Noble, Honest-Broker Pakistan!
"I would never want to have a relationship where Pakistan is treated like a hired gun -- given money to fight someone else's war."
"We should never put ourselves in this position again."
"It was humiliating that we were losing our soldiers and civilians and (suffering terrorist) bomb attacks because we were participating in the US war, and then our ally did not trust us to kill Bin Laden," he said, adding that the US "should have tipped off Pakistan"."It was humiliating that we were losing our soldiers and civilians and suffering terrorist bomb attacks because we were participating in the U.S. war and then our ally did not trust us to kill bin Laden. [The U.S.] should have tipped off Pakistan."
"We did not know whether we were a friend or a foe."
"There are no sanctuaries [for terrorists] in Pakistan."
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan
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| Pakistan will no longer fight someone else's war: Imran Khan |
There must be two separate geographic entities no one is completely aware of. A solid-citizen Pakistan exercising common interests with the world at large to ensure that peace prevails everywhere and that equal treatment is guaranteed all members of its society. And another Pakistan where Islamist sharia law ensures that minorities know their inferior place in the greater scheme of things, where the military and its secret intelligence service are in league with Islamofascist extremists plotting endlessly to continue roiling south Asia.
Plots that ensure its neighbour India can never rest assured that Pakistan is not busy inciting terrorist groups to attack and slaughter innocents, from Mumbai to the contested Kashmir, and its ongoing support of the Taliban and al-Qaeda -- now likely including Islamic State in Afghanistan-- to destabilize, threaten and violate Afghan sovereignty. Pakistan has never been averse to holding out its hand in acceptance of American largess to recognize Pakistan's commitment to fighting terrorism. That funding in the billions going to support the Pakistan military.
A military infused with the presence of Taliban and other Islamist terrorists all of whom have worked diligently to betray the misplaced trust of American administrations in the allegiance of Pakistan to a common interest for a better world order. Not only did Pakistani authorities know of the presence of Osama bin Laden in his villa close to a military officerss base in Abbottabad, the Pakistani surgeon-neighbour of bin Laden, under the mistaken impression the U.S. was an ally, gave aid to the U.S. Navy SEALS who invaded the compound and for his 'betrayal' of Pakistani interests still languishes in prison.
Pakistan, he averred, was growing 'closer' to China simply as a result of the United States paving the way, since it "has basically pushed Pakistan away". Pakistan, it appears, wants, and needs and feels it deserves respect and consideration that has not come its way via its 'friendship' and devotion to the United States. The 'war' Khan describes as an 'American war' was one devised by Pakistan when it bred, armed, trained and sheltered the Taliban, along with al-Qaeda, its very special guests. That eventually a bred-at-home Taliban attacked Pakistan as well, might have reminded Khan that this was Pakistan's war.
Just to make perfectly clear that Pakistan needs no aid from any source, the announcement was made that 18 international charities and aid agencies are being expelled. The Pakistan human rights minister -- an oxymoron if ever one existed -- Shireen Mazari explained that the charities and aid agencies spread misinformation. Presumably by deploring the deep poverty, discrimination and human rights crimes the government of Pakistan itself dabbled in against its ethnic and religious minority groups.
The very Pakistani military that has grasped at U.S. billions proffered over the years is said to have initiated Khan's decision by pressuring him to announce the change in Pakistan's source of 'allegiance-by-bribery' when they accused foreign aid agencies of espionage. Evidently President Trump's charge that Pakistan, despite the billions in military assistance from the U.S. was "not doing a damn thing to help us" infuriated Khan. Truth too is forbidden in Pakistan.
Labels: Delusional, Islamism, Pakistan, United States
posted by Pieface @ Saturday, December 08, 2018
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