THE BATTLE IN PAKISTAN IS OVER RESOURCES-ISLAM IS JUST A TOOL TO JUSTIFY ETHNIC DISCRIMINATION AGHA H AMIN A monotheist believer in God

may state that states are created when God wants it ! Assessments cannot divine divine designs but assessments by mean mortals can assess designs of mortals ! While states are key players in state creation they do it when there is a indigenous element involved in the particular case ! This means that states can act as midwives to create a new state apart from divine design. This has happened in India after 1940 when the Brits decided to divide India.The idea was first propounded by a British civil servant Sir Michael O Dwyer in late 1930s. Bangladesh similarly was created with major Soviet and Indian role and the US also wanted to limit communist influence in East Bengal and saw Awami league as a alternative. A de facto Kurdish state has already been created in Iraq but only with US help. Bosnia and Kosovo were created with active US support. Pakistan was created by British policy to punish the All India Congress which was refusing to be part of the British war effort and later of British strategic policy in Asia ! Thus the idea of Pakistan was given as a theme to Mr Jinnah by the British Governor General in September 1939 in order to counter the anti British Indian National Congress. Pakistan was visualised as a British base against the USSR ! A cheap unstable state which could be manipulated with ease by the Brits ! In 1954 the Brits handed over Pakistan to the Americans ! The crux of the problem is that when the US with Saudi advice and Pakistani mercenary tradition started using Islam as a tool of strategy against the USSR the whole scheme went out of spin by 1999 ! It is clear now that the US is losing the war ecnomically and Pakistan and Saudi Arabia can be severely destabilised by extremist and even overwhelmed ! This is not the time to compose a funeral march but to find a median solution which leads to some counter check ! The Baloch in Pakistan want to create a free state because they see the Punjabi-Pashtun-Mohajir establishment wanting to turn them into an ethnic minority and Balochistan.The Baloch perception is that this establishment hates the Baloch and is only interested in the oil and gas and minerals of Balochistan.

Seen in the above context if Pakistan was created by Imperialist design why cannot new states be created in the region now to counter extremism ? The primer of this article was a conversation with a very senior Pakistani military official. Having studied in Balochistan for many years and having served in the Pakistani military I have the unique opportunity of knowing the key players on both sides ! This includes the paranoid Pakistani intelligence officials whose paranoia in suspecting all even including their wives extends as far as their grandmothers! In Balochistan what I am seeing is a new kind of Baloch nationalism in which even the Baloch Tribal Chief known as Sardar is becoming irrelevant. Yes foreign hands are involved. But we must remember that foreign hands succeed only if there is an indigenous genuine insurgency inside a country. The same was true for Bangladesh, and now for Indian occupied Kashmir and Balochistan. Foreign hands were involved in creating Pakistan too.After all the fathers were Sir Michael O Dwyer and the British resolve to punish Congress for not supporting the British war effort. All is not inevitable .this is a failure of Pakistani policy and above all Pakistan Army. This article may never be published in a Pakistani newspaper ? This is so because in Pakistan everything is ethnic and ulterior because it is an imperfect , anachronistic state significantly manipulated by the military , by the military intelligence and by classes who have a very unfair advantage in this unstable and volatile state. It is worth adding some background information for the foreign layman reader here. How is it that Pakistans political and military establishment which now acts as judge jury and executioner , all three combined in one class became the masters of destiny of Pakistans lesser races ? The Bengalis before 1971 who were regarded a s inferior Dravidian race by this establishment ? The Baloch and Sindhis who this establishment still regards as an inferior race till to date ! The elite which collaborated with british was the Punjabi muslim , settled area Pashtuns and Urdu speaking who gained a position of unfair advantage after partition of India by eliminating the Hindu from competition exams as well as business and agriculture.

