Palash Speaks

Why Bengali and Tamil Refugees Should Not stand United to Sustain Themselves as persecuted in the same Way and Hated in Tamilnadu as well as in Bengal? Why Should the Bengalies not share destiny with our Dravid Negroid Kith and KIN as we shared it with SIKH and Chakma and Allow the Manusmriti follower Brahmins to DIVIDE Us? KilL Us?

Indian Holocaust My father`s life and Time- Two hundred One

Palash Biswas

Why Bengali and Tamil Refugees Should Not stand United to Sustain Themselves as persecuted in the same Way and Hated in Tamilnadu as well as in Bengal?

Why Should the Bengalies not share destiny with our Dravid Negroid Kith and KIN as we shared it with SIKH and Chakma Refugees?

Why Should We SWIM in Oceans of Crocodile tears and Allow Manusmriti follower Brahmins to DIVIDE Us? Kill us?

The US Corporate Post Modern Tri iblis Zionist War Monger Galaxy Order has CHOSEN us for Ethnic Cleansing in the FREE Market Democracy US Promoted in the War zone Indian Ocean under US Israel Led Strategic realliance, Nuclear deal and weapon Market. We may not fight the Mass Destruction Regime Zionist assisted by CIA and Mossad!

We may be Branded as Extremist or Terrorist any time as we happen to be seized within as Refugees resettled in Dandakarany are not allowed to gather after DUSK in any Emergency , even in death, as Maoists have captured all available Infrastructure available and the security Forces unable to Flush out the Maoists seek soft Targets in us! As Maosits arouse ETHNO NATIONALISM and Provoke Tribals against our People as the Shiv sena does in Maharashtra against so called Outsiders. As Nationwide deportation drive against the resettled refugees continue by the Ruling Hegemony Brahaminical alliance of UPA, NDA and the Left supported by DRAVID parties. As Prevention of terror Act is similar to AFPSA as weapon of ethnic cleansing aleady ACTIVE in the Entire Himalayan zone, Aboriginal Untouchable Land scpae excluding Brahaminical Himachal and Uttarakhand Hills! As Citizenship Amendment act targets us as Illegal Migrants! As Unique identity Project targets Real Property and we have to be Evacuated! As Forest act goes against all the SC, ST, OBC and converted Minorities and deprive us of Natural resources displacing us from land, Livelihood, home and Life! As Coastal Security Act is implemented only against aboriginal and Indigenous Communities! As SLUM demolition Act would empower the Promoters and builders to KILL us! As Mines Act and disinvestment Drive, FII Rule and foreign capital Inflow, India Incs, Extra constitutional elements engaged in policy making, legislation, governance treat us Illegal Migrants only and the ADMINISTRATION and Polity , Hegemony Strip us snatching all Human and civil rights! Media and Intelligentsia, Maoist Menace and Projected Mass movements, Insurrections, insurgency and NGOs target us for Infinite Persecution and repression!

Why should we not IDENTIFY ourselves, all refugees as Relatives, kith and Kin? Why Not?

Nov 07, 2009 09:27 PM
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Ananda Bazaar group recently published an Edit justifying the Govt. Decision to deny Citizenship to Tamil refugees.

Since my Childhood, I debated with my father why he emphasised on the Bengali refugee movement only and leading the Peasant across Caste, language and religion! He always answered that the bengali Refugees had been the follower of Harichand Guruchand Thakur and were responsible to launch all the Peasant Insurrections during East India company Rule branded as communal which Resulted in dalit renaissance. It Enabled DR BR Ambedkar to ensure maximum safe Guards for SC, ST and OBC communities, the Black Untouchables even after the Poona Pact and Transfer of Power to Brahmin Bania Raj. Thus, the empowerment of Black Untouchable in United Bengal and the Aboriginal Indigenous Bengali legacy formed Dalit Muslim Power equation in reaction to Brahaminical system and Zamindar Permanent Settlement under colonial rule.Thus, the Partition was manipulated which held Muslims responsible so much so diluting the Hindutva Rule of RSS and Congress led by so called leaders of Freedom struggle to PENALISE and ANNIHILATE the national dalit and Mulnivasi movement with segregation of Subaltern Landscape as Human scape.

He argued that since we are the Victims of Brahamin Arya Vengeance, we have to empower and organise ourselves first just to survive as our Existence is Endangered. Sikhs are persecuted but they are not Hindus and never subordinate to Manusmriti apartheid rule. As community and Religion, SIKHS stand together. Why should they come with us? On the other hand, we have no support from Bengal, our Home state while the Sikhs are backed by Punjab. Tibet and Bhutanese refugees are protected and they would never join us!

At the time , i had known very little about South India and the History and legacy that Connects us to Dravid Movement and Tamil Refugees.

I never do understand, why South India despite the strongest Possible Presence of Dravid Movement is as much as BRAHAMINICAL as Bengal is known from the beginning.

