Aryans of Asia

Aryans of Asia??? Probably - but Aryan waste, Aryan shit.....Scythian clunker, not worthy of that great name.....that is what they actually are - and have become.......

Pashtuns and "foreign powers"

BELOW IS A DIALOGUE ON FACEBOOK I HAD WITH A ZEALOUS YOUNG ANP ACTIVIST, NOW STUDYING LAW IN ENGLAND. I REPRODUCE IT BELOW TO ILLUSTRATE THE TYPICAL ATTITUDES PREVALENT AMONG THE YOUTH OF TODAY CONCERNING THIS ENORMOUS PROBLEM, THEIR "STRATEGY" AND ITS FLAWS......

THE TOPIC STARTED OFF WITH THE USUAL REFRAIN OF HOW MISERABLE PASHTUNS NOWADAYS ARE, AND HOW FOREIGN POWERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR ALL THIS.........MY COMMENT WAS THE FIRST........

ME: Well if they are so disillusioned, they have only themselves and their backward loving reactionary mindset to blame. You can not be reactionary and expect to eat the fruits of progress in one go....progressive Pashtuns like me have suffered and been threatened by my own people on that count....let them rot in the juice of their own doings.....

REPLY - Mrs. X: And many other external and internal factors as well along with their own shortcomings.The most important one is their geo-strategic location.

REPLY - Mr.Y: We've been the victims of geopolitics, and understandably so because we happened to be on the borderland of colliding empires, limiting our options, if not in absolute control of others. And Now. Well,the physical geography goes nowhere.

It's unjust, if not unwise, to attribute externally imposed choas and confusion to a society relatively too weak to withstand the overwhelming attacks. Hypothetically, but logically such chaos and confusion can very well be imposed anywhere, even in modern western societies with enviable socio-economic indicators. I mean, it's not that difficult to create Waziristan in Newyork or London; all you need is a complicit or otherwise a relatively weak state unable to neutralize another meddling state.

It's tempting to find escape, as western coalition do now, but is ridiculous to confuse and loss the themes of political science in Sociology.

ME: Sorry Mrs. X, and Mr. Y - but my life's experience is at variance with the opinions expressed here by you both; my experience as a Pashtun, in the present conditions as well as a human being.......

To put it in the words of simple everyday wisdom (that even peasants can fathom), leaving aside the intricacies od Political Science and Sociology, let's face it, we have been too apologetic in excusing ourselves of what has befallen us. The way I see it, if a person has integrity and proper character, no external force or entity can do "shaitanay" to him....we, on the other hand, are notorious in the world for selling our brothers, and murdering our cousins.....pointing fingers at others is almost always the refuge of the scoundrel, and unless we really master true self-criticism and stop looking for a gaggle of excuses, then we will deservedly be bound for oblivion...I will be the first to invite it. I think that at present, we constitute the largest population of excuse makers on the planet. And we are getting what we deserve for that, but this is only the start......

REPLY - Mr. Y: Akhunzada Sb, I can understand, and at times share your frustration. Agree, its absurd to externalize all our problems. But the point is we shouldn't take that to the extent that all the fault lies in our own society. Reasonably the faults ...you're referring to; well every society has its own problems and shortcomings, but we have to look to society on a more generalized and extended level of its historical character and conduct.

I refer to the collusion of empires; just consider the political response of our society. The sweeping social reform based political movement spearheaded by Bacha Khan on this side of the Durand line, and pashtuns as a nation stood by him rendered heroic sacrifices. Across the Durand consider Ghazi Amanullah khan efforts to reform and modernize pashtun society, though that was an effort from the top. This was most reasonable national response to challenges of that time. Now it's not fair to attribute failure to the leadership and society. The fact is we couldn'd withstand the overwhelming force of global powers having most of the world countries behind them out to set the course of future global politics.

There is a consistent historical pattern: domination is not possible with local collaboration and pashtun is no historical exception.

What I'm trying to say is that we somehow need to balance our criticism because our society needs some morale boasting for sensitizing them to face these grave challenges.

ME: My friend, Pashtuns seem to have more than our share of what others have - treachery, mutual backbiting and fractiousness....I know you are young, and like to idealise things....and all youth wear rose tinted glasses! So did I...I speak fro...m years of disillusioning experience. At one time, I literally fought to impose my views. That was before I experienced the knocks and vicissitudes of age and the wisdom it brings. Sorry to sound downbeat, but I just want others to realise........

True, Ghaffar Khan and Amanullah - and many others - did spearhead earnest efforts; but none of those possessed sufficient momentum, nor did they even leave an appropriate legacy; what legacy do we have now of Bacha Khan? The ANP? That makes me smile.....What legacy do we have of Amanullah's Afghan modernism? Nil.

Many societies have their heroic annals of struggle against world powers. And they succeeded. But they were not like us. And they also possessed a rare combination of ideological élan as well as political abilities and fighting skills.....Cuba, Vietnam and China come to mind. In our case, the Khalqis and Parchamis of PDPA used mostly to lecture each other in order to intimidate; they frequently pulled pistols in Central Committee meetings....I witnessed a lot f such episodes. One can not make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, sorry.

The morale boosting you mention is only appropriate when you have an audience that respectfully listens to you - not a pack of snarling dogs, waiting to outdo each other for every morsel thrown their way.....I think they all know what is afoot, yet can't give the slightest damn until they think they can accrue some tiny piece of personal profit from it. That wasn't true in Ghaffar Khan's era, but that was a different time altogether, with different values....US Globalism and immigration were not even visible on the most distant horizon.....

REPLY - Mr. Y: Akhunzada Sb, lets agree to disagree on this.

I do not in anyway attribute more value to the person, character and vision of Nelson Mandela , than I do to Bacha Khan. The organization and conduct of ANC members and the society they were draw...n from, for that matter, would fell far behind KK and pashtun society. This is purely merit based, and very dispassionate without any emotional influences.The goons of ANP are highly civilized than the ANC had. Politics are never conducted, nor are agendas pushed, in vacuum. Context is always important.

The sad reality is that we are not able to engage our own people in a language they can understand and appreciate.

Further, every nation and ethnic group has passed through its various social phases, but ours has been an imposed social formation. Orakzai and Wazir and mehsud are as tribal as they were at the time of Babur and no respectable historian would blame these people for this. So the parochialism and social ills have always been the realities of of any tribal society, and must be seen with reference to socio-economic of society to help us avoid rash stereotyping.

Or do we have any problem in our DNAs?

ME: One of our major mistakes is to perceive ourselves as being of the modern European nation-state style nationalist mould. Nothing could be further from the truth, as our failures have shown. We are at best "tribal nations", and will happily ...remain so until basic cultural changes occur; these will be dismissed by most as removing the very essence of Pashtunhood.There is nothing imposed about it. Correct: we are as good now as we were in 1526......that is the sad aspect. Our context always seemsd to remain the same. That is why history has ripped our society apart, not transformed it qualitatively.

"No respectable historian would blame them for this...." Yes.....but this society lacks the inner impulse of change that motivated others; other societies needed no leader in the sense that you say; it is only when they were ready that the leader appeared, like the conductor of an orchestra - with the orchestra playing itself, and not under the direct orders of the conductor......that is what Lenin said about a leader playing the role of a historical midwife only, although I do not entirely agree, but in the modern context that holds true.

As for the ANP and ANC, no comparison can be made...the ANC waged a relentless practical struggle, while Ghaffar Khan held rustic ("killiwal") meetings in villages and repaired roads and wells, and talked of non-violent brotherhood - a notion alien to the Pashtun tribal psyche; it was only momentarily successful at the time, as Gandhi had set the trend in Indian polity then, and it rubbed off onto the KKs. What happened to this philosophy in the Pakistan era, when Ghaffar Khan associated with the NAP? The ANP now is the faithful lackey of American imperialism, and will go down with the Pakistani state and the American world system when the time for that comes.And it isn't very far off.

