The End

Although I believe logically that every nationality and ethnicity is entitled to its own national state and identity therein, I have revised my ideas about what should be regarding the Pashtuns I was born among. I am not ready to identify myself with a chaotic, backward-looking society of tribes that prides itself on its primitive inclinations, and egotistic thuggery and devil-may-care contempt for law and procedure. Though there are many nationalities around in the world, with overall boorish and criminal reputations, chiefly like the Albanians, Sicillians, Chechens and Georgians.....and to an extent even Arabs, but I believe that Pashtuns have outdone them all. That isn't to say that I am "stereotyping" all individuals, but what I refer to is their society as a whole - as it exists on the ground, in its own element - and in doing so, I employ numerous "indicators" too.....and I don't mean its "diaspora" either, in the West, especially their youth - as those people are hardly representative of their society at all and to regard or believe that they are, would be a serious error. Those expats are mostly nice people to know, but have little or no bearing on their parent society...and are far removed from iot, and tend to view it through the same exotic glasses as would most foreigners.....rather here, I am talking about the everyday people, of all hues, on the roads and villages of their own land - and domiciled permanently in it. Superficially speaking, I too fit that description, but thankfully I am an outsider because of my English mother - and even because of the fact that my paternal ancestor himself was a Turkoman, who arrived and settled among Pashtuns only 270 years ago - very recent in ethno-historical terms. I would prefer the term "Pashto speaking Turk" for myself, although not many would understand, or appreciate its relevance.........as I don't want to identify with a people who are themselves largely responsible for most of their troubles and ailments.....my reputation is most valuable, and I don't want to soil it by involving it with lowlifes and boors who have limited and inhibited themselves senselessly, and who make deliberate negative use of their potentials - primitive, corrupt and lawlwss to the very core.

Let me also insert an elaboration here about those claiming to represent Pashtuns politically, most of all in cyber space. Rarely has there been such a readily available and misused means as the Internet, and rarely have I heard lies proclaimed so loudly, so effortlessly and with such abandon, and the pointing of fingers at others with a blatant and vulgar shrillness - regarding problems, the genesis of which lies within the Pashtun character itself - as is done by the Pashtun "cyber-nationalists".....I have more worthwhile things to do, than to be involved with a brigade of base, and shrill liars, whose politics blatantly tries to whitewash the image of their twisted people and society - by attributing to them a non-existent humanity and decency, meant for the consumption of an audience of international idiots in this era of information chaos. Pashtuns often will not even drive on the proper side of the road, and think nothing of doing so, let alone being the tragic angels that they are made out to be - always badly bedevilled victims, the butt of one detestable foreign oppressor or another, but never themselves......I am sick of it all.

OSAMA IS DEAD - BUT OBAMA STILL LIVES

The going of Osama Bin Laden is good news for me. Cheers, world! But I am happy only with certain key qualifications and reservations. The bad thing about it is, that the proper people didn't "get" him - we, those who desire the progress of Pashtun society - didn't get him and hang him the way he should have been: he was actually our "prey", given the damage he did in Afghan and Pashtun society; but those who created him got him instead.......those who are equally as answerable and culpable as he himself, if not more.

There is a lot of the usual and typical conspiracy theory nonsense doing the rounds in public, that he was killed long ago, but the drama of his death is being staged only now, etc., etc., etc., blah, blah blah....whether now or 10 years ago, it makes little or no difference. But what is as clear and bright as the midday sun is the dubious role and criminal complicity of Pakistan in harbouring this man. And that has now been finally revealed and put to rest without doubt: the fact that he was killed in a large, posh house, in a major garrison town that houses Pakistan's Military Academy (the PMA), and that this prominently secured and located house was just a few hundred meters from that academy's gates - and that he had been living in that clearly suspicious house since August 2010 - all this speaks for itself. Can the fabulous ISI not even detect the presence of an insect that gets inside its trouser leg, and crawls right upto its Punjabi backside? Of course it can. I needn't waste time and energy on further elaboration in this regard. The US-NATO nexus had been saying this all along, and as is their arrogant habit, the USA walked into "sovereign" territory, while the Pakistani cur stood by and wagged its tail, eagerly looking upto and lovingly watching its redneck masters do the needful.

