Aid to Pakistan : some random thoughts

Submitted by Jaisingh Thakur (India), Jul 29, 2007 at 23:47

It has been quite some time now since Pakistan has been milking the U.S.taxpayers of their hard-earned money under the pretext of extending cooperation in their war on terror. The U.S. policy makers, gullible as they are, have accepted this expression of support without for a moment pausing to ask the question : " who, in the first place, is responsible for all this terror in the entire region.?"

Were they to pose this most important question to knowledgeable, well informed sources, they would have immediately known that it was the Pakistani army, with its Wahhabi outlook, and its evil creation, the ISI which is primarily responsible for promoting terror by proliferating terrorist outfits on its soil.. The Pakistani army has a two-fold objective: its immediate and short term goal is to use Afghanistan as a base in a future war with India, at a moment of its choosing, which would possibly be when it perceives the leftists in the Indian Central govt.at their strongest and hence the Indian State at its weakest point.

This war, as history shows us, will be raked up on the non-issue of Kashmir, and may even see the various missiles tried and tested by the army in blatant contravention of the MTCR regime, being put into operation. The price to be paid will be inexorably high but as an Indian, I, personally am fully prepared to pay it , only subject to the condition that the entire Indian subcontinent is for ever rid of the islamist menace. The long term and more sinister goal of the Pakistan army seems to be the extension of Pakistani influence to the Central Asian republics. This would open for them the doors to economic prosperity by means of unlimited energy supplies.

Policy-makers in the U.S. would do well to reflect on the reasons why Osama continues to elude them inspite of having poured millions into his pursuit. Without State patronage at various points of time, this would not have been possible. We have been given to learn that Osama suffers from renal problems and that dialysis is a must for him at frequent periods. Is it ever possible for a wanted terrorist of the stature of Osama bin Laden, to receive such medical treatment surreptitiously without anyone in Pakistan coming to know about it ? In my view, someone at the topmost level in Pakistan obviously has a hand in this entire episode. It is this hand that is sheltering Osama, and also using the weapons of the U.S.A. to strike at the allied forces in Afghanistan. The message is clear : ENOUGH OF THE CARROTS TO MUSHARRAF, NOW OUT WITH THE STICKS.

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