| Pakistan - Taliban II: The Revival - 49 min [3 August 2007] |
[Super:
Asad Douranni, former director of Pakistani secret services
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
Dr. Atta Ur Rahman, MP of MMA religious federation
Major General Alam Khattak, border patrol
Lt Gen Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, Governor of Northwest Frontier Province
Ismael Khan, reporter for newspaper Dawn
Shabir Awan, MP of Jamaat e Islami
General Salikat Sultan, army spokesman
President Pervez Musharraf]
The Taliban are back.
The casualties of the US and allied forces in Afghanistan are growing by the day.
Asad Douranni, former director of Pakistani secret services
Even if they want to bring and some more troops, but if they continue to use the same old methods, then they will not succeed, they will fail.
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
Our national will does not accept them. And it is symbolized by the activities of Taliban, although they are not Taliban, it's a national movement of liberation.
Maulana Sami Ul Haq
Of all their promises, nothing was done, that is why there is no peace. Drugs have gone up, unnecessary violence has become something usual. That is why the people are turning to the Taliban once more.
Dr. Atta Ur Rahman, MP of MMA religious federation
A lot of districts and areas are out of their hands. Taliban are ruling them, ruling that areas.
The Exandas team and Yorgros Avgeropoulos present
Editing Director: Dimitris Nikolopoulos
Research Coordinator: Apostolis Kaparoudakis
Production Manager: Anastasia Skoubri
Director of Photography : Alexis Barzos
Original Soundtrack: Yannis Paxevanis
TALIBAN II
The Revival
Written, produced and directed by: Yorgos Avgeropoulos
This region outside the border of Afghanistan has played an important role in the reorganization of the holy warriors.
It is the wild and isolated Tribal Area...
... which occupies 2,500 km. along the border into Pakistani territory.
President Pervez Musharraf
Mostly there is the element called Al Qaeda. They certainly are there. They operate and they go across the border into Afghanistan also. Then it is another element now which is Taliban and they indoctrinate people, they motivate people and take them across also. So, there is Taliban supporters here.
Demostration
A cry for God! Allah is great! He is a traitor, he is a traitor!! He who is friend of the Americans... He who is friend of the Americans... A cry for God!! Allah is great!
General Salikat Sultan, army spokesman
They come here to recruit fighters. They recruit fighters from the Afghan refugees. They also try to motivate some of the youth from Pakistani Tribal Areas also, to join them. They do have success, because they are able to motivate the people based on the misplaced religious believes.
Tribal Areas, Pakistan 2005
This is Taliban justice. These images were filmed in the Pakistani tribal areas. The victims were accused of stealing and were hung together with the stolen money.
Man
We killed these people and sent them to God. He will judge them.
Ismael Khan, reporter for newspaper Dawn
The government has no control, has no authority. The state threat does not really exist. The militants perform virtually all the state functions. They are policing they are dispensing justice, they are rushing public complaints... and the government there is so broke down, it has little or no control
The Taliban, with the support of the people, have established a parallel administration with their own laws. Citizens turn to them to solve their everyday problems.
President Pervez Musharraf
So I admit that you are right, that there in certain areas has..., but we need to reestablish tactic, through military and administrative back up and political acts
Asad Douranni, former director of Pakistani secret services
They go to them because they are not getting justice from the normal establishment.
The person outside who works about a day to get 200 rupees, he may not get much more under a Taliban regime, but he'll be happy to see some others who are, either exploiting his labor or living pretty luxuriously, he'll be happy to see those people, either remove from the scene or suffer a little more.
The government's delegate is well aware that nothing can be done without the support of the tribal leaders.
Lt Gen Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, Governor of NWFP
These areas are under the administrative control of the political administration, but they are, sort of, governed indirectly. And those are a bridge and that bridge has been provided by influential elders, known as "The Maliks". So, they would, sort of, provide that bridge and a link between the tribesmen and the political administration
But the Taliban killed those cooperating with the government.
Lt Gen Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, Governor of NWFP
Some Maliks were killed, some elders were killed, even some religious clerics were killed. Journalists were killed.
[Statements by prisoners of the Taliban a while before their execution.]
Man 1
The Taliban are very good people, may God give them life and God give them strength. What they had taken from me, they gave it back, they gave me no pain. May God grant them great honour, they are very good people, God save them and God give them life.
