreover, he also added that in order to minimize foreign
involvement, one should put his own house in order in order to fill
the gap, which the foreign elements are exploiting.

Senator Mir Hasil Bizenjo of National Party, Balochistan said that
everyone is aware of the gravity of the current situation in
Balochistan but lack of will and sincerity - both in the civilian and
military leadership - remains the biggest obstruction. Taking swipe at
Interior Minister Rehman Malik's recent (August 3 and 4) claims in the
Senate - the upper house of the parliament - about the root-causes of
the Baloch insurgency, Bizenjo said the official thinking was frozen
in the 1970s ( when Moscow-inspired socialists were leading a
nationalist movement in Balochistan.

The fact of the matter is that the first batch of Baloch students was
sent to Moscow by former premier Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, and if these
students were terrorists then ruling Pakistan Peoples' Party (PPP)
should blame itself for it. He observed that the federal governments
in the past did nothing to politically settle the issue. It formed
committees and announced economic packages which did not change
anything on ground. The current government announced the Balochistan
Rights Package (Aaghaz-e-Huqooq-e-Balochistan, announced in Nov 2009),
promising to address several issues including the issue of forced
disappearances, target killings, reduction of the military's role in
governance and increased financial resources for the province. What
we, however, saw is the emergence of phenomena of dead bodies of
Baloch political workers. He said that incompetency of political
government is being exploited by the security establishment in order
to fix the issue through barrel.

Negotiations, according to Bizenjo, can only take place if realities
are counted for. But the government is in complete denial about the
hands behind the killing of Balochs. In fact, every murder is taking
place under the nose of the param-military Frontier Corps, which is
receiving an additional PKR 15 billion (US $ 65 million annually) in
the name of security. It makes negotiations impossible, claimed
Bizenjo, adding that even the President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari
has no control to stop the killings.

Different parliamentary and cabinet committees were formed in the past
to sort out Balochistan issue and find solution, said Bizenjo, but no
progress has been made either because the committees had no power or
because they were not willing to act. The issue of missing persons has
been discussed in the parliament in recent months but put aside
without exposing the faces behind it, added the senator. Acknowledging
the foreign involvement in the ongoing insurgency in Balochistan on
theoretical basis, Bizenjo conceded that as the insurgents always get
financial and material support from foreign elements, if available,
because it is very difficult for an insurgency to sustain on its own;
the same can be true in case of Baloch insurgency.


He lamented that the security forces in Balochistan has created a
parallel force to tackle the insurgents, mostly composed of thugs and
criminals. "They have weapons and identity cards of intelligence
agencies and they operate with impunity to fix insurgents. More than
that they are involved in robberies, kidnappings for ransom, drug
trade, etc., and are responsible for 70 percent of law and order
issues in the province." said Bizenjo. Due to this precarious security
situation, more than 200 Hindu families have migrated to Karachi from
areas like Khuzdar, Zhob and Turbat, said the senator. Suggesting an
immediate solution to deteriorating security situation, he said that
if the funds, which the government is spending on FC, are transferred
to traditional police force, levies, improvement in law and order
situation is possible.


Lamenting the breakdown of law and order situation and failure of FC
in addressing the situation, he said 60 percent of the violent
incidents take place on Saryab road, which covers an area of almost
two kilometers. If the FC is unable to control that area, how is it
expected to control the whole province? Another senior leader of
National Party, Balochistan, Dr Ishaq Baloch said the federal
government can render a great service to the people of Balochistan by
increasing their quota in federal educational institutions. He noted
that due to the closure of academic institutions in Balochistan,
scores of students cannot avail education facilities and joining the
ranks of nationalist militants out of exasperation. Overall the
participants were of the view that economic and security intervention
on the part of federal government cannot be alternative to the
political involvement, which is the only way to alter the status quo
in the hapless province.