Only in karnataka, while I had gone to TUMKUR Dalit Reds headquarter and visited dalit panchayata led by Women , I came to know about Untouchability sustain itself in hardcore form right in the Dravid Land which is known to be different from the Aryavart and personality like Karunanidhi dares to break the Myth of Mryada Purushottam!Bonded labour is also Prevalent in south India.

More over the Plight of Tamil Refugees is worst. Bengali Refugees toeing their Insurgency Heritage and National Dalit Aboriginal Insurrections and resistance, continued to fight against Persecution infinite and they also resist the Nationwide Deportation Drve enhanced by Citizenship amendment act and Nilekani led Unique Identity Number. But we never hear about any Tamil refugee movement as they depend on the Dravid political Parties and these parties betray them in the same manner as the Bengali Brahmin hegemony, civil society, media and intelligentsia tried their best to finish us!

Jailalita is an Ayer Brahmin and her Apathy may be traced in Brahaminical roots of Dravid Politics right in Tamilnadu!

What about karunanidhi?

I have been writing that all over FIVE Dandakaranya states THREE Million Refugees resettled are stranded in CROSS Fire under Operation green Hunt, Operation Godavari and Operation Venus. Lalgarh and Jharkhand , Bihar and UP refugees are not counted. Mamata Banerjee turned Matua to get suitable Dalit SC Vote Bank and supported Gorkhaland and Lalgarh agitation to get ST Votes. She did never support the cause of Refugees and never condemned the Marichjhanpi Genocide, the first in Marxist Regime even after thirty years!

Mamata has never opposed the Deportation Drive against the Refugees. never opposed Citizenship Amendment act to brand all refugees from east bengal as Bangladeshi Illegal Migrants.

But she sheds an OCEAN of CROCODILE tears!
The Ocean is physically Closer to Tamilnadu and the Tamil and south Indian Non Brahamin dravid Negroid leaders do seem to have inherited the Elite Bengali Brahaminical vengeance and Hatred against the Tamil refugees deep in their heart as they never Oppose them being branded as LITTE people!

In dandakaranya the Tamil refugees are also resettled and they face the Stand off quite helplessly. Tamil and Bengali refugees are seized within dandakaranya. I know that the maoist Movement has no sympathy for the Refugees, Tamil or Bengali . On the other hand they arouse ETHNONATIONALIST Hate against Tamil as well as Bengali refugees. I have faced Ideological debate right in Karanataka when the Maoists declared that the Tamil and Bengali refugees have Captured the land of aboriginal indigenous tribes. Maoists and their Sympathisers like ARUNDHATI ray and Mahashweta Debiu and Medha Patkar do not recognise us,the refugees the Black untouchables as indigenous aboriginal black Untouchables and negroids. The Criticise Corporate Imperialism, LPG Mafia and Monopolistic Aggression, but they Never strike against Corporate interest anywhere. NGOs Follow suit. Politicians just Betray, destroy and shed CROCODILE tears. Worse is the fact that the Brahaminical Elements pit us , the Refugees against the TRIBAL People. It was preplanned that all the refugees Bengali, Chakma, Sikh, Tamil have been resettled systematically in dense FOREST areas inhibited by the aboriginal Tribes so that we continue to indulge in INFIGHTS infinite excluding the Brahamin kashmiri Pandits and Caste Hindu SINDHI and Brahamin Bengalies and kayasthas are adjusted in Urban and semi urban areas. Whereas Indian aboriginal History, legacy , culture, folk, gene, everything belongs to Dravid and nag roots. But the DRAVID leaders from South India ally with North Indian Brahamins to Kill Tamil as well as Bengali refugees. It is strange that the DRAVID Movement and Ambedkarite movement is nowhere Connected.

While the Dandakaranya Bengali refugees in ORISSA had been SEIZED within by Tribals aroused by the Maoists and Tamil refugees kept silent.

I respect ARUNDHATI, Mahashweta,Medha and so on, but the question remains unanswered that they seem to be most CONCERNED and Committed to the Causes of Tribal people but have no sympathy for Tamil, Bengali, Chakam, Raisikh refugees, SC and Obc communities. It means they strengthen the Manusmriti Rule escalating the Caste and Community Divide.
Not only Mayawati and north Indian Politicians, it is fact, Brahamin politicians led by Mamata Banerjee,Dravid leaders like Jailalita and Karunanidhi also evokes Casteology and arouse ETHNONATIONALISM to Push for Ethnic Cleansing and Free market, market Sovereign democracy! We are fools who easily tend under Mind control system and Media and CROCODILE tears of Hypocrite Destructive Politicians and Ideologies!
Palash Biswas
Kolkata, India

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Southern Spice
Chennai Corner
Mention Tamil refugees and CM Karunanidhi gets tearful: "I don't see those staying in camps here as refugees, I see them as Tamils…"
Pushpa Iyengar

Crocodile tears
Mention Tamil refugees and CM Karunanidhi goes into drama mode. Some weeks after he sent a 10 MP team including daughter Rajya Sabha MP Kanimozhi to Sri Lanka to visit the IDPs (Internally Displaced Persons) in their camps he was apparently unaware of the plight of the 73,241 refugees (31,802 Sri Lankan Tamils live outside camps) under his very nose in 115 camps in 26 districts of Tamil Nadu till a local magazine blew the lid off the scandalous conditions including poor amenities (no toilets, poor electricity), lack of bore- well, no access to higher education, no jobs. While sanctioning Rs 12 crore immediately after an emergency meeting with ministers – who are in a tizzy currently visiting camps all over the state to submit a report by November 10 – and officials, he got tearful: "I don't see those staying in camps here as refugees, I see them as Tamils…the amenities available to Tamils living in the state should be made available to those living in the camps too." Please note that he said Tamils, not citizens, so clearly he's got an eye on the assembly elections.

