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"The US has asked Pakistan not to repatriate Afghans as the Afghanistan government cannot accommodate them yet."
"That's just too much."
"I agree given that Karzai is making threats against us periodically and..."
"Karzai's threats are meaningless. I mean he can't even rely on ten or fifteen Afghans to provide him security in his own country. The US forces have to provide it for him."
"I think he has an Afghan bodyguard now."
"Wow, that must mean his popularity is rising, to be able to trust ten to fifteen Afghans with his life."
"Don't be facetious: we know he is a US client and so do the Afghans."
"OK, so while he threatens us we are supposed to provide a subsidy for wheat to the Afghans and we are supposed to keep them here?"
"That's what the US wants."
"The same US that has a policy that makes it extremely difficult for immigrants as well as casual visitors to get inside, if I recall correctly."
"That's right."
"And if more than five Afghans are on any plane entering US air space there is a red alert."
"Now you are being facetious but I wouldn't put it past Homeland Security."
"I don't know why we should agree to this."
"Le me begin by saying that while we are not yet a client state..."
"Many think we are."
"If we were Musharraf would still have power."
"But the elections too were a gift to us by the US - didn't they put pressure on Musharraf to hold fair and free elections?"
"OK, we are not as much of a client as Karzai."
"There I agree."
"So now what?"
"Let's wait and see what our newly elected government decides."

Copyright Business Recorder, 2008

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