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What we all used to warn of probably a year back is now actually happening.  Pakistan’s sovereignty is no longer guaranteed. I will not hesitate to say that our sovereignty has been sold out for a few billion dollars of the IMF and to the so called ‘Friends of Pakistan’ (read: USA) who are yet to provide any substantial monetary assistance.

No Pakistani would ever want any single inch of our homeland to be given away to outsiders, and especially if the outsiders are American. In allowing the Americans to violate our airspace, in granting them land for an unnecessary expansion of the US embassy in Islamabad, in allowing Blackwater operatives to run freely in urban areas in Peshawar, Islamabad and Karachi – the so called democratic and elected government of Pakistan is involved in gross misconduct, a misadventure that is evidently making Pakistan BLEED! It is a massive violation of the people’s mandate and the votes that were bagged in the name of ‘Revenge‘.

A democracy of revenge was never supposed to deliver. But every day brings a new story, every day takes us to new lows of slavery and subjugation. Our national interests are sold so cheap that it disgusts me down to my soul.

While the Zardari government shrewdly keeps the media and public involved in non-issues such as former President Pervez Musharraf’s trial, deals made for his safe exit, a sugar crisis orchestrated in the corridors of power and what not – the Zardari-Haqqani-Rehman Malik trio are busy wrecking our ship.

I am trying to closely watch how the military establishment handles the situation, for it knows well that with Pakistan lies all its perks and privileges. The success of the operation in Swat and Malakand is no small feat. But then again, we hear from them preparing for Waziristan. Whose directions are they following? Are they no longer a source of confidence for us who we used to look up to in times of political turmoil and in times when our leaders wanted to sell away every inch of our land to their American and Saudi masters?

Or is it again the cleverness of the democratic, US-enslaved government of Pakistan to keep the military engaged in a drama (in the name of Islamic militancy) put in place by the American-Indian-Israeli alliance to keep the army busy on this front that has in itself become an existential threat to the peace and stability of Pakistan?

We, the people of Pakistan, need to regroup. We need to shun the dirty government and media tactics to have us involved and fooled by petty issues while our country is sold bit by bit to the USA.

We have to realize that the West is now so confident of their hold on Pakistan that for them, the President of Pakistan and the President of Afghanistan are no different. They are now treating Pakistan as an Iraq or as an Afghanistan. We need to realize that the US-Indian-Israeli alliance will stop short of nothing but a complete take-over of Islamabad – implicit or explicit!

What the people are suffering at the very grass roots are of course none of our President’s concerns! He’s off for a twelve day foreign tour again where he’ll probably dance his head off to the tune of American dollars thrown out from the Pakistani exchequer!

With a President in power who it seems as if has shamelessly promised total surrender of Pakistan to the United States’ – the US occupation of Pakistan is creeping right up our sleeves. It is a reality we must all open our eyes too before it is too late.