Also note that camp denizens had conducted agitations over a period of time, but politicians in TN were looking only at Tamils in Sri Lanka hoping to reap an electoral harvest. There was even a hunger fast at Chenglepattu camp recently by inmates protesting they were languishing without a trial. But no one listened.

Strangely, although some of the refugees have been here for over 25 years, none of the reports about their plight reached Karunanidhi although he's into his fifth term as CM. Does that mean he's a prisoner of the bureaucrats and police who did not do their duty by the refugees? Or are DMK party leaders callous like the Karnataka MLAs who lived in luxury at five star resorts in Goa and Hyderabad when they should have rolled up their sleeves to work and pay back the rain-affected people who voted for them? AIADMK's Jayalalitha has mercifully restrained herself from criticizing Karunanidhi – her preoccupation is with the politics of Mullaiperiyar dam and targeting Union Minister for IT and Communications Raja on the Spectrum scam – because she is culpable too having had two terms as CM since 1991.

PMK's Ramadoss, who is freelance having left the AIADMK front recently, has also joined in the refugee politics: "Compared to Tamil refugees, Tibetan refugees live with more freedom and in a much healthier environment." The Dalai Lama might not agree, considering China's objection to him visiting Arunachal Pradesh...

A cop-out
About eight months after the free-for-all at the Madras high court complex between agitating lawyers and police, the court has ordered disciplinary action and contempt of court proceedings against four IPS officers including the then Chennai police commissioner K Radhakrishnan, the then additional commissioner A K Viswanathan, the then JCP (north) M Ramasubramani and the then DCP (Flower Bazaar) Prem Anand Sinha. "To ensure fair and unbiased proceedings, it is for the government to place these officers under suspension," said the bench comprising Justices FM Ibrahim Kalifulla and R Banumathi. The four cops are planning to appeal in the Supreme Court.

But the CM apparently chose not to take the court's suggestion and AIADMK's Jayalalitha is asking why. In a case like this where the government has to take sides between cops and lawyers, there is no contest on whose side a politician, who gets "his" cops in place to carry out his agenda, will take. But Karunanidhi chose to let the cops, who are down in the dumps, know where his sympathies lie not too subtly. In his avatar as DMK chief he wrote a letter to the party cadre, a couple of days after the high court ruling, saying, "During the last three years (since his current government came to power), crime detection has gone up and so has the recovery (in theft cases) rate in the state. The police have been ceaselessly fighting against criminals and anti-social elements to guarantee protection to the public."

Karunanidhi, who holds the home portfolio, went so far as to say that the police should not be judged by "isolated incidents" that would put a "black mark" on their career. "This would not only make them hesitant to perform but also turn into a societal issue," he said.

He claimed that his views would be the same if he was in the opposition. "The police face several challenges. They risk their lives to maintain law and order and maintain peace. We should commend them for this," he said.

All true really. But politicians should take the blame for the state of the police. And in fact, politicians should also be blamed for lawyers holding the courts to ransom and indulging in protests. The free-for-all on February 19 was the culmination of weeks of agitation by a section of militant lawyers airing their pro-Tamil (read LTTE) views that finally led to excesses by the police including a lathicharge and vandalism of court property. It should also be said that the same lawyers refused to come back to work for over a month demanding action against the cops despite pleas by judges that litigants were suffering.

And for those who think only cops are feared, lawyers are even more feared. A rookie lawyer says even running a stop sign has no consequences because once the lawyer card is played, cops back off.

A Love Letter...
And if Karunanidhi was hoping for supportive cops with the assembly elections 18 months away, he's got it dude. His letter to the party cadre was like manna from heaven for the police force who were feeling kicked in the solar plexus by the courts. Word went around police stations that Karunanidhi's letter should be displayed prominently. "We see his statement as a morale booster. He indirectly told us that he was aware that we are doing a good job. And we wanted all police personnel to know what the CM feels."

Karunanidhi has flirted with the courts before – on the Sethusamudram project and recently on the Mullaiperiyar project. In the first case he converted the state-wide bandh he had called into a public meeting – after hurrying to the secretariat to clear files – when word came in that the Supreme Court did not take kindly to his defiance. On the Mullaiperiyar issue, he shelved the public meeting (although he claimed he was postponing it) altogether. He did not want to make an enemy of the UPA - his initial idea was to condemn Jairam Ramesh for clearing a survey for a new Mullaperiyar dam – at a time when union minister for telecomunications A Raja is this close to falling into the CBI net for his alleged involvement in the Spectrum scam. Besides, after Sethusamudram he did not want to be seen defying the court which is hearing Kerala's and TN's case on the Mullaiperiyar issue.

