US should invade if Pakistan continue supporting terror, says Muslim former US ambassador to Afghanistan

 The former US ambassador to Afghanistan, Iraq and the UN, Zalmay Mamozy Khalilzad, who is a Muslims, says the US should give Pakistan "a stark choice" between receiving US aid and support and fighting terror, or face an invasion. Despite receiving billions in aid, Pakistan provides sanctuary and support to Afghan Taliban and the Haqqani terrorist network, planning to use them as Pakistan's proxies in Afghanistan once the US withdraws. Khalilzad says the US should invade and attack terror bases in Pakistan if the country doesn't shut them down and stop supporting them.

Source: 1. The New York Time, 2. The Atlantic Wire 

$2 billion more in US military aid for a Pakistan that doesn't fight terror

 The US is to give Pakistan $2 billion in military aid from 2012 to 2016.¹ Nearly $5bn has already been given from 2005 to the last financial year. A White House report to Congress earlier this month said Pakistan avoids direct military action against Afghan Taliban and al-Qaeda in North Waziristan, not for lack of military resources only but also for political reasons.²  

Source: 1. AP, 2. BBC 

Pakistan says it will only fight terror if it serves national interest

 Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi, while speaking at Harvard university, said that Pakistan was committed to fighting terrorism but was "first and foremost, like every nation on earth, committed to preserving our national interest". A recent White House report to Congress said Pakistan avoids direct action against Afghan Taliban in order to gain influence there. India also says Pakistan should do more against anti-Indian Muslim terrorists, like those who carried out the 2008 Mumbain attacks.

Source: AFP

Pakistan involved in Mumbai terror attacks according to David Headley

 David Headly, who has pleaded guilty in the US of "laying the groundwork" for Mumbai terror attacks, told interrogators that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) agency virtually runs Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), the group blamed for the attacks, and was involved those attacks. Headly is a US citizen¹ and was born Daood Sayed Gilani to an American mother and a Pakistani father.² He said his handler in Pakistan was Maj. Iqbal, who taught him how scout locations for terror attacks, gave him counterfeit Indian currency once, $25,000 in 2006, and suggested how best to get to Mumbai by sea - the actual method later used by terrorists. He went on nine spying mission to India, including to Taj Mahal Hotel which was later attacked, and provided Iqbal with photos and videos.

Source: 1. AP, 2. The Daily Telegraph