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| Davis case won't derail talks, hopes Pakistan | |
| 2011-02-14 | |
[Pak Daily Times] Pakistain expressed the hope on Sunday that its growing row with the United States over a jugged US embassy employee will not scuttle its crucial talks with Washington and Kabul on efforts to stabilise Afghanistan.
The US had, on Saturday, postponed the meeting, which was to have taken place the next week. The FO front man said, "We hope one person would not drive Pakistain-US relations and we hope we would not be losing sight of the strategic imperative of our relations." He declined comment on what the escalating diplomatic spat means for the Davis case or for relations with the US. The US did not directly cite Davis' continued detention as the reason, but US diplomats have said the talks could become a casualty of the dispute. However, The infamous However... US State Department front man, PJ Crowley, said, "US hopes to reschedule the meeting soon." On Friday, a court ordered Davis be held in jail for 14 more days, in a sign of deepening row that could threaten US assistance to the country, one of the largest non-NATO recipients of American military aid. The US says Davis' arrest is a violation of international conventions because he has diplomatic immunity, while Islamabad says the matter will be decided by its courts. | |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #7 There is only one response to this breach and that is the Genghis Khan response, you go to war. First pull all embassy staff from Pakistan, then expel all Pakistan staff from the USA. Give them 10 days to hand over Davies, if they don't you shock and awe them, until they are back in the stone age. Then tell India to do whatever it wants with Pakistan. If you don't you are tempting every other country to pull the same trick on you. |
| Posted by: tipper 2011-02-14 13:28 |
| #6 While emotionally satisfying, we don't want to start petty harassment of diplomatic personnel here in the U.S. That sort of thing could create problems for U.S. diplomatic personnel elsewhere. We could, however, let a minor State Department flunky issue some statement about our solidarity with the Indian government over Kashmir... |
| Posted by: Steve White 2011-02-14 13:00 |
| #5 I kinda like Dribble's idea but I don't believe our State Department has enough imagination to pull it off. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2011-02-14 12:39 |
| #4 How about asking the Indians if they'd be interested in leasing us a long-term naval/air base in the Bay of Bengal area? |
| Posted by: mojo 2011-02-14 12:32 |
| #3 How about the ol' "burning bag of dog poo on the front porch" trick? That'll drive the point home. |
| Posted by: gorb 2011-02-14 11:01 |
| #2 Right, Dribble. And then I suppose we escalate to TPing the embassy. |
| Posted by: lotp 2011-02-14 06:47 |
| #1 Why not have some wonk in Washington who knows the paki diplomatic community very well draw up a list of "little incidents" to catch Paki Embassy staff by the short hairs....like picking up the ambassadors poodle when its taken for a stroll in Rock Creek Park as a "nuisance" and having it euthanized by the Park Police about an hour before the Embassy gofer can drop by the pound to rescue the little bugger. And next week we slash your tires while you are in the Gala at the Kennedy Center. And the week after that when your fat paki wife goes to the Mall someone spills pig intestines in her back seat in the Mall parking garage. How many paki diplomatic personnel can we get to know real well in about twenty Embassies all over the world? You want to play? No lasting harm, just nasty nightmares in out of the way places that ruin your shoes and smell for a week even if you do bathe. Unnecessarily mean things that make no sense by any decent assessment. Something to do with vile ( how vile WAS it?) embarrassing stuff (but the goat and I were just friends) delivered to the wrong address and other things that get your luggage sent to somewhere in the Andes. And of course there is the possibility that the Ambassador has a daughter who does drugs. She doesnt? Well, get her some anyway ....and then film it. |
| Posted by: Dribble2716 2011-02-14 02:12 |