Importance of Pakistan Israel Ties

The SSG was set up at the suggestion of the Americans as a force that would operate against the Russians if they overran West Pakistan. Cherat was chosen as the highly restricted site where the commandos were to be trained and based. The trainers were mostly Americans from the CIA, who came with their families, setting up a little America with all its gadgetry and attendant luxuries. Mitha’s sole instruction to his handpicked Pakistani officers was: “Be proud of your poverty.” He remained head of the SSG for six years and it was an SSG detachment that buried him with fullhonours, sounding the last post as it lowered this soldier’s soldier in his grave four years ago. Gen Mitha was retired when he was just over 48 years old because Gen Gul Hasan added his name to a list of officers whose retirements were announced by Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in his first speech as president on December 20, 1971. It was a most treacherous blow as Mitha was too good a soldier and too reverent of tradition and rules to have had any Bonapartist ambitions. He had no hand in the officers’ “revolt” at Gujranwala and the hooting down of Gen Hamid at a GHQ meeting, events that, ironically, pushed out Yahya. In fact, it was Gul Hasan himself who was Bonapartist, something Bhutto always knew. He only used Gul Hasan. According to Gen Mitha, it was Gul Hasan who saved Brig Zia-ul-Haq, as he then was, from being sacked. Zia was in Jordan. The year was 1971. Gen Yahya received a signal from Maj Gen Nawazish, the head of the Pakistan military mission in Amman, asking that Zia be court-martialled for disobeying GHQ orders by commanding a Jordanian armour division against the Palestinians in which thousands were slaughtered. That ignominious event is known as Operation Black September. It was Gul Hasan who interceded for Zia and had Yahya let him off. Mitha was treated very badly. His Hilal-i-Jurat was withdrawn in February 1972, something that also appears to have been Gul Hasan’s handiwork. He remained under surveillance through the Bhutto years. All doors of employment were closed on him and had it not been for the generosity of a friend living abroad, who asked Mitha to manage his farm for him, he would have been on the street. After he died, one of his friends wrote to his wife, “At the end of a tumultuous life, all he wanted was a room to sleep in, one to write and eat in – a space to walk, reflect and gaze across the fields to the distant hills.” That is not a bad epitaph for a soldier. References : 

General Mitha -- khalid hasan - A soldier’s life by Khalid Hasan http://baithak.blogspot.com/2005/11/general-mitha-khalid-hasan.html Unlikely Beginnings: A Soldier's Life by Aboobaker Osman Mitha The forgotten hero August 02, 2009 https://www.dawn.com/news/826674

Meet Mr Pervez Musharraf and Mr Amjad Shoaib

NOW, something a little different — or not entirely so, perhaps. Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was in Washington last week. In an interview with The Washington Post and Newsweek, he was asked for a comment on reports that President Bush had told him that Israel should pull out of Palestinian-controlled areas that it had re-taken following the assassination of an Israeli cabinet minister. Mr Peres replied: “I said we don’t intend to remain there. The president modified the State Department declaration to pull out ‘immediately’, and said (pull out) as soon as possible. I told him we understand your strategy. As a good Jewish boy, I would have never dreamed that I would pray for the safety of (Gen Pervez) Musharraf, the president of Pakistan. That is a most unexpected experience. But we understand and don’t want to have an agenda of our own.” Reference: Fears of a more combative society: WASHINGTON NOTEBOOK By Tahir Mirza DAWN - Opinion; November 1, 2001 https://www.dawn.com/news/1062232 

 Mr Pervez Musharraf with American Zionist Mr Jack Rosen

Rosen’s connections are by no means limited to the Western Hemisphere. He is a close friend, for example, of former Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf, whom he convinced to give a first-ever address to a Jewish organization in a speech before the American Jewish Congress in New York, in 2005. Israeli Foreign Ministry sources say that Rosen was the instigator and go-between for a series of clandestine meetings held that same year in Turkey, between then Foreign Ministry director general Ron Prosor, now Ambassador to the UN, and his Pakistani counterpart, which in turn led to a truly historic public meeting in Istanbul between the two countries’ foreign ministers. Reference: Jack Rosen: Turning U.S. Presidents From Friends in Need to Friends Indeed Jack Rosen, New York real estate millionaire, likes to help politicians when they most need it. Now he moves among presidents, princes and tyrants. by Chemi Shalev Oct 18, 2012 https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-the-most-influential-jew-you-never-heard-of-1.5193535  Soon after Khan took office in 2018, the rumours of a Pakistan-Israel thaw resurfaced. Jack Rosen, an American Jewish personality who had previously hosted Musharraf, broke years of silence on Pakistani affairs by writing an article praising Imran Khan and arguing why Pakistan deserved US support. Rosen’s critics immediately listed the numerous anti-Semitic and pro-Jihad statements by Khan and other officials of his party Pakistan Tehrik-e-Insaaf (PTI) and wondered aloud why Rosen was lobbying for the new Pakistani prime minister. In the subsequent back and forth, Khan’s previous marriage to Jemima Goldsmith was cited as evidence of his tolerance of Jews. Ironically, Jemima has always insisted that she is a Catholic even though her father Sir James Goldsmith was Jewish by birth. Jemima has herself faced allegations of anti-Semitism, which she strongly denies. In October last year, the editor of the Israeli newspaper Haaretz’s English edition, Ami Scharf, fuelled gossip when he tweeted about a private jet possibly carrying Israeli officials to Islamabad from Tel Aviv. That claim was based on following the plane on one of the several flight path tracking sites and was strongly denied by the Pakistan government as well as Pakistan’s aviation regulators. Soon after, retired military officers close to Musharraf revived the arguments on Pakistani television channels in favour of recognising Israel as a means of depriving India of exclusive Israeli friendship. A PTI legislator advanced the case in a speech in parliament. But the government officially denied the likelihood of normalisation of ties with Israel vehemently. Reference : Imran Khan will continue Pakistan’s ‘one step forward, one step back’ approach to Israel by HUSAIN HAQQANI 6 February, 2019 https://theprint.in/opinion/imran-khan-will-continue-pakistans-one-step-forward-one-step-back-approach-to-israel/187684/

The WikiLeaks documents reveal that Israeli intelligence agency Mossad was concerned for former Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf’s well-being and wanted him to remain in power in 2007. The revelation was made in a secret cable message originating from the American embassy in Tel Aviv. It records a meeting between Mossad chief and US Under-Secretary of State Nicholas Burns under the Bush administration. Mr Burns met Mossad chief Meir Dagan on Aug 17, 2007, to give his assessment of the Middle East region, Pakistan and Turkey. The Israeli spy chief said he was concerned about how long President Musharraf would survive. “He is facing a serious problem with the militants. Pakistan’s nuclear capability could end up in the hands of an Islamic regime.” Dagan observed that Musharraf appeared to be losing control and his coalition partners could threaten him in the future. He linked Musharraf’s retaining control over Pakistan to his dual president and commander-in-chief role. The cable says that if Musharraf cannot retain his army role, he will have problems. The Mossad chief referred to attempts on Musharaf’s life and wondered whether he could survive the coming years. Reference: Israelis wanted Musharraf to stay, says WikiLeaks November 29, 2010 https://www.dawn.com/news/587328 

