A Gurkha who single-handedly fought off an attack by at least a dozen Taliban insurgents has been awarded Britain's second highest medal for bravery.
Acting Sergeant Dipprasad Pun used up all of his ammunition and resorted to using his machine gun tripod to repel the attack in Afghanistan in September.
The Gurkha, 31, of Ashford, Kent, said he was a "lucky guy" and very proud to receive the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross.
Acting Sgt Pun was on sentry duty at a checkpoint near Babaji, in Afghanistan's Helmand province, on 17 September last year when he spotted insurgents trying to plant a bomb beside the front gate.
Moments later, militants opened fire on the compound from all sides.
For more than a quarter of an hour, alone on the roof, Acting Sgt Pun fought off an onslaught from rocket-propelled grenades and AK-47s.
In total, he fired more than 400 rounds, launched 17 grenades and detonated a mine.
At one point, when an insurgent tried to climb up to his position, his rifle failed and he resorted to throwing his machine gun tripod to knock him down.
Acting Sgt Pun, who is originally from the Nepalese village of Bima, believed at the time that there were more than 30 attackers.
Recalling the incident, he said: "As soon as it was confirmed [they were] Taliban, I was really scared. But as soon as I opened fire that was gone - [I thought] 'Before they kill me I have to kill some.'
"I thought they were going to kill me after a couple of minutes, definitely."
The citation on his medal - which is only one level below the Victoria Cross - states that he saved the lives of three comrades who were inside the checkpoint at the time.
"I think I am a very lucky guy, a survivor," he added. "Now I am getting this award, it is very great and I am very happy."
[Asharq al-Aswat] The president of the Libyan Constitutional Union, Mohamed Ben Ghalbon, which opposes the Qadaffy regime, has expressed his doubts about the nature of the military operations being carried out by the international coalition forces in Libya. In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, Ben Ghalbon said "I fear that the Americans are deliberately giving Qadaffy sufficient time to tighten his grip on all of western Libya, giving him control of a third of Libya, namely the Tripoli region as well as the Fezzan region (which did not rise up against him). This means that Qadaffy is in control of most of Libya's oil after he recovered Ras Lanuf and Brega [from the rebels]." He added "Cyrenaica has divided itself from him [Qadaffy], with European help, but this region has the least oil wealth and that is why he does not consider it a priority."
Ben Ghalbon added "God only knows how long this will see Libya divided, during which Brega will require European protection from Qadaffy and his military attempts to regain control of this city. This will leave the US forces free to carry out a number of operations."
Ben Ghalbon also clarified to Asharq Al-Awsat that when the coalition force imposed the no-fly zone above Libya, after obtaining international and legal approval to do so, they divided the military mission against themselves. This saw, for example, British and French air forces covering eastern Libya, namely Cyrenaica, whilst US air force covered western Libya. Ben Ghalbon stressed that it was the speedy French intervention which broke Qadaffy's siege of Benghazi. At the time, Benghazi was the last rebel stronghold in Libya, and was surrounded by Qadaffy tanks, and would certainly have fallen to Qadaffy forces had the European air forces not intervened.
Ben Ghalbon told Asharq Al-Awsat "after a few more hours of tank bombardment, the Qadaffy forces could have entered Benghazi, and they would have destroyed the city and hung hundreds of revolutionaries in the city's public squares, as this is the nature of the Qadaffy regime in dealing with its opponents, and this is what happened in 1976, and 1984. That is until the European intervention prioritized aiding the city [of Benghazi] and saving its inhabitants, putting this above the destruction of Qadaffy's air defense, and this is something that confirmed the good intentions of the Europeans and the effectiveness of their aid."
However he added "the situation in the Tripoli region was, and continues to be, different, as the US aircraft and missiles are engaged in targeting air bases under the pretext of disrupting Qadaffy's air defense, whilst they also struck some insignificant targets in the city of Tripoli, abandoning the towns of Misrata and Zentan to face intensive tank bombardment from the Qadaffy forces...despite the calls from the peoples of these two cities for help."