The real McCoy?
Autorickshaw drivers in any city fear to fall foul of the police. But in Chennai, cops must be auto drivers' best friend because many actually own them and also because for at least 15 years, meters in autorickshaws are showpieces, if they exist at all. It's all about bargaining (a ten kilometer distance could be between Rs 110-150) and hapless citizens have no choice but to opt for the cheaper "share" autos, which, incidentally, have hit auto drivers where it hurts the most – in their wallets. Not that share autos are angels and follow rules, they drive in non-designated areas. But since "mamools" are effective communicators, cops are over the moon , autorickshaw drivers are happy and only citizens get penalised.

So, it was little wonder that Palani Kumar, an autorickshaw driver from Annanagar spent Rs 1400 of his own money to print 150 posters in support of the police after the high court judgement. The poster claims, "Politicians, actors, media and advocates get preferential treatment; while the public and police, who protect everyone round the clock, face injustice." A tad incorrect, because I've yet to see a cop paying a bill in a restaurant.

But Palani may have printed posters to get his 15 minutes of fame (as proved by this column), to get on the police' right side or a concerned citizen who speaks out when he sees injustice. He says he had got the posters printed when exercised over another issue while in Madurai, but no one noticed. "I follow news regularly by reading at least three Tamil dailies. I was saddened by the court's verdict and wanted to express my anguish."

So he was never wronged by a cop? He had a string of bitter encounters but claimed he was looking at the bigger picture which was that politicians, actors and the media thumb their nose at rules and get away.

So, he's a rare auto driver who uses his meter, right? Wrong! "Nobody asks me to, they (customers) just prefer flat rates and I oblige." Is he for real?

Walk, don't play on the beach
Cops have turned out to be villains for youngsters wanting to play cricket at the Marina.. Although the decision to ban cricket- playing on the beach was taken by the corporation, cops – the enforcers – became the bad guys. Even the 228 playgrounds offered by the authorities have not mollified the youngsters mostly because the parks do not lend themselves to playing cricket. If more than one team comes, then it's out of the question. Some parks have trucks parked in them, some are garbage dumps, some have anti-social activity happening there. Besides, the Marina was preferred because many of the parks they played cricket at got taken over for building construction. Chennai Corporation commissioner Rajesh Lakhoni says, "If there is construction debris on any ground it will removed once work is over." But this is yet another example of a generation gap. It's the walkers (mostly middle/old aged with a wide reach to the powers) who first complained to the Chennai Police Commissioner provoking the ban. At an Annanagar ground where yoga happens, the senior citizens often have words with youngsters playing tennis. The older ones want peace and quiet and the young ones are loud and boisterous and that's where the problem arises.
http://outlookindia.com/article.aspx?262720

PAKISTAN ON Ramp Despite Rampage, Classic Case Study in Free Market Democracy Promoted by US Corporate WAR Economy Zionist!

Troubled Galaxy Destroyed Dreams, Chapter 416

Palash Biswas

http://indianholocaustmyfatherslifeandtime.blogspot.com/

While we see events with a VISION to look through the Geopoltics, Beyond Power Politics and Political Borders, we may realise what Free Market democracy means.

Major Siddharth barves informed me that MULNIVASI KARMACHARI SANGH plan to DEMONSTRATE in the Heart of Indina Commerce Capital on November, 22nd.It is quite a REFRESHING News. He also told me what ARUNDHATI Ray has written in OUTLOOK India, it exposes the Ruling Hegemony naked. Chidambaram Waging WAR against our people,we may not feel as the Blood touches us no where. I told Barves that I Never Contradict the Facts but simply I object that the Social Activists and Intelligentsia toes the line of Ruling Hegemony and the Toilet Media to DEFINE the Tribal people only as ABORIGINAL and Indigenous. thus, they break our solidarity while the Brahaminical System isolets the Triballandscape and Humanscape from rest of the country, specilly the SC,OBC and Converted Minority. Nationalism and Ethnonationalism so blind close the doors and windows of Humanity to see around and feel the BLOOD Spilled all over the Divided Geopolitics to accomodate Brahamin bania, Corporate Manusmriti apartheid raj ZIONIST under the TRI IBLIS satanic Order.

