Why,the clubbing of the two countries, as AF-PAK ?

Why,the clubbing of the two countries, as AF-PAK ?

It is strictly ridiculous having clubbed the two countries that is Afghanistan and Pakistan, as Af-Pak!.
Both have always been two separate sovereign states with a complete different, historical background, landscape, culture, traditions and customs, economy's, literacy, territorial and population size and militarily might and society etc. In short the only thing common between the two countries is religion and the common border known as the Durand line which distinguishes them as two separate entities.
The factual state is that Pakistan is only an ally of the US in the ongoing war on terror taking place in Afghanistan.It is being fought between the US and NATO forces with the Afghan Taliban's led by Mullah Omar.How does Pakistan fit into that scenario,I would ponder ? be cause Pakistan role is limited to remaining within the remit of its own territory,certainly not across its own border on the Afghanistan side !.Thus it indeed doesn't make any logical sense at all, as why their status has been clubbed as one ?.
If it is being done so on the basis that Pakistan is also battling an insurgency on its soil with the name sake so-called Taliban's then one must understand that the Taliban’s of Afghanistan and those who launched the insurgency within the Northern region of Pakistan (bordering Afghanistan) known as Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) are two different breeds with different, backgrounds, causes and agendas.
The ones engaged in battle with the US and the NATO Forces are led by Mullah Omar. Formerly, the Mujaheddin who fought the Soviets and drove them out from their country. Aided and supported mainly by the US and the rest comprising of the Arabs, Pan-Islamic and western country’s. Their main cause and agenda now apparently seems to be is to drive the occupying US and NATO forces out of their country and to resume the lost power in their own country.
While on the other hand the insurgents operating within Pakistan, known as, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were led by Baitullah Mehsud (Killed recently in a drone attack in his house hit by a missile) who was a local belonging to the Mehsud tribe located alongside the border dividing the two countries in the North.This group consists of approximately a few thousands of local rogues and foreigners such as the Uzbek's, Chechen, Tajiks, few Arabs and Afghanis, hailing from the Northern Alliance group based in Afghanistan and supported/patronized by the RAW,CIA and Afghan government .They were raised and sent sent from across the border of Afghanistan into, Pakistan, with the agenda (a) to destabilize Pakistan to such an extent that it would appear like a failed state ripe to be taken over by the extremists with the nuclear arsenal (b)Providing the vested foreign interest to gain access to the nuclear facilities of Pakistan, which has been a constant eyesore for them since the first test blast was undertaken in 1998 by them in the after math of neighboring country India’s test blast (c) to malign Islam and Muslims in the eyes of the international community's.
It is unfortunate that yesterdays friends have now been termed as fiends, till the time they were bravely fighting, sacrificing, laying down their lives against the Soviets troops occupying their country, they were held in high admiration and referred as the brave Mujaheddin, engaged in Jihad (Performing an act in the name of Allah/God). But now since the shoe is on the other foot, US are the invader and the occupier of their land, they have suddenly been spurned from “Heroes to Zero” terming them as barbarians, killers, extremists and above all terrorists. I strictly recall that Afghanistan was invaded by the US on the pretext to get Osama bin Laden and his associates! Who after the sad and tragic incident of 9/11 were held responsible by the US, to have master minded the attack through their terrorist network called Al-Qaeda. Though it is another thing that today it is hugely suspected by independent private experts through researches and very detailed investigative facts and proofs that it was an inside job carried out with a pretext to launch the invasion in Afghanistan and subsequently in Iraq, keeping in mind multifaceted agendas for their own self interests, most of it understood to be, Oily!. Coming back to the point at the time of the invasion the Taliban’s, were governing Afghanistan, and were never accused or sought out as being terrorists by the US. Their only crime at that time was that they had refused to hand over their guest Osama bin laden, as it was against their tribal cultural norm and tradition. It is understood from the media that just some days prior to the invasion by the US some direct and indirect contacts were made with them by the US; they (Taliban) had acceded to handover Osama with certain conditions but Alas! The gesture appeared to be too late. Thus the invasion came and the Taliban’s were ousted from the government and the US propped up its own puppet regime .The rest is history now.
It has been nearly 9 years and there appears to be no trace of Osama’s where about or in fact whether he is dead or alive?But yet the US and the NATO forces remain stationed there holding on control militarily of about just 35% to 40 % ,Why ?.There is nothing about Osama or of Al-Qaeda heard of from them since the last many years! Who they actually came after and not the Taliban’s they are engaged in fighting. Doesn’t make much sense to me as to what is the cause of the present war that is still going on in, Afghanistan. These Taliban’s don’t appear to be capable of being a global threat like what the Al-Qaeda supposedly was able to carry out as terrorist related attacks around the world. About the valiant and brave Pakistani army operation in uprooting the insurgents from Swat!Hats off to them. The Pakistani brave soldiers who laid down their lives protecting and cleansing the motherlands soil of the foreign stooges in the garb of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)who were bent upon trying to impose their own brand and self styled form of Sharia completely contrary to the teaching of Islam .Because, Islam forbids suicide and terms it as haram (Sinful) ,it does not stop females from acquiring education neither does it teach to disrespect them nor does it allow mosques to be bombed etc.They dared to attempt to destabilize Pakistan just so they could please their foreign masters who they served for monetary greed .I salute the valiant Pakistan army. Now after this success of getting rid of the traitors from Swat the brave Pakistan army men are successfully engaged in the final assault in S.Waziristan to eliminate the foreign paid and supported rats of TTP and inshallah they shall very soon complete this task with same result as was seen to have happened in the Swat and Malakand operation carried out against the TTP.
I sincerely wish and pray that our security agencies and the army would also pay some serious attention in getting rid of the foreign Private Military Contractors (PMC’s)/paid mercenaries /merchant of death who are suspected to be present in large numbers in various cities of Pakistan to carry out covert subversive activities and that the causeless and meaningless war in Afghanistan ends soon with peace and harmony reigning once again in that beautiful land of Afghanistan and its terrorized citizens.Amen
Pakistan Zindabad
Written by: Mushtaq Sethi

