Israel, India, US nexus plans to break-up Pakistan: Pakistan Daily

Faisal Muqadam

“It is essential that we strike and crush Pakistanis, enemies of Jews and Zionism, by all disguised and secret plans,” – David Ben Gurion, the first prime minister of the Zionist entity.

“The Indian spy agency RAW and the Israeli spy agency MOSSAD have created four new agencies to infiltrate Pakistan to target important religious and military personalities, journalists, judges, lawyers, and bureaucrats. In addition, bombs would be exploded in trains, railway stations, bridges, bus stations, cimemas, hotels and mosques of rival Islamic sects to incite sectarianism,” – Jane Information reported in July 2001.

Israeli scholar, professor Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi, in his controversial book, The Israeli Connection, wrote about Zionists’ hatred toward the Muslim World and their support for anti-Muslim insugencies and covert military and intelligence operations to destablize Muslim countries, especially which don’t recognize Jewish settler colonization of Arab lands. Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi cites Israeli involvement in Iran-Contra affair, helping French colonists during Algerian War of Independence, aiding Idi Amin’s military coup in Uganda, aiding Kurdish and Shia rebellions against Saddam Hussein regime, support for Marcos’ fascism against Moro Muslim resistance, support for Burmese and Chinese genocide of Muslim minorities, and many others.

In 1968, Indian prime minister Indira Gandhi gave birth to country’s first foreign ’espionage and terrorist’ organization known as the Research and Analysis Wing (RAW). Indira Gandhi adised RAW’s chief, R.N. Kao, to establish freindly relations with its Israeli counter-part, MOSSAD.

Charles Ferndale in his February 2009 article, titled The Great Game revisited, wrote: “In order to maintain its dominence in the region, Israel has for years set about destablising any Muslim country that poses threat to its dominance. Pakistan is the only Muslim country with nuclear weapons and Israel is within range. So Pakistan must be weakened to the point at which it ceases to operate militarily as a nation. Pakistan is supposed to be West’s foremost ally to fight against Islamic militancy, so Israel cannot attack Pakistan directly, and, if Israel did, she certaily would be defeated. So what to do? Well, two stages come to mind; one use America to attack Pakistan for you; and two, train and send into the border regions of Pakistan gangs of thugs willing to commit atrocities that then will be blamed on ‘barbaric Muslim militants’ – suggesting that Pakistan has lost control of its territory to dangerous extremists and so may lose control of its nuclear weapons.” The insurgency in Swat being the latest example of that Israeli strategy.

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US to use funds for aid on ‘super embassy’ project: Dawn

By Baqir Sajjad Syed

ISLAMABAD: In what could be a recipe for a new controversy, the United States will spend nearly one billion dollars from its $2.4 billion war supplement aid for Pakistan on the construction and fortification of its new embassy in Islamabad and additional staffing of the mission, in what is seen here as a departure from the usual practice of using State Department finances for such projects.

Under a programme to strengthen its presence in Pakistan, the US will bring here about 1,000 personnel, including a large number of Marines.

It has already undertaken a project to rebuild and refurbish the embassy building and construct accommodation for the new staff and a massive complex for the Marines to be stationed in the capital.

The US plan to reinforce its presence has already created ripples here and, according to a senior official, it would mean stationing of ‘more American military and intelligence personnel in diplomatic guise.

And a retired diplomat says the upcoming American hub in Islamabad will be used to influence development in the region by remote control.

US Charge d’Affaires Gerald Feierstein, in a letter to Dawn, described the plan as a positive development symbolising US commitment to stand by its friends in Pakistan. He said the new embassy building would be a landmark in the diplomatic enclave.

The US media, meanwhile, has described the upcoming structure as a ‘super embassy’ rivalling only the American mission in Baghdad.

The project, US official estimates show, will cost about $1 billion. And the Obama administration has worked out an easy way out, footing the bills from Pakistan’s $2.4 billion share in the Pentagon War Supplemental Package for the fiscal year 2009.

