The United States is trying to secure the help of Pak intelligence service to organise reconciliation talks in Afghanistan aimed at ending the war there, The New York Times...which still proudly displays Walter Duranty's Pulitzer prize...
reported Monday.
The newspaper said overtures are taking place just a month after President Barack
I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough moneyObama's administration accused Pakistain's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of secretly supporting the Haqqani network, which has mounted attacks on Americans.
The revamped approach, which Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton... sometimes described as the Smartest Woman in the World and at other times as Mrs. Bill, never as
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has called "Fight, Talk, Build," combines continued US air and ground strikes against the Haqqani network and the Taliban with an insistence that the ISI get them to the negotiating table, the report said.
Top US officials including Clinton visited Pakistain this month to press for action against orcs, particularly the Haqqani network, which is blamed for anti-US attacks in Afghanistan.
But some elements of the ISI see little advantage in forcing those negotiations, because they see the gunnies as perhaps their best bet for maintaining influence in Afghanistan, the paper noted.The efforts at brokering a deal with Islamic fascisti come as early hopes in the White House about having the outlines of a deal ready in time for a multinational conference on Afghanistan on December 5 in Bonn, Germany, have been all but abandoned, The Times noted.
Even inside the B.O. regime, the new initiative has been met with deep skepticism, in part because the Pak government has developed its own strategy, the paper pointed out.
One senior US official summarised the Pak position as "Ceasefire, Talk, Wait for the Americans to Leave."
Pakistain was the Taliban's chief diplomatic backer when it was in power and is regularly accused by both Kabul and Washington of helping destabilise its northern neighbour.