Man 2
Do not harm our brothers the Mujahedin and our Muslim religion, neither spy and be unjust, do not take money from those people in order to give the Taliban a bad name. The Taliban are the light from our eyes, the eyelashes from our eyes and the hair from our eyebrows.
People
Long live Osama Bin Laden! Long live Mullah Omar! Long live North Waziristan!
Τ
he Khyber Pass is the gate to the Tribal Areas. To a different world, where foreigners are forbidden.
ATTENTION! Entry of foreigners is prohibited beyond this point.
Cameras and journalists are not welcome.
We enter under the escort of a Pakistani paramilitary group called "The Khyber Rifles".
They were created in the 19th century by the British, and are composed solely by natives...
Today they chase, in their land's mountains, the Taliban, Al Qaeda fighters, but also their fellow countrymen who support the militants. They suffer many losses during the clashes.
3.5 million impoverished Pakistanis live in the Tribal Areas, an infertile, mountainous and non-hospitable land extending from Bajaur, to the North, till Waziristan in the South. They are all Pashtun, as the Taliban.
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
They are the same, they are the same, not just brothers. I mean they are.. they are not like Italy and France, they are Italy and Italy
MAJOR GENERAL ALAM KHATTAK, BORDER PATROL
They are old tribes, and with very old history and traditions. Very proud people, freedom loving. Try to remain, want to remain, free and independent. For most part of their history they have steer that mean. Were happy in their land and they want little interference in their affairs.
Whoever passed through this land, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan or Tamerlane preferred to cooperate with the locals rather than conquer them. The British who made an attempt in the 19th century were all slain. The natives left one man alive to go back and deliver the tragic news.
Life in the tribal areas is regulated by the unwritten laws of hospitality, honour and revenge.
In small market places, craftsmen make fine replicates of Kalashnikov riffles and all kinds of weapons in home-made lathes.
Lt Gen Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, Governor of NWFP
Everybody carries them. It is part of the culture. He may not necessarily kill anyone, but it is part of the culture. The man looks good with a weapon as they say "it's a man's jewellery"
This place is isolated and we carry them for our Honour, that's all. If you go to Karachi, which is a very big town, they say it on TV, two people come on a motorbike, they kill five and then disappear. Here that doesn't happen, there is no way that will happen here.
Our companions hastily take us away from the area. They said they could not guarantee our safety. Unwilling to take us to the cities, they kept to offering some tea and boasting about the weapons they had confiscated during their operations against the Taliban and their local supporters.
That was expected. In the forbidden area, the foreign media that want to work independently have no access. That is why we had made a point of cooperating with a native of the tribal areas. We will not reveal his name for safety reasons. The rare images recorded on a small camera are an in depth testimony of all that is happening in one of the world's most introverted regions.
People
Death to Musharraf!!
The Americans have brought a lot of harm on the Muslims!!
The US invasion of Afghanistan following the 11th of September marked the end of the Taliban regime.
Hunted down and under pressure, many sought refuge with their fellow tribesmen in the tribal areas, on the other side of the border.
President Pervez Musharraf
They have the same tribe, the same culture, the same ethnic group. They feel that they need to support their brothers across the border
MAJOR GENERAL ALAM KHATTAK, BORDER PATROL
They are hospitable people, they look out to their guests. So they have given them, initially a refuge to stay there.
Along with the Taliban came foreign Al Qaeda fighters, mostly Saudi Arabs, Uzbeks and Chechens. They knew this area from the past.
Lt Gen Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, Governor of NWFP
They had come as Mudjahedin during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. And they use to launch operations of this part of the Tribal Areas.
Ismael Khan, reporter for newspaper Dawn
They had bases there, they knew the people there very well, they knew the culture there very well, they had, you know, developed knowledge of the area when they operated and also of the language.
The borders were no obstacle.
President Pervez Musharraf
The border is very soft there. There is an agreement on the border, where they move across freely.
Asad Douranni, former director of Pakistani secret services
This is God's open country, as always has been. People will come and go.
Lt Gen Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, Governor of NWFP
Traditionally for over hundred years this has been a tradition there. There is no restriction of movement of such tribes or tribesmen who live across the border.
