Peter Chamberlin's article on recent crisis in Pakistan is the best piece, I have read for many weeks. Eye opening and painfully true, but we can't deny the reality. Kabirwala has its own shameful contribution to sectarianism, which will haunt our generations; hatred travels in blood, how sad it is!
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Peter Chamberlin
It is easy to see why Pakistan has been chosen as the battleground of the century, but it is a real shame to us all that we have allowed our governments so much unsupervised freedom of action that they could get away with the things you are about to read about in the following article. It is a difficult story to tell, since an accurate narrative requires the merging of multiple streams of information into one. The story of the war in Wana is a tale of strange religions, secret alliances and governments that wage war upon themselves. It would be nice to believe our governments, that they were actually doing their utmost to defend our lives and our freedom in Afghanistan and Pakistan, that they were really marshalling all of our forces and our most advanced military technology to defeat an army of rabid terrorists who were out to destroy us…but that in no way resembles the situation that we have created there on the ground. The "war on terror" is a great psycho-drama, staged to convince us that the world is out to get us and we must accept living in a state of permanent war.
The first thing that must be understood is that Pakistan's allegiance to America in the past has come home to bite the generals in the asses. Running America's militant/terrorist training camps, creating "Islamist" foot soldiers for the CIA to send all over the world, is suddenly a big deal. The world has finally recognized that the training program is a vast criminal enterprise, which Musharraf and his generals are all set to take the fall for, except there at home in Pakistan, right in the middle of world war III. The Pakistani people are the most abused of all the victims of CIA/ISI terror. The Army is busy there staging a fake terror war, pretending to be fighting the TTP, in a modern remake of a farcical drama that last played in the Roman Coliseum. Thousands of Pakistani civilians and hundreds of soldiers and policemen have been sacrificed to convince the world that terrorists are waging war indiscriminately across FATA and the NWFP, even though their every action seems calculated to justify an American invasion.
The good people of Pakistan are greatly troubled, trying to understand the situation that they have been trapped in. Even as the government relocates millions of its citizens to fight entrenched terrorists who live among them, the news of the day (attack on GHQ) once again links "ex-officers" of the Army and ISI with terror attacks. Other news reports that hit men in sectarian attacks carried ISI identification. What could possibly motivate some military and government officials to participate in a plan to bring war to Pakistan?
If the evidence really proves military involvement in actual terrorism in the past and in the present, then it becomes a question of motive—Why would dedicated military men, who have taken oaths to serve and protect the Nation, kill innocent Pakistanis, or worse, their fellow officers? It seems that there could be only three possible answers to this question—money, insanity, or patriotism.
Patriotism stands-out as the most likely answer, since military minds see duty differently than civilian folks. It is conceivable that perhaps some Army or ISI guys could have been convinced that certain people were a threat to national security and had to be eliminated. This could explain how the following names of so many officers could be linked to confirmed terrorists: Mr Aqeel , Aliases Dr Usman, who was named in Daniel Pearl's murder and the GHQ attack Amjad Farooqi namesake of the (TTP) umbrella group which attacked GHQ Maj. Gen. Zaheer ul Islam Abbasi, who led an attempted coup against Benazir Bhutto, or former SSG commando Ilyas Kashmiri who alleged killed SSG Gen. Faisal Alvi. Khalid Khwaja, retired air force officer who led Daniel Pearl to Omar Sheikh dozens of active-duty military officers.… arrested for helping Amjad Farooqi try to kill Musharraf.
People in Pakistan have been exposed to this sort of news for many years, among them, there has been little doubt that the Army has always served American interests and the Army has always trained and used militants as part of this service. The terrorism in Pakistan, mostly the sectarian terrorism, has been committed by government-trained militants/terrorists, so much so that the people blame the Army for every bomb in a mosque. The "militants" who have been trained by the professionals who had joined radical outfits are really no different than those who have trained them—both are radical extremists who are ready to kill or die for their country or for their religion. As long as the terror that they have unleashed upon their neighbors and countrymen was in the name of America, Pakistan, or Islam, then the terror was for a "just" cause. This kind of thinking causes military men like ISI Directorate chief Lieutenant-General Pasha to call men like Baitullah Mehsud and Mullah Fazlullah "true patriots," for offering to fight India, just like Reagan called the contras "freedom fighters."
