Balochis Raise Star And The Crescent Despite Terrorist Warnings

PESHAWAR, Pakistan—The BLA terrorists supported by foreign powers in Afghanistan have forced patriotic Pakistani Balochis to remove Pakistan’s flag in some areas of southwestern Pakistan.  The terrorists of Akbar Bugti and his Kabul-based grandson Brahamdagh threaten the people of elimination if they wave the Pakistani flag on the nation’s 62^nd Independence Day.  But patriotic Pakistanis in Balochistan are waving the Green and the Crescent despite BLA threats to their lives.  This is slap from the people of Balochistan on the face of these terrorists

The national flag flies on a laborer’s handcart, as he transports fruit to the market in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, where separatist groups have waged a bloody insurgency in recent years.  Pakistan celebrates its 62^nd Independence Day on August 14 (Friday) with traditional zeal and fervor.  (APP)

Quaid-e-Azam’s Words Live On, Not Brahamdagh Bugti’s

By HUMAIRA NAZ from BRASSTACKS
Wednesday, 5 August 2009.
WWW.AHMEDQURAISHI.COM

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—“Pakistan is in sight and Balochistan will be a part of it,” said Quaid-e-Azam Mohammad Ali Jinnah’s on May 20, 1947, three months before Pakistan’s independence from Britain.

“Pakistan’s strength lies in unity, whatever the cost of our bread and butter, we share it.”  That is how the Baloch express their love to people of the twin cities.

The Baloch are strong patriots of Pakistan. They remember the June 29, 1947 brief of the Assistant Governor-General on referendum, which said:

“Shahi Jirga met with elected members of Quetta Municipality … The present members voted unanimously for Pakistan.”

The elders in Pakistan’s Balochistan stress that is how a British-occupied Balochistan with British-appointed tribal sardars became free and chose to be a part of Pakistan.  In March 1948 the Khan of Kalat, Ahmad Yar Khan and his confederate chiefs, acceded to Independent Pakistan.

This federation of Pakistan shall stay forever despite foreign intrigues.
Quaid-e-Azam is not with us today but his words live on.

Balochistan is Pakistani soil and will remain so.  We will not let the enemy make use of the imbecilities of the previous Pakistani quasi-democratic governments. The enemies of Pakistan, the Indians and those who are supporting them, have revived Soviet-era terror groups in the area for the consummation of their despicable designs.

The enemies are using the same tactic as the British imperialists did in the past by retaining tribal chiefs and paying them.  Does any one of you Pakistanis believe that the major powers around Pakistan and the self-styled champions of democracy will like to see Pakistan strengthen its economy and defense in the global village?

Never.

The Indian-backed Harbyar Marri is conspiring to declare the independence of Balochistan on 11 August 2009 and anti-Pakistan countries are planning to publicly accepting it.  The propaganda is on its peak.  We warn these elements to stay away from our homeland.

We are also watching our government in this case.  If it fails to defend Pakistan’s interests, Pakistanis will rise for the protection of Pakistan.

Sumaira Naz is part of the BRASSTACKS think tank.  She can be reached at info@brasstacks.biz

CIA asked us to eliminate Dr. A Q Khan: Blackwater chief

LAHORE: In a stunning revelation, US private security service agency, Blackwater’s founder, Erik Prince, has claimed that the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had asked the agency to kill Pakistani nuclear scientist, A Q Khan.
In an interview with Vanity Fair, Prince said the CIA had asked the Blackwater to eliminate Khan, however, authorities in Washington “chose not to pull the trigger.”
“Dr Khan’s inclusion in the target list would suggest that the assassination effort was broader than has previously been acknowledged,” Prince said.
Prince has also admitted to Blackwater’s participation in some of the CIA’s most sensitive operations, including raids on suspected militants in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Prince said Blackwater’s, which now known as Xe Worldwide Services, role changed remarkably after its officials started providing security cover to CIA operatives in the field.
Raids on suspected insurgents in Iraq, known as “snatch and grab” operations, were mostly carried out during nights between 2004 and 2006.

Ahmadinejad has proof US trying to stop Hidden Imam Mahdi

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said that he has documented evidence that the United States was trying to prevent the coming of the Hidden Imam [Mahdi] (messiah).

