08-19-2006, 08:43 AM
A though provoking post indeed. Just adding my two cents here.
In our beloved country, the land of the pure and the brave, we have what is know as 'special interest groups', there is the Armed forces, the bureaucracy, so called politicians, Landlords, business man the list goes on. Over the last half a decade or so, there is an active propoganda campagin against the Armed forces,.. we have a new bread of liberals in Pakistan who think that my maligning the army they can some how break their strong hold in the country,. they are ofcourse wrong. Whilst, I agree that the Armed forces should serve Pakistan in their professional capacity it would be a fallacy to believe that maligning the armed forces will not malign Pakistan. Surely, as Citizens of Pakistan it is our God given right to know the truth,. there are too many questions that have not been answered,.. who killed Liaqut Ali Khan, why was the 1956 constitution suspended by a nominated Governor General, what happened in 1971, who killed Zia and most important of all why did we retreat from Kargil. From what I remember in the press at that time and what I have read in the press,.. all fingers point to one person.. the elected PM of that time. I cannot go on to believe that Sharif was not aware of the Kargil war to start with,. General Musharaf (back then) was not as Powerful a Chief of Army staff to have done it alone. He would have required the PM's backing (especially when it wasa 2/3rd majority PM). Like having meddled into and neutralised the presidency, judiciary, bureaucracy he went on to the Army there were talks about reduction and all. The Writing was on the wall.
For the record, history is written by the victorious,.. and it is a fact we won the 1948 war,, since we got Gilgat, Skardu and Azad Kashmir (All of which was domain of Raja Hari Singh).. although we agreed to a ceasefire..(that is another story and a question never having been answered) 65 again was a win situation for us,.. since Pakistan was not the agressor, it was the Indians who crossed the International border (We had not accepted the line of ceasefire as International border),. and then we come to Kargil ! you are not asked to retreat if you are loosing,, its plain simple as that. India could have held on for longer but had to pay a very high price in terms of money and men.
I do agree that among Bhutto and Sharif, the latter is the lesser evil.
In our beloved country, the land of the pure and the brave, we have what is know as 'special interest groups', there is the Armed forces, the bureaucracy, so called politicians, Landlords, business man the list goes on. Over the last half a decade or so, there is an active propoganda campagin against the Armed forces,.. we have a new bread of liberals in Pakistan who think that my maligning the army they can some how break their strong hold in the country,. they are ofcourse wrong. Whilst, I agree that the Armed forces should serve Pakistan in their professional capacity it would be a fallacy to believe that maligning the armed forces will not malign Pakistan. Surely, as Citizens of Pakistan it is our God given right to know the truth,. there are too many questions that have not been answered,.. who killed Liaqut Ali Khan, why was the 1956 constitution suspended by a nominated Governor General, what happened in 1971, who killed Zia and most important of all why did we retreat from Kargil. From what I remember in the press at that time and what I have read in the press,.. all fingers point to one person.. the elected PM of that time. I cannot go on to believe that Sharif was not aware of the Kargil war to start with,. General Musharaf (back then) was not as Powerful a Chief of Army staff to have done it alone. He would have required the PM's backing (especially when it wasa 2/3rd majority PM). Like having meddled into and neutralised the presidency, judiciary, bureaucracy he went on to the Army there were talks about reduction and all. The Writing was on the wall.
For the record, history is written by the victorious,.. and it is a fact we won the 1948 war,, since we got Gilgat, Skardu and Azad Kashmir (All of which was domain of Raja Hari Singh).. although we agreed to a ceasefire..(that is another story and a question never having been answered) 65 again was a win situation for us,.. since Pakistan was not the agressor, it was the Indians who crossed the International border (We had not accepted the line of ceasefire as International border),. and then we come to Kargil ! you are not asked to retreat if you are loosing,, its plain simple as that. India could have held on for longer but had to pay a very high price in terms of money and men.
I do agree that among Bhutto and Sharif, the latter is the lesser evil.
