by Scott Creighton
UPDATE: read The Staged Malala Yousafzai Story: The Face of the “Universal” For-Profit School Movement
“Abductions (by the ISI and Pakistani military Frontier Corps) were carried out in broad daylight, often in busy public areas, and in the presence of multiple witnesses. Victims were taken away from shops and hotels, public buses, university campuses, homes, and places of work.
The victims of enforced disappearances in the cases documented were predominantly men in their mid-20s to mid-40s. Three of the disappeared were children, the youngest of whom was 12 years old (two years younger than Malala) at the time of the abduction.” Human Rights Watch report page 2
The ongoing Malala Yousafzai psyop has been largely ignored by most of the “alternative” news sites here in the states.
You have to ask yourself why that is when the story itself is so obviously custom tailored to promote more war, ISI death squads and drone strikes in key regions in Pakistan (Swat Valley for one) and Balochistan. The official story is changing so rapidly that even the MSM with their talking points memos can’t keep up with the new spin. It seems like every article and every interview ends up focusing on this “Malala’s way” forward for the nation of Pakistan which translates to the “CIA’s way”or “NATO’s way”. In press reports, interviewees are constantly required to declare Pakistan’s new commitment to rid the country of the “evil doers” who stand in the way of our neo-liberal agenda.
Unfortunately for Pakistan, they find themselves in the middle of the most important geopolitical hot spot in the ongoing “great game”. The trick for Pakistan is to avoid becoming road kill in Washington and London’s new “silk road” project. The trick for the alternative news sources here in the states like this one, is to not allow them to be run over without notice by the American people who in the end are financing the game and thus may be the only people on the planet in a position to stop it.
A little background
“However, the overriding American objective to promote TAPI is to ensure that the IPI project is effectively killed. America has a history of bulldozing economically unpopular projects in exchange for politico-strategic gains.” The Nation May 2012
Captain Arthur Connolly of the East India Company coined the term “the great game” before someone loped off his head for being a spy back in 1842. Russia and England were involved in a deadly cold war, covert and dangerous, to secure control of the spoils of the Middle East from the Caspian down to southern India. The Great Game is still well underway.
In the forefront of this global economic/energy conflict, are two main pipeline concepts designed to bring enormous amounts of LNG to the energy starved regions of Pakistan, India and South China: the TAPI (trans-Afghan) pipeline, supported by the U.S., Britain, and NATO countries and you have the IPI (Peace Pipeline) supported by the Iranians, the Russians, the Chinese and certain politicians in Pakistan.
“The tussle over the IPI and the TAPI is not a mere economic battle; it has far-reaching geopolitical dimensions. The IPI and TAPI are symbols of the ‘new great game’ – the main goal of which is gaining control of oil and gas reserves in this region. The US and its allies want Pakistan to abdicate the IPI and pursue the TAPI only; India has already done so. Now, China and Russia are supporting Pakistan to withstand the US pressure for giving up the IP project.” The Nation May 2012
As I have written before on this subject, the trans-Afghan pipeline is underway but meeting heavy resistance from various nationalist groups in both Pakistan and Afghanistan who seem to resent this pipeline being secured through their country by a foreign occupying force at the barrel of a drone missile strike while the Peace Pipeline is now moving forward in the Balochistan area of Pakistan since they finally secured a contract with Russia to build the final Pakistani leg of the pipeline. India is still waiting in the wings and no one actually believes they will reject the LNG once the Peace Pipeline is complete.
In order to understand the Malala psyop, one must understand the players involved and the nature of the micro-political tensions inside Pakistan, which I am certainly no expert on, but I will attempt to map out the broad strokes as best I can.
As you can see from the map below, the two areas which are most referenced by the talking heads in the military (namely the ISPR propaganda branch of the Pakistani military) when it comes to talking about the rising Taliban influence in Pakistan that must now be crushed because of little innocent Malala, are the Swat Valley and Balochistan and they are key regions in both the IPI (Peace Pipeline) and the TAPI (trans-Afghan pipeline)
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The New Great Game
The people of Balochistan have been fiercely independent of Pakistan for quite sometime. They are secular by nature, mainly consisting of Sunni Muslims. It’s a harsh landscape which creates tough people. The part of Balochistan which is in what is considered modern Pakistan (Balochistan is partly in Iran, Pakistan, and India I believe) have struck a deal to be part of Pakistan but remain sovereign to some degree.