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
Really, Afghan border is an optional border with Pakistan. And it cannot be seen, it cannot be stopped, otherwise the British would have done it in the past.
The Taliban and the foreign fighters began to instigate people to participate in the holy war against the occupying forces in Afghanistan.
President Pervez Mousharaf
Basically it is a reaction against foreign occupation in Afghanistan. So, that is how the people have got roused. They don't want foreigners in Afghanistan. This is the main cause of getting indoctrinated and going into Afghanistan to operate against the foreigners.
Ismael Khan, reporter for newspaper Dawn
For them it's a jihad to fight the Americans who they see them as occupiers, foreign occupation forces
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
No, no, no nobody is forcing them, no, they go willingly. Jihad is a tenet of Islam and if the governments do not declare jihad, then people themselves start doing it
Asad Douranni, former director of Pakistani secret services
That by now is Pashtoon National Resistance.
Extremely annoyed with their ally, the USA demand President Musharraf pull the chestnuts out of the fire. He sends 80,000 troops to invade the tribal areas. Their mission is to put an end to militant movement to and from Afghanistan and seal the border. But things did not turn out as expected.
Lt Gen Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, Governor of NWFP
So, they motivated these people there. The "Pakistan army is hindering our Jihad therefore this is "un-Islamic". So, therefore it is perfectly legit able that we launch Jihad against the Pakistani army or the ally force agents.
So began an undeclared civil war. North and South Waziristan became the centre of the conflict.
General Salikat Sultan, army spokesman
The active fighting with the militants it started in 2003. Since then, we have lost to about 700 troops in the Tribal Areas. We have also killed more than 600 to 700 of the militants. We have captured 1000 of them.
Asad Douranni, former director of Pakistani secret services
I'm an opposed to that operation, right from the beginning.
Why?
It was wrong in our part. It was wrong in our part to carry on military operation against our own tribes. You don't use force against your own people, you try all other means. And because of the history of tribesmen we knew that this would create problems. It was proven for three years, we fought and nothing happened. We lost men, we killed their people.
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
Pakistan army was defeated in Waziristan. Τhey say that they lost more than 600 soldiers. But the general perception is that it was three times more. So, if they have lost in a small area called South Waziristan, North Waziristan. Look at the map is relatively very small area. They occur that they deployed 80.000 troops. How many more forces can we deploy there? And how much battering will they get?
Militants
Allah is great, Allah is great!!
Here the militants control the town of Wana, capital of South Waziristan. They have invited local reporters to talk to them, something that happens extremely rarely.
Militant
We say, Allah willing, those who are against us and against the Mujahedin, and commit injustices, we do not want them in Waziristan. And whoever is against us, we too will be against them.
A brick-built housing complex has been turned into a fort. It is full of crypts and action stations.
Militant
To those who harm us, we will give our life to punish them. We are ready for India, America, Russia. We will spoil our religion for no country. We are Pashtun, and we will take care of our country and our land ourselves.
Bajaur, October 30, 2006
Missiles are launched by aircrafts on a religious school filled with people.
Injured man
I have lost my mind... They were all small children, only about twenty were adults. All the children were injured, killed. There is nothing left.
Have you heard what they all say, that it was a terrorist training camp of the Taliban?
That is incorrect information, how can the children be terrorists? The children cannot even leave the madrassa.
How old were the children?
Five, seven, eight, nine, ten years old... they were butchered, you cannot recognize them...
We will ask Allah for them on Judgement Day. We kept the Koran in our hands, the Koran was inside the mosque. They razed it to the ground, the house of God. We will curse them, nothing more.
83 people were killed during the attack on the religious school at Bajaur. The government of Pakistan claimed there were no children amongst the dead.
President Pervez Mousharaf
Whenever we attack a target like you have taken the example of Bajaur, we are 500% sure who the people are. They are either Al Qaeda foreigners or their supporters Pakistanis. So in Bajaur they were certainly foreigners and they were Pakistani supporters who were doing military training. And we know that, we knew it 500%, we are seeing them since one month. And then we attacked.
But who was responsible for the attack? Was it the Pakistani air force, or was it the USA?