Free Market Democracy launched MONOPOLISTIC Aggression against BlackUntouchables worldwide and the GLOBE bleeds. My dear friends, it is BLOOD spilled all over we have to swim across to feel the Relax and Luxury of the GLOBAL Village on the Super Highway of ETHNICCleansing. We would not perhaps understand SOMALIA, Nigeria, Indonesia, Rawanda, Latin America, East europe, Phillipnes under FREE Market democracy as we never did understand Middle east Stand Off and the Oil War, Nuclear Biologicaland ChemicalWar fare and the Civil War and War Economics! We never Consider the Defence Budget and internal security Budget, Strategic Realliance, Nuclear Energy, India Incand Extra constitutionalPolicy Making, Legislation and day today Governance guided from Washington and Tel AVIV in dircet Supervision of CIA and Mossad, UNESCO and World bank, Gatt and WTO, IMF and FIIs!We are MIND Controled People who never know about Resource and revenue Management. We did never understand the SENSEX GLITTERING Economy as we donot play with indices! We are easily duped with Flagship Welfare Progrrammeand do support a Disasterous Unique Identity Number Project led by former INFOSIS Man! We Never did oppose AFPSA in the entire Himalayan Zone! We Never realised that we are subject to ethnic Cleansing and Mass Destruction on name of Development and Economics. We entertain in Parliamentary Reality Soap opera and Subvert in Communalism, casteology and Ethnonationalism! WE believe in the simple logic of RECESSION,Infalted Statics,manipulated Mandate, Sell OFF PSU to set right the Foreign Borrowing with foreign capiatl inflow destrying our Nature, Indigenous Production system, Livelihood and Economy. We feel proud to see Moon Mission flop and Nuclear Muscles FLEXED, group photos of Miltary Rulers!

But simply ,provided we see beyond Political Borders, we may see what happens today in pakistan, Srilanka, Bangladesh, Afganistan and Nepal, we share the SANE Destiny.

Thus Pakistan on Ramp Despite Rampage may proveto be a CLASSIC Case Study in US PROMOTED ZIONIST FREE MARKET Democracy which we may acceptly as Plastic Money boom, SEZ Drive, Displacement, Jobloss, Ethnic Cleansing, Defence Budget, IT and Technolgy Boom, realtyBoom,Knowledge economy and Privatisation of Services in Shopping Mall,Mutiples, Fashion Show, SPA, BRAND, ICON, CRICKET, retailchain, Bonded farming, Modigfied Genetic SEEDS and Chemical package, NuclearEnergy and Knowledge Economy!

Just , lookinto pakistan and you will get the INEVITABLE Resuts!

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Awami Tahreek (Peoples Movement of the masses of Sindh)
announces Long March
The Awami Tahreek (Peoples Movement of the masses of Sindh) announces
46 days historical Long March 8th Oct to 22 Nov 2009 (from Kandhkot to
Karachi) for Autonomy, NFC, Water, Education and Resources and Rights of
Sindh and against Corruption, Lawlessness, Terrorism, Unemployment and
man-made Inflation. Prior to this mega event the annual central elections of
Awami Tahreek, shall be held on 28th September 2009 at Yesrab Hall
Qasimabad, Hyderabad, Sindh.
Awami Tehreek Long March
KARACHI: The Rasool Bux Palijo-led Awami Tahreek (AT) announced on
Friday that it would organise a long march in first week of October against the
alleged settlement of outsiders in the Sindh as well as other issues faced by
the province. AT President Abdul Qadir Ranto made this announcement while
addressing at a protest rally at the Karachi Press Club. A number of women
activists belonging to AT women wing Sindhyani Tahreek also participated in
the rally. Ranto said that the planned protest long march would begin from
Kandhkot and end in Karachi. "Besides settlement of outsiders in Sindh, the
party would also record its protest on other issues, including restraining Sindhi
students from admissions in educational institutions in Karachi and the
allotment of millions of acres of provincial land to non-Sindhi population," said
Ranto. Sindhyani Tahreek's Zahida Shaikh as well as AT's Abdul Hakeem
Halepoto, Hakim Zangejo, Mazhar Rahujo and others also spoke on the
occasion.
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009%5C08%5C08%5Cstory
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Obama's quest for a Pakistan policy Thursday, November 05, 2009
Mushahid Hussain

Hillary Clinton's visit with a difference was probably the most significant event in Pakistan-American relations since the advent of President Barack Hussein Obama. She came, she saw, but while she did not quite conquer the "hearts and minds" of Pakistanis, Hillary at least earned their grudging admiration. She showed more guts than the bunkered-up Pakistan rulers, who refuse to leave the comfort and safety of their "5-star prisons" in Islamabad.

Unlike the aloof and abrasive Holbrooke, Hillary reached out to the "real" Pakistan. She got a peep into the emerging Pakistani society -- dynamic, vibrant, outspoken and self-confident. She seemed taken aback, used as visiting high-level Americans are to a sanitised Islamabad, where the officially-certified truth of the fawning ruling elite links sycophancy and servility to their self-perpetuation.

A profile of this "new" Pakistan is instructive, with three key ingredients. First, while the "old" Pakistan was politically a "one-window operation" -- monolithic and centrally-guided -- today's multiple power centres go beyond the military-security Establishment or the traditional political elite, and these now include the fiercely-independent media, an assertive civil society, confident young men and women with faith in their country's future, and a free judiciary that for the first time is truly an autonomous player.

Second, in contrast to the "old" Pakistan where the political elite was united in its belief that the road to Islamabad lies through Washington, the "new" Pakistan has little time for 'business-as-usual' political shenanigans, an absence of fear of power and authority, and no "Holy Cows."

