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August 17, 2011

Jordan

Jamie Shea's outlook on the future of NATO is at best wishful thinking.

The NATO alliance of the willing in countries outside of NATO borders such as IRAQ, Libya, and Afghanistan has done nothing to improve lives of ordinary people. In the Last 20 Years, every NATO attack on countries was without United Nation's Security Council approval and without at least one of the NATO member states France, Germany, Spain, Greece, and Italy. Countries on NATO's side such as Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Turkey by NATO's are on daily basis killing, imprisoning and expelling its own citizens that are asking for change and NATO members are doing nothing.

Within NATO member borders, the12 million Kurds in Turkey have been oppressed and killed by Turkish government for many years and NATO's members are doing nothing. The British oppression, discrimination, colonization of 2 million Irish in Northern Ireland and NATO's members are doing nothing. Croatia ethnically cleansed half a million ethnic Serbs from Croatia and Croatia has not allowed the ethnic Serbs to return to their homes. NATO's members are doing nothing.

It is obvious from current and past policies that the countries within NATO borders have absolute right to abuse its own citizens without fear of NATO intervention.

NATO serves only to colonial aspirations of the fading past WWII western powers. The NATO invasions with guns in the name of democracy or human rights will not work in the future. In the post cold war vacuum of equilibrium NATO was able to impose military night onto others; However, contrary to NATO's statemens, more European countries are seeing the hypocrisy of NATO war machine.

With such hypocrisy in the NATO's policies, the EU and NATO countries will definitely have less and less in common which will most likely lead to dissolutions of both NATO and EU unions.

January 11, 2012

Talha Bin Tariq, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan, Gold Contributor (101)

China’s leading news resource and official news agency, Xinhua published dozens of news items in its Chinese as well as English editions focusing on various facets of the incident, highlighting the violation of Pakistan’s sovereignty.

One of its reports said that the NATO raid is seen as a “serious blow for peace efforts in Afghanistan” and “to already strained relations” between Pakistan and Afghanistan.”

The most significant article appeared in China’s most influential newspaper the People’s Daily titled “The Anti-terror War Should Also Follow the Rules.” The Chinese language newspaper has a circulation of 3.5 million in addition to millions of clicks on its online edition

Regards,
talha Bin tariq

January 11, 2012

Talha Bin Tariq, Government College University, Lahore, Pakistan, Gold Contributor (101)

Pakistan has rejected the US report pertaining to Nato’s attack on a Pakistani check post last month while a Pakistani security official has denied the statement of a US official that the US military briefed Chief of the Army Staff (COAS) about its investigation into the air strikes that left 24 soldiers dead.
“No such briefing took place and the report was not handed over in person to the army chief. The report was delivered to the concerned department (of army headquarters) but not to the chief,” the official said.
Pakistan has yet to give a detailed public response to the report, but officials have expressed irritation that elements were initially leaked to American newspapers last week. Earlier, on Tuesday, Pentagon spokesman Captain John Kirby told reporters that a report by military investigators was delivered to General Ashfaq Kayani on Sunday by a US officer based in Islamabad, who explained the findings to the general. The full report from the joint US-Nato investigative team was not released publicly until Monday to allow time for the Pakistani leadership to read the findings first, Kirby said. “We wanted General Kayani to be able to see the entire thing,” he said, calling the approach “an appropriate professional courtesy” to Gen Kayani.
The air strikes further damaged the precarious US-Pakistani partnership and provoked outrage in Islamabad, which retaliated by cutting off Nato supply routes to Afghanistan. The New York Times has also reported the counter-terrorism partnership can only survive in limited form.
The United States and Pakistan disagree about the precise sequence of events in the deadliest single cross-border attack of the 10-year war in Afghanistan. Pakistan denies shooting first, and has accused the Americans of an intentional attack on its troops.
Brigadier General Stephen Clark, who led the US inquiry, said the November 25-26 air strikes were the result of mistakes and botched communications on both sides — reflecting an underlying mistrust between the two countries. It took the Nato-led force 84 minutes to halt air strikes after a Pakistani liaison officer first alerted US and coalition counterparts that Pakistani troops were coming under fire from American aircraft, the report said.
The probe also said the US military failed to notify the Pakistanis about the night raid near the border and that a coalition officer mistakenly gave the wrong location of the US troops to his Pakistani counterpart.
The probe found Pakistani soldiers fired first at American and Afghan forces and kept firing even after a US F-15 fighter jet flew overhead. The Pakistanis also failed to tell the Americans about new border posts in the area.
INP adds: Pakistan, expressing reservations over the US report regarding the Nato attack on the Salala check post in Mohmand Agency, has insisted for an investigation through a neutral third party.
Pakistani officials ask how investigations could be transparent when Brigadier General Stephen Clark, who has been linked to the strategic team involved in the attack, headed the probe team. “Investigations can never bring out unbiased findings when the accused are part of the probe.”

Regards,
Talha Bin tariq