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>>Yet Pakistani military activity against Al Qaeda on its soil has been paltry.
This statement is not accurate. Pakistan has lost more than 4000 of its soldiers. 30,000 Tribals have been killed, and more than 300,000 tribals have been left homeless. Gitmo is full of people captures and deported from Pakistan. The destruction and damage to the Pakistani economy and the Pakistani psyche is so colossal that it runs into at least a Trillion Dollars. The loss calculated by the US DOD right after 911 was $20 per annum.
To the contrary, US Aid to Pakistan has been paltry. The US has refused to provide Pakistan, and most specifically the Frontier Constabulary and the Frontier corps with Predator drones, 100,000 M-16s, Armored Vehicles, satellites, choppers, night vision glasses, boots, uniforms, helmets, IED detection devices, bomb sniffing contraptions, bullet proof vests, or even jeeps to traverse the rugged terrain.
The US Aid given to Pakistan even if compared to Afghanistan's $15 Billion in the first five years and $40 Billion pledged now --is pennies on the Dollar. US Aid is wasted. Half of it is spent in the US, another 25% is wasted on US Embassy favored NGO administration and logistics. In the best of circumstances, 25% of US Aid has the potential to reach the victims. Most of that is lost to the corruption of US and Pakistani officials.
The US has lost the war in Afghanistan. Blaming Pakistan is not only an admission of defeat, it reminds the world of the blame on Cambodia, and Laos after the defeat in Vietnam was written on the wall.
Most of the US strikes have been on wrong targets. The wink wink nod, nod strategy continues to produce victims in Pakistan--where the extremists find willing volunteers. It not just having permission to bomb that matters--the collateral damage is blood and gore which when spilt causes problems for the world. U.S. attacks on Pakistan counterproductive: US Think tanks: (http://rupeenews.com/2008/10/02/us-attacks-on-p... US hubris of not appreciating the sacrifices of Pakistan, and deprecating the value of the help creates unnecessary anti-Americanism which causes terror not only for Pakistan but also around the world.
Editor Rupee News
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US has been critical of the negotiations Pakistan had with militants in Waziristan and
on the other hand they are officially talking to Talibans with mediation of Saudia Arabia,
revealed by Observer few days back. In this regard, there is recent statement by poppet
president Karzai just yesterday that Mullah Omer is his brother and he should come back
to Kabul and talk to us.
Pressure on Pakistan is being put to just make it an escape goat by shifting the gravity of
war from Afghanistan to Pakistan 's tribal areas by making more drone strikes so that tribesmen
would get provoke to fight against Pakistan Army with help of Taliban and Al-Qaeda. To make
this happen at faster speed, state of the art weaponary and communication system is being
provided to the militants in FATA and Balouchistan by India under the nose of US.