The Daily PakistanPolitics May 11-22, 2011

• May23-2011--update on the mehran airbase attack...after 15 hours military controls four to a possible 12 insurgents...four said to have been killed possibly in an aerial bombing...two or the rest escape...insurgents apparently climbed over a wall to start teh attack and fought fiercely for upto 15 hours...two Orion aircraft destroyed...upto seven SSG men or officers killed..apparently only a liuetenant and four guards protected the base...rehman malik the bravest of the PPP and military men in power says they were rambo type insurgents with one suicide jacket...even though bodies still under the rubble...
  
• May23-2011--In another attack similar to a foreign invasion four black vehicles with upto ten insurgents entered the Pakistan Navies Mehran Air base in Karachi and fired at a P3c Orion and set a fuel depot on fire...A P3c orion was said to have been hit and a hanger set on fire...possibility of indian involvements or taleban retaliation...earlier the indians shot down a P3c Orion while a naval submarine shot down its own P3c...indians have also threatened to launch operations in pakistan too and are currently holding military exercises in the rajasthan area...?...fighting on between commandos and possible insurgents foreign or local...13 killed fron navy side with at least 5 insurgents...others suggest the possibility of base having being used in the abbottabad attack...?possible damage to naval air fleet of various types of aircraft...french, english, american etc...possibly another US attack to takeout P3c Orions so that they can bring a submarine close to pakistan...taleban claim attack which was literally undefended...The PPP regime should bring in more younger generals and navy chiefs as teh current lot just does'nt understand teh gravity of terrorism...many think the PPP too should also think of moving on to teh graveyard of of political parties if it cant find new people to head the military who can defend the perimeter and fight and take the fight to the enemy...maybe people like mukhtar ahmed are better at selling shoes rather than handling teh armed forces...and Gilani who literally moves into a bunker under teh primeminister house on each new attack...politicians and generals who only think of themselves should be shunted out...terrorism does not die...subsides maybe but its is never far from the surface...and countries and qaums are not the same as the government which should be responsible and take steps to change military and political leaders who cannot handle teh situation...The pakistan armed forces and the present government are turning into the most incapable and careless people ever to rule pakistan and unless they make major policy and attitude changes hiding behind platitudes wont help them or pakistan...The most necessary organization in this country is turning out tobe teh FC or teh Rangers and one cannot think of anyone calling teh army chief and the ISI chief or the local thanedar...everybody else they say is just after keeping their jobs come hell or highwater...taking responsibility is the essence of democracy and a country cannot be run under failed policies or people
  
• May22-2011--pakistan was in for a surprise when the indians said that they have never even heard of Sir Creek at recent negotiations when they have even conducted joint surveys and agreements were prepared way back in 1988...?this is the Rann of Kutch area where teh pakistanis went to war and not on kashmir and india had to give way under an international commission...we are in 2011 and pakistan india border in areas other than kashmir has not yet been completely mapped...many say pakistan should also start some other disagreements like patahn kot to teh table...there is no point negotiating with india...they always dont want to delay for one reason or another...or back out of agreements...pakistans three agreements with india were all under foreign influence...
  
• May22-2011--what many think is literally treason is the musharaf, kiani, anne patterson program of embedding US intelligence operatives from the GHQ to the 11 corp...while the US obviously has better aerial capabilities anybody can access a google map to get most materiel these days...why people like kiani think that they cant train people themselves is the strangest assertion that comes across from wikileaks...even though the SSG was also initially trained by the US..The sudden shift in US attitudes could be teh domination of jews and indians over Obama...with many suggesting that the information on Ossama could have come from afghanistan via manmohan singh and the payment by the indians was quick and prompt...while afridi says that the money belonged to pakistani cricketers and the indians gave it to afghanistan...some say manmohan told karzai to give afridi some money from time to time...
  
• May22-2011--The US has been apparently told that no joint operations in side pakistan and any unilateral strikes such as teh abbottabad attack may result in immediate counter attacks...
  
• May22-2011--Imran khan strikes...another nato oil tanker bombed..resulting fire kills 15 in landi kotal...
  
• May22-2011--many of the recent wikileaks are quite revealing...many thought that Kiani was the musharaf supporter but it turns out that it was actually the US who made ...who would have thought that Kiani wanted more drone attacks...and that the naqli pir fires people when they trouble his regime without even asking them...a case in point the whacko mango case maj general who benazir picked as her National security advisor...fired after he said they knew ajmal kasab...and reportedly handed over secrets to india and the usa...and who would u pick as the favorite to be behind the attack on the indian embassy in kabul...kiani or the ISI...many pick kiani...?and supposedly shuja pasha was kianis best major general and someone called khan...? and !!!we thought pasha had been superceded before being rejuvenated by his posting under kiani at the ISI and barely a year junior to kiani...quite shocking...? saudis spending $100 million to build mosques in barelvi south punjab and mosques offering upto 6000 dollars for suicidal sons...in south punjab?
  
