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Just ignore it for now.Hey Asim and Taimi,
What is happening to the post ranking mechanism???
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Just ignore it for now.Hey Asim and Taimi,
What is happening to the post ranking mechanism???
What would be interesting is if this time around they'd hand him over to the US. I believe a person of this level is more of an enemy of Pakistan (then Afghanistan and then the US) and should be interrogated, tried and sentenced within Pakistan.finally some good news , now i hope both authorities can put this capture to good use for them selves and there progress in wot .
Well atleast now the people who keep accusing Pakistan of harboring the Afghani Talibs should Shut up as this news can put a stop to all of the crap.
This "peace" deal wasn't a failure of Pakistani intelligence; it was a failure of Pakistani governance. How poorly did the Pakistani government serve the people of Swat that so many were willing to give the Taliban a try, hoping it would be an improvement?No one here can claim to know the complete truth so i would suggest that all stop speculating so as to call it intelligence failure.
Here comes another fanboy low on knowledge and high on patriotism.
Is Gen Pasha ex ISI Chief or the serving one and this is what he said.
For any turnaround, the Pakistani state needs to initiate a radical course correction. The state cannot neutralize the insurgency in FATA or elsewhere within the existing ideological paradigms, articulated eloquently by ISI chief Lt. Gen. Ahmed Shuja Pasha, who described Taliban leader Baitullah Mehsud - the Pakistan Army's most relentless tormentor - as a "true patriot". Shuja Pasha also defended the Taliban in an interview with Der Spiegel, stating: "Shouldn't they be allowed to think and say what they please? They believe that jihad is their obligation. Isn't that freedom of opinion?"
The government of Pakistan served the people of Pakistan very well in attempting negotiations and enacting a comprehensive negotiated settlement with the TTP-Swat, because that is exactly what the overwhelming majority of the people of Pakistan wanted, not realizing the true nature of the Taliban.This "peace" deal wasn't a failure of Pakistani intelligence; it was a failure of Pakistani governance. How poorly did the Pakistani government serve the people of Swat that so many were willing to give the Taliban a try, hoping it would be an improvement?
Unless you can conclusive show that the PA/ISI knew where these individuals were all that time, there is no dissemblance and denial.And the eight years of denials and dissemblance before this?
Quetta Shura No Longer Poses A Threat: Ahmad Mukhtar-DAWN Dec. 11, 2009
After years of denial that the Quetta Shura didn't exist we awake one morning to read its been DESTROYED. Sure. Well at least it exists, correct?
Since this story I've been told at this board
1. Mukhtar was ill
2. Mukhtar was drunk
3. Mukhtar meant the TTP not the Quetta Shura (as though he doesn't know the difference in either nor where S. Waziristan versus Balochistan might be)
Now if a grand lie has been spun on this topic for eight years despite all that forty plus other nations in Afghanistan have insisted otherwise, what else might you have been lied about?
Was that a double negative in the last line? You can beat this drum based on a one liner in Dawn all you want S-2, but as the above comments indicate (Mukhtar is stumbling over his words all over the place) , and as Prime Minister Gillani has since reiterated, the Quetta Shura does not exist.In an exclusive interview with a private TV channel, Federal Defence Minister Ahmad Mukhtar said the security forces have taken on the Quetta Shura and have damaged it to such an extent that it no longer poses any threat.
When asked about any arrest, he said: “I am sure the Pakistan army is on job and trying to locate those who are enemies of Pakistan.
We have finished them so that they don’t fight with us and create problem for us,” he said.
Responding to another question about allegation of US regarding existence of Taliban Shura in Quetta, he said:
“We have not any real reason not to believe that.”
Quetta Shura exists: Mukhtar | Pakistan | News | Newspaper | Daily | English | Online
This "peace" deal wasn't a failure of Pakistani intelligence; it was a failure of Pakistani governance. How poorly did the Pakistani government serve the people of Swat that so many were willing to give the Taliban a try, hoping it would be an improvement?
We're getting off-topic. For Afghanistan and the coalition, the arrest of the Taliban's top commander is very good news, of course. What has been the reaction on the streets of Pakistan to this?
What would be interesting is if this time around they'd hand him over to the US. I believe a person of this level is more of an enemy of Pakistan (then Afghanistan and then the US) and should be interrogated, tried and sentenced within Pakistan.
Moreover the laws of Pakistan would probably allow for a more over the top torture (if required) than those in the US.