REPLY - Mr.Y: If we've to succeed to have to move on to the modern nationalist mould and must do away with the divisive identities on broad political front. Basic cultural changes will go hand in hand with the socio-economic development and political mob...ility, both reinforcing each other. The historical context never changed, and so the social formation.

I'd partially agree; urge to change find leaders for itself, and this would vindicate pashtun society. On a general regional comparison of nations/ethnicities' political expression for its urge to change, there is no comparison of pashtuns. Say, which other nationalist force can match pashtun nationalists and the political backing it has? The visible degeneration resulted from a consistent onslaught orchestrated by a state with the backing of global powers in the last sixty years. However it has stayed its course, and has its partial but remarkable successes.

Bacha Khan's reforms has its lasting and deep impacts on pashtun society and has set a historical course of its own. And by the way, the political set backs and dust of wars could not reverse these.

I've no taste for American imperialism, but again we have to be realistic; by essentially following that formal , we've to make a choice between American Imperialism and Blackleg's Imperialism.Afghanistan's stability will always remain a determinative factor in our successes and failures on this side of the Durand. On a broader look 9/11 has been a game changer in pashtun politics, and hence the ANP's support for international coalition in Afghanistan, notwithstanding the horrors of terrorism in which ANP has its fair share. In fact, since dark nineties all the nationalist forces had their eyes on international intervention in Afghanistan. What was unfortunate was that they couldn't do proper homework.

ME: About doing this, that and the other, my friend - proposals are plentiful; too many in fact, but "who will bell the cat?" Who is there among us who can command the respect of these brash egotists and subdue them with the force of his person...ality, while not tempted by corruption at the same time?....Or as in Pushto: "Da gaz, ao da maidan..." You talk of cultural changes here, agreed; my basic line is a modernising cultural transformation too, but the present corruption ridden mode of Pakistani social mobility and changes is so stunted, that superior culture here is taken as a form of elite intimidation, not overall beneficial social empowerment.

I can't see what Ghaffar Khan's reforms did - other than create another dynastic political legacy, which became Pakistani in the end. I myself remained in the ANP as a student in the crucial 1980s. I saw the "genuine" ANP then, and not the unthinkably pro-American one you guys are touting now. Besides, my cousin Bashir Matta was a important leader in it, and twice remained senator. Even he, after all the sacrifices he has given for Pashtun nationalism - is disillusioned with Pashtun nationalism now, in his 70s, after having sampled Achakzai also.......

I don't know what you mean by Blackleg's imperialism; but what do know is this that America has sown the seeds of corruption here, by promoting cynical and shameless tendencies in politics...the ANP is no exception, having shredded its old anti-imperialist reputation (which Ghaffar Khan gained it) by becoming part of the imperialist bandwagon at a time when the days of US imperialism are themselves numbered. It could have avoided this, but in doing so it proved that it has no real ideological spine. Ideology still matters, and you will soon see proof of this.You are right in saying that the powers that be didn't do their proper homework, and America is notorious for its shoddy homework. But then I will venture to add, that working with the wayward and wild Afghan mentality itself is an impossible task. And I would only commend myself if I had the self-sufficiency of character to need no foreign mentor whatsoever, to follow.

I agree that we need a lot of deep, textural changes for which Pashtuns are not prepared, nor will their rigid egotistic mentality accept it. An important thing to note here, is the general tendency of our young Pashtuns (and I am not that old either, so I should know.....)living and getting educated in the salubrious climes of the West nowadays, tend to get a bit divorced from the ground realities of their own society and culture and start assessing it as they would a civilised European culture. That pitfall is enough to damn everything.

REPLY - Mr. Y: Akhunzada sb, I've no love lost for US Imperialism, and I believe, nor has the ANP. War riddled state of Afghanistan needs support of international community for a transition to viable functional state, and lacking global powers there is no... such thing called "international community". This is a functional reality we've to accept and can't risk losing everything in idealism, or to be more specific, in internationalism.

The blacklegs imperialism (blacklegs: as their Afghan proxies usually deride them) is the paki-mil's efforts to engulf Afghanistan, and this imperialism is more dangerous than the worst imaginable imperialism, for this has much higher cost - the cost of existence as a nation. In given situation in Afghanistan, any one either support the US presence, US Imperialism or call whatever your want; or otherwise the Blacklegs' imperialism. This doesn't mean that we reduce (or should) ourselves to an instrument of American agendas. This is not about character and foreign mentor, but the desperate need for a power to push back the overwhelming onslaught and have some space to manoeuvre.

We can go on and on with arguments. You're very much entitled to your opinions, and let me mention, I've no doubt about your intelligence and understanding. The point I want to make is that , yes we have our problems, many shortcomings which really constrains our ability to fight, but these shouldn't be overstated. We have to live with certain undesirables and try to contribute whatever we can and move forward. Pashtun is a bit difficult creature,and we just shouldn't alienate ourselves from the very people and society we wish to reform and develop.

ME: Thank you for your kind regards Mr. Y. I have no doubt about the honesty of your well intentioned youthful zeal either - except that is major shortcoming is the lack of experience and testing, which often turns out to be the major flaw....... If your contentions are worth anything, then may you succeed where others have not...

Of course I believe in the veracity of my assertions, and I tend to rely, as most people do, on my own experience - and that lends me to the proclivities of a moralist reformer and academician in my approach, rather than cynical politics. That is a mature approach, yet there are many mature people around who cling to cynical politics because of their ulterior motives - in simple words, they are bad or "bad niyatta"......All reformers tend to be "outsiders" more or less in their character. They have to be.

I think it will be quite easy - as it is thorny and difficult because of the terrain involved - for any interested power to "play around" with a fractious assemblage of neolithic hillmen and pastoralists who always focus on violence and mutual hostility among themselves when there is no outsider to distract or "unify" them them.

Yes, Pashtuns may be the world's biggest challenge in the form of being an indefatigable nuisance, but they haven't achieved an iota of anything worthwhile.......

Rather than concern myself with the vagaries and intricacies of geopolitics, I tend to look at worth, quality and character in my assessments. The fact that they all lack even a modicum of common courtesy in public can not be attributed to the machinations of foreign powers; I don't see any foreign power conspiracies when I see my people failing to stand properly in a queue; or coughing down my neck or into my face; or driving like dogs on the roads; or displaying naked "badmashi".....for how long will this tragicomical charade, this insult to one's intelligence continue? I see it every day on the two-penny worth talkshows that proliferate every day, on our equally cheap and tinny media channels.....no wonder there is plenty of babble, yet no solution is in sight. It is a fashion to was eloquent on rubbish. I would in fact be thankful to the powers you and others blame so mercilessly; it is because of them that we have the rudiments of a proper law, commerce, roads, hospitals, electricity, press, education and medicine.....don't tell me that Shaikh Malli, Khushal Khan Khattak, Ahmad Shah Baba or Mirwais Niku or the old man Abdul Ghaffar Khan gave us the telephone or electric bulb which we now take for granted so much; those English dogs did.....Pakhtunkhwa was taken over by them in 1849 and ruled for 98 years, and Kabul was not - the result is that Afghanistan proper is still light years behind us.....I do not favour slavism or colonial rule, but are we strong and capable enough to pick up and internalise the positive traits of the colonials, and then kick them out? No, we are mired in our beloved traditions and religion.....and cynical excuse making......so as long as we are not prepared to transform GENUINELY and INTERNALLY: i.e QUALITATIVELY, we will remain floundering here, where we deserve.....under the feet of the mighty ones. Even if we are the poisonous scorpions we are, a scorpion remains on the ground, and is vulnerable to being crushed by a boot. The truth is, we are a parasitical stone age tribal society of toughs, used to robbing and raiding, until the British made us part of their Indian Empire. Prior to that, we could only settle down and rule in foreign lands like the Khiljis, Lodis and Surs - where our forebears like Allaudin Khilji and Sher Shah/Farid Khan did marvellous things. But the one marvellous thing they could not do was rule their own land or change themselves. And that is the basic thing of all. We are in no position to dictate terms, let alone with the dignity we illudedly think we deserve. You are a newcomer to this, but I have been privy personally to the goings-on in Afghanistan even 25 years ago.... I grew up in it, I was present as a student leader when we created the ANP by the merger of the NDP, PNP, MKP and Sindh Awami Tehrik in 1986 - so I don't need telling what the ANP is, or what it wants, thankyou! The activist youth of today are even oblivious to the goings on of the 1990s not to talk of that time.

