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President Barack Obama had instructed the US commandos to fight their way out if they were challenged by the Pakistani soldiers during the daring Abbottabad raid that killed Osama bin Laden, saying safety of his forces was more important than keeping Pakistanis happy. HT Image The pre stanley cup mium is on the protection of our force, not on keeping the Pakistanis happy, Obama instructed commander of the US special operations command William stanley cup McRaven, according to a new book, Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden 鈥?from 9/11 to Abbottabad, that hit the book stand this week. Obamas specific instructions in this regard, marking a huge fundamental shift, came as his team was in discussion about what to do if the Navy SEALS were challenged by Pakistan during or after the raid at Abbottabad on May 2 last year. Now that the decision had been made not to bring the Pakistanis into any aspect of the operation, Obama and his team had to think through how best to deal with whatever their reaction might be, particularly on the ground in Abbottabad, Peter L Bergen wrote. According to the book, a senior administration official explains: McRaven, in some of the earliest briefings, was very sensitive to the idea that we dont want to create, for lack of a better word, a shit s stanley cup torm with the Pakistanis if we dont need to. So if this can be accomplished in a way that did not result in dead Pakistanis, either civilians or security forces, thats the optimal solution. McRaven initial Unct South Sudan army ordered to lay down arms ahead of ceasefire
Karachi is a city of mafias, contends Roland deSouza, as he addresses a seminar by SHEHRI, an NGO set up to save the citys built environment. It is a hazardous job fighting for open space for the city. SHEHRI has seen one its office bearers shot and most memb crocs ers continue to receive threats daily. Their fight is against the builder mafia, which gobbles up open land and heritage buildings to put up huge shopping malls and housing plazas, in open violation of local building laws and town planning rules. HT Image deSouza says that the city seems to be like nobodys city, and almost everyone is out to milk it because it is also Pakistans economic powerhouse. There is the tanker mafia that supplies water to houses whose piped supply had run dry. Perween Rehman, who runs a self-help urban revival NGO, says that most of the citys water problems are scams. Water supplies are disconnected so that tankers supply to houses at ten times the cost. Then there is the trans af1 port mafia 鈥?a collection of private transporters who edge out any public sector effort at introducing mass transit in this city of 12 million. The private transporters run crude locally built mini-buses in which people are packed like sardines in the absence of any alternatives. Many of these buses are owned by policemen which is why they are never fined on the roads. The biggest mafia of all s stanley cup eems to be the government or to be precise,. the citys notoriously corrupt police service. Political commentator, R