Ben Ghalbon told Asharq Al-Awsat that "the entire world was aware what the fate of the rebels in these cities would be if the regime's forces were able to gain control, however apparently rescuing them was not one of America's priorities, for they did not turn to this [mission] until after they had completed their objectives and struck Qadaffy's air defenses."
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Shaddup you fu**ing haji. The US should have let Gadaffi wipe ALL of you out Amalek. You were the A-holes putting holes in our Soldiers in Iraq. Your criticism is something that makes me feel that NONE of you are worth an ants dung in the Middle East. Your punk ass is the one that decided to start a war on your leader with no plan, and the US did what it could. If I hear one breath of this again from you foolish false prophet worshiping idiots, I would engage in talk of wiping you all out. Now move out and draw fire and get your country so we can go back to adult matters here.
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Goodness, newc - don't hold back. Tell us how you really feel. ;-p
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They haven't even won, and they're starting to give us an idea of their real feelings vis-a-vis Uncle Sam. It's kind of funny that we're spending billions of dollars to replace one anti-American regime with another one.
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Hey, we must know with whom we are in the fight club with here. We bent over backwards to help these people because the US are decent people and do not like to see anyone slaughtered, but critique coming from a lead haji will not be tolerated by me.
Saudi Arabia's Special Emergency Force [SEF] has conducted counter-terrorism and anti-piracy military training, which aims to deter Al Qaeda terrorist operations and maritime piracy. The training focused upon methods of regaining control of hijacked airplanes or oil tankers, in military exercises dubbed "Sawlet al-Haq" [the Attack of Truth], which were attended by Deputy Interior Minister Prince Mohammad Bin Naif.
This is the fourth time that the SEF has carried out anti-terrorism and anti-piracy training operations. The SEF leadership described the training operation as being "tactical [military] exercises" to raise the combat capabilities of the SEF troops. The SEF is a counter-terrorism Special Forces unit of the Saudi Arabian General Security force and has played a prominent role in counter-terrorist operations in Saudi Arabia, particularly since the Riyadh Compound Bombings on 12 May 2003.
One of the SEF missions in Saudi Arabia is to oversee the transfer of prisoners to court. The SEF leadership consider "attempts to free prisoners and enable them to escape" to be a possibility and something that must be trained for, particularly as thousands of Saudi citizens have been implicated in Al Qaeda operations since 2003.
The SEF leadership also said that their troops are prepared and ready to deal with any maritime piracy in Saudi Arabian territorial waters. The SEF troops trained how to deal with pirates, particularly if they were equipped with RPG weaponry, and how to regain control of the tanker and free hostages. SEF troops also received training in methods of regaining control of a hijacked airplane, particularly as there has been a long history of terrorists hijacking airplanes since 1947.
SEF troops are well-trained in coping in different physical environments, and SEF troops demonstrated their skills in dealing with poisonous snakes, scorpions, and even crocodiles, in front of Deputy Interior Minister Prince Mohammad Bin Naif and senior Interior Ministry figures.
No mention about jumping through flaming hoops, though.
At least they learned to deal with poisonous scorpions. Step on 'em, right?
Director of Public Security in Saudi Arabia, General Saeed Bin Abdullah al-Qahtani, described the SEF as being "a humanitarian force" adding that this force "deals with any injustice" citing its deployment during the Hajj pilgrimage as well as any emergency circumstances in the country.
[Arab News] The United Nations ... aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... reported Thursday that more than 6 million North Koreans, about a quarter of the communist state's population, -- are in urgent need of international food aid.
The findings, the result of a needs assessment conducted in February and March, will add to pressure for the United States to resume food aid to North Korea suspended in 2009 after its monitors were expelled. But doing so could be seen as aiding a government that has since advanced its nuclear weapons programs and acted aggressively toward US ally South Korea.
Which is why it shouldn't add any pressure on us, at least in a rational world...
