Duh! I didn’t know–tubelight hasn’t come on yet!

Maybe the tube light will turn on. It sure will take some time.

NEW YORK: JUly 3rd, 2008, Rupee News: Pakistan’s Nawaz Sharif said he did not know about Kargil, did not know about the strikes on FATA, and did not know why the judges are not being restored.
What does he know about? Many call him tubelight Nawaz. Why tubelight? A tubelight takes a few minutes to come on, then flickers and then finally comes to full power. Is Mr. Sharif as dumb as he looks, or like the proverbial giant, his brains used to reside in Abbajee’s (his father who is now dead) body.

The impact of a Compliant govt. helping US forces in Wazirstan! With huge setbacks in Afghanistan, there was intense pressure from Washington to overturn the impossible situation in Afghanistan. The worry for the PPPP is that the United States administration will continue to back him only as long as it believes that he is going to get through this period of turbulence and reach the relatively stability of that other bank after the elections.

The Pakistan Afghan border map

The security situation in Afghanistan has reached crisis proportions. The Taliban’s ability to establish a presence throughout the country is now proven beyond doubt; exclusive research undertaken by Senlis Afghanistan indicates that 54 per cent of Afghanistan’s landmass hosts a permanent Taliban presence, primarily in southern Afghanistan, and is subject to frequent hostile activity by the insurgency.The Taliban are the de facto governing authority in significant portions of territory in the south and east, and are starting to control parts of the local economy and key infrastructure such as roads and energy supply. The insurgency also exercises a significant amount of psychological control, gaining more and more political legitimacy in the minds of the Afghan people who have a long history of shifting alliances and regime change.

UK Defeat in Afghanistan: Battle of Maiwand

The “Cambodiazation” of the Vietnam was the last big expansion of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia in the 1970s. Therefore, it is responsible to begin wondering whether the expansion of the war in Pakistan will bode equally adversely on South Asia. In short, the Khmer Rouge took over in Cambodia a few years after the U.S. began to depart Southeast Asia. As well, Laos fell to communist forces that were supported by the North Vietnamese and other communist states. Ultimately, the “Cambodiazation” of the Vietnam War and the expansion of bombing in Laos eventually led to the greatest American backlash against America’s longest war. That is, the public began to be extremely vocal in demand that the U.S. presence in the Vietnam War and regional civil wars be brought to an end.

The answer to this malaise is not to send in tanks to the tribal agencies – in fact the tanks will be death traps if they are moved deeper into the tribal belt – but to put our affairs in order. The fight in the Khyber Agency or in North and South Waziristan has to be fought not there but in Islamabad.

Although the Americans will end up burning us, we don’t need to turn our backs on them. We are not Iran. We are not Venezuela. Our people may be proud but our elite and our leaders suck. America can punish us in ways our leadership class will find hard to stand. So a clean farewell is not an option. But at least we can start standing up for ourselves and thinking for ourselves. Ayaz Amir

But the first condition is to get things right on the home front, which seems a hopeless undertaking if we look at the jokers and charlatans playing at being national leaders. One look at their monumental pretences and their essential hollowness and one’s heart sinks.

Cabal of X-Generals–: A Club of former ignored lonely “has beens” girly men seeking attention

Maybe Mr. Sharif stayed in Pakistan he would know more about what is going on in Pakistan.

Nawaz Sharif sketch of the PMLN

This is a guy who went shopping in Washington DC for a U.S. $ 25,000 watch as brave Pakistanis died fighting for their honor in Kargil, a battle that Mr. Sharif ensured we lost because he was busy in a personal fight with the nation’s military leaders.

Mr. Nawaz Sharif’s record is so embarrassing that, in another country with educated voters, he would never be reelected by the people.

Budget: Dar(wanist) Supply side deficit financed Voo Doo Economics again

Long March diversion or Short March pressure tactic?

Hussain Haqqani is responsible for US air strikes against Pakistan

Dumb Dar direction dumped. Stock surges. Captal Gains delayed.

Pakistani budget 2008-Dar’s Deficit voodoo economics

Total incompetence lies and neglect= PPPP+PMLN  

American advice is not considered the best medicine for Pakistan’s ills. Pakistan considers the following American actions as anti-Pakistan and not in good faith:

a.The Nuclear deal with India which is considered as discriminatory towards Pakistan.

b. The establishment of an non-Pashtun Northern Alliance regime in Kabul and the perpetuation of the anti-Pakistanc. The USA has been unable to restrain India and Kabul from interfering in Pakistan’s affairs.

d. The USA has not signed an FTA with Pakistan and refuses to allow free import of Textiles to the USA.

e. Amerca has not invested in Pakistani infrastructure improvement like freeways, Hi-speed trains, airports and sea-portsf. The American media is working on some sort of an anti-Pakistan agenda as if on cue

Because of the bellicose statements of American leaders, and the Viceroy type of diktats coming visiting American administration dignitaries, the Pakistani establishment is leery of any American advice.

The Pakistan-American relationship is considered as transactional rather than normal and America cannot be trusted as a “friend”.

