Who can forget their repeated denial that they knew the whereabouts of Osama bin Laden before he was killed by US naval commandos in a 2011 raid on his safe house in the Pakistani garrison city of Abbottabad? Recently, in an apparent slip, a senior civilian official – Sharif’s national security adviser, Sartaj Aziz – said that Pakistan should do nothing to stop militants who do not intend to harm Pakistan.
对圣战恐怖主义的依赖已经融入了将军们的DNA。谁能忘得了就在2011年本·拉登在巴基斯坦要塞城市阿伯塔巴德的藏身处被美国海军突击队突袭并将本·拉登击毙前，巴基斯坦政府反复否认知道本·拉登的下落。不久前还有一位高级文职官员——谢里夫的国家安全顾问萨尔塔杰·阿齐兹不小心说漏了嘴——表示巴基斯坦不必对不打算伤害巴自身的武装分子采取任何遏制措施。