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Thursday, October 7, 2021
SHAMEFUL ACT BY ICAI CENTRAL COUNCIL:-IS THE ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP OF ICAI SO HIGH THAT IT NEEDED EXTENSION OF LAST DATE FROM SEP 30 2021 TO DEC 31 2021.OR IT IS JUST ELECTION WINNING STUNT BY CENTRAL COUNCIL MEMBERS.IF A CA WHETHER IN SERIVE OR HOLDING CERTIFICATE OF PRACTICE CAN NOT PAY HIS/HER FEE IN TIME THEN BETTER TO SURRENDER THEIR MEMBERSHIP.HAVE A LOOK AT SMALL ANNUAL FEE STRUCTURE OF ICAI MEMBERSHIP.
WHY AMERICA BARGED INTO AFGHANISTAN AND WHY IT SUDDENLY FLEW OUT?
Why America barged into Afghanistan
and why it suddenly flew out.
The foundation of the modern global economy is driven by the default currency which is the United States dollar. In turn the dollar's value is pegged to the price of oil, making control and distribution of this vital energy source oil and gas extremely important.
Afghanistan has 7 Neighbours. Pakistan to the South and Iran to the West, the Central Asian Republics (CIS countries), of Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan lie to the North, and China to the West and Pakistan occupied Indian territory in the South East.
The CIS countries are extremely rich in gas deposits, and Turkmenistan alone possesses the 4th largest gas deposits in the world, only after Qatar, Iran and Russia.
The only feasible way to export this gas from Turkmenistan is by overland pipelines costing tens of billions of dollars.
Earlier Soviet Union and Iran by allowing the gas to connect to their pipelines had a controlling duopoly over gas supplies and pricing and raked in huge profits at the expense of the CIS countries.
After the disintegration of the Soviet Union, China stepped in and now pipes a large chunk of gas over a distance of 7000 km starting from the North Eastern gas fields of Turkmenistan right up to Shanghai to meet Chinese demand, in a win-win arrangement.
But what is to be done about exploiting the huge deposits of gas at Dauletabad in the south of Turkmenistan?
India is a big gas market and therefore it made sense to similarly pipe gas to India after going overland through Afghanistan and Pakistan while meeting their gas demand too. Logistics and technology have never been a problem, but security is a big threat.
So, in 1997 the Central Asian Gas Pipeline Consortium led by Unocal of USA, with partners from Turkmenistan, Saudi Arabia, Japan, Indonesia, Korea and Pakistan made a deal with the Afghan Taliban and the Pakistanis in a meeting in Texas, to purchase and allow transit of oil and gas through their countries. All parties signed off on the US$ 10 billion TAPI (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India) gas pipeline.
Afghanistan is not a nation state, but is actually made up of numerous small self-sufficient fiercely independent territories who over millennia have owed allegiance to no one except themselves.
So, while the consortium pushed for the project, Qatar and others to make sure the project was scuttled if not indefinitely delayed. It supported terrorist groups in Afghanistan through Pakistan's infamous terror network run by the ISI and a plethora of fronts posing as charities in the name of supporting Islam. This was to ensure that Turkmenistan gas remained off the market and thus Qatar retained its dominant role in the global gas market and retain its profitability. This also helps explain why Qatar has so much influence over Pakistan and the Taliban.
Keen to control and buy the gas from Turkmenistan's Dauletabad gas field, rather than see it piped to India, China too was playing the same game of supporting and arming the Taliban to disrupt the project.
Democracies are messy and unpredictable and not so easy to control, so America for all its talk on human rights and democracy always favours dealing with totalitarian regimes. American leadership consider themselves experts at regime change.
It became imperative that Pakistan democracy had to be overthrown and a pliant, corrupt, military regime be put in place in Pakistan and this was done in 1977 by way of a military coup led by General Zia-ul-Haq.
The Taliban leadership driven solely by impractical religious zeal and led by many local commanders proved completely inept at managing Afghanistan and its economy. It soon became apparent that the Taliban would not be able to deliver support for the TAPI pipeline. So, plans were hatched and the right time was waited for a regime change in Afghanistan also.
The 9/11 incident provided a perfect excuse and America mounted a full-fledged invasion of Afghanistan to throw out the Taliban and install a pro American government staffed by Afghan Americans in key positions of a democratic Afghan leadership.
