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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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