Is the United States so desperate about impending defeat in Afghanistan that it is setting up Pakistan as a scapegoat? Continuing with our coverage of the Pakistan-media onslaught, recent charges that Pakistan Intelligence has been aiding Taliban militants appear to have triggered this angry retort from the editorial board of Pakistan’s Quetta and Peshawar-based Frontier Post.
The Frontier Post editorial says in small part:
Make no mistake about it – Western news networks, arguably at the behest of certain sections of their bureaucracies and intelligence apparatus, have mounted a calculated, well-orchestrated media offensive to vilify and demonize the Pakistani military, the ISI [Inter-Services Intelligence] and our incumbent political leadership. It will be unpardonable if Islamabad doesn’t finally break its reticence and speak out proactively.
Barring this, the nation will pay a heavy price for the ruling establishment’s lackadaisicalness. This offensive is obviously vile, sinister and mischievous in intent. The recent report from the London-based Amnesty International on human rights in FATA alone leaves one stunned over its contents and its intents. Quite astonishingly, the world-renowned human rights watchdog based its report on completely outdated information to give credit to the notion that Pakistan’s government and military has abandoned the region to live under the thumbs of brutal, oppressive militants.
[Editor’s Note: The title of the Amnesty report is Millions suffer in ‘human rights free zone’ in Northwest Pakistan].
This report is the opening shot. In all probability, more are in the pipeline because Afghanistan’s U.S.-led occupiers sense defeat. The-once zestful talk on their tongues of creating a democratic Afghanistan has long vanished. They now talk of giving Afghanistan a trained army and effective police force for its security and then leaving. President Barack Obama’s military-civilian surge strategy has too run into deep trouble and is failing to deliver. Meanwhile, the patience of the public in nations supplying the occupying troops is running out fast. Public opinion in Europe is fast turning against the Afghanistan war. Even in the United States, public opposition to the war is sharply ascendant. According to some opinion polls, as many as 70 percent Americans want their troops to come home.
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