At moments like these I am glad that Pakistan's government, military, intelligence agencies, and main opposition movement are all run by level headed, sensible people who don't cave in to the wave of paranoia that is sweeping through so many of our countrymen.
The fact remains that no-one who is in a role to access official information about the activities of foreigners in Pakistan, has come out to accuse them of driving violence. They are not even hinting at this off the record, or leaking anonymously to the press.
No one, neither from our democratically elected government, or from the non-democratic army, or from the very intelligence agency (ISI) that is so vilified by the West, is coming out to anonymously say that the foreigners in our midst are behind violence, or presenting any evidence for this.
All the accusations are coming from people without access to intelligence data, and is based on conjecture and conspiracy theories. For the entire official world to keep quiet, you would need
1) Zardari to be a traitor & Senior Government to stay 100% loyal to Zardari : If there was any actual intelligence that foreign diplomatic staff were involved in terrorism, it would end up going to Senior Government officials and to Zardari. Both him, his cabinet, and all of their staffers who could possibly see it would have to be 100% committed to hiding all evidence from the public. What's the motivation? What could make everyone who could possibly know this want to keep it quiet?
2) Intelligence officials would have to keep quiet Not only government, but a whole chain of people in the intelligence services would have to keep quiet. If there was an order to turn a blind eye to foreigners carrying out acts of terrorism, especially at times like this, it would be unthinkable that everyone that order was issued to would keep quiet. You would need a massive conspiracy streching to encompass everyone involved in anti-terrorism in Pakistan to keep that quiet.
Or perhaps someone found evidence of foreign involvement? Perhaps they passed that knowledge on to their superior, who passed it on, and somewhere along the line a traitorous official hid it? Again, given the violence sweeping Pakistan, why would a junior official anywhere in that chain of knowledge not so much as leak a document to the press? Why is nobody in the intelligence agencies complaining anonymously that the government refuses to act against foreigners sotking violence? Is the entire, massive intelligence apparatus in Pakistan entirely turned against the country? (To answer yes, you must be intensely paranoid yourself)
3) The Army. The main intelligence agency, ISI, is for all intents and purposes accountable to the Army rather than the government, as the promotion and career of ISI's leadership is in the hands of the Army staff. This is the same Pakistan Army whose independence and patrotic credentials are validated by the clumsy effort by the US Congress to use the K-L Bill to remove control of its staffing and place it in Zardari's hands instead. Any information that ISI, the most effective intelligence agency in Pakistan, has would go throught the army, though a chain of officers. Everyone from ISI's analysts to the Army leadership would have to be committed to covering up - a long chain of individuals, all of who would need to want to hide evidence of foreign involvement. Again, if at any point someone was unhappy and thought that treason was going on, they could easily leak to the news.
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I personally find it unbelievable that such a vast, massive, and effective conspiracy of silence could exist in Pakistan without a single voice of dissent. In other societies, for example the UK and the USA, even as the government was dedicated to convincing the people and world that they needed to invade Iraq, there were many individuals in intelligence agencies and government who either spoke to the press off the record to say the evidence was weak, or who resigned and then spoke openly to the press.
What's more believable is that both civilian and military officials are fully aware of what is going on by foreigners. investigated, and know that it is harmless to Pakistan's interests. The weapons that foreigners have illegally been carrying, for instance, are named in the article as Western weapons, rather than the AK-47s that have been used in some of the recent attacks.
Indeed, the only anonymous comments coming out of security officials have been
1) recent attacks are by religious extremists
2) India is supporting Baloch separatists