I regard this event as being the next stage in the "new" world geopolitical scenario after 9/11. But whatever the aftermath will be - and its effects will be numerous - one can say with equanimity that the most immediate and severest effects will be felt by the neocolonial system of Pakistan, and the classes that run it. This is already in an almost terminal state, and the relations of the Pakistani client with its US master are at an all time low, mainly because of the tricks the Pakistanis played n this sordid Islamic fundamentalist......Pakistan has been looted clean and is therefore facing a severe energy, infrastructural and economic crisis, as well as one of governability, and the very night Bin Laden was killed, President Zardari was to announce a "national unity" government, that included some of his main enemies. This reconciliatory gesture was obviously aimed at trying to delay the sinking of the ship they are all on - and Zardari may have also aimed at pleasing his US masters by finally turning over to them the man they sought - so as to get another dollop of aid from them and save the souls of him and his gang......The Taliban have meanwhile announced that it will soon be party time for Pakistan. Whatever the situation, but Pakistan will be in dire straits now - both regarding its US masters as well as its old Taliban proteges; and that is just what such corrupt scum deserve. Providence is now giving it to them.......who says it doesn't exist?

But it must not be forgotten that Osama Bin Laden was the primary Anglo-American tool once upon a time. The Afro in the White House, while announcing OBL's death, said justice has been done.... "for the 3000 Americans killed in 9/11". But pray, who will do justice for the million Iraqis the US killed since 2003, or the hundreds of thousands of Afghans killed since 2001? Thank you, America - but we don't need YOU to do justice: you create the criminal first, and then, when like an ungrateful dog he bites your hand, or no longer serves your vile purposes, you kill him - and "do justice". That is not justice, but a damned naked farce. WE say that real justice will ONLY be done, once that great octopus that is the New British Empire of the USA - that Trailer Trash Imperium, lies flailing in its death throes; for the fight against Anglo-American and NATO imperialism is not only an Arab or Al-Qaeda one, or an Islamic one; or a communist one for that matter....... and it has only just begun......

Damage control, certainly....and a policy shift, too?? Perhaps...

Pakistan's neo-colonial client ruling apparatus carried out a massive damage control exercise over the latest US Drone attack, on Datta Khel in North Waziristan Agency, that killed 45 tribal maliks. This was clearly damage control, as just one day prior to this attack, the Pakistani regime and its key army intelligence agency had engineered the deal in which imprisoned CIA operative Raymond Davis, who was being held in connection with the murder of two Pakistanis - was released in exchange for a huge amount of Islamic "blood money" totalling $2.3 million, paid to the relatives of the murdered victims and others involved in brokering this deal....The two men Davis had shot in panic, were apparently Pakistani secret agents who had been "tailing" him for quite some time. They too were armed, and he mistook them for robbers, it is said.

But the coming of the Datta Khel drone attack so fast on the heels of this most unpopular release was considered as adding fuel to an already raging fire; may be the Americans also did it in the kind of infantile fits of flamboyant arrogance for which they are so infamous - which is why their neo-colonial proteges, who have governed Pakistan since its creation 64 years ago - were not only take aback, but they had to think of defending themselves against mounting public reaction too. In any way, it seems that the inevitable systemic and social pressures - generated in the US-Pakistan patron-client relationship since its first malfunction in 2001 (9/11) - and which both have been desperately trying to contain since then, are making their way out, and are ripping this unholy and dirty nexus apart too. A US attorney (in Virginia) rightly said in 1997 - in remarks made during the Aimal Kansi shooting trial - that the Pakistani ruling classes are people who will gladly sell their mothers for $200 (as they did then, when they turned in US fugitive Pakistani Aimal Kansi to the US) - but if they now try to prevent their nexus with their US masters from tearing, their efforts will be in vain. This simply isn't that time anymore.

