The Elephant & The Chain.

Original Article was written by Javed Ch.

When an elephant is young, a chain is usually put around his leg which restrains it from moving at its own will. The young elephant initially tries to break the chain and run away but soon realises that it is powerless again the chain. Time passes and soon the baby elephant becomes quite powerful, it can then easily breaks the chain but the elephant never tries to do that…. Why?  Because it doesn’t think that it can. Elephant thinks that the chain is invincible. When the elephant is tied to the chain, no one is allowed to disturb it because the elephant might react violently and this might break the chain.

Citizens of a country are also like this chained elephant. We (citizens) have always been suppressed by almost all governments…. A commoner fears government, rulers, police, army and other government organizations so much that he thinks that they are undefeatable. A Police station usually has 100 men and those 100 men are in-charge of thousands of people. If only 5000 citizens surround a police station and demand for their rights, police will, sooner or later, surrender… What happened in Libya? If we use our power, then for us, constitution is nothing but a mere piece of paper and judge is nothing more than an old, weak man. But why don’t we do it? Because for us constitution, police, court, several other government organizations are like the chain. It’s our weak psychology which is not letting a revolution begin.

All governments do know this and try to make sure that the citizens don’t react violentely which might make them realize that the chain is not unbreakable. All governments know that once this chain is broken, citizens will realize their actual power and then it will be difficult to control them. Due to this whenever a revolutionary group or man rises the government uses its full force and resources to crush the group or that specific person. By this the government gives a message to the citizens that the chain “is still strong and powerful.” Lets take example of recent acts of violence in Britain, the protesters destroyed six major cities, looted shops but soon police came in action and dozens of protesters were arrested, tried and punished. The law and order situation came under control within hours. Hence, showing that the chain is still strong.

But in our country, Pakistan, the situation is a bit different. We have realized that the chain can be broken. We would have never realized this if the government haven’t forced us to speak and act against injustice.

 Once during Z. A. Bhutto’s rule army was ordered to fire at the demonstrating civilians. Army officers refused to kill their fellow, innocent countrymen and instead the three brigadiers commanding the troops resigned. (See the real power of citizens?) Let’s take example of the protests which occurred few weeks ago against power-shortages and load shedding.  The short-fall of electricity rose to 7,500 M Watts and the frustrated Pakistanis were forced to act violently. Different opposition parties also, directly or indirectly, tried to hijack these protests. The government was forced to react, funds were released and within 48 hours the protesters went home. They had finally forced government to try to solve the problem and now, almost all areas of Pakistan are only experiencing scheduled power-cuts since then. Similar protests were held few years ago for re-installing of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudary as Chief Justice of Pakistan. What message does this gives to people? This has led to a realisiation that until and unless, people will not react violently, until and unless they will not destroy government offices the Government will not listen to them.

The person who will show stiff but violent opposition to government, the government will listen to him but my dear friends keep in mind that you are not supposed destroy cars, government offices, etc. Directly go and hit Bilawal, President and Prime Minister houses, or to be precise, palaces.

First Step To Success

By: Muhammad Feroz Khan

Aik Hon Muslim Haram Ki Paasbani K Liye... Neil K Sahil Se Le Kr Taba Kha K Kashghar....