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US to use funds for aid on ‘super embassy’ project: Dawn

By Baqir Sajjad Syed

ISLAMABAD: In what could be a recipe for a new controversy, the United States will spend nearly one billion dollars from its $2.4 billion war supplement aid for Pakistan on the construction and fortification of its new embassy in Islamabad and additional staffing of the mission, in what is seen here as a departure from the usual practice of using State Department finances for such projects.

Under a programme to strengthen its presence in Pakistan, the US will bring here about 1,000 personnel, including a large number of Marines.

It has already undertaken a project to rebuild and refurbish the embassy building and construct accommodation for the new staff and a massive complex for the Marines to be stationed in the capital.

The US plan to reinforce its presence has already created ripples here and, according to a senior official, it would mean stationing of ‘more American military and intelligence personnel in diplomatic guise.

And a retired diplomat says the upcoming American hub in Islamabad will be used to influence development in the region by remote control.

US Charge d’Affaires Gerald Feierstein, in a letter to Dawn, described the plan as a positive development symbolising US commitment to stand by its friends in Pakistan. He said the new embassy building would be a landmark in the diplomatic enclave.

The US media, meanwhile, has described the upcoming structure as a ‘super embassy’ rivalling only the American mission in Baghdad.

The project, US official estimates show, will cost about $1 billion. And the Obama administration has worked out an easy way out, footing the bills from Pakistan’s $2.4 billion share in the Pentagon War Supplemental Package for the fiscal year 2009.

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US 'biggest' threat, say Pakistanis: Al Jazeera

By Owen Fay

A survey commissioned by Al Jazeera in Pakistan has revealed a widespread disenchantment with the United States for interfering with what most people consider internal Pakistani affairs.

The polling was conducted by Gallup Pakistan - a separate organisation affiliated with the US-based Gallup Inc - and more than 2,600 people took part.

Interviews were conducted across the political spectrum, and represented men and women of every economic and ethnic background.

The resentment was made clear when residents were asked if they support or oppose Pakistan's own military offensive against Taliban targets.

Keeping with recent trends a growing number of people, now 41 per cent, support the campaign.

About 24 per cent of people remain opposed, but an additional 22 per cent of Pakistanis remain neutral on the question.

Taliban dialogue

That number changes quite significantly when people were asked if they would support government-sanctioned dialogue with Taliban fighters if it were a viable option.

The same 41 per cent said they would still support the military offensive. But the number of those supporting dialogue leaps up to 43 per cent.

So clearly, Pakistanis are, right now, fairly evenly split on how to deal with the Taliban threat.

However, when asked if they support or oppose the US military's drone attacks against what Washington claims are Taliban and al-Qaeda targets, only nine per cent of respondents reacted favourably.

A massive 67 per cent say they oppose US military operations on Pakistani soil.

"This is a fact that the hatred against the US is growing very quickly, mainly because of these drone attacks," Makhdoom Babar, the editor-in-chief of Pakistan's The Daily Mail newspaper, said.

"Maybe the intelligence channels, the military channels consider it productive, but for the general public it is controversial ... the drone attacks are causing collateral damage," he told Al Jazeera

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Majority of Pakistanis says U.S. is greatest threat: The Hill

By Bridget Johnson

A poll released Sunday revealed that despite the massive amounts of aid directed toward Pakistan in this administration, Pakistanis peg the U.S. as a far greater threat than the Taliban and even archenemy India.

The poll of more than 2,500 Pakistanis, conducted across rural and urban areas at the end of July by Gallup Pakistan for Al-Jazeera, found that 41 percent favored their government's military operation against the Taliban, while 22 percent claimed neutrality and 24 percent opposed.

But only 9 percent approved of U.S. strikes by unmanned drones against Taliban and al-Qaeda targets. National Security Adviser James Jones said Sunday that the U.S. is 90 percent confident that Baitullah Mehsud, the leader of Pakistan's Taliban, was killed when a drone fired at the house of Mehsud's father-in-law on Wednesday.

