لراوبر ویب پاڼه لراوبر يو افغان – تازه خبرونه
Some weeks ago, on October 28, 2010, an article in ‘The News – Jang’, headlined ‘Time to recognize the real enemy’ reached this writer via a friend. The article was signed by ‘former ambassador – Zafar Hilaly’, a seemingly typical member of the Punjabi bureaucracy: a stooge through whom half-baked, spoon-fed “information” is disseminated.
The ‘ambassador’ wrote:
‘While the Afghan Tajiks parade their hostility to Pakistan openly, the Dari speaking elite among the Afghan Pakhtuns are only a step behind. They blame Pakistan for all of Afghanistan’s woes, including support for the Taliban-driven insurgency and, of course, for hanging on to a part of Afghanistan (emphasis added) that the British had extracted from King Abdul Rahman…’
‘So blind is their hatred of Pakistan’, Mr Hilaly wrote, ‘that they forget that India supported the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and, but for Pakistan, they may well have become another Soviet republic…’
Dwelling on ‘democracy’, too, the ‘ambassador’ wrote: ‘And their [the Afghans] nascent fondness for democracy, conjured out of the blue, because Afghanistan has never had any track with democracy (emphasis added), has seemingly impressed the Americans, much like it did the British when King Amanullah tried to propel a mediaeval kingdom (emphasis added), into the 20th century by forcing women to wear skirts… Actually, these Dari-speaking Pakhtun elite are a confused lot. They accuse Pakistan of harboring and launching the Taliban, but when Pakistan proposes that we fence the Durand Line they oppose the move vehemently… (emphasis added).
‘A stable and peaceful Afghanistan,’ Hilaly comments, ‘and an Afghanistan that is friendly and alive to our strategic concerns (emphasis added), is much more in our interest than one riven by civil wars…’
It will be useful, perhaps, for the agitated ‘ambassador’ and those like him to share in brief some facts which are not understood or are, more probably, consciously hidden. He should be reminded first of all that it is not only the Tajik Afghans and the ‘Dari speaking elite among the Afghan Pakhtuns’ who ‘parade their hostility to Pakistan’, but millions upon millions of those who have been and are the victims of the duplicity and hypocrisy of the Punjabi establishment. The roots of this hatred lie in the creation of the so-called ‘Pakistan’ itself: Thus let us begin with the creation of and the story of this ‘artificial’ state.
Towards the end of the Second World War Britain was, on the one hand, no longer in a position to continue her rule over India, and, on the other, her imperial priority had changed: the new priority – taking India’s place – was the ‘power wells’ in the Middle East. It was towards safeguarding this new objective that the imperial authorities reached the conclusion to divide India. In order to achieve this goal, Viceroy Lord Wavell planted Jinnah and succeeded in crafting him to the point at which he could implement the plot. It was through Jinnah, the leader of the Muslim League, that Lord Wavell – as instructed by Winston Churchill– matured his project to ‘keep a bit of India’ for Britain. This ‘bit of India’ was to be retained as Britain’s ‘base for defensive and offensive action against the USSR in any future dispensation in the subcontinent.’
The stage on which the game was destined to be played emerged soon. On 27 July 1946, Mr. Jinnah announced ‘Direct Action Day’. On 13 August a proclamation – (which could have become a model for Osama Bin Laden’s various Fetwas) – for the ‘Direct Action Day’ was issued, the text of which was ‘forwarded to London and New Delhi from the governor’s office.’ The ‘last paragraph of the proclamation, penned and announced by Jinnah, declared:
‘It was Ramadan [when] the Quran was revealed. It was in Ramadan that the permission for jihad was granted by Allah. It was in Ramadan that the battle of Badr, the first open conflict between Islam and heathenism, was fought and won by 313 Muslims (against 900 in A.D. 634) and again it was Ramadan that 10,000 Muslims under the holy prophet conquered Mecca (in A.D. 630) and established the kingdom of Heaven and commonwealth of Islam in Arabia. The Muslim league is fortunate that it is starting its action in this holy month… Today we have forged a pistol and are in a position to use it…’
On 16 August 1946 the ‘Direct Action Day’ came. As a result 5,000 people were killed and more than 20,000 were injured. It was in fact from that date that the roots of hatred and terror were actively created which continue today. Based on top secret documents, a ‘new history’, written by a former ADC to Lord Mountbatten, N. S. Sarila , ‘reveals previously overlooked links between British strategic interests – in the oil wells of the Middle East and maintaining access to its Indian Ocean territories – and partition… [where] the roots of Islamic terrorism sweeping the world today may lie.’ And this was all done in the service of and in order to safeguard the sway of British imperialism in the region.
