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This article totally shows the standard of Newsweek... the std of reporting and std of its editor... looks like a bunch of stupids.. where are the statistics to support what u said.. not even a single figure, all words of mouth and nothing more than that.. It doesn't matter what a stupid person says.. Figure and satistics says every thing. What would you say about recent killings / crime / rape figures in US and if you want i can give you the figures of crimes of every kind and comparison between Pakistan and US.. How safe is US to live?. Why newsweek editor is sitting in Pakistan and not moved to Iraq or Iran? Hopefully Newsweek will review its policy and will advise the Hony Editor as well not to publish any thing for which they dont have any evidence, not just the word of mouth.

The difference between Iraq and Pakistan???what makes Pakistan, in our view, more dangerous from an American perspective???is that while Iraq remains an open war zone, Pakistan is a nuclear state that is now host to some of the most radical jihadists in the world, jihadists who, as Ron and Mike note (with reporting from Mark), have access to airlines and clearer means to reach the West.
Dear editor,
What is your suggestion when you are saying this? That an open war zone is more secure than a country which is stable? You are comparing the death of thousands of people to a few deaths in a few suicide bombs. God help your skills of interpretation. As far as the weapons are concerned, Pakistan would have weapons which you can probably count on your finger tips, US has enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 200 times how many times has any one questioned the dangers of that? Why does the US need so many weapons? You would probably ignore that in your biasness, but note this should be interesting food for though for you as even a blind man can see that production of mass weapons is more dangerous. US is not makin so many weapons not to keep them like people have their stamp or coin collections they are obviously making it to use them, like they did on Japan.
Access to airlines is not a big issue, what is your solution making Pakistan like Afghanistan so that there is no infrastructure what so ever? What you fail to see is that people only act to extremes when they have nothing to lose, by bombing Iraq and Afghanistan you have aggravated the condition. The answer lies in the empowerment of people, so that they see hope and life and don???t restore to suicidal measures ever heard the word rehabilitation??? So by declaring Pakistan the most dangerous what you are suggesting that we are next in line, and essentially that would prevent the access that the militants have to important infrastructural resources that can be possibly used against US. Do you know how easy it is for an average American teenager to get his hands on a gun and then use it in his school on his class fellows!!! Bombing countries and spreading hate speech is not the solution to anything, which is precisely what you are doing. If you discriminate against people and pass baseless judgments against them like u just did in the article how can u expect to make peace with them.
Your focus should be on propagating more preemptive prevention measure. A good example of that can be what ICRC is doing, spread awareness in people of the evils and wrongs of war even before a war takes place. You should use your magazine to bridge the gap between people, how about highlighting he positive aspects of a country so people feel better about themselves and happily contribute to a positive change. After such cover stories the only thing you are spreading is hate and sowing the seeds of war. Is that the mandate of your magazine? And you say we are dangerous what do you have to say about yourself dear

The difference between Iraq and Pakistan???what makes Pakistan, in our view, more dangerous from an American perspective???is that while Iraq remains an open war zone, Pakistan is a nuclear state that is now host to some of the most radical jihadists in the world, jihadists who, as Ron and Mike note (with reporting from Mark), have access to airlines and clearer means to reach the West.
Dear editor,
What is your suggestion when you are saying this? That an open war zone is more secure than a country which is stable? You are comparing the death of thousands of people to a few deaths in a few suicide bombs. God help your skills of interpretation. As far as the weapons are concerned, Pakistan would have weapons which you can probably count on your finger tips, US has enough nuclear weapons to destroy the world 200 times how many times has any one questioned the dangers of that? Why does the US need so many weapons? You would probably ignore that in your biasness, but note this should be interesting food for though for you as even a blind man can see that production of mass weapons is more dangerous. US is not makin so many weapons not to keep them like people have their stamp or coin collections they are obviously making it to use them, like they did on Japan.
Access to airlines is not a big issue, what is your solution making Pakistan like Afghanistan so that there is no infrastructure what so ever? What you fail to see is that people only act to extremes when they have nothing to lose, by bombing Iraq and Afghanistan you have aggravated the condition. The answer lies in the empowerment of people, so that they see hope and life and don???t restore to suicidal measures ever heard the word rehabilitation??? So by declaring Pakistan the most dangerous what you are suggesting that we are next in line, and essentially that would prevent the access that the militants have to important infrastructural resources that can be possibly used against US. Do you know how easy it is for an average American teenager to get his hands on a gun and then use it in his school on his class fellows!!! Bombing countries and spreading hate speech is not the solution to anything, which is precisely what you are doing. If you discriminate against people and pass baseless judgments against them like u just did in the article how can u expect to make peace with them.
Your focus should be on propagating more preemptive prevention measure. A good example of that can be what ICRC is doing, spread awareness in people of the evils and wrongs of war even before a war takes place. You should use your magazine to bridge the gap between people, how about highlighting he positive aspects of a country so people feel better about themselves and happily contribute to a positive change. After such cover stories the only thing you are spreading is hate and sowing the seeds of war. Is that the mandate of your magazine? And you say we are dangerous what do you have to say about yourself dear

