If history provides an answer, then it is obviously GHQ which has maintained a close symbiotic relationship with DC.
KARACHI: Mr Najmuddin A Shaikh has put it down extremely well. If history provides an answer, then it is obviously the GHQ which has maintained a close symbiotic relationship with Washington ever since the early 1950s. Even today, as the ‘ghairatmand’ lobby pours scorn on the US, the GHQ’s financial umbilical cord to America has become a mainstay part of our greater ‘defence’ policy.
If a multitude of army chiefs, presidents, prime ministers and opposition leaders have in the past been regularly seeking Washington’s (and Riyadh’s) direct influence to sort out our domestic affairs, and on occasion requesting foreign intervention to save their skins (e.g. the disastrous fallout from Kargil), can treason charges be properly laid against Husain Haqqani?
The ‘ghairatmand’ and their masters are now determined to sort out Haqqani and maybe they will succeed in their task. Sad to say but lies and hypocrisy have become a part of our modern national ethos.
A reader
Published in The Express Tribune, November 27th, 2011.
