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Farrukh Khan Pitafi
Farrukh Khan Pitafi
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Posts Tagged ‘Jingoism’

PostHeaderIcon Musharraf’s game plan: Is Pakistan preparing war with India?


Pakistanis might be weary of Pervez Musharraf, yet many a foreigners are not. Yesterday, a Turk general, what knowledge does a Turk general have I ask you, claimed that Pakistan would Talibanize if Musharraf goes. I have long started believing that our foreign Muslim friends are nothing but a liability for us. Not only do they not seize to drag us into international moral dilemmas where we have to take a clearly partisan approach, damaging our own diplomacy in return, but also actively their own politics inside Pakistan. The sectarian wars of 1990s were brought to us courtesy the proxy struggle between Saudi Arabia and Iran. Tell me why should we pay any heed to the Muslim causes when almost all Muslim countries brandish the credentials of a butcher when it comes to Pakistan. Read the rest of this entry »