WASHINGTON, March 17 (UPI) -- Washington's Pakistan kibitzers will soon rue the day they squeezed President Pervez Musharraf to restore democracy. "Demonocracy" is what has now emerged, or an unholy alliance of longtime America-haters, including the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal coalition of six politico-religious extremist parties that lost the Feb. 18 elections, plus a gaggle of former generals and admirals against Musharraf, and friends and admirers of A.Q. Khan, the man who ran a nuclear Wal-Mart for the benefit of America's enemies (North Korea and Iran).

More ominous still is the acquiescence of Pakistan's two principal "moderate" leaders.

Acting as behind-the-scenes catalysts are two prominent America-haters, Gen. Aslam Beg, former army chief of staff (1988-91), and Gen. Hamid Gul, former Inter-Services Intelligence chief (1989-91). In his regular "geopolitical" column, Beg recently advised Iran "to attempt to degrade the defense systems of Israel, harass it through the Hamas government of Gaza and the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon," or the same policy Pakistan once adopted toward India in Kashmir through terrorist groups and extremist factions.

Gul is one of the godfathers of the Taliban movement that ISI co-opted in the early 1990s to conquer and control Afghanistan in the wake of the civil war that followed the Soviet withdrawal in 1989. The Sept. 11, 2001, attacks against New York's Twin Towers and the Pentagon, Gul told this reporter a month later, were part of a Mossad-CIA-U.S. Air Force plot to discredit Saudi Arabia in particular and the Muslim world in general. Why the U.S. Air Force? Because, Gul explained, no fighter jets were scrambled even though four civilian flights had been diverted from their flight plans.

Gul is morbidly anti-American. From a mild dislike of the United States during the Pakistan-organized and Saudi- and U.S.-funded war against the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan (1979-1989), Gul's hatred became pathological during the 1990s. This was when the United States abandoned its Pakistani and Afghan allies and began turning the screws on Pakistan with all manner of punitive sanctions against its secret nuclear weapons program. Since the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan after Sept. 11 and the defeat of the Taliban, Gul has acted as "strategic adviser" to the MMA coalition of pro-Taliban, anti-U.S. politico-religious leaders.