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December 2019 6 the Conspiracy That Failed Gen Mirza Aslam Beg 7 December 2019 ABC Certified Bi Lingual Bi Monthly December 2019 Editor’s Note Bakhtiar 3 From the Desk of Chairman: Brig Asif Haroon Raja 4 The Conspiracy that Failed Gen Mirza Aslam Beg 6 The Same Page Saga Lt Gen Asad Durrani 7 The Maulana’s Two Wrongs?, Retiring? Dr. Ikram Azam 8,23 Kashmir Bleeding 9 Stand up and Stop Complaining Lt Gen Naeem K Lodhi Kashmir on Edge of Precipice Brig Asif Haroon Raja 11 Referendum in held Kashmir 16 is Need of Hour Mr. Kanwar M Dilshad Is Kashmir being victimised for Kartarpur Corridor Peace 18 Initiative, Afghanistan or CPEC? Dr. Hasan Yaser Pakistan - New Narrative Bakhtiar 22 Pakistan-Malaysia Relations: 24 A Hope for the Region Dr. Maqsooda Hussain Our Home is on Fire Mr. Fahad Shah 28 Lurking Dangers Dr. Waqar M Khan 31 Anger Management Ms. Saman Yaser 33 Change vs. Growth Bakhtiar 34 Letter to Editor & AMS Report Editor 36-37 These Eyes, These Beautiful Eyes Mr. Matloob Bokhari 36 55 39 41 Rs. 100/- 1 42 December 2019 5 MS 27 OCT 2019 Learned Speaker Dr. Maqsooda Zahida Pawar Secy Gen Bakhtiar Dr. Kanwar M Dilshad Female audience, attention par excellence Chairman awarding Cert of Audience Concluding the session Merit to the Learned Speaker 6 MS 1 DEC 2019 Lt Gen Tahir Qazi Presenting the Book, Stolen Victory to Brig Asif Haroon Raja Chairman - Chairman TFP Brig Asif Audience Secy Gen Bakhtiar Haroon Raja The lead speaker Ex. Amb Mushtaq Mehr Saeed Khalid Dr. Mazhar Qayyum - Eye Audience: In-house Discussion Donation Campaign Editor: Bakhtiar Hakeem, Sub-Editor: Ms. Hajra Saeed H. No: 26, St: 19, Sector C, Phase 1, DHA Islamabad. Tel: 051-5788614 Cell: 0345-5375114 [email protected], www.thinkersforumpakistan.org Title of account: Thinkers Forum Pakistan-Trust No. 0106 0100 00823 9 TFP-Better2 Morrow No. 0106 0100 585108 Askari Commercial Bank, DHA Islamabad. December 2019 EDITOR’S NOTE My dear reader, how are And 27 Dec, Mr. Bilawal is coming to Liaqat Bagh. you! b. A recent achievement of the government was The New Year is round the corner, (Military) Establishment and Government being on wishing you a Very Happy New Year, ‘One Page’. Should this be really an achievement my dear Pakistanis. for a popular civilian government! Please read Gen Asad Durrani. He traces from the days of Gen Hamid A year and a half has passed, when Bakhtiar a third political party, appeared as a Gul onwards. There was a chain of those in khaki third force, won the elections and came into power. who found IK to be promising. And then things did Under a sports hero, turned political leader; ‘Change; not remain that rosy. was the punch word, the slogan and the fad. Now look c. Dr. Waqar, is the bureaucrat, who served in Ministry at the surveys shown by TV anchor persons, every of Finance for decades and with more than one evening. There single most asked question is, what is government. See what he is afraid of; what are his the ‘change’, and or if there is any what is it? All such lurking dangers? It is the continuously declining opinion surveys; one may include Gall up and Gilani production of both industrial and agricultural Research; 70 to 80 % of public, men on street, and busy sectors. As man of data and figures, see his statistics, in retail business are totally disappointed. They all long these are hard facts. Dear Pakistanis, focus here, and for Old Pakistan. Only about 7 to 9 % continue to hope not who wins the brawl and who abuses the loudest for the best. This minority wants that this government and to whom. should get more time; hoping for better times. d. 5 Aug, India wrapped up the UN resolutions and rest Let us have a brief overview: a. we started with Panama of his own constitutional papers; giving hope of a Papers. There were 459 names in that, none has been lawful discourse for Kashmiris to ever win their right punished. b. there were huge corruption scandals like of freedom to choose. Please read Gen Lodhi, he is that of dr. Asim, Ayan Ali, Mushtaq Raisani, Siraj strongly professing to stand-up and do something. Durrani and Sharjeel Memon, Fawad Hasan F, S K He is proposing a number of practical options to go Abbasi….none has been convicted. c. there were mega about solving this long standing human issue. Mr. K projects like BRT, Malam Jabba, Multan Motorway… M Dilshad has also taken up the Kashmir issue. To none out of these has been settled. Orange Train, a mega him referendum is the need of the hour. project of immense public utility has been delayed for e. Dr. Yaser, the youngest of member of TFP by fifteen months. serial no. is addressing Kartarpur Corridor. He has My dear Pakistanis, do you find at the daily Talk correlated the Kashmir and Afghan