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2011-05-31 India-Pakistan

WikiLeaks: Pakistani intelligence 'continues to offer support to terrorist groups'

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Posted by tipper 2011-05-31 10:54|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 According to the article, the cable was dated December, 2009. But thanks to WikiLeaks, those who resolutely ignored the copious evidence before can no longer do so.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-31 12:18|| 2011-05-31 12:18|| Front Page Top

#2 Pak army is the daddy of all jihadi groups used as a second army against India and a way of making money from the West/China/Russia

Posted by Unump Bonaparte8194 2011-05-31 15:18|| 2011-05-31 15:18|| Front Page Top

#3 Didn't the top US DOD dude say that any future President who puts a large army in Asia, "should have his head examined"? Hell, we of the NUKEM group opposed field operations from day one.

FYI: the pak-terror-entity was near bankrupt on 9-11, in face of US sanctions. Now everyone has cell phones in the Wazoos.

I say: destroy the Pashtun savageries and deal with Northern Alliance elements on the Lithium properties.

Posted by Ebbomock Oppressor of the Poles4597 2011-05-31 16:01|| 2011-05-31 16:01|| Front Page Top

#4 The problem in Pakistan today is not that state collapse has created the space for violent jihadi elements to operate as they please rather, the problem is that the militarized state itself has created, perpetuated, and cultivated these elements.This was written by a Pakistani so gives me a little hope of optimism in this mess of a country!

Also a good read below-
http://ibrahimsajidmalick.com/why-doesn%e2%80%99t-pakistan-arrest-hafiz-saeed/226/

Posted by Paul D 2011-05-31 16:21|| 2011-05-31 16:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Why was Pakistan blocking sanctions against a terrorist group?
And this takes me back to Pervez Musharrafs first visit to the US after his coup. At a meeting with a group of journalists among whom I was present, my dear and much lamented friend Tahir Mirza, then the Dawn correspondent, asked Musharraf why he was not acting against Lashkar-e Tayba and Jaish-e Muhammad. Musharraf went red in the face and shot back, They are not doing anything in Pakistan. They are doing jihad outside.
Khalid Hasan was Daily Times US-based correspondent.

Posted by Paul D 2011-05-31 18:37|| 2011-05-31 18:37|| Front Page Top

#6 An interesting article, indeed, Paul D. The thing is, the progressives won't speak up so linig as it's likely to get them killed.

Posted by trailing wife 2011-05-31 21:21|| 2011-05-31 21:21|| Front Page Top

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