ISI chief knew whereabouts of Osama bin Laden's hideout: NYT

[Amal]

Re: ISI chief knew whereabouts of Osama bin Laden’s hideout: NYT

@Cheetah420

It is a well known fact that majority of Al qaeda and taliban are hiding in Pakistan and Osama was found under the radar of pak army. Afghanistan is not the same as 2001, since then a decade has past and its citizens do not want a return of the Taliban. Moreover, there is a strong section of the society both inside and outside the gov’t willing to fight the Taliban. Are there people in Pakistan willing to fight the TTP. PTI, PMLn, JI, JUI and some powerfull individuals are the spoke persons of TTP. Afghanistan is are far better than in 2001, you cannot deny this fact. Since 2001, it has seen improvement in international relations, improved its infrastructure, army is established, warlords no longer control private armies, to a certain extent free media is established what more would you expect from a country that has been through war with a super power and its neighbours did not spare a moment in destroying it.

Which Afghanistan are you talking about?

Let’s separate facts from fiction.

Karzai sees no good in US presence in Afghanistan](http://www.dawn.com/news/1084543/karzai-sees-no-good-in-us-presence-in-afghanistan)

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Insisting that he “saw no good” in the American presence in Afghanistan, Mr Karzai said: “They did not work for me, they worked against me.”

Although the United States spent $648 billion during the Afghan war, Mr Karzai said it did not help him.

“The money they should have paid to the police they paid to private security firms and creating militias who caused lawlessness, corruption and highway robbery,” he said.

“They then began systematically waging psychological warfare on our people, encouraging our money to go out of our country.”

Mr Karzai also blamed the United States for creating “pockets of wealth and a vast countryside of deprivation and anger” in Afghanistan.

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