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بھارت کو پسندیدہ ملک قرار دینے کہ باتیں تو ایسے چل رہی ہیں جیسے ہمارے معززین کو کچھ کہنے کا موقع مل گیا ہو۔ ہمارے ایک بزرگ صحافی نے اسے قوم سے غداری کہا اور کسی نے اسے ملک کی ترقی اور خوشحالی کا زریعہ لکھ دیا۔ مگر ہمارے یہ سارے معززین ایک بات کو تو بھول گئے۔ ہما رے ایک صحافی نے اپنے ایک سفر میں کچھ ہندو مسافروں کے ساتھ ہوئی باتوں کو دلچسپ اور اسے پورے ہند ستان اور پاکستان کے نوجوانوں کی آواز لکھ دیامگر وہ صاحب یہ بھول گئے کہ انڈیا اور پاکستان میں تین نہیں، تین سو نہیں، تین ہزار نہیں، تین لاکھ نہیں بلکہ کڑوڑوں نوجوان رہتے ہیں۔ وہ ہندو نوجوان لڑکی ہی تھی جس نے پاکستان کو اسلام آباد سے لے کر کراچی تک خون سے رنگنے کی قسم کھائی تھی، وہ ہندو نوجوان ہی تھے جنہوں نے سمجھوتہ ایکسپریس میں ہماری ایک ایلیٹ کلاس کو ذندہ جلا دیا تھا۔ ھزاروں نوجوان ایسے بھی ہیں جنہوں نے ہمارے ملک کو خون سے رنگنے کی قسمیں کھائی ہیں۔ہماری گورنمنٹ اور ملٹری کی باتیں اگر نہ ہی کریں تو اچھا ہو گا کیونکہ ہمارے جنرل نیازی کو سر کٹوانا سکھایا گیا تھا جھکانا نہیں۔ ہمارے جرنیلوں کو ملک کا دفاع کرنا سکھایا گیا تھا حکومتوں پر قبضہ کرنا نہیں، پرویز مشرف قومی ترانے سن سن کر اور اُس کہ احترام میں کھڑے ہو ہو کر اتنے تنگ آگئے کہ ملک چھوڑ کر ہی بھاگ گئے اور ان کے قدمو ں میں پناہ لی جس کے گورنر جرنل کو ہمارے قائد نے کراچی سے خبردار کیا تھا کہ پاکستان کی کو-گورنر جنرل شپ تو دور کی بات تم پاکستان کا نام اپنی سیاسی زبان پر بھی مت لانا۔ ہمارے سیاسی رہنماوں نے قوم سے روٹی کپڑا اور مکان کا وعدہ کیا تھا در حقیقت لوگوں کہ لیے نہیں بلکہ اپنے لیے کیا تھا کہ ہم حکومت میں آکر اپنے لیَے ہزاروں سال کی روٹی کپڑا اور مکان جمع کریں گے۔کبھی کسی نے یہ بھی سوچا کہ اس تاریخ نے ہمیں اپنی ماضی کی غلطیوں سے کیا سبق سکھایا اگر نہیں تو اے حکمرانو، جرنیلو اس بات کو کبھی مت بھولنا کہ ہمیں آج بھی کارگل پر شکست کے تعنے دیے جاتے ہیں۔71 کی شکست انڈیا میں آج کے اخبار بھی لکھتے ہیں اور پاکستان کو ایک کمزور قوم تصور کرتے ہیں۔ کراچی اور بلوچستان کا کھیل دنیا کا میڈیا آج بھی ہماری انٹیلیجنس کی ناکامیا ں بیا ن کرتا ہے۔ میں آج کا 25سالہ نوجوان ہوں  پی ایج ڈی کا طالب علم ہوں اور اگر مجھ سے پوچھو تو میں کہوں گا کہ میں تاریخ کو دہرانا نہیں چاہتا، میں 71& 99 کی شکست کا داغ دوبارہ اپنے ماتھے پہ نہیں لگانا چاہتا۔ میں اپنا سر جھکانے کی بجائے کٹانے کو ترجیع دوں گا۔ میں گلگت سے کراچی تک خون نہیں دیکھنا چاہتا۔ میں مغرب کے حکمرانوں کی پالیسیاں قبول کرنا نہیں چاہتا۔ میں اپنے آذاد ملک میں غلام بن کر نہیں جینا چاہتا۔میں آزادی چاہتا ہوں، نوجوان آزادی چاہتے ہیں اور ہمیں آذاد کیا جائے ایسی پالیسیوں سے جو ہمارے سر جھکا دیں اور ہمارے ماتھے تعنوں سے سجا دیں۔۔