President Pervez Mousharaf
Why are you interested in who did it? Whether we fired a gun or a helicopter or an aircraft? Why are you interested? What did we do? We kill terrorists. And the world and the media should feel very happy that we eliminated terrorists. Don't get in the word in who did it and how we did it. This is a military action, the military took action and we killed them
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
What incidence, Oh Bajaur? No, That was American's. Pakistan army simply took the blame, because otherwise we would have to admit that our territory has been violated, our air space has been violated, our sovereignty has been infield upon. And we will have then to say whether the Americans are friends or enemies.
Although the question as to who struck the religious school in Bajaur remains unanswered, the same does not apply to an identical incident that occurred a few months earlier.
This nearby village has been struck by aircraft missiles. 18 civilians are dead.
Soon, it is revealed that the attack was launched by four unmanned Predator aircrafts, used by the CIA.
The USA admitted the fact, claiming the attack was justified for the target was Al Qaeda's number 2, Ayman al-Zawahri.
Ayman al-Zawahri seems to have survived the attack without a single scratch. He appeared 15 days later, in this videotaped message, making a mockery of the US government.
Ayman al-Zawahri
Bush, do you wish to know where I am? I am amongst Muslim friends. I enjoy their support, hospitality, generousness, protection and help in the Jihad against you.
The government of Pakistan protested strongly before the USA, asking to be informed beforehand and give its approval for operations taking place in the country's territory.
That did not manage to pacify the rage of the people against the Americans, as well as against their ally and president of the country, Pervez Musharraf.
Demonstration
Shame on you!! Pervez Musharraf!! Whoever is friend of the Americans!! Is a traitor, is a traitor!
Frequent demonstrations shake up not only the tribal areas but also big cities of Pakistan.
Musharraf - Dog
Here, our local camera operator records the reaction of the people following the attack on Bajaur.
Demonstration
Shame on you!! Musharraf!!
Those who murder people cannot become leaders.
Pervez Musharraf! He must die!
President Pervez Mousharaf
My policy is not USA's policy, my policy is Pakistan policy. Whether USA likes it or not. It is Pakistan policy, for the people of Pakistan, for our country.
Demonstration
Those who are friends of the Americans!
Are traitors! Are traitors!
President Pervez Mousharaf
My country is affected because of terrorism. Who is doing terrorism? Whoever it is, I don't care. We need to eliminate them. So, at the moment it is these Al Qaeda foreigners who are sitting here in our mountains.
Demonstration
My Muslim brothers..., and you Taliban. There were human pieces... My friends, many children were like that... Their parents still have not found the pieces from the flesh of their children.
My honourable Muslims, I will take revenge on the criminal Pervez Musharraf, who is president of this country.
My death is worth it, my death is worth it!
Asad Douranni, former director of Pakistani secret services
We did exactly what we are blaming the American's for; use of military against civilians. We are killing innocent people, women and children. And the result was here, people hit back, like Afghans are hitting back in Afghanistan.
Retaliation came quickly. A new phenomenon, unprecedented in Pakistan, suicide bombers, began to spread panic in the cities.
President Pervez Mousharaf
Now it is in our country. It is most unfortunate. It is most un-Islamic. Suicide bombing is un-Islamic. But these very obscurantist who think that they are doing this for the sake of Islam.
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
It is nothing to do with religion. What George Bush is doing is nothing to do with Christianity, and what the suicide bombers are doing is nothing to do with Islam.
Dr. Atta Ur Rahman, MP of MMA religious federation
These people who are supporting those people whose hands are, I mean, dirty with the blood of Muslims everywhere and you are in their back, so what consequences you are expecting from the people?
Asad Douranni, former director of Pakistani secret services
I have sympathy for people who fight for their own freedom, who hit back against brutality and unfairness. I have all the sympathy for them. But that is again a dilemma. The dilemma is that we are maybe happy when this resistance takes place somewhere far away. And we are very happy when a country like USA, you know, suffers setbacks. But then we start getting a little less happy when the thing comes closer to us.
Ismael Khan, reporter for newspaper Dawn
Is so much anxiety and we fear of spread suicide bombings, nobody feels secure.
Ismael Khan, reporter for newspaper Dawn
Schools were shut down last week, for four days, and... you know for fear of attacks and suicide bombings. And when your kids stop going to school then you start feeling the pinch and the heat, you know, it's coming that close. You know, when you fear for the safety of your kids, then means it's very close. And it's happening.
