A weak democracy will lead Pak to military rule
If Democracy is not sustained, the Military Rule looming large on Pakistan may intensify America`s War against Terror and further Militarisation of the Nation States including India to make us helpless crowd to bear the burns of War and Civil War which would help only the Corporate Imperialism which is a Nuclear Alliance of Global Hindutva which rules India.
Palash Biswas
Turmoil in Pakistan is a case of great concern all over the divided bleeding Geopolitics, converted in War Zone by the Global Zionist Order of Ethnic Cleansing.We should hope to sustain democracy in each Nation state for the survival of sustainable peace which is endangered with continuous stand off and constitutional crisis.Pakistan is not only the part of our united Geopolitics but is very very sensitive Nation suffering from the calamities within and outside.Ruling Hegemony in each of the Nation State in the Geopolitics is aligned with the Global Order and everything is decided as predestined in accordance with the interest of Global Alliance. The Constitutional Crisis in Pakistan, thus, is very complex in Nature. Replacement of Prime Minister Gilani may prove to be an Ad Hoc Solution, but transfer of Power to extra constitutional forces ie Military rule, may not only endanger the people of Pakistan but it is bound to destabilse the entire Geopolitics, mind you.
Ironically, we the people across the Political border are bonded by nothing but an intense saga of hatred. Ruling hegemonies all over the Geopolitics banks on this hatred so much so that it may not be wiped out in near future, War against Terror has made Pakistan the most targeted Nation in the Geopolitics and Terror strikes anywhere is connected with Pakistan. Only Democracy may help Pakistan to seek an escape route. If Democracy is not sustained, the Military Rule looming large on Pakistan may intensify America`s War against Terror and further Militarisation of the Nation States including India to make us helpless crowd to bear the burns of War and Civil War which would help only the Corporate Imperialism which is a Nuclear Alliance of Global Hindutva which rules India. We should not forget that since two nation theory is coined, it has been a crusade in between Hindutva and Islam for which the people of this Geopolitics have been paying for more than Six decades and we live in a period of Nuclear Arms` race uncontrolled. The Geopolitics has become free Hunting ground for Global Arms dealers and Nuclear industry while Natural resources are exploited with cruel genocide culture. I dare to say that the future of Democracy in Pakistan is quite relevant a matter than political equations within for the Excluded ninety nine percent masses and the aborigin humanscape within.
It should be noted that Anti Corruption Campaign has become the Arabian Spring in Indian Subcontinent which has nothing to say against Corporate Imperialism or the Free Market economy and has become the best ever brand equity to sustain the Hegemony Rule!It strengthens the Corporate lobbying for Economic ethnic Cleansing in India while, on the other hand, it creates a stand off between Executive and Judiciary in Pakistan which further makes a space for Military Regime which would in return help the Corporate Imperialism to militarise all the Nation states in this troubled Zone to expand its Market. It would also help the protagonists of Hindu Rashtra in India. It is indeed a grim situation in which the people of the Geopolitics should stand united against the communal designs of the allies of the Zionist Global Order.
We could not help us as the blazing Oil Fields in the Middle East ceased to be Prime Interest of the Global capital and the War was shifted within our heart as Afganistan became the focus of Pentagon and Nato which inflicted the Terror within India, Pakistan and the entire Geopolitics.India as well as Pakistan have become the partners in America`s war against Terror which in reality has become a War against the People of the divided geopolitics. While Pakistan may not oppose Drone Attacks or US Military operations there, internal security of India is handed over to CIA and Mossad in India. Drones have to called in service to deal with so called Maoist menace in the Aborigine Humanscape abundant with Natural resources. The Ruling Hegemony is helping the Global order to exploit these resources pushing for economic reforms which is nothing but Economic Ethnic Cleansing in an exclusive Economy in which no fiscal policy is adopted and land reforms remain allusive. Inclusive development of Builder Promoter Raj has made life most impossible. Hence, civic and human rights are no less endangered in India where Globalisation kills the constitution to kill the Constiytutional safeguards enjoyed by the Majority Masses hitherto. Thus, democracy in crisis anywhere in this Geopolitics is more relevant to us . We may sustain Democracy with uncompromising resistance against Zionist Global Order and the Communalism imported by the crusaders of the Hidu Rashtra only. We have seen the Disaster all over Europe while Communism was imported. We have seen the turmoil including the Oil War and the Arab spring while Democracy is imported in the Middle East. Now Autocracy in form of Open Market economy boosted with imported Democracy with Brand equity anti Corruption inflicts South Asia. We may see the development in Pakistan very well, but our vision is blinded while we see within anywhere may be the Himalayan Zone including kashmir, North East, Central India and the entire Humancscape where virtual Military Rule takes over Democracy. In most of the parts in the Indian Nation State, Brahaminical Hegemony enjoys the Genocide Culture without whatsoever Resistance. Even the ideologies and academia are subordinated. Media promotes hate Campaign with sustained Misinformation, black out strategies. We remain blind and may not see Gujarat Genocide and no wonder, the Genocide Master Narendra Modi emerges the front runner for the Next Prime Minister! We play blind to see how the Field Marshal of the Brahaminical Corporate Zionist Hegemony takes over Raisina Hill with almost political Consensus, ironically Flavoured with a token election in which the Hindutva Forces deny to field a hindutva Candidate and makes it a cake walk for Pranab Mukherjee, fielding a so called Tribal candidate who had been co opted within the hegemony long before and has never never raised his voice against the the Ethnic Cleansing of the Tribal people all over India violating all norms of civic and human rights, fitth and sixth schedule provisions of Constitution.
