At my homepage www.rolf-martens.com I've added today, under "News with
brief
comments":
Friday, 04 January 2008 (NWBC 334) A glimpse of the situation in Pakistan
2008-01-04, 06:41 GMT:
In a posting sent yesterday to the mailing list cmkp_pk at
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/cmkp_pk/,
the writer I'm quoting below
showed a
glimpse of the situation for ordinary people in a part of Pakistan and
provided
an *****sment of the political situation in that country. This is of
international interest, I think. (Some minor political forces mentioned
are
unknown to me. The questions concerning them are probably less im****tant.)
See also my "UNITE! Info #302en: On Pakistan, Afghanistan, A-bombs and
oil" of
yesterday, and postings by several writers in the last few days to the
mailing
lists at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/modern_marxism/
(managed by me)
respectively
http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/listinfo/marxist-leninist-list.
[QUOTE:]
From:
Bushra Gohar <hrmdc@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
Date:
3 January 2008 15:26 [CET]
To:
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<instituteforpeace@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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concernedpakistan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<concernedpakistan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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emergency@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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communistpartyofpakistan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<communistpartyofpakistan@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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<cmkp_pk@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>; badshahkhan_project@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<badshahkhan_project@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>; 'Sarhad Conservation Network R'
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Subject:
Crocodile tears and a lot of rubbish by Musharraf
These days’ people living in Pukhtunkhwa are being prepared for the
stoneage as
has been promised on several occasions by the powers that be. Electricity
and
gas remains suspended for hours on end, daily food items are way too
expensive
for the common man, unemployment figures are high, there is a total
breakdown
of law and order and the state has ceased to exist to ensure our
constitutional
rights but shows its ugly head only to pound us with indiscriminate
bombings
through illegal and in human operations justified in the name of war on
terror...things are worse in the areas where these operations are directly
taking place targeting and terrorizing mainly the innocent
civilians...this
after the much touted Musharraf's dream team's 8 years of peace,
prosperity and
progress in the country.
The UN re****t issued on one of the private channels says that more than
400
families have moved to the neighbouring Afghanistan to take refuge, as the
government has made no effort to provide food, shelter and medical
assistance
to the civilian population living in the line of fire...
Thus on a freezing cold winter evening last night, without gas and
electricity,
the m***** were given a rare break for an hour to listen to their
unconstitutional and self imposed president shed crocodile tears over the
loss
of BB and further the blame game...as expected the speech was nothing but
hollow words insensitive to the sentiments of the people...it was that of
a
conspirator of a heinous crime
....one was hoping that he would for once do the honourable thing and
accept
responsibility for taking the country to the verge of disintegration and
civil
war and announce his resignation and offer unconditional accountability,
opening the way for a National consensus government and an independent
election
commission, restoration of judiciary and lifting of the gag on the
media...but
that was a bit too much to expect from a power hungry thug and his gang of
criminals who know that their only survival is in keeping the nation in a
perpetual chaotic state....instead, he passed on the buck to the state
sponsored, trained and sustained Baitullah Mehsud and Fazlullah for the
targeted cold blooded killing in an attempt to incite Pukhtun Sindhi
tensions
in the country...his government has gone overboard over the years to
declare
the Pukhtuns extremists and terrorists of the worst order...justifying the
continued illegal operations against the Pukhtuns.
The conversation in Pushtu between Baitullah Mehsud and another person
congratulating each other for a mission well accomplished after BB's cold
blooded murder, was immediately released to all networks to divert the
public’s
attention to the "trigger happy and barbaric" Pukhtuns in a clear attempt
to
provoke ethnic riots...In the tapes Baitullah Mehsud gives out his
whereabouts
and yet our efficient agencies were not able to catch him...instead the
establishment got busy in covering the facts and issued ridiculous and
callous
statements about the tragic incident…one thing is for sure the people in
the
province can no longer tolerate or believe a word of what Musharraf says
not
even if it means a break from the long power outages…
The idealist in me still hopes that the people will call his bluff by
voting
out his goons in the Q league in the upcoming polls and giving a decisive
'No'
to Musharraf...but the question is will the elections take place as
scheduled..I suspect more riots and chaos will be orchestrated during
Moharram
to defer the elections indefinitely and the nation will be condemned to
another
5 years of Musharaf's dictator****p...we must all join hands to strengthen
the
'Quit Musharraf Movement' by a group of Human Rights activists or prepare
for
the dark times yet to come stripped of our basic rights and
services...lets not
tolerate this oppression any further...BG
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