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NATO Stop The Blame Game- Stop Nurturing Terrorism In Afghanistan

Posted on 07 February 2012 by Tea Server

By Sajjad Shaukat

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton who visited Islamabad on October 20 this year, succeeded in reducing the heat in Pak-US relationship, but she emphasised on Pakistan to “remove safe havens of militants in FATA and the continuing threats across the border to Afghans.” But on October 23, during a CNN interview, Ms. Clinton first time remarked, “US acknowledges the need to

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Taliban’s new decision: They will not fight against Pak Army

Posted on 04 January 2012 by Tea Server



In recent talk with taliban,Taliban said that they will not fight against Pak army,They have nothing to gain while fighting against pak army,even they suffer more.Taliban said: now Pak and Afghan taliban will be unite and they will fight against NATO and ISAF forces till withdrawal from Afghanistan.

they also said they face heavy lose while fighting against pak army because Muslim can’t fight against Muslim,Recent Nato attack on Pak army urge taliban to fight ISAF and Nato.Mullah omar play very important role in peace talk with pak army.

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NATO is looking north

Posted on 26 December 2011 by Tea Server

Report By Ali K Chishti
US-Pakistan relations
Pakistan has played its trump card by stopping NATO supplies, but NATO may change the game by finding a new route
 

 
NATO is looking north
 
 

Pakistan stopped supplies from its Karachi port to NATO troops in Afghanistan after 24 of its soldiers were killed in a US air strike on a border post on November 26. But there was a consensus in a meeting of Pakistani envoys in Islamabad earlier this month that the move would not help improve coordination between the two allies in the war on terror.

A senior NATO commander in Afghanistan said the shutting down of the Southern Distribution Network had had “negligible effect on our mission, and we do not anticipate any effects except that it is more expensive to bring it in by other means”.

NATO is now increasing its reliance on supplies from the north, and if Pakistan persists with the embargo for too long, it will lose the leverage.

Afghan transit trade has increased by at least 40 percent after NATO supplies stopped last month

“Such maneuvering is counterproductive,” said Lawrence Alan Levine, former US Army trainer and strategic planner in Afghanistan. “There are no serious active operations in winter anyway,” he said, “so the embargo won’t have a significant impact.”

Carl Prine, a senior US military journalist who has served in Iraq, said there was frustration in the US over the embargo but that he had not heard of any shortages in Afghanistan yet. Speaking from Florida, he said cooperation between Pakistan and the US was imperative. “From predator drones to a settlement in Afghanistan, Pakistan is the key.”

Logistics expert Younas Ahmed, who has worked with NATO contractors from Dubai and Karachi, says an alternate route would cost NATO Rs10,000 to Rs13,000 per litre of oil.

“They have alternate routes set up and have ample supplies,” he said.

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Afghan transit trade has increased by at least 40 percent after NATO supplies stopped last month. “Fourth-tier contractors are being hired by profiteers to bring in NATO supplies to Afghanistan,” Younas explained. Commercial consignments to Afghanistan are subjected to thorough checking at Torkham.

Trucks carrying NATO supplies are now more vulnerable to attacks within Pakistan, and that may be another reason why NATO is increasingly relying on the Northern Distribution Network. That would have its own set of problems. “Taliban have blown up a major bridge to Uzbekistan,” said John Islington, a private contractor based in Kabul.

“I know that they have been stockpiling, because this is not the first time the route has been blocked. So they can keep operating for weeks without new supplies,” said Carsten Michels, a German defence analyst who is an expert on AfPak.

“Taliban have blown up a major bridge to Uzbekistan”

Last year, the Pakistani government had stopped NATO supplies for 10 days after a similar attack on a Pakistani border post. It was resumed after a joint investigation.

Michels said German troops were in the north and their supplies came from Uzbekistan.

Even if the embargo affects NATO’s operations, its commanders believe it is a tactic by the Pakistani military to bring the Haqqanis on the table. “That is not acceptable to us.”