There is a theory making the rounds and gaining ground in Pakistan that tries to explain how the military/militant nexus that was openly nurtured to fight in Kashmir was applied covertly to the situation in FATA and NWFP. That theory attempts to explain how the Army could allow American and British intelligence agencies to secretly use India's RAW and the Mossad to manipulate certain adherents of a local religious cult, the Ahmadiyya (a schism from Sunni Islam), to create a new series of schisms within Pakistani society. The theory seems to gain some validity due to certain facts that apply to many members of the cult—many are embedded within the Pakistani officer corps, a lot of them hold high positions in the government bureaucracy and their movement was founded in what is today the epicenter of sectarian terror, around the town of Jhang. The basic reality of everyday life for Ahmadis within Pakistan makes them ideal candidates for recruits in a secret army, especially if the mostly poor Ahmadis are paid exceptionally well—because of religious persecution, they have always had to hide their religious identities; they advocate reunification with India; they prefer British rule over the status quo in Pakistan. If the world was being reordered by the Americans and British in a manner that would reunite India or bring all the Muslim people in Pakistan under the control of one organization that was America-friendly, perhaps also leading to Indian reunification, then surely the Ahmadi and some of their leaders could be counted upon to cooperate in bringing the plan about.
The Pakistani Taliban are the key to the entire psyop. Understanding who they actually are and what master they really serve is vital to understanding what is going down in the homeland of the "Islamic bomb." The Tehreek Taliban emerged from S. Punjab, spreading from there to S. Waziristan. Contrary to popular deceptions, they are an "anti-Taliban" force. Like everything else in Pakistan, they were meant to play a "double-game," pretending to be part of the real Pashtun Afghan Taliban, while waging war in secret upon them. Musharraf and his generals created this "Taliban" force that was not really Taliban, by utilizing "Islamists," who were not really Muslims. They were created to serve as a safe "loyal opposition," who pretended to wage a fake war of terror for American audiences, without risking a fight with real rogue terror groups. The plan was to use military men to lead the criminal gangs of real revolutionaries and ordinary rabble,
The Tehreek Taliban are not really "Taliban," they are more accurately described as a counter-Taliban force, an "anti-Taliban." Like all the real Taliban, they follow a counterfeit Saudi Wahabi version of Islam. Unlike the real Afghan Taliban, their warped Wahabi Islam has been blended with another, even more radical "Islam" from India, Deobandi Islam. The result is the most sectarian bloodthirsty form of Sunni Islam yet devised, to them, anyone who doesn't follow this perverse Wahabi-Deobandi fusion, just like them, is "Kfir," the unbelievers. We are discussing the religious faith of people like Baitullah and Hakeemullah Mehsud, the same people who are now waging war in Pakistan.
The "Islamists" of FATA and NWFP wage sectarian war against all unbelievers in their areas of control, under the direction of ISI controllers. They also provide targets for American drones, using spies under ISI control to plant tracker chips on expendable "militants." Whenever militant leaders, or criminal gangs working under their direction, get out of control, military action takes them out. In addition to this ISI-controlled war in FATA and NWFP, there is another rogue element that is staging terrorist attacks outside of Army control, an American/British/Israeli/Indian force within the anti-Taliban themselves. The killers in this super-secret group are even worse bloodthirsty and hate-driven zealots than the Mehsuds. Pakistani writers refer to them as the "Punjabi Taliban," because that is where they first sprang-up.
Rise of Punjabi Taliban
"Today the bulk of attacks in heartland Pakistan are carried out by Pakistanis from Punjab or Sindh, or by Pashtun fighters assisted by heartland Pakistanis," says Rohan Gunaratne, author of Inside Al Qaeda. "Punjab-based groups… were initially the creatures of the Inter-Services Intelligence, and had a Kashmir focus," says Teresita Schaffer of the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The change began when President Pervez Musharraf outlawed two Punjabi militant groups (2002) —Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) — because of outrage over their attacks on Shias. Many Jhangvi fighters then moved to the NWFP.
"Jhangvi is now the eyes, ears and operational arm of Al Qaeda and the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan [based in Waziristan]," says Gunaratne. "It is hard to distinguish between the three." The task of the Punjabi Taliban is to radicalize the TTP even more. All the leaders in the Tehreek Taliban movement have been educated in Deobandi madrassas, where they studied under Muftis who had been steeped in the sectarian hatred of Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, the founder of the mother of all terror outfits in Pakistan, Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP). All Tehreek Taliban leaders came from SSP's militant wing, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), or one of its sub-groups. To counter the activities of the Shia organisation, the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), with the blessings of the USA, Saudi Arabia and Iraq, encouraged a group of Deobandi Muslim migrants (Mohajirs) from the districts of what constitute the Indian Punjab and Haryana of today to counter the activities of the TNFJ [Shia]. Thus came into being the Ajuman-e-Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (since re-named as the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan–SSP) on September 6,1984, under the leadership of Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, a semi-educated Khateeb who had his religious education in Darul Uloom, Kabirwala, and the Khairul madrasa of Multan in Pakistani Punjab. There is a river of terror running through the heart of Pakistan, flowing down every highway, road and goat path. Wherever progress has gone, the terror has followed, carried by rabble-rousing mullahs/muftis, from the central reservoir of hatred in the town of Jhang, in southern Punjab. It is more sickening than it is ironic that the architects of the reservoir sit in Washington and criticize the Pakistani engineers for following their blueprint too precisely.
