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| 'Pakistan Still Supports Militant Groups' |
| 2011-07-05 |
| [Tolo News] The Pak military still support and train Islamic exemplar groups to use them as proxies against its neighbours and US troops in Afghanistan, The New York Times ...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize... reports. A prominent former Islamic exemplar commander has told The New York Times on condition of anonymity that he was supported by the Pak military for 15 years as a fighter and trainer of forces of Evil until he quit a few years ago. The former commander told the Times that bad boy groups, including Lashkar-e-Tayeba, Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen and Hizbul Mujahedeen are run by religious leaders with Pak military providing training, protection and planning. He said that system is still the same. Still Pakistain's military and intelligence establishment has not abandoned its policy of supporting the Islamic exemplar groups as tools in Pakistain's dispute with India and in Afghanistan to drive out American and NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Originally it was a mutual defense pact directed against an expansionist Soviet Union. In later years it evolved into a mechanism for picking the American pocket while criticizing the style of the American pants... forces, he has said. "There are two bodies running these affairs: mullahs and retired generals," he said. "These people have a very big role still." After the fall of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan in 2001 there were about 60 people at the Taliban meeting, including Pak Islamic exemplar leaders, the Taliban ambassador to Pakistain, Abdul Salam Zaeef, and Muhammad Haqqani, a member of the Haqqani bad boy network. At the meeting the Islamic exemplar groups divided Afghanistan into separate areas of operations and discussed how to "trip up America," he said. The Pak military still supports the Afghan Taliban in their fight to force out American and NATO forces from Afghanistan, he said. "The (Pak) government is not interested in eliminating them permanently," he said. "The Pak military establishment has become habituated to using proxies." Referring to former al-Qaeda leader the late Osama bin Laden ... who was potted in Pakistain... he said: "The Taliban lost a whole government for one person." The commander called on the US that only a true projection of Islam would stop them, otherwise, the Pak military will keep using them against its neighbours, especially US troops in Afghanistan. "Pakistain, and especially America, needs to understand the true spirit of Islam, and they need to project the true spirit of Islam," he said. "That would be a good strategy to stop them." |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 ION PAKISTANI DEFENCE FORUM > US WANTS FOOTHOLD IN EVERY CORP HEADQUARTERS OF PAKISTAN ARMY. ARTIC = US pressure to install on-demand US Security Liason Officers [SLOS] has been rejected several times by Islamabad + Pak Army - ditto US attempts to compromise vee modified schemas in order to appease the Pakis. * NEWS KERALA > PAK'S "OWN JIHADI CREATURES" [creations] HAVE DIVERGING INTERESTS FROM THAT OF THE STATE NOW: EDIITORIAl [Daily Times.PK]. The post-Abbottabad, sectarian, internal ideo struggle for the [true?]"Soul of Pakistan" will ultimately have consequences for the entire Region, espec as per India. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2011-07-05 22:17 |
| #2 Pakistan itself is just a collection of militant groups. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2011-07-05 05:29 |
| #1 Hamid Gul and General Beg comes to mind. |
| Posted by: Paul D 2011-07-05 03:10 |