I concern myself with more practical matters in my assessment of my people's social viability as humans, and that of their future, without which any talk of politics or development would be meaningless. For one, let us take just one of our basic ailments - the strict segregation of sexes, and the compulsorily fixed marriages (you will say that there are many marriages of choice nowadays; I agree - but even once you chose who you like, you have to send the senior women of your family over to "fix" the rest of the arrangements - no two people can get married "just like that" at a government registry; you may retort: "That is our cherished tradition...." I will reply: "It is a bunch of damned rigid pathological nonsense, needing eradication".....). The result of all this extremist segregation (on the pain of death, by honour killing) and fixing of marriages has resulted in homosexual perversion being a dominant and accepted - though denied - trait in our all-male public life......and that isn't normal at all....it isn't even the nowadays "approved" kind of homosexuality as found in the modern West, but a mass psychopathology of twisted sexual instincts finding an outlet. Moreover, you need to pay attention to your abnormal traditions and "codes" and customary notions of "honour"...that rule you lives and behaviour....they are not normal at all: in this male dominated society, most men even have to sport a moustache to "show" and "prove" their "masculinity" and defend themselves from the "paighor" of "unmanliness" and parade it to others. A moustache is not so much a fashion here as it is a trademark and a compulsion. Many here are so used to this and the notion is so inbuilt, that it doesn't even occur to them...No modern society can progress unless it changes its "traditional" attitudes to women and male power - and the time is near at hand in which any society will find it hard to exist if it does not modernise and join the sea of global humanity. It is customary for our bevy of politicians not to acknowledge and concern themselves with these unsavoury truths in public discourse - but it is a matter that can be avoided no longer.

Big Bang de la Pakistan

Pakistan is in a state of total systemic collapse on the one hand, and is also under terrorist attack. Are these misfortunes a coincidence? Whose doing is this? Are we pinpointing the right culprits and causes? Because until we do, everything is positively screwed.

The economy is collapsing...the electricity system is collapsing...government ...management is collapsing....resources such as natural gas are dwindling...things and people are uncontrollable, and are in the maximum destructive mode of corrupt rapacity.....Who ravaged national development? Who rifled the Treasury? THE ELITE...Who stole Western aid money? THE ELITE...Who ravaged infrastructural and general development? THE ELITE...Who set a bad precedent of lawlessness and corruption? THE ELITE...Who created Taliban terrorism? THE ELITE........Who pays absolutely no taxes? THE ELITE........Who makes a hash of the laws? THE ELITE........And yet, the elite are partying away as if there is no tomorrow.....

Our army is also part of this elite - rather it is the cream; but it is still disciplined, otherwise this joke of a country would not remain to be ruled over.....still, I wonder what kind of an army it is - because with so much dysfunction around, allowed and created by it - what kind of country will they have left to defend? Are they defending this country to defend it - as any army should - or to prey on it?

So, the elite stands fully implicated and marked out as the germ of our national disease in full - the first class multi-criminals that they are, as do its Western patron powers....but nobody can touch them even.....yet. These local ruling elites are NOTHING without the backing of their Western elders. They are all now prominently exposed, but as yet too powerful to touch. That will not always be the case, and there will certainly be those with long memories around, waiting for the opportune time to arrive to pronounce justice; it shouldn't take that long now, and that time may even be less than a year away.....

There are also other powerful upwardly mobile social "wannabes" and lobbies jostling for the same dirty status and power as the traditional British-time ruling elite combine exercises: like the Pakistani middle classes and Pathan tribal smugglers - who are potential rivals of this elite, yet their goal is aspire to berths in it, or to become auxilliaries....the whole "nation" is therefore caught in a criminal, lawless and lowlife pattern.

And a note about the Awami National Party of Pakhtunkhwa is in order here. One of the very few political "entities" here always regarded as being "anti-establishment", that illusion is now fully demolished. In its cynical passion to rule and take power, the ANP hurriedly joined the doomed Pakistani establishment in its final hour. (There were coalition governments by the same elements that constitute the ANP before in Pakistani history, but never were they so in bed with it as they are now). The "successors" of Ghaffar Khan's noble struggle thought it fit to do so, oblivious to the fact that it would spell their end too. But I suppose it was the best thing they were fit to do. In doing so, this party of the rascally and rapidly growing Pashtun "globalised" bourgeoisie of Pakistan, has also signed its own Black Warrant. It is a strange irony of fate indeed, that it effectively put paid to whatever vague neutral reputation it may have had for decades, by taking the plunge and joining the establishment at a time when the end of Pakistan itself was drawing near and clearly visible to those with eyes...But I think they are too callous to care for such considerations now. Our third rate public opinion says that they won't be re-elected in the "next elections"..... That might be true, but what is more true - but as yet not noticed by the extremely myopic Pashtun/Pakistani public mentality - is that a horrendous social catastrophe is in the making....one in which all these forces have taken full part to cause and create. So one can forget about niceties such as elections, and the benign misfortune of losing them. All such considerations are now comfortably and thankfully in the past. Wait for the "Big Bang de la Pakistan"......and that will be thereafter followed by the global decline and fall of the second Anglo-Saxon world imperium, the Empire of the United States of America - Defender in Chief of Global Corruption, Patron of Thieves and the Standard Bearer International Human Moral Indecency.......Frankly speaking, the intensity and magnitude of corruption has reached such a momentum, that only a catastrophic conflagration can remedy it and its effects.

Big Bang de la Pakistan

Pakistan is in a state of total systemic collapse on the one hand, and is also under terrorist attack. Are these misfortunes a coincidence? Whose doing is this? Are we pinpointing the right culprits and causes? Because until we do, everything is positively screwed.

The economy is collapsing...the electricity system is collapsing...government ...management is collapsing....resources such as natural gas are dwindling...things and people are uncontrollable, and are in the maximum destructive mode of corrupt rapacity.....Who ravaged national development? Who rifled the Treasury? THE ELITE...Who stole Western aid money? THE ELITE...Who ravaged infrastructural and general development? THE ELITE...Who set a bad precedent of lawlessness and corruption? THE ELITE...Who created Taliban terrorism? THE ELITE........Who pays absolutely no taxes? THE ELITE........Who makes a hash of the laws? THE ELITE........And yet, the elite are partying away as if there is no tomorrow.....

Our army is also part of this elite - rather it is the cream; but it is still disciplined, otherwise this joke of a country would not remain to be ruled over.....still, I wonder what kind of an army it is - because with so much dysfunction around, allowed and created by it - what kind of country will they have left to defend? Are they defending this country to defend it - as any army should - or to prey on it?

So, the elite stands fully implicated and marked out as the germ of our national disease in full - the first class multi-criminals that they are, as do its Western patron powers....but nobody can touch them even.....yet. These local ruling elites are NOTHING without the backing of their Western elders. They are all now prominently exposed, but as yet too powerful to touch. That will not always be the case, and there will certainly be those with long memories around, waiting for the opportune time to arrive to pronounce justice; it shouldn't take that long now, and that time may even be less than a year away.....

There are also other powerful upwardly mobile social "wannabes" and lobbies jostling for the same dirty status and power as the traditional British-time ruling elite combine exercises: like the Pakistani middle classes and Pathan tribal smugglers - who are potential rivals of this elite, yet their goal is aspire to berths in it, or to become auxilliaries....the whole "nation" is therefore caught in a criminal, lawless and lowlife pattern.

