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IllustriousArcher199 t1_j6i096k wrote

The Pakistani government sheltered the Taliban when they were hiding out in Pakistan when the Americans were supporting the former Afghan government. Now, the Taliban terrorists are attacking Pakistanis.

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tinkthank t1_j6imshx wrote

>The Pakistani government military...

The Pakistani military leadership uses terrorist groups as leverage tools for foreign policy and domestic politics. The people of Pakistan have always been victims of both foreign military forces and their own government and military.

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ChemicalAd5087 t1_j6iw0zl wrote

The government has always been a puppet. But it’s also the government. Imagine a Prime minister calling Osama as a martyr in the parliament. The statement sucks but the magnitude of the place and by whom it was made is a reflection of the country’s sentiment.

Edit: prime monster to prime minister. Although in Pak it’s one and the same Thing

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robobear32 t1_j6k71ck wrote

Imagine lying about WMD's and funding the rise and training of the Taliban just to start a white flag war and kill people who never done anything to you. Dude the first thing you did in Afghanistan was rob their museums like in Babylon and stole their poppy fields, America wanted to loot and pillage the place not protect the world from a radical group that they started themselves. Bin Laden was literally a friend to the bushes and have family photos together before he got thrown under the bus for profit, plus let's not bring up the whole 9/11 lie and the fact that your own government committed an act of terrorism on its own citizens it swears to protect

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pete245 t1_j6j0ddp wrote

THE MILITARY NOT THE GOVERNMENT

When the war on terror started the US worked with a military dictator in Pakistan. The military ran everything. They gave billions in aid to Mushraff most of which was used by him to solidify power and not to actually improve their fighting.

The US knew this for years and accepted this as cost of business in getting their goals done in Afghanistan.

What happens now is the military still controls most things, and people in positions of power are either too afraid or threatened or blackmailed into doing their bidding. The democratic government comes into power but have less authority because of those decades of control.

So now if a journalist speaks up against the military they can be picked up at night or killed, if politicians go against them they can be tortured, if people protest they may be threatened.

The Pakistani people are victims of military policy and foreign intervention more than anything. And it's no surprise the biggest party in the country and most vocal group of resistance against the military comes from the Pakistani province that directly borders Afghanistan.

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tinkthank t1_j6k40pm wrote

Oddly Musharraf was the best ally the US had, he actually went after extremist groups hard which is why he was a target of so many assassination attempts.

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fartuni4 t1_j6jhqd7 wrote

'govt'?

us backed military that overthrew the democratic elected govt of pakistan....

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Persephone3129 t1_j6jyjr2 wrote

Ah yes. A “democratic” government handpicked by the Pakistan military, whose wannabe fascist leader Imran “Taliban” Khan called global terrorist Osama Bin Laden a “martyr.” The Pakistani military ousted Imran Khan once he fell out of favor with it. Spare us the conspiracy theories always blaming foreign interference. Pakistan has NEVER had a democratic government complete a single term. And that failure is on Pakistan’s rotten institutions, not the U.S.

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