The new Afghan regime proved ineffective in dealing with violence and security and this regime change was proving to be an extremely expensive solution.
Who will pay the US$ 2.26 trillion bill?
This war was financed by raising debt from American financiers and will be paid off over a 20-year period. The US government will print more money which will lead to inflation and lower the standard of living of ordinary Americans blinded by their misguided nationalistic and patriotic fervour.
In summary much of the US$ 2.26 trillion went from the American population to financiers, military industrial complex etc. via Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Former American President Donald Trump understood this game very well. Unbeholden to the Military-Industrial complex and being the astute businessman, Trump asked the fundamental question "What the hell is America doing in Afghanistan? and "Why should the people of America and Afghanistan suffer for this stupid 20 yearlong blunder?"
He was attacked for lacking patriotism but he stuck to his guns.
Trump decided, instead of continuing to steamroll the Afghan Taliban, better to cut a deal with them. So, a secret deal was agreed upon in Doha (Qatar) where America agreed to exit and pave the way for the only alternate possibility, the Taliban regime to form the government in Kabul, provided Taliban would actively support American business, defence and security demands.
The condition was America would remain Numerous Uno in Afghanistan but from a distance.
This explains why America excluded the legitimate Afghan government from the talks. This is why America left a huge arsenal of arms, ammunition and world class infrastructure for the use of the Taliban for its security and progress. Simultaneously America withdrew expert contractors who manned many of the critical defence and civilian infrastructure.
This paved the way for 60,000 Taliban soldiers to simply walk over Afghanistan and take charge.
This is why America has been apologists for the Taliban, wanting to give them ample opportunity to settle in and govern effectively.
Now what is likely to happen going forward from today will be covered in the next article.
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This is the third part on Afghanistan.
Written and Posted: September 2021 ~ Gurvinder Singh
You can also view the quote and post a comment at: Blog
Interesting Links:
* Pipeline Politics: Oil, Gas And The US Interest In Afghanistan ~ Outlook Magazine
* Afghanistan, blessed and cursed by geography. - Guru Wonder
* What was America doing in Afghanistan before 9/11? - Guru Wonder
* Proposed Gas Pipeline TAPI and IPI (Turkmenistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India ~ YouTube
* War in Afghanistan: What does it mean for the future of the TAPI Gas Pipeline? ~ YouTube
* Central Asia–China gas pipeline - Wikipedia
* Pakistan created terror groups to check India and Afghanistan: Former US diplomats ~ The Economic Times
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Wednesday, October 6, 2021
THAT MOHANDAS KARAMCHAND GANDHI PREACHED AHIMSA IS A MYTH:-ALL INDIANS MUST READ THIS TO KNOW DARK SIDE OF SO CALLED MAHATAMA-FATHER OF THE NATION
On 27 April 1918, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi agreed to attend a War Conference in Delhi requested by Chelmsford, the then British Viceroy of India. Gandhi was a mass leader and Chelmsford was pretty sure that only Gandhi could urge Indians to participate in the World War I on behalf of British. Well the British did not invite Bal Gangadhar Tilak, also a mass leader then, as they believed on his patriotism and his refusal. MK Gandhi delivered a speech after attending the War Conference, urging Indians to help the British as soldiers in the war. Gandhi moved from place to place asking Indians and offering himself to participate in the war too. That Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi preached Ahimsa is a myth. He only misused it to his advantage, forcing it to only Hindus when the fight against British gained momentum. Where was his Ahimsa during World War I?
Do you know MK Gandhi even wrote a letter to British Viceroy Chelmsford after he attended the War Conference and agreed to help British recruit Indians for them (preacher of Ahimsa sending his own countrymen to death zones on behalf of British). To quote Gandhi's exact words from his letter, extracted from the book 'The Patient Assassin' by Anita Anand: “I have an idea that, if I became your RECRUITING AGENT-IN-CHIEF, I might RAIN MEN on you.” Many freedom fighters were taken by surprise at Gandhi’s U-turn. How could he support the British and how could he agree to the British of sending Indians to death fields, the war zones? They also questioned how a votary of Ahimsa could agree to ‘Hinsa’. But Gandhi’s mass leadership bore fruits! His request was accepted! Had he then requested them to fight against the British, History would have been different! Over a million Indians agreed to be recruited to fight on behalf of British in World War I following Gandhi's request. Over one million Indians who joined British were sent overseas to participate in War. In this war, at least 74,187 Indian soldiers died and over 67,000 were wounded. All thanks to Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi!