In its report, the UN said that North Korea has suffered a series of shocks including summer floods and then a harsh winter, "leaving the country highly vulnerable to a food crisis." It said the worst affected include children, women and the elderly, and recommended providing 430,000 metric tons (473995 tons) of food aid.
North Korea's public distribution system will run out of food at the beginning of the "lean season" that runs between May and July -- between spring and fall harvests -- which would "substantially increase the risk of malnutrition and other dizeases," the report said.
Three UN agencies -- the World Food Program, the Food and Agriculture Organization, and UNICEF -- conducted the assessment at North Korea's request. They visited 40 counties in nine of the country's 11 provinces.
Five nongovernment US aid agencies who visited the North last month reported severe food shortages and alarming malnutrition among children.
The United States says it is considering resumption of food aid to the North, which has had chronic problems in feeding its people since its assistance from the former Soviet Union ended. The country suffered famine in the mid-1990s in which at least hundreds of thousands are believed to have died.
Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman John I was in Vietnam, you know Kerry Senator-for-Life from Massachussetts, the Senate's current foreign policy expert, filling the vacated wingtips of Joe Biden... said Thursday the results of the UN assessment were "dire" and urged resumption of aid if it could be properly monitored.
"It is tempting to withhold food assistance until North Korea abandons its pursuit of nuclear weapons or adopts economic reforms. But the North demonstrated during the famine in the mid-to-late 1990s, in which an estimated 5-10 percent of ordinary North Koreans died, that it is willing to allow its people to suffer enormously," he said in a statement.
International donors will be concerned that any food aid not be redirected from civilians to North Korea's powerful military and also will seek to act in concert with South Korea if assistance is restarted.
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send in NATO to put down this dictator who's policies have caused near-genocide.
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"Won't you help feed these 6 million hostages?"
/Kim "Sally Struthers" Jong-Il
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"UN says 6 million NKoreans need food aid"
NO.
If they're really hungry, they can eat Kim, et al. There's enough fat among the "leaders" to feed the whole country.
The Useless Nitwits just want another chance to get their cut of the inevitable graft. Ask the Saudis for the money - they've got plenty.
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I wonder if Ms Power's questionable judgment extends to agreeing with her husband Cass Sunstein's hair-brained ideas:
Cass Sunstein has long been one of Barack Obama's closest confidants. Often mentioned as a likely Obama nominee to the Supreme Court, Sunstein is currently Obama's head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs where, among other things, he is responsible for "overseeing policies relating to privacy, information quality, and statistical programs." In 2008, while at Harvard Law School, Sunstein co-wrote a truly pernicious paper proposing that the U.S. Government employ teams of covert agents and pseudo-"independent" advocates to "cognitively infiltrate" online groups and websites -- as well as other activist groups -- which advocate views that Sunstein deems "false conspiracy theories" about the Government. This would be designed to increase citizens' faith in government officials and undermine the credibility of conspiracists.
[Arab News] Only 17 percent of Americans see President Barack B.O. Obama as a strong and decisive military leader, according to a Rooters/Ipsos poll taken after the United States and its allies began bombing Libya.
Perhaps they'll change their minds after it's gone on six months.
Nearly half of those polled view Obama as a cautious and consultative commander-in-chief and more than a third see him as indecisive in military matters.
Obama was widely criticized in 2009 for his months-long consultations with senior aides and military chiefs on whether to send more troops to Afghanistan.
Critics called it dithering, but he said such a big decision required careful deliberation. He eventually dispatched 30,000 more troops.
But Obama is facing mounting discontent among opposition Republicans and from within his own Democratic Party over the fuzzy aims of the US -led mission in Libya and the lack of a clearly spelled-out exit strategy for US forces.
If the Libya mission becomes a foreign policy mess, mixed with perceptions Obama is a weak military leader, it could spell trouble for him in the 2012 presidential election.
The poll also found that 60 percent of Americans support the United States and its allies bombing Libya to impose a no-fly zone to protect civilians from Libyan leader Muammar Qadaffy ... a proud Arab institution for 42 years ... 's forces.
