Pakistan’s
Disorder – Another Fine Mess Created By Uncle Sam
By Javed I. Chaudry
20 November, 2007
Countercurrents.org
Today,
one can pick up almost any paper or watch any tv news channel, one cannot
escape from the news on the current Pakistani situation revolving around
the imposed emergency in that country. I interpret and explain it to
be the direct consequence of knee deep American involvement and its
control, which is leveraged through the financial aid in order to derive
long term geo-political benefits from the region.
Many developing countries
like Pakistan are unable to get out of the American shadow and its sphere
of financial aid and political influence as they have not yet acquired
economical and technological independence to refrain from American aid.
Looking at the other side of the picture, America would not allow these
countries to develop to a level at which they could walk without the
aid crutches - the very crutches which almost always becomes a noose
around the poor countries’ political neck.
Through its foreign policies,
the US deliberately creates complex and convoluted political conditions
and then forces the involvement of the developing countries such that
their involvement becomes a long term disability and often an unrecoverable
disaster for them. They are then systematically abandoned to scramble
only to survive on day to day basis with no ability to exploit their
available resources and assets to plan and develop for their own national
future. As a result, they are always looking up to receiving the American
handout in the form of financial and military aid. This vicious circle
has been crafted to ensure that the poor countries will never get out
of the rut.
As a direct result of the
US policies, Benefiting from and using 9/11 as an excuse, it has created
a permanent geo-political and socio-economic chaos in the Middle East
and Pakistan-Afghan-Iran regions. Due to this deliberate disorder created
in these regions, the affected societies are growing weaker by the day.
The emergency imposed in
Pakistan on November 3 seems to be the hot news in the international
diplomatic circles. Although Gen. Musharraf was not installed by the
US, but unfortunately, just after 2 years of his coup, he got sucked
into American influence. Right after 9/11, he was told to cooperate
and carry out the American wishes in the region to save Pakistan from
the American wrath. Poor Gen. Musharraf had no choice but to comply
at the cost of his own popularity and a civil disruption in Pakistan.
Under the pretext of war on terror, Gen. Musharraf was forced to act
in a manner which was not appropriate for Pakistan, its people and for
the General himself. The American war on terror is nothing but an excuse
to create political disorder in the world and manipulate developing
and poor nations to the extent that they will never have a chance to
recover from its ill effects for a long time to come.
It was American money and
Gen. Zia’s cooperation that had created a Jihadi mindset in Pakistan
during the 1980s to fight against the Soviets in Afghanistan. It is
rather strange that not many in the world are aware of the fact that
the Soviets had sent their forces to Afghanistan on Afghani government’s
request to fight against the CIA masterminded covert activities in that
country in anticipation of Soviet involvement. Following the Soviet-Afghan
struggle and the resulting civil war that raged on for 5 years, the
group called Talibans were victorious who managed to restore peace in
the country. The six year period of the Taliban rule was the only period
when Pakistan and Afghanistan has friendly relationship. The Bush administration,
after 9/11, took care of that. A puppet was installed in Afghanistan,
and forced Pakistan to fight against the Afghanis, most of whom do not
accept the American installed puppets.
Ever since the Bush administration
has signed up Gen. Musharraf for the war on terror, the General has
been between a rock and a hard place. The Americans know it full well,
in fact it is exactly what they had planned. The whole plan was made
to make the General loose the popularity and eventually his grip on
power, opening a door for an American puppet who in return for CIA assisted
power, would handover the nuclear technology to America – losing
for ever, any hope for Pakistan to develop nuclear power to generate
electricity for countries current and future needs.
Pakistan is suffering from
an extreme shortage of electric power. The cost is so high that the
industry cannot compete with imports from China and other developing
countries. Without a sizable industrial output and exports, the future
of Pakistan would be very bleak. Other sources of power generation such
as wind power and solar energy are still extremely expensive. Pakistan
is also facing a serious shortage of water, another reason for lack
of hydro-electric plants for electricity generation. Against all odds,
the nuclear power is the only viable solution for Pakistan’s power
shortage problems but only if Uncle Sam would allow that. On the contrary,
Uncle Sam would do every thing that it can to remove the nuclear technology
from Pakistan.
At the present time, the
world seems to be talking about the need of democracy in Pakistan. Under
the American influence; would this democracy be of the type that currently
exists in Iraq and Afghanistan? These kinds of democracies exist only
for the duration while enforcing powers are around; once the Americans
pull out of Iraq and the NATO forces out of Afghanistan, the political
picture will completely change, most likely within days.
Democracy is like a tree,
that needs a suitable environment to grow and take root. It cannot be
forced on a society where lawlessness is rampant, religious extremism
is at its climax, most people are unemployed and have no reliable and
permanent source of consistent income for their survival. A society
needs, peaceful environment and a grasp on socio-economic problems in
order to create a suitable political culture to appreciate and enhance
the struggle of the leaders to put the country on the right path for
the future.
During the last few years,
it has been fashionable to refer to India as the world’s largest
democracy. Has any one inquired from the Kashmiris or the Muslims of
Gujarat State as to how are they fairing in the largest democracy in
the world? Americans never stop reminding us about their own democratic
values, have they asked the Iraqis as to what benefit are they deriving
from American democratic values. China is doing extremely well economically,
so much so, they are propping up the American economy with Chinese loans,
but China is not a democratic country and yet its economy is flourishing
by leaps and bounds. The Chinese leadership is doing all the right things
to make that country a strong and affluent society, which is an important
ingredient for moving towards democracy. In due time, one can expect
that China will acquire and implement democracy.
At this juncture, Pakistan
cannot be expected to have democracy over night. It will be nothing
but a wishful dream. The Pakistani society needs peace, freedom from
feudal lords, socio-economic problems, religious extremism and most
importantly, the interference from the US. It cannot be expected to
see peace in Pakistan, as long as its army is being used to help the
American puppets installed in Kabul. Similar to many other hotspots
in the world, most of the Pakistani problems are the direct consequence
of selfish and brutal American foreign policies.
As long as America is the only superpower on earth, the current hotbeds
of poverty, war and extremism will stay the same without any positive
change during a foreseeable future. The external interference in developing
countries both in Asia as well as in South America is one of the most
important factors to keep them in their current sorry state.
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