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Who’s Country Is It Anyway, Ours Or U.S. Think Tanks’?

Beware: Pakistanis trained and groomed by U.S. think tanks are being inserted into Pakistan's corridors of power, planted to teach us, the uncouth Pakistanis, what our national interest is and how to achieve it. While we have no problem with U.S. per se, we do have a big problem with diktat. Behind the scenes, the Pakistani capital has become a battleground, pitching a pro-U.S. lobby in the government against Pakistani nationalists. The pro-American lobby wants Pakistan to forget how India is blocking our water and is exporting terrorism inside Pakistan. They want us to allow India access to Afghanistan and transform Pakistan's Army into an Indo-American proxy force. For this plan to succeed, a maximum number of these turncoat Pakistanis have been mobilized. Gen. Durrani's ouster is one dent in the armor. We need more of these dents. By Ahmed Quraishi Wednesday, 14 January 2008. ISLAMABAD, Pakistan—The last thing we need is a bunch of Pakistani turncoats, fed...