???Driven by on-the-ground reporting, however, Ron Moreau and Michael Hirsh found an even more complicated and disturbing story. The contention of our cover is that what some in Pakistan call "Talibanization" has moved from the distant mountains to the cities, and too many Pakistani officials are uninterested in cracking down on their Afghan kith and kin???kith and kin who were heroes of Islam when they were fighting the Soviets.???

DEAR EDITOR,
What was wrong with your article and something that I see you still support is the fact that Pakistani authorities are not doing enough to crack down the militants who are now according to you spreading to the major cities. The fact of the matter is that by nature you support the aggressive and assumed pre emptive attacks, a theory that has been recently over the years been used as a justification by the US to launch attacks against any country who they assume might be a threat to them. Pakistan is doing good enough to end this talibanisation, but we are doing it in our own way. First we don???t want to make Pakistan a war zone like Afghanistan and Iraq an approach that has obviously been used by the US and something which is not working. The solution is not killing people who don???t necessarily agree to your school of thought but rather it lies in understanding them and spreading awareness and lessons of tolerance among people. The mentality that has been supported by the Pakistani state for over 10 years and which was for some odd reason all right till US needed to fight the soviet, can not be changed overnight and to expect that would be utopian. The government obviously does not want to start an armed conflict with the people we are here running a county we have long term goals in mind. If we start killing our own people it would result in more retaliation and more aggression from them. The solution for long term peace and security lies in gradually spreading awareness and not killing people.
Also you indulged in over generalization a few blasts can???t determine the fact that the entire country and major cities are dangerous. You totally misrepresented the image of Pakistani major cities. The most that the article could have done was show the other side of the picture, which is an essential of true objective reporting, and you can???t really come to a conclusion without studying and reflecting on all angles. That???s why your contention and conclusions are totally baseless. I would really want to see you justify this.
The article also lacks credibility as majority of the facts were from unidentified sources, who are these unidentified people??? You don???t really have a solid ground for making such a big statement, on the basis of the statement of people no one but the two writers are aware of. Is this your level of international responsible journalism???

Dear Sir,
"...too many Pakistani officials are uninterested in cracking down on their Afghan kith and kin"
The answer is clear. Because Pakistan had her own agenda in its war on Afghanistan during
Soviet presence there. That was to change Afghanistan to strategic depth for Pakistan. You are right that Pakistan is the most dangerous state in the world because not only that there is danger that its nuclear facilities may shift in the hands of terrorists but they are already in the hands of those religious fanatic military and intelligence officials who are supporting and protecting Osama bin Laden and Ayman Al zawahiri. Pakistan is supporting Taliban in Afghanistan and Pakistan using American taxpayers money and sophisticated weapons.
Pakistan is using same weapons against Baloch secular people who can be the best friends of US and the west. Noutak Baloch

