Pakistan and it conspiracy theories

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Section 1. Part 1 (Conspiracy
Theories and their Rebuttals)
By Anas Abbas
Conspiracy theories have been quite
rampant in the Muslim society
throughout the past few decades.
These theories form the basis of a
Utopian world where the Muslims
are surrounded by the nefarious
activities and insidious plots of the
so called anti Islamic forces such as:
Masonic (Freemasons)
Zionists (mainly after the
fallout of Israeli Occupation
of Palestine),
The "cruel and tyrannical" (As
Pakistani class 6 Social
Studies school textbook
describes them) The Hindus
The mysterious "Hindu
Zionists"
Last but not the least Uncle
Sam (USA).
These theories portray Muslims as
protagonists who are given a special
prerogative to enforce their rule
across the whole planet. Religion has
been an important element of these
theories and it has been widely
exploited by politicians, army
officers, religious scholars, media
representatives and "Security
Analysts" to justify their opinions.
Most of these theories, especially
those related to Jews, have been
heavily plagiarised from the works of
Christians, Russians and other
European countries during their
persecution of Jews in the early 20
century.
 

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Theory 1.
One such theory is quite popular i n Pakistan (an Islamic Country). Apart
from the Israeli Palestinian conflict
this theory, among others, is used to
promote a negative image of Israel among the Pakistani people and
justifies Israel's complicity in destabilizing their country.

The gist of this theory is that during
Israel's independence in 1948, its
first Prime Minister David Ben
Gurion expressed severe reservations
against the newly formed land of
pure known as Pakistan. In its
independence speech Mr. Ben
Gurion then urged the people of
Israel to form an alliance with the
Hindus in India in order to covertly
destabilize Pakistan through
propaganda campaigns, secret
conspiracy plots and militant
proxies. In its 62 years of turbulent
history, Pakistani rulers have used
such theories to blame and to justify
the complicity of "foreign elements"
in every crisis the country has faced.
This goes on from food, water and
electricity shortages to economic/
political instability, terrorism and
sectarian violence.
The text of this theory as claimed by
elements in Pakistan (such as Zaid
hamid & Dr Shireen Mazari) goes like
this:
In 1948 during Israel's independence
speech – David Ben Gurion said:
"The world Zionist movement
should not be neglectful of the
dangers of Pakistan to it. And
Pakistan now should be its first
target, for this ideological State is
a threat to our existence. And
Pakistan, the whole of it, hates
the Jews and loves the Arabs.
"This lover of the Arabs is more
dangerous to us than the Arabs
themselves. For that matter, it is
most essential for the world
Zionism that it should now take
immediate steps against Pakistan.
"Whereas the inhabitants of the
Indian peninsula are Hindus
whose hearts have been full of
hatred towards Muslims,
therefore, India is the most
important base for us to work
there from against Pakistan. "It is
essential that we exploit this base
and strike and crush Pakistanis,
enemies of Jews and Zionism, by
all disguised and secret plans."
David Ben Gurion, the first Israeli
Prime Minister, as printed in the
Jewish Chronicle, 9 August 1967
edition.
This is not simply a diplomatic
statement; it is a pure declaration of
war especially when he says "To form
bases in India to crush Pakistan".
Also the timing of this is quite
significant which is during Israel's
independence. Remember that an
independence speech is quite
influential towards forming the
ideology and constitution of any
particular country. (Unlike Pakistan
where there is no agreement among
its people on what its founder Jinnah
actually said during 1947's
Independence speech)
If this a clear 'Zionist' Declaration of
War and an ideological propaganda
(as claimed by Pakistan) then why
did Pakistan never take any actions
on the following lines during its 62
years history:
Pakistan's Foreign Office has
never diplomatically
responded against this highly
offensive statement of David
Ben Gurion?
It never raised this issue in
UN Security Council meetings
or during the Organizational
of Islamic conference (Aka
OHHH I SEE) meetings.
It never shared this critical
security threat with its
"Sleeping Partner" known as
the "PRC" China.
It didn't raise this issue with
its major "Cold War"
exploiter once known as the
Mujahedeen backer (USA).
It never shared this 'common
security threat' with its
restive Zionist Phobic
neighbor called "Khomeini's
Iran"
Pakistan's military dictators
quietly accepted Israeli
weapons during "1980s
Afghan Jihad" and Israeli
humanitarian aid (through
third parties of course)
during the 2005 disastrous
earthquake despite the above
quoted declaration of war by
'Zionists'.
The questions above are quite easy
to answer but before pondering over
on this, let's investigate on the
authenticity of Mr. Ben Gurion's
statement? Let's find out whether
this offensive quote above really
belongs to David Ben Gurion or if
this is a skilful propaganda campaign
of Pakistan army and religious
scholars through their media
representatives such as "Defense
Analyst" Zaid Hamid or cantankerous
"Dr" Shireen Mazari. Even before
investigating this, I would like to
share a very interesting directive that
is given to the Muslims in their most
sacred book Quran. In chapter 17
verse 36 of this book, they are
clearly commanded by their God to
verify every piece of information
before accepting. Below is a
comprehensive description of this
verse by Ghulam Ahmed Pervez
(Once an employee of central
Government and counselor of
Pakistan's founder Jinnah).
" You should not take a stand
(regarding anything) where you have
no personal knowledge (Use all
means of inquiry and then come to a
conclusion – Allah has given you all
the faculties for this purpose.) Mind
it, the ear and the eye and the heart
– all of them shall have to answer in
regard to the question whether
personal inquiry was made about the
concerned matter" Quran Chapter
17, verse 36.
Sadly the gullible believers of
conspiracy theories have failed
miserably to apply these important
messages of Quran and instead
wasted their time on issues like
"Four Marriages", "Jihad" and
segregation of women through
"Shuttle cock" Burqa.
 

