Friday, 03 September 2010 19:04

It was an amazing contrast to watch the emotionally charged centenary celebrations of the “Apostle of Peace – Mother Teresa” on one hand; while watching the century’s worst human tragedy inflicted by the mother nature in Pakistan on the other hand. It is gravely solemn as well as instructive to watch this contrasting travesty of the two different religious ideologies practiced on this planet. Both advocate preaching in their own way, “Peace, Love and Brotherhood”.

Mother Teresa was born in Skopje as Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu on Aug. 26, 1910 and was of Albanian origin, in Vau i Dejes, 110 kilometers (nearly 70 miles) north of the capital, Tirana. She arrived in India at the age of 18years and joined as nun to teach.

The figure on the left depicts her in her early days when she had started her work in Calcutta; while on the right shows, “Nuns of Mother Teresa's order, the Missionaries of Charity, and Roman Catholic priests say a prayer beside the Mother's monument in her native town of Skopje, during a ceremony to mark the centennial of her birth, on Thursday, Aug. 26.” (Boris Grdanoski/AP)

In a letter to Superior-General of the Missionaries of Charity Sister Prema, Pope Benedict said: “This year will be for the Church and the world an occasion of joyful gratitude to God for the inestimable gift that Mother Teresa was in her lifetime.”

Pope Benedict said Mother Teresa exemplified the words of Saint John: “Beloved, if God so loves us, we ought also to love one another. If we love one another, God abides in us and his love is perfected in us.”

Expressing the hope that this love would continue to inspire the Missionaries of Charity in their work, the Pope said: “I encourage you to draw constantly from the spirituality and example of Mother Teresa.”

The letter was read out at a special mass held at Mother House, headquarters of the Missionaries of Charity, by Archbishop of Calcutta Rev. Lucas Sirkar.

“Today people from all nations, castes, creeds and walks of life celebrate God's love and light, which radiated on our cold and darkened world through Mother Teresa,” Sister Prema said.

A stream of visitors came in to pay homage to Mother Teresa at Mother House all through the day.

As a young woman, Mother Teresa joined a Roman Catholic religious order that sent her on a mission from her homeland in what is now Macedonia to far-off India. She went on to found the organization Missionaries of Charity to offer palliative care to those cast away and dying on the streets of Calcutta.

She faced criticism over the years from those who said the work did little to address the root causes of grinding poverty.

It is true that Mother travelled thousands of miles without bombs or fatwas or the mission of “Jihad” in her heart but on a mission of helping the needy people in the distant lands, however controversial it might be, but one thing can not be denied that her mission did not call those aliens “Kufr, Kafir, Dhimmis or Munafiqs”. Thereby “Death” to them, in stead she worked to infuse life, even if in a selective way, some say.

Read more: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/08/26/2176950/mother-teresa-remembered-on-centenary.html#ixzz0xomlnhsI

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On the other hand, it is certainly painful to watch their own people in Pakistan are in a worst natural human tragedy but the sensibility of the same people who want to fight and create a universal Islamic state (Darul Islam) could be blunted to such an inhuman level. They will neither provide nor like it being provided.

These people who call themselves the “custodians or guardians or watchdogs” will neither help them nor will let others help them. Do they mean death trap to those who are already in the same trap? I do not understand the philosophy how ever genuine or religious it may sound? I have said earlier, “These people are in need of Bread, not Bombs or Book”. Primarily they are “Humans” and anything else afterwards.

Let us take a glimpse of the sad plight through these pictures of an album of 56 pictures below with details on: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/image.cfm?c_id=2&gal_objectid=10667834&gallery_id=112927#7022511

A Pakistani volunteer carries villagers in his boat who were stranded from their houses after heavy rain fall caused flooding in Nowshera, near Peshawar, Pakistan. Photo / AP

With about 30 million people involved in the misery, half of them are women and children, yet it is neither a national emergency nor has it melted the Islamic militia’s heart. They are using this as an opportunity to defeat the Pakistan Military/ISI in their efforts to islamise the state.

Please follow some of the links for more details on the clandestine activities of the Al Qaeda and the other Islamic fundamental hardline organisations like Talibanis for more details in this grisly state of the tragedy.

Exchange of fire erupts in Pakistan

4:38 PM Saturday Aug 28, 2010

A Pakistani police officer stands next to the burning car of Chief of Frontier Constabulary Sifwat Ghayur after a suicide bombing in Peshawar on August 4. Photo / AP. More on: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10669524

At least 3 gunmen involved in attack in Peshawar, Pakistan

ISLAMABAD, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- At least three gunmen were involved in the firing incident which broke out early Saturday morning near the U.S. consulate in Pakistan's northwest city of Peshawar, reported local media.

Eyewitnesses said that the firing first broke out with a low- intensity blast followed by fierce gunfires.

Latest news reports said that the firing broke out when unknown gunmen tried to force into the secured area nearby the U.S. consulate.

Shortly after the shoot-out took place, the security forces have cleared the area and all the roads leading to the site have been closed down. No traffic or pedestrians are seen on the streets near the area except armed security personnel and military vehicles. Helicopters are seen hovering over the area.

This is a time when these resources should be directed to the relief operations in stead of subversive activities.

More on: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-08/28/c_13466912.htm

Some more links: Gunmen attack Pakistan army buildings near US consulate

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PESHAWAR, Pakistan - Suspected militants attacked army buildings near the US consulate in Pakistan's northwestern regional capital Peshawar on Saturday, police said.

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Yet in another development with the still worsening flood situation, the people are running away for safe havens. More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/27/pakistan-floods-levee-thatta

Pakistan flood victims flee Thatta after another levee is breached

Around 175,000 people, about 70% of the city's population, are believed to have left their homes overnight

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People pack their belongings on ox-drawn carts as they flee the flooding in Thatta, Sindh province, Pakistan. Photograph: Nadeem Khawer/EPA

A second breach occurred in the Soorjani levee in the same region, said Gulab Shah, who was helping relief efforts. "It is beyond control now. Thousands of people are sitting with their cattle and belongings and their lives are in danger. They are not willing to leave."

A UN spokesman, Maurizio Giuliano, said around 1 million people have been displaced in Thatta and Qambar-Shadadkot districts since Wednesday.

The situation in Sindh "is getting from bad to worse", Giuliano said. "We are delivering (aid) faster and faster, but the floods seem determined to outrun our response."

Even in the midst of all this hour, the Islamic militants are planning attacks in far away hitherto unheard otherwise peaceful territories.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/article598158.ece?homepage=true

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Published: August 27, 2010 18:22 IST

Updated: August 27, 2010 19:12 IST Toronto, August 27, 2010

Terrorists were only ‘months away’ from executing attacks in Canada

PTI

AP RCMP investigators remove evidence boxes from a home in Ontario, Canada on Thursday, in connection with the alleged plot to carry out a series of attacks in Canada. The police revealed they have traced the busted plot to Pakistan, Iran and Dubai.

The al-Qaeda linked module comprising three home-grown terrorists, including an Indian-born man, was only “months” away from carrying out a series of attacks in Canada, police said on Friday as they traced the busted plot to Pakistan, Iran and Dubai.

Three suspected terrorists have been arrested over the past two days, two in Ottawa and one in Ontario.

The three, Hiva Mohammad Alizadeh (30), Misbahuddin Ahmed (26), who was reportedly born in India and Khurram Syed Sher (28), a Pakistani have been charged in connection with a plot to make and detonate improvised explosive devices as well as financing terror groups operating in Afghanistan. All are being held in custody.

The members of the busted module were “months” away from exploding bombs on Canadian soil, a senior RCMP official was quoted as saying by Toronto Star.

Same story has been repeated in another link:

http://news.in.msn.com/international/article.aspx?cp-documentid=4312979

27/08/2010

Terrorists were only ‘months away’ from executing attacks in Canada

Canada: The Al-Qaeda linked module comprising three home-grown terrorists, including an Indian-born man, was only “months” away from carrying out a series of attacks in Canada, police said on Friday as they traced the busted plot to Pakistan, Iran and Dubai. Three suspected terrorists have been arrested over the past two days, two in Ottawa and one in Ontario.

In yet another brutal exposure of the realities of the Pakistani establishment, the flood has exposed unashamedly.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10667834

Floods expose civilian-military divide in Pakistan

1:25 PM Saturday Aug 21, 2010

Pakistanis displaced by flooding chase a truck delivering food aid. Photo / AP

Massive flooding in Pakistan has added to criticism of the already-weak civilian government while boosting the image of the military, a potential blow to US and domestic hopes of fostering a strong Pakistani democracy after years of army rule.