How to tackle the wave of terrorism on war footing within Pakistan !

How to tackle the wave of terrorism on war footing within Pakistan !

It is internationally known that since 9/11, incident and the US attack on Afghanistan to chase Osama bin laden the prime accused belonging to Al-Qaeda. Pakistan joined hands with the US and the NATO forces as a front-line ally. This resulted in Pakistan becoming the main target of the terrorists to bear the brunt within that region. The bad news was when the foreign funded and aided fully armed insurgency under the name of Tehreeki-Taliban Pakistan surfaced in its northern areas of Swat and FATA and spread terror amongst the locals there, trying to forcefully implement their own brand of Islam.

However the brave Pakistan army launched an operation against these fully armed with sophisticated militants, eliminating most of them and some escaping to flee to the southern region where lay the bastion of evils strong hold the Mehsud tribe of South Waziristan.But it wasn’t for very long that they could breath easily there too, because the valiant Pakistani Armed forces launched operation Nijat to completely eliminate them from the soil of Pakistan forever. Never the less, such actions against evil are not without some repercussions and unfortunately for the Pakistani citizens it turned into a nightmare of string of terrorist suicidal blasts and armed terror attacks in nearly most of Pakistan’s main cities like Peshawar, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Lahore etc.

However, the need of the hour remains that quick time emergency preventive actions be devised on how to effectively deal with the threat that we are facing in the cities in the form of suicide bomb blasts and terrorism related raids in physical attacks form on educational institutions and sensitive installations. I personally feel that to control this threat immediately the government needs to make the terrorist” ineffective” and then go about how to them apprehend them,” physically”. Bare handed terrorists are like a toothless and fang trimmed tiger. I am sure you shall agree!

