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Pak's claim on Taliban casualties 'wildly exaggerated'

Islamabad: Pakistan's claim that over 700 militants have been killed in the offensive against Taliban in the country's troubled northwest is being questioned by US military and intelligence officials, who termed it as "wildly exaggerated". Pakistani military and civil officials, including Interior Ministe ....Read more

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Pakistan bashingBy: future legend | Sunday , 21 Jun '09 4:19:30 AM Reply | Forward Before doubting pakistan's sincerity in war on terror, everyone should keep in mind that pak has suffered the most.It has lost around 1500 soldiers and has suffered a loss of more than 30 billion dollar and secondly we are fighting this war for our own good.so you people need not guide us that what should we do.Our army,isi is fully capable of fighting these foriegn funded elements and by the grace of Allah almighty we have been successfull uptill now.What the hell you people are talking about the aid, It's just 1.5 billion dollars while usa is giving 30 billion dollars to afghanistan.Why Iam saying these are foriegn funded elements because everyday american, russian, israeli and indian weapons are recovered from them and the bloody aim is to denuclearise the only islamic nuclear power.The original taliban are only afghans fighting NATO forces.2ndly this terrorism is result of west's support to mujahideen during soviet invasion, injustice to the muslims in kashmir,iraq,afghnistan etc.

Pak's claim on Taliban casualties 'wildly exaggerated'By: Ratan Gupta | Thursday , 14 May '09 17:18:24 PM Reply | Forward Suhaaz, nothing is free. America is giving aid not for free. Why don't you ask yourself that why America and West needs Pakistan? By the way, sitting in Saudi Arabia, have you ever thought that we have 700 million people living at below poverty line? Shame on that. That is the most uncivilized thing. The number one country in the world that has sacrificied most in the so called war on terror is Pakistan, and yet you are still not happy. Come and save our 100 thousand Hindu Sisters who are burnt alive for not bring dowry every year. Come on here. This is uncivilized. What do you know the meaning of civilization. You people just talk. What did you do for human civilization by the way. A recent report has compared to India's poverty that to only sub-Saharan Africa. Shame.

Saudi By: Suhaas Paradkar | Thursday , 14 May '09 11:32:25 AM Reply | Forward It's a shame really that USA continues to give aid to a country, that is a curse for the entire civilized world

Oh ! u lick so nice - zardu to obamaBy: Pramod K Kulkarni | Thursday , 14 May '09 10:43:15 AM Reply | Forward Hero Vaz has said it right. Obama gets pleasure in falsely patting (licking if u want to say it this way) Zardu for his courageous statements day in n day out.Who are they tring to fool and for what purpose - no body knows. We can be certain of only two things happening which no one will dispute. (1) US Tax Payers money is vulgarly abused, wasted and aiding militants and (2) Taliban is getting richer; Obama getting fooler by the day

Well knownBy: chanakya | Thursday , 14 May '09 10:23:06 AM Reply | Forward I think we need not strain our selves. World knows well as to what is Pakistan and what it is capable. If they pretend as if they were ignorant, then definitely they are taking us for a ride. Just as US govt finds Taliban as a creation of some enemy forces.Pakistan knows the weakness of the west and has been succesfully using it for its advantage. Only issue is the advantage has been only for the people in power or for the army, and not for the common population. That is where one gets worried whether Pakistan becomes another Somalia. Other wise as neighbours we least interested as to how many citizens were killed by the DEMOCRATICALLY elected govt. One thing is clear terror sponsorers have become active in conducting refuge camps and donation collections as usual.

Talibans are horrible but they have a positive role to play in restraining imperilalismBy: inptilayan | Thursday , 14 May '09 7:57:17 AM Reply | Forward We can see the perhaps unintentional antagonism of Gary, Vaz and Paul towards Pakistan. In any country the people are different from the political decision makers as we see in the US. Very true the Taliban’s are outside the main stream Islam and they are in many respects horrible. But mind you the secret agenda of American and its allies to politically, economically and militarily dominate the poorer countries is much more horrible. We can not deny the fact that in the last 250 years of colonial history no power has occupied Afghanistan and ruled them, so the Talibans are fighting a war of independence, what they do, what rules they follow, their concepts and ideologies are not the business of the US or anybody, if Talibans are not fighting the war the terrorist activities, radicalism, and militarialism will spill over to India, Nepal and Bangladesh, at least now the Talibans sacrifice a lot to save India from a similar fate.. We should thank Taliban’s for doing that.

Americans partner liarsBy: Hero Vaz | Thursday , 14 May '09 7:46:48 AM Reply | Forward Can anything that comes out of the mouths of Pakis be believed? The Pakis are reputed strangers to truth. The Americans will be fools to trust them. The Pakis will stoop to anything to get their way. They are not ashamed of their shameful behaviour. When one lie is exposed they are ready to move on to the next. The Yanks treating the Pakis as partners is degrading to America and a sad reflection on the Americans themselves.

700 talibanis killed?By: megh | Thursday , 14 May '09 6:04:18 AM Reply | Forward i wonder if 700 dead were talibanis or pakistani military? i thought the paki's were good at surrendering and not fighting! they can only whip women, children and kids.

DRAMA OF PAKISTAN'S WAR ON ITS STRATEGIC RESERVEBy: Pushpinder Singh Harsh | Wednesday , 13 May '09 22:29:20 PM Reply | Forward The present so called conflict is a very well rehearsed and orchestrated drama to fool the gullible - the US. The US is living with the guilt of having been a party to the creation of the Taliban and Al Qaida. They know fully well that Pak troops comprised a major portion of the Taliban force. When they called Pakistan a partner in war against terror, their actual expectations were that Pakistan would control the Taliban by pulling out their troops from it. Unfortunately, as time passed, new players joined in, and Pak Army practically declared the Taliban as its strategic reserve. No sane analyst will accept that Pakistan is destroying its so called strategic reserve. Therefore, US is indulging in wishful thinking by expecting that the claimed large casualties are in fact troops withdrawn from the Taliban. Pakistan will have extracted large unconditional aid from USA, without losing anything. The foolish US has even decided to place their Drone at the disposal of Pak Army.

Taliban CasualtiesBy: Gary | Wednesday , 13 May '09 20:18:18 PM Reply | Forward I always keep wondering how is it that either some top notch taliban or Al Qaida operativs get caught whenever they are going to get aid. NOw all of a sudden 700 terrorists are killed and Pak is getting aid. Either America is not getting it or they are part of this game spending tax payers money.

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