Terrorist Islamic Republic of Pakistan (TSP): May 30, 2011

shravan · Post by **shravan** » 15 Jun 2011 16:36

Ethnic violence claims 14 lives in Pakistan's Karachi

At least 14 people have been killed in a fresh wave of ethnic and political violence in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi over the past 24 hours.

The ethnic violence also reached educational institution and student groups of the two parties clashed at a major university on Tuesday. A student leader of the ethnic Pashtun group was injured and shifted to hospital.

anupmisra · Post by **anupmisra** » 15 Jun 2011 16:38

Rajdeep wrote:He must have used the term "lady" very very loosely

Training, my good man. Even cops address you as "Sir" or "Ma'am" when they pull you over.

Pranay · Post by **Pranay** » 15 Jun 2011 17:00

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13773541

"No Pakistani soldier is under arrest, but we are interrogating several people whom we suspect of having been working for American intelligence services," Inter Services Public Relations spokesman Brigadier Azmat Abbas told the BBC.

He said that among those arrested were people "captured during a raid at a house located close to the Bin Laden compound".

"We suspect them of having been working for CIA," he said.

"Others being interrogated include people who used to visit the compound."

Brig Abbas said that two categories of people were among those arrested - those who threw flares into the Bin Laden compound to guide approaching US helicopters and those who helped the helicopters refuel within Pakistani territory.

Very interesting sentence... details about logistics of the operation that were not public before...

A member of the security forces was also picked up from the Ilyasi Masjid area near the Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad, according to witnesses. It is not known whether he belonged to the intelligence wing of the police or the army. He remains unaccounted for to date.

The contractor who built the Bin Laden compound, Noor Mohammad alias Gul Madah, a property dealer identified by witnesses as Kaleem, Bin Laden's neighbour Shamrez and his father Zain Mohammad were arrested in the weeks following the killing.

All of them - apart from Kaleem - were later released although they have subsequently gone missing, our correspondent adds.

It is not clear whether these men were among the alleged CIA informants arrested.

Aditya_V · Post by **Aditya_V** » 15 Jun 2011 17:39

Pranay wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13773541

"No Pakistani soldier is under arrest, but we are interrogating several people whom we suspect of having been working for American intelligence services," Inter Services Public Relations spokesman Brigadier Azmat Abbas told the BBC.

He said that among those arrested were people "captured during a raid at a house located close to the Bin Laden compound".

"We suspect them of having been working for CIA," he said.

"Others being interrogated include people who used to visit the compound."

Brig Abbas said that two categories of people were among those arrested - those who threw flares into the Bin Laden compound to guide approaching US helicopters and those who helped the helicopters refuel within Pakistani territory.
Very interesting sentence... details about logistics of the operation that were not public before...

A member of the security forces was also picked up from the Ilyasi Masjid area near the Bin Laden compound in Abbottabad, according to witnesses. It is not known whether he belonged to the intelligence wing of the police or the army. He remains unaccounted for to date.

The contractor who built the Bin Laden compound, Noor Mohammad alias Gul Madah, a property dealer identified by witnesses as Kaleem, Bin Laden's neighbour Shamrez and his father Zain Mohammad were arrested in the weeks following the killing.

All of them - apart from Kaleem - were later released although they have subsequently gone missing, our correspondent adds.

It is not clear whether these men were among the alleged CIA informants arrested.

By arresting those who helped in the operation to Kill Bin Laden, Pakistan is openly declaring that it is on the side of Bin laden. Yet the Western Elites and Government Keep supporting Pakistan. Why?

devesh · Post by **devesh** » 15 Jun 2011 18:06

shravan wrote:Ethnic violence claims 14 lives in Pakistan's Karachi

At least 14 people have been killed in a fresh wave of ethnic and political violence in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi over the past 24 hours.