And a note about the Awami National Party of Pakhtunkhwa is in order here. One of the very few political "entities" here always regarded as being "anti-establishment", that illusion is now fully demolished. In its cynical passion to rule and take power, the ANP hurriedly joined the doomed Pakistani establishment in its final hour. (There were coalition governments by the same elements that constitute the ANP before in Pakistani history, but never were they so in bed with it as they are now). The "successors" of Ghaffar Khan's noble struggle thought it fit to do so, oblivious to the fact that it would spell their end too. But I suppose it was the best thing they were fit to do. In doing so, this party of the rascally and rapidly growing Pashtun "globalised" bourgeoisie of Pakistan, has also signed its own Black Warrant. It is a strange irony of fate indeed, that it effectively put paid to whatever vague neutral reputation it may have had for decades, by taking the plunge and joining the establishment at a time when the end of Pakistan itself was drawing near and clearly visible to those with eyes...But I think they are too callous to care for such considerations now. Our third rate public opinion says that they won't be re-elected in the "next elections"..... That might be true, but what is more true - but as yet not noticed by the extremely myopic Pashtun/Pakistani public mentality - is that a horrendous social catastrophe is in the making....one in which all these forces have taken full part to cause and create. So one can forget about niceties such as elections, and the benign misfortune of losing them. All such considerations are now comfortably and thankfully in the past. Wait for the "Big Bang de la Pakistan"......and that will be thereafter followed by the global decline and fall of the second Anglo-Saxon world imperium, the Empire of the United States of America - Defender in Chief of Global Corruption, Patron of Thieves and the Standard Bearer International Human Moral Indecency.......Frankly speaking, the intensity and magnitude of corruption has reached such a momentum, that only a catastrophic conflagration can remedy it and its effects.

A STINKING GAME - WITH STINKING RESULTS...

The US -West definitely started the Islamism that now plagues the world, but then with their typical "cocksure" carelessness, let it become the monster it now is. They thought it was a useful tool, a convenient Kleenex tissue, with which to trump Soviet bloc, and "wipe" it off the face of the Earth. They did succeed in that. So, the West didn't "invent" Islamism, but certainly planted, watered and fertilised its seeds, with Dollars and Reaganite hypocrisy (see: http://www.charliewilsonswar.net/). Has anyone heard about the "famous" late Texan Senator, a swine called Charlie Wilson? If not, do acquaint yourselves please. It would help you to know. That was the "international roguery" aspect of our present sorry situation...But the West, it seems - is still intent on playing this dirty game here, so as to make an excuse for its presence in this key area....to counter Russia (which they failed to destroy in the 1990s), and to ensure Western global domination of what remains of the lifeblood resource that runs its decadent and immoral materialist civilisation: Petroleum.....that is why they created the Taliban jointly with Pakistan in 1994, "allowed" (or even assisted) 9/11 to happen, and then invaded Iraq and killed its rascally but otherwise legitimate and modernist Ba'ath Party ruler Saddam Hussein - on the mock charges of possessing "WMDs".....that is why they have not yet captured Osama Bin Laden, nor that pesky and wayward Pathan shepherd Mullah Omar, inspite of a "coalition of the willing", comprising NATO and other hangers-on....the most modern and mighty of all armed forces are on the ground in Afghanistan, having spent nine years there (in America's LONGEST war ever), having setup the Karzai puppet regime....but they Western control over the situation they set fire to is clearly slipping out of control and towards defeat; while Osama has long been rumoured to be a joint Western-Pakistani guest, living the life of a king hidden in Pakistan, while Mullah Omar is also said to be doing the same. NATO itself "leaks" these comments, "strategically", from time to time......a balancing act in the intricate art of lies and "plausible deniability", you know.

However, the partner, nay, the servant/pet dog the Americans had chosen all along to help them in this arduous 30 year task is not a reliable one - and certainly not of the desired pedigree. Pakistan's ISI may be inferior, but it certainly has convoluted visions of its own grandeur, no matter how comical they may otherwise be (of making Pakistan into a Third World "Islamic" Imperium and superpower!). And in many cases, like a naughty kid, it is now starting to become delinquent and disobey its Western parents.....it was a prize American baby once (like the late and great Shah of Iran's SAVAK intelligence service was - but the ISI much more sophisticated than them), and is now a powerful rogue international nuisance factor in its own right.....a "state" in its own right would be more correct. (The US use of the term "stateless actors" is incorrect; there is very much a state behind all such "actors"). Till recently, I used to buy the "standard" official Taliban insurgency story wholesale. Even so, there were many unanswered questions in my mind. But the events of this October in Afghanistan and Pakistan have shed more light on that murky aspect and have have changed my mind. I have begun to suspect that the ISI is behind 90% of this Taliban drama not only in Afghanistan, but also here in Pakistan. After all, the Taliban are the same; Pakistan's "strategic depth" doctrine that created them, encompasses both Pakistan and Afghanistan, the latter as an extension of sorts. It was only after the recent NATO incursions that NATO petrol tankers were attacked and burned by the hundreds in Islamabad, Shikarpur, Quetta and Taru Jabba (Peshawar). If it was the Taliban alone who did this, then they seem pretty lousy strategists: why did they not attack the hundreds of tankers that pass in huge convoys everyday through Pakistan - before, with such frequency as they did last week? It is odd...something smells....yet something very amateurish. Why haven't the Taliban attacked other "soft" strategic targets, like in key army cantonments, as well as key "enemy" diplomatic installations such as consulates? And schools? So far, only paltry village schools have been targeted in the school bombing campaign; in Pakistan's dysfunctional educational system - as with all else - such schools do not really count for anything, as many don't even have teachers...but is it surprising, that none of the "hated" posh elite Anglophone schools, which educate our thief leadership and bureaucracy, have even been touched? It does not require any special genius to sabotage them. Why do "they" concentrate solely on using live suicide bombers as their main tactical weapons of choice, when their targets could well be "taken out" with simple rockets using simple telemetry, etc.......? Equally mysterious is the fact that no government official, high or low, political, civil or military - has yet been assassinated: three high ranking police officers have been assassinated, supposedly by the Taliban, two by suicide bombers - in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Province since late 2006, but it is strange to note that these three were reputed to be among the cleanest and most efficient in the police department; public opinion says that they were "bumped off" as they were impediments in the way of corrupt colleagues. Observing such patterns evokes suspicion...and leads one to think as to what kind of game is being played, for what, and what kind of players are involved - using which tactics..... However, the ISI's trademark pigheadedness and clumsiness also gives its actions away. They are not as sophisticated as they like to think they are, being "made in Pakistan"..... I believe that the ISI recently wanted to show the US-NATO combine that they can influence strategic regional outcomes if they want to....or at least, irritate the major players. Likewise, it now seems to me that the ISI is behind almost all the targeted killings political or otherwise, kidnappings for ransom and bomb blasts that pass for the "Taliban" or even other criminal activity here. I think that the ISI is even responsible for attacking our own government police and paramilitaries in the guise of the Taliban.....I now believe that they kidnapped our own former ambassador to Afghanistan Tariq Azizuddin two years back....it is one evil game, being played by a Western-created international rogue force - now madly out of control, and bent on destroying not only everything in its way, but also itself too. The ISI is a very third rate organisation compared to the German Nazis, but just like Hitler's Germany burnt itself out, so can we be sure that the ISI will too......very soon. There is a limit to which all games can be played, and this one is certainly no exception.

All this is apart from the fact that the United States and the West support a set of some of the most shameless scoundrels and rascals existing, since those mentioned in myth and scripture -thieves and bandits and thugs, bereft of any of the niceties of pretense or compunction, like the Pakistani "educated" ruling elite classes.................it is in western "interest" to do so of course, but then we can also justify saying it is in our interests to declare war on this malignant Goliath of a nation straddling the globe, and fell it just as David did the actual Goliath.......does America honestly think they will never answer for such black deeds? They feel smug and secure at present, I suppose........."famous last cockiness", to paraphrase a cliché...........

