Friend and Ally Update: "Pakistan accused of supporting Taliban," by Alisa Tang for Associated Press, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - President Hamid Karzai directly accused Pakistan's government Tuesday of supporting the Taliban insurgency in his country, hours after a suicide attacker exploded himself in an Afghan governor's compound, killing eight.Taliban militants have increasingly targeted government officials. Since September, they have killed one provincial governor, narrowly missed another, and killed several district-level police, intelligence and administrative chiefs.
The attacks are aimed at undermining the government of Karzai, who on Tuesday employed some of his toughest rhetoric yet against Pakistan,
Afghanistan's eastern neighbor and a U.S. ally."The problem is not Taliban. We don't see it that way. The problem is with Pakistan," Karzai told foreign journalists during a trip to Kandahar, the Taliban's former stronghold."
He said the Taliban took power with support from Pakistan, calling it "more than a boss."
"The state of Pakistan was supporting the Taliban, so we presume if there is still any Taliban, that they are being supported by a state element."
Hmm, looks like two members of the ummah are ready to go at it. At least Karzai realizes Mushy Raff's duplicity. Why can't other "leaders" do likewise?
IFL,
Maybe they want to believe Mushy Raff so badly, that they are blinded to the truth..
Cheers,
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com
Maybe they want to believe Mushy Raff so badly, that they are blinded to the truth..
Posted by: Doctor Bulldog at December 13, 2006 11:17 AM
Perhaps. Kind of reminds me of the Iranian blabbermouth and his daily "Israel will be gone" statements. He seems to believe that if he wishes long and hard enough it might actually happen.
IFL,
Yeah, that Scientology, "Mind over Matter" belief system seems to be infecting Ahmadinejad and others in the mideast. Someone should tell them that Scientology was written by a Sci-Fi author on a bet that he could convince a group of people to believe a made-up religion...
Cheers,
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com
Doctor Bulldog-
Hmm, this might be a good way to get rid of A-Nut, Mushy Raff and other losers causing trouble. Spread a rumor they're into Scientology-that will enrage the mule-ahs! Then we sit back and watch nature take its course.
Off topic but
Saudi Arabia Warns U.S. It Will Back Iraqi Sunnis If U.S. Troops Pull Out Of Iraq
Hoo yah, this is great news, and proof that we should pull out now, this puts the Wahabbiyyah Saudis in direct conflict with Iran.. if we pull out that is, what could be better, so why is Bush staying.. because he is constitutionally incapable of admitting error and fault.
The comment about Turki al Faisal stepping down as Ambassador is motivated by the "unreported" fact that King Abdullah is either sick or his reign is in jeopardy.. The King of Saudi Arabia is chosen by the consensus of the most powerful sons of King Saud, in this case the Sudairi Seven (so named after their mother Hassa bint Ahmad Al Sudairi.
Turki al Faisal is the chief financier of Bin Laden and the Terrorists (and a family friend of the Bushes) as reported by Michael Moore in Farenheit 9-11 and Craig Unger in House of Bush House of Saud (which Moore used as a resource for F-911).
Can't figure out why "conservatives" always wail about MM, since they never saw his movie, but given that they are puppets and ditto heads of Limpballs and Savage, and Limpballs, Savage and Fox are drones of the Corporate Right, the RNC and Dubya...it is understandable why the talking heads of the regressive right would bad mouth Michael Moore and any critic of Bush..
Ironic that the critics of Bush like Michael Moore, are also the critics of the Saudis who are the chief financiers of Terrorism and the the Jihad.. but no one ever accused the regressive right of being bright...how can they when their hero and their representative is a dysfunctional sociopathic semi literate name of Dubya.
Assalamau Laikum all,
While I accept that work needs to be done, Mushi is doing what he can within the confines of the political/military movement that he has at his disposal. Jizah from the Amerike just does not cover the cost of new armoured vehicles to patrol the whole border with Afghan.
He has been the best of our leaders by a long way. Zia Ul Haq for example, didn't even speak great English.
Obviously Mushi didn't bring about the existence of the Taliban...Zia and the ISI did. Now in order to protect the PaK military Jawans, he has been talking to one or two of Taliban types and brokered deals at the Jigra level.
This most important step has left Karzai isolated with egg over his beard....and it's kind hard to remove in the dust and heat.