The ethnic violence also reached educational institution and student groups of the two parties clashed at a major university on Tuesday. A student leader of the ethnic Pashtun group was injured and shifted to hospital.

this gives me a lot of hope. now, is the attack against the Pashtun student by Pakjabi orchestration or is it Sindhis aping their pious birathers? it seems increasingly like religion is not enough to glue the ethnicities together. ethnic lines might ultimately drown out the so called "united" Ummah....Pak is mastering the art of self destruction.

Altair · Post by **Altair** » 15 Jun 2011 18:18

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south-asia-13773541

Brig Abbas said that two categories of people were among those arrested - those who threw flares into the Bin Laden compound to guide approaching US helicopters and those who helped the helicopters refuel within Pakistani territory.
The New York Times said those held included a major believed to have logged the number plates of cars visiting Bin Laden's compound in the weeks before the raid.

Stakes are rising!
The earlier coverup is being blown just after Panetta got home after a cold reception in Isloo. It appears gubo did not happen smoothly.
Inshallah tonight's longest eclipse of the century will provide adequate cover of darkness for another snatch and grab op to SEALS. Go get'em boys!
AoA!

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 15 Jun 2011 18:41

more BS being peddled - i don't think the SEALS need flares to find and enter the compound, and its not like the refueling is being done clandestinely! if it was a PAK base, with PAK personnel, then the chain of command knew about it. if it was american personnel, then who are they going to arrest?

lentils are deeply black

Mihaylo · Post by **Mihaylo** » 15 Jun 2011 18:41

Altair wrote: ..
Inshallah tonight's longest eclipse of the century will provide adequate cover of darkness for another snatch and grab op to SEALS. Go get'em boys!
AoA!

Vivek_A · Post by **Vivek_A** » 15 Jun 2011 18:56

VikramS wrote:http://t.co/atnKBTN

The original Jalebi defended TSPs H&D against the ugly Americans.

FYI. This website is run by this nutcase http://www.ahmedquraishi.com/

pgbhat · Post by **pgbhat** » 15 Jun 2011 19:20

Lalmohan wrote:more BS being peddled - i don't think the SEALS need flares to find and enter the compound, and its not like the refueling is being done clandestinely! if it was a PAK base, with PAK personnel, then the chain of command knew about it. if it was american personnel, then who are they going to arrest?

lentils are deeply black

Totally. I mean even if somebody "threw it" they would have done so hours (may be even days) before SEALs landed and it would probably be an IR strobe.

jrjrao · Post by **jrjrao** » 15 Jun 2011 19:52

Here is why the $hitheads in the Pentagon and in DC deserve all the $hit that Pindi is giving to it:

Pakistan still getting its U.S. war gear

The U.S. government might be concerned about the leaking of secret operational data in Pakistan. And the U.S. government might not be too pleased that Pakistan has reportedly arrested informants who aided the CIA before the raid of Osama bin Laden’s compound.

But there’s little doubt that, despite those differences, the U.S. military still supplies the Pakistani military with new, sophisticated intelligence collection and communications equipment.

The Army Communications and Electronics Command at Aberdeen Proving Ground recently put out a notice signaling that it may need contractors to train members of the Pakistani military on how to use a new “Ground Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (GISR) system.”

Developed by DRS Technologies, a high-tech military contractor based in New Jersey, the system intercepts and locates the sources of enemy communications and then permits continued monitoring of them. It also allows users to quickly analyze the collected data, including visual material, “to provide mission-critical intelligence to the warfighter.”

A_Gupta · Post by **A_Gupta** » 15 Jun 2011 19:58

NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/15/world ... olicy.html

At a closed briefing last week, members of the Senate Intelligence Committee asked Michael J. Morell, the deputy C.I.A. director, to rate Pakistan’s cooperation with the United States on counterterrorism operations, on a scale of 1 to 10.

