Mission Statement

Dictatorship Watch monitors and reviews situation in Pakistan as an example of a country under continued colonial occupation, sustained through military and civilian dictators since 1947. The aim is to expose the real face of the colonialists and their supporters, and to achieve true independence and the right to self-determination.

The project mainly addresses five problems: analytical failures in media coverage, the mixing of opportunism and politics with scholarship, intolerance of independent views, apologetics, and the monopoly of a few media houses.

On the other hand, we will cover areas, such as Victims of ISI, abuse of power by the military, military vs. Pakistan, impossibility of democracy in Pakistan, military’s corruption and repression and criminal record of the military and civilian dictators.

Dictatorship Watch Goals

Dictatorship Watch seeks to have an influence over the future course of Pakistan and studies of the Muslim world through two main avenues:

• Engage in an informed, serious, and constructive critique that will spur political leaders, newspaper editors and professors to look at the situation in a broader context and make improvements.
• Alert the masses in the East and the West to the problems of continued colonialism and sinister interference in the internal affairs of the former colonies. We encourage the masses to take back their right to self-determination, and not passively accept the on-going colonial adventures, oppression of the puppet regimes, extremism, intolerance, apologetics, and abuse when these occur.

What Dictatorship Watch Does

• Gathers information on continued occupation of Pakistan under military and civilian dictators from public and private sources and makes this information available on its website, www.dictaroshipwatch.com.
• Produces analyses of institutions, military and political oppressors, individual scholars, topics, events, and trends.
• Makes its views known through the media - newspaper opeds, radio interviews, television interviews.
• Invites scholars, students and common people to contribute, make complaints of abuse, investigates their claims, and (when warranted) makes these known.

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Dictatorship Watch does not maintain a mailing list and does not distribute any material. It is a non-for-profit endeavour to achieves relevant articles, news stories, papers, and reports in accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, as reference material with the comments from Dictatorship Watch to put issues in perspective and to make the material available as ready reference for research and educational purposes without any profit at all.