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America's Plan to breaking up Pakistan cited in Senate |
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Friday, 05 September 2008 |
Senator Nisar A. Memon of the Pakistan Muslim League-Q alleged in the
upper house on Friday that the Americans harboured the designs of
breaking up Pakistan.
He urged the government to take cognisance of a research report by Prof Michel Chossudovsky of Global Research (Canada)
which said that the recent regime change would be followed by a
‘deliberate’ political impasse. The report said that the political
impasse was part of an evolving US foreign policy agenda which favoured
disruption and disarray in the structure of the state.
“Indirect
rule by the Pakistani military and intelligence apparatus is to be
replaced by more direct forms of US interference, including an expanded
US military presence inside Pakistan,” it says.
An earlier
report by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) had predicted a
“Yugoslavia-like fate for Pakistan in a decade with civil war,
bloodshed and inter-provincial rivalries as seen in Balochsitan”.
“Nascent
democratic reforms will produce little change in the face of opposition
from entrenched political elite and radical Islamic parties. In a
climate of continuing domestic turmoil, the central government’s
control probably will be reduced to the Punjabi heartland,” the report
said.
Senator Memon quoted the report as saying that chaos and
anarchy would be created through economic disruption, as result of
which the International Monetary Fund would take Pakistan in its grip.
The report alleged that British intelligence agencies were providing covert support to Balochistan’s terrorist separatists.
It
said that the ongoing turmoil in Balochistan was part of a strategy to
finally separate the province as ‘Greater Balochistan’.
The
senator urged the government to take measures to counter such
conspiracies and said the defence or foreign minister should state how
would the regime face the challenges.
He claimed that the breaking up of sound institutions like Inter-Services Intelligence would be followed by other similar steps.
Leader
of the House Mian Raza Rabbani said a minister would rebut the report
and lay down a national strategy to protect the country’s integrity.
Deputy Chairman Jan Mohammad Jamali said Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani should respond to the queries in the house.
Earlier, the law minister introduced two bills in the house.
One
bill would bar chaining or shifting to death cells of condemned
prisoners till the confirmation of their sentences by the Supreme Court
and the other pertained to registration of immovable property.
Global Research
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