The article on Pakistan was quite shoddily pieced together.Newsweek seems to be indulging in careless journalism by advertising certain bits of classified information.The remark about the founder of the nation was totally irrelevant.It was amusing to know that the man who founded Pakistan as a peaceful buffer zone between Afganistan and India should be refered to as Whiskey swilling. The west has used pakistans military and soil to fight it's war in Afganistan and is constantly drawing uninvited attention to it's nuclear advancement and technology.There is a serious electricity and power shortage in Pakistan, especially in Karachi,once known as the city of lights.Our scientists and government is working under pressure to meet the common citizens basic requirement. This nation will face dire circumstances and its poor will never be able to realize their dreams of advancement if they are not protected from being exploited by the first world and being imprisoned under a leadership not of their own choosing.The masses in Pakistan have been sidelined due to the war on terror.
Maliha. Farrukh.

British has many year on subcontinant (INDO-PAK). History is withness they were having very much respect in common society. Still peoples are remembering them with good memories. Whereas peoples has hartriet against USA. You should believe that common man is more involved in this. The reason is very clear. British had never interfered the religious, social affairs of the public. Whereas USA wants to change everything of the world. She wants that her policy to be impelemented and in way of the impelemitation should also be her choice.

Dear Sir,

I am thankful to you for the subject news on the covering page of your magazine. It is very much true that Pakistan is more dangreous then Iraq. The different is very clear. Pakistan is stablish country, self dependent on weapons of convencial war, well trained army and moreover she is Automic power. Therefore, the enemy of Pakistan must think 1000 times more the Iraq that she should be attacked or not.
Best regards,
Mohammad Awais Rana
Al-Khobar - Saudi Arabia

IS THIS ISSUE OF NEWSWEEK TRYING TO JUSTIFY CREATING THE NEW HOLOCAUST.... EXCEPT ONLY THIS TIME IT'S MUSLIMS... NOT JEWS?

LETS SEND AMERICAN TROOPS IN TO ATTACK MUSLIMS NATIONS? LET'S CREATE DUMB EXCUSES TO JUSTIFY THAT TO THE WORLD? IS THAT YOUR AIM?

THE IRONIC THING IS, RELIGION IS NOT A BIG DEAL TO THE AVERAGE PAKISTANI... IRAQI, AFGHANI... YOU KNOW WHY???? MOST OF US ARE TOO FRIKKING POOR TO CARE WHAT HAPPENS ON THE LARGER SCALE.. ON THE POLITICAL SCALE...... OH AND WE ALSO HAVE TO DEAL EITHER WITH DIRECT ATTACK FROM THE US OR THE INVASIVE US POLICIES AIMED AT HARMING US EVERYDAY SO WE REALLY DONT HAVE MUCH TIME LEFT TO PLAN OUT OUR WORLD DOMINATION TERRORISM CONSPIRACY!!!!!! BUT I THINK MAYBE BUSH AND HIS REGIME SHOULD TELL US ABOUT THEIR WORLD DOMINATION TERRORISM CONSPIRACY... OH OOPS SORRY I MEAN ANTI TERRORISM CAMPAIGN!!!!!!!

WE DEMAND AN APOLOGY FOR THIS ISSUE OF NEWSWEEK...... FOR YOUR COLUMN AND THE COVER STORY WHICH TRIES TO PAINT A FALSE PICTURE OF PAKISTAN TO THE WHOLE WORLD.


STOP EXAGGERATION!

DO A COVER STORY ON YOUR OWN GOVERNMENT NEXT WEEK!

WRITE A COLUMN ABOUT THE POLICIES OF THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT! THE UNJUST ACTIONS OF YOUR GOVERNMENT ALL OVER THE WORLD!

STOP INTERFERING IN OTHER NATIONS AND CREATING STUPID EXCUSES TO ATTACK THEM .....

TELL BUSH TO GET LAID! HE NEEDS SEX OR VIOLENCE AND IM GUESSING IF HE ONLY GETS SOME GOOD SEX HE'D SPREAD LESS VIOLENCE

AND THE EDITOR OF NEWSWEEK, I THINK YOU SHOULD CALL A PHONE SEX HOTLINE BECAUSE YOU'RE COUMN IS SO FULL OF DIRTY TALK :p .

