Separated at birth: Zia Ul-Haq and prisoner from the movie Papillon.
Sheik Yer’Mami (PBUH) reminds us:
Pakistan was built on Islam and nothing but Islam. The ongoing purges in Pakistan and Banglatrash are gradual implementation of the islamic horror, until it all looks like soddy barbaria. ‘wipe the unbelievers out to the last’ is not just some empty phrase. The “mercy” and the “compassion” they advertise is only good for those who convert under pressure, the others must be raped and killed. There is no other Islam, that’s it.
Tundra Tabloids contributor, Anushirvan:
The destabilization of Pakistan is the final result of Zia Ul-Haq’s re-islamization campaign of the late seventies and the subsequent tightening of relations with Saudi Arabia, thus colluding to fill the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence Directorate (ISI) membership with a disproportionate amount of Salafist – inclined officials.
This shit hole country’s duplicity has been going on for at least since Afghan Communist ex-president Najibullah’s 1992 flight to Kabul’s UN compound and the further disintegration of Afghanistan from that point onwards.
About two years ago, I had read ‘The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers’ by Peter Tomsen, who documents this concisely and absolutely NOTHING has changed since, it seems !
All the issues involved today were already in place since the 90′s : ISI’s cooperation with the Saudi intelligence agencies, its logistic and financial backing of terrorist groups (Lashkar e Taiba, Lashkar e Jhangvi, Haqqani Network, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Al Qaeda, Taliban) and affiliated political parties (Jamaat e Ulema e Islam, Jamaat e Islami), Saudi backing of specific warlords via ISI (Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Jalaluddin Haqqani, Abdul Rasul Sayyaf), the organization of Deobandi and Naqshbandi – affiliated mosque and madrassa networks on the Af-Pak border, Pervez Musharraf’s involvement in Kashmir insurgencies, and the like…
Mind-boggling elements that defy any explanation as to why the US seems to be so desperate to keep elevating these duplicitous assholes to the status of privileged allies in the region.
You have to wonder what’s going on. At least three consecutive US administrations have been willfully blind of what’s going on right in front of their noses. It never stops, and consecutive US governments will never see the light for some reason only known to the highest cenacles of power.
Thanks to the scheming of their own security agencies, Pakistani citizens will have to live with the further terrorist disruption of their day to day lives, and the scope of groups like Tehreek e Taliban will probably widen to include all Sunnis they consider heretics one way or another, not just politicians, members of NGO’s or journalists, but most ordinary citizens, too. A Taliban realm is gradually establishing itself in Pakistan, Afghanistan 2.0 !