Mr Amjad Shoaib on the Unity of Muslim Ummah and Islamic Terrorists

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Saudi Arabia has agreed to allow Air India to use its airspace in flights to and from Israel in what could indicate a warming of ties. But Air India said on Tuesday that while it had issued such a request, the regulator had yet to give it a positive answer. The new Israel-India route was announced by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his visit to Israel in July. In his January reciprocal visit to India, Netanyahu implied the route could pass over Saudi Arabia, which beyond significantly shortening flight time would be a public indication of a warming of ties with Israel. Saudi Arabia and Israel have no official diplomatic ties, like much of the Arab world. Riyadh has consistently kept mum on Israeli hints of covert ties with the kingdom. Reference: Netanyahu says Saudi to open airspace to India-Israel flights March 06, 2018 https://www.dawn.com/news/1393542 The government has issued a no-objection certificate (NOC) regarding appointment of former army chief retired Gen Raheel Sharif as head of a Saudi Arabia-led military alliance comprising personnel from 41 Muslim countries. The NOC has been issued in view of an approval that was granted by the federal cabinet during its meeting held on Jan 10, according to a source. Federal Information Minister Fawad Chaudhry on Friday confirmed that the NOC had indeed been issued after approval by the federal cabinet. “The issue was not on the normal agenda of the federal cabinet’s meeting but it was approved through circulation,” the minister said while talking to Dawn. Reference: NOC granted to Raheel for heading Saudi-led military coalition January 19, 2019 https://www.dawn.com/news/1458413 As you know, terrorists of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al Almi carried out the attack at Police training center in Quetta. Now this banned outfit has origins in South Punjab and interior Sindh. In South Punjab, areas like Jhang, Muzaffar Garh, DG Khan and Bahawalpur are hotbeds of LeJ terrorists while the same banned outfit has also facilitators and supporters in interior Sindh where many terrorist attacks have been conducted. However, Punjab’s chief minister has been refusing to allow Rangers to carry out operations in South Punjab while Sindh chief minister is reluctant to permit Rangers operation in interior Sindh. On the other hand, the international community blames Pakistan for terrorism but they never care how we are targeted by terrorist organisations. Our foreign ministry and civilian leadership have failed in presenting out case to the world. Reference: “Our leaders have failed us” – An interview with Lt. Gen (R) Amjad Shoaib BY MIAN ABRAR , (LAST UPDATED OCTOBER 30, 2016) https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2016/10/30/our-leaders-have-failed-us-an-interview-with-lt-gen-r-amjad-shoaib/ Israel's military chief of staff said in an interview on Thursday that his country was prepared to cooperate with Saudi Arabia to face Iran's plans “to control the Middle East". “We are ready to exchange experience with the moderate Arab countries and exchange intelligence information to face Iran,” Lieutenant General Gadi Eisenkot said in an interview with Elaph, a Saudi-run news site. Asked whether information was shared with Saudi Arabia recently, he said “we are ready to share information if necessary. There are many common interests between us and them.” Israel's army confirmed the contents of the interview. Israel and Saudi Arabia have no official diplomatic ties. Reference : Israel ready to share intelligence about Iran with Saudi Arabia, says military chief November 16, 2017 https://www.dawn.com/news/1370908 

 Mr Amjad Shoaib pleads the case of Israel

The crisis may bring into play the élite unit, operating under Pentagon control with C.I.A. assistance, whose mission it is to destroy nuclear facilities, past and present government officials told me. "They're good," one American said. "If they screw up, they die. They've had good success in proving the negative"—that is, in determining that suspected facilities were not nuclear-related. The American team is apparently getting help from Israel's most successful special-operations unit, the storied Sayeret Matkal, also known as Unit 262, a deep-penetration unit that has been involved in assassinations, the theft of foreign signals-intelligence materials, and the theft and destruction of foreign nuclear weaponry. Sayeret Matkal's most memorable operation took place in June, 1976, when Lieutenant Colonel Jonathon Netanyahu, brother of the future Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, led a team that stormed a hijacked Air France airliner that was forced down by Palestinian terrorists at Entebbe International Airport, in Uganda, after taking off from Tel Aviv with two hundred and fifty-seven passengers. Jonathon Netanyahu was killed in the raid, along with two of the hostages, but the operation is still considered one of the most successful and audacious in modern history. Members of the Israeli unit arrived in the United States a few days after September 11th, an informed source said, and as of last week were training with American special-forces units at undisclosed locations. In recent weeks, the Administration has been reviewing and "refreshing" its contingency plans. Such operations depend on intelligence, however, and there is disagreement within the Administration about the quality of the C.I.A.'s data. The American intelligence community cannot be sure, for example, that it knows the precise whereabouts of every Pakistani warhead—or whether all the warheads that it has found are real. "They've got some dummy locations," an official told me. "You only get one chance, and then you've tried and failed. The cat is out of the bag." Some senior officials say they remain confident that the intelligence community can do its job, despite the efforts of the Pakistani Army to mask its nuclear arsenal. "We'd be challenged to manage the problem, but there is contingency planning for that possibility," one Bush military adviser told me last week. "We can't exclude the possibility that the Pakistanis could make it harder for us to act on what we know, but that's an operational detail. We're going to have to work harder to get to it quickly. We still have some good access." A senior military officer, after confirming that intense planning for the possible "exfiltration" of Pakistani warheads was under way, said that he had been concerned not about a military coup but about a localized insurrection by a clique of I.S.I. officers in the field who had access to a nuclear storage facility. Reference: Watching the Warheads The risks to Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. By Seymour M. Hersh November 5, 2001 Issue Annals of National Security https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/11/05/watching-the-warheads 

"The Pakistanis have just as much of a vested interest as we do in making sure that that stuff is looked after, because if they"—I.S.I. dissidents—"throw one at India, they're all cooked meat." He was referring to the certainty of Indian nuclear retaliation: India's nuclear warheads are more numerous, more sophisticated, and more powerful than Pakistan's; its Army is twice as large; and its population is more than seven times as large. The skeptics among intelligence and military officials, however, worry that there may not be enough reliable information about the location of all elements of the Pakistani nuclear arsenal. The C.I.A., they note, provided effective information on the warheads in the late nineteen-eighties and early nineties, when it worked closely with the Pakistani military in Afghanistan. At that time, the United States was a major supplier of arms and military technology to Pakistan. The agency recruited informants inside the Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission, and the National Security Agency found a way to intercept the back-channel communications of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, the German-educated metallurgist who had run Pakistan's nuclear laboratories since the nineteen-seventies and is known as the father of the Pakistani bomb. But those assets no longer exist. "We lost our interest in that area, and we do not have the same level of contact or knowledge that we once did," a former high-level C.I.A. officer said. "Today, there is a whole set of information that, when it comes down to it, we don't have. We can't count warheads. We never had the capacity to count. What we did have was a capacity to produce unusual material"—on the general state of the Pakistani arsenal. "The idea that you know where the warheads are at any given moment is not right," he said. "As the operation approaches and the question 'How certain are you?' is asked, it becomes more difficult. The fact is, we usually know hours later. We never could do it in real time." Other officials expressed concern about what any team sent to Pakistan could really accomplish without risking significant casualties. "How are you going to conduct a covert commando operation in the middle of the country?" the former high-level State Department official said. "We don't know where this stuff is, and it would take far more than a commando operation to get at it." Reference: Watching the Warheads The risks to Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. By Seymour M. Hersh November 5, 2001 Issue Annals of National Security https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2001/11/05/watching-the-warheads 

