Taliban prisoners in Pakistan are easily escaping from jails!

[Boomerg]

While allied forces are at pains to subdue Taliban in Afghanistan Taliban prisoners in Pakistan are easily escaping from jails!
The armed Taliban militants attacked prison in the Pakistani city of Bannu to free 400 (!) prisoners.
Most discouraging fact about this is that Pakistani authorities had been informed of the planned attack by the USA intelligence. In fact they ignored the vital info and did practically nothing to stop Taliban militants. Imo Pakistan makes rather harm than good as so called "devoted American regional ally". It amounts perhaps to betrayal.... Am I right?

 

[High_Gravity]

The Taliban "prisoners" are only in jail in Pakistan if they want to be there.

 

[waltky]

Uncle Ferd says, "See there, tol' ya so - dem feriners is after our white womens an' even lil kids...

'A small minority of Pakistani men DO believe white girls are fair game': Tory cabinet minister Baroness Warsi calls on mosques to act after Rochdale grooming gang scandal
18 May 2012 - Pakistani men who see white women as 'third class citizens' need to be 'isolated' by their communities; 'Cultural sensitivity should never be a bar to applying the law,' senior Muslim politician said; Comments clash with Labour MP Keith Vaz and police who say race was not an issue in Asian men's child sex grooming ring

Muslim cabinet minister Baroness Warsi today dramatically hit out at the 'small minority' of Pakistani men who see white girls as 'fair game' for sexual abuse. In comments following the Rochdale grooming scandal involving nine Muslim men, the Conservative Party co-chairman admitted that race was a factor. She urged Muslim leaders to address the issue and ensure that men who regard white women as 'third class citizens' are isolated by their communities. Nine Muslim men, mainly of Pakistani origin, were found guilty last week of plying girls as young as 13 with drink and drugs so they could 'pass them around' and use them for sex.

After the trial, Greater Manchester Police sought to play down suggestions of any racial element to the case, as did Keith Vaz, the Labour chairman of the home affairs select committee. But Lady Warsi, who grew up in a Pakistani community in Yorkshire, told London’s Evening Standard newspaper: 'There is a small minority of Pakistani men who believe that white girls are fair game. 'And we have to be prepared to say that. You can only start solving a problem if you acknowledge it first. 'This small minority who see women as second class citizens, and white women probably as third class citizens, are to be spoken out against.'

Lady Warsi, Britain’s most senior Muslim politician, said she had decided to speak out after her father - who moved to the UK from the Punjab - told her she should be 'out there condemning it as loudly as you could'. 'In mosque after mosque, this should be raised as an issue so that anybody remotely involved should start to feel that the community is turning on them,' she said. 'Communities have a responsibility to stand up and say, ‘'This is wrong, this will not be tolerated'’.'

She also urged the authorities to have the confidence to tackle allegations involving minorities. 'Cultural sensitivity should never be a bar to applying the law,' she said. The case sparked national outrage as the nine Asian men were jailed for a total of 77 years. The men - who are all from Pakistan, apart from one who is from Afghanistan - were found guilty of raping and abusing up to 47 girls - some as young as 13 - after plying them with alcohol and luring them to takeaways. They were found to have groomed and 'shared' the young white girls because they were vulnerable. Despite overwhelming claims that the targeting of young white girls was a cultural problem, several senior figures were accused of 'burying their heads in the sand' by denying the link.

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[ima]

Why don't we invade Pakistan? Just because we couldn't take Iraq, Afghanistan, Korea, Nam, Somalia and got our asses kicked in the war on drugs is no reason not to spend 10 trillion dollars invading Pakistan.

 

[waltky]

Mebbe we need to send Rich Armitage back over there for a little chat with Zadari...

Panetta: U.S. losing patience with Pakistan
7 June`12 - Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said on Thursday the United States was reaching the limits of its patience with Pakistan because of the safe havens the country offered to insurgents in neighboring Afghanistan.

It was some of the strongest language by a senior U.S. official to describe the strained ties between Washington and Islamabad. "It is difficult to achieve peace in Afghanistan as long as there is safe haven for terrorists in Pakistan," said Panetta. "It is very important for Pakistan to take steps. It is an increasing concern, the issue of safe haven, and we are reaching the limits of our patience." He was speaking in the Afghan capital Kabul where he held talks with military leaders amid rising violence in the war against the Taliban.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton also implicitly defended Washington's use of drone strikes against suspected militants, just days after one of them killed Abu Yahya al-Libi, al Qaeda's second-ranking leader, in northwest Pakistan. "We will always maintain our right to use force against groups such as al Qaeda that have attacked us and still threaten us with imminent attack," Clinton said in Istanbul at a meeting of the Global Counterterrorism Forum, a U.S.-and Turkish-chaired group. Pakistan has termed the attacks as illegal and a violation of its sovereignty. The United States has long pushed Islamabad to do more to help in the war against militancy.

Panetta urged Pakistan to go after the Haqqani militant network, one of the United States' most feared enemies in Afghanistan, and said Washington would exert diplomatic pressure and take any other steps needed to protect its forces. "It is an increasing concern that safe havens exist and those like the Haqqanis make use of that to attack our forces," he said. "We are reaching the limits of our patience for that reason. It is extremely important for Pakistan to take action to prevent (giving) the Haqqanis safe havens, and for terrorists to use their country as a safety net to conduct attacks on our forces." Panetta blamed the group for an attack last week on a U.S. base in the east in which several insurgents, including some wearing suicide vests, used rocket-propelled grenades.

The attack was foiled, but it underlined the challenge facing Western and Afghan forces in the east where insurgents take advantage of the steep, forested terrain and the Pakistani border to launch attacks and then slip back, commanders say. "What happened the other day in Salerno is an indication that they are going to continue to come at us and, let me be clear, anybody who attacks US soldiers is our enemy and we are going to take them on. We have got to be able to defend ourselves," Panetta told U.S. troops earlier at Kabul airport. Washington appears to be looking to other allies in the region for help in the face of Pakistan's foot-dragging. Panetta arrived in Kabul after a visit to India, Pakistan's old enemy, where he urged New Delhi to take a more active role in Afghanistan.

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