Even before the crisis began nearly a month ago, the government faced discontent as power shortages, Islamist militant violence and economic mismanagement plagued the country. A military coup is seen as unlikely, but flooding is so large-scale that some fear political instability in the nuclear-armed nation.

About 20 million people have been affected by the floods across an area bigger than England. Flood victims are far more likely to have seen a Pakistani soldier dropping off relief or picking them up than a member of the civilian government. One state minister's car was pelted with stones after a visit some saw as long overdue, media reports said.

Aircraft only link to flood victims in Pakistan

English.news.cn 2010-08-27 14:43:02

BEIJING, Aug. 27 (Xinhuanet) -- Aircraft are the only lifeline for flood victims in towns and villages cut off by floods, ferrying aid to isolated areas across Pakistan.

Captain Mohammed Shahid and his co-pilot, Major Aamer Masood, along with their crew of three engineers have spent more than six-hundred hours in the air since the crisis began.

They will continue to fly up to seven hours each day as long as flood victims need their help. They are proud to have rescued 16-hundred people and delivered 100-thousand kilograms of food aid. More on: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/video/2010-08/27/c_13465688.htm

In an emotional appeal Prime Minister M. M. Singh said that in this hour of human tragedy in Pakistan, our aid is not to seek any reciprocity and the Indian Armed forces has clearly said to Pakistani counterparts to move their military from their eastern border along India safely to use them for their relief operations in the western side and wherever needed. Yet the bigoted Pakistani Military is still Indian oriented. More on: http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article598387.ece#

The Pakistani Military is not convinced and they remain committed to their anti India posture even in the midst of this worst calamity.

No change seen in Pakistan's view of India threat

9:45am EDT

* Pakistan army seen unlikely to review its stance on India

* No attack from India expected, but capability remains

* Progress on political disputes, Kashmir, needed first

By Myra MacDonald

ISLAMABAD, Aug 27 (Reuters) - The Pakistan army is unlikely to change its assessment of the threat from India despite heavy demands on its troops to provide flood relief while also fighting Islamist militants, a senior security official said.

The Wall Street Journal said this month Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency had decided -- for the first time in the country's history -- that Islamist militants had overtaken India as the greatest threat to national security.

But the security official suggested this was a misinterpretation of the stance of the Pakistan army, which views the threat from militants and India in very different ways, rather than comparing them against each other.

"These are two mutually exclusive threats. The magnitude, the type, is quite different. One is an internal threat which is insidious, difficult to quantify. It is a clear and present danger. This is a very serious threat," he said. "The other is a conventional threat. What has India done, politically and militarily, for this threat to have been reduced?"

Another official said the threat from India had if anything increased into both a conventional and unconventional threat, as it used its presence in Afghanistan to support those fighting against the Pakistani state in its western border regions.

Full story on: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSSGE67Q070

This is the height of in-sensuality and stubbornness. This is what I called the Zia-ul Haqisation of Islam in Pakistan and his trail of “Hate” is followed in his foot steps religiously with full vigour. This natural massive disaster has not moved them an inch.

The niece of the late Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, though she has her own family feud to settle with Zardari but there is some truth in her statement as follows.

AMY GOODMAN: And talk about where the president is. We should say that .... he is your uncle. President Zardari, where is he?

FATIMA BHUTTO: .... But, you know, Zardari embarked on a European-wide tour. He stopped in Dubai, .... As you said, he visited his chateau in France and took photo opportunities with President Sarkozy and with David Cameron.

.... This is also the month that has seen Pakistan’s worst aviation disaster in our history. This is the month where human right groups have estimated that some 300 people, some 300 politicians and political activists, have been murdered in targeted killings in the city of Karachi alone. And Karachi was the place—the scene of carnage just recently, where a member of Parliament was killed, and anywhere between thirty-five to seventy-five people were killed in retributive acts of murder. President Zardari has a history of leaving the country when the going gets tough. A local pundit anecdotally once estimated that Richard Holbrooke has spent more time in Pakistan than the president.

And he has defended his decision, robustly, to leave the country. He has claimed that he has no responsibility at the moment to the people,(sic) that the Senate and the Parliament can take care of the disaster. But, however, this is a man who is not only one of the most venal figures in the country, but this is a man who is facing corruption cases in the billions of dollars before he ascended to the office of the presidency.

AMY GOODMAN: How does he justify being outside of the country at this time of crisis, the worst flooding in a century?

FATIMA BHUTTO: Well, he said to the BBC that, as an extraordinarily munificent Democrat, he has no responsibility, because he has empowered the Senate and the Parliament to deal with the crisis. But, of course, that’s an incredibly hollow justification. The Pakistani—the entire upper echelon of the Pakistani state has traveled to Europe and to Dubai at the expense of the Pakistani people. Zardari has been staying at five-star hotels everywhere he goes. He has been ferried around in private limousines. The security for him and his entourage is privately hired.... There’s no justification for spending that money that Pakistan so desperately needs. And, of course, it’s ridiculous then to say that the president had to go abroad to lobby for funds for the flood victims, when in fact the flood victims could have benefited from the money that the Pakistani Treasury has just spent on this enormously pointless visit.

More details on: http://www.countercurrents.org/bhutto100810.htm

The above link also presents a small amusingly nauseating video clip worth a watch too.

In yet unprecedented move India is to send the aid through the aegis of UNO, not directly to Pakistan. More details below

India may send aid to Pakistan through UN

Hindustan Times - ‎33 minutes ago‎

A view of destruction caused by heavy flooding in Nowshera, Pakistan. The death toll from massive... India is likely to send its aid to flood victims in Pakistan through the United Nations, as sought by the Pakistan government on Saturday.

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Here are some excerpts below from a link with details on: http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-may-send-aid-to-Pakistan-through-UN/Article1-593100.aspx

Indo-Asian News Service

New Delhi/Islamabad, August 28, 2010

First Published: 18:11 IST(28/8/2010)

Last Updated: 22:00 IST(28/8/2010)

India may send aid to Pakistan through UN

India is likely to send its aid to flood victims in Pakistan through the United Nations, as sought by the Pakistan government on Saturday.A view of destruction caused by heavy flooding in Nowshera, Pakistan. The death toll from massive... more photos »

India is likely to send its aid to flood victims in Pakistan through the United Nations, as sought by the Pakistan government on Saturday. "Once Pakistan accepted our offer, then we were working out the modalities. If Pakistan wants us to send it through UN, we have no problem with that," said a senior official in the Indian ministry of external affairs in New Delhi.

Earlier, Pakistani Foreign Office spokesman Abdul Basit told Pakistani news channel, Dunya TV: "We have conveyed to India that they can send their aid to us through UN," noting the UN was the flagship organisation for all foreign aid pouring into the country from different parts of the world for flood-hit people.

India offered an aid of $5 million to assist the rehabilitation of over 20 million displaced people in Pakistan following flash floods that started July 28 and continue to rock the infrastructure across the country. More than 1,600 people have died this month.

Pakistan had earlier shown reluctance to accept the Indian offer.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called up his Pakistani counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani Aug 19 to reiterate the offer. Finally, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi confirmed to media in New York, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly's special session, Aug 20 that Pakistan has decided to accept the offer.

The gesture was widely welcomed. Later the Pakistani prime minister sent five boxes of mangoes to Manmohan Singh to say thanks.

Despite the lapse of more than a week since accepting the offer, Pakistan and India could not agree on the modalities for transporting the aid material. Finally, Pakistan decided against accepting the Indian offer directly Saturday and the same was conveyed to the Indian government.

"We have asked them to hand over this assistance package to the UN organisations who are working in India as well," Abdul Basit said.

He, though, expressed reluctance to give any reason for this diplomatic snub. "We have appreciated the offer but it'll not be appropriate to publicly discuss the reasons involved in deciding to route it through UN," he said.

There are some people whom one can not change however hard it is tried. But it leaves another message, “What do you do when you are confronted with them at your doorsteps”??? The World is facing this difficult decision to make. Both the “People and the Book” remains committed even in the worst situation. Their inter-clan hate and partition ship also surfaced in the distribution of aid in Balochistan with intense lack of human sensuality. At the same time the poors are left out at the expense of the rich.

Baloch people want direct flood relief aid, not via Islamabad: Minister
24 August 2010 17:16:05 by ANI

Quetta (Balochistan) Aug.24 (ANI): Fed up by the federal government’s negligence over the plight of flood affected people in the province, Balochistan’s Communication and Works Minister Mir Sadiq Umrani has urged donor countries to give funds ‘directly to the people of the province and not via Islamabad.’

