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The CIA connection… BENAZIR BHUTTO’S ASSASSINATION WAS PRE-PLANNED: THE ZIA MODEL WITH A TWIST: THE GREAT GAME CONTINUES: When the Elephants dance, the grass gets crushed. The continued CIA conspiracies in Pakistan. Another Pakistani leaders falls to an international game between the USA, China and Russia. Pakistanis again pay the price.
<http://pakistanledger.wordpress.com/2008/12/27/the-alegeriafication-o...> The Alegeriafication of Pakistan & Egyptianization of Bangladesh may yield Iranian type of revolutions
Political assassinations, judicial murders, military takeover, and manipulated coup de etats by unelected leaders are seminal events in the history of any nation. The asassination of Benazir Bhutto is all the more traumatic for Pakistanis and others because “nothing seems like what it is”. Any murder is investigated on the concept of motive, opportunity and benifits from the murder. The same criteria has to be applied to the death of Benazir Bhutto. The beneficiaries of the death of Benazir Bhutto are not those who were blamed initially for her death.
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/cia.jpg> When the Elephants dance, the grass gets crushed. The continued CIA involvement in Pakistan. Another Pakistani leaders falls to an internation game betwen the USA, and China and Russia, and Paksitanis again pay the priceThe Benazir Assassoination: CIA connection…the details by Moin Ansari
Updated July 23rd, 2008.
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/threat2.jpg> That threat and his judicial murder has repurcussions today on Pakistan US relationsSUMMARY OF BENAZIR BHUTTO MURDER ARTICLE <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/uncovering-truth.jpg> http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/uncovering-truth.thumbn...
* Part 1: Benazir Bhutto: Assassination- Internation dimension-Summary: The <http://rupeenews.com/2007/12/28/the-cia-connection-benazir-bhuttos-as...> CIA connection…The Benazir Assassination…
* Part 2: Benazir Butto Assassination- International dimension-Details: The <http://rupeenews.com/2008/01/06/the-cia-connection%e2%80%a6-benazir-b...> murder of Benazir Bhutto–the Details: Internation dimernsion
* The CIA connection on Pakistan. The <http://moinansari.wordpress.com/2007/12/28/the-cia-connection-benazir...> CIA Connection…….The Benazir Bhutto Assassination was pre planned, the Zia model with a twist. The continued CIA involvement in Pakistan. The Great Game continues. When the Elephants dance the grass gets stamped upon…Pakistanis suffer. The purpose of this assignation is to destabilize Pakistan and find a reason to secure the Nukes
* Part 3: Benazir Butto Assassination-Local Connection: <http://rupeenews.com/2008/07/24/who-assassinated-benzair-bhutto-the-l...> Who Assassinated Benzair Bhutto? The local connections–one promoted one killed
* Part 4: Benazir Butto Assassination-Internation dimensions: The <http://rupeenews.com/2008/03/26/the-cia-connectioncontinued-pakistan-...> CIA Connection…continues…in China
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/declassified1-a.jpg> http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/declassified1-a.thumbna... Note: This article investigates the real reasons for the death of Benazir Bhutto and the reasons behind the events that happened just before her murder. This remains the most popular articles on this site with many thousands of hits. We keep updating it. Visit it often and leave feedback! It has also spawned many other articles. Reuters page (This article reviewed <http://blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/> by Reuters analysis):, India <http://rupeenews.com/2008/02/08/pakistani-gwador-to-china-links-threa...> vs. Pakistan–Gwador vs. Chabahar.
The mainstream media has finally caught up with the verity of this article.
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/declassified-a1.jpg> http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/declassified-a1.thumbna... Jan 23rd, The Peoples Daily and Tehran Times clearly blamed outside interference in Pakistan. On Jan 9th, The New York times confirmed the “CIA” coverts operations in Pakistan. On Feb 9th, 2008, Mr. Hamid Gul, Pakistan’s Master spy validated the story about the CIAs involvement in the assassination.
As we updated the article the volume of information available became large. The summary itslef has grown to the size of a full fledged article. We are inclined to totally reformat the article but do not want to risk losing our readership and the links which have been posted globally to it.
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/perfect-storm.jpg> Perfect stormBackground of the Assassination
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/iran-in-crosshairs-2.jpg> THE IRANIAN OIL BOURSE OPENS ON FEB 11th challenging the hegemony of the Almighty DollarThe Pakistan Army and it head at the time, President Musharraf refuses to allow Pakistani airspace, and disallow the USA to attack Iran from Pakistani bases. Pakistan refuses to join in the fight against Iran. Despite objections, Pakistan continues to work on a pipeline from Iran through Pakistan to India. This situation is very similar to what Khan Liaqat Ali Khan faced in 1952. LAK also refused to fight against Iran. (see detailed article on this with actual declassified US embassy reports from 1953). Spy <http://rupeenews.com/2008/02/06/spy-vs-spy-in-kabul-london-delhi-isla...> vs. Spy: Kabul, London, Delhi, Islamabad and Swat. Taliban prepare for Spring. We now present the summary and then the thesis accompanied with the citations from a plethora of sources.
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/asian-ocean-rim-countri...> Java Trench -7,258 m.The Strategy for the Assassination
* <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/pakistan-map.jpg> //www.moinansari.wordpress.comThe Benazir assassination was pre-planned and executed via triangulation by Khad, RAW, CIA and Mossad using the most modern radio active weapons available in the market. The Israeli PM publicly admitted helping India in Kargil recently.
* <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/pakistan-flag.png> This flag is based on the Ottoman and Turkish flags. It was popularized during the Khilafat movement. Alama Iqbal said “khanjar hilal ka hai qaumi nishan hai”. It was presented to the National Assembly by Khan Liaqat Ali Khan.On 16th of October, the Turkish Prime Minster went to the Turkish nation and asked them “when we needed them, the Pakistani Muslims were there for the Ottoman “khilafat”, today your brothers and sisters need you in their hour or need”. From across the great nation of Turkey, school girls, and old men, student and professionals gave and gave and gave. Turkey became the largest donor for the Earthquake relief.The purpose of the covert Khad, RAW, CIA, Mossad operations is to destabilize Pakistan. The IMF plan to de-fang Pakistan in 2000 did not work, but provincial autonomy will make the center bankrupt triggering an implosion. See article on IMF tactics for Pakistan
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/pakistan-map-with-occup...> When the Elephants dance, the grass gets crushed. The continued CIA involvement in Pakistan. Another Pakistani leaders falls to an international game between the USA, and China and Russia, and Pakistanis again pay the priceThe Assassination and the Destabilization
PART 2
THE DETAILS OF OUR THESIS
Table of Contents:
* i) Hamid Gul’s statement confirming conspiracy
* ii) CIA Psy-Operations manual and what they do to destabilize a country
* iii) Pakistan’s Representative the UN Mr. Munir Akram confirming conspiracy
* iv) Pre-planned operations
* v) China confirms conspiracy and asks powers to back off.
* vi) Iran’s government controlled Teheran Times discusses Trilateral Triangulation
* vii) The New York Times confirm covert operations in Pakistan
* viii) CIA Operation and Zia Murder: The Case of the Exploding Mangoes
* ix) Mistrust with President Musharraf and the Americans grows because of Pakistan Army’s growing independence and American frustration in Afghanistan and Iraq.
* x) Mr. Asif Zardari’s criminal background
* xi) Trust Deficit between Pakistan Army and the US exacerbated by lobbying firms hired by Mr. Zardari in the US assisted by the Neocon Mr. Husain Haqqani
* xii) CIA hatches plan to replace Mr. Musharraf who is to be replaced by a complaint Prime Minister
* xiii) Mr. Negroponte, and an expert in “Targeted Assassinations” learned from the Israeli experience in Palestine executes “drone bombing” on Pakistani territory
* xiv) CIA Dirty Tricks launch destabilization campaign with the usual “Food Shortages”, “Street Demonstrations”, “Sucide bombings” and “Ethnic Strife”. Ms. Sidqa releases “Military Inc.” from India with support from RAW and Mossad.
* xv) Indian RAW is in action mainly from its military base in Tajikistan but also from the 4 “Embassies” and 13 Information Cneters spread around key locations in Afghanistan. The BLA is funded and supported by RAW and Mossad. The US Congress funds $450 million for operations in Balauchistan. A “Government of Baluchistan” is setup with headquarters in Tel Aviv.
* xvi) Michel Chossudovsky discusses Pakistan’s hidden Oil reserves.
* xvii) The Ralph Peter’s plan vs Pakistan’s Strategic depth plan
* xviii) The IMF Plan to take over Pakistan by strangling it in debt deficits and destablization
* xix) Previous CIA interference in Pakistan
* xx) The CIA planned to send Benazir to Paksitan. She had promised to turn over Qadir Khan and also turn over the Nukes (Interview in Parade Magazine…CNN transcript confirms this). When she tried to change direction she was killed.
* xxi) American Media along with CNN Geo and ARY unleash Anti-Musharraf campaign
* xxii) The Bhutto Jinx.
* xxiii) The CIA interference in Pakistan: The Murder of Liqat Ali Khan was instituted when he refused to assist the USA in the Iran and had agreed upon a confederation between Afghanistan and Pakistan
* xxiv) The judicial murder of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto in a CIA operation after Mr. Henry Kissinger threatened him and asked him to cease and desist from a Nuclear program.
* xxiv) Benazir Bhutto’s bid for power in Pakistan was “Made in America“. She used the CIA, and the CIA used her.
* xxv) There was a falling out between BB and the CIA after she reached Pakistan.
* xxvi) Message to the USA: “Hands Off Pakistan”
* xxvii) Short Term Reaction to US moves in Pakistan: A rise in Anti-Americanism in the region.
* xxviii) Long Term Reaction to American Macro-Management of Pakistani affairs: An Historic Realignment is in the offing.
* xix) American’s are surprised at the resilience of the Pakistanis and their pugnacious and strong response to American attempts at undermining their sovereignty
* xx) Iranian type of revolution in Pakistan is a possibility if the US and RAW machinations continue.
* xxi) The US plans for Pakistan’s Nuclear weapons.
* xxii) PAKISTANI REACTION: Major realignment in the offing.
