What's up with Hamid Gul? What's up with India?
He seems to get a good deal of media exposure, and has been featured on Alex Jones' show, so I'm not sure if I trust him. On the other hand, given who he is we can't really ignore what he says, since one way or another, as the truth or as a ruse, it is meaningful. The more I read about Pakistan the more it seems like it is besieged on multiple fronts - by "terrorists", by India, by the U.S., and quite possibly by other actors working covertly to destabilize the country. The last article posted here is particularly interesting because it shows how India's influence and business interests in Afghanistan are growing... I have to wonder out loud once again--are Israel and India in cahoots to destroy or take over Pakistan? Did they conspire together in any way to do with 9/11?
Posted at 1:30 PM ET, 07/26/2010
The audacity of Hamid Gul
By Jeff Stein
Everything that is terrifying about Washington’s relationship with Pakistan can be summed up in the Wikileaks documents on Hamid Gul, a former chief of the ISI, Islamabad's intelligence service.
The documents portray Gul as the public face of an underground Pakistani military network that appears to be working to destroy the U.S. effort to create a pro-West Afghanistan.
A hawk-like man with laser black eyes, Gul's animosity toward the United States is well known. But the audacity of his plotting with the Taliban and even al-Qaeda, as represented in the documents, has the ability to shock.
If the documents are to be believed -- and the uncorroborated U.S. intelligence reports must be read with caution -- Gul has taken a direct hand in quarterbacking attacks against U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan.
Gul calls the reports "fiction and nothing else."
In mid-December 2006, one report says, Gul met with “senior members of the Taliban leadership in Nowshara, Pakistan,” during which he said he had dispatched three insurgents to Kabul to carry out attacks with improvised explosive devices during the celebration of Eid, a Muslim holiday.
“Gul instructed two of the individuals to plant IEDs along the roads frequently utilized by Government of Afghanistan and ISAF vehicles,” the intelligence report says. “The third individual is to carry out a suicide attack utilizing a suicide vest against" Afghan government or NATO targets.
“Make the snow warm in Kabul,” he told the bombers, according to the report. “Set Kabul aflame.”
“Gul reportedly has received approximately 50 of these mines in order for them to carry out their operation,” the report said.
In January 2008 Gul also directed the Taliban to kidnap high-level United Nations personnel in Afghanistan to trade for captured Pakistani soldiers, according to another report.
“The (Taliban) group led by (Qari) Naqibullah,” it said, “is working with the coordination of retired Pakistani General Hamid Gul. This group is targeting un vehicles marked with black lettering, which Naqibullah believes is an indicator that the vehicle is carrying high level UN officials or members of the UN intelligence service.”
“Naqibullah,” it added, “has been instructed by Gul to place a higher priority in securing the release of the Pakistani soldiers.”
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While not proven, the allegations that the Taliban would take orders from Gul are not surprising.
After the Red Army left Afghanistan in 1989, he and fellow Islamists in the ISI midwifed the fundamentalists into a fighting force that took Kabul and ruled the country with a puritanical zeal until they were ousted by U.S.-led forces after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.
But if another U.S. intelligence report released by Wikileaks is to be believed, Gul has also been working hand-in-glove with al-Qaeda.
On Jan. 5, 2009, the report says, insurgents in the Pakistani tribal zone of South Waziristan met to discuss taking revenge for the death of a Taliban commander killed in a CIA drone attack.
“Also in attendance were three unidentified older Arab males, who were considered important” because they were accompanied by “approximately 20 Arab bodyguards,” said the report, which originated with the U.S. Army’s Task Force Castle engineering group.
“Hamid Gul, a former member of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), was in attendance at the meeting also,” the report said. “Hamid Gul was described as being an older man and a very important person from ISI.”
Gul “encouraged (their) leaders to focus their operation inside of Afghanistan in exchange for the government of Pakistan's security forces turning a blind eye to the presence of (their) commanders and fighters in Pakistan,” the report said.
Gul also had a tip for al-Qaeda and the insurgents: ”The aerial threats in the area were controlled from the airport in Wana,” the largest town in South Waziristan.