 Why Mr Imran Khan Opposes Israel

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Monday warned Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif cannot escape November 2 show, because evidences of Panama Leaks have surfaced to ground him. Talking to media here, he said the government will not be able to stem November 2 tsunami, and called upon PM Sharif to resign or face accountability. Lashing out at the controversial news report, he said, “Nawaz Sharif gave a message to Indo-Israel lobby to support and secure him and his corruption.” On this occasion, the PTI chairman termed the controversial report as an attempt to defame Pakistan Army. He underscored Line of Control firing and shelling kick-start when a movement begins to get off the ground against corruption of his government. The PTI called upon Pakistan Army to grapple with Motu Gang after it had done away with Chhotu Gang. He also alleged that ministers from the ruling Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) are threatening and blackmailing him in order to protect their corruption, adding instead of launching a thorough probe into Panama Leaks, the PML-N ministers are waging a defamation campaign against Shaukat Khanum Hospital. Imran Khan also claimed the government will not be able to contain masses pouring into the federal capital on November 2 and challenged that PM Sharif will not find a place to hide himself. Reference: Nawaz Sharif seeks help from India, Israel: Imran Khan October 24, 2016 Samaa Digital https://www.samaa.tv/news/2016/10/nawaz-sharif-seeks-help-from-india-israel-says-imran-khan/ Zac Goldsmith's relationship with 'Taliban apologist' Imran Khan raises big problems for the would-be Mayor 11-Apr-2016 https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/zac-goldsmiths-relationship-with-taliban-apologist-imran-khan-raises-big-problems-for-the-would-be-a6978781.html

Imran Khan's Party and Israel 

Kasuri defends Israel contacts: Move to create diplomatic space September 13, 2005 https://www.dawn.com/news/156471 Kasuri ‘to meet Israeli minister’ September 01, 2005 https://www.dawn.com/news/154828 2005: When Pakistan and Israel explored closer bilateral ties October 30, 2018 https://www.dawn.com/news/1442182 Former Foreign Minister Kasuri, others join PTI December 20, 2011 https://www.dawn.com/news/681931 

Pakistani Journalists, Israel, India and Facts

India will buy nearly $2 billion worth of weapons technology from Israel in what's being described as the “largest defence contract” ever signed by the military exporting giant. The deal will see state-owned Israel Aerospace Industries provide India with an advanced defence system of medium-range surface-to-air missiles, launchers and communications technology, the company said in a statement Thursday. The “mega” missile agreement is “considered to be the largest defense contract in Israel's defense industries' history”, the company said. The Israeli firm will also supply a naval defence system including long-range surface-to-air missiles for India's first aircraft carrier, which is still under construction. Comment was not immediately available from India's defence ministry. Israel Aerospace Industries said some components will be assembled in India, in line with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's push to reduce reliance on costly imports. Modi's government has raised the limit on foreign investment in the defence sector and encouraged tie-ups between foreign and local companies under a 'Make in India' campaign. Reference: India, Israel ink nearly $2bn weapons deal April 07, 2017 https://www.dawn.com/news/1325487

Benjamin Netanyahu, Donald Trump, India, Isreal and Imran Khan

Declaring that Pakistan and the United States have entered a new “strategic partnership” for economic gains and peaceful settlement of the 18-year-old Afghan conflict, leading US Republican Senator Lindsey Graham has said that he will request President Donald Trump to meet Prime Minister Imran Khan soon to cement the bilateral relations further. The senior senator made the announcement while addressing a press conference at the US embassy shortly after meeting PM Khan on Sunday. Mr Graham also claimed that the prime minister had endorsed the Trump administration’s plans that the US should keep its presence in Afghanistan and continue the reconciliation process. “After meeting Prime Minister Imran Khan, I would urge President Donald Trump to meet Mr Khan as soon as practical. I would also urge him (the president) to meet the prime minister sooner or later and push a joint agenda for peaceful resolution of Afghan conflict,” he added. Reference : US senator wants Trump to meet PM Khan (Dawn January 21, 2019) https://www.dawn.com/news/1458800

Swiss Case: Wajid-Shaheen-Jang Group Axis

While going through the story below please keep one thing in mind that Mr. Wajid Shamsul Hassan [Pakistan High Commission in UK, he had been one of the most Senior Correspondent for Jang Group of Newspapers] was a regular contributor for Mr Shaheen Sehbai's web based magazine South Asia Tribune [Shaheen Sehbai Founded this magazine after he escaped from Pakistan in 2002 to seek political asylum in USA].

Wajid carried out mission in Geneva; secret operation caught on tape by Geo team; NAB says money laundering case has lost its importance - GENEVA: Pakistan High Commissioner in London Wajid Shamsul Hassan and former Deputy Attorney General Danishwar Malik were given the responsibility to take this proof from new lawyer John J Brunt and destroy it. Danishwar Malik arrived in London and along with Wajid Shamsul Hassan reached Geneva by British Airways flight BA 734 on Sunday evening. After its recording, Geo News questioned Wajid Shamsul Hassan on what he was carrying in those cartons which he received from the lawyer. The visibly perturbed and nervous Wajid Shamsul Hassan said he knew nothing about the matter. Asked what he was doing in the lawyer’s office since the morning, Wajid chose to walk away instead of replying to the question. When contacted, presidential spokesman Farhatullah Babar said he was unaware of the whole issue. He charged that a specific section of the media was involved in a heinous campaign against President Zardari. Geo News broke the news of the government’s taking over the evidence of the cases against influential personalities in the Swiss courts. A special team of Geo reached Geneva for that purpose and interviewed Pakistan’s ambassadors and officers. A Geo report also showed footage of Pakistani citizens carrying the cartons. REFERENCE: Evidence removed from Swiss lawyer’s office By Dr Javed Kanwal Wednesday, December 02, 2009 http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=25864

Wajid Shamsul Hasan: Mr Wajid Shamsul Hasan completed his MASTERS (MA) IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS in 1962, followed by Bachelor's degree in Law (BA LLB). After completing his education in 1962, he formally joined Pakistan's biggest newspaper chain-‘The Jang Group of Newspapers’. He became Editor of its English newspaper ‘The DAILY NEWS’ in early 1969. He also edited Jang's English Weekly Magazine-‘The Weekly MAG’ from Karachi. Earlier, in 1968, he did an extensive course for senior journalists in the United Kingdom after he was awarded the prestigious "COMMONWEALTH PRESS UNION SCHOLARSHIP”. While he received his practical training in journalism at the ‘BRISTOL EVENING POST’ and London's ‘EVENING STANDARD’, he completed short academic courses at Oxford (Queen Elizabeth Hall) and Thomson Media Foundation at Cardiff. In early 1989 he left ‘DAILY NEWS’ to become ‘CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL PRESS TRUST (NPT)’, largest conglomerate of more than 14 newspapers, magazines in Pakistan-both in English and Urdu languages, published from the four provinces including capital city of Islamabad. REFERENCE: Wajid Shamsul Hasan - http://www.prideofpakistan.com:8080/maincontroller?requestId=4&userId=236

Mr Shaheen Sehbai, the Group Editor, The News International (Jang Group of Newspapers) had written in the year 2000 that, "Every one in the present morally, intellectually and financially depleted Pakistan --the print media and its well-entrenched "gurus" among the foremost --- is shouting from the roof top for accountability of every one else.Yet no one has seriously demanded, nor does any one appear to be contemplating, any accountability of the media itself. The peers, naturally those who come out unscathed and "clean", should sit down to formulate lists of those who have been publicly demonstrating a lack of intellectual, moral and professional integrity. Big names like Minhaj Barna, Mushahid Hussain, Maleeha Lodhi, Wajid Shamsul Hassan, Nazir Naji, Ataul Haq Qasmi, Ayaz Amir, Hussain Haqqani, Irshad Ahmed Haqqani, Najam Sethi, Nasim Zehra, Jamiluddin Aali and many others who sought or accepted political, diplomatic or government jobs, or joined political parties as activists, should be asked to explain why they did not quit journalism to do so and why they continued to use the profession to get, keep or regain lucrative jobs or positions of power. How do they retain, or claim to retain, their objectivity and credibility, once they have demonstrated their political ambitions. In the least they should have apologised to the profession". REFERENCE: Who will Bell the Bad, Fat Cats? by Shaheen Sehbai January 5, 2000 http://www.chowk.com/articles/4687 Shaheen Sehabi on the Accountability of Media/Press. http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/10/shaheen-sehabi-on-accountability-of.html

