Rogue USA against Jingoistic Pakistan

(USA wants a fragmented non-Nuclear Pakistan as a slave of USA Empire)

Islam and Politics 23 Dec 2011, NewAgeIslam.Com Solve the Pakistan Problem by Redrawing the Map: M. Chris Mason
BY M. Chris Mason Relations between the United States and Pakistan have reached an all-time low. The Khyber Pass is closed to NATO cargo, U.S. personnel were evicted from Shamsi airbase and Pakistani observers have been recalled from joint co-operation centres. Much more importantly, senior officials in Washington now know that Pakistan has been playing them false since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and understand that Pakistan was sheltering Osama bin Laden a few hundred yards from its version of West Point. The recent shelling of Afghan troops inside Afghanistan by the Pakistani army, and the NATO counterstrike, cleared in error by Pakistan, has further embarrassed the Pakistani military. It should be obvious by now that Pakistan has no intention of doing what the United States has wanted for the past decade. The combination of wishful thinking, admiration for the emperors new clothes and $10-billion in payments to the Pakistani military have accomplished nothing. Admiral Michael Mullen was not wrong when he testified recently that the terrorist Haqqani network is operating as an arm of the Pakistani army. He might have added that the Taliban is the Pakistani armys expeditionary force in Afghanistan. Pakistan shelters, funds, trains, supplies and advises the Taliban. The simple fact is that Pakistan is the worlds No. 1 state supporter of terrorism. In Afghanistan, Pakistan will never be happy unless it has a puppet regime in Kabul and can run the country like a colony. Islamabad does not intend to allow the current Afghan constitution to remain in effect, and as soon as NATO pulls out, it will push the Taliban into an all-out civil war in Afghanistan designed to return it to power. All of which has led to a lot of hand-wringing in Washington, accompanied by a revolving-door procession of senior U.S. officials going to Islamabad to read a toothless riot act the Pakistanis can now recite by heart. The permanent solution to the Pakistan problem is not more of this chest-beating appeasement. The answer lies in 20th-century history. In 1947, when India gained independence, a British Empire in full retreat left behind an unworkable

mess on both sides of India called Pakistan whose elements had nothing in common except the religion of Islam. In 1971, this postcolonial
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Frankenstein came a step closer to rectification when Bangladesh, formerly East Pakistan, became an independent state. The answer to the current Pakistani train wreck is to continue this natural process by recognizing Baluchistans legitimate claim to independence. Baluchistan was an independent nation for more than 1,000 years when Great Britain notionally annexed it in the mid-19th century. The Baluchis were never consulted about becoming a part of Pakistan, and since then, they have been the victims of alternating persecution and neglect by the Pakistani state, abuse which escalated to genocide when it was discovered in the 1970s that most of the regions natural resources lie underneath their soil. Since then, tens of thousands of Baluchis have been slaughtered by the Pakistani army, which has used napalm and tanks indiscriminately against an unarmed population.

Changing maps is difficult only because it is initially unimaginable to diplomats and politicians. Although redrawing maps is the definition of failure for the United Nations and the U.S. State Department, it has, in fact,
been by such a wide margin the most effective solution to regional violence over the past 50 years that there is really nothing in second place. Among the most obvious recent examples (apart from the former Soviet Union) are North and South Sudan, Kosovo, Eritrea, Bosnia, Croatia, Macedonia, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, East Timor and Bangladesh.

An independent Baluchistan would, in fact, solve many of the regions most

intractable problems overnight. It would create a territorial buffer between rogue states Iran and Pakistan. It would provide a transportation and pipeline corridor for Afghanistan and Central Asia to the impressive but underutilized new port at Gwadar. It would solve all of NATOs logistical problems in Afghanistan, allow us to root the Taliban out of the former province and provide greater access to Waziristan, to subdue our enemies there. And it would contain the rogue nuclear state of Pakistan and its A.Q. Khan network of nuclear proliferation-for-profit on three landward sides.

The way to put the Pakistani genie back in the bottle and cork it is to help the Baluchis go the way of the Bangladeshis in achieving their dream of freedom from tyranny, corruption and murder at the hands of the diseased Pakistani military state.
M. Chris Mason is a retired diplomat with long service in South Asia and a senior fellow at the Center for Advanced Defence Studies in Washington. Source: The Globe and Mail URL: http://www.newageislam.com/NewAgeIslamIslamAndPolitics_1.aspx?ArticleID= 6204
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M. Chris Mason
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Chris Mason is a Senior Research Fellow with the Program for Culture & Conflict Studies at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, a Senior Fellow at the Center for Advanced Defense Studies in Washington, DC, and the Afghanistan Desk Officer at the Marine Corps Center for Advanced Operational Culture (CAOCL) in Quantico, Virginia. Mr. Mason is a retired Foreign Service officer. He served as the Afghanistan Policy Officer for the Bureau of Political Military Affairs at the State Department for four years beginning in June 2001, and as the bureau's representative to the Afghanistan Interagency Operations Group (AIOG) from 2001 to 2005. While at the State Department he worked closely with the intelligence community on classified projects involving tribal mapping and the tribes of Afghanistan and Pakistan. . In 2005, Mr. Mason was deployed as the Political Officer on a Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT) on the Pakistan border. As the senior US government civilian in the province, he traveled widely with the provincial governor, Haji Ghulab Mangal, and U.S. Army maneuver elements. Before and after that assignment, Mr. Mason has traveled frequently to Afghanistan and Pakistan on a variety of security-related projects. He has published extensively on the region, including, most recently: No Sign until the Burst of Fire: Understanding the PakistanAfghanistan Frontier, (International Security, Vol, 32, No. 4, Spring, 2008), "All Counterinsurgency is Local," in the October 2008 issue of Atlantic Monthly, Saigon 2009 in Foreign Policy in September 2009, all co-authored with Professor Thomas Johnson. Mr. Mason currently lectures on counterinsurgency and information operations in Afghanistan at the National Defense University, the Joint Special Operations University, the Naval Postgraduate School and elsewhere. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Mason served as a Peace Corps volunteer and a Naval Officer on active duty from 1981-1986. He holds a Masters Degree in Military Studies from Marine Corps University and is now a PhD candidate in History at the George Washington University in Washington, DC.
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