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US Diplomats Escaping Pakistan?
US bully diplomacy in Pakistan and blunders in neighboring Afghanistan have placed unbearable pressures on American diplomats.
SPECIAL REPORT | Saturday | 11 December 2010 | DailyMailNews.com
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan—The policies of the United States in Pakistan have rendered the lives of American diplomats unbearable in this country. Out of hundreds of foreign diplomats posted at embassies and consulates all over this nation of 180 million people, only US diplomats face major threats. This is a country where CIA-run drones have killed hundreds of innocent Pakistani men, women and children, and where major terror attacks fueled by America’s war in Afghanistan have killed more than 5,000 Pakistanis.
US diplomats are also under pressure because of growing resentment among Pakistanis toward blunt US meddling in Pakistani politics.
The latest victim of her country’s lopsided policies is Elizabeth Rood, Consul General of the US in Peshawar. Only two months into her job, Ms. Rood left Pakistan yesterday back to Washington where she expects to be reassigned to a station other than Pakistan.
According to a report by The Daily Mail of Pakistan, which quoted sources in the government of the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, ‘Miss Rood, a native of Carolina in US, had previously tendered her resignation but it was not accepted by the US Government. Apparently, the reason behind her quitting her duties in the volatile region was life threats from the Taliban.’
Another report in The Nation quoted a spokesman for the US embassy in Islamabad as saying Mr. Rood ‘has not resigned from her service, rather, she was called back to the States.’
Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin, who led the US diplomatic mission in Islamabad after 9/11, became the highest-ranking US diplomat in Pakistan to abort her assignment and return home in 2002 just nine months into her job because of the sense of constant pressure. Since then, US State Department’s Islamabad station has seen one of the largest numbers of requests to move out elsewhere.
Ambassador Anne Patterson, who completed her term last month and left Pakistan, saw US diplomats bunker inside the embassy during her tenure. Patterson was roundly criticized for introducing a culture of fear and almost ending physical contacts between US diplomats and the Pakistani public. One of the highlights of her period is the introduction of a new service: calling up ordinary American citizens who plan to visit Pakistan for business or pleasure and warn them not to come.
Ambassadors of other western countries do not face similar difficulties in Pakistan, confirming that US policies generate hostility more than anything else.
Pakistanis are shocked at the level of US meddling in Pakistan, further confirmed by the release of secret US diplomatic cables through WikiLeaks website.
These insights have stunned even western observers who never expected Pakistani rulers to have allowed Washington unbridled access.
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I think too much of intellectualism is what we are suffrering with. We balme USA ( a Zionist pupet and sowrn enemy of Islam ) for our short commings. We as a people are not united, We want every thing delivered to us on a plate. The people who protect us, rule us and manage us are agents of Zionists and Zionists to the core. For money they have cashed on to Pakistan’s most unique geographical location to Jew Bankers of West and to protect their wealth they have resorted to destroy Pakistan’s Unity and destroy Pakistan’s only true military force in Trble Area . They were the Trible Fighters who secured the Northern Territories of Kashmir and Azad Kashmir for Pakista. It is they who are the true military of Pakistan. They are not paid soldiers . They are Worriors…..a unique phenomenon in the whole world. We know that the drone attacks in Trible Areas are mounted from Pakistan with full cooperation of Pakistan’s civil and military authorities.
Yes our enemy is within destroy it with Fist of Iron and the Zinist ape will not only depart from Pakistan with tail between legs but from Afghanistan as well. And it is the ordinary man of our powerful nation who can do it. It is his DUTY. Failing that we must keep blaming others like the Jews do abut the so called Holocaust and appear pathetic to the rest of the world.
Beautifully put
One of the best comments I have ever read on any post.
EVER SINCE THE END OF W.W.II, U.S.A. HAS FOLLOWED A POLICY OF “INTERFERENCE & CONFRONTATION”. IT HAS ALSO MEDDLED INTO THE POLITICAL AFFAIRS OF OTHER COUNTRIES WITH WHICH IT ‘SHOWS FRIENDLY TERMS’ WHEREAS, IN REALITY, IT HAS ALWAYS STABBED THAT COUNTRY OR ITS RULERS IN THE BACK. TAKE THE CASE OF FERDINAND MARCOS (PHILLIPINES), REZA SHAH PEHLAVI (IRAN) AND VARIOUS OTHER COUNTRIES.
AMERICANS ARE ALSO A VERY COWARD WHERE EVER THERE IS A THREAT TO THEIR LIFE AND GALLOP AWAY FROM THAT COUNTRY AS FAST AS THEY CAN EXAMPLES : IDI AIDID (SOMALIA), FROM BEIRUT, ETC.
IRAN WAS (AND IS) A VERY FAR SIGHTED COUNTRY BECAUSE EVER SINCE SEVERING THEIR RELATION WITH U.S.A IN 1979, IT HAS REMAINED ALOOF WITH A COUNTRY WHICH IT HAD DUBBED THE “GREAT SATAN” AND DESPITE SEVERE SANCTIONS & OTHER NEGATIVE TACTICS ADOPTED BY IT AGAINST IRAN, THIS BRAVE COUNTRY & ITS BOLD LEADERSHIP HAS TAKEN EVERY POSITIVE ATTITUDE AND CONFRONTED THE “GREAT SATAN” AT EVERY FORUM; BE IT AT THE U.N.O. OR THE SECURITY COUNCIL’S MEETINGS.
AS COMPARED TO IRAN, OUR COUNTRY – PAKISTAN – HAS LOST ITS SOVEREIGNTY, & INDEPENDENCE DUE TO THE “TAIL WAGGING” POLICY OF ITS “GREEDY LEADERS” & ITS “CROOKED POLITICIANS” AS IS KNOWN TO THE WORLD THROUGH THE “Wiki_Leaks”. NOW, OUR COUNTRY HAS BECOME THE 51ST OR 52ND STATE OF AMERICA AND CAN BE APTLY TITLED AS THE “UNTIDY SLAVE OF AMERICA” i.e.U.S.A. .
MAY AL_MIGHTY ALLAH SAVE ITS CITIZEN & THIS HAPLESS COUNTRY FROM THE WILES & TREACHERY OF THE RULING ELITE (i.e. THE P.P.P. – PILFERERS, PLUNDERERS AND PARASITES OF THIS GOD FORSAKEN COUNTRY, AMEEN.
Ameen…….and I must appreciate your insight into the matter.
Henry Kissinger once said “Tough being America’s enemy is dangerous but being its friend is devastating”