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The odd couple
IRFAN HUSAIN — PUBLISHED SEP 17, 2016 06:53AM

AT a recent hearing of the US Senate foreign affairs committee, the discussion focused on whether or not to cut off aid to Pakistan.

And a few days ago, a State Department spokesman denied that relations between the two countries had hit their lowest point. We’ve all heard this kind of talk in Washington before, and will no doubt do so again. The reality is that Pakistan’s relationship with the world’s biggest superpower has been rocky for a long time, and shows no signs of improvement.

As the American mantra urging us to ‘do more’ against militants sheltering in our tribal areas falls on deaf ears, we insist that we have already sacrificed thousands of lives in our war against jihadists. But this is a dialogue of the deaf, with each side speaking at each other, but refusing to actually listen.

Pakistan’s ties with the US show no signs of improvement.
Despite pretending to be allies, the truth is that our relationship with the Americans has always been strictly transactional. In the earliest phase of Pak-US ties, in exchange for being a member of the anti-Soviet alliance, Pakis­tan’s defence forces were given modern arms.

Of course, our military leadership was not much concerned with the Cold War: all it wanted was an edge against the Indian military, and only modern US weaponry could offset our foe’s numerical advantage.

A retired three-star general once told me that we joined the Cento and Seato military pacts after Ayub Khan visited Ankara in the mid-1950s and was shown Turkey’s American-supplied arsenal. In the general’s words, “Ayub Khan started drooling at the sight of all the Patton tanks”. Apparently, he was told by his Turkish counterparts that if he wanted the same equipment for Pakistani forces, all he had to do was join the American-sponsored pacts.

But the pro-Western stance predates Ayub Khan’s rise to power. Both Jinnah and the country’s first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, were educated in England. And there is some evidence that before Partition, Jinnah thought Pakistan could be a British ally, whereas Congress had declared India would be neutral once it was independent. Despite Nehru’s links to Britain, Congress was a left-oriented party that had fought the colonial power for decades.

Many today wish Pakistan had not entered into Western alliances, and blame Liaquat Ali Khan for visiting Washington instead of Moscow. But this misses the point that the USSR had been devastated in the war, and was in no position to give the kind of aid we have received from the US.

A glance at the economic and military assistance flowing from Washington is revealing. Between 1951 and 2011, Pakistan received several billion dollars, but a closer look at the figures reveals that these funds — especially the military component — were often turned off for long periods. Thus, military supplies were negligible during the 1965 Indo-Pak war until the early 1980s when Pakistan was once again Washington’s blue-eyed boy after the Soviets invaded Afghanistan.

This long hiatus was viewed by many Pakistanis as a stab in the back. The military, looking for excuses for its debacle in 1965, blamed the US for abandoning us in our hour of need. However, there was a clear clause in the Pak-US agreement that stipulated that American military equipment was to be used only against communist aggression.

The other reason for sanctions was our nuclear programme. While American leaders turned a blind eye to the uranium enrichment that was going on at the facility in Kahuta while the anti-Soviet war raged in Afghanistan, sanctions kicked in very soon after the Soviet retreat. Even delivery of the F-16s we had paid for was blocked.

All this fed into the public perception of a perfidious, fair-weather friend. A third irritant in this rocky relationship was the constant criticism Pakistan faced from American leaders as well as the media about our poor human rights record, and our frequent military interventions.

And now, of course, we are accused of not cooperating with the Americans over the Taliban threat in Afghanistan, and of allowing the Haqqani network sanctuary in our tribal areas. Thus, we are viewed in the United States as a two-faced ally that accepts billions of dollars, and yet allows American enemies to operate freely on our soil.

This perception misses the point that American security concerns do not necessarily overlap with ours. Pakistan is concerned with a post-US Afghanistan when Kabul could become New Delhi’s ally, thus encircling Pakistan. To counter this, Pakistan needs powerful friends in Afghanistan. And you don’t make friends by, allegedly, killing them.

It is this mismatch of expectations and repeated disappointments that have brought Pak-US relations to where they are now. Lacking any deep common interests beyond security concerns, it is likely that as American ties with India blossom, our old alliance will wither.