The ISI and the CIA have been staging “extremist’ terror attacks inside Balochistan for decades looking to destabilize the key region in order to exert more of their influence in the area.
“Although Baloch people are mostly secular in nature, the invasive influence of Pakistani intelligence agencies in Balochistan and extremist religious parties in the region are propagating extremism in Baloch societies. The spread of Talibanism is also a constant threat to Baloch and its cultural values. In the past sixty years, Balochis have persistently rejected extremism and Talibanism in the region.” Wiki
In 2011, Human Rights Watch published a report titled “We Can Torture, Kill, or Keep You for Years” Enforced Disappearances by Pakistan Security Forces in Balochistan (pdf). It’s about how the ISI (in conjunction with their sister agency, the CIA) has been killing and disappearing Baloch nationalist activists in Balochistan in support of their ultimate goal, taking complete control of the region. In short, in support of their efforts to stop the Peace Pipeline by taking control of the land on which it will be built, the ISI is operating death squads in the region with the complicit support of the United States.
On December 11, 2009, a 39-year-old Baloch nationalist activist, Abdul Ghaffar Lango, and his wife were leaving a hospital in Pakistan’s southern city of Karachi after her discharge from surgery when two white Toyota pickup trucks suddenly stopped at the main gate. Lango’s wife said that about 10 men in plain clothes approached the couple and one started beating Lango with the butt of an AK-47 assault rifle until he lost consciousness.
The men then dragged him into one of the pickups and drove away. When the family went to register the abduction with the police, the police informed them that Lango had been detained because of his political activities, yet refused to provide further information on his whereabouts or specific charges against him.
On July 1, 2011, Lango’s corpse was found in an abandoned hotel near Lakbado area of Gadani town in the Lasbela district of Balochistan. The local police represented by the Station House Officer (SHO) of Gadani Police Station told the local media that “the body bore multiple marks of brutal torture.” Human Rights Watch report page 1
The report goes on:
“Abductions (by the ISI and Pakistani military Frontier Corps) were carried out in broad daylight, often in busy public areas, and in the presence of multiple witnesses. Victims were taken away from shops and hotels, public buses, university campuses, homes, and places of work.
The victims of enforced disappearances in the cases documented were predominantly men in their mid-20s to mid-40s. Three of the disappeared were children, the youngest of whom was 12 years old (two years younger than Malala) at the time of the abduction.”
…. Witnesses frequently described the perpetrators as armed men in civilian clothes, usually arriving in one or more four-door pickup trucks. The witnesses typically referred to these assailants as representatives of the “agencies,” a term commonly used to describe the intelligence agencies, including the Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), Military Intelligence (MI), and the Intelligence Bureau (IB). Other information obtained by Human Rights Watch in many cases corroborates these claims.
In 16 cases documented by Human Rights Watch, the abductions were carried out by, in the presence of, or with the assistance of uniformed personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC), an Interior Ministry paramilitary force. In a number of cases, police assisted by being present at the scene or securing an area while plainclothes intelligence officers abducted individuals who later “disappeared.” Human Rights Watch report page 2
In such an environment is it so difficult to believe that this Malala incident was created by those interested in generating a new narrative which would justify greater violence and military action to secure that key area in Pakistan where the Peace Pipeline is about to be built?
The story has all the noted hallmarks of an ISI/ISPR operation. In fact, there are many people inside Pakistan, in Balochistan and across the country who are calling this a staged event, just like I have.
One such person’s writing was made available to me and the readers here via a commenter, MOMIN, who left his (her?) article in the comment section of one of my articles. It reads in part as follows:
“The attack on Mulala Yousufzai is a brutal attempt by traitors within political and military leadership to win back the peoples support so that they could spread this American backed war against terrorism to other parts of the country. Previously a fabricated video and an attack on GHQ were used as an excuse to launch military operations in Swat and tribal areas. But then the people awoke to the reality of the game plan of the traitors within political and military leadership. That is why even after the attacks on Mehran Naval base in Karachi and Kamra air base, traitors within the political and military leadership failed to gain the people’s support to extend this American war to other parts of the country. People now know that it is this traitor leadership that has allowed terrorist organizations like Blackwater and terrorists like Raymond Davis to freely move around the country.” Shahzad Shaikh
It is Shahzad’s position that Malala was actually shot. It is my contention that this entire episode has been staged. It’s a form of Global War on Terror street theater in which the goals are achieved without actually having to kill Malala. There are many good reasons which I have already laid out to support that hypothesis. Perhaps the best way we have to see that this was a staged event is to understand that little Malala would serve their interests better as a spokesman rather than a martyr for the cause. Thus, in my opinion, they didn’t actually shoot her.