شکریہ

محمد عرفان مقصود

جوائنٹ سیکرٹری پاکستان مسلم لیگ ن لاہور

 

 

Zulfiqar Mirza and his travelling Quran are on tour. Having slipped his senior minister shackles just in time to evade being called to Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudry’s witness stand, the PPP politician will spend the next year pointing out how he single-handedly fought the MQM’s treacherous forces in Karachi. He will accuse them of collaborating with Americans, with the British and with his own party – against him.

Zulfiqar Mirza has taken a vocal stand against the MQM in Karachi, but for all the wrong reasons. The MQM gained unprecedented power in Karachi under former President Pervez Musharraf – partially due to the 2001 Local Government Ordinance, but partially due to the use of this party as a historic counterbalance to PPP in Sindh. According to Laurent Gayer and other writers on Karachi, the MQM took advantage of this period of political domination to cement its hold over Karachi’s land, extortion and protection rackets. And as the events of May 12th 2007 conclusively demonstrated, the MQM succeeded in establishing their reputation for having the city’s largest number of weapons, if not quite the largest share of votes. Karachi will not easily forget a time when the locus of violence was Sohrab Goth, when truck drivers and “transporters” were targeted and an entire migrant community held responsible for “Talibanisation.”

Yet this summer’s spate of violence – over 300 people in a space of a few weeks – has been referred to by some as hearkening back to the 1990’s. As researchers at the Karachi-based think tank Collective for Social Sciences point out in their excellent and oft-quoted study, the city historically tends to see peaks in violence when the MQM perceives serious threats from rival parties – in the form of electoral rigging, or a complete fracture in political coalition. A true child of large-city politics, the MQM doesn’t care who holds elections, as long as it wins. When MQM feels like it is winning, Karachi flourishes under an uneasy truce: highways (of the useful and useless variety) are built, mainstream businesses and protection rackets coexist, migrants take advantage of the city’s sprawling illegal economy of settlements and services and rival political parties hold their ground in an MQM-dominated landscape.

Zulfiqar Mirza speaks as if he’d like to take the entire city and its delicate balance head-on. This betrays an embarrassing lack of understanding of Karachi on the part of the former senior minister and the PPP. Never mind the fact that the other rival party, the ANP, with far more claim to any significant increase in vote share, has been chipping away at the MQM’s power for years and has been involved in bloody, drawn-out skirmishes with the party. Never mind that Sindhi nationalists have hitherto seemed only marginally concerned with the state of affairs in the city – on the one hand tempted by the skyrocketing land prices and the rich (and mostly illegal) economy, on the other hand recognising that they are well below the MQM and ANP in the pecking order inside the city limits. The PPP’s representative in Pakistan’s largest and most important city, with few good ideas and even fewer means to implement them, would like to shake things up in front of the cameras.

If Mirza’s aggressive stand on Karachi stemmed from the desire to appeal to his own Sindhi constituency, then this may be the costliest political campaign in Pakistan’s history. And already there is good electoral analysis around indicating that allowing Mirza free reign in Karachi to say any crazy thing he likes will not gain him, or the PPP, any significant shift in votes. This is no ordinary bout of pre-election campaigning – so what were hundreds of people killed for?

There is the argument that Zardari could not sack his hand-picked home minister and friend in Sindh without losing face. Mirza would have to resign in order for the MQM to consider rejoining the coalition and taking the government to the finishing line in 2013. Did Mirza decide that he would not go out quietly, but would take the MQM out with him? Here the plot gets twisted with theories and counter-theories. How everyone was in on the content of the first press conference and how no one was.

