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Superpower or 🤡? "Pakistan’s army & its Inter-Services Intelligence(ISI) play key role in Taliban offensive. Without logistical support from Pakistan, the Taliban would be hard-pressed to operate in such a widespread way". epaper.timesgroup.com/Olive/ODN/TheE…
2/usa Superpower or 🤡? "Of course, Pakistan has been the Taliban’s patron since its creation in the 1990s.
It is impossible to defeat the Taliban as long as Pakistan provides sanctuary and safety, training, equipment and funds for the Taliban."..3/
3/usa #Clownanalysis101 🤡 "Pakistan cannot be defeated, as it is a nuclear-armed State and has the fifth-largest population in world. ...It is curious that Biden has so little to engage with Pakistan. He has yet to talk with Imran Khan." ☝🏼superpower is going to fight #China?😭
4/usa This would be hilarious if it was not #tragic. #USA, a superpower, which once threatened to bomb Pakistan into the Middle Ages if it didn't cooperate in finding terrorists, is now a lapdog licking IK hand, unable even to #sanction it? Pathetic! 🤯
5/usa #Afghan women have more guts than spineless #US #Afpak experts who 🙈🙉 the #Islamic #Republic of #Pakistan's Genocide, religious cleansing, ethnic cleansing & Jehadi terrorism since 1970😢😭😰
6/usa As did his brave woman who died at the hand of Taliban Terrorists trained and armed by the ISI, Pakistan Army, which received billions of dollars from the USA
7/usa while terrorists run free in the heart of the #IRP capital. Note this is the diplomatic enclave, the safest part of town, after the GHQ of the #Stratocracy
8/usa One #US professor, an expert on #Islamic #Republic of #Pakistan, who has been giving correct advice to US govt on what to do in #Afpak, based on data based research/analysis 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼
9/usa #Taliban's #Mullah #Haibatullah is directing his #Jehadis from Quetta, but why is #ISI favorite #Jehadi #Siraj #Haqqani so quiet in North Waziristan? 🧵
10/usa and the #HHRCs have already forgotten the 😱#ISIS/#ISIL/#DAESH😱, but the families of the Murdered, raped and kidnapped haven't! The #Taliban are their soulmates in harking back to medieval #Islamic #Emirates
11/usa Ahmad Rashid: "USA were supporting Pres Pervez Musharraf, who used a dual strategy: he was backing American drone operations from Pakistani bases & at the same time supporting Taliban"4, they were already a major force in Afghanistan."..12/
12/usa "The #Taliban's relaunch would hv never happened without #Pakistan's help. By 2002, they were totally wiped out; but by 2004, they were already a major force in Afghanistan" Pakistan will never be happy with any1 in Afg bcs Afghans r nationalists" dw.com/en/ahmed-rashi…
13/usa #Afpak #IRP #IRA:"Who are these people sitting in #Pakistan telling us how to rule ourselves?' is what most #Afghans think. The #Taliban cannot bring unity to #Afghanistan because of their religious beliefs, which are not accepted by any other Afghan group." Ahmad Rashid
14/usa #AfPak In 2000s the US & ISAF were careful in limiting its (ANSF)size & capabilities so as not to offend Pakistan. Unlike regular militaries, they were deliberately kept deficient in artillery and air power. In the past decade, the US & ISAF...15/ m.tribuneindia.com/news/comment/a…
15/usa "In past decade, however, #US & #ISAF put in a systematic effort to build up #ANSF. But their goal was to train a force with counter-insurgency capability, not the capacity to militarily disrupt or block #Taliban supply chain leading to #Pakistan." #Stockholm #Syndrome?
16/usa #HHRCs: "We ❤️#Taliban "
17/usa Foreign pressure on Afghanistan contrasts with with zero pressure on #IRP 😢😭😱
18/usa #HHRC "We💕#ISI created #Taliban"
19/usa #Taliban = 😱
20/usa 🥺😳🧵
21/usa #IRP invented the #3WarsStrategy (#LegalWar, #MediaWar, #PsyOps) . #Information #War
22/usa Afghanistan before #ISI created #Taliban and the #Islamic #Emirate of #Afghanistan
23/usa #Iron #Brother, the #Islamic #Republic of #Pakistan (#IRP), re-enters Afghanistan to plan/direct the re-establishment the #Islamic #Emirate of #Afghanistan (#IEA)?
24/usa Remember, #Afghanistan is a land locked country. Most of the lucrative drug trade controlled by #Taliban, passes through #IRP to #USA and EU. 🙈
25/usa #Taliban Kill the educated and modern men, rape/enslave the women & minor girls.