To explain what I mean by making them “ineffective” is that their sources of arms and ammunition needs to be plugged tightly to deprive them of such materials which are instrumental in causing death and destruction in large areas causing causalities in huge numbers. Funding of cash isn’t that important as is starving them of this equipment and material they easily get to lay hands on, to make bombs and mind you the vehicles in which they easily reach their targeted destinations. It is obvious they buy and obtain such material either from the local market or from some external source that is apart from the vehicles they use. The, RDS used in the making of bombs isn’t some thing which one can purchase over the counter, like buying an aspirin for a common headache? From what I understand locally its permitted sale is to licensed and registered organization engaged mainly in the mining or the construction projects such as of roads to cut mountains through explosives. Besides RDS there are many other components which are used in the making of a bombs planted or fitted in suicide Jackets. The latter type of bombing (Suicide) has been seen as the most effective threat from the terrorist and most difficult or safe to say uncontrolled by the law enforcement and security agencies till date.

The first effective measure for how to go about starving them would be to identify the external routes from where these materials and equipments possibly flow in and reach their hands and then tightly plug them. To achieve this border security at the Afghanistan and Indian borders has to become very vigilant and check posts should ensure through checking of all vehicles bringing in goods from across the borders. Simultaneously, internally the inter-city and inter provincial routes should also have fixed and mobile checking squads. It is not only the land route that needs to be watched but the coastal areas,as well.. They Navy and the coast guards should keep a vigil on the fishing boats as it is quite possible that this could be the most vulnerable one through which the arms and the explosives can be smuggled in large quantities. For the curtailment of explosive materials being obtained from internal sources, falling into their hands thorough investigation by means of checking the records of those organization and contractor to whom these RDS material was sold legally its present stock and the amount used by them on the project should be made accountable and verified. Car snatching and lifting should be taken seriously for it is this means by way of which these terrorist obtain transportation for themselves for reaching their destination and for monitoring the targets for planning an attack .At the first report of a stolen vehicle by the victim the police should act seriously to recover the vehicle. Which unfortunately till now has never been given much importance.

A media campaign should be launched to educate the ordinary public on how they can be helpful in identifying the suspicious elements with their areas. And the authorities should announce special numbers for the public to inform on.

As regards to the bigger group like TTP our brave Pakistan army’s soldiers have taken care of them in the Swat operation and inshallah very soon would eliminate the rest of the poisonous vipers during the ongoing operation launched in the South Waziristan by them.

Pakistan Zindabad and Pakistan Army Zindabad.

Written by: Mushtaq Sethi

The Trillion dollar question is who is Funding the Taliban's? And how do the Arms and Ammunition reach them?

The Trillion dollar question is who is Funding the Taliban's? And how do the Arms and Ammunition reach them?

The Afghan Taliban’s, engaged in fighting the combined NATO and US occupational army in Afghanistan and Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) raising insurgency within Pakistani territory are very heavily armed and equipped with the latest and most sophisticated weapons !

It is worth pondering as to who is funding them and by means of which route does their supply’s reach them? Is there some external force/s interest involved in this destabilization in Pakistan, in particular? It is pertinent that proper thorough investigation be conducted as to from whom the Taliban get money and funds to run their terror game and why?!!

It has become quite obvious from some recent development that the poppy trade income is negligible and cannot be sufficient to enable them to give such stiff resistance to practically two (US+NATO Forces combined=1 and Pakistan Army 1 =2) full fledged trained armies. !

This possibility has just recently been ruled out as the main funding factor by Mr. Richards Holbrooke, special envoy of President .Obama, for Afghanistan and Pakistan affairs at press briefing and other forums. However,I do recall that after having made this statement he changed it again and went back to the drug being the main source of Taliban during EU meeting latter on.

It would be fair to first comprehend the difference between the two Taliban’s operating on each side of the Afghanistan and Pakistan borders must be understood while reading the text contents down below!