According to a Khabar Online report, Ahmadinejad expounded on the plots hatched by the East and West for the annihilation of Iran.

“[Ronald] Regan and his foreign minister were two of the stupidest people in the world,” he said, addressing an audience of the families of martyrs and altruists in Isfahan on Friday.

Referring to his June reelection, Ahmadinejad said, “The enemy… was hyping the issue as if the Iranian nation has been weakened and as if this was the best opportunity to get concessions from them. But your humble son [Ahmadinejad] stood in front of the oppressive powers and shouted: You are dead wrong! The Iranian nation will put you in your place.”

“In the recent [post-election] incident, they claimed that they had devised a plan that could bring hundreds of governments to their knees,” he continued. “But he who is on the righteous path will always be victorious and will never see defeat.”

Ahmadinejad said that the oppressive powers were after Iran’s oil and other natural resources. “They have a reason for this and they act upon that reason,” he said. “However, they do not break the news about it. We have documented proof that they believe that a descendant of the prophet of Islam will raise in these parts [Middle East] and he will dry the roots of all injustice in the world. They have devised all these plans to prevent the coming of the Hidden Imam because they know that the Iranian nation is the one that will prepare the grounds for his coming and will be the supporters of his rule.”

“They have planned to annihilate Iran. This is while all policymakers and analysts believe Iran is the true winner in the Middle East,” he went on to proclaim.

“In Afghanistan, they are caught like an animal in a quagmire. But instead of pulling their troops out to save themselves, they are deploying more soldiers. Even if they stay in Afghanistan for another 50 years they will be forced to leave with disgrace — because this is a historical experience [repeated countless times]. In my last visit to New York, I asked them, ‘Is there not one sane person in your country to tell you these things?’”

Ahmadinejad said that the most important region of the world was the Middle East and the most important country in the Middle East was Iran.

“They know themselves that they need Iran in the Middle East, but because of their arrogance they do not want to accept this reality. They are nothing without the Iranian nation and all their rhetoric is because they don’t want to appear weak.”

US war strategy should focus on Pakistan: Senator

Senator Dick Lugar, the top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. - AP photo

WASHINGTON: The top Republican on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is questioning whether the United States is focusing on the right country in its war against the Taliban and the al-Qaida terrorist network.
Senator Dick Lugar said Wednesday the US risks spending billions of dollars fighting in strategically less important Afghanistan while militants are becoming more secure in their havens across the border in nuclear-armed Pakistan.
Lugar prepared the remarks for a Senate hearing where lawmakers will hear testimony from Gen. David Petraeus, overall commander for the Mideast region, and Karl Eikenberry, the US ambassador to Afghanistan.—AP

BREAKING NEWS: New US Base in Gharo, Sindh?

PKKH has learnt from informed sources within the Pakistan Navy that certain high-ranking individuals within the Naval forces are involved in secret construction of operational facilities in Gharo, Sindh, which are intended to serve as a base for around 200 US marines.

Unconfirmed reports suggest that a high ranking official of the Special Service Group Navy (SSGN), which is the commando division of the Pakistan Navy, is involved in the construction of a large complex in GHARO, Sindh, which is described to be purpose built to serve as a base for an army unit – comprising of halls, residential units, and storage facilities.

Some years back the Navy had decided to shift the SSGN headquarter (PNS Iqbal) from the dockyard to a coastal area, but Gharo was not the likely sight at the time. Because there has been a sudden increase in assistance to the SSGN from the US, questions are being raised whether this shifting of the SSGN to Gharo is actually a ruse to allow US Marine “trainers” to arrive there in large numbers on the pretext of training the SSGN commandos in newly-acquired weapons and tactics?

Picture Alert: US Recruiting Retired Pakistani Military Officers

Who Protected Ali Zaidi, A Frontman For American Mercenaries In Pakistan?

