The Pakistani Spectator

Have you seen the footages of American marines breaking into the homes of Iraqi people, dragging the ladies and children out and killing their men in the heads and then taking away the ladies while leaving children behind? Is there any need to refresh your memory with the pictures of Abu-Gharib, or would you like to once again hear the stories about Guantanamo Bay? During the Musharraf era, thousands of flights were made from Jacobabad city of Pakistan by the US war planes which minced the Afghan people and killed hundred of thousands of them.

The blood thirst of US forces hasn’t appeased yet and they are asking for “MORE”, and in their madness they have inaugurated their attack on the Pakistani soil. They have started from the Angor Adda, Waziristan, and they would not stop there. Scores of American soldiers came in four CH-47 Chinook transport helicopters, blasted their way into several houses and gunned down men they found there. All who died were civilians busy in preparing the Sehri, the start of the next fast. The causalities included women, children and men. When the other people reached there, they found all of them dead outside their homes with scores of bullets in their heads.

The response henceforth from the Pakistani establishment and political rulers is dismal and pathetic and yes to be honest, its downright washy. The army’s spokesman, Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas, said the attack was the first incursion onto Pakistani soil by troops from the foreign forces that ousted Afghanistan’s hard-line Taliban regime after the Sept. 11 attack on the U.S. He said the attack would undermine Pakistan’s efforts to isolate Islamic extremists and could threaten NATO’s major supply lines. And that’s it.

If we are in any confusion, then we must know that the Pentagon has made it clear that operations like Ango Adda could occur again and again and it’s the sign of a changed policy. It means that now United States wouldn’t be sharing any actionable intelligence with the Pakistani forces and wait for action from Pakistani forces, rather they would act and operate at their own in the Pakistani areas. They would infiltrate in FATA, then would surely “chase” militants to the Swat in one direction and Kohat from the other direction and in essence the would be advancing towards Islamabad from two directions.

From all signs it is pretty much clear that now America has forgotten Iraq and Afghanistan for all the practical purposes and they are all set to start a surge in Pakistan. Attacking Iran was never an option, Pakistan was and is. American elections are just round the corner, and even Sarah Palin has failed to reinvigorate the GOP campaign. There only option remains the October Surprise and it has started from the Angor Adda.

Last 5 posts by Brig. (r) Junaid Zaman

• Drones in Bannu, More Near to Pakistani Nuclear Assets - November 19th, 2008
• Obama For Osama - November 13th, 2008
• Sinister Situation in Swat - November 9th, 2008
• Tough Afghans, Soft Americans - November 8th, 2008
• Battlefield FATA - November 6th, 2008