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India-Pakistan
Pakistan's challenge to U.S. Afghan strategy
2011-04-27
The Pakistani military leadership wishes to draw a redline for the U.S.' covert operations so that Washington will be compelled to deal with militant Afghan groups through the single window of the ISI.

The U.S. intelligence network within Pakistan has penetrated the range of insurgent groups — the Afghan Taliban, the “Pakistan Taliban,” and non-Taliban (Afghan and Pakistani) militant groups. Evidently, if the drone attacks are becoming more “result-oriented,” it is due to real-time intelligence inputs. During the six weeks of gruelling interrogation of U.S. intelligence operative Raymond Davis, the Pakistani military caught on to a host of home truths. By now, the Pakistani military would have a fair idea of the extent of the American intelligence network and its potential to play merry havoc by splintering insurgent groups, pitting one group against another, manipulating factionalism within groups, monitoring the terror network and, conceivably, even turning some of the insurgent groups into instruments of U.S. regional policies.
If what this Indian journalist believes is true, the CIA has quietly done considerably better than previously revealed. Or perhaps it was the DoD, in which case sending General Petraeus off to reorganize the CIA is even more important than we realized.
To be sure, Pakistan is insisting on the need to reset the ground rules as the endgame advances, in order to avoid the horrible prospect of its so-called “strategic assets” in Afghanistan — which it created at enormous cost and sacrifice and at great risk over the past three decades — getting systematically cannibalised by the American intelligence operatives scavenging the Pakistani territories, on one side of the Durand Line, and by the Special Forces under General David Petraeus relentlessly scouring the Hindu Kush, on the other — the famous “hammer and anvil approach.”
Posted by:ryuge

#3  CHINESE MILITARY FORUM > [KARZAI TOLD TO DUMP US]PAKISTAN URGES AFGHANISTAN TO ALLY WID ISLAMABAD, BEIJING, iff it wants to make peace wid the Taliban + as per Econ development.

ARTIC = PAKISTAN. IRAN, INDIA, + RUSSIA are starting to jockey to acquire influence in Afghanistan, espec for after the Year 2014 maxima deadline when the bulk of US-led Coalition troops are supposed to leave.

* SAME > NOW THE YANKS ARE PAYING THE PRICE FOR SUPPORTING THE MUJAHIDEEN AGZ THE SOVIETS | AFGHAN OFFICE [Afghan Air Force] OPENS FIRE, KILLING NINE AMERICANS.

The Shooter is not known or believed to be a Taliban or other MilTerr sympathizer.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2011-04-27 22:20  

#2  The U.S. intelligence network within Pakistan has penetrated the range of insurgent groups -- the Afghan Taliban, the "Pakistan Taliban," and non-Taliban (Afghan and Pakistani) militant groups.

Er, huh, er..... HORSE SHIT!
Posted by: Besoeker   2011-04-27 21:35  

#1  The Pakistani military leadership wishes to draw a redline for the U.S.' covert operations so that Washington will be compelled to deal with militant Afghan groups through the single window of the ISI.

Not going to happen.

The U.S. intelligence network within Pakistan has penetrated the range of insurgent groups

How else could The USA be so successful in killing off the insurgent leadership, they ask. How indeed. :-)

The only reason Pakistan is helping us at all is that "W" explained the consequences of not helping.
Posted by: Mike Ramsey   2011-04-27 21:24  

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