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WASHINGTON, October 17: Dear Readers, this is the final piece on the South Asia Tribune, as this site is now being closed for good. I understand that it may come as a rude shock to many and may create despair and depression for all those who had started to look up to SAT as a beacon of courage and resistance, but this decision has been based on many factors, which I will explain briefly. SAT would be on line for the rest of this month, till the end of October. On November 1, 2005 it will disappear from the Internet. All those who may be interested in keeping a record of any SAT article or report can save it any time before that date. REFRENCE: The Final Word from theSouth Asia Tribune By Shaheen Sehbai WASHINGTON DC, Oct 17, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200510/P1_sat.htm

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Mr Wajid Shamsul Hasan is condemned by Mr Shaheen Sehbai for lacking intellectual, moral and professional integrity and Mr Shaheen Sehbai alos alleged that many journalists [that includes Mr Wajid Shamsul Hasan] sought or accepted political, diplomatic or government jobs, or joined political parties as activists, should be asked to explain why they did not quit journalism to do so and why they continued to use the profession to get, keep or regain lucrative jobs or positions of power.

BUT THE SAME SHAHEEN SEHBAI "ACCOMMODATED" MR WAJIOD SHAMSUL HASAN IN HIS [SHAHEEN]'S WEB BASED MAGAZINE SOUTH ASIA TRIBUNE [FOUNDED BY SHAHEEN SEHBAI WEHN HE HAD ESCAPED FROM PAKISTAN TO USA FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM].

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Musharraf Has Finally Become Dispensable, or so the General Claims By Wajid Shamsul Hasan WASHINGTON DC, Sept 25, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200509/P1_wajid3.htm



Musharraf receives a citation from World Jews after his New York address

LONDON, September 25: General Pervez Musharraf, with a bagful of 'foreign conquests' has returned to his country that welcomed its macho hero with bomb blasts, death of several innocent commoners, injuries to scores of others writhing in pain for lack of proper medical care and a blistering indictment of his recently held local bodies elections by the Commonwealth and the EU observers that found them, as in the past, fraudulent and deeply flawed. His more than a weeklong yatra that took him to New York to attend 60th annual session of the United Nations, among other engagements, included a 30-minute ceremonial meeting with President Bush, a much sought-after handshake with Israeli Prime Minister, a free meal with the Indian Prime Minister and his address to the World Jewry.

Besides, the usual annual address to the UN General Assembly, an opportunity extended to all the invited heads of states, to recall its performance the previous year and to promise more of the same for the future, Musharraf used it as an occasion to reassure his insurers in Washington that he would do better and the taste he offered in the pudding as what it is being called as "historic breakthrough" regarding recognition of Israel was amply savoury for his mentors. While mention of Pakistan was conspicuously missing from President Bush's speech to the UN his comments praising India were prominently noted.

When one calculates the gains and losses of his visit, one regretfully arrives at a total that is in the red for the country and its image. It is also a manifestation of the recognition of the glaring difference in American approaches to democracy and dictatorship. In case of India, it is the country that is praised and its people described as great. When it comes to Pakistan, it is Musharraf who gets plaudits and not his people who have to face the main brunt of his failures. In the Time magazine interview US Secretary of State Dr Condi Rice took pains to praise him to the skies for his brave stance against terrorism.

Despite her being a woman and that too bracketed among the few most powerful in the world, she found it expedient to turn a deaf ear to his gender-bashing remarks that women in Pakistan are in the business of getting raped by design, that is to make money and get a foreign passport. No doubt she did mention about democracy in Pakistan and wants Musharraf to do more for it forgetting that to ask a military dictator to do that is like asking a man to get pregnant.

Musharraf also ended up with lot of domestic and foreign flak on his face. His overall performance has done more damage to Pakistan's already tarnished image than ever before. Though he issued a tongue-and-cheek denial following his highly derogatory remarks on Mukhtaran Mai's rape case, his subsequent performance sunk him deeper into his own scum. What an anorchous image that he managed to create for himself when he got provoked on a question by a member of the weaker sex in a meeting attended by hundreds of women in New York that had been organized to white wash his sins of omission and commission.

Apparently outraged by a question that hit him right where his flesh is rather sore since he sits long on pile of problems, the macho general trying to do his best to uphold the ignominious traditions of General "Tiger" Niazi (master of rape and genocide) converted an event to promote his regime's so-called pro-women policies to degenerate into a shouting match between himself and part of the invited audience. He desperately stooped so low that he tried to convert an innocent question into an enemy war against Pakistan. "I'm a fighter, I'll fight you. I don't give up and if you can shout, I can shout louder" was the response of our so-called battle-hardened commando president. Later, he also accused the questioner of being a member of a hostile political party-namely PPP.

Knowing well his sub-human frame of mind, those who know him diagnose that his desperation is due to the messages that he is receiving from his Western mentors that enough is enough, that he has to do more for democracy, to ensure that 2007 elections are freely and transparently held with level-playing field for all political parties and their leaders especially poet Habib Jalib's "Nehati Larki" (Benazir Bhutto).

Hence his disparate efforts at Geneva, that she nailed so effectively recently by putting the record straight on baseless charges of corruption out of political vendetta, through his NAB courts and outright thuggery to break PPP are his last ditch measures to force Ms Bhutto out of politics. Like his mentor General Zia who failed to bury the Bhutto legacy under the dung-heap of allegations, Musharraf too would ultimately have all the filth on his face when innate justice would be done to her by the Lord above who no general can bribe nor influence.

The messages to Musharraf that a countdown has begun on him has at least brought on him the home truth that he is not indispensable. While his predecessor Ziaul Haq, despite well indicated, instead of calling it a day, continued to say and believe that he would remain at Pakistan's helms of affairs for many decades to come. Regretfully, powers that be that had supported him for so long against democracy, had found him to out-live his utility. His fatal fall from the sky was perhaps "arranged". The disposal bandobast (fix up) could only be done by his colleagues in uniform who had ensured that they do not accompany him on his fateful journey into eternity.

In a number of my recent articles I have been underscoring the main concern of those in the West who have reasons to believe that their horse in Pakistan is in the last leg of his steam. The question by them begging an answer is: After Musharraf what and who? Their think tanks have been working on the contingency plans. No doubt yet another military intervention would become inevitable but it would not solve their problem. They do not know who that man on horseback might be: a liberal or a fundamentalist belonging to the Jihadis.

To avoid such an eventuality their best bet is to pressurize Musharraf to hold early free, fair and transparent elections, let leaders in exile return home and participate in a level-playing field political and electoral activity. Both London and Washington have been trying to convey their man Friday that he cannot combat terrorism by isolating the great majority of the people in his country by denying it its democratic right to vote in a government of its choice. The enormous magnitude of the terrorism requires a national effort to combat it. By keeping main leaders out of the mainstream politics, he has given an open field to the religious parties to have the cake and eat it too.

Of late Washington in particular and other Western capitals in general, seem to be taking seriously observations of experts like Stephen P. Cohen who have sized up Pakistani population's "growing alienation" from the United States that feeds into support for extremism. And this growing anti-Americanism obviously is due to absence of democracy and a level playing field for popular leaders who continue to command the support of the majority in the masses.

