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The handing over of Karachi to the MQM terrorist squads, who killed more than forty persons and injured countless others on 12 May, will rank as one of the most callous and cynical acts ever in Pakistan's sad history. To imagine that the world's seventh largest mega-city could be handed over to a terrorist organization and gunmen for political reasons is unimaginable. The people of Pakistan have lost any remaining faith in their leaders and the man in the street is convinced that their leaders do not want to serve them but to enrich themselves. What a sad conclusion and indictment.

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A grouchy but well-informed know-all with much experience of the low-down low-life infesting and animating 'high-finance', and what to do about it, Keith P. occasionally emerges from the obscure depths of the Youreapeon forests to eye the current world, growl a few obscenities and lurch back into the darkness whence he came.
amazinA grouchy but well-informed know-all with much experience of the low-down low-life infesting and animating 'high-finance', and what to do about it, Keith P. occasionally emerges from the obscure depths of the Youreapeon forests to eye the current world, growl a few obscenities and lurch back into the darkness whence he came.

Oh -

Handing the World's Seventh Largest City to Terrorists

That's to the GW-Cheney-Blair neo-con faction, is it? - Well, after what's gone by the board so far, we're hardly surprised.

by amazin (34 articles, 0 quicklinks, 12 diaries, 400 comments) on Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 5:31:27 PM

I am a retired government officer having served more than 30 years, many of those in the tribal areas of Pakistan. I head the Regional Institute of Policy Research & Training in Peshawar. These days we are involved in various projects dealing with conflict reduction through different approaches.
Khalid AzizI am a retired government officer having served more than 30 years, many of those in the tribal areas of Pakistan. I head the Regional Institute of Policy Research & Training in Peshawar. These days we are involved in various projects dealing with conflict reduction through different approaches.

Painful

You are right it is the meglomaniac mind set - on both sides which is destroying lives of the people and a great country - Pakistan. U.S has the experience and the intellectual breadth to overcome the Islamist extremists, not through force and the sarifice of lives but through innovative policy adaptations. It will be long term and sustainable. There are many options available but then it will not suit the military-political-business complex. Thanks for the comment.

by Khalid Aziz (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 3 comments) on Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 10:02:22 PM

Currently I'm a cartoonist and contributing writer for The New Orleans Levee. For those wishing to view my work you can see my latest at: nolevee.com
Mr MCurrently I'm a cartoonist and contributing writer for The New Orleans Levee. For those wishing to view my work you can see my latest at: nolevee.com

Not one more day

"The people of Pakistan have lost any remaining faith in their leaders and the man in the street is convinced that their leaders do not want to serve them but to enrich themselves."

Substitute United States for Pakistan.

Who would of thought the most powerful country the world has ever seen would one day be ruled by megalomaniac fools at the worst possible time?

One side crazed war-mongers and the other side appeasing apologists for the crazed war-mongers. We're told that even though 70+% of the people want out of Iraq we have to stay as the areas we should be focused on degenerate into an orgy of mid-evil oppression along with Iraq.

I fear for what's about to happen to this country. There are still many good people in America who would be out-raged at what is happening in their name, but through a controlled media good people don't get good information.

We can't stand another day like this. Not one more day of a forgiegn policy being played on loaded dice. Not one more day of a dry-drunk monkey playing God.

by Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 49 diaries, 2007 comments) on Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 8:10:29 PM

Wisdom

Thanks for your comments. I agree with you; there is no need to invest money in the killing machines, which are the armies! Let us invest in the human beings where misery and pain resides. Out of $ 10 billion paid by the U.S to Pakistan since 2002, only $ 900 has been provided for education, health and other life promoting investments. The rest has been given to the military; instead of selling us useless toys like the F-16s, give us technical universities, clean drinking water and use your country's influence in removing all that disempowers the institutions of Pakistan. My next article will be on this later subject. If you want to learn more about these matters please visit www.khalidaziz.com .

by Khalid Aziz (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 3 comments) on Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 10:11:48 PM

Thank you

I wish to thank you for your good work and courage. Your work gives one of the best insights I've read into what is really going on and who the players are.

by Mr M (4 articles, 0 quicklinks, 49 diaries, 2007 comments) on Monday, May 28, 2007 at 7:45:51 AM

Kent State, Graduate work in philosophy of logic, of science, Ph.D. SIU neuroscientist, forensic neuropsychologist, PostDoc Medical College of Ohio, Preferred activities: Restoring British motorcycles, cars, Matchless, Austin Healey, Triumph, Jaguar, building an engine, programming a computer. Other stuff: SDS 1968, antiwar,911 truth advocate, anticorporatist, anti-classist, anti-neocon, pissed off. Best thing: Father. Blessed.
richardKent State, Graduate work in philosophy of logic, of science, Ph.D. SIU neuroscientist, forensic neuropsychologist, PostDoc Medical College of Ohio, Preferred activities: Restoring British motorcycles, cars, Matchless, Austin Healey, Triumph, Jaguar, building an engine, programming a computer. Other stuff: SDS 1968, antiwar,911 truth advocate, anticorporatist, anti-classist, anti-neocon, pissed off. Best thing: Father. Blessed.

