Can A Gang Rape Change India's Hate Culture?

Sexual violence makes India a global frontline in the battle to save women and girls. But the problem extends to hatreds spawned by history and religion.

[This article is based on a column published in The News International, Pakistan's largest English daily].

The sad gang rape of a college student on a public bus in the Indian capital might end up having an impact beyond the country’s borders. Although an internal matter, this particular incident concerns Pakistanis in important ways. It should also concern India's other neighbors like Sri Lanka, China, Bangladesh and Nepal.

India is a country beset by virulent hatreds of all types: political, historical, religious and social. These hatreds are so potent they led to 21st century's first genocide. More than 2,000 Indians were butchered and burned across Gujarat, a major trading state in western India near the Pakistani border.

The murder of 2,000 Indians spread over just three days was no small matter, happening as it did in 21st century, and not in 20th or 19th centuries. The fact that almost all of the killed were Indian Muslims; men, women, elderly and children, eliminated on the streets by mobs representing the majority religious group, meant that this was a ghastly incident of ethnic cleansing and religious extermination.

One way to gauge the amount of hate that motivated the Indian mobs is to look at one type of criminal act that was repeatedly committed during the 2002 Gujarat ethnic cleansing. In case after case, Indian mobs cut open the stomachs of pregnant Indian Muslim women and killed the unborn babies. In other cases, genitals of Indian Muslim women were mutilated before killing them.

Independent Sikh groups report similar gang-rapes of Sikh women in public places across northern India in 1984.

The New Delhi bus gang rape and similar atrocities against women and minorities are not isolated incidents. Some foreign policies pursued by Indian governments were also driven by religious or social hatreds preexisting in Indian society.

In less than seventy years since the creation of India by Britain in 1947, New Delhi managed to provoke a war and several border clashes with China, four wars with Pakistan, invade Bangladesh, fight a proxy war in Sri Lanka and indirectly interfere in Nepal.

The Indian military invasion in 1971 of what is now Bangladesh is the perfect example of how the combustible mix of Indian hatreds poisoned its foreign policy. [See India Invaded Pakistan In 1971: Know The Facts at http://j.mp/qw8dXC ]

In 1971, there was no armed freedom movement in Kashmir. There were no pro-Kashmir groups like Lashkar-e-Tayyeba (LeT). In that year, Pakistanis were busy in messy and chaotic elections. Less than 40,000 Pakistani soldiers were stationed in East Pakistan, and all of them in their barracks.

Despite this peaceful Pakistani posture, Indian army crossed international borders in December of that year in an unprovoked war. Assisting the Indian army was a terror militia that went on a killing spree of Pakistani civilians, selecting targets based on their language. India's ally, the Soviet Union, provided indirect help.

Several indisputable evidences that emerged in the following years show how India meticulously planned the invasion at least two years in advance, if not more, recruiting agents and saboteurs and deploying a psy-ops strategy.

Until 1971, Kashmir was the only dispute between Pakistan and India and was contested in a largely peaceful manner inside the UN Security Council. But India created a permanent blood feud with Pakistan by planning and executing the one-sided, unprovoked invasion and war of 1971.

HINDI-SPEAKING INDIANS:
WHO TO BLAME?

It would be unfair to associate all Indians with this sordid record. In fact, evidence points to one group of Indians: the Hindi-speakers of northern India.

The multifaceted social and political hatreds in India are linked to the Hindi-speaking minority, about a third of the Indian population.

The Hindi-speakers are a powerful, rich and arrogant minority, for a reason. Most upper caste Hindus belong to this language group.

Other Indians often hold Hindi-speakers responsible for India’s social and governance problems and for wars with neighbors, for prolonging the Kashmir conflict, and for feeding hate against India's Christian, Sikh, Muslim, Dalit and Assamese minorities. [See http://j.mp/ZgBWKJ and http://j.mp/Tz9JLt as examples.]

The Delhi bus gang rape occurred in the heart of the Hindi-speaking belt. The February 2007 bombing of a ‘friendship train’ carrying Pakistani families on a goodwill visit to India occurred near Panipat, an old Hindi-speaking center.

The Hindi-speaking upper caste culture looks down at other Indians. Women in this culture do not enjoy much respect. There have been numerous cases of public rape and sexual assault in northern Indian where men chose to cheer and make cell phone videos as mobs assaulted and stripped young women. [See http://bit.ly/UIQEWZ and http://bitly.com/VueGTS and http://bitly.com/1349smA and http://j.mp/Vljxai and http://j.mp/10UJVh6 and http://j.mp/YZ3krZ and http://j.mp/136yamj ].

