With the admission of Barak Obama as the new US President events are beginning to move extremely quickly in the region surrounding Pakistan and Afghanistan. Two Muslim countries strategically located next to energy rich Central Asia.
Obama outlined in his election campaign that he considers Pakistan to be the main source of terror rather than Afghanistan and will send troops across the border into Pakistan if the government fails to act. It was actually on the eve of his inauguration that the US launched a drone attack into Pakistan killing many innocent civilians, in effect showing the Pakistani establishment that Obama means what he says. What we are witnessing is a continuation of Bush's policies.
The US after much bloodshed and failure in Iraq is finding Afghanistan's occupation increasingly difficult. The resistance movement in Afghanistan is forcing the US to enter into negotiations and tradeoffs with countries considered hostile, from Iran to Russia. The supply routes are looking increasingly fragile and cracks are appearing in NATO where France and Germany have already refused to send further troops to Afghanistan.
The Importance of this region can be illustrated from the fact that countries as far as Latvia have been pulled into this great game to secure supplies to NATO and US forces occupying Afghanistan. Up to 700 containers per week could be shipped and unloaded at Latvian ports, moving by rail to Afghanistan.
U.S. envoy Richard Holbrooke on a recent visit to the region described the situation as, "tougher than Iraq." Admiral Mike Mullen, chairman of the American Joint Chiefs of Staff said, "The situation there grows more perilous every day." British foreign secretary David Miliband last week spoke of a "stalemate" - something senior generals and security officials have known for some time.
The Taliban now control both southern and eastern Afghanistan and are making daring attacks into the heart of Kabul, including the recent attacks on the justice ministry. The US has given authorisation to NATO in making individual treaties to ship supplies via Russian and Iranian territories.
The Pakistani government has failed yet again to take the initiative and take advantage of the US's weak position - battered by a failing economy and two bloody wars. It is important to note that 85-95% (300-500 trucks daily) of supplies to Afghanistan come from Pakistan via Port Qasim in Karachi. The Zardari government like Musharraf is strengthening the US position by participating in this War on Islam and betraying the public who in poll after polls have shown their hatred for US and its policies in the region. Recent revelations made by the chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Senator Dianne Feinstein that drones "are flown out of a Pakistani base" shows the subservience of Zardari's government to the US.
The US knows very well that they cannot win without the support from the corrupt Pakistani government. Hence they are supporting the government of Zardari just like they supported Musharraf before him. The US is using the Pakistani army as mercenaries to kill their own people.
Defence secretary Robert Gates has said the aim is not to build a "central Asian Valhalla." Creating a liberal, democratic and prosperous Afghanistan has been, at the very least, postponed. Steve Cohen, at the Brookings Institution policy research centre, Washington also said, "We have certainly pulled back from the aims of a nice, happy, Scandinavian-style democracy."
The above statements clearly show the intentions of the US government. If this situation continues the US who is in a strategic alliance with India may actually break Pakistan to secure their objectives in the region.
The only way to establish peace and stability in the region is via the Khilafah. This will unite all the provinces of Pakistan and remove enmity from the hearts of the people. It will allow Pakistan to unite with Afghanistan and other Muslim countries and remove colonial lines i.e. drawn by Sir Mortimer Durand or Sir Cyril Radcliffe. The Muslims of Pakistan are asking where is the Mohammed bin Qasim of today.
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Abdul Rasheed Qureshi
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The earth has witnessed more bloodshed since 24th March,1924 (the day Khilafah was destroyed), than the cumulative bloodshed in all times before that. The only way this Ummah will revive & get back its honour is by having an Ameer-al-Mumineen. OH MUSLIMS of the world! Work for the return of the Khilafah. Was Salam Abdul Rasheed Qureshi (A slave of Allah) |
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Sabbir al-amin
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Assalamualiqum to all brothers and sisters over the world. Insh'a allah we can establish khilafah before the next ramadan and observe the month of victory. |
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pass4sure
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I like the Pakistani people.Thanks for sharing this.Thanks to you.pass4sure |
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Muhammad Omer
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i have read this column and found it TRUE.. USA has launched the massive offense in helmand province of afghanistan which has boundaries with pakistan and iran are only to serve their evil intentions in baluchistan.. TRUE that our leaders have turned a blind eye towards the situations TRUE that our own enemy has been involved and stuck in our own country against our own people. CHEAP ARMY. Now when our own army is willing to work for USA for real cheap money then why would USA go through all the hassle of attackin pakistan??? Now if i m not wrong this is what u call OUTSOURCING.. Stage is all set for pakistan.. PAKISTAN is NEXT.. still we can turn the tables around and prove that if USA dares to do the adventure or any of its so called strategic partners it will be their LAST...LONG LIVE PAKISTAN... LONG LIVE MUSLIM UMMAH |
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Shareef
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http://www.presstv.com/detail....=351020401 A Press TV poll suggests Pakistan's political turmoil has been orchestrated by the US in an attempt to partition the nuclear-armed country. Pakistan plunged into political turmoil in January when the Supreme Court disqualified opposition leader and former prime minister Nawaz Sharif along with his brother Shahbaz Sharif from elected office. The crisis was intensified after a power struggle between the opposition group and President Asif Ali Zardari, a US ally and a key player in efforts against al-Qaeda and Taliban militants, damaged the standing of the Pakistani government. The opinion poll conducted by the Press TV website found that an overwhelming 63 percent of some 3,807 participants believe the "tension is an American scenario to partition Pakistan." The new US administration, on various occasions, has expressed concern over the future of Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. A mere eighteen percent of the participants said the crisis stems from a power struggle between Pakistani politicians. Another 18 percent said the turmoil was the result of 'al-Qaeda and Taliban influence over certain Pakistani politicians. According to US intelligence and top ranking US military officials, Pakistan's powerful intelligence agency is abetting al-Qaeda militants. |
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Zeital
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Considering the U.S.A becoming the heir of the earlier global empires, such as Dutch, British, French, Spanish and Portuguese this extract seems rather poignant:- "Indeed that was an apt and true reply which was given To Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king asked the man what he meant by keeping Hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride, ‘What thou meant by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, while thou dost it with a Great fleet art styled emperor" Saint Augustine The irony is that the earlier American settlers (whilst continuing to encroach on the land of the indigenous peoples) had themselves struggled for independence and initially did not desire overseas empires. President Abraham Lincoln and President Grover Cleveland did not seek an empire. Of note is the The American Anti-Imperialist League that was established in the United States in 1898 "I have read carefully the treaty of Paris, and I have seen that we do not intend to free, but to subjugate the people of the Philippines. We have gone there to conquer, not to redeem. It should, it seems to me, be our pleasure and duty to make those people free, and let them deal with their own domestic questions in their own way. And so I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land". Mark Twain, 1900 |
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