Writing in its issue of October 4 to 10, 2001, "Independent", a weekly journal of Pakistan, quoted an unidentified leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami as saying as follows: " The Pakistani Army is jehadi by philosophy. Its hidden policy is still pro-jehad and pro-Taliban. What we see is just a posture and not a policy. The military Government's support to the US is just a posture."

This assessment was proved correct by the subsequent developments in the US-led war against terrorism in Afghanistan. While pretending to co-operate with the US-led allies, the military-intelligence establishment ensured that the top leadership of the Taliban and the Al Qaeda, including Osama bin Laden, escaped capture or decimation by the US so that they could live to fight another day.

Large sections of public opinion in Pakistan, including the "Independent", saw the initial anti-US demonstrations by the religious parties and the subsequent arrests and detention of the religious leaders as orchestrated by Musharraf to project himself to the US as supporting the US-led war against terrorism at tremendous risk to himself in order to win more lollipops.

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