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"Undeclared War Being Waged" Against Pakistan by U.S.
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Joint Publications Research Service, September 5, 1991
Political: Undeclared War Being Waged
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<p>By Zahid Ahmad Khan, "The Undeclared War Against Pakistan,"
[Islamabad, The Muslim in English, 11 Aug 91, p. 7]
</p>
<p> After the demise of communism in the USSR and its East
European satellite states, the United States has embarked upon
an unprecedented spree of adventurism to control the entire
world with its macho display. Emboldened by the military defeat
of Iraq, a sinister effort is underway to give the same
treatment to those states, particularly the Muslim ones, which
refuse to knuckle under to the high and the mighty. Nobody
knows exactly which the next Muslim State would be to feel the
heat from the United States. But indications are there,
suggesting that Pakistan may be the next country at the
receiving end.
</p>
<p> Some of the very important leaders of Pakistan alluded to
this possibility during the Gulf war. Our COAS [Chief of Army
Staff] General Mirza Aslam Beg, even though heading the army of
one of the allied countries, could not help himself from giving
vent to his genuine apprehensions about real intentions of the
United States vis-a-vis the Middle East.
</p>
<p> In fact, he was the only important military man in the
Muslim allied countries who came out very boldly against the
real face of the Western alliance spearheaded by the United
States. Very few people were willing to take that warning
seriously. Some politicians contrarily took it as yet another
sign of dichotomy between the army and the civil government over
the Gulf policy.
</p>
<p> Now that the veracity of that warning has become clear,
Pakistan's military and economic aid has been stopped. It is
the turn of Pakistan to bear the brunt of the yet another
offensive to allow the 'new world order' to see the light of
day.
</p>
<p> Pakistan is the only country of the region after Iraq which
is in a position to stand on its feet, much to the dismay of
the naked imperialism of the United States. As such, it is the
only impediment in the way of Pax-Americana in South Asia, in
different capacities. There has been an increasing amount of
propensity on the part of Pakistan to act independently on at
least those matters of national importance where the stakes are
too high. Pakistan and the United States no longer see eye to
eye on the Afghan problem. And in the Gulf War, our
participation was in fact only technical. Of all the Muslim
countries which rallied under the United States to expel Iraqi
forces from Kuwait, it was (and still is) Pakistan which
remained opposed to the modus operandi of the entire operation
that saw the destruction of Iraqi military might. To cap it
all, Pakistan's principled stand on its independent nuclear
program is further cleaving it apart from the United States. We
are, therefore, no longer the dependable allies of the United
States.
</p>
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</article>
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