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Some American analysts have begun to get an inkling into the Pakistani psyche, even though most US think tanks don’t have a clue. Islamabad has its interests which may or may not coincide with the interests of capitals around the world. Understanding this basic fact may reduce the amount of frustration in foreign capitals. Islamabad cannot mimic the policies of Washington or Delhi. Kowtowing to the diktaks of Delhi has not worked in Dhaka, Colombo and Beijing, and it will not work in Islamabad. The inability to comprehend the Pakistani national consensus on some issues leads to confusion and chaos in foreign think tanks. Pakistani steadfastness is resolute and unbending. Many liberals and foreign think tanks confuse the politeness as confusion or wishy washy behavior. History has proven the Pakistanis have not compromised on several issues some of which are.

1) Friendship with China

2) Liberation of Kashmir

3) Elimination of occupation from Afghanistan

For the past sixty years, Pakistan has helped to bring China into the international area by fist recognizing it as a state, then pulling it into dialogue with the US and the world. Pakistan was instrumental in assisting China in consolidating its boundaries. It gave up huge parts of its territory so that China could gain a land route to Tibet. The pact in Aksai Chin prevented the fragmentation of China by eliminating the threat from India which was trying to extricate Tibet from China and incorporate it into Bharat.

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Pakistan has worked with China to provide it with the latest technology and designs in aircraft and other areas. This has helped China build world class planes.

Russia ignored the steadfastness of the Pakistanis at its own peril. The USSR assisted Pakistan’s archenemy in 1971. As payback Pakistan defeated the Soviet Union in Afghanistan which led to its implosion.

The USA has been unable to comprehend the depth and resolve of the Pakistanis with reference to Afghanistan and limitations of its own power and influence in Pakistan.

In a highly unusual public statement on Apr. 24, Army Chief of Staff Kayani “condemned pronouncement by outside powers raising doubts on the future of the country”. The next day, Chief of Air Staff Marshal Rao Qamar Suleman said the Pakistan Air Force would “continue to maintain its optimum readiness to undertake all types of missions against all internal and external threats”. That was a clear reference to the threat from India, which the United States was trying to get Pakistan to downgrade. Counterpunch. Resisting U.S. Priorities The Pakistan Conundrum By Gareth Porter

No matter what, the Pakistanis will not let anyone set up Kabul as an anti-Pakistani client. Islamabad will not allow foreign troops to cross into Pakistan.  The US gets very frustrated when the CIA operations run contrary to Pakistani domestic and international interests. In some measure some officials of the US government think that by sending aid, they have purchased all rights to all events in Pakistan. Over the decades most have been surprised that things did not go their way. Sanctions, threats, intrusive interference into Pakistani politics, drone attacks, covert operations and overt military intervention has not produced the desired results for America. A combination of some of the above may have produced short term gains for Washington, but it has lost a lot more than what it has gained.

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The United States has vowed to put the heat on Pakistan’s spies in its new regional strategy, with top officials openly accusing elements in powerful intelligence agency of abetting Al-Qaeda.

President Barack Obama on Friday unveiled a plan to root out extremism in Afghanistan and Pakistan by boosting troops and drastically increasing civilian personnel and aid to the region.

Afghan President Hamid Karzai immediately hailed the proposals.

“This strategy and this review exactly corresponds to what we have been asking for,” Karzai told reporters in Kabul. “This is better than we were expecting, as a matter of fact.”

Richard Holbrooke, the US special envoy to the region, said he would visit Pakistan again next week to follow up on the plan. Of all issues, investigating the nuclear-armed nation’s spy network “is the most important,” he said.

“The issue’s very disturbing,” Holbrooke said on public television when asked if Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was assisting Al-Qaeda and Taliban extremists.

“We cannot succeed if the two intelligence agencies are at each others’ throat or don’t trust each other and if the kind of collusion you referred to is factuel,” Holbrooke said.US accuses Pakistan spies of helping Al Qaeda

American sanctioned Pakistan after the 1965 war. These arms sanctions lasted ’till the Afghan war in 1980. After the Afghan war was over, the US again imposed sanctions on Pakistan which lasted a decade. After 2001 the miserly “aid” given to Pakistan was a joke and a half. Washington’s aid to Iraq was $605 Billion in Iraq, The aid package to Afghanistan totaled $143 Billion. Pakistan, a Non-NATO ally got $5 Billion. The other $5 Billion was for reimbursement for services rendered.

To destroy American credibility in Pakistan, the Bush Administration gave Delhi free reign in Afghanistan.

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..Pakistan’s security establishment, its concerns – the presence of India in Afghanistan, Kabul’s refusal to recognise the border, the festering Kashmir dispute – are strategic threats far greater than those posed by Islamist militants.

“The concept of pressuring Pakistan is flawed,” Ahmed Rashid and Barnett Rubin have written in the Foreign Affairs magazine. “No state can be successfully pressured into acts it considers suicidal.”

Ultimately America’s leverage is limited: in pushing too much, it may lose even the limited cooperation it has. American leverage in South Asia, By Barbara Plett, BBC News, Islamabad

All this has produced  defeat and bankruptcy for the USA. The Exit Strategy is inevitable before 2011. Once the US leaves, the inevitable union between Pakistan and Afghanistan cannot be stopped. The Afghans and the Pakistan will then work with the other “Tans” to build a Muslim Union–patterned on the EU.

The puerile headlines in the Hate-Pakistan press remind me of the old schoolyard song. “Sticks and stones may break my bones but words shall never harm me“. The risible rhetoric is amazing in its transparent bias and mind boggling in its obeisance to the Gods of mendacity. Congressman Denis Kucinich once remarked that “the American press is worse than Izvestia and Pravda” in kowtowing to the government line.

