'Pakistan's Flag Is A Symbol Of Freedom In India'
Mr Sajid Hussain PhD
Tuesday, 7 October 2008.
http://investigativereporterandeditor.blogspirit.com
Overseas Desk::-------------------------------->
This should come as news for Pakistani defeatists. After Kashmir, the rest of the dozen or so freedom movements in India see Pakistan as a symbol of liberty and freedom. Pakistan’s media and intelligence agencies should project these incidents and stoke more support inside these Indian states as retaliation for Indian terrorism inside Pakistan’s Balochistan, tribal belt and other cities........................................................................
Depressed from how New Delhi is suppressing local Assamese people who want to carve a separate homeland out of India, people in Assam waved Pakistan's flags in five districts.
The eastern Indian state is one of a dozen Indian states in the north and east where ferocious freedoms movements are in full swing, demanding the right of self determination from Indian rule.
As usual, the Indian government, blaming Pakistani agencies for the violence, has ordered an immediate enquiry for this incident.
The officials in New Delhi are so disturbed by this that they have invoked patriotism while asking newspaper editors across India to black out any news about the freedom movements.
This week a student delegation visited the State’s governor and told him that ‘the villagers informed us that the miscreants were shouting slogans like Pakistan zindabad [Long live Pakistan] through loudspeakers in Dalgaon and some other border areas,” according to a report in The Assam Tribune.
The Indian paper called on the government to give “stern punishment to those who hoisted Pakistani flags.”
The Indian Express reported the story in one paragraph: “Meanwhile, media persons saw a Pakistani flag in Sonaripara and Mohanpur villages and took photographs of them. Local television channels also ran footage of the flags. Officials and security forces denied any knowledge of the presence of the flags.
New Delhi is disturbed by this new trend where the Pakistani flag has emerged as a symbol of freedom in India.
Indian officials are still smarting from the shock of a unanimous rejection of India across Kashmir. For years the Kashmiris have been marking India’s national day on Aug. 15 as a Black Day. But this year, Kashmir witnessed a unanimous civil disobedience and massive street protests where Kashmiris joined in raising the Pakistani flag and chanting slogans rejecting their forced inclusion in the Indian state.
The massive protests shocked the Indian media and ordinary Indians who for years were shielded by New Delhi authorities from ground realities in Kashmir and were fed an official version that almost the entire free Indian media adhered to without asking questions. The size and the impressive unanimity of Kashmiri protests this year helped break Indian official media blackout and provided the Indian people a chance to see for their own what their governments have been hiding for decades now, where the Kashmir dispute was often peddled as a Pakistani creation and not the result of indigenous Kashmiri demands.
This story should come as surprising news to a vocal minority in Pakistani media that continues to hold an inferiority complex concerning the Indian government. This Pakistani minority is used to exaggerating Pakistani flaws and glorifying India and presenting it as a country devoid of any flaws [Editor’s note: This is called ‘Bollywood Effect’. This minority needs to break the spell and improve its taste by watching some quality movies from Hollywood and elsewhere.]
This is a good opportunity for Pakistani media organizations and spy agencies to project the freedom movements inside various Indian states that want independence from Indian rule. Pakistanis recall how the Indian government broke international law and issued a statement supporting its own trained and funded terrorists in Pakistani Balochistan in 2006. This is why it has become imperative to pay the New Delhi establishment in the same coin. Assam and the rest of the twelve or so Indian states that are fighting for independence are a good place to start.
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Sunday, October 5, 2008
Never Make Joke Over Zardari, Govt Will Arrest You????
'Never Make Joke Over Zardari, Govt Will Arrest You????
By Mr Sajid Hussain PhD
Investigative Journalist
Friday, October, 3 2008
http://Investigativereporterandeditor.blogspirit.com
Overseas Desk::---------------------------------->
President Asif Ali Zardari has given instructions to FIA to hunt down Pakistanis writing jokes about him. The FIA has already begun its witch-hunt, searching the Internet for the ‘criminals’. Prime Minister Gilani wants no newspaper to write anything about him without checking first with his press secretary. A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never did any of this. This is the fake democratic leadership of our country where the President is busy with the jokes on him when the country is facing hostile action from Zardari’s own allies in Washington. What can Pakistanis do if President Zardari gives them opportunities to make jokes? Who told him to alert the entire media by disappearing from an official dinner to go celebrate with his former girlfriends at a private party? Who is setting him up? ? ?? ????????????????????????????????
President Zardari might have a funny side but it’s obviously reserved for Americans like Sarah Palin and not for Pakistanis. Before he left for his U.S. tour (which he camouflaged as a U.N. tour to fool our friends in Beijing who expected the Pakistani President to make his first visit to China), Mr. Zardari gave stern instructions to the sleuths at Federal Investigations Agency, FIA, to hunt down Pakistanis responsible for circulating jokes about Mr. Zardari through emails and text messages.
Mr. Zardari was especially angry at someone who faked his signature on the Visitors’ Book at the Mausoleum of Pakistan’s Founding Father, the Quaid-e-Azam, in Karachi, where Mr. President landed on 14 August to pay his respects.
That email was a particularly nasty job where Mr. Zardari was shown to have supposedly written God as ‘goad’ and strength as ‘strent’.
So angry is Mr. Zardari with those poking fun at him that no less than the official news agency, the APP, was told to release a story to all Pakistani newspapers where an unnamed official (we suspect it’s either Husain Haqqani or Sheri Rehman) denied the President ever wrote those words and denounced the jokes at President’s expense. There was also a dire warning to all fun-loving Pakistanis: the cyber crime wing of the FIA has been instructed to hunt down those circulating jokes on him through emails or mobile phones. Several prominent journalists in Islamabad have already received calls from secret numbers where the caller on the other side inquired about journalists and people opposed to Mr. Zardari, since according to FIA sleuths only declared critics of the President could do this. [Tip to FIA honchos: Don’t forget to check Naheed Khan, Makhdoom Amin Faheem and Enver Baig’s cell phones for a secret war-chest of Zardari jokes!]
Here I’d like to remind those Pakistanis who voted for Mr. Zardari and his party [only 40% of Pakistanis vote, and most of them are illiterate and they vote at gunpoint by their feudal lords, so I’m not optimistic they are reading this] that President Pervez Musharraf, the last of the great Pakistani statesmen, despite his many follies, and a military ‘dictator’, spent 90% of his time in government with an extremely hostile media and one of the nastiest character-assassination campaigns ever seen in Pakistan, through SMS messages, emails, Internet, newspapers, and television channels. What did Musharraf do? He allowed more private TV channels. And he never complained, except for the last few months of his office, and even then he never reacted to jokes about him and character-assassination and his anger was aimed at other types of political criticism that he thought demoralized the nation.
As for these fake democrats who are in power today in Pakistan thanks to a British-American ‘deal’, Prime Minister Gilani issued an order that no media organization can publish anything about him without checking first with his press secretary. And now President Zardari wants to ban all jokes about him. A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never issued such ridiculous orders.
So what if some Pakistanis joke about Mr. Zardari? After all, he does have a colorful past and his unlikely rise to power beats even the most melodramatic Indian films with absurd story lines. And what to say of Mr. Zardari’s knack for saying and doing things that make it easy for those who want to crack a joke or two at his expense. Take for example of his flimsy failed flirt attempt with Sarah Palin, or his sudden disappearance from an Iftar-dinner reception for Pakistanis to attend a private-room party with his girlfriends at an upscale Manhattan restaurant in New York City.
In the spirit of free speech and free jokes, let me conclude with this latest one on Mr. Zardari:
"Just imagine Sarah Palin divorces her current husband and marries Asif Zardari.