THE GANG RAPE

This background gives context to the gang rape of a 23-year-old college student on a public bus in New Delhi.

The incident sparked riots in the Indian capital because of the increasing cases of gang rapes that have given New Delhi its unflattering designation as the Rape Capital of India.

But the gang rape hides an uglier fact, that India has the worst world record in treating women.

Newly born or unborn female babies are often killed in India for religious and social reasons, according to surveys by the UN and other independent agencies. The country has the world's largest cases of underage forced girl marriages. And a probe by American television network ABC News earlier this year [See India’s Deadly Secret at http://j.mp/tHVRHI ] concluded that over 40 million Indian women of all ages disappeared or were killed in India since 1980.

A spate of articles in the aftermath of the Delhi bus gang rape confirms that social and religious traditions contribute to animosity toward women in India, making the country the world’s frontline battle state in countering anti-woman traditions and customs. [See http://bitly.com/12Z1kEK ]

INDIAN SOLDIERS RAPED
53 WOMEN IN ONE NIGHT

In 1991, in a Kashmiri village called Kunan Poshpora, 53 women were gang-raped by Indian Army soldiers during one night. The use of rape by the Indian Army as a weapon of war against Kashmiris who are demanding accession to Pakistan was documented in detail in the report Rapes In Kashmir released by Human Rights Watch. [See http://bit.ly/X3NDjK ]

There is something deeply wrong in India. Leaders of opinion need to raise it and end the state of denial. There have been many recent warnings and they have nothing to do with rape. The 2002 Gujarat ethnic cleansing is one. The riots against poor Assamese migrant workers are another. The Indian interior ministry blamed those riots on alleged Facebook posts originating in Pakistan. The ridiculous accusation caused embarrassment to India as television footage showed ordinary Indians beat and humiliate the Assamese workers on the streets prompting a mass exodus by the Assamese from Indian cities. No wonder then that the entire northeastern belt of India is up in arms demanding independence.

We in Pakistan continue to be at the receiving end of Indian hate. In 2007, a group of Pakistani families heeded Indian government's call for peace and boarded a 'Friendship Train' from Lahore to the Indian capital, which is located in the heart of the minority Hindi-speaking belt of India. The train was blown up and more than 50 Pakistanis were killed. The perpetrators turned out to be Indian military officers working with Hindu extremist groups.

Recently, the captain of a Pakistani sports team of blind players was served a form of acid at breakfast at an Indian hotel. Pakistani artists who visit India are routinely threatened by extremist Indians. [See posts under #AcidForBreakfastInIndia on Twitter].

On Twitter, Pakistanis increasingly complain about Indian trolls who dedicate time and human resource to spam Pakistani timelines. [See Twitter Is Infested With Indians Spreading Hate Against Pakistan at http://j.mp/IndHate ]

The new Indian Spring against policies of hate practiced by the minority Hindi-speaking elite of New Delhi is a good omen. But it's only a start and there is a long way ahead. This effort should expand to force the Indian elite to listen to the voice of a majority of Indians who are a peaceful people and who deserve to see the billions of dollars generated from the Indian economy spent on their welfare instead of rapid militarization in pursuance of hostile designs against neighbors.

Ending New Delhi's culture of hate is essential to seeing an India at peace with its own people and with neighbors.

The riots by Indian civil society show there is hope that India will be able to defeat the multifaceted hatreds that pollute Indian society and politics.

This article is an extended version of a column by the author that appeared in The News International, Pakistan’s largest English-language daily.

Let's Crush A Baby!

An Indian 'baba', or healer, literally stands on the bodies of little babies claiming that this heals health problems. India also has the highest rate of forced marriages of underage girls, and systematic discrimination against citizens based on caste; women from the lowest caste are routinely raped. Male members of the lower caste are often victims of physical abuse, including death in many cases. These things happen only in India, the world's largest democracy. The mainstream Indian media and the hordes of American and British journalists based in India don't see these glaring little scandals because of an official policy carefully crafted to project India as the next superpower that is being groomed to serve western interests in Asia. But occasionally stories like these do come out, thanks to conscientious Indian citizens working for the rights of those ignored by the Indian government.

