New York Times
Editorial
There is a lot to be disturbed by in the battlefield reports from Afghanistan released Sunday by WikiLeaks. The close-up details of war are always unsettling, even more so with this war, which was so badly neglected and bungled by President George W. Bush.
But the most alarming of the reports were the ones that described the cynical collusion between Pakistan’s military intelligence service and the Taliban. Despite the billions of dollars the United States has sent in aid to Pakistan since Sept. 11, they offer powerful new evidence that crucial elements of Islamabad’s power structure have been actively helping to direct and support the forces attacking the American-led military coalition.
The time line of the documents from WikiLeaks, an organization devoted to exposing secrets, stops before President Obama put his own military and political strategy into effect last December. Administration officials say they have made progress with Pakistan since, but it is hard to see much evidence of that so far.
Most of the WikiLeaks documents, which were the subject of in-depth coverage in The Times on Monday, cannot be verified. However, they confirm a picture of Pakistani double-dealing that has been building for years.
On a trip to Pakistan last October, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suggested that officials in the Pakistani government knew where Al Qaeda leaders were hiding. Gen. David Petraeus, the new top military commander in Afghanistan, recently acknowledged long-standing ties between Pakistan’s Directorate for Inter-Services Intelligence, known as ISI, and the “bad guys.”
The Times report of the new documents suggests the collusion goes even deeper, that representatives of the ISI have worked with the Taliban to organize networks of militants to fight American soldiers in Afghanistan and hatch plots to assassinate Afghan leaders.
The article painted a chilling picture of the activities of Lt. Gen. Hamid Gul of Pakistan, who ran the ISI from 1987 to 1989, when the agency and the C.I.A. were together arming the Afghan militias fighting Soviet troops. General Gul kept working with those forces, who eventually formed the Taliban.
Pakistan’s ambassador to the United States said the reports were unsubstantiated and “do not reflect the current on-ground realties.” But at this point, denials about links with the militants are simply not credible.
Why would Pakistan play this dangerous game? The ISI has long seen the Afghan Taliban as a proxy force, a way to ensure its influence on the other side of the border and keep India’s influence at bay.
Pakistani officials also privately insist that they have little choice but to hedge their bets given their suspicions that Washington will once again lose interest as it did after the Soviets were ousted from Afghanistan in 1989. And until last year, when the Pakistani Taliban came within 60 miles of Islamabad, the country’s military and intelligence establishment continued to believe they could control the extremists when they needed to.
In recent months, the Obama administration has said and done many of the right things toward building a long-term relationship with Pakistan. It has committed to long-term economic aid. It is encouraging better relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan. It is constantly reminding Pakistani leaders that the extremists, on both sides of the border, pose a mortal threat to Pakistan’s fragile democracy — and their own survival. We don’t know if they’re getting through. We know they have to.
It has been only seven months since Mr. Obama announced his new strategy for Afghanistan, and a few weeks since General Petraeus took command. But Americans are increasingly weary of this costly war. If Mr. Obama cannot persuade Islamabad to cut its ties to, and then aggressively fight, the extremists in Pakistan, there is no hope of defeating the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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UNO is working on delisting Taliban from Al-Qaeda. The Chairman of the UN to Al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee, Ambassador Thomas Mayr-Harting of Austria, has said, “The committee could finalize cases of delisting Taliban, which have been sought by the Afghan President Hamid Karzai provided, they meet the criteria set by the Security Council of UNO.” He said the committee will until the end of July announce delisting of Taliban. At a press conference held at the UNO headquarters to introduce the Canadian Judge Kimberly Prost appointed by the Secretary General as Ombudsman of the committee, expressed the hope that the delisting work would be expedited. But Judge Prost said that her powers would be limited as she could only make recommendations, the ultimate authority to de-list would still rest with the Security Council’s Sanction Committee.
America and Pakistan had come up with strategies to deal with situation of Pakistan and Afghanistan to tackle the war against terrorism with dialogue with Taliban. Use of the force is not a solution of the problem they jointly decided. Diplomacy is the best way to eliminate terrorism from the region including Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. The current visit of Hillary Clinton and Richard Hollbrooke to Pakistan before attending Kabul conference is to make a joint policy to hold talks with Talibans separating them from Al-Qaeda.
UNO is working on delisting Taliban from Al-Qaeda. The Chairman of the UN to Al-Qaeda and Taliban Sanctions Committee, Ambassador Thomas Mayr-Harting of Austria, has said, “The committee could finalize cases of delisting Taliban, which have been sought by the Afghan President Hamid Karzai provided, they meet the criteria set by the Security Council of UNO.” He said the committee will until the end of July announce delisting of Taliban. At a press conference held at the UNO headquarters to introduce the Canadian Judge Kimberly Prost appointed by the Secretary General as Ombudsman of the committee, expressed the hope that the delisting work would be expedited. But Judge Prost said that her powers would be limited as she could only make recommendations, the ultimate authority to de-list would still rest with the Security Council’s Sanction Committee.