Now, Pakistan's Pashtun tribals have threatened to fight the US and avenge their blood spilt in such drone attacks......but this is actually a reiteration of continuing a fight that has already been going on for the last ten years - the fight of the Taliban (who are Pashtun tribals) against the US in Afghanistan and Pakistan's FATA and KP Province areas - so that announcement is not really any news at all, but just a fresh reiteration of resolve!

If the Americans were not such hypocrites and supporters of corruption and the corrupt globally, I would commend their FATA Tribal drone strikes. They sure know how to take the crap out of those who need it! But in the shameless role that they are now playing on the world stage, the Americans have reduced themselves to something lower than even Pathan (Pashtun) tribesmen......Americans themselves promote the ills they fight. They got their man Davis released through the use of the same Sharia law that they are striving to fight elsewhere (that is the basis for the excuse of their whole fight against the Taliban and Al-Qaeda). It is such base attributes as these, that will soon effectively seal the fate of this otherwise great nation and world power, and deservedly so. They think that because they are "on top", they have the right to do anything they wish. Such assumptions of theirs, might have to do with the lowly social origins of the majority of those otherwise hard-working and ingenious European people who settled America and created it. Or rather, it is more likely that their free-wheeling individualist "democratic" system and outlook that are responsible for it; the people of the Soviet Union were from the same lowly proletarian origins, but they had a tightly controlled system, that permitted no nonsense....but it went to the other extreme, and in the end - no extremes are good.......

THE DECLINE OF PAKISTAN'S NEOCOLONIAL STATE

The "Jinnah crowd" is my term for that strange motley that claim equal, if contradictory allegiance to modern Western habits and fundamentalist Islam......their description lies outside the scope of what I am writing, but in the present age, their assertions regarding the original purpose behind Pakistan's creation have grown......in the form of a vague, piteous whimper, that Pakistan was not meant for Islamic fundamentalism.......Whatever such types may say, but the fact is that the sole justification for creating Pakistan was in the name of Islam only....though it took a full 30 years after 1947 for that virulent essence to surface, emerging and expressing itself fully in this state and society - and when it did, it was so destructive, that its first casualty was the eradication of the state support structures that had nurtured and enabled it in the first place.....

Let us begin. After the first decade of Pakistan's existence, a basic characteristic of its state's nature surfaced, and came to the fore - the need by the Pakistani State, of the Army for its continued existence - in 1958. Then, within the first 25 years of Pakistan's existence, another "correction" manifested itself: the separation of the non-feudal Bengali East Pakistan wing (now Bangladesh) from the basically feudal neocolonial Pakistani State - in a baptism of fire and blood in 1971.....

Any dispassionate, accurate and profound analysis will tell one - that the decay of the Pakistani neocolonial state set in with the start of its Islamisation- Jihadi phase, both of which began in around 1978 with the advent of Ziaul Haq's rule, and the Marxist coup in Afghanistan - which outlasted Zia's death in 1988 until the spring of 1992, when both the Soviet Bloc and the Marxist Afghan regime collapsed. These were processes that were orchestrated by a coterie of drunken Pakistani generals - and they were processes that effectively did away with whatever European character Pakistan's British Indian neocolonial state had, reverting it to a new, faux form of its pre-British Central Asian Islamic roots....giving rise to a feverish "neofeudal" culture dominated by elitist jungle rule that stemmed from the arrival in this state-social milieu of the easily available big money and resources and the ruthless attitudes needed for the Jihad......