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[Pak-Media] India "Unwashed"

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Sent: Tuesday, 7 August 2012, 2:11

Reflections on India
by
Sean Paul Kelley

Sean Paul Kelley is a travel writer, former radio host, and before that, an asset manager

for a Wall Street investment bank that is still (barely) alive. He recently left a fantastic job in Singapore working for Solar Winds, a software company based out of Austin, to travel around the world for a year or two. He founded The Agonist, in 2002, which is still considered the top international affairs, culture and news destination for progressives. He is also the Global Correspondent for The Young Turks, on satellite radio and Air America.

If you are Indian, or of Indian descent, I must preface this post with a clear warning: you are not going to like what I have to say. My criticisms may be very hard to stomach. But consider them as the hard words and loving advice of a good friend. Someone who is being honest with you and wants nothing from you.


Lastly, before anyone accuses me of Western Cultural Imperialism, let me say this: if this is what India and Indians want, then, who am I to tell them differently. Take what you like and leave the rest. In the end it doesn't really matter, as I get the sense that Indians, at least many upper class Indians, don't seem to care and the lower classes just don't know any better, what with Indian culture being so intense and pervasive on the sub-continent. But, here goes, nonetheless.

India is a mess. It's that simple, but it's also quite complicated. I'll start with what I think are Indias' four major problems – the four most preventing India from becoming a developing nation – and then move to some of the ancillary ones.

First: Pollution. In my opinion the filth, squalor and all around pollution, indicates a marked lack of respect for India by Indians. I don't know how cultural the filth is, but it's really beyond anything I have ever encountered. At times the smells, trash, refuse and excrement are like a garbage dump.

Right next door to the Taj Mahal was a pile of trash that smelled so bad, was so foul as to almost ruin the entire Taj experience. Delhi, Bangalore and Chennai to a lesser degree, were so very polluted as to make me physically ill. Sinus infections, ear infection, bowels churning was an all too common experience in India. Dung, be it goat, cow or human fecal matter, was common on the streets. In major tourist areas filth was everywhere, littering the sidewalks, the roadways, you name it. Toilets in the middle of the road, men urinating and defecating anywhere, in broad daylight.

Whole villages are plastic bag wastelands. Roadsides are choked by it. Air quality that can hardly be called quality. Far too much coal and far too few unleaded vehicles on the road. The measure should be how dangerous the air is for ones' health, not how good it is. People casually throw trash in the streets, on the roads.

The only two cities that could be considered sanitary, in my journey, were Trivandrum – the capital of Kerala – and Calicut. I don't know why this is, but I can assure you that, at some point, this pollution will cut into Indias' productivity, if it already hasn't. The pollution will hobble India's growth path, if that indeed is what the country wants. (Which I personally doubt, as India is far too conservative a country, in the small 'c' sense.)

The second issue, infrastructure, can be divided into four subcategories: Roads, Rails, Ports and the Electric Grid. The Electric Grid is a joke. Load shedding is all too common, everywhere in India. Wide swathes of the country spend much of the day without the electricity they actually pay for. Without regular electricity, productivity, again, falls.

The Ports are a joke. Antiquated, out of date, hardly even appropriate for the mechanized world of container ports, more in line with the days of longshoremen and the like.

Roads are an equal disaster. I only saw one elevated highway that would be considered decent in Thailand, much less Western Europe or America and I covered fully two-thirds of the country during my visit. There are so few dual carriage-way roads as to be laughable. There are no traffic laws to speak of and, if there are, they are rarely obeyed, much less enforced (another sideline is police corruption). A drive that should take an hour takes three. A drive that should take three takes nine. The buses are at least thirty years old, if not older and, generally, in poor mechanical repair, belching clouds of poisonous smoke and fumes.

Everyone in India, or who travels in India, raves about the railway system. Rubbish! It's awful! When I was there in 2003 and then late 2004 it was decent. But, in the last five years, the traffic on the rails has grown so quickly that once again, it is threatening productivity. Waiting in line just to ask a question now takes thirty minutes. Routes are routinely sold out three and four days in advance now, leaving travelers stranded with little option except to take the decrepit and dangerous buses.

At least fifty million people use the trains a day in India. 50 million people! Not surprising that wait lists of 500 or more people are common now. The rails are affordable and comprehensive, but, they are overcrowded and what with budget airlines popping up in India like sadhus in an ashram in the middle and lowers classes are left to deal with the overutilized rails and quality suffers. No one seems to give a damn.

