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
haha..quite impressive..even americans would not be able to give such explanation..pakistanis r pieces of **** who keep blaming americans,indians,mossad etc
..oh sorry i forgot,u r western pakistani too having no interest in pakistan..people like u never met an alim, or any jehadi organisation member or even phathans or army personnel//
even journalists,experts and other r **** as they r not americans and they dont know wht the **** is happening in pakistan and some dam western shifted paki will tell us wht to do..
who told u our agencies r not concerned?...when hameed gul says tht CIA,Mossad,raw,khad,kgb r de stablizing pak..he is very concerned abt foreign activities, then offcourse he is ****..afterall u people know more then him
..when aslim baig and hameed gul say tht cia and other agencies r trying to get rid of our nuclear assets and supportingt taliban abd balochis to show the world tht
we cannot safe guard our weapons..
colonal imam says tht CIA actually cultivated taliban and musharaf assholic policies made cia work easier then offcourse he is nothing but a empty minded loser.. according to him,mush allowed cia to work freely in tribel areas and asked isi to remain neutral to cia activities..infact kyani came and he allowed isi to do wht they r meant for..
when rehman malik says tht india is involved in each and every terrorism activities in pak then offcourse he is a taliban agent too
according to hamid mir,there is a massive secret battle going on between cia and isi in islamabad and peshawar beac of presense of so many american personnel
who speak phastu and dress just like tribel people..isi is very angry on our interior ministry and american ambassador..offcourse u western minded pakistanis know more then him...americans even have hired homes very near to our sensitive installations..
yes they have no poor intentions...our swat operation chief says tht there is a massive foreigh involment of indians and other hostile agencies in swat and tribel areas,then he is **** too beac
he does not know tht "our" religious extremist r responsible for every thing..our army and secret agencies have no doubt tht americans r behind many bombings and recent peshawar bombing is a great example..
even ig police nwfp said tht mossad,raw and khad r behind recent attacks ..he is **** toooo...
go and ask any phastoon belonging to swat and tribel areas and they will u abt indians,americans etc..offcourse they r idiot tooo..
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unfortunately people like u represent our elite class..this class have no concerns abt loss of lifes...please keep ur insulting and painful comments to urself..we pakis r losing our lifes..not u western citizens