issues. Please Shows any Pakistani? Sure you find Patwaris, Khilaris, see his concerns. Jialas…Janoonis….and what not, fighting tooth and There is lot more to read. Dr. Maqsooda is exploring Pak- nail proving the other to be the worst, with reference Malaysian relations. She dwelt on many commonalities to their past performances. So is the case of doctors vs. and ended up with pragmatic recommendations. The lawyers. What is the reference, the ills and mischiefs scribe was asked by Center for Aerospace Security of the other! As to who was worst and who initiated? Studies (CASS) to write for new narrative for Pakistan. Is this the reference to judge and reward or punish? Here is an effort. Dr. Samiullah Malik is always kind to Where is the law? How will Pakistan move forward? contribute for BM, though extremely busy fighting for Now let us look at the thinking, seasoned, experts and Kashmir, on social and political front in UK. men of wisdom and who have had high achievements Wishing a bright future for Pakistan. in past; how and what they are worried about. a. Maulana Fazul ur Rehman, has just receded to lower grade plans. Please read Gen Beg, how does he analyze; it was a conspiracy and who was the target this time? Of course it was all up and blatantly against the still-finding roots of PTI government. 3 FROM THE DESK OF CHAIRMAN December 2019 I bow my head in gratitude before the Taliban before departing. While Pakistan should Allah for having bestowed upon help in facilitating peace process, it must defeat the me the honor of chairmanship nefarious plan of the US to pitch Pak security forces of TFP. I am thankful to all the against Afghan Taliban. members of this forum for electing Antagonism between India and Pakistan is a never me and reposing confidence in ending phenomenon mainly due to unresolved Kashmir me. I seek Allah’s guidance to Brig Asif Haroon Raja dispute. After three wars, the two archrivals have so far fulfil my obligations to the best refrained from going for the 4th round due to nuclear of my ability and to the satisfaction of all. I avail this deterrence acquired by Pakistan. Antipathy scaled new opportunity to wish you all happy new year and pray heights in the aftermath of Pulwama incident. The two that may 2020 prove beneficial to Pakistan and its nuclear states almost came close to a full-fledged war people in all respects. with nuclear overhang when IAF jets dropped bombs 2019 was another tempestuous year which witnessed in Balakot, but couldn’t cause any damage. Pakistan stormy events impacting global and regional stability. retaliated by striking three high value targets inside Ukraine crisis, North Korea-US standoff, US-China Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK), but intentionally escalating trade war and their military posturing in avoided physical harm. In the ensuing air duel, PAF South China Sea to contain China, growing bitterness downed two Indian jets and captured one pilot. between US and Russia, Iran-Saudi Arabia ideological The second humiliation in quick succession made Modi rivalry, US-Iran military sabre rattling, Syrian crisis, so mad that he ordered striking several Pakistani targets chaos in other Middle Eastern countries created by with Brahmo missiles. The hawks cooled down when the oil seekers, unresolved Palestinian and Kashmir Pakistan decided to hit back more fiercely. To avenge disputes, together with trends of proxy wars, false flag mortification, Modi regime took the unprecedented operations, regime changes, hybrid war, inequities of unconstitutional and illegal step on August 5. Articles capitalist system and efforts of the western world to 370 and 35A of the Indian Constitution were repealed demonize Islam and brand the Muslims as fanatics have and IOK declared integral part of India. The reckless act all contributed towards world instability. blew to smithereens all the UN resolutions, international After the decimation of military power of Iraq, Libya guarantees, bilateral agreements and previous decisions and Syria, and destabilization of Egypt, Yemen and of Indian Supreme Court. Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Turkey and Pakistan are Since then, the people of Kashmir are locked up in the the next targets. The Indo-Afghan-US-Israel nexus has biggest open jail and subjected to horrendous atrocities been making hectic efforts since 2003 to destabilize and committed by Indian forces and RSS. BJP regime has denuclearize Pakistan but couldn’t succeed due to grit declared its intentions to carryout ethnic cleansing of and determination of Pak Army and resilience of the Muslim Kashmiris in order to change the demography people. of J&K. RSS gangs are executing the gory plan.
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