More at : Baloch people want direct flood relief aid, not via Islamabad: Minister http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/south-asia/baloch-people-want-direct-flood-relief-aid-not-via-islamabad-minister_100417372.html#ixzz0xvj2LvxA

Lest anyone underestimate the scale of the disaster, all four of Pakistan's wars with India combined did not cause such damage. Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/Disaster+beyond+water/3392799/story.html#ixzz0xvSMscIp

In the EDITORIAL: Losing faith in humanity; Daily Times has warned against the further attacks by the Pakistani Talibanis saying that the US aid is unacceptable to them. More on: http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2010%5C08%5C28%5Cstory_28-8-2010_pg3_1

That is why, “I wonder, is Humanity incredulously hijacked by a few bands of fanatics and the whole world civilisation, might, wisdom, conscience has been paralysed to an absolute insane inactivity and made to watch this macabre dance music soiree helplessly?”

(Dr. O. P. Sudrania is a senior retired teacher in surgery and a medico-legal counsellor; now also engaged in research of socio-political analytical science as a part of service to humanity.)

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Friday, 03 September 2010 19:04

In Part I of this series earlier, I had touched upon the basic considerations of Religions as a social force to organise the herds of human beings as the universe evolved in the course of progression of civilisation.

The basic needs of all creatures, small and large, remain the same e.g. hunger, sleep, defecation, urination, sexual urge and procreation and etc. Once these basic set of needs or desires are fulfilled, that the species turn to some other activities. Religion was devised one such force to unite them to live in harmony and peace.

However religion may not have been an enough sacrosanct force to keep them together on long term fundamental ingredients. The word sacrosanct comes from the phrase sacer esto (Latin: "let him be accursed") and reflects that violation of a tribune's sacrosanctity was not only a secular offense, but a religious offense as well. Therefore it required another force to maintain them united and stay centripetally attuned.

Therefore another social force of “Motivation” was required. Motivation involves mental faculty which by priori includes some other faculties of mind like behavior, emotions and etc. In the pictures above, I have tried to include two herds but involving two diverse species.

One we call them human beings and the other we call them sheeps. But there is a vast difference in the apparent behavior. In the above two pictures one involving the “Human Beings” and looking at them, it is tempting to conclude that this is a highly emotive and dissatisfied unruly violent uncontrolled mob ready to induce any unpleasant situation.

Whereas in the other figure involving the sheeps; it is a huge size of herd going peacefully behind the shepherds men quietly. But there is another controlling agent walking with them, the herd dog in the front. And I am sure there would be one more herd dog somewhere behind, well trained to control this kind of herd.

With the “Motivation” yet another disciplining force of “deterrence” is required. Some details can be perused by the more inquisitive at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation http://www.giac.org/resources/whitepaper/operations/207.php

Contention -

My whole idea of putting these two figures together is to show that the humans are no better than a herd of sheeps or cattle if left without a check or deterrent force.

It has its own implications which can be far more disastrous. This also brings me to the sequential order of words of my caption where I have put the word “Motivation” flanked by “Religion” on one side and followed by “Terror” on the other side. Apparently it appears a daft mixture of the selection of words but they are very much close to each other. Religion requires an “Emotive Behavior” again dependent upon the “Motivation Force” as does the “Terrorism”.

“Religion and Terror” both are highly dependent upon the “Motivation Force” in the long run to succeed. It is further elaborated by a contemporary saint in the following paragraph on “Me” and “Mine” instinct:

“Desire and bondage to the objects desired and the plans to secure them are attributes of the jeevis (individualized selves), not of the Self or atma resident in the body. The sense of “me” and “mine” and the emotions of lust and anger originate in the body-mind complex. Only when this complex is conquered and outgrown can true virtue emanate and manifest. The sense of “doer” and “enjoyer”, of being an agent, might appear to affect the Atma, but they are not part of the genuine nature of the Atma. Things get mirrored and produce images, but the mirror is not tarnished or even affected thereby. It remains as clear as it was. Every jeevi has these as genuine, basic attributes: purity, serenity, and joy. Every individual is ebullient with these qualities.”

It has its practical implications that have been used by the elite vampires for their covert operations by keeping the gullible masses of human beings highly charged to behave like the wild beasts and sacrifice their life without a second thought.

The Motivating Forces –

These can be various types from simple small exemplary personal behaviour to the cash, kind or some other far fetching imaginary emotional techniques. The following pyramid shows some taxonomical aspects:

More details can be viewed at: http://www.jpprufino.com/?p=73 as well as on -

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivation

This is another tree of simple examples for motivation. More can be perused at: http://positivesharing.com/2006/12/why-motivation-by-pizza-doesnt-work/

Practical implications -

From the above tree it is clear that the internal force of “I really want to write this report (a positive internal motivation force)” works as opposed to the external force of “Write this report or you are fired” is the strategy of these Islamic marauders.

This also leads one to set the goals by priori and work on them like someone wants to earn money, others want to be an academician or a teacher, while yet others want to become a politician or a scientist and so on. Yet others are involved in devastatingly clandestine destructive activities to satisfy their kingly dreams of ruling and subjugating the society for their fulfillment of “Ego”.

The implications are obvious and it has been utilised incessantly from the times immemorial in the various fields, like from the simple teaching the young students to the more sinister live human bombs. All these require a highly motivational force. Let us now consider them one by one. Starting with the useful common aspects to the more complex sinister game plans directed on both short and long term basis to fulfil their needs of massive human subjugation.

Yet it must be a dynamic process of continual assessment and up gradation from time to time with a process of research and developments.

(1) There are simple techniques employed by the schools and teachers to motivate the students for better class attendance to produce better results in the examinations, e. g. Some rewards in the shape of a merit scholarship, class monitor promotion, award of distinctions, and some similar techniques which are often effective to attract the students.

There can be no substitution of a good teacher himself by inspiring teachings to keep the students focused to better attention and attendance.

The mediocre teacher tells.  The good teacher explains.  The superior teacher demonstrates.  The great teacher inspires.  ~William Arthur Ward

A teacher's purpose is not to create students in his own image, but to develop students who can create their own image, I tend to aim at this very quality to bring out from them.

(2) Some techniques employed for marketing the products should involve a marketing strategy centered on the key concept that customer satisfaction is the main goal. Marketing strategy is a method of focusing an organization's energies and resources on a course of action which can lead to increased sales and dominance of a targeted market niche. A marketing strategy combines product development, promotion, distribution, pricing, relationship management and other elements; identifies the firm's marketing goals, and explains how they will be achieved, ideally within a stated timeframe. More details can be perused at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marketing_strategy

(3) There are a lot of other fields like employees, students, political workers, public satisfaction, and so on. But we will concentrate on the theme of its relevance to the mass unrest and the prevailing menace of the gigantic problems of the fundamental terrorism and extremism.

(4) This may be due to inter-state disputes of territory or tax laws or some other matters of distribution of resources. There are certain other loco-regional matters e.g. naxalite and Maoist problems in India, that are internal matters but this may be exploited by the other external inimical forces by tying in with them as ISI is bent upon reviving the Sikh insurgency in India. But such ethnic issues are widespread in a lot of countries.

While yet others are the matters relating to the “Religious Extremism” that has assumed the wider and perennial ramifications of international dimension. It is this one that is the issue of our main concern and I shall try to elaborate it in a little more detail.

(5) Let us take the example of the current floods in Pakistan. It is reckoned to be the largest human tragedy caused by a natural disaster in the last one century where the 25% of the land area of Pakistan has been badly affected.

It is difficult to gauge the exact number of people affected because these are the areas where the civil rule of Pakistan Government is practically non existent. All these figures one hear are mostly assumptions bereft of any authentic data. Yet a people figuring about 20 million, which makes it just about a less than one fifth of the whole of Pakistani population is quite alarming.

The whole world is concerned and UN had called for a concerted global effort to fund the bill of reparing the damage to the tune of about $460 millions. Whereas the other sources estimate the amount to the tune of $1.6 billion and President Zardari said that it will take Pakistan to recover years to normalcy. Although his call of “normalcy” may be arguable as evidenced by the history of last 63 years of existence of Pakistan. Still it is not a “National Emergency”. Perhaps they are waiting for the rest of country to drown before declaring a state of “National Emergency”.

(6) Iraq unrest – We know how there were attacks on the Shia mosques both in Iraq and Pakistan recently carried out by these hardliners Sunni Wahhabi/Salafi bands of Al Qaeda. They also vow to keep carrying out such attacks more till the American forces finally leave in 2011.

