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A Case For "Soft And Covert" Occupation Of Pakistan

By Gulam Asgar Mitha

19 March, 2010
Countercurrents.org

A soft occupation is not a military occupation such as that of Iraq and Afghanistan. It is an occupation achieved by covert means to achieve goals without launching a full scale military operation. Has it ever been conducted anywhere in the past? The answer to my knowledge is no. Yet for the first time the US has, in the case of Pakistan, launched such an expedition as it very well knows that it has no basis for a military operation. The soft occupation is being conducted in Pakistan’s case under the covert garbs of fighting terrorism.

Is it possible that in the near future Pakistan’s army will come to its own rescue, that of Pakistan as a nation and in the interest of the people of Pakistan? When I was last in Pakistan in the 3Q2009, I could sense that even the most illiterate Pakistani, the roadside hawker, the rickshaw driver or the ordinary labourer was aware of the American presence in Pakistan and that its not at all about fighting terrorism but creating difficulties in Pakistan. They are aware of the presence of Blackwater/Xe, drone attacks on civilians, the construction of an American fortress embassy in Islamabad, the sneaking of US agents and weapons from Afghanistan into Pakistan, reports of Pakistan’s Ambassador to Washington issuing visas to private US agents and the assistance from an indigenous security called Inter-Risk that is representing American defence contractor DynCorp. Why is the USA engaging in these activities in Pakistan?

Pakistan’s army, its armed forces and intelligence and the general populace are well aware of President Asif Zardari’s corrupt background and the fact that the Americans have installed his puppet government. They’re also well aware of the corrupt landowners who have never cared about the nation but the welfare of their families, most of whom live in the US, Dubai and UK. And neither does it take a great mind to understand how the US-UK psy-ops and the lies about the WMDs led to the occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan. The example of the third largest army in the world surely has not faded from any mind, including Pakistan’s armed forces and that today it is reduced to a police force operating under US-UK command.

The American agenda is clearly and primarily Pakistan’s denuclearization. Without the de-nuking, the Zionists on both sides of the Atlantic are handicapped in their global goals. Pakistan is now the key. Pakistan’s nuclear assets are safe in the hands of the army and they’ve come out quite strongly in the past against the lies generated by the US and UK that the so-called terrorists, the al-Qaeda and Taliban within the army ranks, could take control of these assets. Having failed to convince the world through such a psy-op, the next tactic was to drive the Taliban from Afghanistan into Pakistan and get Pakistan’s army to engage them in the Federally Administered Tribal Agencies (FATA) as a diversion.

The US-UK alliance had calculated precisely that once the army engaged the few Pakistani and Afghan Taliban insurgents in FATA, the tribal population would be affected and displaced. The one thing that dominates the tribal Pashtun’s mind is revenge. As reprisal, the insurgents have resorted to recruiting those who’ve lost their families and their belongings into terrorising Pakistani citizens, the police and army in key centers through suicide bombings. The success from this operation and US drone attacks which has only killed a handful of insurgents but many times more innocent men, women and children has been overwhelmingly favourable for the US and UK. As the army operation and drone attacks continue, suicide bombings have been expectedly increasing at an alarmingly high rate throughout Pakistan. Those that are affected the most are not the affluent families in Pakistan but the middle class and poor masses who’re already burdened under shortages of food items and hyper inflation.

The Pakistani army and intelligence are trapped by their own follies, thanks largely to Musharraf, the current puppet government policies and, interference and the guile of the Zionist alliance. However, a casual meeting with a senior military officer in Pakistan had given me the impression that Pakistan’s army and intelligence is aware of the US agenda. In the interest of the nation, the army has relinquished civilian governance to focus on external security which includes not only the US objectives but India also.

The US does not need to adopt the strategy of the UN involvements as was the case with Iraq and Afghanistan invasions and the on-going Iran nuclear issue. Pakistan’s civilian government is friendly to the US and is facilitating the “soft and covert” occupation in the American guise of fighting terrorism. Pakistan is deep into the game and the army, seemingly, has no strategy to pull out. A military coup is not the solution as it will invoke an American wrath of unprecedented dimensions, cause a financial dilemma resulting in hardships for Pakistanis and it may even be forced into an unwinnable short war with India with dire consequences for Pakistan. Pakistan’s only option is a miracle.

The one question that comes to mind is the recourse available to Pakistan’s army to counter the American aggression policy. The only recourse in this author’s opinion is seeking China’s assistance when push from the US becomes shove. China too is aware of Pakistan’s geo-political strategic importance in preventing proliferation of American hegemony. China being a regional superpower in terms of both military and financial prowess is not keen on US getting too close to it. It is in China’s interest to hold back the US and the one country where it must be contained is Pakistan. My discussions with the military officer confirmed that Pakistan’s military has the China card in mind. And there would be very little reasons to doubt that China would not get involved should Pakistan’s army ever seek its assistance in thwarting a ``soft and covert`` occupation of Pakistan when the army senses that it is at the brink of denuclearisation. The involvement would not necessarily be military but first covert and then overt diplomatic intervention.

As a last word, denuclearization scenario can only be achieved if Pakistan becomes unbalanced through anarchy, the terrorists are blamed and simultaneously India forces Pakistan to move its army to the eastern border. The US hopes that in due time this can be achieved and the favourable “democratic” government of Pakistan requests US or UN assistance in quelling the anarchy. This is just a scenario but details are unknown.

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