Sunday, February 27, 2011
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
عرب ممالک میں مغرب کی دخل اندازی کے واضح اشارے
عرب ممالک میں بدتر صورتحال سے فایدہ اٹھانے کےلیے امریکہ اور برطانیہ نے کوششیں شروع کردیں امریکی فوج کے اہم عہدیدارایڈمرل ماییک مولن خلیج علاقے کے دورے کے پہلے مرحلے پر سعودی عرب پہنچے اس کے بعد وہ قطر متحدہ عرب امارت اورکویت بھی جاییں گےاسکے علاوہ وہ افریقی ملک جبوتی میں بھی رکیں گے جہاں ہفتے بھر سے حکومت کے خلاف مظاہرے جاری ہیں
دوسری جانب برطانوی وزیر اعظم ڈیوڈکیمرون مصر جارہے ہیں جہاں وہ ایمرجنسی قانون ختم کرنے کی پرزور وکالت کریں گے لیکن ذرایع کے مطابق وہ مصر کی سب سے بڑی اپوزیشن جماعت اخون المسلمون کے رہنماوں سے ملاقات نہیں کریں گے
Monday, February 21, 2011
Libya protests analysis: 'For Muammar Gaddafi it's kill or be killed'
Libya's official name is the Jamahiriya, or "state of the masses", but 41 years after seizing power, a defiant Muammar Gaddafi still rules through secretive decision-making and as a family enterprise in which his sons play leading roles.
Now facing the worst unrest since the revolution, Gaddafi's moves are as opaque as ever. Amid feverish speculation about the future, everything he has ever done suggests he will not relinquish power voluntarily. "We will all die on Libyan soil," sources close to his family told the Saudi paper al-Sharq al-Awsat.
According to unconfirmed reports the repression in Benghazi in eastern Libya is being led by his son Khamis, the Russian-trained commander of an elite special forces unit. Another son, Saadi, is there too, with Abdullah al-Senussi, veteran head of military intelligence.
Last Friday Gaddafi appeared briefly in central Tripoli to cheers from supporters but has not spoken in public or left the heavily-guarded Bab al-Aziziya barracks in the centre of the capital – the target of a US bombing raid in 1986.
The crushing of protests in Benghazi and elsewhere bears the hallmark of his instinctive brutality when faced with challenges to his rule, analysts say.
In the 1980s he sent hit squads to murder exiled "stray dogs" who challenged the revolution. Islamist rebels at home were crushed in the 1990s and in 1996 1,000 prisoners were gunned down in an infamous prison massacre.
"For Gaddafi it's kill or be killed," said opposition writer Ashour Shamis. "Now he's gone straight for the kill."
The uprisings in neighbouring countries do not appear to have shaken his resolve to stay in power. He sent messages of support to Tunisia's Zine al-Abdine Ben Ali and to Egypt's Hosni Mubarak before they stepped down.
Regime survival has marked Gaddafi's moves in recent years – from the handover of the Lockerbie bombing suspects to the surrender of his WMD programme after the invasion of Iraq in 2003. No-one expects him to give up peacefully. He may make gestures such as promising closer consultation or boosting investment in housing and social services, but that seems unlikely to satisfy protesters after such brutality towards ordinary Libyans.
"Gaddafi will find it hard to make concessions in order to survive," said Sir Richard Dalton, a former British ambassador to Libya. "The attitude of the regime is that it's all or nothing."
Another key question is whether the condemnation of western friends will have any effect. Libya's warning to the EU that it will halt cooperation over illegal immigration suggests it will not.
Power in Libya is devolved in some areas to popular committees and there is sometimes talk of dramatic restructuring of government. But all key policy areas – defence, foreign affairs, and security – are firmly in Gaddafi's hands.
Like Mubarak, the Libyan leader has no designated successor. Gaddafi's advice is likely to be coming from his son Muatassim, his national security adviser and leading contender to succeed him. Two years ago Muatassim tried to set up another special unit to rival the one commanded by Khamis.
In recent months both have seemed more powerful than another brother, the reformist Saif al-Islam. Saif focused on civil society and political and economic reform but has taken a back seat in the face of opposition from the old guard and the revolutionary committees. "Creating the appearance of useful employment for Gaddafi's offspring has been an important objective for the regime," reported the US ambassador in a cable released by WikiLeaks.