“Three,” Mr. Morell replied, according to officials familiar with the exchange.

jrjrao · Post by **jrjrao** » 15 Jun 2011 20:03

Author is a former CIA analyst:

How Pakistan Punked America
By Melvin A. Goodman
http://consortiumnews.com/2011/06/14/ho ... d-america/

For most of the Cold War and during the “war on terror,” Pakistan has manipulated U.S. presidents as part of its own great game as the Islamic republic circumvented U.S. laws to build a nuclear arsenal and to support some of the world’s most notorious terrorists...

And for the past 60 years, the tail has wagged the dog in U.S.-Pakistani relations.

In the past decade, there has been no country that has sponsored more state terrorism than Pakistan.

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 15 Jun 2011 20:08

So what was he doing as a govt employee swallowing that crap?

Wasnt he part of the dog that allowed the Paki tail to wag it?

Why? What forced it to get wagged?

arun · Post by **arun** » 15 Jun 2011 20:37

Vivek_A wrote:
VikramS wrote:http://t.co/atnKBTN

The original Jalebi defended TSPs H&D against the ugly Americans.

FYI. This website is run by this nutcase http://www.ahmedquraishi.com/

The UK’s Telegraph has picked up the story of Columbia University educated Dr. Shireen Mazari’s outburst carried on a blog run by yet another Master Conspiracy Theorist of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Ahmed Quraishi.

Dr. Shireen Mazari certainly seems most cut up with the US for having her drummed out of her job as Director General of The Pakistan Foreign Ministry funded Pakistan Institute of Strategic Studiesand the later from her job as editor at The News

.

Is Dr. Shireen Mazari still the Foreign Policy Spokesperson of Imran Khan’s political party the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)?

Cracked ties exposed in tearoom bust up

An ugly outburst in a busy tearoom this week has come to symbolise troubled ties between the United States and Pakistan.

by Rob Crilly in Islamabad
12:44PM BST 15 Jun 2011

Shireen Mazari, a former editor of a leading nationalist newspaper launched an tirade against an American couple over Sunday brunch in Islamabad.

Claiming that her chair had been jolted by a man at the neighbouring table, she told a Pakistani website that she rammed her chair into his to demand an apology – only to be on the receiving end of a stream of expletives.

Afterwards she said she felt intimidated by "Yanks... running loose" in the capital.

"I think the local police should take note of the US personnel's movements and restrict them to their homes as they are a threat to every self-respecting Pakistani citizen," she said…………………

Telegraph, UK

CRamS · Post by **CRamS** » 15 Jun 2011 20:42

jrjrao wrote:Here is why the $hitheads in the Pentagon and in DC deserve all the $hit that Pindi is giving to it:

Pakistan still getting its U.S. war gear

Seems to me to be some kind of war of attrition between the $hitheads and sane folks in the CIA/Pentagon/state dept etc. I can imagine the direction a useless debate about this will take place in the US media. There will be a $hitheads working closely with TSPA/ISI who will say TSP is such a loyal munna, they are under threat from big baaad India, they want our weapons to defend themselves, they want Kashmir and US doesn't say anything about India killing KMs bla bla, and if we give TSP everything they want including nuke deal, TSP will become an even bigger munna.

In other words, they will emphasize US interests to the exclusion of everythng else, and so anybody trying to defend limiting support to TSP will like opposing US interests. And in this useless debate, nobody in his right mind would even dare bring in TSP's real motivation, India, lest he be accused of pandering to Indian interests at the expense of US interests. And so the charade goes on.

It would require someone with forthrightness, honesty, and guts to tell the American people that acquesing to TSP's demands is tantamount to US colluding in TSP's terrorist machinations against India. What are the chances of somone coming out and saying that? You think any of the SDRE Uncle Tom clowns in the US media like Fareed Zakariah or Tunuku Vardarajan or Sadaanad Dhume etc will have the b@lls to say it like it is?

VikramS · Post by **VikramS** » 15 Jun 2011 21:12

Regarding refueling. There were reports of some of the choppers landing a field and refueling somewhere along the way.

