Life after Osama — will be tough

mmm i am an Indian , so might be scoffed for my comments, but this theory of Pakistan actually using terror as a state policy seemed far fetched , which seems to be true.Wonder which country in the world want to associate with Pakistan.Forget country wonder how would a Pakistani feel, does the Army of Pakistan real care about the country and people .IT feels likes Pakistani Establishment is affected by some vampire virus and they are spreading this virus by biting and drinking the blood of the Pakistani.I feel sad for Pakistani.Hope you guys get out of this hopeless situation.IT is case of Fence eating crop.Wonder if their is any other country in a worse situation then Pakistan.Recommend

George you have done an excellent analysis regarding complicity of Pakistan’s various establishments in sheltering the most dreaded terrorist. But the most difficult times lies ahead after withdrawl of US and NATO forces when Pakistan will face crunch of resources since foreign aid is going to dry up and with weak economy, governance will become extremely difficult, resulting in unrest. Simultaneously Pakistan may have to deal with home grown outfits like TTP, LeT, LeJ, SSP, JeM etc who would most likely make a joint front to continue their agenda of enforcing Sharia in Pakistan and jihad in Kashmir resulting in deterioration in relations with India leading to war between the two neighbours.Recommend

Pakistan has few friends left but, after this week, it will have even fewer.

That says a lot and I suspect you use of “friend” is more liberal than most. Many would argue that you have no friends left and for good reason.Recommend

@faraz:
Hey it is not hopeless channelize ur frustration get your Pakistan back.Dont give up man Fight back.Recommend

@TightDhoti:
Absolutely agree. Pakistani leaders, diplomats, retired and serving, and ultra-national scribes are a class apart. They have mastered the fine art of lying through their teeth without blinking their eyes. The day OBL was bumped off, we were hearing the chorus; ” Pakistan is in the forefront of war against terror”.Recommend

Mr George u came and left my land(alongwith a daughter of my land). The manner in which you left especially the articles you wrote did not leave positive thoughts about your intention. So why are you so concerned and writing at times/issues which really do not need opinion of a person who has already betrayed. And this reasoning also involves many of our governing elite. Interestingly, your country has been the main harbour of all such elites.
Think and start addressing such issuesRecommend

Our leaders are conveniently collaborating with the US and pushing us in a ditch deeper than ever before for their own idiotic benefits. not only will we be stripped of all our resources, but we will also be the most hated people in the world. what a fate. our people are dying all the time, and instead of showing sympathy the world hates us. so what if our lives and futures are ruined in the name of their war on terrorism, now that their citizens have finally attained mental peace, its time to dispose us off in the worst manner possible. even their dogs’ lives are more precious than oursRecommend

Nothing matters as Pak will never acknowledge their complicity – as fas as US cutting aid – this may not be a probable act as Pak would start getting more aid and shelter from China and this would not be acceptable to US, especially if China Junta can get access to US war machines for cloning.

US will shout, berate and insinuate Pak – and delay payments – but will ultimatley provide assistance -Recommend

@bahram durrani:
Hey thanks for proving your chronic state of denial as witnessed by almost everyone in Pakistan

The whole world (incl. many Muslim countries) know that Pakistan has become a danger to itself and to others….its only us Pakistanis that know that yet, and chose to stick our head in the sand and say ‘this is a conspiracy to ruin Pakistan’s image’

when exactly did Pakistan even have a “good image”???Recommend

I’m surprised on your article what you want to prove something ? or making people’s mind ? i wana make just one question , if they caught OSAMA , why they does not display on MEDIA like they displayed SADDAM & his trail and all that . Secondly , what is the evidence and where is the evidence that they really caught OSAMA and Killed him ? thirdly, could you please identify in which sea or ocean they throw OSAMA’s dead body ? If they would really caught OSAMA they definatlly show him on MEDIA and PAKISTAN’s Army is in alliance with US Army and they are helping each other, its not possible what they saying, Man its all media traits and mind making of people to attack on PAKISTAN . But let me tell you one thing , PAKISTAN is not an easy target for anyone !Recommend

Well said George! It was embarrassing to see our so called free media personalities trying to spin it. Hamid Mir was using the term, USA “Claims” to have killed Bin Laden. Ansar Abbasi almost cried on the TV and was lamenting the fact that, our air force didn’t take these helicopters out and that it was a shameful day…. I don’t know what kind of a defense analyst Maria Sultan is ( I think too much bleach got to her head ) and what her qualifications are but she didn’t make any sense! Even Sarah Palin sounds more coherent than our Maria Sultan, she was uttering words but they did not make any sense or a proper sentence.
Our people and media are off track as usual…. more worried and angry about USA coming into their territory with or without our knowledge, and they are not asking the most obvious question……what was OBL doing living in a big house, 0.5 kms away from PMA and in plain sight? It is a huge embarrassment for Pakistan….. On one hand ISI is known to be one of the best spy agencies in the world and on the other hand they didn’t know that OBL was living right in the middle of a Garrison town. Either way it doesn’t look good for Pakistan. If ISI didn’t know… then they are incompetent and if they did and didn’t catch him, that opens up a whole another can of worms. Does that mean that someone from our security agencies current or retired was supporting OBL either for monetary reasons or ideological reasons???? None of these scenarios look good for Pakistan. We have to as a nation decide once and for all that are we going to get rid of the Jihadi movement from Pakistan or will we keep our Rabid pets ( in pursuit of strategic depth policy ) and endanger ourselves in the process. Or will we obsess over definition of terrorists and whether USA or Taliban is a bigger terrorist,……. Rabid animals need to be put out otherwise they might harm the owners.
I say get rid of the rabid pets, focus on economic development rather than military might and strengthen the judicial and democratic institutions.Recommend

