You are too young and have a short memory here on PDF. I was a company grade USAF officer in the old US Embassy in Karachi 1963-65 and am fully aware of both the truth of history inside and around Pakistan and of the fabrications then and since then to pretend otherwise.
My remarks are here reinterated. If you read since 911 DAWN, THE FRONTIER POST, THE LAHORE TIMES, as well as my writings in the Lahore, Punjab University Alternate Solutions Institute, as well as my support of JKLF alternative plan known as the Andorran Model to resolve Kashmir, over a period of many years, perhaps a hundred or more years, with many, many peaceful Confidence Building Measures, you might understand my fact based background knowledge and experience in and since outside of Pakistan, to include as a former NYC international banking officer in the Asia Section, which included all the Subcontinent, as well as Japan, Korean, Australia, etc, etc.
You might run my moniker, American Eagle, and read the 3 or 4 SMITHSONIAN articles in THE COLD WAR TIMES internet edition on line, copied onto PDF, to understand my experiences inside Paksitan, etc. I was wounded being in the right place at the wrong time in the Rann of Kutch end of January, 1965, which is one article's focus.
You are young and your response is clearly misplaced as to who I am and what I know.
Denial and blame has simply gotten Pakistan between the rock and the hard place. Look for hard public evidence soon that bin Laden's mansion was also used as a site for outlawed Pak militants offshoots of al Qaida who have since the mid-2000s been used to stir up murder, trouble and mayhem inside Kashmir.
A major mistake is for either Pakistan or India to think that "all Kashmirs" want to be part of either nation. The Andorran Model addresses this semi0indepence goal of the grassroots Kashmiris, so Paksitan officialdom needs to keep on keeping on in that direction, Andorran Model, as former President Musharraf had started to do and which President Zardari has since tried to and to some extent has resume doing.
Tells all tells me, and you, if you are reading this long posting, that some in the Pakistan Military, which owns and controls the ISI, are on a tangent all their own to ignore reality, sanity and saving the what is now Pakistan (excluding PAK and IAK as well as Chinese AK) remainder of Paksitan be trying to serve the needs of the grassroots people who continue to live in misery, unemployment, poor housing, poor health non-support, you name it.
Meanwhile, India has become a very competitive world recognized democratic economy, while Paksitan lives in the retared past to try to keep the people in dark and mislead them up blind alleys with bin Laden, Kashmir, and other junk issues that do nothing to solve the problem there.
Finally it is true that the 1980s had the West making some bad choices to oppose the USSR, which was a real threat to us all back then. Don't forget the Russians first allied with the Nazis, then the Nazis broke their treaty of allience so the USSR allied with the West. Pakistan has quisodix alliances with China, which nation would genuinely like to help build the economy of Paksitan (and they care not about democracy). China has funded building the Port of Quadar, which can be a great economic engine in and of itself.
What may never be but will speed up saving the economy and nation of Paksitan for the long term is for Pakistan to have a revivied 1950 Constitution which makes it a secular, not a religious, nation. No one denies the majority religion is Islam, but a peaceful Islam is what is needed not the Wahabbi generated trash that came after the 1980s.
A major problem some believe are the 1980s Afghan refugee camps inside Paksitan, which have been larged funded thru the UN and related agencies. Yet these largely Pakhtuns are the blood kin of the FATA and related Pak side of Durand Line Pakistani Pakhtuns, and all knew each other as family before the USSR invastion of Afghanistan. That is a messy topic revolving around, as you surely know, the wish for a separate Pakhtun nation free of both Afghanistan and Paksitan, another impratical tribalist discriminatory racist thought focused scheme.