Nobody cares about the effects this stinking game is having on the breakdown of society, morality, ideas, spirituality.....the very human fabric as a whole. Is it any surprise then, that the world will soon be in for a massive upheaval, UNPRECEDENTED in known history? This is a world riven by merciless corruption, cutthroat competition, chaos, disintegration and explosive instability. This is what the victory of America and its "West" brought Mankind....is this the "hope, freedom and fairplay" so hypocritically promised to the world by Ronald Reagan in his exaggerated platitudes? Which then, is the "Evil Empire": the old Soviet Union, or the glittering, unsustainable madness of Babylon the Great, the Whore of Revelation, aka the USA and its West? I think even a child will know; children do tell the truth you know. It was a child that said "the Emperor has no clothes on!"

THE PATHETIC PASHTUN POLITICAL PREDICAMENT

It is such a pity, such a pity - that our so-called "secular" forces are so stinkingly corrupt......we have two illnesses to contend with: Islamic fundamentalism, and so-called " liberal secular" corruption and politics....doesn't that go to say a lot for us Pakhtuns, and our desreved miserable predicament, between the lines? I do have numerous proposals and plans for a new form of ideological politics - and have had them for many years now....but I presume that to utter them before this society will be a waste of my valuable breath, and the equivalent of throwing gems in the mud.....it is a pity that I am forced to dream, and that also alone.......

On the other hand, the vast majority of those who concern themselves with these issues are emotional and inexperienced youth, politically correct and fresh from the modern educations and concepts of university, who sit in cafés and drawing rooms, and wax idealisticaly about the "plus points" of medieval issues and concepts they know so little about: Jirgas, Hujra-Jumaat and pakhtun grassroots rural tribal-feudal culture....all while the vile mullahs go about their work, and the sly "secularists" about their robbery........

JUDGEMENT IS AT HAND

What has the West done - and what is it now just arriving at? It has squandered its 20 year chance - since the fall of Soviet communism - to make the world a better place for humanity, as it so trumpeted in its fight against communism. But that righteousness was a ruse to achieve world domination themselves - the very thing they accused the "evil" Soviets of. The Soviets may not have been saints, but all this was a hyped up lie. For "Globalism". Where has that got everything to? The West has supported the most horrendous corruption in Pakistan and Afghanistan, and the worst and most poisonous forms of cultural and spiritual backwardness and perdition in the Middle Eastern and Central Asian regions in its support for the plague of Islamic Jihad as an anti-Soviet too and then as a geopolitical instrument to control petroleum reserves - thereby furnishing the key ingredient for its own defeat; it has degenerated into outlandish financial and consumerist greed, and decadent "postmodern" culture at the mass level. Garnished with indiscriminate politically correct delusion. And chaos. Like a powerful, yet deranged narcotic addict - it is now entering the multiple sclerotic swoon which will fell it once and for all. Thank goodness. The anticipated US-NATO defeat in Afghanistan will be the "marker" for this. Central Asia is the geopolitical heartland for Western interests and survival. We are now poised on the threshold of a dangerous and prolonged period of global war and instability - which will determine the future of all humanity. There is talk of "2012". People refer to the Book of Revelation and its "Babylon the Great". It is all right there, staring us in the face - not in the form of some mystical apparition in one of the horror films now so much in vogue, nor an airlift to heaven by angels as other maniacs like to think, but a massive, vast and very real multi-systemic social, political and economic failure. Things can not be helped now at this eleventh hour.

It is now incumbent upon Russia (which the West has so wronged, but which thankfully survived this ravaging) to take the lead, under a new and suitable internationalist human regime - and become the true Eurasian standard bearer of all the achievements of superior European culture and civilisation for all those who deserve to inherit it - and restore order in all of humanity: to reward those who deserve it, and punish those who are not fit or worthy. To eradicate the poisons now floating around and destabilising society. We must use tried and true political methods and strategies to enable us, from our past repertoire - and above all, evolve a truly new and universal spiritual paradigm that reflects not "secularism", but the Gnostic Truth of the Universe ans all science. It will be a long task, and take around the middle of this eventful century for us to finish, but that will be a task at which we will gladly work.

A DESCRIPTION OF PAKISTAN

The whole country came into existence on the basis of a false plea - founded in the name of a religion which no one really follows......this whole country is run by a class of Anglophone bandit elites, who comprise of the traditional landed tribal and feudal "gentries", who were "confirmed" in their power and status during the 160 year old British Colonial rule......and a military-civil bureaucracy, plus businessmen and "professionals" like lawyers, doctors and engineers - all of whom have been provided modern style (Western) education. They live solely on Western largesse in the form of aid to fuel their state dispensation, acting in return as the most vulgar of servants in furthering any geopolitical interests their Western patron may have, particularly the Anglo-American nexus. Their patrons in turn ensure that they remain well fed, protected and in power. Paying only lipservice to political considerations and a pittance to keep an excuse alive, they use almost all the foreign aid they are given on themselves and rob it, and pay no taxes, and use their modern education to intimidate, and to enforce their prerogative over the rest of their society....which in turn is a strange, backward mafia like mix of tribes, clans, ethnicities and castes - ranging from neolithic to medieval at best, who depend slavishly upon their traditional overlords for patronage and governance....and are happily steeped in a putrid cesspool of all kinds of strange and complex decaying historical cultural remnants from the past overlaid with the patina of the artificial British Indian system Pakistan has inherited - being the least interested in empowering themselves and becoming productive or bettering their image or their straitened circumstances....lately (30 years ago), Pakistan's ambitious military instituted a "Jihadi" home and foreign state policy for Pakistan, which the West also cultivated, using it in an anti-Soviet role successfully...they both thought they could use it as they wished, the Pakistanis to maintain control over an intoxicated and ignorant population.....but the use of this poison resulted in the harmful intoxication and infestation of both the Pakistani military state and also attacked its Western patrons....and it also provided a form of upward social mobility and revolutionary vehicle for Pakistani "masses', for whom anything other than Islam is blatantly unacceptable....and this, together with the heady Jihad -fueled corruption of the past 25 years or so, has unleashed destructive and powerful reactionary social forces that have corroded the body of this strange dispensation beyond redemption......

On the Pashtun character of the Taliban

Like many other subjects, this is also one the truth of which has become tainted with crass political jostling and hypocritical motives of the various "players" involved from the very start.....there are those interests who wish to blame Pashtuns for everything at one end, and then there are those apologists who wish to paint the Pashtun character as 100% angelic and 100% victimised. I speak not as an enemy of the Pashtuns, but as a Pashtun reformer himself, not a two-cent worth politician, who wants to plaster over something rotten in pastel colours, so that it looks nice to the world... For me, the truth is bitter, yet it is the best....that is the first correct step. The matter isn't as simple as most, both for and against, wish to present it...for their own interests. My calling Taliban as a product of "modern Wahhabi Pushtunwali" is in no way supportive of the Pakistani state's Punjabi strategic depth nonsense; it is the recognition of a fact that may not be palatable to many idealists. I, for one, do not represent the nonsense called Pakistan or its warped projects in any sense! And I desire an independent and modern Pashtun national concept....and have been doing so for 25 years now.... But, unfortunately, the Taliban phenomenon are not that alien to our Pashtun society, as in the past 15-20 years it has undergone several basic transformations - the major one among these being the incapacitation of its old British-Indian + Pakistani veneer, with the slowly but constantly growing influence of Wahhabi Islam, of which the Taliban are the local political corollary....Gallup or other opinion polls can not be taken as reliable influences in this case, as their methods of assessment and quantification take into account sampling procedures and analytical techniques that are rendered erroneous due to several factors too lengthy to dwell upon here.....