• May22-2011--The new flag waving jew Obama continues his vitriolic anti pakistan behaviour styled on jewish naziism...!!!one terrorist is usually replaced by another and american attitudes in teh middleeast will find them many financiers...most feel he is cowing down bush and clinton so that they ensure his second term against an ordinary republican like Gingrich...while pakistan cannot at best retaliate on US soil it can try to make life more difficult inits own region for the Obama forces...Gilani who has literally turned pakistan into a weak military power was in china to try to get some stealth fighters of his own but china has just started to develop its paint and design...china a weak regional power can only like Gilani issue a statement to warn Obama to get off pakistans sovreignity...many feel that without effective retaliation teh US will continue to browbeat pakistan into submission...many feel the negative attitudes of teh Gilani regime despite the nationals assembly telling them to standup and fight for their rights...Gilani many feel alongwith teh army and airforce have already crumbled against teh US aggressiveness and any government that replaces them will have to quickly deal with the issue in real terms...
  
• May16-2011--The address suppliers maybe dead on many fronts with many implicating the alqaeda and teh taleban for supplying the address to everyone at almost teh same time...how teh pakistan military and ISI will operate after they agree to follow policies of a doubtful controversial ruler...this obviously is a little more than sindhi for sindhis the policy of the benazir heir...and punjabi generals for punjabi generals...while the mqm still wants to tax teh little man into smithereens...and give electricity to industrialists only...in summer that is a very bad policy...shutdown industries and let teh small man at least sleep under a fan at night...
  
• May16-2011--John kerry arrives with a negative message of enmity and total mistrust...nothing has changed since 2001 says he...the pakistani people who are at best disgusted with teh americans attitude and behaviour as well as that of their subjugated, frightened and slavish rulers seem to have no way out...stuck with slaves in government and their military and obviously no electricity..many suggest the government should clearly stop cooperation in anti pakistani domains since aid is of little value to teh people and what teh government does with it is also unknown...start with stopping things that hurt pakistan, drones and nato tankers as a first step...if teh americans resist shoot down a few drones...this is not a jovial funny phone call any longer...colin powell may have frightened musharaf but it is best to live in poverty rather than in subjugation for no reasons of our own...the army chief whether he rues losing the cricket match to india should at least stop losing on the fronts of sovreignity and subjugation and selling addresses...down a few drones and than talk...that is the US principle and we should endeavour to follow it...the government should not have the principle that US diplomats/killers go free but go ahead and kill a saudi diplomat...
  
• May15-2011--the government should tell John kerry ...no more...go after mullah omar yourselves...as they say in punjabi..saanu maaf karo...
  
• May15-2011--many say that the ISI supposedly an intelligence agency should also start espionage against teh US rather than seek a formal agreement...the ISI if it hid teh Ossama address for five years must be praised... but its formal attitude of childishness in relations with teh CIA seem to show a tendency of subordination which is unrealistic...let the government make agreements... they should break into US labs and steal technology and secrets...the foreign office is better at the type of work that Pasha seems interested in...
  
• May15-2011--bus explosion kills five near kharian...four blasts in peshawar and swabi as five militants killed in mohmand and two imams arrested in teh US
  
• May15-2011--Parliament also condemns USA and asks government to rationalize relations...both US and pakistanis not keen on furthering relations with teh type of attitudes being demonstrated by teh USA...they supposedly used information from a person in a US jail for ten years to find teh address...many doubt teh US info given the numerous lies spouted by Obama and his officials...many suggest with a US official caught trying to infiltrate missile sites in fateh jang pakistan should break off relations and replace its top military officials who prefer to sleep rather than go to war...
  
• May15-2011--The parliament forms a commission to enquire the US invasion of abbottabad...but drops judges as that was opposed by the military leaders who really donot want to resign, be fired,die, fight or go to jail...
  
