Pakistanis, already frothing at the mouth with anger about classified documents showing collusion between the Taliban and their intelligence services, had their angst ratcheted up a few more notches on Thursday. During a trade visit to India, British Prime Minister David Cameron sided with India’s Prime Minister in demanding that Pakistan do more to combat terrorism, particularly along the India border.
This very angry editorial from Pakistan’s Frontier Post excoriates the country’s civilian leadership for failing to stand up to what the newspaper perceives as British and American abuse and lack of appreciation of Pakistan, and kowtowing to India.
The Frontier Post editorial says in part:
Hubristically-arrogant British Prime Minister David Cameron cheekily states that Pakistan is exporting terrorism, and picks up thunderous cheers from his Indian audience, along with a purchase order from the Indian government for dozens of trainer jets worth over $1 billion. A disputed Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, who has little authority beyond the outer gates of his presidential palace and the municipality of Kabul, leaps upon the publication of U.S. military files by Wikileaks and screams for Afghan Taliban “sanctuaries” in Pakistan to be taken out. And what’s the response of Islamabad’s cringing and servile hierarchy to these audacious outpourings by Cameron and Karzai? The entire ruling clan of sheep can only bleat of how this will impact negatively on the “war on terror!” President Zardari mumbles it, as do Prime Minister Gilani, Foreign Minister Qureshi and all the rest.
Who will tell these ignoramuses that the street doesn’t give a damn if this war is affected or not, or even if it goes completely haywire, when it’s become such an open wound on our body politic? It has cost the nation dearly in blood and treasure without gaining us honest gratitude from anywhere in the world. Rather than benefiting us, it has earned us nothing but widespread pillory and abuse.
Given all this, one would think that reaction in Islamabad to the audacity of Cameron and Karzai would be severe, manly and intense. Appallingly, it is not. The response has been effeminate, befitting a woman and not a man. It doesn’t appear that Islamabad’s hierarchs are even aware of how the street is boiling with anger over the impudence of Cameron, as well as that staunchly-loyal CIA asset, Karzai. Karzai has blindly and slavishly done its bidding, going so far as to anoint Indians as he and his governor’s senior advisors, themselves CIA appointees.
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