The Pakistani Spectator

United States of America with its allies have started to attack Pakistani territory from the North Waziristan Agency and they are planning to advance steadily into other agencies and if needed into the Dir area and then to the Swat in the hot pursuit of the Talibans and the so-called Al-Qaeda.

Mike Mullen has already said that they are not going to seek any sort of permission from the Pakistani authorities and he has also hinted that he has already taken the new government into confidence and the Congress has already approved a massive economic package for the Pakistan.

So the picture is something like this: PPP stalwarts would enjoy the economic package,  US would hit and kill in the FATA and other areas, and as a backlash of it, innocent and hapless Pakistanis would blown up the militants in the suicide attacks. So much for the awaited change and the democratic regimes.

But even then I would earnestly propound that Gen. Ashfaq Parvez Kayani is not welcome at the helm of the affairs. Zardari has got way too much baggage to carry and he is not clearly up to the mark along with his clownish team. We need leaders and we need to act like a nation.