Why Zalmay Khalilzad visited Afghanistan?

 

Combination of two countries China & Israel. China is obvious competitor and is rapidly consolidating her position in Afghanistan, so no surprise there. But what does Israel have to do with it? If it was not for the courageous struggle of Hamas, Saudi Arabia and Pakistan would have recognized Israel by now. The bold action of Hamas threw a spanner in that project. But Israel has not abandoned the project at all and is working at all fronts to achieve her objective. The recent visit of about 10 Pakistanis to Israel is a proof of intention of Pakistani ruling elite ( https://english.aaj.tv/news/330407835/pakistani-delegations-secret-visit-to-israel-claims-israeli-newspaper). For the last several months, our ruling elite links almost every terrorist attack in Pakistan with Afghanistan and claims that American weapons were used in those attacks. The idea is to build the case that American weapons should be taken back from Afghanistan, by force if needed. Senator Irfan Siddiqui of PML-N has been propagating this line of thinking for quite a while now. Our ruling elite thought that this will get them the support of Trump because he wants those weapons back ( https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/26/afghanistan-trump-taliban-military-weapons/). If there is a convergence of objective in this case then the question arises as to why did Zalmay Khalilzad not bother to consult or take any Pakistani official with him when he went to Afghanistan? Afterall Pakistan was deeply involved when Trump was negotiating withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan.

Imran Khan, the insurance policy of our establishment.

 

In the name of Allah the most Beneficent and Merciful

A while back our establishment probably wanted him to die. But now they want him alive probably more than he himself wants to. What changed? Appointments made by Trump. I am not interested in who he nominated as Attorney general or Secretary of health etc, these are important for ordinary Americans but not for us. For my perspective following three are important.

Secretary of state: Marco Rubio, a hawk when it comes to Afghanistan and China. Wants to maintain military presence in Afghanistan to keep an eye and possibly foment trouble in China.

Secretary of defense: Pete Hegseth, served in Iraq and Afghanistan, earned two Bronze stars. 

National security adviser: Michael Waltz served multiple tours in Afghanistan over the course of his military career, which spanned several years, cumulatively amounting to significant time in-country as part of his military service.

Look at this triangle and place it next to the fact that India has largely refused to toe the American line regarding confrontation with Russia and China. The only place left for any adventure regarding China is Afghanistan/Pakistan. The problem, from American point of view, is that Afghanistan is now under Taliban rule. So how to dislodge Taliban? Use Pakistan. Who will oppose that in Pakistan? That is where Imran Khan becomes useful. Our establishment will convince Americans that if we release him, he will throw a spanner in their project and as such it is better to keep him in prison. They don’t want Imran Khan dead either because what other wolf there is to threaten Americans with? NS, FR, BZ?

P.S: In the coming weeks and months you will see how Taliban will be labelled as Khawaraj in religious circles especially in Deobandi ecosystem. This is important for mollifying the Deobandis after all Taliban are their intellectual children. The Baralvis don’t like Taliban anyways and will happily join any effort to dislodge them.  

Blasphemy: Don’t be scared of EU, it is a house divided

 The recent European Parliament resolution on the blasphemy laws in Pakistan has created quite a scare in some parts of Pakistani business community. They are scared that Pakistan will loose the GSP+ status and that in turn will cause huge unemployment. There is the core religious argument which all religious scholars, with varying degrees of eloquence, have put forward. I am not going to touch that because first of all I am not a religious scholar and secondly as I said it has been already presented. What I am going to present it a political case.

This whole issue originated in France, where in 2006, a publication called Charlie Hebdo ( French for Charlie Weekly) published cartoons of Prophet Mohammad (PBUH). The magazine kept on doing such stunts but the whole thing took a radical turn when last year French President Emmanuel Macron jumped in and declared “We will not give up cartoons”. This changed the status of the issue from a magazine to official French policy. Why did he do that? A simplistic answer is that France is going to hold elections in April 2022 and he needs some issue to win, like Modi in India made cow slaughter an issue. Macron may be Modi in some sense but France is not India. So what is the issue?

The real reason for American police brutality that no one wants to talk about.

By now you must have seen the picture of George Floyd being choked to death by Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin. But I am sure that you have not seen these other four pictures.

In case you are wondering, these are Israeli beasts ( soldiers ) sitting on top of Palestinians. Especially take a closer look at the upper right picture. You can guess that the boy pinned down is just a kid. These Israeli beasts are

M.M. Alam, Zia-ul-Haq, America, India and China

Trust me they are all related as you will surely see by the end of this article. Allow me to narrate what was told to me by late Flight Lieutenant, Mohammad Siraj-ul-Haq of Pakistan Air force. But before I do that let me tell you a few things about Siraj sb. Like

America China conflict is not about economics

Famous Harvard University historian Professor Graham Allison introduced the idea of Thucydides Trap to explain the current conflict between America and China. Thucydides is considered to be one of the first, if not the first, historian. In his explanation of war between Sparta and Athens he wrote “What made war inevitable was the growth of Athenian Power and the fear which this caused in Sparta”. In other words war was started by the then resident power, Sparta, out of fear of a rising power Athens, because Spartans were afraid that Athenians would take over as the dominant power. In current scenario you can replace Sparta with America and Athens with China. Professor Graham presents about a dozen historical cases to support his theory of Thucydides Trap. There are other scholars, like Arthur Waldron who refute his theory. But the fact of the matter is that there is an economic war going on between US and China which might lead to actual war. Surely both America and China are fully aware of Thucydides Trap. So what is going on?