Lalmohan · Post by **Lalmohan** » 15 Jun 2011 21:31

looks like la jalebi picked a deliberate fight with someone on the pretext of a chair obstruction. and the restaurant played along with la jalebi. probably an indicator that mango abduls are near boiling point - over something, anything...
perhaps there might even be another Iranian embassy storming (just like the previous Isloo embassy storming, but this time more violent). it might be the get out of jail card the jarnails play... knowing that all is lost with unkil anyway

ramana · Post by **ramana** » 15 Jun 2011 21:32

CRS That stream of TSP supporters are known as Arabists. This gang thinks they need to pander to Arab and Muslim world to retain the US dominance in the post Cold War era. In other words they really dont belive in American values and ideas. The idea of America is neboulous for them and they claim they are realists.

They are slowly retiring. However they end up as Faux News commentators and are still in media.

No none of those guys will say it for they want the Arabists indulgence. FZ is riding on Arabist shoulders. The others are wannabe FZs. You really think any of these are true intellectuals?

If you want make a blog and get it wide exposure.

Rajiv Malhotra did that on Huffington Post and gets wide readership.

arun · Post by **arun** » 15 Jun 2011 21:45

Reuters discovers that Mohammadden radicalism has also infected the females of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan.

Should come as no surprise to BRF members who were around in 2008 and followed the “kendo stix” antics of the females of the Jamia Hafsa Madrassah which was attached to the Lal Masjid:

Pakistan's female madrassas breed radicalism

Anujan · Post by **Anujan** » 15 Jun 2011 21:56

Apparently Rana Sanaullah the Punjab law minister (who shot to fame for riding in the car of SSP leader and canvassing for votes) called Babar Awan (PPP law minister) as "Waji-bull-cutlet".

Good to see mainstream politicians accusing each other of being kuffars and cutlets.

arun · Post by **arun** » 15 Jun 2011 21:58

The National Bird of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan makes two visits today:

US drones kill eight militants in Pakistan: officials

Brad Goodman · Post by **Brad Goodman** » 15 Jun 2011 22:03

Rajdeep wrote:
Narad wrote:^^^
‘**** You, Lady’, A US Embassy Man Yells At Dr. Shireen Mazari In Islamabad Restaurant
He must have used the term "lady" very very loosely

I hope he used it figuratevily and literally. May be jalebi is making it all up to prove that she is still attractive and relevant at the same time.

arun · Post by **arun** » 15 Jun 2011 22:08

Anujan wrote:Apparently Rana Sanaullah the Punjab law minister (who shot to fame for riding in the car of SSP leader and canvassing for votes) called Babar Awan (PPP law minister) as "Waji-bull-cutlet".

Good to see mainstream politicians accusing each other of being kuffars and cutlets.

The Express Tribune has reported that Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah declared (Former?) Federal Law Minister Babar Awan as Wajibul Qatl:

Remove Rana Sanaullah for statements against Awan: Senate

By Abdul Mannan

Published: June 15, 2011

ISLAMABAD: The Senate on Wednesday passed a resolution against Punjab Law Minister Rana Sanaullah, saying the provincial government must remove him from his post over his statements against Senator Babar Awan.

After the budget was announced on June 10, Sanaullah criticized Awan and Punjab Governor Khosa, calling them “black sheep in black coats”.

Sanaullah claimed that Awan was a corrupt lawyer who accepts fees from “corrupt elements who looted the Bank of Punjab”.

He further added that Awan and Khosa are considered “obnoxious characters” within the lawyers community and they should be eliminated.