Peshawar - Pakistan
Peshawar is the nearest big city to the tribal areas.
The influence of the Taliban here is clear to see.
The figures of women are wiped out from the publicity tabloids.
Bombs are placed in stores selling music CDs.
Demonstrations such as this end up in the spectacular incineration of tens of videotapes and DVD movies.
The people have given the power to the clerics.
Public performance of music has been forbidden and the theatre has closed down.
Director of the theatre
People and the artists are doing obscenity.
What do you mean obscenity?
Obscenity, like dancing of girls, the obscenity of words. They are speaking obscene words. Obscene scenes. It is not permissible in Islamic views and way of life.
A strong coalition of Islamic parties easily won the local elections and formed a government.
Shabir Awan, MP of Jamaat e Islami
It is the demand of this people. It is the hope of our people, who are Islamite and have the Pashtun culture.
Wherever we went we would see photos of naked women. We were under pressure, the people had a demand and we had made a promise. That is why the people gave us their vote.
Shabir Awan was a Mujahedin and had fought in Kashmir. He traded the Kalashnikov for politics and today he is MP for the biggest Islamic Party. He, as well as millions of his compatriots, ask for the implementation of the Sharia law, that is the Islamic Law, in Pakistan.
Shabir Awan, MP of Jamaat e Islami
The people of Islam want the Islamic Law. The people have not asked us for bridges, they have not asked for natural gas, they have not asked for roads. The people in the elections told us to take care of Islam. To respect the Islamic law and try to implement it.
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
Well, Sharia law Pakistani's want. Most Pakistani's want Sharia. There is nothing wrong with Sharia, Sharia provides tolerance, provides for the sacker of the minority community, of the poor of the weak and downtrodden. Sharia is a very good law, it's a divine law and my own sense is that it is the desire of the people of Pakistan, because our laws have failed. So, we need to have a new law. The free market, capitalism is not going to work.
President Pervez Mousharaf
They are backward and they are obscurantists and that is what I call Talibanization, we reject Talibanization, the people of Pakistan reject Talibanization. But however the national fabric as I told you has been affected because of the happenings in Afghanistan. Afghanistan has caused lots of troubles at Pakistan.
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
It's very convenient to say Talibanization. This is the American style of doing things. They come up with a word, or a term and then they give a lot of currency to it. But radicalization has a cause. The cause is the aggression first by the Russians and now by the Americans. So, you keep on aggressing against the people and the radicalization will automatically take place.
President Pervez Mousharaf
We are the victims of these Taliban which have been imported from Afghanistan. Our society has got affected and we are trying to clean up our society actually.
Pakistan played an important role in the creation of the Taliban movement, but back in the 90s, no one could imagine things would turn out this way.
The secret service of Pakistan, with the cooperation of the CIA, enthusiastically supported the Taliban movement which was then coming to the fore.
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
Training them, arming them, advising them. All these were in our line of duty.
Asad Douranni, former director of Pakistani secret services
Finally we should have a group. And this group seemed to have the potential of reunifying the country and putting an end to the civil war. And that is why we supported them.
Akhora Khatak is one of Pakistan's biggest seminary training colleges.
A religious school, where 3000 students of all ages learn to study the holy texts.
For 8 years they are taught the Koran and the Hadis. But also Geography, Mathematics or Computing.
Lt Gen Ali Muhammad Jan Aurakzai, Governor of NWFP
These madrassas have been part of our culture and part of our history and part of our education system for more than a thousand years. There are 13.000 madrassas in Pakistan.
They are enclosed and lead a Spartan life, with fast and prayer.
Madrassas such as the Akhora Khatak became, during the 90s, the hotbed of the Mujahedin who were fighting against the Russians in Afghanistan.
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
That was when we were fighting for your safety and security, for all of you. And we were fighting to get rid of the Soviet empire.
President Pervez Mousharaf
And who was fighting the Soviets? The same United States and the same people who are calling them bad. The same people, the same religious lobby, mujahedin from all over the world who are now Al Qaeda.
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
They were the mudjahedin and they were loved by the West because they were fighting to make sure that the Russians, the red monster does not take over Europe and America, and the rest of the world.
The men who later on became known as the Taliban - a word which means "students" in the language of the Pashtun - reached manhood in the Madrassas of Pakistan. Mullah Sami ul-Haq was the teacher of the movement's future leaders.