Regardless who’s right on that count, the point I and Shahzad are making is the same: this is the result of a psychological operation with the end game being the approval of both Pakistani and U.S. citizens of more military action in the Swat Valley where the TAPI pipeline is heading and the Balochistan region where the IPI pipeline is about to be built.
The history of the ISI conforms to this conclusion as does the facts on the ground surrounding the supposed attack on Malala.
We are witnessing history: the end game of the New Great Game is unfolding right before our eyes.
UPDATE: another couple maps of the alternative, northern routes of the TAPI pipeline from Energy Bangla (Bangladesh)
Two pipeline routes are being designed by the UK company Penspen. According to Penspen, the project will cost $2.5 billion and will carry 30 billion cubic metres of gas per year from Turkmenistan through Afghanistan on to Pakistan and India, in association with Nippon Koei UK.24 Consequently, a path must be cleared in the relevant regions. The upper route of the proposed pipeline corresponds to the increase in Anglo-American drone attacks in the Afghanistan-Pakistan region. Axis of Logic, Oct. 2011
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Excellent article, willy !!
so there is going to be a winner and a loser…. now, after it all happens, will the world calm down and live in peace then?
so why can’t the two pipe lines just stop… and give back the acquired land to the farmers or land owners..
and then just truck in the oil or run it in by train?
why can’t they (all countries) care about the land and jobs? why can’t they just enjoy their own country and let the others enjoy theirs? Just think of all the happy tourists that would create… lots of jobs and money….
So the pipe line winner will be the WWIII winner also?
I think I am just rambling…. this pipe line stuff makes me nervous.
Your TAPI route map is as phony as the absurd and illogical story that you have made up .Your claim that it was a CIA/ISI joint false flag to hurt Malala .
Briefly,the announced 1,000-mile route would follow the ancient trading route from Central to South Asia, extending from the Dauletabad gas field in Turkmenistan along the highway through Herat, Helmand and Kandahar in Afghanistan, to Quetta and Multan in Pakistan, and on to Fazilka in India.
Swat which is in the Northern Hilly areas does not figure at all in the specified route.
Checkout the actual route map and rest of the details on this link below
http://www.ensec.org/images/stories/jes%20map%201%20-%20tapi1.gif
Link of the article on TAPI: http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=233:afghanistan-the-tapi-pipeline-and-energy-geopolitics&catid=103:energysecurityissuecontent&Itemid=358
Furthermore,FYI,the Pakistan army and the ISI couldn’t possibly be sister agency’s .Because both have been at loggerheads since the Raymond Davis incident and then followed by the Salala check post sad incident ,which happened to be close to the Pak-Afghan border..It was attacked by the NATO fighter Jets and Helicopters on the 26/11 last year,killing 26 Pakistan army soldiers and a few officers.This resulted in the relations nose diving to rock bottom stage.The NATO land supply route passing through Pakistan en-route to Afghanistan was shut down and the strength of the CIA agents present in the country was reduced alongside the trainer!
Kindly get your facts corrected instead of indulging in a vile propaganda over an emotional and sad incident involving a 14 year old child.
Bullshit. My map shows shows TWO pipeline routes for the TAPI pipeline as you can clearly see. One is the southern route, that is the original route. The other is the northern route.
According to all credible sources, a second route was selected due to the instability of the Balochastan region.
Your map dates back to 2010. This Pakistani article quote is dated today…”—The writer is Consultant Policy and Strategic Response, IPRI Islamabad. He is a former assistant chief of air staff of Pakistan Air Force” he too talks about this being part of the “Great Game”
They moved the proposed route to the north, far into government controlled Pakistan, away from the troubled region.