However,Pakistan's ruling party says parliament elections will be held this year, earlier than expected.The party has also put forward lawmaker Raja Pervaiz Ashraf as its new candidate for prime minister. The announcement came during a news conference Friday in the capital, Islamabad.The parliament is scheduled to vote on Ashraf's candidacy later in the evening. The ruling coalition has a majority so he is expected to be approved.The news tops a tumultuous week in Pakistani politics. The Supreme Court on Tuesday disqualified Yousuf Raza Gilani as prime minister for failing to initiate a corruption probe of the president's affairs.
Pakistan's top court ruled Tuesday that the prime minister was no longer eligible to hold office due to an earlier contempt conviction, ushering in fresh political turmoil in the nuclear-armed country.
"Since no appeal was filed (against the April 26 conviction) ... therefore Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani stands disqualified as a member of the Majlis-e-Shoora (parliament)...," said Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry in a packed courtroom.
"He has also ceased to be the prime minister of Pakistan ... the office of the prime minister stands vacant."
But Fawad Chaudhry, a senior Gilani aide, said only parliament could dismiss the prime minister.
While the decision is a big blow to the ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP), it is unlikely to lead to the fall of the unpopular government.
Pakistan National Assembly Speaker Dr. Fehmida Mirza, in her reply to the Supreme Court, has contended that she has absolute power to decide the matter regarding the disqualification or qualification of any lawmaker after the passage of the 18th Amendment.
"The 18th Amendment is very important and clearly gives the power to the speaker or as the case may be to the chairman, that they can reject the reference if they come to the conclusion that no question of disqualification of a member from being a member has arisen," the Daily Times quoted Mirza as saying in her statement.
In its ruling, the Supreme Court ordered the country's election commission to formally dismiss Gilani and said he had not legally been the prime minister since April 26, when the court convicted him for contempt for refusing to open a corruption probe against President Asif Ali Zardari, dating back to the 1990s and involving the jurisdiction of courts in Switzerland.
The decision of the apex court creates one more constitutional crisis.
By retroactively sacking the prime minister, the apex court may have made all decisions made by the Cabinet since then null and void, that includes the country's budget.
Gilani's lawyers have argued that the prime minister does not have the authority to order an investigation in a foreign country. However, the court had ordered the prime minister to write to Swiss authorities and inform them that the immunity orders signed by President Pervez Musharraf were null and void.
The ruling Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has resolved to refuse the orders of the Supreme Court on the Zardari graft cases citing constitutional immunity both at home and abroad. Ironically, the court has asked President Zardari to appoint a new prime minister — who might be disqualified as well for failing to comply with Supreme Court orders.
The PPP and its coalition partners have the numbers in parliament to elect a new prime minister until the government's term ends early next year.
"I don't see this as a major constitutional breakdown unless the PPP ignores this decision," said legal expert Salman Raja. "I think sanity will prevail and they should be able to do that fairly easily given that they just passed the budget — they clearly have a majority (in parliament)."
Rasul Bakhsh Rais, a professor at Lahore University of Management Science, said the Zardari government was unlikely to accept the court's decision.
"The political situation is not likely to be decided very peacefully I am afraid. It will be decided by demonstrations," he said.
If Gilani does not step down, the Supreme Court could call on the president or the military to enforce the decision, Rais said.
Meanwhile, Pakistan's ruling party on Friday nominated former water and power minister Raja Pervez Ashraf to replace the ousted prime minister, as political intrigue gripped the U.S. ally.
The Pakistan People's Party had nominated the textiles minister to replace Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, who was disqualified by the Supreme Court this week.
But an anti-narcotics court issued an arrest warrant for the textiles minister, undermining his bid, in a move analysts said may have been orchestrated by the powerful military.
Parliament meets on Friday to elect a new prime minister.
Pakistanis have been watching their country's three power centres - the military, civilian leadership and Supreme Court - flex their muscles, distracted from problems such as a troubled economy, poverty and a crisis in ties with the United States.
Ashraf is likely to deepen their frustrations with what has been described as a failed state.
As water and power minister, he was seen by most Pakistanis as one of many senior officials who had failed to ease a crippling energy crisis, which triggered violent protests.
On the other hand,Defense Secretary Leon Panetta all but ruled out an apology over an air strike last year that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers and badly set back efforts to improve U.S.-Pakistani ties, saying it was "time to move on."
Pakistan banned trucks from carrying NATO supplies into neighboring Afghanistan after the air strike, a move that costs U.S. taxpayers $100 million a month given the need to use more expensive, longer routes to the north.
