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AGHA
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A SOVIET INTELLIGENCE OPERATIVE ON BANGLADESH WAR
PAKISTANS GREATEST MILITARY INTELLIGENCE FAILURE AT ABBOTTABAD WAS FORESEEN TWO MONTHS IN ADVANCE BY PAKISTANI RETIRED BRIGADIER
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TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 2011
PAKISTANI INTELLIGENCE FAILURE TO CONTAIN CIA INGRESS
LIST OF PAKISTANI INTELLIGENCE FAILURES INVOLVING PAKISTANS MILITARY INTELLIGENCE IS LONG :---
1. Failure to detect Indian tank divisions location in 1965.
2. Failure to predict the magnitude of polarisation in East Pakistan in 1970-71 which led to Pakistans breakup.
3. Failure to detect Indian infiltration 35 miles inside Pakistani territory in 1983-84
Agha H Amin
CIA-ISI Stand off
Published: The Nation Lahore March 2, 2011
A. R. Jerral
There are reports that cooperation between CIA and ISI is at the lowest ebb, if not altogether severed. This breakdown has occurred following the Raymond Davis operation, which was launched in Pakistan at the behest of CIA and without ISI's knowledge. According to an unnamed ISI official, the relations are "strained, but not broken", and "cooperation and operations together will continue at a lesser scale." This may be a diplomatic way to describe the lack or absence of mutual trust between the two spy agencies of the allies in the war on terror.
Davis, whose identity still is at best a speculation, did not prove to be a seasoned intelligence operative and blew his cover in panic. He opened a Pandora's Box of CIA's clandestine activities in Pakistan, which caught our intelligence and security agencies completely off guard. Since then Pak-US diplomatic relations are passing through difficulties, despite being allies in the war on terror. And there is no amicable solution in sight till Pakistan lets Davis go free citing complete diplomatic immunity.
General Zia plunged the ISI in CIA's ghost war in Afghanistan in early 1980s at America's behest. So ISI fully cooperated and assisted CIA to plan and conduct anti-Soviet operation in Afghanistan with command, control, logistic and training bases in Pakistan. This relationship continued for 10 long years till the interstate relations snapped. This was a long enough time for a world class spy agency of CIA's repute to build clandestine facilities in an 'allied' country for any possible future operations. Thus, Pakistan being a professed ideological Muslim country with open hostility towards Israel and a declared nuclear ambition was a good target for future CIA clandestine operations. This fact should not have been lost on those who are responsible for the country's national security. Security is not a one-time operation; it is a continuous process of evaluation and planning, and deployment of resources to thwart any hostile venture. So, the Mozang tragedy discloses that our intelligence agency faltered somewhere along the line.
The ISI is a secret service agency. Nothing much is known about its organisation and its method of operations - one can only speculate and conjecture. It is fair to assume that it will or should have an internal security apparatus to counter hostile espionage activities within the borders of Pakistan. This apparatus should have been alerted when the local press splashed stories about the large-scale deployment of Blackwater or DynCorp in Pakistan. At that time it was reported that operatives of these contract security agencies were roaming in Pakistan in suspicious vehicles fully armed and dressed as Talibans. A number of hostile incidents took place between these agents and the police. Also, there were rumours that these guys were renting out accommodations in posh areas of Islamabad and other cities at exuberant prices. Then our Interior Minister had vehemently denied these stories, despite police encounters with these operatives. These stories also leaked that our Ambassador in Washington was issuing an undisclosed number of visas to US nationals on the authority given by the top political hierarchy in power. These stories were sufficient for the intelligence agency of any nation to be wary of security situation in domestic environment. One expected that the ISI would be alive to these stories with proper measures in place for any eventuality, but Davis' case indicates slackness in this direction.
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A.H Amin
Thursday, March 15, 2012
So Called Educated and Liberal Pakistanis actually Laid Foundations of Islamic Extremism in Pakistan
Najam Sethi speaks like an Oracle but his pearls of Solomons Wisdom on Geo TV are superficial and lack depth !