Despite denials by the US Embassy in Islamabad, this incident exposes the presence of American private security operations similar to Blackwater in Pakistan.  The embassy and US citizens working for either the US government or the US military are recruiting retired and well connected Pakistani military officers in order to build a network of informants and special operations agents inside Pakistan.  This is tantamount to creating a US military presence in Pakistani cities without sending the US army into Pakistan.  To counter reports the growing reports of how the US is raising private security militias armed with heavy weapons to supplement the existing information-gathering network and the coming expansion in the US diplomatic presence in Pakistan; the mainstream US media is churning out stories that seek to discredit these reports as ‘conspiracy theories’.

A secret military training facility where US defense contractor imparted training to Pakistani recruits on the outskirts of Pakistani capital. In March, US ambassador personally sought the help of the prime minister and interior minister to license DynCorp activities in Pakistan under the pretext of providing security to US diplomats.  In September, Pakistani authorities canceled the license.

A AHMEDQURAISHI.COM Report
Monday, 28 September 2009.
WWW.AHMEDQIURAISHI.COM

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—Washington is invading Pakistan without the need to order the US military in Afghanistan to invade Pakistani territory.

Some influential lobbies within the US government, military and intelligence have been advocating a direct invasion of Pakistan for quite some time.  It was impossible to achieve because of Washington would not prefer a direct confrontation with a nuclear-armed Pakistan.

But the Americans have achieved several breakthroughs in Pakistan recently without putting a single boot on the ground.

CIA-manned drones have so far killed less than 20 al-Qaeda terrorists at the cost of murdering more than 700 innocent men, women and children, Pakistani citizens, who have unfortunately been abandoned by the power elite in Islamabad.

Now evidence confirms that the United States has launched a massive program of recruitment of retired Pakistani military officers to create information-gathering networks and private militias tasked with special operations inside Pakistan.

Part of this expansion is the introduction of private American security firms, or American mercenaries, contracted by the US military and working on their behalf.  The US embassy is being used as a cover.  US diplomats often tell Pakistani authorities that the private security militias are tasked with the protection of US diplomats and five diplomatic missions in five major Pakistani cities. This is correct in many cases but not in all cases.  The US program of recruitment of retired Pakistani military officers and bolstering the presence of private security firms is far larger than just the task of protection of US buildings in Pakistan.

Since the Pakistani military and Pakistan’s intelligence agencies remain on Washington’s target list, retired military officers can provide a valuable insight and access into the inner side of the Pakistani military.  US diplomats and others directly seeking this type of insight would alert Pakistani security authorities. But not if the same is done using retired Pakistani officers.

The case of a former Pakistani special operations officer Captain Ali Zaidi must send alarm bells ringing within the Pakistani national security community.

Capt. Zaidi’s Inter-Risk security firm was the Pakistani face for US defense contractor DynCorp, which provides defense-related maintenance and supply services to US military bases worldwide. But in Pakistan, as in Iraq and Afghanistan, DynCorp was helping Washington create private security militias, or mercenaries in real terms, with proper military training and access to advanced weapons.

This is tantamount to creating an indirect US military presence inside Pakistani cities.  The alarming part is the Zaidi and DynCorp had created an elaborate physical setup right in the heart of Pakistan to train recruited Pakistanis.  Using his connections within the Pakistani civilian and military bureaucracy, Mr. Zaidi is suspected of smuggling advanced weapons into the country to be used by the Americans and their hired recruits.  As a legal, cover, the US Embassy in Islamabad told Pakistani authorities that Zaidi/DynCorp were providing security services to US diplomats.

Pakistani newspaper The Nation broke the story on Sept. 29, with hard evidence, including photographs of an elaborate building on the outskirts of the Pakistani federal capital that was acting as a military training facility for the Pakistani recruits.  The facility was camouflaged as a car repair workshop.

The activities of Mr. Zaidi and the US defense contractor DynCorp were obviously being protected by individuals at high levels of the Pakistani government. In fact, US Ambassador Anne Patterson personally intervened earlier this year with Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani and Interior Minister Rehman Malik seeking licenses for Mr. Zaidi and DynCorp to operate in entire territory of Pakistan. This is why Mr. Zaidi managed to stay away from Pakistani investigators thanks to a bail. But The Nation reports today that the court has cancelled his bail and that he has been arrested yesterday, which is an indication of how seriously Pakistani authorities are taking this case. [continued below]

[On Sept. 30, Mr. Ansar Abbasi of The News published the full content of a letter written by Ambassador Patterson to Interior Minister Rehman Malik, dated March 30, seeking his "intervention" to grant Inter-Risk and DynCorp "the requisite prohibited bore arms licenses to operate in the territorial limits of Pakistan and as soon as possible."

