Few countries have faced as many terrorist attacks. Few have as little control over large areas of their nations. Few governments are standing on as big a powder keg as Pakistan.
Al Queda’s attack is an attempt to undermine Pakistan as much as anything. Isn’t that clear?
>>to undermine Pakistan as much as anything. Isn’t that clear?
yeah, by attacking Bombay. Clear as mud.
Clear enough. They deserve all that is heaped on them...I hope the Indian's nuke the bastages back to the stone age.
Weinbaum in 2006 said the Pakistani military has largely ignored Taliban fighters on its soil. “There are extremist groups that are beyond the pale with which the ISI has no influence at all,” he says. “Those are the ones they go after.” In spring 2008, Ashley J. Tellis, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, writes (PDF) in The Washington Quarterly that Musharraf tightened pressure on groups whose objectives were out of sync with the military’s perception of Pakistan’s national interest.
Taliban as a Strategic Asset
Pakistan does not enjoy good relations with the current leadership of Afghanistan, partly because of rhetorical clashes with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, and partly because Karzai has made strong ties to India. Some experts say Pakistan wants to see a stable, friendlier government emerge in Afghanistan. Though the insurgency certainly doesn’t serve this goal, increased Taliban influence, especially in the government, might. Supporting the Taliban also allows Pakistan to hedge its bets should the NATO coalition pull out of Afghanistan. In a February 2008 interview with CFR.org, Tellis said the Pakistani intelligence services continue to support the Taliban because they see the Taliban leadership “as a strategic asset,” a reliable back-up force in case things go sour in Afghanistan.
Not everyone agrees with this analysis. According to Weinbaum, Pakistan has two policies. One is an official policy of promoting stability in Afghanistan; the other is an unofficial policy of supporting jihadis in order to appease political forces within Pakistan. “The second [policy] undermines the first one,” he says. Nawaz says there is ambivalence within the army regarding support for the Taliban. “They’d rather not deal with the Afghan Taliban as an adversary,” he says.
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Glass the place and be done with the lot of them.
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