Pakistan Has Dug Itself Into A Shit-Hole … How Will They Dig Themselves Out? - With Video
Pakistan is pretty much in a shit-hole right now.
The little “credibility” they had with the serious civilized world about fighting terrorism is being questioned by their continued, harboring, coddling, enabling, and ignoring the cancerous growth within their own country to the end result of a huge terrorist attack on another powerful country’s soil. Sound familiar? Think 9-11-01 … Saudi Arabia … They are close to rivaling Saudi Arabia in being the tree from which all terrorism is rooted in the world.
On one side they have the Taliban and Al-Qaeda and any number of marauding, murdering, filthy-scum-bastard terrorists jumping back and forth daily between the Pakistan border and Afghanistan … prompting our unmanned drones (if not our “covert” Special Forces units?) to cross over for strikes on villages to take out the major troublemakers. Pakistan has become “Laos and Cambodia” in our war in A-stan.
Then there is last week’s slaughter of the innocents in Mumbai, India by a terrorist group from Pakistan, although Pakistan insists they weren’t from Pakistan … but evidence and prisoner confession says otherwise. This recent invasion and siege has set the wheels of war between the two nuke countries into motion once again.
Not to mention the inner-strife Pakistan has always been going through in its own government. Constantly on the brink of civil war within. The assassination of Benazir Bhutto nearly a year ago. The displeasure of former Pres. Musharraf who was first forced out of control of Pakistan’s military … and finally out of the presidential office. Its military cannot be trusted to do their part in cracking down on the terrorist elements within the country. The authorities all the way up the chain of command to the top office are questionable on this matter. What we don’t know about the juggling job Pres. Musharraf had to do while in office to be our ally, in addition to keeping his country from bursting apart at the seems … well, I don’t wanna know.
Right now, Pakistan makes Iraq look like a century old successful democracy with a low crime rate.
Now it appears, for the umpteenth time, the Taliban is threatening to “Take Over The Entire Country Of Pakistan … Very, Very Soon (Video Link)“.
So, yeah … Sucks to be Pakistan …
Ready for a Xanax moment? Pakistan is said to be ready to pull 100,000 troops off the Afghanistan border and deploy them on the border with India (not that they’re helping out that much with that whole Taliban to A-stan traffic anyway). It is clear the terrorist tribes in that area of the world want to instigate major upheaval between the two nations that are on constant eggshells with each other, not to mention their history of previous bloody wars. It would destabilize the region, possibly prompting one or the other to press the nuke button. But on a less blockbuster Hollywood movie scale and a more radical political scale, completely fuck-up everything our country, our President, and hundreds of thousands of our troops sacrificed, worked and fought so hard to accomplish these last nearly eight years … ahead of a completely different president, administration and a US Congress controlled by the anti-war party. Countries such as Afghanistan and Iraq would be seized upon in bloodbaths of those countries’ indigenous populations … and the lives of our troops deployed there.
Pakistan had better wake up and get busy because one of these “threats to take over the country” by the evil-doers might not be pure braggadocio and bravado from the flea-bitten, blood-stained dregs infesting their country. And then Pakistan will be at the mercy of India … and possibly the United States.
It’s your move, Pakistan.
India Demands Pakistan Take ‘Strong Action’ Against Attackers
MUMBAI, India  India demanded Pakistan take “strong action” against those behind the 60-hour siege that left at least 172 people dead, as new details emerged Monday about the gunmen and the survival training that enabled them to thwart Indian commandos.
The United States called on Pakistan to fully cooperate with investigations into the attack, which has strained relations between the two nuclear-armed neighbors.
Soldiers removed the last victims’ bodies from the shattered Taj Mahal hotel Monday, searching each room in the labyrinthine building and defusing booby-traps and bombs left by the gunmen.
The sole known surviving attacker told police that his group trained for months in camps operated by Lashkar-e-Taiba in Pakistan, learning close-combat techniques, hostage taking, handling of explosives, satellite navigation, and high seas survival skills.
Lashkar was banned in Pakistan in 2002 under pressure from the U.S., a year after Washington and Britain listed it a terrorist group. It is since believed to have emerged under another name, Jamaat-ud-Dawa, though that group has denied links to the Mumbai attack.
Mumbai’s most influential Muslim cemetery rejected the corpses of nine of the gunmen and said “Islam does not permit this sort of barbaric crime.”
Pakistan’s high commissioner to India was called to the foreign ministry and told that “elements from Pakistan” had carried out the attacks, ministry spokesman Vishnu Prakash told reporters.