Karzai is yesterday's man anyway...his removal will be imminent as soon as Nato disappears...and the Kafur will decide that based on resources, death rates etc.
Still Mushi needs to be supported...he is definately better than the MMA...who if in charge could even extend Taliban rule into Pak itself....and remember (AIG will tell you)
Taliban + Nukes don't mix.
Of course they are aiding the Taliban. Didn't Musharaff recently tell the Allies that they have been defeated by the Taliban in Afganistan? that we should leave?
Ally indeed.
Nariz has apparently not only gone off the deep but OD'd on his meds at the same time.
I notice a trend.
Afghanistan: Pakistan sponsors terror, give us money.
Pakistan: Afghanistan sponsors terror, give us money.
Iraqi Sunnis: Iraqi Shia sponsor terror, give us money
Iraqi Shia: Iraqi Sunni sponsor terror, give us money
Hamas: Fatah sponsors terror, give us money
Fatah: Hamas sponsors terror, give us money.
and so on…
The Taliban hates nukes so much they can't wait to get rid of the ones they have.
YANKEE, DO NOT GO HOME!
I have a hippy-dippy leftist friend with whom I love to argue. Problem is, she is mostly correct. She said way back in 2002, that 9-11 was a trap to pull the world's preeminent superpower into Afghanistan so it could bleed money and men in a fool's errand. Osama said as much. But even Osama had to be pleasantly surprised when Dubya tried to do Iraq on the cheap along with the small matter of fighting Jihad in Afghanistan.
Now, hearing the Saudis threaten a regional conflagration if Yankee goes home, well, that's the coup de grace!
"I notice a trend.
Afghanistan: Pakistan sponsors terror, give us money.
Pakistan: Afghanistan sponsors terror, give us money.
Iraqi Sunnis: Iraqi Shia sponsor terror, give us money
Iraqi Shia: Iraqi Sunni sponsor terror, give us money
Hamas: Fatah sponsors terror, give us money
Fatah: Hamas sponsors terror, give us money.
and so on"
-- from a posting by "Limes" above
Limes is on to something. Would that those who presume to instruct and protect us, to rule over us -- who assume their "leadership roles" though none of them appear to be leaders -- would figure out the same thing.
"I notice a trend.
Afghanistan: Pakistan sponsors terror, give us money.
Pakistan: Afghanistan sponsors terror, give us money.
Iraqi Sunnis: Iraqi Shia sponsor terror, give us money
Iraqi Shia: Iraqi Sunni sponsor terror, give us money
Hamas: Fatah sponsors terror, give us money
Fatah: Hamas sponsors terror, give us money.
and so on"
-- from a posting by "Limes" above
Limes is on to something. Would that those who presume to instruct and protect us, to rule over us -- who assume their "leadership roles" though none of them appear to be leaders -- would figure out the same thing.
Hmmmm..... its been a while since the Taliban attempted the assassinate Musharaff.
Perhaps they all have an agreement in place.
limes-
Great analysis-with all that money going to all those worthies they should all be doing well by now. And since poverty causes terrorism (so we're told by the peaceful ones and their lapdogs) peace should break out at any moment. We should all be grateful at how wisely the government has spent our tax money. Chamberlain's dream of peace in our time is upon us. I can hardly wait.
And WHAT is so suprising about this?
I find it really offensive that the United States still offers F-16s and other deadly weapons to Pakistan.
Is this going to stop any time?
A word to Nariz above:
The last two paragraphs of your posting are not about Jihad. Nor do they constitute an argument. I have not deleted the entire post, but if anything like this appears again, I will do so, and more. And anyone who returns under an alias such as "Giaour" will find increased vigilance. One can criticize Bush; One can deplore his obstinate idiocy. When that ciricism becomes part of some more general conspiracy theory, and then becomes a rant against the "Right," whatever that is, it is time for it to go. This is equal-opportunity banning. I did it earlier today for someone whose recent posts showed signs of finding "Jews" behind every major "social movement" of the "last 200 years" (I presume this includes Fascism and Nazism, not to mention resurgent Islam, and of coures because Marx and some of the earliest Bolsheviks were Jewish, this must mean that Soviet -- and hell, Chinese -- Communism must be "Jewish" in their origins), in other words, that pathological mental condition, still apparently in its early stages, that we all recognize as antisemitism.