On 12 March, 1947 the new Viceroy of India, Lord Mountbatten, arrived in Delhi. He was entrusted with the critical task of implementing the Wavell-Jinnah plan with the utmost secrecy. Mountbatten was instructed to ‘fix responsibility for the division of India squarely on Indian shoulders…’ The Viceroy played his part brilliantly. He told Lord Ismay, who was a member of his delegation, that to any Indian leader that he met, he started off with his ‘usual lecture on a strong union of India … I was determined,’ he emphasized ‘that so far as possible the decision whether to have a partition or not should rest on the shoulders of the Indian people themselves and that the accusation against Britain having divided the country should thus be avoided.’ [Emphasis added]
Every scenario towards securing the successful implementation of the plot was accounted for. One problem, however, was still to be overcome. This was concerning the real target and the most important part of the whole scheme: the land of the Afghans, where the Khudayi-Khedmatgar Movement were in control and Bacha Khan’s elder brother, Dr Khan, was heading the government. They had won every election since 1937. ‘So long as the Khan brothers ruled the Frontier,’ the Governor of the North West Frontier Province, Olaf Caroe, wrote, ‘Jinnah could not claim leadership of Muslim India and it was impossible even for a moth-eaten Pakistan to emerge.’
And Olaf Caroe volunteered to find a solution to this problem. With unparalleled wide experience in the province and as a master of intrigue, Caroe was a good choice. But in order to make the plot hitch-free and its success certain just in case Olaf Caroe failed, Caroe-Jinnah ‘…asked Iskander Mirza to resign from the Government of India and return to the tribal territories he knew so well. There he was to start a jihad (Holy War) … Jinnah’s request stunned Iskander Mirza … He knew that if the tribes were persuaded to rise in revolt, there would be considerable bloodshed … Yet … he could not refuse Jinnah … so he told Jinnah that money would be needed to undertake this immense task, particularly if it involved inciting the tribesmen in Waziristan, Tirah and moh[m]and country… When asked how much, Iskander Mirza estimated one Crore of Rupees (equivalent to Rupees 50 Crore at the end of the twentieth century)… Iskander Mirza was given Rupees 20,000 for immediate expenses and told that the Nawab of Bhopal would provide the rest. As for cover [to keep the secret], he would be told of it [starting jihad] at the right time.’ However, Pakistan was created and Iskandar Mirza was no longer needed to wage ‘jihad’.
Following the creation of ‘the land of pure’ many politicians felt that being an average run of the mill Muslim was not enough to tighten their grip over their feudal interests. So they proceeded to enhance their status to divinity. A ‘Mushaikh’ committee of the Muslim League was formed and virtually overnight an embarrassment of ‘Pirs’ and ‘Sajjada Nashins’ appeared on the political horizon of the province. Khan Iftikhar Hussain Khan of Mamdot was described as Pir Mamdot Sharif, Sardar Shawkat Hayat Kahn as Sajjada Nashin of Wah Sharif, Malik Feroz Khan Noon of Darbar Sargodha Sharif and to top it all, the secretary of the committee, Mr Ibrahim Ali Chishti, was designated Fazil-i-Hind Sajada Nashin of Paisa Akhbar Sharif.
The ‘Pirs’ and ‘Sajjada Nashins’ – using the name of the sacred religion of Islam – then embarked upon violating the life and livelihood of every society in the region, crushing every liberation and anti-imperial movement in the region. In October 1947 the ‘Pak Army’ under the command of a British Colonel invaded Kashmir. In 1948 it invaded Baluchistan. In the 1950s it hatched every manner of conspiracy against Afghanistan. It joined forces with the Zionist army and Jordan to crush the PLO in 1970. East Bengal followed. The ‘Pak Army’ killed between one to two million Bengali Muslims and injured and maimed hundreds of thousands. If not protected by its colonial masters, Pakistani generals would have been standing before the international court – along with the Pol-Pot regime – accused of genocide.