Third, there is a broad popular consensus woven around a rejection of the mediaeval mindset and terrorism of the extremists, the corruption and capitulation of the ruling elite, and the hubris and diktat emanating from Washington.

While Pakistan's fourth flirtation with the United States goes through its predictable course of romance-disillusionment-distance, there is some good news and bad news regarding Washington's Afghanistan policy. First, the good news. Unlike Lyndon Johnson and George W Bush, Barack Hussein Obama is not allowing his generals to lead him to "Vietnamistan," as critics are calling the escalation in Afghanistan. As seven meetings of his "war council" demonstrate, Obama has bid goodbye to the non-starter that was his "Af-Pak" strategy. The smart politician that he is, Obama would not want his presidency to sink in the mountains of the Hindukush, hence the "review and reflect" mould.

But the bad news is that the Obama administration remains clueless on Pakistan and Afghanistan. They know what they don't want to do -- not escalate to such an extent that the US will end up facing another quagmire. But they still don't know what they should be doing or how to go about it.

After "Afpak" is dead and hopefully buried, here's what Pakistan should tell Washington on how to go about a doable strategy:

-- Trust Pakistan as an ally, and treat Pakistanis with the respect and dignity they deserve. After all, they have the highest stakes and suffered the most as the "eye of the storm" since the 30-year unrelenting war in Afghanistan (attempts at encouraging a civil-military divide amongst "good" and "bad" Pakistanis won't work);

-- Don't make Afghan policy hostage to a failed and flawed ruler in Kabul, who neither has credibility nor any legitimacy. Cobble together a government of national unity in Afghanistan, and do it quickly. Karzai today is just another Babrak Karmal;

-- Stop treating terrorism in Pakistan and Afghanistan as only a "Pakhtun problem." The Pakhtuns, on either side of the Durand Line, are suffering the most. They have faced death, destruction and displacement with fortitude. The Pakhtuns are the most hardworking of the ethnic groups living in Pakistan, with a deeply democratic and egalitarian ethos. During a conference at NATO headquarters in July 2007, Khalid Pashtoon, an Afghan MP from Kandahar, told the gathering that notwithstanding tall clams of expansion of the Afghan National Army (ANA), representation of Pakhtuns from the troubled southeastern Afghanistan in the ANA was still less than 1 percent;

-- Remember, the road to stability in Kabul now lies through Pakistan, so its security and strengthening should be paramount, not the other way around. Pakistan, with a functioning, modern, state infrastructure, is doable with greater intelligence coordination and fashioning of a fresh, comprehensive counter-terrorism strategy, which the country still lacks. American-style "nation-building" in Afghanistan is not doable.

"Af-Pak" lies buried for a combination of reasons. It was cobbled together in a hurry based on certain assumptions, notably a distrust of Pakistan military-security establishment's intentions regarding extremism, and confidence in the Kabul administration's ability to serve as an anchor of US political strategy in Afghanistan. Both have been disproved by subsequent developments.

Much has happened in the region since then. Pakistanis have demonstrated unprecedented resolve, unity and determination to protect the vision of their Founding Fathers regarding their country, as the successful military operations in Swat-Malakand and South Waziristan demonstrate. The US now has no political prop to its military strategy, especially after the disastrous election fiasco in Afghanistan.

There has been the first official interaction between the Indian government and the ISI, and a softening of the Indian stance on Kashmir, with a renewed willingness to "talk to all, without preconditions." This change of heart in New Delhi is partly premised on a fear of the resurgent Maoists (who now influence 20 of India's 29 states) and on the fiery polemics between China and India, the first such strident exchange in 30 years.

For the future, three core areas of distrust and conflict remain in Pakistani-American relations. And unless these are resolved by the Obama administration, neither the bilateral relationship nor any US strategy in Afghanistan will succeed.

First, the two sides view their enemies differently -- the US does not view our enemies within as their foes nor do we view their adversaries in Afghanistan as our threats. Hence, a mutual lack of cooperation in tackling each other's enemies, whose most recent manifestation was the US/NATO forces in Afghanistan timing the closure of check posts on their side with the Pakistan strike in Waziristan.

Second, India and its role in Afghanistan are viewed differently in Islamabad and Washington, with the latter brushing aside Pakistani concerns and taking no interest or measures to stop the growing proxy war between the two rivals in Afghanistan.

Third, the US views the Pakistan military and security services essentially in an adversarial light, to be contained, controlled and "cut down to size." Washington conveniently overlooks the fact that the main threat to the democratic dispensation is not from any budding Bonapartists waiting in the wings, but from the same reasons – "bad governance and increasing corruption" -- that Obama mentioned in his stern phone call to Karzai on Nov 2. These issues, vital for Pakistan's stability and democracy, were in the original Biden-Lugar bill, but are strangely missing from the final legislation, for reasons best known to Washington.

Irrespective of what Obama decides for Afghanistan, the Pakistani state is already in the process of reinventing itself, a process that has been hurt by US ignorance and arrogance regarding its much-maligned ally. The challenge for Obama is to fashion a Pakistan policy that matches the new realities in the region, rather than reflecting an old, outmoded mindset.