The above classes gained a position of unfair advantage in the pre 1947 British Indian Army not because they were more martial but because they collaborated with the British in killing Indians , both Muslim and non Muslim from 1857 till 1947 ! The idea of pakistan in reality was to gain a position of unfair advantage for the above elite by eliminating the Hindu and Sikh who held superiority in business , agriculture and civil service. An eminent British scholar Francis Robinson has brilliantly explored this ulterior theme in his masterpiece book Muslim Separatism in India. Jinnah , Pakistans founder represented the Bombay Gujrati business and this is why Adamjee the Bombay business tycoon gave him a blank cheque as support to Jinnahs Muslim Leagues quest for Pakistan. The whole of jinnahs policy was dual standards.In a united India he wanted weak centre and strong provinces so that Hindu majority army could not chastise the above mentioned Muslim classes that the Muslim League represented. Once Pakistan was created Jinnah wanted strong centre and weak provinces and used army to chastise provinces the first time in Balochistan in 1948. Kalat states accession to Pakistan was as dubious as accession of Kashmir to India.However this also happened because of Jinnahs self imposed faux pas ! This was when Jinnah rejected the British Viceroy Lord Mountbatten's most just proposal that Muslim majorirty princely states join Pakistan as a formula and vice versa for Hindu and Sikh majority states joining India . Based on this Pakistan has no case on Kashmir as it joined India by a legal formula? Nehru committed a faux pas when he agreed to include the UN in the dispute and agreed to prospective plebiscite in Kashmir in order to decide whether the Kashmiris wanted to join India or Pakistan. Based on same formula Pakistani military action in Kalat in 1948 is more illegal than indian military intervention in kashmir which was perfectly legal. Even kashmir is an ethnic issue as linguistically kashmiris and punjabis are almost the same.Kashmir is about water to irrigate Punjab and Sindh. As stated earlier the above Pakistani ethnic cum class elite regarded the Bengalis , Baloch and even Sindhis as inferior and right from 1947 introduced an unfair monopoly in Pakistan. When Bengalis were in majority in population this elite wanted distribution of funds not on basis of population , but when punjabis became majority this elite wanted distribution of funds on basis of population.

Religion was used by the above elite to further their monopoly. Punjab and parts of NWFP regarded as heart of Pakistan and others regarded as semi traitors or full traitors. Even the defense strategy as taught at the Pakistani staff college and national defense college regarded north Punjab as centre of Pakistan's gravity and the main idea of the army was to defend north Punjab , specifically spelt as the triangle Lahore Rawalpindi Faisalabad. While the above elite were king makers they came in open after 1977.The same elite conspired to launch the army in Balochistan in 1948,58,1960,1973. Anyone who is outside the above elite is branded as traitor. Religion and use of proxies was adopted in October 1947 as a policy, discarded temporarily after 1948 , re-picked with force after 1969 and fully enforced after 1977. The battle in Pakistan is essentially over resources. Oil and gas being the centre of it. Even a kilogram of LPG quota can be allotted only by this elite in Pakistan.Needless to state most of the Oil and Gas industry is dominated by this elite. War with India and Indian threat is used by this elite to justify its unfair monopoly. With the new US Afghan Strategic agreement it appears that the US may endeavour to create new states in Pakistan ! It is time for the Pakistani establishment to start thinking ! Balkanisation is not inevitable if Pakistans ethnic establishment stops being ethnic ! http://www.scribd.com/doc/61839666/Indo-Pak-Wars-A-Pictorial-History http://www.scribd.com/doc/21686885/TALIBAN-WAR-IN-PAKISTAN-AFGHANISTAN-A-WRITERSPERCEPTIONS-FROM-2001-TO-2011 http://www.scribd.com/doc/22457862/Military-Decision-making-and-leadership http://www.scribd.com/doc/22151765/History-of-Pakistan-Army-from-1757-to-1971-PRINTINGENABLED-Do-acknowledge-to-the-author http://www.scribd.com/doc/22455178/Letters-to-Command-and-Staff-College-Quetta-Citadel-Journal http://www.scribd.com/doc/23150027/Pakistan-Army-through-eyes-of-Pakistani-Generals http://www.scribd.com/doc/23701412/War-of-Independence-of-1857 http://www.scribd.com/doc/22107238/HISTORY

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