Secret Pakistan: Documentary implicating Pakistan.

We must see what they say...

Secret Pakistan: Backlash Part 1/6 Backlash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k6weRBmqJw&feature=autoplay&list=LLz347J452X8OwU5PED7_LBg&lf=mh_lolz&playnext=1

Secret Pakistan: Backlash Part 2/6 Backlash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2QI7GlM9Pc&feature=related

Secret Pakistan: Backlash Part 3/6 Backlash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpKTbHQnwUY&feature=related

Secret Pakistan: Backlash Part 4/6 Double Cross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuVON8uSkYs&feature=related

Secret Pakistan: Double Cross Part 5/6 Double Cross
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMndWdiyf2k&feature=related

Secret Pakistan: Backlash Part 6/6 Backlash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AwoNv3nT4WA&feature=related

We must address the issue to the satisfaction of the people of Pakistan and the world community. If we don't, the people of Pakistan will suffer. Politicians just enjoy their corruption, the Ministers their positions, Diplomats their perks, Government Officers their salaries. Who is going to do something and work and do justice to what they are being paid for. Our problem was Kashmir, not Afghanistan. If we are double crossing, it is not to our advantage. Why are we putting our neck for someone else who are never ever going to be grateful. Note and remember this when Nato leaves.

Memo to Mike Mullen - if true it is dangerous. Army is not going to like it.

This is an article from Washington Post. Thinker thinks that such messages if at all are given orally and not through a memo to have a record. Seems highly incredible. But if it has happened it shows how stupid the handlers have been...

In Pakistan, a deep civil-military divide

ARIF ALI/AFP/Getty Images - Pakistan’s powerful army has become enraged after a secret memo indicated President Asif Ali Zardari’s government asked for U.S. help to prevent a military coup following the Navy SEAL raid in May that killed Osama bin Laden.

• Text Size
• Print
• E-mail
• Reprints

By Karin Brulliard and Karen DeYoung, Thursday, November 17, 1:50 PM

LAHORE, Pakistan — A growing storm over a confidential memo is laying bare the profound division between Pakistan’s powerful army and its civilian government, and the nation’s relationship with the United States is again at the center of the gulf.

At issue are allegations that the government of President Asif Ali Zardari asked for U.S. help to prevent a military coup after the Navy SEAL raid in May that killed Osama bin Laden in Pakistan. The claim is thought to have enraged Pakistan’s army, and the resulting controversy prompted Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani, to offer his resignation this week.

25

Comments

• Weigh In
• Corrections?

inShare

Video

Following the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, tensions have increased between the United States and one of its top Middle Eastern allies, Pakistan. (Oct. 27)

Graphic

More On This Story

• Read more stories from around the world
• Egyptians fear return of Mubarak allies
• Syria edging closer to armed civil conflict
• N. Korea makes progress on nuclear plant

View all Items in this Story

Zardari’s government has nominally been leading Pakistan since 2008. But real power remains in the hands of the military, which has ruled the South Asian nation for half its 64-year existence and was livid after the U.S. operation against bin Laden. Though both the army and the civilian government receive billions of dollars in American assistance, the military views the United States, and its support for Zardari’s unpopular administration, with deep distrust.

That attitude is widespread in Pakistan, where patriotism is equated with support for the military and the United States is often seen more as bully than friend.

Against that backdrop, a column published last month in the Financial Times has proved explosive. In it, Pakistani American businessman Mansoor Ijaz asserted that a senior Pakistani diplomat — whom he identified Thursday as Haqqani — asked him to help relay a request to the then-chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, to stop the military from staging a coup.

The memo, a copy of which was provided by Ijaz to The Washington Post, warns that a military takeover would result in “potentially the platform for far more rapid spread of al Qaeda’s brand of fanaticism and terror.” The upheaval in the wake of the bin Laden killing, it said, provided “a unique window of opportunity” for “civilians to gain the upper hand over army and intelligence directorates.”

It said that in exchange for U.S. “direct intervention” to convey a strong no-coup message to Gen. Ashfaq Kayani, leader of Pakistan’s military, a newly appointed civilian national security team would shepherd an independent investigation of the bin Laden matter and terminate any “active service officers” found to have been complicit in concealing the al-Qaeda leader.

Pakistan, it said, would also move to hand over all remaining al-Qaeda leaders on its soil, as well as Taliban leader Mohammad Omar and Sirajuddin Haqqani of the Haqqani insurgent network. Alternatively, it could give “U.S. military forces a ‘green light’ to conduct the necessary operations to capture or kill them on Pakistani soil,” the memo said.

It said the civilian government would eliminate “Section S” of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency, a unit that handles relations with insurgent groups; bring to justice the perpetrators of the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai; and implement new measures to secure Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.

US bashing will not help Pakistan...

There was not a smile, it was plain talking, stop bashing US and churning up conspiracy theories...

The surprise visit of The Secretary of State is of great significance under the circumstances. She echoed the sentiments of lots of thinking Pakistanis. She spoke of Pakistan solving its own problems. She spoke of corruption. More later time permitting.