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Pakistan playing double game
by bharati chatti on Oct 10, 2007 05:40 PM

It should not be difficult for anyone to understand the double game Pakistan and Musharraf have been playing all these days. Nurturing terrorists in their backyards, Pakistan has been sowing this dangerous weed(of terrorism) in its backyard which is now threatning to swamp the whole country. To please the aid and alms givers(US and UK), Pakistan would once in a while pull out one or two alquaeeds guys out of their hat, as if by magic, to tone down the pressure. But all these games have to end one day or other. And the time seems to be fast approaching that Pakistan can no longer hide behind flase pretences. And the game it has been playing will be fully exposed.
Take the Lal Masjid episode, the Imam of Lal Masjid was willing to surrender to the forces, but was insisting that the surrender must take place in front of media, so media can correctly report the amount of arms and ammunition it has inside the mosque(it is another matter why an Imam should have arms and ammunition at all inside a religious place). He was repeatedly stating that he has only 14 numbers of AK 47s and that too, old ones not in good state of repair.
But the administration didnt want that guy to surrender. Under the garb of negotiation, the administration built up the tempo. All the acts of negotiations were entered into in order to derive maximum mileage out of the situation for the government.And when it was found that there is no further use of the Imam Ghazi of Lal Masjid, dead or alive, the secur

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