“You have the watches, we have the time”
Posted on 02. Jan, 2012 by Hamid Waheed in Opinion
US being advised to talk to Taliban!
By Haris Idrees
The enemy has started the fight, but it is we who will fire the last round and war will end on our terms, believes the elusive Taliban. After ten years of futile exercise against Muslims in the disguise of war on terror in Philippines, Pakistan, Iraq, Yemen, Jordan and many other theaters United States simply does not have faintest of idea how to end the nose dive of her empire into chaos. U.S is perplexed as it is bogged down comprehensively in Afghanistan from where she kicked off her “war on terror” campaign. In ensuing battle against Taliban U.S administration has used all it had in her arsenal to turn the tide in her favor, from threatening and attacking Pakistan physically to giving shut up calls to Hamid Karzai and having summersaults over Taliban status, at present, she stands reclusive.
U.S and its coalition partners have set their watches for 2014 to leave Afghanistan but have they fulfilled the prerequisites to bring Afghan National Army (ANA) and its police force to a threshold level to work as a stand-alone entity and stabilize the security paradigm of Afghanistan? If an analytical military mind is confronted by the question, the obvious answer would be ‘No.’ ANA and Afghan security forces have suffered massively through the hands of Taliban and it’s a mammoth task for them to bring security in order, as per requirement. with the present situation of security grim and future bleak, U.S top military brains pulled in “Iraq Awakening council” model to Afghanistan and this time with a name, Critical Infrastructure Protection Program, CIP.
NATO without the consent of President Hamid Karzai, approved CIP program in which rough and rag-tag elements are deployed in areas which are thinly guarded by the security forces especially the North of Afghanistan. At present ANA and afghan police force strength stands collectively at 160,000 personal. If trained and bred well they stand a fair chance to clear and hold an area of responsibility but U.S, NATO and ISAF are betting their money on private militia under the umbrella of CIP program. According to human rights groups such super brats are involved in severe human rights violations. To refute any criticism over CIP program NATO spokeswomen recently said, "The CIP program has produced a reduction in insurgent significant actions (IEDs, small arms fire attacks, etc.) where CIP has been emplaced," she said that the program was requested in writing by the Afghan provincial governors where they were deployed. But on the other hand Presidential Spokesman Aimal Faizi said “The CIP are one of the kinds of groups that President Hamid Karzai has always opposed, they are created unilaterally by NATO forces without coordination with the Afghan government.”
The concept of private contractors to support security forces is not new. It has been thoroughly applied in Africa, Middle-east, Iraq and in Afghanistan. But this time new flavor of the curry is that rather outsourcing the program the administration is recruiting the rag-tags by themselves. 1550 men with most of them having a “trigger happy” personality trait were being recruited and stacked into different units to guard critical infrastructure of the troubled northern Afghanistan. Besides Kunduz, the force operates in Faryab, Jawzjan, Sar-ePul and Laghman.
ANA is sort of a lightly armed army whose war doctrine solely speaks out how to thwart the menace of insurgency. In a hypothetical scenario if ANA had to hold ground against the onslaught of Pakistan or Iranian army on tactical and strategic level, it stands no chances what so ever as it simply does not have the capacity and components to surmount the disciplined, battle hardened and well trained armies of its adversaries in the scenario. In reality ISAF and NATO are training ANA in CQB (close quarter battles), LIC (low intensity conflicts) and intelligence led targeted operations. If aforementioned is the case, which is obviously the one, then indeed afghan government have a pretty light equipped ANA trained to take the militants head on. Then what is the fun in having 1550 Rambos under CIP program? The answer is simple, someone, somewhere is minting big money by launching this program. . Exactly a year back reintegration of low-level fighters of Taliban into afghan society was launched. At present after spending $140 million in foreign aid only 1,700 foot soldiers of Taliban have laid down their arms. Due to massive corruption the said process has hit the snags and proves to be a complicated and unpopular exercise.
Who will reprimand such blood sucking mammals who for the love of money have left their own people at the mercy of carnage organizers. In recent past gang of white collars embezzled $1 billion from Kabul bank and up till now Da Afghanistan bank, central bank of Afghanistan, after taking over Kabul bank have only recovered 10% of the lost treasure. Why is the government in Kabul failing time and again to root out corruption and U.S not desisting from implying obnoxious theories to stabilize Afghanistan while both suffer enduring failures. What happens at the end is, Pakistan bashing and blaming her for all the chaos in Afghanistan. In reality the administration in Kabul and Washington themselves does not want to stabilize Afghanistan for the reasons known well to them. Such lethargic measures, like CIP program, taken up by NATO to stabilize the war torn country clearly hand over time to Taliban by keeping the watches themselves. Due to the time lost the Taliban are back to the driving seat and in recent talks with the U.S are in a commanding position to press for the release of their high profile comrades caught during the enduring long Afghan war.
It’s run against time for the Americans to outperform drastic measures so that they leave behind a stable Afghanistan rather than pulling stunts of money making in which everyone who shares power in Afghanistan is a party.
