Pakistan gets mocked at for placing an ad on their contributions to WoT

[Blackwater]

Islamabad, September 11
Pakistan has placed an advertisement in the US media to reach out to America on 9/11. "Which country can do more for your peace," asks the advertisement in the Wall Street Journal. "Since 2001, a nation of 180 million has been fighting for the future of the world's 7 billion."

Dawn reported that Islamabad had initially given this advertisement to The New York Times but they refused to carry it.

The advertisement says that since September 11, 2001, 21,672 Pakistani civilians have lost their lives or have been seriously injured in the war against terror.

The Pakistan army also has lost 2,795 soldiers while 8,671 soldiers have been wounded. More than 3.5 million have been displaced while the country has lost $68 billion due to terrorism, the media report said.

The advertisement noted that despite sacrifices the country was still engaged in "the war for world peace". "Can any other country do so? Only Pakistan," it maintained. — IANS

The Tribune, Chandigarh, India - World

 

[Blackwater]

Strangely the country (porkies), who is the root cause of mother of all terrorism, is acting as saint.:shocked::shocked::shocked:

 

[Yusuf]

Wonder why the wall street journal agreed to take such and ad? After the Bin Laden case no one believes the pakis. even if they take all the pages of WSJ to advertize, it wont have any effect.

The Pakistanis have killed their own people in the duplicitous war that it has waged. If they have lost 2000 odd soldiers its because they just sacrificed them at the alter of "strategic depth". Pakistanis as known to sacrifice their soldiers like that. They did that in Kargil as well by not recognizing them.

 

[devx101]

I almost had a facepalm after seeing this. is this a ad or acceptance of a FAILED STATE.

If one is not able to contain terrorism it is your own problem not of others.

Pakistan has made a mockery of itself by broadcasting such a ad.

 

[Blackwater]

I almost had a facepalm after seeing this. is this a ad or acceptance of a FAILED STATE.

If one is not able to contain terrorism it is your own problem not of others.

Pakistan has made a mockery of itself by broadcasting such a ad.

Probably they are aiming more AID( bheeekh)

 

[thakur_ritesh]

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This is quite humorous. They could do a hell of a lot for world peace by destroying their plethora of militant groups. Does any other nation have such an inflated sense of self worth?

It would be nice if you would purge the ISI of Taliban/al Qaeda sympathizers,then launch assault into the FATA supported by heavy weapons and armor.

Your tax dollars at work. Still no explanation how OBL happened to live comfortably for a decade in a garrison town. Or the Haqqani network or the Quetta Shura, or their fertilizer factory providing the fuel for IEDs in Afghanistan.

Watching the lack of outrage at the sacking of the Israeli embassy in Egypt (with their official's sanction), I am reminded how our embassy in Pakistan was once gutted by our "allies" and the hardship faced by our courageous journalists and diplomats working in that country

Although coming from the Pakistani establishment we can only take this with cynicism, the figures however do not lie and the Pakistani people have taken as much of the brunt of the war on terror as have American and Allied soldiers and civilians.

The sheer audacity of this advert comes from the fact that the Pakistani Government and Military leaders cannot or do not show any inclination to properly protect their own citizens let alone the worlds, as they continue to clandestinely support radical and extremist groups at the cost of their civilians lives.

A country, which is the epi-center of global terrorism, on record of running terrorist training camps since the 80s, protecting the Afghan Taliban that kills NATO soldiers, claims to be a victim of terrorism .... ??!!

Sounds like blackmail!

What a joke. I'm sorry, but this is downright offensive. This is a country whose newspapers printed the BS about 10K jews not showing up to work at the WTC on 9/11/01. Ask common pakis who they think was behind the attacks or how sorry they feel for the almost 3K souls lost. Their answers are a reflection of what their great government wants them to believe. Abbottabad, anyone? Hey, is that a picture of Benazir? How appropriate. If ever one individual personified the potential, though itself irreparably crooked, and without ever having had the chance to be more than a pawn in the game of the forces of evil, it was Benazir. Jeez, read the entire history of the Bhutto family. Sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Who killed her, again? Oh yeah, it was that Pervaiz Mehsud guy. Come to think of it, aren't ole' Perv and Baitullah like the Batman and Bruce Wayne of Pakistan? This is the nation whose proud citizens were dancing in the streets in the immediate aftermath of the attacks. The mainstream media seems to have forgotten that fact. I haven't. Tellingly, other than the LWJ, the only real reporting on this oddity has come from the Indian media. Shame on the WSJ for being the shill to the highest bidder and props to the NYT for refusing this drivel. If there was one day of the year when the Paks could have just shut their maw and stopped with the pretense of being our "ally" it was yesterday.

 

[Iamanidiot]

The add looks too flashy don't you think.Pakhanas are pakhanas anywhere

 

[Tomcat]

you got to give the pakistanis one thing they have the shear Audacity to Place an Ad on Sep-11

 

[Yusuf]

Prormising peace to the world? I think there was a typo there. It should have been "piece". The ad will only enrage the Americans. This ad seems to be more out of guild that we have been screwing the Americans, let us now try to get some sympathy so that we can continue to screw them in future.

 

[thakur_ritesh]

the art of playing the victim card,
the art of blackmail,
the art of entitlement,
the art of duplicity

gets played no better by any than the pakistanis, so any wonder they placed that ad smack on the face of americans on the 11th sep, but one really wonders the temptation on part of WSJ when NYT had already said a no to putting up that ad on their newspaper.

indeed americans will get angry and mock it for no one has been more two faced than the pakistanis in the WoT.

 

[Bangalorean]

The good thing is, the target audience (American readers) have not fallen for it, as shown by the comments.

 

[debasree]

biggest joke of the year,cant say anything more.

 

[Yusuf]

The good thing is, the target audience (American readers) have not fallen for it, as shown by the comments.

And isnt that surprising considering that they have been made to look like idiots by the pakis in all these years since 9/11. Absolute suckers!! They still have not forced their govt to go after the pakis who are the real threat to the world.

 

[Arunpillai]

Absolutely crappy timing by Pakistanis.. Any other time would have worked better but not on 9/11 anniversery..
And what a ridiculous poster. That poster would have worked on raving Urdu papers in Pakistan but not in America..

 

[Dovah]

This is just sad.

 

[johnee]

The poster is really funny. Its like a salesman selling himself. Pakis are claiming to be peacekeepers of the entire world!! The ad is totally in the face, giving huge numbers, as if they are selling some product...

Anyway, what this reveals is that Pakis seem to think that its all a problem of perception and to improve the perception they have gone into a propaganda overdrive. They dont seem to understand that its not just problem of perception, but a real problem of sponsoring and nurturing terrorism due to growing radicalisation within their country.

 

[nrj]

Pakistan has been an unreliable ally: US Vice President - Indian Express

Vice President Joe Biden has called Pakistan an "unreliable ally" in the war against terror and said Islamabad had failed "on occasion" when forced to choose between the US and al-Qaeda.

 

[Oracle]

Here is what Pakistan is upto as always: Taliban target US embassy, Nato HQ in Kabul

Using proxies and claiming they suffered.

 

[Oracle]

One more.

US: 3 Pakistanis plead guilty to supporting Taliban

 

[Poseidon]

It's time we come up with an ad saying that Pakistan:Fighting to Kill you.