* xxiii) SOLUTION TO AFGHAN QUAGMIRE: Saving the Pashtuns of Afghanistan in Pakistani Afghania
* xxiv)
“To me, I confess, [countries] are pieces on a chessboard upon which is being played out a game for dominion of the world.”Lord Curzon, viceroy of India, speaking about Afghanistan, 1898
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/hamid-gul.jpg> Hamid GulPAKISTAN’ SPYMASTER POINTS FINGER AT CIA: The super spy is no ally of Musharraf and participated in the demonstrations against Mr. Musharraf.
It was not the jehadis but that is what the Americans would have us believe. They have designs for Pakistan and I strongly believe that the Americans have got her eliminated because this is the way they deal with countries like Pakistan. They either use them or subdue them. In the case of Pakistan, it is both.The Americans worked out a model during the days of Zia-ul-Haq. Junejo was brought in to give the label of democracy and to gradually ease Zia out of office after he had been used but it didn’t work out. Zia got wind of it and removed Junejo from office. The Americans got very upset and destroyed Zia.I make no bones about saying this. I’ll quote from Nixon’s book In the Arena (page 109) in which he says when Zia-ul-Haq’s plane went down, “instantly it came to my mind that why we Americans destroy our friends after we have used them”. America is a very important player in our domestic politics. Mr. Hamid Gul, former head of ISI. Interview in Tehelka Magazine
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/cia-sabatague-manual.jpg> When the Elephants dance, the grass gets crushed. The continued CIA involvement in Pakistan. Another Pakistani leaders falls to an internation game betwen the USA, and China and Russia, and Paksitanis again pay the price <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/declassified-a.jpg> http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/declassified-a.thumbnai... PSYCHOLOGICAL OPERATIONS (PSY-OP) FROM THE MANUAL: The declassified documents are old, but it gives us a glimpse into what can happen. New techniques are more sophisticated.
The implements of psychological warfare are: open propaganda, subversion, special operations (sabotage, guerrilla warfare, espionage), political and cultural pressures, economic pressures. The principal effects sought are persuasion, sympathy, terrorization, confusion, division and physical interference. These operations, ancient in origin, are modernly employed, notably by Italy, Germany, the Soviet Union and other principal powers. The programs are planned more or less centrally in all nations, but executed by a variety of agencies. Memorandum on <http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/oss/magruderfeb1943.htm> Intelligence for Psychological Warfare, by General John Magruder, Feb. 1943
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/declassified1-a.jpg> http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/declassified1-a.thumbna... with underground movements through Foreign Nationalities Branch, through Labor Desk, SI, through independent emigres in this country (Mrs. Rado), through eventual MO Representatives in London, Stockholm, etc. Bribery and subsidies, maintain contact names index file, and work through MO Foreign Representatives and their agents. Blackmail — maintain contact names index file and work through MO Foreign Representatives and their agents. Counterfeiting. Currency reference for Mr. Healy’s James Hecksher and Mr. Shubart, Bank of the Manhattan Company, regarding foreign currencies, ration cards, passports, personal papers of the enemy prisoners or dead. Rumor and whispering campaigns — see special memo on these. Abduction — see Sedgwick proposals. Chain letters with cupidity, superstition and fear as main employed motives. Poisoning (tricks and toy gadget) instructions as to how to make or use these things in enemy occupied or enemy countries, actual distribution. Assassination by suggestion or agents. Illness and epidemics by suggestion or contagion. Diver’s manipulations: black market in neutral countries, discrediting by cartoons (Artsybasheff and Szyk). <http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/oss/oechsner21april1943.htm> Possibility for MO Activity, by Frederick Oechsner, April 21, 1943
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/declassified2.jpg> http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/declassified2.thumbnail... and media: open propaganda (radio, press, films); subversive: black propaganda, rumor spreading, “poison pen”, bribery, etc., physical destruction, guerrilla operations, etc., aimed to induce confusion, uncertainty, and fear; combat psychological warfare: activities carried on within the military ranks (radio, prisoner indoctrination, panic-production, etc.); economic pressure; diplomatic pressure; social contacts. Psychological warfare tactics: fraternization or neutralization, conversion (appeals to belief), soporifics (alleviation of anxieties), appeasement (appeals to expediency); disruption or attack, terror (aims to frighten), vilification (aims to undermine self-respect), confusion (aims to stir up conflicts between groups, over ideologies) <http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/oss/psydiv3dec1942.htm> Factors to be Considered in Planning Psychological Warfare Strategy, Nov. 3, 1942
<http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/oss/operationaluseofmocirca1944.htm> The Operational Use of MO Material, circa 1944
The Morale Operations Branch should function largely as a planning unit and must rely upon SO and SI in the field for the activation of its plans. <http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/oss/huntington9aug1943.htm> PW Operations – Future Operations as Affected by Current Military and Political Events, August 9, 1943
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/nishan-e-manzil-eco.jpg> The greatest migration in history was the exchange of 11.5 million people between India and Pakistan in 1947 accompanied by the massacre of another half a million. The migration of 3.5 million Afghan refugees into Pakistan from 1979 to 1987 was almost as disruptive. The separation of Bangladesh was, until the dismemberment of the Soviet empire in 1991, the only successful secession of the post World War II era. Three wars with India over what is essentially a boundary dispute bloodied with ethnic cleansing in Kashmir, and now continued turbulence and terrorism based in part on drug distribution and in part on the presumption of the development of nuclear weapons capacity.Subversion operations, other than physical, will be conducted within enemy countries, within enemy-occupied or controlled countries and within other areas where action or counter-action may be effective against the enemy. Such operations have for their purpose: inciting or spreading dissension, creating confusion and disorder, encouraging and supporting resistance and revolt against the enemy and the enemy government. The means (other than open propaganda) for carrying out the above operations are: by rumors and black propaganda; by contact with and manipulation of individuals and underground groups. <http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/oss/fieldmanualexcerptsmay1943.htm> Excerpts from “Provisional Basic Field Manual — Psychological Warfare” with regard to MO, May 1943
There are tens of thousands of rumors in the OSS files. Those listed in the country-specific webpages are either from sustained campaigns, or are novel in some way. Rumors were designed to achieve long-range MO objectives, but were normally related to current events. Rumor themes were orchestrated by the “MOPO Committee” and coordinated with rumor campaigns of the British Political Warfare Executive (PWE). The British referred to rumors as “sibs”.
The following are the more important strategic uses of rumor for subversive purposes: Dividing the enemy by means of fostering distrust and suspicion between enemy allies, the enemy and collaborationists or within the enemy population itself. Terrorization by means of circulating rumors of a terrifing character. Certain rumors of this type when properly timed may be employed to precipitate panic. Arouse unwarranted optimism. This strategy is most effective in order to pave the way for the greateest psychological impact of impending defeat upon the enemy. Thus hopes are raised only to be precipitiously dashed. Deception. Here rumors are circulated primarily with the aim of deceiving enemy intelligence. Rumor <http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/oss/morumorlecture.htm> Lecture for MO Course, circa 1943
Planting false information in the news media. This was done on CNN for Saddam Husein.
Confirming our conversation of this date I suggest that an inquiry be made relative to the foreign circulation of such periodicals as the New York Times, Lifeand Time Magazine, Armyand Navy Journal, Inventors Journal, etc. It is obvious that if these periodicals are dispatched by airmail to Lisbon, for example, the German authorities there will immediately relay the periodicals to the proper authorities in Berlin. If it is possible; if it has not already been done; and if it is within our province I suggest that we could utilize this situation to our advantage by “planting” articles in such foreign edition for the benefit of enemy consumption. <http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/oss/white18jan1944.jpg> Interoffice Memo From Maj. Gen. George H. White, Jan. 18, 1944
See Appendix for some more details on CIA PSY-OPS.
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/shaheen-ii.jpg> Missle development and production in the world is truly a global enterprise. The first “rockets” on the planet were Chinese. The 1st tribal war in Europe also known as WW1 saw the introuction of bombs and rocket many laced with deadly chemical weapons. The death toll was over 15 million people killed. The 2nd tribal war in Europe was more devastating with over 50 million killed. German V-2 rockets rained down on London and destroyed most of it.Munir Akram Pak representative to US wrote to the Editor of The New York Times:Selig S. Harrison’s Feb. 1 Op-Ed article, “Drawn and Quartered,” will confirm the belief of many Pakistanis that there is an international conspiracy to destabilize and disintegrate Pakistan, the only Islamic nuclear state.
The orchestrated campaign against President Pervez Musharraf, the denigration of the Pakistani Army, calls for the capture of Pakistan’s nuclear assets, the string of suicide bombings and terrorism in Baluchistan are all seen as aimed at this malevolent design.
Pakistan is a strong state held together solidly by the patriotism of its people and the strength of its civilian and military institutions. With a dynamic (7 percent) annual growth rate, significant foreign investment, the best performing stock exchange in Asia and the progressive reduction of poverty, all Pakistanis, including Pashtuns, Sindhis and Baluchis, are much better placed to achieve their aspirations within Pakistan, as they decided in 1947 through an irrevocable act of self-determination.
The machinations of external powers and their hired guns will not succeed. Munir Akram, Permanent Representative, Pakistan Mission to the U.N. New York, Feb. 1, 2008
BENAZIR BHUTTO’S ASSASSINATION WAS PRE-PLANNED: THE ZIA MODEL WITH A TWIST:THE GREAT GAME CONTINUES: When the Elephants dance, the grass gets crushed. The continued CIA conspiracies in Pakistan. Another Pakistani leaders falls to an international game between the USA, China and Russia, and Pakistanis again pay the price.
Laser_weapon“Where there is smoke there is fire.” Pakistanis believe in the CIA-Benazir link. Conventional Wisdom is so strong in Pakistan on this subject that Mr. Zardari actually had to call a press conference and deny that America had any involvement in the assassination of Ms. Benazir Bhutto. His denial fueled the rumor mill even more. How could he know the for sure? Officials in the US Government already embroiled in the CIA scandal where some of the tapes of waterboarding were “accidentally erased, also denied any involvement in the Benazir assassination…a sure sign that something is up.
”The X-ray reports suggested that there were two to three tiny radio densities under each fractured segments on both projections which were in fact invisible electromagnetic radiations. After these medical reports there was no need for further post-mortem or exhumation,”Awan
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/pakchina.gif> Pakistan-China friendship mapCHINA JAN 23rd: “THE COVERT INTERFERENCE IN PAKISTAN HAS TO STOP”
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/china-flag.jpg> No more turmoil in Pakistan is permissible (Peoples Dialy–Beijing China)“No more turmoil in Pakistan is permissible“.
