![]() ![]() ![]() Just two F-16 falcons from the Pakistan Air Force could achieve air supremacy in about half the time that a stealth bomber takes to reach Afghanistan from the USA. He fools no one but 278 million Americans. General Myers the other day claimed that they have 'achieved air supremacy'. Already missiles, bombs and other weaponry worth $1.5 billion have been used in Afghanistan and the real war is yet to begin. To get things in perspective, the entire Afghan economy is worth no more than $ 4 billion, while the US congress has given Bush a $ 40 billion war chest. Yet after almost three weeks of intense aerial bombardment not a single key target has been hit, nor any significant war aim achieved. This has been one of the most vicious bombing campaigns on one of the poorest country in the world. Three weeks is long time in this era of advanced tech warfare. With every day that passes, the fear of the regime is becoming more and more intense. If terrorism could be avenged by retribution without striking at the root cause of the malady - poverty, unemployment, hunger, ignorance and disease - it would only result in enhancing the menace and misery for the oppressed. Pakistan society seems to be in a state of war - a war nobody wants to wage, since not even the ruling junta is prepared to commit Pakistani troops to this most peculiar conflict.Īs US forces dropped bombs on a war ravaged, drought-ridden Afghanistan and the people saw images of distraught refugees fleeing to the borders of Pakistan in droves, and news came of civilian causalities, most wondered if war was the only option. It is a country not directly at war and yet all the social and economic implications of a war are very much present. The masses are bewildered at what is going on and what is about to happen. ![]() As the autumn haze sets in, Pakistan seems to be engulfed in an environment of gloom, confusion, apathy and sorrow. ![]()
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