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Given Gul’s longtime, vocal animosity for Washington, it’s not inconceivable that he would get his hands dirty with the insurgents at such a primitive tactical level, planning car bombs like a Pakistani Tony Soprano.
Like many journalists, I have sat in his living room in Ralwalpindi, headquarters of the Pakistani army, and heard him bitterly intone against the Americans. When I last visited in August 1997, on the sour bicentenary of Pakistan’s schism with India, the country was flooded with AK-47s, heroin and Afghan refugees. The Americans had used Pakistan like a hammer to beat the Russians, Gul said, and then walked away.
The Taliban were in power in Kabul, but the CIA was conspiring to overthrow them, he charged. The American embassy was trying to infiltrate Pakistani police and army units. He railed against U.S. “meddling” in the country.
Even the FBI had barged into the country, he groused, swooping down in a dusty market town to capture Mir Aimal Kasi, a Pakistani fugitive who had shot and killed CIA employees at their gate in McLean, Va. in Jan. 1993.
Kasi, Gul claimed, “was an agent of the CIA ... He was working inside of Pakistan and outside of Pakistan." He knew that, he said, because he had a dossier on the Kasi clan, which had worked with the ISI to deliver supplies to the mujaheddin.
I asked for proof. It never came. When my taped interview with him was published, he denied ever saying such a thing. (A year later, in a jailhouse letter to me, Kasi said he never worked for the agency and was inspired to fire on its gates by pictures of Iraqi troops strafed by American planes.)
When Gul wasn’t railing against the Americans, he was reportedly conspiring with Kashmiri separatists, such as Lashkar-e-Taiba, which evidently sponsored the terrorist attack in Mumbai, India.
In late 2008, Washington fingered Gul to the United Nations as one of four former top Pakistani intelligence officers supporting Islamic terrorism.
Gul was also accused by the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto of authoring the first assassination attempt upon her after her return to Pakistan.
And so on. None of this is a surprise to U.S. officials, who have had to live with the Pakistani army’s duplicity on Afghanistan since coalition forces toppled the Taliban in late 2001.
The first reaction Pakistan’s leadership to the Wikileaks reports was telling.
"These reports reflect nothing more than single-source comments and rumors, which abound on both sides of the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, the Pakistani ambassador said in a prepared statement, “and are often proved wrong after deeper examination."
Gul's first reaction was to call the allegations “absolute nonsense.”
“I have had no hand in it,” he told The New York Times, adding, “American intelligence is pulling cotton wool over your eyes.”
The ex-general had a more measured response later.
“Report of my physical involvement with al-Qaeda or Taliban in planning attacks on American forces is completely baseless,” Gul told The Wall Street Journal. “I am not against America, but I am opposed to what the American forces are doing in Afghanistan.”
By Jeff Stein | July 26, 2010; 1:30 PM ET
Afghanistan: India Woos Kabul as Influence Wanes
May 17, 2011 - 1:05pm, by Aunohita Mojumdar
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A few years ago, the Indian Embassy in Kabul entertained a curious request. Afghan counter-narcotics officials, despairing that poppy-eradication efforts weren’t working, came up with a novel idea. They proposed to hire an Indian soap opera star, Smriti Irani, to record anti-poppy public service announcements for television and radio.
Given Afghans’ obsession with Irani’s character, Tulsi, on the show ‘Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi’ (The Mother-in-Law Was Once the Daughter-in-Law), Afghan officials believed the public service spots could have broad appeal. At the time, viewing the show was a national obsession: Even wedding ceremonies were sometimes suspended so that guests could watch the daily telecast. In the end, the proposal never took off, but it did demonstrate the depth of Indian soft power in Afghanistan.
These days, Afghans have many more television options. India’s influence, meanwhile, remains strong, but the dividends of the feel-good relationship are wearing thin. The ebb in relations was evident during Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s May 13-14 visit to Kabul. Singh pushed for more security and political cooperation, including a clear role in Afghanistan’s reconciliation process, but his gestures yielded nothing concrete.
