| A few decades is a lifetime in international relations. Amd they've been ISI 'darlings' ever since. |
"Don't blame us for the Haqqanis [the Haqqani Network] and don't blame us for the Hafiz Saeed
...founder of Lashkar-e-Taiba and its false-mustache offshoot Jamaat-ud-Dawa. The United Nations declared the JuD a terrorist organization in 2008 and Hafiz Saeed a terrorist as its leader. Hafiz, JuD and LeT are wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Pak intel apparatus, so that amounted to squat...
s [referring to the head of banned Jamaat-ud-Dawa
...the front organization of Lashkar-e-Taiba...
]. These were the people who were your darlings just 20 to 30 years back. They were being dined and wined in the White House and now you say 'go to hell Paks because you are nurturing these people'."
| That is a full generation ago. Why did Pakistan wine and dine them ever since? |
...the
Army of the Pure,an Ahl-e-Hadith terror organization founded by Hafiz Saeed. LeT masquerades behind the Jamaat-ud-Dawa facade within Pakistain and periodically blows things up and kills people in India. Despite the fact that it is
banned, always an interesting concept in Pakistain, the organization remains an blatant tool and perhaps an arm of the ISI...
. They are liabilities. I accept that they are liabilities, but give us time to get rid of them because we don't have the assets to match these liabilities and you are increasing them [our liabilities] further."
| My dear Mr. Asif, you have had a generation to deal with this problem. You have not only not dealt with it, you have deliberately made it considerably worse. |
In the past, the US has accused Pakistain of not taking significant action against the Haqqani Network. Washington claims the bad boy outfit has been operating out of "Pakistain-based safe havens" to threaten US and Afghan forces in Afghanistan.