The Writer, Brig. Asif Haroon Raja works for ISI. My comments are inserted below.
--- In Afghanistan_Today@yahoogroups.com, asif haroon <asifharoon7751@...> wrote:
>
> Pak Army/ISI willfully disparaged by USA
>
> Asif Haroon Raja
>
> Gen Pervez Musharraf, declared a pariah by the western world because of his military coup against a democratically elected government of Nawaz Sharif excitedly joined the bandwagon of the US led adventurers in September 2001 under the fond hope that marrying up with the sole super power would be beneficial for him as well as for Pakistan. He perceived that alliance with the US would make Pakistan politically and economically strong and economically prosperous. Fancying that milk and honey would start flowing in the rivers of Indus, Chenab and Jhelum, he gladly joined the GWOT. To earn full confidence of Washington he volunteered to make Pakistan the front line state.
.
TURKMAN: Because otherwise, USA was going to bomb his Military to Stone Age. He saved his Military and caused tons of Money to flow to Pakistan. He doubled GDP and Per Capita Income of Pakistan in just 5 years making Pakistan the top country in rise of GDP in world. He made Foreign Exchange Starved Pakistan have $ 17 billion in F.E. Reserves. By the time he left, even people riding on Donkeys had Mobile Phones.
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He consented to meet each and every demand of USA how so ever injurious to Pakistan as long as debts were rescheduled and aid money and investments flowed in. Provision of Ground Lines of Transportation (GLOT) for NATO free of cost via Torkham and Chaman was one of the many demands met, which these days has become a burning issue.
>
TURKMAN: But why are you against him? He had not met US Demand to control your brothers, the Taliban. You wanted all those billions without Musharraf letting US have NATO Supplies in Afghanistan? How did he hurt Pakistan by creating so much business for Pak Truck Drivers and Warehousing Facilities?
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> With sanctions lifted and debts rescheduled, foreign investment and US aid money flowing in, Pakistan's economy which was in doldrums started becoming healthy. Blinded by the rising economic indicators because of consumerist economic policy pursued by the US choice man Shaukat Aziz, Mush kept dancing to the tunes of Washington and soon earned a special place in the heart of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim George W Bush. To elevate and glamorize him for the laudable services rendered in furthering the US interests, he was invited by Bush to Camp David where only the most privileged could enter.
.
TURKMAN: If that was the case, why USA forced him out of office?
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Washington patted Mush and the King's Party running a rubber stamp national assembly but castigated Pakistan and its people.
.
TURKMAN: When and where?
--------
The US and western leaders made a beeline to visit Pakistan. Do more demand was ceded to with bowed heads and the faceless enemy fought with renewed fervor unmindful of the human and socio-economic losses incurred.
.
TURKMAN: Which Socio-Economic Losses? When did Musharraf stop paying Salaries of Taliban, arming them and infiltrating them in to Afghanistan to kill more Americans?
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The US political and military leaders became so emboldened that they started micro-managing internal affairs of Pakistan and treated it as the US 51st state.
>
TURKMAN: Is this why Pak Military kept getting US Soldiers killed through its Employees called Taliban and kept providing Shelters to Osama?
-------
> CIA and FBI on the other hand kept up their covert activities in selected regions and got entrenched.
> The two agencies facilitated RAW-Mossad-MI-6-RAAM-BND covert war from Afghan soil to initially destabilize FATA and Balochistan and then spread the flames of terrorism to other parts of Pakistan. In order to hide their clandestine operations, a calculated psychological war was unleashed to put Pakistan on the defensive.
.
TURKMAN: Oh so, ISI running Pakistan 'put Pakistan on defensive' ...?
What have you been smoking?
--------
Cross border terrorism and patronization of terrorist groups practiced by the six agencies were pasted on Pakistan.
.
TURKMAN: But when were JehaaDi Terrorist Groups and Taliban were not on ISI Pay Roll?
----------
While anti-Pakistan local and foreign terrorists were funded, trained, equipped and launched to fight Pak security forces, Pakistan on the other hand was ridiculed that it was not doing enough and constantly pressed to do more.
>
TURKMAN: Oh so, Balochis fighting for their Freedom, Swatis and other PushToon Tribes fighting for their Freedom from Taliban and Pak Military are/were Anti Pakistan Terrorists trained, funded and equipped by Foreign Agents?
