Monday, November 28, 2011

Pakistan has had enough

The assumption that it has no choice but to obey America may turn out to be a dire strategic error
Aftermath of NATO's helicopters attack at Pakistani border checkpost in Mohmand Agency
Protesters in Karachi burn an effigy representing America.

Readers of Dawn newspaper, commenting online, were in no doubt how the Pakistani government should respond to Saturday's killing by US forces of 24 soldiers on Pakistan's side of the Afghan border. "Pakistan should acquire anti-aircraft defence systems ... so that in the future Pakistan can give Nato forces a proper reply," said Ali. "This is outrageous," wrote another reader, Zia Khan. "We should cut off all ties with the US. As long as we are getting US [anti-terror] aid ... Pakistan will be attacked in such a manner. They can never be trusted." Another, Obaid, turned his wrath on the Pakistani authorities: "Our self-centred establishment with their fickle loyalties can't even demand that the killers be tried in a neutral court ... What is the ability of our armed forces? If they can't repel or intercept an attack of this intensity, then what's their purpose? This is not a time to get mad. It's time to get even."

Read more-The Guardian

1 comment:

  1. The killing fields of Pakistan


    http://www.dawn.com/2011/08/26/the-killing-fields-of-pakistan.html

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