Comments on: US-Pakistan ties : bleeding America in Afghanistan http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/2011/04/17/us-pakistan-ties-bleeding-america-in-afghanistan/ Lifting the veil on conflict, culture and politics Sat, 04 May 2013 12:41:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: stuartbramhall http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/2011/04/17/us-pakistan-ties-bleeding-america-in-afghanistan/comment-page-1/#comment-5950 stuartbramhall Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:23:12 +0000 http://blogs.reuters.com/afghanistan/?p=3152#comment-5950 I would say some of the US covert activities in Pakistan pose a serious threat to their sovereignty. In fact I think it's pretty cynical and hypocritical for the CIA to declare Pakistan will be a failed state by 2015 - and at the same to to covertly support a major insurgency (the Baloch separatist movement) that has a good chance of splitting off Pakistan's most energy and mineral rich province. The Pentagon/CIA make no secret of their desire to see energy and mineral rich Balochistan secede from Pakistan to become a US client state - just like energy and mineral rich Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and the other former Soviet republics. Moreover it's virtually impossible to distinguish terrorist acts by the CIA-backed Baloch Liberation Army from those committed by the Taliban or Al Qaeda - especially around the Chinese-built Gwadar Port in Gwadar, Balochistan (the energy transit route for Iranian oil and natural gas destined for China). Given that both China and Iran are both major political/economic rivals, it's a pity the US media doesn't report on any of this. I blog about this at "Our CIA freedom fighters in Pakistan" http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com/2011/03/07/our-cia-freedom-fighters-in-pakistan/ I would say some of the US covert activities in Pakistan pose a serious threat to their sovereignty. In fact I think it’s pretty cynical and hypocritical for the CIA to declare Pakistan will be a failed state by 2015 – and at the same to to covertly support a major insurgency (the Baloch separatist movement) that has a good chance of splitting off Pakistan’s most energy and mineral rich province.

The Pentagon/CIA make no secret of their desire to see energy and mineral rich Balochistan secede from Pakistan to become a US client state – just like energy and mineral rich Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and the other former Soviet republics. Moreover it’s virtually impossible to distinguish terrorist acts by the CIA-backed Baloch Liberation Army from those committed by the Taliban or Al Qaeda – especially around the Chinese-built Gwadar Port in Gwadar, Balochistan (the energy transit route for Iranian oil and natural gas destined for China). Given that both China and Iran are both major political/economic rivals, it’s a pity the US media doesn’t report on any of this.

I blog about this at “Our CIA freedom fighters in Pakistan”
http://stuartbramhall.aegauthorblogs.com  /2011/03/07/our-cia-freedom-fighters-in -pakistan/

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