Pakistan, a fair weather friend
"Pakistan betrayed?" by Shamol Saha (Oct 14).
Shamol Saha is absolutely right when he says: "Bluntly put, Pakistan hardly needs to be betrayed! The country Pakistan has tried to play a double game with the US and has made Americans very frustrated. The real elephant in the room is Osama and his surrogates in the mountains of Waziristan."
In fact, Pakistan has been a fair weather friend which has tried to extract as much economic and military aid from America pretending to fight the Taliban while harbouring them in the tribal areas. The Taliban/al-Qaeda and their acolytes are attacking the American and Afghan troops using Pakistan's tribal areas as their staging posts. As long as the Taliban continue to attack the American and Afghan troops from their bases in Pakistan, they will remain legitimate targets. However, Pakistan has come to realise that the Taliban are also trying to destabilise Pakistan by carrying out suicide bombings as the latest bombing of Marriott hotel in Islamabad has shown. Instead of criticising, Pakistan should co-operate with the Americans to wipe out the Taliban and their violent surrogates.
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