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Section 2. Objectives of
Conspiracy Theories.
By Anas Abbas
Objective 1.
To denigrate Baluchistan's
resistance movements and to
present a picture where the blame
of all Baluch sufferings go to
foreign elements even though the
real culprits are the Punjabi elite
and the Pakistan army for their
military operations in that region.
Conspiracy theories facilitate
Pakistan's establishment and Army
to overshadow the following issues
on Baluchistan:
Musharraf's Trial (After
Murder of Akbar Bugti)
Baloch Gas Royalty payments
(estimated to be in billions of
rupees since 1950s)
Baloch Missing persons Issue
Provincial Autonomy
Thus with the help of false
theories, Pakistani Rulers have
been successful in diverting public
attention more towards the so
called Israeli/American agenda in
Baluchistan as compared to the
real issues.
Objective 2 .
To undermine any effort to form a
civilian and democratic government
so the only choice left is army rule
The strategy employed here to
achieve this objective by the army
and its media agents is to present a
picture in the Pakistani public that
the army is doing all it can to take
actions against certain contentious
issues in Pakistan but it's the
civilian government that is acting
as an impediment in its quest.
For example: Refer to this brief
video where ISPR (ISI's Public
Relations) is giving this statement
in the press conference that the
Pakistan army has captured Indian
weapons in Swat and all necessary
proof regarding India's complicity
has been send to the civilian
government (Foreign Office) and
now it's the government's job to
take this with India.
YouTube - Broadcast Yourself.
v=9qfH9BZ6ifo
In other words the ISPR that
represents Pakistan army is giving
this impression that the military
has fully done its job of collecting
evidence against India and now it's
the turn of the civilian government
to raise this issue with India.
Statements like these then are
heavily exploited by army's media
agents (Zaid Hamid and Ahmed
Qureshi in particular) to further
justify their claim that the present
civilian government is not taking
these issues with India and hence is
working with the CIA and RAW and
the only way to bring stability in
Pakistan and to fight Indian
interference is to willingly accept
an army rule.
Similar strategy is manifested on
the issue of drone attacks in
Pakistan (Widely condemned by the
majority of population) and is used
not only by the army sponsored
media agents but also by the
opposition political parties to
exploit public support against their
rivals.
Officially, both Pakistan army and
civilian government maintain that
they are not complicit in drone
attacks and there is neither any
secret agreement between them
and the US. But numerous reports
have indicated that both the
government and the army are
involved in not only allowing the
US to use the Shamsi airfield in
Baluchistan but also to provide
them with necessary intelligence in
relation to the locations of the
targets.
 

