From: Yasmeen Ali <pakpotpourri@gmail.com>
LINK:http://pakpotpourri2.wordpress.com/2011/06/04/%E2%80%9Cpak-us-relations-at-a-critical-point%E2%80%9D-%E2%80%93-hillary-clinton/
"Pak-US Relations At a Critical Point" – Hillary Clinton
This is a Pakpotpourri Exclusive
By:General Mirza Aslam Beg 
Former Chief of Army Staff
Threat to our national security increased with the occupation of Afghanistan in 2001, and has reached dangerous proportions now, as the defeated forces are seeking the support of "a compliant regime and a military dictator in Pakistan, to provide the fall back position in Pakistan and a guarantee for safe exit from Afghanistan"
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TURKMAN: Troops of 47 nations saving Afghanistan from Pak Mercenaries, the Taliban have already been 'defeated'? Super Power USA now needs help of Pak Army just for safe exit from Afghanistan because otherwise, your Taliban would slaughter all its Soldiers? Sounds like you have gone senile, sir.
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In the past it was easy to bring about the Regime Change, with the help of the Army, the judiciary and political parties but the mood is different now.
The deceitful action in Abbottabad and the terrorist raid on Mehran Naval Base, were meant to create condition for Regime Change, but conversely these actions invited very strong reactions from the people, the media, the parliament and the armed forces, which caused deep concern in Washington.
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TURKMAN: Osama assassination and Mehran Base attacks were to overthrow Democracy in Pakistan and make your Army to come in power? Have you started doing drugs? What the hell USA had to do with Mehran Base attack? Why 2 years ago Obama had refused to permit Gen. Keyani to even replace Zardari if he had wanted Military take over in Pakistan?
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Clinton and Mullen, came rushing to Pakistan to mend the damage caused to Pak-US strategic relationship. The critical issue is not the US-Pak relationship, but the targeting of the Pakistani Armed Forces, to malign them, through a well orchestrated media campaign, and to break their unity.
A very dangerous move indeed, as Anatol Lieven, the author of the book "Pakistan: A Hard Country" warns: "How American folly could destroy Pakistan, by inducing mutiny in the Pakistan Army. Washington, grotesquely might contribute to the destruction of the state it is trying to save and a historic triumph for extremism. Pakistan's tragedy would then become one of the entire world."
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TURKMAN: Unity of Armed Forces of Pakistan was attacked? You must not know, Punjabis in Army had remained united with even British, when rest of Indians had revolted in 1857.
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The United States and their allies are in a desperate situation in Afghanistan, and need an early exit, which only Taliban can grant, under the condition that the 'occupation forces must give a definite time-frame for withdrawal.'
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TURKMAN: The Taliban, who are scared to death and are only sneak attacking because of great salary they are being paid by ISI, the lure of great Bounty for killing every Foreign Soldier that is being paid by Pakistan and great compensation package for their families if they die? Which world you live in, sir? Taliban do not control Afghanistan.
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It is not 1989, when Mujahideen provided safe exit to the Soviets.
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TURKMAN: MojaahiDeen had provided safe exit to Soviets in 1989? For what? What money had Soviets paid? Why are you you lying?
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The Afghan Taliban now have no trust in Pakistan, or the Americans, who cheated them in 1990 at Geneva and again in 2002 at Bonn, on the matter of power-sharing and the efforts continue even now to keep them out of power.
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TURKMAN: Where are your those so called 'Afghan Taliban'? Can anybody see them? If they are so popular and in control of Afghanistan, why none of them ever ran in last 2 Elections despite Amnesty that Karzai had provided them? You know, why? Afghans hate guts of those few of your ISI Agents and they could not win any Afghan Parliament Seats. If they controlled any area, they would have forced Afghans to vote for them at Gun Point but they did not control any areas either. They had issued threats, "If anybody goes to Polls, he and his whole family would be shot dead" but still 70% of Afghans voted and those Jokers could not do anything. Why don't you understand, Afghans and Pak PushToons hate your Taliban and Afghans hate Punjabis more than anybody else in the world.
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Therefore 'no safe exit' and 'no soft-state' in Pakistan. So where do the American proceed from here? and what are the choices for Pakistan?
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TURKMAN: When the hell USA ever said, it wants to leave Afghanistan completely anyway? Aren't you dreaming?
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- Pakistan had enough of war on terror, and stands badly bruised and battered, fighting our own people. Pakistan has to find peace with the tribals. Approach them with open arms and an open mind. Do not repeat the deceitful act of killing Maulvi Nek Mohammad, after truce was reached.
- TURKMAN: USA had told you to fight with every Pak PushToon Tribe that does not surrender to your Taliban. Why did you kill so many of them and got killed by Taliban to start with?
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- Go back to the historic 1947 decision of Quaid-e-Azam and hand over the responsibility of defense of our borders to them.
- TURKMAN: Then, why you disappointed 56% of 1971 Pak Population so much that India took advantage of the situation and made you fail that 'Defense Responsibility' by surrendering to Indian Army? The Pakistan that Mr. Jinnah had gotten from British, its border was River Sindh. It did not include NWF Province, Baluchistan, Northern Territories, Tribal Areas, State of Bahawalpur and a few other Independent states. Why are you occupying them and have extended your borders up to Durand Line, when you could not even save East Pakistan?
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- Find peace with the oppressed and the angry Baloch, and pre-empt the dangerous designs of our enemies, to foment revolt and cessation. The on-going process of pacification must be accelerated to achieve national integration.
