Pakistan hands over a key base in northern most territories of Pakistan to US for ground operation. Where Saudis and Turks or Egyptians backed out, we stood up and gave US beyond expectations, this is the fourth base which US is using, ahead of anyone wildest imaginations. Some think this is going no where I tell you this is going to get you the head of Osama and his cohorts plus 10,00 fundos at the heart of this crime against humanity. James Laker a close friend of friend who was accompanying Powell to Pakistan called my friend in Lahore and told him. ‘Thank you Pakistan,’ he told him that the nations who were our closest allies backed out but Pakistan stood up and delivered, he said we shut up on Pakistan for ten years but it is the only nation that is delivering today after UK, France, Germany and all others are bystanders they will join when Osama will be captured or killed in next few days.
That was my point from day one we will deliver. According to Laker US could not do much and would be delayed if Pakistan would be ambivalent like Saudis? The whole propaganda about our nation that we are a failed, miserable, and a beggar state has fallen on the face of our critics, because when it mattered the most we did where everyone backed out or did not have the guts to do it. It is on the occasions that nations are made or broken.
In a separate development and in a move to wipe out the fundamentalism from the army not only the top brass has been removed but also 28 Brigadiers with questionable links and tendencies that are radical tendencies have been retired quietly or moved to insensitive positions. 1000 more commissioned officers are being made redundant in an exercise to clean up the radicalism within the army. To say we were responsible for Taliban is so untrue and so unfair, it was US who created them as a force to deal against their arch enemy in 80’s the communists, now old commies are friends but Russian cannot do much they can’t even control the terrorist infested Chechnya. If US needed one nation to deliver that was Pakistan and that they got and they will finish the job very very quickly.
To day beign Friday was supose to be again another day of showdown with the government, big protests were called, happy to report that Dunkin sales went up by another 14% from the plus 35% since 11th sept and out side the mosques people showed no interest with the Mullahs. The protest have fizzled.
The end game has started, every specialised unit is attached with Pakistan key SSG group officers the unit that belongs to the President the dictator who is more benevolent in our region than many a democracies. The two brigades from Cherat has been moved to support Delta force marking special forces on ground are Pakistan army man to man providing intelligence and cover against enemy assaults, they know the terrain and helping their US counter parts quietly in an exercise that will always be the most secretive contribution form nation to another.
and shoulder to shoulder once again the old allies are doing which no one ever imagined, the friendships never die, we don’t sit on the laps of USSR and have rendezvous with Brezhnev, we had defined our future since our independence and today are proud to pay our dues to US in time of their needs, Of course al this nonsense about our failing state is nothing but sour grapes as Laker told my friends that this country has more US icons than many a nations in East. It is not a clash of civilisation it is rather unity of civilisations where a Muslim Pakistan comes and provides what is required from them, Taliban was a folly of US-Pakistan forces they exactly know how to take them out and this end game will see a lot of stability for my country that I am happy about and will bring Pakistan back in front of the nations where it belongs. Without our radical baggage we will progress.
We can address our poverty, our education and our rebuilding the hot pursuit of removal of pockets of poverty and pockets of deprivation will be our top priority and hopefully a radical mullah free Pakistan will help no one else but Pakistan the most. We have no pretensions of bigness or greatness we understand our poverty and out feelings, we are critical of our action unlike may of my friends who see no wrongs in their backyard, I hope that our self critical posture and our positive actions will hit those the most who thought and out of this Musharraf will be dead and dragged on street and Pakistan will implode. I hope these things in bad taste will not become part of some who really feel so left out. |
