Monday - April 27, 2009

Once Again, It’s Time For Pakistan To Stand Up and Fight

SLAMABAD – Taliban militants declared their peace deal with the Pakistani government “worthless” on Monday after authorities deployed helicopters and artillery against hide-outs of Islamist guerrillas seeking to extend their grip along the Afghan border.

The regions that straddle that frontier form a “crucible of terrorism,” British Prime Minister Gordon Brown said during a visit to Afghanistan, where his country and the U.S. have thousands of troops trying to stamp out the militant threat. Brown arrived in Pakistan later Monday.

The Obama administration is pressing Islamabad hard for more robust action against those extremists, who are threatening Pakistan’s stability and the security of troops across the border. A collapse of the peace pact would likely please American officials.

[ link to article on that deployment here. Do not read the comments they are sickening. ]

President Asif Ali Zardari called for more foreign support for cash-strapped Pakistan to prevent any danger of its nuclear arsenal falling into the hands of al-Qaida and its allies.

The government agreed in February to impose Islamic law in Swat and surrounding districts that make up Malakand Division if the Taliban there would end their violent campaign in the one-time tourist haven.

In recent days, Taliban forces from Swat began entering Buner, a neighboring district just 60 miles (100 kilometers) from the Pakistani capital.

American officials have described the pact as a capitulation and urged Pakistani leaders to switch their security focus from traditional foe India to violent extremists inside their borders.
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Dianne Feinstein, head of the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee, said Sunday that the recent Taliban advance in Buner — and the lack of a robust military response — suggested Pakistan was “in very deep trouble.”

“This thing has to get sorted out and sorted out quickly or you could lose the government of Pakistan, and Pakistan is a nuclear power and that concerns me deeply,” Feinstein said on CNN television.

But Pakistan’s foreign minister asked Western officials Monday to “not panic.”

“We mean business, and if we have to use force we will use force. We will not hesitate,” Shah Mahmood Qureshi told The Associated Press on the sidelines of meetings with his Afghan and Iranian counterparts. “We will not surrender, we will not capitulate, and we will not abdicate.”

Zardari, who has termed Pakistan’s dire situation as an opportunity to draw in economic and military assistance, insisted Pakistan’s nuclear weapons were in “safe hands,” but added: “If Pakistan fails, if democracy fails, if the world doesn’t help democracy, then any eventuality is a possibility.”

You money grubbing little whore. Your country has received billions. And more billions. Maybe if you all weren’t such a bunch of corrupt thieving bastards you’d have a potent army to show for it. So stand or fall. No more money for you. But coordinate with us and we can smash the Talies once and for all. Haven’t you figured out that they’re in a vise, with our guys on one side and yours on the other? So let’s get our squeeze on. Just remember, in case you’re thinking of just mobilizing and then standing around while our side does all the squeezing, that we get to keep all the territory we liberate. So Afghanistan grows while Pakistan shrinks. What the hell, you never even tried to control that area anyway.

Posted by Drew458     on 04/27/2009 at 10:51 AM   
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