Governor North-West Frontier Province (NWFP), Owais Ghani, on June 14, 2009: “The government has decided to launch an operation against militants in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata). It has been decided that a comprehensive and decisive operation will be launched to eliminate Baitullah Mehsud (chief of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, TTP), and dismantle his network… we have repeatedly warned the Mehsud tribe through tribal elders to give up their miscreant activities and advised them not to shelter foreign militants. The government will not tolerate any act against the security of the people’s lives and property at any cost. They kept on their miscreant activities and continued to harbour terrorists. As a result, many people have lost their lives in suicide attacks in Lahore, Peshawar, Islamabad and today in Dera Ismail Khan”.
Newspapers reported, “Governor Ghani said the Army had been ordered to launch a crackdown on militants in the Fata”.
Army spokesman Maj. Gen. Athar Abbas on June 14, 2009 to the news agency Associated Press: “The government has made the announcement. We will give a comment after evaluating the orders”.
Are we, the hapless people of Pakistan, right, then, to be confused, rattled, scared out of our wits, petrified, perplexed and baffled by what is going on? How possibly can the spokesman of an agency of state, the Army, say that it will “give a comment after evaluating” the direct orders of the government of Pakistan through its agent in the Frontier, the governor himself? What “comments” will the Army give, please?
http://newageislam.com/time-for-a-peoples-coup-against-pak-army--/islam-and-politics/d/1479
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