I am posting this video not because it makes for good anti-India bashing and because I am from Pakistan and that’s how things go. Not at all. We in Pakistan have many embarrassing problems unique to us. But none that go as far as crushing babies or burying female newborns alive, which is another issue with the highest global incident rate in India.

The reason I am posting this video here is very political. Instead of buying expensive weapons to fight China and maintain 700,000 soldiers in the tiny patch of Kashmir to crush a people’s demand for freedom, the Indian government should share its immense wealth with its poor and end poverty and illiteracy that breeds the horrendous practices of ‘baby crushing’ and female infanticide. Multimillion-dollar adverts on CNN and glossy Indian movies can't hide this reality, but a good sense can.

And imagine how reduced Indian expenditure on weapons and more on ending poverty will affect stability in Asia: Pakistan won't have to keep up with India's arms race, China will be at ease, and everyone will go back to focusing on things that matter.

India doesn't need a stockpile of weapons because no one is going to invade India. But this man in this video certainly needs a good government to teach him a lesson.

How To Save America From The Abyss

After the near-assassination of US politician Gabrielle Giffords, I made an important discovery. I discovered that she was almost killed, and possibly crippled for life, in the same state - Arizona - that produced the American terrorist Timothy McVeigh. It also produced a hate preacher called John Hagee, the one who made the famous statement, 'All Muslims are programmed to kill.'  As a child, Hagee was probably addicted to the science fiction movie E.T.

Arizona is also the same state that produced an American president that wasn't: John McCain. Senator McCain almost made it in the 2008 presidential elections. But see what kind of people Arizona has been producing: Mr. McCain is a warmonger. As President Obama visited India in November, Mr. McCain issued a series of statements welcoming the prospects of United States ganging up with India against China, and also against Pakistan.

Just imagine this: a politician who thinks he is presidential material is rooting for a future massive war in Asia because that suits his ego.

I have always maintained that ordinary Americans are some of the nicest people you'd find anywhere. But it is the American political elite that wants to mislead these good people into a war with the rest of the planet.

This is the theme of my analytical piece that I wrote for Project For Pakistan In 21st Century, an independent think-tank based in Islamabad. The paper is titled, How To Save America From The Abyss. I hope it makes a good read.

Pro-US Cabal In Pakistan Is Angry At China Praise

The outgoing US ambassador to Pakistan needs to be congratulated for one thing: she did an excellent job of meddling in Pakistani media and politics. She is credited with organizing a pro-US cabal inside Pakistan that springs into action whenever the US is criticized in Pakistani media. Ironically, this cabal, which consists of Pakistanis, never shows equal passion when the US officials and media demonize Pakistan worldwide.

Ms. Patterson has not been working alone. She received full support from the ruling PPPP's media managers. That is why I am mentioning Pakistan's own wunderkid: Ambassador Husain Haqqani who is said by sources in his won party to be responsible for organizing PPPP's media plans while sitting in Washington DC.

Today the pro-US Zardari-Haqqani cabal in Pakistan [read: PPPP Media Cell] are seething with anger that I criticized Nobel's cheap shot against China. A version of my op-ed, titled, A 'Nobel' Mob Ambush, Chicago Style, was published by the blog section of the Pakistani affiliate of International Herald Tribune. The comments section makes for an interesting read.

They are livid that I linked Nobel's China swipe to the unusual wave of anti-China political ads during the current mid-term election campaign in the US. I explained how the Indian lobby in the US is contributing to the 'Blame China' campaign to divert attention from US public's anger at outsourcing jobs to India.

So guess what? The pro-US Zardari-Haqqani cabal teams up with Indian net surfers to bash China on this excellent Pakistani website.

But no one should worry: Their comments and arguments don't even begin to scratch the surface. The best answer to their ramblings cames from Mr. Ghias Ahmed whose half-line was both pithy and shrewd:

"‎2012 Nobel Prize will be paid in Chinese Yuan...".

Pakistan-China YOUYI-III (Friendship) Joint Military Exercise 2010

A Pakistani Trainer Jet For The Indian Air Force?

Here is a chance that India blew to send a strong message for peace with both Pakistan and China.  An Egyptian diplomat based in New Delhi apparently offered recently to help Indian Air Force overcome its shabby pilot training program.

