PAKISTAN NOT LIKE AFGHANISTAN
January 6, 2008
http://www.tribulationperiod.com/
During my years in USAFIHL’s I was associated with many Arabs and Persians. I was amazed at the difference in attitude of those from the military of Pakistan and those from the Middle East to the west of the nation of Pakistan.
Captains Nazier and Omar from Pakistan were the best Middle East friends I developed in the IHL’s. They did not possess the hared for Jews and non-Muslims that was the order of the day among most of the other Muslims I encountered. So, I was delighted when I read the New York Post excerpt from the Jerusalem Center for Public Information – Daily Alert, which follows. I find most of the people I talk with about
the situation simply lump Pakistan in with
the rest of the Muslim world, which is not the case. Pakistan is definitely anti-Taliban.
Begin Excerpt from New York Post
Islamists Are Not About to Seize Power in Pakistan
Amir Taheri
January 3, 2008
New York Post
Some fear that in the wake of the death of Benazir Bhutto, that Islamists are about to seize power in Pakistan.
Yet today, Pakistani Islamists are at their weakest in terms of popular support and their coalition, the United Action Assembly (MMA), has fragmented. In the last election, the Islamists collected some 11% of the vote.
One British magazine has come out with a cover story that Pakistan is about to fall to the Taliban, based on a claim that “Taliban-like” groups are assuming power in parts of South Waziristan, a mountainous region covering half of 1% of Pakistan’s territory. South Waziristan’s popul ation is less th
an half a million, compared to the total Pakistani population of 169 million.
The best policy would be to buy off the armed groups rather than “dishonor” them in the battlefield. This is, perhaps, why Congress has just approved a package of $800 million for Waziristan.
(New York Post)
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