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| India-Pakistan |
| Pakistani neocons and UN sanctions |
| 2008-12-28 |
| By Khalid Hasan Like bullfrogs out after heavy summer rains, Pakistani cyberspace and the realm of the printed word are full of the croaking of neocons who have convinced the already ignorant that the Security Council sanctions against Jama'at-ud Dawa and certain individuals only came because Pakistani officials were either sleeping at the post or had conspired with the 15-member Security Council to let the axe fall. These people are not interested in facts. They only have opinions. |
| Posted by:john frum |
| #1 And this takes me back to Pervez Musharraf's first visit to the US after his coup. At a meeting with a group of journalists among whom I was present, my dear and much lamented friend Tahir Mirza, then the Dawn correspondent, asked Musharraf why he was not acting against Lashkar-e Tayba and Jaish-e Muhammad. Musharraf went red in the face and shot back, "They are not doing anything in Pakistan. They are doing jihad outside." I bet he said the same about Osama and friends |
| Posted by: john frum 2008-12-28 12:46 |