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US can't live with or without us, says PM
 [Dawn] Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani... Pakistain's erstwhile current prime minister, whose occasional feats of mental gymnastics can be awe-inspiring ... on Friday said that the United States could not effectively fight the ongoing war in Afghanistan without Pakistain's assistance, DawnNews reported. "They can't live with us. They can't live without us," Gilani told news hounds in Bloody Karachi. He's suffering from delusions of adequacy... "So, I would say to them that if they can't live without us, they should increase contacts with us to remove misunderstandings." The prime minister also emphasised that the US should avoid issuing statements unacceptable to the Pak public. No compromise would be acceptable on Pakistain's illusory sovereignty, he said, adding that, a stable Afghanistan was in the interests of Pakistain. Gilani was responding to Senate testimony by the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, who said Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) was closely tied to the Haqqani network. Mullen said on Thursday that the ISI played a role in the September 13 attack on the US embassy in Kabul, supporting Orcs and similar vermin known as the Haqqani network. That network, Mullen said, is a "veritable arm" of the ISI. Posted by: Fred 2011-09-24 |
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