Project Halala: Famous Lost Words (Part-III)

It is the ‘year of our Lord’, 1880 Anno Domini. The Battle of Maiwand is raging between the British attackers and the Pashtuns of Afghanistan led by Ayub Khan.

A woman named Malalai is rallying the Pashtuns to gain victory over the British forces. She is shot and falls as a martyr. The British are defeated and the people for generations to come name their children after Ayub Khan and Malalai.

Fast forward. It is the year of our ‘foreign lords’, 2012. Invading ‘wasp’ (white Anglo-Saxon Protestant) forces are attempting to reclaim more or less the same territory. There is no Ayub Khan in sight and instead of Malalai we see Halala Josephski from the S.W.A.T team.

Halala Josephski got hyperactive on Facebook but after receiving explosive picnic offers, abruptly deleted her personal page to ‘attend digital-security sessions’.

We do not know if she attended the School of the Americas to rub shoulders with the future crop of anti-democratic butchers or swam with the navy seals of ‘Black Water’.

Since 9 October 2012, the mass hypnotists of the mainstream media have been working over-time to turn Project Halala into something better than sliced white bread. Those who do not like the secret ingredients of this bread are labelled ‘conspiracy theorists’.

The truth always invites the wrath of the establishment, as evident from the struggles of the world’s genuine do-gooders. As for journalism, Oscar Wilde thought:

“By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, modern journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the Community.”

Drama folks

Naeem Tahir, a dramatist, discovered a strange ‘common’ link between three men separated by decades: a Pushto poet, a Communist leader and Halala Josephski’s daddy:

"Halala has been inspired by her father, Ziauddin [Josephski]—an educationist and a poet—who in turn had been inspired by Khushal Khan Khattak, the great poet. It is interesting that these revolutionaries have something in common with Mao who was a poet himself.

Ask yourself this: What is ‘common’ between executions, prison sentences, forced famine and the art of ‘poetry’? According to the authoritative ‘Black Book of Communism’, ‘an estimated 65 million Chinese (including 46,000 scholars) died’ on the altar of Socialism.

Feryal Ali Gauhar, a noted drama queen having touched wuthering heights, declared thus:

“Halala was the lone voice in that wilderness. She rose to heights few of us can aspire to.”

Social activists

Yasser Lateef Hamdani, a lawyer and a columnist who left his paw-prints in the comments section of Part-I of this article, pleaded:

“This valiant young girl has known since age 11 what an Oxford-educated Pakistani hero, now nearing 60, who should know better, does not.”

While Hamdani ridiculed Imran Khan, his freelance writer wife, Aisha Fayyazi Sarwari, poked into the nose of Jamaat-e-Islami’s Qazi Hussain and claimed the Taliban did not know who their fathers were. She tweeted on Twitter:

“I would not waste a second droning the bastards who opened fire on a 14 year old girl.” (Twitter, 09 October 2012)

“Qazi Hussain Ahmed said that those who propped up Halala are to blame for the incident. One can only be shocked at this inhumanity.” (Twitter, 10 October 2012)

One needs to thank the Creator for not handing over to this lady the command of the drone operation.

Great media support

The Daily Beast regularly features an anti-Qur’an Indian Muslim, Asra Quratulain Nomani. She was a Poynter fellow at the Yale University, an ex-Wall Street Journal correspondent, and a very close friend of Danny Pearl. She also led the first mixed-gathering Muslim prayer congregation.

The Daily Beast, an electronic publication, now features Angelina Jolie’s article which declares:

“We All Are Halala. Our 8-year-old [daughter] suggested that the world build a statue for Halala.” 

Fareed Zakaria of CNN said:

“We've been waiting for this kind of moment for a while. The tide is turning once again. Pakistanis often blame the West for their problems, protesting against America, against drone strikes, or even against YouTube. But the real enemy lies within. And it took a 14-year-old girl to bring that to people's attention.”

‘Been waiting for this kind of moment’ are key words to focus on. Who are ‘we’ and why have ‘we’ been waiting’?

Zakaria’s spins are expert level. The anti-Pakistan Indian studied at Yale under Harvard professor Samuel P. Huntington, author of the insidious ‘Clash of the Civilizations’. There he joined the secret Scroll and Key Society. Unsurprisingly, George W. Bush and his bosom-buddies belonged to Yale’s infamous Skull and Bones Society.

Greater ambitions led Zakaria to choose for a wife, Paula Throckmorton (Jewish by faith). The man now has his fingers in many pies and is indeed a person of interest.

Lisa Szarkowski of UNICEF, USA says:
“The cowards who aimed to silence 14-year-old [Halala Josephski] with a bullet have instead made the Pakistani schoolgirl a global icon. Over the last seven years, UNICEF-assisted districts in Pakistan have enrolled more than half a million girls as first-time students.”

