« Pakistan Army's War against Islamic Terrorist Taliban in Swat:
Reflections on: "Whose war is this"?
by Prof. Rasul Bakhsh Rais ; profeesor in Political Pakistan in a university in Pakistan
The war our security forces are fighting is our national war, a war for the future of Pakistan. The alternative of allowing mini religious terrorist-states in Swat, Wazirastan etc. would be self-destructive. This message has been lost to the Islamically brainwashed zombie publci, some judges of the superior judiciary and the politicians of Pakistan due to the artificially spread strong anti-state sentiment in the country at the moment.
Our security forces have been fighting a war against the fascist Taliban in the tribal areas that has now extended beyond that troubled zone into some of the settled regions. The latest district to join the list of strife-stricken areas is Swat where fierce clashes have occurred along with gruesome beheadings and suicide bombings. What do the insurgents want and why have they taken up arms against the state?
These questions generally produce confused answers that don't stand the test of any logic or reason. For instance, the Taliban and their supporters portray themselves as holy warriors fighting for the enforcement of their version of the Islamic law and defenders of Pakistan against foreign interference while they are actually attempting to de-legitimise the state by appropriating concepts of nationalism, sovereignty and Islam. Taliban elements throughout the country have similar views and are fighting alongwith foreign terrorists against our national interests.
Sadly, what is happening in the periphery is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger more complex project of capturing the state by eliminating its authority, starting with regions where its presence has been weak. Religious groups throughout the country extend support to the Islamic terrorists and militants in many ways such as attacking the state in the media for "provoking" trouble, while Pakistan Supreme Court's pro-terrorism judge, Mr. Justice Nawaz Abassi isproviding a legal cover to these anti-state Islamic terrorist activities.
If the religious political parties like MMA, JI, JUI and others are loyal to Pakistan, then why have religious groups, religious political parties and their spokesmen, who are vocal on every other issue, have not said a word against these Islamic terrorists and insurgents and their brutalities against our Pakistani security forces? Their silence is a political statement of latent support to the religious insurgency and terrorism. In a convoluted logic, like the pro-terrorism Mr. Justice Nawaz Abassi, they often blame security forces and the government for the conflict situation more than the violent Islamic armed groups that have committed and continue to commit unspeakably cruel acts against Pakistani citizrns whom they can capture and slaughter as a state employee or sympathiser, (and such fascist islamic Taliban of Pakistan and Afghanistan have been fully supported by the MMA Govt. in nWFP should be no surprise to patriotic Pakistanis).
It is not difficult to understand this silent and latent support of religious groups to the Islamic terrorists and insurgents, but what is hard to grasp is the silence of some of the mainstream political party leaders like PPP, Muslim League, Tahreek-i-Insaaf, the Islamic and the liberal intelligentsia and other opinion-making sectors. Political parties, like the PMLN and regional parties, are ambivalent on the issue of religious violence. They appear to be taking perverse pleasure in watching the Pakistan state and the Musharraf govt. being challenged by religious extremists and their armed fronts; although benazir did make a statement in the context of her personal political interests.
Our security forces have been fighting a war against the fascist Taliban in the tribal areas that has now extended beyond that troubled zone into some of the settled regions. The latest district to join the list of strife-stricken areas is Swat where fierce clashes have occurred along with gruesome beheadings and suicide bombings. What do the insurgents want and why have they taken up arms against the state?
These questions generally produce confused answers that don't stand the test of any logic or reason. For instance, the Taliban and their supporters portray themselves as holy warriors fighting for the enforcement of their version of the Islamic law and defenders of Pakistan against foreign interference while they are actually attempting to de-legitimise the state by appropriating concepts of nationalism, sovereignty and Islam. Taliban elements throughout the country have similar views and are fighting alongwith foreign terrorists against our national interests.
Sadly, what is happening in the periphery is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger more complex project of capturing the state by eliminating its authority, starting with regions where its presence has been weak. Religious groups throughout the country extend support to the Islamic terrorists and militants in many ways such as attacking the state in the media for "provoking" trouble, while Pakistan Supreme Court's pro-terrorism judge, Mr. Justice Nawaz Abassi isproviding a legal cover to these anti-state Islamic terrorist activities.
If the religious political parties like MMA, JI, JUI and others are loyal to Pakistan, then why have religious groups, religious political parties and their spokesmen, who are vocal on every other issue, have not said a word against these Islamic terrorists and insurgents and their brutalities against our Pakistani security forces? Their silence is a political statement of latent support to the religious insurgency and terrorism. In a convoluted logic, like the pro-terrorism Mr. Justice Nawaz Abassi, they often blame security forces and the government for the conflict situation more than the violent Islamic armed groups that have committed and continue to commit unspeakably cruel acts against Pakistani citizrns whom they can capture and slaughter as a state employee or sympathiser, (and such fascist islamic Taliban of Pakistan and Afghanistan have been fully supported by the MMA Govt. in nWFP should be no surprise to patriotic Pakistanis).