All the sectarian terror in Pakistan flows from this reservoir of hatred dug deep in the town of Jhang, in the southern Punjab Region. Of all the regions of Pakistan, the ISI knew that only Jhang could produce a common mindset that would both feed the sectarian hatred and convince otherwise sane individuals to join the effort to defend Pakistan by waging war within it. Since its inception the SSP has relied on a core constituency of Sunni peasantry who felt exploited by Shi'a landlords and aristocrats. The Ahmadi are a merchant class who have lived under the thumb of Shia since first coming to Pakistan. In Jhang a center of sectarian hatred and terror already existed, embraced by an ignored hidden cult, or schism within Sunni Islam, known as Ahmadiyya, or "Qadiani." The record clearly documents a movement of anti-Shia hatred from Punjab, to Peshawar, to S. Waziristan, to Khyber, and beyond. There is no way to document how many of the terrorists that infiltrated NWFP and FATA were Qadians, but we know for certain that they were all Sipah/Lashkar Jhangvi.
Basically, Ahmadiyya may be the most glorified personality cult of all time, based on the ego of one man who thought that he could convert the religions of the world by the power of his reasoning skills. The end product was a type of pseudo-Islamic intellectualism which could be described as a "Hindu-ized" version of Islam, misrepresenting itself as all things to all believers, clearly an abomination to all true Muslims. The Ahmadiyya believe that their founder Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian (1835-1908) was the Mahdi of Islam, the last incarnation of the Hindu god Vishnu and the embodiment of the Christian Messiah. The followers of Ahmad settled on 1034 acres of land near Jhang in Punjab. It is no coincidence that Jhang is the epicenter of sectarian terrorism in Pakistan, since it is also home to both the outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP) and its most evil stepchild, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ). Jhang had all the ingredients and Gen. Musharraf had all the proper credentials to go forward with the CIA plan to create an anti-Taliban force there, from an assortment of disillusioned Ahmadis and others from the mohajir community, who were fed-up with life's burdens. Gen. Musharraf, a mohajir general, was supposedly a Berelvi-Sunni, but many Pakistanis claim that he is a secret Ahmadi. The evidence reveals that in 2003, the dictator sought the help of MQM leader, Altaf Hussein, who is known as a willing servant of American and British interests, to use MQM fanatics to manipulate the local mohajir community as part of the plan. 2003 was a pivotal year in the plan, as US forces withdrew most of their assets from Afghanistan to invade Iraq in March. Bush clearly just dumped the entire operation into Musharraf's lap. Musharraf was expected to "give pursuit" to the "al Qaida" militants who had taken refuge in Waziristan. This was never the real mission, the alleged "mission" was only another part of the psyop; Musharraf's job was to stall. He was to wage a pretend war to buy time for American forces to eliminate Saddam Hussein. For this, he needed a new "Taliban" force, one to fight inside Pakistan. The moment that Bush passed Afghanistan to Musharraf, he began to call together the old Taliban alliance, under Mullah Omar. After being clearly routed in Afghanistan by American bombers and Northern alliance troops (who were mostly Shia), Omar needed a new army of zealous militants, fueled with a new desire to wage jihad against American and Afghan forces.
He needed a Pashtun publicity campaign that would follow the American model of motivational speakers, on "lecture circuits," conducted by brave inspiring role models, such as Mullah Dadullah, to persuade young Pashtun men to go to war. For this task, nothing seemed to work better than using veteran Afghan Taliban, who were missing limbs, or eyes, such as the one-legged Mullah. He was brought into S. Waziristan, along with one-legged Abdullah Mehsud, who was probably released from Guantanamo just for this reason. After sufficient CIA brainwashing, he was released into Afghanistan, where he inspired an army of Uzbek fighters of IMU (Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan) to follow him into S. Waziristan. These Uzbeks were reported in the media as "al Qaida," as they terrorized the land and ran training camps around Wana, undoubtedly under direct ISI control. In 2003, at the instance of the ISI, Mulla Omar, the Amir of the Taliban, reconstituted the Taliban army to launch a new jihad in Afghanistan—this time against the Western forces. He asked Mulla Dadullah, who continued to enjoy the confidence of the ISI, to act as the chief military commander of the new Taliban army, which consisted of experienced jihadi fighters of the pre-October 7, 2001, vintage as well as new recruits from the madrasas and Afghan refugee camps of Pakistan. The new Taliban army was trained by the ISI and started operating in the Pashtun majority areas of Southern and Eastern Afghanistan from sanctuaries in Balochistan and in the Waziristan area of the Federally-Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).