Seriously, I just never have the impression that the Indian government really cares. Too interested in buying weapons from Russia, Israel and the US, I guess.

The last major problem in India is an old problem and can be divided into two parts: that've been two sides of the same coin since government was invented: bureaucracy and corruption.

It take triplicates to register into a hotel. To get a SIM card for ones' phone is like wading into a jungle of red-tape and photocopies one is not likely to emerge from in a good mood, much less satisfied with customer service.

Getting train tickets is a terrible ordeal, first you have to find the train number, which takes 30 minutes, then you have to fill in the form, which is far from easy, then you have to wait in line to try and make a reservation, which takes 30 minutes at least and if you made a single mistake on the form, back you go to the end of the queue, or what passes for a queue in India.

The government is notoriously uninterested in the problems of the commoners. Too busy fleecing the rich, or trying to get rich themselves in some way, shape or form. Take the trash, for example, civil rubbish collection authorities are too busy taking kickbacks from the wealthy to keep their areas clean that they don't have the time, manpower, money or interest in doing their job.

Rural hospitals are perennially understaffed as doctors pocket the fees the government pays them, never show up at the rural hospitals and practice in the cities instead.

I could go on for quite some time about my perception of India and its problems, but in all seriousness, I don't think anyone in India really cares. And that, to me, is the biggest problem. India is too conservative a society to want to change in any way.

Mumbai, Indias' financial capital, is about as filthy, polluted and poor as the worst city imaginable in Vietnam, or Indonesia – and being more polluted than Medan, in Sumatra, is no easy task. The biggest rats I have ever seen were in Medan !

One would expect a certain amount of, yes, I am going to use this word, "backwardness," in a country that hasn't produced so many Nobel Laureates, nuclear physicists, eminent economists and entrepreneurs. But, India has all these things and what have they brought back to India with them? Nothing.

The rich still have their servants, the lower castes are still there to do the dirty work and so the country remains in stasis. It's a shame. Indians and India have many wonderful things to offer the world, but I'm far from sanguine that India will amount to much in my lifetime.

Now, you have it, call me a cultural imperialist, a spoiled child of the West and all that. But remember, I've been there. I've done it and I've seen 50 other countries on this planet and none, not even Ethiopia, have as long and gargantuan a laundry list of problems as India does.

And, the bottom line is, I don't think India really cares. Too complacent and too conservative.






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[Pak-Media] Petition Against the Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Minority in Myanmar

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Dear All,
 
We have initiated a petition against the Ethnic Cleansing of Rohingya Minority in Myanmar.
This is against the UN Human Rights Laws and we intend to inform the Charge d'Affairs of Myanmar in Washington DC, that future relations
between our peoples will depend on their attention to this grave matter.
 
I request that all peace loving Americans sign this petition so we can deliver this message as soon as possible.
Please click on the link below;
http://www.change.org/petitions/petition-against-ethnic-cleansing-of-rohingya
 
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[Pak-Media] Bangladeshi paper remembers Pakistani General Azam Khan....

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Remembering Azam Khan

LT. General Azam Khan was above all else a soldier, pure and simple. His
only direct involvement or interaction with the people of Bangladesh was
for a brief period, from April 1960 to May 1962, when he held the office of
governor of the then province of East Pakistan.
Azam Khan had represented a martial law regime, far from home and to a
people who were culturally and linguistically removed from his own. He was
thus an improbable candidate to make an impression in the minds and hearts of
the Bangladeshi people. And yet, many of those old enough to remember the
early years of the decade of the 1960's would agree that he was different.

There was more than one account as to the reasons for his appointment. The
best-known version was that the then President Ayub Khan had wanted the
most dynamic and effective person for the job, and Azam Khan had the
well-deserved reputation of getting things done. Earlier as minister for refugees
and rehabilitation, he had pushed through in six months the housing
development of Korangi, to resettle thousands of refugees who were living in
makeshift slum accommodations in Karachi.

