October 13, 2015

Long Live Pakistan - Responding Farid Zakaria & Kevin Hulbert


While Pakistan is actively rinsing the land from the menace of terrorism vigorously ripened after 9/11 myth involving factually none from its soil; there are some individuals still trying to maneuvering Pakistan’s knack and intent to curb the peril!

It is either Farid Zakaria’s The key to solving puzzle of Afghanistan is Pakistan, Kevin Hulbert’s Too Big to Fail or The Times of India suddenly realizing Pakistan's Kashmir card losing sting as Mohajirs, Baloch raise azadi cry in US; all these events happen in a few day(s) time!

Tribune Pakistan takes a step ahead distorting Too Big to Fail “Pakistan is probably the most dangerous county for the world” with “Pakistan most dangerous country for the world”. A perfect example of yellow journalism by eliminating “probably” to catch the readers’ attention through sensation!

Farid Zakaria pounds on Pakistan for providing the haven to Taliban and its new leader Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor speak out Pakistan army as the godfather of Taliban. He further insists that the problem cannot be solved without recognizing that the insurgency in Afghanistan is shaped, supported and armed from Pakistan, the fast growing nuclear armed arsenal and one of the world’s most powerful armies.

This is nothing more than a typical hypothetical novel story ignoring the ground hardcore realities and could had fetched audience may be a decade before. Pakistan has recently been facilitating dialogue between Afghanistan and Taliban in coordination with U.S. and China. Earlier U.S. initiated dialogue with Taliban opening their office in Doha.

If Taliban were purged from Afghanistan then as you say they were the “ghosts” you were talking to? Don’t the talks with Taliban reflect their strong existence in Afghanistan? Doesn’t U.S. presence in Islamabad dialogue itself vindicates that U.S. yearns to ensure a long-length peace process in Afghanistan. And finally who spoiled this peace process, don’t we all know? Indian RAW who sponsored a chain of attacks in Afghanistan to disrupt this peace process over strategic interests?

The article latter refers the existence of Akhtar Mohammad Mansoor lives part time in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province in Pakistan. Again, we all know that who is interfering in Pakistan territory and supporting terrorists to flog national integrity of Pakistan. India is thus having proxy militias in Baluchistan where the leader of their antagonist leader is residing and they could not exploit this lethal information to malign Pakistan? Then who requested Pakistan to release him, off course you don’t know? Hamid Karzai! And most importantly the ferocious Peshawar Attack killed 142-children and school staff, where were the havens and logistics support? Afghanistan!

Most certainly, there are so many other factors never to be discussed openly in international media, bilateral or international forums as it could hamper the business interests with India or could favor Pakistan which must not be viable at any cost!

14-years of U.S. military efforts in Afghanistan followed by withdrawal is not the only historical verity as Great Britain and Soviet Union bid fare well Afghanistan as well. The reason is simple; no military action could alone induce peace anywhere.

Kevin Hulbert criticizes U.S. foreign policy while retiring close engagements with Pakistan in 1989 after “extensive and well-choreographed” U.S.-Saudi-Pakistan efforts to train and supply mujahedeen that successfully retreats Soviet Union from Afghanistan. He then evokes to heed the lessons from the political and security vacuum in Iraq coined by U.S. withdrawal resulting in surge of Islamic State.

Well 9/11 occurred in 2001 so with his statement of 2015 Pakistan much dangerous and more complicated than of 2003 highlight the implications Pakistan is suffering because of U.S. War on Terror the cost of which is being paid by innocent people of Pakistan by the hands of Taliban groups so how could Pakistanis view Taliban as good soldiers by sacrificing their children, sons, daughters, father, mother and personnel from law enforcement agencies in the hands of Taliban? How could anybody patronize and perceive the killers of his/her children performing religious duty?

