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Israel contacts not at the expense of Pak’s support for Palestinians: Musharraf
04 December, 2005
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KUWAIT, December 04 (Online): President General Pervez Musharraf declared on Saturday that his country would continue supporting the Palestinians in their quest to proclaim their independent state.
Although Islamabad has held contacts with the Israelis at the ministerial level, this will not be at the expense of Pakistan’s support for the Palestinians, Gen. Musharraf said in his press talk on his arrival in Kuwait.
Musharraf affirmed that his visit to Kuwait was aimed at boosting the bilateral relations "that are already solid and distinguished particularly at the political level. "But we will seek to cement these ties further at the economic and commercial levels."
The president said his planned talks with His Highness Prime Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah would deal with diverse regional and international affairs as well as coordination in the fight against terrorism. In response to a question on reported death of the field commander of operations of Al-Qaeda organization, Hamza Rabeea, he said "these news are 100 percent confirmed."
Later on Kuwaiti Minister of Foreign Affairs Sheikh Dr. Mohammed Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah and Minister of Energy Sheikh Ahmad Fahad Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah called on President General Pervez Musharraf at his residence in Bayan Palace on Saturday.
The meeting was attended by head of the honorary accompanying delegation, the Minister of Communications and Minister of Health Sheikh Ahmad Al-Abdullah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Foreign Ministry Undersecretary Khaled Sulaiman Al-Jarallah, Foreign Ministry’s Director of the Department of Asia and Africa Ambassador Abdul-Mohsen Al-Haroun, Foreign Ministry’s Director of the Economic Department Sheikh Ambassador Ali Al-Khaled Al-Sabah, and the ambassadors of the two countries.
During the meeting bilateral, regional and matter pertaining to international importance were discussed.
Later on Finance Minister Bader Mshari Al-Humaithi called on President Gen Pervez Musharraf and discussed with at lenght matter pertaining to mutual interest as well as bilateral trade and economic ties.
Finance Minister Bader Mshari Al-Humaithi was accompanied by Director-General of Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) Abdel Wahab Al-Bader.
Earlier talking to media men at Chaklala Airbase prior to leaving for six-day visit of Kuwait, Yemen and Saudi Arabia on Saturday President General Pervez Musharraf hoped that Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) will endorse new charter in its upcoming summit in Makkah. The President noted that the approval of OIC new charter is utmost necessary for resolving problems confronted by Muslim Umma.
He said that OIC summit in Makkah is the follow-up of its meeting in Kuala- Lumpur, in which he presented his theory of enlightened moderation after which its leaders’ commission formulate a draft of some proposals.
"I hope the consensus will be evolved on the proposals", Musharraf said.
He added that consensus must be evolved on these proposals to make OIC effective.
The President was seen off by Chairman Senate Mohammadmian Soomro, Vice Chief of Army Staff and high level military and civil authorities.
During his visit of three Middle East states, the President will be accompanied by Information Minister Shaikh Rashid Ahmed, Minister for state for Petroleum Mir Naseer Mengal and Chairman Export Promotion Bureau.
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Israelis Killed Gen. Zia, Claims Ex-US Amabassador |
KARACHI, 4 December 2005 — The Israeli secret agency Mossad most probably killed Gen. Zia ul- Haq, suspects John Gunther Dean, who was the American ambassador to India in 1988, according to an article in the latest issue of World Policy Journal by Barbara Crossette, who was the South Asia Bureau Chief of the New York Times from 1988 to 1991.
When Dean expressed his views to the State Department at the time and insisted on a thorough investigation of the Israeli-Indian axis, he was accused of mental imbalance and relieved of his duties.
Dean was a distinguished diplomat who has garnered more ambassadorships than most envoys. He had strong opinions and years of valuable experience. As an independent thinker, he often had problems being a good “diplomat”.
Dean believes that the Israelis wanted to stop Pakistan's military from making nuclear weapons. They had attacked Iraq's nuclear facilities at Osirak in 1981 and believed Zia when he declared in 1987 that Pakistan was a “screwdriver's turn away from the bomb”.
Dean, now 80, has remained silent for nearly 20 years but is now collecting his papers and is ready to share his thoughts. He was declared mentally unfit for demanding an investigation into the aircrash. He lost his medical clearance and security clearance because of his views and was forced to seek retirement in 1988.
