Let me jog peoples memories , it seems we (Pakistanis) are loosing sight of our objective
Sep 11 resulted in a coup by the anti Muslim forces , where by America led by a nincompoop told the world you are either with us or against us , while the Israeli involvement in sep 11 is not proven never the less it was seen as a 'good' thing from their perspective and on record stated to be the case
Our war that is Pakistan's war did not start in the aftermath of 11th of sep , it started on the eve of 14th august 1947 soon after independence
Neither India nor Afghanistan accepted our new born nation and both countries made attempts to kill Pakistan in its infancy , they did not succeed
While the fight against India is well documented and understood , the fight against Afghanistan is less documented because they happen to share the same faith as we do
Both India and Afghanistan saw the federally administered tribal area as the point of ingress and the point from where agitation against the Pakistani state can be done to achieve the goal of killing Pakistan
There are numerous cables of the US embassy that document the tag team effort between the government of India and the RGA ( royal government of Afghanistan ) to destabilise Pakistan to the extent that it breaks apart
Pakistan took the fight to it enemies , with the afghan government to the west and India to the east , rest is history
Coming back to sep 11, in the backdrop of the above before Sep 11 Pakistan had managed to secure ties with a non hostile regime in Afghanistan, which up until then had not been the case , the Taliban regime however it may have been was not hostile to Pakistan like previous or the current afghan regime
The American threat of either u are with us or against us forced Pakistan to realign itself which resulted in the removal of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan , no doubt there were and are ill feeling about what happened but we did what was in our national interest
The Americans wanted to punish Pakistan and they did so by launching covert CIA operations inside Pakistan whose funding has been recently revealed to be in excess of 50 billion dollars , this money was used to rent out sell outs and inject mercenaries like Raymond Davis and the US Embassy was ramped up to be a CIA outpost , perhaps the largest outside continental United States
It became clear that America wanted Pakistan in its deadly embrace, this was also the time that Gen Musharaf was seeking to legitimise his military rule.
The army set out to secure its tribal frontier since it became clear should America start to bomb FATA , that will lead to direct confrontation with America and that had to be avoided.
As Pakistan started to move its troops into FATA , the randi rona from various quarters started
The Pathan net cried foul , as FATA is holy land and army was not supposed to go there
The American saw the opportunity to ignite civil war hence it kept asking Pakistan to do more
The old afghan dream of killing Pakistan was re kindled in the aftermath
Our Army has taken the brunt of the multi pronged assault on Pakistan , there can be no doubt about this
Knowing all of the above the workable strategy was , is and will remain so that we will hit and destroy those militant groups that attack Pakistan ,while not letting America have a free pass in our country to do as she wants to , militants that are focused on Afghanistan are not our problem .. Although America India and Afghanistan all want them to be our problem
Who informed you that NATO was interested in the first place. When there was an operation going on in South Waziristan, NATO forces simply abandoned their check posts from the Afghanistan side, allowing some wanted militants to escape inside Afghan territory. Pakistan army was constantly complaining about such hopeless tactics of NATO forces but of no use. Secondly, terrorists are using weapons snatched from the NATO forces already, so thanks for your shown concern, by one way or another we are going to wipe them out....Absolutely no doubt about that.
