The chief of Pakistan’s Army, Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, on Friday defended his army’s performance and said it was committed to fighting militancy, in the face of growing criticism from American officials and Pakistani politicians that the military has failed to halt the Taliban insurgency as it creeps toward Islamabad, the capital.
The general’s statement came amid rising alarm at home and abroad that the military was standing by as hundreds of Taliban militants swarmed into the district of Buner and two others from their stronghold in the Swat Valley in a dramatic show of force over the last few days.
On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said that “the Pakistani government is basically abdicating to the Taliban,” but the spokesman, Haji Muslim Khan, said that Taliban anger was partly caused by the presence of female American soldiers in the region. Mr. Khan said that Pakistan’s Prime Minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, “should think about Western white women who take up arms and come from 20,000 miles away to fight against us here.”
Given that the circumference of the planet is only about 25,000 miles, it is not clear what route Mr. Khan believes Western forces are taking to get to Pakistan. This video shows how they perceive utopia..
This really worries me...what good is "saving the global economy" if this is the future...
Well, I guess there is peace, and then there is peace.
ReplyDeletethe woman in the vid was only a teenager and her accuser was simply her neighbour, one woman. That is all it takes, is for one person to accuse you and you are punished.
ReplyDeleteSee what the hand of the USA has wrought.
ReplyDeleteI don't think I understand you about this? How did America cause this? I sometimes think you must believe all that America bad stuff!
ReplyDeleteLike setting up puppet dictators that then turn on the USA so they had to then set up another puppet dictator? Or perhaps the false flag operations to remove unfavourable leaders without direct intervention. Or how about the big one that is current under way, the Iraqi War?
ReplyDeleteThe U.S. has set up bad leaders to hopefully halt the rise to power of worse ones. Personally I think there are better ways.But let's not lose track of the fact that they can only choose from what's available and that to do nothing in the face of the rise of madmen and murderers to power is to support them.
ReplyDeleteSo the leaders of Pakistan want to appease the "moderate militants"? What the hell is a moderate militant?
Relief as Taliban forces retreat
ReplyDeleteHaq Nawaz Khan and Pamela Constable, Peshawar, Pakistan
PAKISTANI Taliban extremist forces have withdrawn from the north-western district of Buner after a week of rising fears that the armed Islamists could be setting their sights on the capital, Islamabad, just 100 kilometres south.
Officials announced on Friday that the militant forces would leave Buner by night, and television news showed dozens of masked Taliban fighters climbing on trucks and driving out of the district's main town, waving goodbye with their assault rifles.
The withdrawal appeared to be an attempt to salvage a crumbling, controversial peace deal in which the Government of President Asif Ali Zardari agreed to allow strict Islamic rule in the Swat Valley and six surrounding districts, and the Taliban agreed to halt its armed intimidation of the populace.