The letter creates a new dent in the US embassy's counteroffensive that seeks to downplay the presence of private US security firms in the country.  A Web news portal, PakNationalists/AhmedQuraishi.com released fresh evidence this month showing the infamous US security firm formerly known as Blackwater recruiting military-trained agents fluent in Urdu and Punjabi.]

[The Americans are looking for ambitious risk-takers such as Mr. Zaidi.  For more information on how this retired officer describes himself, see his own brief biography posted at a Pakistani news website that introduces him as an 'investigative editor'.]

HIRING ACADEMICS/MEDIA COMMENTATORS

Retired Pakistani military officers are not the only people being hired by the Americans in Pakistan to spy on their own country. Washington’s military and intelligence has also hired the services of a handful of Pakistani academics and media commentators. These civilian recruits are longtime critics of their own country and its national interest.  The Americans are using them to present a Pakistani face to what essentially are American plans for Pakistan.  These academics/commentators also provide occasional input into US plans and Washington uses them to sell these ideas and plans to the US public as something that the Pakistanis people themselves are demanding.

It’s Not Just The Israelis Who Murder Kids And Steal Their Land

The ‘good effects’ of bombing a village market in Afghanistan
For very many years, the Americans and Europeans have been committing atrocities which could be described as ‘Nazi-style’, or ‘Israeli-style’.
From The Guardian 16 December 2008:
“The first bomb hit a large group of children who had run on ahead of the main procession.
“It killed most of them instantly.
“A few minutes later, the plane returned and dropped another bomb, right in the centre of the group.
“This time the victims were almost all women…
“I was still holding my grandson’s hand but the rest of him was gone…”
(‘I was still holding my grandson’s hand – the rest was gone’)
Afghan kids from Flickr. Author funbobseye
This happened in an area called Kamala in Afghanistan.
In Afghanistan, around 750 civilians have died in Nato and US air strikes this year.
The number of innocent people killed this way has almost doubled from last year, and tripled from the year before that.
The British started it.
Ninety-three years of bombing the Arabs
In 1911, the Italians bombed Libyan civilians from the air.
In 1912 the French began bombing Moroccan civilians from the air.
In 1913 the Spanish began bombing Moroccan villagers from the air.
They later used poison gas.
In 1915 the British began the aerial bombardment of Pathan villages on India’s North-West Frontier.
In 1919 the British bombed Afghan civilians from the air.
The British aerial bombardment of Dacca killed 600.
Over 90 years of terrorist activity by western countries.
Killing kids.

The world’s first air bombardment took place on 1 November 1911, when an Italian pilot named Giulio Gavotti dropped four hand grenades on Turkish troops camped in Libya.
(Axis of Evel Knievel: November 1)
Italy stole Libya from the Turkish Ottoman Empire in order to make it a colony.
For twenty years, the Libyans fought the Italians, in the hope of gaining their freedom.
In 1912, French pilots dropped bombs in Morocco.
In 1913, Serbs in French-built planes bombed Turkish forces during the First Balkan War.
ace-o-spades.blogspot.com/2004_01_11_archive.html
In 2005, in Iraq, US Marines reportedly massacred two dozen civilians in the town of Haditha.
Among the dead were six children under the age of fourteen as well as an elderly man shot to death in his wheelchair.
Nine-year-old Eman Waleed, who lived in the first house attacked by the US, described the events to Time magazine:
First, they went into my father’s room, where he was reading the Koran and we heard shots. . . .
I couldn’t see (the Marines’) faces very well—only their guns sticking into the doorway.
I watched them shoot my grandfather, first in the chest and then in the head. Then they killed my granny.. . .
We were lying there, bleeding, and it hurt so much.
(axisofevelknievel.blogspot.com/2007_11_01_arc…)
A lot of people voted for Hitler, and Bush, and Blair, and Obama….