I believe the first step to success for Pakistan is Unity. I believe that we are not UNITED. Until we are not united under one Flag of Pakistan and Islam , I do not Believe we can achieve anything in the world!Today our country is facing a lot of outside and inside challenges. Terrorism , Pressure from the USA, Poverty etc are just a few of them.In order to succeed as a Nation and a country,we need UNITY.All of us need to be United!Forget your differences! Forget that you are a Pathan! Forget that you are a Punjabi! Forget that you are Baloch! Forget that you are a Sindhi! Forget that you are a Muhajir ! Just Remember your identity! Remember that you are a Muslim! Remember that you are a Pakistani!! If we all get United under the flag of Islam and Pakistan, I can tell you that nobody can push our nation around!!! Rememember that 3 bricks joined together are more POWERFUL than 3 seperate Bricks!!!! If we Unite!If we Pakistanis Unite with a honest heart we will succeed!! The first step is the most difficult one . The others just follow !! I believe that Unity is the first step to success!!It is not easy!! BUT the first step is always difficult. If we Unite with the Heart of a Muslim and Pakistani we would be a force to be reckoned with! We will succeed , I am sure! So Lets forget our differences! Lets join our hands together and soilidify this nation and this country!! Lets get United! Lets be a muslim Pakistani for a change!! Unite and I am sure our Beloved COuntry "Pakistan" will become a succesful nation!! I urge all the people of Pakistan!All of them to dont fight between their selves and get United for our problems!! Please Listen and act! It is the need of time or we shall be wiped out all together!Unite before its too late!!! UNITY is the First step to Success.

JF-17X - Stealth

In what is seen as a counter to India’s effort to jointly develop the Fifth Generation Fighter Aircraft (FGFA) with Russia’s Sukhoi Aircraft Corp, Pakistan’s Kamra-based Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC) and China’s Chengdu Aerospace Corp (CAC) last October inked a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop an advanced, stealthy, single-seat and single-engined derivative of the JF-17 Thunder fourth-generation light multi-role combat aircraft (MRCA) that is already being co-developed by PAC and CAC. Consequently, the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) is expected to induct only 100 JF-17s into service between this year and 2014, and subsequently switch over to the acquisition of another 150 JF-17-derived fifth-generation stealthy MRCAs between 2015 and 2025. Present plans call for the latter MRCA to be powered by SNECMA Moteurs’ M88-3 twin-shaft bypass turbofan, incorporate a digital glass cockpit and open-architecture avionics suite, and use SELEX Sensors and Airborne Systems’ Vixen 500E X-band multi-mode active phased-array radar, or AESA, an integrated electronic warfare/defensive aids suite being developed by China’s CETC, along with a helmet-mounted sighting-cum-cueing system for which systems from THALES, BAE Systems and Denel Aerospace are being evaluated. The M88 turbofan for this aircraft will have variable camber inlet guide vanes, while its high-pressure compressor will have a sixth stage, and its exhaust nozzle will be of the ejector type. The turbofan will deliver 50kN (11,250lb) of dry thrust and 75kN (17,000lb) with afterburning. The primary offensive armament to be carried by this aircraft will be two underwing-mounted Hatf-8 (also called ‘Raad’ or ‘thunder’ in Arabic) air-launched cruise missile, which has a range of 350km. For air combat engagements, the stealthy MRCA will be armed with three types of air-to-air missiles: 60km-range PL-12 beyond visual range missile; 15km-range PL-13 within visual range missile; and PL-14 ramjet-powered 100km-range missile. The latter two have been developed by China in cooperation with South Africa’s Denel Aerospace.

http://www.defenceaviation.com/2009/01/jf-17x-a-pakistani-stealth-fighter.html

Military Threats Will Bind Pakistan and China Together

By Shaukat Qadir

Aug 31, 2011


This year Pakistan has held three joint military training exercises with China. Two of them were in the Chinese province of Xinjiang, but the one this month was a new development. A brigade-level exercise was conducted in Pakistan's portion of the Rajasthan desert, barely 25 kilometres from the border near the Indian town of Jaisalmer, where the Indian lines of communication to the south are very vulnerable.

Predictably, the exercise caused considerable concern in New Delhi.

It follows a pattern of China's extended influence in the area. Last year during a trip to Kabul, Pakistan's Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani suggested to Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai that he should start looking to Beijing rather than Washington for the future.

Since then, US-Pakistan relations have seriously soured and increasingly Pakistan is looking to China for the military support being denied by the United States. Islamabad's friendship with Beijing has been a constant for decades, unlike its turbulent relations with Washington, including joint ventures in military technology.

