Fareed Zakriya on Pakistan

[Toramana]

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn....n-needs-to-do/

Pakistan's military has been embarrassed, to put it mildly, by the suspicion that it must have known where Osama bin Laden was hiding. In response, it is using its old tricks and hoping to ride out the storm as it has in the past. It is leaking stories to favored journalists and unleashing activists and politicians all with the aim of stoking anti-Americanism in Pakistan.
Having been caught in a situation that suggests either complicity with al Qaeda or gross incompetence (and the reality is probably a bit of both), Pakistan is now furiously trying to change the subject...

[randolph85]

i wont read a thing this guy writes after about a month ago when he suggested splitting up libya.

[Toramana]

http://globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn....tan-on-notice/

[faye]

i get the feeling there was some deal about osama between the isi and us and the us had done the dirty. whether osama was actually there or not, i will probaly never know but pakistan govt appear to be very angry but the americans are saying they will still deal with them.
no more about imran khan and the protest is there toramana? has the osama event drowned this out?

[Toramana]

i get the feeling there was some deal about osama between the isi and us and the us had done the dirty. whether osama was actually there or not, i will probaly never know but pakistan govt appear to be very angry but the americans are saying they will still deal with them.
no more about imran khan and the protest is there toramana? has the osama event drowned this out?

I think so faye, Imran seems to be at least partially burried under the heavy debris of Osama fall-out.