[Dawn] Defence Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar has rejected US allegations regarding Pakistain`s support for the Haqqani network as baseless and said if America has any such information it should share the intelligence with Pakistain so that the authorities can take action on it.| As in, "Great apologies, Your Corpulenceness, but those pesky American rubes know where you sleep at night! Might we ask you to take a room at the Peshawar Hilton until we get a new safe-house ready for you?" |
...a valley and an administrative district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistain, located 99 mi from Islamabad. It is inhabited mostly by Pashto speakers. The place has gone steadily downhill since the days when Babe Ruth was the Sultan of Swat...
earlier this week," said the defence minister while replying to a question after witnessing a sky marshal display by air guards at the Airports Security Force firing range on Friday.
Recalling that the country has made great sacrifice in the war against militancy, Mr Mukhtar said the allegations levelled against Pakistain were contrary to the facts on the ground.
There was wariness in his tone when Mr Mukhtar said that blaming each other would not help. "We can only work together if we respect and trust each other. There is no other way, nothing else will work."
| But you loathe us because we are powerful and capricious kaffirs, and we despise you as lying, corrupt, untrustworthy, hypocritical religious fanatics -- except for those of you who are not religious fanatics. (There are those of you who are not those things, but such tend not to acquire power, either military or political, in Pakistan. Many of you, in fact, ended up in America, where you have been an asset to your new country.) So how are we to square that particular circle, dear Defense Minister? |
... who is now neither a strong horse nor a weak horse, but a dead horse...
in May.
When asked about the possibility of similar clandestine operations by the US inside Pakistain in future, the minister said that Pakistain was a sovereign state and could not be bullied.