Seventy-nine percent of those surveyed said the United States and its allies should try to remove Qadaffy, who has ruled the oil-exporting North African country for more than four decades.
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With the removal of the bust of Winston Churchill the dye was cast. Reviewing the many inspirational speeches of Churchill, Kennedy, Regan and many others you can plainly see a terrible contrast. We do not have leadership, direction, policy or goals. We flounder about with issues unsettled and fear of what the future may bring. I would suggest a review the following and you can see the difference a leader can bring;
In a TIME magazine interview, former President Pervez Musharraf said that although Pakistan was a very dangerous country, the most dangerous was Afghanistan.
He blamed the condition of the region on the jihad against the Soviets saying, "In effect we introduced religious militancy by design in Afghanistan, and then the US left the place high and dry. The responsibility lies with the West. The US encouraged it all, and we suffered. This is what we face. It comes from history."
Musharraf said that he would like to come back to Pakistan to stop the suffering of the people. He said he was a successful leader for nine years and now Pakistan was suffering. He said the leadership vacuum and ultimately the cause of Pakistan pulls him towards his destiny.
The former president said that he has serious objections to the comparison with other dictators such as Ben Ali, Mubarak and Gaddafi. He said he left peacefully by his own choice. About Gaddafi he said that the will of the people should prevail. "Its almost a civil war there. A political situation must be found."
With regards to Pakistan's rising Islamism he said, "You have two choices: succumb to circumstances or do something. I know the people of Pakistan are moderate. Its unfortunate when the Government itself and the leadership appease the religious groups and extremists by turning a blind eye."
Asked about being a nuclear power he said, Yes, we have nuclear weapons, and we are proud of it. Nuclear weapons are the pride of every man, woman and child walking in the streets of Pakistan. Why are we nuclear? Because of India.
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He is sitting in London because if he dares to go back he will lynched. Pakistani military has always laughed all the way to the bank, as they did America's bidding. Take a hard look in the mirror general to see who the Baluchis hold responsible for the enormous atrocities there.
[Dawn] On the call of Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) Pakistain, protest demos were held across the Sindh province against the desecration of the Holy Koran by US pastor Terry Jones in Florida.
The protest demos were held in various cities including Bloody Karachi, Sukkur, Larkana, Hyderabad, Mirpurkhas, Nawabshah, Tando Adam, Shikarpur and others.
The participants of the demos condemned the desecration of the Holy Koran by devilish US pastor Terry Jones. Holding copies of the Koran in their hands, the protestors vowed to lay down their lives to protect the sanctity of the Divine Book.
Addressing the demos, leaders of JI Sindh, Asadullah Bhutto, Mohammed Hussain Mehnti and others said that desecration of the Holy Koran by the US pastor has given the message to Mohammedans to come out from their deep slumber and actively play their role for safeguarding the Islamic values themselves, instead of relying on their enslaved rulers. They said that the act of the evil pastor had hurt the feelings of Mohammedans. They said he should be handed down a death sentence for blasphemy and hurting sentiments of Mohammedans.
In Islamabad, the All Pakistain Mohammedan League (APML) also condemned the desecration of the Holy Koran by Terry Jones and said that the fanatic act posed a serious threat to religious harmony and urged the government of Pakistain to force America to punish Jones for this heinous crime that humiliated the sentiments of Mohammedans throughout the world.
APML office bearers arranged a special meeting here on Friday at the Central Secretariat of APML to denounce the desecration.
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When small town police forces in the US decided to make a name for themselves, with some serious felony busts, they came up with the idea of tricking pedophiles to coming to their town hoping to molest some child. It worked like a charm, and a lot of bad guys were taken off the street.
So why not do a variation of the same, in a much more serious context? Rig up some isolated and hard to get to cabin, and let slip out on the Internet that people like Terry Jones is hanging out there with Salman Rushdie and Hirsh Ali.