On 7th April 1934, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi completely suspended his campaign of Civil Disobedience. His 'Quit India' movement later was a failure too. And then Gandhi was completely out of the scene. By then lakhs of freedom fighters have already sacrificed their lives for the country. Netaji Bose played an instrumental role with his Azad Hind Fauz. 26000 plus Azad Hind Fauz soldiers attained martyrdom for the freedom of India. We all know the consequences of the INA trials and ultimately the Royal Navy Mutinee that resulted into another 1857 type of war for independence, ultimately forcing the British to leave India.
While lakhs of freedom fighters resisted, revolted and sacrificed their lives for the freedom we enjoy today, we only know Gandhi gave us freedom. We primarily read Gandhi in our history textbooks. We had a complete booklet on his life in our Standard X in school (too much of Gandhi-Gandhi we read then)! Just regret if that booklet of 100+ pages on Gandhi had short accounts of our freedom fighters who resisted British or short accounts of our warrior ancestors who resisted against Izlamic invaders and rule over a period of 1000 years! #SaffronSwords (https://www.amazon.in/
Khilafat Movement was started by Muhammad Ali, Shaukat Ali, Abul Kalam Azad for Turkey to restore caliph. Mohandas Gandhi supported it which paved way for ri0ts and partition and ultimately led to suffering of Hindus.
Why would Gandhi need women around him all the while in his later years? Why would he sleep n@ked in the company of women? His grand-niece Mridula Manu Gandhi started living with him from 1942. Manu was then only 14 years old. During the Noakhali Ri0ts Manu traveled with Gandhi in the riot-hit areas. She, then aged 17, was his personal assistant. To quote from Page 584 from the book 'Mohandas: A True Story of a Man, His People, and an Empire' by Rajmohan Gandhi on the barbarism of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, on how for his scrubbing stone, he sent Manu through the ri0t hit areas all alone for around 30 miles to get it back:
"A harder lesson had been given a few days earlier when Manu left behind Gandhi's scrubbing stone — given to him by Mira — in the village of Bhatialpur. Discovering the loss later in the day (15 Jan.) in Narayanpur, Gandhi asked Manu to walk back alone to Bhatialpur and retrieve the pumice stone. Though an old woman had thrown the stone away, Manu located it and hurried back.
Saying, 'Take your stone, she threw the object before Gandhi, who laughed and said that Manu had passed a test. He added:
If scoundrels had seized and killed you I would have danced with joy...."
In an interview to the BBC, BR Ambedkar had said thus about Mohandas Gandhi, quoted from 'Dismantling Sainthood: Ambedkar on Gandhi' by A Ranganathan: “I knew Gandhi better than most people because he opened his real fangs to me, and I could see the inside of the man. Gandhi was all the time double-dealing. He ran a paper in English and another in Gujarati, and if you read them both you will see how he was deceiving the people. In the English paper he posed himself as an opponent of the caste system and of untouchability and that he was a democrat, while in the Gujarati one he supported the caste system and professed all the orthodox dogmas that have kept India down all through the ages. Someone ought to write his biography by making a comparative study of the statements he made in these papers. The West reads only the English paper. Gandhi never wanted real upliftment of the Dalits. All he cared about were issues of absolutely no consequence to us like temple entry. Gandhi was never a reformer.”
And yet, we address Gandhi as 'Father of the Nation'. If partition had to happen and if he was a true leader he could have facilitated peaceful partition and saved millions of lives that resulted from it. And the same policy of appeasement he followed continues till today!
Update: Got the above published for easy share: https://www.myindiamyglory.
- Manoshi Sinha.
Unitech diverted Rs 2,345 crore to tax havens and other countries, ED informs court ;-ET
Synopsis
A Delhi court sent former Unitech group promoter Sanjay Chandra's wife Preeti Chandra to ED's custody till October 9, Ramesh Chandra to October 8, and Rajesh Malik till October 11.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Tuesday informed a local court that its investigation into an alleged diversion of homebuyers' funds by promoters of
Unitech
NSE -2.78 % has revealed that ₹2,345 crore of investor funds were diverted to the Cayman Islands, Cyprus, Isle of Man, Mauritius, Jersey, Singapore, the UK, the US the UAE.Monday, October 4, 2021
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