Pakistan and America fighting side by side, A bold and necessary move, cheers my brothers let’s pass around the freedom fries!
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Washington, DC, Dec. 21 (UPI) – The Pakistan army recently meted out its first death sentence by firing squad to a soldier for supporting al-Qaida, a move bound to further strain President Pervez Musharraf relations with powerful religious groups within the armed forces.
Political analysts in Pakistan say that such tough action against one of the army’s own shows Musharraf’s desire to purge religious elements from the army, but they warn the move could also backfire and hurt the Pakistani leader.
Court documents seen by the United Press International identify the soldier as Mohammed Islam Siddiqui of the Defense Services Guard Company attached to the Punjab regiment.
Charges against him include “abetting mutiny” against Musharraf and attempting to persuade “a person in the military” to rebel against the government.
Siddiqui is also accused of entering Afghanistan without a passport and having links to a group in the Pakistan air force which was plotting to eliminate Musharraf.
Siddiqui was arrested in South Waziristan, a tribal belt along the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, after he refused to fight against local tribes suspected of having links to the Taliban and al-Qaida.
Pakistan is conducting a major military operation in Waziristan to catch Taliban and al-Qaida suspects believed to be hiding there. U.S. and Pakistani officials believe that some senior al-Qaida leaders, such Osama bin Laden and his deputy Ayman al-Zawaheri, may also be hiding in this region.
Pakistani intelligence sources told UPI that more than 35 non-commissioned officers and soldiers are being tried secretly for plotting against the Musharraf government.
Sad, really sad state of affairs. This is certainly going to create a big whiplash inside the army itself. Apnon ko hi maraingay ab. Musharraf's days are numbered.
You don't allow a criminal to go free just because there is another criminal behind them, esp. one that is looking to bring down the President.
Yes it is a German company, you don't see them as part of the Western world? Germany is part of NATO as well, the fundies would have your neck for flashing such a symbol.
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Pakistan and America fighting side by side, A bold and necessary move, cheers my brothers let's pass around the freedom fries! : ) .....
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Pakistani army's total numbers hover around 500,000. Any large organization of this size will always have some extremist elements.
I very much doubt that this would create a whiplash.The shuffle of officers at the top has removed the officers who would be willing to go along with a whiplash from positions where they have authority over large groups of men. And with an army as large as the Pak army, any junior officer rebellion would be unable to coordinate command sufficiently to organise a large enough whiplash to matter.
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*Originally posted by underthedome: *
......Mohammed Islam Siddiqui of the Defense Services Guard Company ....
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Time to honorably retire all soldiers that had an Afghan or Talibob link. Bring in the new crop from rural Sindh, and the usual areas of Punjab. Time to overhaul the military and get it ready for world wide peace keeping operations.
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Time to overhaul the military and get it ready for world wide peace keeping operations.
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What!? You want the Pakistan military to go and fight Muslims in other muslim countries outside Pakistan? This is where all the world-wide peace keeping operations are. We will be the most hated in the ummah and even worse boot-lickers of the West.
The positive spin though is that if we do work so closely with U.S. in all respects, maybe someday Pakistan will control the most holy Muslim sites. We are the strongest muslim army in the world!
Then, we will no longer be rafeeks or whatever. We will look down with disdain on the former Arabob sheiks, who will all be imported into Pakistan to be our servants and Pakistan will be the keeper of true Islam.
Anyway, while so many complain about atrocities committed by Western soldiers in war-torn countries around the world, wouldn't it be better to have our own people safeguarding other people?
Anyway, while so many complain about atrocities committed by Western soldiers in war-torn countries around the world, wouldn't it be better to have our own people safeguarding other people?
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If we had our own people safeguarding other muslims in war-torn countries, wouldn't we be immediately associated with Western powers? Automatically, they would think we're agents of the western powers and we'd be hated. There's no getting around that fact.
The looking down on Arabs is just a joke...but it would be nice to give them a taste of their own medicine. :)
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I very much doubt that this would create a whiplash.The shuffle of officers at the top has removed the officers who would be willing to go along with a whiplash from positions where they have authority over large groups of men. And with an army as large as the Pak army, any junior officer rebellion would be unable to coordinate command sufficiently to organise a large enough whiplash to matter.
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Oh yea, I completely forgot the cabinet had been reshuffled. There goes my theory. Perhaps Musharraf gets to live a few more years now.
