Awww... Pakistan threatening not to be our ally anymore.

[SlyPokerDog]

REPORTING FROM ISLAMABAD -- Pakistani officials warned they could jettison the United States as an ally if American officials continue to accuse Islamabad's intelligence agency of assisting a leading Afghan Taliban group in recent attacks in Afghanistan.

Foreign Minister Hina Rabbani Khar cautioned the U.S. against airing allegations such as the blunt charge of collusion between Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency and the militant Haqqani network made Thursday by Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

"You cannot afford to alienate Pakistan, you cannot afford to alienate the Pakistani people," Khar said, speaking to a Pakistani television channel in New York.
Pakistani army chief Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani in a statement called Mullen's remarks "very unfortunate and not based on facts."

Pakistani officials for the second day tersely rejected the allegations and challenged the U.S. to furnish evidence of ties between the country's intelligence community and the Haqqani group.

Mullen called the Haqqani group "a veritable arm of the ISI," and said the agency helped Haqqani militants during attacks on the U.S. embassy in Kabul on Sept. 13 as well as a truck bomb blast in Wardak province two days earlier that injured 77 American troops. U.S. military officers and former officials say Pakistan's intelligence agency communicated with Afghan insurgents who attacked the U.S. embassy and NATO headquarters and appear to have provided them with equipment.

Estimated to number more than 10,000 fighters, the Haqqani network uses Pakistan's North Waziristan tribal region along the Afghan border from which to launch suicide bombings, commando-style assaults and other terror strikes on U.S., NATO and Afghan forces in eastern Afghanistan and in the capital, Kabul. The group has never carried out any attacks against targets inside Pakistan. The country's links with the Haqqani group date back to the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s, when the ISI backed the group's founder, Jalaluddin Haqqani, and other resistance fighters.

Mullen's allegations likely will widen the chasm between Pakistan and the U.S., tenuous allies whose mistrust for each other deepened considerably this year.
The U.S. commando raid in May that killed Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad raised questions in Washington about whether elements of the Pakistan's intelligence agencies knew that the Al Qaeda leader had been hiding for five years just a few miles north of the capital, Islamabad. The January arrest of CIA contractor Raymond Davis, accused of shooting to death Pakistani men he claimed were trying to rob him, sparked fears among Pakistanis that scores of CIA operatives were secretly roaming the country.

To get Pakistan to act against the Haqqani network, Washington has signaled a willingness to link future financial aid with Islamabad's cooperation against extremists, and has hinted it could even mount some kind of unilateral, targeted strike on Haqqani strongholds in Pakistani territory.

In Karachi, Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gilani told reporters the onus was on Washington to pull back and begin mending frayed relations between the two countries.

"They can't live with us — they can't live without us," Gilani said. "So, I would say to them that if they can't live without us, they should increase contacts with us to remove misunderstandings."

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wor...ni-mullen-hina-rabbani-khar-intelligence.html


Fuck Pakistan.

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Fuck Pakistan.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm................................ http://www.google.com/search?tbm=is...gc.r_pw.&fp=4c820ffca6624115&biw=1366&bih=664

 

[ABM]

 

[SlyPokerDog]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm................................ http://www.google.com/search?tbm=is...gc.r_pw.&fp=4c820ffca6624115&biw=1366&bih=664

That reminded me of that famous National Geographic cover of the girl from Afghanistan.

Same girl years later

 

[SlyPokerDog]

That reminded me of that famous National Geographic cover of the girl from Afghanistan.

Same girl years later

A Life Revealed

Her eyes have captivated the world since she appeared on our cover in 1985. Now we can tell her story.

By Cathy Newman
Photograph by Steve McCurry

She remembers the moment. The photographer took her picture. She remembers her anger. The man was a stranger. She had never been photographed before. Until they met again 17 years later, she had not been photographed since.

The photographer remembers the moment too. The light was soft. The refugee camp in Pakistan was a sea of tents. Inside the school tent he noticed her first. Sensing her shyness, he approached her last. She told him he could take her picture. "I didn't think the photograph of the girl would be different from anything else I shot that day," he recalls of that morning in 1984 spent documenting the ordeal of Afghanistan's refugees.

The portrait by Steve McCurry turned out to be one of those images that sears the heart, and in June 1985 it ran on the cover of this magazine. Her eyes are sea green. They are haunted and haunting, and in them you can read the tragedy of a land drained by war. She became known around National Geographic as the "Afghan girl," and for 17 years no one knew her name.

In January a team from National Geographic Television & Film's EXPLORER brought McCurry to Pakistan to search for the girl with green eyes. They showed her picture around Nasir Bagh, the still standing refugee camp near Peshawar where the photograph had been made. A teacher from the school claimed to know her name. A young woman named Alam Bibi was located in a village nearby, but McCurry decided it wasn't her.

No, said a man who got wind of the search. He knew the girl in the picture. They had lived at the camp together as children. She had returned to Afghanistan years ago, he said, and now lived in the mountains near Tora Bora. He would go get her.

It took three days for her to arrive. Her village is a six-hour drive and three-hour hike across a border that swallows lives. When McCurry saw her walk into the room, he thought to himself: This is her.

Names have power, so let us speak of hers. Her name is Sharbat Gula, and she is Pashtun, that most warlike of Afghan tribes. It is said of the Pashtun that they are only at peace when they are at war, and her eyes—then and now—burn with ferocity. She is 28, perhaps 29, or even 30. No one, not even she, knows for sure. Stories shift like sand in a place where no records exist.

Story continued here - http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2002/04/afghan-girl/index-text/2

 

[Denny Crane]

 

[Spud147]

Oh they're going to be sorry! I'm totally unliking them on Facebook and all my friends are going to unlike them too.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Weren't they sort of a "Frenemy" anyways? Fuck 'em, I'm all for ceasing this idiotic charade.

 

[barfo]

They'll be sorry when India invades and we look the other way.

barfo

 

[SlyPokerDog]

They'll be sorry when India invades and we look the other way.

barfo

They'll trade nukes before either one tries to invade the other.

 

[barfo]

They'll trade nukes before either one tries to invade the other.

Not necessarily. It might be possible to secure the nukes before going in.

barfo

 

[ABM]

Same girl years later

To me, the noses look different.

 

[barfo]

To me, the noses look different.

That's racist.

barfo

 

[Natebishop3]

To me, the noses look different.

Different eyes too.

 

[ABM]

That's racist.

barfo

Yeah, so?

 

[BrianFromWA]

I'm reminded of when Kevin Costner first meets "Maid Marian" in Prince of Thieves.

"The years have...been kind."

 

[MrJayremmie]

God no. But it was polite of you to ask!

As for Pakistan: LOL! Don't let the door hit you on the way out. How it looks to me is we pay you lots of money, you do jack shit other than allow us to use drones to bomb terrorists then denounce it in your news. If you are so incompetent as to not know the most wanted man in the world was living next to your premier military academy, than why would we want you as an ally?

India is better anyway.