Sanaullah used the word Wajibul Qatl (liable to be killed) to describe Awan. …………………………

Express Tribune

abhik · Post by **abhik** » 15 Jun 2011 23:08

Lalmohan wrote:more BS being peddled - i don't think the SEALS need flares to find and enter the compound, and its not like the refueling is being done clandestinely! if it was a PAK base, with PAK personnel, then the chain of command knew about it. if it was american personnel, then who are they going to arrest?

lentils are deeply black

I think it was more of a euphemism, not to be taken literally. The two categories are the ones who ratted out on OBL and the ones who helped in the conduct of the operation.

gakakkad · Post by **gakakkad** » 15 Jun 2011 23:37

jrjrao wrote:Here is why the $hitheads in the Pentagon and in DC deserve all the $hit that Pindi is giving to it:

Pakistan still getting its U.S. war gear

An interesting user comment from The Washington post link posted by Rao saar .

my grand mom needed an expensive spine surgery and the insurers were giving us a head ache. We had to go all the way to India to get it done. Why because the tax payers money does not provide us with health care. It provides weapons to the country responsible for 9/11. Disaster relief funds may run dry why? because the money goes to Pakistan. Obama declares that we may be headed for a double dip depression. sure we send all are money to pakistan why not.

https://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

Wish more amreekis right to house of rep.

Christopher Sidor · Post by **Christopher Sidor** » 15 Jun 2011 23:57

Iran-Pakistan Relations in Light of Popular Uprising in Bahrain

This is a dated article. About 2 months old. But it has a gem of information

The degree of Pakistani concerns about Iran’s possible retributions over its position on Bahrain has been to the extent that some Pakistani media interpreted the recent announcement by the Iranian defense minister, Ahmad Vahidi, that Iran plans to build a concrete security fence along its border with Pakistan to prevent border crossing by terrorists and drug traffickers as a response to Pakistan’s decision to deploy security personnel to Bahrain.

To fully comprehend what this implies, look at a Paki geographical map. Pakistan has land borders with 4 countries.
1) India (border length = 2900 kms Approx or 44.8 % of the total land border )
2) Afghanistan (border length = 2250 kms approx or 34.7% of the total land border )
3) Iran (border length = 800 kms Approx approx or 12.3% of the total land border)
4) China (border length = 520 kms approx or 8.2% of the total land border)

Out of these, India already has a fence on most of the indo-pak border. Now Iran is fencing its border, and if the report is to be believed it is going to be a concrete border. Though the utility of this so called concrete fence for iran would be dubious, as the smugglers and terrorist will slip into afghanistan and then into Iran or might take the sea route.

But what this implies is that more than 50% of the land border of Pakistan will be fenced by countries which do not want stuff to enter from Pakistan into their realm. And in the future, if afghanistan has a strong government, then chances are likely that it might too end up fencing its side of the border. Think of Berlin Wall in reverse.
This is one more indication that Pakistan is now thought of as rabid animal which has to be caged inside fences or like in a zoo, it has to be kept behind a concrete wall. I wonder if the pakis truly comprehend the significance of this.

Lisa · Post by **Lisa** » 16 Jun 2011 00:01

arun wrote: Shireen Mazari, a former editor of a leading nationalist newspaper launched an tirade against an American couple over Sunday brunch in Islamabad.

Claiming that her chair had been jolted by a man at the neighbouring table, she told a Pakistani website that she rammed her chair into his to demand an apology – only to be on the receiving end of a stream of expletives.

Afterwards she said she felt intimidated by "Yanks... running loose" in the capital.

"I think the local police should take note of the US personnel's movements and restrict them to their homes as they are a threat to every self-respecting Pakistani citizen," she said…………………

Telegraph, UK

Out of macabre curiosity, what is a self respecting Pakistani. Has anyone
actually ever seen one?

gakakkad · Post by **gakakkad** » 16 Jun 2011 00:09

Lisa wrote:
arun wrote: Shireen Mazari, a former editor of a leading nationalist newspaper launched an tirade against an American couple over Sunday brunch in Islamabad.

Claiming that her chair had been jolted by a man at the neighbouring table, she told a Pakistani website that she rammed her chair into his to demand an apology – only to be on the receiving end of a stream of expletives.