Mr. Murdock’s misanthropic media is an organ of the Neocon and is used by the military to disseminate misinformation and outright lies. Headlines are added at the discretion of the editor. Many times  the headlines are totally disconnected from the actual essay.  Even the paragons of the left wing media like the New York Times were used like a fiddle to play the swan song of the WMDs. The list is long. The childish name calling is not limited to the New York Times Company. The juvenile vacuous, vapid chatter is as ubiquitous now as it was in the war mongering days that fueled the frenzy to attack Iraq. The New York Times apologized, but continues its venomous diatribes against Pakistan.

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General David Petraeus, the commander of US forces in Afghanistan and Iraq, did not dispute that ISI elements have tipped off extremists to let them escape US-led forces.

“There are some cases that are indisputable in which that appears to have taken place,” Petraeus said.

During the Cold War, the ISI worked with the CIA to arm Islamist groups that fought Soviet forces in Afghanistan. The ISI later backed the Taliban, which imposed an medieval brand of austere Islamic rule on the war-torn country.

Pakistan switched from top Taliban backer to frontline US ally after the September 11, 2001 attacks. But the ISI has long faced allegations of insubordination to Pakistan’s government, now led by US-friendly civilian President Asif Ali Zardari.

The New York Times reported on Thursday that US officials had found evidence that ISI operatives offered money, military supplies and even strategic planning to Taliban commanders.

Links between the Taliban and ISI “are very strong and some unquestionably remain to this day,” Petraeus told public television. “It is much more difficult to say at what level.”

Such open criticism of the ISI will be music to the ears of India, which accuses Pakistani intelligence of plotting attacks in divided Kashmir and involvement in last year’s bloodbath in Mumbai that killed 165 people. US accuses Pakistan spies of helping Al Qaeda

Obama’s Afghan ‘Strategy’ without an “Exit Plan” is a ‘Straightjacket’ named quagmire & defeat

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Admiral Mike Mullen, the top US military officer, told CNN there were “certainly indications” of ISI involvement with Al-Qaeda and the Taliban.

He voiced hope that the new US “regional approach” would try to reduce tensions over Kashmir, allowing Pakistan to re-deploy troops away from arch-enemy India and to Afghan border areas.

Obama branded Al-Qaeda a “cancer that risks killing Pakistan from within,” calling the extremists responsible for thousands of deaths and waves of destruction against Pakistanis.

He offered a major boost in aid and training to Pakistan but also issued a veiled warning.

“Pakistan must demonstrate its commitment to rooting out Al-Qaeda and the violent extremists within its borders,” Obama said.

“And we will insist that action be taken — one way or another — when we have intelligence about high-level terrorist targets,” Obama said.

Obama has continued George W. Bush’s policy of unmanned drone attacks inside Pakistan, which are said to have killed high-level extremists but also civilians — inflaming Pakistani public opinion.

Pakistan has urged the United States to let it carry out the drone attacks, but US officials have feared that elements within the ISI would warn the extremists.

Holbrooke acknowledged frustrations, calling the fight to bring stability to Pakistani border areas “the most daunting challenge” of the new regional plan because Pakistan had imposed a “red line.”

“The red line is unambiguous and stated publicly by the Pakistani government — no foreign troops on our soil,” Holbrooke told reporters.

“You can have a great government in Kabul — a government that fulfills every criteria of democratic governance — and if the current situation in western Pakistan continues, the instability in Afghanistan continues,” Holbrooke said.

“We all know that.”US accuses Pakistan spies of helping Al Qaeda

Bharat has underestimated the Pakistanis and has never been able to gobble up Kashmir. Before the blood had dried in Mumbai, the servile Indian press had already convicted Pakistan–lock stock and barrel. Slick imagery and animation provided the audience the rehearsed propaganda that has been oozing out of the bigots holes in Bharat for a century. Reading the mind-numbing, paranoid, and insane articles in the Indian press is like being gang-raped by a combination of the Adolf Hitler’s followers and the Hindu Mahasaba. 

Pakistan has now become immune to “prophecies of doom“. Pakistanis are sick of “do more” lectures from a 3^rdrate country that piggy-backs on superpowers to get a kick out of beating up vulnerable populations. 2 million Muslim kids died destroying the USSR. Today, Pakistan is suffering because of the failed policies of Britain and the USA. The blowback faced by many is because of the short sighted policies of London and Washington.The selective  amnesia is amazing. Pakistan was used by the USA in the First Afghan War against the USSR.

The vitriol of these bilious diatribes create a craven spectacle that profanes normal intelligence– destined to get lost in the prolixity of the soporific banality. Nothing good comes out of it. Every week, when we think we have overcome the last wave, we see more. When will we reach the ultimate nadir in shallowness and credulousness? This hatred is not limited to Pakistan. Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bangladesh and China got the same type of negativity.

This has been going on for a century in South Asia. All of the above is old news and expected. This paradigm has created wars between Bharat and each of its neighbors–Sri Lanka, Nepal, Sikkim, Bhutan, Maldives, Burma, Pakistan and China. This was the mentality that created Pakistan and has kept Bangladesh from folding into India. This is the same mentality that keeps the war going in Sri Lanka and the same thinking that keeps the animosity hot between Delhi and Beijing.

Pick a rock, any rock, and you can find “experts” predicting gloom and doom and Pakistan. One wonders how much more venom can the bigots can spew. Judging by the decibel level of the doomsayers, one can always judge the level of frustration that they face.  News about Pakistan is accompanied with the pugilistic doomsayers who come out in droves.

Concerted Police Action, without a failed war, can solve Afghan terror

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