India has the chips to be a major player in Afghanistan. It has aid commitment that makes it Afghanistan’s sixth-largest donor (New Delhi has spent $1.5 billion on aid projects from 2001-2011). In addition, there exists plenty of goodwill among Afghans toward Indians, and there’s a history of friendship between the two countries. But India, according to Afghan analysts, has not made efficient use of its assets. New Delhi has not, for example, cultivated relations with an assortment of Afghan political players in the post-Taliban era. “They are missing from the political space,” said Waliullah Rahmani, the Director of the Kabul Center for Strategic Studies. “This is a major shortcoming in the Indian foreign policy in Afghanistan.”
In a search for explanations, critics point to the understaffed Indian Embassy in Kabul, where only one officer handles aid programs. Another lone diplomat looks after the political and media portfolio, as well as chancery issues. In sharp contrast, most Western embassies in Kabul are brimming with diplomats. The British Embassy, for example, has around a dozen officials in the political section alone. The reason for the discrepancy, the critics say, is India’s naïve expectation that good relations with both Kabul and Washington means both will protect and promote Indian interests in Afghanistan.
India has traditionally acted as a counterweight to Pakistani-Pashtun influence in Afghanistan. Most notably, New Delhi became a strong backer in the 1990s of the ethnic Tajik-dominated Northern Alliance, which battled the predominantly Pashtun Taliban. In the process, New Dehli helped check Pakistan’s efforts to project its authority across all of Afghanistan.
Though it initially continued supporting the Northern Alliance after Taliban militants were driven from Kabul in late 2001, India has shifted in recent years to a policy of strong support for President Hamid Karzai’s administration, says Kabul-based analyst Haroun Mir. In doing so, India backed itself into a diplomatic corner, and, as a result, its influence with Karzai waned. Sensing that India has no other diplomatic options, the Afghan president has become a hard bargainer. At the same time, the Indian government has lost credibility with the opposition, which includes members of the Northern Alliance.
India’s position could erode further in the event that a reconciliation iniative brings pro-Pakistan figures into government, Mir explained. “It was a mistake for India to invest so completely in the government of President Karzai. They have to balance their activities and aid to Afghanistan. They kept away from their natural allies, the Northern Alliance, for fear of how President Karzai might react,” said Mir, a former Northern Alliance associate, currently director of the Afghan Center for Research and Policy Studies.
Of late, the Karzai government and its supporters have kept up pressure on New Delhi to sever ties with his political opponents. “India needs to cut its ties to all groups and have relations only with [Karzai’s] government,” Abdul Ghafoor Liwal, president of the Regional Studies Center of Afghanistan, a government-affiliated think-tank, told EurasiaNet.org.
New Delhi has caved too easily, says Mir. “India should not have given a blank [aid] check without conditions. Other [donors] have conditions. It is not as if India is not familiar with this culture. It has the same culture,” he told EurasiaNet.org, critiquing India’s inability to leverage its massive spending.
“They [Indians] have completely failed to cultivate individuals with political power, as all the other countries have done, and it is those individuals who are making decisions now,” said an analyst close to the government who asked not to be identified.
Meanwhile, India’s relationship with the United States, while strong, has not produced the returns New Delhi had hoped for in Afghanistan. Despite fears of a pro-Pakistan government appearing in Kabul, for example, India has found itself sidelined in reconciliation talks. India’s cozy relationship with the United States also has taken a toll on ties with traditional allies Russia and Iran, two countries that have stakes in Afghanistan and which could have expanded India’s leverage. As it is, Iran, according to a source close to the government, “has been complaining about India’s role in Afghanistan and the region to us.”
Even though the discovery that Osama bin Laden hid for years near the Pakistani capital suggests some members of the Pakistani establishment supported the terrorist-leader, the terrorist mastermind’s death may not be the game-changer that India hopes for. “We could go down the other route of just having a flaming great row with Pakistan over this. I think that would achieve nothing,” British Prime Minister David Cameron said in response to allegations some members of Pakistan’s intelligence service protected bin Laden. His comments support fears in India that the West will overlook any Pakistani betrayal.
Prime Minister Singh used his recent Kabul visit to announce $500-million in additional Indian aid for Afghanistan. The premiere also expressed a desire to broaden a strategic partnership. The details have not been worked out, but they seem, as do most aspects of Indian-Afghan relations these days, up to Kabul to dictate.
