Scores of people, including at least 20 civilians were killed today as Pakistani warplanes launched a large number of air strikes against the Khyber and Orakzai Agencies, ostensibly aimed at targeting the Lashkar-e Islamic (LeI)
The LeI, one of an almost innumerable number of militant groups across the tribal areas, caught the Pakistani government’s ire when they attacked a NATO supply convoy. Pakistan also claimed the group was planning to launch suicide attacks in Peshawar.
NATO has been relying on the Khyber Agency as a route for supplies to its war in Afghanistan for years, and the route is becoming all the more important as flooding renders alternative routes through Pakistan impassable.
But the civilian toll of the attacks is likely to fuel even more resentment against both the Pakistani government and against the US-led war in Afghanistan, which precipitated the attack.
Zardari is competing with Karzai for the most obedient dog loyal to Evil Empire, looks like he is winning.
When Haiti had an earthquake the US gov't and media pretended to want to help. Pakistan has a flood, and we exacerbate the suffering. There's no Hollywood telethon. No pious calls for people to dig deep.
There is a revolution brewing in Pakistan and it is about real estate. You don't hear much about it because it's Pakistan's dirty little secret. And guess who is on which side..?? Yaa, of course Its the U.S. who under the leadership of the Moron Prince threw in their lot with, you guessed it, the landlord class… It was part and parcel with their "Tax the Poor" campaign with the tax cuts/elimination for the very rich and the super rich…!!! The Taliban wisely, and by position and necessity is supporting the tenants.. Now that the means of production has been crippled, the strife can ONLY accelerate and HISTORY is NOT on the side of feudalism and it's wealthy ownership class. So by position and necessity, the empire has wedded itself to this landlord class.. What will be the future of these landlords who require the services of state forces to enforce their demands?
http://www.topnews.in/swat-landowners-reluctant-r…
"Some of the landowners are angry over the way the Army treated them during the offensive. They do not trust the troops as they failed to provide security to them when needed.
"We have sacrificed so much, what has the government and the military done for us?" asked Sher Shah Khan, a Swat landholder.
Sher Mohammad, a landlord and a prominent Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader of the region said people now did not trust the security forces.
"They said, we will protect you, I said, we don't trust you," Mohammad recalled saying at a meeting with the military in Peshawar.
The reluctance of the landowners to return is a significant blow to the Pakistan military's campaign to restore Swat as a stable and prosperous part of the country and also presents an ample opportunity to the Taliban to utilise the condition of the region according to their advantage."
Interesting how the military's plan to "stabilize" Pakistan into a " a stable and prosperous part of the country" involves restoring the feudal system….. Would YOU bet on them and their nuclear weapons……. Remember how the nuclear weapons helped South Africa when you choose…