other jihadi groups, whether Pakistani or Afghan, can get away, literally, with murder.
Whenever there is a bomb blast, suicide attack or otherwise, our religious parties immediately credit Blackwater, and even RAW and MOSSAD with the said blast. And even when the reveren jihadis claim the blast, the press goes into the ostrich (‘head in the sand’) mode.
Now take the recent survey conducted by Geo Television in nine cities and 42 villages across the country. According to the report, 77 per cent consider the United States as the enemy. For them, the release of the CIA agent Raymond Davis was more traumatic than the usual suicide bomb blasts and 70 per cent blame President Zardari (not the intelligence agencies) for his release. And, connected with this anti-Americanism, half of the people surveyed think nuclear weapons (which everybody calls ‘assets’) are in danger (presumably from America). And that is probably why only seven per cent people are ‘happy’— relieved? — over Osama bin Laden’s death though, paradoxically enough, half the population is ‘sad or worried’, while also not believing he was killed at all. More >>>
Location: Islamabad