According to a report by the Indian magazine Business Standard, the Egyptian official offered a novel solution: An Egyptian Air Force training crew flown from Egypt to India to train Indian pilots using Karakoram-8, the multirole trainer jointly developed by both Pakistan and China and now used by a growing list of countries, including Egypt, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Malaysia, Zimbabwe, Myanmar, Namibia, not to mention the air forces of both Pakistan and China.

Says the Indian magazine: "Since the offer was not followed up in writing, the Indian Air Force (IAF) was spared the embarrassment of having to reply."

But the Egyptian diplomat was not playing dumb. He knew what he was saying.  The Egyptians are no novices in diplomacy.  Maybe he was just hoping to make a small indirect breakthrough in India's tense relationship with both Pakistan and China.  Cairo enjoys excellent relations with Islamabad and Beijing.

It would have been a smart move had the Indian air force accepted the offer. New Delhi has close ties to Egypt and extensive military-to-military relations. So there is no question of trust deficit.  Using a trainer developed by Pakistan and China would have said a lot about how confident India is about itself.  The move would have also made financial and practical sense.  Despite India's massive military procurement program, it's pilot training record is downright embarrassing. Again, here's a quote from the same report: "... the IAF’s notoriously unreliable basic trainer, the HPT-32 Deepak, was grounded after a horrific crash that killed two experienced pilots. In 17 Deepak crashes so far, 19 pilots have died."

This move would have done good where Indian diplomacy in recent years has done little to improve relations with its two neighbors.

The list of Indian hostile messages to Pakistan and China is long [acquiring Pakistan-specific weapon systems, building Pakistan- and China-specific bases near the two borders, quietly supporting terrorism inside China in Tibet in Xinjiang and Inside Pakistan's Balochistan and in cities close to Pakistan's border with India.

The Karakoram-8, and its several recent upgraded models, is jointly developed and produced by China Nanchang Aircraft Manufacturing Corporation and Pakistan Aeronautical Complex.  The plane is called K-8 Karakorum after the mountain range that separates China and Pakistan. Although it is a trainer, the jet can be used for light air-to-ground combat roles with easy modifications. [See specifications here].

India's New Army Chief Has China In Sight

Over the past few months, the Indian army was divided in two: half supporting former army chief Gen. Kapoor, and the other half supporting Gen. Singh, then in-charge of the eastern command who succeeded this month in dislodging the army chief. Now Gen. Singh’s first task is to reunite a divided army. But that’s not all. This is an in-depth look that reveals how Gen. Singh comes with some other interesting plans.  Our friends in China must know about this one.

Read the full report here.

Waiting For a Pakistani Mao

Just two years after the the return of Pakistan's shady democrats to power, even moderate commentators are calling for change. And in the case of commentator Ms. Anjum Niaz, they talk about revolution.

Pakistan is a country where even democracy will fail without some iron-handed intervention to set things right. Sometimes reform can't be put to vote, as I argue in my column, A Smart Coup: Why One Last Military Intervention In Pakistan Remains A Possibility. Here is an excerpt from Ms. Niaz's column today in The News International that sums up the stagnant governing culture in Pakistan these days, one that has been created by both political and military rulers, and one that needs to be changed to make Pakistan viable in the 21st century:

"Last Sunday on a PIA flight from Karachi to Islamabad, we had a VIP travel in the first-class cabin. When the flight landed in Islamabad, we were made to wait until the VIP was safely seated in his waiting Mercedes flying two flags – the Pakistan and perhaps the PPP flags. The wait for us was not long, but what was shocking was to see the car drive up to the apron, as close as it could get to the aircraft. Was the VIP a foreign guest warranting maximum security? No. He was in fact Raza Rabbani! To make sure I was not hallucinating, I double-checked with a member of the crew as we alighted. The airhostess confirmed it was the senator. Rabbani is currently chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security and also heads the Parliamentary Committee on Constitutional Reform. Do his handlers think that ordinary passengers like us are a threat to his life and therefore he must be whisked away the minute he sets foot on the ground?

"Raza Rabbani is one of the very few politicians who have been able to attain and sustain a high level of credibility in the eyes of public as well as among all the political parties," says a Google search I did on him today. "He is one politician who does not have any scandals associated with him; financial, moral, or political. He does not come from a feudal background, but earned his credibility as a competent lawyer and then as a principled political leader."

Why then does Rabbani fall for the VIP trappings? Surely, his life is not threatened the way Rehman Malik contends that his is? Malik has excused himself from appearing in person at courts because our security czar claims that there are people out to kill him.

