Saturday, April 30, 2011
علامہ سید محمد جواد ہادی: قبائلی علاقوں میں حکومت نام کی کوئی چیز نہیں
علامہ سید محمد جواد ہادی: قبائلی علاقوں میں حکومت نام کی کوئی چیز نہیں
Friday, April 29, 2011
'Bahrain situation unveils US hypocrisy'
Press TV interviewed Journalist and Political Analyst Dr. Aly El Kabbany regarding the Bahrain situation, and the US approval of Saudi forces invading the country.
Press TV: Robert Cooper, a handpicked Senior Advisor to Catherine Ashton who is the Foreign Policy Chief as you well know, publically defended Bahrain's brutal crackdown, and chucked at the deaths as accidents. This was around March 30th. So is that the type of reaction we are seeing from the EU in particular? Is it a reflection of European countries?
Kabbany: Actually what you are hearing from the EU, and from the United States is lip service and media talk to try and say we are the guardians of human rights, and they support human rights. The contradiction is in the statement of Hillary Clinton. She said that the Bahraini government has the sovereign right to invite the GCC forces. How can a sovereign country, which lost legitimacy because the majority of its people do not want this government in place, invite foreign armies to fight civilians and to crush a civilian protest?
So that is the hypocrisy of the United States when they say that the Bahraini government has gotten sovereign rights, and at the same time they wish the process will end peacefully. We can see that the Bahraini government stopped any dialogue with the opposition, and they are now feeling strong after they dispersed all the protesters from Pearl Square. They are committing crimes against humanity under the watch of the 5th Fleet of the United States, which is based in Bahrain.
Press TV: What is it that defines the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia as we speak? The trip by Gates to Saudi Arabia is saying the 60-billion-dollar arms deal has gone through, not to mention he is there trying to sell Saudi Arabia more equipment at the same time. So what is it that the United States is asking Saudi Arabia to do? What is the relationship regarding the events in Bahrain?
Kabbany: The relationship between the Saudi monarchy and the United States is very strong and very stable. The King of Saudi Arabia knows that his monarchy is relying on the protection and the support of the United States. So they may have some disagreement sometimes on regional issues, but they never have disputes and the Saudi government can never afford to have a dispute against the Americans.
However, I think the Americans are now trying to convince the Saudis that the days of Ali Abdullah Saleh are over and they shouldn't support his regime. Now it's time for a change in Yemen. They mean a change of faces but not regime.
This is what the US and the Saudi Kingdom are trying to plot in Yemen. As for Bahrain, it's public knowledge that the American administration announced that the Bahraini regime is a pillar of the military and strategic framework of the United States in the area. So regardless of how brutal and authoritarian this regime is, the United States and Saudi Arabia will support this regime to the end because they are going against the wishes of the majority of the people. They don't care about their demands and these legitimate demands are their words not mine.
They are supporting the regime and they have allowed and given a green light for Al-Jazeera and GCC forces to invade Bahrain to help the dictator of Bahrain in oppressing and crushing the protesters in the country. We could hear the assistant of the Defense Secretary of Saudi Arabia today saying that Bahrain is stable. If that situation is stable according to him, the man is leaving in a dream and he doesn't know what is going on around him.
Press TV: When we talk about democracy, that is where the United States should come in, but they can't afford to lose their long term ally Saudi Arabia because of one thing and that is the oil. Isn't that true Dr. Kabbany?
Kabbany: Absolutely, there is also morality, ethics, and human rights, which the US claims to be the guardian of these issues. So they shouldn't contradict themselves when we are seeing massacres and killing of bare-handed civilians. The popular uprising in Bahrain was non-sectarian as your guest said. It's the rulers in the Gulf area that are playing the sectarian issue, which is a very dangerous issue to divide the people and destabilize the whole area.
I'm just hearing voices, for example in the propaganda machines, which they call media of these Gulf states. They are saying if the Shia citizens of Bahrain are not happy with Al-Khalifa ruling, they can leave the country and go to Iran. This is fascist and discriminatory remarks. People, who mention that are, say that should really be tried in court.
Even if we talk about the minority Sunni in Bahrain and say if they are not happy, they should leave and go to their brothers in Saudi Arabia, that would still be a fascist and discriminatory remark. So how dare they say that? Also the Muslims in the West would have the decency not to say if Muslims are not happy in the US or Europe, they can leave and go back to their countries. Those countries in the West and in the US respect human rights. I wonder why morality and ethics always end at the boarders of these countries, and do not extend to the Middle East where we are seeing all of these atrocities committed under their watch.
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/173633.html
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
[VIDEO] Pakistanis protest killing of Shias in Parachinar
These hundreds of protesters from Pakistan’s tribal regions are marching towards the Parliament in the capital Islamabad.
