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| Pakistan rejects U.S envoy remarks on Taliban re-grouping |
| 2003-04-13 |
| Pakistan has dismissed as baseless the remarks of the US special envoy for Afghanistan that the Taliban are re-grouping in Pakistan. Then you won't mind if we go in and kill any we find, right? US special envoy for Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad says key members of Taliban are active in Pakistan and that Pakistan needs to check their activities otherwise appreciation of Taliban activities is tantamount to going against the US interests. Rather like the Syrians, the Paks are sending bad guys to make war on us. No doubt both countries will bitch when we kill them... "If someone makes such a baseless talk, I think it is based on ignorance. Perhaps Mr. Khalilzad does not have full knowledge of the situation," We know that. The question is, how much touch does the Pak government, as opposed to the fundo parties, maintain with our enemies? The answer to that question can be found in Kashmir. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |
| #1 I saw Mike Wallace interview the Shah of Iran decades ago on 60 minutes. In the interview, Wallace asked about the followng incident: the Shah, in a conversation with the Soviet Ambassador, had accused the Soviets of overflights of Iran with their spy planes. Nonsense, the Ambassador replied, we know nothing of such flights. Then, the Shah replied, since you don't know about these planes, you won't mind if we shoot them down. The Ambassador's face froze. The flights stopped. Wallace asked the Shah if the story was true. The Shah smiled. I suggest we use a similar strategy in Afghanistan to deal with the Paks: if they deny that their people are coming across the border, than surely they won't mind if we and the Karzai govt troops kill the intruders. We can smile when we say it. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2003-04-13 14:44:43 |