The writer is a senator and senior political analyst. Email: mushahid. hussain@gmail.com

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Who are Behind the Chaos in Afghanistan?
Dhu al-Qi'dah 14, 1430 A.H, November 02, 2009
Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
Source and Author Unknown

In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the Compassionate

The Americans follow contradicting programs in Afghanistan. These contradictions have greatly contributed to the chaos and corruption now rampant in the country. After invasion in 2001, Americans announced the Disarmament, Demobilization and Reconstruction (DDR) program which was aimed at encouraging former warlords and gunmen to surrender their arms for cash incentives, employment opportunities and vocational training. After a time, they left the program uncompleted, and opted to raise their own militias under the name of Campaign and Security Guards.

These so-called security guards escort American and other NATO member countries military and logistical convoys from one province to another, particularly to Uruzgan, Helmand, Farah and other provinces in the south. Some militias are used to detain suspected Afghans.

Recently, New York Times disclosed that following the American invasion of Afghanistan, Wali Karzai created the Kandahar Task Force which is involved in various human rights violations.

According to the Times Weekly, Wali Karzai frequently used the Kandahar Task Force against his opponents and on one occasion, they killed police chief of Kandahar province. Similarly, Americans pay tens of millions of dollars to private militia annually for escorting their convoys.

The private militias extort money from common people and levy agricultural tax on farmers named Ushar. They are involved in burglary, kidnapping and other unscrupulous activities. All these are overlooked by the invaders as the militia support them in their fight against so-called terrorism.

Applying The Sons of Iraq replica to Afghanistan, the invading Americans have created militia from among the Afghan minorities in the north of the country. Recently, they created such militia in Qazal Qila and appointed a Turkmen as commander. The Turkmen and Uzbek are ethnical minorities and their militias are notoriously known for human rights violations during the Russian invasion of Afghanistan.

To many observers who closely monitor developments in Afghanistan, these moves by the invading Americans can be part of plan dubbed as Chaostan, which was unveiled by Mc Crystal, American top commander in Afghanistan during his recent speech in London. According to this plan, the Americans want to create chaos in Afghanistan by plunging the country into geographical, racial and religious fighting once again.

Mullah Brader Akhund, Deputy-Amir of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan in one of his interviews said that Mujahideen had captured several groups of armed men who were involved in destroying schools and bridges. They admitted that they were paid by foreign intelligence agencies to do so. In this year Eid ul Fitre message, the Amir ul Momineen, Mullah Omar Mujahid instructed all Mujahideen of the Islamic Emirate to disarm armed groups who are involved in encroachment on people's life, property and honor on the provocation of the enemy.

Similarly, the bomb blasts in congested places, which have killed hundreds of innocent civilians, is of great concern to the Mujahideen and the Afghan people. This year in the holy month of Ramadan, a bomb went off in Kandahar just at the time when people were to break their fast. More than 50 people were killed in the explosion.

The Islamic Emirate denied having hand in the explosion and condemned it as a horrendous and despicable event. Later Dawa Khan Mina pal, a Radio Liberty reporter was detained by police of the Kabul puppet regime when he was trying to investigate the blast to find out who were behind this gruesome event.

Many observers agree that foreign intelligence agencies are involved in anti-human activities to malign the good name of the armed Mujahideen who are fighting Americans and other forces of the NATO member countries. Recently, the Afghan surrogate president Karzai complained in a press conference that unknown helicopters were airdropping armed men in the north.

According to him, these armed men disturb peace and security there. But Mujahideen in the area say, the foreign invaders airdrop the militia there to target Mujahideen hide-outs during the night and they also attack ethnically sensitive areas in order to provoke racial fighting.

The Americans think, by doing so, they can justify the presence of their troops and enlist supporters from among Afghan minorities against Taliban. These hidden agendas are driving our country into an unknown direction. Unequivocally, the foreign military presence in Afghanistan is part of the Afghan problem.

The more they stay in our country, the more, they will plunge our country into chaos and uncertainly. The only solution is that the invaders leave Afghanistan and let the Afghans to form an Islamic government where people from all ethnicities can participate in the government making on the basis of their talent and services to the people. This will vault out the country from the current vortex of conspiracies and ensure peace and stability in Afghanistan and the whole region.

Pak on ramp, despite rampage
NASIR JAFFRY
Islamabad, Nov. 6: The big names from the West refused to come and the event had to be pushed back by over a fortnight after a chain of terrorist attacks, but Pakistan still managed to unveil its second fashion week.

The four-day event — the last was held in 2005 — was scheduled to start on October 15 but started on November 4.

Ayesha Tehmina, the chief executive officer of Fashion Pakistan, said in Karachi that security fears and over 300 deaths in a series of suicide attacks and explosions in October had rattled the industry.

"Fashion Pakistan, which has organised the event, has invited 32 designers from across the country," said Tehmina Khalid, a spokeswoman for the organisers, adding that designers and models were not coming from abroad because of security reasons.

The Marriott hotel in Karachi, the venue, falls in a red security zone and has been heavily guarded since the fashion week began.