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in particular is totally parallel to Afghani Taliban mostly carrying Pashtun people in their force. If their basic aim and cause is to be observed, Afghani Taliban have prime target to send the Americans and NATO packing out of Afghanistan and Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan (TTP ) has the goal of implementation of their own brand of Sharia inside Pakistan under the banner of Wahabism.

There are many views expressed by people from different walks of life on this issue when raised on public forums. Some claim that the funding is by Saudi citizens or Princes, sympathizers of Bin Laden, for the cause of promoting wahabism (one of the Muslim religious school of thought) .Others claim that it is the religious parties based in Pakistan who are helping them sustain while few feel that it is the neighboring country, India’s RAW, Israel, Mossad and American CIA,intelligensias combined conspiracy to destabilize Pakistan to make it look like a failed state whose nuclear arsenal are in danger of falling into the hands of the armed Muslim fundamentalists/militants, the Talibans.Some of the analysts claim that the arms supplied by the US to the Afghanistan have some how leaked to the Taliban’s and also another version is that the Taliban’s old foes in Afghanistan the Northern alliance have some how been helping them out by selling their arms and ammunation.The more mouths the greater the view points and speculations.

Let us examine and rule out the possibilities above on one by one basis.

Drug Money from the poppy crop: which according to some estimate is second largest trade in the world after oil and its earning are in billions. It is also claimed that about 9o+ percentage is from Afghanistan. Though these statistics could be correct yet it is a fact that during the Taliban’s rule 1996 till their being ousted by the US invasion in 2001 there is substantial evidence that the poppy cultivation declined during the Taliban rule by 97% i.e. from 3600 tonnes to 1.85 and rose to record 4700 tonnes after the US invasion and the continued rule till now of its backed puppet regime of MR.Karzai.These figure were corroborated by the UN team.http://globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO404A.html andhttp://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2005-05-12-csm-afghan-drugs_x.htm .

Saudi citizen sympathizers of Bin laden and to promote Wahabism in Northern regions of Pakistan through TTP and in Afghanistan by Taliban’s of Afghanistan: If anybody was to believe that then the only wise comment would be that the US have made a mistake by invading Iraq and Afghanistan! Actually they should have targeted the Saudi Arabians.Lol.I really don’t think there is a case, it is openly trying to throw the suspicion unto Saudi Arabia. We all know that Saudi’s royalty and its subject would never get involved in supporting criminal activity which the militants at present are perpetrating against their loyal friend Pakistan and of course their ally’s the USA. It is apparent it is inferred only for the reason that Osama, is from Saudi Arabia apart from that linkage the contention are entirely based on suppositions. I find it is very hard to digest something which emanates from mere gossiping! What is the motivation and benefits these Saudi citizens can accrue by dishing out their wealth to some one like Osama or by having Pakistan destabilized? Regarding the Wahabism cause! The truth is never ever in Wahabism it is taught to blow mosques, tombs, girls’ schools and kill innocent people through suicide bombing. No, one can quote a single statement of a Wahabi Scholar based in Saudi Arabia who endorses Suicide killings in markets, public places, blowing tombs, mosques of rival groups etc.It,evidently appears to be deliberately involving Saudis in the havoc inside Pakistan and creating a sense of mistrust for the Pakistan and Saudi relations, who are since ages sincere to each other and to all the Muslims. As stated earlier above, TTP (Tehreek e Taliban Pakistan) has the goal of implementation of their own brand of Sharia inside Pakistan under their self styled banner of Wahabism.Which has been rejected by both the Muslims school of thought the Barelvi and the Deobandi.

The Religious Parties in Pakistan: A far out and not remotely possible! as they themselves are dependent on fudings for their own madrassahs functioning and survival, from the country mostly like U.A.E and M.E etc.So how could they ever afford such huge amounts which the Taliban’s appear to be receiving on regular basis. Secondly all have jointly already condemned and rejected the actions carried out so far by the TTP and the brand of shariah they(TTP) claim for to be implemented in Pakistan.