The recent report before the House of Representatives International Relations Subcommittee for Asia and the Pacific on June 14 followed a month later by her statement in Islamabad, the American Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca virtually singed the lion's beard in his den. Ms Rocca 's message amply communicated the wind of change. She declared that it was the 'US policy that free and fair elections, a level-playing field and return to full democracy was the key to long-term prosperity and stability in Pakistan'.

Besides, in her Washington-Islamabad video conference with senior journalists, Ms Rocca also brought on record that the US administration did not believe that the President's uniform guaranteed success of war against international terrorism and that it ensured that Pakistan's nuclear assets would not fall into the hands of fundamentalists. "It is a policy we continue to pursue," she said.

How hurt Musharraf must have felt by her comments on his uniform as not being a necessity for war on terror, his personal main achievement in his just concluded American yatra was perhaps Washington's concession to him to tell the press that uniform was not a matter of concern for the Americans and that during his several meetings with President Bush since 9/11 not once did Bush express his desire to see him without his uniform. Obviously, the American reaction to his fad is: "If the truant is happy with it, let it be."

If his Khaki viagarises him, why deny him the pleasure of feeling manly. It is heartening to see that more and more of his Western supporters have started seeing through his game of misleading the international opinion in insisting that his uniform was essential for stability and to fight terrorism.

While people in Pakistan who continue to struggle for democracy welcome the winds of change blowing from Washington, their gratitude is more for the Commonwealth that has remained steadfast in demanding of Musharraf to make electoral process transparent and to separate the office of the President from that of Army Chief since that is a contradiction of democracy. In this connection, the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group in its 26th meeting in New York on 17 September 2005 reviewed developments in Pakistan since its last meeting in London in February 2005.

The Group expressed concern on the slow progress in the democratization process. It stressed that there were areas where improvements still needed to be made to the electoral process and the political environment in Pakistan. CMAG endorsed the recommendations of the Commonwealth Election Team for strengthening the independence of the Election Commission and empowering it to use its executive powers to enforce its decisions and the code of conduct for elections. The Group requested the Secretary-General to intensify ongoing high-level contact with Pakistan and requested that the Secretariat continue to extend all possible technical assistance to Pakistan to support its transition to full democracy.

CMAG reaffirmed its earlier stance that the holding by the same person of the offices of the Head of State and Chief of Army Staff is incompatible with the basic principles of democracy and the spirit of the Harare Commonwealth principles, as well as CMAG's expectations. It also restated its strong view that until the two offices are no longer combined in the same person, the process of democratization in Pakistan will not be irreversible. It urged the General to relinquish one of his two offices, certainly no later than the end of the current Presidential term in 2007.

CMAG called on Islamabad to continue and intensify progress in fostering a sustainable and inclusive political culture, improving democratic governance, strengthening political and oversight institutions, supporting local governments, protecting human rights, respecting media freedoms and improving the position of women and minorities. It also called for the further widening of the democratic space so that all who wish can participate in the electoral process. The decision by CMAG to keep Pakistan on its agenda means that it shall continue to monitor the political and electoral activities to ensure sanctity of vote in 2007 general elections.

While Commonwealth is doing all that it can to help speed up democratic transition in Pakistan, the European Union too has been contributing immensely to this end. Its mission in Islamabad too have compiled a detailed report on the recently conducted local bodies polls indicating serious flaws in the whole electoral exercise along with numerous complaints of pre-poll rigging from the opposition parties.

The observers reported the failure of election officials to follow procedure, complete lack of secrecy in most polling stations during the vote casting and using of electoral rolls from 2001, not those of the last elections in 2002, serious problems on the days of polling such as presiding officers disallowing genuine ID cards, blatant breaches of election code by candidates and politicians, ballots box rigging including party officials removing real boxes and replacing them with pre-filled boxes and different methods of multiplying voting. The problems observed by EU missions also included an unusually high number, in international terms, of spoiled ballot papers and chaotic and violent scenes at polling stations often to deliberately prevent voting from taking place.

Notwithstanding the winds of change and apparently a countdown having begun on him, American Professor Stephen Cohen believes that it would be difficult to persuade the Pakistani General to democratize since the military establishment is afraid that a complete civilian government could mean end of policies that serve its interest best. It would also draw a curtain on its self-assumed role as the sole savior of "the national interests and guardian of Pakistan's ideological and geographical frontiers."

Nevertheless, he rightly believes that Washington should insist that Musharraf allow the mainstream political parties - Ms Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-N of Mian Nawaz Sharif - to function freely and be provided an even playing field. Any more marginalization of the main political leaders and their political parties would further strengthen the religious political parties who already have institutionalized support in the form of chain of madrassas throughout the country. Only a democratic Pakistan can defuse the emergence of a coalition of the Army and Islamist forces committed, in the longer run, to Talibanize Pakistan. The writer is a former Pakistan High Commissioner to UK

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Mr Wajid Shamsul Hasan [as per Shaheen Sehbai, Wajid is a compromised Journalist] also filed these stories in South Asia Tribune [used to be owne by Mr Shaheen Sehbai]

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1 - Musharraf and the Business of Getting Raped By Wajid Shamsul Hasan WASHINGTON DC, Sept 19, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200509/P1_wajid2.htm

2 - Expected Recognition of Israel Part of Agenda Given to Musharraf By Wajid Shamsul Hasan WASHINGTON DC, Sept 5, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200509/P1_wajid.htm

3 - Controlling Army-led Democracy Through Manipulated Vote By Wajid Shamsul Hasan WASHINGTON DC, Aug 23, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200508/P1_wajid3.htm

4 - Signs That Washington is Ready to Stop Backing Musharraf By Wajid Shamsul Hasan
WASHINGTON DC, Aug 8, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200508/P1_wajid2.htm

5 - Pakistan Getting Too Hot for the Generals to Handle By Wajid Shamsul Hasan
WASHINGTON DC, Aug 2, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200508/P1_wajid.htm

6 - The Fault for London Blasts Lies With the West and General Musharraf By Wajid Shamsul Hasan WASHINGTON DC, July 18, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200507/P1_wajid3.htm

7 - Saner Voices in UK say Military Means Cannot End Mindless Terrorism By Wajid Shamsul Hasan WASHINGTON DC, July 11, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com
http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200507/P1_wajid2.htm

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Shaheen Sehbai VS Wajid Shamsul Hasan & Jang Group of Newspapers.

Mr Shaheen Sehbai, the Group Editor, The News International (Jang Group of Newspapers) had written in the year 2000 that, "Every one in the present morally, intellectually and financially depleted Pakistan --the print media and its well-entrenched "gurus" among the foremost --- is shouting from the roof top for accountability of every one else.Yet no one has seriously demanded, nor does any one appear to be contemplating, any accountability of the media itself. The peers, naturally those who come out unscathed and "clean", should sit down to formulate lists of those who have been publicly demonstrating a lack of intellectual, moral and professional integrity. Big names like Minhaj Barna, Mushahid Hussain, Maleeha Lodhi, Wajid Shamsul Hassan, Nazir Naji, Ataul Haq Qasmi, Ayaz Amir, Hussain Haqqani, Irshad Ahmed Haqqani, Najam Sethi, Nasim Zehra, Jamiluddin Aali and many others who sought or accepted political, diplomatic or government jobs, or joined political parties as activists, should be asked to explain why they did not quit journalism to do so and why they continued to use the profession to get, keep or regain lucrative jobs or positions of power. How do they retain, or claim to retain, their objectivity and credibility, once they have demonstrated their political ambitions. In the least they should have apologised to the profession". REFERENCE: Who will Bell the Bad, Fat Cats? by Shaheen Sehbai January 5, 2000 http://www.chowk.com/articles/4687 Shaheen Sehabi on the Accountability of Media/Press. http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/10/shaheen-sehabi-on-accountability-of.html

