Comments on: Panetta and Pakistan

By: Anila

Anila — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 23:21:29 +0000

This is what happes when foreign plociy of Islmabad is directed by military and religious leaders of Pakistan. A unnecessary escalation of tensions which could be avoided by accepting the ground realities and shrewd dipolomacy.

By: afridi ashfaq

afridi ashfaq — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 21:13:56 +0000

USA is a bully, not many countries stand up to them. Pakistan should charge what it likes for transport, if you don't like it use the other route. But that is hurting their pocket. The USA can not afford boots on the ground in Pakistan. What have they done in Afghanistan, they are making peace with people they came to fight. The USA will leave in 2014, there will be a civil war for about ten to twenty years. The USA will start another war some were else, because they need it.
Fifty years or so the USA will not be a supper power any more. Look at history it has happened to all the old supper powers. The end is all the same, we will get another bully power.

By: Nayeem

Nayeem — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 19:58:44 +0000

That is part of the larger problem,those who are honest about the state of affairs get branded as anti-pakistanis
(eg. Nazam Sethi) but those who delude themselves and others,by brandishing their venomous tongues always searching for a foreign hand become instant heroes(red topiwalah)..
unless pakis know the problem,finding a solution is impossible..

An Indian friend

By: Nish

Nish — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:41:33 +0000

Keep living in denial but remember ignorance is not a bliss anymore. You can blame anybody for your problems but ultimately reality is something that matters so come back to reality ASAP before it is too late. The problem within Pak is due to garbage they tought in the past so many years after independence and now you have so many people who believe in that extremism. I do not know how Pak leaders are going to change all that but sooner the better. But wait, these leaders are the product of that extremist education, God help you.

By: Nish

Nish — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 02:33:33 +0000

You forgot South Korea, Iraq, Bosnia, etc.

By: PirBaba

PirBaba — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:17:02 +0000

Shows there are rational thinking people in Pakistan too. It's not as crazy as world perceives it to be.

By: PirBaba

PirBaba — Sat, 09 Jun 2012 01:15:01 +0000

Only if friend had not back stabbed.

By: Faizullah Khalil

Faizullah Khalil — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 23:38:05 +0000

Pakistan by being part of the whole game and being bleeding so hard for the last decade or so is still isolated, let it be. Becuase the more Pakistanis sees bad days the more people in Pakistan will wake up and will start thinking how to put its house in order, A house of independence. In the last 65 yrs, Pakistan has been dependent on others. Time for some good decisions now including tough days but eventually stronger independent Pakistan will came into being.

By: Dr. D. Prithipaul

Dr. D. Prithipaul — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 22:43:48 +0000

The bitterness about most comments being anti-Pakistan refers to this: with whom or with what has Pakistan been genuinely pro?

By: Godaveri

Godaveri — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 21:52:01 +0000

Rehman,
Why did US did not shrae information on OBL, if they did OBL would have been dissapered in to thin air, Pakistan bacame so unpoular in the West and the rest of the world even if you conduct the survey you will get the same result, conducting survey in the PAK tribal area is not the openion of the world it will be the openion of that area.