The most surprising recent development was China's warning to the United States following the May 2 incursion by US troops to execute Osama bin Laden. Later that month Beijing stated that "an attack on Pakistan will be construed as an attack on China". So what explains this aggressive stance by a country that has been known for a cautious foreign policy?

There can be little doubt that China is projecting power farther abroad than it has in recent decades. In South Asia, a key component of that strategy is the commercial corridor from western China to Gwadar Port in Pakistan's Balochistan province. As the recent military exercises show, there also has been a deepening Chinese-Pakistani military relationship.



This is in response to a changing regional security situation. In recent years, the most serious threats confronting Pakistan's military have been internal, including domestic terrorism and civil strife such as the recent violence in Karachi. There is virtually no apprehension of a military threat from India in the immediate future.

But both Islamabad and Beijing are conscious that the Indian military force structure is, and is likely to remain, Pakistan-specific for many years to come. In Rajasthan there are mutual vulnerabilities. If Indian lines of control are exposed at Jaisalmer, Pakistan is more vulnerable at the district capital of Rahim Yar Khan. The joint exercise was intended to send a message that, conscious of its own vulnerability, Pakistan could exploit a similar weakness in India's lines of communication.

Although Chinese participation was limited to an engineering regiment, the first known joint manoeuvre near the Indian border demonstrated Beijing's role in this balance of power. This was the first show of joint operational readiness inside Pakistan, but there are already Chinese soldiers in Gilgit in the north, working on the Karakorum Highway. Economic and development cooperation has a long track record.



Gwadar Port is a good reflection of how that collaboration fits into recent geo-strategic developments. Most trade will probably flow north to south, but a new commercial corridor also opens important energy options, not least of all by connecting Iranian energy resources to China.

From China's eastern ports, access to the Indian Ocean from the Pacific is a lengthy route via the straits of Malacca and the entire route is peppered with US naval bases. On the other hand, there is no US threat on the road to Gwadar.

By some accounts, Beijing contributed 80 per cent of the funding to develop Gwadar's port and city, although there have been questions recently about direct Chinese control of operations. If in the not-so-distant future China establishes a naval presence there, it could project power over Gulf oil trade routes and provide multiple avenues of military influence.

No wonder that Pakistan has become an indispensable strategic partner for China, even to the extent of the warning to the United States about a mutual defence policy. And because Gwadar is situated in Balochistan, where several foreign forces are stoking unrest, the relationship is likely to continue to include a security component. However, it is also important to note that instability in Balochistan is fundamentally caused by the ineptitude, corruption and callousness of Pakistan's political elite, which remain indifferent to the concerns of the Baloch people. After all, unrest can only be stoked if it already exists.

But for all of its other challenges, Pakistan's strategic location in this new geo-strategic balance will probably benefit it in the long term. The challenge is to stem the internal bleeding in the interim.



Brig Gen Shaukat Qadir is a retired Pakistani infantry officer,

Pak Army Uniform undergoing major redesigning

A paper issued from GHQ and several senior Army Officer's confirms that the uniform of the Pak Army will be undergoing major changes and many of it's standard "British-Indian Army" signatures will be dropped this time.Which include:
Ranks: 1) Ranks will be made from black embroidery not from metal.2) Ranks will not be worn over the shoulders but instead over the buttons of the jacket at the front.
Red Tapes:Red Collar tapes worn by Brigadiers and Generals will be replaced by stars corresponding to their rank.
Medal Strips:Medal strips will no longer be worn with uniform.
Badges:All badges(Corp/Div/Glider/Mountaineer/Diver/etc) will be black.
Qualification Badges:All qualification badges(Staff course/War course) will not be worn any longer, only the command badge will stay.

It is also expected that the camo type of  the uniform will change in a bit  of time.