America and Pakistan had come up with strategies to deal with situation of Pakistan and Afghanistan to tackle the war against terrorism with dialogue with Taliban. Use of the force is not a solution of the problem they jointly decided. Diplomacy is the best way to eliminate terrorism from the region including Pakistan, Afghanistan and India. The current visit of Hillary Clinton and Richard Hollbrooke to Pakistan before attending Kabul conference is to make a joint policy to hold talks with Talibans separating them from Al-Qaeda.
Wikileaks Publication is a self-created drama of Americans
But I also claim that the publication of this document is a self-made drama of Americans and I also think that 9/11 incident was also created by Americans themselves. I am sure that Pakistani people are not interested in Wikileaks.org document drama. It should also be observe that from which American family does belong its founder Julian Assange and who were the high-ups of US military intelligence officials supporting behind him? Cell:+923033420061
Shout-out on Wikileaks publication
Wikileaks Publication is the starting point of Obama’s next Presidential Election Campaign 2012.
OPINION ON Wikileaks.org
In my opinion the activity of Wikileaks.org is a heroic action. I appreciate the founder of the website Julian Assange and salute his heroic action of world’s biggest anti-war activity, the publication of the 90,000 documents relating to the war in Afghanistan over the past six years. The Wikileaks.org controversy represents the most effective effort by anti-war activists to cast a blow on the increasingly secretive military industrial complex of the United States. The released information provides the opportunity to take stock of the series of unnecessary and un-winnable wars that US military Gods have imposed on the world in the name of fighting terror. Pakistan’s military agency ISI has not been perplexed and did not able to understand the purpose of the publication of the secret military documents relating to war in Afghanistan.
CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN AFGHANISTAN WAR AND PAKISTAN MILITARY OPERATIONAL AREAS
According to the Pakistani columnist Mahir Ali said in Daily Dawn Karachi on July 28, 2010, Wednesday, the level of civilian casualties in Afghanistan’s war area is very high than that acknowledged in official statements. I comment that in and Pakistan’s military operation areas it is also considerably higher than that acknowledged in official statements issued by the public relation department of Pakistani military. Much of the information about civilian deaths and injuries comes from internal military documents. I agree with this statement.
MASOOD DAY BY DAY
July 26, 2010 Monday
OSAMA IS TODAY’S HITLOR
Osama Bin Laden has become today’s Hitlor who did not allowed to tell about his last days of life. US military forces are seeking Osama for nothing. They are wasting their time, money and metal energy to search Osama in Pakistan. They should work for the welfare and rehabilitation of the world’s poor people instead of killing them by means of armed forces. I name the “US military forces” as “Psycho Forces”. They should take their psychiatric treatment instead of forcing Pakistan’s military agencies to search Osama in Afghan border areas or in tribal areas. Benazir Bhutto had sacrificed her life for the people of the world after giving on air live internet telecasted interview that Osama had been killed by somebody. She also quoted the name of his killer. She did not get afraid of the killing herself as a result of her that recorded interview. She gave that statement on the cost and value of her own life and was assassinated on December 27, 2007 in Islamabad. She was really a great courageous woman and world’s renowned political figure. I salute her sacrifice for the sake of Islam and Muslim World. Her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto also did enough and great work for the spread of Islam and Muslim World during his days of Prime Minister-ship of Pakistan. I think that Obama will not be elected again the President of United States if he continued such policies against Pakistan, Islam and Muslim World.
WHAT IS the different between Osama and Obama ?
Mr. Obama is thinking that he is the newest and latest Hitlor after Osama Ben Laden. But he would not be proved himself such as the personality of Hitlor and Osama Ben Laden. I think that after each 50 to 60 years, a person like Hitlor will be seen on world’s screen to be attracted or rejected by the people of the world. Now we should have to stop the story of Osama Ben Laden. 9 years have been passed after the incident of 9/11. Now the world should be handed over to the safe hands. The search of Osama tells us that yet we are not safe and secured. Poor people of the tribal areas and Afghan border areas are suffering much in Pakistan and have been killed in a great number either by US Military Drone attacks or by Pakistani Military Forces engaged in military operation on forcing US armed forces to search Osama. US Military Forces are now said to be “Osama Phobic Forces”.
