America

War on terror initiated by USA was a ruse to denigrate Islam and crush Jihadis and anti-American Muslims, redraw boundaries of Middle East and to plunder the resources of the Muslim world. The US and its real allies have succeeded in installing puppet regimes in Kabul, Baghdad and Tripoli and in destroying these countries. Although the US and its allies have made several parts of Pakistan restive with the help of their intelligence agencies, they have so far not been able to achieve its core objective of denuclearizing it and making it its vassal.

Unresolved Kashmir dispute, inflexibility of jingoistic and scheming Indian leaders to reconcile with Pakistan’s existence as an independent state and their burning desire to gain unchallenged hegemony over all South Asian nations has kept India and Pakistan on the warpath. Lack of trust built up as a consequence to three wars and two local conflicts together with competing interests of two rival super powers during the cold war gave grist to antagonism. Trust deficit and sense of insecurity came in the way of meaningful reconciliation between two neighbors.

The U.S. president Barack Obama will not make that mistake again: saying ‘sorry’, offering formal condolences and apologizing to the Government of Pakistan for the deaths of two dozen soldiers in NATO airstrikes last week, overruling State Department officials who argued for such a show of remorse to help salvage America’s relationship with Pakistan.

In his first media briefing since American Navy SEALs descended on Pakistan to kill al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden on May 2 in Abbottabad without the knowledge of that country, the United States Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said on Wednesday, May 18 at Pentagon that Pakistan “already paid a price, has been humiliated and shown that the Americans can come in here and do this with impunity.