Pakistani Truck Quotes

They talked disconcertedly about the possibility that they might have to kill the dog while attacking the guerrillas. Then the trucks stopped briefly and the dog decided he had better things to do and jumped out. Cheers erupted in the C.I.A.’s Global Response Center. After the wave of emotion subsided, at least one officer in the room thought to himself: That was weird. The C.I.A. officers named the dog “Lucky.” It turned out to be not an unusual nickname for other Afghan and Pakistani dogs at the sites of drone-launched Hellfire strikes. The animals’ hearing was so acute that they sometimes seemed to detect Predators overhead or picked up the whine of missile launches when humans could not, and then got out of the way.30

This demonstration was soon followed by another huge rally of pro-Pakistan Pathans, called to coincide with the visit in April 1947 to Peshawar of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the new viceroy. In their book Freedom at Midnight, Larry Collins and Dominique Lapierre imply that Mountbatten took considerable risks in attending the rally and was saved from the tribesmen's ire only because of his presence of mind in wearing his olive green military uniform, green being the symbol of Islam and Pakistan. Nothing could be further from the truth. The demonstration, as the local governor of the North-West Frontier Province, Sir Olaf Caroe, and all his Political Agents well knew, was carefully orchestrated by the British to demonstrate that the majority of Pakistanis—unlike the Frontier Gandhi's supporters—favored Pakistan. By the tens of thousands the "tribals" had been trucked in by their maliks and performed with considerable enthusiasm.