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TAG SP 344: TOI: Bush Sentap Musharraf By Chidanand Rajghatta 12/10/2001 12:28 am Fri |
[Gelagat Bush menunjukkan satu rencak fikiran yang tidak begitu tenteram.
Apa tidaknya banyak negara Islam tidak begitu bersetuju tindakkan menyerang
Afghanistan itu manakala sekutunya yang lain bimbang juga jika mereka
nanti akan hidup dibayangi ketakutan. Ini tentunya akan mengheret lagi negara
mereka ke kancah kemelesetan ekonomi. Lagipun Amerika bertindak tanpa bukti
yang kukuh dan lebih bersifat gopoh. Dengan kenaikkan harga minyak dan kos
insuran serta terjejasnya industri pengangkutan bagaimana ekonomi akan cepat
pulih dari demam? Silap-silap kerajaan mereka sendiri akan tumbang....
- Editor] Bush Sentap Musharraf (Bush snubs Musharraf) Oleh: Chidanand Rajghatta Pada hari kelmarin (Selasa), Presiden George Bush secara tidak semena-mena
menyentap Presiden Musharraf menunjukkan ada yang tidak kena dalam
perhubungan mereka di mana Islamabad diharapkan menguruskan kehendak
Washington dalam menangani masalah keganasan tanpa banyak soal.
Beberapa jam selepas Presiden Pakistan memberitahu dunia bahawa dia telah
menerima 'kepastian yang jelas' daripada AS dan UK bahawa operasi
mengganyang Afghanistan itu adalah untuk satu masa yang pendek. Tetapi
Bush telah menyentapnya dengan berkata, 'Saya tidak tahu siapa yang
memberitahu Presiden Pakistan itu.' 'Selalunya, kami tidak pernah bercerita rancangan ketenteraan,' demikian
penjelasan Bush yang sudah sakit hati dengan kebocoran rahsia perisikan
oleh pegawainya di Washington. 'Ada satu cara untuk memendekkan kempen di
Afghanistan, iaitu agar Osama Laden dan para pembantunya diserahkan untuk
pengadilan.' Sikap mendedahkan adanya pergeseran dengan sekutu yang penting, dengan
cara menyentap begitu seperti yang ditunjukkan oleh seorang Presiden
Amerika terhadap seorang pemimpin dunia yang lain, adalah satu fenomena
yang jarang dilihat. Sikap Bush itu telah ditunjukkannya di Rose Garden di
Rumah Putih di hadapan Chanselor Jerman Gerhard Schroeder.
Tetapi, Islamabad telah menjentik kemarahan pentadbiran Amerika dengan
agendanya tersendiri dan syarat- syarat yang diselit ketika menunjukkan
sokongan kepada Washington memerangi keganasan.
Walaupun pegawai Amerika telah menunjukkan simpati terhadap rintihan
Pakistan yang sengaja merengekkan sokongan itu, pentadbiran Bush telah
mula menyemak semula peranan Islamabad dalam perihal kerjasama mereka.
Washington terpaksa bertegas setelah meneliti laporan mengenai hubungan
ikrab antara kerajaan Pakisan dan pentadbiran Taliban dan wakil proksi
mereka. Inilah yang menyedarkan Washington hingga mendesak Musharraf
bertindak tegas memecat beberapa orang pegawainya atas permintaan AS.
Satu petanda jelas berlakunya anjakan sikap ini terletak kepada cara
Washington memberikan pilihannya terhadap Pakatan Utara walaupun sebelum
itu ia telah menerima-pakai rayuan Pakistan agar puak Taliban yang
dipilihnya dibenarkan memegang peranan utama dalam pemerintahan di Kabul.
Dalam satu majlis taklimat di Pentagon, Setiausaha Pertahanan Donald
Rumsfeld telah bertegas lantang bahawa wakil Taliban yang disebut-sebut
itu mesti ditolak. Ini merupakan satu pendapat yang selari dengan
pendapat Menteri hal Ehwal Luar India Jaswan Singh ketika beliau membuat
lawatan ke Washington dan ketika Pakistan dikatakan sedang giat merayu
agar dilantik sebagai proksi Amerika.
'Kami berminat melihat mereka (Pakatan Utara) mencapai kejayaan. Kami mahu
melihat mereka mengusir keluar Taliban dan Al-Qaeda daripada negara itu.'
Demikian cadangan Rumsfeld dalam satu pengumuman yang memeranjatkan kerana
pasukan yang menentang Taliban itu memang disenangi oleh India, Russia dan
Iran. Namun, masih ada kemungkinannya nanti, satu kumpulan yang berpecah
daripada Taliban akan mendapat tempat di meja perundingan.