Then, when a bunch of jihadis show up, armed to the teeth, with a car full of explosives, they are given the opportunity to surrender, at least officially.
Imagine the PR if some Podunk town takes out a car full of murderous terrorists? The feds will rain on the place with money.
[Arab News] Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barakat announced that the International Jerusalem Marathon scheduled for Friday will proceed according to plan despite the recent bombing attack.
The race begins at 10 a.m., and over 10,000 people are expected to race on four routes -- a full marathon (42.2 km), a half marathon (21.1 km), a 10-km race, and a 4.2-km race for families.
Barakat told Israeli Radio that the race was "our firm answer to terrorist murderers. We will not stop running. Jerusalem has not and will not stop moving forward, and despite the attack we are returning to our normal activities quickly."
The report said that the police throughout Israel were moved to Level 3 operational activity, the highest level of alert, after the bombing attack.
On Wednesday, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem and Paleostine Sheikh Mohammed Hussein denounced the International Jerusalem Marathon.
Hussein said in a press statement that marathon is part of "Israel's efforts to Judaize the city."
He added that Israel "uses sports as a political tool to impose its vision on the Arab neighborhoods of the city."
The mufti also said that the Jerusalem municipality "uses the religious and historic sites of Islam and Christianity in the city as propaganda for the marathon."
Hussein said that the "the path of the marathon is due to run through parts of East Jerusalem that are considered occupied territory by the international community."
According to the mufti, the route of the marathon starts at the Israeli Knesset in West Jerusalem and takes runners all the way out to settlement of Pisgat Ze'ev, before circling Hebrew University, entering the Jerusalem's Old City at the Bab Al-Nabi Dawoud (Zion Gate), wending its way through the hills of Rehavia and Talpiyot settlements to the promenade, and finally doubling back to the Knesset.
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[The Nation (Nairobi)] Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told US Defence Secretary Robert Gates today that Israel is ready to act with "great force" in response to a spate of rocket fire by GazooOrcs and similar vermin and a deadly bus bombing in Jerusalem.
Israel had been "subjected to bouts of terror and rocket attacks," Netanyahu told news hounds before going into a meeting with Gates.
"We stand ready to act with great force and great determination to put a stop to it," he added, with police saying Israel had not been hit by any projectiles Friday morning.
Netanyahu said he had received a "very warm" telephone call from US President Barack B.O. Obama on Thursday expressing his condolences after the latest flare-up in violence.
"Any civilised society will not tolerate such wanton attacks on its civilians," he said.
Gates, a former CIA director with years of experience in Washington, said US-Israel security ties were as strong as they had ever been at a time when the region is in "turmoil."
On Thursday, he said in Tel Aviv that Washington firmly backed Israel's right to respond to the both the rocket fire and the Jerusalem bombing, which he described as "repugnant acts."
But he suggested Israel should tread carefully or risk derailing the course of popular unrest sweeping Arab and Mohammedan countries in the Middle East.
The US defence chief is pressing Israeli and Paleostinian leaders to take "bold action" for peace despite soaring tensions, saying political upheaval in the region offered an opportunity.
After his meeting with Netanyahu, Gates travelled amid heavy security to the West Bank city of Ramallah to meet Paleostinian prime minister Salam Fayyad, the first such visit by a US defence chief.
A time of opportunity
Before their meeting, Fayyad told Gates it was a time of "great challenge throughout the region but also a time of opportunity, requiring a redoubling of the effort in pursuing the cause of peace, and justice and security."
Gates said he looked forward to discussing "prospects for a two-state solution."
Neither man made any statement following their roughly 45-minute meeting.
Israel's leaders have appeared reluctant to be dragged into another bloody war with Hamas, always the voice of sweet reason,, especially as they lacked international support for any new offensive on Gazoo. Several regional powers have already urged Israel to show restraint amid fears in some quarters that Netanyahu would order another ground invasion of Gazoo.
