Musharraf will continue his delusional fight on terror cleansing all political opponents on the way modeled on MQM style Mafia Raj. He still believes that
he is popular in people because people are not not coming on street in millions.
He has appointed his relatives on sensitive posts in military like ISI, MI.

Remember his famous mafia mottoes:
kill your enemy before it kills you
Main haar nahi maanta
Main darta nahi hoon

Just combine all these mottoes and you will get the feel of his personality
and bloody time coming for Pakistan.

If the government is clean and has no links with BB’s assassination then why is it not accepting repeated calls for an independent inquiry or at the least an independently caried out postmortem and forensic investogation into her sad demise? If I am not guilty and someone is pointing fingers at me for something that I have not done then wouldn’t I try and prove my innocense? I would be a fool not to do that, wouldn’t I?
The more you ponder at this incident and government’s claims, the weeker the government’s stands look. The “lever” theory from the government is very week; PPP has now taken a stand that BB had fallen into the vehicle after the shots were fired and before the bomb had been exploded. Baitullah Mahsud theory also does not have much substance to it.
As usual, the government has further cornered itself with its illogical and idiotic claims.

NOW, the future of Pakistan is very clear and extremely bright and secure because the ring leader of this looter mafia is gone. It would not be that easy from now on to steal another 1.6 billion dollars of our tax money.

Come on guys, grow up she is a history now. Vibrant nations look towards their future only.

buzz word: MOVE ON ……

The future of Pakistan depends on finding the answer to a single question that has bed-evilled this unfortunate nation since its birth, which is; who is to reign supreme in Pakistani politics and governance, Civilians or Army?

and actually acting on the conclusion steadfastly for ever.

Aristotle thank you very much for your extremely thought provoking observation - how can we miss a person like you with such great intellect giving us such a deep insight into this saga which we have not been able to see and feel.

I am sure you have saved millions of dollars in exchange fo billions of dollars which Musharraf, Chaudhries, shaukat Aziz and army has looted from this country.

For a start check teh list of Chak Shezad

The ghost of Aristotle would indeed by in great pain that there is another great Aristotle born and that too in a land of pure - Pakistan.

@commoner: I agree with you that there is only one question that so called “Pakistanis” need to answer, but IMO, that is:

Who Are We?

Pakistan has had an identity crisis since day one, even before it’s inception. This is why we are overrun by competing forces that fight to define who we are. Until Pakistan comes to grip with it’s own identity, things won’t change. Unfortunately, nations don’t get too many chances. We have had half a century, and in the beginning of Pakistan’s life the colonial masters were recovering from self destruction, but we didn’t use that time to build a strong base.

India did.

We see the difference today. India is planning to send a space shuttle, meanwhile our young men are busy blowing themselves and their countrymen up on the advice of their idiotic elders (mullah this, maulvi that blah blah blah)

This is the best we can come up with today? These are the brightest ideas Muslims and Pakistanis have had so far? “Blow yourself and others to smithereens” regardless of the problem at hand.

And what brought us here? We don’t know who we are.

Guys I have noticed in a video clip on GEO that Fatima Bhutto speaks only English. She couldn’t complete a sentence in broken Urdu.
Any thoughts?

javed - come on dont be so harsh - i also saw that clip - she didnt want to talk much and if she couldnt then is it a problem - dont try to be too crictical about other people and we should be tolerant about other peoples issues and not try to minutely investigate each and everything.

There is also a strong suspicion that the murderer could be from MQM - because they would take revenge from her for her goverment action against them in 1995-96.

Also thier leader Gen Musharraf who is a mojahir and believes Altaf Hussain is his spiritual leader - had openly refused to hold enquiry on May 12 incident and when Sindh High Court decided to go ahead there were hundred of MQM ghundas who encircled the court.

And now in BB’s case he is again lying which has been thoroughly exposed by Geo and Dawn TV pictures.

c hussain
Bro I was just thinking that she is in politics and might play a role if main PPP and PPP (Shaheed Bhutto) decides to merge. Even not, she is still in politics and how will she lead public in Larkana, Sindh and Pakistan if their is a communication gap between her and public.

@taban.khamosh

I have no hesitation in accepting that the point that you have raised is equally basic. But let me say that this confusion of identity hasbeen created purposefully by the successive military regimes and that is a direct consequence of the efforts to centralize the ruling authority. Muslim political history is replete with a continuous uninterruppted rule by a central authority backed by Mullah’s oppurtunistic and convulated version of Islam. The coining of the deceptive term of Nazariya e Pakistan by Gen Sher ALi in Yahya’s days and its blatant use by dictators have brain washed the common pakistanis. The official history books were systematically cleansed of any reference to our centuries old INDUS IDENTITY which predates arrival of Islam in the sub continent.