Only yesterday there was a bomb blast in Iraq killing about 62 people.

(7) Afghanistan unrest – It is also known that these hardline Islamic radical groups again keep attacking the international forces as well as targeting the Indian bases and relief workers there.

(8) Current Pakistan flood relief measures – Tehreek-e Taliban Pakistan has vowed to scuttle the flood relief measures carried out by these foreign missions to help their own brothers and sisters in dire state of perilous emergency. More at: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/2010/08/26/2010-08-26_taliban_wage_threats_against_aid_workers_in_pakistan_as_flood_damage_spreads_acr.html

The other side of the scenario is that Pakistani leaders like President Zardari and Prime Minister Yousuf Jilani warns that this flood calamity in Pakistan may be used as an opportunity by these fundamentalist rogue organisations based in the heartland of Pakistan itself to “Islamise” the Pakistani society.

"According to information available to the US government, Tehrik-e Taliban plans to conduct attacks against foreigners participating in the ongoing flood relief operations in Pakistan," the official told the BBC on condition of anonymity.

"Tehrik-e Taliban also may be making plans to attack federal and provincial ministers in Islamabad."

The BBC's James Reynolds, in Washington, says this marks the first time that the US has specifically warned about attacks in connection to the floods in Pakistan.

It is not yet clear what effect this warning will have on US involvement in relief efforts in Pakistan, our correspondent adds.” Read more on: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11092868

Therefore it has become a “catch twenty-two” situation and it exposes the true face of the danger of the “Islamic Ideology” as practiced today immaterial of the “Human” elements or aspects behind it when it occurs in the Islamic countries. But they are quick to resort to the propaganda war when it happens in the non Muslim countries like US, Europe or in India.

My million dollar question is an open challenge to the larger Muslim community to answer or confront these “Islamic Ideologues” who are ready to kill or maim the followers of their own religion in stead of coming out with some kind of relief measures they require urgently. Forget that they are adherents of “Islam” for the time being. They are being labelled as a “Human Tragedy”. Does the word “Human” not figure in the “Holy Book” anywhere? This is very sickening to observe. Does this call for sympathy or reprehensions, I do not know?

It is these practical aspects of the “Islam in Action” that must be a cause for concern to the rest of the world civility. This brings me to another disturbing observation the King of Saudi Arabia when he called for a limitation of authority on the clerics to order “Fatwa”. My question is, “Why Fatwa at all in the first place”? Does it make the “Islam a more peaceful”?

All these questions must be answered by the so called moderate or peace preaching Mullahs round the globe, not just in the isolated pockets of the Middle East countries alone.

We can trace the whole issue in the majority of Muslim countries. Perhaps as expressed by the “Himalayan Research and Cultural Foundation” group in their paper available at: http://ikashmir.net/afghanistan/doc/afghanistan.pdf

Here are some excerpts:

“Because of her political vulnerabilities, Benazir failed to establish a strong grip over her foreign policy and tenuous parliamentary control by Bhutto during her twenty month tenure in office (December 1988-August 1990) did not lead to any substantial policy changes largely because the army and the ISI-resisted any diminution of power.

Nawaz Sharif who followed Benazir also wanted to personally run Islamabad's Afghan policy. But under Hamid Gul and Asad Durrani, the ISI ran the Afghan policy independent of the government in Islamabad and looked to the Afghan struggle as merely a stepping stone in the larger battle for Islamic resurgence.”

“That Islamabad's Afghan policy largely based on wishful assumption of Pan-Islamism has been blown to shreds now stands vindicated.”

Well over 5 million Afghans have fled their country since the 1979 Soviet invasion. These refugees have settled in India (4,700) and Iran (5,60,000) but the majority (estimated at up to 3.5 million) have settled in Pakistan, most living in 340 settlement camps along the Afghan-Pakistan border.”

“Peshawar has become the largest Afghan enclave outside Kabul while the refugee population also grew in cities such as Islamabad, Quetta and

Karachi.” This has a serious bearing on the recent communal war in Karachi following the one leader of MQM recently where the two Sunni factions were involved but one represented the “Biharis” while the other represented the Pakhtun tribe who are mostly based in NWFPs in Pakistan.

“Lawlessness, Kalashnikov and drug culture that have overtaken the socio-economic spheres of Pakistani life are attributed to the arrival of Afghan refugees.”

“Among the problems facing Pakistan is the Afghan characteristic of ghairat which refugees have and which can be interpreted as bravery or zeal expressed in the pursuit of one's objectives or self-identity.” This is a culture which is intrinsic to the Afghan people which they carry with them wherever they migrate.

“There have been various instances where authorities have been denied entrance into refugee houses and disputes have occurred where Afghans have felt that the government had out stepped into bounds in the administration and control of refugee settlement.”

“A far more serious situation is developing in Baluchistan where the Baluch-Pakhtun divide is assuming a dangerous dimension. Sind has already been in ferment for a long time. The Pashtun nationalism seems to have re-emerged from the shadow of the Islamic jehad that was the main motivating factor to dislodge the "Godless regime".

“Many known drug lords and narcotics traffickers sit in the National Assembly of N.W.F.P., Punjab and Baluchistan. In Sind the Assembly is full of Patharidars land lords who protect bandit gangs involved in kidnapping, narcotics and illegal weapons.”

“According to the government of Pakistan there are at least 1.2 million heroin addicts in Pakistan. By far the largest proportion of heroin that moves into or through Pakistan 50-55 metric tonne of 70 metric tonnes (1991) is consumed within the country. It is clear that heroin has touched all parts of Pakistani society.”

“They have established personal contacts with the key corridors of power and a base from which they promote their business interests. The best example of this is Zia-ul-Haq who did have an entourage who used their position to promote criminal interests including narcotics. Two of his pilots used presidential aircraft to smuggle heroin - one to the US during a state visit. Zia's banker and chief financial adviser, Hamid Hasnain was arrested in 1985 as part of a ring smuggling heroin to Europe through Norway zonal head of Habib Bank.”

“In Jhang city, both the Shia based Tehrik-i-Nafazil; iqh-i-affaria (TNFI) and the militant Sunni Anjuman-i-Sipah-Sabah (ASS) reportedly killed each other over the control of the local heroin trade. Narcotics gangs are also operating in the industrial city of Faisalabad.”

“The city has virtually been taken over by criminal gangs, shielded by powerful politicians connected to the late Jam Sadiq, Sindh Chief Minister (1990-92) and Irfannullah Marwat (a Pakhtun from the N.W.F.P.) son-in-law of Ghulam Ishaq Khan.”

“The Kashmir insurgency is said to be partly funded by heroin. The stronger Pro-Pakistan group, the Hizbul Mujahideen is backed by the ISI, the Jammat-i-Islami of Pakistan and the Hezb-i-Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar.”

“This composite motivation made it possible for the mutually exclusive groups to fight as one under the overall control and guidance of ISI. President Zia's total support to the Mujahideen was no secret to anyone. He had risked a great deal in confronting the Soviet Union, albeit with US support, but came out successful.”

“Baladitya adds: All cadets on training in various military establishments in Pakistan are given an intensive course of indoctrination.

The sum and substance of this indoctrination consists in instilling the conviction that Islam is superior to all other religions, that Muslims by consequence are superior to all others and are destined to rule over the world, that it is the duty of every Muslim to spread the sway of Islam, that a part of this duty is to 'liberate' Muslims from infidel rule everywhere, that cowardly Hindus can never win a battle against Islamic forces, and that glory of Islam and its flag has to be restored on this 'sub- continent'.

And, also: "The only way this revenge can be sought is through first cutting India down to size by engineering secession of various areas, and then to administer a military coup-de-grace. It is at this particular point that the aims of the Pakistani military establishment coincide with those of Jamaat-e-Islami and Muslim Brotherhood".

“The guiding principle behind this calculation is the fundamental military wisdom which says that if irregulars do not lose decisively, they win, and, if the regulars do not win decisively, they lose. This is the substratum of plan 'K-2'.”

“Even the memory, if it survives at all, of the oppression during the Afghan rule in Kashmir in the past, will not work against them; for, according to strict Islamic doctrines, even a tyrannical Muslim regime is always preferable to infidel rule, however benign, and, ruling by force was legitimised six hundred years ago by the Chief Qazi of the Mamelukes in Cairo.”

