“I’ve got married,” announced the village chief. “Congratulations,” said the villagers. “When can we meet your wife?”
“Sorry, she didn’t come.”
“We’ll meet her at her village.”
“She’s in purdah.”
“Our women can go meet her.”
“She’s so beautiful she fears the evil eye.”
“Show us her photograph then.”
“She doesn’t allow photographs – evil eye. But I have doctored one of her sisters. Looks something like her.”
“Good Lord. You must have a picture of yourself at the wedding.”
“No. Forgot.”
“Okay, show us the marriage certificate.”
“Forgot to bring it.”
“Can we meet the four witnesses?”
“Not possible. One is in Bajaur, another in North Waziristan, one works for the CIA in Washington and the fourth for MI6 in London.”
“Can we at least meet the mullah who solemnised your wedding?”
“Impossible. He was brutally murdered and we buried him in the Arabian Sea. But I do have his instant DNA test results. They match DNA from two of his cousins.”
“Can we see pictures of his dead body?”
“Too gruesome. Brain matter showing.”
“Then how can be sure you’re telling the truth?”
“You’d better, or else. I’ll unleash Bill O’Reilly on you who will paint you to be a nut; then I’ll waste you.”
Pakistan had to choose between complicity and incompetence and chose incompetence. They rejected the rock and chose the hard place. There was a third option, truth, but that’s not the only thing missing from our radars.
One night the lioness got raped. “What kind of a king are you?” she berated the lion. “Someone raped me last night and you didn’t even know?” The lion tried to roar but meowed instead, for he knew that the rapist was too strong for him. Not only that, he’d ‘sold’ him his used dentures as ‘aid’ by giving him an impossible loan. What would he do without his dentures? He couldn’t touch him.
One day the rapist returned and raped the lioness again. “He did it again,” cried the lioness. “You are quite useless, my King of the Jungle.”
Meowed the king: “He didn’t inform me. I slept through it.”
“How could you allow this beast in our jungle? Didn’t you know he was there?”
“No, I swear I didn’t,” said the lion, looking like a lamb.
“You’re worse than useless. From now on I won’t bring food to your table.”
Loss of face caused loss of words. The lion crawled into his labyrinth, letting the lesser animals do the whining for him. Having thought things through he prepared an ingenious announcement to regain his lost pride. Emerging four days later, he threatened: “If anyone rapes my lioness again, he’d better watch it. There will be horrible repercussions. I mean it.” The rapist said that if he had to rape her again, he would. People laughed. The jungle drowned in embarrassment. Nothing would happen. The lioness would be raped again. The lion would keep getting more impossible loans to buy more used dentures. Unwittingly, the rapist may have done the jungle a favour, for suddenly its dormant self-esteem started stirring. Iqbal’s verse came back to haunt: “Not the illusion of wealth, but the Fakir’s asceticism is my way. Don’t sell your Self, make your name in austerity.” Trashing the lion would only serve the rapist. Correct his flaws and weaknesses. Strengthen him.
Maira tareeq ameeri nahin, Faqeeri ha
Khudi na baich, ghareebi mein naam paida kar.
In war, the first casualty is truth. To add to the fog, in his May 4, 2011 article Paul Joseph Watson, editor of Prison Planet.com says that former US Deputy Secretary of State Dr. Steve R. Pieczenik and still consultant to the Department of Defense, blew the lid off all US claims about Osama Bin Laden’s death on The Alex Jones Show, first on April 2002 and then on May 3, 2011 – www.gauhar.com. Pieczenik knew Osama and had worked with him during the Afghan Jihad. Even if a bit of what he says is true, two US governments must be tried for crimes against humanity.
1. Osama Bin Laden had died in 2001 in Tora Bora’s cave complex shortly after 9/11 from ‘Marfan Syndrome’, which was on the intelligence roster, a degenerative genetic disease that severely shortens lifespan. CIA physicians had visited him in July 2001 at the American Hospital in Dubai. “He was…already dying, so nobody had to kill him…Bush Jr. knew about it, the intelligence community knew about it.” The US government knew that Osama was dead before they invaded Afghanistan. The government would “roll out the corpse” when it was politically opportune.
2. If true, then the ‘raid’ in Abbotabad was an elaborate hoax. This could only have happened if they had attacked a mortuary.
3. The photograph in the Situation Room is “nonsense”, “make believe, “an American theater of the absurd.”
4. He is prepared to tell a federal grand jury the name of the top general on Paul Wolfowitz’s staff who told him directly that 9/11 was “a false flag attack.” Osama “was used in the same way that 9/11 was used to mobilise the emotions and feelings of the American people in order to go to a war that had to be justified through a narrative that Bush junior created and Cheney created about the world of terrorism…I will go in front of a federal committee and swear on [danger of] perjury [and name him] so that we can break it open…I taught stand down and false flag operations at the national war college, I’ve taught it with all my operatives so I knew exactly what was done to the American public.”
5. Pieczenik accuses Dick Cheney, Paul Wolfowitz, Stephen Hadley, Elliott Abrams and Condoleezza Rice, amongst others, as being directly involved. “They ran the [9/11] attacks.”
Why did Obama feel the need to assure a TV interviewer that, “I’m absolutely certain it was Bin Laden; we did DNA sampling and tests”? Why if he’s so sure? Because he knows that the story has too many holes in it. Why should we believe him? Why should we believe what Osama’s wife and daughter say in Pakistani custody? Why should we believe anyone since falsehood stalks the earth? We’ll only believe it when Obama furnishes the evidence. Difficult now, since like Houdini he’s made the body disappear. Why haven’t they shown us the burial-at-sea film yet? Still making the movie?
Who to believe? What to believe? What officialdom says or what the media say is not gospel truth. Think for yourself. Keep your minds open.
The writer is a political analyst. He can be contacted at humayun.gauhar786@gmail.com