Aitezaz Ahsan’s Indus Saga and the making of Pakistan points towards this basic anomoly and highlights the disruption of continuity of our existence as nation and its dangerous effects on our national psyche . He also provides an alternative Indus based geographic conception of nationhood for the people of Pakistan in place of now redundant Two nation theory.

@commoner:

Thanks for pointing me to Aitezaz Ahsan’s book, seems like an interesting read. I would like to add to your comment saying that the identity crisis has only been exploited by the ‘establishment’ which has been ruling Pakistan (and grossly mismanaging and humiliating us in the process)…

Granted that a new identity needed to be forged once everyone had committed to the idea of separation from the bigger psychological unit (The indian subcontinent). But the way it was done, only showed the bankruptcy of the generation of leaders we got (and I don’t mean just the political leaders).

The actions of our establishment make perfect sense when one views them as a group who don’t really have a stake in the country.. they somehow got control of this wealth producing unit and treat it as one treats an object. The messy part is that all the chattel have to be convinced that the reason they have to go through this daily ordeal is Nazriya this or Islam ka Qila that.. and the Mullahs have always been there, begging bowl (and now AK47’s) in hand to support the oppressor against the mass of poor people.

The aspirations of our establishment are not national, they are personal. If we survive all this massive incompetence that has been unleashed upon us, the only hope might be the new generation which doesn’t know anything but Pakistan but the danger is that it has been severely mis-educated and a good percentage of them are turning more and more to religious extremism because of glaring inconsistencies in the education system.

Still their is a new and revived undercurrent of democratic civicminded-ness in the youth of Pakistan which is more mature than the populist upheaval of the 70’s and gives me hope. The Lawyers movement was almost phase one, the reaction to benazir’s death is phase two and when 1 & 2 synthesize into some kind of organized struggle against the ruling forces, theres going to be ripples.

I think what Pakistan as a society is going through is a realization process.

It is not Mush, Army, the “establishment,” or any of the usual suspects. Ultimately it is a handful of powerful “power brokers.” These people are like leaches on the skin of Pakistan. Sucking its blood. These are true criminals and need to be sought out and eradicated. These are likely agents of western interests bent on repressing any and all non-western nations (particularly a nuclear Muslim state.) Musharaf said that he was going to follow the Turk approach in cleansing Pakistan and the Mullahs shot him down but that is really what the country needs. These religious right wingers are exactly the type of people that enemies need to sustain unrest in Pakistan. We are playing right into their hands.

Asalamo Alikum,

Musharraf, the compulsive gambler sold another chunk of its sovereignty and independence only to show he can do it better than what Benazir had promised to the warlords in Washington. Musharraf must have told the US officials, Benazir is mere promises, conditional on her success, I can sign a deal right now. Hence the report was published by the Washington Post the day Benazir was assassinated. It means the deal between Mush and the US official was inked days before that.

Under the pretext of training and supporting indigenous counter-insurgency forces and clandestine counter-terrorism units – read Pakistan’s mercenary forces, fighting and dying for the neocons designs in the region - US special forces are expected to vastly expand their presence in Pakistan early next year. According to Washington Post, this was revealed by the American defence officials involved with the planning.

These Pakistan-centric operations will mark a shift for the US military and for US-Pakistan relations. In the aftermath of Sept 11, the US used Pakistani military bases to stage illegal and illegitimate attacks into Afghanistan, which resulted in the butchery of thousands of innocent civilian and innocent lives. According to the reports, once the US deposed the Taliban government and established its main operating base at Bagram, north of Kabul, US forces left Pakistan almost entirely. This however doesn’t make sense in the light of the present revelations that troops level “will be increased,� which means there is already some presence of the US forces in Pakistan. Although the pro-regime reports say that Pakistan has restricted US involvement in cross-border military operations as well as paramilitary operations on its soil. But the evidence of events since 2001 and the US sustained attacks on Pakistan, any time it wanted to attack, tells a story to the contrary.

Despite that the Pentagon pretends that it has been frustrated by the inability of Pakistani forces to control the borders or the frontier area. Pakistan’s political instability is further used as a ruse to express heightened US concern about “extremists� there. These are all part of the bigger plan. The objective is to pave the way for the impending surge of US troops within Pakistan – which has been presenting itself a nuclear power and an independent, sovereign state. Now it has to face the second stage of direct US occupation.

According to Pentagon sources, reaching a different agreement with Pakistan became a priority for the new head of the US Special Operations Command, Adm Eric T Olson.

