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West shifted the blame on Pakistan after failure in Afghanistan, says ex-NWFP Guv
South East Asia News.Net
Thursday 27th March, 2008 (ANI)
Lahore, Mar 27 : After failing in tackling the Taliban and al Qaeda in Afghanistan for several years, the West, particularly the US and the UK, shifted the blame on Pakistan and put more and more pressure on it to tackle terrorism, said former NWFP governor Lt Gen (R) Ali Muhammad Jan Orakzai.
He said that America and Britain's "failure" in Afghanistan sparked a wave of violence in Pakistan. "The West has failed in Afghanistan and so has shifted the blame to Pakistan," Orakazai, a former aide of President Pervez Musharraf, said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday
His remarks came amid increasing US concerns that Pakistan's counter-terrorism co-operation may wane as the new coalition government looks set to clip the power of Musharraf, or possibly oust him.
Orakzai had resigned earlier this year, after he asked to resign as governor following brokering a controversial peace agreement in North Waziristan, the report said.
Orakzai said US demands for Pakistan "to do more, more and more" had led to the military bombing its own citizens in the border Tribal Areas, and prompting a "war of resistance".
He added that the threat posed by Al Qaeda in the Tribal Areas had been "greatly exaggerated" by the West, and the military strikes had caused many innocent deaths and a lot of collateral damage. "There was a lot of resentment. People wanted revenge for the loss of their loved ones. It snowballed," he said further.
US officials said the peace agreement in North Waziristan had led to a threefold increase in cross-border infiltration of militants from Pakistan to Afghanistan and allegedly leant on Musharraf to remove him, it added.
"Nobody has said don't fight terrorism. But if the US keeps asking us to do more, Pakistan will be in a critical position," Orakzai said and added: "So leave us alone for some time and let us give the political solution a chance."
Pakistan People's Party Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari and Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz chief Nawaz Sharif have both stated that the new government would "redefine" Pakistan's stance on the US-led "war on terror".
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Amanullah
03-27-08, 03:00 PM |
The West will continue to fail
The US and NATO have pursued arrogant militarism against the Afghan people calling them “terrorist” or some other name justifying their acts. This is typical, try to demonize a person or a people, or a government and then cary out any act of violanse against them and tell the world, “the world community” demands this kind of response. It is the politicians in the West that committing these acts many of them most people consider as a crime against the innocent ones. Now we have another arrogant one in the person of Sorkozy of France who says “we have to win the war in Afghanistan at any costs”. Look the way he treated the Muslims in his own country,abused, unemployed and discriminated against.He wants to bring his thrash to Afghanistan. We are certain the Afghan people will have a good response. Our advice for him and Bush and the British and the Canadians is simple,look at the history of Afghanistan as recent as twenty years ago when the Russians were trying to do the same with a bigger force. Then, change your policies and attitudes and let peace work and let the regional people solve any problems there are. The West brings problems and then blames others for failures. This is also true in Afghanistan and the Afghan run satellite TV stations are full of the stories-listen and learn. The people themselves will take care of terrorism and most likely the problem will disappear for most will not support random acts of terror any where.
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Midnight159
03-27-08, 09:38 AM |
West shifted the blame on Pakistan after failure in Afghanistan, says ex-NWFP Guv
Chastity
The Summers flower is to the summer sweet,
Though to itself it only live and die;
But if that flower with base infection meet
The basest weed outbraves his dignity;
For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;
Lillies that fester, smell far worst than weeds.
Shakespeare
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