Talking to Taliban directly will vector their anger towards pacification and idea of opening of a liaison office for them at Qatar is a commendable move. But Once again afghan government and U.S are at loggerheads over the aforementioned as both wants their method of talks to be applied to bring an end to the war. It is time that the practice of turf war and money making should be shunned and genuine joint effort is exerted to stabilize Afghanistan rather not leaving it shattered.
Obama, you have the watches, we have the time. What Pakistan has been saying for years and you turned it down, today you had to eat a humble pie and finally talk to Taliban. Now would you restore the Taliban back into power? They were not your enemies but you attacked them without justification to satisfy your ego.
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Z Abbas
02. Jan, 2012
I wish to warn our erudite readers about the slow poisoning that Pakistanis have been subjected to by the RAW-CIA-MOSSAD-controlled Western-based NGOs operating in our country. All food materials that Pakistan obtains from the Jew-Hindu-Christian axis is heavily impregnated with heavy doses of phytoestrogens and banned chemicals like DDT and ethylene glycol, which alter the hormonal balance of the body. Ethylene glycol is especially dangerous as it tastes like sugar and is a slow killer. In addition to this, all passenger aircraft belonging to the RAW-CIA-MOSSAD countries spew contrails full of dangerous chemicals over Pakistani air space as they overfly our territory. In fact everything they export to our country is dangerous and should not be touched. We should also be aware of their lackeys in Asia (Japan, S Korea) and Australia and boycott their goods too. We are under constant attck from the Jew-Hindu-Christian axis. Nothing should be imported from countries that are linked to this evil axis, even if they are our Arab brothers. Iran, North Korea and China are our safest economic partners.
S Balu
02. Jan, 2012
If I were TALIBAN,I would ASK FOR SURENDER nothing else! Yes, native population of what now called usa Did talk and sign so many PEACE TREATIES ,each of this peace treaties was SHREDDED into piece and never respected by so called usa and see what happened to Native Population—DECIMATED
See RECENT HISTORY of world Instituion set up by usa but NEVER RESPECTED them either
Taliban should have WISDOM not to talk to this lying,murderers!
LEARN FROM THE HISTORY
Rest is For Innocent!
Thomas Aquinas
02. Jan, 2012
This opinion-maker.org website is an unending source of laughter & merriment to members of the "evil Jew-Hindu-Christian axis" like myself. Whenever we are down, we visit this website to perk up our spirits. We rule!
Rehmat
04. Jan, 2012
Imran Khan says both CIA and ISI were arming and training Taliban and Mujahideen during the Russian occupation of Afghanistan. After the defeat of Russian in Afghanistan, the US discarded ISI which offended some ISI officials. Now in order to cover its crimes against the Afghans, Washington tries to blame ISI. Khan also said that Obama cannot bring stabilization in Afghanistan by supporting US puppet Hamid Karzai without involving Taliban leaders in country’s governance.
“Washington supported Benazir Bhutto, Gen. Musharaf and Asif Ali Zardari as ‘liberals’ among the Pakistani leaders. However, they’re only liberal in case of corruption,” said Imran Khan.
On Hamid Karzai’s decision to let Indian army train and arm Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) – Imran Khan said Karzai made a great blunder as Pakistanis consider it a hostile gesture and dangerous to Pakistan’s security. The Pentagon in its report released last month, has praised India’s “constructive” role in the reconstruction efforts in Afganistan….
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/11/06/imran-khan-no-peace-without-taliban/
Tariq Shah
04. Jan, 2012
Pakistan is gaining ground against the Dajjals in our midst: We have got rid of the most dangerous agents of the RAW-CIA-MOSSAD axis: Mukhtaran Mai, Dr Shazia Khalid of Balochistan, Aasia Bibi, Salman Taseer (and his son), Saleem Shahazad, and now Dr. Baqir Shah. Hussein Haqani & Imran Khan only a few days away from being despatched to to Jahannam. We shall pursue and cut down these Jew-Hindu-Christian agents wherever they hide in our Land of the Pure.
Mansur Qureshi
05. Jan, 2012
As a patriotic Pakistani, I believe Fai’s arrest should provoke a much stronger reaction in Pakistan than the sentencing of Dr Aafia Siddiqui. Kashmir is much closer to our hearts than east Pakistan or Balochistan ever was. We do not regard the Baloch as human, and the Bangalis definitely not, but (Muslim) Kashmiris are the apples of our eyes. Dr Aafia Siddiqui just tried to kill a few lazy Americans, but Fai has been our faithful agent for 20 years. Kashmir will always be a part of Pakistan, even if its the only thing we are left with. We will starve and beg from China and USA, we will kill the Baloch and dump their bodies in the streets, we will let Karachi be taken over by thugs and goons, but will support Fai and Kashmiri separatists with our last drop of blood. Let the Indus was away Sindh! Let the only way to see Karachi be via helicopter; it is a great sight to see the gang wars beneath.We must pay the Hurriyat millions even if we can’t pay our electricity bills. Kashmir Paindabad