"Mehsud was a very bad individual, a real thug," Jones said.

Pakistanis, though, fingered the U.S. as the enemy in the poll.

A whopping 59 percent -- a figure that cut fairly evenly across party lines, gender, language and age -- said that the U.S. is the greatest threat to Pakistan. Only 11 percent named the Taliban, and 18 percent said India was the greatest threat. Twelve percent responded "don't know."

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Billion Dollar US Embassy in Islamabad and the Threat to Pakistan's Sovereignty: Economistan

It has been reported that the United States has been involved in creating and supporting secessionist movement in Balochistan along with promoting unrest in northern Pakistan by supporting some Taliban elements in Swat. Many news sources have mentioned that the insurgency in Swat has been fermented by the Taliban who are using US and Indian made weapons. Many in Pakistan also doubt whether some of these so called Taliban in Swat are actually Muslims, based on the medical reports by the doctors.

Arab media has also reported in an article titled, “An Arab Country that Saved the Day for Pakistan”, that many of these Western countries were more inclined to give aid directly to Balochistan and NWFP rather than to Pakistan when the so-called “Friends of Pakistan” forum was taking place. The report further added that there was a conspiracy to split Pakistan into two geographic units. The so called “Trust Fund” was going to be initiated for the purpose. However, an Arab country saved Pakistan from such a heinous endeavor from the so called “Friends of Pakistan”. It is no surprise that while Pakistan was engaged in the riskiest of its campaigns to wipe out the Taliban from Swat, the US started its operation in the Helmand province that could have further created more trouble for the Pakistan Armed Forces who were already engaged in the Frontier Province. The US operation in Helmand meant that Pakistan would have to safeguard its border with Afghanistan in Balochistan as well, which would have rendered Pakistani forces thin. Even the American media leaves no stone unturned to create further problems for Pakistan. In the map published by the New York Times, Pakistan’s Balochistan province is shown with a dotted line just like Indian part of Kashmir as if Balochistan was not part of Pakistan as recognized by the international community.

Reports that the US has plans to build a $ 1 billion dollar military cantonment in its embassy in Islamabad comes as a saddening surprise to most in Pakistan. The media has reported that the US has purchased hectares of land for the said purpose and 1000 marines along with their armored vehicles are going to be stationed there. Not to mention all the high tech spy equipment and other gadgetry that goes with it. Such an act by the US would remind a student of history of the East India Company that came to the Subcontinent in the garb of trade and sought permission from the Mughals to create similar like forts and ended up invading India.....

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NO..!! To US for illogical demands: The Frontier Post

