Pakistan's Dangerous Anti-American Game

[ashok321]

Last week a Pakistani court sentenced Shakil Afridi—the doctor who helped the CIA track Osama bin Laden last year—to 33 years in prison after he was accused of treason or possible ties with militants. In response, the U.S. Congress docked a symbolic $33 million from Pakistan's annual aid budget, or $1 million for every year of the doctor's sentence.

U.S. anger is understandable. In the year since bin Laden was discovered in the garrison town of Abbottabad, Pakistan has done little to dispel the widespread belief that the world's most wanted terrorist was sheltered by elements in the country's army and its spy agency, the Inter-Services Intelligence. Nobody has been punished for aiding bin Laden. Neither has the rogue nuclear-weapons scientist A.Q. Khan or Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, of the terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba.

As U.S.-Pakistani relations continue to nosedive, the risks for Islamabad run deeper than a mere PR disaster. For the first time since the country came into being in 1947, Pakistan is in danger of being seen as implacably hostile to the West. Should the U.S. switch from a policy of engagement to active containment, Pakistan's economic and diplomatic problems, already acute, may become unmanageable.

Sadanand Dhume: Pakistan's Dangerous Anti-American Game - WSJ.com

 

[hawx]

survival of the fittest and we all know who will survive at the end...............

 

[explorer9]

survival of the fittest and we all know who will survive at the end...............

May i know who????????

 

[hawx]

May i know who????????

hint :- the one who has almost 1 trillion $ annual military budget.................

 

[Areesh]

May i know who????????

Taliban.

 

[genmirajborgza786]

hint :- the one who has almost 1 trillion $ annual military budget.................

its actually $711 billion & not 1 trillion

List of countries by military expenditures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[ashok321]

its actually $711 billion & not 1 trillion

List of countries by military expenditures - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It does not matter at all......you cant kick the US to the curb, because it prints and exports USD.
It takes just four cents to print 100 USD bill.
Now do your math.

 

[explorer9]

hint :- the one who has almost 1 trillion $ annual military budget.................

few hundred billions less than that & they are messed up in the graveyard of super powers

 

[RuheTag]

Pakistan is not playing any dangerous anti-US game. It is merely trying to protect it interests in the region. Sentencing Shakil Afridi is an internal matter of Pakistan since the man worked for a foreign intelligence agency without government permission and it is important to send a signal to any foreign agency and their local agents that such activities without government knowledge will not tolerated and dealt with iron hands.

Nobody with a working mind in Pakistan wants a conflict with the US. The problems with the US are because of difference and mistrust over how to design the post-withdrawel Afghanistan. This failure of cooperation is to be blamed on both governments. I would blame more Pakistan leadership, civil and military in this. Once these difference over Afghanistan are dealt-over, the current conflict will automatically die down as it is neither's interest to have conflict.

 

[kumarkumar1867]

Pakistan is in mess. It may have not really sheltered OBL as it claims.

But things are totally changed with OBL's dead.

If it doesnt sue the doctor who helped the raid which killed Osama Bin Laden, they will have rise in terrorist strikes on its soil also many muslim countries will get wrong signals about Pakistan's intentions & policies.If it goes against the network which aided Osama again same will be the effect.

US should understand its long term ally's condition & act accordingly for peace in South Asia!

 

[TaimiKhan]

hint :- the one who has almost 1 trillion $ annual military budget.................

The same had huge military budgets during Korean war & Vietnam war, but still it got kicked out with huge losses and humiliation which can't be erased to this day.

Its not about military budgets.

 

[rashtriya.rifles]

sentencing that doc is like serving your ego... obviously ISI was spanked heavy by OBL raid but searching for a scapegoat is total shamelessness.

 

[RuheTag]

. obviously ISI was spanked heavy by OBL raid but searching for a scapegoat is total shamelessness.

amazing how much Indians love to capitalize to any such importunity to attack/defame ISI.

 

[Invincible INDIAN]

hint :- the one who has almost 1 trillion $ annual military budget.................

They could not win in Afghan, how would with pak?

 

[TaimiKhan]

sentencing that doc is like serving your ego... obviously ISI was spanked heavy by OBL raid but searching for a scapegoat is total shamelessness.

Plz provide evidence to your allegation or shut up.