After he made the charge following the aircrash in which the then US ambassador to Pakistan, Arnie Raphel was also killed with Zia, he was sent to Switzerland to “rest” for six weeks and only then allowed to return to New Delhi to pack his bags and quit.
He is now opening the case because he wants to clear the charge of “mental imbalance” and ask the questions that have long remained buried about the aircrash that killed Zia.
Dean says that when he was ambassador to India, various pro-Israel Congressmen and other US policymakers constantly asked him why he wasn't cooperating with the Israelis to thwart Pakistan's nuclear program and demonize Pakistan.
He says he was asked to persuade the Indians to be more pro-Israel too. He is on record as having alleged that the Israelis tried to kill him in 1980 when he was US ambassador to Lebanon because he disagreed with Israeli policies. He was accused of being “pro-Palestinian” in the Israeli Knesset (Parliament).
The US did not allow the FBI or any other agency to carry out a full-fledged investigation into the crash
wasi siddiqui, Pakistan - 04 December, 2005
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Israel is no more than a bubble |
The whole Muslim Ummah appears scared of Israel. Israel is waiting only for a whiff of divine blast to make it come to its senses. But the Ummah is in for a complete chastening from autocracy into modern democracy.
Israelis are such stubborn and stiff-necked people that God has made this remark about them in the Qur'an: "Little do they fear the fire of hell." To be sure, they are under the control of the Jewish God "YHWH". Neither has "YHWH" given up chastising them, nor have the rebels among Jews stopped defying "YHWH". A prominent Jewish author, Chaim Bermant, has remarkably illustrated Jewish defiance of their prophets in his bestseller Book: "The Jews":
""If there is one recurring thing in Scripture, it is "and the people did evil in the sight of Gos, and what had happened in the days of Moses recurred in the days of Joshua and Ehud, and Deborah and Gideon, and Samuel and Saul and David, and right down through the centuries to the destruction of the First Temple. Nor in general sense, did later Jewish history follow a different pattern. Jewish misfortune, explained the Rabbis, as they explain it still, was the measute of Jewish inequity.
But yet if a people sins and is punished and sins again and is punished again, and the process continues for four thousand years without either an improvement in their ways or an end to their misfortune, then it might be reasonably inferred that the deterrent does not deter and that there was perhaps some 'imperfection in the divine plan'. It certainly confirms the reputation of Jews as "stiff-necked" people, but what is more remarkable is their continuing reaffirmation of faith. They are troubled by the ways of God, but "they forgive Him" for they know not what He is doing. They only hope that He does."
I hope Maulana Fazal and JI's Qazi sahib do not read this account. They are already brimming with hate for the Israelis. Such inflammable stuff might prove the "last straw" for them.
Chaim Bermant possessed a rare streak of humpur as well as punjency. Here is another piece from him, worth enjoing every word of it, though it reflects a true picture of most Jews:
"Most Jews recall that they're slightly less observant than their fathers and their fathers were slightly less observant than their fathers, so that in the normal course of events there should have been a gradual phasing out of Judaism. But it hasn't happened and it no longer even seems likely that it will happen. One is left with a feeling that Jews are here "because somebody wants them to be here", and that if God is here to stay, "then so are the Jews, or perhaps vice versa." Jews moreover have been Jewish for a very long time and there is a natural unwillingness to concede that one's forefathers made a mistake and continued to make it for over three thousand years. It may not be easy to believe in a God with such contradictory qualities as the God of Israel, but it is even more difficult to believe that one hundred generations of Jews could have been wrong..."
"Jews were rarely in control of their destinies and where they impinged on history it was because they were in trouble or troublesome."
I reproduce another piece that sums up the Jewish characteristic; "If we take the world Jewry as a whole, it can be said with fair honesty that they've never had it so good. They know it which is the source of their apprehensions. Can it last? There is no reason why it should not other than that it has not in the past, and it is Jewish history, rather than immediate threats, which is the source of their apprehension."
One can say that the Jews have come to the right place. We only have to make it the right time for them... as well as for ourselves. They o represent a "wake up" call for the Ummah. Let our media shake us up to be activists in the great apocalyptic drama in real life that is about to begin.
Sher Mohammad.
Email: sher_apr@yahoo.com
Sher Mohammad, Pakistan - 05 December, 2005
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