Nation should rise against bombing of Quetta
Editorials Tuesday, September 29th, 2009A LATEST report by a UK newspaper has once again brought to focus what plans the United States has in store for Quetta. The Sunday Times has reported that the United States was threatening to launch air strikes
on Mulla Omar and the Taliban leadership in Quetta ‘as frustration mounts about the ease with which they (allegedly) find sanctuary across the border from Afghanistan’.
The dangers are looming large and the deliberate leak about bombing of Quetta is not a hollow warning if one takes into account other related developments and the growing shift in the US policy vis-à-vis the war on terrorism. Alarm bells should have rung much before in the power circles in Pakistan as Quetta and Muridke have clearly been mentioned in the Kerry-Lugar Bill, the adoption of which is being propagated as one of the biggest achievements of the present regime. On a number of occasions in the past as well, Americans leaked similar reports alleging that Quetta has become abode of Taliban and even Al-Qaeda leadership, as if the provincial capital is an inaccessible territory where from terrorists can plan and launch their activities.
Americans have long been planning something nefarious about Balochistan and that is why they are extending tacit support to Indian interference there. Not only that, there are also reports that they have been launching operations against Iran from the soil of Balochistan as a result of which misunderstanding mars otherwise good relations between Pakistan and brotherly Iran. The fact that most of the elements of the BLA are based in Afghanistan, where Americans are in control of virtually everything, also corroborates reports that trouble in Balochistan is fomented with active connivance of some foreign powers.
Americans have miserably failed both in Iraq and Afghanistan and they are now focusing on Pakistan for the sake of face-saving as they find here some readily pliant quarters to advance their objectives. Under these circumstances, it is time that the nation gets united to ward off the danger and foil designs of those who want to destabilize nuclear Pakistan as part of their long-term agenda. While we would urge the Government to announce the much-delayed Balochistan package with a view to creating congenial atmosphere for promotion of national unity and solidarity, the issue should be discussed threadbare in the forthcoming sessions of the Senate and the National Assembly.
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on Sep 29 2009. Filed under Editorials.
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WAR , Never was , never is & never will be a solution to sustainable peace anywhere in the world! Historically speaking wars in the past before discovering oil resources, were also meant for invasions to rule the countries for economics / financial gains like the Brits came into subcontinent and other parts of the world too, but left behind the problems such as Palestine & Kashmir, which still remain unresolved !Gen McChrystal, it appears as you are fighting for a mission immpossible, rather! Its about time to stand up and urge US / West & all the stakeholders involved to hault any plans to attack on the Pakistani soil, which might result catastrophic for the entire region and no ultimate gains would consummate!
if americans bomb quetta all pakistanis should skin american soldiers and commanders and along with the leaders so called leaders of pakistan who have palaces and dogs to americans there should be a very bloody revolution and all these chaudharys ,zardaris, shareefs should be hanged in public square along with their slave ministers who dont have the courage to say no or army should take these bastrds to task .Army shouldsay that bombing queta is not never will be acepted