Reportedly Ayub Khan had told Azam Khan that "if you don't go to East
Pakistan, I will have to go myself." Another version was simpler; Ayub Khan
wanted to put some distance between Azam Khan and the levers of power.
Azam Khan made his presence felt soon after he assumed office. At that
time, whenever the governor travelled by car within the city, the roads on his
route would be cleared of traffic a few minutes ahead of time by an
advance security vehicle. This was both for reasons of security and convenience.
Azam Khan dispensed with this practice, and the gubernatorial limousine,
with a security car in attendance, would be seen with other vehicles on the
streets of the city.
Traffic congestion, of course, was not a problem then. He toured
frequently and extensively. There was the occasional newspaper report -- and also
picture -- of his sharing the frugal meal of a fisherman or farmer on such
tours. Azam Khan would describe fishermen and farmers as his "jheley bhai"
and "chashi bhai." There may be a similarity to what is known as "kissing
babies" prior to elections in a Western country.

On the other hand, a senior member of a military regime firmly entrenched
in power, would not have the time, inclination or need to indulge in a
public relations exercise, not in the bad old days when the Cold War was at
its apogee.

As governor, Azam Khan was also the chancellor of the few universities
that existed at the time, and took keen interest in the student community.
One evening, he turned up at SM Hall without notice. A thoroughly flustered
security guard, Naju Mian -- who was almost integral to the ambience of the
Hall of that time -- could not locate the Provost, Dr. Mazharul Haque, and
so rushed to inform the general secretary of the Hall Union, who welcomed
the distinguished visitor.
Azam Khan was his usual effusive and affable self. He mixed freely with
the students present and was shown around the Hall. He then declared that he
would dine with the students. There was no time to add anything special to
the menu; the governor, however, relished the meal.
He was less satisfied, though, with the state of the crockery, which
admittedly was much used. On his inquiry, the general secretary informed him
that about 300 students were living in the Hall. A week or so later a set of
300 dining plates, with matching quarter plates, and 300 drinking glasses
were delivered to the Hall, courtesy of the chancellor.

n May of 1961 a devastating cyclone, with a top speed of over 100 miles
per hour, struck the port city of Chittagong and surrounding coastal areas.
Over 12,000 people perished; many more were severely affected. There was
widespread damage to property and infrastructure. Azam Khan was indefatigable
in organising and supervising relief operations, and in touring the
affected areas extensively to assess first hand the extent of damage. He seemed
almost to thrive on the punishing schedule that he set for himself.
As an administrator, Azam Khan had vision and drive. At that time some of
the government offices functioned from tin sheds in the Secretariat. As
the administration and the bureaucracy expanded, there was pressure on the
available accommodation. A proposal was submitted to the governor for another
tin shed to be built in the Secretariat premises to provide much needed
additional space.
Azam Khan, however, had more ambitious ideas. He preferred something that
would cater for future needs as well; a multi-storied building, sturdy
enough for a helipad on the roof. Construction of the first nine-story building
of Secretariat began not long afterwards.

Azam Khan was removed from office in May 1962. An exchange of letters at
that time between him and Ayub Khan brought out a stark perception gap. Ayub
Khan was emphatic that the governor was essentially the agent of the
centre, and, in his opinion, Azam Khan no longer possessed the unswerving
commitment to the centre's policies that was expected of the governor. In other
words, he had "gone native." Azam Khan's focus, on the other hand, was
simply on doing what he believed to be the right thing, doing what needed to be
done.
In 1975, Bangladesh and Pakistan decided to exchange resident ambassadors,
and Azam Khan was offered the ambassadorship to Bangladesh. He declined
the appointment. He could not, he felt, represent either Pakistan in
Bangladesh, or Bangladesh in Pakistan. He maintained contacts, of course, with
successive ambassadors/high commissioners of Bangladesh to Pakistan (Between
1972 and 1989, Pakistan was not a member of the Commonwealth).