New uniform note the 3 star rank:

It may not look British Indian Army type but will still look British Army
type:

Asif Ali Zordari :P

Chief Executive of Pakistan

Title: President of Pakistan

Name: Asif Ali Zardari

EDUCATION /Qualification:

High School from Cadet College Petaro

Details of higher formal education not known; Claims graduation from London but not available to be verified. As per some account. His official biography says he attended a commercial college called Pedinton School. But a search of tertiary educational institutions in London showed no such school. Ex-President Musharaf managed to get Bachelor’s Degree waiver from Supreme Court, reportedly only for Zardari.

Working Experience:

Early days: Working at the family owned Bambino Cinema at Karachi. Some accuse Mr Zardari of small-time ticket frauds to steal money from the family business.

Up till 1987 (marriage to the future Prime Minister, Benazir Bhutto): No record.

1988 to date: While no official record of any business exists, Mr Zardari is widely believed to be one of the (if not the) richest man in Pakistan. According to an encyclopedia report , he has assets of 2 billion $. An unofficial list of family owned businesses, property and accounts exists but the completeness of the same cannot be verified.

Mr Zardari has however been involved in various national and international cases relating to his businesses. The most significant European cases are a Swiss money-laundering inquiry and a British civil cases.

Working Experience [Politics]:

1988-1990: Husband of the Prime Minister.

1993-1996: Minister of Environment during his wife's second term as the Prime Minister
Until 1999: Senator.

30 December 2007: Appointed himself as the co-chairman of the PPP, along with his son Bilawal Bhutto Zardari .

September 9, 2008: Zardari was elected president of Pakistan. Sworn in by Abdul Hameed Dogar, whose position as the Chiefe Justice of Pakistan remains a contested issue by an overwhelming majority of the Pakistani legal fraternity.

Working Experience [Other]:

Other experience of Mr Zardari includes his widely believed but not proven involvement in:

- Several murders - most famously of his brother in law, possibly his wife

- Wrapping a bomb to the leg of a famous UK businessman to ask for money

- Embezzlement & looting of Billions of Pakistan's wealth

BOOKS:
None on record

ACCOMPLISHMENTS:

Marrying the then future and now ex Prime Minister of Pakistan.

Only serving politician to have spent 10 years in Jail .

Told the US VP Candidate that she is "gorgeous" and said : "Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you". When the photographers asked the two to keep shaking hands, he replied : " If he insists, I might hug you". This was one day after the President delivered an emotional speech at the UN in new York waiving a photograph of his deceased wife only months after the murder of his wife

‎"Puray Pakistan Ki Roohani, Nazariaati Asaas Ki Jar Kaat Di Inhon Ne Yahan"

The greatest of Aulia supported Quaid. A Saint Amir-e-Millat Pir Jamaat ali Shah sb said on 3rd all India Sunni Conference1946: "People call Jinnah as infidel, but, I call him a saint, people express their own opinion but I say it in the light of Quran and Hadiths. Those who believe in their Allah and obey Him Allah creates love and reverence for them in the hearts of people (Quran). Now is there anybody other than Jinnah who is loved and respected by ten crore Muslims of India?"!! MashAllah!!!

‎"The Palestine question is very much agitating the minds of the Muslims. I have no doubt that the League will pass a strong resolution on this question and also by holding a private conference of the leaders. Personally I would not mind going to jail on an issue which affects both Islam and India. The formation of a Western base on the very gates of the East is a menace to both" Iqbal to Quaid 1937. Imagine, Iqbal even wanted to go to jail for this critical issue of Ummah!

Baba Iqbal, even directed Quaid Azam on the foreign policy and issues of the Muslim world way back in 30's. The Palestinian issue was raised by Quaid on the instructions of Iqbal. Eveyr step Quaid took was on the directions, guidance and encourangeemtn of Baba Iqbal. After passing the Lahore resolution for Pakistan, Quaid visited the muqam of baba Iqbal and said that we have done exactly what Allama Iqbal had asked us to do! read below what Iqbal had said to Quaid!