But at least one NATO commander was sympathetic to Pakistan. “If you are stationed in a Pakistan COP in that hostile area, I can imagine that everything around you is enemy,” he said. “It seems easy to confuse a joint patrol as enemy. In this case it is not even stated that the COP fired upon the patrol, but the joint patrol fired, and asked for fire support upon the Pakistani COP.”

Ali Chishti is a TFT reporter based in Karachi. He can be reached at akchishti@hotmail.com

 
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International Conspiracies against Pakistan Army and Memo Scandal

Posted on 19 December 2011 by Tea Server

Drone at Shamsi Air base

Before writing anything about today’s topic I would like to
discuss few disclosures made by Wikileaks in the last year as these will be
helpful to understand the current situation. On 8 December 2010, Wikileaks
published these documents on the net and all Pakistani newspapers published
them with headlines as they were linked to integrity and safety of Pakistan. The
important thing in these documents was that USA (United Satanic Alliance) itself
has confessed that India is involved in armed interference in Pakistan along
with evidence. With reference to these Cables of American embassy that Indian
army and secret agencies are interfering in Baluchistan and Waziristan.
According to this disclosure US govt. has severely criticized present and
previous armed and civilian leadership of India and it was verified that higher
command of Indian army is busy in a dangerous game through terrorism in
Pakistan. In these documents not only deep relations between Indian army and
terrorist Hindu groups are discussed but they have been claimed as more
dangerous than Al-Qaeda and Taliban for international peace.

                According
to these Wikileaks America was of the view that the purpose of these links
between Indian army and terrorist Hindu groups is to crush Indian Muslims and pressurize
Pakistani ISI. These documents also include the details of a meeting between US
diplomat and Hemant Karkare who arrested an on duty Indian army officer Colonel
Purohit along with evidence for terrorist act of burning Samjhota Express. According
to these reports, Karkare requested USA to pressurize Indian govt. for the
safety of his family and himself. He made this clear to US diplomat that Indian
govt. and establishment have decided to murder him for his crime of arresting
and unveiling terrorists within Indian army.  In this meeting, Karkare also disclosed the
names of those Indian generals who were supporting and leading terrorists
within and outside Indian army.

                The
most important aspect of these cables between US embassy in New Delhi and US
govt. in Washington is that US has rejected any doubt about ISI’s involvement
in attacks on Indian hotels on 26 November 2008 in Mumbai. Moreover, DVDs
consisting of confession of Ajmal Qasab were also declared as fictional and
doubtful. Indian army’s “Cold Start War Doctrine” against Pakistan and China
was termed as fictional. Meanwhile US officials expressed astonishment that
planning of Indian army revolves only around Pakistan and China. An earlier cable
described Indian Army is involved in gross human rights violations in Indian
Held part of Jammu and Kashmir while some Lt-Gen HS Panag, the then
GOC-in-Chief of the Northern Command of the Indian Army was equated with
General Milosevic of Bosnia with regard to butchering Muslims through war
crimes. The cable urged Washington to secretly divert UN attention towards the
genocide of innocent civilians in Kashmir on the hands of Indian Army and also
suggested that US should avoid holding any joint drill with Indian army until
it stops inhuman activities in Kashmir. In these secret documents presence of
ISI is verified in India however this was told as well that ISI is not involved
in any terrorist activities in India.

               

                Meanwhile
in another cable the death of Karkare in the Mumbai attacks has been mentioned
as a staged drama and concerns were expressed over the loss of an important
link and evidence. US govt. was also advised to ban all Indian organizations
including Hindu Council of America who were providing financial support to Shiv
Sena and other Hindu terrorist organizations. US was also warned that if these
Hindu terrorist groups are not brought to an end in the coming years they will
prove a time bomb for the peace of the area. Indian government’s capability to
handle Naxals has been also doubted as there is hardly any writ of Indian govt.
and the presence of more than 80% nuclear installments of India makes the
situation graver. This area is known as Red Corridor among Indian intellectuals.