In 1986, not long after the inception of Saarc, Pakistan hosted a meeting
of Saarc finance ministers in Islamabad. Azam Khan travelled by car from
Lahore to attend a small dinner party for the delegation from Bangladesh at
the residence of the then ambassador.
He was in an expansive and nostalgic mood. He recalled the 1953
anti-Ahmadiyya riots in Lahore and other areas of the Punjab. It had begun as a
religio-political agitation. A motley group of extremists had demanded that the
Ahmadiyyas be declared a religious minority, and that all Ahmadiyyas
holding important positions in the government be removed from office. The main
target was Foreign Minister Chaudhury Zafarullah Khan. There was the threat
of "direct action" if the demands were not met.
Prime Minister Khwaja Nazimuddin, a devout Muslim and a thorough
gentleman, could not accede to the demands. He was, however, less than firm and
decisive in addressing the admittedly difficult situation. In the month of
March, when civil administration broke down in the face of widespread riots,
killings, looting and arson in Lahore and other cities of the Punjab, martial
law was proclaimed in the affected areas. Azam Khan, as the GOC of the
10th Division at Lahore, administered the martial law and quelled the riots
with utmost rigour and efficacy.
A summary military court sentenced to death Maulana Maudoodi and Maulana
Abdus Sattar Khan Niazi for their role in fomenting the disturbances. The
sentences were subsequently commuted to life imprisonment, and eventually
both were released. This was Pakistan's first experience of martial law; it
would last for over two months.

Azam Khan believed, as did many others, that the riots were a cynical ploy
by a political cabal, which included Punjab Chief Minister Mian Daultana,
to undermine and discredit Prime Minister Khwaja Nazimuddin. Both
Nazimuddin and Daultana would be ousted from office in the aftermath -- and largely
as a consequence -- of the riots.

In the month of July, a two-member Court of Inquiry was constituted to
inquire into the "Punjab Disturbances of 1953." The Court comprised the chief
justice of the Lahore High Court, M. Munir, as president and Justice M.R.
Kayani, Puisne Judge, as member. The close to 400-page report of the Court
exhaustively covered the issues, facts and train of events in respect of
what happened. Their lordships concluded their report almost on a note of
despair: "But if democracy means the subordination of law and order to
political ends, then Allah knoweth best and we end the report."
Azam Khan spoke in passing about Ayub Khan. Their association went back
many years, to the time when both were young officers of the British Indian
army. They did not keep in touch after Azam Khan's recall from Dhaka in
1962. He did attend the obsequies though after Ayub Khan passed away in 1974,
and there he met Begum Ayub Khan after a gap of many years.

She lamented -- with just a touch of reproach -- that Ayub Khan's close
comrades and associates had deserted him. Surrounded by sycophants and
deprived of honest counsel, his judgment had faltered in his last years of
power. Azam Khan replied gently that he had never parted company with Ayub Khan;
it had been the other way around.

In the late 1980's the then ambassador of Bangladesh received a cryptic
message from Azam Khan. Could the ambassador drop in for a cup of tea the
next time he was in Lahore; there was an important matter that the general
wanted to discuss with him. The ambassador was happy to oblige and on his
next trip to Lahore went to Azam Khan's residence.

Begum Azam Khan welcomed him warmly and asked if he knew what it was that
the general wished to discuss with him. The ambassador did not know. She
then proceeded to enlighten him. Azam Khan had drawn up papers making a gift
of his considerable landed property to the people of Bangladesh, and
planned to hand over the documents to the ambassador. Begum Azam Khan felt that
the ambassador should know something; the estates were the main source of
income for the family.

The ambassador was an astute and accomplished diplomat, one of the best of
Bangladesh. He was placed in a quandary. He could not accept the
outrageously generous gift, not in the light of what Begum Azam Khan had told him.
On the other hand, how could he decline gracefully without causing hurt? He
had only minutes to marshal his thoughts before his host joined him in the
lounge.

Azam Khan greeted his guest with his usual warmth. Over the years, he
said, he had received much love and affection from the people of Bangladesh. It
was not something that could be repaid. However, he wished very much to
show his appreciation, and had thus decided to gift his lands to the people
of Bangladesh. The ambassador thanked him.

