Posted on 08/10/2023 7:26:03 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Intercept’s source, who had access to the document as a member of the military, spoke of their growing disillusionment with the country’s military leadership, the impact on the military’s morale following its involvement in the political fight against Khan, the exploitation of the memory of dead service members for political purposes in recent military propaganda, and widespread public disenchantment with the armed forces amid the crackdown. They believe the military is pushing Pakistan toward a crisis similar to the one in 1971 that led to the secession of Bangladesh.
The removal of Khan has had an obvious impact on Pakistan's policy on Ukraine. No doubt the US is bribing the military through aid packages. The military has been running Pakistan for decades. Any civilian leader who bucks them is eliminated, one way or another.
Bhutto was ousted in a military coup. Gen Zia-ul Haq hanged him two years later. Zia’s authoritarian Islamist rule was bolstered by the war in neighboring Afghanistan. In 1988, Zia died in a plane crash, which some believe was caused by political enemies.
Benazir Bhutto survived a massive suicide bombing in Karachi while campaigning for re-election 2007 but died after being shot at a rally in Rawalpindi. The man in charge at the time of Bhutto’s death – Gen Pervez Musharraf – also faced repeated assassination attempts.
Pakistan’s foreign policy has changed significantly since Khan’s removal, with Pakistan tilting more clearly toward the U.S. and European side in the Ukraine conflict. Abandoning its posture of neutrality, Pakistan has now emerged as a supplier of arms to the Ukrainian military; images of Pakistan-produced shells and ammunition regularly turn up on battlefield footage. In an interview earlier this year, a European Union official confirmed Pakistani military backing to Ukraine. Meanwhile, Ukraine’s foreign minister traveled to Pakistan this July in a visit widely presumed to be about military cooperation, but publicly described as focusing on trade, education, and environmental issues.
This realignment toward the U.S. has appeared to provide dividends to the Pakistani military. On August 3, a Pakistani newspaper reported that Parliament had approved the signing of a defense pact with the U.S. covering “joint exercises, operations, training, basing and equipment.” The agreement was intended to replace a previous 15-year deal between the two countries that expired in 2020.
Aggressively NEUTRAL? Talk about a BS story.
100% correct kabar.
“The leaking of the document by the Intercept’s source, a member of the military, was meant to help Khan against the military.”
Actually, it has had the intent, in Pakistan, of doing what the Pakistam military-intelligence complex is alwaus seeking - a growth of ant-American sentiment domestically in Pakistan. That anti-American sentiment is then used by the Paksitan miltary-intellihemce comples to conjole the U.S. into more miltgary and other aid. I quesion the allegience of the leaker, as claiming to be anti-Pakistan military. To me it all reeks of the double play the Paistan military-intelligence complex has always played.
Schrödinger’s cat? Occam’s razor?
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