Other sons have embarrassed their father. Saadi is notoriously ill-behaved, with a record of scuffles with police in Europe, abuse of drugs and alcohol. Hannibal's misbehaviour in Geneva caused a long rupture in Swiss-Libyan relations.
"Gaddafi is a complicated individual who has managed to stay in power for 40 years through a skilful balancing of interests and realpolitik methods," commented the former US ambassador Gene Cretz. Libya's current crisis looks like Gaddafi's biggest challenge yet.
US gives fresh details of CIA agent who killed two men in Pakistan shootout
US gives fresh details of CIA agent who killed two men in Pakistan shootout
US reveals that CIA agent Raymond Davis worked for private security firm Xe, formerly known as Blackwater
US officials have provided fresh details about Raymond Davis, the CIAagent at the centre of a diplomatic stand-off in Pakistan, including confirmation that he had worked for the private security contractor Xe, formerly known as Blackwater. They also disclosed for the first time that he had been providing security for a CIA team tracking militants.
Davis was attached to the CIA's Global Response Staff, whose duties include protecting case officers when they meet with sources. He was familiarising himself with a sensitive area of Lahore on the day he shot dead two Pakistanis.
The New York Times, Washington Post, Associated Press and other media outlets reported for the first time that Davis is a CIA employee. They said they had been aware of his status but kept it under wraps at the request of US officials who said they feared for his safety if involvement with the spy agency was to come out. The officials claimed that he is at risk in the prison in Lahore. The officials released them from their obligation after the Guardian on Sunday reported that Davis was a CIA agent.
Davis shot dead two Pakistanis in Lahore last month who he says had been trying to rob him. A third Pakistani man was killed by a car driven by Americans apparently on their way to rescue Davis.
Confirmation that he worked for Xe could prove even more problematic than working for the CIA, given the extent of hatred towards Blackwater, whose staff have gained a reputation in Pakistan as trigger-happy. For Pakistanis the word "Blackwater" has become a byword for covert American operations targeting the country's nuclear capability. Newspaper reports have been filled with lurid reports of lawless operatives roaming the country.
US officials have reiterated their concern about Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail where Davis is being held, saying he had been moved to a separate section of the prison, that the guards' guns had been taken away from for fear they might kill him, and that detainees had been previously killed by guards. They are also concerned about protesters storming the prison or that he might be poisoned, and that dogs were being used to taste or smell the food for poison.
However, the authorities in Pakistan stressed the stringent measures they have put in place to protect Davis in Kot Lakhpat following angry public rallies in which his effigy was burned and threats from extremist clerics.
PJ Crowley, the US state department spokesman, said: "Obviously, we are concerned about his safety. We have had multiple conversations with the government of Pakistan regarding his current surroundings. They have told us that he is in the safest possible location in Lahore. And clearly, we hold the government of Pakistan fully responsible for his safety."
Surveillance cameras are trained on his cell in an isolation wing, and a ring of paramilitary troops are posted outside. About 25 jihadi prisoners have been transferred to other facilities.
The revelations about Davis will complicate further the impasse between the US and Pakistan. Washington says he has diplomatic immunity and should be released but the Pakistan government is in a bind, facing the danger of a public backlash if it complies.
Until Sunday, the US had said Davis was a diplomat, doing technical and administrative work at the embassy. It says that because he has diplomatic immunity, he should be released immediately.
The Pakistani prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, told parliament on Monday he would safeguard the country's "sovereignty and dignity" as it sought to resolve the diplomatic impasse with the US. "We are firmly resolved to adopt a course that accords with the dictates of justice and the rule of law. My government will not compromise on Pakistan's sovereignty and dignity," said Gilani.
The Obama administration is exerting fierce pressure on Pakistan to release Davis. But President Asif Ali Zardari's government, faced with a wave of public outrage, has prevaricated on the issue, and says it cannot decide on immunity issue until 14 March. For many Pakistanis the case has come to represent their difficult relationship with the US, in which multibillion dollar aid packages are mingled with covert activities targeting Islamist extremists.
Davis is currently on Pakistan's "exit control list", meaning he cannot leave the country without permission. But the two men who came to his rescue in a jeep that knocked over and killed a motorcyclist are believed to have already fled the country. Davis claimed to be acting in self-defence, firing on a pair of suspected robbers. But eyebrows were raised when it emerged that he shot the men 10 times, one as he fled the scene.
