After 16 years of funding a corrupt dysfunctional system in Afghanistan America has put the blame on Pakistan for all the mess they and Indians have created there. They have given free hand to Indians and Afghan government to send terrorists in Pakistan using Afghanistan. Afghan government is known for giving money from aid to Taliban and they even sold weapons to them.
To me it looks like American generals have chosen to lie about the situation to mislead their leadership. It is more convenient for them to divert the attention elsewhere so they don’t get the blame for defeat and to make Afghans who are on their side happy so they don’t turn on Americans.
Pakistan with their protection of one group i.e. Haqqani network and having a peace agreement with them cannot wreak this king of havoc in Afghanistan when Americans and Afghan Gov. themselves have peace agreements with Taliban who are running 30-40% of that country.
It is time for Pakistan to take a strong line instead of being apologetic and stop being a punching bag. Pakistan should withdraw from war on terror or threaten to do it. The least our shameless leaders can do is stop taking aid.
After 17 Years of Pakistan and US coalition now US step back from Pakistan Fight against terrorism as Trump forget the sacrifices of Pakistan people and Pakistan Armed Forces. The Donald Trump said that Pakistan is producing terrorism and not fighting against terrorism. The Trump put their defeats in Afghanistan on Pakistan shoulders.
Its the anti-pakistan lobbyists at work. The same anti pakistan lobbyists who have turned a good majority of afghans against pakistan after trying hard during the control over afghanistan’s affairs. These lobbyists whisper like a serpent to all the sides involved in a conflict to turn them all against and start fighting eachother so that they could emerge victorious without having to face much resistence. In this particular case, afghanis, pakistanis and americans.
Trump does not have any brain of his own. He speaks what the serpents whisper in his ears. Just like how a decade of whispering in afghani & pakistani ears by the same lobbyists have now turned part of afghanistan and pakistan against eachother… So it is that whispering of the serpents that all the sides need to stop listening to. Because that whispering of the lobbyists trying to create a afghanistan/pakistan conflict is what will cause ww3.
Sure Indian , Israeel ,Afghan & many other lobbies working
Unfortunately our security , foreign and intelligence affairs are controlled by incapable 12 pass fools so we are in trouble always .
The good ones are less in number and they are controlled by the internal lobbyists who are not pro pak.
The people holding departments have the same intelligence as displayed by the supporters of different political parties. The supporters who prefer to burn their own home intentionally if their favourite leader does not come to power. How could the pakistanis holding major offices handling foreign and intelligence affairs be any different? Everyone here supports their own leader for one greed or the other… or sheer stupidity. And in the absence of their preferred leadership, burn their own country by conspiring with external powers. I look at it as exactly the same scenario as the arab world and how it was divided in so many small countries… how could those Pakistanis act any different than common pakistanis? They are from the same public.
Because he is not just a playboy but the POTUS.
There is a hint of truth to it which is why I think it is hurting many posters in this thread. Forget afghanistan, but why did the army not clear out north waziristan until raheel shareef took over? Thousands of pakistanis died due to army inaction which makes me conclude that the army, like our politicians, doesn’t care about the common man. They get a lion share of Pakistan’s budget as well as US aid so, for starters, can’t they serve the interests of Pakistan? How is indoctrinating our kids in wahabism doing any good to our future generations? I guess that all these rulers forget that they will have to answer about all of this when they are dead.
As for Trump, I would expect that blunt talk from him and it is what inspired many trump supporters to vote for him. I even hear how he is real deal and not PC like other politicians at my office.
Aside from aid cut which is already happening, will they take away non-NATO ally status from Pakistan?
I don’t think that they can declare Pakistan a state sponsor of terror even if it is just due to the supply line that passes via karachi. Christine Fair had recommended that specific pakistani army and ISI officials should be UN and US sanctioned like how they did to hafiz saeed etc.
PS what is up with your constant avatar changes, mystique? Are you on an uncle hunting trip?
Haha no way dope ganger. Some public made alot of wrong assumptions from my old avatar so to clarify. And uncle hunting is out of question at this stage. Focusing on and working completely on my latest career.
Was reading your strictly political post with so much concentration. My phone was about an inch away from my eyes. Just when I was trying to make sense of your post about trump, pak army and all that, I read your comment about my avatar and I was like, “Did this guy really ask about my avatar???”…
What is wrong with what Trump said regarding Pakistan?
Is Pakistan not harboring Taliban and Haqqani newtork while they continue to make war against Afghanistan’s government?
An administration full of indian lobbyists, a mentally crazy president that is as anti-muslim as Modi is threatening Pakistan for various things should never be taken lightly.
But thats a proven failure of the foreign policy pundits which unfortunately has been in the hands of GHQ even during civilian era. They never could put the country in a better place, never could sell their policies to washington or anywhere else as much as their rivals have been doing. Its a proven fact that army generals cant run foreign policies or otherwise they’ll end up like North Korea.
Now what are the options? Fix your foreign policy ASAP and understand the situation very seriously and then do whatever it takes to keep the country safe. There is no point of heading into conflicts with either India or US or anyone else. Pakistan can only thrive during peace, not in the shadows of war.
They talked about private communications and many of those communications mean talk of serious consequences for individuals and their families like what happened to Gaddafi, the change of govt in Pakistan is aligned with shift in policy and the new govt will have to subscribe to eradicating terrorists, New mandate is on killing them and not trying to make sense to them. He has almost destroyed ISIS in a matter of months and same will happen to Taliban.
**Wrong …actually it was The Khan of Kalat with blessings of Then President Sikandar Mirza who sold the State of Kalat to the Shah of Iran and were in the process of recieving shipment of Gold that Pakistan Navy Captured on the coast of Gawader.
So Gen Ayub Khan took over and sent Sikandar Mirza packing!
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In such countries the military brass pledges allegiance to the US and they act as per the instructions. How quickly and quietly he went was a quite unusual.
Read up on the Annihilation campaign, Obama did not have the stomach for annihilation and the fighters went from one fallen city to another. Now they get surrounded and killed. Mad dog Matis was hired for a reason.
Since its peak in early 2015, ISIS has lost 78 per cent of its occupied areas in Iraq and 58 per cent in Syria.
In total, that’s around 27,000 square miles of territory, 8,000 of which has been taken since February of this year.
That has almost entirely stopped civilian displacements in the countries and seen thousands of people able to return to their homes, McGurk, who had the same role under Obama, said.
ISIS has also lost around 45 per cent of its control of Raqqa, the backwater Syrian city that became its nerve center and the capital of its supposed ‘Caliphate’.
Losing Raqqa altogether would strike a massive blow to the organization.
McGurk believes the continued success of the coalition is down to operational changes made by Trump.
In particular, McGurk said, the campaign has benefited from Trump’s decision to hand control over to his generals.
Delegating decisions to those with more experience on the ground has allowed for faster and more fluid reactions to changes in the theater of war, McGurk said.
