Pakistan Braces For Retaliatory Strike From India
national | 12/2/2008 | 5 comments
Pakistan was bracing last night for a retaliatory airstrike by India against the sprawling headquarters of the al-Qa’ida-linked Lashkar-e-Toiba terrorist organisation near Lahore.
As Pakistan President Asif Ali Zardari warned the LET militants “had the power to precipitate war in the region”, India demanded that Islamabad hand over a list of about 20 people, including India’s most-wanted man Dawood Ibrahim.
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In South Asia, it’s possible to pay (or bribe) many people to do just about anything. Probably someone in ISI who figures he isn’t making enough (as salaries in the developing world are notoriously low) is taking bribe from someone in the opium business in exchange for otherwise secure information and/or material support stolen from the Pak government. It’s hard to believe that a run-of-the-mill terrorist organization can operate with such efficiency without either authorized or unauthorized government support. Bribery is a systemic problem, and common in S Asia. For instance, you can bribe a low-paid traffic policeman Rs 10 to look the other way while you park illegally. Some of these people base their livelihoods on taking bribe since salaries are often pathetically low, even given the lower cost of living there as compared to the developed world. (Of course, there’s a huge difference between victimless and non-victimless bribe. In the case of illegal parking, one can reasonably presume that no one is getting hurt.)
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Go for it India, the more dead terrorist out there the better off we all are!!!!
Pakistan has been described by Bill Roggio (host of longwarjournal.org, as the “living, breathing, heart of terrorism.” Don’t just take Mr. Roggio’s word for it. When you study the subject, you find this is true.
But if Pakistan–because of the country’s twisted supporters of Al Qaeda and Taliban–is indeed the “heart of terrorism,” what is stopping all civilized countries from reaching into this cancer and cutting out this tumor? The answer is a strange one: the Bush administration believes it can nurture Pakistan as an ally in the War on Terror by sending it billions of dollars in aid and U.S. arms–all in exchange for half-hearted cooperation.
My opinion: if the Pakistanis want any kind of future at all, they need to seek help from the U.S., India, NATO, etc., to wipe out the scourge of Islamic fanaticism. But that is not likely to happen. Pakistan’s body politic is nearly terminal from this cancer, which will surely kill the country. Who wants to bet that the collaborators of the jihadists are stocking in their Swiss bank accounts as we speak, so if Inda attacks and the jihadists turn on the collaborators, they will still escape to a life of comfort far from the trouble.
India should focus in on the “tribal areas” and turn them into “ruble areas”, it’s as simple as that! It is obvious that Pakistan will NOT take action to rid the terrorists!