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/china-soldiers.jpg> No more turmoil in Pakistan is permissible (Peoples Dialy–Beijing China)“President Pervez Musharraf has resorted to a host of viable measures … Pakistani government has been making unremitting efforts in defense of the supreme national interests … Some opposition forces at home and a few powers overseas impose pressures or punitive measures against Pakistan in the name of ‘democracy’, ‘freedom’ and ‘opposition to terrorism’. So the nation is currently in very complex and stark circumstances and its government is confronted with unprecedented challenges.”
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/chin-planes.jpg> No more turmoil in Pakistan is permissible (Peoples Dialy–Beijing China)“Thanks to the effective leadership of the Musharraf government along with joint efforts of people from all walks of life, Pakistan has on the one hand worked to coordinate with the struggle of the international community against terrorism. On the other hand, the nation has scored remarkable successes in socio-economic development, and also eased off its strained relations with its neighbor India.” Peoples Daily China..reported by Mr. Bhadrakumar of Asia Times
JAN 23rd: IRAN WANTS CIA AND MOSSAD TO BACK OFF PAKISTAN:
“In the Iranian perception, after some dangerous brinkmanship in recent weeks, the US and Israel have somewhat backed off, but a systematic US attempt continues to undercut the Musharraf regime. In a recent commentary, the Tehran Times, which reflects official thinking, warned that Washington is using its “minions” in the region to weaken the authority of Musharraf’s government and to create tensions within Pakistan’s federal structure. It called on the Pakistani people to understand the “gravity of the situation” and to “confront the hidden hands” destabilizing their countryPeoples Daily China..reported by Mr. Bhadrakumar of Asia Times
A meeting between President Pervez Musharraf and the israeli foreign minister may have been on this matter.
THE COVERT US INTERVENTION IS CONFIRMED BY THE NY TIMES OF JAN 6th, 2008
“At the White House and the Pentagon, officials see an opportunity in the changing power structure for the Americans to advocate for the expanded authority in Pakistan, a nuclear-armed country. “After years of focusing on Afghanistan, we think the extremists now see a chance for the big prize – creating chaos in Pakistan itself,” one senior official said.
The new options for expanded covert operations include loosening restrictions on the C.I.A. to strike selected targets in Pakistan, in some cases using intelligence provided by Pakistani sources, officials said. Most counter-terrorism operations in Pakistan have been conducted by the C.I.A.; in Afghanistan, where military operations are under way, including some with NATO forces, the military can take the lead.
The legal status would not change if the administration decided to act more aggressively. However, if the C.I.A. were given broader authority, it could call for help from the military or deputize some forces of the Special Operations Command to act under the authority of the agency. NY Times Jan. 6th, 2007
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/bb-pix-at-liaqat-agh-ho...> THE 4th BHUTTO ASSASSINATION IS A MESSAGE TO THE USA. Who did it? <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/lastmomentsg_468x311.jpg> THE 4th BHUTTO ASSASSINATION IS A MESSAGE TO THE USA. Who did it? <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/last-picture-of-bb.jpg> THE 4th BHUTTO ASSASSINATION IS A MESSAGE TO THE USA. Who did it?
CIA OPERATIONS IN PAKISTAN: THE CASE OF THE EXPLODING MANGOES
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/cia-sabatague-manual.jpg> When the Elephants dance, the grass gets crushed. The continued CIA involvement in Pakistan. Another Pakistani leaders falls to an internation game betwen the USA, and China and Russia, and Paksitanis again pay the priceIn the 1980s, President Zia ul Haq was blown up in a military plane and Benazir Bhutto became the Prime Minister. However she was fired from her job for corruption.
ISLAMABAD: Was Benazir Bhutto’s assassination part of a larger international conspiracy to destabilise and de-nuclearise Pakistan? This is the question that boggles many minds even in the government circles.
Although, the government has fixed the responsibility on Baitullah Mehsud and al-Qaeda on the basis of a telephonic conversation reportedly monitored by intelligence agencies, some government officials really smell a rat.
“It is not important to see who is pulling the trigger, also don’t bother much about the hired assassin. What is really important is to reach the hand that pulled the strings,” an official source said, believing that foreign factor (not al-Qaeda) could not be ruled out in this high-profile assassination that has badly shaken Pakistan.
The Pakistan People’s Party and spokesmen of Baitullah Mehsud and al-Qaeda had already rejected the interior ministry’s assertion, which had been further contradicted by certain news reports that claimed that the slain leader was in contact with Mehsud.
A senior journalist, Hamid Mir, even confirmed this fact in his column in Jang that appeared on last Monday. He also revealed the startling fact he was told by Benazir Bhutto before her death that she was informed by the Americans that Washington did not want the restoration of deposed chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
PPP spokesman Farhatullah Babar, when contacted, although did not rule out international dimension to Benazir’s killing but he was more convinced that it was a heinous plot hatched inside Pakistan. Ansari Abbasi in The News
TRUST DEFICIT BETWEEN MUSHARRAF AND CIA CREATED BY THE NEOCONS AND INDIAN & ZARDARI LOBBYING FIRMS:
Mr. Husain Haqqani led the campagin against the Pakistani Army osetnsibly for the “restoration of democracy” but actually to get himself and Mr. Zardai in power. He launced a book and worked with the shadiest of Anti-Pakistan elements in the Washington: <http://rupeenews.com/2007/11/27/us-policy-and-pakistan%e2%80%99s-drif...> A rebuttal to Mr. Haqqani: US policy and Pakistan’s drift :
It is amazing what $50K can buy one in Washington. Ms. Bhutto has been spending that kind of money to get about a 100 “journalists” to write anti-Musharraf and pro-Benazir articles in the media. The lobbying firms is continuing to provide services to the Zardaris now.
“Bhutto, retained public relations giant Burson-Marsteller and its affiliates, the lobbying firm BKSH & Associates, and the polling firm Penn, Schoen and Berland Associates. The firm declined comment on its activities, which it is charging an initial $75,000, to be followed with monthly payments of $28,500.
The contract filed with the Justice Department does, however, give some insight into what all of the money buys. Among the promised services: surveys of “100 American political, journalistic, and business elites in Washington, D.C., and New York”; an “internal brainstorming session”; and setting up meetings for Bhutto in Washington “with an eye towards convincing U.S. officials that Prime Minister Bhutto is still relevant to further the democratic process in Pakistan.”
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/all-insurgencies.jpg> Given a modicum of political will, Danger-I and II may still be manageable, however, Danger III to its territorial integrity in the Northeast may prove to be the most difficult. In fact the entire Northeast can easily be unhooked on multiple counts from the Union. First, these are low populated areas having contiguity with the most densely populated and demographically aggressive country in the world, i.e., Bangladesh. The country has also emerged as a major source of Islamic fundamentalism which impacts grievously on the Northeast. To add to these woes, New Delhi because of sheer vote-bank politics legitimized illegal migration for 22 years through the vehicle of IMDT. Many border districts now have a majority population constituting illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. In near future, this leverage will be used to create an internal upheaval against the Centre as in the case of the Valley. It’s a classic Islamic fundamentalist principle of asymmetric warfare. What cannot be achieved by conventional wars, caIndia, meanwhile, has long been using the issue of religious extremism in Pakistan to gain leverage on the contentious issue of control of Kashmir, which has been a simmering conflict for decades. Among India’s lobbying firms is GOP powerhouse Barbour, Griffith and Rogers, which is being paid $58,333 a month, according to its 2005 Justice Department filing. The firm declined to comment. Pakistan’s lobbyists target Congress By: Patrick O’Connor and Samuel Loewenberg
The US Administration did not trust President Musharraf anymore. He was considered too independent and was considered conspiring for the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Several attempts were made to assassinate President Musharraf. Many analysts believe that the CIA looked up the right page from the playbook on foreign assassinations. President Karzai with Indian and American backing threatened Pakistan on many occasions with retaliation for the so called “cross-border” activity in Afghanistan. The CIA wanted to eliminate President Musharraf and then get a more amenable leader in office in Islamabad.
“Babar disclosed that the slain PPP chairperson had personally informed him of threats to her life at the hands of some influential elements within Pakistan.
“Sophistication of the operation carried out to assassinate the PPP chairperson is beyond the capability of criminal gangs,” Babar said.
“Meanwhile, a source who, too, had frank interaction with Benazir told this correspondent that she was aware of an international conspiracy to destabilise and de-nuclearise Pakistan. He said that many things that she used to say in public during the last few months of her life were far from her conviction.
She, the source said, had the realisation what was brewing in certain parts of Pakistan, particularly in the tribal belt could be properly addressed through dialogue and political means that she wanted to pursue once she got into the corridors of power.
However, contrary to these revelations about her real objectives, Benazir Bhutto’s return from self-exile was full of risks because of Washington’s overt support for her to be the next prime minister of Pakistan.
Despite strong anti-US feeling, the US authorities, including the State Department officials, issued repeated statements in her favour, knowing well that the post-9/11 policies had increased the anti-US feelings to an all-time high in the Muslim world, especially in Pakistan.
However, against the general perception, things were not smooth between Benazir Bhutto and Washington as has now been confirmed by veteran Washington Post journalist Robert D Novak, who wrote in the prestigious US newspaper on Monday that before her death Benazir Bhutto had distanced herself from a US-brokered power-sharing deal between her and President Musharraf.
Robert revealed that Ms Bhutto had sent a written complaint to a senior State Department official, saying her camp no longer viewed the backstage US move as a good faith effort towards democracy. The US paper also wrote that in return to her several pleas, seeking US assistance for better security, the US reaction was that she was worried over nothing, expressing assurance that President Musharraf would not let anything happen to her.
Lt-Gen (retd) Jamshed Gulzar Kayani, who was amongst those serving generals at the time who had voiced their opposition to the post-9/11 Islamabad’s war on terror policy, when contacted told this correspondent that Pakistan’s nuclear programme had been the main target of the world’s most influential capitals, who wanted to see this country unstable and chaotic so that they could get hold of our nuclear assets.
Kayani, who had the reputation of a professional soldier and had also served the ISI, besides holding key military positions, believes that Benazir’s killing was part of an international conspiracy executed with active connivance of local players to create such a situation in Pakistan that suits those hell-bent on de-nuclearising Pakistan.
