In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent and the Merciful
AFGHANISTAN STRATEGY
OF PRESIDENT OBAMA
[EVALUATION IN THE HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE OF PAKISTAN]
[Shamim A Siddiqi, New
York]
Since the time President Obama announced his new Afghan Strategy on
Tuesday December 1, 2009 before our cadets at West Point, a lot of discussion and
criticism has let lose both in favor and against, especially setting about the
dead line to start withdrawing form July
2011. Unfortunately, this is the hardest and the most difficult point of entire
scenario created by the foolish and concocted brutal attack on Afghanistan by
President Bush, PM Blare and their henchmen around the world. Their grounds of
attack were flimsy, unverified and full of arrogance. Still none has any prove that
Afghanistan
or OBL were involved in blasting WTC on September 9, 2001. The ground was
whimsical and was never verified by any judicial probe either of US National
Enquiry Commission or any International Judicial authority as: WHO DID IT AND
WHY? The situation still stands
ambiguous, confused and doubtful beyond any shadow of doubt. In consequence,
the USA brought Afghanistan to the prehistoric age of total
ruination, throwing Pakistan
in the grip of total anarchy and putting its military in an unending clash and
killing of its own innocent people in pitched battlefields in Swat, Waziristan and elsewhere in the country.
Unfortunately, it appears that Afghanistan
was simply made a scapegoat to provide the opportunity for America and its Allied forces to occupy Pakistan and
keep it occupied for an indefinite period to capture its nuclear project and
finish its ideological identity for good. Both these prominent identity marks
of Pakistan were and are the
cause of great concern for the entire secular West, the Zionist lobby in the USA and around the world, and the Indian “dream”
to undo the partition of India
to attain its ever alive passion of “Akhand” Bharat. There is a historical back
ground behind this antagonistic phenomenon and I must elaborate it to assess the latest strategy of
President Obama about Afghanistan and Pakistan in its correct perspective as
why the armed forces of the USA and Europe are going to stay in the region for
an indefinite period and keep Pakistan in central focus.
Pakistan was carved out of the Subcontinent of India as an
independent Islamic State in the annals of human history in July 1947. At that
time Europe was licking its wounds sustained in Second Greta War and was
resurrecting gradually under the oxygen tent of the Marshall Plan of America. It
could not make any hue and cry at that time. But by the year 1956 its economy
was rehabilitated. It then realized the significance of emerging Pakistan as an
ideological Islamic State when its Constitution was framed and promulgated in
March 1956 and elections were promised to be held in December 1958. Immediately Europe
and the secular world got the shocking message as what was going to happen so
soon. The anti-Islamic forces both in Pakistan and outside the country started working
forthwith against the so-called growing Islamic fundamentalism in Pakistan - the presumptive death knell to the
secular world and the Zionist ambition of Greater Israel.
The top notch of Pakistan
military was British trained and a military coup was manipulated from within its
ranks and files. General Ayyub Khan who
was the C-in-C in Pakistan illegally overthrown the established Government of
Pakistan, declared its Constitution null and void, promulgated Martial law in
Pakistan on October 8, 1956 and imposed himself as its Martial Law Administrator.
The entire democratic process was ceased and folded back.
General Ayyub Khan was a man of Freemason. He was elected its member in
1944 when he was the Captain in Coxes Bazaar. I happened to see that list of Free
Masson members in 1962 which another Member was holding who was the Managing
Director of a shipping company and the Vice Consulate of a Scandinavian country
in East Pakistan. The Zionist lobby manipulated this card and torpedoed the
emergence of the Islamic State of Pakistan for good. General Sikandar
Mirza, the appointed Governor General of Pakistan was sailing too in the
same boat along with General Yahya Khan who followed Ayyub Khan when he was
ousted from power due to public agitation. In consequence, Pakistan was partitioned and East Pakistan
became the independent sate of Bangladesh.
Late Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto became the
Prime Minister of the West Pakistan and
Martial law Administrate both. This was the first shock given to the people of Pakistan and all the big powers including India played
their dirty major role in this tragedy.