None of the contentions we now see doing the rounds concerning the true nature of the Taliban, are true. The Taliban were at first a Pakistani establishment engineered outgrowth meant for Afghanistan, that was grafted onto Afghan Pashtun society - but which quickly began to take root in it on both sides of the Durand Line, and assume a momentum of its own to become a new, and grassroots form of traditional Pashtun nationalism for the deprived and lower class, rural masses of our society. All this was taking place while this growth was being watered by the ISI....but the increasing corruption and dysfunction of Pakistan's ruling elites in the 1990s following their jihadi victory over Najibullah, caused their bankruptcy and decrepitude that created not only a huge gulf between them and their society, but also caused an overall breakdown in state services, governability and the provision of justice, whereby the populace, according to its cultural genius and outlook began to look towards such elements as the Taliban for empirical stability and provision of justice according to their own uneducated and rural/tribal outlook, with whom they could also culturally and religiously identify; this also slowly resulted in the encroachment of Wahhabi Islamic doctrines...the killing of the Maliks and Khans now so promnently being done, is because they are identified with the old British Indian - Pakistani neocolonial state system already in place, that is tottering due to its own corrupt decrepitude; moreover that was a system identified with the hated old elites, and not the new rich tribal smugglers, international traders and "Dubai driver" classes of petty bourgeois Pashtuns that is now on the ascendant, and is supporting these Taliban elements. Although they hate the old Khan and Malik elites, these upstarts still identify most enthusiastically with Pakhtunwali - rather more than the old Khans of the British Indian + Pakistani system did....and it is this new form of Wahhabi Pakhtunwali that is now taking the place of the old elitist Pakhtunwali...Pakhtunwali in general is a very backward and rigidly extremist tribal-feudal code that prevailed until now in the rural areas, but thanks to 160 years of British Indian and then Pakistani influence, was minimal in the cities - but it is now starting to permeate the whole society once again in this revived Wahhabi form. It is as bad as Wahhabism itself, and as I said above - has complemented it.... It must be decried strongly by all Pashtuns who are truly progressive; and no condoning of it on any lame excuse of nationalism can be excused or tolerated.....

The Future of the Pashtun Race

To tell the truth, I have very little hope regarding them - and say this out of solid conviction....and for a person to talk like this, about his own people - shows how desperate the situation is.....they have never been a real society, but in this critical age, they are now at the limits of propriety, and seem unable to do anything about it and their own excessive malaise....the time is soon coming when the rest of the world will be fed up with this festering gangrene on the body of humanity, and the dangers it poses to the rest of human welfare - and of their having to step in and intervene endlessly, not only to keep Pashtuns from harming the rest of the world, but also to save them from themselves, thus spending a continual drain of resources in the process, to no avail at all.....a time will come, when the world will, in plain words, gang up and pulverise them out of existence....people like me will be lucky, as I am already half-European - not "really" Pashtun as it goes; and most immigrant Pashtuns like those who are abroad (in the West) will also have a good chance of survival, because fortunately it is difficult to replicate "real Pashtun" behaviour while living in the midst of a civilised society....so they are also, in the end more or less like me and my type.....and most of them are just boisterous kids too, with little or no idea of what the "real" thing regarding their culture actually is, and even though internet message boards and sites like Facebook teem with them, thankfully their errant influence amounts to very little....

PAKISTAN AND ITS COTERIE OF "FRIENDS"

Anybody who knows or follows Pakistan, should be aware by now, that it has its share of friends, but all are of the wrong type....heh heh heh heh heh....nuff said. But one, China, is always spoken of as Pakistan's best friend...time tested friend...all-weather friend...a friend whose "friendship is higher than Mount Everest and deeper than the deepest seas (Marianas Trench?)...an all round exemplar of the the highest friendship ever to be manifested"...blah...blah...blah, and so go the gooey epithets, sweeter than an overdone Punjabi Laddoo in swimming in sugar syrup.But notwithstanding all of this - the China+Pakistan relationship is actually purely a very "bazaari" one, based upon sheer strategic conveniences and compulsions....otherwise, where can we see Chinese peeople, culture, sports, music, literature, films or regular exchanges, or any other social, non-business and non-governmental interaction here in Pakistan? In the time of Mr. Bhutto senior, they at least used to make a few pathetic attempts to facilitate such events, but no longer. There were even a few long standing Chinese shoe shops and restaurants here...all gone. I remember a Chinese student, Nicholas, in our school St.Mary's, in the early 1980s, who spoke better Urdu than me - they have all left, when our society began rediscovering its Islamic "Imaan" during the "jihad". Of course, when I speak of such cultural and people-to-people interactions, I do so with the awareness that our claustrophobic people, with their limited and inferior tastes won't even know let alone care for such ties...our people relish the third rate music and cheap films of their "deadly enemy" and neighbour India - because Pakistan's dominant majority Punjabi and Sindhi populations are from the same Indian culture. And Pashtuns are barely out of the donkey cart era. But no, there are no signs around in Pakistan of the culture their "truest, most trusted friend" China - which in most ways has a superior culture. Like all the other ironies about Pakistan, this too is a glaring paradox nobody cares about.

REVITALISED PASHTUN ISLAM AND THE MYTH OF MODERNITY IN AFPAK

First, a clarification of my employment of the word "AfPak" is in order: I find the term "AfPak" as the most accurate name for this region. I do not wish to horrify my Afghan and Pashtun nationalist "friends" in this regard, but AfPak is the truth - it has been that, in one form or another, since the Indo-Aryans commenced their invasions of this area in around 1700 BC, right upto the artificially contrived Punjabi British successor state of Pakistan which now exists. Even the "modern" Afghan kingdom of Ahmad Shah Abdali "Baba", the national icon so beloved of the Afghan/Pashtun nationalists, was actually AfPak than anything else. It was only when the British drew the Durand Line in 1893 that some portion of AfPak was cut away to become so-called "modern" Afghanistan (which I refer to as "AfPersia"), but the remaining British controlled portion still continued to be "British AfPak" in composition - even after 1947, when the British handed over power to their "Pak" Indian Muslim toadies - and formed Pakistan. AfPak therefore is not a misnomer coined by the Obama Administration: it is even more valid than the universally recognised term "Indo-Pak", used liberally for the subcontinent. One minor difference was, that in the epoch of Islam, it was the "Afs" and their Central Asian Persianate-Turkic cousins who ruled the roost; however, things began to change in the eighteenth century after the Iranian king Nadir Shah Afshar's coup in Iran, follwed by his attack on decadent Mughal India when the Marhatta tribes revolted. Shortly afterwards, the rise of Sikh power was witnessed in Northern India - for a good few decades prior to that area becoming part of the British Company Raj in 1849 - which a decade later became the British Crown Raj. Many of the Central Asians (and Pathans) previously settled in subcontinental Mother India lost their edge and became ethnic paan-chewing Indians. But in the present situation, some variables have been permanently changed. India (Bharat) has been separated, and has been permanently empowered as an individual polity. The British empowered the huge servile and greasy Indian ethnicity (both Muslim and Hindu) in a permanent way, enabling them over the generally loutish and boorishly proud Pathans who lived on the north western frontiers of British territory. That situation still remains intact in what remains of the old AfPak, although now the latest form of Pathan political expression and agression against the old order, Talibanism, is basically a Pathan manifestation - but soon may not be... Those who lived in "modern" Afghanistan "proper", still retained their empty clamour and comical bravado, but in an increasingly Persianised, and medieval feudal "statehood". I put it in quotes, as it isn't nor ever was, a state by any proper standards. The Punjabis still have a centuries old collective inferiority complex when faced with Pathans, and the thinking in their "Pak" establishment went that Islamic Jihadism would imbibe them with the Pathan kind of "ghairatmandi" and fearless manliness they so envied in their otherwise hated Pathan foes...that thinking seems to have been a total flop and led the "Paks" into a total mess...because, as one is reminded by the wise proverb: You can never make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Things are always the way nature has made them, and those limitations are inviolable. However, in British India and more so in its successor Pakistan, the Pathans in high positions nowadays display the exact opposite trend: they are almost all Punjabised/Pakised: the opposite of what I mentioned above; it is very hard to find a Pathan suitably modernised who is bereft of negative Pathan and "Pak" traits - or, in Afghanistan, of Persian traits...Returning to the (Pakistani) Taliban, now it seems, however, that in the aftermath of the three decade long Jihadi epoch, that the "Af" ascendancy is returning - in the form of the Taliban. And it is clearly apparent how the Punjabi "Paks" have fallen to such dissolution and degradation through their legendary corruption; but in keeping with their psychology, they are now, in the terminal delirium of their statehood, getting a sadomasochist kick out of being screwed by their Taliban proteges.
As can be seen now, however, AfPak has arrived at the end of its three millenia long travails. It is now a thoroughly decrepit and condemned hulk in the global scrapyard, awaiting the judgments of both history and eternal progress.