The neighboring country, India’s RAW, Israel’s Mossad and American CIA,intelligensias combined conspiracy to destabilize Pakistan to make it look like a failed state whose nuclear arsenal are in danger of falling into the hands of the Muslim fundamentalists armed militants, the Talibans.:This is a general view prevalent within the Pakistani populace that we need to understand. It is believed that Uzbeks operating with TTP are loyal to Northern Alliance of Afghanistan, Afghan National Army and most importantly they are in alliance with Americans, Indians and Israelis. They are being continuously supported, armed, funded and trained by US Intelligence just to create havoc in the northern Areas of Pakistan.. This is evident since many of those foreign militants killed in the ongoing Pak-army operation Rah-e-Rast were Uzbeks. it is also a fact that they have been linked with the country’s that have been allegedly or presumably been named, so did Pakistan in those days.! But the Northern alliance it is a known fact has never been Pakistan friendly even during the cold war days .Secondly it was observed that since the activities of the TTP increased in Pakistan the focus of terrorist attack in Afghanistan on US and NATO forces had declined drastically. This could be a possible gain? It is also given to understand by the local defense analysts views expressed through the media that there are 17 regiments of the Indian Army alongside the border working under the Umbrella of the US and sheltering and arming the terrorists for activities into Pakistan. It is believed that the Taliban’s are mere puppets in the hands of vested foreign non-Muslim interests. That they have been propped up to create a destabilized image about Pakistan internationally, with the malafide intents that its government is to weak to rule. That it has turned vulnerable to the extent that its Nukes may fall in the hands of the Taliban extremist militants. Thus paving the way of these vested interests to have an excuse to walk in and take control of the Nukes themselves! Everyone, even a child in Pakistan speaks of this motive and who shall benefit and how from all this, if they succeed. The major factor contributing towards suspicions to the CIA are the drone (unmanned planes) missiles attacks within Pakistan’s territory causing death of innocent locals and destruction of their houses in the tribal belt is a counter-productive act being carried out by the CIA. It is a dampener for the US image within the hearts and minds of the local people of tribal areas as well as the whole of the Pakistani populace. The US made and Indian marking weapons seized during the recently launched Pakistan Army operation against the TTP in the FATA/PATA regions are all creating doubts about the US intentions towards Pakistan.http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/world/asia/20ammo.html?_r=1

It is baffling from where and whom Baithullah Masood the supremeo of TTP gets 4 Arab PK Rupees to spend annually to maintain his force of 15000 militants?

Where are the intelligence agencies? Can they not locate the main headquarters of Taliban and AQ, and storm them to arrest all the senior leaders including Osama? Now the latest techniques can be use to locate the trouble makers easily.

But till now the Valliant armed forces and for once the Pakistani political forces have kept aside their differences and personal gains and shown exemplary display of discipline, faith and unity for the sake of the country’s solidarity and sovereignty and kept their motherland safe from these nefarious designs to succeed.

The above are though speculations yet! are definitely thought provoking!

P.s.

Recently, Mr.Richard Brookes,President .Obama’s,envoy for Afghanistan and Pakistan has pointed out that it is the gulf country who are funding the Talibans !
http://www.fox43.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-afghanistan-holbrooke,0,5007706.story

I certainly with all due respects for Mr.Brooke intelligence, dont agree with this contention of his that the Gulf states are supporting the Taliban cause.

Since,it is a fact that all are US allies and even if not an ally still none of them have the gall or guts to risk doing that against US+NATO,whose wrath they very well know they would not be able to sustain nor good for their health.Lol . Besides, what could they possibily benefit or gain by doing so ?.

Written by : Mushtaq Sethi

The UN is not an independent body… Free it, please!!!

The UN general assembly is literally a puppet to the powerful influence of the Super Power members of the security council.

A simple veto to a resolution passed by the general assembly can be rejected.Implying it is not being run on democratic norms.It is practically hostage to 7 nations.So why have it in the first place ?.