Then Palin becomes Vice President of USA.
Then Zardari kills Palin, changes the Will which henceforth says, ‘Zardari will become the President of USA if I die.’
And eventually Zardari becomes President of USA six months after Palin’s death.
Bilawal ends up changing his name to Bilawal Palin-Zardari."
By Mr Sajid Hussain PhD
Investigative Journalist
Friday, October, 3 2008
http://Investigativereporterandeditor.blogspirit.com
Overseas Desk::---------------------------------->
President Asif Ali Zardari has given instructions to FIA to hunt down Pakistanis writing jokes about him. The FIA has already begun its witch-hunt, searching the Internet for the ‘criminals’. Prime Minister Gilani wants no newspaper to write anything about him without checking first with his press secretary. A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never did any of this. This is the fake democratic leadership of our country where the President is busy with the jokes on him when the country is facing hostile action from Zardari’s own allies in Washington. What can Pakistanis do if President Zardari gives them opportunities to make jokes? Who told him to alert the entire media by disappearing from an official dinner to go celebrate with his former girlfriends at a private party? Who is setting him up? ? ?? ????????????????????????????????
President Zardari might have a funny side but it’s obviously reserved for Americans like Sarah Palin and not for Pakistanis. Before he left for his U.S. tour (which he camouflaged as a U.N. tour to fool our friends in Beijing who expected the Pakistani President to make his first visit to China), Mr. Zardari gave stern instructions to the sleuths at Federal Investigations Agency, FIA, to hunt down Pakistanis responsible for circulating jokes about Mr. Zardari through emails and text messages.
Mr. Zardari was especially angry at someone who faked his signature on the Visitors’ Book at the Mausoleum of Pakistan’s Founding Father, the Quaid-e-Azam, in Karachi, where Mr. President landed on 14 August to pay his respects.
That email was a particularly nasty job where Mr. Zardari was shown to have supposedly written God as ‘goad’ and strength as ‘strent’.
So angry is Mr. Zardari with those poking fun at him that no less than the official news agency, the APP, was told to release a story to all Pakistani newspapers where an unnamed official (we suspect it’s either Husain Haqqani or Sheri Rehman) denied the President ever wrote those words and denounced the jokes at President’s expense. There was also a dire warning to all fun-loving Pakistanis: the cyber crime wing of the FIA has been instructed to hunt down those circulating jokes on him through emails or mobile phones. Several prominent journalists in Islamabad have already received calls from secret numbers where the caller on the other side inquired about journalists and people opposed to Mr. Zardari, since according to FIA sleuths only declared critics of the President could do this. [Tip to FIA honchos: Don’t forget to check Naheed Khan, Makhdoom Amin Faheem and Enver Baig’s cell phones for a secret war-chest of Zardari jokes!]
Here I’d like to remind those Pakistanis who voted for Mr. Zardari and his party [only 40% of Pakistanis vote, and most of them are illiterate and they vote at gunpoint by their feudal lords, so I’m not optimistic they are reading this] that President Pervez Musharraf, the last of the great Pakistani statesmen, despite his many follies, and a military ‘dictator’, spent 90% of his time in government with an extremely hostile media and one of the nastiest character-assassination campaigns ever seen in Pakistan, through SMS messages, emails, Internet, newspapers, and television channels. What did Musharraf do? He allowed more private TV channels. And he never complained, except for the last few months of his office, and even then he never reacted to jokes about him and character-assassination and his anger was aimed at other types of political criticism that he thought demoralized the nation.
As for these fake democrats who are in power today in Pakistan thanks to a British-American ‘deal’, Prime Minister Gilani issued an order that no media organization can publish anything about him without checking first with his press secretary. And now President Zardari wants to ban all jokes about him. A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never issued such ridiculous orders.
So what if some Pakistanis joke about Mr. Zardari? After all, he does have a colorful past and his unlikely rise to power beats even the most melodramatic Indian films with absurd story lines. And what to say of Mr. Zardari’s knack for saying and doing things that make it easy for those who want to crack a joke or two at his expense. Take for example of his flimsy failed flirt attempt with Sarah Palin, or his sudden disappearance from an Iftar-dinner reception for Pakistanis to attend a private-room party with his girlfriends at an upscale Manhattan restaurant in New York City.
In the spirit of free speech and free jokes, let me conclude with this latest one on Mr. Zardari:
"Just imagine Sarah Palin divorces her current husband and marries Asif Zardari.
Then Palin becomes Vice President of USA.
Then Zardari kills Palin, changes the Will which henceforth says, ‘Zardari will become the President of USA if I die.’
And eventually Zardari becomes President of USA six months after Palin’s death.
Bilawal ends up changing his name to Bilawal Palin-Zardari."
Never Make Joke Over Zardari, Govt Will Arrest You????
'Never Make Joke Over Zardari, Govt Will Arrest You????
By Mr Sajid Hussain PhD
Investigative Journalist
Friday, October, 3 2008
http://Investigativereporterandeditor.blogspirit.com
Overseas Desk::---------------------------------->
President Asif Ali Zardari has given instructions to FIA to hunt down Pakistanis writing jokes about him. The FIA has already begun its witch-hunt, searching the Internet for the ‘criminals’. Prime Minister Gilani wants no newspaper to write anything about him without checking first with his press secretary. A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never did any of this. This is the fake democratic leadership of our country where the President is busy with the jokes on him when the country is facing hostile action from Zardari’s own allies in Washington. What can Pakistanis do if President Zardari gives them opportunities to make jokes? Who told him to alert the entire media by disappearing from an official dinner to go celebrate with his former girlfriends at a private party? Who is setting him up? ? ?? ????????????????????????????????
President Zardari might have a funny side but it’s obviously reserved for Americans like Sarah Palin and not for Pakistanis. Before he left for his U.S. tour (which he camouflaged as a U.N. tour to fool our friends in Beijing who expected the Pakistani President to make his first visit to China), Mr. Zardari gave stern instructions to the sleuths at Federal Investigations Agency, FIA, to hunt down Pakistanis responsible for circulating jokes about Mr. Zardari through emails and text messages.
Mr. Zardari was especially angry at someone who faked his signature on the Visitors’ Book at the Mausoleum of Pakistan’s Founding Father, the Quaid-e-Azam, in Karachi, where Mr. President landed on 14 August to pay his respects.
That email was a particularly nasty job where Mr. Zardari was shown to have supposedly written God as ‘goad’ and strength as ‘strent’.
So angry is Mr. Zardari with those poking fun at him that no less than the official news agency, the APP, was told to release a story to all Pakistani newspapers where an unnamed official (we suspect it’s either Husain Haqqani or Sheri Rehman) denied the President ever wrote those words and denounced the jokes at President’s expense. There was also a dire warning to all fun-loving Pakistanis: the cyber crime wing of the FIA has been instructed to hunt down those circulating jokes on him through emails or mobile phones. Several prominent journalists in Islamabad have already received calls from secret numbers where the caller on the other side inquired about journalists and people opposed to Mr. Zardari, since according to FIA sleuths only declared critics of the President could do this. [Tip to FIA honchos: Don’t forget to check Naheed Khan, Makhdoom Amin Faheem and Enver Baig’s cell phones for a secret war-chest of Zardari jokes!]
Here I’d like to remind those Pakistanis who voted for Mr. Zardari and his party [only 40% of Pakistanis vote, and most of them are illiterate and they vote at gunpoint by their feudal lords, so I’m not optimistic they are reading this] that President Pervez Musharraf, the last of the great Pakistani statesmen, despite his many follies, and a military ‘dictator’, spent 90% of his time in government with an extremely hostile media and one of the nastiest character-assassination campaigns ever seen in Pakistan, through SMS messages, emails, Internet, newspapers, and television channels. What did Musharraf do? He allowed more private TV channels. And he never complained, except for the last few months of his office, and even then he never reacted to jokes about him and character-assassination and his anger was aimed at other types of political criticism that he thought demoralized the nation.