Wake up buddy, you are still portraying 2003 Pakistan when he last visited here or even 2014 Pakistan when you retired, it is 2015 emerging, integrated Pakistan, collectively, effectively and indiscriminately curbing terrorism, external threats and internal treacherous defector propelled by some specific external elements. This is no more a “do more” Pakistan which it used to be as capitulate over certain personal lusts and interests in the past decade or earlier.

Don’t you or anyone else to worry about nuclear Pakistan getting rogue! Could you deny the fact that Pakistan armed forces are one of the highly skilled most destructive, extremely proficient and well prudent armies in the world, ranked amongst the top. Isn’t Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) has recently been ranked #1 in the world? It is not just about the war or combating terrorism; Pak armed forces are vigilant and accessible within no time to counter any kind of other catastrophes such as earthquake, floods, training civil armed forces, stabilizing institutions and democracy even at the cost of their lives.

The civil casualties in your war on terror whether Iraq, Afghanistan or elsewhere are countless despite supposedly highly technology military and telecommunication equipment support but how many from the hands of Pakistan forces? Even your finger tips would fail to fill the minimal number! The recent Kunduz hospital tragic incident is a perfect example of your so-called technological advancement and there are so many other incidents to exemplify!

It is the Pakistan who at the cost of thousands of casualties has offset the defiance you were challenged. It is the Pakistan whose people by taxing their basic necessities have supported and fought your war. It is the Pakistan despite their territorial disputes and conspiracies upfront has released you from the peril of Soviet Union communism. It is you, as you said, left Pakistan alone but when you needed Pakistan after 9/11, we supported you across all levels unconditionally!

So nuclear Pakistan is neither a rogue state nor probably the most dangerous country for the world! The exceedingly responsible and vastly harmonized behavior of Pakistan since ’98 atomic explosions even against its arch rivals typify her depth of endurance, urge for peace and intent of co-existence.

It is who else but Pakistan which has guarantee balance of power to transform peace in the region otherwise Indian extremism would have flamed not Asia but the entire world like they did in their own country to massacre the minorities and rattling the neighbor countries. While we with U.S. are fighting and bleeding to salvage the world from the evil of terrorism, it is India who through Afghanistan is the architecture crafting insurgence in Pakistan. U.S. must hence enquire India about their iniquity intentions to prompt terrorism to destabilize peace in region and harm war on terror setting aside trade interests.

Into the pandemonium of social sector challenges, why Pakistan has an economic retrench in last 13 years, the credit again goes to war on terror. Reportedly Pakistan has suffered an economic loss of around US$ 100 billion since U.S. war on terror, 14 years back. How neatly you are pulling out yet again from the consequences that Pakistan suffered in U.S. coalition?

On the other hand, the sustainability of economy in 13 years corroborates that Pakistan’s economy is neither is faltering nor getting bankrupt rather strengthening as foreign reserves escalate, peace prevails in Baluchistan and economic hub of Karachi. Internally displaced persons (IDPs) are going back to their home in FATA. All these undeniable facts are being reported by local and international media and international financial institutions.


While taking into account IMF, U.S coalition support and U.S. foreign aid, IMF loans are anyways to be paid back and many countries of the world have been and are acquiring loans from IMF. And take a note; Pakistan got rid of IMF until U.S. war on terror hauled Pakistan into financial intricacies. U.S. coalition fund itself expresses what it is meant to be and in only reimbursed after Pakistan expend all such expenditure on behalf of U.S. Is U.S. foreign aid exclusively for Pakistan? No! There are so many countries U.S. is giving foreign aid and also check it out how many dollars have been reaches to poor. Most of the funds are cashed in by the corrupt government you support in these countries.

Few billion dollars cannot be substitute of 80,000 live and hundreds of thousands of injuries in U.S. War on Terror which suddenly is termed as Pakistan own war on terror after Peshawar Attack, a reaction of war on terror.

And lastly, Indian media sees few Baloch, Mohajors crying freedom chants in U.S. far-flung from facts in Pakistan but could not hear or feel the hundreds of thousands of azadi (freedom) cries of Kashmir people demanding plebiscite according to U.N. resolution?