But your posts are becoming more and more unhinged.
Hinge them. Or they will be gone.
Reminds me of a story I heard long ago.
It seems on a street in New York were two businesses side by side selling men's clothing. Their sales were competitive. They made commercials belittling each other. They even had fights in front of their stores drawing the newpaper reporters, photographers and radio people (tv was a while away).The did this for years. Their fights were legendary.
One day one died. The second lingered on until he sold out. He left and was never seen again.
After he left, it was discovered the two stores were connected and it was discovered the two competitors were actually brothers selling the same merchandise.
Goes to show appearances can be deceiving (and Islam is deceit.)
Limes:
It isn't money as these terrorist states see it. They perceive it as jizya. We perceive it as money or charity.
The crux of the matter is that we must understand how "they" perceive our charitable gifts. When we send them money and other riches of the West, they perceive it as jizya. Look at post 9/11...we were murdered that day and we gave Pakistan billions. The Pak perceive that as jizya to stop murdering us.
They butcher us and we give them billions! How is this justice? It only proves they can play us. Musharraff is emboldened and more brazen than ever. We should've dealth with Pakistan on 9/12/01 and it wasn't going to be jizya dropping from the sky.
Couldn't we call islam the biggest "Mafia" organization in the world?
Posted by: americaningermany at December 13, 2006 02:35 PM
No. Even the Mafia adheres to a code of conduct, warped as it might be. Islamaniacs are more like the Japanese in China during the 1930's with their "Three Alls" policy-kill all, burn all, loot all. These guys are even better at these things than the originals.
Wrote Ynkdoodle: "I have a hippy-dippy leftist friend with whom I love to argue. Problem is, she is mostly correct. She said way back in 2002, that 9-11 was a trap to pull the world's preeminent superpower into Afghanistan so it could bleed money and men in a fool's errand."
I disagree moderately. Bin Laden also said warfare would bankrupt the Americans. This will not be the case. War can spur an economy upward.
9/11 was a call to jihad for all Muslims and not to spring a trap for the US military. If we had done Afghanistan correctly, we would've destroyed all border villages suspected of harboring terrorism. As Bush said, "we will make no distinction between the terrorists and those who harbour them."
I digress. We never needed to make nice with any of these jihadist, despotic leaders who plunder our treasure. We should have told them, we are coming. If you try to intervene, we will destroy you (refer to previous paragraph). Who cares about installing Karzai or Malaki in Iraq. Let radicals control these regions. Know why? If we banned immigration from all Islamic Republics, they can not possibly harm us. They do not have the technology. If they do attempt to obtain or develop it, we bomb them and their suspect sites. We do not need immigration from Islamic Republics. What about oil? Now is as good a time as any to develop alternatives. We can use Alberta, Texas, Alaska, Russia and African refineries for oil. Russia and Africa are too desperate to turn away our money. Unfortunately, corporate America is calling the shots, so Bush can't enact a harsher policy toward the ME. Therefore, we appear forever mired in the ME and the jizya payments. We could've initiated a break in the cycle post 9/11 but we are even deeper in it with no exit strategy.
We are in the exact position the Muslims want usa to be. Thanks Bush and Condi.
Guess there is just no comparing islam is there?
Posted by: americaningermany at December 13, 2006 02:54 PM
Nope-it stands above everything. Just as its adherents wish. Even if it's not for the reasons that they wish.
Nariz sez:
"Can't figure out why "conservatives" always wail about MM, since they never saw his movie, but given that they are puppets and ditto heads of Limpballs and Savage, and Limpballs, Savage and Fox are drones of the Corporate Right, the RNC and Dubya...it is understandable why the talking heads of the regressive right would bad mouth Michael Moore and any critic of Bush.."
Wow, more regressive LEFTY crap from our resident malignant projective narcissist. Did it ever occur to you that as I have never watched Michael Moore's Leni Riefenstahl-like propaganda pieces, neither have YOU listened to any of the people who you enjoy attempting to discredit?
Did it ever occur to you that you are as much a "puppet" to the Michael Moores, George Soroses, and Daily KOSes of the world as we are to Rush Limbaugh or Michael Savage? As has been properly pointed out, you project upon others your own failures and inconsistencies.