As for these fake democrats who are in power today in Pakistan thanks to a British-American ‘deal’, Prime Minister Gilani issued an order that no media organization can publish anything about him without checking first with his press secretary. And now President Zardari wants to ban all jokes about him. A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never issued such ridiculous orders.
So what if some Pakistanis joke about Mr. Zardari? After all, he does have a colorful past and his unlikely rise to power beats even the most melodramatic Indian films with absurd story lines. And what to say of Mr. Zardari’s knack for saying and doing things that make it easy for those who want to crack a joke or two at his expense. Take for example of his flimsy failed flirt attempt with Sarah Palin, or his sudden disappearance from an Iftar-dinner reception for Pakistanis to attend a private-room party with his girlfriends at an upscale Manhattan restaurant in New York City.
In the spirit of free speech and free jokes, let me conclude with this latest one on Mr. Zardari:
"Just imagine Sarah Palin divorces her current husband and marries Asif Zardari.
Then Palin becomes Vice President of USA.
Then Zardari kills Palin, changes the Will which henceforth says, ‘Zardari will become the President of USA if I die.’
And eventually Zardari becomes President of USA six months after Palin’s death.
Bilawal ends up changing his name to Bilawal Palin-Zardari."
By Mr Sajid Hussain PhD
Investigative Journalist
Friday, October, 3 2008
http://Investigativereporterandeditor.blogspirit.com
Overseas Desk::---------------------------------->
President Asif Ali Zardari has given instructions to FIA to hunt down Pakistanis writing jokes about him. The FIA has already begun its witch-hunt, searching the Internet for the ‘criminals’. Prime Minister Gilani wants no newspaper to write anything about him without checking first with his press secretary. A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never did any of this. This is the fake democratic leadership of our country where the President is busy with the jokes on him when the country is facing hostile action from Zardari’s own allies in Washington. What can Pakistanis do if President Zardari gives them opportunities to make jokes? Who told him to alert the entire media by disappearing from an official dinner to go celebrate with his former girlfriends at a private party? Who is setting him up? ? ?? ????????????????????????????????
President Zardari might have a funny side but it’s obviously reserved for Americans like Sarah Palin and not for Pakistanis. Before he left for his U.S. tour (which he camouflaged as a U.N. tour to fool our friends in Beijing who expected the Pakistani President to make his first visit to China), Mr. Zardari gave stern instructions to the sleuths at Federal Investigations Agency, FIA, to hunt down Pakistanis responsible for circulating jokes about Mr. Zardari through emails and text messages.
Mr. Zardari was especially angry at someone who faked his signature on the Visitors’ Book at the Mausoleum of Pakistan’s Founding Father, the Quaid-e-Azam, in Karachi, where Mr. President landed on 14 August to pay his respects.
That email was a particularly nasty job where Mr. Zardari was shown to have supposedly written God as ‘goad’ and strength as ‘strent’.
So angry is Mr. Zardari with those poking fun at him that no less than the official news agency, the APP, was told to release a story to all Pakistani newspapers where an unnamed official (we suspect it’s either Husain Haqqani or Sheri Rehman) denied the President ever wrote those words and denounced the jokes at President’s expense. There was also a dire warning to all fun-loving Pakistanis: the cyber crime wing of the FIA has been instructed to hunt down those circulating jokes on him through emails or mobile phones. Several prominent journalists in Islamabad have already received calls from secret numbers where the caller on the other side inquired about journalists and people opposed to Mr. Zardari, since according to FIA sleuths only declared critics of the President could do this. [Tip to FIA honchos: Don’t forget to check Naheed Khan, Makhdoom Amin Faheem and Enver Baig’s cell phones for a secret war-chest of Zardari jokes!]
Here I’d like to remind those Pakistanis who voted for Mr. Zardari and his party [only 40% of Pakistanis vote, and most of them are illiterate and they vote at gunpoint by their feudal lords, so I’m not optimistic they are reading this] that President Pervez Musharraf, the last of the great Pakistani statesmen, despite his many follies, and a military ‘dictator’, spent 90% of his time in government with an extremely hostile media and one of the nastiest character-assassination campaigns ever seen in Pakistan, through SMS messages, emails, Internet, newspapers, and television channels. What did Musharraf do? He allowed more private TV channels. And he never complained, except for the last few months of his office, and even then he never reacted to jokes about him and character-assassination and his anger was aimed at other types of political criticism that he thought demoralized the nation.
As for these fake democrats who are in power today in Pakistan thanks to a British-American ‘deal’, Prime Minister Gilani issued an order that no media organization can publish anything about him without checking first with his press secretary. And now President Zardari wants to ban all jokes about him. A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never issued such ridiculous orders.
So what if some Pakistanis joke about Mr. Zardari? After all, he does have a colorful past and his unlikely rise to power beats even the most melodramatic Indian films with absurd story lines. And what to say of Mr. Zardari’s knack for saying and doing things that make it easy for those who want to crack a joke or two at his expense. Take for example of his flimsy failed flirt attempt with Sarah Palin, or his sudden disappearance from an Iftar-dinner reception for Pakistanis to attend a private-room party with his girlfriends at an upscale Manhattan restaurant in New York City.
In the spirit of free speech and free jokes, let me conclude with this latest one on Mr. Zardari:
"Just imagine Sarah Palin divorces her current husband and marries Asif Zardari.
Then Palin becomes Vice President of USA.
Then Zardari kills Palin, changes the Will which henceforth says, ‘Zardari will become the President of USA if I die.’
And eventually Zardari becomes President of USA six months after Palin’s death.
Bilawal ends up changing his name to Bilawal Palin-Zardari."
Never Make Joke Over Zardari, Govt Will Arrest You????
'Never Make Joke Over Zardari, Govt Will Arrest You????
By Mr Sajid Hussain PhD
Investigative Journalist
Friday, October, 3 2008
http://Investigativereporterandeditor.blogspirit.com
Overseas Desk::---------------------------------->
President Asif Ali Zardari has given instructions to FIA to hunt down Pakistanis writing jokes about him. The FIA has already begun its witch-hunt, searching the Internet for the ‘criminals’. Prime Minister Gilani wants no newspaper to write anything about him without checking first with his press secretary. A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never did any of this. This is the fake democratic leadership of our country where the President is busy with the jokes on him when the country is facing hostile action from Zardari’s own allies in Washington. What can Pakistanis do if President Zardari gives them opportunities to make jokes? Who told him to alert the entire media by disappearing from an official dinner to go celebrate with his former girlfriends at a private party? Who is setting him up? ? ?? ????????????????????????????????
President Zardari might have a funny side but it’s obviously reserved for Americans like Sarah Palin and not for Pakistanis. Before he left for his U.S. tour (which he camouflaged as a U.N. tour to fool our friends in Beijing who expected the Pakistani President to make his first visit to China), Mr. Zardari gave stern instructions to the sleuths at Federal Investigations Agency, FIA, to hunt down Pakistanis responsible for circulating jokes about Mr. Zardari through emails and text messages.
Mr. Zardari was especially angry at someone who faked his signature on the Visitors’ Book at the Mausoleum of Pakistan’s Founding Father, the Quaid-e-Azam, in Karachi, where Mr. President landed on 14 August to pay his respects.
That email was a particularly nasty job where Mr. Zardari was shown to have supposedly written God as ‘goad’ and strength as ‘strent’.