In its issue of October, 2003, the "Newsline", the reliable and well-informed monthly of Karachi, gave the following account of the re-constitution of the Neo Taliban army and the role of Dadullah in it: Hundreds, possibly thousands, of youths from religious schools across Pakistan have joined the ranks of Taliban cadres that have regrouped in Afghanistan in the last few months. According to one estimate, at least 5,000 youths including former Taliban soldiers who went underground after the fall of their regime in December 2001, and students from religious seminaries from Balochistan, have joined their compatriots in Afghanistan. Many of these young men are known in the ranks as 'sarbaz' (those who have given their lives to the cause and readily sacrifice them in suicide missions). Regrouped, reorganised and rearmed, these warriors are now all set to launch a new guerrilla war for as long as it takes to expel what they call the 'infidel forces' from Afghanistan.
From this moment on, Pakistani proxies were at war with American and NATO troops in Afghanistan. The creation of the anti-Taliban, the TTP, with the help of the British (See: Unraveling the Anti-Pakistan Psyop), effectively acknowledged this fact and began to pit an American backed Pakistani proxy force, against Pakistan. If we were in a real war and not just a massive dramatic production, then this would have been a serious matter. As it was, it was just more geo-strategic chess, or "the great game," as they like to call it on the sub-continent. The forces organized under Dadullah had to fight a war within Pakistan that was totally convincing, one that was so intense that it would convince the world community that outside intervention (meaning: American intervention) was absolutely required to save Pakistan from itself. The real mission required many more terrorists, who were sufficiently vicious to kill religious opponents without hesitation. This required at least two more side psyops, both staged in areas that had already been marked by past sectarian conflicts—Karachi and Khyber.
In Karachi, Musharraf agitated the MQM supporters of Altaf Hussein. A fake "ultimatum," allegedly from an unknown militant group, was issued around Peshawar, threatening to wipe-out all Ahmadis who refused to either convert or leave Pakistan. The fear campaign had begun. MQM agitators began recruiting for a "Sunni Tehreek," to take the war to Pashtun militants. An open deal with Musharraf was struck, which effectively closed-down a previous ISI-created anti-MQM faction, the MQM-Haqaqi, begun to undermine Altaf Hussain's group, the MQM-H, the most violent of all the mohajir factions. It was driven underground and group leader Amir Khan was arrested (June 29), effectively making thousands of potential recruits available from his organization for ISI missions.
On May 22, Ahmadi leaders met in Ranpur to make plans for dealing with the threat from the mullahs. A wave of killing was unleashed upon the Ahmadi community, beginning in Karachi. On July 14, Shia leader Allama Hassan Turabi was assassinated by a suicide bomber in front of his home in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal section of Karachi. Brigadier Iftikhar Ahmad, a well-known Ahmadi was shot dead by three men on motorbikes at his home (across the street from Musharraf) in Rawalpindi, on July 17.
Turabi was a staunch critic of the Musharraf regime and a vocal opponent of Islamabad's staunch ties to the United States. He was also outspoken against Israeli policies toward the Palestinians. He was an advocate for ethnic and sectarian harmony among Pakistan's disparate ethnic, sectarian and tribal groups and for unity in the face of what he believed was a repressive and corrupt regime in Islamabad that was beholden to U.S. interests. His membership in the Sunni-dominated MMA representing Shiite Muslims—a loosely knit coalition of Islamist parties united in their opposition to the Musharraf regime that commands a wide following in the largely Pashtun regions of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Balochistan, as well as a sizeable representation in parliament—was seen as an effort on the part of Sunni Islamist factions to reach out to Shiites to curtail the sectarian violence that has plagued Pakistan for years.
In conjunction with this anti-Shia action in Karachi, another anti-Shia psyop was getting underway in Khyber Agency, but this operation was intended to produce a second schism, this one within Sunni Islam. Haji Namdar, a local extremist, who had been unexpectedly returned from Saudi Arabia, where he had been indoctrinated for the last ten years by Wahabi instructors. He returned to Bara, which has a large Shia minority, where he became outraged that new roads and power lines had carried "sin," according to the Wahabi definition, into his hometown. He set-up his own religious police force after the Saudi model, "Suppression of Vice and the Promotion of Virtue," and began administering Saudi justice.
He also started a pirate FM station, where he denounced local sinners. He began to agitate against Sunni sinners, as well, in particular, the Berelvi-Sunnis. He agitated the local Berelvis to the point where he thought he needed help, motivating him to bring in radical firebrand, Mufti Munir Shakir, who was just being run-out of Hangu, because of an anti-Shia bombing inspired by his preaching….
By: Peter Chamberlin peterchamberlin@naharnet.com "Waging War Upon Ourselves" http://therearenosunglasses.wordpress.com:80/2009/10/31/waging-war-upon-ourselves/
