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https://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/24/senate-committee-cuts-pakistan-aid-over-conviction.html

"We need Pakistan, Pakistan needs us, but we don't need Pakistan double-dealing and not seeing the justice in bringing Osama bin Laden to an end," said Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., who pushed for the additional cut in aid.

He called Pakistan "a schizophrenic ally," helping the United States at one turn, but then aiding the Haqqani network which has claimed responsibility for several attacks on Americans. The group also has ties to al-Qaida and the Taliban.

"It's Alice in Wonderland at best," said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt. "If this is cooperation, I'd hate like hell to see opposition."

Oh, the Haqqani Network.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2041770/Haqqani-network-CIA-created-Sopranos-Afghanistan-targeting-US.html

Known as the Haqqani network, the group has reportedly built its reputation on drug smuggling, extortion and kidnapping for years.

In the 1980s, the Haqqanis weren’t enemies of the U.S., but allies, as they fired CIA-provided missiles to strike Soviet planes over Afghanistan.

There is the mention of Stingers again after bringing up Extortion 17.

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https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/pakistan-crises-paradox-husain-haqqani-book-5249068/The Pakistani general, instead of correcting the follies of the past military leaders, became more unhinged as in the case of General Shahid Aziz who has “disappeared” after retirement, doing his private “tabligh” jihad outside Pakistan. In his well-received book he speaks of “the ‘eye of Dajjal’ (Antichrist) on the US dollar bill, which to him symbolises ‘the grand conspiracy set in motion by the Freemasons and many powerful families in league with the American Neocons’.” For him, “only the Quran stands in the way’ of the modern world’s ‘Satanic way of life’.”

Yet one wonders if homo pakistanicus under ideology today, with a 60 per cent literacy rate, is more “dangerous” than the one in 1947 when the literacy rate was less than 20 per cent. Pakistan has a lot of religion but lacks the “software” of useful knowledge needed in today’s world.

Haqqani zeroes in on a moment of illumination: “The Economist cited Lijian Zhao, a Chinese diplomat, as saying that China is all too aware that Pakistan needs more than just big-ticket infrastructure if it is to flourish. He praised ‘the efforts of Britain and other countries to improve Pakistan’s software, such as education and the rule of law’, explaining that ‘China’s expertise is hardware’.”