Editor's note: Aunohita Mojumdar is an Indian freelance journalist based in Kabul.
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India – Israel Military Relations and Pakistan
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“The world Zionist movement should not be neglectful of the dangers of Pakistan to it. And Pakistan now should be its first target, for this ideological State is a threat to our existence. And Pakistan, the whole of it, hates the Jews and loves the Arabs. “This lover of the Arabs is more dangerous to us than the Arabs themselves. For that matter, it is most essential for the world Zionism that it should now take immediate steps against Pakistan. “Whereas the inhabitants of the Indian peninsula are Hindus whose hearts have been full of hatred towards Muslims, therefore, India is the most important base for us to work there from against Pakistan. “It is essential that we exploit this base and strike and crush Pakistanis, enemies of Jews and Zionism, by all disguised and secret plans.”
David Ben Gurion, the first Israeli Prime Minister. His words, as printed in the Jewish Chronicle, 9 August 1967
Traditionally, India is considered the only real enemy for Pakistani state but above mention statement of first Israeli premier and history of covert relations between two countries –even before 1992, the year India formally recognized Israel and established diplomatic relations –proves that Pakistan was perceived as a security threat despite the fact that Pakistan never showed any such intentions against Israel. Apart from that, this statement was an announcement of natural strategic alliance between Israel and India against Pakistan.
Just like India, a nuclear armed Pakistan is also a nightmare for Israel as well due to its strong ideology and armed forces. Israeli threat perception of Pakistan stepped up further after the participation of Pakistani armed forces personnel in Arab-Israel wars of 1967 and 1973. Even today various Pakistani military schools are training military staffs belonging to Muslim countries located next to Israel. Pakistan is the only country in the Muslim world that has top of the line military training infrastructure and skilled military trainers making it a natural target for Israel’s overt and covert plans.
As desired by David Ben Gurion, today, India is serving as covert base against Pakistan. Not only this but both are colluding against Pakistan in every possible way to make it fragile on economic, political and military axis. Indian 4th generation war against Pakistan is a manifestation of this covert war and has Israeli collaboration and assistance. Covert military and diplomatic relations between the two predate to 1960s when Indian foreign spy agency RAW was formed on the footsteps of Israeli Mosssad though nature of these relations was covert during Cold War to avoid annoyance of Soviets.
After dismemberment of Soviet Union in 1991, India and Israel established their diplomatic relations after India formally accepted Israeli state in 1992. These relations proved a marriage of convenience for both India and Israel. Israeli war industry found a huge market to sell weapons and allowed India to arm its forces with most lethal weapon systems against Pakistan, unbalancing the military equation between the two rivals. Israel is an active partner in Indian military buildup for her Cold Start war plans against Pakistan.
Infiltrating the sensitive circles of enemy’s military and strategic infrastructure to make it implode from within is an old poly of Mossad. Today it is fully utilizing the cover of NATO forces in Afghanistan, UN and US personnel to find alternate ways to gain access into Pakistan’s security infrastructure. Pakistan, having 6th largest military machine of the world armed with nuclear weapons at her disposal, is too big a target to take on for Israel alone. This military strength of Pakistan helped both India and Israel to push their strategic alliance further.
India-Israel military relations
The nature of Indo-Israel military cooperation is secretive. India is one of the 39 countries with whom Israel has signed “secret co-operative agreements” in order to conceal the information about joint military projects. Much of these plans are related to denuclearization campaigns against Pakistan which has been put into top gear after 1998 in political affairs, diplomatic engagements and media debates by this Indo-Israel nexus around the globe.
In conventional warfare domain, US and Israel are biggest supplier of advanced weapons to India which India is going to use against Pakistan in next conflict whereas Pakistan has been denied number of weapon systems even those who are purely defensive in nature. These sales began after 2003, when cunning Indians proposed the idea of forging an alliance among India, Israel and United States, against common threat of “Islamic terrorism and fundamentalism”.
Below is a brief summary of previous and current arms deals between India and Israel. These facts and figures must be sufficed to showcase how Israel is arming India to execute her Cold Start military doctrine against a nuclear armed Pakistan.