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> By the time the ISI that had been distracted from its primary job of external security and kept busy in chasing the faceless terrorists to pocket reward money, woke up from its slumber in 2008, foreign agencies had dug their heels deep down and had wrought considerable havoc in Pakistan.
.
TURKMAN: What External Security Problem Pakistan was facing despite USA and China on her back?
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Car bombs, IEDs, suicide bombings, group attacks, target killings, beheading of captives, attacks on mosques, shrines and funerals and kidnappings for ransom became a norm.
.
TURKMAN: Because Pak Military had wanted that to raise Pakistanis against USA and blackmail USA more. Pakis were told all this was happening because USA was in Afghanistan by Pak Journalists on ISI Pay Roll, remember?
---------
Radicalism scaled new heights. Till as late as 2003, Pakistan had never experienced terrorism on such a high scale. Suicide attacks were unheard of and FATA was a peaceful region.
.
TURKMAN: ... and credit of all this goes to 700,000 strong Pak Military that was trying to tell USA, we can not control Taliban in Pakistan, how can we control them from killing your Troops.
--------
When the ISI began to play its due role of first line defence and started recovering lost spaces in restive region of FATA and elsewhere, it irked CIA. Roadblocks were placed at a time when CIA network with the induction of Blackwater in 2008 had spread its tentacles from FATA into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and major urban centres. Â Â
TURKMAN: B.S. Taliban and Anti Taliban locals had done all that.
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> That was the timeframe in which the US tailored government had been installed through rigged elections.
.
TURKMAN: Why nobody had said Elections were rigged after hearing Results? How can they be declared 'rigged' because you say so now? Had USA paid all the Pakistanis to vote for PPP, ANP, MQM and Pir Pagara Candidates?
---------
Musharraf who had performed well on the governance and economic fronts had agreed to the US proposal of sharing power for next five years with PPP led coalition government comprising liberal parties. The new COAS Gen Kayani, former DG ISI Lt Gen Pasha, PML-N, religious right and independent higher judiciary under chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhri became spoilers of the US game plan.
.
TURKMAN: B.S. They had no power. USA had wanted Musharraf out because he was not doing enough to control your Taliban Brothers. USA did not know, even Zardari would not be able to do anything because Democracy in Pakistan has been a Military Staged Show since 1962.
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PML-N however, fearful of Army takeover allowed the gang of looters to continue ruling for full tenure irrespective of their poor governance, record breaking corruption, defiance of rule of law and
judiciary and anti-people policies under the misplaced hope that the PPP would allow it to rule for five years. Softness of the opposition allowed the rulers complete liberty of action to indulge in immoral and corrupt practices to fill their coffers at the cost of the masses.
>
TURKMAN: Oh you mean, PML N is a bigger Military Power than Pak Military that can overthrow Pak Military Staged Governments. Thanks for letting us know. I am not wasting my time, reading rest of your Dreamworld Theories. Get lost ...!
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> Indebted to Washington, the rulers repaid it by not only pursuing Musharraf's flawed policies suiting USA but
> also fighting the war on terror with greater vigor and impunity. Yusaf Raza Gilani-Rahman
> Malik-Hussein Haqqani trio liberalized visa policy, removed restrictions of
> scrutiny of visas by the ISI and Foreign Office and facilitated inflow of
> undesirables from USA. Between July-December 2010, 7000 unwanted CIA agents and
> US Marines disguised as security contractors, businessmen, coordinators,
> project managers and diplomats sneaked in and thus set the stage to undertake a
> bigger venture. Host of contingency plans to disable our nuclear arsenal had
> already been rehearsed by US Elite Forces. As the roadmap leading to our
> nuclear sites and areas where the heliborne strike force was to be received was
> being given final touches, one of the chief coordinators Raymond Davis got
> accidently arrested in Lahore in January 2011 after he murdered two
> motorcyclists whom he suspected were trailing him. The weapons, equipment,
> maps, cameras and gadgets recovered from his car gave an insight of the intentions
> and capacity of CIA network and its dangerous designs.
>
> He was a professional spy, a
> thug and a serial killer who was strenuously working on an assigned mission,
> using Lahore Consulate as his safe haven. Earlier on he had been working in
> close liaison with CIA Station Manager Islamabad Jonathan Bank and prior to
> that in Peshawar. He had all along posed as a diplomat but during his initial
> interrogation by the police in Kot Lakhpat jail he revealed that he was not a
> diplomat. He would have divulged much more but the US Ambassador and Consul
> General in Lahore assured him that he would soon be released and advised him to
> seal his lips. He was set free on March 16 on express orders from Presidency. His
> arrest however jolted our security apparatus and it frantically started taking
> tough measures to safeguard our core assets.