WHY DOESNT THE AVERAGE AMERICAN COMMENT ON WHAT'S GOING ON? IRAQ, AFGHANISTAN, AND THE ATROCITIES BUSH IS COMMITTING OVER THERE? DOESN'T IT BOTHER YOU THAT WHETHER AFGHANI, PAKISTANI, OR IRAQI, WE ARE HUMAN BEINGS WITH CHILDREN JUST LIKE YOU? BUSH IS OUT TO KILL FROM A FALSE SENSE OF REVENGE WHICH EVEN HE KNOWS IS NOT REVENGE THOUGH HES MAKING THE AMERICAN PUBLIC BELIEVE THAT..... THE ANTI TERRORISM CAMPAIGN IS ONLY A CLOAK FOR ATTACKING DIFFERENT NATIONS....... IRONIC HOW THEY ARE MUSLIM NATIONS.....

ARE WE YOUR NEXT HOLOCAUST MISSION? ARE WE? FIRST IT WAS JEWS, NOW IT'S MUSLIMS?

WHY ISNT THE AMERICAN PUBLIC COMMENTING ON THIS? WHY ARE AMERICAN TABLOIDS, MAGAZINEZ, NEWSPAPERS AND FULL OF *** NEWS CHANNELS LIKE FOX NEWS SPREADING THE PROPAGANDA OF THE BUSH REGIME?

TO THE EDITOR OF NEWSWEEK :
quoting MULLAH MOMIN AHMAD some UNKNOWN person who we cant even be sure exists, kudos to your journalism Sir (being very sarcastic). YOU SAY Pakistan is more dangerous than Iraq because here talibanism is spreading into the cities... I AM A PAKISTANI, I LIVE IN LAHORE.,.. AND I TRAVEL a lot all year round, and i have to say YOUR CLAIMS ARE FULL OF ***. (exuse me but there's no better word to describe this column). NoT ONLY is the BUSH REGIME AND AMERICAN GOVERNMENT THE CREATOR OF TERRORISTS, firstly by being so unjust that some one was bound to rebel against them SECONDLY BY TRAINING AND USING CERTAIN PPL FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSES .. as long as hese ppl were fighting for the US it was okay but now that they are againt US they are terrorists. What about when the same people were killing ppl who were not Americans and the American govt. had funded them?,,,, DONOT SHIFT THE AMERICAN BLAME ONTO PAKISTAN, .... THE allegation that afghanis are our 'kith and kin' just shows you know nothing about Pakistan, which has many different communities and races in it.... pushtoon, punjabi and yes on the border also afghan refugees but to imply that pakistanis welcome them with love or something is a PLAIN LIE. What's the use for Pakistanis to entertain taliban? Yes there may be a small infiltration but it cannot increase as there is such a strong anti taliban and anti extremist feeling all over Pakistan; we consider these religious fundamentalists OUR enemy as if they gained power they would make life harder for us to live. So relax O' Paranoid, Manipulative, Lying, Corrupt American...... Don't try to foist your lies and exxaggerations on Pakistan. The AMERICAN GOVT. IS THE REAL TERRORIST.... AS IT CREATED THE PEOPLE IT CALLS TERRORISTS NOW...... AND THE AMERICAN GOVT. IS ALSO THE REAL TERRORIST BECAUSE IT CAN KILL AND ATTACK ANYONE IT CHOOSES TO WITHOUT A JUST REASON...... THE AMERICAN GOVT. ABUSES ITS POWER..... AND THE AVERAGE AMERICAN HAS NO IDEA WHAT IT'S GOVERNMENT IS UPTO.... HOW ITS POLITICAL LEADERS ARE SO POWER HUNGRY THEY CREATE FALSE MEDIA FRENZIES AND FEARS BY PROBABLY PROMISING FAVOURS AND CASH TO EDITORS SUCH AS THE EDITOR OF NEWSWEEK, BECAUSE ONLY THEN COULD SUCH A BIASED ISSUE, COULUMN AND COVER STORY BE WRITTEN. SHAME ON YOU. PAKISTAN DEMANDS AN APOLOGY. YOU THINK TALIbanisation is moving into our cities? honey, come live in Lahore or Karachi for a few months ..... AND THEN HONESTLY REPORT WHAT YOU SEE. ***!