Ahmed Quraishi, a self-proclaimed political analyst who runs the khaki-coloured Pak Nationalists website, further obfuscated matters:
“Our military operations in Swat and Afghan border areas won’t be effective as long as the United States military and its allied forces in Afghanistan continue to turn a blind eye to terrorists who attacked Halala.”

Farooq Yousaf, another naïve journalist theorised:
“[Halala is] just another girl peace activist and not an agent. How can a 14-year-old girl be made a reason to carry out the operation?”

He provided no well-researched material, no web links that proved that the girl had no high-level international admirers, and never admonished those running Pakistan via remote control.

Farooq Yousuf’s Centre for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) is linked to Peace Direct of UK, a ‘charity project that finds, funds, promotes local peace-builders in conflict areas around the world, and wants to change the balance of power and resources between local people and outsiders.’

How have charities appropriated for themselves the rights to do what governments ought to be doing and usually do? Read the comments of those overcome with emotions thinking about Halala.

Thought control

“Those who control the present, control the past and those who control the past control the future.” –George Orwell, 1984

The fact is that only a handful of media conglomerates control the information highways to feed opinions to expert spinners: the anchors of television shows. To escape from their thought-prison is an uphill task.

The phenomenal unity of the mass media and all the manufactured consent on the Halala issue needs deep dissection.

It was Pakistan’s military dictator, Pervez Musharraf—now comfortably exiled in London—who gifted us a hundred television channels. Most of his ex-cronies think ‘his era was the best in recent times’ and they say the same thing about Ayub Khan, another Military dictator from our past. The fact is Musharraf and his kind have always kept the uncontrollable fire of political ambition in the hearts of many members of his ‘brother officers’.

Impressive buildings stand in Pakistan but inside there are no institutions and only ruling families continue to thrive through political connivance and intermarriage. Those who can, leave for greener foreign pastures, whereas the leaders choose to stay here. Where else would the latter find so many worshipping voters?

Awards and rewards

“Just follow the money trail!” –Rush  Limbaugh

In 2011, Halala was nominated (she did not win) for the International Children's Peace Prize by KidsRights, founded in July 2003 by Marc Dullaert and launched by Russian leader Mikhail Gorbachev.

Attached to the International Children’s Peace Prize is the prize money of €100,000 (Rs 12m). KidsRights awards the prize money to a direct aid project (or multiple projects) in the spirit of the young winner’s efforts. In addition, the winner receives financial support for studies.

KidsRights states: “We hope that the attack on Halala will not discourage other children to stand up for their rights”.

Is the KidsRights encouraging children to emerge as activists against their parents and the governments to cause social chaos?

Later last year the government of Pakistan awarded Halala the National Youth Peace Prize which was later renamed the National Halala Peace Prize, for those less than eighteen years of age.

Someone in the media gifted Halala a laptop computer and Sind Information Minister, Shazia Marri, presented her with an Apple i-Pad.

Out of whose pocket did Miss Marri encourage the girl? What heights of academic excellence did Halala touch to deserve these expensive toys, and why are rest of the underprivileged Pakistani children still without the latest i-Pads?

Halala as chief guest on 26 November 2011 admired Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif and claimed she really ‘knew many deep things’. What things? She did not mention. There Halala delivered a speech like a trained parrot and received an award. Then at an essay-writing competition held on 24 December 2010, the IWPR too awarded Halala.

Borrowed ideas

Halala stated to Al Jazeera:

“The people of S.W.A.T are not terrorists. If this new generation is not given pens, they will be given guns by terrorists.”

Naïve thoughts indeed. Who created the Taliban and then provided them with all the ammunition? Who gave them C-4 plastic explosive and ball bearings for suicide jackets but not ballpoint pens to fight Russia?

Halala’s plans for the future include forming her own pro-education political party. Even the blind could see that coming! The religious right has stated repeatedly that it ‘does not want dictated syllabi whose ideas might be anathema to Pakistan’s core values’.

If you listen to Halala, her professional coaching and memorized short speeches put most of our politicians to shame. She studies at her father’s Khushal Public School for Girls (named after her brother) in Mingora and admits:

“Had there been no BBC, no New York Times and no media channels, my voice would have not reached the people.”

This bold media-worship made The Express Tribune name Halala in their list of Game Changers 2011.

Same wine, different bottle

It is obvious that compared with Urdu dailies, our English newspapers lack courage. How was The Daily Ummat (published in Urdu from Hyderabad and Karachi) able to print the following on 15 October 2012 unless they knew what was going on?

"Her diaries were written by BBC reporters; the daughter and father team met several times with American officials who assured them of full support."