Wajid Shamsul Hasan: Mr Wajid Shamsul Hasan completed his MASTERS (MA) IN INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS in 1962, followed by Bachelor's degree in Law (BA LLB). After completing his education in 1962, he formally joined Pakistan's biggest newspaper chain-‘The Jang Group of Newspapers’. He became Editor of its English newspaper ‘The DAILY NEWS’ in early 1969. He also edited Jang's English Weekly Magazine-‘The Weekly MAG’ from Karachi. Earlier, in 1968, he did an extensive course for senior journalists in the United Kingdom after he was awarded the prestigious "COMMONWEALTH PRESS UNION SCHOLARSHIP”. While he received his practical training in journalism at the ‘BRISTOL EVENING POST’ and London's ‘EVENING STANDARD’, he completed short academic courses at Oxford (Queen Elizabeth Hall) and Thomson Media Foundation at Cardiff. In early 1989 he left ‘DAILY NEWS’ to become ‘CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL PRESS TRUST (NPT)’, largest conglomerate of more than 14 newspapers, magazines in Pakistan-both in English and Urdu languages, published from the four provinces including capital city of Islamabad. REFERENCE: Wajid Shamsul Hasan - http://www.prideofpakistan.com:8080/maincontroller?requestId=4&userId=236

When NRO erupted on the face of Mr Zardari, another meeting between the Army Chief and the PM was essential on Monday night so that the right message was conveyed. And it was. Then we saw the surrender. The Zardari era, the argument goes, consists of broken promises, colossal mistakes in assessing the mood of the people, taking decisions with arrogance, taking on the establishment and institutions which were needed to survive, taking gigantic U-turns when under pressure and smiling about them, claiming unabashedly as if it was a considered policy (like the restoration of judges, sacking and restoration of the Punjab government of PML-N, surrender on the Kerry Lugar Bill and eventually running away from the NRO). REFRENCES: Has a countdown begun in Islamabad? By Shaheen Sehbai Saturday, November 07, 2009 http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=207257 The contours of a changed, unwritten script Situationer By Shaheen Sehbai Wednesday, November 04, 2009 http://www.thenews.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=25365

Mr Wajid Shamsul Hasan is condemned by Mr Shaheen Sehbai for lacking intellectual, moral and professional integrity and Mr Shaheen Sehbai alos alleged that many journalists [that includes Mr Wajid Shamsul Hasan] sought or accepted political, diplomatic or government jobs, or joined political parties as activists, should be asked to explain why they did not quit journalism to do so and why they continued to use the profession to get, keep or regain lucrative jobs or positions of power.

BUT THE SAME SHAHEEN SEHBAI "ACCOMMODATED" MR WAJIOD SHAMSUL HASAN IN HIS [SHAHEEN]'S WEB BASED MAGAZINE SOUTH ASIA TRIBUNE [FOUNDED BY SHAHEEN SEHBAI WEHN HE HAD ESCAPED FROM PAKISTAN TO USA FOR POLITICAL ASYLUM].

Mr Shaheen Sehbai is hellbent to give importance to Musharraf's negative comment [in Seymour Hersh's Story DEFENDING THE ARSENAL - In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe? by Seymour M. Hersh NOVEMBER 16, 2009] on Zardari [I wonder where has gone the wish of Journalists of Jang Group of Newspaper for Musharraf's Trial for violating article 6 of 1973 Constitution]. Now read what Wajid Shamsul Hasan has to say about Musharraf on the web based magazine South Asia Tribune which was owned by the same Shaheen Sehbai who is nowadays busy to convince people of Pakistan that "Musharraf's statement against Zardari is a Cardinal Truth". It is further mentioned here that Seymour M Hersh belong to the American Jewsih Community. Please go through Mr Shaheen Sehbai's article which was published in his web based magazine South Asia Tribune [he founded SAT in USA when he escaped from Pakistan in 2002 and adopted self imposed exile in USA].

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Musharraf Has Finally Become Dispensable, or so the General Claims By Wajid Shamsul Hasan WASHINGTON DC, Sept 25, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200509/P1_wajid3.htm



Musharraf receives a citation from World Jews after his New York address

LONDON, September 25: General Pervez Musharraf, with a bagful of 'foreign conquests' has returned to his country that welcomed its macho hero with bomb blasts, death of several innocent commoners, injuries to scores of others writhing in pain for lack of proper medical care and a blistering indictment of his recently held local bodies elections by the Commonwealth and the EU observers that found them, as in the past, fraudulent and deeply flawed. His more than a weeklong yatra that took him to New York to attend 60th annual session of the United Nations, among other engagements, included a 30-minute ceremonial meeting with President Bush, a much sought-after handshake with Israeli Prime Minister, a free meal with the Indian Prime Minister and his address to the World Jewry.

Besides, the usual annual address to the UN General Assembly, an opportunity extended to all the invited heads of states, to recall its performance the previous year and to promise more of the same for the future, Musharraf used it as an occasion to reassure his insurers in Washington that he would do better and the taste he offered in the pudding as what it is being called as "historic breakthrough" regarding recognition of Israel was amply savoury for his mentors. While mention of Pakistan was conspicuously missing from President Bush's speech to the UN his comments praising India were prominently noted.

When one calculates the gains and losses of his visit, one regretfully arrives at a total that is in the red for the country and its image. It is also a manifestation of the recognition of the glaring difference in American approaches to democracy and dictatorship. In case of India, it is the country that is praised and its people described as great. When it comes to Pakistan, it is Musharraf who gets plaudits and not his people who have to face the main brunt of his failures. In the Time magazine interview US Secretary of State Dr Condi Rice took pains to praise him to the skies for his brave stance against terrorism.

Despite her being a woman and that too bracketed among the few most powerful in the world, she found it expedient to turn a deaf ear to his gender-bashing remarks that women in Pakistan are in the business of getting raped by design, that is to make money and get a foreign passport. No doubt she did mention about democracy in Pakistan and wants Musharraf to do more for it forgetting that to ask a military dictator to do that is like asking a man to get pregnant.

Musharraf also ended up with lot of domestic and foreign flak on his face. His overall performance has done more damage to Pakistan's already tarnished image than ever before. Though he issued a tongue-and-cheek denial following his highly derogatory remarks on Mukhtaran Mai's rape case, his subsequent performance sunk him deeper into his own scum. What an anorchous image that he managed to create for himself when he got provoked on a question by a member of the weaker sex in a meeting attended by hundreds of women in New York that had been organized to white wash his sins of omission and commission.

Apparently outraged by a question that hit him right where his flesh is rather sore since he sits long on pile of problems, the macho general trying to do his best to uphold the ignominious traditions of General "Tiger" Niazi (master of rape and genocide) converted an event to promote his regime's so-called pro-women policies to degenerate into a shouting match between himself and part of the invited audience. He desperately stooped so low that he tried to convert an innocent question into an enemy war against Pakistan. "I'm a fighter, I'll fight you. I don't give up and if you can shout, I can shout louder" was the response of our so-called battle-hardened commando president. Later, he also accused the questioner of being a member of a hostile political party-namely PPP.

Knowing well his sub-human frame of mind, those who know him diagnose that his desperation is due to the messages that he is receiving from his Western mentors that enough is enough, that he has to do more for democracy, to ensure that 2007 elections are freely and transparently held with level-playing field for all political parties and their leaders especially poet Habib Jalib's "Nehati Larki" (Benazir Bhutto).

