Pakistan, An ally in the war on terror?

I have always thought Pakistan being an ally is a sick joke. Pakistan is full of militant groups, it's a dictatorship, it has an illegal nuclear weapons program, the ISI has been heavily involved in terrorist activity for years. If Pakistan really did fully support the 'war on terror', there would be a coup and the country would fall into the hands of really extreme elements of the leadership. The man who designed the Pakistani bomb, is very keen to see its testing on humans, i.e. India. Does this seem like an ally in the war against terrorism to anyone?
More like a country that should be no. 1 on the hit list in a real war on terror.

This article is old, but the site has a lot of info on Pakistan.

www.pakistan-facts.com...

"Compared to other terrorist states (such as Iraq and Libya) where the sponsorship of terrorism is embodied in the leadership, Pakistan represents the institutionalized sponsorship of terrorism. In other words, while Iraq and Libya are dangerous terrorist states, the elimination of Saddam Hussein or Col. Gaddafi may be enough to return them to the comity of nations. However, Pakistan has used terrorism as an instrument of state policy through the tenure of General Zia ul-Haq, Benazir Bhutto, Nawaz Sharif and now General Musharraf . What this means is that state sponsorship of terrorism in Pakistan is institutional in nature rather than embodied in the leadership. The most obvious analogy is to the Soviet Union where the antipathy to freedom outlasted numerous leaders."

considering the Pakistani regime is technically a dictatorship... oh sorry... i mean... militaristic despotism. forgot to put on my politically correct hat today.

but yes, the head, Musharraf, has ties to both the ISI and Mossad, putting him in business with enough people to turn the world on its head. not only that, but it is easy to imagine what kind of closed-door relations his government has had with the Taliban, considering the militant organization was based on the promotion of orthodox islamic culture... which is exactly the kind of ship that musharraf runs in Pakistan.

too bad that most of the american population, upon finding out that Pakistan was helping bushie clean up his 911 mess, had no idea where pakistan was... much less were they aware of the fact that afghanistan and pakistan are neighbors.