>
> Seeing that the US plan to
> dig the last nail in the coffin of Pakistan had been put in jeopardy by Pak
> Army/ISI, and ISAF was not performing in Afghanistan and CIA was being
> criticized for its failures, Pentagon and CIA decided to hit hard the two
> premier institutions. It was in this backdrop that ‘Operation Geronimo’ was
> actualized to denigrate and malign Pak Army, ISI and PAF. This is evident from
> the fact that after raiding OBL’s hideout and killing him without taking
> Pakistan into confidence, the US media, think tanks and officials embarked upon
> a programmed vilification campaign to undermine Army and ISI. There are strong
> indications that 2 May raid was carried out with the blessing Zardari, Gilani
> and Hussein Haqqani. The latter got fully exposed in memo scandal. Finding that
> the judicial rope had tightened around his neck, he has dissociated himself
> from the memo commission investigating the case. Â
>
> One year has gone by, but
> the US is still exploiting 2 May raid. OBL’s death anniversary was misused to
> disparage Pak Army and ISI. While doing so, the US ignores huge sacrifices made
> by people and security forces of Pakistan. Today the US is crowing that
> al-Qaeda has almost been incapacitated in Af-Pak region but forgets that the
> ISI arrested most wanted terrorists of al-Qaeda which included Khalid Sheikh
> Muhammad, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Abu Zubadeh, Abu Faraj al-Libbi, Younis
> al-Mauritani and broke its back. The ISI provided the critical clue in the form
> of OBL's courier, Ahmad al-Kuwaiti which helped CIA to reach up to OBL's
> compound. But for Pakistan’s wholesome contributions, Al-Qaeda would still have
> been a formidable force in this region. If Pakistan in reality had got secretly
> aligned with Afghan/Pakistani Taliban and Al-Qaeda, the goose of the US would
> have got cooked long time back. Â
>
> The writer is a retired Brig and a freelance columnist, defence and security analyst. Email:
> asifharoon7751@... Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
--- In Afghanistan_Today@yahoogroups.com, asif haroon <asifharoon7751@...> wrote:
>
> Pak Army/ISI willfully disparaged by USA
>
> Asif Haroon Raja
>
> Gen Pervez Musharraf, declared a pariah by the western world because of his military coup against a democratically elected government of Nawaz Sharif excitedly joined the bandwagon of the US led adventurers in September 2001 under the fond hope that marrying up with the sole super power would be beneficial for him as well as for Pakistan. He perceived that alliance with the US would make Pakistan politically and economically strong and economically prosperous. Fancying that milk and honey would start flowing in the rivers of Indus, Chenab and Jhelum, he gladly joined the GWOT. To earn full confidence of Washington he volunteered to make Pakistan the front line state.
.
TURKMAN: Because otherwise, USA was going to bomb his Military to Stone Age. He saved his Military and caused tons of Money to flow to Pakistan. He doubled GDP and Per Capita Income of Pakistan in just 5 years making Pakistan the top country in rise of GDP in world. He made Foreign Exchange Starved Pakistan have $ 17 billion in F.E. Reserves. By the time he left, even people riding on Donkeys had Mobile Phones.
-----------
He consented to meet each and every demand of USA how so ever injurious to Pakistan as long as debts were rescheduled and aid money and investments flowed in. Provision of Ground Lines of Transportation (GLOT) for NATO free of cost via Torkham and Chaman was one of the many demands met, which these days has become a burning issue.
>
TURKMAN: But why are you against him? He had not met US Demand to control your brothers, the Taliban. You wanted all those billions without Musharraf letting US have NATO Supplies in Afghanistan? How did he hurt Pakistan by creating so much business for Pak Truck Drivers and Warehousing Facilities?
------
> With sanctions lifted and debts rescheduled, foreign investment and US aid money flowing in, Pakistan's economy which was in doldrums started becoming healthy. Blinded by the rising economic indicators because of consumerist economic policy pursued by the US choice man Shaukat Aziz, Mush kept dancing to the tunes of Washington and soon earned a special place in the heart of anti-Islam and anti-Muslim George W Bush. To elevate and glamorize him for the laudable services rendered in furthering the US interests, he was invited by Bush to Camp David where only the most privileged could enter.