So angry is Mr. Zardari with those poking fun at him that no less than the official news agency, the APP, was told to release a story to all Pakistani newspapers where an unnamed official (we suspect it’s either Husain Haqqani or Sheri Rehman) denied the President ever wrote those words and denounced the jokes at President’s expense. There was also a dire warning to all fun-loving Pakistanis: the cyber crime wing of the FIA has been instructed to hunt down those circulating jokes on him through emails or mobile phones. Several prominent journalists in Islamabad have already received calls from secret numbers where the caller on the other side inquired about journalists and people opposed to Mr. Zardari, since according to FIA sleuths only declared critics of the President could do this. [Tip to FIA honchos: Don’t forget to check Naheed Khan, Makhdoom Amin Faheem and Enver Baig’s cell phones for a secret war-chest of Zardari jokes!]
Here I’d like to remind those Pakistanis who voted for Mr. Zardari and his party [only 40% of Pakistanis vote, and most of them are illiterate and they vote at gunpoint by their feudal lords, so I’m not optimistic they are reading this] that President Pervez Musharraf, the last of the great Pakistani statesmen, despite his many follies, and a military ‘dictator’, spent 90% of his time in government with an extremely hostile media and one of the nastiest character-assassination campaigns ever seen in Pakistan, through SMS messages, emails, Internet, newspapers, and television channels. What did Musharraf do? He allowed more private TV channels. And he never complained, except for the last few months of his office, and even then he never reacted to jokes about him and character-assassination and his anger was aimed at other types of political criticism that he thought demoralized the nation.
As for these fake democrats who are in power today in Pakistan thanks to a British-American ‘deal’, Prime Minister Gilani issued an order that no media organization can publish anything about him without checking first with his press secretary. And now President Zardari wants to ban all jokes about him. A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never issued such ridiculous orders.
So what if some Pakistanis joke about Mr. Zardari? After all, he does have a colorful past and his unlikely rise to power beats even the most melodramatic Indian films with absurd story lines. And what to say of Mr. Zardari’s knack for saying and doing things that make it easy for those who want to crack a joke or two at his expense. Take for example of his flimsy failed flirt attempt with Sarah Palin, or his sudden disappearance from an Iftar-dinner reception for Pakistanis to attend a private-room party with his girlfriends at an upscale Manhattan restaurant in New York City.
In the spirit of free speech and free jokes, let me conclude with this latest one on Mr. Zardari:
"Just imagine Sarah Palin divorces her current husband and marries Asif Zardari.
Then Palin becomes Vice President of USA.
Then Zardari kills Palin, changes the Will which henceforth says, ‘Zardari will become the President of USA if I die.’
And eventually Zardari becomes President of USA six months after Palin’s death.
Bilawal ends up changing his name to Bilawal Palin-Zardari."
By Mr Sajid Hussain PhD
Investigative Journalist
Friday, October, 3 2008
http://Investigativereporterandeditor.blogspirit.com
Overseas Desk::---------------------------------->
President Asif Ali Zardari has given instructions to FIA to hunt down Pakistanis writing jokes about him. The FIA has already begun its witch-hunt, searching the Internet for the ‘criminals’. Prime Minister Gilani wants no newspaper to write anything about him without checking first with his press secretary. A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never did any of this. This is the fake democratic leadership of our country where the President is busy with the jokes on him when the country is facing hostile action from Zardari’s own allies in Washington. What can Pakistanis do if President Zardari gives them opportunities to make jokes? Who told him to alert the entire media by disappearing from an official dinner to go celebrate with his former girlfriends at a private party? Who is setting him up? ? ?? ????????????????????????????????
President Zardari might have a funny side but it’s obviously reserved for Americans like Sarah Palin and not for Pakistanis. Before he left for his U.S. tour (which he camouflaged as a U.N. tour to fool our friends in Beijing who expected the Pakistani President to make his first visit to China), Mr. Zardari gave stern instructions to the sleuths at Federal Investigations Agency, FIA, to hunt down Pakistanis responsible for circulating jokes about Mr. Zardari through emails and text messages.
Mr. Zardari was especially angry at someone who faked his signature on the Visitors’ Book at the Mausoleum of Pakistan’s Founding Father, the Quaid-e-Azam, in Karachi, where Mr. President landed on 14 August to pay his respects.
That email was a particularly nasty job where Mr. Zardari was shown to have supposedly written God as ‘goad’ and strength as ‘strent’.
So angry is Mr. Zardari with those poking fun at him that no less than the official news agency, the APP, was told to release a story to all Pakistani newspapers where an unnamed official (we suspect it’s either Husain Haqqani or Sheri Rehman) denied the President ever wrote those words and denounced the jokes at President’s expense. There was also a dire warning to all fun-loving Pakistanis: the cyber crime wing of the FIA has been instructed to hunt down those circulating jokes on him through emails or mobile phones. Several prominent journalists in Islamabad have already received calls from secret numbers where the caller on the other side inquired about journalists and people opposed to Mr. Zardari, since according to FIA sleuths only declared critics of the President could do this. [Tip to FIA honchos: Don’t forget to check Naheed Khan, Makhdoom Amin Faheem and Enver Baig’s cell phones for a secret war-chest of Zardari jokes!]
Here I’d like to remind those Pakistanis who voted for Mr. Zardari and his party [only 40% of Pakistanis vote, and most of them are illiterate and they vote at gunpoint by their feudal lords, so I’m not optimistic they are reading this] that President Pervez Musharraf, the last of the great Pakistani statesmen, despite his many follies, and a military ‘dictator’, spent 90% of his time in government with an extremely hostile media and one of the nastiest character-assassination campaigns ever seen in Pakistan, through SMS messages, emails, Internet, newspapers, and television channels. What did Musharraf do? He allowed more private TV channels. And he never complained, except for the last few months of his office, and even then he never reacted to jokes about him and character-assassination and his anger was aimed at other types of political criticism that he thought demoralized the nation.
As for these fake democrats who are in power today in Pakistan thanks to a British-American ‘deal’, Prime Minister Gilani issued an order that no media organization can publish anything about him without checking first with his press secretary. And now President Zardari wants to ban all jokes about him. A ‘dictator’ like Musharraf never issued such ridiculous orders.
So what if some Pakistanis joke about Mr. Zardari? After all, he does have a colorful past and his unlikely rise to power beats even the most melodramatic Indian films with absurd story lines. And what to say of Mr. Zardari’s knack for saying and doing things that make it easy for those who want to crack a joke or two at his expense. Take for example of his flimsy failed flirt attempt with Sarah Palin, or his sudden disappearance from an Iftar-dinner reception for Pakistanis to attend a private-room party with his girlfriends at an upscale Manhattan restaurant in New York City.
In the spirit of free speech and free jokes, let me conclude with this latest one on Mr. Zardari:
"Just imagine Sarah Palin divorces her current husband and marries Asif Zardari.
Then Palin becomes Vice President of USA.
Then Zardari kills Palin, changes the Will which henceforth says, ‘Zardari will become the President of USA if I die.’
And eventually Zardari becomes President of USA six months after Palin’s death.
Bilawal ends up changing his name to Bilawal Palin-Zardari."
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Lets File Petition, On Behalf Of 'UQAAB'
On Behalf of fellow 'UQAAB'
Friday, September 26 2008
Here is a Petition against the continuous incursions into Pakistan's border areas. Please let us form a mass movement to sign this petition. Please print it out and post it in schools and college, corporations, Masajids and send them by e-mail to all Pakistanis in your address book. These petitions are taken very seriously by Governments and Institutions. We will affect a change in the U.S. policy. Please make a difference for our beautiful homeland. Our FATA sisters and brothers are dying. Almost 300,000 refugees are in Paktunkhwa.
