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| India-Pakistan |
| Return of Taliban |
| 2008-03-06 |
| Pakistan’s Afghanistan policy has come in for criticism for not dealing with the Taliban with an iron hand. In the past, Pakistan considered the Taliban as an asset in view of our policy of ‘strategic depth’. That view seems to have changed partly due to the suicide attacks on President Musharraf in 2004 and a number of suicide attacks targeting the military personnel, and partly due to the US pressure of doing more on this front. There is enough proof now to show that this is not just an Afghan problem. Its effects are spilling over into Pakistan’s border where our military troops are up against the Taliban insurgents. There is a need to re-double the efforts to improve the fast-deteriorating security situation. This can be achieved by taking both the military and economic measures, as both are inter-related, to wean away the local people from the clutches of the Taliban. The return of the Taliban poses a grave danger to both Afghanistan and Pakistan. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Look: Taliban can't do anything without money. They get that money from the heroin trade. The PPP will have to deal with the problem of having a million addicts in Pakistan. If President Bush said a few bad words about the Pashto drug industry, then the Pakistanis would take a scorched earth approach. After all, the country is a Punjab dominion; there is no general respect for minorities. Jihadi life is cheap; we need to devalue it even more. |
| Posted by: McZoid 2008-03-06 23:42 |
| #2 Like AQ in Iraq, a lot of the new Tellybunnies are just outsiders, often just working for pay [will bomb for food]. Solution is make areas off limits to foreigners [particularly those around madrases]. Free kill zones. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2008-03-06 08:03 |
| #1 Step 1: Bomb all Taliban madrassas. Step 2: Bomb the funerals. Step 3: Bomb the protests. Step 4: Offer $100/head for any surviving Taliban. Step 5: Enjoy the resulting peace and quiet. |
| Posted by: gorb 2008-03-06 04:24 |