The way I see it is that the UN should be based on truly democratic structure similar to the Parliamentary form of governance. All member states should have the right to forward their point of view on a matter which comes forward to it for deliberation and their vote should be in equal value of all nations irrespective of its power status..It should be put to secret ballot and on the basis of simple majority the resolution should be passed and sent to the the upper house for further vetting(detailed below) then implemented in the same spirit within shortest possible time frame.

Secondly, it is necessary for check and balance a different version of upper house be formulated.It should not be in the characteristic of the security council rather on the pattern of the Senates which exist as upper houses in both the Parliamentary and Presidential forms of governance.The members should be elected from all continents country’s on proportionate basis .Like for instance,Asia,Africa,America ,Australia, etc.

The two Houses should have their speakers or chairman’s as functional heads.The Secretary General should be the titular head for administrative ,Public relations etc duties.

The above is a loosely drafted suggestion.If put to a think tank for formulation purposes, it could be turned into a reality and thus provide the world with a truly democratic and independent world body to provide justice and fair play to all and for maintenance of global peace.

Comments invited from all.

Written by – Mushtaq Sethi

Wonder why? USA, one of the biggest champions of women rights and emancipation, have never had a women President ever?

Wonder why? USA, one of the biggest champions of women rights and emancipation, have never had a women President ever?

This makes me wonder how a Muslim state as Pakistan often considered and criticized by the west as a nation whose women have no equal rights and are oppressed.Has to its credit of having twice elected a female Prime Minister which of course was the late assassinated Mrs.Benazir Bhutto.Who took up the reins of one of the largest Party of Pakistan namely the,Pakistan Peoples Party after her Late father and Prime Minister.Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto death.The same party today is the ruling party, in Pakistan with Mr.Asif Zardari ,spouse of Benazir Bhutto as the President.

It appears they have surpassed US and the west in this department !!Even their Speaker of the National assembly (lower house) is a women,Mrs.Fehmida Mirza.

Strange then why does the west criticize them ? It is sheer hypocrisy and propaganda by the west against the east.

The fact is that women in South Asia and South East Asia have more equal rights to their opposite gender then the western females!Specially judging from the names like,Indira Gandhi (India),Bandranaike (Sri Lanka),Hasina Wajid(Bangladesh) and Benazir Bhutto (Pakistan).

Some are of the view and consider that the above ladies got where they did because of being the close relatives of famous male political personality’s like ; Benazir being the daughter of a man who had charisma you either loved or hated, Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, there was no mid way with him and Benazir had been groomed by him and had the same kind of following. Indira Gandhi’s father, Nehru, another charismatic person, India has yet to outgrow the Nehru family. Hasina Wajid daughter of another charismatic leader, Mujib-ur- Rehman. Bandranaike took over after her husband died.

So even if all these ladies had very successful men behind them, but fact of course was the voters gave them their votes, despite the fact that they were women. I don’t think that men in South Asia are prejudiced against women, how can they be when in their early years they are ruled by their mothers and in the later years by their wives.

Being sibling of illustrious personality’s is no crime or matter of shame.If winning due to that without them having their own personal ability’s was the only factor,then Miss.Fatima Jinnah wouldn’t have lost the general elections against Field Marshal.Mohd Ayub Khan,in early 60’s. After all she was the sister of the founder of Pakistan Jinnah.George Bush Jr was the son of a formers US president.Hillary Clinton lost the elections in spite of being the former 1st lady as wife of President.Bill Clinton ?.

Possibly,USA may need someone so charismatic and strong to be in that post. The era from which USA is seeing itself passing can be handled by a wise and committed leader. Woman Leader can be carrying that attributes as we see.I think USA’s citizens have not yet found any such leader yet otherwise they may had chosen someone for this seat long ago!! I don’t know if there is any legal or legislative binding exists, but the only reason I see is the absence of any such Woman leader in the history of USA. But ,it would amount to being naive to say that out of 50+ states of one of the most powerful,advanced and literate nation like the US, not one or two woman matching above stated characteristic for a leader has yet taken birth ! Secondly there isn’t any legal or legislative binding or restraining females to stand for the Presidential election.