On Behalf of fellow UQAAB
Lt.Gen Agha Jehangir Ali (Retd)
Yasmeen Ali
MuhammadAhsan
Khurram Shaikh
Maj.Khalid Nasr
Dr.Mike Bax
Col.G.Warris
Maj KI Bajwa
Dr.Manzer Durrani
Dear All,Please sign the following petition against American violation of PakistaniAirspace. It will take a few seconds. Don't underestimate the power of yoursignature. Petitions have been successful many times in the past and everysign counts.Sign now and spread the word: http://www.petitiononline.com/286/petition.htmlTo:
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani;
COAS General Pervaiz Kiyani;President Asif Zardari,
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon,The Office of thePresidency of UN Security Council,
We the undersigned, condemn the recent actions undertaken by the Americanforces in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. On Wednesday September 3rd, theAmerican military command in Afghanistan, with Presidential authorization, redefined the ambit of its military intervention in Afghanistan, so that the Tribal Areas of Pakistan are now reconstituted as a part of a single 'theatre of war' with Afghanistan. These acts contravene established principles of international law and in particular constitute a violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter.
In addition, in these recent ground attacks and in previous acts of aerial bombardment, Geneva Convention protections for civilians have been egregiously flouted by US and NATO forces, adding to the untold numbers of such crimes being committed in occupied Afghanistan. Only days after the restoration of a full civilian government in Pakistan, this recent escalation of conflict threatens to undermine and challenge the popular mandate won by thegoverning coalition.The Chief of Army Staff, General Parvaiz Kiyani, Prime Minister Yousaf RazaGillani and other governmental officials are now mouthing retaliatory threats against American and NATO forces, when in actuality, Pakistan's territory serves as the conduit for 85% of supplies that make these actions possible. In addition, the Pakistani military has been the recipient of $8-10 billion of American aid as reimbursement for expenditures undertaken in engaging in wide scale military action against 'terrorists', and their hideouts and 'safe-havens' in the tribal areas. As America's ally in its 'war against terror' the Pakistani military's indiscriminate targeting of populations residing in the tribal areas resembles closely an ethnicgenocide in its incipient stages. There are no reliable figures for the number of Pakistani citizens killed in the targeted regions of Pakistan since our military started combat activity there but it reaches into the thousands.As citizens of the state of Pakistan, we call upon our government to end in its criminal complicity with America and to seek alternate solutions to deal with violent and extremist organizations operating in FATA.We furthermore demand that in accord with Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations, the government of Pakistan should request an urgent meeting of the Security Council to make a determination on the (il)legality of the recent acts of the United States.
Article 2(4) of the UN Charter states:"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."Sincerely,The UndersignedVideo of US attacks can be seen here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAucnSH64QI--Thanks,The ManagementPakistan Think Tank
Friday, September 26 2008
Here is a Petition against the continuous incursions into Pakistan's border areas. Please let us form a mass movement to sign this petition. Please print it out and post it in schools and college, corporations, Masajids and send them by e-mail to all Pakistanis in your address book. These petitions are taken very seriously by Governments and Institutions. We will affect a change in the U.S. policy. Please make a difference for our beautiful homeland. Our FATA sisters and brothers are dying. Almost 300,000 refugees are in Paktunkhwa.
On Behalf of fellow UQAAB
Lt.Gen Agha Jehangir Ali (Retd)
Yasmeen Ali
MuhammadAhsan
Khurram Shaikh
Maj.Khalid Nasr
Dr.Mike Bax
Col.G.Warris
Maj KI Bajwa
Dr.Manzer Durrani
Dear All,Please sign the following petition against American violation of PakistaniAirspace. It will take a few seconds. Don't underestimate the power of yoursignature. Petitions have been successful many times in the past and everysign counts.Sign now and spread the word: http://www.petitiononline.com/286/petition.htmlTo:
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani;
COAS General Pervaiz Kiyani;President Asif Zardari,
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon,The Office of thePresidency of UN Security Council,
We the undersigned, condemn the recent actions undertaken by the Americanforces in the Tribal Areas of Pakistan. On Wednesday September 3rd, theAmerican military command in Afghanistan, with Presidential authorization, redefined the ambit of its military intervention in Afghanistan, so that the Tribal Areas of Pakistan are now reconstituted as a part of a single 'theatre of war' with Afghanistan. These acts contravene established principles of international law and in particular constitute a violation of Article 2 of the United Nations Charter.
In addition, in these recent ground attacks and in previous acts of aerial bombardment, Geneva Convention protections for civilians have been egregiously flouted by US and NATO forces, adding to the untold numbers of such crimes being committed in occupied Afghanistan. Only days after the restoration of a full civilian government in Pakistan, this recent escalation of conflict threatens to undermine and challenge the popular mandate won by thegoverning coalition.The Chief of Army Staff, General Parvaiz Kiyani, Prime Minister Yousaf RazaGillani and other governmental officials are now mouthing retaliatory threats against American and NATO forces, when in actuality, Pakistan's territory serves as the conduit for 85% of supplies that make these actions possible. In addition, the Pakistani military has been the recipient of $8-10 billion of American aid as reimbursement for expenditures undertaken in engaging in wide scale military action against 'terrorists', and their hideouts and 'safe-havens' in the tribal areas. As America's ally in its 'war against terror' the Pakistani military's indiscriminate targeting of populations residing in the tribal areas resembles closely an ethnicgenocide in its incipient stages. There are no reliable figures for the number of Pakistani citizens killed in the targeted regions of Pakistan since our military started combat activity there but it reaches into the thousands.As citizens of the state of Pakistan, we call upon our government to end in its criminal complicity with America and to seek alternate solutions to deal with violent and extremist organizations operating in FATA.We furthermore demand that in accord with Article 2(4) of the Charter of the United Nations, the government of Pakistan should request an urgent meeting of the Security Council to make a determination on the (il)legality of the recent acts of the United States.
Article 2(4) of the UN Charter states:"All Members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the Purposes of the United Nations."Sincerely,The UndersignedVideo of US attacks can be seen here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAucnSH64QI--Thanks,The ManagementPakistan Think Tank
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
''Hidden Activities Of Mr. Zard....Aari & Mr. Shar.....if
Hidden Activities Of
Mr. Zard....Aari & Mr. Shar.....if
Featured Column
By Mr.Sajid Hussain Ph.D
Investigative Journalist(Freelance)
Satureday, 19 july 2008.
Overseas desk,
Peoples Party's so called Chairman Mr. Aasif Ali Zardari, is looking for an exit from his party, from Pakistan's present mess and from active politics,
Most probably, people of Pakistan might get sudden news that Mr. Zardari is seriously ill and would be away for som time from active politics,(and that 'some time' might be forever) .
in fact, Aasif Ali Zardari and Mr. Nawaz Sharif are virtually dead, gone, bifurcated,
Pakistan's some channels (so-called) anchor mafia and press are keeping them alive, trying to infuse life in their dead bodies, Everyday some popular and experienced pesons Newspapers put some headlines to boost the marale of the public. in fact, some (so-called) press and media's ugly survivel is that of Mr.Zardar and Mr.Sharif,to keep the hot issue alive, like (under observation) Mr. Iftikhar Chaudhary, who is History now,
Aitezaz Ahsan, would you bet your Bar-at-Law degree on that?
ZARDARI BUSY CHECKING HIS BANK ACCOUNTS
The so-called Co-Chairman of peoples part has made than a dozen visits to London, Dubai and other parts of the world on record(no one knows how many hidden,secret visits elsewhere) after the assassination his wife.