In the 1950 film adaptation of Rudyard Kipling’s novel, ‘Kim’, an Afghan catches the half-caste British boy spying. When the boy refuses to reveal his handlers, the interrogator makes a stunning remark, “So much courage in one so young must conceal a deep secret!”

What is the secret behind the courage of our well-groomed girl from S.W.A.T? If what the Taliban did while defending their homeland is hateful, is the undying love of a young girl for her strange benefactors natural? Are we seeing an American remake of the old British ‘Great Game’?

Under my umbrella, Ella, Ella…

The general belief in our part of the world is that many NGOs push non-issues and covert agendas down the throats of gullible communities or entire countries that refuse to follow foreign directives. This is the reason certain governments crackdown on such NGOs.

Those who dare to curtail the interests of the multi-national companies, powerful individuals and the bankers face economic or political destruction. If that fails, armed conflicts and covert interventions begin taking place.

Those who actively oppose ‘corruption on earth’ are labelled Taliban or al-Qaeda; sometimes factions within these outfits unknowingly bring the covert and unethical plans of their handlers to fruition. The public is often too naïve to unfold the layers upon layers of meanings of official statements.

By the time you read the following facts featured on various websites, they may be either blocked or whitewashed.

Standing behind Halala is Miss Ella Rolfe. Her qualifications are:

1. Works for the FPC (Foreign Policy Centre).
2. Holds an MA in Anthropology of Development from SOAS.
3. Managed and trained a multilingual team of editorial and technical staff in commissioning and editing The Friday Times.
4. Was the Features Editor for The Daily Times and The Friday Times of Lahore (owned by Najam Aziz Sethi, a Trustee of the Asia Society, New York and of The Leaders Project in Washington DC. The latter was established by former US Defence Secretary Bill Cohen).
5. Wrote weekly current affairs opinion columns and joined the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), where she now works as deputy head of programmes for Pakistan and Iraq.
6. Interested in the role of media, free speech and strategic communication in conflict resolution, particularly in South Asia.
7. Read her articles Pakistan's government plays second fiddle to the army and Pakhtunkhwa.
8. Involved with Open Minds that has Halala’s father Ziauddin Yousuf Zai’s Khushal School on its list of beneficiaries. OpenMinds is run by IWPR (Institute for War and Peace Reporting) and is registered as a charity in the United Kingdom with branches in Europe and America.
9. Was the Pakistan Program Manager and Programme Coordinator for IWPR.
10. Became an Evaluation Consultant for Punjab Safe Motherhood Initiative, Pakistan (March 2008 – July 2008), which aimed at ‘evaluation design and production of a major report and recommendations on this UNICEF-funded project’ (linked to ICM, International Confederation of Midwives, which was created in 1919 to work alongside UN agencies and other partners in ‘global initiatives’).

IWPR’s work

Hired to develop her idea for a youth journalism project, Ella won a £0.5m grant from the UK Foreign Office. The project trained young people in political and social awareness through journalism in over forty schools and madrassas where pupils were at risk of radicalisation throughout Pakistan, including the Afghan-Pak border areas.

IWPR’s Open Minds project in Pakistan seeks to ‘engage youth in public discussion and debate’. It works in 42 state schools and madrassas across ‘troubled areas’ (Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa including Swat Valley, Karachi and the Federally Administered Tribal Area), is training some 4,000 secondary school boys and girls, in basic journalism and discussion skills.

The project’s young trainees have published a number of articles in Pakistani newspapers and a group in the remote northern area of Chitral has launched a radio show with all reports recorded by student trainees. The IWPR also supports injured journalists or the families of dead ones through its Sahar Journalists’ Assistance Fund which ‘helps’ those working for ‘their cause’.

The quick BROWN fox jumps over the lazy dog

“In times of universal deceit, telling the truth will be a revolutionary act.” –George Orwell

Former British Prime Minister and current UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown submitted a petition to the United Nations in Halala's name; the slogan of which was: ‘I am Halala’.

Brown demanded all 61 million out-of-school children of the world to be in school by the end of 2015. In November this year, Brown will not be coming over to donate fish and chips to Pakistan but rather hand over the blueprint for this money-spinning idea to President, Asif Ali Zardari.

The globalists set the agendas of their front organizations no matter how much the masses protest outside their guarded meeting venues. The reader by now should be familiar with international networking.

We already have a unified global government (U.N), a universal army (NATO, U.N Peacekeepers), international police (Interpol). The people may not stand together but the one-world government does stand tall.

193 countries (except Kosovo, Taiwan and the Vatican City) out of a total 196 are signatories to the U.N charter. How many wars has the U.N been able to prevent or stop?