Under overwhelming public pressure of Muslim masses, PM Zulfiqar Ali
Bhutto though secular restored the Constitution of Pakistan
in 1973 with its Islamic Provision declared Qadianies as non-Muslims and took initiative
to make Pakistan
as a nuclear country. In the year 1998 Pakistan
went through its nuclear test in response to that of India and became a recognized
nuclear country. This status of Islamic Republic of Pakistan
with nuclear capabilities and Islam as its predominant ideology was never
acceptable to Western countries, the Zionist lobby and the Indian hegemony. Since
then all have been conspiring to rob Pakistan from its distinguished features.
The secular political regimes or military dictatorship whosoever came
to power in Pakistan by hook or by crook were never sincere to the Islamic
Provision of the Constitution and kept them as non operative. General Ziaul
Haq, PM Nawaz Sharif and PM Benazir Bhutto and General Pervez Musharraf all
were never sincere in transforming Pakistan into an Islamic State for
which it was carved out of Indian Subcontinent as a laboratory for Islam. All were always scared of the West’s
abhorrence to Islam and its application in any form in Pakistan. However,
the West, the anti-Islam forces around the world, the Zionist lobby of Europe
and America and the Indian hate against Pakistan all got their meaningful
expression in the form of “gorilla” General Pervez in 1999 when he ousted PM Nawaz
Sharif from power and became the most ambitions military dictator of Pakistan, aspiring
to be the Ataturk of Pakistan.
General Musharraf surrendered the “Sovereignty” of Pakistan simply to a verbal threat of an
employee of President Bush and paved his way to attack his neighbor, a Muslim
brotherly country Afghanistan
and occupy in turn both Pakistan
and Afghanistan
in the fictitious name of “War against Al-Qaida” and its spreading “threat” in
the region. The USA supported his military regime and he made a lot of dollars
in exchange for capturing the innocent Muslims of Pakistan and of other Muslim
countries that were in hide out in different parts of Pakistan as suspected
collaborators of Al-Qaida and BLD. They
were the remnants of Mujahedeen who fought against Russian occupation of Afghanistan at the behest of America. Thousands of brothers are missing. For long
nine years General Musharraf was carrying out the military agenda of the USA in Pakistan
and fighting Bush’s war in Afghanistan
while in complete control of Pakistan
affairs.
General Musharraf destroyed the ideological genesis of Pakistan, ruined
all its democratic institutions, arrested the Chief Justice of Supreme Court
when he refused to bow down before him, flooded the country with western and
Indian culture, made a U-turn on the issue of Kashmir, deported hundreds of
innocent Pakistanis to Guantanamo Bay prison for the greed of Dollars in ransom
from the USA, reformed the Madrassa system of education by removing the Qur’anic
verses regarding Jihad form the courses, killed hundreds of innocent boys and
girls of Lal Madrassa at Islamabad, made the Army of Pakistan to serve as the
stooge of American interest, giving it total access to Air Fields, ports and
free passage to Afghanistan and granted permission to American Embassy in
Islamabad to be fortified like Pentagon, making Pakistan to look like the
colony of the USA.
The crime list of General Pervez is limitless. He usurped the
Constitution of Pakistan
twice and robbed its Islamic and democratic character openly with an adamant
attitude of recklessness and made Parliament his “rubber” stamp. Influence of
the USA
reached to its highest peak, conspired with sick and corrupt politicians and
gave them free whaling in politics by allowing them to be the free-agent of
corruption under NRO. He is now absconding to UK and hiding his “ugly’ face under
the protection of British Canopy. His nine years dictatorial regime in Pakistan was
just a curse and a shame. If he dares to enter Pakistan,
its Independent Judiciary will now put him to gallows for all of his open and
hidden crimes against Pakistan,
its Constitution and innocent people. He paved the way for America to
dominate both on civil and military hierarchy. He created the Baluchistan card
for its adversaries to exploit culminating into “Independent Baluchistan
Movement” at the hands of the progenies of late Akbar Bugti Merhoom and a trump
card in the hands of its arch enemy India to explore and exploit vehemently for
long – the next target of America to hit by drone and kill innocent Muslims on
the pretext of chasing Al-Qaida leadership as his predominant strategy in
Pakistan.
