India has a vital role to play in Af-Pak region: Panetta

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US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has said that India had a vital role to play in Pakistan, Afghanistan and the region. According to a BBC report, Panetta made the remarks while talking to reporters here. He said that India was a very important country in the region and that was why it would play a role for the establishment of peace in Pakistan and Afghanistan and it will turn out to be helpful for abiding peace and stability in the region.
Panetta went on to say that the US’ main target was to save Afghanistan from becoming a safe haven for terrorists and al Qaeda militants. “We are eager to work with the other countries of the region on this count,” he said. He added that his country wanted to fortify the network of its defence allies in the world, and “our new defence policy hinges upon this strategy”. “Nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles of North Korea were posing a grave threat to US and we are striving to take all measures including forging of strong defence alliance with South Korea to counter this threat,” he added.

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  1. This is a milder statement and I believe that educated Pakistanis do not deny this but this Mr Panetta it is too late. The cat was of of he bag with your first very aggressive statement delivered in India which was to the utter disappointment of a vast majority of Pakistanis.

    With no disrespect to you sir in your statement you undermined Pakistan Government by inviting India to fill the gap when US leaves. Mr Munter former US Ambassador to Pakistan described you as a rather hot headed Pakistani.

    Sir, you have little understanding of the cultural and religious affiliations of the Afghan people and those who are in the tribal belt of Pakistan.

  2. This is a milder statement and I believe that educated Pakistanis do not deny this but this Mr Panetta it is too late. The cat was out of he bag with your first very aggressive statement delivered in India which was to the utter disappointment of a vast majority of Pakistanis.

    With no disrespect to you sir in your statement you undermined Pakistan Government by inviting India to fill the gap when US leaves. Mr Munter former US Ambassador to Pakistan described you akin to a hot headed Pakistani.

    Sir, you have little understanding of the cultural and religious affiliations of the Afghan people and those who are in the tribal belt of Pakistan.

  3. America has two main stooges in Asia viz., Israel and India. However, the problem with India is that it is unable to even, carry its own weight, rather than the burden of America.

    However, the problem with the US is that it is most un trustworthy friend, the world has ever seen.

    Look what Pakistan has not done for the US in the last 65 years e.g., in Korean war era under various pacts, allowing overflights for U2 planes to spy over USSR, connecting USA with China, bringing down USSR in Afghanistan war in 80s, saving American soldiers from being lynched by Somalian war lords, saving US staff from burning Islamabad Embassy, making America a single super power and fighting so called American war on terror imposed on this region that too because of sheer incompetence of US intelligence agencies, in stopping 9/11 attacks in the first instance.

    No other country, big or small, except Pakostan, has ever done so much for America. However, whenever America got an opportunity, it severely punished Pakistan, by sanctions and other means, like withholding fully paid up F-16's.

    And how can we forget, that Pakistan is suffering, just because US secret agencies failed to stop 9/11 plotters, who got training in aeroplane flying right inside America; and none of them belonged to Pakistan.

    The fact is that America has time and again proved, with its betrayal in its friendship with Pakistan, that US is and never was worthy of Pakistan’s friendship and all the sacrifices, we gave for her. Moreover, now there is no doubt that US understands one and only one language, learnt in Vietnam, Iraq and Afghanistan wars.

    And the moral of the story is, that a nation may survive being not a friend of America but, it can’t survive, being a friend of America.

    • But you are comfortably forgetting the US Dollars pumped into Pakistan to maintain its Army and the security Est. Without this support Pakistan should have ceased to be a nation long back. You should understand there is nothing called a free meal in the relationship of nations.

    • It would have been much better for all concerned if Musharraf had accepted to be "bombed into the stone age".

    • I couldn'tstop laughing reading this comment. Mr.Nayyar starts of about the two main stooges of the US -India and Israel. But by the 3rd paragraph he lays out a detailed and graphic history of how , since its inception, Pakistan has been nothing but a stooge for the US !

  4. Mr Nayyar has put on display his poor intellect and high school boy type of patriotism inculcated in Medressas or textbooks which are full of hatred for non-muslims.

    India and Israel are US`s allies, not stooges, and USA needs them because of their inherent strengths, a fact that you Pakistanis can`t digest. But it is OK as that is your destiny.

    Thank you for admitting for doing so much for USA and getting nothing in return !!! LOL. And that happens only in a Master-slave relationship. You have proved that Pakistanis are a brainless breed and their violent and terror oriented mindset is available for sale and USA had hired right person to do a hitman`s job..

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