Lastly let us examine the following link from Pakistan: http://centralasiaonline.com/cocoon/caii/xhtml/en_GB/features/caii/features/pakistan/2010/08/25/feature-02

Karachi residents demand de-weaponisation

By Zia Ur Rehman
For CentralAsiaOnline.com
2010-08-25

KARACHI – As civil society in Karachi is urging the government to de-weaponise the city, the government is devising a strategy for making the whole country gun-free, Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik has hinted.

Students from Karachi schools demonstrate for de-weaponisation of the city with the catchphrase of replacing arms with pens. An NGO, the National Social Forum, organised the demonstration. [Zia Ur Rehman]

My whole intention is to posit the realities of religious based far reaching implications of this highly “Motivated” ideology ready to engulf the entire World in an “Apocalyptic Armageddon”. Can it be ignored, “Whether in South Asia or the Middle East or the Europe or North Western Hemisphere? The whole issue of its “Motivation” has to be read in the words of the Pakistani youth Faisal Shahzad convicted in the fizzled bomb scare in Times Square.

These people do not need “Bombs or Books” but “Bread”.

To conclude my point on “Motivation as a Force”, please look at the following pictures where how a “predator” became a saviour but the children of “Human” being are behaving like “Cannibals” where in the flesh of a black man is sold in the picture openly.

Please peruse the full story of how Rome was founded in 753 BC by Romulus and Remus, who were raised by a she-wolf at:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome

http://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-352231.0.html

(Dr. O. P. Sudrania is a senior retired teacher in surgery and a medico-legal counsellor; now also engaged in research of socio-political analytical science as a part of service to humanity.)

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Practical Implications

Dr. O. P. Sudrania

I have no doubt that the Kashmir Valley today as it stands has been reduced to the control of the few Pakistani orchestrated and masterminded deadly fanatic morons. After the Zia-ul Haq regime in Pakistan and his highly ultra-religious violent Islamic ideology of total elimination of all kinds of dissension, the radicalisation of Muslim society underwent a sea change both in Pakistan, Kashmir, India as well as the rest of the world. President Zia went one step even further than the Saudi brand of Wahhabi/Salafi Sunni Islam. He even barred the Ahmadi Muslims by law from the mainstream Muslim society with resultant attacks on the two Ahmadi Mosques on May 2010.

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I call it Zia-ul Haqisation of Islam. He also helped to organise the various groups of Islamic ideology under one eponym, “Muttahida Jihad Council or United Jihad Council or just UJC”. Whenever India wanted to involve Pakistan for any serious dialogue, these rogues agitate and motivate the masses in Pakistan to such an extent that all the talks become futile. As happened with the Foreign Minister talks in Delhi in February 2010 and the Foreign Minister level talks on 15 July 2010.

This is the sequence of Pakistani mentality of injecting the “Religious dose to motivate the mujahideens who are their young recruits from most of the poor families”. Earlier it used to be from the central and southern parts of Punjab, Pakistan but now it has slowly spread to most of the country as a whole. Jamaat-e Islami Pakistan and the Deobandi groups of Sunni Islamic ideology are now cooperating with the conglomerate of 16-17 hardcore Islamic parties forming the amalgamation of UJC. Recently banned Ilyas Kashmiri is one of the ilks of these bands.

Now the situation has gone from bad to worst to the point that these people in valley do not care for their initial promoters. Here is a version as Manan Kumar described, “On July 24, Kashmir witnessed what may become a defining event in the state’s history”. Kashmiri youth burnt the effigy of United Jihad Council and Hizb-ul-Mujahideen chief Syed Salahuddin in Sopore town, and copies of his statement in Srinagar.

A day earlier, the PoK-based “respected” leader had given a call to go slow on shutdown (hartaal) to allow people to buy essentials and let children study.

“Who is he to tell us this? Sitting in PoK, eating chicken supplied by Pakistani agencies, how can he feel our pain, anger and helplessness? We will not slow down our movement for azadi even if Hurriyat leader Syed Ali Shah Geelani asks. It is now or never,” retorts Abdul Bhat. He was a friend of Abrar Ahmed Khan, the 17-year-old from Maisuma who was killed in police firing on July 6.”

A popular one-liner explains the huge disconnect between Omar and the public. “Haqumat Masarrat Alam ki, Nayab tehsildari Omar Abdullah ki” (Kashmir is ruled by Masarat Alam, Omar Abdullah is just a petty village official).

After Hurriyat hardliner S A S Geelani was put under arrest, Tehreek-e-Hurriyat’s Masarat Alam, an uneducated fundamentalist, calls most of the shots in Srinagar though he is on the run. Despite being pursued vigorously by the agencies, Alam has managed to spread his message of hartaals (strikes) through an extensive network of sympathisers. His recent call exhorting public to launch a civil disobedience movement by not paying taxes and asking security forces to Quit Kashmir has given the government a fresh migraine. Full article: http://expressbuzz.com/magazine/wounded-sons-of-the-valley/193902.html

Now there were the Independence Day celebrations in Srinagar on Sunday, 15^th August, 2010. Soon after Chief Minister Omar Abdullah unfurled the Flag, one suspended police constable Abdul Ahad Jan (Figures at End) was in the high-security gallery of top officials and ministers when he hurled a shoe at Chief Minister Omar Abdullah in the highly guarded soccer Bakshi Stadium that was the venue for Sunday's ceremony in Srinagar, the region's main city. More story with a video clip at: http://www.weeksupdate.com/2010/08/abdul-ahad-jan-policeman-throws-shoe-at.html

He also threw a black flag toward Abdullah while shouting, "We want freedom." Neither item hit Abdullah.

Boston Globe stated and it continued, “Afterward, thousands of people shouted pro-independence slogans in a show of support outside Jan's house in his native village. They showered flowers on Jan's wife and young men played musical instruments, local newspapers reported Monday.”

Separatists say they will continue protesting during the current Muslim fasting month of Ramadan. Full story on: http://www.boston.com/news/world/asia/articles/2010/08/16/15_police_suspended_for_security_breach_in_kashmir/

This story has attracted a wide coverage in both national and international media making the ignoramus a “Hero”. Hundreds of print as well as electronic media has covered it. Undoubtedly there are as always stories pro and against factions.

The Muslim groups in Kashmir has hailed him by thronging his house in thousands and shouting slogans for whatever their grievances that are now well known and fomented by the ISI sponsored Islamic groups under the banner of United Jihad Council headed by the banned terrorist Syed Salahuddin who operates with impunity from his den in Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK).

This year they have not stopped even during the “Holy month of Ramadan” in which the Muslims carry out fast and charities to their weak and neighbours. This is the Islamic charity to India for her benevolence this Ramadan. In fact the agitators have now forsaken their initial mentors in Pakistan also.

“Jan’s family was not sorry because he had thrown a shoe at the chief minister. They were proud. “He did the right thing by hurling a shoe at him [Omar], given the situation in Kashmir. We have no other weapon we can hurl at the chief minister,” Jan’s nephew Gulzar Ahmad said. Jan’s family believes he had a strong reason to do whatever he did.” As Published: Monday, Aug 16, 2010, 0:50 IST, By Ishfaq-ul-Hassan | Agency: DNA. Full story on: http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_shoe-attack-abdul-ahad-jan-becomes-a-hero-in-kashmir_1423908

“For once, a festive ambience had replaced the grim silence of Ajas, Bandipora, on Sunday as news travelled that local man Abdul Ahad Jan (ASI) had flung shoe at Chief Minister Omar Abdullah during the August 15 function in Srinagar.” This has been reported by the Kashmiri media needing no qualification to mention. Full story can be acced at: http://www.risingkashmir.com/news/crowd-swarms-at-ahad-jan%E2%80%99s-house-294.aspx

“The suspended head constable was earlier arrested in a robbery case registered at the Shergarhi police station in Srinagar in 2008. He has been under psychiatric treatment in psychiatric hospital, as well as with private doctors, the police said.