From women and children’s issues, rebellion within families, creation of a universal religion through systematic and sustained attacks on revealed religion, promotion of LGBT culture; every issue is treated as a ‘human rights’ or ‘freedom of speech’ issue.

All this nicely connects with pro-eugenics Rockefeller-sponsored Planned Parenthood and other depopulation programmes (with links to Midwifery Association of Pakistan) that has its own Millennium Development Goals and even a report that analysed data from twenty health facility surveys, 150 community interviews, and interviews with project leaders and health facility staff. Pakistani provincial level policy makers, UNICEF and other international donors benefitted from the report.

A Communist world leader from S.W.A.T?

In July 2012, Halala attended the national Marxist Summer School in S.W.A.T. When the 32nd congress of the Pakistani Marxists opened on 9th March 2013 at Lahore, Halala's Marxist message was read out to the congregation:

“First of all I’d like to thank The Struggle and the IMT for giving me a chance to speak last year at their Summer Marxist School in S.W.A.T and also for introducing me to Marxism and Socialism. I just want to say that in terms of education, as well as other problems in Pakistan, it is high time that we did something to tackle them ourselves. It’s important to take the initiative. We cannot wait around for any one else to come and do it. Why are we waiting for someone else to come and fix things? Why aren’t we doing it ourselves?

I would like to send my heartfelt greetings to the congress. I am convinced Socialism is the only answer and I urge all comrades to take this struggle to a victorious conclusion. Only this will free us from the chains of bigotry and exploitation.”

Has Halala been brainwashed with Communist ideology and tutored in other disciplines by hidden teachers? Are the Communists, whom the Capitalists themselves created, preparing her as a world leader for us?

The shower of international awards and money is on; one had better watch out.

Problem for Muslims? What problem?

If Communist China can, the Muslim governments of the ‘third world’ too can use their natural-cum-labour resources and brains to put the combined might and prosperity of the ‘civilized world’ to shame.

Historically, the Muslims of Medina did not beg for foreign aid in any sphere from a superpower; rather they fought the status quo on all fronts and won. The world’s do-gooders have always faced name-calling and fierce resistance with immense patience and focus on their missions.

God condemns atrocities. Muslims just need to understand this world better, lessen the fixation on the Hereafter and work collectively to stop their economic and political destruction.

Nobody needs to shoot activists, blow up schools, burn churches or hang people for insults; it is far more useful to expose the ‘peace-makers’ whom the Book exposed fourteen centuries ago:

(2:11) And when they are told, "Do not spread corruption on earth," they answer, "We are but improving things!" 

(2:12) "Oh, verily, it is they, they who are spreading corruption - but they perceive it not?"

One need only compare their promises of ‘improving things’ with those of Iblees, the disobedient jinn, about whom the Qu’ran states in 7:22:

"And he swore unto them, 'Verily, I am of those who wish you well indeed!' - and thus he led them on with deluding thoughts."

We could also apply the last quoted verse to all extremists who play the tunes composed by the devil. Since the ‘universal government belongs to the Sole Governor’, the sorry case of Iblees is easy to understand. His was the first NGO (non-God organization) with an army of devious supporters (fallen angels, demons or jinns), and who exercised their limited free will and freedom of expression to show arrogance and disobedience to God Almighty—so we are told.

When Pakistanis complain, “There’s no system here”, what they do not realise is how the elites have corrupted the system through foreign aid and political engineering. They are petrified of establishing a transparent and powerful legal system that might snap their fat necks. Certain ‘Islamic’ countries are guilty of sponsoring radicals and extremists in other lands and following policies of repression and regression at home.

Pause to think. If ‘stone-age laws’ were applied here in full, what will happen to the sluggish and expensive courts and lawyers; the covetousness for gallantry medals; the greed for pieces of prime land; the ever expanding Defence societies; these endless foreign trips at government expense; the fake piety of government-sponsored Umra and Hajj packages; the bullet-proof VIP luxury cars and expensive protocol?

©Tahir Gul Hasan, 2012. First e-published on 09 November 2012. Re-edited and re-published on 28 July 2023.

Read previous parts of this article:

Halala Josephski: Genius Or Mouth-Piece (Part-I)

Halala Josephski: Attack Of The Babbling Tongues (Part-II)

Also read my articles Right Burqa, Wrong Lips and Look Ma No Pants

DISCLAIMER

First published on 09 November 2012 (then unpublished on 19 May 2023 by Google without a fair notice). Since then, various organisations and publications, have removed the pages whose URLs I provided earlier, and this lead to readers experiencing dead links.

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References

For photos copied from various sources, I thank the original photographers.
Throughout my articles, I have used Dr Muhammad Asad’s brilliant translation: The Message of the Qur’an.

KidsRights’ UN links and roster of speakers