Under this precarious situation of Pakistan where its military is
bogged down at both sides of the country: with the borders of Kashmir against
Indian occupation and with insurgents in Waziristan and at the borders of
Afghanistan and encountering the frequent retaliatory attacks on civil and
military targets in the Province of Punjab and NWFP. With this growing
insurgencies in Pakistan and the determined expression of President Obama to
chase the leaders of Al-Qaida in their “sanctuaries” in Baluchistan and border
regions of Afghanistan-Pakistan, President of Pakistan, Asif Ali Zardari
strongly blames America by writing: “The one-sidedness of American policy
[that] fuels the conspiracy theories that abound here – theories that blame the
West for all of our ills. Pakistan
elected democratic leadership is itself a victim of some of these conspiracy
theories. Our American partners must understand their origins and work with us
to turn public opinion around”. He further writes that Americas long term commitment of 7.5 billon
dollars aid to Pakistan “must
be complemented by short term policies that demonstrate American neutrality and
willingness to help India
and of Pakistan
overcome their mutual distrust. It could start by stepping up its efforts to
mediate the Kashmir dispute” [Ref: New York
Times –Op-Ed page of December 10, 09]
It all appears to be the wishful thinking and rhetorics of President
Zardari. The agenda of President Obama seems to be different and open-ended. He
was crystal clear in his speech of December 6, 09 exhorting that he is
“convinced that our country is at stake in Afghanistan
and Pakistan”
which he called “the epicenter of violent extremism practiced by Al-Qaida. This
is no idle danger, no hypothetical threat” He raised the terrifying prospect of
an unchecked Al-Qaida taking over a nuclear armed Pakistan. He forcefully argued that
Pakistan’s
survival also depends on defeating Al-Qaida.
These assertions of President Obama clearly confirm that the USA cannot rely on Pakistan promises about its nuclear
arsenal. It is going to stay in the region much beyond July 2011 for a period
not known to any one. At one hand America is planning to root out Al-Qaida and
today he categorically affirmed in his speech while reviving Noble Peace Reward
of 2009 that if necessary he is opened to send more troops to continue and
contain the war against Al-Qaida forces. In his recent inaugural speech,
President Karzai categorically said that the national Afghanistan
forces will only be able to undertake the security of the country from American
hands only after 20 - 25 years. July 11,
2011 is, thus, a fictitious time frame only for the home consumption of US
citizens.
America is going to “stay” in Pakistan for an
unlimited period of time. They have no control either over Taliban or Al-Qaida or
over the mass resurgence of the people of these two countries. The prolonging of stay of America and its Allied forces in Afghanistan and American occupancy of Pakistan will
keep the masses agitated at an accelerated pace. It may result only in increase
insurgency in Pakistan,
rendering its nuclear arsenal “slipping” gradually in the hands of the USA or under the control of UN Agencies and
keeping the country tied down with the opportunist secular leadership as
“friends” of America with no
interest to restore the inherent character of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
This is the ultimate game plan of Jewish and Indian lobby in America and
President Obama is only its tool. He has no opinion of his own except that of
the vested people surrounding him. Had
he any, he could pursue it after his much publicized speech of June 3, 09 in Cairo. He is surrounded by “Ahley Yahud and Ahley
Hanud” and he is their mouthpiece.
In the wake of this pitiable situation the people of Afghanistan and Pakistan have to fight their own
battle of Survival for their ideology, national character and nuclear arsenal,
seeking help only from the Lord of this cosmos Who is the best Planner. He can
defuse the entire planning of our adversaries in no time provided we seek help
only from Him. America
cannot stay in the Region for long as it is already paying its high price about
300 billion Dollars every year with increasing national debt of trillions of
Dollars. The foolish Wars in Iraq,
Afghanistan and the Occupancy
of Pakistan
are fast diminishing its supremacy in the community of nations. History will curse both Bush and Obama for
centuries together. Russia
lost its supremacy after defeat in Afghanistan. The USA failed to
learn any lesion from its contemporary power. So, it must suffer too in the
same manner. The lesion of history is always harsh and hard to swallow for
generations to come.
Shamim Siddiqi
December 10, 2009