•From 2001 to 2009, India purchased arms worth staggering 24$ billion from Israel and emerged as largest military hardware client of Israel.
•According to the figures released in 2008 by the Israeli Defense Ministry, India accounted for 50% of Israel’s military exports.
•Supply of 3 state of the art Phalcon AWACS air surveillance system to IAF. Deliveries have been started already since last year. System would allow Indian forces to look deep into Pakistani lands and skies.
•Indian air force’s SU-30MKI, fighter jets were upgraded by Israel Aviation Industry (IAI) boosting their electronic warfare and jamming abilities.
•Sale of long-range Green-Pine radars to India. These radars are capable of detecting any flying object from hundreds of kilometers.
•In 1996 India purchased 32 Searcher Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Electronic Support Measure sensors and an Air Combat Maneuvering Instrumentation simulator system from Israel.
•In 1997, Israel offered its Barak-I vertically launched surface to air missile (SAM). India bought this missile system with the ability to destroying targets like cruise missiles.
•During 1999 Kargil crisis, Israel supplied India with laser guided missiles and munitions making it possible for Indian air force’s Mirages to destroy Pakistani bunkers in mountains. According to Jane’s Defense Weekly, India was provided with Heron / Machatz 1 UAVs for high altitude surveillance, laser-guided bomb and many other systems within 24 hours.
•In 2000, Israeli submarines reportedly conducted test launches of cruise missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads in the waters of the Indian Ocean, off the Sri Lanka coast.
•In June 2002, as part of “Operation Parakram,” after the attack on Indian Parliament, Israel supplied hardware through special planes after a visit by the Director-General of Israeli Defense ministry.
•India has signed a $30 million contract with Israel Military Industries (IMI) for 3,400 state of the art Tavor assault rifles and 200 Galil sniper rifles, as well as night vision and laser range finding and targeting equipment. India buys the counter-infiltration devices Israel uses on Golan Heights and in the Negev Desert. 4 battalions were sent to Israel for special training against insurgency in Kashmir Ghatak force.
•India launched Israeli Spy satellite with ability to draw real time 3D maps.
•Israeli advised India new methods of curbing Kashmiri struggle. Indian newspaper The Pioneer, wrote on 3 March 2001: “Fencing of the Indo-Pak border is not enough. To check Pakistan-sponsored cross-border terrorism, top security experts of Israel have suggested that hi-tech gadgets ranging from an electronic barrier system of radars to thermal imaging devices should be immediately installed on India’s sensitive international border in J&K and Punjab sectors.”
•Israeli involvement in Kashmir issue is not a secret anymore. Recent wave of Indian military human crimes in the valley is a culmination of adopting the military tactics used by Israel defense forces against Palestinian citizens. Emergence of a horrifying resemblance between the two forces’ counterinsurgency approach vividly explains how Indian army is getting its lesson from the maters of oppression. Result is a bloodbath in Kashmir with deaths of innocent children and women exactly replicating Gaza which came under attack by Israel in 2008. Indeed, India and Israel are natural allies as these are the only two “democratic” countries in the world that have killed over 1 million peoples in between 1947 and 2010 even without labeling any charges.
Strategic blunders in foreign policy affairs by Islamabad and US military invasion into Afghanistan after 9/11 provided another base for combined Indo-Israel clandestine operations inside Pakistan’s FATA and NWFP regions from Afghanistan. Pakistan has been bleeding shoddily since last 10 years due to these furtive wars. Indians are willing partners in these dirty wars as they have succeeded in damaging Pakistan and its armed forces much more than they could in previous four wars since 1947. The excerpt, re-produced below, from Janes intelligence report, of 2001, vividly explains the connection between RAW and Mossad;
“The Indian spy agency RAW and the Israeli spy agency Mossad have created “four new agencies” to infiltrate Pakistan to target important religious and military personalities, journalists, judges, lawyers and bureaucrats. In addition, bombs would be exploded in trains, railway stations, bridges, bus stations, cinemas, hotels and mosques of rival Islamic sects to incite sectarianism. Pakistani intelligence agencies also said that RAW had constituted a plan to lure Pakistani men between 20 and 30 years of age to visit India so that they could be entrapped ‘in cases of fake currency and subversion’ and then be coerced to spy for India.”