BTW, here are some quotes from your hero:
"We, the United States of America, are culpable in committing so many acts of terror and bloodshed that we had better get a clue about the culture of violence in which we have been active participants."
"They are possibly the dumbest people on the planet." (Moore, speaking about Americans to Britain's Mirror newspaper)
"The Iraqis who have risen up against the occupation are not 'insurgents' or 'terrorists' or 'The Enemy.' They are the REVOLUTION, the Minutemen, and their numbers will grow - and they will win."
"We need to change our ethic and aspire to be more Canadian-like."
"There's a gullible side to the American people. They can be easily misled. Religion is the best device used to mislead them."
"I agree with the National Rifle Association when they say, 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people... Except I would alter that to say, 'Guns don't kill people, Americans kill people.' We're the only country that does this, and we do it on an personal level in our neighborhoods and within our families and our schools, and we do it on a global level. The American attitude is that we believe we have a right to just go in and bomb another country. This is where Bush is going right now, right?"
What is the difference between this guy and Jimmy Carter? Somebody tell me, other than the fact that Moore isn't a failed former-president? The guy hates America and loves all of our enemies.
it seems all things lead to pakistan. about time to send musharaf a few messages, and l am not talking about smoke signals, but a few well placed lobes over to the paki border, squash some taliban huts,they wont have to worry about mother nature sending them earthquakes.
Americaningermany~ I was wondering if perhaps nariz could tell us just which ME country michael moore's oil stocks are sunk in?
Michael Moore has as much of his money invested in the stocks of the "evil corporations" as anyone has. The man is as hypocritical as they come.
Islamisforlosers; Islam is not only the largest Mafia On Earth (that is if you can count its leaders who hide in the Middle East's mosques and who happen to be of Neanderthal/Cro-magnon and not Homo Sapiens lineage) it is also the world's largest death squad.
yohannblimu: We suspect that Michael Moore is subconsciously attracted to Cro-Magnon/Neanderthal type humanoids...
Islamisforlosers; Islam is not only the largest Mafia On Earth (that is if you can count its leaders who hide in the Middle East's mosques and who happen to be of Neanderthal/Cro-magnon and not Homo Sapiens lineage) it is also the world's largest death squad.
Posted by: pythagoras at December 13, 2006 07:29 PM
I don't know-you're smearing both death squads and the Mafia with a comparison with Islam. Besides, they are mostly focused on narrow issues. Now Islam thinks big-it targets EVERYBODY. I like to think of them as the greatest of ethnic cleansers-their list of "accomplishmnets" over 1400 years puts even the Nazis to shame.
We suspect that Michael Moore is subconsciously attracted to Cro-Magnon/Neanderthal type humanoids...
Posted by: pythagoras
The Cro-Magnon and the Neanderthal Communities are deeply offended by being associated with both islam and Michael moore. This slander MUST STOP!
:-)
Nice one, germaninamerica. Indeed, Islam does not represent a progression in humankind but a very sad regression.
Article by KPS Gill three years back, still relevant today
Pakistan- The Core Issue
1. The core issue of instability and violence in South Asia is the character, activities and persistence of the militarized Islamist-fundamentalist state in Pakistan, and no cure for this canker can be arrived at through any strategy of negotiations, support and financial aid to the military regime, or by a ‘calibrated’ transition to ‘democracy’.
2. Footprints of Terror: The ‘footprint’ of every major act of international Islamist terrorism invariably passes through Pakistan, right from 9/11 – where virtually all the participants had trained, resided or met in, coordinated with, or received funding from or through Pakistan – to major acts of terrorism across South Asia and South East Asia, as well as major networks of terror that have been discovered in Europe.