It is not difficult to understand this silent and latent support of religious groups to the Islamic terrorists and insurgents, but what is hard to grasp is the silence of some of the mainstream political party leaders like PPP, Muslim League, Tahreek-i-Insaaf, the Islamic and the liberal intelligentsia and other opinion-making sectors. Political parties, like the PMLN and regional parties, are ambivalent on the issue of religious violence. They appear to be taking perverse pleasure in watching the Pakistan state and the Musharraf govt. being challenged by religious extremists and their armed fronts; although benazir did make a statement in the context of her personal political interests.
If these parties were in power, their politics and their response to the Taliban insurgency would not have been any different, and they would have adopted the same pro-terrrorist policies as the ones in force right now. It is not hard to see how political opportunism clouds their judgement on the issue of religious violence, terrorism and Talibanisation. Their political tunnel vision does not allow them to see beyond their immediate political interests. These opposition parties want Musharraf to face the music alone because of their belief that the president has created this mess only by supporting the US-led War on Terror while President Musharraf is trying to save Pakistan from the Islamic fascists.
Is it not true that religious violence in Pakistan started only after 9/11, the Americans intervened in Afghanistan and removed the Taliban from power? The Islamic sectarian Shia-Sunni terrorist conflict, perhaps the worst in our history of Pakistan, started in the early 1980s particularly in the context of the US and ISI open support for the Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism against Russians in Afghanistan ; and now the sectarian militias are still with us, presently involved in Saudi-suported Islamic terrorism and sectarian talibinization. There has been a careful social and policy analysis of the origin of the Islamic militant sectarian mindset which clearly shows a hidden Saudi hand in funding these unlawful Islamic terrorist organizationsin the interest of the neo-Salafi Saudi Islaimc colonization of the Islamic mind in Pakistan and throughoit the world. In the non-state academic analyses, "Saudi-backed hidden Islamic forces" and "other religious external powers like Iran" have been blamed. And as the security forces, with their logistical and administrative limitations, face the terrorists, society at large remains unmoved as Islamically brainwashed zombies continuously being reinforced by the poisonous religious propGnda from the powerful loudspeakers from the everywhere-present Islamic terrorist centres called mosques.
There seems to be a similar, passive as well as active attitude, towards Talibanisation and the growing Islamic insurgency. It is fact that the war our security forces are fighting is our war which our Armed Forces have undertaken to safeguard our sovereignty and national interests. There are certain elements whose political interests are tied with the religious extremists and the fascist Taliban, as they do no renounce terrorist war against the state if it is sanctioned by their medieval and mentally backward religious beliefs. What they should understand is that armed conflict against the state as shown by the Lal Masque terrorist mullahs, Wazirastan Islamic fascist talibansand the Sawti Islamic terrorist mullahs is not justifiable under law, reason, religion or under the present international, regional and political rrealities. The principle of the just cause does not apply against the nation-state, paricularly in the presence of an elected democratic govt., in the presence of an active judiciary ; and it the presence of complete, unhindered and even offensive « Religious Freedom »in the country, and in the presence of all the Islamic laws, rules and regulatione possible in a modern state today.
The illegal way the Islamic armed wars that religious groups in Pakistan want to win are things of the past, as they have proven too destructive for societies. Lessons need to be learnt from Afghanistan, Somalia and Iraq. Destruction of the state in these countries has resulted in terrible conditions with millions slaughtered, raped, injured and even more driven out of their homes and livelihood. Most Pakistanis are not alive to the dangers posed by ethnic and religious militancy, whatever the roots and causes of these problems. Has any group or political party organised a public demonstration against the beheading of women, security personnel and opponents of the Taliban? None. This is a sad state of affairs that speaks volumes about the complacency of mentally and socially backward medieval-minded religiously-corrupt Pakistani Islamic and political society.
The general public and more responsible sectors of the Pakistani society do not underestimate the long-term, and even immediate, ramifications of the rise of the fascist Talibanisation for the state and society. If these groups carve out territories to enforce their fascist religious nightmares or intimidate people to submit to their so-called religious and unlawful political will, the state and its jurisdiction would be diminished; amd so the state will not be able to protect the citzen's life and liberties from the Islamic fascist terrorists and criminal-minded ignoranr Pakistan Taliban. The success of one religious or political group would create many who would imitate such tactics in undermining the writ of the state and its capacity and potential for the protection of its loyal citizens .
Pakistan faces a grim challenge from Islamic fascist and medieval-minded religious extremist groups trying to create states within the state in some regions of the country.
What is to be done?