26/usa Experts or 🤡? No word on #Pakistan funding, training, directing of #Taliban and R&R facilities and family housing for #Taliban
27/usa Lincoln : "You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.” m.economictimes.com/opinion/et-com…
28/usa #Islamic #Republic of #Pakistan's #Stratocracy (represented USA S. Asia experts) vs. the people of Pakistan & Afghanistan (represented by Gul Bukhari)
29/usa The people of Pakistan are of little interest to #HHRCs
30/usa "US complicity in #IRP #stratocracy's #genocide, #religious & #ethnic #cleansing and criminality is not the concern of #HHRCs (Hypocritical human rights crusaders)"
31/usa Trusting the #Taliban, trusting the #Stratocracy politico.com/newsletters/na…
32/usa #Afghanistan #USA
33/usa #PUS #Pakistan-#US nexus
34/usa Contrast the expertise and understanding in the references in this , with the views , understanding & advice of 75-90% of USA/UK Pakistan experts during last 25 years!
35/usa And the exceptions (10-20% of total)
36/pus #PUS (= #Pakistan- #USA ) Tacit collusion/collaboration between "Pakistan experts" and #IRP #Stratocracy 🧵
37/pus #USA A #Superpower which can simultaneously sanction #Russia, #Iran and #Chinese companies, was helpless(🐔) when it came to #Pakistan? What BS 🐂is this?
38/pus I am Very happy to hear that #Human #Rights in #Afghanistan now matter to the US govt👍🏼 ! What about Human Rights in #Islamic #Republic of #Pakistan (#IRP)?
39/pus Top of the list of culpable(s), are the US "Pakistan experts" followed by US #Afpak experts.
40/pus The lies & threats (including threat of nukes falling into hands of Jehadis) worked for half a century, why not for another half century?
41/pus 😷😶‍🌫️😵‍💫
42/pus #Taliban in #Terror #Central
43/pus Calling all Western #AfPak experts and #Human #Rights #Crusaders 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
44/pus The two words that must NOT be mentioned together: "Sanction Pakistan" (not to mention ISI's Jehadi generals/brigadiers/colonels/majors)
45/pus Which country in history has created a govt, fought to keep in power for decades, and then abruptly negotiated its sell-out to the enemy it fought?
46/pus 😷🤫🙊
47/pus Abraham Lincoln: “You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.” Noooooo!
48/pus #USA has fed the #Jehadi 🐍🐍🐍 in #IRP for 40 years and still expects them not to bite it 🤷‍♂️
49/pus #USA super-power or super-🤡, which can simultaneously sanction nuclear N.Korea, nuclear Russia, near-nuclear Iran, but quakes in its boots when it comes to Nuclear #Pakistan? 🧵
50/pus #LFLo The only thing which can possibly explain this👇🏼 is that the #Pakistan #Army has #evidence of the #Complicity of #USA govt(Nixon & Kissinger), in the East Pakistan #Genocide by the #Pakistan #Army!
51/pus Patriotic, professional, #US experts on #Pakistan and #Afghanistan can't be 🤡🤡🤡? A little ego massaging combined with large hearted hospitality can work wonders with both the #Ignorant and the #Intellectually #Arrogant!
52/pus Michael Rubin, AEI "When I sat down with a former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) leader a decade ago, he openly bragged that Pakistan was playing it both ways and, even if Washington recognized that, there was nothing they could do.” firstpost.com/world/us-may-s…
53/pus #USA+ #NTO troops in landlocked Afg. were hostage to #IRP for logistics access. But their mental "#Stockholm #syndrome,", swallowing & regurgitating #IRP #Stratocracy's narrative for 30yrs is 😱. Instead of preparing #ANDF+#NDS to fight #IRP,they sold them out to Taliban👹
54/pus There were some honourable exceptions to the abysmal record of #US #Afpak #experts; more in last 10years, far fewer in preceding 10 yrs and virtually none in the 10 years before that
55/pus Read the good 🧵inside this, Yet I #disagree with the diagnosis of the Biden critics: The real failure is the pathetic lack of operational planning for withdrawal. Whether it was due to pathological #ignorance or neo-colonial #malice (or both) needs to be determined!
56/pus Be very clear, the war in Afghanistan was fought for Western politicians not for the Afghan people. Afghan politicians may be equally culpable, but NATO must be blamed for failure, Just as the primary credit for #Taliban victory goes to the #Pakistan #Army & it's ISI.
57/pus #HBYN Its been #pleading with a #genocidal #Stratocracy since 1970, so what else is new? 🤷‍♂️🤷🏻‍♀️
58/pus Did #USA destroy the #Afghan Army (suited to its geography, society & economy), to rebuild it in its own image (suited to US economic, social & political conditions) ?
59/pus The nom de guere "#Taliban #Khan" was known to most experts in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, well before he became PM. Apparently it was even known for a few years, to some experts in USA?
60/pus The USA and its NATO partners do deserve some credit for this 👇🏼. Sad that most of it will be flushed down the drain by the #Pakistan proxy #Taliban in a few months! 😢
61/pus #LFLo: #USA withdrawal from #Afghanistan; Pros & Cons 🧵

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