Pakistan knew about Bin Laden hideout: Panetta

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Re: Pakistan knew about Bin Laden hideout: Panetta

@CM

Alright lets not be melodramatic like an Indian soap opera actress. As a guy who works in the worst locations in the world I know for a fact that Pakistan is no where near the doom and gloom that every Pakistani seems to complain about. You do realize that people said the same thing in 1988, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2007 and now? We will weather this storm like we have all others and come out a bit stronger and a bit weaker. The difference this time around is that we may inshallah have a government that last 5 years.

And Ali do tell me how its gonna end in Pakistan? The Taliban are negotiating with the US. The Pakistanis have been all but excluded from the talks. We didn’t meet Grossman. We don’t even bother to pay attention to whats going on in Afghanistan with our focus on Zardari, the Supreme Court and Memo-gate.

But the situation is far from peachy either. Or perhaps, you want Pakistan to become some somalia before you say that we have a problem. No wonder the UN is considered a worthless pos and america wants to cut its funding.

2. zia siding with the Americans in the mindless war in which he might have got billions of dollars but Pakistan got afghan refugees, heroin and Kalashnikov culture

Now, i am no way in favor of how we conducted the whole “afghan bhai” refugees, but fighting the war was a necessity in the sense that we would be in a strategic nightmare if there ever was a war with india with Soviets sitting in afghanistan. I believe the soviets had asked permission in 1965 to fly over afghanistan, but zahir shah had refused it. Ultimately, Pakistan should not want any superpower in afghanistan, but instead get its act together so afghanistan can’t resist the economic might of Pakistan like how iran, syria and iraq can’t resist Turkey’s economic clout.