To re-open the routes, Pakistan wants to impose high tariffs on NATO supplies and Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar said last week that Islamabad is still seeking an unconditional apology.
But Panetta, in an interview with Reuters on Thursday, suggested that past expressions of regret and condolences were enough and held out hope that troubled talks on re-opening Pakistani supply routes for the NATO war effort could succeed anyway.
Asked whether he would oppose any further apology, Panetta said: "We've made clear what our position is, and I think it's time to move on."
"If we keep going back to the past, if we keep beating up each other based on past differences, we'll never get anywhere," he said.
"The time now is to move forward with this relationship, on the (supply routes), on the safe havens, on dealing with terrorism -- on dealing with the issues that frankly both of us are concerned about," Panetta said.
But the supply line negotiations have become wrapped in a larger debate within Pakistan about what it sees as U.S. violations of its sovereignty, which includes everything from covert CIA drone strikes to the U.S. incursion into Pakistan last year to kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden.
Meanwhile, U.S. frustration about Pakistani safe havens being used by militants attacking NATO forces in Afghanistan has become more pronounced as the U.S. military starts winding down the war effort in Afghanistan.
During a trip to Kabul, Panetta, using unusually harsh language, said the United States was reaching the limits of its patience with Pakistan because of the safe havens it offered to insurgents fighting in neighboring Afghanistan.
But in his interview with Reuters, he appeared to temper those remarks, saying: "It's a complicated and frustrating relationship. But it's a necessary relationship and one that we've got to continue to work at on both sides."
At the same time, Panetta acknowledged pressures building in Congress to put conditions on aid to Pakistan.
"It's not something that we're pushing in the Congress. But the reality is that the more problems we have, the more difficult it's going to be in the Congress to continue to provide assistance without conditions," Panetta said.
He also acknowledged the likelihood that a protracted cut-off of the supply routes, costing Americans millions of dollars a day, would ultimately impact aid to Pakistan as well.
Nearly one year ago, U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta predicted the strategic defeat of al Qaeda was within reach if the United States could kill or capture up to 20 leaders of the core group and its affiliates.
In an interview on Thursday with Reuters, Panetta disclosed that only a "small handful" of the individuals on that original list remained on the battlefield and that Saudi Arabia - the birthplace of late al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden - was reporting a drop-off in recruitment.
"We've not only impacted on their leadership, we've impacted on their capability to provide any kind of command and control in terms of operations," Panetta said.
The U.S. defense chief visited Saudi Arabia on Wednesday and after paying U.S. condolences over the death of the late crown prince, spoke about al Qaeda with one of his sons, S a udi Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who has run the kingdom's operations against al Qaeda as a deputy interior minister.
"I asked him the question - as a result of the bin Laden raid, as a result of what we've done to their leadership, where are we with al Qaeda," Panetta recounted, adding that al Qaeda and bin Laden "came out of Saudi Arabia."
"Bin Nayef said, 'For the first time, what I'm seeing is that young people are no longer attracted to al Qaeda in Saudi Arabia.'"
Panetta did not single out which leaders from his target list last year remained, but current al Qaeda chief Ayman al-Zawahri is one he named last year and who is still believed to be living in the border region of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Asked how many targets remained, Panetta said, "It's a small handful and it's growing smaller all the time."
On other topics, Panetta in the interview:
* Defended the U.S. decision not to arm opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, but said he was concerned that shoulder-fired missiles stolen from Libya last year could make their way to Syria. He said he had seen no direct intelligence yet suggesting they had.
* All but ruled out an apology over an air strike last year that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, as Islamabad has demanded, saying it was "time to move on" in the troubled U.S.-Pakistan relationship.
* Said Iraq had given assurances to the United States that it would not release a suspected Hezbollah operative accused of killing American troops, whom the United States turned over to Iraqi custody last December just before the last U.S. troops exited the country.
AL QAEDA SURVIVAL PROSPECTS
After addressing questions about the future of al Qaeda's top leadership, Panetta shifted his focus to the group's ability to survive as a movement at all.
"We'll keep the pressure on at the top and we'll keep going after their leadership," Panetta said.
"But the real issue that will determine the end of al Qaeda is when they find it difficult to recruit any new people."
The killing of bin Laden in a covert U.S. raid in Pakistan last year has been followed by a series of unmanned aerial attacks that have crushed al Qaeda's network along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.
The latest high-profile al Qaeda leader killed in the U.S. campaign was Abu Yahya al-Libi, the group's second-in-command, who broke out of a high-security U.S. prison in neighboring Afghanistan in 2005 and was a key strategist.
Beyond the Afghan-Pakistan region, another key figure killed last year was Anwar al-Awlaki, an American imam who became a senior leader of al Qaeda's Yemen-based affiliate.
While successful tactically, the drone strikes have further poisoned U.S.-Pakistan relations and, critics say, raise questions about international law and could boost militant recruiting.
Only about eight hard-core al Qaeda leaders are still believed to be based in the lawless borderlands of Afghanistan and Pakistan, compared with dozens a few years ago.
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