Hence his disparate efforts at Geneva, that she nailed so effectively recently by putting the record straight on baseless charges of corruption out of political vendetta, through his NAB courts and outright thuggery to break PPP are his last ditch measures to force Ms Bhutto out of politics. Like his mentor General Zia who failed to bury the Bhutto legacy under the dung-heap of allegations, Musharraf too would ultimately have all the filth on his face when innate justice would be done to her by the Lord above who no general can bribe nor influence.

The messages to Musharraf that a countdown has begun on him has at least brought on him the home truth that he is not indispensable. While his predecessor Ziaul Haq, despite well indicated, instead of calling it a day, continued to say and believe that he would remain at Pakistan's helms of affairs for many decades to come. Regretfully, powers that be that had supported him for so long against democracy, had found him to out-live his utility. His fatal fall from the sky was perhaps "arranged". The disposal bandobast (fix up) could only be done by his colleagues in uniform who had ensured that they do not accompany him on his fateful journey into eternity.

In a number of my recent articles I have been underscoring the main concern of those in the West who have reasons to believe that their horse in Pakistan is in the last leg of his steam. The question by them begging an answer is: After Musharraf what and who? Their think tanks have been working on the contingency plans. No doubt yet another military intervention would become inevitable but it would not solve their problem. They do not know who that man on horseback might be: a liberal or a fundamentalist belonging to the Jihadis.

To avoid such an eventuality their best bet is to pressurize Musharraf to hold early free, fair and transparent elections, let leaders in exile return home and participate in a level-playing field political and electoral activity. Both London and Washington have been trying to convey their man Friday that he cannot combat terrorism by isolating the great majority of the people in his country by denying it its democratic right to vote in a government of its choice. The enormous magnitude of the terrorism requires a national effort to combat it. By keeping main leaders out of the mainstream politics, he has given an open field to the religious parties to have the cake and eat it too.

Of late Washington in particular and other Western capitals in general, seem to be taking seriously observations of experts like Stephen P. Cohen who have sized up Pakistani population's "growing alienation" from the United States that feeds into support for extremism. And this growing anti-Americanism obviously is due to absence of democracy and a level playing field for popular leaders who continue to command the support of the majority in the masses.

The recent report before the House of Representatives International Relations Subcommittee for Asia and the Pacific on June 14 followed a month later by her statement in Islamabad, the American Assistant Secretary of State Christina Rocca virtually singed the lion's beard in his den. Ms Rocca 's message amply communicated the wind of change. She declared that it was the 'US policy that free and fair elections, a level-playing field and return to full democracy was the key to long-term prosperity and stability in Pakistan'.

Besides, in her Washington-Islamabad video conference with senior journalists, Ms Rocca also brought on record that the US administration did not believe that the President's uniform guaranteed success of war against international terrorism and that it ensured that Pakistan's nuclear assets would not fall into the hands of fundamentalists. "It is a policy we continue to pursue," she said.

How hurt Musharraf must have felt by her comments on his uniform as not being a necessity for war on terror, his personal main achievement in his just concluded American yatra was perhaps Washington's concession to him to tell the press that uniform was not a matter of concern for the Americans and that during his several meetings with President Bush since 9/11 not once did Bush express his desire to see him without his uniform. Obviously, the American reaction to his fad is: "If the truant is happy with it, let it be."

If his Khaki viagarises him, why deny him the pleasure of feeling manly. It is heartening to see that more and more of his Western supporters have started seeing through his game of misleading the international opinion in insisting that his uniform was essential for stability and to fight terrorism.

While people in Pakistan who continue to struggle for democracy welcome the winds of change blowing from Washington, their gratitude is more for the Commonwealth that has remained steadfast in demanding of Musharraf to make electoral process transparent and to separate the office of the President from that of Army Chief since that is a contradiction of democracy. In this connection, the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group in its 26th meeting in New York on 17 September 2005 reviewed developments in Pakistan since its last meeting in London in February 2005.

The Group expressed concern on the slow progress in the democratization process. It stressed that there were areas where improvements still needed to be made to the electoral process and the political environment in Pakistan. CMAG endorsed the recommendations of the Commonwealth Election Team for strengthening the independence of the Election Commission and empowering it to use its executive powers to enforce its decisions and the code of conduct for elections. The Group requested the Secretary-General to intensify ongoing high-level contact with Pakistan and requested that the Secretariat continue to extend all possible technical assistance to Pakistan to support its transition to full democracy.

CMAG reaffirmed its earlier stance that the holding by the same person of the offices of the Head of State and Chief of Army Staff is incompatible with the basic principles of democracy and the spirit of the Harare Commonwealth principles, as well as CMAG's expectations. It also restated its strong view that until the two offices are no longer combined in the same person, the process of democratization in Pakistan will not be irreversible. It urged the General to relinquish one of his two offices, certainly no later than the end of the current Presidential term in 2007.

CMAG called on Islamabad to continue and intensify progress in fostering a sustainable and inclusive political culture, improving democratic governance, strengthening political and oversight institutions, supporting local governments, protecting human rights, respecting media freedoms and improving the position of women and minorities. It also called for the further widening of the democratic space so that all who wish can participate in the electoral process. The decision by CMAG to keep Pakistan on its agenda means that it shall continue to monitor the political and electoral activities to ensure sanctity of vote in 2007 general elections.

While Commonwealth is doing all that it can to help speed up democratic transition in Pakistan, the European Union too has been contributing immensely to this end. Its mission in Islamabad too have compiled a detailed report on the recently conducted local bodies polls indicating serious flaws in the whole electoral exercise along with numerous complaints of pre-poll rigging from the opposition parties.

The observers reported the failure of election officials to follow procedure, complete lack of secrecy in most polling stations during the vote casting and using of electoral rolls from 2001, not those of the last elections in 2002, serious problems on the days of polling such as presiding officers disallowing genuine ID cards, blatant breaches of election code by candidates and politicians, ballots box rigging including party officials removing real boxes and replacing them with pre-filled boxes and different methods of multiplying voting. The problems observed by EU missions also included an unusually high number, in international terms, of spoiled ballot papers and chaotic and violent scenes at polling stations often to deliberately prevent voting from taking place.

Notwithstanding the winds of change and apparently a countdown having begun on him, American Professor Stephen Cohen believes that it would be difficult to persuade the Pakistani General to democratize since the military establishment is afraid that a complete civilian government could mean end of policies that serve its interest best. It would also draw a curtain on its self-assumed role as the sole savior of "the national interests and guardian of Pakistan's ideological and geographical frontiers."

Nevertheless, he rightly believes that Washington should insist that Musharraf allow the mainstream political parties - Ms Benazir Bhutto's Pakistan People's Party and the Pakistan Muslim League-N of Mian Nawaz Sharif - to function freely and be provided an even playing field. Any more marginalization of the main political leaders and their political parties would further strengthen the religious political parties who already have institutionalized support in the form of chain of madrassas throughout the country. Only a democratic Pakistan can defuse the emergence of a coalition of the Army and Islamist forces committed, in the longer run, to Talibanize Pakistan. The writer is a former Pakistan High Commissioner to UK

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1 - Musharraf and the Business of Getting Raped By Wajid Shamsul Hasan WASHINGTON DC, Sept 19, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200509/P1_wajid2.htm

2 - Expected Recognition of Israel Part of Agenda Given to Musharraf By Wajid Shamsul Hasan WASHINGTON DC, Sept 5, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200509/P1_wajid.htm

3 - Controlling Army-led Democracy Through Manipulated Vote By Wajid Shamsul Hasan WASHINGTON DC, Aug 23, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200508/P1_wajid3.htm

4 - Signs That Washington is Ready to Stop Backing Musharraf By Wajid Shamsul Hasan
WASHINGTON DC, Aug 8, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200508/P1_wajid2.htm

5 - Pakistan Getting Too Hot for the Generals to Handle By Wajid Shamsul Hasan
WASHINGTON DC, Aug 2, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200508/P1_wajid.htm

6 - The Fault for London Blasts Lies With the West and General Musharraf By Wajid Shamsul Hasan WASHINGTON DC, July 18, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200507/P1_wajid3.htm

7 - Saner Voices in UK say Military Means Cannot End Mindless Terrorism By Wajid Shamsul Hasan WASHINGTON DC, July 11, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com
http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200507/P1_wajid2.htm

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Shaheen Sehbai VS Jewish Community & Musharraf.