Sajid Ansari

How can Pakistan give permission to a country which is almost openly involved in conspiracies against our homeland in collaboration with Pakistan’s arch enemy, India, and also Israel…? The ultimate objective of US of coming over to Afghanistan, taking the plea of ‘war-on-terror’ and to ‘catch’ Osama Bin Laden is to reach and secure Pakistan’s nuclear arsenals which Washington has said more than a dozen times. So How can we give permission to US for making a mini-US State Department and Pentagon & CIA Regional head quarters, in Islamabad? The people of Pakistan are not in favour of giving US such facilities and would treat it as tantamount to treachery and highest order of ‘treason’ against the country as giving away these permissions mean committing suicide. The way Mr. Zardari gave India Wagah-Torkham transit route, without consulting the Parliament, it is feared that he will also grant this permission to the US. The US administration very well knows the ‘tricks of the trade’ as a little pressure on Zardari yields results. In a democratic country, normally Opposition benches make lot of hue and cry in and out of the Parliament but unfortunately the leader of our main opposition party has been put to ‘sleep’ by Holbrooke, in his last meeting with him, and gave him a ‘strong doze’ to keep quiet and you will be the next President and since then the major and the strongest opposition party is ‘sleeping’ even on issues which directly threaten country’s integrity and solidarity. He is not rightly evaluating the ‘dangers’ and the possibilities of disintegration, looming over the skies of Pakistan, therefore, ever since he is either sleeping, eating or spending much of his time in front of the man-size mirror to see how would he look like ‘President’? Therefore, the people of Pakistan should not expect any hopes from the main opposition party, PML-N, that it would oppose US’s illogical demand. However, it is quite likely that the students and lawyers come out on the streets, all over the country and block these permissions. If we look from the viewpoint of sincerity of the present government, and also the opposition benches, we would find that none of them seems to be sincere with the country as they ought to be. If, God forbid, anything goes wrong with the country, all these Feudal, Waderas, Choudhris, Nawabs, Sharifs and Sardars of the ruling PPP and the rulers-in-waiting, PML-N would fly away to their villas and luxurious apartments and hefty bank balances in European countries and also in the Gulf as they have amassed unlimited wealth after getting through highly unfair means, kick-backs on international contracts and the unpaid and written-off loans of billions of rupees and the cases of corruption cleared by virtue of the controversial NRO. They will immediately get PIA flights rescheduled to their destinations, London and Dubai residences, leaving behind the masses at the mercy of Americans, Indians and the Israelis. And those, Feudal and Industrial Lords, who stay back will provide their allegiance and loyalties to the “conquerors”, the Americans and Indians, in order to save their lands and industries and also to “rule” once again the remaining of Pakistan, as the “conquerors” will divide the country into three pieces. Do they still call themselves Muslims after grabbing and amassing wealth through totally unfair means in a country which has been thriving on loans and aid and the poor have reached l a stage where they are murdering their families and themselves or selling their children for not being able to feed them even once a day? What actually the intentions of the US could be for enhancing its diplomatic staff positions to 10 times more than the approved strength, by the government of Pakistan, particularly keeping of hundreds of Marines and the import of hundreds of DynCorp Armoured Personnel Carriers?. The big question is if a lot of US diplomats can move freely from Islamabad to Lahore and Multan/Bahawalpur, most of them without permission and without an escort too whereas it was also in the news that Southern Punjab is a ‘breeding ground’ of Taliban and yet these Diplomats remained safe and sound, then why 350 additional Marines and DynCorp Armoured Personnel Carriers, are required to be posted in Pakistan. And what is the guarantee that all of these would not be Mossad agents with state-of-art-arms n their possession? It may be recalled that 49 Steel Boxes, burnt in the controversial fire after the bombing at the Marriot Hotel, Islamabad, had arrived in the 6th trip of Mullen’s aircraft which went straight from the aircraft to the already waiting trucks of the US embassy, unchecked. What was in those large 49 ‘steel boxes’ that burned so profusely…? Nobody knows about it but one may just guess the contents from the secrecy maintained by the US Embassy as these ‘steel boxes’ were transferred from the Embassy to Marriott Hotel, Islamabad, at 2:30 AM by Marines who did not allow any of the hotel employees to touch them and handled/transported, all of these, on 4th & 5th floors of the hotel by themselves. It means that the US Embassy’s storing capacity had been reached to the Full, with such consignments, having been arriving in the past through Mullen’s aircraft, which had made quite frequent trips to Islamabad, that is why the Embassy had to hire two floors to keep this ‘special consignment’. It could be someone’s wild guess that there were sophisticated arms and ammunition in those boxes, which could have been supplied to the paratroops of the Special Elite Green Force, Delta Force and the Orange Force, waiting near Pakistan’s borders in Afghanistan to be airlifted into Pakistan at 12 hrs notice, as and when the American President gave green signal to the Chief of command of US army in Afghanistan. Therefore, it seems that by enhancing ‘diplomats’ presence in Pakistan and 350 more Marines, US has more ‘dangerous designs’ against Pakistan. There is another logical big question that India is almost 8-10 times bigger country than Pakistan and a new ‘ally’ too then why US has not chosen India for its ‘bigger’ presence in the region, instead of, specifically, Pakistan…? Moreover, US administration has announced a number of times that they will stay in Afghanistan for an unspecified period, it could be 10, 20 or 50 years, therefore, they want an easy access to Helmand, the Southern province of Afghanistan. Therefore, the demand for a ‘small’ portion of Balochistan’s coast is in fact a multi-purpose use as 1. The US will have a short cut to Afghanistan. 2. The US will have total control of Strait of Hormuz, 3. US’s presence in Balochistan and in Afghanistan will boost subversive activities in Iran. 4. Russia and China’s access to the Arabian Peninsula will be completely blocked. 5. All the Central Asian countries will be dependent on US for access to the Gulf & Middle Eastern markets. There may be other benefits of the area they are demanding through Balochistan’s coastal area, most likely near Iranian border, they will stay there for ever and will never vacate it. Therefore, by giving permission to US, to have an access to Afghanistan, via Balochistan coast, means “Good-bye” to Balochistan. However, according to confirmed news ‘report’, there are already US troops in Pakistan under the guise of US private security contractor “Blackwater Force”, in Peshawar apart from Special Elite Force, Delta Force and Orange force. All these ‘Forces’ have different jobs assigned to them and to be carried out in Pakistan not in Afghanistan “Blackwater Force” (This is a report by the German news agency DPA) Fear is spreading across University Town, an up market residential area in Pakistan’s north-western city of Peshawar, due to the overt presence of the controversial US private security contractor Blackwater. Sporting the customary dark glasses and carrying assault rifles, the mercenaries zoom around the neighbourhood in their black-coloured armoured Chevy Suburban, and shout at motorists when occasionally stranded in a traffic jam.

