The US Embassy in Pakistan issued a public demand today that the Pakistani government stop subjecting American diplomats to routine detentions and searches at police checkpoints.
Officials have complained the policy amounts to harrassment, adding that embassy vehicles have been seized by police and officials are being detained for what police say is improper paperwork or carrying unlicensed weapons.
Many see the treatment as another expression of the growing anti-American sentiment in the country, where official support for the US is often at odds with a public angered by constant US drone strikes and reports of US spies and contractors infiltrating the nation.
The Pakistani government, for its part, insists the increased detentions are part of a ratcheting up of security in the wake of endless high profile attacks. They insisted that the US of all people should understand the value of the security checks, likely a reference to an announcement earlier this week that Pakistani citizens traveling to the US would be subjected to “extra scrutiny.”
Police are still holding three embassy employees, apparently Pakistani nations, for interrogation. They insisted that the plates on their consular vehicle were fakes.
Iraq and Afghanistan are tiny nations,not so much in volume of land,but in numbers of people,like Grenada or Panama.Pakistan or Iran are big nations,powerful nations maybe not like the U.S.,Russia or China but big enough.Any nation that is going to shove Iran or Pakistan around had better have almost unlimited wealth and a million troops to send to those countries.I really don't know of any country in the world today that is in the position to do that.
Iraq and Afghanistan are not tiny, either in area or in population.
OOOOOO So it goes, but hey, no one said life would be fair.. I suppose that unlicensed weapons is a minor provocation to burnt debris of their CHILDREN, lest I drone on and on I will cut to the chase…… How can or should Pakistan TRUST or even HELP the tottering broke Super Debtor Nation who's Congress is owned by the Muslim hating Neocons… Isn't their real goal to wreck anything Islamic ESPECIALLY Nuclear Islamic….. Remember Iran…??? Not ONE nuke for Iran, but O.K. for the state with perpetual war with its neighbors, living on stolen land, disputed land and annexed land
with the Apartheid social structure of confiscation deregation, starvation and separation to have hundreds or even THOUSANDS of nuclear weapons or maybe none…. O.K. for them to play nuclear
Kabuki, but don't try it in Terhan… So it is this state that heavily influences, I would say controls U.S. policy on anything that tangentally affects or is related to mideast policy… Combine that circumstance with the oil mafia that did much of the heavy LIFTING on the WMD hoax on Iraq lusting after some "liberal" right of way arrangements and BINGO…. Breakup of Pakistan…. Anyone can see how much this large power and friends respect Pakistan's sovereignty and the lives of their citizens… And isn't the self confessed ANTI MUSLIM Crusader and Christian avenger Eric Prince contracting for his drone bourn glee at dismembered Muslims and Pentagon dollars?? Gee, I wonder why Pakistanis don't seem to be endowed with the milk of human kindness or their fellow humans occupying their kindred neighbor Afghanistan…!!
USA can do whatever canin Pakistan no one can tuch or stop USA. Pakistan Govt and army is a zionist contol and money. This is what so called Muslim Govt.
Bye Bye Pakistan.
It is unclear what you are trying to say. These countries and their cultures existed long before US was even heard of. The Iranians who fought wars against the Greeks complain bitterly about the preoccupation of US with their reputed weapons of mass destruction while applying double standards or no standards whatsoever elsewhere.
The stupid and dumb Pakistanis made one big mistake of their life and that was aligning with an untrustworhty, faceless friend America, promising everything in need for a short time life support as we have seen in Afghanistan before in the war against the Soviets and then after 9/ 11 against the fanatic, intolerent Talib hordes in Afghanistan. The reward from United States in return for a worn torn country hosting 4 million refugees was imposing of economic sanctions. Left without money and resources the war experienced Talibs quickly seized the opportunity by opening Quran schools where the Wahabi Islam was imported from Saudi Arabia on a massive scale. What other and better results would you expect now ? The Talibs won't be able to get access to any nukes and even if they did they would not be able to fire one missile at any target because of their illiteracy. Infact the nukes may wipe out the Talibs themselves, like a child playing with a rifle. So why foment fear? May be because of bad consciousness towards the Islamic states, most of whom are on one US blacklist of one kind or the other.
The newly placed scrutiny of passengers from Pakistan is equally unjustified and which came at the recommendation of US Senator Joseph Liebermann, who is not even ashamed of visiting Pakistan immediately afterwards and enjoying the hospitality in Pakistan is another example of US double standards. What else should one say ?
With every drone attack US is driving the people more towards the Talibs themselves as they see saviours in them, with a common goal of lasting peace, prosperity and respect.. Does the US have such a strategy of winning the hearts and minds of the people concerned in this manner ? No, the answer is an outright no as all the US generals only have their career ladders in mind, no matter what harm is made to the US in the long run.
Pakistan cannot be broken up as the people of most of the provinces do not want that to happen anyway and to harm the country itself but want to rid themselves of the most corrupt politicians in the world and the generals with their own agenda of filling their own pockets, once they are driven in to Power thru the corrupt politicians. This is the ultimate dilemma of this nation which should have never been carved out of India in the first place. This is my honest opinion and is directed against no individual and no nation including the Sfghanstan, india Iran or the US itself.