Group Editor of The News Shaheen Sehbai taking part in the programme expressed the view that Musharraf’s remarks about President Asif Zardari, as attributed by Hersh, could not be casually ignored. He said it must be investigated why Musharraf accused Zardari of not being a patriot, because, according to Sehbai, Hersh had some inside information given to him in interviews with Musharraf and Zardari which he did not reveal in his report. But Sehbai said journalists always attribute information given to them by responsible people to “reliable sources” if these people ask them to refrain from quoting them directly. Seymour Hersh while standing by his report, pertaining to the comments offered by former President General (R) Pervez Musharraf about incumbent President Asif Zardari, has disclosed that the former president had given some harsher comments about his successor but in the ultimate scrutiny he allowed the remarks that he made part of his article. Former Director General, Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) of Pakistan, Lt Gen Hamid Gul also participating in the programme, verified the credentials of Hersh and gave a detailed account of US presence in the sensitive areas in Pakistan. REFERENCE: Hersh claims US nuke team already in Islamabad By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir Sunday, November 15, 2009 http://thenews.jang.com.pk/top_story_detail.asp?Id=25579 GEO TV: National Interest, Seymour M Hersh, Shaheen Sehbai & Dr Shahid Masood. http://chagataikhan.blogspot.com/2009/11/geo-tv-national-interest-seymour-m.html

Mr Shaheen Sehbai is hellbent to give importance to Musharraf's comment [in Seymour Hersh's Story DEFENDING THE ARSENAL - In an unstable Pakistan, can nuclear warheads be kept safe? by Seymour M. Hersh NOVEMBER 16, 2009] on Zardari [I wonder where has gone the wish of Journalists of Jang Group of Newspaper for Musharraf's Trial for violating article 6 of 1973 Constitution]. It is further mentioned here that Seymour M Hersh belong to the American Jewsih Community. Please go through Mr Shaheen Sehbai's article which was published in his web based magazine South Asia Tribune [he founded SAT in USA when he escaped from Pakistan in 2002 and adopted self imposed exile in USA].



Jack Rosen - Chairman American Jewish Congress

Shaheen Sehbai had filed this in South Asia Tribune.

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WASHINGTON DC, Aug 27, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 http://www.satribune.com/

What Musharraf Must Do Before He Talks to the American, World Jews By Shaheen Sehbai WASHINGTON DC, Aug 27, 2005 ISSN: 1684-2057 www.satribune.com http://antisystemic.org/satribune/www.satribune.com/archives/200508/P1_ss2.htm

WASHINGTON, August 27: When Pakistan’s General Pervez Musharraf takes the podium on Sept 17 in New York, before the world’s most important Jewish forum, he will appear and claim to be speaking for Pakistan and the entire Muslim world. But that may probably be the only misleading statement he may make in his historic speech. The rest of his address to the Jewish world would be well rehearsed and well-considered.
Musharraf has been invited by the American Jewish Congress because he says so many nice things about enlightened Islam and, more importantly, because he signs on the dotted line of the script that Washington writes for him. Thus it was not insignificant that AJC Chairman Jack Rosen candidly admitted that before asking Musharraf to come, he had consulted and sought approval of President George Bush in his Texas ranch.

What Musharraf will say will be frank and tough and mostly right because that kind of message should have been delivered by Pakistan to the Jewish State decades ago and Pakistan and Israel should have been as good or as reliable friends as any Israeli Arab neighboring country.

But Musharraf's problem is that his claim of speaking for Pakistan will be bitterly contested and while he may make some commitments on behalf of the Pakistan Army, he would appear to be lacking credibility when he would make commitments on behalf of a pre-dominantly Muslim Pakistan or an angry Islamic world.

It is true that what Musharraf wants to achieve by trying to resume a normal diplomatic relationship with Israel cannot be done by any other political or religious leader or party in Pakistan. But this is also true that Musharraf alone cannot do it either.

This is so because it is Musharraf’s Army which has been the main stumbling block in improving relations with India or taking a realistic position on Israeli-Palestine issue. The Army has for the last three decades or so pushed Pakistan into the extremist, almost fanatic mode, where even talking or shaking hands with a Jew was considered to be a sin.

While Arabs were recognizing Israel and resuming normal relations, Pakistan Army and its B team of Mullas, religious fanatics, Jihadi fighters and mercenary militants from around the Islamic world had forced on Pakistan a completely unrealistic aura of puritanism which did not allow even looking at a Jew.

That is Musharraf’s heaviest baggage, now that he wants to pull Pakistan out of the box it has been caged in for years.

So when the General tells the American and world Jews that he means normal business, and they would love to hear it, he will have a hard time convincing himself and the others that the rest of Pakistan will also be behind him. Thus the word of a military dictator on such an issue may mark a radical change in track, but it will hardly mean acceptance of this change without a fight.

Jack Rosen has also admitted this part of the deal when he quoted Musharraf saying in his Memo to Jewish leaders that Musharraf had tested the waters and had failed because recognition of Israel was linked to the Palestine issue. So it becomes clear that Musharraf did try to fly solo in the past and conceded he could not get anywhere.

But still the opportunity Musharraf has got as a Pakistani leader should not be wasted to create a workable understanding with the Jewish lobby in the US and Jews in general, especially on issues which now bother every civil society.

What Musharraf can, and should, do is to try and get genuine representatives of public opinion join him in this quest as there would be nothing better in Pakistan’s national interest to have the Jewish world on its side or at least render it neutral on major issues concerning Pakistan. In US a sympathetic Jewish lobby means the world of difference on all key US-Pakistan security and defense related issues.

Thus before he prepares the draft of his speech, Musharraf should forget about the dubious past and consult with Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif, Qazi Hussain Ahmed to convince these representative sections of the society of the importance of his mission.

He should even talk to Choudhry Shujaat Hussain, who now happens to be gaining recognition as a political player in Pakistan in his own right, to the extent that even US diplomats consider him some sort of a challenger to Musharraf, because of his political base or because of his secret connections with other Army Generals.

Pakistan should speak with one voice when dealing with the world Jewry and if Musharraf has been chosen to do the talking, be it so. But he should eschew his political differences or his personal vested interests on this issue and show the vision of a genuine leader of a country who can rise to the occasion to talk to the world for Pakistan.

If he fails to do this, Musharraf will prove that he has no potential to become a world player because his word, without a national consensus or even support of the majority of the mainstream public opinion, would mean meaningless chatter of a tin pot dictator who was catapulted on the world stage by 9/11 and made his mark by compromising on all national issues just to survive in power.

That will be a disaster for Pakistan and even the Islamic world as the Jewish lobby of the world will not be extending such a hand of friendship to Pakistan anytime soon again.

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URDU TEXT OF MUHAMMAD SALEH ZAAFIR'S REPORT FILED IN DAILY JANG [TO PROMOTE ANTI PAKISTAN SEYMOUR HERSH]. http://www.jang.com.pk/jang/nov2009-daily/15-11-2009/main.htm