Furthermore, here is another article, again, dated much later than yours, May 2012, which talks about Bangladesh wishing to be connected to the Trans Afghan Pipeline, and again showing the ALTERNATIVE TAPI route, running through the northern regions of Pakistan. I have now included that map in the article above as an update so you can have a look at it.
Here is another quote from an earlier article which talks about the two alternative routes. One lists the pipeline entering from Afghanistan and passing through Peshawar, which is the northern route which I have highlighted. The northern route in the map I used, is the route which they mention.
The CIA has disclosed a contract report from 2003 basically saying the deal was dead but it does show the route that you make mention of as the “new” proposed pipeline route.
Seems like at first they wanted to take the pipeline right down the border of Iran and Pakistan, through the Balochistan region, and to the coast for loading on tankers.
They seem to have nixed that idea.
The path you talk about is certainly one that is still under consideration and may in fact be preferable for security reasons to the one further to the north which goes through Swat. But as far as I can tell, they may both be in play.
In fact, if they clear Balochistan of the resistance, they may all be in play.
And one last example… with map detailing new northern and southern routes…
Awesome man!!! A befitting reply to this charlatan.
Sethi, It is people like you the Qur’an has taught us to watch out for. Where the hell did get this misleading information (propaganda)? Just tell us all what is the source of this information and how credible is it? You talk as if you are omniscient – Mr. Know it ALL. I got news for you: You are wrong. All of the tussels you mentioned between the ISI and other forces had other reason behind them, one of which is public eyewash.
It is public knowledge now that 26/11 happened because Zardari refused to give approval to the military to shoot down the helicopter. Did you forget that Zardari had to go rest in Dubai and London for many days as a result of that? Stop fooling people.
It’s issues like this one that are constantly increasing my resolve to not to vote this election. A number of people are really going after me, claiming that not voting means voting for Romney, and all he stands for. This is particularly frustrating with the issue of gay rights and abortion. None of them will listen to me when I try to tell them that Romney and Obama are essentially the same.
I really don’t know what to do…
I sit in the same boat as you Andrew… and my kin tell me that not voting is giving up my rights,,…
and I try to explain that there is no one running who will stand up for my rights…..
I cannot bring myself to vote just because I appear to have that option…. that’s doing exactly what ‘they’ want me to do….
I know. If we vote, we are basically asking them to continue their crimes with our full support.
Obama and Romeny or whichever devil by a different name- In the end , they all play the same game. Don’t vote.
Oops. WordPress gets messed up with my name since I started my own blogs…
Another piece of the pipeline puzzle:
http://www.voltairenet.org/a176254
Fight the ¨peace pipe¨ on all fronts – is it?
Today is Sunday. Today, somewhere in the world some other young girl is working in a sweatshop, a place she may have to work all day, every day, for the rest of her life, just to earn enough to fill her rice bowl for the day, probably because her parents can’t afford to feed her anymore.
And today, there’s millions more all around the world just like her. And this, so these others can afford to play their stinking ‘great game.’
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Not to mention a bunch of them are probably going to get killed by drone strikes or death squads enforcing “freedom and democracy”…
Yeah. Bummer will get them, come Tuesday. It’s what we do better than anybody else.
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Excellent article! Being a Pakistani living in Pakistan, I can vouch for all you’ve written. It’s a sad reality that we have to live with- apart from being bombed by drones, we are constantly being fed lies and propaganda and are being destroyed right from within the core in a disinformation warfare
stop blaming isi and agencies…….
….and the author and others have just withdrawn, in front of your strong argument. Bring some concrete proof to prove it wrong, otherwise go f*ck urself anywhere else…
I’ve gotta say I agree with most of what the author says, except the part where the ISI is being blamed for disappearances in Balochistan. You see, you know mainstream media is publishing lies, this itself happens to be one of them. There is absolutely no reason for the ISI to be against the IPI project, because they have an influence in politics and if they willed, they could have stopped the project in it’s foundations. This is done by the BLA-like terrorist groups that are funded by America, not by the ISI. However, the blame is put onto the ISI by the false media reports. It’s done to destabilize the country and also to damage the project. But it’s the CIA who’s behind it, not the ISI. Other than that, it’s awesome!
Whatever else may be right or wrong in your article, you cannot dispute the fact that Malala has been severely injured. She has an obvious facial paralysis on the left side and has just undergone surgery to reconstruct a skull defect, as well as having a cochlear implant fitted.