After returning from Brussels, General Kayani met Urdu columnist of Pakistani papers and informed them of the "sacrifices" rendered by the Pakistan army in "war on terror". Later these details were released to the media by the public relation wing of the Pakistan armed forces, ISPR According to these details 30,452 people have been killed and injured from 9/11 to date in Pakistan. Out of these 8,785 are military personal while the rest of 21,673 are civilians. Of course these official statistics do not include the thousands of deaths not "officially verified". According to ISPR, some 2,273 Pakistani soldiers including 78 officers (one three star General, 2 two star generals and 5 brigadiers besides others) have lost their lives while 6,512 sustained injuries. On the other hand only 1582 US and NATO troops have been killed so far. On an average, 10 soldiers were killed or injured each day in 2009. The report adds that Pakistan has setup 821 border check post on the Pak-Afghan border, the Durand line, to stop the cross border movement of the militants while all the 43 nations NATO has only setup 112 check posts on the border. ISPR report proudly claim that Pakistan has arrested 17,742 "terrorist" so far and conducted 209 brigade level operation while the US has not even done 10 operations. 73 sleuths of intelligence agencies are killed and 264 injured while CIA lost only 11 agents. The biggest disclosure by Kayani was about the "silent surge" which Pakistan has undertaken in this area to increase its troops from earlier 90,000 levels to 147,000 while the 43 nations NATO troops deputed at the other side of the border are less than 100,000. Let's not forget that Pakistan has lost more than 35 billion dollar in this war as confirmed by Hina Rabbani Khar in the budget speech in the National assembly while the current year loss assessment has been more than 10 billion dollar as per Hafiz Pasha, Chairman planning commission. This is the price Pakistan is paying for this American war contracted by our rulers without paying even the smallest attention to the interest of Pakistan, Islam and the Muslims. This is the price we have not borne even in 1965 Pak India war and Kargil war combine.

   Earlier Kayani, while informing the foreign correspondents, told them the "five fundamentals" that was the basis of his strategy, consisting of public opinion, media support, army's capability and resolve, owning this war as ‘our war' not ‘US war' and a comprehensive strategy based on four phases namely clear, hold, build and transfer. However the strange part of this strategy is that public opinion against the operation was suppressed only through the bomb blast that occurred in the public places and this forced the large portion of media, not to criticize the bloody operations that displaced millions in extreme hot and cold seasons. The army chief statement was later published in media saying it was our operations that reduced attacks on the NATO troops on the other side of the border, thus disclosing the real aim of the operations.

   Thus, it is clear that it is only the traitor rulers of Pakistan who have given the crucial support to the crusaders to stay in Afghanistan through the "rent an army" service and through providing vital logistic routes to the US. Had there been a K000 in Pakistan, there would have been no America in this region from the very onset. And only Allah Knows how many American and NATO soldiers will be prisoners of war (PoWs) once K000 is established in Pakistan, which is not a distant future.

Imran Yousafzai

Deputy Spokesman of Hizb ut-Tahrir in Pakistan