Maulana Sami Ul Haq
With those people, who came from other countries and learnt from us to read books, everyone must understand we have a soul relation of father and son.
These Afghans were ethical, free and decent people. They would set fire to the houses of thieves, that is their way of life. Now, whoever does the right thing all over the world, he is stigmatized and called a Taliban. In Afghanistan there are still good moral principles, the Mullahs are the same. They are always against bad things.
They had done nothing wrong, neither did they harm innocent people, or commit mistakes. As you see, Afghanistan is full of women wearing the same burka... as a big-big awning. Last night we saw it on the news, on television. Now no-one says anything, that is the way of life. The others who came here used it as propaganda.
Dr. Atta Ur Rahman, MP of MMA religious federation
Wrong is wrong. But it doesn't mean that we totally deprive them and tell them as strangers "no forgiveness for you, you are my enemy". What is done, is done. Now give them a choice, a chance to run their own country.
Now they are fighting for their freedom and a lot of things they have reviewed also.
Today, the teachers at Akhora Kathak say there are no longer students who have their minds on the Jihad.
Students
That is for our teachers. When they say, we go. When our Mullahs, our guides, tell us, we will go. They know more than us.
Islam never talks of war, but when war is imposed, then raise your hands.
The government of Pakistan, after realizing that war operations brought no result, decided to negotiate with the militants of Waziristan.
It would stop the attacks and retire the troops if they stopped helping the Taliban and the Al Qaeda foreigners.
President Pervez Mousharaf
And we are telling the tribal elders "do it strongly", get these people out. They cannot be allowed. Any foreigner is not allowed. So, we are trying to push them into delivering on the deal. If at all we see any militant activity we are allowed to attack it.
The peace deal was signed and the western media called it a complete submission to the Taliban.
Militant
In the past we did a job we hated a lot. But if the time comes again, we will do the same once more, with the help of Allah.
However, the deal was not capable of putting an end to the coming and going across the borders.
President Pervez Mousharaf
Very difficult, because this is mountainous terrain. We can control, we can check, we can reduce, but if anyone thinks that we can stop it all together is mistaking, that is not possible. We have thought of fencing we may even go for mining. Now these are other methods of controlling movement across border.
Asad Douranni, former director of Pakistani secret services
No fencing, no mining will be able to stop it. We can control at certain points, but the movement can continue. So if those people want to come and go back for any number of reasons they only need some protection from the locals and that will be given to them.
Pakistan points out that the US high-tech military machine as well as the allied forces in Afghanistan could have done a lot more in patrolling the borders and stopping the militant movement across the borders from their side.
General Salikat Sultan, army spokesman
The Afghan government as well as the coalition forces they have responsibility to it. They should not wag fingers to Pakistan.
President Pervez Mousharaf
In checking we have to cooperate on both sides of the border. This is not doable by the Pakistan alone. The other side, the forces operating in Afghanistan must cooperate. At the moment we have about 1.000 posts all around that border with Afghanistan whereas in the Afghan side there are only 95 posts. We have done the maximum. If Pakistan is not doing enough which other country is doing anything?
The relations between the president and the superforce are now at a very critical point. Washington's politicians are asking themselves whether Musharraf is, after all, friend or foe. As a US ally in the so-called war against terrorism, he is forced to crash Islamic Extremism. A very difficult task in a country that sympathises with the Taliban and feels a lot of hate for America. The president has no space for manoeuvring.
Dr. Atta Ur Rahman, MP of MMA religious federation
The Americans demanding more and more and more. They kill their own citizens in Pakistan, but the Americans say "we are not satisfied, we want to come and operate ourselves in Pakistan". So, can he go to that extend to them, Mousharraf? He cannot. One day or later he will say "Stop, I cannot go more"
General Hameed Gul, former director of Pakistani secret services
Yes, if the Americans continue to follow their policies, and the government of Pakistan continues to show weakness, then the split in the society will divide them. It will create more problems for us and it will spread to other parts of the country as well.
Worst scenario is civil war in Pakistan. Pervez Mousharraf must not seat on our heads and create more problems for Pakistani society. He should call it of now; I think he has run his course.
TALIBAN II THE REVIVAL
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