I have tackled this dis-information yesterday the facts are quite different, this is absolute garbage more facts I have learned are. These are facts. US would have targeted Pakistan not based their entire strategy of 'ground and aerial' from that country.
1.Did the US ask for changes of this kind?
If Mehmood was involved he would not be in US on 11th on invitation of CIA, and he would not have been sent back when he arranged to get SSG's by 13th on our soil. This is absolute disgusting piece of yellow journalism to destroy the policy and turnaround of Pakistan that no one expected. Our enemies thought that the target will be Pakistan but US intelligence knew that Talibans are independent and Pakistan used them for their own survival via a vis Southern border.
On Sept 11 Mehmood was in Washington, a routine meeting with CIA and ISI chief to discuss the issues around Osama. When General Mahmood was in the US, he met with all the top brass there, including the top politicians, Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)…all of them. The news over here was that they gave him a thumping approval. If anything, the Americans would be a little apprehensive about why Mahmood has been sidelined, and why he decided to call it a day. The Americans would probably be happier if he continued as ISI chief. He came back to Pakistan and tried to implement the turnaround of policy that was not very effective, US has no problems but rather are working hand in glove right now with CIA to buy the Taliban leaders inside the hinterland.
2.If you want me to speculate, I will speculate. Probably, the ISI was unable to persuade the Taliban to bend. In that sense, the ISI was the Taliban handler. Clearly, the person who was heading the ISI was responsible for the inability to rein in the Taliban. And there the chief, I mean Musharraf, seemed to have differed with his ISI director.
3.So you do not expect any dissensions within the army ranks, despite the sweeping changes?
Let me say that I do not expect any changes in the army to lead to a different situation. The army is united, the army is firmly behind its chief, and I do not expect any challenge to General Musharraf's authority. |