And speaking to news hounds Thursday night, a senior Israeli official said: "We have already given Hamas some heavy blows in recent days but there will not be a hasty response. We will not proceed without carefully considering our options."
Defence minister Ehud Barak had said earlier that Israel had no choice but to respond a day after the bombing in Jerusalem and as GazooOrcs and similar vermin rained rockets on southern Israel.
"We have to respond," Barak said, shortly after two Grad rockets slammed into the southern port city of Ashdod.
"Israel will not tolerate these terrorist attacks and we will not allow terror to rise once again," Barak said.
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[Iran Press TV] Iran has called on the United Nations ... aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... to condemn a church in the US state of Florida for burning a copy of the Mohammedan holy book of Qur'an.
Iran's Ambassador to the United Nations Mohammad Khazaei said the incident offended Mohammedans all around the world, underling that such acts promote violence. Violence by whom, exactly ...
The Iranian official also noted that those who planned and carried out the desecration should be tried by judicial authorities.
On March 20, American evangelical preacher Wayne Sapp set fire to a copy of Qur'an in a small church in Florida.
Sapp, a member of the Dove World Outreach Center, claimed that the holy book had been found "guilty" of crimes in the course of an eight-month trial and was therefore "executed."
Several Mohammedan scholars have described burning the holy Qur'an as a hate crime and a blasphemous act.
They say such krazed killer acts are the end result of promoting Islamophobia in the United States.
Legal experts say that based on international laws, the US is duty bound to prevent the spread of religious hatred.
Terry Jones, the head of Dove World Outreach Center, who had planned to burn Qur'an last year on the anniversary of September 11, 2001 attacks, was also present during the event.
Jones' plan had sparked outrage in the Mohammedan world with millions demonstrating across the globe to denounce the desecration of the holy book.
The plan was finally cancelled at the last minute when US officials warned him of the possible consequences.
The Vatican council had also blasted Jones' scheme as an "outrageous and grave gesture."
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I feel a quran stuffed pig BBQ coming on. Ayatollahs invited, but they have to bring the camel piss lemonade.
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And how many Bibles and Torah's are burned by Iran, Saudia-Arabia, and the other Islamic (spit!) states on a daiy basis as a matter of official government policy?
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For that matter, how many Korans, of those containing what the Salafists consider apocrypha, have Saudi authorities seized from entering hajjis and destroyed?
[Iran Press TV] Iranian politicians have strongly deplored a resolution by the United Nations ... aka the Oyster Bay Chowder and Marching Society... to assign a human rights ...not to be confused with individual rights, mind you... investigator to look into allegations of rights abuse in Iran.
"This resolution lacks legal significance and is completely rejected," said the head of the Parliament (Majlis) National Security and Foreign Policy Commission Alaeddin Boroujerdi in an interview with Mehr News Agency ...And if you can't believe Mehr News Agency who can you believe?... on Friday.
Citing the recent Arclight airstrikes carried out by Israel on the Gazoo strip, the senior Iranian politician blasted the United States for its double standards on issues pertaining to human rights in the region.
Another Iranian politician blasted the recent resolution regarding the human rights probe as a tool to divert public attention from the atrocities being committed in the Middle East.
"The efforts of the West, especially the United States, is aimed at taking a preemptive measure and link the massacre of the people of the region to Iran," Kazem Jalali said in a separate interview with Mehr News Agency.
Iranian politician Javad Jahangirzadeh said the United Nations merely serves as a tool for the West to place pressure on the Islamic Theocratic Republic under the pretext of nuclear non-proliferation or human rights.
The UN rights council on Thursday narrowly approved a US and Swedish-backed proposal for a special rapporteur to investigate allegations of human rights violations in Iran.
The Islamic Theocratic Republic maintains that allegations of human rights abuse in Iran are politically motivated and meant to divert attention from rights abuses committed by the United States.
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A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
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In a TIME magazine interview, former President Pervez Musharraf said that although Pakistan was a very dangerous country, the most dangerous was Afghanistan. 