This
was a brief discussion of American cables about our region which were termed as
fake by US govt. on protest of India in order to protect US interests. However,
has anyone any doubt about the genocide of Kashmiri Muslims by Indian army? Is
not his truth that on duty officers of Indian army and Hindu terrorists were
involved in terrorist burning of Samjhota Express? Is this a lie that the South
and North-western Indian states are practically in the control of Naxals and
Maoists? Where Indian army cannot imagine to move freely, where hundreds of
Indian army personnel are not only killed in a single attack but their under
garments are torn away as well? India could not dare to face them so blames ISI
and Pakistan in its propaganda war. The term Islamic extremism was invented by
India which has been successfully used Israel to cover its genocide of Muslims.
But the more serious problem is that the international media is also blaming
Pakistan, at least why? This is a such question for which Pakistani people have
no answer, they are just witnessing that since 1947 India has not spared a
single to chance to harm Pakistan. India played an important role in the
division of Pakistan in 1971 utilizing its resources, huge army, and
international Jewish companies. Later on in order to hide its terrorist
organizations and conspiracies on international level Pakistan army was posed
as Punjabi army. The more painful aspect is that following the Indian
conspiracies our traitors have succeeded in convincing the public that fall of
Dhaka was a defeat of Pakistani army and all political parties used this as a
propaganda weapon against Pakistan army. While on 15 April 2007, in Bareli of
UP province of India, during an election campaign Rahul Gandhi claimed fall of
Dhaka as great achievement of his family, he disclosed that how more than 1
billion Hindus in Bengal played their role in this conspiracy fulfilling their
religious duty. Not only this, he addressed Pakistan in the west that do not
worry we (Congress party) will get freedom for you as well. He was obviously
talking to his friends in Pakistan who sometimes dream separation of
Baluchistan and sometimes they threaten to change the geography of Pakistan. They
claim Kala Bagh Dam as poison for Pakistan and water terrorism of India as its
basic right, they blame Pakistan army for all the problems of Pakistan (i.e.
existence of Pakistan until now is due to its army).

Dual Standards:
On the right hand US soldier crying after hugging his baby while on the
left same aged baby is being body searched

                Pakistani
people are just witnessing powerlessly the massacre of innocents for last 33
years. On the other hand, in the markets, on the roads, offices, trains, buses
everywhere innocent Pakistanis were targeted with bomb blasts and terrorism. When
Soviet Union attacked Afghanistan at that time Moscow’s need was to access sea
via Pakistani sea-shores for exploitation of resources of middle eastern
states. All this was done in the name of peace in Afghanistan. When Afghans
started resistance against Soviet invaders, this became necessary for Pakistan
to support them as the seashore strip is important for Pakistani economy. During
this period from Karachi to Peshawar all cities were filled with blood of
innocents. There was not a single city of Pakistan that was saved from
terrorist attacks and suicide bombs. Thousands of innocent Pakistanis were
murdered in remote control bomb blasts. Several terrorists were arrested and
astonishingly all belonged to Afghanistan. We kept silent on these terrorist
activities (of world powers) and world did not give any importance to it. Just
few reports were published that KGB, Afghan KHAR, and Indian RAW are punishing
Pakistanis for war in Afghanistan. More astonishing fact is that few of these
terrorists who confessed their crimes in open trials, their links with their
agencies has been also proved with evidence, they are waiting for hanging in
Pakistani prisoners, and now our rulers are finding excuses for sending them
back to India because they are Indians and India is our rulers’ most favorite
nation. (This is the same terrorist state India which staged drama of Mumbai
attacks just to remove few of its honest police and intelligence officers and
blamed Pakistan for its own terrorist acts because an important personality of
Pakistan said that few non state actors of Pakistan might be involved in these
attacks).