- Offer regrets and apology to the Afghans, for joining the American war in 2001, and create space for diplomacy to re-establish friendly relations and facilitate a safe-exit for the occupation forces.
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- Let the election process, throw-up new leadership and the democratic system finds its roots. Any attempt to rock the boat now, would be highly dangerous.
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- Let the supremacy of the law of the land prevail and punishment metted-out to those who break the law.
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- Tell the world that our nuclear assets are safe, as much as safety demands. They are well dispersed and known only to those "who need to know." Even the users – the Army, Navy and Airforce do not know, where they are kept, but at the time of need, they will be delivered the war-heads, to be embedded with the delivery systems. Our command and control system is one of the best in the world, if not the best. By the Grace of God, ours is the only nuclear programme, in the world, which has never experienced a disaster or a mishap.
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The 'safety' of nuclear assets as well as 'deterrence' are complementary. One relates to its credibility and the physical ability to keep them safe and the other relates to: "the will to use the capability to deter and defeat aggression".
The will to use this capability is 'a function of command decision, of the person in authority' as demonstrated in 1990, when CIA, Mossad and RAW had planned to attack our nuclear assets.
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TURKMAN: RAW, CIA and MOSSAD had planned to attack Pak Nuclear Assets in 1990 without any provocation? Why you had not published this news in 1990? What Evidence you have to prove this, Liar? How could have anybody known Pakistan had Nukes in 1990, when there were no Nukes built yet and China had just told A Q Khan, "The Blue Print stolen from USA that you think is fake is not fake. Its genuine and your own Blue Print is faulty". I was hanging out with my Islamabad buddies in ISI, when this news had reached in January, 1990. There were years to go before build it still.
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We received very disturbing signals from own sources and friends in the Middle East. The then Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto – "the person in authority", called an urgent meeting of the Nuclear Command Authority, and after due deliberations took following decisions:
- Sent the foreign minister to Delhi, with the message, that if attacked, Pakistan would retaliate against India, no matter, where the attack came from.
(I.A. Gujral, the former Prime Minister of India, mentions in his book "Matters of Discretion" about our Foreign Minister's visit on 23 January 1990 and the message delivered, but cleverly relates it to the tension on the cease-fire line, whereas, our army had put the Indians on the defensive there. Ask former GOC 12 Division, Major General Safdar, SJ, to know the facts. Later-on, when Benazir Bhutto visited India, Gujral asked her, whether, she had sent Sahibzada Sahib with the message. She replied, 'No'. That was politics.)
- A squadron of F-16 fully armed with nuclear weapons was ordered to be ready to strike targets deep in the South, at Trombay. These activities were soon picked-up by the American satellites and Robert Gates came rushing to Pakistan to pacify our leaders. President Ghulam Ishaq Khan cooled him down, and never again the Nexus, attempted to challenge Pakistan.
- TURKMAN: The problem is, you people react on Conspiracy Theories but ignore the facts.
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- On the night of 1/2 May attack in Abbottabad, two of our F-16s scrambled, but chose not to challenge the American aircrafts providing air cover from across the borders. Rightly so. Our superiority is on ground – the men and missiles and the conventional weapons support. Our men belong to one of the best fighting machine of the world, and the hard core freedom fighters come from our border region and remain undefeated. Based on Men and Missile, we do have a 'war plan' to deter and defeat aggression. Let there be no ambiguity about it.
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TURKMAN: Your Taliban are shadow in the middle of the night sneak attacking in Afghanistan. Why should they not be chased in to Pakistan?
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Turn the page, and negotiate peace with the Afghans, who are fighting for their freedom for the last thirty years and have suffered over two and a half million dead and colossal destruction.
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TURKMAN: But your Taliban are Pakistanis, not Afghans. Afghans are not at war with USA, Pakistanis and Pak Army is. What should US negotiate with Afghans, who do not want US Soldiers to stop building Schools, Hospitals and Roads for them? Why don't you turn the page and negotiate peace with India so, Pakistan can advance instead of keep living off Charity of Aid and Loans of USA and other rich countries of the world?
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Guarantee for safe exit and lasting peace is possible only if the invaders and the aggressors such as, Russia, America, European Union, India and Pakistan, agree to pay the War Damages and find a place in the hearts of the Afghans, through massive reconstruction and rehabilitation works.
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TURKMAN: What else is US doing in Afghanistan by spending $ 8 billion a year? Why are you not aware of this? And who the hell are you demanding and guaranteeing all this? Are you Afghan? Is Afghanistan your country? I guarantee you lasting peace and no more threat from India if you people stop fingering Anus of India. USA is in Afghanistan because with the help of ISI, the Monkey of Al Qaeda had fingered Anus of a Sleeping Lion in New York. Why you people love to finger, who can blow you away in an hour little annoying Flies?
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That is the stark reality, to determine the correct level of Pak-Afghan-US relationship, particularly now when the US war machine is stuck in the hard-rocky sands of Afghanistan. Admiral Patreaus did cry- out after experiencing this hardness: "The reality about Afghanistan is, it is all hard, at all times."
TURKMAN It would not remain anything like this before 2012 starts because either your Army going to call its Taliban Dogs off Afghans, USA and Pakistanis or there won't be any Pakistan Military left. It would be bombed in to Stone Age and all nations in Pakistan occupied by Punjabis would be freed by USA. Just watch ...!
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