Pakistani prosecutors say Davis used excessive force and have charged him with two counts of murder and one of illegal possession of a Glock 9mm pistol. There have also been claims that the dead men were working for the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency, with orders to follow Davis.
The military spy agency cooperates with the CIA in its tribal belt drone programme, but resents US intelligence collection elsewhere in the country.In spite of the lurid conspiracy tales in Pakistan about Blackwater, US officials say that in reality Blackwater has had two major contracts in Pakistan - loading missiles onto CIA drones at the secret Shamsi airbase in Balochistan, and supervising the construction of a police training facility in Peshawar. The Davis furore has not, however, stopped the controversial drone strike programme. News emerged of a fresh attack on a militant target in South Waziristan, the first in nearly one month. Pakistani intelligence officials told AP that foreigners were among the dead including three people from Turkmenistan and two Arabs.
Rocky relations
The CIA and Pakistan's ISI have long had a rocky relationship. It started in the 1980s jihad, when the ISI funnelled billions of dollars in CIA-funded weapons to anti-Soviet rebels in Afghanistan.
But the two fell out in 2001 over CIA accusations that the ISI was playing a "double game" – attacking some Islamist militants while secretly supporting others.
In August 2008 the CIA deputy chief, Stephen Kappes, flew to Islamabad with evidence suggesting the ISI plotted the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul that killed 54 people. The ISI, in turn, complained that the US came with unrealistic expectations and an aggressive attitude.
Yet at the same time the agencies co-operated closely, mostly on the CIA drone campaign against al-Qaida militants along the Afghan border.
In 2009 the ISI praised the CIA for killing the Pakistani Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud. But recently things soured again. Last December the CIA station chief was forced to quit Pakistan after being publicly identified (US officials blamed an ISI leak); while Pakistani spies were angered that their chief, General Shuja Pasha, was named in a US lawsuit brought in a New York court by victims of the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
حکمران ریمنڈڈیوس کےہاتھوں شہید ہونے والےتین نوجوانوں کے لواحقین کو ڈالروں کا لالچ دےکرخریدنے کےلیےامریکی دلال کا شرمناک کردار ادا کر نے کی بجائے قومی غیرت کا ثبوت دیں اور شہدا کے ورثا کو انصاف مہیا کریں ۔لیاقت بلوچ
لاہور21فروری 2011 ء:جماعت اسلامی پاکستان کے سیکرٹری جنرل لیاقت بلوچ نے کہاہےکہ حکمران ریمنڈ ڈیوس کے ہاتھوں شہید ہونے والے تین نوجوانوں کے لواحقین کو ڈالروں کا لالچ دے کر خریدنے کے لیے امریکی دلال کا شرمناک کردار ادا کر نے کی بجائے قومی غیرت کا ثبوت دیں اور شہدا کے ورثا کو انصاف مہیا کریں ۔ ریمنڈ ڈیوس کی دہشتگرد کاروائیوں کا واضح ثبوت ملنے کے باوجود امریکی دباﺅپر ملکی آئین کو تماشا بنانے کی حکومتی کوششوں کو عوام کامیاب نہیں ہونے دیںگے ۔ 25 فروری کو مزنگ چوک میں دھرنا دے کر زندہ دلان لاہور شہدا کے گھرانوں سے اظہار یکجہتی اور ملک کو ہمیشہ کے لیے امریکہ اور اس کے حواریوں سے نجات دلانے کا عزم کریں گے ۔ جماعت اسلامی کی گو امریکہ گو تحریک ہر محب وطن کے دل کی آواز بن چکی ہے ۔ ریمنڈ ڈیوس کیس میں پنجاب حکومت بھی بزدلی کا مظاہرہ کر رہی ہے اور ابھی تک عبادالرحمن کو کچل کر ہلاک کرنے والی گاڑی اور اس میں سوار چار دہشتگردوں کو گرفتار کرنے میں ناکامی اس کا منہ بولتا ثبوت ہے ۔ دینی جماعتوں کی قیادت میں قوم نے مغرب اور استعماری قوتوں کی ناموس رسالت قانون میں خاتمے کی کوششوں کو ناکام بنا کر اسلام اور نظریہ پاکستان سے جس محبت کا ثبوت دیاہے وہ مستقبل میں بھی ایسی ناپاک سازشوں کو کامیاب نہیں ہونے دے گی۔ اگر ہم مسائل کا حل اور ملک میں امن و سکون چاہتے ہیں تو ہمیں اسلام کے بابرکت نظام کو ملک میں نافذ اور حضور کی پاکیزہ تعلیمات پر عملدرآمد کرنا ہوگا۔ان خیالات کاا ظہار انہو ںنے جماعت اسلامی لاہور کے زیر اہتمام وفاقی کالونی میں منعقدہ سیرت کانفرنس سے خطاب کرتے ہوئے کیا۔ کانفرنس سے جمعیت اہلحدیث کے ناظم اعلیٰ علامہ ابتسام الٰہی ظہیر ، ڈاکٹر شبیر احمد منصوری اور ظفر راجپوت نے بھی خطاب کیا لیاقت بلوچ نے کہاکہ حکومت اپنے شہریوں کا مقدمہ لڑنے کی بجائے ریمنڈ ڈیوس کی طرف سے فریق بنی ہوئی ہے جس سے پورے ملک کے عوام خود کو امریکی دہشتگردی سے غیر محفوظ سمجھ رہے ہیں ۔ انہوں نے کہاکہ قوم شہدا کے لواحقین کو تنہا نہیں چھوڑے گی ۔ امریکی دہشتگرد نے جن نوجوانوں کو شہید کیا اب وہ صرف اپنے خاندانوں کے نہیں بلکہ پوری پاکستانی قوم کے بیٹے ہیں جن کے خون کا بدلہ لیا جائیگا ۔ جماعت اسلامی حکومت کی طرف سے ریمنڈ ڈیوس کو رہا کر کے امریکہ بھجوانے کی کوششوں کو ناکام بنا دے گی ۔ انہوں نے کہاکہ حکمران نوشتہ دیوار پڑھ لیں امریکہ اور اس کے غلاموں پر زمین تنگ ہو چکی ہے ۔ اگر انہوں نے قومی غیرت کو نیلام کرنے کی کوشش کی تو انکا انجام زین العابدین اور حسنی مبارک سے بھی بدتر ہو گااور انہیں زمین پر کہیں بھی پناہ نہیں ملے گی ۔ انہوں نے کہاکہ حکومت ہر محاذ پر بری طرح ناکام ہو چکی ہے ۔ عوام مہنگائی ، بے روزگاری اور عدم تحفظ کا شکار ہیں جبکہ ملک کی داخلہ وخارجہ پالیسیوں سمیت تمام پالیسیاںملک دشمنوں کے ہاتھوں بن رہی ہیں ۔ امریکہ کی دوستی میں گزشتہ 63 سال میں ملک کو ناقابل تلافی نقصان اٹھاناپڑا ۔
“The American who shot dead two men in Lahore, triggering a diplomatic crisis between Pakistan and the US, is a CIA agent who was on assignment at the time,” guardian.co.uk reported on Monday.
The report goes on to say “Based on interviews in the US and Pakistan, the Guardian can confirm that the 36-year-old former special forces soldier is employed by the CIA.”
Davis was arrested on January 27, after he shot dead two young motorcyclists in a busy marketplace in Lahore. Since then, relations between Pakistan and the US have been strained over Davis’s trial, where the latter claims that Davis has diplomatic immunity.
Earlier the Punjab police and intelligence officials had claimed also that Davis was a high-profile spy. “The evidence was provided by Davis in his confessional statementduring investigation,” a senior police official had told The Express Tribune, requesting anonymity. “We have concluded that a gang of American spies is active in Punjab and other parts of the country,” he added.
Last week, Fauzia Wahab also had to resign from her post as the Information Secretary after making the statement that Davis was a diplomat and hence had diplomatic immunity.