This runaway process accelerated with the arrival of the Benazir Bhutto Regime II government in 1993; so lethal was it, that its own President had to remove it at the end of 1996.....corruption now became a "national issue" for the first time in Pakistani politics.....but in February 1997, with the arrival of the "replacement" the Nawaz Sharif II Regime, the onset of the decay of Pakistan's neocolonial state effectively came out into the open: the flour scarcity/degradation crisis of 1997, followed in early 1998 by the first signs of Pakistani Talibanisation in Angoor Adda (South Waziristan), the smashing of TV sets in Mir Ali Bazar (North Waziristan) and the domination of various areas of Orakzai Tribal Agency by Pakistani Taliban - all signs of which pointed in the general direction of where Pakistan, its state, its US sponsored gangster neofeudal ruling elites and its degraded and ramshackle society were all headed........this applied to those with the eyes to see, and the ears to hear, however.

It was this state of affairs of breakdown that actually prompted general Musharraf to overthrow Nawaz Sharif's Regime II in October 1999 - whatever "spin doctors" and twisted politicians lying through their rotten teeth may otherwise say. And although he managed to delay the onset of this decay somewhat, he ended up in refuelling it and unleashing it with a renewed ferocity, as was evident at the end of his rule in 2007. Zardari, or Bhutto Regime III, which succeeded Musharraf in 2008 - has absolutely no pretensions about "seeing through" or completing this process of decay, because nothing else is now left for anyone to do here - even the once mighty army, the final arbitrator of all things and problems Pakistani, is now helpless in the face of this malaise - of its own major creation, which has now metastatised into a full-blown Taliban insurgency and social, economic and structural breakdown in the terminal stages.

Had Musharraf tried seriously in 2000, he might have accomplished something - had he destroyed and put both the Nawaz and Bhutto "democratic" cliques to the death that each deserved, but it is still very doubtful to assert that - as he lacked the wherewithal for such a venture, and his Western patrons would have had none of such " dictatorial nonsense".....his army too, would have to be purged of its "jihadi fervour", an impossible task.....

Such a task would be daunting by any standards: there exists a thoroughly criminalised elite, bureacracies civil and military, and polity - not to mention an oversized, inferior and similarly criminalised population of teeming millions, for most of whom only the maximum punishment would suffice.....so this is not a "conventional" job in any way at all; certainly not for "democrats"....it is a job served only by an Antichrist....the problem here is SPIRITUAL in nature, not economic or political, the way the materialist paradigms of the European Renascence have so far been dictating for 500 years.

The past 20 years of American-led Western supremacy in the world have also proven unprecedentedly harmful: an untold number of Pakistanis, who abused and misused power at home, and stole funds and resources, have found safety and refuge in all Western European countries - particularly in emigrating, besides Britain, to the English-speaking, artificially settled lands that I call the WASTE (White Anglo Saxon Trash Establishments) countries of the USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand). That has to be kept in mind for future retributive reference, as it is a grave injustice that can never be dismissed out of hand. Even those of them who haven't stolen anything, but have just fled to or settled in better climes, are criminally culpable of dereliction and desertion of duty and responsibility, and before my eyes, stand in the same ranks as their robber and thief counterparts.....

Only Stalinist measures could have worked, yet this was both the wrong place, as well as the wrong time in history for that......this was a problem, that was due to show its own results only now, for its own unique purpose in global destiny - which will soon be manifested in about two years' time.......some Antichrist will appear, some solution will have to be found, no matter how gargantuan - that is the only surety present here. And in two years, we will know about that also, however improbable it seems.....

THIS IS WHAT I FEEL LIKE.....

Pashtuns this, Pashtuns that, Pashtuns the other......

It makes one sick; but not the repetition as much as the hypocrisy and spin that is involved.....Let us take but one example: Pakistan's shameless Punjabi propaganda machine, in order to outdo its US puppet rival Karzai's regime - has taken up the cause of Pashtuns and their representation in Afghanistan......we hear complaints, moans and minges going on, that Pashtuns have been deliberately sidelined, neglected, discriminated against in Afghanistan....yes, true - and I think it is justified too. Not only has the non-Pashtun population increased in number collectively, but they are qualitatively better people too. Pashtuns should prove that they are progressive, educated, disciplined, law abiding and loyal, and they will automatically get their place in society. Now, whatever it is they are getting, is what they really deserve. Yet our people lack the capacity of self-criticism, even if it for the sake of their own continued survival and betterment.