A government official told this correspondent that there were many pointing fingers at someone sitting in Islamabad or the country’s indefinable establishment for the assassination of Benazir Bhutto. He believed that although only a fair, independent and thorough probe would possibly solve the riddle as to who was behind Benazir’s assassination, no one in the government could draw any benefit out of this horrendous act and the post-Benazir situation had proven that rulers were actually at the receiving end.
The source said though some local players might be involved in this, the mastermind seemed to be sitting in a distant foreign land. Ansar Abbasi, The News
The theory circulating in some of the most prestigious media sources goes as follows.
“For reasons not clear to our analysts yet, Islamabad has kept quiet on Washington’s involvement with anti-Pakistan elements in Afghanistan. But Pakistan did send an indirect public message to America recently.” (Ahmed Quraishi is an investigative reporter, currently hosting a weekly political talk show titled Worldview from Islamabad.)
“Musharref seems to be laboring under the illusion that the United States government supports his efforts to contain the building political explosion, when, in fact, the explosion of Pakistan is what the Neocon traitors have been waiting for. With big “events” come big opportunities. Bush does not intend to do anything to help him stave off the inevitable. Their aim, all along, has been to plan for the day after the catastrophic event, for the day when their real plans could be fully implemented. The Pakistani leader let their ceaseless warnings about the day after move him into cooperating with them, in allowing the new expansion of the war into Pakistan. The actual neocon objective, according to Professor Michel Chossudovsky, is:
“…fomenting social, ethnic and factional divisions and political fragmentation, including the territorial breakup of Pakistan. This course of action is also dictated by US war plans in relation to both Afghanistan and Iran.
This US agenda for Pakistan is similar to that applied throughout the broader Middle East Central Asian region. US strategy, supported by covert intelligence operations, consists in triggering ethnic and religious strife, abetting and financing secessionist movements while also weakening the institutions of the central government.
The broader objective is to fracture the Nation State and redraw the borders of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Afghanistan and Pakistan.” globalresearch <http://globalresearch/> . A Grassy Knoll in Pakistan By Peter Chamberlin
ZARDARI CRIMINAL BACKGROUND:-He had the most to gain from death of Benazir Bhutto
Shehanshah, an American-Pakistani citizen and wanted in connection with several murder cases, became close to Zardari in the early 1990s.
“Asif [Zardari] was arrested for the first time in 1990,” a former friend of Shehanshah told Asia Times Online from the United States on condition of anonymity. (In 1990, Zardari was arrested on charges of blackmail, based on allegations that he attached a bomb to a Pakistani businessman, Murtaza Bukhari, and forced him to withdraw money from his bank account. However, the charges were dropped and he was released from prison in 1993 when his wife’s PPP took power.
Despite all this, Shehanshah remains Zardari’s chief security officer, which is what troubles many in the PPP. As opposed to his Oxford-educated wife, there are even questions about Zardari’s educational qualifications, which could prevent him from taking a seat in Parliament.
The 51-year-old Zardari has been quick to sideline Bhutto’s trusted aides in the PPP, including Makhdoom Amin Fahim, the party’s vice-chairman. (Shehzad Salim: Asia Times)
Certainly the American CIA, the Pakistani ISI, the India RAW, the Afghan “KHAD” and the Russian “KGB” do not know.ANTI-MUSHARRAF PLAN HATCHED WHEN MUSHARRAF WAS IN THE USA: While President Musharraf was visiting the USA, the American administration was conspiring to fire him and get a more docile and subservient leader in office in Islamabad. ANA (Indian group that disparages Pakistan) and other groups funded by various sources sprung into action. A media campaign was unleashed to discredit President Musharraf. The CIA was been pushing for regime change and considered the sycophantic, obsequies Benazir as the obvious choice. The Red Mosque issue was created with elements of the Baluchistan Liberation Army a relic of the Cold War and Afghan mercenaries.
“What General Musharraf didn’t know then is that he really was being cornered. Some of the smiles that greeted him in Washington and back home gave no hint of the betrayal that awaited him.
As he completed the remaining part of his US visit, his allies in Washington and elsewhere, as all evidence suggests now, were plotting his downfall. They had decided to take a page from the book of successful “color revolutions” where Western governments covertly used money, private media, student unions, NGOs and international pressure to stage coups, basically overthrowing individuals not fitting well with Washington’s agenda.
This recipe proved its success in former Yugoslavia, and more recently in Georgia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan.
In Pakistan, the target is a president who refuses to play ball with the US on Afghanistan, China and Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan.
To get rid of him, an impressive operation is underway:(Ahmed Quraishi is an investigative reporter, currently hosting a weekly political talk show titled Worldview from Islamabad.)
NEW NEGROPONTE BASED STRATEGY TO FIGHT GWOT PATTERNED ON TARGETED KILLINGS:
In the Pentagon’s newly expanded Special Operations office, Assistant Secretary of Defense Michael Vickers is working to implement the U.S. military’s highest-priority plan: a global campaign against terrorism that reaches far beyond Iraq and Afghanistan.
The plan details the targeting of al-Qaida-affiliated networks around the world and explores how the United States should retaliate in case of another major terrorist attack. The most critical aspect of the plan, Vickers said in a recent interview, involves U.S. Special Operations forces working through foreign partners to uproot and fight terrorist groups.
Vickers, a former Green Beret and CIA operative, was the principal strategist for the biggest covert program in CIA history: the paramilitary operation that drove the Soviet army out of Afghanistan in the 1980s… he directed an insurgent force of 150,000 Afghan fighters and controlled an annual budget of more than $2 billion in current dollars.
Today Vickers’ plan to build a global counter-terrorist network [to fight covert wars in 49 countries].” Seattle Times: Key Pentagon strategist plots global war on terror,” (Dec. 30)
OLD CIA DIRTY TRICKS DEPT. & CIA DOLLARS CREATE DEMONSTRATIONS: Tons of money was sent to Pakistan for a well organized campaign to launch street demonstrations against President Musharraf. Mr. Ahmed Quraishi has quoted $500 million in funds were disbursed. As in 1979, during the PNA demonstration millions of Dollars were dispersed among professional agitators. Uzbek and Tajiks were recruited to create mayhem in Pakistan.
* A shadowy group called the BLA, a Cold War relic, rose from the dead to restart a separatist war in southwestern Pakistan. . Bugti’s death was a blow to neo-BLA, but the shadowy group’s backers didn’t repent. His grandson, Brahmdagh Bugti, is currently enjoying a safe shelter in the Afghan capital, Kabul, where he continues to operate and remote-control his assets in Pakistan.
* Saboteurs trained in Afghanistan have been inserted into Pakistan to aggravate extremist passions here, especially after the Red Mosque operation.
* Chinese citizens continue to be targeted by individuals pretending to be Islamists, when no known Islamic group has claimed responsibility. . A succession of “religious rebels” with suspicious foreign links have suddenly emerged in Pakistan over the past months claiming to be “Pakistani Taliban”. Some of the names include Abdul Rashid Ghazi, Baitullah Mehsud, and now the Maulana of Swat. Some of them have used, and are using, encrypted communication equipment far superior to what the Pakistani military owns.
* Money and weapons have been fed into the religious movements and al-Qaeda remnants in the tribal areas.
* <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/siddiqa1.jpg> Like the proverbial Don Quixote, is Dr. Agha chasing the ephemiral Turkish armies disguised as windmills? Or is he like Sancho Panza, who doesn’t know where the knight is headed but follows him anyway. Does she have substance <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/mil-inc.jpg> Like the proverbial Don Quixote, is Dr. Agha chasing the ephemiral Turkish armies disguised as windmills? Or is he like Sancho Panza, who doesn’t know where the knight is headed but follows him anyway. Does she have substanceExploiting the situation, assets within the Pakistani media started promoting the idea that the Pakistani military was killing its own people. The rest of the unsuspecting media quickly picked up this message. Some botched US and Pakistani military operations against al-Qaeda that caused civilian deaths accidentally fed this media campaign.This was the perfect timing for the launch of Military, Inc: Inside Pakistan’s Military Economy, a book authored by Ayesha Siddiqa Agha, a columnist for a Pakistani English-language paper and a correspondent for “Jane’s Defence Weekly”, a private intelligence service founded by experts close to British intelligence. (Ahmed Quraishi is an investigative reporter, currently hosting a weekly political talk show titled Worldview from Islamabad.)
PAKISTAN IS FULLY AWARE OF THE INDIAN INTERFERENCE IN PAKISTAN WITH THE CIA:
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/dushambe-tajikistan.jpg> The Train of Terror from Delhi, Dushambe to Dera Ghazi Khan <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/tajik-2-herat.jpg> Merecenaries from the Indian base of Dushambe in Tajiskistan move to the Indian Consultate or the Information Centers in Afghanistan and then inflitrate into PakistanThe Indian Military base in Tajikistan
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/indian-consulates-dens-...> Indian consulates are dens in inequity <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/uzbek-movements-to-pak.gif> Uzbeks bombed in Uzbekistan moved to Northern Afghanistan. Pressure there forced them to move to The Tribal Areas. Pakistani Army forced the Waziris to abandon them. The Uzbeks showed up on Swat and in the Red Mosque in IslamabadThe four Indian consulates in Afghanistan are disproportionate to the number needed for a a very small population. Compare to number of Indian consulates in the USA.
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/indian-consulates-in-af...> A senior Minister in the caretaker Cabinet hit out on Thursday against India for its alleged role in provoking unrest in Pakistan.in the Pakistani consulate, diplomats have a very different take on what the Indians are up to here, deep in Afghanistan’s Pushtun belt, which Pakistan considers its own backyard. They think the Indians are spying, stirring up ethnic trouble in Pakistan and generally undermining the security of its lightly defended western border.
At the end of 2002 India reopened four consulates in Afghanistan. Pakistan’s reaction to the Indians’ arrival in Jalalabad and Kandahar recalls that of America when Soviet “advisers” turned up in Cuba in 1961.
Professor Michel Chossudovsky says the following:
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/ipc-pipeline-a.jpg> The original pipeline from Iran to India was supposed to be an underwater pipeline that economically hooked up Iran to China. The Indian vision was to bypass Pakistan and build the Chahbahar base and then spread a network of railroads and roadways networks to Afghanistan, Central Asia and Russia. Iran was a key link in hooking up to longtime Indian ally Russia.Pakistan’s Oil and Gas reserves
Pakistan’s extensive oil and gas reserves, largely located in Balochistan province, as well as its pipeline corridors are considered strategic by the Anglo-American alliance, requiring the concurrent militarization of Pakistani territory.