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Objective 3.
Why a conspiracy theory created
to portray Pakistani Taliban as
"Foreign Agents"?
This is because: To defend the
image of pro Pakistan Militants or
Jihadists and Pakistan Army.
Pakistan formed the Afghan Taliban
after U.S. conveniently left
Afghanistan in dilapidated
condition. In order to protect its
regional rivalry with India (that was
supporting Northern Alliance),
Pakistan has supported the Taliban
since the beginning to influence
Afghanistan's domestic and foreign
policies. While the Taliban
continued to pummel Afghani
women and children as well as
men, the women elite of Pakistan
continued to party away late into
the nights with their partners"¦ life
was lavish. Most of the masses in
Pakistan had no idea about the
existence of Taliban and their
brutal tactics which was to spill
onto their lives a few years later.
However, things dramatically
changed after 9/11 with U.S.'s War
on Terror. Pakistan was forced to
rethink its policy towards the
Taliban due to American pressure
and strategic reasons, and a
general consensus against them was
formed the world over. The Taliban
were brought to the forefront and
their dirty deeds were exposed
through the internet and the
media.
At the same time,
under Musharraf, Pakistani media
became relatively free which led to
the scrutiny of Pakistan's relations
with the Taliban. Images of public
beatings of women, killings and
executions in soccer grounds were
all over TV channels. This
contributed towards forming a
negative image of the Taliban
among the Pakistani
people. (Except the conservatives,
extremists and political parties
such as Jamait e Islami)
Specifically after the TV Boom in
Pakistan which also happened
simultaneously, the new free media
and the newly hosted Talk Shows
exposed the role of the Military in
the formation of the Taliban or
militants through prominent
politicians who came up and spoke
out. Military rule came under fire
as Pakistan's history of exploitative
politics and ISI's role in it came to
light through critics in talk shows
and electronic media.
Thus a negative perception of the
military was also created.
By 2007 Pakistan came under the
strain of excessive bombings by a
newly formed group known as
Pakistani Taliban. This group was
formed on the same ideological
lines as the Afghan Taliban i.e. to
enforce puritanical Sharia in
Pakistan and to fight against any
occupying forces. However, it
differs operationally from Afghan
Taliban as the latter is fighting in
Afghanistan against U.S. and NATO
forces and the former is in war
against Pakistan who is supporting
the occupying forces. They are
both controlled by Al-Qaida and
are mostly collaborate together.
The graph below shows the
relationship between these three
players (Afghan Taliban, Pakistan
Taliban & Al Qaeda) and how they
are destabilizing Pakistan and
Afghanistan.
 

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Objective 3.
Why a conspiracy theory created
to portray Pakistani Taliban as
"Foreign Agents"?
This is because: To defend the
image of pro Pakistan Militants or
Jihadists and Pakistan Army.
Pakistan formed the Afghan Taliban
after U.S. conveniently left
Afghanistan in dilapidated
condition. In order to protect its
regional rivalry with India (that was
supporting Northern Alliance),
Pakistan has supported the Taliban
since the beginning to influence
Afghanistan's domestic and foreign
policies. While the Taliban
continued to pummel Afghani
women and children as well as
men, the women elite of Pakistan
continued to party away late into
the nights with their partners"¦ life
was lavish. Most of the masses in
Pakistan had no idea about the
existence of Taliban and their
brutal tactics which was to spill
onto their lives a few years later.
However, things dramatically
changed after 9/11 with U.S.'s War
on Terror. Pakistan was forced to
rethink its policy towards the
Taliban due to American pressure
and strategic reasons, and a
general consensus against them was
formed the world over. The Taliban
were brought to the forefront and
their dirty deeds were exposed
through the internet and the
media.
At the same time,
under Musharraf, Pakistani media
became relatively free which led to
the scrutiny of Pakistan's relations
with the Taliban. Images of public
beatings of women, killings and
executions in soccer grounds were
all over TV channels. This
contributed towards forming a
negative image of the Taliban
among the Pakistani
people. (Except the conservatives,
extremists and political parties
such as Jamait e Islami)
Specifically after the TV Boom in
Pakistan which also happened
simultaneously, the new free media
and the newly hosted Talk Shows
exposed the role of the Military in
the formation of the Taliban or
militants through prominent
politicians who came up and spoke
out. Military rule came under fire
as Pakistan's history of exploitative
politics and ISI's role in it came to
light through critics in talk shows
and electronic media.
Thus a negative perception of the
military was also created.
By 2007 Pakistan came under the
strain of excessive bombings by a
newly formed group known as
Pakistani Taliban. This group was
formed on the same ideological
lines as the Afghan Taliban i.e. to
enforce puritanical Sharia in
Pakistan and to fight against any
occupying forces. However, it
differs operationally from Afghan
Taliban as the latter is fighting in
Afghanistan against U.S. and NATO
forces and the former is in war
against Pakistan who is supporting
the occupying forces. They are
both controlled by Al-Qaida and
are mostly collaborate together.
The graph below shows the
relationship between these three
players (Afghan Taliban, Pakistan
Taliban & Al Qaeda) and how they
are destabilizing Pakistan and
Afghanistan.
Soon after the suicide bombings in
2007, TTP (Pakistani Taliban)
openly started to claim
responsibility for the attacks and
got significant coverage by the
electronic media. In these
circumstances it became
increasingly difficult for the
extremists and the conspiracy
theorists to openly defend the
Islamist militant organizations and
to simultaneously have the Afghan
Taliban and Kashmiri militants as a
regional lever for control. Since
the Pakistani Taliban were openly
claiming on television to have
carried out suicide bombings in
Pakistan in the name of Jihad, ISI
and its Islamist allies became
increasingly worried as this was
tainting the image of
"mujahids" (Islamic Fighters), Jihad
(a motivational weapon of Army)
and spreading the perception that
the militants were retaliating
against Pakistan because of the
indiscriminate bombings by the
Pakistani army in tribal areas.
In addition to this, the Lawyers
Movement added fuel to the fire
and acted as a catalyst in forming a
negative image of the military. The
Military however had to come up
with a plan which was politically
safe in the short run and which
also served their interests in the
long run.
To counter all this, Pakistan army,
Islamists, and allied conspiracy
theorists devised a plan to launch a
conspiracy theory that would easily
blame all the attacks in Pakistan on
India, Israel and the U.S. Hence
TTP and any other affiliated militant
group that was attacking Pakistan
was then tagged by these
conspiracy theorists as Indian or
American agents working in
disguise as Taliban to malign the
reputation of the "Taliban" and
jihad in particular.
The Pakistan Army did not stop
here however. They launched a
proponent agent in the public:
someone who would act as a
defender as well as a promoter.
Right about that time, and
apparently without any associations
to the army, Zaid Hamid appeared
on the horizon and took two
stances that the army was in dire
need of. In order to rally support
for his perspective, he gave his
ideas a religious aspect insofar as
glorification of the army was
concerned. Briefly mentioned, his
views are firstly that the army is
sacred and can do no wrong,
secondly, that our army is destined
to overpower the whole world, and
lastly, Ghazwa-e-hind i.e. we have
to defeat India and we are
religiously destined to do so one
day.
 

