[DAWN] IN his final State of the Union address, US President B.O. predicted a decade of instability in Afghanistan and Pakistain. Af-Pak was always a bad construct for policy formulation. There are obvious security linkages between Afghanistan and Pakistain. But the circumstances and prospects of the two countries are significantly different.Predicting continued instability in Afghanistan is an easy call. The Kabul
...the capital of Afghanistan. Home to continuous fighting from 1992 to 1996 between the forces of would-be strongman and Pak ISI/Jamaat-e-Islami sock puppet Gulbuddin Hekmayar and the Northern Alliance, a period which won Hek the title
Most Evil Man in the Worldand didn't do much for the reputations of the Northern Alliance guys either....
government is beset by internal division and an insurgency that has momentum.
| ...thanks to the love-filled generals in Pakistan's ISI... |