He does not openly state that the Pakistani liberals actually destroyed Pakistan right from Sir Syed Ahmad Khan to Musharraf !
Murder of History in Pakistan
Agha.H.Amin
Agha H Amin
Irfani sahib
This is old stuff from 1990 .
While it is true that the religious parties opposed partition , religion was used as a slogan in 1946 elections ...you study any book on 1946 elections specially in punjab .a million died in partition . so the right emerged stronger . note that the dominant group in pakistans establishmenmt is the east punjab group who dominated the civil service as far as the punjabis in civil service were concerned .my great grandfather got land in lyallpur in 1898 or so and my grandfather saw these migrants in the lyallpur of 1940s and 1950s.......the 1977 agitation against ZAB was a refugee show whether lahore multan or karachi ...note that jaamaat was strongest in karachi , multan was a ranghar majority city and ranghars are east punjab migrants who are non punjabi and lahore was also more than 59 % east punjabi refugee ....zia again was a east punjabi although the familly may have had a link with saharanpur before 1850s
out of domination of the east punjabis and Upites in the civil service came the syllabus ......thus we had an Allama Iqbal on the Punjabi quota and a Liaquat Ali Khan on the Hindustani quota …….Pakistans idea was thrust on Iqbal whereas all that Iqbal wanted was a Muslim province in the northwest India as is proven by his correspondence and many before Iqbal had given the Pakistan idea like the Khairi brothers and many others
note that when the Muslim League was routed in the Punjab elections of 1936 Mr Jinnah did say that the Punjab is a hopeless place and he will never come to the Punjab again …..although come he did many times later !
the whole idea of the so called Muslim liberal is fallacious ……..you have a liberal Sir Syed who wanted the British to segregate Hindus and Muslims on basis of religion in the army because he saw religious unity as the cause of 1857 since Hindus and Muslims were mixed without distinction in the regiments before 1857
the fact of the history is that the English East India Company saved Muslims from complete extinction when they liberated Delhi from Marathas in 1803 and Punjab and Frontier from Sikhs in 1846 and 1849 ! Sindh and Bahawalpur were saved from Sikhs in 1809 when the English Company imposed a restriction on the Sikhs from expanding south at the Treaty of Amritsar !
religious exclusivism was basis of Pakistan whatever the liberals may say ………all along liberals wanted quotas on basis of religion ….a separate religious vote ……yet most dressed in western attire , most drank whiskey some ate pork !
but how does one explain a berkeley educated prime minister and his UK ediucated law minister drafting a law to declare ahmadis non muslim ? or a scotch drinking prime minister coming with the objectives resolution ? all along our so called educated classes have misused religion to achieve narrow class agendas...if the mullahs opposed pakistan ...the so called muslim league wanted it for narrow class objectives .....only 5 % were eligible to vote in 1946.......where was muslim league in getting votes in 1936 minus the pakistan and religious slogan ?
thus discrimination in religion was introduced by a Muslim politician who belonged to the so called Muslim liberal class in 1949 by the Objectives Resolution ! The worst religious discrimination in Pakistan was introduced when the PPP declared the Ahmadis non Muslims ! A Grand Faux Pas of the PPP !
even the Zia junta and Musharraf junta who misused Islam in Afghanistan had nothing to do with religion ! Zia all along was using religion as a facade to cover a humble background , a pathetic appearance and as a political tool ! Major General Tajammal Hussain Malik remembers that he never saud his prayers in middle of meetings in the ZAB era ! Zia liked whsikey drinking officers ! He only used Islam as a tool because he was under severe threat for having imposed the martial law in 1977 and then too he was supported by the so called educated East Punjabi and Urdu speaking Muslims in Lahore and Karachi !
