With the US-led allied attack on Libya, the impression so far created in the media that the uprising across the Arab world and part of Africa was home-grown and indigenous, proves to be wrong and it is now clear that behind the overthrow of Abideen in Tunisia and Mubarak in Egypt, and the uprising in Yemen, Bahrain and Syria, are no other than the western powers who are poised to reshape the Middle East under the much talked-about Greater Middle East plan that, ironically enough, includes Pakistan as well.
Whatever the resentment Col Qaddafi and other autocratic monarchs elsewhere across the Arab world are facing at home and amongst the international community should not be considered as an immediate reason because the same dictatorial regimes had been surviving for decades in the past with the active support and backing from Washington and other colonialist countries in order to further their agendas in their own carved scheme of things.
What has all at once gone wrong with the regimes already serving as the superpowers stooge and what are the people, comparatively prosperous with major economic woos, aspiring to regime change and what caused them the immediate reason that boiled into massive movement?
SHUMAILA RAJA
Islamabad
