…should anything happen to Musharraf and kambakht BB.
I don’t like the tone of some of these big-headed US senators and congressmen. They are messing too much in the affairs of our nation. they are almost dictating how and when the elections should be held and more irritatingly who they think should win it. It is none of their business. Personally I don’t want BB to win. Yes Mush is not perfect but she would undermine whatever economic stability we have achieved in the last 8 years or so. It’s nothing personal but I just don’t trust her or her party to do anything good for Pakistan. If anything I consider her a serious threat to our national security. It is almost like she is full of revenge and cannot quite forgive the army for their role in the overthrow and subsequent hanging of her father. Maybe I am exaggerating it a bit but that’s how I feel about her. ZAB was atleast talented, it’s another matter that he did crap for the country. BB is n’t quite as intelligent or capable as she would like us to believe.
Yes terrorism and extremism is an ever-present threat but it’s not like everyone in Pakistan is a fundamentalist and we don’t know how to look after our nuclear arsenal. I am more than 100% sure if there were ever a take over by religious parties (can’t see that happening at the moment though) that the COAS would not hesitate to step in.
This is what happens when you lick the soles of the feet of US leaders. You lose respect in their eyes!
I have been thinking about the sad events of 18 October and it makes me feel very angry. I can’t help blaming kambakht BB (and militants) equally for the unnecessary carnage and mayhem on that day. Since the govt. had already given her the permission to return, she could have chosen to reach Karachi during the quiet hours of the night but NO she HAD to do this show sha and dramabaazi and show everyone the strength (most of it exaggerated) of her public support and sadly it was the masses and the police who paid with their lives in the end.
Seeing the carnage she brought on her return to Pakistan, I feel safe knowing that Mush is the President. Because I know Mush (like Nawaz, I give credit where it’s due) would atleast not sell Pakistan unlike BB who seems to have no iota of sharam left in her.
http://www.dawn.com/2007/10/22/top6.htm](http://www.dawn.com/2007/10/22/top6.htm)
WASHINGTON, Oct 21: Senator Joe Biden, chairman of the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, believes that if terrorists were to eliminate President Perez Musharraf, the United States should send troops to Pakistan to secure the country’s nuclear arsenal.
Mr Biden, who is also a Democratic presidential candidate for 2008, told ABC News on Sunday that if he were elected president he would ‘probably’ go in to secure Pakistan’s nuclear weapons.
Mr Biden, a six-time senator from Delaware, strongly backs the power-arrangement the United States brokered between President Musharraf and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The PPP chairperson met him during a recent trip to Washington, seeking his support for her bid to regain power.
“Here, you have a country that is on the edge, called Pakistan, with nuclear weapons and missiles to carry them that can strike the entire portion of that world, the subcontinent, all the way to the Mediterranean,” Mr Biden said.Interviewer George Stephanopoulos asked Senator Biden, “If President Musharraf or the elected leader of Pakistan were taken out, you would consider, as president, going in with the military?”
“What I would consider is uniting the world,” Mr Biden said. “It’s in everybody’s interest, not just the United States alone. The first thing I would do, I would call a meeting. I would ask for a meeting of the Security Council. I would be on the telephone with everyone from (Russian President Vladimir) Putin to the Chinese premier to our allies in Great Britain and Nato. This cannot be a US-alone operation.”
Senator Biden added that the United States was not doing enough to promote democratic institutions in Pakistan.
“There is a significant portion of the Pakistani population that is middle class and moderate,” Mr Biden said: “If you don’t have a fair electoral process allowing them to express their anger, their frustration, you force it all underground. You force it to the mosque, and the terrorists – the extreme elements of that country, which are a large percentage in relative terms – are going to take over.”
Mr Biden added, “We have a Musharraf policy. We do not have a Pakistan policy.”
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman proposed a reconfiguration of US aid to Pakistan.
“We should be in there,” he said. “We should be supplying tens of millions of dollars to build new schools to compete with the madressahs. We should be in there building democratic institutions. We should be in there, and get the rest of the world in there, giving some structure to the emergence of, hopefully, the re-emergence of a democratic process. But what are we doing?”