Lets face it , that the so called educated Muslim elite started misusing Islam for getting jobs and political advantages from 1858 under Sir Syed and the Muslim right picked up religion as a political tool based on state after 1947 ! Both were guilty of using religion as a cheap pill or as something worse as a rain coat in another role ! Barsati as my friend Adnan Janjua once summed up !
Blasphemy laws again were only an extension of PPPs Ahmadi faux pas ! Chaudhry Sardar Ali the old IG police states that he was a direct witness when these laws were promulgated to woo Saudi Arabians to give aid !
The contradictions are outrageously glaring ! Benazir talked about liberal Islam but her government was the midwife of Taliban in Afghanistan ! Musharraf talked about liberal Islam but his government all along supported Taliban and many other extremist groups even after 9/11.
Francis Robinson a brilliant historian has analysed and proved that muslim separatism was a class driven agenda in his book Separatism amomg Indian Muslims
My question is that if the syllabus was so twisted what did the liberal PPP did to untwist it ? What did the so called liberal Musharraf did to correct it ?
best regards
Agha
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Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death." --
Albert Einstein !!!
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Up To 20 U.S. Troops Executed Afghan Massacre: Parliamentary Probe
Up To 20 U.S. Troops Executed Afghan Massacre: Parliamentary Probe
http://www.pajhwok.com/en/2012/03/15/20-us-troops-executed-panjwai-massacre-probe
Pajhwok Afghan News
March 15, 2012
Up to 20 US troops executed Panjwai massacre: probe
By Bashir Ahmad Naadimon
KANDAHAR CITY: A parliamentary probe team on Thursday said up to 20 American troops were involved in Sunday's killing of 16 civilians in southern Kandahar province.
The probing delegation includes lawmakers Hamidzai Lali, Abdul Rahim Ayubi, Shakiba Hashimi, Syed Mohammad Akhund and Bismillah Afghanmal, all representing Kandahar province at the Wolesi Jirga and Abdul Latif Padram, a lawmaker from northern Badakhshan province, Mirbat Mangal, Khost province, Muhammad Sarwar Usmani, Farah province.
The team spent two days in the province, interviewing the bereaved families, tribal elders and survivors and collecting evidence at the site in Panjwai district.
Hamizai Lali told Pajhwok Afghan News their investigation showed there were 15 to 20 American soldiers who executed the brutal killings.
"We closely examined the site of the incident, talked to the families who lost their beloved ones, injured people and tribal elders," he said.
He added the attack lasted one hour involving two groups of American soldiers in the middle of the night on Sunday.
"The villages are one and a half kilometre from the American military base. We are convinced that one soldier cannot kill so many people in two villages within one hour at the same time, and the 16 civilians, most of them children and women, have been killed by the two groups."
Lali asked the Afghan government, the United Nations and the international community to ensure the perpetrators were punished in Afghanistan.
He expressed his anger that the US soldier, the prime suspect in the shooting, had been flown out of Afghanistan to Kuwait.
He said the people they met had warned if the responsible troops were not punished, they would launch a movement against Afghans who had agreed to foreign troops' presence in Afghanistan under the first Bonn conference in 2001.
The lawmaker said the Wolesi Jirga would not sit silent until the killers were prosecuted in Afghanistan. "If the international community does not play its role in punishing the perpetrators, the Wolesi Jirga would declare foreign troops as occupying forces, like the Russians," Lali warned.
President Hamid Karzai on Thursday asked the US to pull out all its troops from Afghan villages in response to the killings.
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Conflict and FATA institutions
From my dear friend Mr Khalid Aziz
Conflict & Fata institutions
Khalid Aziz | Opinion | From the Dawn Newspaper, 16th March 2012
THE results of a perception survey carried out with 4,000 respondents in Fata, enumerated in Understanding Fata Volume 5, are illuminating on a number of counts.
Some of the results appear to confirm what had been assumed by a number of commentators, but a substantial proportion of the findings indicate that there are some positives in the situation and with a little more effort, the institutions of Fata can still be revived.