What is astounding is that standing on the media’s pulpit and putting a holy book on his head has made a hero out of a dangerous megalomaniac. Karachiites are not looking for a hero – either in the shape of Mirza brandishing “evidence” against target killers, or in the shape of the Chief Justice verbally ripping the government report to shreds. Or even, ironically, in the shape of trigger-happy Rangers placing the city and its citizens under indiscriminate curfew. Ironic, because the Police Ordinance 2002 grants more operational, administrative and financial autonomy to the police force than ever before, and yet we are back to requesting the army to step in.

Maybe what we need is a home minister who is less concerned with being a hero and more focused on doing his job. In order to continue being Pakistan’s economic powerhouse, the city needs more of the mundane: security, police reforms, and a decentralised ruling system that can be agreed upon by the major players. Maybe what was needed was an end to the deadlock on the KESC strike, and some respite from the gunmen and gangs that had the city on shutdown at a moment’s notice. Instead, we get a home minister whose idea of policy-making is to issue 300,000 arms licenses “to allow people to protect themselves.”

If a Karachi without protection and extortion rackets is not immediately possible, maybe what we need is a working political balance – one that will take time and political ingenuity, and that does not hope to sideline any of the major players. Maybe what we need is to use existing laws – such as the Police Ordinance, such as the 18th Amendment – to curb the extent to which political players can use militant outfits.

Instead, what we get is a gang-versus-gang bloodbath in Lyari and a PPP Home Minister who chose to use his final months in power to show the MQM he was not afraid of them. And the MQM, who gave all of us several more reasons to be afraid.

The writer works for an Islamabad-based think tank. All views are those of the author. She may be contacted at erumhaider@gmail.com

Some Predictions of Baba Vanga on WW3

Written by: ch3rryanni3

According to Baba Vanga the world will end in 5079. However, she, Nostradamus and others have a lot to say about what will happen in the meantime. Among their numerous prophecies is that in November 2010 World War III will begin. Read more about Baba Vanga predictions, see her photo and a video below.

Vanga (Vangelia) Pandeva Dimitrova was born in Petrich, Bulgaria, the Rupite area in the Kozhuh Mountains of Bulgaria on January 31, 1911 and died there on August 11, 1996. She was also known as Vangelia Pandeva Dimitrova, Vangelia Gushterova and most commonly as Baba Vanga. She lost her eye-sight when she was 12-years-old after being swept away by a tornado. She was found alive, but blinded. She said it was then that she received her ‘gift’. When she was 16-years-old she began making prophecies and quickly became famous because of the accuracy of her predictions. People from around the world sought her out seeing insight into the future, including Adolf Hitler is said to not have liked what she told him.

Among her predictions is that World War III will start in early November 2010 and last until October 2014. According to her prophesy, the war will start out like any other war, but quickly escalate into chemical and nuclear warfare that will have devastating consequences on the Earth and people for years to follow.

Vanga claimed her visions were given to her from unknown creatures from another dimension. At times people who had lived hundreds of years earlier and at times aliens from a planet they call ‘Vamfim’ brought the visions to her. According to people who knew her, she predicted her own death and that a 10-year-old French girl would inherit her gift and become known to the world.

A list of her predictions is below, but since we are approaching November 2010, it is interesting to examine this upcoming prophecy a little closer.

Her prediction about November 2010 is pretty simple. World War III will start then and end in October 2014.

Undoubtedly this sounds nonsensical, except for two things. One is that so many of her other predictions happened and two that other prophets predicted the same thing. Just like with the world ending in December 2012, we have several unrelated prophets who predict the beginning of World War III in November 2010. Most notably is Nostradamus.

Other predictors include Clif High’s technical analysis data, ‘Web Bot’ and Albert Rosales, Ufoinfo.com. And the Bible. Revelations to be exact. At least according to mathematical calculations made by David Icke using Biblical references interpreted through referencing ancient Pagan Gnostics.