Balochistan comprises more than 40 percent of Pakistan’s land mass, possesses important reserves of oil and natural gas as well as extensive mineral resources.
The Iran-India pipeline corridor is slated to transit through Balochistan. Balochistan also possesses a deap sea port largely financed by China located at Gwadar, on the Arabian Sea, not far from the Straits of Hormuz where 30 % of the world’s daily oil supply moves by ship or pipeline. (Asia News.it, 29 December 2007)
Pakistan has an estimated 25.1 trillion cubic feet (Tcf) of proven gas reserves of which 19 trillion are located in Balochistan. Among foreign oil and gas contractors in Balochistan are BP, Italy’s ENI, Austria’s OMV, and Australia’s BHP. It is worth noting that Pakistan’s State oil and gas companies, including PPL which has the largest stake in the Sui oil fields of Balochistan are up for privatization under IMF-World Bank supervision.
According to the Oil and Gas Journal (OGJ), Pakistan had proven oil reserves of 300 million barrels, most of which are located in Balochistan. Other estimates place Balochistan oil reserves at an estimated six trillion barrels of oil reserves both on-shore and off-shore (Environment News Service, 27 October 2006) .
Covert Support to Balochistan Separatists
Balochistan’s strategic energy reserves have a bearing on the separatist agenda. Following a familiar pattern, there are indications that the Baloch insurgency is being supported and abetted by Britain and the US.
The Baloch national resistance movement dates back to the late 1940s, when Balochistan was invaded by Pakistan. In the current geopolitical context, the separatist movement is in the process of being hijacked by foreign powers.
British intelligence is allegedly providing covert support to Balochistan separatists (which from the outset have been repressed by Pakistan’s military). In June 2006, Pakistan’s Senate Committee on Defence accused British intelligence of “abetting the insurgency in the province bordering Iran” [Balochistan]..(Press Trust of India, 9 August 2006). Ten British MPs were involved in a closed door session of the Senate Committee on Defence regarding the alleged support of Britain’s Secret Service to Baloch separatists (Ibid). Also of relevance are reports of CIA and Mossad support to Baloch rebels in Iran and Southern Afghanistan.
It would appear that Britain and the US are supporting both sides. The US is providing American F-16 jets to the Pakistani military, which are being used to bomb Baloch villages in Balochistan. Meanwhile, British alleged covert support to the separatist movement (according to the Pakistani Senate Committee) contributes to weakening the central government.
The stated purpose of US counter-terrorism is to provide covert support as well as as training to “Liberation Armies” ultimately with a view to destabilizing sovereign governments. In Kosovo, the training of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) in the 1990s had been entrusted to a private mercenary company, Military Professional Resources Inc (MPRI), on contract to the Pentagon.
The BLA bears a canny resemblance to Kosovo’s KLA, which was financed by the drug trade and supported by the CIA and Germany’s Bundes Nachrichten Dienst (BND).
The BLA emerged shortly after the 1999 military coup. It has no tangible links to the Baloch resistance movement, which developed since the late 1940s. An aura of mystery surrounds the leadership of the BLA.
Baloch population in Pink: In Iran, Pakistan and Southern Afghanistan
Washington favors the creation of a “Greater Balochistan” which would integrate the Baloch areas of Pakistan with those of Iran and possibly the Southern tip of Afghanistan (See Map above), thereby leading to a process of political fracturing in both Iran and Pakistan.
“The US is using Balochi nationalism for staging an insurgency inside Iran’s Sistan-Balochistan province. The ‘war on terror’ in Afghanistan gives a useful political backdrop for the ascendancy of Balochi militancy” (See Global Research, 6 March 2007).
Military scholar Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters writing in the June 2006 issue of The Armed Forces Journal, suggests, in no uncertain terms that Pakistan should be broken up, leading to the formation of a separate country: “Greater Balochistan” or “Free Balochistan” (see Map below). The latter would incorporate the Pakistani and Iranian Baloch provinces into a single political entity.
In turn, according to Peters, Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province (NWFP) should be incorporated into Afghanistan “because of its linguistic and ethnic affinity”. This proposed fragmentation, which broadly reflects US foreign policy, would reduce Pakistani territory to approximately 50 percent of its present land area. (See map). Pakistan would also loose a large part of its coastline on the Arabian Sea.
Although the map does not officially reflect Pentagon doctrine, it has been used in a training program at NATO’s Defense College for senior military officers. This map, as well as other similar maps, have most probably been used at the National War Academy as well as in military planning circles. (See Mahdi D. Nazemroaya, Global Research, 18 November 2006)
“Lieutenant-Colonel Peters was last posted, before he retired to the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, within the U.S. Defence Department, and has been one of the Pentagon’s foremost authors with numerous essays on strategy for military journals and U.S. foreign policy.” (Ibid)
It is worth noting that secessionist tendencies are not limited to Balochistan. There are separatist groups in Sindh province, which are largely based on opposition to the Punjabi-dominated military regime of General Pervez Musharraf (For Further details see Selig Harrisson, Le Monde diplomatique, October 2006)
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/imf-conspiracy.jpg> Weakening Pakistan’s Central GovernmentTHE IMF MANDATED ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING IS POISON FOR PAKISTAN
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/imf41.jpg> Weakening Pakistan’s Central Government“Strong Economic Medicine”: Weakening Pakistan’s Central Government
Pakistan has a federal structure based on federal provincial transfers. Under a federal fiscal structure, the central government transfers financial resources to the provinces, with a view to supporting provincial based programs. When these transfers are frozen as occurred in Yugoslavia in January 1990, on orders of the IMF, the federal fiscal structure collapses:
“State revenues that should have gone as transfer payments to the republics [of the Yugoslav federation] went instead to service Belgrade’s debt … . The republics were largely left to their own devices. … The budget cuts requiring the redirection of federal revenues towards debt servicing, were conducive to the suspension of transfer payments by Belgrade to the governments of the Republics and Autonomous Provinces.
In one fell swoop, the reformers had engineered the final collapse of Yugoslavia’s federal fiscal structure and mortally wounded its federal political institutions. By cutting the financial arteries between Belgrade and the republics, the reforms fueled secessionist tendencies that fed on economic factors as well as ethnic divisions, virtually ensuring the de facto secession of the republics. (Michel Chossudovsky, The Globalization of Poverty and the New World Order, Second Edition, Global Research, Montreal, 2003, Chapter 17.)
It is by no means accidental that the 2005 National Intelligence Council- CIA report had predicted a “Yugoslav-like fate” for Pakistan pointing to the impacts of “economic mismanagement” as one of the causes of political break-up and balkanization.
“Economic mismanagement” is a term used by the Washington based international financial institutions to describe the chaos which results from not fully abiding by the IMF’s Structural Adjustment Program. In actual fact, the “economic mismanagement” and chaos is the outcome of IMF-World Bank prescriptions, which invariably trigger hyperinflation and precipitate indebted countries into extreme poverty.
Pakistan has been subjected to the same deadly IMF “economic medicine” as Yugoslavia: In 1999, in the immediate wake of the coup d’Etat which brought General Pervez Musharaf to the helm of the military government, an IMF economic package, which included currency devaluation and drastic austerity measures, was imposed on Pakistan. Pakistan’s external debt is of the order of US$40 billion. The IMF’s “debt reduction” under the package was conditional upon the sell-off to foreign capital of the most profitable State owned enterprises (including the oil and gas facilities in Balochistan) at rockbottom prices .
There are obvious similarities in the nature of US covert intelligence operations applied in country after country in different parts of the so-called “developing World”. These covert operation, including the organisation of military coups, are often synchronized with the imposition of IMF-World Bank macro-economic reforms. In this regard, Yugoslavia’s federal fiscal structure collapsed in 1990 leading to mass poverty and heightened ethnic and social divisions. The US and NATO sponsored “civil war” launched in mid-1991 consisted in coveting Islamic groups as well as channeling covert support to separatist paramilitary armies in Bosnia, Kosovo and Macedonia.
A similar “civil war” scenario has been envisaged for Pakistan by the National Intelligence Council and the CIA: From the point of view of US intelligence, which has a longstanding experience in abetting separatist “liberation armies”, “Greater Albania” is to Kosovo what “Greater Balochistan” is to Pakistan’s Southeastern Balochistan province. Similarly, the KLA is Washington’s chosen model, to be replicated in Balochistan province. (Michel Chossudovsky is the author of the international bestseller America’s “War on Terrorism” Global Research, 2005. He is Professor of Economics at the University of Ottawa and Director of the Center for Research on Globalization)
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/sacredness-of-cow-gita.jpg> India. Indians drink cow urine which they call gaumutra. It is interesting to see the “finer things” of India. Stuff that you don’t see in Bollywood movies, and India’s Marketing Inc. Apprently cow urine is sold in bottles and in tablet and cream form in India. The internet is full of websites on the so called advantaes of drinking cow urine. One website called a cow, “a walking pharmacy”. Some sell it as “steralized and completely fresh” <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/iqbals-1930-pakistan.jpg> Iqbals visionA LONG HISTORY OF INDIAN AND CIA INTERFERENCE IN PAKISTANI AFFAIRS: In 1970 Indian RAW s dirty tricks department hijacked an India plane to Islamabad in the name of “Kashmiri Freedom Fighters“. Using this as in excuse, Indians stopped all commercial air traffic between East and West Pakistan.The same year the “Mukti Bahni” was formed and a wedge inserted between the two wings. Pakistanis bungled.India then “Liberated” Bangladesh and cut down Pakistan into two. Are the current earthquakes a prelude to a tsunami that is to follow? This much is certain, India with Karzai and the Americans is playing a dirty game in Paksitan.
“We have indications of Indian involvement with anti-state elements in Pakistan,” declared the spokesman of the Pakistan Foreign Office in a regular briefing in October. The statement was terse and direct, and the spokesman, Tasnim Aslam, quickly moved on to other issues.
This is how a Pakistani official explained Aslam’s statement: “What she was really saying is this: We know what the Indians are doing. They’ve sold the Americans on the idea that [the Indians] are an authority on Pakistan and can be helpful in Afghanistan. The Americans have bought the idea and are in on the plan, giving the Indians a free hand in Afghanistan. What the Americans don’t know is that we, too, know the Indians very well. Better still, we know Afghanistan very well. You can’t beat us at our own game.”