I am 100% agree with Newsweek this artical , now international comunity and specially USA should realize this that pakistan is a factory to producing terorrist and keeping the all word in danger. i think now international comunity should help the baloch freedom fighter to break this country and save the world.
A VICTOM OF STATE TERORRISM OF PAKISTAN.

Dear sir
I am 100% agree with your Comments about this terorrist country. International comunity and specialy U.S.A should realize this now and stop suporting pakistan.And suport freedom fighter of Balochistan because Baloch are not secular people.
A VICTOM OF STATE TERORRISM OF PAKISTAN.

Everybody have right to their openion, but Jon being editor of well known magazine we expected more responsible article with some proof in numbers of civilian and military dead in Iraq compare with Pakistan. Also the day your onesided, ignorant issue came out, that same day US ambassodor to Pakistan was in Karachi visiting various places for whole days without any problems, thats even unthinkable for US ambassodor to Iraq if he wants to visit location in Baghdad. As far as killing and dead in Pakistan vs Iraq Mr. Editors I suggest look at your magazine over the years and you will probably find ratio of one killed in Pakistan vs Thousand killed in Iraq. It is very sad in order sell more magazine you are misguiding people all over the world and good poeple in America.

A proud nation a proud pakistani we naver care about yours stupid americans thinking that what we are or what will be..... you think about your self ???who are you ???????? and think about your END .think think think about america and americans what is your future???????????????????? dont care pakistan and pakistani nation we can care over self. and Mr. Jon YOU forget Daniel Perl :) you wnats your End like same ...

a proud Nation and a proud Paksitani we naver care about americans stupid thinking. We knows as a nation a proud nation what we are doing and what will be do this is over personal maters.you think about your self what you are doing in this world and what is your END???? think think think about your END ....... A _____ END wating for americans..... and don't forger DANIEL PERL . Mr. Jon ...........................

whatever we pakistanis are doing we are doing in our country.not like you americans killing those who have nothing to do with your business.infact we pakistanis are not the terrorists and the most dengerous nation but you are you all AMERICANS.

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Being an enthusiastic Pakistani since birth, I have to say I was quite disappointed by the ???short??? length of your article on how Pakistan is considered most dangerous territory in the world and I also think that you should avoid blaming the ???Muslims??? for every other incident occurring in the world, it is too overrated.

Talking about ???the jihadists,??? don???t you remember when these people, the jihadists, fought the war against the Soviets; and how they were supported, funded and controlled by the United States of America? Come to think of it, I believe it WAS one of their, the Muslims???, biggest mistake supporting this war as it meant the end of the opportunity to befriend one of its neighbors that had never posed a single threat to the ???Muslims.???

Since 11th September, all you???ve been doing is moaning and crying over the graves of the deceased while blaming the ???Muslims??? but have you ever thought about the hundreds of innocent ???Muslims??? dying in Palestine everyday by the hands of the Israelis long before the New York incident? What about the ???Muslim??? Kashmiri???s that have been shouting and crying for independence from the Hindustan territory for almost 60 years now? Have you done anything about that?

I don???t blame you for taking revenge on the ???Muslims??? as the mind is bound to attack in such a manner but I would like to ask you this that don???t you think that 9/11 attacks were also a form of revenge by the ???Muslims??? for what the Jews and others have been doing to them for the past MANY years?

In the end, I have to say, that I am disappointed in myself for buying this Newsweek issue but as you have expressed your thoughts, I would like to express mine and peacefully ask you to apologies to the whole Pakistani community or this might have repercussions.