Pakistan knew about Bin Laden hideout: Panetta

[Himalaya]

Re: Pakistan knew about Bin Laden hideout: Panetta

@yazdi

I once asked a senior retired military person in Pakistan if it was possible that our intelligence agencies did not know about OBL located in a compound hardly 500 meters from Kakul.. his reply was that in that location the army intelligence would know the pedigree of your dog even.

It’s an eye opener for people who still defend the ex illegal President/army chief General Musharraf. I had been writing about the kind of double games this opportunist was playing to ensure the longevity of his illegal tenure for a long time.

These kind of dangerous games have become a serious security threat to Pakistan. Imagine a scenario where God forbid a major terrorist attack happens in US or some country where a few thousand people die and the leads come to Pakistan. What will be the outcome for Pakistan after that. We will probably face carpet bombing on our cities instead of drone attacks. I can assure you that our army leadership will be the first people to abandon the GHQ and army installations and hide somewhere deep under ground in some safe bunkers. Poor people of Pakistan will face the wrath of such public/international media/foreign army aggressions which will follow such incident.

**Whenever such questions arise in our country where army leadership have to answer these valid concerns.. they try to avoid these discussion on the pretext that it will harm the national security. In fact these covert jihadi agendas are the biggest security risk for the people of Pakistan who are sitting on a time bomb. It’s a question of “when”.. **not “if”… this major terrorist attack will happen. As a nation we are justified to ask the wisdom of supporting these covert terrorist outfits by our army intelligence/leadership which are a big/genuine risk for the people of our country.

**It’s high time our military leadership answers these questions instead diverting attention to the non-issues like memogate.. **It’s a dangerous game they are playing which can result in economic/physical hardship for the poor people of this unfortunate country.

We need a strong Civilian government in Pakistan who is not compromised and does not face embarrassing financial scandals on daily basis to control the army from making a state within our state. We need a civilian government who is genuinely liked by the masses and has the courage to ask all these questions from our army leadership.

I have raised these questions in the past in this forum also. If you see recent Imran Khan interviews he is also talking about this possible major terrorist attack somewhere and consequences for Pakistan after such incident. This concern was raised by me in this forum about 2/3 years ago. It’s very important that Imran Khan is able to form at least a strong opposition with good numbers in the parliament to give a voice to these genuine concerns. I would be really delighted to to see some miracle happening and he could actually form the next government in Pakistan..

One of the best posts about I have read on this forum for a long time. It is sad that so very few people have liked it. People spend hours criticising Zardari and the PPP here yet do not even spend a second giving even constructive criticism of the army. I feel like writign all the names of those who are out there blaming Zardari for everything yet they dont realise for many things the civilian government has no blame because they have no control.

In reality our army and intelligence services are a blunder for Pakistan. They will take us into a war which we cannot win and they will flee. On top of that they are a financial burden for Pakistan. They rob loot it for their own needs. Our army leadership is somewhat like a parasite. It will eventually kill the host.

The army is not a closet Jihadi in fact they are closet Westerners. The upper ranks drink alcohol, try to ape the British in every step and have no interest in Pakistani customs.

Whatever their personal habits are they always use the term national security, national interest but thankfully over the last year they have lost that and many people are challenging them. As much as I hate the fact Pakistan is governed by losers suchas Zardari and Gilani I wish they would sack the ISI chief and COAS and take them on. Sadly they are not sincere too.

You will only have to watch who posts here and who does not. Look at a thread critical of the PPP/Zardari and you will see the non-posters on this thread spending a lot of time criticising our civilian government.