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1,000 US Marines to guard Islamabad mission: FO: The Nation

KARACHI - Foreign Office Spokesman Abdul Basit Khan has said that 1,000 US Marines who will be coming to Pakistan will be deployed at US Mission in Islamabad.
He said that there was no restriction on the number of personnel that a foreign mission could station at its mission but it is done through mutual understanding.
The FO Spokesman stated this at Karachi Press Club on Wednesday while replying to a query relating to increase in the strength of the US personnel at Islamabad’s mission. This is perhaps for the first time that a foreign office official has visited a Press Club and replied the queries asked by the media in general.
The foreign office spokesman usually briefs the media at its office in Islamabad. However, it is general practice that foreign ministers meet the media at any place or occasion they choose.

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US's $1bn Islamabad home is its castle: Atimes

By Syed Saleem Shahzad

ISLAMABAD - The ambitious US$1 billion plan of the United States to expand its presence in Pakistan's capital city of Islamabad underscores Washington's resolve to consolidate its presence in the region, particularly in pursuit of the endgame in the "war on terror".

This marks the beginning of direct American handling of "war and peace" diplomacy in the region, following the forging of a seamless relationship between the Pakistani military establishment and the US military. (See Pakistan-US plan falls into place Asia Times Online, July 24, 2009.)

Standing in the way are Pakistan's restive tribal areas and the seemingly never-ending - and escalating - Taliban-led insurgency in Afghanistan's Pashtun provinces.

According to reports, the US will spend $405 million on the reconstruction and refurbishment of its main embassy building in the diplomatic enclave of the capital; $111 million for a new complex to accommodate 330 personnel; and $197 million to construct about 250 housing units.

For this purpose, the US Embassy has acquired about 7.2 hectares of land at what is widely considered a mark-down price of 1 billion rupees (US$12 million), courtesy of the state-run Capital Development Authority. A Turkish firm has already built a 153-room compound for the embassy.

The fortress-like embassy will eventually accommodate close to 1,000 additional personnel being sent to Islamabad as part of the US administration's decision to significantly raise its profile in the country. The new staffers will augment the current 750-strong American contingent already based in Pakistan; this against a sanctioned strength of 350.