Not surprisingly, the pattern of terrorism and social unrest in Pakistan since 2001 is exactly the same. Pakistan army is the biggest encumbrance to Indian hegemonic designs in the region so weakening it through surrogate wars remain an obvious imperative. After engaging Pakistan army on Western theatre, exploiting economic pressures due to internal war is the next step in ultimate game against the army and state.
Pakistan has spent billions of dollars while fighting against Indian and Israeli proxies in Northern areas. On the other hand, it requires billions more, every year, to maintain a credible balance of forces in the region vis-à-vis India. Strong lobbying by Indian-Israeli political and diplomatic engagements and media ops has painted Pakistan army as a collaborator against US/NATO forces in Afghanistan. Compelled by this propaganda, US administration is hesitating to give any economic waiver to already economically strained Pakistani military. Consequently, whole modernization of Pakistan military is about to suffer further weakening country’s defenses.
Odiously, this Indo-Israel nexus is the advantage of having influence over American media due to Israel’s penetration. Pakistan’s global outlook has been devastated by this influence haunting country’s foreign direct investment (FDI) as well. US insistence on giving India a bigger role in Afghanistan overlooking all its security implications on Pakistan is yet another expression of this media influence.
In his article carried by Opinion Maker, in May 2010, titled ‘Framing Pakistan: How the pro-Israel media enables India’s surrogate warfare’ Maidhc Ó Cathail wrote:
“The media component of India’s alliance with Israel affords India a powerful weapon to wage surrogate warfare against Pakistan and enables both Tel Aviv and Delhi to pursue their common objective of destabilizing the nuclear-armed Muslim nation”.
Characters like Farid Zakria, Stephen Schwartz, Daniel Pipes and others have been tasked to create a monstrous image of Pakistan, as source of global terrorism and an unreliable and devious ally. Not very surprisingly this heinous media onslaught has met with unprecedented level of success due to complete diplomatic failure of Pakistan.
Denying nuclear capability to any Muslim country is foremost strategic goal of Israel. Attacking preemptively deep into enemy territories and destroying their under-construction nuclear installations is an old Israeli military strategy. Israel destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak in 1981. In 2007 Syrian secret nuclear installation met with same fate due to devastating attack by Israeli Air Force. Pakistani nuclear installations are constant targets of Israel and this is one point where US is also onboard fully in the sinister drive of Indo-Israel covert nexus. Rendering Pakistan into a non-nuclear state is necessary in order to fulfill strategic goals of US as well. According to intelligence circles of Pakistan, Israel and India tried at least twice to destroy Pakistan’s nuclear park at Kahuta; in 1984 and in 1998 just before Pakistan declared itself as N-Capable country.
But after failure of previous attempts to destroy Pakistan’s nuclear capability, India, Israel and US trio cultivated covert plans, using 4th generation asymmetric warfare, to meet their ends. A detailed evaluation of this war had been carried out in June 2010 and October 2010 issues of Brasstacks Monthly Security Review. A brief tactical excerpt of the 4th generation war against Pakistan is given below;
•Insurgencies in North and North Western provinces. These are supported by Indian RAW from Afghanistan. TTP in FATA and BLA in Baluchistan are creating mayhem and chaos by unleashing terrorism and anarchy.
•An extreme sense of insecurity is prevailing in masses due to target killings, suicide bombings, sectarian violence and ethno-linguistic sadism in all major cities. Increasing frequency of these incidents depicts a very bleak picture of national security profile.
•This frenzied situation presented foreign secret services like CIA, MI6 and RAW and private mercenaries like Blackwater (Xe Worldwide) with an opportunity to establish their independent footprints in Pakistan to carry out kidnappings, assassinations and sabotage operations as well as eavesdropping and spying. The entire Drone operations and subsequent assassinations are being conducted by CIA and their mercenary contractors with impunity.
•Economic intimidation of Pakistan and to destroy Pakistan’s food supply chain, through water aggression is relatively new but most ruthless move in this hushed war by India. Violating Indus Water Treaty, India built multiple dams on Pakistani rivers in Kashmir region.