The Peoples Party's loudspeaker like Sherry Rehman, (Sher Bano) Farhatullah Babar and many other use to giving justification that, Zardari's these trips to the public through the some so-called media by saying that since ,Zardari is playing the part of both the mother and the father to his children after the (sad) assassination of Great Benazir Bhutto, so he has to be away to take care of his children,
Bullshit!
They are no more children, They have attain pubirty, They are big kid, teenagers, grown up in the West. Aasif Zardari does not need to baby sit them or push feeders in their mouths, Thease are lame excuse. Zardari goes abroad ever now and then to check his bank accounts and count his properties,thans to Presiden Pervez Musharraf's NRO! Pervez Musharraf and his alies would die deaths that would be an example for the world.and very sorry, Let me tell you that all of we and our political leaders are ugly,corrupt,freaky, stinking, and haggard, these race of we and leaders would die miserably and helplessly in leprosy,heart attackes,cancer, diabetes,HIV, and other painful .
HUNDRED(100)days of senseless and empty slogans
1, How many times Nawaz Sharif and Aasif Zardari had meetings in Lahore, Islamabad, Bhurban, Rawalpindi and Dubai and London.etc?
2, How many times Aasif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif left for Dubai,London on record and secret visitis other destinations?
3, Who is the man in power.PM Gilani or Governing party's so-called Co-Chairman?
4, The Costs of each and every utilities soaring,Like Gasoline has juggled at 7o to 78 PKR, Dollar has jumped to 74.89 Rs agains PKR.
5, The innocent 99.99% of the peoples of Pakistan have been pushed towards pain, just empt, baseless, egoistic,dirtful claims and statements by these leaders,which are being heard to masses, Aasif Zardari repeatedly says Shaheed this, Shaheed that, jeay Bhutto, jeay Benazir, President House would be echoing with the slogans of Jeay Bhutto,nothing else? President would be the party's worker. all the lollypops, drama are being played with the struggled workers, all Bullshit, my........? (advance sorry)
6, Believe us that Aasif Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf and other political shungens have no interet in Great Pakistan, or Peoples or their own parties as wel, but Mr. Iftikhar Chaudhary,, all otherrs and Aasif Zardari just taking care of bank accounts and properties all over the world.
7, Zardari did not choose to become a Prime Minister in the first place, as he wanted privacy and confidentiality to organize his bank accounts and properties all over the world.
a little bird has told us that as soon as Aasif Zardari is free, he would kick out the Yousuf Raza Gilani from PM House.
8, The man known as Mr.Ten percent(in recent past) knows that waiting for 8-9 years for Bilawal is along time, when Bilawal will finish his education and get training to enter politics, not to mention that the sword of the real Bhuttos hangs on his head. A day is about to come when Aasif Zardari has to leave the fake combine slogan of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, when the real Bhuttos move for the Kill.
A piece of our Humble advice for Namaz Sharif Learn a lesson from Saddam Hussain's breaking neck!
Mr. Zard....Aari & Mr. Shar.....if
Featured Column
By Mr.Sajid Hussain Ph.D
Investigative Journalist(Freelance)
Satureday, 19 july 2008.
Overseas desk,
Peoples Party's so called Chairman Mr. Aasif Ali Zardari, is looking for an exit from his party, from Pakistan's present mess and from active politics,
Most probably, people of Pakistan might get sudden news that Mr. Zardari is seriously ill and would be away for som time from active politics,(and that 'some time' might be forever) .
in fact, Aasif Ali Zardari and Mr. Nawaz Sharif are virtually dead, gone, bifurcated,
Pakistan's some channels (so-called) anchor mafia and press are keeping them alive, trying to infuse life in their dead bodies, Everyday some popular and experienced pesons Newspapers put some headlines to boost the marale of the public. in fact, some (so-called) press and media's ugly survivel is that of Mr.Zardar and Mr.Sharif,to keep the hot issue alive, like (under observation) Mr. Iftikhar Chaudhary, who is History now,
Aitezaz Ahsan, would you bet your Bar-at-Law degree on that?
ZARDARI BUSY CHECKING HIS BANK ACCOUNTS
The so-called Co-Chairman of peoples part has made than a dozen visits to London, Dubai and other parts of the world on record(no one knows how many hidden,secret visits elsewhere) after the assassination his wife.
The Peoples Party's loudspeaker like Sherry Rehman, (Sher Bano) Farhatullah Babar and many other use to giving justification that, Zardari's these trips to the public through the some so-called media by saying that since ,Zardari is playing the part of both the mother and the father to his children after the (sad) assassination of Great Benazir Bhutto, so he has to be away to take care of his children,
Bullshit!
They are no more children, They have attain pubirty, They are big kid, teenagers, grown up in the West. Aasif Zardari does not need to baby sit them or push feeders in their mouths, Thease are lame excuse. Zardari goes abroad ever now and then to check his bank accounts and count his properties,thans to Presiden Pervez Musharraf's NRO! Pervez Musharraf and his alies would die deaths that would be an example for the world.and very sorry, Let me tell you that all of we and our political leaders are ugly,corrupt,freaky, stinking, and haggard, these race of we and leaders would die miserably and helplessly in leprosy,heart attackes,cancer, diabetes,HIV, and other painful .
HUNDRED(100)days of senseless and empty slogans
1, How many times Nawaz Sharif and Aasif Zardari had meetings in Lahore, Islamabad, Bhurban, Rawalpindi and Dubai and London.etc?
2, How many times Aasif Zardari and Nawaz Sharif left for Dubai,London on record and secret visitis other destinations?
3, Who is the man in power.PM Gilani or Governing party's so-called Co-Chairman?
4, The Costs of each and every utilities soaring,Like Gasoline has juggled at 7o to 78 PKR, Dollar has jumped to 74.89 Rs agains PKR.
5, The innocent 99.99% of the peoples of Pakistan have been pushed towards pain, just empt, baseless, egoistic,dirtful claims and statements by these leaders,which are being heard to masses, Aasif Zardari repeatedly says Shaheed this, Shaheed that, jeay Bhutto, jeay Benazir, President House would be echoing with the slogans of Jeay Bhutto,nothing else? President would be the party's worker. all the lollypops, drama are being played with the struggled workers, all Bullshit, my........? (advance sorry)
6, Believe us that Aasif Zardari, Nawaz Sharif, Pervez Musharraf and other political shungens have no interet in Great Pakistan, or Peoples or their own parties as wel, but Mr. Iftikhar Chaudhary,, all otherrs and Aasif Zardari just taking care of bank accounts and properties all over the world.
7, Zardari did not choose to become a Prime Minister in the first place, as he wanted privacy and confidentiality to organize his bank accounts and properties all over the world.
a little bird has told us that as soon as Aasif Zardari is free, he would kick out the Yousuf Raza Gilani from PM House.
8, The man known as Mr.Ten percent(in recent past) knows that waiting for 8-9 years for Bilawal is along time, when Bilawal will finish his education and get training to enter politics, not to mention that the sword of the real Bhuttos hangs on his head. A day is about to come when Aasif Zardari has to leave the fake combine slogan of Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, when the real Bhuttos move for the Kill.
A piece of our Humble advice for Namaz Sharif Learn a lesson from Saddam Hussain's breaking neck!
''Karzai’s Brother World's Biggest Heroin Supplier''
''Karzai’s Brother World's Biggest Heroin Supplier''
India contributes to Afghan 'drugs industry'
Ø Afghan President’s brother runs ‘heroin lab’ across Afghanistan, is probably the world’s biggest heroin exporter
Ø Indian ‘diplomatic’ presence in Afghanistan larger than U.S.
