Omar:
The most interesting thing to me about all this has to do with the orchestrated media firestorm that you mentioned and the blood curdling street demonstrations after the arrest. After the release, nothing much seemed to happen. Which leads me to believe the General sahibs really can turn a lot of things on and off at will.
"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again." Gen. Nathanael Greene
. The establishment has a lot of control over the "above-ground" religious parties and groups and can indeed turn them on and off at will, but this game has its limits.
See the following article by Fasi Zaka. He uses a lot of Urdu terms in this article, but you will get the gist:http://tribune.com.pk/story/136238/f...arz-and-fasad/
Anger management issues???
LINK.
Not enough info to tell...
Update
A thorough NYT article on the background to this incident, a three-way contest between the US Embassy (Islamabad), the CIA and a variety of Pakistani players. Nothing new on my reading, more a reminder of what happened.
The headline is rather OTT 'How a Single Spy Turned Pakistan Against the United States'.
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/ma...nted=all&_r=3&
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