George Bush and

his neocon terrorist cabal arguably are in charge of perhaps not the largest but certainly one of the most important cities in the world; i.e., Washington D.C.

by richard (0 articles, 5 quicklinks, 2 diaries, 968 comments) on Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 9:17:51 PM

Oh Karachi!

Thanks for your observations. Karachi is Pakistan's smaller version. It contains people from all the regions comprising this great land. Another military dictator, Gen. Zia used the excuse of assisting the U.S in Afghanistan against the Soviet Union in 1979-92, by creating the MQM which sponsored a reign of terror in Karachi on 12th May where more than 40 persons were killed.

Gen Zia, being a dictator needed to have political space for survival. Having hanged Mr. Bhutto the toppled elected Prime Minister, Gen Zia began to build the refugees, who had migrated from India and settled in Karachi into a political party to support him against the party of Bhutto. This new party was the United NAtional Front (MQM). Gen. Musharraf who belongs to the same refugee ethnic minority like his other key army generals, used the MQM in his confrontation with the country's Chief Justice. Because of U.S support for Musharraf it is getting a bad name in all this. Its claims for being a supporter of democracy and of human rights lie tattered in the murderous streets of Karachi.

by Khalid Aziz (2 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 3 comments) on Sunday, May 27, 2007 at 10:50:57 PM

A 'senior' world citizen concerned about how badly our shared domicile is being ravaged by imperialists, dominionists, neo-cons and evangelists.
syed mahdiA 'senior' world citizen concerned about how badly our shared domicile is being ravaged by imperialists, dominionists, neo-cons and evangelists.

"Handing of the World's Seventh Larghest City to Terrorists"

Mr.Khalid Aziz's concerns on the future of Pakistan are quite commendable but reading. in between the lines, I suspect he is viewing Pakistan and Karachi arially from the peaks of the remote North West Frontier Province & Baluchistan. That is less than one quarter of Pakistan territorially with less than one eighth of Pakistan's total population, Pashtuns and Balochis together. I admit they have had a bad deal with the Federal Govt in Islamabad, not only now but even when one of their own was Pakistan's Military Dictator, Field Marshall Ayoub Khan. Pakistan belongs to all Pakistanis; Punjabis, Seraikis, Sindhis, Balochis, Pashtuns AND Muhajirs. Yes, Muhajirs too! These Muhajirs still have horrendous memories of the Pashtun killings in Karachi during the fatal elections in which the sister of Pakistan's Founding Father, Mohammed Ali Jinnah was pitted against one of the Pashtun's own candidate. They were transported to Karachi by the opponent in the thousands, armed to the teeth, which they usually are and they went on A BLOODY RAMPAGE! I wonder if Mr. Aziz would agree to classify these Pashtuns as TERRORISTS too. Oops, I forgot this terrorist thing has only been coined in the US after 9/11. I would be much obliged to know from Mr. Abdul Aziz, what percentage of Taleban are Pashtuns? Also, how many of the Red Mosque Jihadists are Pashtuns? Just as the British Raj could not find a "SOLUTION" to their problems in Afghanistan & NWFP, Gen. Musharraf will also fail to do so. Lawlessness is endemic in these tribal regions. Carrots many a times work in the NWFP but the rod never. Ask the Brits and the Russians. Mush is trying both. It's not easy because this time over, the American Bull is in Pakistan's China Shop. Have a heart, give Mush a chance! If he fails, Pakistan may implode just like Iraq did.

by syed mahdi (1 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 129 comments) on Monday, May 28, 2007 at 11:25:59 AM

Holly Berkowitz, RHIT in Health Information Managment and BA in Linguistics produces a weekly television series, Nature's Logic documenting sounds and images of nature for relaxation. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa with her husband, children and dog in a cabin in the woods by the Iowa river.
HollyBerkowitzHolly Berkowitz, RHIT in Health Information Managment and BA in Linguistics produces a weekly television series, Nature's Logic documenting sounds and images of nature for relaxation. She lives in Iowa City, Iowa with her husband, children and dog in a cabin in the woods by the Iowa river.

Value the Rule of Law

Ancient moral codes of many religions value the ancient Rule of Law.

Legitimate Civil governments value the common Rule of Law.

Founders of the United States of America valued civil Rules of Law of civil governments, our US Constitution, international laws and treaties, nature's laws of an infinite web of life and moral laws of reciprocity.

But Ronald Reagan claimed openly that "government is the problem" and his cash-driven game of Reaganomics deregulated public infrastructure foundations to the bone easy, cheap, quick. George Bush Junior continued to deregulate civil laws of civil nations, to value privatized CEO profiteering as an art of “trickle-down economics” and “supply-side economics” that was really “demand-side economics” ….Reagan’s reaganonomists valuing private profiteering more than the future of the children of the many....even his own.

The answer is obvious but it is not, as obvious as this: My Earth looks flat every morning when I get up, too, but I know that it is not because civil governments of centuries of common scientific literacy have exchanged critical information in a public sphere impossible to count in cash.

Ancient prophets warned US of the dangers of forgetting to value the priceless. Can we still try?

by HollyBerkowitz (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 8 comments) on Monday, May 28, 2007 at 3:03:33 PM