Re: Pakistan knew about Bin Laden hideout: Panetta
If its not war then what is it? We have already lost more than 40,000 people in this war, millions are living in temporary shelters as IDP in their own countries. Drone attacks are carried out with tacit approval from the army and there is no record as to how many people have been killed in them (the ratio of militants versus civilians). And this seems to be the tip of the iceberg.
Now this is the situation on which I dont know whether we should be happy or sad:
The war that Musharraf imposed on the ‘terrorists’ as per the orders of Americans without taking into account the ground situation there has gifted us TTP. With the FCR in place he didnt bother to differentiate between the miscreants and the ordinary people in the tribe, he successfully converted whole tribes into taleban by launching operations against them indiscriminately. He surely got tons of dollars from the Americans by behaving as their pet, but what he has given to Pakistan we (and our children) will have to bear that. He is enjoying his life in Dubai and London. This is exactly what will happen if some other attack in any country is traced back to Pakistan (like yazdi pointed out), our current generals will go underground or get asylum in some western country leaving the country to burn.
What they dont understand is that with internet things have changed (they cant quieten things now in the name of the fake national interests), we have already witnessed what has happened in the middle east to the dictators ruling them for decades, the same is awaiting our army if they dont start behaving. They cannot crush the dissent by kidnappings and killings alone, even the Americans have come to this conclusion in Afghanistan, but our army is blinded as usual. They are very quick in trying to conquer their own people but when its PA versus some western country they suddenly become a ‘bheegi billi’.