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| Rethinking of role | |
| 2009-04-09 | |
Nor are they any mindful of Pakistan's security concerns in Afghanistan. Instead, they have helped India in every manner to entrench strategically in Afghanistan and work from there against Pakistan. Already, India's paramilitary Indo-Tibetan Border Police is embedded there in strength in our close proximity. The paramilitary, raised by the Indians in the wake of their debacle in 1962 war with China, is trained in infiltration and subversion. The Americans are not unknown, too, of mulling even Indian military presence in Afghanistan. Their top soldier, Admiral Mike Mullen, has gone on record that India does have a military role there. And he has many a backer in India's military establishment too, its army chief, as for one. Mullen indeed is so enamoured of India that after the Mumbai strike he rushed to Islamabad with the demand that Pakistan must let the Indians conduct a surgical strike or two at some specified targets to pacify their enraged public, showing least concern about Pakistani public backlash to this. By every consideration, the Americans are playing a dirty double game on us. Wilfully, they are demonising the Pakistan army and the ISI, with the Afghans and the Indians in league. Some 2,000 of our troops have died and thousands of them disabled in coping with the terrible fallout of the Americans' poorly-fought war in Afghanistan. Yet instead of a word of appreciation, they have only censure for the Pakistan army. And even as the ISI has nabbed hundreds of al-Qaeda activists, who too had sneaked into our territory because of American commanders' culpable failure to mop them up, they have only opprobrium for it. The Americans, as indeed the Indians and the Afghans, are being very coy here. They are misleadingly parading the ruse that elements in the ISI are keeping their "ties intact" they had with Taliban when they were in rule in Afghanistan. But all the while they are conveniently forgetting the permanent deployment of Indian air force engineers and technicians in the Northern Alliance-controlled territory to keep its two or odd planes in service for fighting against the Taliban. And the alliance is now paying back the Indians richly, with Americans' blessings, in promoting their interests in Afghanistan and beyond. The Indians, believably at the American's behest, are implicating the ISI even in the recent revolt of Bangladesh's paramilitary border force, as had their national security advisor publicly called for the ISI's disbandment not long ago. There indeed is too much odious with the Americans' act. It is stenches all over. Their very ruse of our tribal areas being Taliban's and al-Qaeda's sanctuary is too stinking, given the fact that Afghanistan's almost entire south and east are under the Taliban's sway where no Afghan or coalition troops dare walk in, and where Taliban and their allies live, recruit, train and from where they launch attacks on Afghan and coalition forces. Those make potential targets for American drones but do not. It is only Pakistan's tribal region they target. And only a dimwit would think if the Americans would ever stop, if not stopped otherwise, their drone attacks in our tribal areas and now possibly our settled areas and Balochistan as well, when this is serving their purpose so well. Apart from destabilising our tribal region and enraging their residents against Islamabad, their attacks are turning pro-government people against it in anger. Just recently, Maulvi Nazir and Mullah Gul Bahadur, two pro-government commanders have walked over to Baitullah Mehsud's camp for American drone attacks on their areas and the government's failure to stop these incursions. So how many times has the Islamabad establishment to be bitten by the American poisonous teeth to feel twice shy? Isn't it the time it must rethink its role in the spurious war on terror? Surly it is. Tomorrow will be too late. | |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #2 But more exactly, it is the drought of sincerity on the Americans' part. You think it's bad there, try being a Republican HERE! |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2009-04-09 14:51 |
| #1 Evil bad Americans, evil bad Indians. I'll bet the Joooos feel left out... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2009-04-09 14:48 |