Bugti’s armed rebellion coincided with the Gwadar project entering its final stages. No coincidence here. Bugti’s real job was to scare the Chinese away and scuttle Chinese President Hu Jintao’s planned visit to Gwadar a few months later to formally launch the port city.
Gwadar is the pinnacle of Sino-Pakistani strategic cooperation. It’s a modern city that is supposed to link Pakistan, Central Asia, western China with markets in Mideast and Africa. It’s supposed to have roads stretching all the way to China. It’s no coincidence that that country has also earmarked millions of dollars to renovate the Karakoram Highway linking northern Pakistan to western China.
Some reports in the US media, however, have accused Pakistan and China of building a naval base in the guise of a commercial seaport directly overlooking international oil-shipping lanes.
The Indians and some other regional actors are also not comfortable with this project because they see it as commercial competition.
What Bugti’s regional and international supporters never expected is Pakistan moving firmly and strongly to nip his rebellion in the bud. Even Bugti himself probably never expected the Pakistani state to react in the way it did to his betrayal of the homeland. He was killed in a military operation where scores of his mercenaries surrendered to Pakistan army soldiers.
United States intelligence and their Indian advisors could not cultivate an immediate replacement for Bugti. So they moved to Plan B. They supported Abdullah Mehsud, a Pakistani Taliban fighter held for five years in Guantanamo Bay, and then handed him over back to the Afghan government, only to return to his homeland, Pakistan, to kidnap two Chinese engineers working in Balochistan, one of whom was eventually killed during a rescue operation by the Pakistani government.
Islamabad could not tolerate this shadowy figure, who was creating a following among ordinary Pakistanis masquerading as a Taliban while in reality towing a vague agenda. He was eliminated earlier this year by Pakistani security forces while secretly returning from Afghanistan after meeting his handlers there. Again, no surprises here.
This is where Pakistani political and military officials finally started smelling a rat. All of this was an indication of a bigger problem. There were growing indications that, ever since Islamabad joined Washington’s regional plans, Pakistan was gradually turning into a “besieged-nation”, heavily targeted by the US media while being subjected to strategic sabotage and espionage from Afghanistan.Afghanistan, under America’s watch, has turned into a vast staging ground for sophisticated psychological and military operations to destabilize neighbouring Pakistan.
During the past three years, the heat has gradually been turned up against Pakistan and its military along Pakistan’s western regions:(Ahmed Quraishi is an investigative reporter, currently hosting a weekly political talk show titled Worldview from Islamabad.)
The CIA planned to send Benazir Bhutto to Pakistan and then assassinate her. President Karzai the former representative of Conoco would be the point man in Pakistan. Mr. Karzai would visit Pakistan to ensure that all plans were being executed properly.
“This assassination was fabricated by the present government” .”It is part of the American strategy to scare people that Pakistan is falling apart.”says Liaqat Baloch, a senior official in Jamaat-e-Islami, one of Pakistan’s main Islamic parties.
“America is partly responsible for its current predicament.” “If America continues to act selfishly and unwisely, well, there is hardly any good that has come out [of their help] either for the U.S. or Pakistan, and this will continue.”Retd. General Hamid Gul
“People are afraid to air their opinions but as far as I know America sent Benazir and later killed her with the help of Pervez Musharraf,” says M.A. Mohamed, who runs a car parts company. “I can confirm this idea.” Time Magazine
“Eyewitnesses claim having heard three bullets being fired but if one or more AK-47s were in use, it is likely that many more were actually fired. While it is assumed that the same individual who fired upon her blew himself up a few seconds later, it is possible, even likely, that more than one individual were involved.
Since the attempt on her life was contingent upon her exposing herself through the sun roof, and it could be safely assumed that she would do so in response to an upsurge in the crowd’s welcome or farewell to her, it is entirely possible that a certain segment of the crowd was placed at the exit to Liaquat Bagh with instructions to chant slogans to a crescendo at a time when the assassin(s) was in position, to which she would inevitably respond by exposing herself, thus offering the assassin(s) an opportunity to target her.
It is incomprehensible that so many analysts have begun to bay for blood and have called upon the government to identify those responsible. Brig. Shaukat Aziz Daily Times December 29th, 2007
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/geotv.jpg> Geo NewsAMERICAN MEDIA WITH GEO AND ARY UNLEASHES ANTI-MUSHARRAF CAMPAIGN ON CUE: The media would then be unleashed about the so called “instability” in Pakistan creating a justification for continued and more abrasive offensive action in South Asia. This to create instability in Pakistan that will be used as an excuse to continue the perpetual mimetic warfare in the Muslim world. Pakistan has been facing the brunt of the US initiative to implement “Democracy” in Pakistan even though the credentials of the champions of democracy are very weak. Neither Egypt, nor Uganda, nor Congo, nor Haiti, nor Taiwan, nor China nor Israel nor Russia face the US medias pontification on how great democracy is. An expose of Geo origins has been posted on this site.
“There is a hidden hand in this” Sher Bukhsh Mazari
BHUTTOS JINXED LIKE NEHRUS IN INDIA AND KENNEDYS IN USA: Like the Kennedy’s in America, and the Nehrus in India, the Bhutto’s have a propensity to get in front of the murderers. Like the Kennedys more than three of the Bhuttos have died an unceremonious death. Like the Nehrus in India more than 3 of them have been murdered. The Bhuttos are one of Pakistan’s most illustrious families. Sir Shahnawaz Bhutto was the father of Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto. His claim to fame was to create the province of Sindh, separating it from the Bombay presidency. This is a list of the Bhutto family.
* Zulfiqar.Ali. Bhutto; Judicial murder by US supported General Zia
* Shahnawaz Bhutto junior. Poisoned in drug overdose in France during Zia’s tenure
* Murtaza Bhutto: shot dead in Karachi during the tenure of Benazir Bhutto
* Benazir Bhutto: Shot dead on December 27th, 2007 during the reign of President Musharraf.
Ominously, Benazir Bhutto was assassinated at the same spot where the first Pakistani Prime-Minister Liaqat Ali Khan was shot dead.
The assassination or the death of an American leader is a sad affair. Strangely enough the assassination of a Pakistani leader in most American minds spells “instability”.
APPENDIX A: INTERNAL FACTORS
One year on, Benazir’s murder is still a mystery, but not so much
Saturday, December 27, 2008: By Shakeel Anjum
ISLAMABAD: The chances of charismatic former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s assassination remaining unresolved, like other high-profile murder cases in the country’s chequered history, may appear to be high but the investigators probing the case seem to have untangled the mystery and the progress being made may still take them to some conclusive outcome.
People privy to the proceedings and progress in the investigations confided to The News that unravelling of the mystery shrouding the shocking crime could lead to startling revelations, if ever made public, with serious political implications.
“Some of the leads that we have obtained from the entangled evidence, both physical as well as circumstantial, guide us to certain personalities but any disclosures at this stage might cause extremely serious repercussions,” one member of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) told The News.
“There is no doubt that we are in possession of highly sensitive information that our investigations have led us to and we have reason to believe that any premature exposure of this information would open up a Pandora’s Box that would be difficult to handle. We don’t want to take a bite that we may find difficult to chew at the end.
“So, we have to be patient for a while before making any conclusive assertions.
However, I would say that there have been stages in the course of the investigation, where we felt it was almost impossible to proceed any further,” the source told The News on condition of anonymity.
Certain points have already been widely discussed in the public, and one of these is the ‘elimination’ of two very important persons whose statements would have been extremely useful for the investigators.
One is the death of Ms Nahid Bhutto, a cousin of the late Benazir Bhutto, in a road accident near Hyderabad on her way
to Karachi from Naudero, less than a week after the tragic assassination of the then-PPP chairperson.
Insiders claim while cousin Nahid Bhutto was busy talking to somebody in Australia over telephone from the Naudero house in Larkana after the burial of Benazir Bhutto, she is believed to have touched upon something sensitive, overheard by somebody present there but without her knowledge.
As soon as she realised the presence of the other person, Ms Nahid quickly wrapped up her conversation, saying she would discuss the matter on her arrival in Karachi the next day. She never arrived as intended.
She was killed in a road accident near Hyderabad while going to Karachi! Who was the person present in the room from where Ms Nahid was making the phone call is an important question for the investigators. Sources claimed the suspects were too powerful to be made part of the investigations. So, there is a stumbling block being confronted by the investigators, at this point at least.
A second hurdle to the probe is the assassination of Khalid Shehanshah, the personal bodyguard of Ms Bhutto and a key eyewitness to the tragedy. Circles close to Ms Bhutto insist Khalid Shehanshah, who had deep connections with the underworld, was ‘specially deputed’ as personal bodyguard of Ms Bhutto when she decided to return to the country from her prolonged self-exile on Oct 18, 2007.
He stayed close to Bhutto wherever she went after her return and was always in the back of the vehicle that Ms Bhutto rode during her election campaign. It will be instructive to recall that his behaviour on the stage the day Ms Bhutto delivered her last speech at Liaquat Bagh had been questioned but the issue was tactfully hushed up.
The investigators believe that he was in the know of important facts concerning the assassination of the 54-year-old leader. His murder was part of a larger scheme to silence anybody who could become a source of vital information that would help resolve the mystery shrouding the assassination.
Another very interesting aspect that surfaced during the investigations by The News was the late-night meeting of the head of an intelligence agency with Ms Bhutto. Reliable sources said the gentleman came to meet Ms Bhutto at around 1:30 am on the night of Dec 26 (early hours of Dec 27) and went straight into the meeting, also attended by Rehman Malik, then security adviser to the former premier.
One source privy to the discussions claimed the spy chief categorically told Ms Bhutto not to go to Liaquat Bagh to address the rally. He said credible information had been received that there would be an assassination attempt on her life during the public meeting.
“Benazir was caught in two minds for some moments but Rehman Malik forcefully refused to take that advice. He (Rehman Malik) told the gentleman: Benazir cannot sit in confinement. She is a leader and she has to address tomorrow’s rally because that is very important,” the source said. And then the intelligence boss left.
