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| Haqqani rules out Taliban takeover of Islamabad |
| 2009-04-24 |
| Pakistan on Wednesday ruled out the possibility of a Taliban takeover in Islamabad "Nope. Nope. Won't happen. Nope." as its ambassador in Washington rejected the contention that the Swat peace arrangement amounted to the government's abdication of its responsibility towards the Pakistani people. "Nope. Nope. Never happened. Nope." Pakistan's Ambassador to the US Husain Haqqani dismissed the impression that Pakistan faced a situation where it could fall to "advancing" Taliban just as Afghanistan had fallen to them in the 1990s. "Nope. Nope. Can't happen. Nope." The envoy cited Pakistan's strength in its central government and its powerful military force, both of which Afghanistan lacked, adding that Afghanistan was also going through civil strife at that time. a. If Pakistain's not going through civil strife then what the hell is it going through? b. The Mighty Afghan Army was trained and equipped by the Mighty Soviet Army. While it's true that it had never won a war, it's also true that except for internal festivities it'd never fought one. The Mighty Pak Army is zero for three against India, zero for zero against anybody else. c. Pakistain's civil government is something less than a model of effectiveness, since its participants spend more time jockeying for position, raiding the boodle, and going to the mosque than they do suppressing rebellion. |
| Posted by:Fred |