This is an interesting finding because many people, including myself, had believed that the effect of the past decade of war would be the collapse of Fata's institutions and a complete alienation of the tribesmen from the rest of the country.
Consider, after all, the fact that the area has suffered 10 years of marauding attacks by extremists including Al Qaeda and the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, and military counterterrorism operations by the Pakistan Army and the Frontier Corps, unfettered as they were by concerns about human rights or the rule of law and often ignored by the media.
While the survey is confined to the perceptions of Fata's tribesmen, there is nevertheless some indication that the residents of that area are in fact returning to the traditional system of management. On the other hand, the state has perhaps not put enough effort into integrating its activities into the communal framework of the tribes.
An estimated 716,000, according to the survey, of the area's four million-strong population were, at some time or the other, displaced internally over the past year by the fighting. Despite all the upheavals, however, they have not fallen under the spell of extremism. This speaks volumes about these oft-forgotten and abused people's resilience and their traditions.
In terms of the tribes' interaction with political authorities, 28 per cent of the respondents are reported to have interacted with the political agent and administrative system in 2008. By 2011, the number had fallen to 10.5 per cent, showing a declining trend of contact between the authorities and the tribesmen.
This is clarified by another result regarding the respondents about their trust in the political agent. In the 2010 survey, 7.2 per cent of the respondents said that they trusted their political agents; in 2011, 10.7 per cent said that they trusted their PAs. The curious indication is, therefore, that while (for whatever reason) contact between the tribes and the administration declined (possibly due to military operations), yet their trust in the political agent appears to have increased.
During the past eight years, more than 800 tribal elders have been killed by the TTP, other extremists and criminal gangs. One would assume that one of the main pillars of the tribal administration would thus have been wiped out. However, the survey results give a different indication. While 15 per cent of the respondents interacted with their tribes' elders in 2010, in 2011 some 27 per cent of those interviewed said that they had done so.
To understand the full implication of this finding, one must examine what it means. In the tribal areas, the role of the elder is to act as the eyes and ears of the political agent; to his people, he is the representative of the government and a link between the state and tribe. Additionally, he is also the person who attests and verifies paperwork connected to matters such as getting a passport, obtaining admission to schools or colleges or recruitment into government service. In this sense, an elder has a
pivotal role and influence on the tribe.
The revival of this institution leads to the conclusion that the alienation of the tribesmen is tapering off and the militants have not succeeded in driving a permanent wedge between the state and the people — something I had previously assumed had occurred.
Secondly, the eyes and ears of the political agent — the elder — exist despite the high rate of attrition.
Thirdly, the tribal administrative system remains robust and effective despite all that it has suffered. Apparently, the extremist
elements have not succeeded, which is a healthy trend that needs to be strengthened.These findings are supported by other trends indicated by the survey. In 2008, 35 per cent of the tribesmen interviewed said they had interacted with the religious personalities of their areas.
There could be two reasons behind this: the ordinary tribesman was seeking protection against the militants by putting himself under the protective fold of a religious figure, or the ordinary tribesman had written off the government's structure based on
the tribal elder and had begun to align himself with the emerging power in his agency.
However, in 2011 such interaction with religious personalities had dropped by more than half to 16.5 per cent among the respondents. This conclusion is supported by the tribesmen's shift towards interaction with tribal elders and the increase of trust in the office of the political agent.
The results of the survey relating to Fata's apex organisation, the Fata Secretariat, indicate the need for more interaction. Of the respondents, 66.6 per cent said they could give no opinion on its performance, which could be due to poor communication,
while 42.4 per cent were altogether unaware about its performance. An effective communication strategy could improve this deficit.
If militancy and extremism is actually tapering off, as this perceptions' survey seems to indicate, it would mean that the tribesmen have remained steadfast despite the pain they have suffered. Efforts must be renewed to bring them into the
mainstream.