•Media ops and propaganda warfare have been launched using disinformation, twisted analysis and planted intelligence reports about Pakistan, its nuclear weapons and its possible extinction in the near future.
•Corrupt and incompetent government in Islamabad accelerated economic meltdown of Pakistan through staggering corruption. National financial policies and institutes have been handed over to IMF and World Bank and by taking loans on compromisingly unforgiving conditions.
•On diplomatic plain, worldwide cloak-and-dagger Israeli spy network is working in semblance with Indian diplomatic presence in the countries who have not established any diplomatic relations with Israel.
•Conclusion
Despite hostile intentions of Israel and India, a campaign with renewed vengeance against Pakistan and its nuclear assets began after 9/11 when Islamabad failed to demonstrate any sense of sovereignty while allying itself in US war on terror. This move provided necessary foothold to RAW-Mossad nexus against Pakistan. Pakistan has paid heavily for that mistake. It is time to fix this historical error.
In a fascinating development in late October, When a US delegate confronted a Chinese diplomat about Beijing’s uncompromising support for Pakistan in military and nuclear domains, the Chinese responded with a heavily-loaded remark: “Pakistan is our Israel”. Remarks of Chinese diplomat may sound sarcastic to Americans but undoubtedly this is strongest expression of Chinese aspiration of having a long term strategic partnership with Pakistan.
For Pakistan, this is ideal time to get out of US camp where Israeli and Indian lobbies are dominating and dictating the terms. A uni-polar world is coming to an end with the emergence of China and now Pakistan will have to make an ultimate decision about its strategic partnership in 21st century. Intimidation by US on political and diplomatic fronts, sacrifices of core strategic interests made to appease US and grand failure of this appeasement policy must serve as helping tools for Islamabad while weighing its options for future strategic partnership.
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we meed to do more in the
we meed to do more in the feild of high end technology,to counter pakis & chinese..thts goin on to be a major stride in defence with israel...need to buy 1000"s of predators & uav..india must take the advantage of israel..a time tested frend
More Indo-Israel connections
Caveat: quotes Gordon Duff and Veternas Today which I don't fully trust...
http://www.defence.pk/forums/strategic-geopolitical-issues/59421-framing...
Framing Pakistan: how the pro-Israel media enables India’s surrogate warfare
By Maidhc Ó Cathail
27 May 2010
Maidhc Ó Cathail views the media component of India's alliance with Israel. He argues that this affords India a powerful weapon to wage surrogate warfare against Pakistan and enables both Tel Aviv and Delhi to pursue their common objective of destabilizing the nuclear-armed Muslim nation.
In its bitter rivalry with India, Pakistan is at a fatal disadvantage. Unlike its South Asian neighbour, Islamabad lacks an ally with considerable influence over American mainstream media.
The latest example of with the Indo-Israeli alliance came in the aftermath of the much-hyped Times Square “car-bomb” incident. Typical of the media orgy of Pakistan-bashing that followed the discovery of a Sports Utility Vehicle packed with 250 pounds of non-explosive fertilizer was a piece written by Newsweek’s Indian-born editor, Fareed Zakaria, in which he brands Pakistan as “a terrorist hothouse”.
“For a wannabe terrorist shopping for help, Pakistan is a supermarket,” writes Zakaria. “There are dozens of jihadi organizations: Jaish-e-Muhammad, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Al-Qaeda, Jalaluddin and Siraj Haqqani’s network, Tehrik-e-Taliban, and the list goes on. Some of the major ones, like the Kashmiri separatist group Lashkar-e-Taiba, operate openly via front groups throughout the country. But none seem to have any difficulty getting money and weapons.”
"If any government is to be held responsible for terrorism carried out by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), it is not in Islamabad but in Tel Aviv or New Delhi."
Zakaria is in no doubt about who’s to blame.
“From its founding, the Pakistani government has supported and encouraged jihadi groups, creating an atmosphere that has allowed them to flourish,” claims the CNN pundit.
To back up his assertions, Zakaria cites no less an authority than Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States. In Pakistan: Between Mosque and Military, which Zakaria considers a “brilliant history”, Husain Haqqani claims that support for jihad has been “a consistent policy of the state”.
