Another NATO strike, bravado claim by the establishment’

Calls for action rings hollow in the face of the military and political establishment’s continuing dependency on US.


Express November 29, 2011



The Worker’s Party Pakistan (WPP) has slammed the chorus of reactionary forces that have once again raised a hue and cry about Pakistan’s sovereignty in the wake of the Nato attack on a military check post in Mohmand agency, said a press release issued by the WPP on Monday.


WPP President Abid Hasan Minto and Information Secretary Aasim Sajjad in a joint statement said that the calls for firm action rings hollow in the face of the military and political establishment’s continuing dependency for support from western governments, particularly the US.

They pointed out that both the military establishment and imperialist forces continue to maintain their policies while ordinary people are fed rhetoric about sovereignty and a prospective new policy orientation, they added.

They reiterated that only a major overhaul of political and economic structures, which privilege a powerful security apparatus, will permit a breakaway from the clutches of imperialism.

“The WPP is of the opinion that none of the mainstream political parties, including new contenders for power such as the Tehrik-i-Insaf, offer a meaningful alternative to the pro-imperialist and anti-people status quo.”

Only true anti-imperialist and anti-establishment forces can interrupt the political merry-go-round currently in place and extricate Pakistan and its people from the clutches of the establishment, reactionary forces, the lackey mainstream political elite and imperialist powers.

They said that mainstream political parties and the corporate media have all responded to the deplorable Nato attack by expressing solidarity with the armed forces and issuing nationalist slogans.

However, this is neither the first time that Nato and/or American forces have engaged in such unilateral action nor the first time that such an incident has been followed by similar expressions of bravado by the political, military and intellectual elite.

They said that this hypocritical position masks the reality of who exercises power within Pakistan.

They said that the confusion prevailing across Pakistani society about
the relationship with the US has also allowed the military establishment to persist with obsolete policy of ‘strategic depth’ which continues to produce blowback affects within Pakistani society.

Published in The Express Tribune, November 29th, 2011.

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