Sleeping with the enemy
Last week has been very interesting in relation to the reactions of the international politicians with respect to the Pakistani government-military nexus with the so called “Taliban” in the SWAT valley. You have Hillary Clinton ranting away - “the activity by the extremists in Pakistan poses a direct threat to the government of Pakistan as well as to the security of the United States, Afghanistan and a number of other nations.” Hello!! Where the hell have you been m’am? India has shouted itself hoarse over the activities of Pakistan which has been using the ISI (or the other way around, doesn’t matter) for various terror attacks in India, presumably over Kashmir for the past twenty years and more! But no, its all about geo-strategic interests, all short sighted with blinkered vision, with the so called US interests in mind. The Pakistanis have still not got over the fact that they lost East Pakistan in 1971, because of its own negligent treatment of the region which is now Bangladesh. ...