subject: The Pakistanis Rebuke Afghanistan [print this page] This article is really just to point out the fact that the Pakistanis rebuking the Afghans is akin to the pot calling the kettle black. They have been complicit in just about every type of diabolical plot against the US than you can imagine. They say one thing publicly and do something completely different in private. They do these things while they are pocketing billions of dollars of US aid money.
If it were not for the aid that they are getting from the United States I dont believe that the Pakistanis would even bother to attempt to put up a front. In their latest escapade they are calling on Afghanistan to refrain from playing politics following Afghan allegations of Pakistani involvement in recent high-profile attacks.
The thing about that is that the Afghans are not playing politics they are telling the truth.
Afghanistan's intelligence agency has said that the assassination of the country's top peace envoy, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, was planned in Pakistan and carried out by a Pakistani citizen. I personally have no doubts that this is true. Several US government officials have recently come out and blamed the Pakistanis directly in terror attacks and other operations against the US and NATO. They wouldnt dare to make such allegations unless they had the evidence there to prove them.
Islamabad has denied the allegations and offered to cooperate with the probe of Rabbani's killing. On Thursday, Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Tehmina Janjua urged Afghanistan to stop making such accusations. She told reporters in Islamabad that Afghan officials should demonstrate maturity and responsibility and refrain from political grandstanding. I believe that she has sense enough to know that she is endorsing a bald faced lie when she does this, but all governments realize the power of propaganda and use it as a valuable weapon.
The Pakistanis have yet to offer explanations for many of the things that they have been doing to sabotage NATO in the war on terror as it occurs in Afghanistan at this time.
First lets look at the fact that the vast majority of high ranking al-Qaeda leaders who have been killed by the US drone program have been killed in Pakistan. On that note they have yet to explain how Osama bin Laden could live there safe and secure for such a long period of time and such comfortable living conditions. On top of all of this he lived near a Pakistani military installation. I dont believe that this is remotely possible without some deep complicity high up in the Pakistani government.
Lets also look at the fact that terrorists have operated back and forth across the border between the two companies with impunity. The Pakistani government has been extremely slow to do anything about it at all and will not allow NATO troops to cross its border when they are chasing the terrorists out of Pakistan.
The relationship between the US and Pakistan is nothing more than a marriage of convenience. We need to use their resources in the sense that we need to use their overland transportation routes to resupply troops in Afghanistan, but we know that if not for the aid that they receive from us they would turn their backs in a heartbeat.Military Ring Express