Azam Khan's love for the people of Bangladesh was known to all, and did
not need to be reaffirmed. As a student of Dhaka University in 1961, the
ambassador had once attended a talk by the then chancellor at a student
function. In his talk, Azam Khan had stressed the importance of self-reliance for
a nation and people in achieving something worthwhile. This message had
stayed with him. There were many who subscribed to such an approach. Would
accepting the general's very generous gift be consistent with this teaching?
Azam Khan, of course, got the drift of what the ambassador was trying to
convey. He never raised the matter again.

There was a soft, almost sentimental, side to Azam Khan which seldom came
to the fore. Sometime in the early 1990's he showed the high commissioner
of Bangladesh an address of welcome that had been read out in his honour --
and subsequently bound and presented to him -- during a visit to a
university, as governor, decades earlier.

The address was in Bangla, and Azam Khan wondered if the high commissioner
could translate it for him. By the time the high commissioner had
finished his verbal translation, Azam Khan's eyes were moist. He was moved to
tears as much by the words of the address, as by the memories they evoked.

Azam Khan passed away not long afterwards. He was, as he himself liked to
say, a simple and humble man. There cannot be too many such simple and
humble men in any country of the world. May the earth rest lightly upon him.

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[Pak-Media] Polio virus found in the sewage water samples, collected from Gaddap town Karachi

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Polio virus found in the sewage water samples, collected from Gaddap town Karachi ...


Polio virus has been found in the sewage water samples collected from Gaddap town Karachi after a gap of about 4 months. Gaddap town is one of the poliovirus reservoirs in the country where a lot of efforts were made over the last 6 months to reach every child during every polio campaign. However, during the last campaign in mid July; all children could not be reached due to deteriorated security situation and incidents targeting polio workers. Sewage samples from Baldia town Karachi also showed presence of poliovirus for the first time this year after 12 samples did not have poliovirus earlier this year. Sewage samples from Sukkur and Hyderabad in Sindh, Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Rawalpindi and Lahore in Punjab have also shown presence of poliovirus in these places.


Pakistan has reported a total of 27 polio cases this year so far; 13 from FATA, 6 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 3 each from Sindh and Punjab and 2 from Balochistan. These polio cases come from 15 districts in the country. It is pertinent to mention that Pakistan's Augmented National Emergency Action Plan aims at interrupting the poliovirus circulation in the country by the end of this year.


The recent unfortunate facts are the banning of the polio campaigns in North and South Waziristan Agencies depriving more than 200,000 children in these areas of the polio vaccination. This is in addition to Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency which has been inaccessible for vaccination teams since September 2009. It is pertinent to mention that 10 of the 13 polio cases in FATA this year have been reported from Bara. If the recently imposed ban on polio vaccination is not reversed and access in Bara is not gained; the goal of National Emergency Action Plan is at serious risk.(#)

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[Pak-Media] Pak's Nuclear Umbrella? Did Washington Kill Its Favourite Saudi Prince, Bandar Bush?

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Did Washington Kill Its Favourite Saudi Prince, Bandar Bush?

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Saman Mohammadi
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August 1, 2012

Following unofficial reports by Voltaire Network that Prince Bandar of Saudi Arabia was assassinated on July 26, analysts pointed to the government of Syria as the prime suspect. The motive is clear: revenge. Days earlier, Prince Bandar reportedly oversaw an intelligence operation that caused the deaths of Assad's top generals.


But the question that must be asked is who else wanted Prince Bandar dead besides Syria? What if a different party is responsible for his death? There are several interpretations about who was behind Prince Bandar's death because the Saudi leadership is not releasing any information about this shocking story. This article represents only one interpretation. It takes as its premise that the government in Washington is the suspect.

I admit this is conspiracy theorizing, but it is grounded in facts and history. In the attempt to find out why Prince Bandar was killed we must not concentrate on the obvious and point to Syria. Appearances can be deceiving in these situations. If it is shown with proof and official statements that Syria was responsible then take this article's conclusions as a conspiracy theory, and nothing more.

But until the world knows with absolute certainty who killed Bandar Bush and why, it is our task to ask questions and look at every possible angle. We must keep in mind that many people wanted to see Prince Bandar go away; for some, permanently. A man like him makes a lot of enemies.

