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2007-03-18 India-Pakistan

Bhutto warns of Taliban threat to Pakistan

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Posted by Fred 2007-03-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [10 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 Bhutto's PPP has minimal support outside of Punjabi liberal circles. They have no chance.

Posted by Sneaze 2007-03-18 03:59|| 2007-03-18 03:59|| Front Page Top

#2 Benazir is the godmother of the Taliban. During her second term as PM, her interior minister General Nasrullah Babar practically created the Taliban.

Ironically the ISI opposed this, not having faith in the Talib's ability to win.

It was PPP party machinery in Islamabad, Peshawar and Quetta that furthered the Taliban cause, not the ISI.

Posted by John Frum 2007-03-18 09:16|| 2007-03-18 09:16|| Front Page Top

#3 Bhutto devised the "Pakistan in Depth" policy that prescribed cultural fusion with neighboring states, including Kashmir, Afghanistan and Gujerat (India). Strategic use of fundamentalist Islam was central to the scheme. It is a fact that Muslim youths in the region were bred for terror. Bhutto and her embezzler husband should be tried as war criminals.

In "The Taliban Phenomenon" by Kamal Matinuddin (retired Lt-General of Pakistan), he admits that Taliban - in spite of written assurances given to UN agencies - took a 10% commission from all heroin sales. They monitored drug production to ensure that they received their share from the misery that heroin causes Europe and the US (although most US heroin is grown in Culiacan, Mexico). Note-most Taliban strength is in Helmond and Kandahar districts of Afghanistan, where over 90% of heroin is produced. So much for religious piety. To hell with nation building.

Posted by Sneaze 2007-03-18 12:06|| 2007-03-18 12:06|| Front Page Top

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