However, Jan’s nephew, Gulzar Ahmad rejected the police claims as “propaganda” that he is mentally unsound and said, "It was right on his part to throw a shoe in response to what is happening in Kashmir.” More on: http://www.kashmirdispatch.com/ShowStory.asp?NewsID=2030&CategoryID=29

While all this goes on and the world media, I say it with my full sense of respect and dignity to them, remain oblivious of the stark realities of the instability caused by the ISI mediated Islamic agendas. S A S Jeelani is the most and the hardest Muslim ally on the pay roll of ISI. The phone messages intercepted on 9^th July 2010 in Kashmir in which Jeelani’s one aide was clearly heard and talking with the aide of Syed Salahuddin on the respective sides of the LoC in Kashmir. Please read more on this with the caption, “Pakistani Obsession on Kashmir Exposed with Clear Links to SAS Geelani and Syed Salahuddin” on link: http://www.international.to/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=351:pakistani-obsession-on-kashmir-exposed-with-clear-links-to-sas-geelani-and-syed-salahuddin&catid=50:dr-om-prakash-sudrania&Itemid=78

From an excerpt in above link, “The home ministry claims that in clear signs of cross-LoC linkages to the latest trouble in Kashmir, talks intercepted by security agencies reveal how a Hizbul Mujahideen activist based in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK) enquires from a local contact about the status of protests and government response

The undated transcripts of the conversation released today (9^th July 2010) are alleged to be about a person in Shopian in South Kashmir informing Abdul Inquilabi in PoK about protests, curfew and troop movement into Srinagar.” It clearly establishes direct interference by the Pakistan based Islamist non state players Pakistan call them shamelessly.

Same Pakistani underdog SAS Geelani in Srinagar issues the calendars of his loyalties to his masters in a treasonable attempt to keep the valley on the constant unrest.

“Srinagar, August 15: The Hurriyat Conference (G) led by Syed Ali Geelani Saturday issued a 9-day-long protest calendar as a part of conglomerate's 'Quit Kashmir' campaign. In a statement issued here, party general secretary Masarat Alam urged people to hold a complete strike on Monday (August 16).” The said calendar can be perused at the site with a caption, “Hurriyat (G) issues new protest calendar”: http://www.kashmirdispatch.com/ShowStory.asp?NewsID=2021&CategoryID=29

It leaves no doubt in anybody’s mind that the Muslim card started by the most infamous Pakistani President Zia-ul Haq in 1980s and onwards tutored through ISI has ultimately started showing its colour.

I am not worried for Kashmir. I see often young Muslim boys and some senior Muslim gentries with their obvious religious affiliations to Pakistan as a Muslim. Unfortunately the powerful Western media are also towing the same line to instigate these Muslim fanatics. There was an article in NYT also where it was a totally misleading information, very unfortunate. Please peruse the link: http://community.nytimes.com/comments/www.nytimes.com/2010/08/13/world/asia/13kashmir.html?permid=181#comment181

There are more on the same lines. With Saudi Arabia’s Petro-dollars, the Western world is not left out either. US is her biggest and staunchest ally. That is why Osama’s fury is against both US as well as Saudi Arabia. He considers them both infidels.

Now let us get to another perspective where the Muslims can not react in their offensive style due to inferior militancy capability, what happens then.

Last year during the middle east and Europe visit of Obama, he first stopped in Riyadh before visiting Cairo and Germany. There were interesting reactions seen by the people of Islamist mentality both in the Muslim Society as well as the banned Islamic terrorist organisations.

Some reactions when he was in Saudi Arabia shows, “The attention surrounding Obama's address and his first visit to Saudi Arabia was underscored Wednesday by a pair of messages from Osama bin Laden and his Egyptian deputy, Ayman al-Zawahiri.

Shortly after Obama landed here, the Arab satellite network al-Jazeera aired an audiotape of bin Laden sharply criticizing U.S. policy in Pakistan and accusing Obama of planting seeds for "revenge and hatred" in the Muslim world. The message said Obama is following President George W. Bush's policy of "antagonizing Muslims," and bin Laden warned Americans of "consequences" to come. U.S. officials did not dispute the tape's authenticity even though bin Laden, once a Saudi citizen, has not been seen for years.

On this the White House reacted, "I think Americans have seen these types of threats before," said Gibbs, who called it "an effort to upstage and to try to become a part of a story seeking a different way." Full story can be read at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/03/AR2009060300943.html?sid=ST2009060204066

In another visit to Cairo next day, Howard Schneider reported in Washington Post Foreign Service, Wednesday, June 3, 2009 under the caption, “Obama to Speak at Campus Where Political Freedoms Are Few”.

He went on saying, “But the more common sights for students and faculty at the school are trucks packed with riot police outside the university gates and an enveloping security presence on campus. Student political groups are prohibited. The university's policy on artistic and cultural events, according to its Web site, is "protecting students from all sorts of destructive ideas and corrupt thoughts."

Faculty deans are chosen by the administration, rather than elected by professors, "as a way to combat Islamist influence on campus," according to the State Department's latest human rights report. Students who use the Internet as an outlet for their political or social views are on notice: One Cairo University student blogger was jailed for two months last summer for "public agitation," and another was kicked out of university housing for criticizing the government.”

Egypt is a staunch Islamic country which has produced leaders like Al Zawahiri, the second man in Al Qaeda after Osama bin Laden, yet the students do not dare behave as they want unlike Kashmir (IHK). “At Cairo University, where academic freedom is trumped by the government's security concerns, some students and faculty members are skeptical.” Full story can be accessed at: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/02/AR2009060203697_pf.html

The only time when Hosni Mubarak had some opposition was after the 2005 elections when Muslim Brotherhood got some major number of seats. That period saw a lot of Islamic fundamentalism grow. But that was subsequently crushed by President Mubarak with strict control. Regarding the rules of politics, there are strict controls.

“But the government has drawn the line at opposition activism and organizing, particularly following the Muslim Brotherhood's strong showing in the 2005 parliamentary vote and the sudden appearance of a 60,000-member Facebook group in support of an April 2008 general strike.

Security agencies in Egypt "do not know what to do with connectivity" -- the ability of bloggers, Twitterers and Facebook users to share information and quickly assemble a crowd, said Hisham Kassem, a publisher and human rights activist.

The 2005 election was the first in which Mubarak faced opposition. His opponent, Ayman Nour, who officially received 8 percent of the vote, was jailed after the election, then released this past February as an apparent goodwill gesture toward the Obama administration. Nour, the country's most prominent opposition figure, said he has been invited by U.S. officials to Obama's speech.

But Muslim Brotherhood officials complain of ongoing arrests, police violence and a virtual media blackout of their opposition faction in parliament. And the rules of Egyptian politics are becoming stricter under recent constitutional amendments that, for example, weaken judicial oversight of elections and give the president more power to dissolve parliament, according to an analysis prepared by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

Opposition leaders, including Nour's El Ghad party, the Muslim Brotherhood and human rights groups, all agree on one point: Regardless of what Obama says, little will change politically in Egypt until the post-Mubarak era. The president, 81, has no publicly declared successor. Regardless of who takes over, the assumption among local activists and analysts is that plans already are in place to manage the transition with tight security and minimal disruption.

"We are not expecting complete and radical change while Mubarak is alive," Bahgat said. "You can say it is a country in waiting."

I think Mr Man Mohan Singh should have picked up threads during his last visit to Sharm-el Sheikh in Egypt both to take his hard lessons as well as the political tips to deal with the Kashmir and Pakistan sponsored insurgency. He actually committed blunder there by a pusillanimous approach.

Unfortunately this is the not the language they understand. It is for that matter only the Wahhabi Sunni brand of Islam took roots from Saudi Arabia to control the brute tribal feudal mentality of these people. This has percolated through the ages in the minds and blood of most of the Muslim community. Those who do not support their ideology are quickly eliminated. This led to ‘Sword’ initially but as the science of warfare developped further, it has replaced it with guns, bombs and weapons of mass destruction.

It further alienated the Muslims globally due to their unrelenting ferocious and violent behaviour on trivial grounds. That is why the Islamic countries can not run on any other political ideology than the Sharia. It prescribes tit for tat type of strict punitive punishment with no mercy. That is what ensures no opposition and the emergence of Fanatic radical elements.

This may be suitable for the followers of Islam as it is enforced with iron hand, but the modern world society emerging with a new order is not ready for accepting such a brutal rule.

This poses a serious ethical dilemma between the strict Islamic order Vis a Vis the modern democratic institutions. But the point is, “The democracy of free speech and equal rights” should not be unlimited.

The Indian Polity has to rise above the false paranoia of spurious praise from some vested parties of India being a ‘World’s largest democracy’. If it fails the majority people to serve its basic fundamental needs of “food, cloth and a roof” then the system must be reassessed before the very opponents start or aim to destabilise the nation.

Over dependence on alien societies which are known opponents with their personal and vested interests must be approached very carefully. The biggest enemy of any nation is corruption and loose internal administration. Both must be controlled to the advantage of the nation. It should not leave any areas where there are no administrative controls. This leaves a serious lacuna for the subversive elements. It must be plugged by means as required. The nation must <!-- @page { margin: 2cm } P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm } -->

be the supreme consideration. India has to start its journey from mile zero despite its boasting more than six decades of self rule.