The event is part of Fashion Pakistan's objective to encourage and promote the fledgling industry that struggled for four years to put together this fashion week. Karachi is known as one of Pakistan's more fashionable cities.

The first fashion week in 2005 was dubbed a success, though the industry has no figures recording sales.

Fashion shows and events have been organised in Pakistan for the past few years. Several small shows are held every year by individual designers.

Fahad Hussain, a young designer, said the event was nothing less than a treat for him and he was delighted to see the "lovely amalgam" of East and West, which is the basic philosophy of his designs.

Pakistan's top designers Sonya Batla, Imbias, Aeisha Varsey, Fahad Hussain and Shameel Ansari marked the opening with low necklines and slim-fits, though the skin show was understandably restrained.

No Islamic organisation has issued an edict against the fashion week yet.

Pakistani celebrities, TV and sports stars as well as politicians buy the creations of Tariq Jamshed, Freiha Altaf, Deepak Perwani, Imbias, Maheen Karim, Junaid Jamshed, Nadya Mistri and many others.

The Pakistani media too have promoted the event. English-language papers like Daily Times, The News, The Nation and Dawn have separate Sunday editions dedicated to fashion and new trends. Most private TV channels have telecast shows on the fashion week.
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Wars pierce heart of US army
- Battlefield-set doctor kills 13 in texas base
Texas, Nov. 6: An army psychiatrist facing deployment to one of America's war zones has killed 13 people in the largest active duty military post in the US in the worst mass shootings ever at a base in the country.

Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the suspected gunman of West Asian descent, has been shot four times and is on ventilator in a hospital after the rampage at the Fort Hood army post in central Texas. Of those killed, one was a civilian and 12 were soldiers.

Less than 24 hours later, another shooting struck an office building in Florida. At least eight people were injured but local media said two were killed. ( )

Hasan, 39, was about to be deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, and shouted "Allahu Akbar" before opening fire, a witness said.

Clad in a military uniform and firing an automatic pistol and another weapon, Hasan, a balding, chubby-faced man with heavy eyebrows, sprayed bullets inside a crowded medical processing centre for soldiers returning from or about to be sent overseas.

The victims were cut down in clusters, officials said. Witnesses told military investigators that when the gunfire stopped, soldiers schooled in battlefield medicine ripped their clothes to make tourniquets and bandages.

Sirens typically used to warn of tornadoes sweeping across the plains alerted residents, schools locked down and the Fort Hood community struggled to understand what had just happened.

Fort Hood, named after a general and 160km south of Dallas-Fort Worth, is a virtual city for more than 50,000 military personnel and 150,000 family members and civilian support personnel. It has been a major centre for troops being deployed to or returning from service in Iraq and Afghanistan and is considered one of the safest places in the world.

A woman police officer is being credited with stopping the shooting rampage. Responding within three minutes of an alert, Fort Hood police sergeant Kimberly Munley shot the gunman four times despite being shot herself. Munley's condition is said to be stable.

Born and reared in Virginia, the son of immigrant parents from either Jordan or Palestine, Hasan joined the US Army right out of high school, against his parents' wishes.

Military records indicated that Hasan was single, had never served abroad and listed "no religious preference" on his personnel records.

Fox News quoted a retired army colonel, Terry Lee, as saying that Hasan, with whom he worked, had voiced hope that President Barack Obama would pull American troops out of Iraq and Afghanistan, had argued with military colleagues who supported the wars and had tried to prevent his own deployment.

Obama called the shootings "a horrific outburst of violence" and urged Americans to pray for those who were killed or wounded.

The Muslim Public Affairs Council, speaking for many American Muslims, condemned the shootings as a "heinous incident" and said: "We share the sentiment of our President."
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India and EU sign nuke pact
OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

New Delhi, Nov. 6: India and the European Union today signed a pact on a nuclear energy project and decided to conclude their long-delayed free trade treaty by next year.

The two sides also agreed to expand cooperation in countering terrorism by speeding up negotiations between Europol, the EU's top criminal intelligence organisation, and Indian agencies. The agreements followed talks at the 10th India-EU summit here between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and leaders of the 27-member bloc.

The EU team included Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt, whose country currently heads the rotating EU presidency, and European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso.

India will participate in the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor project. The project on fusion energy is said to be the costliest experiment of its kind costing 10 billion euros (around Rs 70,000 crore).

The first reactor is expected to be ready in Cadarche, France, by 2016.

The pact was signed by Atomic Energy Commission chairman Anil Kakodkar and Benita Ferrero-Waldner, the EU's external relations commissioner who represented the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom).

The discussions between Singh and the EU leaders covered a broad spectrum of issues, including the global financial crisis, energy security, climate change, trade and counter-terrorism. The situation in Afghanistan and Pakistan also came up.

On terror, Swedish Premier Reinfeldt said: "India and the EU stand together in combating terrorism, which is a serious threat to international peace and security."

Trade was also high on the list. It was decided that the talks for a free-trade pact, launched in 2007, should be wrapped up next year.
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