What image does a Pashtun conjure up now, on both sides of the Durand Line? An uncouth, Neanderthal type, and bad mannered boor, who keeps on spitting, and who doesn't give a shit for anyone, including his own Pashtun brother or cousin (does anyone know "Tarboorwali"?) - wearing a turban,.....a religious fanatic who treats women as half-human chattel, and does what he can to prevent their education and their right to vote......and kills them on the slightest suspicion, even those who are not his wives, but sisters or daughters too (yes, wives, not wife....); a rough, corrupt man, who only obeys his crude tribal custom, and tribal Islam - and bribes his way through life, through courts, and smuggles for a living, and thinks nothing of doing so - and is fit only for other lowly menial jobs like a guard or a trucker, a rubbish boy, a tea boy or a polish boy......a foul-mouthed, rowdy, jealous, treacherous backstabber and egotist thug, who shoots others dead on the slightest pretext, and who drives on the wrong side of the road, thinks nothing of taking illegal shortcuts, and parks his car in the middle of the road, not even giving a piss for the others behind him........and whose liking for young boys can never be quenched.

Such people, nay races, have to be sidelined , if not done away with for good - as they represent a force for corruption and social degradation in the world, to others.......as we have seen even in the tinpot society of Pakistan, since 1979....and sadly, they are not even a percentage, or even majority of their society; they represent its totality! Good Pashtun people may be .01% and that is no exaggeration....

This is the age of American liberalism, in which all kinds of nonsense has a "right" to exist and to be heard, and can be tolerated......but, thankfully it won't be, once America (soon) bites the dust....then I would like to see whether Pashtuns are just sidelined, or whether more effective treatment awaits this society of rascals, these thugs, these vipers......

People say that the PDPA was the best Party to rule Afghanistan? Perhaps, by Afghan standards.....but hardly, I would say. Even so the Parchamis were much more better. Remember the Pashtun and rural Khalqis? It was the cunning and power hungry Pashtun Amin who treacherously did away with his "great teacher" and "elder", the Pashtun Taraki.....food for thought.

March 2011 - Critical times ahead for Pakistan

This is in continuation of the picture I built up earlier in this blog, regarding the fate of Pakistan and its general situation in the coming weeks and months. 2011 is sure to be a decisive year, and last night Geo TV's Kamran Khan reported in his programme that the end of February and March 2011 could be extremely critical for the PPP government now in power, and consequently the diseased country in itself. The government is in a quandary, as it is contemplating a 10-15% rise in petroleum product prices in keeping with the recent international rises - which could result in a further 20-25% rise in already high prices; this could cause unrest and upheaval; and if this not done, then the government faces a shortfall of 10-12 billion Rupees in its revenues, in compensation for which it will have to print more currency, leading to inflation....so it is stuck 'twixt the Devil and the deep blue sea.....another, political issue coming to the boil, may be the removal of the ruling PPP from the cabinet of the country's majority province, the Punjab in the next few days. That too could bring on instability.

It must be noted that oil prices have globally risen in response to the Arab crisis, in part because of fears that what is happening in Libya will spill over to other oil-producing countries in the region. Some analysts have predicted $150 a barrel as a possibility; with a crushing knock-out effect for Pakistan........ Inevitably, this will impact global economic recovery after the financial meltdowns of the last decade.

It is no exaggeration to say that we look today at a world undergoing profound change, a change of no less consequence than the breakup of the Soviet Union – and laced with just as many uncertainties. (See my earlier post: Two Decades of an American Global Order; and, The Way the Cookie of the American Global Order will crumble).