Hare & Hounds
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at one level, nurturing these forces, while, at another level, acting against them under external constraint. This policy of running with the hare and hunting with the hound has exposed Pakistan to accusations of duplicity and double-faced policies by its western supporters,
Curiously - the Americans/NATO undertook the EXACT same policy. "Good" vs. "bad" taleban phenomenon is very much something they had adopted as well. Proof of that is when the ISI arrested Mullah Baradar after armed agents tore his door down during a raid. It was Karzai and certain policy circles in America that raised a hue and cry over it since they felt arresting this man would derail peace-talks between Karzai the puppet of Kabul and the taleban.
So in that sense - there was "duplicity" on alll sides, if the word duplicity must be used in this context
With less leverage in an undesirable environment I'd say we played our cards well
Billions well invested, In schools, colleges, Hospitals and roads, unlike pakistan which invested in other assets which I wont mention..
It's okay don't be shy.
--Most successful professionals in todays Afghan society studied in Pakistan. They dominate the work place not only in government offices, international organizations and NGOs but also as professionals, businessmen, and skilled and semi-skilled workers.
--Afghan graduates from Pakistani universities are paid significantly higher salaries than graduates from any other neighboring country.
--Pakistan is further providing 2,000 fully funded graduate and post-graduate scholarships to Afghan students in its institutions of higher learning over the next four years. The placements are being made in ten different fields from medicine to IT to agriculture. The first batch of the students under this programme had already left for Pakistan early this year.
--Providing consistent and across the board education and capacity building opportunities is Pakistans greatest gift to the people of Afghanistan and it is considered so innate that it is hardly mentioned in any discourse in Kabul. Of course the propaganda artists (with their vested interests) hide this "shameful" statistic from their youth
--Another important area where Pakistan has been of unlimited help to the people of Afghanistan is healthcare. Afghans are provided free medical care in Pakistans government hospitals, a facility that is not even available to a chunk of our own nationals!!
--Over 90 percent of Afghans who seek medical treatment abroad visit Pakistan. Most of the Afghan patients opt for free treatment at government or philanthropic healthcare facilities. Moneyed Afghan patients are welcomed by many countries but for their less fortunate compatriots only Pakistan has kept its doors opened.
--40 percent of patients in Peshawars major government hospitals and 11 percent patients in tertiary hospitals all over Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province are Afghans; over 50 percent patients in major government hospitals in Quetta are Afghan nationals; and two Pakistani philanthropic hospitals perform free eye surgeries on about 30,000 Afghans every year.
--Since 2001, Pakistan has also played an active, but unpublicized, role in Afghanistans reconstruction and providing humanitarian assistance.
Following are some of the major assistance projects which Pakistan had completed, or about to complete:
1. A state of the art Allama Iqbal Faculty at Kabul University is completed.
2. As a separate project, the Government of Pakistan is furnishing the Iqbal Faculty building.
3. The building of Sir Syed Science Faculty Block is near completion in Nangarhar University, Jalalabad.
4. The structure of Liaqat Ali Khan Engineering Faculty in Balkh University, Mazar-e-Sharif is almost complete.
5. Rehman Baba High School in Kabul was completed, where 1200 students are currently enrolled.
6. As another project on the same campus, hostel for 1000 students is under construction.
7. Donated buses for the students of Kabul University.
8. A sprawling Jinnah Hospital Complex with ten towers is under construction in Kabul. It will provide the most modern health facility in the country.
9. Civil work on Nishter Kidney Hospital in Jalalabad is completed. Afghan doctors, paramedics and technicians to run this facility are also trained in Pakistan.
10. A 200 bed Naib Aminullah Khan Logari Hospital is under construction in Logar.
11. Donated mobile field hospitals and ambulances to several provinces.
12. Construction of Torkham-Jalalabad Road in eastern Afghanistan is completed.
13. On request of the Afghan Government, Pakistan has undertaken to convert Torkham-Jalalabad road in a dual carriage highway. About 60 percent work is already completed on this project.
14. Built three intra-city roads in Jalalabad.
15. Provided earth-moving and road building machinery to various provinces.
16. Donated fifty buses for public transportation.
17. Provided cash assistance to the Afghan Government.
18. Distributed food packages to the needy and school supplies to students in large numbers.
Several other major projects, including two Eye Hospitals, Limb Centre at Badakhshan, two Nuclear Medical Centers in Kabul and Jalalabad, are either ongoing or in the pipeline.
As far as saleh is concerned, he is still in better situation than the ex-president of pakistan whom he openly criticized...
he lives in hiding in Panjsher and only leaves town when the Hudson Institute or some third-rate conference takes place for him to peddle his usual lines
a former warlord turned intelligence chief who is now a peasant in hiding. Yeah, sounds like a great situation to me