• May15-2011--many have been questioning the utility of the pakistan armed forces which are barely able to explain their need...apparently a brigade had tobe decked out to just demo for peoples support in islamabad...while the ISI chief apparently got some support from legislators by offering to have funds doled out to them too despite their wealth.....others suggest that the national assembly should closely question teh interior minister and the FC commander too...many rumour that the helicopters might have taken off from their charsadda headquarters with their US trainers running teh show as a training mission...?The taleban ever true to their attitude retaliated against the FC HQ's for probably teh same reason as their information is usually better than mine and yours...?..the trainee soldiers killed by two suicide bombers were probably the first batch of american trained para military soldiers even though many see the FC as being too heavily armed almost like a full corp...
  
• May14-2011--eight nato oil tankers destroyed by blast at torkham...
  
• May14-2011--drone attack kills five in north waziristan
  
• May14-2011--The formation of a commission to investigate the militaries failure to standup to even a minor US invasion suggests that pakistan has accepted its defeat and that they are not even willing to carryout a minor retaliation...many think that the defeatist attitudes of kayani, pasha and the airforce chief suggest that pakistan is now just a little stronger than puerto Rico or hawaii...one would suggest some hard nosed thinking and at least a few drones should be downed ...othrwise the vocal meanderings of the PPP just mean an acceptance of US domination...If the government is against drone attacks than the airforce should deal with them...othrwise Gilani and firdous should just shut up
  
• May14-2011--The national assembly which can at best be described as a bunch of amateurs fell easily for the propagandistic nature of military handling suggesting that US helicopters were stealth designed and flew only 35 feet above teh ground...and that our super F-16's were beaten for speed in locating them...The failure of the armed forces in handling teh US attack was further compounded by a taleban attack on a FC center in shabqadar killing 87...the militaries inability to control the taleban and teh US is reason enough for a thorough shakeup in top military officials...while pasha and kayani are heading a military literally based on extensions and retired officers his suggestion that he did not want to remain glued to his post does not seem an honest appraisal of his attitude...one feels that the extension ridden armed forces need younger blood and that promotions and retirements should take place on time...such measures restrict personal rivalries and are at times teh best method to control decision making in problem areas...a new person can see teh egoistic faults and quickly make changes...chinooks which are the main troop transport helicopters that teh US uses are slow and one would find it difficult to believe that they can glide at low altitudes...The failure to control US actions, problematic military interactions and the negative US attitudes many think are causes that should make the top two opt for retirement...the need for hanging on to a job is now technically zero and ahmed mukhtar teh defence minister too should seek an easier posting and allow a tougher person to rebuild teh militaries top command and handling abilities in terms of teh taleban and US..General wynes refusal to visit the Us is teh type of actions needed and one should focus on a strategic change to independence in military and financial domains to make teh pakistanis at least feel that they are not just pawns for the taking...many feel the ease with which the military subdued teh national assembly is a reason for concern and a belief that the pakistanis were to weak to even react on time...
  
• May13-2011--The LHC restricts but does not forbid president from using presidency for party politics to the benefit of a single party in this case the PPP...Zardari has been interfering in government work and organizing/holding party meetings..many say his main focus has been sindh where he flys off to at a moments notice to the discomfort of other provinces that he never visits.....many suggest that foreign affairs is the primeministers responsibility also and the president has an executive position but cannot participate in governance which is the responsibility of elected legislators...
  
• May13-2011--Gilani feeling the guillotine getting nearer... saying working with the anti pakistan USA can imperil his government...many are already accusing the government of being beghairat and ghaddars...the decisions have tobe made by u gilani and co and nobody else can make them..
  
• May13-2011--The DCC which consists of the most submissive characters in recent pakistan history was pathetic on the americans abbottabad raid and how slow moving helicopters could not be seen on radar or caught by the supersonic F-16's that were supposedly scrambled...The general impression is that heliopters sitting on the border should have been monitored and it is almost impossible for radars to miss such slow moving aircraft...others suggest that teh airforce chief stopped any retaliation or that the helicopters swept in low over teh indus river...despite all that they were here for an hour and 40 minutes...what were u doing bahadur and brave but blind and deaf soldiers......even if they were radar evading four tiny dots should have appeared on the radars and it is almost obvious teh government irresponsibly let teh helicopters thru either by prior agreement or thru a bad decision making process...it is now almost certain teh the army chief and ISI chief were part of the raid decision makers and the address was almost certainly supplied by the countries military chief...things have been happening since teh removal of the foreign minister and relations with the US since this government took over have been pathetic looking at recent and past upheavals ...although even if we go back to 9/11, kargil, bombay attack, samjotha blasts, aafia siddiqui, lahore incidents and now teh abbottabad raid teh pakistan government comes across as a subjugated, terribly inadequte in its dealings and literally looking like ghaddars practicing treachery against their own nation...Even in 1965 after 17 days and no supply of new weapons pakistan collapsed to a ceasefire and than an inadequate tashkent...since than 1971-losing east pakistan...and several indo pakistan agreements solving nothing, up down US-pak relations, kargil, bombay, 9/11, the KOing of musharaf all show a similar weakness in thought, capacity and attitude...
  