They seek an end to the years of bloodshed in Parachinar in Kurram Agency located in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas.
The country’s only Shia dominated tribal region has been in the grip of violence for years.
The people of the area say pro-Taliban militants having strong presence in the area are responsible for the unrest.
Speakers at the rally say Parachinar is facing worst humanitarian crises due to the closure of main road linking Parachinar to the rest of the country for the last four years.
Reports say over 4000 people most of them from the Shia community have been killed since the violence engulfed Parachinar back in 2005.
The protesters staged a sit-in in front of the Parliament to urge the government to restore peace in their area.
They were joined by the politicians including a lawmaker from the area, who has boycotted the Parliamentary proceedings until peace is returned to Parachinar.
Others have also endorsed the idea.
In the mean time, government insists it is doing its best to
bring normalcy to the area.
According to official figures over 32,000 families have been displaced from Parachinar due to years of violence.
Last month, the country’s Prime Minister announced financial compensation for the affected people. However, these hundreds of protesters from the area have rejected the move, saying the only way to address the problem is to treat the troubled region at par with other parts of the country and establish the writ of law enforcement agencies there.
Source: presstv.ir
Monday, April 25, 2011
Riaz Ali Toori: Issue of Parachinar was discussed in National Assembly
Issue of Parachinar was discussed in National Assembly
Interior Minister Rehman Malik on Friday assured the National Assembly that all efforts would be taken to ensure safe traveling on Parachinar Road which was recently opened after two years under an agreement between two local tribes.Replying to a Calling Attention Notice raised by Noor ul Haq Qadri, Hameed Ullah Jan Afridi, Zafar Beg Bhittani and others regarding attack on passenger vehicles on Parachinar Road by terrorists, the minister said the road remained closed for travelling for the last two years and it was opened under agreement between two tribes of the areas.
He said the agreement is a good omen for facilitating the people of the area. However, he said that terrorists always used terror as a weapon. He said that he has ordered FC General to conduct inquiry and ensure security in the area.
The minister said that he would also hold meeting with FATA parliamentarians and local elders to prepare a comprehensive strategy to ensure security to the people travelling on the road.
He said the security and patrolling of the road would also be enhanced and aerial surveillance would be carried if needed.
Malik said that currently Parachinar airport is not functional and Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) would be requested to make arrangement for landing of large aircraft as only small plane could land there.
He said the government had started helicopter service from Peshawar to Parachinar to facilitate the people.
Noor-ul Qadri said that it is a very complicated issue and around 500 people have lost their lives and 6000 sustained injuries so far.
Farah Naz Ispfahani and Zafar Beg said that permanent solution of the issue should be sorted out as people of the area are facing immense hardship and they have to use Afghanistan route to come to Peshawar.
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Saturday, April 23, 2011
Kurram Agency residents on hunger strike
ISLAMABAD: Residents of Kurram Agency mostly students on Friday started hunger strike in front of National Press Club to press the government for solid measures to restore peace in the restive region.
Organized by "Youth of Parachinar," the protest camp was joined by dozens of people belonging to Kurram Agency, holding placards and demanding of the government to take practical measure to open Thall-Parachinar Road, which has been closed for four years due to lawlessness.
Talking to Business Recorder, the protesting students alleged that the government has completely failed in providing security to the people, adding that people belonging to Turi tribe of the Kurram Agency were being kidnapped and killed on the Thall-Parachinar road while the government was unable to take action against handful of militants.
"The government is responsible for the loss of the lives of the innocent people of the Kurram Agency by giving free hand to the militants," said Mehdi Hussain, a participant of the hunger strike camp, adding that 40 people of the Turi tribe were kidnapped last month and eight out of them were brutally killed.
He said that Kurram Agency was facing acute shortage of life saving drugs and daily use food and other products due to the blockage of the only road that links the troubled areas with rest of the country.
The protesters urged Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry to take suo motu notice of the situation and issue direction to the government to undertake necessary measures to open the road on permanent basis and provide security to the passengers.
They also called upon human rights organizations to help the people in need adding patients including women and children breath their last in misery due to lack of life saving drugs in the troubled areas.
