While the media have been covering the foiled bombings in Great Britain and the al-Qaida gang that couldn’t shoot straight, far more ominous events are unfolding in Pakistan, where the increasingly shaky-looking government of Pervez Musharraf is attempting to quell a growing Taliban militancy that some warn is on the verge of spilling out of the border tribal areas.
Musharraf’s hold looks increasingly uncertain, and Pakistan remains the closest thing al-Qaida has to a sanctuary.
The standoff between students and security forces at an Islamabad mosque furthers concerns about Pakistan’s stability.
Posted by Randy Scholfield
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No worries from Pakistan. We have an alliance with India. That’s one billion people with nuclear power and weapons with a huge army that will kick the dog out of them if they get out of line. :)
Pakistan has become a training ground for al-Quaida and Bin Laden is in hiding there..I’d say we need to worry. Geroge is distracted and off course in Iraq and Bin Laden couldn’t be happier…we helped his cause immensely when we invaded Iraq and took the focus off him.
After the illegal and immoral unwarranted invasion and occupation of Iraq, how could any other outcome be expected?
Musharraf will be overthrown in a military coup by the same forces that are aiding Al Qaeda.
Our hegemony and imperialism make it inevitable.
A country with a military dictator, a large number of militant Islamic terrorists in Parliament, gave nuclear technology to North Korea, gave a safe, secure location for Bin Laden, and Bush gives this guy hundreds of millions of dollars for being an ally on the “war against terror”.
Bush figured the Taliban was a friendly regime too and gave them a lot of money too.
The neo-cons have zero credibility on foreign policy.
Didn’t we give support to Iraq during the Iraq, Iran war of the 70’s, 80’s?Pakistan makes you feel like history is repeating its self?
No worries from Pakistan. We have an alliance with India. That’s one billion people with nuclear power and weapons with a huge army that will kick the dog out of them if they get out of line. :)
Posted by: Republican
Do you really think India is our ally? Do you not think they are playing us for fools? India is only using Bush to get what they want from him and they are playing both sides of the fence in this war on terror. And, Bush is too wrapped up in his own lust for power and greed that he does not even know what is really going on.
Yada yada yada
nice change of wording, cramit. Of course, it is just a short word like blah – but you are showing some signs of intellect in at least knowing two words.
SUBJECT: Pakistan is the place to worry about
Your editorial is factually incorrect, has several errors in it, is biased and presents only one side of the picture. The author’s biased analysis has serious flaws and has factual errors in it. The sad fact is that many of your readers may read this dribble.Your story shows a lack of historical knowledge of Pakistan and only peripheral knowledge of the political process of Pakistan. Someone needs to do his/her homework.
The author’s biased analysis has serious flaws and factual errors in it. The sad fact is that many of your readers may read your dribble. Pakistan has now become immune to British “prophecies of doom”. Pakistanis are sick of “do more” lectures from a 3rd rate country that piggy-backs on superpowers to get a kick out of beating up vulnerable populations.
2 million Muslim kids died destroying the USSR. Today, Pakistan is suffering because of the failed policies of Britain and the USA. The blowback faced by many is because of the short sighted policies of London and Washington.
Your selective amnesia is amazing. Pakistan was used by the USA in the First Afghan War against the USSR. India at the time was on the losing side of the battle and the USSR was not only defeated, it imploded.Analysts see major cavities. Today there is an overwhelming body of evidence that a similar fate faces “India.” India’s major problem is not a nuclear armed Pakistan, or 160 million belligerent Pakistanis or even 160 million Bangledeshis or the 160 million Indian Muslims. India’s problem is the 40 million Hindu White widows, and the Dalits and Naxalite insurrection that threatens to destroy the heart of midland. While the urban penury competes with rural poverty the plutocratic, dynastic democrats, the extremist rightists, and the megalomaniacs (Nero’s) dream of a global power, the heart of India is in pain and destitution.Once again, India is on the losing side in the war in Afghanistan. The real Afghans sick of the extremist “talibaan” and the other stooges will take power in Kabul. Soon Mr. Karzai, the Mayor of Kabul will be seeking Indian asylum again, choosing a condominium next to the Delai Lama. Afghanistan will soon be liberated again , the other traitors and non-Pashtun puppets will hang from the trees in Kabul. As the Afghans win, the Indian Consulates (the den of deceit and inequity) will once again be shut down and the Indian Embassy will again be sent packing back to old Delhi.If the plutocrats in India do not learn their lessons, there will be another Mahmud of Ghazni and another Ahmad Shah Abdali to teach her that lesson. Missile pun intended. This time New Delhi will lose more than the peacock throne and the Kohinoor.
For all of President Musharraf’s faults, Pakistan is forging ahead with a 7% growth rate and record foreign reserves. Pakistan is the fourth largest state in the world, and a nuclear state advancing at a phenomenal rate of economic growth. She has motorways that can only be the envy of South Asia, and is building bullet trains and huge new cities in Baluchistan and Sindh. Pakistan is attracting huge investments in automobile and technology. Just in the past few weeks Dubai based companies are investing $26 Billion Dollars in two islands. Pakistan’s FTA with China will be a boon to Pakistani and Chinese industrialists who are setting up 6 Chinese industrial zones in Pakistan to build and then export Chinese goods from Pakistani soil.
Pakistan will move ahead and is moving ahead.
Dear Editor:It is amazing that a small cult with a few dozen followers makes headlines in the Indian press with dire warnings and adomonitions of impending doom. “Pakistan in Peril” screams one such wishful-thinking headline in the Hindustan Times. Pakistanis are used to this nonsense. In 1947 the same type of bigots predicted that “they would come begging” in 3 months. In 1947 Pakistan had one dilapidated university and one textile mill. Today Pakistan is a Nuclear state, with large industrial estates, with a huge army, and a modern airforce. For all his faults, President Musharraf has presided over a robust growth rate with hundreds of universities churning out professionals. Pakistan’s foreign exchange reserves are at a all time high, and investors are pouring in most sectors. Hardly a country in peril. Worry about the Naxalite insurrection, the 50 million white widows, the rampant penury, sati, the Chinese threat, the Bangladeshi invasion, the KashmirI insurrection…the list is long. Forget about Lal Masjid, all Pakistanis await the day the Crescent and Star will fly over Lal Qila AGAIN!
This is a simple case of a criminal squatter constructing a building illegally and then making tall claims to hide the tactic of taking over government land that does not belong to them.
However it is very pertinent that the building is right next to the Indian Embassy and that known “Baluch” terrorists are now holed up in the basement of the building. Indian support to Baluch terrorists including the Marris is well known and long standing.