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Syria: Regime Reclaiming the Initiative (Al Akhbar)
FROM MY DEAR FRIEND AMBASSADOR GAJENDRA SINGH
In the fast evolving situation in Syria , nothing , not even trends are final .Syria remains a keystone for the peace(?) in the region and its outcome will decide how the borders arbitrarily created by the British and the French out of the Ottoman Turks Arab dominions after WWI will be undone and new ones brought about by force or peacefully . The region with its resources remains crucial for international strategic interests , compulsions and moves .While the new players now are US led West and Russia and China , apart from powerful neighbours , the people too will have a say. The earlier wishful expectations of some have not and are not likely to be easily fulfilled . Greater Syria has a long history, although it is now much reduced in area and power .
In the fast evolving situation in Syria , nothing , not even trends are final .Syria remains a keystone for the peace(?) in the region and its outcome will decide how the borders arbitrarily created by the British and the French out of the Ottoman Turks Arab dominions after WWI will be undone and new ones brought about by force or peacefully . The region with its resources remains crucial for international strategic interests , compulsions and moves .While the new players now are US led West and Russia and China , apart from powerful neighbours , the people too will have a say. The earlier wishful expectations of some have not and are not likely to be easily fulfilled . Greater Syria has a long history, although it is now much reduced in area and power .
Unlike most UN SG's specially the current Ban ki Moon, who were beholden and lackeys of Washington , Kofi Anan was forthright and had described the US led 2003 invasion of Iraq against the UN charter and hence illegal .His appointment and acceptance by the parties for this mission is of some consequence .
K.Gajendra Singh 16 March 2012
Syria: Regime Reclaiming the Initiative
Published Thursday, March 15, 2012
Insiders say the Syrian regime is confident it is getting a grip on the crisis, but expects no early end to unrest.
It took us more than one hour to pass through the Masnaa border crossing from Lebanon into Syria because of heavy traffic. "Spring" is returning to Syria, as a senior official puts it, while noting that he uses the term literally. "People are tired. There is a great yearning for normal life," he adds.
Last Saturday, residents of Damascus were out and about in green spaces and on sidewalks.
Sources close to the regime insist that the situation "is better than before." They add: "This is Damascus and this is Syria. We are not saying that things couldn't be better. But it is not on the verge of collapse as Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya claim. The situation is improving by the day. Even Saudi media admitted defeat: 'Assad Wins the First Round!'" – a reference to the the title of a recent column in the Saudi newspaper Asharq al-Awsat by its former editor Abd al-Rahman al-Rashed.
Diplomatically, Syria remains on the defensive, trying to fend off incessant attacks. The regime had tried to prevent the crisis from being internationalized and to keep it within an Arab framework, but to no avail. Its intention was clear from the way it dealt with various Arab initiatives, last of which was the Observer Mission led by Lieutenant General Mustafa al-Dabi. The Syrian authorities afforded him maximum cooperation, but his report ended up being ignored by the Arab states.
When they brought the Syrian crisis file to the UN Security Council, the Syrian regime decided to confront them in the same arena. Damascus seems comfortable with the framework of the international game and the limits drawn by Russia and China through their decisive vetoes: "no" to any military intervention in Syria, including under the guise of "humanitarian corridors."
Syria is mistrustful of the UN and Annan.This would appear to explain the cautious optimism with which Syria greeted former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan's mission. Publicly, officials say that Annan is a respected international figure, who would not want to damage his legacy by acting unfairly. Besides, he could not have been assigned this mission without the approval of Russia and the US, which means that any understanding between the two powers may be conveyed to Syria via Annan.
The conversation is a little different behind closed doors. Sources say that the proposal which Annan presented when he met President Bashar Assad was essentially the same as the Arab proposal which Syria rejected – minus the clause requiring Assad to step down. It speaks of a cease-fire, the release of detainees, dialogue under UN auspices in Geneva, and allowing international organizations to transfer relief supplies to Syria and investigate claims of war crimes.