.
TURKMAN: If that was the case, why USA forced him out of office?
--------
Washington patted Mush and the King's Party running a rubber stamp national assembly but castigated Pakistan and its people.
.
TURKMAN: When and where?
--------
The US and western leaders made a beeline to visit Pakistan. Do more demand was ceded to with bowed heads and the faceless enemy fought with renewed fervor unmindful of the human and socio-economic losses incurred.
.
TURKMAN: Which Socio-Economic Losses? When did Musharraf stop paying Salaries of Taliban, arming them and infiltrating them in to Afghanistan to kill more Americans?
-------
The US political and military leaders became so emboldened that they started micro-managing internal affairs of Pakistan and treated it as the US 51st state.
>
TURKMAN: Is this why Pak Military kept getting US Soldiers killed through its Employees called Taliban and kept providing Shelters to Osama?
-------
> CIA and FBI on the other hand kept up their covert activities in selected regions and got entrenched.
> The two agencies facilitated RAW-Mossad-MI-6-RAAM-BND covert war from Afghan soil to initially destabilize FATA and Balochistan and then spread the flames of terrorism to other parts of Pakistan. In order to hide their clandestine operations, a calculated psychological war was unleashed to put Pakistan on the defensive.
.
TURKMAN: Oh so, ISI running Pakistan 'put Pakistan on defensive' ...?
What have you been smoking?
--------
Cross border terrorism and patronization of terrorist groups practiced by the six agencies were pasted on Pakistan.
.
TURKMAN: But when were JehaaDi Terrorist Groups and Taliban were not on ISI Pay Roll?
----------
While anti-Pakistan local and foreign terrorists were funded, trained, equipped and launched to fight Pak security forces, Pakistan on the other hand was ridiculed that it was not doing enough and constantly pressed to do more.
>
TURKMAN: Oh so, Balochis fighting for their Freedom, Swatis and other PushToon Tribes fighting for their Freedom from Taliban and Pak Military are/were Anti Pakistan Terrorists trained, funded and equipped by Foreign Agents?
---------
> By the time the ISI that had been distracted from its primary job of external security and kept busy in chasing the faceless terrorists to pocket reward money, woke up from its slumber in 2008, foreign agencies had dug their heels deep down and had wrought considerable havoc in Pakistan.
.
TURKMAN: What External Security Problem Pakistan was facing despite USA and China on her back?
-------
Car bombs, IEDs, suicide bombings, group attacks, target killings, beheading of captives, attacks on mosques, shrines and funerals and kidnappings for ransom became a norm.
.
TURKMAN: Because Pak Military had wanted that to raise Pakistanis against USA and blackmail USA more. Pakis were told all this was happening because USA was in Afghanistan by Pak Journalists on ISI Pay Roll, remember?
---------
Radicalism scaled new heights. Till as late as 2003, Pakistan had never experienced terrorism on such a high scale. Suicide attacks were unheard of and FATA was a peaceful region.
.
TURKMAN: ... and credit of all this goes to 700,000 strong Pak Military that was trying to tell USA, we can not control Taliban in Pakistan, how can we control them from killing your Troops.
--------
When the ISI began to play its due role of first line defence and started recovering lost spaces in restive region of FATA and elsewhere, it irked CIA. Roadblocks were placed at a time when CIA network with the induction of Blackwater in 2008 had spread its tentacles from FATA into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and major urban centres. Â Â
TURKMAN: B.S. Taliban and Anti Taliban locals had done all that.
--------
> That was the timeframe in which the US tailored government had been installed through rigged elections.
.
TURKMAN: Why nobody had said Elections were rigged after hearing Results? How can they be declared 'rigged' because you say so now? Had USA paid all the Pakistanis to vote for PPP, ANP, MQM and Pir Pagara Candidates?
---------
Musharraf who had performed well on the governance and economic fronts had agreed to the US proposal of sharing power for next five years with PPP led coalition government comprising liberal parties. The new COAS Gen Kayani, former DG ISI Lt Gen Pasha, PML-N, religious right and independent higher judiciary under chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhri became spoilers of the US game plan.
.
TURKMAN: B.S. They had no power. USA had wanted Musharraf out because he was not doing enough to control your Taliban Brothers. USA did not know, even Zardari would not be able to do anything because Democracy in Pakistan has been a Military Staged Show since 1962.
