Pakistani Army Slams ‘Insulting’ US Aid Bill

Military Joins Growing Chorus of Opposition to Kerry-Lugar Bill

by Jason Ditz, October 07, 2009

In the latest indication yet of growing opposition to the conditions tied to a US offer of billions in aid, Pakistan’s Chief of Army Staff General Parvez Kayani lodged a formal protest with US General Stanley McChrystal, declaring that the military was “furious” at the observations made in the bill and comments made by US officials since its passage.

On October 8, a large suicide bomb exploded near the Indian embassy of the Afghan capital Kabul, killing 17 people and wounding dozens. The blast exploded across the road, where the office of the Afghan Interior Ministry is also located. New Delhi said that its embassy had been the target of the attack, but its entire staff was safe.

On October 8, a large suicide bomb exploded near the Indian embassy of the Afghan capital Kabul, killing 17 people and wounding dozens. The blast exploded across the road, where the office of the Afghan Interior Ministry is also located. New Delhi said that its embassy had been the target of the attack, but its entire staff was safe.

Although Afghanistan has witnessed a number of suicide attacks in the recent weeks, yet this explosion near the Indian embassy is part of the continued plot against Pakistan which is the only nuclear country in the Islamic world, and the US-backed Indo-Israeli nexus whose secret agents have well-established themselves in Afghanistan are determined to destablise Pakistan under one or the other pretext. Question arises in the mind of people as to how New Delhi can arrange a bomb blast near its own embassy in collusion with the secret agencies of the US and Israel. The reply is quite clear, which can better be understood by students of international relations.