Case closed for the prosecution? Perhaps not.
The Pakistani diplomat’s credibility as an objective critic of jihadism is undermined somewhat by his intimate ties to the Israel-centric neoconservative network. A former fellow at the Likudnik Hudson Institute, Haqqani co-chaired Hudson’s Project on Islam and Democracy. Its director, Hillel Fradkin, was a Project for a New American Century signatory to a 2002 letter to George W. Bush equating Yasser Arafat with Osama Bin Laden in an effort to convince the White House that “Israel’s fight against terrorism is our fight”.
Haqqani also collaborated with another neocon, Stephen Schwartz, on the Institute for Islamic Progress and Peace. A project of the notorious Islamophobe Daniel Pipes, it is widely suspected to be an attempt to “divide and conquer” the American Muslim community. In short, if Tel Aviv had handpicked Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington, they could hardly have found a more suitable candidate than Haqqani.
Also advancing “the pakistan connection” to the Times Square plot is Haqqani’s onetime collaborator, Stephen Schwartz. Writing in Rupert Murdoch’s staunchly pro-Israel Weekly Standard, Schwartz pushes “the Pakistani Taliban did it” storyline. Faisal Shahzad’s arrest, he writes, “lends credibility to the claim by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the branch of the Afghan terrorist movement operating there, that they planted the unsuccessful car-bomb”.
“We have very little doubt that the Indians and the Israelis, that are all over Afghanistan with German passports pretending to be military contractors, are operating 17 camps along the Taliban regions training and arming terrorists."
Gordon Duff, Editor of Veterans Today
Like Zakaria, Schwartz holds the Pakistani authorities responsible.
“Pakistani reality cannot be evaded,” he writes. “The jihadist domination seen in the Pakistani army and intelligence services ([Inter-Services Intelligence] ISI) is visible everywhere South Asian Muslims congregate. It explains the reluctance of the Pakistani government to fulfill its commitment to fighting the Taliban. And it equally accounts for conspiracies like that foiled in Times Square.”
The one evading “Pakistani reality”, however, is Schwartz. If any government is to be held responsible for terrorism carried out by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), it is not in Islamabad but in Tel Aviv or New Delhi.
As Gordon Duff, senior editor of Veterans Today, revealed in a recent interview: “We have very little doubt that the Indians and the Israelis, that are all over Afghanistan with German passports pretending to be military contractors, are operating 17 camps along the Taliban regions training and arming terrorists.”
According to Duff, “The Pakistani Taliban is in close cooperation with, supplied, financed, armed and trained by Israel and India to attack Pakistan.”
Duff’s claims are based on a February 2010 fact-finding tour of Pakistan, where he was briefed by the highest levels of the country’s military and intelligence establishment, including Lieutenant-General Hamid Gul, former Director-General of the ISI, Admiral Iftikhar Ahmed Sirohey, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and General Mirza Aslam Beg, former Chief of Army Staff.
Fearful of offending their Israel-conscious paymasters in Washington, the Pakistani military and intelligence services have been forced into the humiliating position of leaking their side of the story through the Veterans Today website.
According to the ISI leak, the Times Square terror plot was a “false flag operation to implicate the Pakistani Taliban and then threaten and force Pakistan to ‘do more’ in North Waziristan”. This was followed by “a massive media disinformation war” to induce the belief that “all global terrorism is emerging from the Pakistani tribal pocket of North Waziristan, and that the ISI/army is either hands and gloves with the Taliban or not willing to do more”.
Clearly, Israel and India share a common geostrategic interest in the destabilization of the nuclear-armed Muslim nation. As Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu has stated, “Our ties with India don’t have any limitation…”
Israel, however, has proven itself a rather dubious ally – as a growing number of Americans are beginning to realize. Perhaps one day policymakers in New Delhi will have a similar awakening. But for the time being, the media component of its alliance with Tel Aviv affords India a powerful weapon to wage surrogate warfare against Pakistan.
Maidhc Ó Cathail is a widely published writer based in Japan. To read more of his writing, go toMaidhc Ó Cathail