"What appears to be more alarming is that this staff surge will include 350 [US] marines. Additionally, the Americans are pressuring Islamabad to allow the import of hundreds of Dyncorp armored personnel carriers," reported Pakistan’s largest English-language daily Dawn.

A spokesman for the US Embassy in Islamabad, Richard W Snelsire, told Asia Times Online that the US was "redoing" the embassy compound as it was 40 years old. He said this was also largely because US aid to Pakistan had tripled to US$1.5 billion a year and therefore additional staff were needed. Snelsire dismissed the report of armored vehicles being used at the embassy and also said the notion of 350 marines being stationed there was "fictitious".

The point can't be denied, though, that the embassy is undergoing massive expansion, and one cannot easily assume all of the new staff will be pencil-pushers.

Indeed, since the last few months of 2008, the Americans have quietly been working on extending their physical footprint in the country.

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Pakistan Must Breakup Diplomatic Relations with USA: Daily.pk

Written by www.daily.pk

Friday, 01 May 2009 14:55

US President of Obama and the Commander of U.S. Central Command has made it amply clear that United States whats to have no stakes in the people of Pakistan. All it wants is to solve its problem and then leave the people of Pakistan and it rather deal with the military then the democratically elected rulers of Pakistan This is the hint for Pakistan to call off its diplomatic and military engagement with USA. We must withdraw from US war in Afghanistan and focus on dealing with our problems on our own with the help of our friendly countries. According to Gen. David Petraeus "the next two weeks are critical to determining whether the Pakistani government will survive" Then President Obama on the 100th Day in office made the following Points * I’m confident that we can make sure that Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal is secure. Primarily, initially, because the Pakistani Army recognizes the hazards of those weapons falling into the wrong hands. * I am gravely concerned about the situation in Pakistan, not because I think that they are immediately going to be overrun and the Taliban would take over in Pakistan. * I’m more concerned that the civilian government there right now is very fragile and don’t seem to have the capacity to deliver basic services: schools, healthcare, rule of law, a judicial system that works for the majority of the people.

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Pakistan's New Strategy

In the light of the worsening situation at Pakistan's tribal areas and the repeated violation of the international border of Pakistan by the US, it is imperative that Pakistan evolve a strategy that would stop the gung-ho American crusader cowboys at their tracks. American policy of attacking Pakistan's tribal areas are a clear violation of the international law and Pakistan (Army) has repeatedly reiterated that this violation would no longer go unanswered. There is a new wave of antipathy against the US growing in Pakistan in the light of the latest developments. The Pakistani government is also in a tight spot to respond and support the statements coming from the Pakistani military. In the light of the above mentioned scenario, Pakistan should evolve a strategy that demands the following from the US,

a. Pakistan should tell the US that it is in clear violation of the international law by violating Pakistan's sovereignty and US soldiers would be tried in international court if they are guilty of killing innocent Pakistani civilians in the tribal agencies of Pakistan whose defense is the responsibility of the Pakistan Army.

b. In case the above mentioned policy fails, Pakistan should stop all fuel supplies and support to the coalition forces as a second step and let the US beg its enemies like Iran and Russia for transport of fuel supplies through their territories (better luck USA).

c. If all else fails Pakistan should make a comprehensive defense strategy that should involve strategic positioning of Pakistan's missiles to hit the US Aircraft carriers and other ships in the Arabian sea as a last resort. US can ill afford to start another theater of war and that should be made perfectly clear to the United States of Warica.

US has already annoyed a great deal of countries on the international stage like Venezuela, Bolivia, Cuba, North Korea, Russia, Iran, Syria, Thailand, Sudan and a host of other countries. I hope common sense prevails and Pakistan and Pakistani Army can truly guarantee the safety and security of Pakistan and its civilians. Long Live Pakistan, our heart and soul.