Actually it was more like Benizer Bhutto's government that saw the rise of the Taliban. You see the problem with these guys is that they dont have any moral stance, they dont have any ideology other than staying in power and criticizing the other guy when they are not in power. Like all the stuff Bhutto used to say about being the only Pakistani leader who is the enemy of terrorists and the ISI and all that, she was the one in power when Pakistan sponsored the Taliban.
Like in America, there are the republicans and the democrats, and both have different ideologies and visions on how they want to see their country. There is a constant tug of war and therefore there is balance and merits of both the ideologies become self-evident. America then treads a relatively balanced path in the long run. Both sorts of people get to see their leaders in calling shots at some point and there is no disillusionment.
But people like Sharif and Bhutto, they'd say anything they need to get power and change it the next day. Sharif says he will do a better job fighting terrorists when he meets western people, and in Pakistani rallies he tells everyone that Musharraf and the Army are fools for 'fighting Americas war'. Same thing with the religious parties, they claimed Musharraf to be a savior right after the coup just like they did with Zia, and now they both become vile military dictators who over threw a democratic and ‘popular’ governments. So there is no Islamic Vs Secular spectrum like there should be in any country, no right wingers that defend the national security with very high regard and the left wingers that take a more pacifist view on things... There is just these guys.
During the Soviet war the religious parties were absolutely thrilled that we were helping the Mujahideen, but now they say Pakistan Army made these ‘daemons’ and is therefore getting what it deserves (we are not to blame despite the fact that we ruled NWFP and Balochistan all this time).
Nawaz Sharif comes to Pakistan and tells people that look the west is cutting off aid to Pakistan because Musharraf is an idiot, but fact is that when he and Imran Khan go to meet congress men and senators, they are the ones who positively insist that Pakistan should have its aid cut because only they can produce better results in the WoT.
So you see these guys are good for nothing. They have no loyalty, no vision and no nationalism.
Kasrkin rightly said.
well yes but i say this time we should be more careful and more selfish while dealing with these "players in their own right".
