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A
lot of dark deeds
are done by politicians when public attention is
diverted in another direction by some major
disaster/accident. A situation like that
presents a fantastic smoke screen for the
politicians to cut underhanded deals and make
themselves rich while siphoning public money to
their cronies.
So much has happened in the last few years, that
to go over all the events, one has to spread the
timeframe like a Japanese fan and look at all
the events that happened worldwide. Let me focus
on a narrow slice that is meaningful to the
interests of India.
The nuclear flea-market that was run supposedly
by A. Q. Khan was busted up when it was found
that the centrifuges being used by Iran were
supplied to them by 'the disgraced scientist'.
It is said that, single-handedly, A. Q. Khan was
responsible for a lot of nuclear proliferation
and selling technologies to 'the axis' countries
like N. Korea and Iran.
When this ring was busted, A.Q.K was immediately
put under house arrest and no one was ever
allowed to question him or have access to him.
That wasn't surprising. What indeed was
surprising, that no one pushed for A.Q.K to be
surrendered to the International Community. If
anything would have been proper, he should have
been treated the same as a war criminal at the
Hague at the UN. International Tribunal. Nothing
like that ever happened.
Nuclear technology is not sold in this world for
a chicken and two goats. We all know that!
Anyone who tries to tell me that these things
sell cheap, needs a reality check. It is the
most sought after technology in this world of
ours, where more and more countries see it as a
'must have' to be able to speak up in a man's
voice in the International community. An
astronomical sum of money would have been
transferred over from Iran an Korea for this
technology. How can millions of dollars come to
an individual in a country and the government
still stay in the dark about it? It sure is
impossible. If someone tries to convince me that
this is possible, then he is spinning yarn like
no one I have ever seen.
A. Q. Khan took the blame for the biggest crime
of modern times perpetrated by the Musharraf
regime. Musharraf, his relatives and his clique
of Generals ran the "Bomb Wal Mart" and when it
was exposed, they quickly blamed A.Q.K and put
him in protective custody. He was even pardoned
as he was quoted to be a "national hero" !
Why did the world buy this explanation. Well, if
they had insisted on A. Q. Khan to be handed
over, A. Q. Khan would simply have refused
cooperation by dying mysteriously. Now they'd
blame him for that too - saying that he
committed suicide! A. Q. K built the Pakistanis
their bomb. The Pakistanis in turn, sold their
national hero out. So much for their character.
And here we are, talking peace, getting bitten,
then talking peace again, then getting bitten
again... then talking peace yet again.
Wayward separatist elements under influence of
this evil neighbor perpetrate crimes against
India. We shrug it, and talk of the 'Peace
process' that has failed several times before.
We refuse to see reality. Our religious leaders
need to have a national conference and make sure
that they modify their message to be
pro-national identity above everything else.
Religious attire and media coverage of religious
events must be banned gradually. We must propel
ourselves to a secular identity, not be carried
by the shoves of Pakistani mischief and ever
increasing internal disturbances caused by
Pakistani influence. Our politicians take the
path of least resistance by shaving a growing
cancer in a half hearted attempt to keep it from
growing.
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The other day I was watching a
program on National Geographic in
which they investigated 9/11 in
great detail. This program was shown
as it was the anniversary of 9/11.
What came out loud and clear was
that most of the moral and financial
support for 9/11 came from Pakistan.
Some of the terrorists had trained
in Afghanistan and Pakistan prior to
procuring US visas. An attack on the
scale of 9/11 was not a small event
that can go unnoticed by the
Government of Pakistan. Close to
3000 American lives were lost. US
suffered billions of dollars worth
loss of property and unaccountable
loss of prestige. The Americans went
after the Taliban. The question “Who
controlled the Taliban?” was never
asked. Perhaps it was the guilt
behind creating, training, arming
and then dumping the Taliban that
weighed heavy on the American
leadership’s conscience. The next
thing the world hears is that
Pakistan has become a key ally in
the war against terror. Musharraf &
Bush are seen shaking hands as the
world watches stupefied. The role of
Pakistan in 9/11 was quickly swept
under the carpet. If they can pull
that off and get away with flying
colors they can do anything
anywhere. Uncle Sam will always pat
their back even if he has to wipe a
bloody nose with the other hand. -
Rajesh - Sept. 14, 2006
While the US domestic policies make
perfect sense, the US foreign
policies are sometimes equally
irrational. The US domestic policy
is driven by long term goals but the
foreign polices seem to have
short-term goals. The real base of
terrorists (Pakistan) is given a
free pass and the secular and
innocent nation of Iraq was
attacked. I think a mix of American
arrogance, vested interests from
certain minority groups, ignorance
about world history or geography and
short-term policies cause this. When
communism was a real threat to
capitalism the US used Pakistan as a
base to fight Russia. Islamic
Terrorism is hundred times more
potent than communism but in their
overconfidence and due to vested
interests, the American politicians
continue to underestimate this
problem and play games.
When the bomb created by A. Q. Khan
eventually falls into the hands of
terrorists all humans will look back
in amazement and disbelief that the
man who caused the death of hundreds
of thousands went scoot free. -
Som Vishwakarma, USA - Sept. 15,
2006
Want an estimate of what the Uncle
Sam stomached to pat Pakistan's back
after 9/11 and to include them as a
key ally in the fight against
terror? Here are some facts and
figures :
Deaths in Tower One : 1,402
Deaths in Tower Two : 614
Bodies found intact : 289
Body parts found :19,858
Number of families who got no
remains : 1,717
Number of children who lost a parent
: 3,051
Jobs lost : 1,46,100
Estimated amount of insurance paid
worldwide : $40.2 billion
Hate crimes : 1,714
Cost of cleanup : $600 million
Time taken to build the towers : 6
years 8 months
Time taken to destroy them : 1 hour
42 minutes
Bystanders killed : 10
The links with Pakistan are proven.
Now ask yourselves what was the
compulsion of the US leaders that
made them stomach all that and you
will have an answer to the riddle
called Pakistan. You can extend the
logic further into the future to get
a glimpse of what is coming and what
this back pat is going to cost to
humanity at large. - Rajesh -
Sept. 18, 2006
The
writers in their responses to the
subject article have highlighted
many facts regarding the 9/11
episode and its aftermath but the
main crux of the matter has not been
touched upon (this I feel because
the subject may be a common one but
the coverage it has had is really
very big) that is why America had
not taken any action against
Pakistan despite so much damage
caused to them.
Please allow me to express my
thoughts.
Pakistan is the strongest link of
the US in the ASIAN continent, with
Pakistan by its side it can have a
commendable control over India and
strategic control over China. India
and China are the emerging economic
powers of this century and the US
now would like to enrage Pakistan to
damage its own political prospects
in the international politics.
Also Pakistan is the strongest US
ally among the Islamic countries and
it has an atom bomb as well, and if
they do anything to Pakistan then
the Gulf Countries would unite
together and US in no manner can
penetrate anywhere as they are doing
now.
Therefore it is very evident that
because of their long term political
interest and strategy they could
afford to forgo Pakistan's
involvement in the 9/11 which caused
USD 40 billion damage where as they
are controlling trillions of dollars
on this part of the world. -
Sanjay Gupta - Sept. 22, 2006 |
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