The state must reassert its authority with full force and regain its sovereign control through whatever means necessary, starting with political negotiations. But negotiations must be held with a clear purpose in mind i.e. the disarmament and disbanding of these fascust Islamic groups and nothing less. If the Islamic fascists and Talibans are not prevented from having their evil way, then they may end up creating and running terrorist and secctarian Islamic mini-states fighting lethal wars against each other within the Pakistani state; the country would then become a very dangerous place to live. Indeed, many observers believe that the situation is fast reaching toward this unpleasant point, one only needs to today's (30.10.07) suicidal-bomb near the GHQ of the Pakistan Armed Forces in Rawalpindi Cantt., indeed, a direct result of the pro-terrorism jude of Supreme Court Mr. Nawaz Abassi's orders of releasing Lal Masjid terrorist from the Adiala Jail Rawalpindi without any proper investigations:
The war our security forces are fighting is our national war, a war for the present and future of Pakistan. The alternative of allowing fascist Islamic taliban and their mini religious fiefdoms would be self-destructive. This message has been lost to the Islamically brainwashed Pakistani public and the politicians due to the strong parochial sentiment in the country, and because there are some black sheeps like Mr. Justice Nawaz Abassi of the Pakistan Supreme Court, like Gen.(r) Hameed Gul- the former ISI, the presentFederal Minister of Religious Affairs Mr. Ihaz ul Haq, their cronies and other such crminimal minded Islamic fascist zombies, some of them are withinthe bureaucracy, within the ISI, Intelligence Bureau and in the army working as mullahs or teachers (Gen Zia ul haq-the fascist Islamic dictator employed many of thes madrssa-trained Islamic zombies in Pakistan Army) ; they are within the the regime and are persistently holding the government back from effectively responding to the threat. The state is already late with too little in its hands to counter growing Islamic terrorism and Talibanisation that presents a grave threat to our survival and national security of our Pakistan.
Wha should Pakistan Army must eradicate the fascist Islamic Taliban in Swat, Malakand and other areas of Pakistan!
It is necessary to realize the urgency of the matter being raised here; that our army must control the Taliban terrorism in Pakistan.
It should not be forgotten that Pakistan was created in 1947 as an independent and sovereign country which Quaid-i-Azam Muhammad Ali Jinnah, according to his 11 August 1947 speech before the first Pakistani Constitutional Assembly, expressed his resolve to make Pakistan a secular country. &n bsp; It must be clear to all that our Army is very much a patriotic Pakistan Army and it is their duty to fight against any external and internal threat to the physical existence of Pakistan. One needs to re-read the history of Vietnam: America was at war against Vietnam for wrong reasons, of course; when hundreds of Vietnamese refugees fled to Cambodia and Laos and started sending warriors from there to fight American forces in Vietnam; the USA didn't take it lightly and destroyed Cambodia, and Laos physically, militarily, culturally as well as politically.
We are today in the same delicate situation being a neighbour of Afghanistan as well as being a refuge of the Afghani Taliban who continue to use our territory for war against American and NATO forces in Afghanistan. The Pakistani Taliban have been and still are overtly helping the Afghan Taliban wage a war against the NATO forces; and it is likely that if Pakistani Taliban from Waziristan, Swat or other parts of NWFP / Baluchistan continue to interfere in military matters of Afghanistan, then NATO army might find themselves justified to come and retaliate deep inside Pakistan avoid giving justification to the American forces invade our region, I feel it is necessary to eradicate Taliban from our country.
Believe me, NATO forces will not hesitate to destroy Pakistan unless our national army is able to control the Pakistani Taliban attacking NATO forces in Afghanistan, as well as these Pakistani Taliban are trying to bring about a Khomeni-style or Afghan-Taliban-style bloody Islamic revolution in Pakistan.
It is necessary, therefore, that Pakistan armed forces control the Taliban military activity in Pakistan not only to guard the sovereignty of Pakistan but also to liberate Pakistani people from the Islamic Mullah fascism. There is no similarity between 1857 War of Independence against barbaric British Christian Empire and the Islamic Mullah fascist's oppressive civil wars in Malakand and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, with all the possible Islamic laws already in force.
The Islamic Taliban are fighting an oppressive war against the Muslims and people of Pakistan.
They use Kalashnikovs, guns and, suicide bombs to impose their Islamic fascism on the name of Islamic Shariah, although neither Quran nor Hadith order any such system of Shariah, indeed the word Shariah has not been used in Quran and Hadith to mean religious laws.
They use Kalashnikovs, guns and, suicide bombs to impose their Islamic fascism on the name of Islamic Shariah, although neither Quran nor Hadith order any such system of Shariah, indeed the word Shariah has not been used in Quran and Hadith to mean religious laws.
See the reference : What is Islamic Shariah :
Also see : Fundamentalist Extremist Islamic Pakistan: It's own worst enemy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/humanist_international/message/75
Lal Masjid and the Terrorist Mullah Fazlullah of Swat
Ultimately, the people of Pakistan will triumph in getting rid of Islamic Mullah fascism and Taliban paramilitary danger to Pakistan sovereignty.
Many thanks
Syed Sarfraz Ali Shah
<syed_sarfraz_ali_shah@yahoo.com>
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