Ø Indians using drug money to train terrorists and send them to Pakistan
Ø First attack in Pakistan of this Indian-Afghan drug nexus in July 2003 on a Shiite mosque in Quetta, killing 53 Pakistanis
Ø Islamabad refuses to take Karzai govt. to task and is busy in appeasing Kabul
By Mr Sajid Hussain PhD
Investigative Journalist
Thursday, 17 July 2008.
Overseas Desk:: An Investigative Journalist working for High Class'' Media Organization investigating the drug trade in Afghanistan have made a startling disclosure that Mr. Izzatullah Wasifi, a brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, was arrested by the U.S. authorities from Caesars Palace, California, along with his wife Fereshteh Behbahani on July 15, 1987, for the trafficking of high quality heroin. Wasifi was sentenced for three years and eight months while his wife was sentenced to three years probation. However after the formation of Karzai government in Kabul, Izzatullah Wasifi was made the Governor of Farah province of Afghanistan and later, last year, his brother, Hamid
Karzai, appointed him as the all powerful Chief of Afghanistan’s General Independent Administration of Anti-Corruption with responsibilities to prevent the Opium growth and Heroin production and its illicit export. Keeping in view Mr. Wasifi’s past, it is nothing less than stunning to notice that the person who a few years ago was a drug trafficker is today Afghanistan’s chief anti-drug trafficking officer.Wasifi used to be an anchor between the Afghan drug barons and the Western drug buyers and used to run a drug trafficking operations. The findings reveal that after being made Governor of Farah province in 2001, he established close links with at least four governors of Karzai government and formed a new, huge and comprehensive drug network. Getting investments from foreign allies, Wasifi established a massive chain of the heroin laboratories across Afghanistan. He later came up with the proposal of forming of an all powerful General Independent Administration for anti-corruption with responsibilities to check heroin production and trafficking and his brother, the Afghan President, wasted no time to appoint him the chief of the said department. According to underworld informants, Wasifi today is considered to be the world’s biggest heroin producer and trafficker with an estimated annual income of around a trillion U.S. dollars. According to some reports, his ex-wife Fereshteh Behbahani, who was convicted with him for drug trafficking in 1987 and now lives in Los Angles, California, is also one of his associates and books orders for the supply of heroin to the U.S. and Latin America. In a bid to capitalize on the political chaos and war-lord culture prevailing in Afghanistan, India for the first time opened four new consulates in Mazar-i-Sharif, Herat, Jalalabad and Kandahar, in addition to reopening an oversized embassy in Kabul, closed after the departure of Soviet backed regime in Afghanistan. This makes Indian diplomatic representation the largest in Afghanistan, bigger even than that of the U.S. India does not have any big legitimate commercial interests tied to these Afghan cities, neither does it have any expatriate Indian community nor frequent travelers to or from India and Afghanistan seeking visas of passport assistance.
Taking into account the current socio-economic and security conditions in Afghanistan, there seems to be no commercial or consular justification for India to have opened a consulate, for example, in the small-remote Iranian town to Zahidan on the border of Balochistan province of Pakistan.
These Indian consulates are actually working to strengthen bonds with the Afghan warlords and drug barons who are one and the same owing to the entrenchment of drug culture in the Afghan political structure. The Pakistani government has gathered sufficient evidence linking recent incidents of sectarian terrorism in Pakistan with the Afghan warlords sympathetic to the Northern Alliance. While training to the sectarian terrorism is being provided by Indian intelligence agency RAW’s personnel stationed in the Indian consulates in Afghanistan, financing for terrorism against Pakistan is invariably being done through drug money. Disclosure of the former Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat about the existence of six Indian terrorism training camps in Afghanistan is a clear pointer in this direction. The maiden horrific attacks by this narco-terrorist nexus was carried out in July 2003 on a Shiite Mosque in Quetta, Balochistan, killing 53 worshippers which was followed by a number of such attacks and it is believed that the last week’s attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul was also the result of some ex-players of the Wasifi racket who were expelled from the racket on suggestions of some new players from India.
It is of great concern that the members of the Northern Alliance, who are known for their direct links to the production of opiates, constitute a considerable portion of the government at all levels. Ironically, Northern Alliance members in the Interior Ministry are now responsible for counter-narcotics operations. Furthermore, high-level officials in Kandahar, Helmand, and the Defense Ministry are also reportedly tied to the drug trade. This situation is further exacerbated by numerous recent allegations that soldiers from the interim government’s security forces have been guarding drug markets. "The U.S. must understand the strong relationship between drug production and terrorism and should, therefore, recognize the need for strict action against drug production in Afghanistan. The U.S. administration must redefine its priorities in Afghanistan and realize that the elimination of drug economy is an issue of peace and stability and a sine qua non for its success in the war-on-terror", expressed Andrew Moses, a renowned U.S. analyst, when contacted by The this Correspondent.
investigations further indicate that the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF) and the NATO forces have declined to pursue the eradication of opium poppy crops under the pretext that the activity was beyond their mandate. Clearly, the U.S. is avoiding a potential conflict with the Afghan warlords, the major beneficiaries of drug, whose political support is essential for the sustenance of Karzai government. However, in doing so the U.S. is ignoring the strong nexus between the drug economy and the continuing instability in Afghanistan and the growing terrorist activities in the region. The Afghan warlords have been netting huge profits from the drug trade emanating from poppy production in areas under their control.
It is not difficult to see that the Afghan warlords have vested interest in ensuring that the State remains week in Afghanistan so that they can continue with their profit-yielding drug trade without the fear of a strong action by the authorities. Consequently, the warlords are channeling a portion of their drug earnings to fuel terrorist activities and attacks against the Karzai government and coalition forces. Thus by giving a free-hand to the warlords and drug barons in return for their political support to the Karzai government, the U.S. is in fact undermining its own objective of peace and security within Afghanistan.
In comparison with these dubious allies of Washington in Kabul, Pakistani officials spent the past six years giving the Americans realistic recommendations on how to restore stability to Afghanistan. One of those recommendations was to neutralize the influence of the drug barons in the Karzai government by welcoming back the alienated Pashtun majority of Afghans. Strangely, Washington continues to ignore the recommendations of its Pakistani ally for fear of alienating the corrupt elements in the Karzai government.
Even more surprising is how Islamabad continues to shy away from creating some international noise about the serious challenges of Indian-sponsored narco-terrorism from Afghanistan, Pak-Afghan warlords and their involvement in drug trade. Apart from being a victim of terrorist activities financed by Afghan drug money, Pakistan has also suffered the most from the menace of heroin addiction. As such Pakistan has a strong stake in lobbying for a more proactive international strategy to fight the narco terrorism nexus in Afghanistan.
According to some unconfirmed reports, Pakistani intelligence agencies, in interrogations with arrested al Qaeda operatives, gleaned information that shows that terrorist cells in Afghanistan heavily relied on Afghan drug money to run their operations. On the other side, Pakistan’s anti narcotics authorities have been putting pressure on the Pakistan government and Islamabad’s Foreign Office to take up the drug trafficking issue with Kabul. However the Pakistan government is yet to take up this issue with Karzai government in a strong manner since Islamabad is busy in appeasing Kabul in an effort to establish some kind of an extraordinarily cordial relationship between Kabul and Islamabad. Despite the fact that Pakistan and Afghanistan governments have signed a number of accords and agreements for a joint terror combat and eradication of the menace of drug trade with Interior Ministers from both the countries holding frequent meetings, it remains a matter of prime concern for Islamabad that Kabul has not moved even an inch to counter the drug business in Afghanistan................................!
India contributes to Afghan 'drugs industry'
Ø Afghan President’s brother runs ‘heroin lab’ across Afghanistan, is probably the world’s biggest heroin exporter
Ø Indian ‘diplomatic’ presence in Afghanistan larger than U.S.
