Pakistan Pushes Back Against U.S., Woos China

[Purveyor]

Source: REUTERS

By John Chalmers and Chris Allbritton

ISLAMABAD | Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:55pm EDT

(Reuters) - Pakistan warned the United States on Tuesday to stop accusing it of playing a double game with Islamist militants and heaped praise on "all-weather friend" China.

Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani, speaking exclusively to Reuters, said any unilateral military action by the United States to hunt down militants of the Haqqani network inside Pakistan would be a violation of his country's sovereignty.

However, he side-stepped questions on the tense relations with the United States and offered no indications of any steps Pakistan might take to soothe the fury in Washington.

The outgoing chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, last week described the Haqqani network, the most violent faction among Taliban militants in Afghanistan, as a "veritable arm" of Pakistan's ISI spy agency and accused Islamabad of providing support for the group's September 13 attack on the U.S. embassy in Kabul.

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[RUMMYisFROSTED]

1. thought

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=102&topic_id=5007965&mesg_id=5007995

[Owlet]

2. Who could have predicted that?

:sarcasm:

[CJvR]

3. While...

...China is likely to back an enemy of India don't think for a moment the Chinese are particulary pleased by the rise of Islamic fundamentalism and the ISI's support of such lunatics. It was not long ago that the Chinese had to deal with unrest among it's islamic minorities.

[evilhime]

4. We continue to give them aid

Why?

[Vidar]

5. Can't say I blame them. We are the lousiest ally imaginable.

[tawadi]

6. Oh lovely, warnings from Pakistan

Who are they kidding? China was the highest bidder.

[cosmicone]

7. Bomb Pakistani military infrastructure while it is still weak

or we would face a bigger problem later.

Destroy so much that it will take them 50 years to rebuild their military if at all.

Then give massive aid to freedom movements in Baluchistan and Sindhudesh so Pakistan as a threat would be gone forever and China will not have a foothold in the Arabian sea.

[AverageJoe90]

8. Too bad our military is still run by crooked neocons.

I just don't see that happening, sadly.