                At that
time US also participated in Afghan war foreseeing the defeat of Red army and
Soviet army left Afghanistan with the gold medal of defeat in Afghanistan. However,
Pakistan kept hosting 7 million Afghan migrants who became target of civil war
as a result of inhuman policies of American and western forces for their damn
interests. Half of these migrants are still living in Pakistan and Afghan
President says that Pakistan will have to continue supporting them. On one side
we had to bear this extra pressure on our already poor economy while on the other
hand a group of our intellectuals, and journalists were criticizing role of
Pakistani army in afghan war as army’s policy to safeguard American interests. They
were repeating the propaganda of India on international level. These (sold)
minds that were against USA at that time, now they are supporting US policies
against Pakistani army and earning dollars for participating in propaganda war
of enemies of Pakistan.

US forces in a mosque in Iraq!

                Hard
time for Pakistani and Afghan people started afresh when USA as a reaction to
its own terrorist act of 9/11 attacked Afghanistan to test its latest weapons
on living human beings. In fact neither of the pilots who crashed aeroplanes
with WTC were Pakhtoon nor they had any link with Afghanistan. Attackers as
claimed by USA belonged to Arabs, who had tired protesting against State terrorism
of Israel in Palestine and their protest had converted into hatred against USA.
But USA in the name of presence of Osama in Afghanistan invaded a sovereign
state with rain of Daisy-Cutter and other lethal bombs from its B-52 bombers. They
did this as they were taking revenge from the Afghan public. At that time
western world had no time to think that how Osama, equipped with light weapons,
wandering in the mountains of Afghanistan had got such a lamp of Aladdin that
he had got such latest and scientific techniques to control these pilots?
Moreover how he forced these pilots who had been trained in USA to go on the
journey of death, and also guided them to leave documents containing their
identity in their cars outside the airports so that later on Americans can
arrest and torture their families?

                However
in the last ten years team of engineers and scientists in Europe has proved
that in the light of experiments, 9/11 tragedy was a strange example of
American state terrorism in which in order to achieve higher interests of US
establishment, such a terrorist drama was planned under the cover of which US
govt. succeeded in getting free hand for massacre of humanity in two sovereign
states. In the videos of these experiments, these scientists have proved that
these buildings did not fell due to the crash of plans and fire due to plane
fuel, but due to the modern bombs that were planted in the parallel steel
pillars from bottom to top storey. Now western analysts have also accepted that
Bush and Dick Cheney related to oil business had planned to capture Iraq. In
spite of directly hitting Iraq they thought it necessary to attack Afghanistan
first. Some groups are of the view that few American elements (CIA) linked with
smuggling of drugs forced US to attack Afghanistan first. Through this,
international Zionists have captured resources for their multinational
companies for future, American weapon industry being on top of them. Moreover
world has ignored Israeli state terrorism in Palestine under the fear of
AL-Qaeda which was later on changed as Taliban by these western propagandists. Because
now these multinational companies and their Jewish owners do not want to leave
resources of Afghanistan.

After murdering their parents US soldiers giving flowers to Afghan Children

                But the
problem is that in spite of murder of more than 1 million innocents in last ten
years USA had not been able to properly capture Afghanistan and defeat Afghans.
Now it seems that UNO has given mandate to USA for genocide of Muslims. The
videos of American  invasion can still be
viewed on the internet. On the one hand these videos show the mountains of Tora
Bora changing into dust after due to US bombs after watching which many
countries have got afraid that if they dared to stand in front of US terrorism
they will be punished like Afghans hiding in Tora Bora. On the other hand these
videos show American soldiers entering into Afghanistan with flowers, while few
afghan children in dirty clothes are along with them. The purpose behind this
propaganda was that they have not invaded Afghanistan but they had come to free
these people (from life). UNO had given them mandate to free Muslim public and
made Americans saviors.  After
Afghanistan, Iraq, then Libya and now Syria, God knows which Muslim country
will be chosen next to quench the thirst of UNO for Muslim blood.

                If we
look at poor US public, the situation is that due to shortage of space for
burial of US soldiers killed in Afghanistan, more than 250 corpses of US
soldiers were dumped into waste after burning them. Because the sports grounds
and public parks in US cantonments have been filled with corpses of US soldiers
killed in Afghanistan and Iraq. Now this process of burning and dumping of dead
bodies of soldiers has become a conflict. Widow of one such soldier has decided
to go to US judiciary, she is of the view that these soldiers have given up
their lives for Americans not that their corpses should be burnt and dumped
into waste.

