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| US warns Pakistan | | Time to get rid of terrorism | | Sushil Vakil | 10/1/2011 11:08:04 PM |
| There is no denying the fact that Americans have, over the years winked at the allegations but recently Admiral Mike Mullen dropped all diplomatic niceties adopted after 9/11 and gave the Pakistanis a public slap at a US Senate hearing.
Apparently, Washington is under growing political pressure to take action against the Haqqani network after a spate of deadly attacks US officials have attributed to it.
As a matter of fact, regional tensions soared even higher when a suicide bomber killed Burhanuddin Rabbani, the former Afghan president who had headed efforts to secure a peace deal with the Taliban. The shocking assassination threatened to do even more to reverse a tentative thaw in perpetually dismal US-Pakistani ties a few months after Osama bin Laden was killed near Islamabad.
Evidently, tension halso been gaining momentum since the US joint chiefs chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen, said that Pakistan was exporting violent extremism to Afghanistan. The US believes Pakistan's spy agency is a long standing and covert supporter of the Haqqani group - a network of militant Islamic extremists blamed for a series of spectacular terror attacks, including the assault on the American embassy in Kabul.
Though the military alliance between the United States and Pakistan to fight Islamic terrorism was showing serious signs of strain but it came to front last week only when a US Senate committee voted to make economic and security aid to Pakistan conditional. The Senate Appropriations Committee decision reflected lawmakers' anger at Islamabad over militants who operate out of Pakistan and battle US troops in Afghanistan. As expected, the decision received strong resistance in Pakistan as the country wholly and solely depends upon it.
Tension has also been building momentum since the US joint chiefs chairman, Admiral Mike Mullen, said that Pakistan was exporting violent extremism to Afghanistan. The US believes Pakistan's spy agency is a long standing and covert supporter of the Haqqani group - a network of militant Islamic extremists blamed for a series of spectacular terror attacks, including the assault on the American embassy in Kabul.
While responding to US allegations Pakistan Prime Ministers Yusuf Geelani has rejected his country's complicity with Haqqani or of proxy war. "Pakistan cannot be held responsible for the security of US/NATO/ISAF forces in Afghanistan," Gilani said. "It is as much the responsibility of the Afghan National Army, NATO and ISAF not to allow such cross-border militancy."
After years of efforts to cajole, coax and threaten Pakistan into cracking down on a host of militants operating from within its borders failed to bear fruit, US officials are exasperated.
No doubt, Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has denied all US assertions by saying that the United States should stop blaming his country for regional instability and particularly ISI's role in Afghanistan but the fact remains that behind every terrorist attack in Afghanistan or India there are footprints of Jihadis trained and supported by Pak army and its wings only.
It is also an accepted fact that Pakistan is the ally of the terrorists and not the US. While it needs US for money and international reputation, it also needs the terrorists for its nefarious goals. The terror attacks on Mumbai hotels that killed more than 160 people is a pointer in this direction. These terrorists were infact created, groomed and used for Pakistan's own agendas. Pakistan has an evil eye on Afghanistan and India. Upon remaining unchecked for years, Pakistan is now fancying its chances to play global terror in the name of Jihad. Let us not forget that Pakistan was the main factor in Soviet defeat in Afghanistan and it would be again the main force behind US/NATO defeat in Afghanistan.
Under the pretext of neighbourly relations Pakistan is interfering in Afghanistan and supporting terrorist attacks carried out by Taliban or any other Jihadi group. Moreover, Pakistani spy agencies are training thousands of terrorists who are carrying terrorist operations in the whole world. Terrorists are the unofficial army of Pakistan. If US is really eager to put an end to terrorism it should stop giving money to Pakistan as the aid given for operation against terrorists is spent on the production of terrorism and extremism. Rightly, terrorism needs rigorous response and not cajoling and coaxing. |
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