War on Terror : A Smoke Screen
By Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman • May 22nd, 2008 • Category: Politics, Worth A Second Look • (13,329 views) • 8 CommentsPrime Minister’s Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik was so eager to please the masters in Washington that as soon as the Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte raised his objections over the peace process with the militants in the FATA area of Pakistan, Rehman Malik fired the statement that there would be no talks with the militants, and the war on terror will continue.
What that means for the people of Pakistan is that the threat of suicide bombings will loom large, and the people who are already suffering through the hands of load-shedding, food shortage and the lack of justice will also have to bear the brunt of suicide bombings. After the 18th February, people took a sigh of relief as the suicide bombings stopped and things started to return to normal, but now once again the threat is on the cards.
Why United States has concerns over the peace process? Don’t they like peace? Dont they like the FATA area where people come to civilized world with all the modern facilities? Negroponte says, “Pakistan is the world’s second most populous Muslim state. It has nuclear weapons, and it is on the front lines of the battle against international terrorism, the most serious security threat of the 21st century.”
In real, US is not digesting the nukes of Pakistan, and all this war on terror is just a smoke screen.
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May 22nd, 2008
No body really wants to see peace in our areas. Its hard fact and our Government should realise it and make their foolproof action plans according. as per my knowledge, this work has been started from last few months. Our intelligence gave reports to concerned departments that our enemies want to infiltrate in Pakistan also soon. They are just finding excuses to bombard of Pakistani areas. previously it was only near west borders in FATA but now USA want that we don’t do peace agreement in SWAT also. SWAT not comes in FATA and it is very near to MARDAN and NOWSHERA also. Today USA can fire rocket on SWAT, as they do in FATA and in few months they can get courage to firs rocket on NOWSHERA ammunition houses and armed core areas… they first do and then says sorry. We must tackle these US/INDIA/ISRAEAL/NATO forces, sensibly and intelligently. It we will show them anger then it means we are going to give them big excuse of attacking on us. Right now, our Military have no support inside country also so it will be difficult time for all of us. This military rulers have every time indulged us in critical time… but we civilians blames on each other… like yeh Punjabi nay kia…yah sindi nay kia,,, yah balochi nay kia…..etc etc… Allah bless us.
May 22nd, 2008
Retired officer, this is called fear mongering and you certainly are not serving your nation. You almost sound recommending total capitulation in the face of perceived threats from some thugs.
May 22nd, 2008
Aftab S. Alam
can we say somthing positively keeping us within the topic so that we may create a general consenses over the issues being brought up before readers.
regards
May 22nd, 2008
Fear mongering is just that fear mongering what can you say positive about it? A disservice is a disservice - try to say few positive words about it.
August 3rd, 2008
IT IS NOT OSAMA, TALIBAN, PAKISTAN’S ATOMIC BOMB, OR ISI, STUPID
IT’S ALL ABOUT FUTURE MASTER PLAN TO SHAPE NEW WORLD, PAKISTAN WILL PLAY A CENTRAL, AND MOST IMPORTANT ROLE, USA & PAKISTAN WILL REMAIN FRIENDS,
In 1998, Dick Cheney, now US vice-president but then chief executive of a major oil services company, remarked: “I cannot think of a time when we have had a region emerge as suddenly to become as strategically significant as the Caspian.” But the oil and gas there is worthless until it is moved. The only route which makes both political and economic sense is through Afghanistan.
Unocal foresees a pipeline which would become part of a regional system that will gather oil from existing pipeline infrastructure in Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Russia. The 1,040-mile long oil pipeline would extend south through Afghanistan to an export terminal that would be constructed on the Pakistan coast. This 42-inch diameter pipeline will have a shipping capacity of one million barrels of oil per day. The estimated cost of the project, which is similar in scope to the trans-Alaska pipeline, is about $2.5 billion.A U.S-backed pipeline would be an inviting target for the Taliban and al Qaeda operatives in Afghanistan, and the planned project would run directly through Kandahar, the volatile region that Canada has promised to defend through 2011.
Afghanistan and three other countries agreed in April to build a US$7.6-billion natural gas pipeline starting in 2010 that would deliver gas from energy-rich Turkmenistan to energy-hungry Pakistan and India.
The Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan-India (TAPI) pipeline is strongly supported by the U.S. because it would block a competing pipeline from Iran that would bring oil to India and Pakistan. It would also reduce Russia’s dominance of the energy sector in Central Asia.
August 3rd, 2008
I forget to mention, that, everything could be smooth, and all parties had a piece of cake, but Taliban, and Al Qaeda ( pain in the neck ) are in the way. They want the whole cake I guess
August 4th, 2008
WE ARE LOSING THE WAR
AGAINST TERRORISM
Tired of the “war against terrorism” already? You’ll need to get used to it because it could last years or decades. Not because that’s the time it will take to completely eradicate terrorism, as some politicians and pundits have asserted, but rather because we’re losing this war a little bit more everyday and because it risks becoming a permanent war, just like the so-called “war on drugs”. Like that one, it will be a purely statist invention which will provide for the maintenance of a whole bureaucratic and police apparatus of repression whose main purpose will be to protect its turf and advance its own interest.
August 4th, 2008
Close Pakistan-US strategic ties important for peace and stability: Musharraf
Islamabad, May 26 (ANI): President Pervez Musharraf has said that close Pakistan-US strategic ties are essential for peace in the region.
Interacting with US Senators Carl Levin and Robert Casey, Musharraf told them that ties between two were not limited to the War on Terror.
Appreciating Pakistan’s role in the War on Terror, the US Senators assured Musharraf of Washington’s continued support.
Musharraf further said that two sides were working closely on ways to increase bilateral economic co-operation.
The US was also supporting Pakistan in improving its socio-economic conditions,” the Daily Times quoted the US Senators, as saying.