The commissioner was told that India “expects that strong action would be taken against those elements,” Prakash said.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice urged Pakistan to “follow the evidence wherever it leads.”
“This is a time for complete, absolute, total transparency and cooperation and that’s what we expect,” Rice said in London.
She said the perpetrators of attacks “must be brought to justice.”
Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari called the attackers “non-state actors,” and warned against letting their actions lead to greater enmity in the region.
“Such a tragic incident must bring opportunity rather than the defeat of a nation,” Zardari said in an interview with Aaj television. “We don’t think the world’s great nations and countries can be held hostage by non-state actors.”
The announcement blaming Lashkar has threatened to escalate tensions between India and Pakistan. However, Indian officials have been cautious about accusing Pakistan’s government of complicity.
Prakash, India’s foreign ministry spokesman, denied a news report that India was preparing to end a 2003 cease-fire with Pakistan. An intelligence official, speaking on customary condition of anonymity, said there was no unusual mobilization of troops along the India-Pakistan border.
In Mumbai, teams from the FBI and Britain’s Scotland Yard met with top Indian police Monday as they prepared to help collect evidence from the attacks, a police official said. At the Taj Mahal, security forces declared the 565-room landmark  the scene of Saturday’s final battle  cleared of booby traps and bodies.
“We were apprehensive about more bodies being found. But this is not likely  all rooms in the Taj have been opened and checked,” said Maharashtra state government spokesman Bhushan Gagrani.
The army had already cleared other sites, including the five-star Oberoi hotel and the Mumbai headquarters of an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group. Israeli emergency workers sorted through the shattered glass and splintered furniture at the Jewish center Monday to gather the victims’ body parts. At one point, one of the men opened a prayer book amid the rubble and stopped to pray.
The top provincial official, Vilasrao Deshmukh, offered to resign Monday, as did his deputy, R.R. Patil, who outraged many by referring to the attacks as “small incidents.”
The only gunman known to have survived, Ajmal Qasab, told investigators the gunmen trained over about six months at Lashkar camps near Karachi and another area of Pakistan, according to two security officials familiar with the probe, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publicly about the details.
The men, between the ages of 18 and 28, received rigorous training in close-combat techniques, hostage taking, handling of explosives, satellite navigation, and high seas survival skills, the officials said.
A Muslim graveyard in Mumbai on Monday rejected the bodies of the nine dead attackers.
“People who committed this heinous crime cannot be called Muslim,” said Hanif Nalkhande, a trustee of the influential Jama Masjid Trust, which runs the 7.5-acre (three-hectare) Badakabrastan graveyard in downtown Mumbai. “Islam does not permit this sort of barbaric crime.”
While some Muslim scholars disagreed with the decision  saying Islam requires a proper burial for every Muslim  the city’s other Muslim graveyards are likely to do the same.
Mumbai returned to normal Monday to some degree, with parents dropping their children off at school and many shopkeepers opened their doors for the first time since the attacks began.
“I think this is the first Monday I am glad to be coming to work,” said Donica Trivedi, 23, an employee of a public relations agency.
Indian officials said their country would not be broken.
“This is a threat to the very idea of India, the very soul of India,” Palaniappan Chidambaram, the just-named home minister, the country’s top law enforcement official, told reporters. “Ultimately the idea of India  that is a secular, plural, tolerant and open society  will triumph.”
India’s previous home minister resigned Sunday, as more details of the response to the attack emerged and a picture formed of woefully unprepared security forces.
“These guys could do it next week again in Mumbai and our responses would be exactly the same,” said Ajai Sahni, head of the New Delhi-based Institute for Conflict Management and who has close ties to India’s police and intelligence.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh promised to strengthen maritime and air security and look into creating a new federal investigative agency.
Singh promised to expand the commando force and set up new bases for it around the country. He called a rare meeting of leaders from the country’s main political parties, hours after the resignation of Home Minister Shivraj Patil.
Among the 19 foreigners killed were six Americans. The dead also included Germans, Canadians, Israelis and nationals from Britain, Italy, Mexico, Japan, China, Thailand, Australia, Singapore and Mexico.
Indian stocks fell sharply on the first day of trading after the end of the siege. The Bombay Stock Exchange Sensitive Index, or Sensex, closed down 252.85 points, or about 2.8 percent.
While the attacks could keep tourists and foreign investors away, some analysts attributed Monday’s declines to shock and anxiety in the immediate aftermath rather than a loss of confidence in India’s economic prospects.
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