-------
PML-N however, fearful of Army takeover allowed the gang of looters to continue ruling for full tenure irrespective of their poor governance, record breaking corruption, defiance of rule of law and
judiciary and anti-people policies under the misplaced hope that the PPP would allow it to rule for five years. Softness of the opposition allowed the rulers complete liberty of action to indulge in immoral and corrupt practices to fill their coffers at the cost of the masses.
>
TURKMAN: Oh you mean, PML N is a bigger Military Power than Pak Military that can overthrow Pak Military Staged Governments. Thanks for letting us know. I am not wasting my time, reading rest of your Dreamworld Theories. Get lost ...!
----------
> Indebted to Washington, the rulers repaid it by not only pursuing Musharraf's flawed policies suiting USA but
> also fighting the war on terror with greater vigor and impunity. Yusaf Raza Gilani-Rahman
> Malik-Hussein Haqqani trio liberalized visa policy, removed restrictions of
> scrutiny of visas by the ISI and Foreign Office and facilitated inflow of
> undesirables from USA. Between July-December 2010, 7000 unwanted CIA agents and
> US Marines disguised as security contractors, businessmen, coordinators,
> project managers and diplomats sneaked in and thus set the stage to undertake a
> bigger venture. Host of contingency plans to disable our nuclear arsenal had
> already been rehearsed by US Elite Forces. As the roadmap leading to our
> nuclear sites and areas where the heliborne strike force was to be received was
> being given final touches, one of the chief coordinators Raymond Davis got
> accidently arrested in Lahore in January 2011 after he murdered two
> motorcyclists whom he suspected were trailing him. The weapons, equipment,
> maps, cameras and gadgets recovered from his car gave an insight of the intentions
> and capacity of CIA network and its dangerous designs.
>
> He was a professional spy, a
> thug and a serial killer who was strenuously working on an assigned mission,
> using Lahore Consulate as his safe haven. Earlier on he had been working in
> close liaison with CIA Station Manager Islamabad Jonathan Bank and prior to
> that in Peshawar. He had all along posed as a diplomat but during his initial
> interrogation by the police in Kot Lakhpat jail he revealed that he was not a
> diplomat. He would have divulged much more but the US Ambassador and Consul
> General in Lahore assured him that he would soon be released and advised him to
> seal his lips. He was set free on March 16 on express orders from Presidency. His
> arrest however jolted our security apparatus and it frantically started taking
> tough measures to safeguard our core assets.
>
> Seeing that the US plan to
> dig the last nail in the coffin of Pakistan had been put in jeopardy by Pak
> Army/ISI, and ISAF was not performing in Afghanistan and CIA was being
> criticized for its failures, Pentagon and CIA decided to hit hard the two
> premier institutions. It was in this backdrop that ‘Operation Geronimo’ was
> actualized to denigrate and malign Pak Army, ISI and PAF. This is evident from
> the fact that after raiding OBL’s hideout and killing him without taking
> Pakistan into confidence, the US media, think tanks and officials embarked upon
> a programmed vilification campaign to undermine Army and ISI. There are strong
> indications that 2 May raid was carried out with the blessing Zardari, Gilani
> and Hussein Haqqani. The latter got fully exposed in memo scandal. Finding that
> the judicial rope had tightened around his neck, he has dissociated himself
> from the memo commission investigating the case. Â
>
> One year has gone by, but
> the US is still exploiting 2 May raid. OBL’s death anniversary was misused to
> disparage Pak Army and ISI. While doing so, the US ignores huge sacrifices made
> by people and security forces of Pakistan. Today the US is crowing that
> al-Qaeda has almost been incapacitated in Af-Pak region but forgets that the
> ISI arrested most wanted terrorists of al-Qaeda which included Khalid Sheikh
> Muhammad, Ramzi Bin al-Shibh, Abu Zubadeh, Abu Faraj al-Libbi, Younis
> al-Mauritani and broke its back. The ISI provided the critical clue in the form
> of OBL's courier, Ahmad al-Kuwaiti which helped CIA to reach up to OBL's
> compound. But for Pakistan’s wholesome contributions, Al-Qaeda would still have
> been a formidable force in this region. If Pakistan in reality had got secretly
> aligned with Afghan/Pakistani Taliban and Al-Qaeda, the goose of the US would
> have got cooked long time back. Â
>
> The writer is a retired Brig and a freelance columnist, defence and security analyst. Email:
> asifharoon7751@... Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â
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