               

                USA
considers Pakistan army responsible for defeat of US forces in Afghanistan,
because Pakistani army had not played any role in genocide of Afghans. USA is
not ready to accept that Pakistan has given sacrifice of more than 5000
security personnel (mostly in attacks planned in Afghanistan) and more than
35,000 innocent Pakistani people. Now USA wants to blame Pakistan for her
defeat so that she may run away from here, take some rest and attack some other
Muslim country to drink the blood of Muslims. But Pakistan is not ready to
sacrifice anymore for USA (United Satanic Alliance). The reward of sacrifices
of Pakistani nation has been given by USA in the attack on Pakistani posts on
26 November. Whole nation is protesting against it and ISAF commander general
Allen says that such attacks may occur in future as well. This is an attempt to
further agitate Pakistani nation. Not only this the propaganda against Pakistan
army is also going on to create conflict between Pakistani public and army. This
has now recently adopted the form of “Memo Gate Scandal”. After this, few of
our anchorpersons and analysts are busy in creating hatred in the minds of
public against Pakistan army. A long time has passed, army has got aside from
politics but these paid analysts are still discussing possibilities of Martial Law.
Who is behind this propaganda campaign? Has USA also started thinking like India
that Pakistan army is the greatest hurdle in their damn imperialist plans? These
questions and reasons behind Memo Gate will be discussed next week…

Written By Khalid Baig,

Published in Daily Nawa-i-Waqt,

Date: 17 December, 2011.

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Political Economy of NATO Trade

Posted on 13 December 2011 by Tea Server

by Ali K.Chishti
The US and NATO depended heavily on Pakistan for logistic support and a large percentage of the supplies to their troops in Afghanistan when the Afghanistan war began in 2001.

“But after constant attacks on our supplies, we decided to find an alternative route in 2007,” said John Arlington, who represents a major contractor in Dubai. “In 2011, less than 40 percent of all NATO and ISAF supplies go through Pakistan.”

Arlington explained how truck trade works. “Front-end companies get contracts in DC, and outsource contracts to businessmen in Dubai, who then outsource to trucking companies in Afghanistan and Pakistan.”

The business has been so profitable in Pakistan that most transporters have started working exclusively for NATO suppliers, and there is a serious truck shortage, said Umer Ansari, a middle manager in Karachi who looks after supply chain management. “We are paying Rs 124,000 to Rs 130,000 per trip from Karachi to Faisalabad as opposed to Rs 95,000 three months ago.”

The Karachi Port Trust (KPT) charges a levy of Rs 400 per container of NATO supplies, and the Qasim International Containers Terminal (QICT) charges another Rs400.

Traders say Pakistani sub-contractors earn $250 million to $300 million a year. “But profits comes with risks,” said Muhammad Azam, 38, originally from Wana but living in Karachi.

In mid 2000s, an arrested terrorist disclosed that his group had been trained in suicide bombing by Baitullah Mehsud and was asked to attack NATO trucks. Contractors abducted by the Taliban have to pay ransoms as high as $35 million.

Americans have built one of the largest consulates of the world in Karachi and have repeatedly sought the assistance British diplomats to engage with MQM – a key political party in Karachi – to maintain peace in the city. According to one source, the ANP has huge stakes in NATO supplies and has strong influence among Karachi’s transporters. Transporters who deal with NATO supplies are often Mehsuds and Afridis from the tribal belt.

“Its one of the toughest jobs in the world,” sub-contractor Abdul Hakim Mehsud said. “Over 13 of my trucks and three of my drivers have vanished in interior Sindh recently. But the profit margins are high and that keeps me motivated.”

According to Mathew Irvin, a security consultant for NATO/ISAF in Afghanistan and Pakistan, the recent attacks on NATO supplies in Interior Sindh that began after 2009 are used by the Pakistani security establishment to pressure the US. “Some sub-contractors also report fake attacks to carry out insurance fraud,” he said. At least on one occasion, a sub-contractor was caught and fined.

