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India-Pakistan
Nato supplies not resumed despite containers crossing border: Malik
2012-05-20
[Dawn] Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik
Pak politician, current Interior Minister under the Gilani administration. Malik is a former Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) intelligence officer who rose to head the FIA during Benazir Bhutto's second tenure. He later joined the Pak Peoples Party and was chief security officer to Bhutto. Malik was tossed from his FIA job in 1998 after documenting the breath-taking corruption of the Sharif family. By unhappy coincidence Nawaz Sharif became PM at just that moment and Malik moved to London one step ahead of the button men.
on Saturday clarified that the supply trucks crossed into Afghanistan on Friday did not belong to NATO
...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all....
as he denies resumption of NATO supply routes through Pak soil, DawnNew reported.

The interior minister, who on Saturday met Jamaat-e-Islami
...The Islamic Society, founded in 1941 in Lahore by Maulana Sayyid Abul Ala Maududi, aka The Great Apostosizer. The Jamaat opposed the independence of Bangladesh but has operated an independent branch there since 1975. It maintains close ties with international Mohammedan groups such as the Moslem Brotherhood. the Taliban, and al-Qaeda. The Jamaat's objectives are the establishment of a pure Islamic state, governed by Sharia law. It is distinguished by its xenophobia, and its opposition to Westernization, capitalism, socialism, secularism, and liberalist social mores...
(JI) chief Syed Munawar Hassan
... The funny-looking Amir of the Pak Jamaat-e-Islami. He joined the National Students Federation (NSF), a lefty student body, and was elected its President in 1959. He came into contact with the Islami Jamiat-e-Talaba (IJT) Pakistan and studied the writings of Mawlana Syed Abul Ala Maududi, The Great Apostasizer. As a result, he joined IJT in 1960 and soon he was elected as President of its University of Karachi Unit and member of the Central Executive Council. He was Assistant Secretary General of Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistain in 1992-93, and became Secretary General in 1993. After years of holding Qazi's camel he was named Amir when the old man stepped down in 2009...
at JI headquarters Mansoora, said Hassan has been invited for talks with President Asif Ali President Ten Percent Zardari
... sticky-fingered husband of the late Benazir Bhutto ...
at the Presidency on important national issues including resumption of NATO supply routes and law and order situation in the country.

Speaking to media representatives after the meeting, Malik said the Pakistain People's Party (PPP)-led coalition government is following the guidelines and principles given by the parliament regarding resumption of supply routes through Pakistain.

He said both, PPP and JI, agree on the point that there should be no drone attacks inside Pakistain. "NATO supplies had been suspended to stop these drone attacks," he added.

The minister said that he respects Jamaat-e-Islami as the party has never acted against integrity of the country.

Both Houses of Parliament and all the provincial assemblies through their resolutions have demanded that drone attacks should not take place which is the unified demand of the entire nation, said the interior minister.
Posted by:Fred

#5  See also DEFENCE.PK/FORUMS > GENERAL ALLEN DOWNPLAYS URGENCY OF [End-of-Summit] NATO SUPPLY DEAL: GEOTV.

ARTIC > GEN. ALLEN = More important for a deal to be done right, than to be done quickly.

* SAME > US HOUSE APPROVES AMENDMENT LINKING CSF [Coalition Support Funds] TO NATO SUPPLIES. Pakistan at risk of losing up to US$650.0Milyuhn in blocked or conditional appropriations.

* SAME > PAKISTAN TO SEEK USD$1.0BILYUHN FROM NATO [at Chicago Summit] AS COMPENSATION FOR TERROR WAR.

* SAME > NATO SUPPLY HALT MADE DO DIFFERENCE TO US: AMBASSADOR HAQQAINI.

* SAME > TOP US OFFICIALS SAY NO APOLOGY FOR PAKISTAN.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-05-20 22:53  

#4  Pakis don't dare interfering with NATO

Not directly.
Posted by: Pappy   2012-05-20 22:18  

#3  Besides on-going attacks agz local Shias, etc. Iran must recognize that BFF Pakistan stopping the overland flow of supplies into Afghanistan only increases the possib of war between it + the US, so Iran BFF Pakistan isn't really doing Pak BFF Iran any favors.

The only advantage I can see is Iran continuing to "shape the battlefield" [Multi/Trans-Regional] in anticipation of major US-Iran ground war, + GETTING PAKISTAN TO HELP SET UP ITS OWN DESTRUCTION AT THE HANDS OF IRAN.

The Mullahs have times said that they will do what is necessary to defeat any foreign invasion + occupation forces, espec one that is US or US-led, + they will do so wid or widout the sovereign consent of its Muslim neighbors.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2012-05-20 20:42  

#2  Good enough = Pakis don't dare interfering with NATO.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-05-20 02:11  

#1  Those drone attacks must really be working good for them to have so much concern about them.

If our President didn't lead from behind, we would tell the Pakis no dice. And we would end all shipments through their territory and cut all funding until they start behaving like an ally. It's unbelievable we let a little pissant country like Pakistain blackmail and extort bribe money from us in this way.
Posted by: Mikey Hunt   2012-05-20 01:12  

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