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Objective 4.
To boost the morale of the armed
forces and the general population
when the army sees a need for any
military operation or intervention.
Before any Military operation, it is
a tendency of the army to label its
adversaries as Indians or Zionist
agents. This is because the army is
predominantly trained and
indoctrinated to fight against the
Hindus ("infidels Indians").
A common exploitative tactic is to
give a conflict a religious context
e.g. by presenting the 'enemy' as
enemies of Islam. Before the 1971
operation for East Pakistan
(operation searchlight) Bengalese
were targeted by issuances of
fatwas for their 'infidel activities',
thus painting the Bengalese as
unfaithful and conspirators against
Islam. This ideological manipulation
influences the public sentiment by
projecting a unislamic and
imperialist image of foreign
country/peoples. Prejudiced and
censored history also makes the
public vulnerable, making it easy to
get their support for a military
operation. The 1992 operation
against MQM is a textbook case.
Members of the MQM were
portrayed as traitors who were
secretly plotting to create a
separate state with the help of the
Indians. Similar strategy is
employed in Swat and Waziristan
operations where with the help of
conspiracy theorists such as Zaid
Hamid, the army is successful in
gaining public support and
motivation for troops.
 

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Conspiracy theories are common
all over Pakistan and they
specifically target the youth of
Pakistan that accounts for a
substantial percentage of Pakistani
population. According to Dawn
News (Fifty-seven per cent of
Pakistan's population is between
15 and 64, and 41 per cent are
under 15. Only four per cent are
over 65. Pakistan is now
experiencing its largest ever
youth bulge) United Nations
Report.
According to the New York Times
news paper, in a survey report ,
commissioned by the British
Council and conducted by the
Nielsen research company,
Pakistani youth is pessimistic about
its future and is severely impacted
by the austere economic conditions
and political chaos in the country.
The survey revealed that majority
of those interviewed were deeply
depressed, demoralised and a part
of highly frustrated young
generation; a generation which
feels abandoned by its government.
While most people do not trust
their government, they do
however; attach loyalty to the
military and religious institutions.
Three-quarters of those interviewed
identified themselves primarily as
Muslim, with just one out of seven
identifying themselves as
Pakistanis. Moreover, the same
study reveals that the despair
among them is rooted in the
unhealthy state of their lives: only
one-fifth of those interviewed had
permanent full-time jobs. While
half of them said they did not have
sufficient skills to even enter the
workplace. Moreover, one out of
four could not read or write- 'a
legacy of the country's abysmal
public education system, in which
less than 40 percent of children
are enrolled in schools- far below
the South Asian average of 58
percent' (New York Times
Newspaper).
According to Farooq Sulehria's
article titled "Conspiracy theories",
Pakistanis readily buy conspiracy
theories because the masses here
feel disempowered.
The best example he has given is:
"Conspiracy theories, by
oversimplifying complex political
questions, save you mental
labour. Why strain one's nerves
to understand Marx's dull essays
on economy to understand the
current financial meltdown when
we know "Jewish bankers" have
engineered this crisis?"
Under such circumstances, it is
understandable that majority of the
population would not strain their
already stressed nerves over dull
essays and articles with an open
mind and make a daunting effort
for independent research when
they can simply listen to the
theories and lectures provided by
Zaid Hamid and the likes.
Besides, it's human nature not to
oppose the masses. To oppose
means to take a stand, to have the
guts to say 'No' and that surely
requires something more than
education. It requires courage, wit,
intelligence and an enlightened
mind.
 

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