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2010-06-17 India-Pakistan

Pakistan 'gave funds' to group on UN terror blacklist

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Posted by Fred 2010-06-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top
File under: Lashkar e-Taiba

#1 Pakistan gets how much from USA?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2010-06-17 03:17|| 2010-06-17 03:17|| Front Page Top

#2 From Halfway to Freedom by Margaret Bourke-White, Simon and Schuster, New York, 1949.

In the weeks to come I was to hear the Quaid-i-Azam's thesis echoed by government officials throughout Pakistan. "Surely America will build up our army," they would say to me. "Surely America will give us loans to keep Russia from walking in." But when I asked whether there were any signs of Russian infiltration, they would reply almost sadly, as though sorry not to be able to make more of the argument. "No, Russia has shown no signs of being interested in Pakistan."

This hope of tapping the U. S. Treasury was voiced so persistently that one wondered whether the purpose was to bolster the world against Bolshevism or to bolster Pakistan's own uncertain position as a new political entity. Actually, I think, it was more nearly related to the even more significant bankruptcy of ideas in the new Muslim state -- a nation drawing its spurious warmth from the embers of an antique religious fanaticism, fanned into a new blaze.

Jinnah's most frequently used technique in the struggle for his new nation had been the playing of opponent against opponent. Evidently this technique was now to be extended into foreign policy. ....

Posted by john frum 2010-06-17 06:05|| 2010-06-17 06:05|| Front Page Top

#3 They were accused of having links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban

The Taliban aren't on the terrorist blacklist, either.

Posted by Lumpy Elmoluck5091 2010-06-17 09:16|| 2010-06-17 09:16|| Front Page Top

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