انقلاب زندہ باد
برطانونی وزیر خارجہ کے حوالے سے خبریں آ رہی ہیں کہ کرنل قذافی لیبیا سے فرار ہو کر وینزویلا پہنچ گئے ہیں۔۔ انقلاب زندہ باد ۔ پاکستان میں ایسے نکلنے کی ضرورت ہے تاکہ یہاں کا حکمران طبقہ فرار ہو کر اپنے اصلی وطن واشنگٹن پہنچ جائے
قذافی خاندان اور اشرافیہ کو اہم ترین شعبوں پر اختیار ہے،وکی لیکس
کراچی…لیبیاکے صدر کرنل محمد قذافی کا پورا خاندان اورحکومت کے اتحادی ملک کے کاروبار پر چھائے ہوئے ہیں۔۔وکی لیکس کی خفیہ دستاویزات کے مطابق ان لوگوں کو منافع بخش بزنس تک براہ راست رسائی حاصل ہے۔اامریکی محکمہ خارجہ کی اعلی افسر الزبتھ فرٹشل کے مراسلے کے مطابق حکومت کی کرپشن پر دل کھول کر بولنے والے کرنل قذافی کے پورے خاندان اور سیاسی اشرافیہ کواہم ترین کاروباری شعبوں پر مکمل اختیار حاصل ہے تاہم حکومت کی پسندیدگی سے محروم ہونے کے بعدکوئی بھی ان سے ہاتھ بھی دھوسکتاہے۔خفیہ دستاویزات کے مطابق تیل اور گیس سیکٹر کے علاوہ ٹیلی کام،تعمیر و ترقی کے منصوبوں ،ہوٹلز اورذرائع ابلاغ سمیت بے شمار شعبوں پر قذافی کی اولادوں کا راج ہے۔یہ طبقہ ملک میں اہم اصلاحات لانے کے علاوہ نئے چیلنجز بھی سامنے لاتاہے ۔مراسلے کے مطابق قذافی کے بیٹے سیف الاسلام قذافی تیل اور گیس کی منافع بخش صنعت سے فائدہ اٹھاتے ہیں جبکہ ان کی بیٹی ڈاکٹر عائشہ مختلف امدادی سرگرمیوں اور تجارتی معاملات میں آگے رہتی ہیں۔مراسلے کے مطابق قذافی خاندان میں ایک دوسرے سے آگے بڑھنے اورمالی معاملات اپنے ہاتھ میں لینے کے لئے کئی بار لڑائی جھگڑے کی نوبت بھی آئی ہے۔
قذافی خاندان اور اشرافیہ کو اہم ترین شعبوں پر اختیار ہے،وکی لیکس
کراچی…لیبیاکے صدر کرنل محمد قذافی کا پورا خاندان اورحکومت کے اتحادی ملک کے کاروبار پر چھائے ہوئے ہیں۔۔وکی لیکس کی خفیہ دستاویزات کے مطابق ان لوگوں کو منافع بخش بزنس تک براہ راست رسائی حاصل ہے۔اامریکی محکمہ خارجہ کی اعلی افسر الزبتھ فرٹشل کے مراسلے کے مطابق حکومت کی کرپشن پر دل کھول کر بولنے والے کرنل قذافی کے پورے خاندان اور سیاسی اشرافیہ کواہم ترین کاروباری شعبوں پر مکمل اختیار حاصل ہے تاہم حکومت کی پسندیدگی سے محروم ہونے کے بعدکوئی بھی ان سے ہاتھ بھی دھوسکتاہے۔خفیہ دستاویزات کے مطابق تیل اور گیس سیکٹر کے علاوہ ٹیلی کام،تعمیر و ترقی کے منصوبوں ،ہوٹلز اورذرائع ابلاغ سمیت بے شمار شعبوں پر قذافی کی اولادوں کا راج ہے۔یہ طبقہ ملک میں اہم اصلاحات لانے کے علاوہ نئے چیلنجز بھی سامنے لاتاہے ۔مراسلے کے مطابق قذافی کے بیٹے سیف الاسلام قذافی تیل اور گیس کی منافع بخش صنعت سے فائدہ اٹھاتے ہیں جبکہ ان کی بیٹی ڈاکٹر عائشہ مختلف امدادی سرگرمیوں اور تجارتی معاملات میں آگے رہتی ہیں۔مراسلے کے مطابق قذافی خاندان میں ایک دوسرے سے آگے بڑھنے اورمالی معاملات اپنے ہاتھ میں لینے کے لئے کئی بار لڑائی جھگڑے کی نوبت بھی آئی ہے۔
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