When asked whether the then-ISI chief, Lt-Gen Nadeem Taj, met Benazir on the eve of the tragedy (in fact in the wee hours of Dec 27 at around 1:30 am) and told her about the threat to her life and advised her not to attend the rally, Adviser on Interior Rehman Malik, who was operating as the chief security adviser of Benazir as she was travelling all over the country in connection with her party’s election campaign, told The News that the meeting did take place. “Yes. The meeting did take place. I was part of the meeting. The discussion remained confined to political matters. The issue of any life threat to Benazir or concerns about her security during the next morning’s public rally (in Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi) did not figure in the meeting,” Rehman Malik asserted.
After the rally was over and Bhutto boarded her vehicle, she asked Makhdoom Amin Fahim, who always sat on the right-hand side of the PPP chairperson, to exchange seats with her political secretary Naheed Khan. Amin Fahim obliged without uttering a word.
Immediately, after taking her seat in the vehicle, a Toyota Land Cruiser jeep provided by a very influential property developer of the country, Ms Bhutto asked Naheed Khan to contact Nawaz Sharif, as she came to know about an attack on his rally on the Islamabad Highway. Some people were reportedly killed in the assault. While Naheed Khan was dialling Sharif’s number on her cell phone, a crowd came in front of the vehicle and prevented it from moving any further.
By the time Naheed Khan had almost dialled Sharif’s number and was waiting for the call to be connected on her Blackberry cell phone, Ms Bhutto placed her palm on the telephone and told her to call him later. Then she emerged from the sunroof of the jeep to wave to the cheering crowd.
She had hardly started waving when the assassin fired at her at least three times. Evidently, two bullets hit her on the side of her head, slightly above temple. As she slumped back inside the vehicle and as soon as she hit the seat, a suicide bomber blew himself up. Collapsing inside the vehicle, she fell in the lap of Ms Naheed Khan, away from Makhdoom Amin Fahim, who was sitting on her left.
Sources informed The News that Dr Safdar Abbasi, sitting on the backseat of the vehicle, immediately checked Bhutto’s pulse, as she lay motionless in the lap of Naheed Khan. He was horrified because there was no sign of life. He knew she had died instantly, before falling in the lap of Naheed Khan. However, to prevent panic, he told Naheed Khan to press the wound hard to prevent loss of blood. The fellow knew fully well his leader had already been dead.
Another intriguing factor was the early departure of the vehicle used by Rehman Malik, Senator Babar Awan and Farhatullah Babar along with a couple of bodyguards. In the past, this vehicle had always tailed Benazir’s car, never leaving enough space that might allow another vehicle to come between them. But on that particular day, they abandoned Benazir and dashed towards Islamabad. Even when they were informed of the blast (suicide attack), Rehman Malik told the driver to keep driving towards F-8, informing the other occupants that Benazir was OK and that she was following in her vehicle.
It was only after reaching the Zardari House in F-8 that Babar Awan and Farhatullah Babar came to know of the real situation and returned to the central hospital. But Rehman Malik stayed back at the Zardari House.
When asked why he did not go straight to the Rawalpindi General Hospital and instead rushed towards the Zardari House in Islamabad, Rehman Malik claimed that he did go to the hospital first.
“When I reached the hospital, I saw people crying. I saw Naheed Khan in the arms of another lady, crying her heart out. I could not take any more and returned to Islamabad,” Rehman Malik said.
Surprisingly enough, when the numbing tragedy happened, there was no other vehicle either in front of Benazir’s jeep or behind it! The vehicle that was supposed to follow Benazir’s jeep had already abandoned her. There was no police escort in front of Benazir’s vehicle to clear the way, something that enabled the people to come in front of the vehicle, forcing the driver to stop.
The driver of Benazir’s vehicle – though panic-stricken – kept his senses under control and continued to drive the badly-damaged vehicle. However, after about a kilometre’s drive, near the entrance to the Committee Chowk underpass, they found Sherry Rehman’s vehicle parked on the kerb, with only the driver behind the wheel, waiting for other occupants. They quickly shifted the injured, or by then dead, Benazir in that vehicle to the General Hospital.
Meanwhile, three VVIP women of the party were seen madly running towards the Rawalpindi Press Club, carrying their sandals in hands in a bid to escape from the scene. One of them later turned up at the General Hospital, looking shocked and dazed and mourning the death of her leader.
Another intriguing aspect was that the Rawalpindi police neither held any meeting to review the law and order situation nor made necessary security arrangements for the important event, which took place soon after a bomb exploded outside the venue of a public meeting addressed by Ms Bhutto in Peshawar. The police also had information regarding threats to the life of the PPP leader.
Even more interesting was the fact that nobody has so far bothered to ask the senior superintendent of police (operations) as to why he was in a hurry mopping up the assassination scene, or who ordered the action while the site should have been cordoned off to facilitate the investigators looking for clues – a routine exercise after any murder, more so after such an enormous and historic killing.
All said and done, last year’s slaying of the two-time prime minister remains an unsolved mystery. Although, her party leaders and security officials have been harping on their seriousness about resolving the whodunit, a UN probe into her killing is yet to be initiated. With the scene of murder hosed down in no time, one wonders what a United Nations team would accomplish after all these months of efforts to unmask the assailants.
Along with Makhdoom Amin Fahim and Naheed Khan, Khalid Shehanshah was also present in the vehicle of Benazir Bhutto, assassinated right in front of Liaquat Bagh. In charge of her security, Shehanshah was one of the closest aides to Benazir Bhutto. After her murder, he was tasked with the security of Bilawal House. He also fell to the bullets of unidentified assailants on his way home from Bilawal House.
What exactly he knew and why he was eliminated are the questions agitating the minds of people. Some are trying to divert attention from his killing by saying he had connections with the underworld dons, who might have orchestrated his murder. But how could the dons accomplish such a folly when Shehanshah was the security officer of the country’s most powerful person?
Background interviews with knowledgeable quarters and investigation by The News reveal various mind-boggling things that followed soon after a jubilant Benazir came out of Liaquat Bagh at the conclusion of what was widely billed as a successful election rally. She was palpably overjoyed, glowing in the success of the rally. All the way to her ‘bomb-proof vehicle’, she wore a broad smile while waving to the cheering and slogan-chanting supporters.
She embarked the vehicle and for some reason after asking Naheed Khan and Makhdoom Amin Fahim to exchange seats, sat in the middle. Khalid Shehanshah and Nasir took the rear seat while Safdar Abbasi sat opposite to them.
For unknown reasons, the vehicle took a U-turn on the College Road to head back towards the Murree Road instead of plying the route chosen for her return to Islamabad. According to the security plan already finalised, Benazir’s convoy was scheduled to return from the other way – first heading to Raja Bazaar and then taking the alternative route.
When asked why Benazir’s vehicle turned right instead of turning left, towards Gawalmandi, in accordance with the actual security plan, Rehman Malik said it was not in his knowledge why Benazir’s vehicle turned right instead of following the original security plan.
Rehman Malik said his vehicle was ahead of Benazir’s vehicle and further ahead was a police escort van.
Who changed the route and why the vehicle was returned to the Murree Road against the security plan remains a big question mark.
It remains unclear who were the people blocking the way of her vehicle. Equally perplexing is the question: where were the security people supposed to keep the passage of Benazir’s entourage clear for safe and speedy exit from the venue?
Then she handed over the portable microphone, asked Safdar Abbasi to shout ‘Jeay Bhutto’ and joined in raising the slogans while waving to the crowd. And that was precisely when the gunman pulled the trigger. Three shots were fired at her. One reportedly hit her in the temple and she slumped back on the seat, believed to be dead before she fell. She was in the middle of crying ‘Jeay Bhutto’ when hit by the bullet, a popular slogan that would be registered as her last words.
The gunshots were followed by a huge explosion, allegedly a suicide attack. Later, inquiries led many people and investigators to believe the bomb was exploded only to cover up the fact that she was killed by gunshots. According to sources, little attention was paid in the inquiries to ensuring serious effort at identifying the person who pulled out the gun and shot thrice at Benazir from such close range. How he managed to take such a precise aim while there was a huge crowd around the vehicle and one could hardly hold one’s ground, with people pushing and jostling in a mad rush, is mind-boggling.
There was hardly any query asked whether the assassin was also killed or he managed to escape.
No one knows who ordered the mopping up of the scene. Who were the police high-ups who issued the orders to wash up the crime scene but were never included in the investigations?
The Joint Investigation Team (JIT), constituted by the government to probe the incident, hurriedly came out with the conclusion that Benazir had died after her head hit the protruding lever of the roof that broke her skull. The JIT spent all its energies on proving this particular point, which was also announced by the director-general of the National Crisis Management Cell (NCMC) Brig (retd) Javed Iqbal Cheema at a press conference.
But another government agency investigating the assassination later insisted the earlier ‘conclusion’ was not correct as it proved the wound in Benazir’s head was almost 5mm deep and two centimetres in width – deep enough to crack open her brain membrane, as a result of which, part of her brain oozed out of the wound.
“All this evidence leads us to believe that she was hit slightly above her temple by a bullet, which ricocheted but did the fatal damage to her skull. The skull on the left side was crushed by the impact of the bullet and the depression was deep enough to damage the protective membrane of the brain. It is a proven fact that such damage needs an impact of at least 50 Newton force. A knock by the protruding sunroof lever could not cause that sort of damage to her skull. So, we have reason to conclude that it was one of the three bullets fired by the assassin that hit Benazir and killed her instantly,” a source privy to the investigations told The News.
However, the elements that wanted to hide the facts, instead of paying attention to the report of the country’s own investigation agency, called in the Scotland Yard police which could find nothing new and had to vet the earlier report submitted by the JIT. Surprisingly, nobody raised the basic questions as to who ordered cleaning of the crime scene.
By the same token, nobody asked why the original route plan was changed at the eleventh hour and the vehicle carrying Benazir was diverted towards the Murree Road. Also unasked is the query why there was no official security vehicle in front of and behind the jeep carrying her after the rally was over.
Now that the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) is in power, it is intriguing why the government has not made any effort to reinvestigate the case. The government did promise that a UN probe into Benazir’s death would be initiated, but there has since been complete silence on the part of the PPP government, baffling many.
This scribe contacted a number of individuals engaged at different levels of investigations into the case, and some of whom are still quietly working on it. They said the case could be resolved “only if there is a sincere will to resolve it and if there is a resolve to catch the culprits behind the most unfortunate assassination in the country’s history,” one of them remarked.
“There is enough proof which points towards those who had played a key role in the whole plot that culminated in her assassination. But nobody can dare make any demand to unveil the elements because all these players are holding powerful positions,” they confided.