Afterwards she said she felt intimidated by "Yanks... running loose" in the capital.

"I think the local police should take note of the US personnel's movements and restrict them to their homes as they are a threat to every self-respecting Pakistani citizen," she said…………………

Telegraph, UK
Out of macabre curiosity, what is a self respecting Pakistani. Has anyone
actually ever seen one?

THERE is a better chance of seeing a ghost or an extraterrestrial organism than a self respecting PAKI.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 16 Jun 2011 00:26

Brad Goodman wrote:
Rajdeep wrote:"Narad"]^^^
‘**** You, Lady’, A US Embassy Man Yells At Dr. Shireen Mazari In Islamabad Restaurant
He must have used the term "lady" very very loosely
I hope he used it figuratevily and literally. May be jalebi is making it all up to prove that she is still attractive and relevant at the same time.

There are many self replicating Poaks who stay at home.
Rude and Stupid Americano, did he not know that he was calling for impossible task and even he accomplished such toxic task , it will be the last time for him.
Mazari was the face,which launched the thousand Spit
And crushed few ghazis with small move of her Hip,
O sweet Mazari,Hoorlike Kanwari, Open Ameircano Zip
And give the poor Yank, a deep,loving,special Kiss.

Cosmo_R · Post by **Cosmo_R** » 16 Jun 2011 00:27

Christopher Sidor wrote:Iran-Pakistan Relations in Light of Popular Uprising in Bahrain

......And in the future, if afghanistan has a strong government, then chances are likely that it might too end up fencing its side of the border. Think of Berlin Wall in reverse.

Actually, the pakis being pakis did suggest a fence to Afghanistan to prevent infiltration westwards. You guessed it!—along the Durand Line

which the Afghans duly refused.

vdutta · Post by **vdutta** » 16 Jun 2011 00:44

Rajdeep wrote:
Narad wrote:^^^
‘**** You, Lady’, A US Embassy Man Yells At Dr. Shireen Mazari In Islamabad Restaurant
He must have used the term "lady" very very loosely

may be he thought it was a hijra asking for money.

http://www.geotauaisay.com/wp-content/u ... ariISS.jpg

SandeepA · Post by **SandeepA** » 16 Jun 2011 00:49

^^^
That is stretching the meaning of 'lady' to its breaking point!

Vivek_A · Post by **Vivek_A** » 16 Jun 2011 01:03

admins: ban vdutta's ass for not giving us fair warning!!

Mahendra · Post by **Mahendra** » 16 Jun 2011 01:23

arun wrote:The National Bird of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan makes two visits today:

US drones kill eight militants in Pakistan: officials

Strange is this relationship between Amrika company bahadur and Packeestan

Amrica Company bahadur has to deliver anti-biotics to PackeE-Coli directly because non compliance by the Packeestan sarkar has resulted in anti-biotic resistant PackeE-coli spreading disease beyond the quarantine region.
Yindoostan is developing immunity to PAckeE-Coli and this has baffled the 3.5 doctors. PackeE-Coli is multiplying double quick in PAckeestan and this is a natural consequence because PackeE-coli likes living in Sh1t. PackeE-coli is looking for new hosts and 3.5 doctors are on the radar.

Nandu · Post by **Nandu** » 16 Jun 2011 03:22

SSridhar wrote:
VikramS wrote:http://t.co/atnKBTN

The original Jalebi defended TSPs H&D against the ugly Americans.
I support Ms. Mazari if the description of the incident were true.

We are only hearing one side of the story, i.e. Shrilleen's. However, from the very fact of a Paki RAPE coming to the defense of the American, I would assume that it did not go down like how she described it.

Prem · Post by **Prem** » 16 Jun 2011 03:51

Here is another Dick after Dick Armitage.
Dick Morris TV; Lunch ALERT! The Pakistan Ripoff

mehroke · Post by **mehroke** » 16 Jun 2011 04:01

This news is now covered here in Australia as well. The shock jocks are now openly calling for Pakistan to be seen for what it is. Alan Jones was slamming Pakistan over the air waves this morning and calling for a complete withdrawal and disassociation from Pakistan. Is the Mango western Man finally waking up to Pakistan?