Olson visited Pakistan in August, November and again this month, meeting with the self-imposed president Pervez Musharraf, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee Gen Tariq Majid and Lt Gen Muhammad Masood Aslam, commander of the military and paramilitary troops in northwest Pakistan. Olson also visited the headquarters of the Frontier Corps, a separate paramilitary force recruited from Pakistan’s border tribes.

Now, a new agreement, reported when it was still being negotiated last month, has been finalised. And the first US personnel could be on the ground in Pakistan by early in the new year, according to Pentagon sources. Thanks to General Musharraf, his ambition to remain in power and his nature as a compulsive gambler, which forces him to surrender almost anything in order to secure his stay in power.

US Central Command Commander Adm William Fallon alluded to the agreement and spoke approvingly of Pakistan’s recent so-called counter-terrorism efforts in a recent interview.

“What we’ve seen in the last several months is more of a willingness to use their regular army units,� along the Afghan border, Fallon said. “And this is where, I think, we can help a lot from the US in providing the kind of training, assistance and mentoring based on our experience with insurgencies recently and with the terrorist problem in Iraq and Afghanistan, I think we share a lot with them, and we’ll look forward to doing that.�

In fact, this is the initial phase of finding a niche within Pakistan army for the pro-US elements in preparation of the bigger struggle. Chaos is being manufactured on the other hand for unfolding the next phases of the plan neutralize Pakistan. As chaos deepens and the situation escalates to a civil war, the US forces will already be on the ground in Pakistan to support in invading and attacking forces. The already present US forces on the ground will stand by those elements of the Pakistan army which will be resisting the break away factions as was indicated by Frederick W. Kegan and Michael O’Hanlon in the New York Times on November 18, 2007.

The theme of attacking or, at least, temporarily occupying Pakistan is not new. This idea has been part of the necons-Zionist lobby for quite some time. David Albright wrote a paper, “Securing Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons Complex� in 2001. The paper was commissioned and sponsored by the Stanley Foundation for the 42nd Strategy for Peace Conference from October 25-27, 2001. The paper pointed out:

“a special concern is that Pakistan will suffer another coup. A new leadership can be expected to place a high priority on seizing the country’s nuclear assets…In the most extreme case, a coup takes place and the new regime attempts to gain control of the nuclear complex. Foreign governments may intervene to prevent hostile forces from seizing the strategic nuclear assets.�

A realistic look on the unfolding situation clearly suggest that the “extreme situation� pointed out in the said paper is being created with undue support to all the illegal and outright criminal moves by Musharraf. This US-UK support to the tyrant only exacerbate the situation.

David Albright, Kevin O’Neill and Corey Hinderstein, conclude in their proposal, “Securing Pakistan’s Nuclear Arsenal: Principles for Assistance,” (ISIS Issue Brief, October 4, 2001):

“Several observers have suggested that if Pakistan suffers a coup by forces hostile to the United States, the US military should be ready to provide security over the nuclear weapons (or even to take the weapons out of Pakistan entirely) without the permission of the Pakistani authorities.�

Neocons-Zionists and other warlords in Washington and UK believe that time has come to invade and strip Pakistan of its nuclear weapons. That’s how the US got a green light from Islamabad to consolidate its position on the ground within Pakistan and in return Musharraf only maintained his indispensability and rule only for the time being.

As usual, the Neocons-Zionists are paying no attention to the consequences of their totalitarian designs. They hardly care if Iraq and Afghanistan are in total chaos and millions of innocent lives have been lost. What is chaos to us is a success to them. Without such a vast turmoil, they believe it is not easy to redraw the maps in the Middle-East (including South Asia) and permanently tame the Muslim world in favour of Israel’s expansionist drive.

These are the evil designs of our enemies and the enemies of Islam against us. All the following evidences are pointing to the fact the USA wants to weak, divide and destroy all those Muslims countries that has the capability to become the launching point for re-establishment of khilafah. They know very well that Islam is not only a combination of rituals and worships rather it gives to the world an alternative in the form of Socio-Economic, Ruling and Judicial system. Therefore they conceder Islam an ideological rival.

It is the time for the Muslims to wake up and understand the reality of the world USA wants, and to expose there evil agenda, which they have for the Muslims.

“We need an Islamic reformation,” the then Deputy Defense Secretary of the United States, Paul Wolfowitz confided on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq, “and I think there is real hope for one.” [http://www.antiwar.com/lobe/?articleid=2273]

Indeed they will not succeed in their evil plots against Islam. As Allah (Swt) said in Quran “They plan and Allah (Swt) also plan, and Allah is the best planer”.

Regards