George, lately I have only seen your posts when there is something damaging happened to Pakistan, that makes me wonder your real motive behind writing these articles …. anyway it would have been a source of serious embarrassment for the US to exit Afghanistan without killing Bin Laden, who had allegedly masterminded the 9/11 attacks on the United States and they had been using him and have been really busy for th…e last ten years or so in state terrorism by killing millions of Afghanis and Pakistanis (dont forget, none of the alleged 9/11 masterminds or implementers were Afghanis or Pakistanis) and secondly for the last couple of years OBL has been of no use to Americans so it was the right time to eliminate him and if we look at the big picture this was the right time to score points against Pakistan as these days ISI and CIA relations are not that great.Recommend

Check this by Alex,

hmm,
Another Water gate into making,
finally i think President Obama would be impeached for this lie.
ha ha haRecommend

Well if we analyze the situation’s gravity, George is right. With the killing of OBL, the hardships for us will increase. But i hope and pray to Allah, to get us out of this critical situation. I have a firm belief that we will win the war against terrorism which is dawned on us. I encourage my nation to think out of the box for a solution. This war involves the foreign agencies as well. We have to figure out the real culprits and punish them.
May Allah bless Pakistan and the nation.Recommend

Mr George, do you think the US establishment was blind, deaf and demented for TEN LONG YEARS, not to know that PK was hiding OBL….??…There is a very sizeable presence of the CIA in PK…Was MR.OBL a needle in a haystack…It is inconcievable and insulting to a person with an average intelligence, to believe , like Mr Fulton that some parts of the US establishment , had no knowledge or complicity in this whole affair….It is just not possible.After all they were conducting joint operations which lead to the capture of luminaries like Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and over 300 other wanted individuals.No sir…!!…you are not adressing a bunch of fools….!!….Recommend

@Fauzia Haider:
A well drafted and most logical analysis. Pakistan needs more clear minded individuals like your good-self.Recommend

@Fauzia Haider:
You are doing the same as the anchors/ our media who you r blaming. What do u know that others do not know. Time shall tell. Do not forget that time also told that there were no weapon of mass destruction based on which USA/rest of the so called free world invaded Iraq.

We need to think that do we think or we just think what we are told to think !!!!!

@tauqeer:
I respect your determination and positive thoughts.Recommend

An APACHE helicopter is an ATTACK helicopter which CANNOT at any cost accommodate passengers/extra people. So…. who picked up OBL from Abbottabad?? Who picked up the crew of the crashed APACHE?? And then the world says don’t believe in Conspiracy Theories.Recommend

@rehan:

Sometimes idiocy knows no bounds! Who the heck told you they were Apaches?? THEY WEREN’T! So please invent another story to support your conspiratorial views…Nice try.Recommend

Mr. George what a one sided and shameful article. This country is in such a mess because of Faustian bargain with the USA for the last half century, not because we are not towing the US line. It is the slavish mentality of this country and especially its elite which permits a person who would have been a non-entity in his own country access to the highest corridors of power , because he is a gora , that is the root cause of our present predicament. Before whoring your pen to the altar of US power, have some intellectual honesty to ask this:
- Killing of half of million Iraqis and the rape of the country on totally fabricated evidence — US does not have to answer any questions for it
- Killing of hundreds of thousands Afghans in a war that could have been avoided , because T…alibans were prepared to negotiate to hand over OBL — USA does not have to answer for it
- Killing of thousands of innocent women and children in Pakistan through drone attacks — USA does not need to answer for that
- All looted wealth of Pakistani elite transferred to the west with the total knowledge and connivance of US – USA does not have to answer for it
- USA supporting the most morbidly sick fundamentalists to rape Afghanistan during the Soviet invasion – USA does not have to answer for it
- USA controlling to the level of even secretary level appointments in Pakistan(read shuahab nama), beside having a stranglehold on economic policy – USA does not have to answer for that
If Pakistani leadership and intelligentsia had not been acting like US puppet, like the writer of this article, they would say to the US that they should be the last ones asking any questions of Pakistan. It is for us to see how we mangled ourselves through our army and politicans acting as your tool.Recommend

Mr. George, I think your role here in Pakistan was not different than Raymond Davis and you played it very well.Recommend

bah assumptions assumptions assumptions.Recommend