Afghanistan and the Afghan nation was the main target. In order to subsume the land and people stolen from the Afghan nation, ‘Pakistan’ sought to destabilize and destroy Afghanistan. Aware of the facts, the ‘ambassador’ writes: ‘They [the Afghans] blame Pakistan for all of Afghanistan’s woes, including support for the Taliban and, of course, for hanging on to a part of Afghanistan that the British had extracted from King Abdul Rahman.’ Although hinting at the roots of the two-century old problem in the region, Mr. Hilaly does not have the courage to say that the time for squatters is over.
Commenting on Afghanistan’s failed attempt in the 1920s towards the establishment of a liberal democratic state, Mr Hilaly wrote: ‘King Amanullah tried to propel a mediaeval kingdom into the 20th century’. The ‘ambassador’ fails to state that the young, reformist Afghan King, King Amanollah, was bombed out of Kabul (The Third Anglo-Afghan War) – in the course of a British sponsored ‘Islamic uprising’ against him. The King was declared an ‘infidel’ because he was deemed too progressive and therefore too dangerous to Britain’s ‘imperial interests.’ The following is a token example of Amanollah’s vision for the country:
‘… Everyone who lives in the lands of Afghanistan is an Afghan, irrespective of the religion he professes or the sect or class to which he belongs and there is no distinction among Afghans. The Persian-speaking people and the Afghans are Moslems and there is no difference between them. The Hindus, of course, have different religious beliefs. All Hindus and Moslem students should study in one school. For the period of theology the Hindus should go to their special room and teachers, and the Moslems to their special room and teacher. Separate schools should not be maintained for people of various religion, classes or sects.’
In reaction to the Amritsar atrocities in 1921 the Afghan people demanded the declaration of Jihad by King Amanollah against the British. Britain’s colonial authorities were shaken. ‘General Wilfred Mlison, who had been leading forces against the Bolsheviks from Meshed, in Western Persia, and had recently had to withdraw from Trans-Caspian wished to use those forces in Central Asia by threatening Herat, the Afghan city closest to Persia. This manoeuvre was denied him, but Malison had an excellent intelligence and underground propaganda machine, and at a propitious moment for the British a rumour arose in Kandahar that the Shiahs, – the Muslim sect that was a minority in Eastern Afghanistan but a majority in Herat – had killed a Sunni boy and thrown his body on a garbage heap. The Sunnis began bloody reprisal; eventually no one was sure whether there had been a dead body or not. But Malison’s rumourmongers told the tale of Sunni attacks throughout Herat, where, as it turned out, Amanullah’s Jehad against Britain found little support.’ Furthermore the ‘ambassador’ should realise that it was the 13th Afghan parliament that was driven to exile as a result of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979 was facilitated by Punjabi generals – contrary to Mr Hilaly’s pretention of saving Afghanistan from becoming ‘another soviet republic’ .
He should know that his imperial masters were at the service of Ahmad Shah Abdali and Afghanistan was the ‘only power’ in the sub-continent when the ‘ambassador’s other master, the U.S. was moaning under the tyranny of imperialism. He should realise that every aspect of and everything about ‘Pakistan’ is artificial – no matter how hard he and his Punjabi bureaucrats attempt to hide that fact. Until 1957 this artificial entity was called ‘Pakistan’ under direct British rule. Following that, when Britain wedded the ‘land of the pure’ to the U.S., the name “Islami Jamhuria” was added to ‘Pakistan’. Thereafter, for the remaining fifty odd years (with one or two short exceptions) martial-law became the order of the day. Every stooge dictator saw their survival in submissiveness to their classical and neo-colonial masters through hatching conspiracies against those who were seen as a threat to imperialist interests in the region.
I believe the ‘ambassador’ is well aware that ‘Pakistani generals and most of the army officers’ – who claim to be the guardians of Islam are used to – in imitation of their British masters – having ‘their gin and tonic in the Pindi Club, before going home for lunch, as well as their whisky and soda before dinner… (visiting) the club regularly, and quite often there … boozing.’ The ‘ambassador’, too – having realised the fact that his ‘Pakistan’ is drowning in the blood and tears of millions upon millions of its victims – has, perhaps, opted for taking comfort in his Gin and Tonic, his Whisky and Soda – and singing his swansong.