“There is ample evidence available that could lead the investigators to the mastermind behind the plot. The evidence is scattered in bits and pieces but not hidden. What is required is only to collect these scattered pieces of the puzzle and put them together and that would easily complete the picture, exposing all those involved in this conspiracy, not only against a person, but against the nation,” they said.
“However, we have to bear in mind that the forces who want to keep the facts under wraps would never allow any such move. The assassination of one of the major players involved in the whole conspiracy in Karachi some time back has effectively sent out a strong warning to others and none would be willing to reveal the facts. At least, not for the time being,” they continued.
Today, it is exactly one year that the ‘Daughter of the East’ and the most popular leader of the country was assassinated. Today, the party of the late Benazir is in power. And yet, her assassination remains a mystery! The time to unravel the mystery will, however, come sooner than later and then we will know who killed the only hope the country had.
APPENDIX B: EXTERNAL FACTORS
A Historical sojourn….
THE CIA INTERFERENCE IN PAKISTAN BEGAN IN THE 50s. ASSASSINATION OF DEMOCRACY IN RAWALPINDI
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/liaqat-ali-khan.jpg> One almost never hears about the culprits in the assassination of Khan Liaqat Ali Khan…. the first victim of our nascent nation. After his death democracy was forced to fail and dictators ruled the Pakistani landscape. <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/ayub-khan.jpg> Ayub KhanThe independent minded founding father of Pakistan Mr. Liaqat Ali Khan was killed in broad daylight in Rawalpindi. Soon thereafter a pro-American President Ayub Khan took over the government and Pakistan became a vassal state of the USA—An instrument to be used agasint the USSR and then once the USSR was destroyed, Pakistan was discarded. This is what Zeba Zubair in “Mutiny to Mountbatten” says about the assassination:
“On 16 October 1951 at a Public Meeting in Rawalpindi, ‘a blind shot from the blue’ silenced the voice of Quaid-e-Millat, Nawabzadah Liaqat Ali Khan. Another epoch of history was at an end. On a sad day for this new nation it was as if a mighty powe in heaven was also reacting in anger at the cowardly act of mankind. The sky of Karachi had a peculiar and ominous orange-yellow colouring and the people felt resltell at the starnge weather…”
This is what the Daily dawn of October 17th, 1951 said:
‘With the kalima on his lips, Liaqat , Successor of the Quaid-e-Azam Prime Minister. Leader unparalleled, is dead. The man who killed him was not just an individual he was the symbol of that deadly enmity of the enemies of Islam who have always wanted to destroy Pakistan. We name only one but we feel this in our heart with the certain flash and convinced truth. We grieve for Liaqat–martyr to Pakistan and Islam; but we proclaim over Liaqat’s still unburied body: Pakistan shall live, and whoever of her servants may fall in her service, this citadel of Islam guarded by 70 million worshippers of Allah will never fall. Begum Liaqat, Ashraf and Akbar, we shall not try to console you in your grief in consolable, but know this, that you beloved husband and father had died in glory and as comes only to the chosen of God. Pakistan Zindabad (Dawn Editorial, 17 October, 1951)”
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/lak2.jpg> One almost never hears about the culprits in the assassination of Khan Liaqat Ali Khan…. the first victim of our nascent nation. After his death democracy was forced to fail and dictators ruled the Pakistani landscape.Even in his last moments Liaqat was thinking of his nation. Other then remembering God and reciting the kalima, his last words were “Allah Pakistan ko apni amaan mai~n rakhay “(God save Pakistan). Every Pakistani of that generation absolutely remembers where he was and what he was doing when that fatal shot was announced on Radio Pakistan. Every patriotic Pakistani cried that day.
We reproduce amazing recently declassified telegrams from US archives. What is fascinating about these telegrams is not the publicaiton of one article but the huge panic that publication caused in the US State Department. The flurry of telegarms that went back and forth point to “darhi main tinka” (something is amiss). (http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/pakistan/pakintrigue.htm#liaquat). We are reproducing the page in its entireity as Appendix “A”, in case the original ICDS web site goes down or something.
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/02/lak-grave.jpg> One almost never hears about the culprits in the assassination of Khan Liaqat Ali Khan…. the first victim of our nascent nation. After his death democracy was forced to fail and dictators ruled the Pakistani landscape.Under headline reading “Is Liaquat Ali Khan’s assassination result of a deep-laid American conspiracy?”, leftist Urdu daily Bhopal named Nadeem published article October 24 charging US with responsibility. Summary article follows:
[...]It was learned within Pakistani Foreign Office that while UK pressing Pakistan for support re Iran, US demanded Pakistan exploit influence with Iran and support Iran transfer oil fields to US. Liaquat declined request. US threatened annul secret pact re Kashmir. Liaquat replied Pakistan had annexed half Kashmir without American support and would be able to take other half. Liaquat also asked US evacuate air bases under pact. Liaquat demand was bombshell in Washington. American rulers who had been dreaming conquering Soviet Russia from Pakistan air bases were flabbergasted. American minds set thinking re plot assassinate Liaquat. US wanted Muslim assassin to obviate international complications. US could not find traitor in Pakistan as had been managed Iran, Iraq, Jordan. Washington rulers sounded US Embassy Kabul. American Embassy contacted Pashtoonistan leaders, observing Liaquat their only hurdle; assured them if some of them could kill Liaquat, US would undertake establish Pashtoonistan by 1952. Pashtoon leaders induced Akbar undertake job and also made arrangements kill him to conceal conspiracy. USG-Liaquat differences recently revealed by Graham report to SC; Graham had suddenly opposed Pakistan although he had never given such indication. [...] Cartridges recovered from Liaquat body were American-made, especially for use high-ranking American officers, usually not available in market. All these factors prove real culprit behind assassin is US Government, which committed similar acts in mid-East. “Snakes” of Washington’s dollar imperialism adopted these mean tactics long time ago. Confidential <http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/pakistan/liaquat30oct1951.htm> Telegram No. 1532 from New Delhi Embassy, Oct. 30, 1951
Since article apparently not rpt not widely circulated, Department believes preferable not rpt not issue public denial. In its discretion, however, Embassy might informally mention case MEA with comment story so preposterous no rpt no public denial intended. Would be interesting to know whether this story of character which led adoption recent press law. Ownership management NADEEM should be discreetly be investigated. Confidential <http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/pakistan/liaquat1nov1951.jpg> Telegram from State Dept., Nov. 1, 1951
Soviet Press today carried Prague Despatch reporting Rude Pravo article based Afghan press agency “Bahtar” information re assassination Liaquat Ali. Despatch states after escaping Afghanistan due murders and other crimes “Said Akbar ran to India and there under protection British authorities which gave him refuge in Abbotabad and provided him money. After partition India Akbar remained in Pakistan where he continued make use protection of certain British circles.” “These facts adduced by Afghan press supporting position that murder Liaquat Ali was result intrigue of imperialists in Asian countries.” Secret <http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/pakistan/liaquat3nov1951.jpg> Telegram from Moscow Embassy, Nov. 3, 1951 [only first page located]
The Embassy questions the premise stated in the first sentence of the Airgram under reference (“Lack of spontaneous anti-Indian and anti-Afghan popular outburst over both July war scare and Liaquat’s assassination suggests feeling on Kashmir and Afghan disputes mostly government inspired.”) … The anti-Afghan agigation that spontaneously sprang up on October 16-17 was effectively stopped by the GOP’s prompt exercise of its official and unofficial powers of censorship over the press, even to the extent of preventing reference after October 17 to the assassin’s Afghan origin. Popular <http://www.icdc.com/~paulwolf/pakistan/liaquat10nov1951.htm> Feeling in Pakistan on Kashmir and Afghan Issues, Nov. 10, 1951
A similar fate ended the life of Benazir Bhutto. There are a lot of questions and very few answers.
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/zab2.jpg> To save herself from being anathematized as a discarded varmint Benazir needs to explain the claim that she wears a white “chador” per Sindhi custom to take revenge on Pakistani who she blames for the death of her father. Is this a “Fifth column” amongst us? She has been impugned for her furtive and malevolent machinations which led to the hapless emaciation and denouement of the Khalistan movement. <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/zab21.jpg> ZABZULFIQAR ALI BHUTTO WAS A THORN IN THE SIDE OF THE USA: The youngest Foreign Minister of Pakistan, the mercurial Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was building Pakistani bridges with China. He wanted to close the US base in Pakistan, which he succeeded in doing. President Johnson told President Ayub Khan “Bhutto must Go! Bhutto must Go!“.
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/henry-kissinger.jpg> Henry Kissinger <http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2007/12/zulfiqar-ali-bhutto.jpg> Zulfiqar Ali BhuttoSoon thereafter Bhutto resigned and created the Pakistan Peoples Party. Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was threatened by Henry Kissinger that if he did not cease and desist in pursuing Nuclear weapons, “a horrible example would be made of him“. Ironically Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto was hanged by General Zia ul Haq, a General supported by the USA for more than a decade.
<http://moinansari.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/ppp.jpg> PPPBENAZIR’S PPP WAS INITIALLY “MADE IN THE USA”: After hiring a high powered lobbying firm in Washington, the transformation of the “Daughter of the East” to the “Daughter of the Dollar” was completed this year. Benazir made a lot of enemies in Pakistan by declaring that she would allow access to A.Q. Khan and that she would allow US forces into Pakistan. Her popularity plummeted after these and other similar comments which were construed as unpatriotic by most Pakistanis.
I have to start off with my recent perceptions of her. She was a corrupt politician who was more interested in her political legacy than in the welfare of her nation and people. President Bush said today that Bhutto was someone who fought against terrorism. She did so, conveniently, post 9-11. During the mid 1990s she was openly pro-Taliban as the Pakistani government was one of the few nations in the world that recognized that neo-Khawarij regime.
“I am disgusted with the US media. Their coverage of Bhutto as some sort of martyr is despicable and inappropriate. Man, she really did a good job of portraying herself as some sort of beacon of hope for Pakistan. This woman was liable to be arrested at any moment by Interpol because of all the money laundering she and her husband were involved in with 3 to 4 different countries. She was a crook, plain and simple, yet our wonderful press is making her out to be the next Mother Teresa. This is like if Michael Vick was trying to run for Senator of Georgia ten years from now and then he was murdered and all anyone was talking about was how great a football player he was without
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