18 killed in South Waziristan in drone attack on Saturday and 13 killed on Sunday in US drone attacks while 45 militants were killed in Orakzai Agency by Pakistani military forces on Saturday and 34 killed on Sunday in Orakzai and Kurram Agencies after the visit of Admiral Mike Mullen. He visited Pakistan to pressurize to do more for capturing Osama Bin Laden from Pakistan’s and to take action against Lashkar-e-Taiba.
Wikileaks Publication is a self-created drama of Americans
But I also claim that the publication of this document is a self-made drama of Americans and I also think that 9/11 incident was also created by Americans themselves. I am sure that Pakistani people are not interested in Wikileaks.org document drama. It should also be observe that from which American family does belong its founder Julian Assange and who were the high-ups of US military intelligence officials supporting behind him? Cell:+923033420061
Shout-out on Wikileaks publication
Wikileaks Publication is the starting point of Obama’s next Presidential Election Campaign 2012.
OPINION ON Wikileaks.org
In my opinion the activity of Wikileaks.org is a heroic action. I appreciate the founder of the website Julian Assange and salute his heroic action of world’s biggest anti-war activity, the publication of the 90,000 documents relating to the war in Afghanistan over the past six years. The Wikileaks.org controversy represents the most effective effort by anti-war activists to cast a blow on the increasingly secretive military industrial complex of the United States. The released information provides the opportunity to take stock of the series of unnecessary and un-winnable wars that US military Gods have imposed on the world in the name of fighting terror. Pakistan’s military agency ISI has not been perplexed and did not able to understand the purpose of the publication of the secret military documents relating to war in Afghanistan.
CIVILIAN CASUALTIES IN AFGHANISTAN WAR AND PAKISTAN MILITARY OPERATIONAL AREAS
According to the Pakistani columnist Mahir Ali said in Daily Dawn Karachi on July 28, 2010, Wednesday, the level of civilian casualties in Afghanistan’s war area is very high than that acknowledged in official statements. I comment that in and Pakistan’s military operation areas it is also considerably higher than that acknowledged in official statements issued by the public relation department of Pakistani military. Much of the information about civilian deaths and injuries comes from internal military documents. I agree with this statement.
MASOOD DAY BY DAY
July 26, 2010 Monday
OSAMA IS TODAY’S HITLOR
Osama Bin Laden has become today’s Hitlor who did not allowed to tell about his last days of life. US military forces are seeking Osama for nothing. They are wasting their time, money and metal energy to search Osama in Pakistan. They should work for the welfare and rehabilitation of the world’s poor people instead of killing them by means of armed forces. I name the “US military forces” as “Psycho Forces”. They should take their psychiatric treatment instead of forcing Pakistan’s military agencies to search Osama in Afghan border areas or in tribal areas. Benazir Bhutto had sacrificed her life for the people of the world after giving on air live internet telecasted interview that Osama had been killed by somebody. She also quoted the name of his killer. She did not get afraid of the killing herself as a result of her that recorded interview. She gave that statement on the cost and value of her own life and was assassinated on December 27, 2007 in Islamabad. She was really a great courageous woman and world’s renowned political figure. I salute her sacrifice for the sake of Islam and Muslim World. Her father Zulfikar Ali Bhutto also did enough and great work for the spread of Islam and Muslim World during his days of Prime Minister-ship of Pakistan. I think that Obama will not be elected again the President of United States if he continued such policies against Pakistan, Islam and Muslim World.
WHAT IS the different between Osama and Obama ?
Mr. Obama is thinking that he is the newest and latest Hitlor after Osama Ben Laden. But he would not be proved himself such as the personality of Hitlor and Osama Ben Laden. I think that after each 50 to 60 years, a person like Hitlor will be seen on world’s screen to be attracted or rejected by the people of the world. Now we should have to stop the story of Osama Ben Laden. 9 years have been passed after the incident of 9/11. Now the world should be handed over to the safe hands. The search of Osama tells us that yet we are not safe and secured. Poor people of the tribal areas and Afghan border areas are suffering much in Pakistan and have been killed in a great number either by US Military Drone attacks or by Pakistani Military Forces engaged in military operation on forcing US armed forces to search Osama. US Military Forces are now said to be “Osama Phobic Forces”.
18 killed in South Waziristan in drone attack on Saturday and 13 killed on Sunday in US drone attacks while 45 militants were killed in Orakzai Agency by Pakistani military forces on Saturday and 34 killed on Sunday in Orakzai and Kurram Agencies after the visit of Admiral Mike Mullen. He visited Pakistan to pressurize to do more for capturing Osama Bin Laden from Pakistan’s and to take action against Lashkar-e-Taiba.