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.