I wrote on the chief secretary Punjab last week. He's on leave these days because the car that he was sitting in killed a man. The chief secretary's chauffeur is perhaps behind bars. But here is what he said against his boss according to a Lahore-based English newspaper report appearing on January 28. Permit me to reproduce it verbatim: "Ghulam Murtaza, the Punjab chief secretary's (CS) driver who was arrested on Tuesday for running over a retired colonel, has alleged that the CS had slapped him for not driving fast, shortly before the car hit and caused the death of Col (r) Muhammad Ikram, sources privy to the investigation told the daily. 'Most of the drivers left due to Javed Mahmood's unruly behaviour... the CS is known to use rough language and has sometimes even slapped drivers, telling them to drive faster,' sources in the Punjab Civil Secretariat said. They also claimed that in the past week, the CS had manhandled and humiliated Murtaza in front of the camp office staff over a minor oversight. On the day of the accident, the driver himself was under great psychological pressure, sources said. A number of drivers, who had worked for the CS, told the daily that Javed Mahmood had a habit of humiliating his drivers during out-of-station trips. Interestingly, Javed Mahmood has replaced around 15 staff drivers since his posting as the head of the province's civil administration in March 2008. According to the sources, Ghulam Murtaza has claimed that soon after the incident the CS got out of the car and walked away, directing him later on the phone not to disclose to anyone that he (Javed Mahmood) was in the car at the time of the accident."

If the damning testimony by the driver as reproduced above is baloney, the ex-chief secretary must set the record straight. It's most damaging. But more often than not, it's a reflection of how our bureaucrats treat their inferiors, especially servants, who dare not protest. The issue here is the cold hauteur of civil servants, trained to be rude, rough, boorish and harsh towards their servants and lower staff. Their wives and children too treat those who serve them with arrogance. It becomes a part of their DNA.

Pakistan is cursed with a VIP culture that will just not go away. There is no cure. From Zardari down to the thanedar or the patwari, we the ordinary citizens must accept these holy cows and be meek, submissive and servile before them. God forbid, should one come in their path, one is pushed aside like a speck of dust and told to remove himself/herself, even reprimanded and warned for polluting the stratified air the VIP breathes. 'Get lost' is the message!

Some even get killed! Like the colonel and the unlucky motorcyclist who happened to be on the same road as the senior adviser to the Punjab chief minister, Sardar Zulfiqar Khosa, driving from Derawar Fort after the conclusion of the Cholistan Jeep Rally. He was squished like a fly by the fleeting police escort 'guarding' Khosa. Two other riders survived the swat but are probably maimed for life.

Nothing short of a revolution will scorch this bumper crop of VIPs from our land."

CIA's Rogue Afghanistan Operations

The face of a CIA-recruited drug lord. Read below for details.

CIA needs authorization from US Congress before launching covert operations in other countries. Congress approves releasing funds for the operations.

Because of this requirement CIA has to give people in government details about the covert operations it is asking money for.

To avoid this disclosure, CIA has been looking for funding from other sources to launch 'rogue' operations, ones that are not fully endorsed by the government. 

In Afghanistan, CIA has launched several covert operations since 2002 meant to target not al-Qaeda or Taliban but some of the neighboring countries whose policies may not sync with US interests.

For example, Pakistan allowed Chinese personnel to build a huge strategic seaport called Gawadar. This Chinese presence was not in US interest. So CIA used Karzai's intelligence people and India's offer of help to target Chinese engineers in Pakistan. CIA did this quite successfully by slipping terrorists inside Pakistan pretending to be Taliban or al Qaeda.

It was easy for CIA agents to carry out this operation because Pakistan under former president Pervez Musharraf had granted US personnel, civilian and military, unprecedented freedom of movement within the country.

When these CIA agents killed a couple of Chinese engineers back in 2004, CIA psy-ops used the incident to put the blame on Afghan Taliban, thereby creating doubts in the minds of Chinese officials that Pakistani intelligence might have had something to do with this since Pakistan maintained ties with the Afghan Taliban government in Afghanistan before 2002.

Similarly, CIA launched covert operations against Iran, western China and Pakistan. It used Afghan soil in all of them, which made logistical issues pertaining to these operations much easier.

Where did the money come from for all of these operations?

Some of the money came from the US government, which has an anti-Iran covert program running until now from the Bush days. Nothing secret here.  But not all CIA operations in Afghanistan are funded by the US government.

