Pakistan’s Chief of Army Fights to Keep His Job

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/16/world/asia/16pakistan.html?_r=1&ref=ashfaqparvezkayani

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From: barry levine 
Date: Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 9:58 PM
Subject: re: Pakistan’s Chief of Army Fights to Keep His Job
To: letters@nytimes.com


To the Editor:

  For too long--first as head of ISI and now as head of Pakistan's military--general Ashfaq Kayani has accepted billions in U.S. aid while sheltering the Haqqani network, Lashgar e Taiba and Osama bin Laden.  That others in the Pakistani military are more hostile to the U.S. scarcely seems relevant. As long as we underwrite general Kayani's double game, every American taxpayer is a sponsor of terror.Every dollar and every life we spend in this relationship makes us less secure and not more.  The people of Pakistan have crying needs for foreign aid to build literacy and infrastructure.Building Pakistan's military is not in our interest.

Barry Levine