US AfPak Shambles Deepens
This is the fundamental problem that all the diplomatic niceties can't ignore. NATO supports the Karzai government. Pakistan's Army (not its civilian government) backs the Afghan Taliban. The Army has politically neutered the civilians elected to run Pakistan in 2008. Three years ago it used the Nov. 26 terror attack on Mumbai to neuter President Asif Zardari; he wanted to cooperate with India's investigation of the terrorists, and it didn't. It won. Now it has engineered the ouster of Pakistan’s ambassador to Washington, Husain Haqqani, whom it has long despised because he literally wrote the book on their lying and deceit. It won again. link.
This tinder box has been heating up since its inception.
ReplyDeletePakistan will make a drastic move that will surprise the West in the near future.
Pakistan has more to gain by looking toward the East.
America is running out of lines to draw in the sand.
Yes. They are also more interested in fighting India than fighting the Taliban.
ReplyDeleteThe India/Pak divide is rarely talked about when discussing Afghanistan.
ReplyDeleteSame goes with the Baluchistan situation.
Divide and conquer.
Control via chaos.
Take your pick.
If India would give up on Kashmir a lot could be settled.