It is believed that many CIA operations inside Pakistan and China received partial or no funding from the US government. These operations were meant to create ethnic, sectarian and political turmoil in Pakistan, and ethnic turmoil in China, especially in Tibet and Xinjiang.

CIA developed a new source of funding to finance these rogue operations.

The Afghan Taliban almost destroyed the Afghan opium trade, a feat unparalleled in the history of Afghanistan. It was near impossible for anyone to impose such discipline on a chaotic nation like Afghanistan.

After 2002, drug production and trade grew by leaps. CIA introduced latest drug production and transportation tehniques to Afghanistan, learned from CIA operations in South America.

CIA also recruited all the main Afghan drug barons. Almost all of them are on CIA's payroll, or were so until early 2010.

Some of these AFghan drug barons were actually rewarded. CIA recommended some of them to US government and military as legitimate powerbrokers who deserved a share in the Kabul government.

This is one facet of the multidimensional role that CIA played in Afghanistan between 2002 and 2010 to distrub regional balance of power and pursue US strategtic interests beyond the immediate goals of America's war on terror.

What If Pakistani Soldiers Raped Hindu Women?

You just have to love it when the mainstream US media - the advocate of war and official propaganda - tries to act neutral.

Israel slapped a media blackout a year ago duirng its attack on Gaza's unarmed civilians. A year later, on the first anniversary of the war, CNN focused on Dec. 27, 2009, on how bad Israel's media ban was.

How did CNN do this, criticize Israel without jeopardizing the special relationship?

By giving its correspondent Ben Wedeman around a minute - yes one minute - to mention how bad Israel has been.

But when China slapped a similar blackout last July on British- and American-backed disturbances in western China, the Am-Brit media was up in arms. Same thing with Iran. Same thing with Russia in Chechnya and Georgia.

India not only continues to impose a media blackout on its occupied region of Kashmir but also bans international human rights organizations, including Amnesty International and HRW, from sending observers to the territory.

India does this to hide massive human rights violations. Hardly a month goes by without the discovery of a mass grave. Sexually frustrated Indian soldiers, who serve in the troubled region for long tours of duty, routinely rape Kashmiri women. Rape is both an outlet and an officially-sanctioned tool of punishment for a population that misses no opportunity to show its disgust at being under Indian occupation.

Imgaine if Pakistan was occupying some Hindu-majority territory where Pakistani soldiers routinely raped Hindu women. A young married woman and her sister-in-law where the latest victims of Indian soldiers, raped, killed and thrown in a river.

Have you heard about this on CNN? BBC? FoxNews? Any other mainstream American or British media outlet?

You won't. Israel is no-go area for the Am-Brit media. India has become one recently because the United States and the United Kingdom are grooming this nation for policing duties in Afghanistan and Asia, and as a counterweight to China.  In other words, India is the new and cheap Anglo-American slave-soldier in Asia.

These are glaring discrepancies in how the Am-Brit media covers media bans in India and Israel and then in Iran, Russia and elsewhere.

Hundreds of children killed in the Israeli war on Gaza last year were barely covered in the mainstream Am-Brit media.

More than 55 Pakistanis were burned alive on Indian soil in 2006, in a case where Indian police proved later that serving Indian intelligence officers and Hindu extremists were involved in. The man who uncovered this nexus between Indian military and the nascent Hindu terror groups was the first recipient of an assassin's bullet during the first hours of the Mumbai attack. Have you read or heard any of this in the Am-Brit media? Hardly. But when it comes to Russia, Iran, Venezuela, Pakistan, China, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, the Am-Brit media is unstoppable.

When someone like me raises these questions, mainstream US and British publications devote blogs and writers to condemn 'conspiracy theories' and 'conspiracy theorists'. Some of them condescendingly talk about 'cultural' traits that make people from our part of the word susceptible to conspiracy theories.

But when the time is right, China's intelligence service will release details of another conspiracy: How the Indians, Americans, Brits & Karzai's intelligence worked together to stir unrest in China's Tibet and Xinjiang.

Launching Ceremony of First Indigenously Manufactured JF-17 Thunder in Pakistan

Launched on 23 November 2009.

From A Chinese Girl To All Pakistanis

Alex The Great Goes Pansy!

Yesterday we had a nice guy from NATO visiting Islamabad. Admiral Giampaolo di Paola told Pakistani reporters that NATO was not in Afghanistan to 'conquer the country like Alexander the Great.'