I feel,this show that sexism exists more there then the South Asian and South East nation country’s as propagandized by them and the west.It is a fact that nations less in all respect to the US have been within decades of some of their nations inception produced such female head of states,namely.(late) Mrs.Indira Gandhi,(late) Ms.Benazir Bhutto,Mrs.Hasina shaikh Wajid,Mrs,Bandranaike.

The question is if these small nations were able to find such talented charismatic female leaders in decades not forgetting western country like UK , with reference to Mrs.Margaret thatcher former Prime Minister of England and the Chancellor of Germany etc .How come US since its inception in century’s have been unsuccessful ? The truth is that there isn’t any dearth of brilliant females to be worthy candidates to their opposite genders in America.The problem as I see it is that the average American males are possibly chauvinists in mentality.They have that phony macho-ism attitude towards the females in that country.They don’t want their women folks beyond a certain level of public office. Probably,If they had their way completely they would restrict the women folks to the extent of their bed and not any further.

What a shame ! I hope that the emancipated, enlightened,educated,intelligent and brilliant but naive and simple females of the American population would now realize that they are not as free as they believe themselves to be.!!!

Written by – Mushtaq Sethi

Is Britain a safe haven for exiled, dismissed or ousted political leaders?

Is Britain a safe haven for exiled, dismissed or ousted political leaders?

I have always been quite curious that whenever Political leaders or a dictator, be it a deposed President or Prime Minister, an insecure political party head or an ousted dictator is forced to leave his country he/she, always beelines straight for London ?.Most of them being from the South Asian country’s.

What attracts them to choose this particular destination ? Makes one wonder !.Could it possibly be,Madame Tussads famous wax museum or the London bridge ?The same one which we all seem to have have been so brainwashed with during the school going day’s with repeated recitation of the old nursary ryhme attributed with it and which went as “London Bridge is falling down,falling down…..”No, I don’t think so.Then it could be the world famous cricket grounds or maybe the beauty and splendor of the Queens, Bukingham Castle.Whatever may be the appeal which draws them to England one thing is certain it attracts them like bees in search of sweet stuff or source.!

The most strange and intrguing aspect of it all is, that they are always welcomed with open arms! They are given a free hand and facilitated to open their respective political offices, to carry out their political activity’s.Which at certain time’s could be deemed as interfering and attempting to disrupt within their respective country’s day to day smooth running and governing affairs.Most of these overseas activities are made possible through press conferences and public address via satellite tele-conferencing, to huge gatherings of their activist and sympathizers in their place of country.

In, a nutshell their respective shops do usual business within the safe haven of its Majesty’s, soil.Come to think of, on the contrary, I have yet to see a British or a European political leader heading to any other country even under extreme threat or fear of being executed etc and operating against their respective countrys government in such manner and I am sure if it did happend they would immediately put up a formal protest to the ost country for allowing to to happen and or would go to the extent of seeking his or her extradition for a trial before their country’s court of law.Doesnt this smack of maintaining double standards ?.

This makes me wonder then why Britain is so liberal in accommodating them gladly and with such greatest of ease and not those who are keen to travel to their country to attain higher educational or professional studies or business opportunities. The latter groups it is observed comparitively have to undergo a great amount of difficulties to clear many painful and cumbersome rules and procedures to get desired clearance to acquire a visa for entering her Majesty’s, Great Britain.

The way my layman brain perceives this is, that possibly, British intelligentsia or their ally’s find these political heavy weights presence in their country as most advantageous and beneficial for their own political aims or intelligence reasons to attain a easy access through them to gain in-depth knowledge and latest information pertaining to the developments taking place within those country’s, to whom these exiled or self exiled leaders belong too ?.And if necessitated or required use the asylum leader’s links to promote their vested political agenda and interests there through their good sources!

I could be wrong in my perception to, maybe it is solely due to humane reasons!What do you think ?

Written by : Mushtaq A. Sethi