Pasha assured of greater Pak role in Afghan talks

[lem34]

How easily you guys generalize on these matters?

Extremist elements are friends of no one, be they from Pakistan or Afghanistan.

I hoped that the SWAT episode would have opened eyes of Pakistani people but on the basis of comments of your wife, it does not seems to be the case. Taliban are our people, my God [Facepalm intended].

Also, an Afghan will remain an Afghan in heart.

The Afghan solution should not be just favorable to Pakistan. It should also be favorable to Afghanistan. While we have some allies in Afghanistan, we also have made some sworn enemies in Afghanistan due to our unjust policies in the past for the Afghans.

I hope that our strategic planners have learned from their mistakes in the past. This time, the entire world has stakes in Afghanistan and not just Pakistan. This is why heated debates between US and Pakistani top brass have taken place and these high-profile visits are an indication of this.

The US wants to make us understand that while Pakistani role is important for Afghanistan; Pakistan will not get the right to exploit Afghanistan again. We cannot just PICK and CHOOSE among the Afghan groups to impose them on the entire Afghanistan like we did in the past.

We need to allow Afghan people to decide what they want and we need to respect their mandate. Our Afghan allies can ensure that our strategic interests are protected. However, those allies should be integrated with Afghan society.

If you hadnt realised part of that was consumption for pakistani baiters indians not for you

 

[lem34]

The USA will use any and all means to further its national interests, and the ISI/PA would do well to adopt a strategy that finds common gorund while preserving, or at least trying to preserve, Pakistani interest.

And I say this with the correct intentions: Those claiming that Pakistan should be free of the US, and other foreign influences, are CORRECT, but need to realize that it will take DECADES of HARD, PERSISTENT WORK. That time is surely not now.

And honest politicians

 

[Major Ram]

well you have to look to today....a lot of people made mistakes. Pakistan was absolutely no exception here.

I did not see this coming. No offence but this is the first time I'm looking at a Pakistani who is accepting that Pakistan made a mistake.

the Afghan outcome is inevitable.....we are working towards tilting the tides more in our favour. Bluntly put. What is in our favour is also in Afghanistan's favour; so it all works out in the end.

ideally at least

Yep, I hope everything woks out and we have a stable Afghanistan in near future.

 

[VCheng]

And honest politicians

"Honest Politician" is a well-recognized OXYMORON all over the world!

 

[muse]

Pasha’s success?

Sunday, July 17, 2011

In a rare move following months of increasing acrimony between Islamabad and Washington, the head of the Inter-Services Intelligence, Ahmad Shuja Pasha, made a brief visit to the US for top-level talks with acting CIA Director Michael Morrell, as well as other intelligence officials. Almost simultaneously, CIA’s Director-designate Gen David Petraeus met with COAS Gen Parvez Kayani in Pakistan. While the precise details of the exchanges have not been disclosed, officials from both sides have expressed satisfaction at the results of the talks and declared that intelligence cooperation between the jaded allies is back on track after the flurry of exchanges. The announcement made by the Chinese government to provide all kinds of assistance to Pakistan in the wake of the US decision to withhold Pakistan’s military assistance seems to have helped make Pasha’s visit a success.

What has Pakistan gained from the talks? Reports suggest that senior US officials have assured Pakistan of a greater role in the Afghan reconciliation process and emphasised that the US recognised its interests in Afghanistan and wanted it to play a larger role. Another important gesture is that the US has said it will avoid using the media to put pressure on Pakistan before sensitive talks. Around the same time that Pasha was meeting his counterparts in Washington, several senior US officials scrambled to drive home the point that even if security assistance may slow down, civilian assistance to Pakistan would remain intact. On the other hand, the US has also gained from the talks, since after Pasha’s visit, sources say that Pakistan is inching closer to releasing the imprisoned doctor who set up a fake vaccination programme for the CIA in Abbottabad to extract DNA from one of Bin Laden’s blood relatives. After Pasha’s visit, the official position towards the doctor seems to have softened. US officials have also suggested that the information sharing, which ceased after the Bin Laden operation, must be revived. As for the issue of more visas for US personnel, Washington must first agree to joint intelligence operations against suspected militants in Pakistan. Pakistan must insist on a framework to oversee the presence of Americans in Pakistan; a framework that binds Americans to work with, not against, Pakistani intelligence forces. It will become clearer in the months ahead whether Pakistan needs the US more or if it is the other way round. The answer, it is almost certain, will lie somewhere in the middle.

 

[Omar1984]

ISI chief Pasha should be very careful while dealing with the Americans. Sure they are going to promise the ISI chief everything that he wants to hear now, but when America gets what it wants from the ISI chief Uncle Sam will say ok now Afghanistan is a sovereign independent democratic nation, if it wants to invite more indians into Afghanistan to cause problems for Pakistan its their choice, anyways America would much rather have India as the power of Asia than China (Pakistan's best friend).

 

[jahangeer yousaf]

they'll tie sacks of it onto pigeons and hope they head in the right direction

kaboutar ja ja ja kaboutar ja ja ja pahlay pyar ki pahli wheat afghani ko day aa