The men uniform are doing stupidities for the last 64 years. They have always let down the people of Pakistan and reduced the size of our mother land every time they came to power.
- General Ayub handed over Akasai Chin to China.
- General Yahya handed over sizeable portion of Baluchistan full to oil reserves to Iran.
- Genral Yahya successfully completed the Bangladesh project. (reduced Pakistan to half).
- General Zia let india take control of Siachin.
- During musharaf regime Pakistan completely lost its control over FATA (all 8 agencies) which is almost twice the area of Azad Kashmir and Handed over bases to USA.
As for the achievement of ISI.
Their only specialty is political manipulation and patronizing of militant groups. (Lashkr-e- Taiba, Jaish Muhammad, Taliban, harkatul Mujahideen etc etc. )
Aksai Chin has been traditionally part of Sinkiang province of China. In 1865 Johnson proposed a boundary line which showed most of Aksai Chin as Part of State of Jammu & Kashmir. This was however severely criticised and in 1890 British proposed the Macartney-MacMohan line where nearly 18000 KM of Aksai Chin was accepted as part of Sinkiang province with border at the Karakorum Pass. Later, when it was feared that Russian might claim the Sinkiang province British reverted back to the Johnson line. Border was however never demarcated.
On October 3, 1962 Pakistan signed an agreement with China accepting border at Macartney-MacMohan line which is the border today. China in the meantime moved ahead and current line of control between Indian and China is on Macartney-MacMohan line which India strongly disputes.
Pray tell me, on what basis you make the claim that Ayub Khan gave away part of Pakistan to China? Suppose it would have made you very happy that Pakistan had fought a war with China over this as we did with India over Kashmir?
Iran Baluchistan border - I have never before come across this crap except by some United Baluchistan Front people. My Hon. Fellow member, Baluchistan as well as Afghanistan have been traditionally part of Iran. With the formation of independent Afghanistan under Ahmad Shah Abdali, in 1714 Khan of Kalaat accepted subjugation of Afghanistan and became part of the Durrani Empire. Border with Iran was never defined and remained so another 150 years. Kalaat was conquered by the British in 1854 during the first Afghan war. Border with Iran was finally demarcated in 1896.
Pakistan and Iran signed an agreement on Feb 6,1958 and the line based on agreements of 1871 & 1895 as demarcated in 1896 was accept as international boundary. Kindly advise how you came to conclusion that Yahya Khan gave away Pakistani land to Iran? No fuel reservoir as yet discovered on that border. Iranian reserves are on the Iran -Iraq border lands and todate nearly all gas and oil reserves in Baluch areas are in the Eastern region.
Siachin - I personally am aware of the mountain expeditions to Saltoro Range going from Pakistan. I even have a Pakistani stamp showing it. Prior to 1984 neither Pakistan nor India had any permanent posts in the Siachin region. Even the Simla Accord of Feb 2, 1972 between ZA Bhutto and Indra Gandhi left it as it was.
India pre-empted and on 13th April 1984 secured the passes Sia La and Bilafond la, thus cutting off about 1000 sq. kilometres of territorty. A conflict developed and has been going on since. Why do you blame Zia, why didn’t Bhutto order establishment of posts there after 1972?
FATA has been lost to us thru spread of Islamic terrorism. The same thing happened in Swat and also in Lal Masjid. I still hear Musharraf blamed for ‘Shaheeds’ of Lal Masjid (they were in fact thugs and terrorirsts). No one cares to mention that Lal Masjid thugs did not have to fight PA with guns. They were given ample opportunity to lay down their arms. But then Pakistani society has little love for Pakistan when it comes to Islam.
TTP thugs aligned with Al-Qaida have occupied FATA. Musharraf did not let them have it. Musharraf ordered military action but was strongly criticised by everyone. Even the Taliban loving main stream politician Imran Khan to this days maintains that this is not Pakistan’s war. Why do you blame Musharraf, blame all the Islamic fundamentalists and Taliban sympathizers including TV pundit Hamid Mir for the loss of FATA to Taliban.
It is deeply disappointing to see learned people making historically incorrect statements.