• May13-2011-- parliament tobe briefed by teh controversial and also suspect ISI chief on teh abbottabad raid...
  
• May13-2011--drone kills eight in north waziristan
  
• May13-2011--The pakistan army seems tobe holding support rallies in islamabad as its reputation alongwith that of the supposedly useless ISI was ruined by the abbottabad raid ...an army that supposedly can break the enemy USA's face but fails repeatedly...the army had a somewhat improved posture after fighting the taleban to a standstill but has again fallen into an empty grave with the official position of teh USA fooling and insulting it and the pakistan airforce with four relatively ordinary helicopters...alongwith the country...The armed forces fail to understand that their attitudes and defeats insult the country not them...many suggest that any remaining Obama helicopters on teh pak afghan border should be attacked and destroyed before they cause further trouble ie. if they can give teh USA a mouth breaking response...!! otherwise many say just hide your faces in teh sand and tell the people that we are a weak, subjugated and unprotected country...
  
• May12-2011--Many fear that the pakistan army is dominated by anti pakistani minds who are subjugated by indian and US pressure and propaganda...The latest investigation suggests that the american admiral was informed by kayani tobe ready to move in and that pasha was the only stone in their path who would soon fall under the continuous presssure...The admiral immediately issued an anti pasha statement for blocking the information for so long...Dempsey flew in and discussed teh plans to raid the Ossama residence...pasha a longtime intelligence officer considered tough and an officer who disliked his area of officialdom tobe interfered with finally crumbled and flew to washington with the address after getting Kayanis approval...almost immediately Obama approved teh mission and sat watching and ordering the elimination of the Ossama's..The helicopters flew in without protection watched by pakistani radars...after the helicopters picked up Ossama... Asif zardari was informed that they are leaving with Ossama's body ...apparently the wise guy that he is said ..."jaane do"...and that brought literally hell on earth for pakistan...a subjugated military and government that is afraid to bring down a few helicopters because they are frightened of US might and money and power...The pakistan army now needs tobe cleansed of officers involved and made literally independent of US orders...a free and independent air defence authority capable of making decisions should also be setup...whether the nation needs crooked politicians such as Zardari and Gilani is upto the country and its decison makers...why the government could not state that they coordinated and allowed the attack on Ossama ben laden and not pakistan...even if he was under the protection of the ISI...many say Ossama was picked up from the river indus by military officers and relocated apparently with government approval...others say zardari sent him two goats a week tobe slaughtered for the safety of teh Zardari and Ossama's...what else can we say but that "God is great" and humans terribly infallible...will our military never fight for the countries real interests...!!!!The other version is that kayani told the admiral the address and allowed him to attack abbottabad...mullen immediately started attacking pasha who kayani said was the person who refused to supply the information to the US...despite that kayani allowed pasha to visit langley and he too offered them teh address but leon panetta said that they already had teh address...pasha rushed back but the raid was not stopped...It is almost obvious that someone in the top five gave the orders to let the helicopters thru...if not than the entire western borders radar system must be studied and loopholes plugged...
  
• May12-2011--The latest take is that the anti pakistan propaganda being aired or spewed out by the US is coordinated by Hussein Haqqani...the latest take being that pakistan has provided american and french helicopters to china for copying...obviously a burnt out hulk is not what the chinese would be looking for...
  
• May12-2011--one would like to believe the rumour that the countries top four have been taken to a secret military facility tobe questioned about their roles in the american attack on abbottabad...with widespread rumours about their complicity in not retaliating literally an invasion into the country from afghanistan..The americans now say that pakistan broke off communications for two days only on the afghan border...americans meaningless accusations when they have achieved their ends shows their obnoxious anti pakistan depravity...many suggest that ossama was deployed in pakistan by the americans...The PMLn the only real party in the country though obviously a military supported one is studying the possibility of an independent probe like the one in 1971...This time the complicity is at the very top and one doubts anyone can question the minds and actions of the army chief and ISI boss...pakistan has very little interest left in pursuing one sided american policies and the US should many say wind up its war againt pakistan with the killing of Ossama...turning into a anti nazi type of jewish recrimination oriented nation does not make the US look good and it should forge efforts for peace rather than continuous war like madness...