Pakistani people have again been stabbed in the back by Zardari and Kayani duo. Lives of 24 Pakistani soldiers are not worth a teddy paisa. Pakistani sovereignty was violated and no one protested. The collusion of a crook with an unsophisticated Army Chief has resulted in loss of national pride. Pakistan has pulled defeat from the hands of victory. The incompetance of a matriculate ticket black-marketer and an uncouth military leader has resulted in a lose-lose situation for Pakistani people. The nation can weep at how cheap are lives of its brave sons, who guard its frontiers. It is bad day for Pakistan Armed forces and its leadership. It is better for them to drown themselves, as the the Urdu Kahawat says, “choloo bharh paney.” This is what happens when one of the best Armed Forces in the world are led by one of the poorest leadership in the history of Pakistan Army, except, that of Gen.Niazi, Hamid Khan, and Tikka Khan.
After Clinton Apology, Pakistan to Reopen Supply Lines
No Fees for Transport, Pakistan Promises
President Obama may have never directly apologized himself for the US attack on Pakistan in November which killed 24 Pakistani soldiers, but Secretary of State Hillary Clinton finally did today, and apparently that’s close enough for the Zardari government, which is reopening supply lines to occupied Afghanistan.
The supply route was closed almost immediately after the November killings, and US officials have said it has cost them an extra $100 million a month to send supplies through the more expensive northern route. Only yesterday the Pentagon was seeking more money for the war on these grounds.
Pakistan’s parliament initially conditioned the reopening of the border on an apology from Obama and the end to US drone strikes. The US ruled out both and then rejected a compromise deal for a transport fee as “price gouging.” Pakistan has promised not to bring back the fee, according to Clinton.
So in the end a nice cheap apology, given half a year after the fact, was enough to resolve the issue. This is likely to be enormously unpopular in Pakistan, where massive anti-US protests have become growingly common and opposition parties are positioning themselves as less pliable on the US issue for the upcoming elections
