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Anjum Niaz
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Before I go to my nutgraph a journalistic jargon explaining the crux of a written piece why are responsible newspapers like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal loudly yelling to the whole world where Pakistan keeps its nuclear arsenal in Karachi? Hey, you terrorists out there, next time go to air force base X in Karachi where the nukes are! is the clear message being given to the Taliban thugs. Our sovereignty has hit an all time low. Our national security and classified secrets are now open for discussion for any foreign journalist/think tank wanting to deconstruct and eventually destroy our military, especially the ISI.
What happened to the gold standard rating which ISI got last year? It topped the ten best intelligence agencies of the world. Why? Because of its lengthiest track record of success such as defeating the KGB and driving the Soviets out of Afghanistan. It was better than Israels Mossad. And listen to this: The ISI is believed to have the highest number of agents worldwide, close to 10,000 according to the agency that named ISI the best in the world! The most striking thing is that its one of the least funded intelligence agencies out of the top 10 and still the strongest.
Can someone tell us how the ISI has fallen from grace within one year? Who is responsible for its free fall? Is it the CIA chief Leon Panetta? President Zardari? Rehman Malik? Gen Kayani or Gen Pasha? Perhaps all of the above!
And that brings me to my nutgraph: Pakistani elites love blabbering before foreigners, especially Americans. The Pakistan papers in WikiLeaks are a living testimony to how our politicians like kowtowing to Americans. Its not only politicians, but the media movers and shakers and the upwardly mobile social types who after one stiff peg are willing to sell their souls. For those who dont imbibe, promises of power are the greatest intoxicant for them. I dont need to go into the psychology of men like Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Altaf Hussain, Amin Fahim, Faisal Saleh Hayat, Sharif brothers, Asfandyar Wali, Naveed Qamar, Shaukat Tarin and lesser beings running to the Americans as we all know by now. They hunger for power.
When the president and co-chair of Pakistans ruling party himself is guilty of selling Pakistans sovereignty by opening up his heart (state secrets) to the American ambassador Anne Patterson (who by the way strutted around Islamabad like Queen Victoria) what else is left to discuss?
Today, a new game is being played in Washington DC among the Pakistani Diaspora. The World Bank/IMF retirees are busy hatching a shadow government in DC, pulling their strings in various directions, hoping they can fly off to Islamabad and land in the PM House and ministers colony. Topping the list of who wants to become a prime minister is Shahid Javed Burki. Being an Oxford buddy of the late Farooq Leghari, he was asked to become caretaker finance minister after President Leghari sacked Benazir Bhutto in 1996. I remember attending his press conference in Islamabad where he told us hacks haughtily what a great job he was doing. His boast to his friends: I got billions in aid from China and I have friends in Washington too! This line is being echoed by former chief economist of the World Bank Dr Pervez Hassan who is styling himself as the next finance minister while author Shuja Nawaz is hoping to bag the defence minister ship, given his nexus with the Pakistan army.
More on the Washington wannabes another time, but the biggest takeaway for us today is: those who pitch the loudest before Americans win the race. They are treacherous, beware of them!
The writer is a freelance journalist with over twenty years of experience in national and international reporting. Email: anjum niaz@rocketmail.com
Anjum Niaz
Saturday, May 28, 2011
Before I go to my nutgraph a journalistic jargon explaining the crux of a written piece why are responsible newspapers like the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal loudly yelling to the whole world where Pakistan keeps its nuclear arsenal in Karachi? Hey, you terrorists out there, next time go to air force base X in Karachi where the nukes are! is the clear message being given to the Taliban thugs. Our sovereignty has hit an all time low. Our national security and classified secrets are now open for discussion for any foreign journalist/think tank wanting to deconstruct and eventually destroy our military, especially the ISI.
What happened to the gold standard rating which ISI got last year? It topped the ten best intelligence agencies of the world. Why? Because of its lengthiest track record of success such as defeating the KGB and driving the Soviets out of Afghanistan. It was better than Israels Mossad. And listen to this: The ISI is believed to have the highest number of agents worldwide, close to 10,000 according to the agency that named ISI the best in the world! The most striking thing is that its one of the least funded intelligence agencies out of the top 10 and still the strongest.
Can someone tell us how the ISI has fallen from grace within one year? Who is responsible for its free fall? Is it the CIA chief Leon Panetta? President Zardari? Rehman Malik? Gen Kayani or Gen Pasha? Perhaps all of the above!
And that brings me to my nutgraph: Pakistani elites love blabbering before foreigners, especially Americans. The Pakistan papers in WikiLeaks are a living testimony to how our politicians like kowtowing to Americans. Its not only politicians, but the media movers and shakers and the upwardly mobile social types who after one stiff peg are willing to sell their souls. For those who dont imbibe, promises of power are the greatest intoxicant for them. I dont need to go into the psychology of men like Maulana Fazlur Rehman, Altaf Hussain, Amin Fahim, Faisal Saleh Hayat, Sharif brothers, Asfandyar Wali, Naveed Qamar, Shaukat Tarin and lesser beings running to the Americans as we all know by now. They hunger for power.
When the president and co-chair of Pakistans ruling party himself is guilty of selling Pakistans sovereignty by opening up his heart (state secrets) to the American ambassador Anne Patterson (who by the way strutted around Islamabad like Queen Victoria) what else is left to discuss?
Today, a new game is being played in Washington DC among the Pakistani Diaspora. The World Bank/IMF retirees are busy hatching a shadow government in DC, pulling their strings in various directions, hoping they can fly off to Islamabad and land in the PM House and ministers colony. Topping the list of who wants to become a prime minister is Shahid Javed Burki. Being an Oxford buddy of the late Farooq Leghari, he was asked to become caretaker finance minister after President Leghari sacked Benazir Bhutto in 1996. I remember attending his press conference in Islamabad where he told us hacks haughtily what a great job he was doing. His boast to his friends: I got billions in aid from China and I have friends in Washington too! This line is being echoed by former chief economist of the World Bank Dr Pervez Hassan who is styling himself as the next finance minister while author Shuja Nawaz is hoping to bag the defence minister ship, given his nexus with the Pakistan army.
More on the Washington wannabes another time, but the biggest takeaway for us today is: those who pitch the loudest before Americans win the race. They are treacherous, beware of them!
The writer is a freelance journalist with over twenty years of experience in national and international reporting. Email: anjum niaz@rocketmail.com