3. The State as Suicide Bomber: Pakistan has harvested an enormous price for its supposed ‘cooperation’ with the US, and in this it has combined deception and blackmail – including nuclear blackmail – to secure a continuous stream of concessions. Its conduct is little different from that of North Korea, which has in the past chosen the pathway of nuclear escalation to secure incremental aid from Western donors. A pattern of sustained nuclear blackmail has consistently been at the heart of Pakistan’s case for concessions, aid and a heightened threshold of international tolerance for its sponsorship and support to Islamist terrorism. To understand how this works, it is useful to conceive of Pakistan as a state acting as a suicide bomber, arguing that, if it does not receive the extraordinary dispensations and indulgences that it seeks, it will, in effect ‘implode’, and in the process do extraordinary harm to others. Part of the threat of this ‘implosion’ is also the specter of the transfer of its nuclear arsenal and capabilities to more intransigent and irrational elements of the Islamist far right in Pakistan, who would not be amenable to the logic that its present rulers – whose interests in terrorism are strategic, and consequently, subject to considerations of strategic advantage – are willing to heed. This is the bluff that the Musharraf dictatorship has confronted the world with, and it has allowed the General to dismiss an elected government; to rig elections; to continue supporting the operation of terrorist groups from, and the existence of their infrastructure on, Pakistani soil; and despite all this, to secure massive financial and political rewards, instead of the natural penalties that should have attached to such criminality of conduct.
1. As is the case with North Korea, Pakistan’s possession of nuclear weapons pushes the world’s ‘threshold of tolerance’ much higher than would be the case in dealing with a non-nuclear entity. It is not possible to deal with a nuclearized Pakistan on the same terms as a non-nuclear Afghanistan or Iraq. Pakistan is aware of its power, and has not hesitated to use it to extract maximal concessions. Even though it does not have capabilities of directly threatening US interests, it can use patterns of ‘lateral deterrence’, threatening to use its arsenal against other states friendly to the US.
2. It is crucial to note in this context that, if the Islamist terrorist groups gain access to nuclear devices, Pakistan will almost certainly be the source. In October 2002, after the US had discovered clinching evidence of contacts between bin Laden and two prominent Pakistani nuclear scientists, Pakistan had been forced to arrest these scientists – Sultan Bashiruddin Mahmood and Abdul Majid. According to American sources, a third Pakistani nuclear scientist had tried to negotiate the sale of an atomic weapon design to Libya. Eventually, however, Pakistan simply decided not to press criminal charges against any of these scientists. At least another six Pakistani scientists connected with the country’s nuclear programme were in contact with Al Qaeda and bin Laden.
3. Pakistan has projected the electoral victory of the fundamentalist and pro-Taliban, pro-Al Qaeda Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) in the November elections as ‘proof’ that the military is the only ‘bulwark’ against the country passing into the hands of the extremists. The fact, however, is that the elections were widely rigged, and this was a fact acknowledged by the European Union observers, as well as by some of the MMA’s constituents themselves. The MMA victory was, in fact, substantially engineered by the Musharraf regime, as are the various anti-US ‘mass demonstrations’ around the country.
4. Nevertheless, whenever there has been sufficient international – and particularly US – pressure on Pakistan to act against this lobby, Pakistan has reluctantly cooperated, with no significant demonstrations of ‘public anger’ from the extremist lobby. In the process, the Musharraf regime, after taking some initial and token action against various Islamist extremist groups in the country – including the Jaish-e-Mohammed, the Lashkar-e-Toiba, and the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, all of which are on the US list of international terrorist organisations – now allows each of these to function with complete freedom, albeit under changed names, though under the same leadership.
4. The ‘Other Face’ of Pakistan’s ‘Moderate’ Dictatorship: Pakistan has made a big case out of the fact that some of the top line leadership of the Al Qaeda has been arrested in the country with the ‘cooperation’ of the Pakistani security forces and intelligence. The fact, however, is that each such arrest only took place after the FBI and US investigators had effectively gathered evidence to force Pakistani cooperation, and little of this evidence has come from the Pakistani agencies. Indeed, Pakistani agencies have consistently sought to deny the presence of Al Qaeda elements in their country, and to mislead US investigators to the extent possible. This deception has been at the very highest level, and Musharraf himself, for instance, initially insisted that he was ‘certain’ that bin Laden was dead. When the bin Laden tapes began to surface – and most of these, again, leave behind a trail that comes from Pakistan – he insisted that, though bin Laden may be alive, he was certainly not in Pakistan. He has also repeatedly stated that there are no Al Qaeda elements in Pakistan. Pakistan’s cooperation in the various arrests that have been made is, without any measure of doubt, coerced.