“Gawadar is an alternative port, but it is not operational yet,” said Brigadier (r) Shaukat Qadir. He said Pakistan received payments for NATO supplies and it was therefore important for Pakistan to ensure the supplies were not disrupted. Asked who is behind attacks on trucks carrying NATO supplies, he said, “My guess would be TTP and its affiliates, the Punjabi Taliban.”

“In December 2008, militants destroyed 400 containers carrying food, fuel, and military vehicles,” a NATO source said. After that, NATO and ISAF began paying tribes to ensure trucks reached their destination.”

“The attacks are not likely to stop any time soon,” according to a foreign diplomat, “but we have made pacts with warlords, tribes and various stakeholders in Pakistan who ensure safe transit of the goods. They include political parties both in Pakistan and Afghanistan.” According to a contractor, those who profit from the business include “sacred cows”.

 
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Like Pakistan, NATO has grievances too

Posted on 10 December 2011 by Tea Server


After a NATO helicopter attack on a border post that killed 24 Pakistani troops, Pakistan has decided to stop all NATO supplies to Afghanistan, shut down the Shamsi airbase used by US troops, and decided to boycott the Bonn Conference on Afghanistan’s future. 
NATO has expressed regrets and is waiting for the findings of a probe that Pakistan refused to become part of. But privately, many NATO officers say they have grievances too. At least 2,744 NATO troops have been killed in Afghanistan since 2001. In the last two years, 70 percent of the total NATO deaths are because of IED explosions. NATO blames Pakistan for the deaths resulting from improvised explosives, and Afghan officials accuse Pakistan of supporting an insurgency that has resulted in the killing of 29,000 Afghans civilians and over 4,000 troops.

NATO blames Pakistan for the deaths resulting from improvised explosives, and Afghan officials accuse Pakistan of supporting an insurgency that has resulted in the killing of 29,000 Afghans civilians and over 4,000 troops

What does NATO really want from Pakistan? I had visited the NATO headquarters in Brussels last year, and met a senior official who had an ‘Incredible India’ catalogue in his room but was a friend of Pakistan. “NATO wants a stable Afghanistan and Pakistan and wants Pakistan to come clean on its links with the Quetta Shura and the Haqqani Network,” he told me. “It’s not just Americans who have been killed. Body bags go to France, Australia, Poland, and they all blame Pakistan for a proxy war.”

During the NATO summit in Lisbon in 2010, more than 28 member countries agreed to hand over military command to the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police by 2014. But it is not clear if that will be possible.

Joe Biden, the US vice president, defended the “deadline” on the show Larry King Live earlier this year. “The deadline at least gives us a benchmark and pushes things harder.”

Many ISAF and NATO military commanders I met in Lisbon and later talked to in Brussels and Afghanistan, did not see Pakistan as a friend and wanted it to step up its fight against the groups they say are behind the insurgency in Afghanistan.

“You cannot build a sustainable army in a country where there’s no taxation and no institutions”

I asked General Caldwell in an interview arranged by the US Department of Defence if Pakistan Army or police were training Afghan army or police, or assisting the ISAF in doing that. The general, who is the commander of the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A) and Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan denied in a way that made it look like he was not happy with the question.

“We had always considered Pakistan a destabilising factor in Afghanistan,” another former NATO commander Jean Harvey, who had served in Afghanistan, told TFT.

But NATO’s goals in Afghanistan, according to journalist Carl Prine who is attached with military.com, are not achievable. “The US is day dreaming. You cannot build a sustainable army in a country where there’s no taxation and institutions.”

Senator John Kerry called Pakistan’s decision to boycott the Bon Conference “disappointing”.

“It is not going help our relationship with Pakistan,” a European diplomat said. “It’s not just the Americans who have been dying in Afghanistan. Boycotting Bonn shows Pakistan wants to delay things in Afghanistan.”

Ali Chishti is a TFT reporter based in Karachi. He can be reached at akchishti@hotmail.com

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