So what does all that mean? I have no idea. It probably nonsense. I just think it’s interesting. Then again, perhaps it means it is time to start preparations to survive World War III.

Watch the video below of Baba Vanga and below that you can read a long list of her predictions.

Baba Vanga predictions include (remember, these predictions are by an uneducated, illiterate woman):

• In 1979 she predicted (probably) Vladimir Putin: ‘Everything will melt away like ice yet the glory of Vladimir, the glory of Russia are the only things that will remain. Russia will not only survive, it will dominate the world.’
• In 1980, Vanga predicted the accident of the submarine Kursk ‘At the turn of the century, in August of 1999 or 2000, Kursk will be covered with water, and the whole world will be weeping over it.’ The accident occurred in August 2000.
• In 1989 she predicted the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. ‘Horror, horror! The American brethren will fall after being attacked by the steel birds. The wolves will be howling in a bush, and innocent blood will be gushing.’
• 2008 – Assassination attempts on four heads of states. Conflict in Indonesia. That becomes one of the causes for the start of WWIII.
• 2010 – The start of WWIII. The war will begin in November of 2010 and will end in October of 2014. Will start as a normal war, then will include usage of nuclear and chemical weapons.
• 2011 – Due to the radioactive showers in Northern Hemisphere – no animals or plants will be left. Muslims will begin chemical war against Europeans who are still alive.
• 2014 – Most of the people in this world will have skin cancer and skin related diseases. (as a result of chemical wars)
• 2016 – Europe is almost empty
• 2018 – China becomes the new world power.
• 2023 – Earth’s orbit will change slightly
• 2025 – Europe is still barely populated
• 2028 – Development of a new energy source. (Probably controller thermonuclear reaction) Hunger slowly stops being a problem. Piloted spaceship to Venus deploys.
• 2033 – The world’s oceans rise as the polar ice caps melt.
• 2043 – World economy is prosperous. Muslims are running Europe.
• 2046 – Any organs can be mass produced. Exchange of body organs becomes the common method of treatment.
• 2066 – During it’s attack on Rome (which is under control of the Muslims) U.S.A. uses a new method of weapons – has to do with climate change. Instant freezing.
• 2076 – No class society (communism)
• 2084 – Nature restores herself.
• 2088 – New disease. – People are getting old in few seconds.
• 2097 – This disease is cured.
• 2100 – Man made Sun is lighting up the dark side of the planet Earth.
• 2111 – People become robots. Think ‘The Terminator’.
• 2123 – Small countries are at war and the larger countries don’t get involved.
• 2125 – Signals from space are received in Hungry. An interest in Vanga will be renewed.
• 2130 – Colonies are built under water with advice from aliens.
• 2154 – Animals become half-humans.
• 2167 – A new religion is formed.
• 2170 – World-wide drought.
• 2183 – Colony on Mars becomes nuclear nation and asks for independence from the Earth.
• 2187 – Two volcano eruptions are successfully stopped.
• 2195 – Sea colonies are fully supplied with energy and food.
• 2196 – Asians and Europeans are no longer distinguishable from each other.
• 2201 – Thermonuclear reactions on the Sun slow down. Temperatures Drop.
• 2221 – Humans engage with something very frightening while in the search of Alien life.
• 2256 – Spaceship brings a freighting new disease into Earth.
• 2262 – Orbits of planets start to change progressively. Mars is under threat of being hit by a comet.
• 2271 – Physic properties are re-calculated because of changes.
• 2273 – A new race emerges that is a mix of Asian, European and African.
• 2279 – Energy can be made out of nothing (probably from vacuum or black holes)
• 2288 – Travel through time. New contacts with the aliens.
• 2291 – Sun cools. Humans make attempts to fire it up again.
• 2296 – Bright flashes on the Sun. Force of gravity changes. Old space stations and satellites begin to fall to Earth.
• 2299 – In France, there is a guerrilla uprising against Islam.
• 2302 – Important new laws and mysteries about the universe are uncovered.
• 2304 – The mystery of the Moon is uncovered.
• 2341 – Something frightening is approaching Earth from the space.
• 2354 – An accident on one of the man made suns will result in drought.
• 2371 – World-wide hunger.
• 2378 – New and fast growing race.
• 2480 – Earth is dark when two man made suns collide.
• 3005 – War on Mars. Trajectory of planets changes.
• 3010 – A comet will ram into the Moon throwing a belt of rocks and dust around the Earth.
• 3797 – By this time, everything living on Earth dies. But humans are able to put in the essentials for the beginning of a new life in a new star system.
• 3803 – A new planet is populated by a few humans. There are few contacts between people. The climate on the new planet causes people to begin mutating.
• 3805 – Humans go to war over resources. More than half of people dying out.
• 3815 – The war is over.
• 3854 – The development of civilization virtually stops. People live flocks like animals.
• 3871 – New prophet tells people about moral values, religion.
• 3874 – New prophet receives support from all segments of the population. Organized a new church.
• 3878 – along with the Church to re-train new people forgotten sciences.
• 4302 – New cities are growing in the world. New Church encourages the development of new technology and science.
• 4302 – The development of science. Scientists discovered in the overall impact of all diseases in organism behavior.
• 4304 – A cure for any disease is discovered.
• 4308 – Human mutations result in people using their brains more than 34% and losing notions of evil and hatred.
• 4509 – Getting to Know God. Man reaches a level of development that can communicate with God.
• 4599 – People achieve immortality.
• 4674 – The development of civilization has reached its peak. There are about 340 billion people living on different planets. Assimilation begins with aliens.
• 5076 – Humans find the universe boundaries.
• 5078 – The decision to leave the boundaries of the universe. While about 40 percent of the population is against it.
• 5079 – End of the World.

