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| It is official now: Pakistan aligning USA under duress | | |
It is official now. Describing America as the "Sole Superpower" in the
world today, Pakistan has said if it had not joined the US led war on
terror the situation in the country would have been like that of Iraq
and Afghanistan. The Pak Foreign Minister, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri
said at a Senate Foreign Affairs Committee in Islamabad on November 3
that Pakistan had decided to join the US led war on terror "in the
best national interest", failing which it could have faced a fate like
that of Iraq and Afghanistan. It is virtual admission on the part of
Pakistan that they joined hands with USA in the war on terrorism
launched by that country, fearing reprisal on the part of America if
Pakistan had failed or declined to respond positively to US call for
war on terrorists. Pakistan had taken action against the Islamist
Fundamentalist elements, who called for Islamic Jehad is not a
voluntary act on the part of Pakistan, with the realization that any
sort of terrorism or seeking settlement of political or ideological
conflict through violence has inherent danger in it. Thus Pakistan has
officially admitted that the complete summersault and 180 degree
U-turn on its part, with regard to abetting and officially supporting
terrorism as a state policy, which it had been pursuing till 9/11 was
as a result of fear that US will take armed action against Pakistan as
it had taken against Afghanistan and Iraq, if Pakistan had not
accepted American dictates in this regard. In Afghanistan, whose
ruling dispensation Taliban had provided safe haven to Al Qaeda
leader, Osama Bin Laden whom America alleges to be responsible for
attack on twin towers in New York, through suicide ariel attacks, USA
took military action and ultimately brought about change in the regime
there, by overthrowing the Taliban government and installing the
government of their own choice in its place. In the process a civil
war like situation took place in Afghanistan, where several thousands
of people were massacred and a heavy devastation took place. Similarly
in the case of Iraq, where its ruling dictators Sadaam Hussain, head
of the Bash party, refused to accept the dictates of USA. The latter
under the excuse of Iraq having gathered weapons of mass destruction
led UN sponsored attack on that country and succeeded in overthrowing
the Sadaam regime and instead installing the government of its own
choice there. A sort of civil war is still going on in Iraq, although
Sadaam Hussain who was captured by the American forces and was later
tries and now has finally been sentenced to death by the Iraqi
tribunal, for his offence of killing a large number of Shiat Kurds,
out of shere revenge. Both Afghanistan and Iraq have met the worst
fate because of the failure of incumbt governments there to accept
what US had been asking them to do. Pakistan has now admitted that it
was in a situation of being between the devil and the deep sea and it
had the choice either to stand up against USA as was done by Sadaam
Hussain, who incurred the American wrath and ultimately met its
destruction, or to join hands with America and help that country in
their war against those terrorists outfits, who were thorn in the neck
of USA. Pakistan joined the later course and not only spared the
country from being attacked by America, but also won its favour and
got huge economic assistance from that country. In this context
President Parvez Musharraf's disclosure in his recently released book
"In the line of fire" that after 9/11 USA had threaten Pakistan to be
bombarded and pushed to the stone age if it did not join hands with
it, is relevant. Since Pak Foreign Minister made the above statement
while reacting to criticism from a leader of the Jamat Olima Islami
against the raids on a madarsa within the country on its border with
Afghanistan, in which 80 local tribals mostly teenaged students in the
madarsa got killed, obviously it is admission on his part that the
madarsa in question was subjected to bombing on the dictates of USA,
with the objective to kill the Al Qaeda terrorists who were suspected
to be hiding there. Thus it is clear that Pakistan has surrendered its
independence and sovereignty before USA, under duress.
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