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(surah Al-Imran,ayat-104)
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By TAREK FATAH
The Globe and Mail, Toronto

Many Canadians are rightfully upset at the derisive manner with which Pakistan's ruler, General Pervez Musharraf, mocked our soldiers serving in Afghanistan. Others are simply scratching their heads, not knowing what to make of the machismo of the general as he locked horns with Carole Off of CBC Radio.

When asked to comment on growing doubts about Pakistan's commitment to seal its borders and restrict the movement of the Taliban, who have inflicted many casualties on Canadian troops, Gen. Musharraf bristled at his host and mocked Canadians as cry babies weeping over the deaths of "four or five" dead soldiers.

The undiplomatic language and blunt posturing of Gen. Musharraf needs to be understood in the context of the country he rules and the armed forces he commands.
Unlike most countries that have an army, in the case of Pakistan, the army has a country. Whereas the armed forces of most countries are created to defend the national interests of its people, in Pakistan, the army uses the country to protect its own interests, often at variance with those of its citizens.
From its inception in 1947, Pakistan has been held hostage by its military with a series of wars, both internal and external, that have left the nation in ruins, not in an economic sense, but in terms of its natural socio-political development.

Merely months after independence, Pakistan's army went into action to annex the independent State of Kalat in Baluchistan (an on-again, off-again insurrection continues there to this day). This was followed by the first India-Pakistan War in 1948, then the Afghan-Pakistan border skirmish over Pakhtunistan in 1955-1957, which again erupted in 1961 and 1963.

However, the defining role of Pakistan's military came in 1958 when, fearing the elections of a left-wing government in the January, 1959, elections, the military staged a coup and imposed martial law.

Then, in 1965, facing widespread protest against a rigged election, the late field marshal, Ayub Khan, tried to wrap himself in the flag by invading Indian-held Kashmir in August, 1965, which led to the 17-day second war with India.

By 1970, the Pakistani armed forces had got the country involved in civil war that led to the third Indo-Pakistan war in 1971, leading to the tragic breakup of the nation into two parts with a million dead.

With every war, with every internal insurrection, the Pakistan military gained more power and increasing control, not just of the politics of Pakistan, but also its economy and its narrative.

From cereals to nuclear bombs, from housing construction to cement manufacture, transportation to taxation, Pakistan's army rules the country with an iron grip.

However, the one factor Gen. Musharraf could not understand in Ms. Off's question was her concern for the ordinary Canadian soldier. This was a concept foreign to most elites in Pakistan, including military officers who count among them the world's richest men.

For Canadians, the ordinary private's life is worth the same as that of General Rick Hillier. We count the names of each dead soldier and grieve with their families. For Gen. Musharraf, this is a foreign concept.

Pakistanis are never told the names of the 500 soldiers who died fighting al-Qaeda. The only names that appear are those of the officers.

In the nearly dozen wars Pakistan has fought against external and internal foes, the dead infantryman is mere gun fodder, unseen, unheard, and with no memorial to his name.

When Gen. Musharraf ordered his troops to invade Indian-held Kashmir in the 1999 Kargil war, he had no strategic objectives, he had no authority, he only had to prove his machismo to his fellow generals.

For that bravado, thousands died on both sides. Indians report than many of the dead Pakistani soldiers had been eating grass before they died of hunger and thirst.
My message to Gen. Musharraf is this: Don't lecture us Canadians on bravery and courage. Courage is not to lead men into battle and treat them as gun fodder while one sips Murree Beer.
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Tarek Fatah, a former student activist in his native Pakistan, is host of The Muslim Chronicle on CTS-TV and founder of the Muslim Canadian Congress.



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 Reply:   Pervez is just another stooge,
Replied by(webmaster) Replied on (3/Oct/2006)
In order to understand the western media dominated by the elders of the zion, one has to be educated politically and religiously. The media in the west churns out false propaganda against I
In order to understand the western media dominated by the elders of the zion, one has to be educated politically and religiously.  The media in the west churns out false propaganda against Islam and Muslims.  The anti Islam and Muslim journalists I call them as vigilante writers.  But there are exceptions like Guardian and Independent, which are honest and God fearing people, they represent the rights over evil, the evil may be by a brown man, black man or white man. 
 
Now I give you an example of a vigilante news reporter, he writes in yesterday's London lite when a christian man was stabbed to death: The victim of two described as a committed Christian, died after a scuffle with a gang  who had been sitting on the wall outside his home. ...
 
Now this same newspaper and reporter would write if the victim was a Muslim: The victim of two described as a fundamentalist Muslim, died after a scuffle --
 
See dear readers, see how the language changes, when their masters -- elders of the zion has only aim to demonise Islam and Muslims.  Muslims have to put up with such daily humiliations and attacks and in some cases are forced to spy on each other.  Such tactics are practiced because Muslim rulers are in the paid service of the yahud and nassarra.
 
Pervez is just another stooge, and he rules the country with the support of the sold out elements of the army. But sometimes a dictator makes a slip and speaks the truth. The truth is that Nato would be on its knees, had it not been for the support of the Pakistani army, against the Muslims of Afghanistan and Pakistan.

 
 Reply:   BR. FATAH...WHY DON'T YOU TELL
Replied by(webmaster) Replied on (2/Oct/2006)
BR. FATAH...WHY DON'T YOU TELL PAKISTANIES. ..AS HOW TO GET RID OF THIS BULLY AND THE TWO WOLVES ...WHO ARE SITTING IN UK/KSA ...TO GRAB THE POWER... ???(khizar_hayat_malik@yahoo.com)
AOA,

BR. FATAH...WHY DON'T YOU TELL PAKISTANIES. ..AS HOW TO GET RID OF THIS BULLY AND THE TWO WOLVES ...WHO ARE SITTING IN UK/KSA ...TO GRAB THE POWER...ONCE THIS BULLY IS GONE ???

KM
 
 Reply:   So Canadians find that Musharr
Replied by(Ghost) Replied on (2/Oct/2006)
For the West, who have vigillante type journalists: A dictator is bad when he hurts the raw nerves of the West. shaikh_hyder@yahoo.co.uk
So Canadians find that Musharraf is a bad dictator. But all dictators are bad. For the West, who have vigillante type journalists: A dictator is bad when he hurts the raw nerves of the West. Otherwise the army dictators in Egypt, Algeria, Turkey, etc. are good and civilized because they deny the rights of the MUSLIMS.

So let us remember by their new names, the vigillante journalists of the West. Thankfully and lucking there are Independent and Guardian the two leading newspapers of UK, who give honest reports on Afghanistan, Iraq, Palestine, though the zionist influenced government do not look with favour.

 
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