Ø Indians using drug money to train terrorists and send them to Pakistan
Ø First attack in Pakistan of this Indian-Afghan drug nexus in July 2003 on a Shiite mosque in Quetta, killing 53 Pakistanis
Ø Islamabad refuses to take Karzai govt. to task and is busy in appeasing Kabul
By Mr Sajid Hussain PhD
Investigative Journalist
Thursday, 17 July 2008.
Overseas Desk:: An Investigative Journalist working for High Class'' Media Organization investigating the drug trade in Afghanistan have made a startling disclosure that Mr. Izzatullah Wasifi, a brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, was arrested by the U.S. authorities from Caesars Palace, California, along with his wife Fereshteh Behbahani on July 15, 1987, for the trafficking of high quality heroin. Wasifi was sentenced for three years and eight months while his wife was sentenced to three years probation. However after the formation of Karzai government in Kabul, Izzatullah Wasifi was made the Governor of Farah province of Afghanistan and later, last year, his brother, Hamid
Karzai, appointed him as the all powerful Chief of Afghanistan’s General Independent Administration of Anti-Corruption with responsibilities to prevent the Opium growth and Heroin production and its illicit export. Keeping in view Mr. Wasifi’s past, it is nothing less than stunning to notice that the person who a few years ago was a drug trafficker is today Afghanistan’s chief anti-drug trafficking officer.Wasifi used to be an anchor between the Afghan drug barons and the Western drug buyers and used to run a drug trafficking operations. The findings reveal that after being made Governor of Farah province in 2001, he established close links with at least four governors of Karzai government and formed a new, huge and comprehensive drug network. Getting investments from foreign allies, Wasifi established a massive chain of the heroin laboratories across Afghanistan. He later came up with the proposal of forming of an all powerful General Independent Administration for anti-corruption with responsibilities to check heroin production and trafficking and his brother, the Afghan President, wasted no time to appoint him the chief of the said department. According to underworld informants, Wasifi today is considered to be the world’s biggest heroin producer and trafficker with an estimated annual income of around a trillion U.S. dollars. According to some reports, his ex-wife Fereshteh Behbahani, who was convicted with him for drug trafficking in 1987 and now lives in Los Angles, California, is also one of his associates and books orders for the supply of heroin to the U.S. and Latin America. In a bid to capitalize on the political chaos and war-lord culture prevailing in Afghanistan, India for the first time opened four new consulates in Mazar-i-Sharif, Herat, Jalalabad and Kandahar, in addition to reopening an oversized embassy in Kabul, closed after the departure of Soviet backed regime in Afghanistan. This makes Indian diplomatic representation the largest in Afghanistan, bigger even than that of the U.S. India does not have any big legitimate commercial interests tied to these Afghan cities, neither does it have any expatriate Indian community nor frequent travelers to or from India and Afghanistan seeking visas of passport assistance.
Taking into account the current socio-economic and security conditions in Afghanistan, there seems to be no commercial or consular justification for India to have opened a consulate, for example, in the small-remote Iranian town to Zahidan on the border of Balochistan province of Pakistan.
These Indian consulates are actually working to strengthen bonds with the Afghan warlords and drug barons who are one and the same owing to the entrenchment of drug culture in the Afghan political structure. The Pakistani government has gathered sufficient evidence linking recent incidents of sectarian terrorism in Pakistan with the Afghan warlords sympathetic to the Northern Alliance. While training to the sectarian terrorism is being provided by Indian intelligence agency RAW’s personnel stationed in the Indian consulates in Afghanistan, financing for terrorism against Pakistan is invariably being done through drug money. Disclosure of the former Interior Minister Makhdoom Faisal Saleh Hayat about the existence of six Indian terrorism training camps in Afghanistan is a clear pointer in this direction. The maiden horrific attacks by this narco-terrorist nexus was carried out in July 2003 on a Shiite Mosque in Quetta, Balochistan, killing 53 worshippers which was followed by a number of such attacks and it is believed that the last week’s attack on the Indian Embassy in Kabul was also the result of some ex-players of the Wasifi racket who were expelled from the racket on suggestions of some new players from India.
It is of great concern that the members of the Northern Alliance, who are known for their direct links to the production of opiates, constitute a considerable portion of the government at all levels. Ironically, Northern Alliance members in the Interior Ministry are now responsible for counter-narcotics operations. Furthermore, high-level officials in Kandahar, Helmand, and the Defense Ministry are also reportedly tied to the drug trade. This situation is further exacerbated by numerous recent allegations that soldiers from the interim government’s security forces have been guarding drug markets. "The U.S. must understand the strong relationship between drug production and terrorism and should, therefore, recognize the need for strict action against drug production in Afghanistan. The U.S. administration must redefine its priorities in Afghanistan and realize that the elimination of drug economy is an issue of peace and stability and a sine qua non for its success in the war-on-terror", expressed Andrew Moses, a renowned U.S. analyst, when contacted by The this Correspondent.
investigations further indicate that the U.S.-led International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan (ISAF) and the NATO forces have declined to pursue the eradication of opium poppy crops under the pretext that the activity was beyond their mandate. Clearly, the U.S. is avoiding a potential conflict with the Afghan warlords, the major beneficiaries of drug, whose political support is essential for the sustenance of Karzai government. However, in doing so the U.S. is ignoring the strong nexus between the drug economy and the continuing instability in Afghanistan and the growing terrorist activities in the region. The Afghan warlords have been netting huge profits from the drug trade emanating from poppy production in areas under their control.
It is not difficult to see that the Afghan warlords have vested interest in ensuring that the State remains week in Afghanistan so that they can continue with their profit-yielding drug trade without the fear of a strong action by the authorities. Consequently, the warlords are channeling a portion of their drug earnings to fuel terrorist activities and attacks against the Karzai government and coalition forces. Thus by giving a free-hand to the warlords and drug barons in return for their political support to the Karzai government, the U.S. is in fact undermining its own objective of peace and security within Afghanistan.
In comparison with these dubious allies of Washington in Kabul, Pakistani officials spent the past six years giving the Americans realistic recommendations on how to restore stability to Afghanistan. One of those recommendations was to neutralize the influence of the drug barons in the Karzai government by welcoming back the alienated Pashtun majority of Afghans. Strangely, Washington continues to ignore the recommendations of its Pakistani ally for fear of alienating the corrupt elements in the Karzai government.
Even more surprising is how Islamabad continues to shy away from creating some international noise about the serious challenges of Indian-sponsored narco-terrorism from Afghanistan, Pak-Afghan warlords and their involvement in drug trade. Apart from being a victim of terrorist activities financed by Afghan drug money, Pakistan has also suffered the most from the menace of heroin addiction. As such Pakistan has a strong stake in lobbying for a more proactive international strategy to fight the narco terrorism nexus in Afghanistan.
According to some unconfirmed reports, Pakistani intelligence agencies, in interrogations with arrested al Qaeda operatives, gleaned information that shows that terrorist cells in Afghanistan heavily relied on Afghan drug money to run their operations. On the other side, Pakistan’s anti narcotics authorities have been putting pressure on the Pakistan government and Islamabad’s Foreign Office to take up the drug trafficking issue with Kabul. However the Pakistan government is yet to take up this issue with Karzai government in a strong manner since Islamabad is busy in appeasing Kabul in an effort to establish some kind of an extraordinarily cordial relationship between Kabul and Islamabad. Despite the fact that Pakistan and Afghanistan governments have signed a number of accords and agreements for a joint terror combat and eradication of the menace of drug trade with Interior Ministers from both the countries holding frequent meetings, it remains a matter of prime concern for Islamabad that Kabul has not moved even an inch to counter the drug business in Afghanistan................................!
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