There has been further deterioration and imposition of curfew in several parts of Kashmir since this article was written a few days earlier.

Jan who hails from Ajas in north Kashmir's Bandipora district hurled his brown leather shoe at Abdullah

Policeman carry Abdul Ahad Jan on a stretcher at SKIMS hospital on August 16, 2010. Jan was admitted to hospital last night after his condition deteriorated during police custody.

(Dr. O. P. Sudrania is a senior retired teacher in surgery and a medico-legal counsellor; now also engaged in research of socio-political analytical science as a part of service to humanity.)

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Flood of Politics amidst Flood Fury in Pakistan

Pakistan has faced an unprecedented fury of flood since 29^th July 2010 starting with its NWFPs and engulfing the western half of the country affecting the 20 million people as per the estimates. 3 million people have been rendered homeless.

Indian Foreign Minister Mr S M Krishna, “After writing to his Pakistani counterpart last week condoling deaths in the floods, External Affairs Minister S M Krishna called up S M Qureshi on Friday and offered aid of US $5 million in "this hour of need".

"In a telephone conversation, Krishna conveyed to Qureshi, this gesture of solidarity with the people of Pakistan, in their hour of need," it said.
Read more at: http://www.ndtv.com/article/india/krishna-calls-up-qureshi-offers-5-million-aid-for-pak-floods-44300?cp

However it needed US to prod Pakistan to accept it. NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD: It took a week and a pointed "push" by Washington for Pakistan to finally see sense and accept India's flood-relief assistance.

Reeling under its worst-ever humanitarian crisis, Pakistan responded to an Indian offer of assistance with visible reluctance.

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh reiterated the Indian offer to his counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday, even offering to increase assistance. The US state department spokesperson on Thursday actually said Washington "expected" Pakistan to accept the assistance, which swung Islamabad into action.
Read more: Pak accepts Indian aid after US prod - Pakistan - World - The Times of India http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/Pak-accepts-Indian-aid-after-US-prod/articleshow/6369785.cms#ixzz0xH8p0NZk

“Asserting that there is no role for politics in disaster response, the Obama administration has said it expects Pakistan to accept the $ 5 million aid offer from India for its flood relief work.

"In terms of responding to a disaster, politics should play no role. You have a country (India) that's willing to help (Pakistan), and we expect that Pakistan will accept," State Department spokesman P J Crowley said. More on: http://news.rediff.com/report/2010/aug/19/us-urges-pakistan-to-accept-indian-flood-aid.htm

India offered on 13 August US$5 million for provision of relief material for the victims of the massive floods.. Also, there are nearly 400 Indian doctors, who are waiting for the Pakistan government's nod for visas to help flood victims. India has supplied first consignment of 25 truck-loads of Indian potato to Pakistan. More: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Pakistan_floods

The human tragedy unfolding in Pakistan right now demands our full attention.

Flooding there has already stranded 20 million people, more than 10 percent of the population. A fifth of the nation is underwater. More than 3.5 million children are in imminent danger of contracting cholera and acute diarrhea; millions more are in danger of starving if they don't get help soon. More than 1,500 have already been killed by the floods.

This is a human disaster.

It's also a frightening opening for the Taliban.

Reported Robert Reich

Former Secretary of Labor, Professor at Berkeley August 19, 2010 07:36 PM

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-reich/why-the-unfolding-disaste_b_688414.html?utm_source=DailyBrief&utm_campaign=082010&utm_medium=email&utm_content=BlogEntry

Will providing more aid reduce support for the Taliban? Will it reduce the likelihood of further instability?

The purpose of humanitarian aid should be to alleviate suffering and reduce poverty. If it gets mixed up with political and military objectives, assistance might easily be provided to the wrong people in the wrong way and for the wrong reasons.  For example, populations could be assisted on the basis of their vulnerability to extremism instead of their humanitarian needs. It’s true that development can reduce the likelihood of further instability – but targeting areas on that basis can actually exacerbate existing tensions.

How do I know my donation will not be lost to corruption or diverted to an extremist organization in Pakistan?

Oxfam works closely with partner organizations on the ground, which helps ensure that our response to emergencies like the Pakistan floods is swift, effective, and culturally appropriate. But we conduct careful checks before accepting any local organization as a partner. We have well-developed financial reporting procedures, and we monitor and assess the work we fund to ensure that aid is being delivered in a fair and responsible manner. Neither Oxfam nor its partners has allowed its resources to be diverted to extremist organizations.

This reported by Oxfam on 20 August 2010: http://www.oxfamamerica.org/emergencies/2010-pakistan-flood/copy_of_background

Flooding began on July 22 in Baluchistan province. Then the waters poured across the northwest before flowing south into Punjab and Sindh in the southwest and submerging about 20 percent of the country, an area larger than Italy. The monsoon rains, aided by melting of Himalayan glaciers, are expected to continue to October.

The world has been slow to react in Pakistan, where flooding began on July 19, some fearing endemic corruption, others linking the country to the Taliban and other militant groups. (They killed 100 people in suicide bombings in "dry" areas of Pakistan, over the last month).

In the first two weeks of the Haiti earthquake in January, an estimated $742 million was committed. After the Dec. 26, 2004 tsunami in Asia, some $1.8 billion had been pledged within a week.

But some 50 Islamic nations appear to have lagged behind the West, although Saudi Arabia has just pledged more than $100 million in government funds and money collected from the public. (Little of it is going through the Pakistani National Disaster Management Authority and none through the United Nations.) China, a close ally, has helped 27,000 people near its border but large sums of money have not been forthcoming. Reported Evelyn Leopold

Veteran reporter at the United Nations August 20, 2010 07:34 AM. More at:

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There is no doubt that Pakistan has faced the worst natural calamity. It is estimated to be more than the human tragedy put together in earth quake in Kashmir in 2005, tsunami in India in 2004, the more recent earth quake in Haiti. But international response has been very slow.

Pakistan has not been gracious to India even amidst this hour of her unprecedented highest national grief. India’s offer of aid in cash had to wait despite the personal calls made by Mr S M Krishna last week followed by Man Mohan Singh from Indian side even after a written letter by Mr Krishna to his Qureshi his counterpart in Pakistan before all these.

This had to wait the US pressure to accept. The old cherished bigotry is clearly seen through this tragedy as well. It has been variously reported in the Indian press. But the Pakistani press has not spared their grace and generosity through their vitreous remarks. Let us peruse some of the reactions.

The floods have affected about one-fifth of Pakistan's territory, straining its civilian government as it also struggles against al-Qaida and Taliban violence. At least 6 million people have been made homeless and 20 million affected overall. The economic cost is expected to run into billions of dollars.

The United Nations has appealed for $460 million in emergency assistance, and the U.S. has promised $150 million. Pakistan said it would even accept $5 million in aid from India, its archrival.

This is reported By ASHRAF KHAN - Associated Press Writer with Associated Press Writer Riaz Khan in Peshawar contributed to this report. One can smell the hate and remorse by both these reporters. This hour in the tragedy should not have used for this underlying hate.
Read more: http://www.kentucky.com/2010/08/21/1401326/flooding-submerges-new-towns-in.html#ixzz0xGNg1gId

In an analysis of the response to the disaster, The Guardian said that there was a dire need of relief goods in the immediate aftermath of the floods. It quoted the UN's humanitarian affairs co-ordination office, saying that "[s]ix million [of the 14 million affected] are children and 3 million women of child-bearing age. This is a higher figure than in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami."

China and Saudi Arabia, Pakistan's closest allies, were initially criticized for their slow response to Pakistan's calls for aid.

India, a neighbor of Pakistan, was being criticized for being completely silent about the calamity for 2 weeks. It was described by The Diplomat as "India seems to be aloof and blind to the tragedy affecting Pakistan" with the Indian media "barely giving the disaster" any coverage, while "the international community and aid agencies pump aid to those affected". NDTV claimed that the limited flood coverage was because Pakistan has not approved visas to Indian media people for visiting Pakistan to cover the floods. On 13 August, India offered condolences and $5 million, and Pakistan accepted the offer on 20 August Also, there are nearly 400 Indian doctors, who are waiting for the Pakistan government's nod for visas to help flood victims. India has supplied first consignment of 25 truck-loads of Indian potato to Pakistan.

An analysis by AP's correspondent, Nahal Toosi, suggested that a number of factors account for the inadequate international response, namely the low death toll, the protracted unfolding of the extent of the catastrophe, the lack of celebrity involvement, the impression that the government is not focused on the event, and a certain donor fatigue, perhaps more so as Pakistan has been receiving support before.