Last year, historian Webster G. Tarpley explained on the Alex Jones show that Prince Bandar was preparing to say goodbye to Washington and move Saudi Arabia closer to nuclear Pakistan and China. Over the years, dissent within the Saudi royal family has grown, and it seems that the question of which nuclear power to look to for protection has divided the leadership the most.

The recent assassination of Prince Bandar makes Tarpley's analysis from last year that much more important. According to Tarpley, Prince Bandar was distancing himself from the American Eagle. He knew his regime was targeted by Washington for regime change, so he started looking at Pakistan to provide security. Naturally, Washington would be pissed by Bandar's aggressiveness.

The prideful Eagle saw a rebellion looming in Saudi Arabia's inner circle and wanted blood.

II. Prince Bandar Bush: A Man of Two Clans

Prince Bandar Bush was truly a man of two clans. As Washington's adopted son, his fate was tied to a hostile house that is famous for disloyaty and betrayal. He was planning to strike against his American father, and as a result he was no longer considered the favourite son in the family. The American father wasn't in the mood of tolerating a rebellion. So he took out his whip and made sure the Saudi prince knew who was the boss.

There can be only one prince of darkness in this world, and he resides in the White House in Washington.

It is generally known that Prince Bandar was one of Al-Qaeda's chief financiers but he should not be made the scapegoat. He acted merely as an executioner for the tyrants who control the CIA, Wall Street, and the White House. The sin of creating Al-Qaeda belongs to the CIA alone.

III. The Eagle Sees All: Washington Refuses To Be Checkmated

In this interview with Alex Jones in April 2011, historian Webster G. Tarpley discussed Prince Bandar's decision to move Saudi Arabia closer to nuclear Pakistan and China, and away from the United States because of its "color revolution" policy. Tarpley says that the prince was wise to Washington's plot against the Saudi royal regime and sought a future in which Washington was no longer Saudi Arabia's superpower patron.

Here is an excerpt from the interview:

"The idea that Bandar is turning towards an alliance with Pakistan in order to defend Saudi Arabia against the U.S. is a kind of strategic revolution. Up to now, Saudi Arabia has relied on the United States for security. But now the people around Bandar see, obviously, that Obama is the main threat, that the U.S. regime, the CIA, the NED [National Endowment for Democracy], are the main threat to the internal security of Saudi Arabia. So they're looking for an option. Now once you say Pakistan, of course, you're also saying nuclear weapons. You can say in a certain way it's quite possible that Bandar has arranged that Saudi Arabia is now under the Pakistani nuclear umbrella.

This is quite a new thing in world affairs. These are two countries, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, who have been under the US yoke, totally dominated by the US, bombed in the case of Pakistan, who are trying to make a jailbreak." [You can hear the quote starting at the 2:45 mark to the 3:40 mark].

Later in the interview, Tarpley added that an alliance between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, China, and Russia would signal the end of U.S.-British dominance in the Middle East. Washington would essentially be checkmated had Prince Bandar succeeded in disconnecting Saudi Arabia from Washington's iron grip. This bold move would've marked the start of a whole new ball game in world politics.

IV. Washington's Dark History of Double-Crossing Its Allies

It is said that great powers don't have permanent allies, only permanent interests. In the case of Washington it couldn't be more true.

In the late 1970s, Washington threw the Shah of Iran under the bus in a dishonourable fashion after discovering that he had cancer through the Shah's right hand man, General Hossein Fardoust. Instead of letting the Iranian people decide their own political fate, Washington acted against the Shah by destabilizing his regime while covertly supportinghis successor, Ayatollah Khomeini. Read more about this secret history in, "An Epic Deception: America's Overthrow of The Shah And The Secret Quest For A One World Government."

Washington is cold-blooded in its mad pursuit of hegemony in the Middle East, and that is normal behaviour by a superpower. But we don't live in normal times. The nuclear age and the era of a lone superpower don't mix. One is coming to an end, hopefully both. Washington must give up its hegemonic power and ambitions peacefully, or else it risks dragging the Middle East and the world to the nuclear abyss.

Saman Mohammadi is the writer and editor at The Excavator





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