Comments on: Pakistan creates its own enemy http://pulsemedia.org/2009/11/06/pakistan-creates-its-own-enemy/ "Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one." Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:44:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: AA http://pulsemedia.org/2009/11/06/pakistan-creates-its-own-enemy/#comment-9349 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:53:26 +0000 http://pulsemedia.org/?p=16383#comment-9349 What is the solution? Imran Khan was against the military action but the conditions in Swat were indeed turning for the worse…
In the absence of strong political will, economic backbone and cohesive society, it is a catch 22…

]]> By: Word http://pulsemedia.org/2009/11/06/pakistan-creates-its-own-enemy/#comment-7505 Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:31:12 +0000 http://pulsemedia.org/?p=16383#comment-7505 Its amazing how much of these important details were left out of the western media.

Its also amazing how many of these details most Pakistanis are either ignorant of or choose to ignore.

]]> By: Military Metaphysics and the Native Informer. By Muhammad Idrees Ahmad « Kanan48 http://pulsemedia.org/2009/11/06/pakistan-creates-its-own-enemy/#comment-6974 Fri, 25 Dec 2009 03:11:25 +0000 http://pulsemedia.org/?p=16383#comment-6974 [...] Under US pressure in May 2009 the Pakistani military launched a major incursion into Swat precipitating the largest refugee crisis since Rwanda. In his inimitable style Hoodbhoy described the incident that triggered this utterly avoidable human tragedy as ‘a miracle of sorts’. He denounced as ‘apologists for the Taliban’ all who urged caution, chief among them ‘opinion-forming local TV anchors’, and lamented that the ‘government’s massive propaganda apparatus lay rusting’. Anyone who suggested that the US presence next door or the indiscriminate drone attacks as possible destabilizing factors he accused of harbouring ‘festering resentments which [produce] a paranoid mindset that blames Washington for all of Pakistan’s ills’. At a time when most agreed that the problems were political and needed to be resolved accordingly, Hoodbhoy was gung-ho, advising the state to use ‘all possible means, including adequate military force’. In 2008 when eleven Pakistani soldiers were killed by US forces at a border post, Hoodbhoy described the resulting outrage as an instance of ‘anti-Americanism’. An incredulous Hoodbhoy wrote in Dawn that ‘some newspaper and television commentators want Pakistan to withdraw from the American-led war on Al Qaeda and the Taliban, to stop US fuel and ammunition supplies into Afghanistan, and hit hard against Afghan troops when provoked’. That newspapers and television commentators should reflect what according to an IRI poll is the wish of 80% of Pakistanis? Such temerity! (For background on Pakistan’s domestic ‘war on terror’ franchise, see my ‘Pakistan creates its own enemy’) [...]

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