Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa Agha on Pakistan Military

BTW, Riaz, I agree with your pessimism. Fool me once (and I did support BB in 1988) shame on you, fool me twice and then a third time? What does that say about the Awaam?

I agree that Musharraf has to go, but does BB-AZ/NS have to come back?

What the **** Ayesha Siddiqa Agha? What Kinda name is it? A paradox? It is like having a name Haideri Abubakar :)

haideri

Thank you for this report out. It was done quite professionally.

Re: # 7

Good and quite appropriate acronyms.

I had a class fellow in university whose father used to work as a civilian head clerk in the GHQ. When asked what his father's profession was, he would say, "hamary abba fouj ki baRi dhooi main kaam karte hain"

#6 This punjabi muslims deafeated "sikander Badshah" and he got so much trouble in punjab
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subhaan allah. what a sense of history ahmedmadani saab has.

Re: # 14
Well summed up in a nut shell, saves me from the trouble of rewriting my thoughts on this character Agha.
An accountant at the Defense dept. financed by the US and aided by the not so neighborly India comes to pick on the Army of Pakistan & it's role on stepping in to save Pakistan from the enemies within.
Most of those who are emerging on the screen of Pak politics find it so easy to step in as a prospective leader by sowing the seeds of a theory that they deem suitable for the minds of Pakistani people to accept.
Haven't these pseudo politicians already hurt the nation enough, do we need more of these?
It would be nice if the Pak legislative of future introduces a bill to become law, under the provisions of which, the right to free speech & expression is fully protected but the proceeds from any such publication in future should be entirely secured in favor of reform work to establish appropriate standards of free speech & expression and for holding adult classes on lessons of civics (not to be taught by authors like Agha).

"Ayesha Siddiqa’s MILITARY INC: A Deflective and Derogatory Book"

Dr Ayesha Siddiqa’s ‘The Military Inc.’ is a book deflective of reality, highly derogatory and against the very notion of sovereignty. Dr Ayesha Siddiqa launches the book by giving the impression that her intention is to cover the entrepreneurial activities of military worldwide. However, in depth reading reaffirms suspicions that her book massively targets the Pakistan Military and the top echelons of the Armed Forces, most of which are based upon self serving assumptions and intentional hoodwinking. The publication of Dr Ayesha Siddiqa’s own book ‘Military Inc’ in 2007, in President Musharraf’s era, repudiates her claims to term the military rule as manipulative and suppressive. Dr Ayesha Siddiqa wrote a whole book, to malign a system (MILBUS) whose worth does not exceed 0.8% of Pakistan’s free market economy.

READ THE ARTICLE - REFUTTAL:

http://presidentmusharraf.wordpress.com/ or

http://presidentmusharraf.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/ayesha-siddiqas-military- inc-a-deflective-and-derogatory-book/