Pakistani Army officers believe the US is using the War on Terror to weaken Pakistan

[mota bhai 2,675]

The latest edition of the Pakistan Army’s Green Book, a prestigious internal publication with essays by serving officers, reveals mounting fears among its officer corps.

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Major-General Shaukat Iqbal, one of the most senior officers writing in the 2011 Green Book ... argues that geo-strategic developments show “all conspiracy theories are getting materialised and [the] Great Game played in the region is posing a serious threat to the security and integrity of Pakistan.”

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He writes that the United States wishes to “use the war on terrorism as an instrument [to] get [the] Pakistan Army bogged down, weakening its war stamina [and] creating a wedge between religious forces and the Army”. It is also, he says, “disreputing [sic.] and maligning the Pakistan Army and the ISI through actions like [the] raid on Osama Bin Laden’s complex.”

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Major-General Ashgar Nawaz, writing on the United States’ interests in South Asia, asserts that Pakistan’s traditional superpower ally is “as much a liability as a friend.” The United States help has allowed New Delhi to “employ contemporary Afghanistan as a springboard for fomenting terrorist activity and instability in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas [FATA] belt on [the] Pak-Afghan border.”

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“I think the interesting thing here is not what the essays say, but the fears that underpin them,” says Sushant Sareen, a Pakistan expert at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi. “There is clearly a pathology at work, which does not allow itself to be inconvenienced by facts.”

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Published every two years by the Pakistan Army’s General Headquarters in Rawalpindi, the Green Book provides rare insights into the organisation’s internal debates. In his foreword to the 2011 edition, the former Army chief, Gen. (retd.) Pervez Kayani, describes it as “a platform where the intellectual context of national security can be crystallised.”

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/new-pakistan-army-green-book-voices-fear-of-indiaus-axis/article5426665.ece

Edited December 5, 2013 by mota bhai

[Rattlehead 69]

A war on the terrorist orgs Pakistan uses as a proxy will necessarily weaken their military. Sorry for taking that away from ya... [/sarc]

[mota bhai 2,675]

A war on the terrorist orgs Pakistan uses as a proxy will necessarily weaken their military. Sorry for taking that away from ya... [/sarc]

Haha! Very well put.