Pak-US Leadership Challenges
Posted on 10. Jun, 2012 by Hamid Waheed in Pak-US Relations
By Hamid Waheed
Huge Challenges at times dwarf the leadership when they fail to protect the rights of its people who select them to lead in this democratic world. At such time the leadership of great powers are at greater risk as they do not only bear responsibility of their Nation but also of the region and the globe. The Nations in situation of crisis sometimes act in the most irregular way and it becomes difficult to understand difference between wrong and right , a friend and a foe. Unfortunately the confusion between American state department, Pentagon and CIA has made the world and Americans a hostage . American Nation known for its uprightness, fairness and values have been put against the wall with deep shadow of fear to decide between death due to terror or give up social liberty and human values. Not realizing that taking values and liberty away from a society means its death leaving behind only the name to be buried in history. Under such a state each wrong step invites more confusion leading to death of culture.
Culture is a pattern of shared basic assumptions that a Nation learns as it adopts a way of life for external adaptation and internal integration which is passed on to new generation as the correct way you perceive, think, and feel. The changes in this pattern of life are now being felt by the entire world as America stands as the sole superpower of the world. The tremors are being felt by others and more so by its collation partners like Pakistan who have suffered all along in War On Terror. It seems that faulty lessons from Iraq are being carried forward instead of being analysed and corrected. Unlawful HR violations at prisons and innocent killings in drone attacks apart, there is a long list of doings and sayings which may be comical for some but for others this joke is meaning end to their livelihood and destruction.
Dr Shakil Afridi, who worked with the C.I.A. to collect DNA samples of Osama under the guise of a bogus vaccination was sentenced to 33 years in prison under Pakistan’s tribal justice system. He gave fake vaccination against Polio, by actually taking DNA samples in the hope of locating Bin Laden. The American Secy of State said,”The United States does not believe there is any basis for holding Dr. Afridi. His help, after all, was instrumental in taking down one of the world’s most notorious murders”. To get to this old dysfunctional Osama the CIA never realized the cost of life of about 200,000 children in FATA area of Pakistan who are now at risk of Polio to live throughout their life as handicapped individuals. Almost the same what happened in Heroshima, Japan .
On other side Drone strikes have been a sore point with the public and Pakistani politicians, who describe them as violations of sovereignty that produce unacceptable civilian casualties wgere as the Americans term this the most effective tool to get Al – Quida leadership hiding in remote areas of Pak- Afghan border. The New America Foundation policy institute says that of 283 reported strikes from 2004 to Nov 16, 2011, between 1,717 and 2,680 people were killed. Between 293 and 471 were thought to be civilians — approximately 17 percent of those killed. BARACK Obama, according to Foreign Policy magazine ''has become George W. Bush on steroids''. Armed with a ''kill list'', the Nobel peace laureate now hosts ''Tuesday terror'' meetings at the White House to discuss targets of drone attacks in Pakistan and at least five other countries.
THE United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights has advised Pakistan to seek an official UN investigation into whether US drone strikes there are legal. Navi Pillay told Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani he should invite the UN's special rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions to visit the country to examine the legality of missile attacks by remote-controlled aircraft in areas near the Afghan border.''Drone attacks do raise serious questions about compliance with international law,'' Dr Pillay told a press conference in Islamabad. ''Ensuring accountability for any failure to comply with international law is also difficult when drone attacks are conducted outside the military chain of command and beyond … transparent mechanisms of civilian or military control.' The deliberate targeting of rescuers and mourners by CIA drones was first exposed by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in February 2012, in a major joint investigation with the Sunday Times. On more than a dozen occasions between 2009 and June 2011, the CIA attacked rescuers as they tried to retrieve the dead and injured. Although Taliban members were killed on almost every occasion, so too were civilians – many of whom the Bureau’s field investigators were able to name. The investigation also reported that on at least three occasions the CIA had struck funeral-goers.
Obama in his address to UN did reflect his desire for peace in the world and American interest in humanity. Despite such realizations US policy seem more of a mind boggler than Carrot and stick or DO More type now. The strange statements now coming from Panetta like US losing patience with over insurgent bases and talking of war in Pakistan during his visit to India has further widened the wedge between the two countries, which in no way will lead to peace in this part of the world. Pakistan has a Key place to every solution may it be Afghan exit, or future economic route to central Asia. Pakistan and America have to create a solution even if does not exist on principles of accommodation on basis on respect for National interests. It is not possible to pressurize a country of huge population like Pakistan and take unilateral decisions through coercion as they would prove temporary.
The concept of America fighting thousands of miles away from its borders and considering techniques for tactical victory to fulfill their domestic requirement is understandable but main decisions have to come keeping America and its people in mind . The present volley of accusations and raising fingers at Pakistan by Obama Administration is nothing but panic when they sink in Afghanistan. The Nations demand that their leadership must protect and safe guard their values , respect and honor not by bullet but winning hearts and minds for a durable peace. After death of Osama the people must demand revival of their values which they inherited for their coming generations.
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babur
11. Jun, 2012
Americans should learn how to run country for Pakistanis if interested to survive. Allah is on Pakistani side. Yah, yah you Qafirs.
Pakistan must privide leadership to Americans a friend in need.
You bloody yo yos speak from both sides mouth and ass.
Abbass
12. Jun, 2012
Why would the largest and fastsest growing religion in the world need advice from a Jew? Part of the smallest and fastest dying religion on earth? Babur you represent the most unpopular, loathesome and rejected people (for good reason) you have nothing constructive to offer anyone.
The Zionist USA already runs Pakistan you nasty little man, which is why Pakistan is such an atrocious mess.
KHAN
11. Jun, 2012
Panetta already has a face of a loser….Fucked face son of a bitch.
babur
11. Jun, 2012
War Lord's religion ISLAM. Public have nothing with WARLORDS except Allah and death for BAHISHT. Leadership challenge has already been with Muslim leaders who killed and jailed their own parents and gaged out eyes of their real brothers with hot iron rods.
Abbass
12. Jun, 2012
As usual the Talmudist trying to project his own hateful cult onto the great religions which make him feel like the cockroach he is.
"The religion of the Jews has nothing to show for its 3,000 year history except human misery, both on the part of it followers and its victims. People do not flock to its precepts the way they do to Christianity and Islam. All its monuments are those dedicated to the suffering of innocent people. All its major religious ceremonies deal with evils done to Gentiles. It can point to NO great civilizations and NO great discoveries that led to the betterment of mankind. All it has is a book that details the exploits of its people in robbing, cheating, and killing those who suffered the unenviable lot of living in their vicinity."
babur
12. Jun, 2012
How can you betray Jesus to become Abbas for flesh. It's flesh only flesh used, abused Abbass but pit of fore is permanent for you and her here and in eternity.