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Declassified Papers Shed Light on US Role in Liaquat’s Murder
| Declassified Papers Shed Light on US Role in Liaquat’s Murder Syed Rashid Husain, Arab News | ||||||
ALKHOBAR, 18 July 2006 — Oil, Iran and air bases, seem to be issues of recent times. Not indeed. It was some 55 years back that these issues were very much in play and a recently declassified document indicates that these were the reasons behind the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s first prime minister on Oct. 16, 1951. Like a number of other high-profile killings, the assassination of Liaquat Ali Khan, has also remained a mystery. Conspiracy theories abound, yet are difficult to substantiate. A recent declassified document from the US State Department brings to light some interesting facts. According to the document, a telegram was sent by the American Embassy in New Delhi on Oct. 30, 1951. “Is Liaquat Ali Khan’s assassination a result of a deep-laid American conspiracy?” The telegram from the US Embassy in New Delhi carried the summary of an article published in the Urdu daily of Bhopal, “Nadeem” on Oct. 24, 1951, charging the US with the responsibility of Khan’s death. The summary then points to the facts raised in the Nadeem article, “It was neither a local incident nor connected with the Pashtoonistan movement (as some may have believed then). It had behind it a deep-rooted conspiracy and recognizable hand.” The article then says that the then Afghan government “knew about the conspiracy and the assassin was an Afghan, yet, the plot was hatched neither in Kabul nor in Karachi (the then capital of Pakistan).” The declassified document reveals that the day before assassination, the secretary to the American ambassador in Karachi absent-mindedly jotted down “holiday” for Oct. 19 in a table diary and then immediately struck it off. Following the secretary’s departure, Mohammad Hussain, a Pakistani employee at the American Embassy in Karachi asked the secretary’s British clerk about the holiday. The clerk described it as a possible slip. “Mistake meaningful,” however, because “the secretary knew the embassy would be closed (on) Oct. 17 (sic) although no American or Pakistani holiday was scheduled then to fall that day. The story in Nadeem then points to another fact, as given in the declassified document. The American ambassador (in Karachi) offered condolences to Liaquat’s wife (Raana Liaquat Ali Khan) on the phone, some three and a half minutes before even the Governor General of Pakistan Khawaja Nazimuddin managed to offer his condolences. This was despite the fact that the governor general was the first to be informed (of the killing) by the Rawalpindi authorities. Indeed with no mobile connection, no live transmissions, even no TV, those were different days and the flow of information was much slower than today. The question that the newspaper article thus tried to raise was how did the American ambassador come to know of the assassination before the governor general of Pakistan found out? The newspaper article, as summarized by the declassified US document, then discusses the possible reason for the disenchantment of the US and the UK governments with the Pakistan prime minister and his government. Liaquat was not ready to toe the US line, the newspaper pointed out and hence the US wanted him eliminated. “While the UK was pressing Pakistan for support on the issue of Iran, the US demanded Pakistan use its influence in Tehran and persuade it to transfer control of its oil fields to the US (oil apparently has remained a major issue with the Americans ever since, especially while Mohammad Mosaddeq was in power in Tehran then). According to the article, Liaquat Ali Khan declined to accede to the request. “The US then threatened to annul the secret pact on Kashmir (between Pakistan and the US). Liaquat replied that Pakistan has annexed half of Kashmir without American support and would be able to take the other half too.” Not only that, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan also demanded that the US vacate air bases in Pakistan. “Liaquat’s demand was a bombshell for Washington. Americans who had been dreaming of conquering Soviet Russia from Pakistan air bases were flabbergasted,” the article emphasized. And hence the plot to kill Liaquat was hatched, says the article. However, “the US wanted a Muslim assassin, so as to obviate international complications. The US could not find a traitor in Pakistan (apparently for the reason that the new country was then brimming with nationalistic pride and hope for future),” the article added. The US then turned to Kabul. “Washington contacted the US Embassy in Kabul. They in turn got in touch with Pashtoonistan leaders, pointing to Liaquat as their only hurdle and assuring them that if some of them could kill Liaquat, the US would undertake the task of establishing Pashtoonistan by 1952.” At this the “Pashtoon leaders induced Akbar to take the job and also made arrangements for him to be killed immediately after so as to conceal the conspiracy. The Pakistani currency recovered from the assassin’s body also reveal that others were also involved. Due to already strained relations between Pakistan and Afghanistan no currency exchange was then taking place between the two countries. Hence only the “American Embassy (in Kabul) could have supplied the Pakistani currency notes to the assassin,” the summary argued. The article also mentioned that the cartridges recovered from the body of the assassinated Pakistani premier were US made. The type of bullet used to kill the Pakistani prime minister were in “use by high-ranking American officers”, and were “not usually available in the market”. The rest is for us to deduce. The article then summarized that all these facts prove that the real culprit behind the killing was the US, which had committed similar acts in the Middle East as well. There are many parallels between then and now. And all this could not be just a matter of chance. Oil, assassinations, dollars, Iran, air bases, all these sound familiar even today. Fifty years have passed, yet things may not have really changed. |
Saturday, April 2, 2011
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