[DAWN] The US State DepartÂment has publicly acknowledged that after last week’s massive boom-mobileing in Kabul...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title
Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
it asked Pakistain to take concrete action against the Haqqani network.
The Taliban grabbed credit for the attack outside a building of the National Directorate for Security in Kabul on Tuesday that killed 64 people and injured more than 300 others.
Pakistain had condemned the attack hours after it took place.
We condemn thee, we condemn thee, we condemn thee. There, that should do it.
"We extend our heartfelt sympathies and condolences to those who have lost their loved ones and pray for early recovery of the injured," the Foreign Office said in a statement.
Commenting on Afghan government’s claim that Pakistain supported the group that carried out the attack, the director of the State Department’s Press Office, Elizabeth Trudeau, suggested on Friday evening that Islamabad continued to allow bully boyz to use its soil.
"We have consistently expressed our concerns at the highest level of the government of Pakistain about their continued tolerance for Afghan Taliban groups such as the Haqqani network operating from Pak soil," she told a news briefing in Washington.
Obviously Trudeau has never visited a game farm. Hunting within the Tribal areas must be strictly controlled with price points which attact only the high-end, most discriminating customer.
"And we did again -- after this week’s attack, we have pressed the government of Pakistain to follow up on its expressed commitment not to discriminate between terror groups regardless of their agenda or their affiliation by undertaking concrete action against the Haqqanis," she added.
Within hours of the attack, Afghanistan's Caped President Ashraf Ghani
...former chancellor of Kabul University, now president of Afghanistan. Before returning to Afghanistan in 2002 he was a scholar of political science and anthropology. He worked at the World Bank working on international development assistance. As Finance Minister of Afghanistan between July 2002 and December 2004, he led Afghanistan's attempted economic recovery until the Karzais stole all the money. ..
vowed "vengeance for each drop of blood spilled", while his chief executive, Abdullah Abdullah
... the former foreign minister of the Northern Alliance government, advisor to Masood, and candidate for president against Karzai. Dr. Abdullah was born in Kabul and is half Tadjik and half Pashtun...
, cancelled a May 2 visit to Pakistain, citing the findings of a preliminary investigation.
On Friday, the Voice of America radio quoted Afghanistan’s deputy presidential front man Dawa Khan Menapal as claiming that Pakistain supported and armed the Haqqani network that carried out the attack.
"Attacks such as this clearly undermine US, Afghan and Pak efforts to promote peace and reconciliation in Afghanistan," Ms Trudeau said.
But you must understand, business is slow, very slow. Without the attacks, there are no cheques! We had only one UBL, you have taken him away, so we have nothing left but attacks.
The US official, however, disagreed with a journalist who suggested that the United States allowed Pakistain to continue supporting the Death Eaters by avoiding criticising its policies publicly.
Ms Trudeau said that Pakistain had reiterated that it would not discriminate between terrorist groups "and we continue to call on them to live up to that commitment".
When asked if "words match Pakistain’s actions", the official said: "I think words matter and we continue to encourage them to have their actions match those words."