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-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 6:31 pm Subject: Bismillah [IslamCity] US tells Pakistan: Forget your defense against India Note: forwarded message attached. Abida Rahmani If all the trees in the world were used to make paper it would not be sufficient to write all the blessings provided to us. Looking for last minute shopping deals? Find them fast with Yahoo! Search. Attached Message From: Abdus Sattar Ghazali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Abdus-Sattar Ghazali <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: US tells Pakistan: Forget your defense against India Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2008 13:42:58 -0700 (PDT) US tells Pakistan: Forget your defense against India By Abdus Sattar Ghazali American military officials are telling Pakistan’s military generals to forget your defense capabilities against India - with whom Pakistan has fought three wars – and gear all military preparedness to fighting militants in the volatile tribal territory along border with Afghanistan. The New York Times reported today (March 16, 2008) that Bush administration and military officials have expressed concerns that some of the $5 billion the United States has reimbursed Pakistan since 2001 for conducting military operations to fight terrorism has been diverted to help finance weapons systems better suited to counter India, not Al Qaeda or the Taliban. American officials in the Pentagon and State Department are surprised that senior Pakistani officers and security officials are not yet willing to reduce a traditional commitment to fight a conventional land war with India, despite greatly reduced tensions now between the long-time adversaries, the paper said. The paper quoted US officials as saying that the main disagreement in Pakistan is over whether to gear up a counterterrorism campaign against Islamic extremists or to try to shore up a conventional force focused on potential threats from India. The New York Times said that the US officials were surprised at the Pakistani military request for an advanced air defense radar — even though Taliban and Qaeda fighters have no air forces. “They want this kind of hardware, while we are suggesting training and different procedures,” an American officer said. When American officials offered assistance in surveillance and reconnaissance, the Pakistanis requested Predators, the state-of-the-art remotely controlled aircraft that is in short supply even in the American military. “We are suggesting radios and surveillance equipment — but not the kinds of hardware with long training timelines and lots of maintenance needs,” the officer said. “We want them to want counterinsurgency stuff. They want to fight India.” Pakistan’s pledge to fight Al Qaeda and Taliban militants in the restive tribal areas is being weakened by this disagreement, the paper stressed. Abdus Sattar Ghazali is the Executive Editor of the online magazine American Muslim Perspective: www.amperspective.com email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now.
