The whole military structure and functions revolves around ‘leadership’, which means one can not be expected to please everyone while taking tough decisions. As they say, ‘if you want to make everyone happy sell ice cream’. Obviously General Qamar Bajawa, the current Army Chief was carrying excess luggage of his predecessor Gen Raheel Sharif whose indecisiveness on the issue ‘Dawn Leaks’ damaged the whole of Pakistan and the armed forces. That made the crooks like Sharifs more courageous and powerful. In mafia and criminal world ‘perception’ and ‘symbolism’ matter too much as it is a game of survival.
In the world of intelligence use of a little bit of common sense really helps otherwise whole exercise of intelligence gathering become useless. As they say, ‘a stitch in time saves nine’. So now whole of Pakistan including the over stretched armed forces are paying the ‘heavy price’. Wrapping a body of young soldier or officer in national flag is not enough for the family who is going to suffer for the rest of their lives. So General your decision’s timings matter.
The armed forces of Pakistan have constitutional protection to do everything within their means in defence of ‘national interests and sovereignty’. The US Supreme Court said to the government during civil war that: ‘exceptional means can be used in exceptional circumstances’. For the last 17 years Pakistan is facing war and exceptional circumstances, but corrupt bureaucracy has shrewdly put all the focus on ‘Madrassas and 5% FATA’, while rest of 95% Pakistan faced lawlessness and mafia rules.
The growth of land mafia fueled ‘terrorist financing’ and syndication of police and judiciary with the mafia made everyone a target and increased military deaths. I told Ch Nisar Ali Khan, Interior Minister at IISS in London: ’your police system is collapsed due to police corruption and that’s why military deaths increased in Pakistan’. He asked me for a copy of my research study, so I gave him my own copy.
People in Pakistan and rest of the world must be wondering why world’s only Muslim nuclear power behaves in so indifferent and reckless manner when it comes to protect its national interests and foreign policy which does not seems to exist. Well the answer is simple its leaders put their personal interests first than national interests.
Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari’s corrupt regimes are undermining Pakistan’s national interests in a very sophisticated way. Appointment of corrupt, incompetent and compromised people on the top position is on top of agenda.
Both have learnt to bypass the state system of governance that is how Hussain Haqani was able to issue visas to black water mercenaries from Washington and his close relative from UAE, Rehman Malik is reportedly running his dodgy businesses abroad and allegedly passing on classified information as well as signing secret agreements to harm Pakistani national interests.
A senior journalist narrated an incident that during the USSR era of cold war a senior KGB agent defected to the USA. To the surprise of the KGB, they could not find anything against him. Few years later probably after the cold war one of his former colleagues met him in the USA and asked him, what were you doing, we could not find anything against you? The defected agent who was head of foreign posting department said, ‘I was just appointing corrupt and compromised agents nothing else’. Surely rest was easy for CIA.
The recent appointment of Ali Jhangir Siddiqi as Pakistani ambassador to USA and earlier Hina Rabbani Khar by Zardari as Foreign Minister of Pakistan seems like the same story. You just appoint an incompetent person the rest will happen automatically.
The whole leadership and ruling elite in Pakistan is corrupt to the bones. Let us suppose they all are blackmailed by foreign powers for whom they have or are working now and in the past. Surely this is a difficult situation for a politician, a general, a senior civil servant and a businessman.
In the world of intelligence use of a little bit of common sense really helps otherwise whole exercise of intelligence gathering become useless. As they say, ‘a stitch in time saves nine’. So now whole of Pakistan including the over stretched armed forces are paying the ‘heavy price’. Wrapping a body of young soldier or officer in national flag is not enough for the family who is going to suffer for the rest of their lives. So General your decision’s timings matter.
The armed forces of Pakistan have constitutional protection to do everything within their means in defence of ‘national interests and sovereignty’. The US Supreme Court said to the government during civil war that: ‘exceptional means can be used in exceptional circumstances’. For the last 17 years Pakistan is facing war and exceptional circumstances, but corrupt bureaucracy has shrewdly put all the focus on ‘Madrassas and 5% FATA’, while rest of 95% Pakistan faced lawlessness and mafia rules.
The growth of land mafia fueled ‘terrorist financing’ and syndication of police and judiciary with the mafia made everyone a target and increased military deaths. I told Ch Nisar Ali Khan, Interior Minister at IISS in London: ’your police system is collapsed due to police corruption and that’s why military deaths increased in Pakistan’. He asked me for a copy of my research study, so I gave him my own copy.
People in Pakistan and rest of the world must be wondering why world’s only Muslim nuclear power behaves in so indifferent and reckless manner when it comes to protect its national interests and foreign policy which does not seems to exist. Well the answer is simple its leaders put their personal interests first than national interests.
Nawaz Sharif and Asif Zardari’s corrupt regimes are undermining Pakistan’s national interests in a very sophisticated way. Appointment of corrupt, incompetent and compromised people on the top position is on top of agenda.
Both have learnt to bypass the state system of governance that is how Hussain Haqani was able to issue visas to black water mercenaries from Washington and his close relative from UAE, Rehman Malik is reportedly running his dodgy businesses abroad and allegedly passing on classified information as well as signing secret agreements to harm Pakistani national interests.
A senior journalist narrated an incident that during the USSR era of cold war a senior KGB agent defected to the USA. To the surprise of the KGB, they could not find anything against him. Few years later probably after the cold war one of his former colleagues met him in the USA and asked him, what were you doing, we could not find anything against you? The defected agent who was head of foreign posting department said, ‘I was just appointing corrupt and compromised agents nothing else’. Surely rest was easy for CIA.
The recent appointment of Ali Jhangir Siddiqi as Pakistani ambassador to USA and earlier Hina Rabbani Khar by Zardari as Foreign Minister of Pakistan seems like the same story. You just appoint an incompetent person the rest will happen automatically.
The whole leadership and ruling elite in Pakistan is corrupt to the bones. Let us suppose they all are blackmailed by foreign powers for whom they have or are working now and in the past. Surely this is a difficult situation for a politician, a general, a senior civil servant and a businessman.