Airavat · Post by **Airavat** » 16 Jun 2011 06:54

Aditya_V wrote:By arresting those who helped in the operation to Kill Bin Laden, Pakistan is openly declaring that it is on the side of Bin laden. Yet the Western Elites and Government Keep supporting Pakistan. Why?

Senators Question Alliance with Pakistan Over Arrests

"How long do we support governments that lie to us? When do we say, 'Enough is enough'?" Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., asked Secretary of Defense Robert Gates today at a Senate Appropriations Committee hearing. "They arrested people who helped us get him."

"If the U.S. doesn't have local Pakistani informants, then it's going to be very, very difficult for the United States to stage operations inside Pakistan," Clarke said. "And that's exactly what the Pakistani government wants, for it to be very difficult for the Americans to be able to do this again."

The U.S. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Michael Mullen, told the Senate hearing that although the relationship with Pakistan is complicated, not dealing with the Pakistanis would likely mean the U.S. would be out of the picture in Pakistan -- where the Afghan Taliban is believed to have regrouped -- for another five to 10 years. He added that the US is in the midst of building a relationship with Pakistan, which was "badly broken" in the '80s and '90s . "If we walk away from it, it's my view it'll be a much more dangerous place a decade from now, and we'll be back."

Pukes acquired nukes in the '80s, missiles in the '90s, with American knowledge. Meanwhile Pakistan got support from several US govt departments over it's anti-India terror policy all through those decades. And it received financial aid (somewhat reduced after October 1990 but still an annual pouring), as well as US support in their dealings with the international financial institutions like the IMF.......What kind of "broken relationship" was this?

Even the half-hearted 1990 restrictions were done away with in February 1996 with the Brown Amendment...........On April 18, 1996, the Washington Post reported that President Clinton had approved the transfer of $368 million worth of military equipment, despite evidence that in 1995 Pakistan had acquired 5,000 "ring magnets" from China!

arun · Post by **arun** » 16 Jun 2011 06:56

X Posted from the Pakistani Role in Global Terrorism thread.

The Islamic Republic of Pakistan continues to indulge its penchant for sheltering Islamic Terrorist groups.

Associated Press reports that Islamic Terrorist Fazle-ur-Rahman Khalil, head of the Islamic Terrorist group Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen (HuM) which is affliated to Al Qaeda, is openly living is an suburb of Islamabad:

Terror leader lives freely near Pakistani capital

By KATHY GANNON, Associated Press – 8 hours ago

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan (AP) — On the outskirts of the Pakistani capital lives a militant considered so powerful that Osama bin Laden consulted with him before issuing a fatwa to attack American interests.

Fazle-ur-Rahman Khalil heads Harakat-ul-Mujahedeen, a terrorist group closely aligned with al-Qaida and a signatory to bin Laden's anti-U.S. fatwa in 1998. Khalil has also dispatched fighters to India, Afghanistan, Somalia, Chechnya and Bosnia, was a confidante of bin Laden and hung out with 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

Pakistani authorities are clearly aware of Khalil's whereabouts. But they leave him alone, just as they tolerate other Kashmiri militant groups nurtured by the military and its intelligence agency to use against India.

Khalil is also useful to the authorities because of his unusually wide contacts among Pakistan's many militant groups, said a senior government official who is familiar with the security agencies and who spoke on condition he not be identified fearing repercussions.

Khalil's presence in an Islamabad suburb, confirmed to The Associated Press by Western officials in the region, underscores accusations that Pakistan is still playing a double game — fighting some militant groups while tolerating or supporting others — even after the solo U.S. raid that killed bin Laden on May 2. …………………………………

AP via Google