Sunday, October 21, 2012

Pakistan has two heads.


Currently, the Pakistan Propagandists, which are the country's militias, are beginning their 'threat dialogue' regarding the education of girls and women. This is a problem within Pakistan and as long as there is a militia called Taliban, as long as Pakistan has a nuclear program, there will be the two headed snake of Pakistan roaming the country seeking to always remind the citizens that their government is not the most powerful entity in their lives.
Pakistan’s military high command fears the Pentagon’s contingency plans to seize its nukes. Following the clandestine strike by US SEALs that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in May 2011, it loaded elements of its nuclear arsenal onto trucks, which rumbled around the country to frustrate any possible American attempt to grab its most prized possessions. When Senator John Kerry arrived in Islamabad to calm frayed nerves following Bin Laden’s assassination, high Pakistani officials insisted on a written US promise not to raid their nuclear arsenal. He snubbed the demand.
Since then mutual distrust between the two nominal allies—a relationship encapsulated by some in the term “AmPak”—has only intensified. Last month, for instance, Pakistan became the sole Muslim country to officially call on the Obama administration to ban the fourteen-minute anti-Islamic video clip “The Innocence of Muslims,” which depicts the Prophet Muhammad as a womanizer, religious fraud and pedophile.
While offering a bounty of $100,000 for the killing of Nakoula Basseley Nakoula, an Egyptian-American Christian producer of the movie, Pakistan’s Railways Minister Ghulam Ahmad Bilour called on Al Qaeda and the Pakistani Taliban to be “partners in this noble deed.” Prime Minister Raja Ashraf distanced his government from Bilour’s incitement to murder, a criminal offense under Pakistani law, but did not dismiss him from the cabinet. The US State Department strongly condemned Bilour’s move....