"We will not stay a day longer when we're asked to leave," he said.

And who will ask them to leave? The puppet government of Hamid Karzai, his ministers, army and intelligence who owe their new jobs to a foreign occupation?

I enjoyed a hearty laugh when I saw the good NATO admiral deny that his army was a new Alexander The Great.

You're right, Mr. di Paolo. Those were honorable men. When they came to occupy a nation, they said so openly and didn't lie like pansies in the UN Security Council showing doctored photographs of mobile nuclear labs in order to justify occupation [sorry Colin Powell]. They plundered and left or stayed and built. Those who brought you here, Mr. di Paolo are plunderers and destroyers.

Right now in Afghanistan we have pansies and thieves occupying and ruling a proud nation. They don't have the guts to admit they're occupying someone else's country. If they admit it, then they'd at least become responsible for rebuilding what they broke. Yet these occupiers refuse to take this responsibility, and then send nice guys to tell us they are here on the request of the very puppets they have put in power.

The occupied nation of Afghanistan is not sitting quiet of course. Just cut through the fog of propaganda and you'll see a nation rejecting them and fighting and giving them a good run for their money.

di Paolo was visibly embarrassed when the CIA drones were mentioned. Almost at a loss for words. “I don’t want to (be seen) as shy," he said, "I am not a US official. There are some US policies ... I believe that [sovereignty] of both Pakistan and Afghanistan should be respected."

We understand you, Adm. di Paolo. You've been dragged into Afghanistan by these pansies who hide behind democracy, terror and women's rights. They've wasted eight years and turned Afghanistan into a base for narcotics trade and a base for destabilizing China, Pakistan and Iran.

Leave while you can, Mr. di Paolo, or your friends who brought you here will lead you to bankruptcy as they've done to their own nation.

None Of Your Business, Mr. Qureshi

I hope all Pakistanis have by now heard the latest joke: That our Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi has called on the government of Burma to release opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi from jail.

This story is especially relevant to the 1.5 million Pakistanis who are sleeping in the wilderness now thanks to the anti-Pakistan scheming of the Americans and their poodles [Britain, Karzai, India] in Afghanistan. Mr. Qureshi has no time to raise the issue of the weapons and money coming from Afghanistan to the terrorists inside Pakistan. No, he has no time for this. But he has all the time in the world to worry about Ms. Kyi's health. What a compassionate man.

Here's my reaction on the statement: Ha ha ha ha ha.

No really.

What is Pakistani Foreign Minister's business in calling for the release of Burma's opposition leader?

Was Mr. Shah Mahmood Qureshi bored of the myriad foreign policy problems facing Pakistan that he chose to make a statement that obviously is none of our business and only seeks to appease Washington and London?

Burma's government has decided to put the lady opposition leader on trial because she basically is a tool in the hands of US and UK, the Am-Brit brigade. She is a tool pretty much like Foreign Minister Qureshi's own government and his own boss, President Zardari.

This partially explains why Mr. Qureshi stuck his nose where it doesn't belong.

But there is another explanation.

Burma's government has excellent relations with China and Pakistan, and not with the Am-Brit brigade, US and UK. The free press in Washington and London keeps the story of Ms. Suu Kyi alive because this way they keep the pressure on Burma's government. The usual pretext of human rights and democracy is used for this Am-Brit interference.

Pakistan supports the government of Burma since we have no problem with them and it is none of our business what they do to the lady opposition leader who's basically an American poodle, or ... I'm sure you get what the appropriate word here is.

The only reason I can think of that made Pakistani Foreign Minister Qureshi issue this unusual statement is because that's what Washington wants.

This would also be a clear signal to Beijing that Islamabad is firmly in the US orbit. The Burmese government would also be in a shock because they thought Pakistan supported them since like us they are also sick and tired of Indian arrogance and often take joy in cutting India down to size in their own ways.

Mr. Qureshi had more urgent business to attend to than to interfere in Burma's internal matters. Besides the issue the of American double game against Pakistan in Afghanistan, Mr. Qureshi should have been more concerned about the statement issued by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization [SCO] and by a Russian official on Pakistan's nuclear arsenal. The statement basically endorsed the Am-Brit [American-British] propaganda on the safety of Pakistan's strategic weapons.

This appears to be an urgent business that begs Mr. Qureshi's attention. But no. Mr. Qureshi and his US puppet government is more interested in appeasing its masters in Washington.