The U.S. relationship with Pakistan is based on outdated Cold War geopolitics and contradictory interests, South Asia experts told a congressional committee on Tuesday.

“After spending billions of dollars in the region and losing thousands of American lives and many multiples of Afghan and Pakistani lives, we are still grasping for a grand strategy,” said Shuja Nawaz, Director of the South Asia Center, at a hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.

“It is time to change that strategy,” he added.

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, Californian Republican, said South Asia is governed by the relationships of “democratic India, bankrupt Pakistan and communist China,” which “is always there, stirring the pot.” U.S. alliances with India and Pakistan will determine America’s security, he said.

“The two major threats that face the United States today are radical Islam and China, which is emerging not as a friendly power but instead as a hostile power to the United States,” Mr. Rohrbacher said.

He added that if Pakistan develops stronger relations with China, the United States should turn its attention toward India, Pakistan’s regional rival.

Pakistan’s relationship with China includes a peculiar approach toward terrorism, said Sadanand Dhume of the American Enterprise Institute.

“China has been quite happy to live with a Pakistan whose government has, in fact, aided and abetted Islamic terrorism. China has not used its influence to end this,” Mr. Dhume said.

“The Chinese, at a conceptual level, don’t want to have radical Islam in its territory, but they’re willing to play a sophisticated game that tolerates these elements.”

The United States should increase economic and international political pressure on Pakistan to prevent it from harboring terrorism groups, the experts said.

These additional measures must be taken carefully however, because any sanctions on Pakistan would affect the war in Afghanistan as well, Mr. Dhume warned.

Eighty to 90 percent of logistical support for U.S. troops in Afghanistan goes through Pakistan, said John Tkacik, former chief analyst for China at the State Department.

“If you were to put pressure on Pakistan, I can imagine what kind of pressure Pakistan could put on us,” he said. “If you want to have leverage on Pakistan, you have to remove leverage on us.”

Army Gen. Martin Dempsey, nominated to be chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said at a separate hearing on Tuesday that Pakistan is an essential ally in the U.S. War on Terror that cannot be alienated completely.

“We also have an interest in stable Pakistan and the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons and technology,” Mr. Dempsey said. “Our partnership with Pakistan in the context of the greater South Asia region holds great potential for security, economic advancement, and stability.”

 

By Marieke van der Vaart

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The Washington Times

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