1. It is notable that the arrests of several senior Al Qaeda operatives, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and Yasir al Jaziri were not from localities in the madrassa (seminary) dominated poorer quarters, but from some of the best quarters of Karachi and Islamabad – localities, moreover, dominated by military officers and government servants. A serving major was also implicated in colluding to provide shelter to Khalid Sheikh Mohammad. The fact is, significant factions of the Pakistani Army and the Inter Services Intelligence – with the backing of various Pakistani terrorist groups that they were instrumental in creating and sustaining – have been actively facilitating the relocation of the Al Qaeda from Afghanistan to Pakistan. While incontrovertible evidence of Musharraf’s personal complicity is not available, or, indeed, possible, the collusion of substantial segments of serving Army and intelligence officers is visible.
2. The idea that the Pakistan problem can be ‘solved’ by liberal ‘developmental’ financing by the international community is a myth. Each dollar of ‘development aid’ or ‘financial relief’ to Pakistan releases a dollar of domestic resources for further militarization, radicalization and extremist religious mobilization. The problem lies at the very foundation of the Pakistani state and the ‘two nation theory’ that led to its creation: the theory that people of different religious communities cannot coexist. This has become the central pillar of the edifice of the military-feudal-fundamentalist combine that has ruled Pakistan for the last 56 years. The problem of religious extremism and terrorism in Pakistan can only be resolved through the ‘deconstruction’ of this Pakistani state, and by dis-empowering this combination of forces through a fundamental ‘regime change’ that goes well beyond a change of leadership, and comprehends a change of ideology and systems of governance. Pakistan will have to be disarmed, denuclearised and democratised if it is to be saved from the extremist forces that currently threaten to consume it.
5. Kashmir – An Ideological Conflict: Pakistan has consistently projected Kashmir as the ‘core issue’ of conflict in South Asia. The fact, however, is that the conflict in South Asia cannot be resolved within Kashmir, through any of the projected solutions of communal bifurcation or partition along religious lines. Such ‘partition’ would, in fact, validate Pakistan’s underlying ideology of religious ‘ghettoisation’, and would be only one stage in the process that can consistently end only with the ‘liberation’ of all of India’s 150 million Muslim’s from the ‘oppression’ of the unbelievers. Indeed, within the pan-Islamist ideology, such a possible outcome would only be a prelude to the wider jehad to bring the entire world of ‘unbelievers’ within the fold of Islam. The fact is, the confrontation between India and Pakistan is not about territory – in Kashmir or elsewhere. It is an irreducible ideological confrontation between a pluralist secular democracy, on the one hand, and a religious fundamentalist, intolerant and exclusionary ideology, on the other, that denies not only rights, but also basic humanity, to those who do not submit to its belief system. The Cold War hostility between the US and the Soviet Union provides an analogy to this pattern of ideological confrontation: once the ideology that sustained the Soviet Union was abandoned, the animus between the two peoples dissolved; while the ideology controlled the centers of Russian power, there was no possibility of settlement between the two countries. So, indeed, is it between India and Pakistan.
1. Any ceding of territories in Kashmir to Pakistan, or the creation of a separate Muslim majority state or quasi-state entity would create a vast and uninterrupted area of potential instability and Islamist extremist mobilization extending from West Asia through Central Asia and across Afghanistan and Pakistan into Kashmir. A very substantial proportion of this region, especially extending through the Pakistan-Afghanistan border areas, the Northern Areas of Pakistan Occupied Kashmir, and much of any such territories that may be separated from the Indian State of Jammu & Kashmir, comprise harsh, inhospitable and poorly policed terrain, which would provide an ideal safe haven for Islamist extremists and terrorists.
2. India has long been fighting the world’s battle against Islamist extremist expansionism, and remains a bulwark against this movement in Jammu & Kashmir.
6. Pakistan Occupied Kashmir (PoK) & the Northern Areas: Populations in the areas illegally occupied by Pakistan have never been granted civil, political or human rights by Pakistan, and remain economically backward and severely deprived even by Pakistani standards. The Northern Areas, particularly, have been separated from the rest of PoK and are not even given limited protection under the Pakistani Constitution. The Shia population who constitute a majority in the Northern Areas has been subjected to repeated and genocidal campaigns of repression – at least one of which was led by General (then Brigadier) Pervez Musharraf himself.
7. Democracy: The effort to orchestrate a transition to democracy through a controlled military regime is fundamentally flawed, and has, in fact, immensely weakened democratic and secular forces in Pakistan, even as it has further entrenched the military-jehadi-feudal combine of revanchist forces in the country.