Adil Najam
The military is never really out of the news in Pakistan. Nor is it ever far from the center of Pakistan politics. But recent event have brought the question of where the Pakistan military is headed into even sharper relief than usual.
There is much speculation – maybe too much speculation – on where the Pakistan military is headed in the coming days and weeks.
There are some who argue that following the attack on the GHQ the military will act even more swiftly on extremists in Pakistan – whether in the Waziristan region or in Southern Punjab. Others feel that the furore created by the Kerry-Lugar Bill has so poisoned the civil-military relationship in Pakistan that even the immediate future of Pakistan’s political displacements may (again) be in doubt. Yet others would argue that while the tensions are all real, the military is in that phase that comes after each prolonged period of military rule when it prefers to remain in the political background while it consolidates its public image.
My own current sense is that there may be some truth in all three scenarios. Possibly in a combination of the three. Of course, there could be other directions in the mix too. What do you think? Where is the Pakistan military headed in the next many days? And what does that mean about where Pakistan is headed?
Matters taking very serious turn, thanks to RAW-CIA-MOSAD networks in Afghanistan and seceret pacts of Zardari-Nawaz Sharif with Americans.
I foresee an interim Govt headed by Judiciary which may rule the country for two years backed by Armed forces ,then elections after clean up .
Pakistan be saved and move on to be one of the peaceful regions in the world soon.
@Usman,
you are a disgrace. How many people do these terrorists have to kill before you realize there is a problem.
Maybe you should send those quotes to those terrorists, who have no compunction killing believers on a regular basis.
People like you are a disgrace to our country.
@Usman
The US would not have come to this region if 9/11 had not happened, so your finger is pointing in the wrong direction. Additionally Pakistan’s war is with the Taliban and extremists, not with the tribesmen. The Pakhtun tribesmen have themselves been assaulted and murdered by the Taliban and their lands turned into a warzone by the Taliban.
The USA is not sending teams to attack the Sri Lankan cricket, GHQ or political rallies in Pakistan, the terrorists are doing that. In addition the terrorists are killing Pakistanis in cold blood. So instead using religion as opium, as you are doing, use it to distinguish between right and wrong.
Armed Forces of Pakistan! These are the same tribesmen along with whom you expelled USSR from this region. They used to love you and you respected them. Then who is the one who turned you against each other? Indeed it all started with the advent of US troops in the region. Know thy enemy and support your brothers who are busy in expelling the crusaders from the region instead of lending support to the devil, the USA. Bear in mind, It is not acceptable in front of Allah (swt) in any case that you kill Muslims by allying with Kuffar. Allah (swt) said;
وَمَنْ يَقْتُلْ مُؤْمِنًا مُتَعَمِّدًا فَجَزَاؤُهُ جَهَنَّمُ خَالِدًا فِيهَا وَغَضِبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَعَنَهُ وَأَعَدَّ لَهُ عَذَابًا عَظِيمًا
And whoever kills a believer intentionally, his Recompense is Hell to abide therein, and the Wrath and the Curse of Allâh are upon him, and a great punishment is prepared for Him. (TMQ: An-Nisa; 93)
You are the largest Muslim military power from Central Asia to the Indian Ocean and its you who have to take care of the Muslims of this region.
The suspicion in many Pakistani political and military circles is that the supply of weapons and equipment from Afghanistan to terrorists in South Waziristan has some kind of support from “one or more levels” in the US military and intelligence on the ground in Afghanistan. One manifestation of this interference in Pakistan from the Afghan soil is the keenness, until recently, of influential US officials and commanders to focus the Pakistani military strength on the Afghan border and force Pakistan to cease viewing India as a threat, paving the way for granting India transit facilities to Afghanistan through Pakistani territory. In September 2008, Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer, wrote in Time magazine that Washington downplayed a series of actions by the US military and CIA in Afghanistan that almost led to a war with Pakistan. “The story has been subsequently downplayed,” Baer said then, adding “and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Mike Mullen, flew to Islamabad, Pakistan’s capital, to try to ease tensions. But the fact remains that American forces have and are violating Pakistani sovereignty.”
Source: The National Ootober 13, 2009.
Ref: http://www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspaper-d aily-english-online/Politics/13-Oct-2009/Armys-opt ions-can-go-beyond-Waziristan/