Pakistan to halt military offensive if funds stop: Defense Secretary
Islamabad: Daily Ausaf, June 17, 2010. Pakistan Defense Secretary Lt Gen Athar Ali warned that military operations against the Taliban insurgents will be halted if the United States stops the release of Coalition Support Fund (CSF). Speaking after the release of the defense audit report 2007-08, the minister said Pakistan has not received CSF aid in the past two years. He warned that Pakistan Army might have to shift its priority in the face of scarcity of funds.
Pak-China Nuclear Strategy
Islamabad: Daily Jasarat/Khabrain, June 18, 2010. Abdul Basit, Foreign Office spokesperson, has rejected criticism of the Pakistan-China nuclear program, stressing that it is compatible with the international law. General Tariq Majid, Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee, appealed to the international community to stop discriminating against Pakistan and accept it as a nuclear country.
He said the United States is strategically opposed to nuclear cooperation between China, Iran, Pakistan and Russia, and is beginning an era of Cold War against China, which also explains its nuclear deal with India. In spite of using Pakistan as a base for fighting the Taliban and al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, America continues to favour India at the cost of Pakistan, he said.
Book accuses India and US of trying to dismember Pakistan
Islamabad: Daily Jasarat, June 16, 2010. Well known political analyst Tariq Saeedi has accused India and United States of conspiring to dismember Pakistan. In his book ?Final Solution', excerpts of which were published in this paper, Saeedi argues that the crucial location of Pakistan in the context of Central Asia and Middle East makes it vulnerable to external subversion. He predicts that India and United States will launch a three phased attack on Pakistan. After annexing Balochistan from Pakistan, International Transit Centre will be set up there. Consequently, this will allow America to exploit neighbouring Iran. The third phase of the plan calls for creating an Ismaili state in Gilgit Baltistan. This state will also include parts of Badakhshan in Afghanistan and Badakhshan in Tajikistan. India is already sheltering the leader of the Ismaili movement precisely for this reason.
Mr. Saeedi believes that the CIA, Mosad and RAW are jointly involved in instigating unrest in Pakistan's insurgency hit areas. According to him, two training camps are supervised by Michel Walkers, an American defence official, in the Afghan province of Oruzgan. Walkers, a veteran of the resistance against Soviet occupation in the 80's, is accused of training Muslims, Christians, and Hindus in the disguise of Taliban, and infiltrating them into Pakistan Pashtun areas and also in Balochistan. One Hindu Afghan has already been arrested from the Baloch district of Kharan in March 2010, who revealed that American private security firm Blackwater is also involved in the secret project.
The book concludes that the secret plan, executed by the North Carolina based special operations forces, is to become operational in July 2010, culminating in the division of Pakistan and the attack on Iran.
Country heading towards bloody revolution: Munawwar
Lahore: Daily Jasarat, June 19, 2010. The Jamaat-i-Islami chief Munawar Hassan accused the Ahmadiyya community of not accepting their status as a minority, and showing disrespect to Islam. Alluding to increasing violence in all provinces, the Jamaat chief asked the government to find out their supporters and expose them to the people.
Hassan highlighted the many problems facing Pakistan today. Pakistani troops, fighting an unpopular war, were kidnapped from Bajaur and taken to Afghanistan. The media is openly supporting the Ahmadiyya community. Deaths of Pakistanis are becoming a matter of routine in cities. Labourers are committing suicide out of hopelessness. He concluded that if the situation persists, Pakistan will soon be engulfed in a bloody revolution.
Riots in Kyrgyzstan: 200 Pakistanis still in trouble
Islamabad: Daily Jasarat, June 17, 2010. More than 200 Pakistanis continue to be affected by the recent riots in Kyrgyzstan. The Kyrgyz community's demand that non-Kyrgyzs should leave the country endangered more than 500 Pakistani engineering students. Even though 269 Pakistani students have been safely rescued and brought back home, the fate of the remaining students remains unknown.
Shahid Raheem is a media researcher with ORF |
