What's behind the furor in Pakistan?
By Peter Bergen and Andrew Lebovich
Tuesday, November 29, 2011 - 1:07 PM
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Pakistani-American businessman Mansoor Ijaz has set off a political firestorm in Pakistan with his claims that he was brokering an offer from Pakistan's civilian leaders to the Pentagon to unseat the leadership of the Pakistani military.
Those accusations forced the resignation on Tuesday of Pakistan's ambassador to the United States, Husain Haqqani, who Ijaz says orchestrated this proposal, which was delivered in a unsigned memo in May to Adm. Mike Mullen, then-U.S. chairman of the Joint Chiefs.
Pakistan is a nuclear-armed state that is home to a number of Taliban groups that attack U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan and also is home to what remains of al Qaeda's "core" organization.
Haqqani helped smooth over many tense moments in the important U.S.-Pakistan relationship, including the shooting in January of two Pakistanis by CIA contractor Raymond Davis and the Navy SEAL raid that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in northern Pakistan in May.
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Peter Bergen is the director of the National Security Studies Program at the New America Foundation, where Andrew Lebovich is a policy analyst. They edit the AfPak Channel.
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Pakistan’s civilian government has been a silent partner of Pakistani Army and Intelligence in continuing to terrorize Afghanistan and kill US/NATO troops there by their proxies – Mullah Omar’s QST, Haqqani’s HQN and Al Qaeda – that has been going on since 2001.
Resignation of one ambassador does not relieve Pakistani leadership – both military as well as civilian – of their culpability in this ongoing massacre.
Following are verbatim quotes from what Gen (rtd) Jack Keane said at a discussion on Afghanistan organized by the Institute for the Study of War, a Washington-based think-tank on June 30, 2011:
1. "The truth is, the ISI aids and abets the sanctuaries in Pakistan that the Afghan (Taliban) operate out of. They (ISI) provide training for them, they provide resources for them and they provide intelligence for them. From those sanctuaries, every single day Afghan fighters come into Afghanistan and kill and maim us".
2. "There's a direct relationship of ISI's complicity and the deaths of American soldiers and the catastrophic wounding of those soldiers. The chief of staff of the Pakistani military is complicit. He used to be the director of ISI. He put the guy in there who is in charge now and he has full knowledge of what I'm just describing".
3. "There are two ammonium nitrate factories in Pakistan. 80 per cent of the explosive devices that are used to kill our soldiers, kill Afghan security forces and kill Afghan people come from Pakistan."
4. "All of what I just said to you, when we confront them with this, they lie to us“.
Thus Pakistani government has been living a ‘lie’ all along and gullible U. S. has been tolerating that ‘lie’ all along.
Earlier the US leaves the region, better it will be for US in general and the region in particular.
Meanwhile, Indian macacas with Western names can continue their pool of lies of propaganda against the Pakistan.
Same old cut and post comments spewing poison against Pakistan, even without reading the contents of the article, whatsoever and whosoever has written anything about Pakistan.
The Zionist dominated international media is spewing out lies and lies day in and day out against Pakistan sometimes in the words of people like Michael Waltz sometimes by the lips of some senior policy maker in the US. The fact of the delibrate attack on two posts by US armed helicopters inside Pakistan's territory is being presented as an ordinary retailation against the terrorists etc .
Does anyone realise that such lies and distortion of facts over the years has brought the US and allies to the brink of defeat in Afghanistan? If Soviet Union could be defeated with the help of Pakistan then why not a victory against terrorism with the help of Pakistan.
A conservist estimate of US expenditure on war in Afghanistan is more than $50 billion per year. Had only one fifth of it spent on the real welfare of people of Pakistan and the tribal areas there would have been NO trace of terrorism in this part of the world. But it was not to be because of the hungry war industry of the US/ NATO and the Zionists who dont want any peace or development in Pakistan or Afghanistan.
Its time the world should take a new look of all these affairs.
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