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Published in Dawn, September 17th, 2016

Conspiracies against Pakistan
September 22, 2016 SHARE :
Dr. Ikhlaq Hussain

At the end of British rule, the Subcontinent of India was divided into India and Pakistan against the wishes and expectations of the Hindu political leaders of India and its Janta, which is why the biased, hawkish Hindu political leaders of India decided to teach a lesson to the Muslims of India for demanding a separate homeland and to make Pakistan an unviable state.
It hatched its first conspiracy against Pakistan, according to which the government of India of the time had started a mass massacre of Muslims all over India in which Muslims of East Punjab suffered most.
It was the world’s biggest massacre against Muslims.

The day Pakistan came into existence, conspiracies by India against it had already started.
In the early days, after the completion of Tarbela and Warsak dams, the ruling government of Pakistan had approved the construction of Kalabagh dam as agreed with consensus of all political parties and started preparation for its construction.
India and its intelligence agency RAW in the meantime, had advised a new game plan against Pakistan.
The conspiracy was to target the agriculture and energy sectors.
Therefore, they started their efforts to stop construction of Kalabagh dam, to create a water shortage in Pakistan, destroy its agriculture and create an energy crisis which would eventually lead to industrial disaster.
This long term conspiracy of India has so far proved successful.

The construction of Kalabagh dam was stopped and the People’s Party government in its next regime openly hammered in the last nail in the coffin of this valuable national project.
India did not stop and continued its conspiracies against Pakistan.
Later, while the ruling government of Pakistan was asleep, Indian engineers, as per plan, had been building dams over the rivers entering Pakistan, and accordingly succeeded in diverting river waters towards their side for agriculture, and at the same time deprived Pakistan of its share of water from these rivers.
Continuing its conspiracies against Pakistan, the Indian government in an agreement with the government of Afghanistan has recently completed dams over Kabul River which enters from Afghanistan, flows into Pakistan and joins the Indus.
Consequently, the water of Kabul River will be diverted and Pakistan will be deprived of its share of water.
In this way, India targeted the internal source of water by stopping the construction of Kalabagh dam, then diverted its water from the east of Pakistan and finally completed its plan from the western border of the country.
In spite of all this, if the politicians of Pakistan do not wake up and plan against the future water crisis, they are living in a fool’s paradise.

More than twenty million people of Pakistan are witness to the bad governance of almost all ruling governments, poor performance of political leaders and their parties, poor national planning and silly decisions, as a result of which the entire nation is facing disastrous consequences today.
The people of Pakistan should therefore demand a national referendum for the construction of Kalabagh dam and ask their representatives sitting in the assemblies to start its construction immediately, if the results results are in its favour.

Ms Indira Gandhi, an intelligent, shrewd and dedicated politician was the Prime Minister of India in the seventies.
Pakistan was at that time, facing political turmoil and its politicians were unaware of the surrounding developments and the ongoing conspiracies against Pakistan.
During this period, the government of India and its agencies had been busy in conducting a well-planned conspiracy against Pakistan, and East Pakistan was their main target.
Pakistan, at the end, faced an unfortunate, and shameful military defeat.
India had at last succeeded in breaking up Pakistan and making East Pakistan an independent country, Bangladesh.

The sitting Prime Minister of India, Mr Modi during his visit to Bangladesh, openly admitted that it was India who had split Pakistan and made Bangladesh in 1971.
Pakistan today, is the target of a dangerous conspiracy by India once more.
The defence minister of India threatened Pakistan earlier this year, that India would destabilise Pakistan and assured his audience of results in the next six months.
The efficient agencies of Pakistan have come to know that RAW had setup its headquarters in Karachi and its network in Balochistan, Iran and Afghanistan and every city of Pakistan.
Their offices have continuously been recruiting paid volunteers, provide them with training and financial facilities for many years.

The mission of intelligence agency of India, RAW is to destabilise Pakistan, start every type of terrorism in the country, disturb its peace, destroy its economy and sabotage essential valuable projects such as Gawadar Port and Pak-China Economic Corridor.
According to the latest international conspiracy and developments against Pakistan is the India, USA and Afghanistan defence pact which is eye opening for our political parties and the ruling government.
They must join hands for the state of Pakistan, take quick and effective steps seriously to counter this conspiracy before it is too late.
Once again I appeal to our political leaders to wake up, open their eyes and minds and save the country.
The latest regional developments, India’s threat to Pakistan and a defence pact amongst USA, India and Afghanistan is against whom? Pakistan or China?

The writer is a senior citizen, who has served the Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudia-Arabia.
At present, he is working as a medical specialist in a charity medical centre.