And now to the subject of this article: So, since the last 62 years, the Jihadist Punjabi "Paks" are in the ascendant in the Pakistan bit of the AfPak region. Don't worry, they are their own biggest enemy. God has given them a voracious appetite - so voracious, that they have now been eating their own selves for quite long. So those who detest them needn't belabour or bother themselves with this; they needn't even wag their little fingers at them threateningly, for the AfPaks will do themselves in by themselves. They will eat themselves up! Even their Chinese "all weather" friends are aghast and dismayed at this prospect, as are their Arab "Muslim brothers" - at this seventh nuclear power of the world - a nuclear power with a difference, as it is in reality a khargaday (donkey cart) nuclear power - with its weapons being made of kabari (scrap) tinplate and are fitted onto donkey carts. The Durand Line has vanished in all but name. (The British artfully choose a man named Durand to head their border demarcation commission, because they felt that the similarity of this name to the Afghan royal family's tribal name of Durrani would make a favourable and agreeable impression upon Afghanistan's boorish and illiterate "Iron Amir", Abdur Rahman Khan. It apparently did, too).

Seen in the wider regional and recent historical context, the "modernist" glamour during the 1950s-70s era of the Shah's Iran, Afghanistan's Kabul City, and also the first 30 years of Pakistan from its creation in 1947 to the takeover of General Zia in 1977 - was all illusionary: a complex kalaidescopic surface patina, looking intriguing but actually false and worthless. This illusion, engendered by the stable rule of "postcolonial"/neocolonial parasite elite ruling orders had no real foundations and was equivalent in every aspect to the drugged "trips" of the trashy "hippies" of the era who frequented this area in droves...a decadent patina, restricted to the surface of client elites with no spiritual foundations whatsoever. The same can be said of the so-called Arab "nation-states" with pretensions to secular modernism and socialism, other than the Gulf Sheikdoms and Saudi Arabia - such as Algeria, Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq and Syria. This definition can even be extended to ex-Soviet Central Asia. It was as much an illusion as was the contemporary opinion about the successes of industrialisation and petroleum, or even cigarettes - the destructive environmental, pollution and health consequences of which became apparent at almost the same time. On the other hand, Islam, in its original primitive and popular essence, remained locked safely in the roots of the decrepit society and its bedrock - and as the mass upheavals to transform the rotten elitist structures began to ferment, the Islamic essence was unlocked, and began to bubble upwards, altering the very colouration of those upheavals - as we see in Afghanistan's quirky "Saur Revolution" followed by its Jihad, then Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran, and general Zia's Islamisation policies, all of which occured at the end of the 1970s. The glamour was over, and the post-drug trip ralities began to bite, as the "addicts" woke up on the rubbish dump where they always were on... The global, Pashtunised revival of Islam after 1980 was amply assisted and nurtured by Western money and power - most of which countries didn't even have an inkling of the kind of monster they were birthing...but as they say, malevolent intentions give rise to ...further malevolence. But they "cleverly" thought that while they would be able to employ it in use against the USSR and in local geopolitics, they themselves would be shielded from it....ah.

The Pashtun brand of tribal Islam has equalled if not outdone Wahabism; except that it lacked the pretense of sophistication which it later picked up from Qutb, Maudoodi & co: not even the "redoubtable" Jamaluddin Afghani could achieve that. In the pre-Jihadi days, the traditional feudal classes - who were under British and then neocolonial influence - arbitrated this Islam, and saw that it tailored their opportunist social needs. Of course, the century of British rule had a deep diluting influence on this polity - right upto the Jihadi Era starting in 1980. Now, the revitalising and assisted encounter of Pashtun Islam with Jihad and Wahabi ideology has complemented its scope in contributing towards forming a new fountainhead for a revitalised new extremist Islam, on a global basis. The time when decadent Western liberalism and excessive political correctness - reinforced by a general paradigm of misunderstanding, could be used as convenient fig leaves in this regard - has passed away.

The tragicomic paradox of the matter is that those who have not progressed, in real terms, beyond donkey carts and the middle ages - are now at home with computers and modern culture as if they always had been.

MY MISSION STATEMENT

The story of my life is singularly strange, and is very much out of the ordinary. It has been such so far, and will continue being so for the rest of it. I have thus far taken the utmost care to appear as "normal" as possible to others, and have been largely successful, but the time is now at hand for me to be recognised properly and openly in the broad light of day. But as this is a blog introduction, and it will have to be as brief as possible, while conveying as much as it can. Even then, I do not think that my life story is meant for - or would be understood justly by - the eye or ear of every Tom, Dick and Harry. So I will let events unfold by themselves. I live in a very bad and lawless society of roguish and criminal people, ruled by Western supported thugs and bandits - known as the Pakistani society. That society underlies the basic cause of the ills that have assailed my life. I haven't gone with its flow. Everyone else I know, friend or relative - has submitted to, or is gladly part of it. My difficulties stem from my avoidance of it. But now, the end of this society is finally at hand. Everything is finite in the material world, but this applies especially to negative situations, for there is a limit to what can go on, without the consequences of those actions setting in. I am not like my Pakistani fellows: because I hate their criminal outlook; but I am also different from them as I am not a co-participant in their cesspool of a society. I am not a gangster, nor want my name sullied by being involved with scoundrels. I pray for its just end, but as for those who belong in it - who would be mad to wish doom to a place where they have invested their whole lives - their careers, their money, their children, their futures? But it is precisely because of sidelining Pakistani ills, that I abstained from involving myself in all the things listed above and more - here in Pakistan; nor did I flee abroad, so that in tomorrow's scenario my suffering could bear witness to my reputation and achievement. I therefore have no social life, no marital ties, no job, no career, no business nor any political involvements here whatsoever; I have no income, having lived since my father's death - on the proceeds from the sale of the property I inherited from him; and I have not even furthered my formal education (so-called). All along I have relied on my internal spiritual insight and benevolent forces to guide me. In so doing, I gave a great sacrifice, putting my whole life on hold in its first half, awaiting worthier times later on in which I could be free to do worthier things - my actual destined duties. Now I am 42, and that time is at hand, as this ramshackle state and society, is drunk on corruption and unable to reverse the evil momentum of its rotten practices, with its malevolent and backward people and leaders finally tottering on the edge of their deserved precipice...so my real life has only now begun! It is a rebirth! Over the past 30 years, I had to defend myself from the dark effects of the dual menace of revived Afghanism/Pathanism, and the corrupt neofeudal wannabe regime of Jihadi Pakistan (which country is also the chief instrument of Anglo-American mischief and imperial ambitions in this crucial part of the world - but will thankfully soon be incapable of further such use as it implodes in on itself after 62 years of unmitigated debauchery). I am the person who will put paid to not only the products of Afghan Jihadism, revitalised Islam and the Anglo-US McJihadi Globalist imperialism - but heal their negative effects all over the globe, and on humanity as a whole.

AN INDEPENDENT PASHTUN WATAN - "KHARGADAY WATAN"?