According to the same account, Assad replied to the latter point: "Some disobeyed orders and some made mistakes. We arrested those about whom we received complaints, we carried out investigations and there will be trials. But I ask you Mr. Annan, are you willing to do the same with the other side?"
Assad also said he welcomed all mediation attempts and was willing to engage the opposition in dialogue and reach agreement with it. But he questioned how any agreement could be implemented in the presence of armed groups, asking Annan: "Could you guarantee that these groups would commit to what we agree on?"
Assad also urged Annan to investigate who was funding and arming these groups, remarking that someone must be behind the money and weapons flooding into the country.
Damascenes are also likely to feature prominently in the government especially the business and merchant class.Annan did not answer Assad's queries. He simply said: "Your suggestions are worthy of consideration."
According to the same account, Syria is taking its time in responding to Annan's proposals as it wants to coordinate the details with Russia and is mistrustful of the UN and Annan.
Its suspicions were reinforced by reports that after leaving Damascus, Annan flew to Qatar to meet its Prime Minister, Sheikh Hamad Bin Jasem Al Khalifa. Perhaps he considers Qatar part of the war on Syria and went there to engage it in dialogue.
Rewarding Aleppo
Discussions with Syrian officials indicate that after the parliamentary elections scheduled for next May 7, a new "crisis-management" government is expected to be formed. It is likely to be headed by a figure from Aleppo in acknowledgement of the loyalty shown by the city to the regime. Damascenes are also likely to feature prominently in the government, reflecting the regime's gratitude for their role in protecting it, especially the business and merchant class.
Assad turned down a suggestion made by his advisers to form a new political party.Sources expect Damascus and Aleppo (which along with their rural hinterlands have a joint population of 12 million people) to account for about 55 percent of seats in parliament. Estimates vary regarding the number of seats the ruling Baath Party can expect to win in its current disoriented condition. If opposition Islamists participate in the polls, they might gain 20 percent of the vote.
Sources close to Assad revealed that he turned down a suggestion made by his advisers to form a new political party. He told them: "I am a Baathist and I will remain one."
On the Offensive
While the defensive diplomatic battle continues, the military and security battle on the ground has seen the regime increasingly take the offensive.
Sources close to the regime confirm that the Syrian army has re-established control over the city of Idlib in the north, and is poised to attack Jabal al-Zawiya. Estimates indicate that the operation there might last many months. However the regime has set itself a target of trying to "win militarily in the main cities and towns before the end of this month," as well as securing the country's main highways between population centers, in light of assessments that reasserting full security control "is going to take a long time."
One hears debates in Damascus about how the issue of armed groups should be dealt with. Some still contend that Assad has been too lenient, and demand that he crack down harder. They argue that if that had happened at Daraa when the unrest began there, the turmoil would not have spread to other provinces.
An informed source says Assad opted for a different approach: "The president was right. The military solution required the correct political circumstances in addition to preparing the Syrian army for this kind of fighting and training it in urban and street warfare."
According to this source, these tactics were employed in the Homs neighborhood of Baba Amr, and "accomplished the mission with the least possible losses. The principle was adopted of controlling the neighborhood one house at a time. The army did not behave like a regular army that enters and establishes centers that turn into targets for gunmen. It used the style of commandos."
The source indicates that Assad was convinced from the outset that the crisis would have to be dealt with "like a skin rash. In other words it cannot be remedied before it completely plays out. All one can do is reduce it and contain it to prevent it from spreading."
Sources close to the regime say an effort is underway to restructure the 17 security agencies and place them – depending on the specialization of each – under the control of either the interior ministry, the army command, or the presidency. Combined, they will make up a new National Security Council. Assad wants this council to be truly accountable to the new parliament's security and intelligence committees, which are to play a full role comparable to that of their counterparts in Western countries.
The sources say Assad is also keen to keep the security forces and the military out of civilian affairs and the media. All military and security personnel have been directed to stop dealing with the media and leave such matters to the relevant civilian officials.
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