Pakistan telah bertegas agar puak Taliban terus diberikan kuasa untuk
memerintah Afghanistan baru. Pendapat Pakistan itu berasaskan fakta bahawa
Taliban adalah daripada kaum Pushtu yang merupakan 70% penduduk
Afghanistan. Lagipun Pakatan Utara itu, mengikut tafsiran Pakistan tidakpun
mempunyai wakil Poshtu selain kumpulan minoriti seperti Uzbeks, Tajik,
Shiadan Hazarah. Akan tetapi, seorang diplomat India yang pernah berkhidmat di Kabul
memberitahu, bahawa jumlah peratusan Pushtu di Afghanistan tidak melebehi
40% dan kerana itu puak Pushtu kerap mensabotaj sebarang usaha untuk
diadakan bancian kaum di Afghanistan untuk mengelak terdedahnya muslihat
itu. Di samping itu masih ada kaum Pushtu dalam kumpulan angkatan Pakatan
Utara. Malahan, Raja Zahir Shah adalah orang Pushtu juga.
Pakistan mempunyai sebab kenapa mahukan satu kerajaan Pushtu terus
dikekalkan di Kabul. Pertama, kerana mahukan satu pentadbian yang
disenanginya di bahagian Barat sempadannya, untuk mengimbangi suasana liar
yang dihadapinya dengan India di bahagian Timur sempadan. Kedua, untuk
melegakan penduduknya daripada kaum Pushtu yang berkemungkinan berpakat
dengan Pustu Afghan untuk mendesak diwujudkan satu wilayah merdeka dan
bebas daripada pentadbiran Pakistan.
Tamat Terjemahan: SPAR. Asal: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ Bush snubs Musharraf CHIDANAND RAJGHATTA TIMES NEWS NETWORK WASHINGTON: US President George Bush on Tuesday
peremptorily snubbed Pakistan's military ruler Pervez
Musharraf amid clear indications of a strain in their
event-based relationship in which Islamabad is expected to do
Washington's bidding on the terrorism issue with no questions
asked. Hours after the Pakistani President told the world that he had
received "definite assurances" from the US and UK that the
military operation in Afghanistan would be short, Bush publicly
contradicted him, snapping, "I don't know who told the Pakistani
President that." "Generally, we don't talk about military plans," Bush, who has
been annoyed by the leakage of intelligence matters by
law-makers in Washington, continued. "There's one way to
shorten the campaign in Afghanistan, and that's for Osama Bin
Laden and his leadership to be turned over so they can be
brought to justice." The public expression of discord with a crucial ally, much less
the sharp tone employed by the US President about another
world leader, is rare. It was made in the White House Rose
Garden in front of the visiting German Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder. But Islamabad has evidently annoyed the administration with its
own agenda and conditions while purporting to support
Washington's campaign against terrorism.
Despite making sympathetic noises about Pakistan plight, which
US officials privately say the country has brought on itself, the
administration has begun to take a hard look at Islamabad's role
in the whole messy affair. Washington's position has hardened
after reports about the deep links between the Pakistani
establishment and the Taliban and its jehadi proteges, a
realisation that led to the weekend crackdown and sacking of the
hardliners by Musharraf under US pressure.
One indication of the shift in attitude is evident in the manner in
which Washington has changed its stance on the Northern
Alliance after initially appearing to consider Pakistan's plea that
its Taliban proteges should continue to have a role in a future
Kabul dispensation. At a Pentagon briefing today, Defence
Secretary Donald Rumsfeld categorically said the Taliban had to
go, a sentiment first expressed by India's External Affairs Minister
Jaswant Singh when he was visited Washington at a time
Islamabad was still pleading for its proxy.
""We would like to see them (the Northern Alliance) succeed. We
would like to see them heave the Taliban and Al Qaeda out of
that country," Rumsfeld said, in a surprisingly hearty
endorsement of the rival group that is backed by India, Russia,
and Iran. Indications are that at best, a moderate, breakaway
faction of the Taliban, which disavows the Taliban policies,
might find a place at the table. Pakistan has been arguing for a sustained role for the
Pushtu-dominated Taliban, maintaining that it would be the only
correct course to bring stability to a country that it says is 70 per
cent Pushtu. The Northern Alliance, Islamabad says, has little
Pushtu representation and is comprised mainly of other ethnic
minorities like Uzbeks, Tajiks, Shias, and Hazaras.
But an Indian diplomat who has served in Kabul contested the
assertion, saying Afghanistan's Pushtu population is as low as
40 per cent and Pushtus have consistently sabotaged census in
the country to hide this fact. Besides, the official said, the
Northern Alliance has Pushtus in its ranks and King Zahir Shah
himself is a Pushtu. It now appears that Pakistan is losing the battle to install another
proxy government in Kabul. "They are seeing the writing on the
wall, which is why they are making overtures to Zahir Shah," the
Indian official said. Pakistan's reason to install a proxy Pushtu government in Kabul is two-fold. One, to have a friendly regime in Kabul that serves as a cushion on its western flank so it can confront India on the east. And two, to contain its own explosive Pushtu population that could otherwise team up with the Afghan Pushtus and revice the dormant movement for a separate state in Pakistan. |