‎"To my mind the new constitution with its ides of a single Indian federation is completely hopeless. A separate federation of Muslim provinces reformed on the lines I have suggested above, is the only course by which we can secure a peaceful India and save Muslims from the domination of non-Muslims. Why should not the Muslims of North-West India and Bengal be considered as nation entitled to Self-determination just as other nation as in India and outside India are?" Iqbal to Quaid, June 1937!

‎"The Congress President has denied the political existence of Muslims in no unmistakable terms. The other Hindu political body, i.e., the Mahasabha, whom I regard as the real representative of the masses of the Hindus, has declared more than once that a united Hindu-Muslim nation is impossible in India. In these circumstances it is obvious that the only way to a peaceful India is redistribution of the country on the lines of racial, religious and linguistic affinities". Iqbal to Quaid June 1937

‎"Happily there is a solution in the enforcement of the Law of Islam and its further development in the light of modern ideas. After a long and careful study of Islamic Law I have come to the conclusion that if this system of Law is properly understood and applied, at last the right to subsistence is secured to everybody. But the enforcement and development of the Shariat of Islam is impossible in this country without a free Muslim state or states" - Iqbal's letter to Quaid 28th May, 1937!

"In Islam, ultimate obedience belongs to God alone. The only way to follow this guidance is through the Holy Quran. Islam does not preach obedience to a king, parliament, person or institution. The Islamic Govt. means rule of Quran. And how can you establish the rule of the Holy Quran without an independent state?" - Quaid e Azam , address to the students of the Usmania University, Deccan, India (August 1941).
"Islam is not merely confined to the tenets and doctrine, rituals and ceremonies. It is a complete code regulating the whole Muslim Society, every department of life collectively and individually." - Quaid e Azam, Eid Message, September 1945.

"In Pakistan lie our deliverance, defence and honour. If we fail, we perish and there will be no signs and symptoms of Muslims or Islam left in the sub-continent". - Quaid e Azam, Pakistan Day, March 1945.

Quaid e Azam in a broadcast to people of USA, Feb 1948 said, "This dominion represents the fulfilment, in a certain measure, of the cherished goal of 100 million Muslims of this sub-continent. Pakistan is the premier Islamic state and the fifth largest in the world".

Quaid e Azam in a broadcast to people of USA, Feb 1948 said, "I do not know what the ultimate shape of this constitution will be, but I am sure that it will be of a democratic type, embodying the essential principles of Islam. Today, they are as applicable as they were 1300 years ago. Islam and its idealism have taught equality of man, justice and fair play to mankind."

Quaid e Azam said We must work our destiny in our own way and present to the world an economic system based on true Islamic concept of equality of manhood and social justice. We will thereby be fulfilling our mission as Muslims and giving to humanity the message of peace which alone can save it and secure the welfare, happiness and prosperity of mankind". Speech at the opening ceremony of State Bank of Pakistan, 1948.

Quaid e Azam said "We should have a state in which we could live and breathe as free men and which we could develop according to our own lights and culture and where principles of Islamic social justice could find free play". Address to Civil, Naval, Military and Air Force Officers of Pakistan Government, Karachi, October 11 1947.

Quaid e Azam said "You have to stand guard over the development and maintenance of Islamic democracy, Islamic  and social justice and the equality of manhood in your own native soil. With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve". Address to the officers and men of the 5th Heavy Ack Ack and 6th Light Ack Ack Regiments in Malir, Karachi, Feb 21 1948.

Quaid e Azam said "Come forward as servants of Islam, organise the people economically, socially, educationally, and politically and I am sure that you will be a power that will be accepted by everybody". Presidental Address to All India Muslim League Lahore, March 23 1940.

Quaid e Azam said "The vital contest in which we are engaged is not only for the material gain but also the very existence of the soul of Muslim nation, Hence I have said often that it is a matter of life and death to the Musalamans and it is not a counter for bargaining". Presidential Address delivered at the Special Pakistan Session of the Punjab Muslim Students Federation, March 2 1941.


Pakistan Ya Shahadat