A Soviet Plan to Attack Pakistan
By Bashir A. Syed
Washington, DC
I am not living in Pakistan. But being a physicist who has taught important Pakistani nuclear scientists between 1953 and 1959, and served in the Pakistani aerospace/military/industrial complex since 1980, know more than what an average person learns from CNN and other news outlets.
It is not the Pakistani military which the enemies of Pakistan are after.
The current world politics, after the demise of the Soviet Union, is dictated by globalization to steal the vital resources, i.e. energy, for which democracy is being used as a smokescreen.
As I have pointed out a number of times, the concept of ‘Dismembering Pakistan’ has been in existence since the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Pakistan being an obstacle in the path of oil and gas shipment to the Indian Ocean from the energy rich fields of Central Asian Republics.
I came across this contingency plan while serving with General Electric company, mentioned in an article "Afghanistan's Ordeal Puts a Region At Risk," by James B. Curren and Phillip A. Karber (BDM Corporation, McLean, VA/a subsidiary of Ford), and published in US Armed Forces Journal International (pages 78-105) March 1985.
In the last one-third part of this article the authors devote a segment titled ‘Scenario of the Future” to Pakistan.
This is how this paper unfolds:
- Graphic depiction of three wars in the region: Kashmir 1947-48, Pak-Indo War 1965, and Bangladesh War 1971;
- The nuclearization of the region described through a bar-graph comparing the achievements and capabilities of Iraq, Pakistan and India; and
- The plan for the Dismemberment of Pakistan explained through two graphic maps titled, ‘A Scenario of the Future?’
3.1 First graphic map of Pakistan titled as Joint Indo-Soviet Air Offensive (or a future US-Indo offensive?) Preemptive attacks on Pakistan’s major air bases.
3.2 Soviet (or now American?) bombings in Northern Tribal areas and air assault for seizure of key strategic passes through the region.
3.3 Indian strikes on Pakistani nuclear facilities
3.4 Soviet (or American?) interdiction of Karakoram Highway.
The second graphic map of Pakistan explains the ‘Ground Campaign for the Dismemberment of Pakistan’:
- Creation of independent ‘Peoples Republic of Balochistan’ with USSR’s (or America’s?) support and then signing with this ‘new republic’ a Naval Base and Force Deployment Treaty.
- Absorption of Northwest tribal territories into Afghanistan.
- Absorption of Azad Kashmir into India.
- Administration of Sind/Punjab autonomous zone by India.
Working during that period, between September 1980 and May 1989 at GE's Aerospace Electronic Systems Department (no longer exists), a Black Muslim Senior International Sales representative showed me a 16-mm film of the emerging Infra-Red Sensing technology, taken from the cockpit of an F-16 using such sensors.
The movie showed how a bridge could be visible (due to the heat emitted by its metallic infrastructure) and how the pilot destroyed this bridge which became traceable on his radar screen.
Due to excitement, the pilot was breathing quite heavily. One could hear his fast heartbeats.
The next target shown was a nuclear reactor right in the cross-hair glowing like an incandescent lamp in the sight due to heat generated inside its core. The next second it was blown up.
I immediately guessed the target — Osirak, being built in Tuwaitha outside of Baghdad. And sure enough on June 7, 1981, Israeli Air Force especially equipped F-16 (with GE's FIR Sensors and special larger fuel tanks provided by Grumman) blew up the Osirak Reactor, about which the first announcement was made by Menachem Begin on June 8, at 3:30 PM.
These days, the aim is to destroy the nuclear facilities of Pakistan. This should be clear to anybody without a doubt. But first they want to take care of Iran's project. They want to transform President Eisenhower's plan of "Atoms for Peace" - his vision for Baghdad Pact countries - into "Atoms for Destruction and Violence.”
Just last month, the 5th or 6th book about Pakistan and nuclear proliferation has been published in a Western country.
The first book was ‘The Islamic Bomb: The Threat to Israel and The Middle East’ by Steve Weisman and Herbert Krosney, and published by NYR/Times Books, New York, 1981.
The latest book on Pakistan, published in October 2007, is titled, “DECEPTION: Pakistan, the United States, and The Secret Trade in Nuclear Weapons" by Adrian Levy & Catherine Scott-Clark, and published by Walker & Company, New York, NY October 2007.
One can read the reviews about this extremely interesting book through Google search. The most interesting thing I found are names of certain Pakistanis that could not have appeared in such a book without help from some insiders or those so-called Pakistanis (traitors) who want to undermine Pakistan's security and existence. The Pakistani government must pay special attention to stop this nonsense.
(Bashir A. Syed is a retired Pakistani aerospace physicist and a member of several eminent professional associations, including the New York Academy of Sciences)