British Prime Minister David Cameron was accused by Pakistan of hampering international aid efforts after he claimed that Pakistan was responsible for promoting terrorism.

Some potential donors doubt that funds will reach victims of the flood, but will rather be diverted to terrorist groups such as the Taliban, despite a significant amount of the aid effort being directed by the United Nations.

Minorities

It has been reported that members of Pakistan's Ahmadiyya Muslim community, who were caught up in floods in Muzaffargarh, were not rescued from their homes because rescuers felt that Muslims must be given priority. Ahmadi Muslims complained to the government that not only were they not rescued but in some instances ejected from relief camps when their identity was disclosed. Ahmadis were declared a non-Muslim minority by the Pakistani government which prevented them to 'pose as Muslims' and have faced continued persecution.

Members of the Sikh community, who arrived in gurdwaras in Lahore, also complained of government apathy. They said members of their community were abandoned in Khyber-Pakhtoonkhwa and had to arrange rescue for themselves.

Flooding cause and past history

Current flooding in blamed in unprecedented monsoon rain. The rainfall anomaly map published by NASA shows unusually intense monsoon rains. These intense monsoon rains were forecast by Pakistan metrological department. Pakistan metrological department shows above average rainfall in the months of July and Aug 2010. Pakistan metrological department shows the flood wave progression. There is a history of flooding with past floods in 1997, 1995, and 1988 which shows that such discharge levels had been witnessed in the past as well. More on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Pakistan_floods

“Pakistan said on Thursday it is still mulling over India's offer of aid for flood-affected communities, despite a serious shortage of funds hampering Islamabad's ability to provide relief to the eight million people in need.

Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh called his Pakistani counterpart Syed Yousef Raza Gilani on Thursday to express sorrow over the humanitarian crisis and reminded him of India's offer.

"The prime minister said that the government of India had already made an offer of assistance and was ready to do more to assist in the relief effort," said a government statement.

"There are a lot of sensitivities between India and Pakistan ... but we are considering it very seriously," said Abid Saeed, press counsellor at the Pakistani High Commission in New Delhi.

Humanitarian workers in Pakistan say there is no time to waste in securing funds and converting them into relief, and have criticised Islamabad for dithering over India's offer, saying aid should be not be linked to politics.

More on: http://in.ibtimes.com/articles/44336/20100820/pakistan-flood-aid-united-nations-india-prime-minister-manmohan-singh-mumbai-attacks-nuclear-power-a.htm

http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-50948920100819

Here is a good video coverage of the flood situation by YouTube:

Pakistan flood response criticised
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkJYVKYXsFk

Pak religious parties to spin accepting aid as capitulation to India: Analysts

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/175633

ANI

Washington

Sat, 21 Aug 2010:

Washington, Aug.21 (ANI): Pakistan's acceptance of India's five million dollar aid offer for flood relief could spark a political backlash in the country, with religious parties criticising the PPP-led government for accepting neighbouring country's help.

"Pakistan has many disputes with India, th reference to Kashmir, and the Indian Army engaging in brutality in occupied Kashmir," said Liaquat Baloch, secretary general of Pakistan's second-largest religious party, the Jamaat-e-Islami.

"In the past, when Pakistan tried to support India after their natural disasters, India never accepted. Therefore, it would be better if our government refused the aid with a big thank you," Baloch said in response to Shah Mehmood Qureshi's statement thanking New Delhi for the help.

Pakistan accepted India's offer after Washington's prodding, and analysts believe that the religious parties in flood-hit country would try to spin the move "as a sign of weakness."

"They will see it as a capitulation to India, that our own government is so weak we have been forced to accept help from the historic enemy," The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) quoted Badar Alam, editor of Herald magazine, as saying.

Mosharraf Zaidi, a columnist for The News, however, described Islamabad's act to accept New Delhi's aid as 'brave' move.

"It's a tremendous gesture, very mature. India should be commended for donating it and Pakistan should be commended for accepting it," Zaidi said.

Gilani defends accepting aid from India

Lahore: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on Saturday defended the Pakistan government's decision to accept aid for flood victims from India, saying those opposed to the move should give reasons for their stance.

"I would like to ask the critics of Indian aid on what ground we should refuse it. It will be a narrow approach if we refuse aid from India," Gilani said while talking to reporters at his residence here. More on: http://www.zeenews.com/news649940.html

Scant international donations to flooded Pakistan are being driven by a multitude of factors ranging from the financial crisis, donor fatigue, a low death toll and scepticism that the government can translate the contributions into effective aid, say relief workers and analysts.

The disaster, which has killed up to 1,600 people and affected around 20 million, is one of the biggest humanitarian crises in recent years - bigger than the Indian Ocean tsunami in 2004 or the earthquake in Haiti earlier this year, according to the United Nations.

"It's pretty much fair to say that there has been a lot less money generated for the Pakistan floods than the other major disasters that it has been compared to, like Haiti and Kashmir earthquakes or the tsunami," said Jan Kellett, leader of Global Humanitarian Assistance, a programme that monitors trends in humanitarian financing run by British-based Development Initiatives.

"For example, on day 16 after the tsunami, commitments of aid were more than $1.4 billion, whereas the Pakistan flooding has received $200 million over the same period. So there is a huge difference." More on: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100819/india_nm/india509182

Fears of terrorism in wake of floods

6:40 AM Saturday Aug 21, 2010

Earlier yesterday, after visiting flood areas with Zardari, Kerry warned "it is important for all of us to work overtime" to stop extremists from exploiting "the misery of others for political or ideological purpose".

Zardari said terrorists could take "babies who have been made orphans and take them to their camps and train them as the terrorists of tomorrow".

Holbrooke said it was impossible to assess whether al Qaeda or other groups were taking advantage of the floods because "we can't even get in there".

Holbrooke, though, warned that "many billions" would eventually be needed to rebuild Pakistan. He challenged other countries, especially China, Pakistan's close ally, which was recently crowned as the world's second-largest economy, to "step up to the plate". More on: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10667777

Pakistan 'welcomes' $5m flood aid from rival India

Donation along with Indian prime minister's condolences to his Pakistani counterpart a sign of improving relations between rivals

Pakistan has accepted a "very welcome" offer of financial aid for flood victims from its neighbour and perennial rival India, a donation indicating improving relations between the regional powers despite the relatively modest sum involved.

India had previously faced criticism for not joining in the international efforts to help its neighbour.

The two countries have experienced turbulent relations since partition in 1947, fighting two wars over the disputed territory of Kashmir. Relations plummeted anew in 2008 when Islamist militants who, according to India, were assisted by Pakistan's security services, undertook a bloody terrorist raid on Mumbai. More on: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/20/pakistan-welcomes-flood-aid-india

It is felt that these extrapolated comments in the above article in Guardian may have better been avoided in the best spirits.

As I said the language Pakistan understands ultimately helped in accepting the aid India had offered couple of weeks ago.

Indo-Pak precedent of help during natural disasters: Qureshi

Following the acceptance of India's USD 5 million for flood relief efforts, Pakistan's foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi on Saturday said that New Delhi and Islamabad had a past record of providing assistance to each other when faced with natural disasters.

Qureshi visited New York, this week, to urge the international community to give more aid and funds to the 20 million people hit by the worst floods the country has witnessed.

"Well, we have been helping each other in the past. India has helped Pakistan during the 2005 earthquake. We responded to them when they had natural disasters," Qureshi said.

"So, there is a precedent, and we are neighbours. So, this was a very welcome gesture on their part. And we in Pakistan appreciate this gesture," he added.

Qureshi avoided the question on why it took so long to accept the aid, but when asked whether there were political sensitivities involved in accepting the aid he said, " No, as I said, there are past precedents.

And, you know, they have helped us, and we have helped them.

"In terms of responding to a disaster, politics should play no role. You have a country that's willing to help and...we expect that Pakistan will accept," P J Crowley, State Department spokesperson, said earlier this week.

Crowley also rejected reports in the Pakistan media that India and US were responsible for the floods.

"It was the United States and India that conspired to have the monsoons come to Pakistan? I don't find that credible." More on: http://www.hindustantimes.com/StoryPage/Print/590055.aspx

Some Pakistan media were highly critical of the Indian aid voicing their harshest criticism. Thank God, it ultimately resolved with a better sense of understanding.

(Dr. O. P. Sudrania is a senior retired teacher in surgery and a medico-legal counsellor; now also engaged in research of socio-political analytical science as a part of service to humanity.)

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