About 35 yeas ago, the former Communist Party of Pakistan (CPP) Pakhtunkhwa chapter, published a very appropriate black and white picture poster, which was widely distributed. The picture was that of a filthy little Pashtun child in ragged clothing, standing miserably with his finger in his mouth. It had a large caption written in Pushto which said: "Pakhtunkhwa....Pakhtunistan?" What it pertinently inferred was that although the name Pakhtunkhwa was a legitimate demand - Pashtun society was as yet not fit to be a proper country on its own. Notwithstanding all that has happened since this poster was printed in 1975, our situation and potentials are pretty much the same as they were back then. I am sorry to to throw cold water on the romantic aspirations of Pashtun nationalists, many of them young, zealous and inexperienced about both the world - and as to the intricate knowledge of their own culture. Many of them now live in plush Western climes, and look back at their ancestral land through rose tinted glasses, which can be very nice. But much more is needed than just the vague idea of a separate national identity for Pashtuns. Any identity must have quality and substance. The state of our society is to be considered. At present, a realistic apprisal of Pashtunistan brings up the picture of one large, unstable, wild and very impoverished tribal wasteland - just what the present Afghanistan is now like: an unsettled poverty stricken and backward population dominated by illiterate and semi-literate snuff-eating tribal elders of Bronze Age vintage and thuggish gangsters, warlords and smugglers - all engaged in constant belligerence with each other, and obeying the authority or rules of no one. I would rather we remained where we are than ending up like that, with a "khargaday watan" or a "kabari jamhooriyat". (A donkey cart country, or a junkyard republic). Nobody with an ounce of sense would want such an outcome, except for excited kids on the internet who don't really know what they are talking about - or backward types of people to whom such conditions don't matter, or either provide some kind of illegal and unsocial advantage. But that is where our "Pashtana tolana" now stands. It is well suited to the tribal and feudal mindset and lifestyle. (This is aside from the fact that the old geopolitical frameworks within which our wretched society exists - are still very strong and would not permit anything detrimental to their security...) We have to address issues such as progress: the status of Pashtunwali in a future society. We have to realise that "our" ancient code of life, despite its chivalry and romance, is the main overall impediment to progress... We have to seriously and maturely reassess our rigid and unreasonably extreme attitudes about Islam, and what it really represents - and what it should represent in our lives...what, also, will be the status of women in such a future society? They can't be kept as secluded and imprisoned commodities, symbols of our shame and honour, the way we now do, in a truly respectable modern nation. Pashtun nationhood is an empty and harmful slogan without vast proper reforms on all fronts - social, economic and political. Feudalism and tribalism form the basis of our culture, and have to be abolished as a first step. Land reforms have to be effected universally. Drastic "shock reforms" will be needed in most areas of life here. A strong state will be needed - illusions regarding "democracy" should be discarded for now as being out of the question for quite a while. These are all issues of the utmost gravity and without which we can continue dreaming sweet dreams, which will eventually turn sour...as reality bites.

THE AIM OF POST-COLD WAR US GEOPOLITICS

Since its own oil production peaked and then began declining in 1970, the US gradually became aware that the world's petroleum supplies were limited and would run out eventually after peaking in output. This is called Peak Oil. Petroleum is the lifeblood of modern civilisation in every sense of the word. And that is not a sweeping exaggeration: its advanced technology and high living standards and mode of lifestyle all depend on it. After 1970 the US began to increase its imports of petroleum. Shortly after US production peaked and declined, the 1973 Arab oil embargo showed the Americans how vulnerable and disruptable its supplies of oil were. The US determined where the main global reserves existed, and began drawing up strategic plans for all these contingencies: Saudi Arabia and the Gulf Sheikdoms were the main focus, followed by Iraq and Iran and then the Soviet Union. In 1979, President Carter issued a policy statement proclaiming the right of the US to use force in the Persian Gulf region to defend its "interests" in oil, using the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan as an excuse. This became known as the Carter Doctrine, and was to become the foundation for post-Cold War US policy after a short while, when the US was free of its Soviet entanglement. The US already had a firm footing in the Gulf Arab states and Saudi Arabia; Iraq was a variable, but options were being drawn up to tackle it; it was not a threat at the moment as it was involved in a war with Iran, with convenient US blessings. Thus it was being kept busy for later "treatment", while also engaging a US enemy. The US had stepped up its Cold War rivalry with the USSR using the Soviet action in Afghanistan as a convenient springboard. It hoped to bleed it dry there, and in doing so not only rid itself of its global adversary, but also eyed its vast petroleum potential - in reserves, being the second in the world after the Saudis. The USSR's clout in the world began declining for various reasons in the late 1980s - its defeat and pullout from Afghanistan, Gorbachev's reforms, and the START weapons treaty with the US in 1986. The Soviet Bloc began crumbling in the end of 1988. In that same year, the Iran Iraq war ended in a draw, and Saddam and his army's prestige was buoyed and his attention was freed, to contemplate other things. He was subtly being prodded and set up to annex Kuwait next, by the US with whispers of support -ostensibly to restore morale for his war weary army and nation and regain Kuwait's vast oil supplies, to which Iraq already had an irredentist claim. But this was a carefully contrived American gamble. Saddam Hussein was over-confident, and played into their hands. In 1990 began the Gulf War, and by 1991, it was over with America's Desert Storm having pulverised Iraq even further. The Soviet Union was in its terminal throes, and could pose no threat. The Anglo-American led "allies" set up aerial control and exclusion zones over Iraq, and Saddam and his regime was paralysed, but was allowed to remain in power - as a mere empty shell compared to its former status. It was to be reserved in this handy way, for future consideration. That same year the USSR finally gave way and "went the way of all flesh". President G.W. Bush grandly declared a New World Order of America's supreme overlordship over a "globalising world". The US had been eyeing the Soviet Caspian Sea and Russian oil reserves all along. Now with the demise of the USSR, the way to it was open. While the Russian reserves proper were on Russian territory and the Russian Federation was the USSR's successor - they would be relatively difficult to access and corporate guile would be employed to get at those. But the Caspian was a different case, as its region was now independent of Russian control, and comprised of several small states. But disappointment was to strike American planners, as a few years later it became apparent that the Caspian reserves were far less than had been presumed, and were of a far lesser quality. Still, in order to access the tremendous gas reserves in Turkmenistan, the US played its al-Qaeda and Taliban cards in Afghanistan, so as to use that shattered country as a pipeline conduit, which was to terminate in US ally, Pakistan. The US also permitted Pakistan to partner in this, and to pursue its own various jihadi policies in the region - in an auxiliary role to the main US plan for the region. After the Caspian disappointment, the US strategic planners realised that time was short, and alternate measures to secure oil had to be put in place. So now attention was quickly turned to Iraq, which was now tattered and in a state of limbo. The Taliban regime too, was proving increasingly intransigent in Afghanistan with its US-Pak handlers - and becoming a dangerous thorn in their sides. Many therefore say that the US "encouraged" and allowed the 9/11 attacks of 2001 to occur; they knew what the jihadis were brewing against them, but they permitted it to happen - so as to furnish them with the perfect excuse for setting the world aflame - during which melee they would gain an excuse to invade and take direct control of Afghanistan, to secure it as a future geopolitical staging post in the coming complex scenario. And 9/11 would also give them an excuse, albeit very pigheaded, to frame and then invade Iraq. The case in point being the WMD lie regarding Iraq's weapons potential. It fell through later, but it had served its triggering purpose. The 2003 Iraq war was all about oil. As detailed above, it had been on the US agenda for quite long, but when the US found that the Caspian reserves were worthless, the urgency regarding Iraq grew. In the end it will be pertinent to say that even in the case of the impossible scenario of the US appropriating the whole world's petroleum supplies, the rate at which they use - rather misuse - it, will ensure that it will all be depleted within this century. The global power of the US, and indeed its own existence, in the next few years is, therefore, in grave doubt.