The Shairf record includes unforgettable lapses and mistakes, each of them worthy of an inquiry commission that could disqualify him for life:

1. This man declared emergency after the May 1998 Nuclear detonations. Under the pretext of sanctions, he swallowed up the nation’s $10 billion foreign reserves. No questions asked and no accountability since!

2. This man, Nawaz, siphoned off millions of dollars of the money collected under the ‘Qarz utaro mulk sanwaro’ scheme where he appealed to the Pakistani nation’s patriotism and asked everyone to donate money to pay off the national debt. No accountability so far!

3. This man was shopping for $25,000 Philip Patek watches in the United States when our brave soldiers were dying in Kargil. No shame!

4. This man built a 2000-acre Raiwind palatial complex for himself and his family when our nation was contributing to the “Qarz utaro mulk sanwaro” scheme to pay off the national debt.

5. This man Nawaz is a PROTEGE of past military rulers who turned him from a dumb, Nehari-loving imbecile into a leader. General Imtiaz brought him from Dubai. General Jillani and General Zia-ul-Haq groomed him. Lt. Gen. Hameed Gul created for his an entire new political party, the IJI. Today he makes fun of the military. It says something about his character. He is an ungrateful person, someone we call EHSAAN FARAMOOSH in our language!

6. He is the first ruler in the history of Pakistan and maybe the world who ransacked the Supreme Court building and unleashed the private armed thugs on Shahbaz Sharif’s payroll as a private Sharif Militia and used them to stone the building of the Supreme Court and chase out its judges who dared to challenge his actions in 1997.

7. More than 80 complaints of corruption and misuse of authority were pending at different stages of inquiry, investigation and trial against former PM Nawaz Sharif when he was granted pardon by the president and went into a self-chosen exile. The complaint said Nawaz Sharif did not mention in his declaration of assets in the nomination form for NA-12 in 1997 that he owned a helicopter. It was alleged that he did not pay duties of Rs. 30 million on this machine. Don’t take my word for it, check this news story: http://www.millat.com/ghalibcom/events/nawaz%20exile/80_cases_pending_against_nawaz_b.htm

8. According to a report:

8.1 Rs. 1.5 billion loan was taken out by the Sharif brothers against the security of their company, Ittefaq Foundries

8.2 Rs. 302 million were obtained for Brothers Sugar Mills

8.3 Rs. 92 million for Brothers Textile

8.4 Rs. 392 million for Brothers Steel Mills

8.5 Rs. 102 million for Ramzan Sugar Mills and Khalid Siraj Textiles each

8.6 Rs. 385 million for Ittefaq Sugar Mills

8.7 Rs. 368 million for Ittefaq Textiles and

8.8 Rs. 239 million were loaned to Ittefaq Brother.

9. The Nawaz family which is now one of the richest in the country largely due to the largesse of Pakistani banks has unveiled its one billion rupee Raiwind Complex. Spread over an area of around a thousand acres it houses palatial residences, a 300 acre farm, a 500 bed hospital, a school, a medical teaching facility, 200 acre dairy farm, a 350 line telephone exchange, Polytechnic institute, Nursing and Midwifery school etc. The Sharifs who must really be minting money have built it all in 17 months at a cost of Rs 740 million. The Punjab government headed by a Sharif has chipped in by providing government-funded roads and forcibly purchasing land for papa Sharif. http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Lobby/2423/20.html

10. Nawaz is currently Pakistan’s 4th RICHEST MAN in the list ‘Top 40 Richest Pakistanis’.

11. Nawaz has asked for Pakistan to open permanent border with India, VISA-FREE! Why doesn’t he simply call for making both one & same country? This way he’ll get an endless supply of Indian music DVDs that he so loves!

Finally, when Nawaz’s son was suspected of having blood cancer and needed treatment in London, Pervez Musharraf violated his own 10-year agreement with the Saudis and ordered the Pakistani Embassy in Riyadh to provide the Sharifs with passports on humanitarian grounds.

Musharraf again put the exile agreement aside and helped Shahbaz Sharif get treatment in New York.

In comparison, Mr. Nawaz Sharif could have shown magnanimity and rise above petty revenge and address the real issues facing Pakistan, internally and in the region.

Pakistan’s Sharif says his party not consulted on anti-militant operation

www.chinaview.cn 2008-07-03 19:40:03 Print

ISLAMABAD, July 3 (Xinhua) — Pakistan’s former prime minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that his party has not been consulted on the anti-militant military operation in tribal region.While speaking to media at Islamabad airport before leaving for London, Sharif said Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) is not been taken into confidence on important decisions by the government, including the operation in northwestern Pakistan’s Khyber tribal agency.

The PML-N and Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) won the Feb. 18 general elections and agreed to form coalition in March.

The new Pakistani government has been engaged in negotiations with the militants in Pakistan’s tribal region. But it started a military operation against militants groups in Khyber tribal agency on Saturday as the militants are threatening Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier Province.

The coalition had decided to use a policy of dialogue in the tribal areas during a high level meeting two and a half months ago. Despite it, the PML-N is not consulted or taking into confidence regarding major issues, Sharif said. Editor: Wang Hongjiang