Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has been reluctant to put any serious pressure behind his demands for the US to end drone strikes, but last week’s assassination of Hakimullah Mehsud is bringing the issue to a head.
The pressure is now on for Sharif to agree to shut down NATO’s supply lines through Pakistan into occupied Afghanistan, with an ultimatum from Khyber-Pakhtunkhwah’s (KP) provincial government putting a short timetable on it.
The KP government’s ruling Tehreek-e Insaf (PTI) party has given the US until November 20 to end the attacks, and has threatened their own blockade, effectively rendering the Khyber Pass unusable.
Though there is a secondary route through Balochistan, closing the major route on a provincial level would be a major embarrassment to the Sharif government, and they may ultimately decide that a nationwide closure would be more palatable.
Let us hope a tiny bit of moral fibre invades the Palistani PM.
Looks like shoveling more money into the hands of the Pakistani government ain't gonna cut it much longer. You'd think that with all the smart people in the USG they would have figured out by now that the rest of the world is growing really tired of the arrogant invaders. What is it going to take for the USG to stop creating enemies they'll never be able to defeat? I can't believe that the USG are the only ones in the world who don't understand the hate they are creating.
Looks like shoveling more money into the hands of the Pakistani government ain't gonna cut it much longer. You'd think that with all the smart people in the USG they would have figured out by now that the rest of the world is growing really tired of the arrogant invaders. What is it going to take for the USG to stop creating enemies they'll never be able to defeat? I can't believe that the USG are the only ones in the world who don't understand the hate they are creating.